European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse A Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday december 11,1990 sad Sammie Santa Claus tries to cheer up Sammie a Chusett society for the prevention of 1-year-old Pooch with an injured leg. Cruelty to animals1 annual Christmas the photo was taken during the Massa photo Day saturday in Boston. Positive response to request for Aid Houston a skid foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze monday asked for american food and other assistance to help get his country through the Winter. Secretary of state James Baker promised a sympathetic response. A was far As humanitarian assistance medical assistance food and that sort of thing i know the president will be forthcoming with respect to trying to help Quot Baket said in a Brief news conference As he opened two Days of talks in his Hometown with Shevardnadze. The two Are trying to conclude a treaty to reduce . And soviet missiles bombers and submarines by about 30 percent. Once the treaty is done Bush Hopes to go to Moscow to sign it at a Summit meeting with soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Technical details must be cleared up first a Summit before february is now considered unlikely. Shevardnadze posing for pictures with Baker at the Edge of a Gazebo on the Lawn of a fashionable hotel was straightforward about his country a economic plight. A we would appreciate if possible some food supplies Quot he said in reply to a question from a reporter. A that is the most acute problem. A and he added the soviets would also Tike to receive from the United states a efficient economic Baker said Bush is considering helping the soviets As they try to make a difficult transition in their economic system. However he also said there were Laws that stand in the Way. One step under consideration he said on arriving Here sunday is suspending the Jackson Vanik Law that imposes stiff barriers against soviet imports. The Law was enacted nearly 20 years ago to by to Force the. Soviets to allow jews and other minorities to emigrate. Under Gorbachev the tide of jewish emigration has climbed to an All time High. In Washington White House press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said a we Are considering going ahead with waiver of he cited two reasons a one is what is developing As what appears to be a very serious need in terms of their Economy and in terms of their ability to get food supplies and the distribution system that equalizes the food coming into Moscow and so Forth. A and secondly because of their cooperation in the persian Gulf and their Strong support t of us in that Areail Fitzwater said. Baker meanwhile brushed off a question about the prospects of completing the strategic arms reduction treaty. A Between trips to the Johnson space Center and other diversions monday and tuesday Baker and Shevardnadze will review the conclusions of their negotiating teams and see whether they can agree on a handful of remaining issues. The toughest is verification a ways to make sure neither Side cheats on terms of the treaty which will provide for an Overall reduction of about 30 percent in . And soviet Long Range bombers missiles and treaty has been in negotiation since 1982. The major elements Are in place. But some Complex problems stand in the Way of completing the Accord such As procedures for exchanging information about arsenals and How to Monitor Mobile missiles. Award to be reconsidered in news confidentiality Case Washington apr the supreme court agreed monday to decide whether news Media organizations enjoy any constitutional Protection against being sued Over broken promises of confidentiality the justices said they will consider reinstating a $200,000 award against Minnesota a two largest newspapers won by a news source whose identity was not kept confidential. The award had been thrown out by the Minnesota supreme court Public relations Man Dan Cohen initially won a $700,000 award against the Star Tribune of Minneapolis St. Paul and the St. Paul Pioneer press dispatch. A state appeals court ruled that a Promise of confidentiality Given to Cohen by a reporter with each newspaper amounted to an Oral contract but Cut the award supreme court Roundup to $200,000. Cohen a Victory was overturned completely by the state supreme court last july. V a i in other action the court t gave Federal judges More Power to decide lawsuits stemming from labor disputes. The court unanimously reinstated a suit by two workers fired by a Michigan company ring screw works. The workers sued after losing grievances against the company. Justice John Paul Stevens writing for the court said the Federal labor relations management act gives judges authority to Rule in such cases unless the collective bargaining agreement Between a Union and management expressly forbids agreed to judge the Validity of Federal guidelines for sentencing people convicted of trafficking m the hallucinogenic drug Ltd the justices said they will decide whether the sentencing guidelines now based on the weight of the Ltd and its a Carrier a must instead be based on the number of doses confiscated. A asked the Bush administration for its views on whether a civil War Era Law enacted primarily to protect l the justices said they want to hear from Justice department lawyers about a ruling that the manufacturer of Buster Brown shoes was guilty of illegal racial Bias when it fired a White supervisor at a Missouri warehouse. The Minnesota confidentiality controversy stems from a revelation during the 1982 Minnesota political Campaign that Marlene Johnson a democratic farm labor candidate for lieutenant governor once had been arrested and charged with shoplifting. Cohen who was associated with the Campaign of Wheelock Whitney the Independent Republican candidate for governor provided the information on the condition he not be identified As the source. Reporters for the two papers gave that Assurance but their editors ordered that Cohen a name be published because they said the Public should be Toff that the information came from someone linked to Whitney a. Campaign. The same Day he was named As the source in the news paper stories about Johnson Cohen was fired from his advertising Agene Job. It in voting 4-2 to throw out Cohen a ensuing lawsuit. Against the newspapers the state supreme court Drew a distinction Between moral arid Legal obligations. It said promises of confidentiality did not amount to Oral con. A tracts Quot a a a a. A Quot a a a a a a a to impose a contract theory on this arrangement puts an unwarranted Legal rigidity on a special ethical relationship a the state court said. The state court also rejected arguments that Cohen was entitled to collect monetary damages under a More general Legal theory governing broken travel has Bush bushed Washington up after six weeks of. Heavy travel that took him from the hot Sands of saudi Arabia to the Cool of South America president Bush finally ran out of steam. A a he a tired a a White House spokesman said sunday in announcing that the president had can celeb plans to participate in the taping that evening of Abc tvs annual Christmas show. A the played Tennis earlier today. He does no to feel Well. Nothing serious a she said a a Bush puffy eyed and tuckered out returned late saturday from a grinding five Day six nation Goodwill our. Of South America. The week before he spent a couple of Days in Mexico. A a i think we were All a Little discombobulated a White House press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said monday of the a whirlwind tour. / last month Bush went to Europe and the Middle East spending thanksgiving Day with . Troops in the persian Gulf. Earlier in november he crisscrossed the country campaigning for Fel Low republicans. A Bush 66, appears in route to becoming the Well travelled . President Ever. Y thus far during two years in office he has Vig a item three dozen nations and 45 states the Fig ures nearly match the number of nations and states Ronald Reagan set foot at Dyring eight years in office. T a. A but it looks Asi if Bush is about Plant himself More firmly in one place at least until the Gulf crisis cools Down. The president has cancelled plans to spend much of the Christmas holidays in his adopted Home Tate of Texas and appears read to push Hack his Moscow Summit with Mikhail Gorba Chev which is planned for next month
