European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes wednesday november 6, 1991 president Bush stands with Ronald Reagan Jimmy Carter Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon on monday at the dedication ceremony for the Reagan Library in Simi Valley  of 5 presidents opens Reagan Library by the Washington Post Simi Valley Calif. What Ronald Reagan called the Quot exclusive fraternity of presidents turned out in Force and Fellowship monday to celebrate the opening of the Ronald Reagan presidential Library. Quot under president Ronald Reagan the nation stayed Strong and Resolute and made possible the beginning of the end to the cold War a declared former president Carter setting the tone for a tribute that brought together five . Presidents and their wives for the first time in history besides president Bush and former presidents Nixon and Ford participants included other presidential family members lady Bird Johnson and her daughter Luci Johnson Turpin John Kennedyjr. And Caroline Kennedy and relatives of Franklin Roosevelt. Celebrities such As Bob Hope Jimmy Stewart Arnold Schwarzenegger and Charlton Heston attracted As much attention from Many in the audience As did the former presidents. The Library which Cost nearly $57 million is by far the most expensive of any of the nine presidential libraries operated by the Federal government. The Reagan Library contains 55 million documents 1.5 million photographs 87,000 feet of motion picture film 20,000 videotapes and 22,000 audio tapes. Some of the papers will be opened immediately to scholars others will be released within five years and the most sensitive documents May be kept secret for As Long As three decades. A the doors of this Library Are open now and All Are Welcome a Reagan told the crowd. Quot the judgment of history is left to you the people. I have no fears of  the setting of the 153,000-Square-foot Library two thirds of which is underground is panoramic. Built in a Spanish Mission style with a red tile roof it commands a View of drought parched dust Brown Hills that were often used As a backdrop for Hollywood westerns in the Days when Reagan was a movie Star. For the 80-year-old Reagan who believes resolutely in Happy endings and his wife Nancy the ceremony marked the Climax of a Long and sometimes contentious Effort to build a Library after opposition from Liberal faculty members forced the Library foundation to abandon its original site at Stanford University. Simi Valley 40 Miles West of los an Geles is More appropriately Reagan country than Stanford. The area is represented in the California legislature and Congress by conservative republicans and the county government courted the Library even accommodating the reagans wishes to be buried there. Not far from the grave Sites stands a jagged 6,000-Pound segment of the Berlin Wall that Reagan called in a reprise of one of his most famous speeches a Quot hated Symbol of. An evil Empire that spied on and lies to its citizens denying them their Freedom their bread even their  a Ronald Reagan predicted that communism would land in the Dustbin of history a and history proved him right a Bush said. A the knew that when it comes to National defense finishing second Means finishing  to Rule on sane maybe dangerous Man washing l on apr the supreme court began wrestling with the Case of a Louisiana Man who is confined to a state mental Hospital because he May be a danger to society but who is no longer insane. Some justices appeared troubled monday when a lawyer for Louisiana argued in favor of indefinite Hospital confinement for Terry Foucha. A the has to be kept someplace so people Are not endangered a said Pamela Moran assistant District attorney of Orleans Parish. A this is the states  a when in doubt he stays there forever. That a the Rule a said a sceptical Justice John Paul Stevens. The court is expected to decide by july whether people acquitted of crimes because they were insane May after regaining their sanity be denied release from mental hospitals if unable to prove they no longer Are dangerous. The Louisiana confinement Case pits the Power of states to protect their citizens against the rights of those who could face a lifetime in a mental institution even if they Are sane. A How do you define future dangerousness Quot jus Tice Harry a. Blackmun asked Moran. A a it a inexact a she replied. But she said state authorities should be allowed to keep Foucha in the Feliciana forensic facility in Jackson la., even though he no longer is insane. James Manasseh a Baton Rouge lawyer representing Foucha said holding a sane Man in a mental Hospital indefinitely violates his rights. Foucha was found innocent by reason of insanity after he was charged with breaking the window of a couples Home in Orleans Parish and holding a gun on them. He was ordered committed to the state Hospital in 1984. Four years later a panel of officials at the Hospital found he no longer was insane and recommended that he be Given supervised probation. But one evaluating physician said he could not assure that Foucha no longer posed a danger to himself or others. The Louisiana supreme court by a 4-3 vote said the state May keep Foucha institutionalized because of the doctors testimony. State officials said Foucha had been involved in several fights with fellow patients and guards at the Hospital and had been a uncooperative on several  Manasseh Drew nods from several of the justices monday when he said Foucha a conduct might be the Normal reaction of a sane Man surrounded by a lots of insane  a a Little paranoia is probably justified a Manasseh said. Manasseh questioned by Justice Sandra Day p Connor said states May be Able to continue confining formerly insane people if they impose some Type of time limit. But Louisiana Law he said a involves an indefinite confinement perhaps a lifetime  if the Louisiana court ruling is not reversed Manasseh said a Terry Foucha will remain a patient at the state Hospital for the rest of his life because no doctor Ever is going to risk certifying that he is not dangerous. Monday marked the first time that Justice Clarence Thomas participated in the courts Oral arguments. E Thomas asked no questions of opposing lawyers during four hours of arguments in four cases