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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 22, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7haitians deportation blocked again Miami apr advocates for haitian refugees won the latest Battle against the Bush administration when a Federal judge ruled that the boat people should t be shipped Back to Haiti before getting a Chance to speak with their attorneys. . District judge c. Clyde Atkins ruling Friday gave a reprieve to the haitians at least until monday. The latest order was expected to be appealed to the Lith circuit court of appeals in Atlanta. A three judge panel twice last week overturned Atkins orders in the Case. But Ira kurzban a lawyer for the haitian refugee Center said he had been told by the appellate court clerk s office that the court would not hear any motions in the Case Over the weekend. The delay is the latest in a series of Back and Forth rulings on the Fate of 6,600 refugees held in tent cities at the . Naval base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Atkins accepted the Miami based Center s arguments that their attorneys have the first amendment right to speak with the refugees before they re deported. On thursday the 11th . Circuit court of appeals gave the government the go ahead to Send the boat people Home. It was the second time in two Days that the appeals court had overruled Atkins. The . Coast guard has picked up More than 8,000 haitians at sea since oct. 29. They began crowding onto rickety boats for the dangerous 600-mile crossing to Florida after Haiti s first freely elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide was deposed by a military coup sept. 30. The . Government asserts that the vast majority of refugees Are fleeing economic hardship not political persecution and Aren t entitled to Asylum. Assistant . Attorney general Stuart Gerson told executives killed during Holiday rounds firefighters extinguish flames from the wreckage of a Small Arizona and California. Killed along with Kaufman was us plane that crashed South of Flagstaff ariz., on Friday. The two Zanne Satow who was the organization s chief financial officer engine propeller plane was piloted by Donald Ballin Kaufman the two made the fight to hand deliver employee Christmas to owner of the Boston store inc., a Chain of department stores in Nuses. Atkins that the haitians had no constitutional rights because they had t reached the 11.s. Mainland. Quot there simply is no underlying speech right. First amendment right that these people  he said. But kurzban noted that by treaty the Guantanamo base belongs to the United Stales. Quot we Are concerned about those haitians being sent Back without being properly  he told the judge. As of Friday alter too about i,h00 refugees were at Guantanamo the stale department said. In port a Prince. Haiti an additional 54 refugees picked up at sea by the coast guard voluntarily returned Friday a red Cross official said. I he group raised to 250 the number of refugees who have returned this month at their own request. It was the third group to return last  sues in Heinz s crash death Pittsburgh a the widow of sen. John Heinz is suing the owners of an air plane and helicopter that collided Over a suburban Philadelphia school killing her husband and six other people. The lawsuit alleges the companies failed to properly train their flight Crews. Teresa Heinz who lives in the Pittsburgh suburb of Fox Chapel filed suit thursday in Allegheny county common pleas court. The lawsuit names Lycoming air services inc. Of  county in Central Pennsylvania owner of the twin in inc Piper Aerostat in which Heinz was a passenger. Another defendant is Sun co. Inc. And its subsidiary. Sun refining and marketing co., both of Philadelphia which owned the Bell helicopter that collided with the plane. The lawsuit asks for damages equal to the amount Heinz would have earned in his lifetime. The april Accident occurred As the helicopter Crew was trying to determine whether the plane s nose wheel was Down and locked for Landing. The National transportation safety Board concluded sept. 17 that the crash resulted from errors in judgment by the pilots of both  saves the Day Dunnellon Fla. A Quick action by a sixth grader Riding a school bus saved 33 children after the Driver fainted behind the wheel. Kenny Perrone 12, was sitting behind Donald Snyder when the Driver blacked out wednesday while pulling into the parking lot of Dunnellon Middle school. A the bus started going faster and faster and so i stepped in and hit the brakes As hard As 1 could a he said. Snyder said his doctor believed he had had an allergic reaction to a cough syrup. Kenny smother Susan an emergency medical technician said she Wasny to surprised by what her son did. Her husband Andrew a cardiopulmonary resuscitation instructor has had three heart attacks. A what did Surprise me is his nonchalance a she said. Stone s Juk stirs up storm of criticism if 1 los Angeles a Oliver stones new film Juk about president Kennedy a assassination won mostly Good reviews Friday from film critics. But controversy continued Over just How tall that tale is. Many prominent journalists and film reviewers contend Stone has fudged facts invented characters and elevated speculation to truth to support his burning belief that the killing was a High level conspiracy. Quot Juk is not just an entertainment its a work of propaganda a Newsweek said last week in a cover Story headlined a the twisted truth of  the film premiered thursday night to a select crowd in opened nationally Friday. Stone went on Abc tvs nigh line on thursday night and defended the film. One of the films harshest critics was new York times columnist Tom Wicker who covered the Kennedy Assissi Stone Dallas and nation. Wicker lambasted Stone in a Dee. 15 piece titled Quot does . Conspire against reason a Wicker accused Stone of fabrication and lies through omission to assert Stone s a one True Faith about nov. 22, 1963�?� a that a fascist conspiracy was behind Kennedy a death and the Warren commission covered up making Lee Harvey Oswald a Patsy. A Fie uses the powerful instrument of a motion picture and relies on stars of the entertainment world to propagate the one True Faith a even though that Faith if widely accepted would be contemptuous of the very constitutional government or. Stone s film purports to uphold a Wicker wrote. Stone Long used to controversy from his films platoon Wall Street and born on the fourth of july responded by blasting his critics on the oped Page of Wickers own newspaper Friday. He singled out Wicker and other political journalists saying a i think what is Clear from their efforts to destroy my films credibility is that history May be too important to leave to  Stone in an Intel new with the associated in Ress acknowledged he played a Little Loose with some facts but asserted he has an artistic right to interpret history Quot my movie is ultimately a myth the counter myth i Call it to the Warren commission a he said. The Warren commission concluded there was a sole gunman Stone argues a band of assassins acting at the Behest of the Quot military Industrial Complex Quot killed the president. In fridays reviews Many critics grappled with the questions of stones artistic License and his historical responsibilities and How this juggling act played As entertainment. Vincent Candy film critic for the new York limes however said Stone takes on too much and does no to sort things out Well. A the movie which is simultaneously arrogant and timorous has been unable to separate the important material from the merely colourful Quot he wrote. A after a certain Point audience interest tunes out. Its a   
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