European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 23, 1990 the stars and stripes aaa Page 5latest plea for comatose woman fails. A Quot. A mount Vernon me up a Federal judge Friday refused to intervene in a court order that allowed Nancy Cruzan s parents to remove a feeding tube that has kept her alive in a vegetative state for nearly eight years . District judge Dean Whipple in Kansas City mo., rejected a suit filed thursday by the Rev. Patrick Mahoney director of the Center for Christian activism in Boca Raton Fla. Mahoney asked Whipple for an immediate injunction against an earlier order by Jasper county probate judge Charles Teel or. The order allowed Joyce and Lester �?ojoe1 Cruzan to remove the feeding tube that has kept their daughter alive since a 1983 car Accident. Doctors said Nancy Cruzan 33, would die within two weeks without the tube  removed dec. 15 last saturday. Her condition was listed Friday As Quot deteriorating a Whipple said Mahoney failed to establish Legal standing in inc Case and dismissed his petition he also noted that opponents of teels decision filed four other petitions last week in various courts which were All denied. He said further appeals would be considered frivolous and abuses of the judicial system Mahoney alleged Cruzana a constitutional rights were denied because food and water were withheld. The suit also charged Cruzan was not represented properly before Teel because no attorney argued in her defense or Cross examined witnesses whose testimony persuaded Teel to order the tube disconnected. Mahoney said he May Appeal to the 8th . Circuit court of appeals in St Louis said Randall Terry the founder of operation Rescue of Binghamton . Earlier Friday the Missouri supreme court unanimously rejected another petition which asked the court to restore food and water to Cruzan. The petition which was rejected tuesday by the state court of appeals contended Cruzan was being deprived of her right to life without due process. About 20 protesters remained Friday outside the doors of the Missouri rehabilitation Center in mount Vernon where Cruzan is a patient Hospital officials said. The doors to the Hospital have been locked since wednesday because some protesters entered the facility blocked hallways and had to be carried out by Security guards and police. Some protesters tried to reach Cruzan s room but were stopped. About a dozen opponents of teels decision conducted a protester sits in the reception area of Missouri attorney general William websters office Friday in Jefferson City on behalf of Nancy Cruza n. A sit in in the office of stale attorney general William Webster who in june successfully argued the states Side of the Cruzan Case before the . Supreme court. The . Court upheld the Missouri supreme courts ruling that the Cruz ans could not remove their daughters feeding tube without Quot Clear and convincing evidence Quot of her wishes in the absence of a written statement. Three new witnesses testified before Teel that Cruzan had made statements that she would never want to live in a helpless condition and the judge said their testimony met the Quot dear and convincing evidence Quot Standard. Terry said the protesters wanted Webster to intervene because he would have Legal standing. Quot we re going to basically beg Webster to intervene for this woman a a Terry said. Quot he a the Only one with assured standing in the Case. Quot i am outraged that he has not intervened. I have to ask myself do we have just another political opportunist Here or do we have a True pro lifer a the Missouri supreme court refused thursday to order Hospital officials to resume feeding  per a apologizes for Philadelphia a the Philadelphia inquirer a stung by charges of racism Over an editorial suggesting More poor women should use contraceptives a was to take the unusual step of publishing an apology in its sunday editions. Quot i think maybe the Best thing to say about it now is it is an apology and its a change of position a inquirer editor Maxwell up King said Friday on Dee. 12, the inquirer printed an editorial that suggested the contraceptive norplant recently approved by the Federal government could help a solve the problem of poverty among Blacks. Quot As we read those two stories we asked ourselves dare we mention them in the same breath to do so might be considered deplorable insensitive perhaps raising the Specter of eugenics. But it would be worse to avoid drawing the logical conclusion that foolproof contraception could be invaluable in breaking the Cycle of inner City poverty a one of americans greatest challenges a the cd Tori a 1 said. The de i Tori a writ ten by Deputy Edilo rial Page editor Donald Kimelman acknowledged better prenatal care and better schools As possible solutions to the problem. But it also said Quot its very Tough to undo the damage of being born into a dysfunctional family. So Why not make a major Effort to reduce the number of children of any race born into such circumstances a it went on to suggest incentives be Given to welfare mothers to use norplant. Some staff members responded angrily. Inquirer columnists Steve Lopez and Claude Lewis who is Black criticized the editorial in print As offensive. Lopez compared editorial Page editor David r. Boldt with Louisiana state rep David Duke a former Kun flux klan member. Staffers vented their displeasure in two staff meetings. The first of the two meetings was Quot extremely emotional a people in tears a Boldt said. It. Quot i was Shell shocked after the first meeting a he said. Boldt said he was surprised by Quot the degree to which people were deeply pained by what they fell we  Quot in spine cases they Felt we were suggesting we Felt they should t have been born he said. Vanessa Williams a Black reporter for the inquirer and president of the Philadelphia association of Black journalists criticized the editorial in a letter to the editor she wrote on the Organiza Lions  a while it noted in passing that there Are More poor White people than poor Black people in this country the cd Tori a emphasized a disproportionate percentage of african americans living in poverty a she wrote. A King  were still working on the apology Friday women Ocala Fla. A the slaying of a Middle aged Man whose body was found jumped in a Remote area May be connected to eight other killings believed to be the work of two women police said. The body of Daniel Mitchell Conger or. Was found Friday in Woods at the end of a dirt Road in this North Central Florida area. Conger 50, was apparently shot with a Smau Galiber handgun but police refused to say How Many times. Authorities were hoping the results of an autopsy scheduled Friday would indicate whether the killing was linked to right other slayings they believe Are the work of two female serial killers Quot it might be related we just done to know yet a said sheriffs sgt Robert Douglas Quot there a just not enough evidence yet to link  authorities began searching for Conger after he did not show up for work Friday morning. The bodies of the other victims All middie aged men were found in Remote areas of Florida arid Georgia. Each had been shot with a .22-caliber handgun in Many cases including Congers the victims car was recovered in another county. Hundreds of sightings of women resembling composite police sketches of the suspects have been reported but no arrests have been made. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Dec. 23, 1950 a general motors agreed to sell its new Caps at government ordered prices lifting a for Day ban on sales of 1951 Chevrolet Pontiac and cadillacs.30 years ago . 23, i960 a members of the Spanish civil guard and coast guard found 11 unidentified bodies from the Spanish ship Elorion which Sank off the coast , Spain. Nine other Crew members were missing and believed dead.20 years age today. Dec 23, 1970 a North Vietnam released in Paris the names of 368 american prison ers of War sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass.,  years ago today. Dec 23, 1980 China for the first time publicly blamed the late Mao tse Tung for the decade Long cultural revolution even As it tried to pin the blame for the major excesses of that Era on Mao a w Idow Jiang qing and nine other defendants