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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday March 4, 1991 Pilot killed As plane slams into Calif House Monterey Park Calif. Apr a single engine plane crashed into a House near a College saturday night killing the Pilot police said. Earlier in the Day another Small plane lost Power on Takeoff from a suburban los Angeles a Airport and crashed into a flood control Channel. Both passengers escaped injury. The fatal crash occurred about 1  East los Angeles College in this suburban City about 10. Miles Northeast of downtown los a it Geles said police sgt. Jeff Alvarado. The plane grazed the rooftops of four houses near the College before smashing into the Kitchen and bathroom of a fifth House Alvarado said. The Pilot whose identity was not immediately known was killed. No one in the houses was injured and no one else was aboard the four seat plane. About noon saturday a Cessna 182 crash landed and flipped into 3 feet of water m a flood control Channel As it took off from Whiteman Airport in los Angeles san Fernando Valley. Flight instructor Dar Kindred and student Pilot Keith Suhl were not injured. Kindred said the engine quit when the plane was about 200 feet off the ground Mollenhoff Dies at 69 famed for labor exposes Lexington a. Apr Clark r. Mollen Hoff who won a pulitzer prize in 1958 for his newspaper exposes on labor racketeering died saturday a after a Long Battle with cancer. He was 69. A a Mollenhoff had been a professor of journalism at Washington amp Lee University since 1976. He began his career As a reporter for the Des Moines Iowa Register in 1941 and worked for Mollenholt Cowles publications Parent company of the newspaper until he began teaching at Washington &.lec. Many of Mollenhoff years As an investigative reporter were spent in Washington a correspondent for Cowles. 7 he linked then teams Ter Leader Jimmy Hoffa to organized crime in his pulitzer winning stories on labor racketeering. Hoffa disappeared in 1975 and is believed to have been killed because he threatened to reveal ties Between the Union and organized crime. 7 Mollenhoff is survived by his wife Jane two children sue Montgomery and c. Raymond Mol Lenhoff or. And four stepchildren. 7 shark trapped on Beach freed by Florida police St. Petersburg Beach Fla. A a 9-foot shark grounded on a Sandbar at Low tide initially frightened Beac goers but it quickly attracted a crowd. A the shark was believed to be a Mako rarely seen in shallow Waters and known to attack peo. Plei it was seen cruising with another shark Friday Between pass a Grille Beach and a Sandbar 50 feet  witnesses said the shark was trapped by Low tide in the late afternoon and the Waves eventually pushed it onto the Beach. The other shark made it Over the Sandbar. Later police had to warn a crowd of about 30 onlookers to Back off. Police rescued the shark by tying a rope to its Tail and using a police boat to Tow it to deeper water. A we did t have to ask him to leave. He left in a hum a said officer Ron Bittaker. Remembering his master pfc. Michael Svirsky serving in operation desert English bulldog at a rally saturday at the statehouse storm with the 377th trans co had his picture Dis in Boston. The soldiers parents Pat and Pete Svirsky played on the Leash of Bosworth the family a 3-year-old Are a baby sitting Bosworth until their son returns. Lawsuit planned in Alaska to overturn marijuana Law Juneau Alaska apr alaskans lost their right to smoke a joint in the privacy of their Homes sunday hut the states ban on marijuana promises to end up in court before the smoke clears. On monday opponents plan to file a civil lawsuit in state Superior court challenging the constitutionality of the hew Law which voters passed in november and which became effective sunday. For nearly 16 years Alaska had the nations most Liberal marijuana Law one that gave adults the right to possess in their Homes up to 4 ounces. That Law resulted from a 1975 state supreme court decision which said the health threat posed by marijuana was insufficient to warrant government intrusion on alas Kunsu privacy. A 7, 7 it under the new Law Possession of Small amounts of pot is a Misdemeanour punishable by up to 9 Days in jail and a ,000 Fine. 1 a constitutionally the Laws dead on  said Jamie Bollenbach executive director of the Alaska civil liberties Union. A a there a no reason to believe it wont be overturned  7 Alaska is one of Only a few states that provide a specific. Right to privacy in their constitutions. Besides privacy opponents will argue that a Law passed by voters cannot overturn a decision of the states highest court said Bob Wagstaff an Anchorage lawyer who successfully argued the 1975 Case. A the Only thing that can overturn a supreme court decision is the supreme court itself or a constitutional amendment a said Wagstaff chairman of alaskans for. Privacy. He said he will file the lawsuit in. Anchorage on the groups behalf. The vote on the initiative was closer than pollsters and pundits had expected 54 percent to 46 percent. More alaskans voted for Legal marijuana than for gov. Walter a Hickl who won a three Way race with 39 percent of the vote.7a group called alaskans for hemp awareness is encouraging marijuana smokers to demand jury trials if they Are charged under the new Law a this will so clutter the courts that it will be a real Nightmare to process All these cases a said organizer Len Karpinski. �?T7. Police say enforcement of the new Law will be a Low priority and few arrests Are expected. One Side effect of the Law May be on Alaska workers. With the legality of marijuana use a no longer in a Gray area a employers Are More comfortable starting and expanding drug testing programs  said. A Nan a regional corp., an Alaska company with interests in mining and Oil drilling May expand drug testing of its .800 workers. Officials feel the new Law gives them stronger Legal backing to test workers for marijuana use said Sarah Scanlan Nanak a vice president of human resources. 7 7 r Irwin Ravin a lawyer whose arrest in 1972 led to the supreme cd Ftp decision is among those who expect alaskans marijuana Law to be overturned again. A i think its stupid a he said. A for the same reasons that the court said 16 years ago. Nothing a  teens refused rooms Nashville Tenn. Apr even churchgoing youths can be too Rowdy say officials at two hotels that Are refusing to rent rooms this year to the Tennessee Baptist youth evangelism conference. The Nashville Marriott and the ramada inn near Oryland refused to rent rooms to the conferees be cause of disturbances that included the dropping of water filled balloons from room windows. Kirby Smith director of marketing for the Nashville Marriott said it is not accepting ,.because of damage last year a and especially the disturbances to our other regular . Last year teens broke a window above the Marriott Pool Worff a Tennis Ball requiring the Pool to be drained to clean out the Glass. The ramada inn also is Noj booking rooms for the teens because Money had to be refunded to other guests last year after disturbances. The 21st annual youth conference sponsored by the Tennessee Baptist convention and set for March 15-16, is expected to draw 3.0,000 participants. _ other area motels Are welcoming the teen agers. Quot these Are Good kids a said John Hogan senior vice president of med enter inn where 50 rooms have been reserved for the youths. A they Are teen agers and when you get a group of teen agers together  expect some  7 7 a Jerry King the convention s evangelism director said several hotels and motels offered rooms for 1991 after last years gathering. He said churches across the state have been asked this year ask in past years to bring one adult for every three teen agers  
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