European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday May 18, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 75 females found slain in one room in Oklahoma City Oklahoma City a five female victims were discovered slain on saturday in one Small room in a House police said. One victim s Boyfriend said police told him the five had been shot. The females whose apes ranked from 14 to about 10. Were found by one of their boyfriends about 1 40  police set. Joe Snodrass said. The inside of the House a was quite a  Snodrass said. He would t elaborate. Snodrass said the five were homicide victims but he would not immediately say How they were killed. The victims had been dead for about half a Day when Thuv were found he said. Police capt. Mike Roach said blood was discovered in the House and on the bodies. He said the cause of death would not be immediately released. A we have absolutely no clue As to any suspects and absolutely no clue As to any motive Quot Roach said. The one Story White Frame House is in a quiet neigh boyhood known As Christian Valier in Northeast Oklahoma City. Boyfriend Bobby Stevenson who reported that police told him the five had been shot said he lived with one of the victims a few blocks away and last saw her at dinner Friday. A she was real Happy. She was going out to buy some food. I got real worried because she never came Back Quot Stevenson said. A a she a a Nice Sweet Loving person. She a really shy. I have no idea Why anyone would kill her. She must have been at the wrong place at the wrong  a get Well visit president Bush meets with turkish president Turgut a crating normally from a prostatectomy Hospital Oft Ozal at methodist Hospital in Houston on saturday. Vials reported. The turkish Leader was one of the Bush Ozal is recovering from surgery for prostate cancer. Administrations earliest and staunchest supporters in he has been in the Hospital for two weeks and is Mccu the persian Gulf War against  see red after gophers damage traffic Light by Laura Myers the associated press san Jose Calif. A heard the one about the gophers who could Stop traffic that a what some furry rodents did by piling Sand in a control Box for a key traffic Light causing Stop and not much go commuting for two weeks on a Section of one of Silicon valleys primary highways interstate 280. A the lights at the Bottom of one of the major Highway off ramps so we were getting a lot of Calls with people complaining a Rich Yee an Engineer for the Santa Clara Public works department said Friday. A people were saying the backups were pretty Long a couple  the 1-280 off ramp feeds onto Stevens Creek Boulevard at a heavily travelled intersection where the cities of Santa Clara Sunnyvale Cupertino and san Jose meet in a twisting Blacktop Jungle of Street and Highway. Greg Gardner of san Jose was among the frustrated Drivers. He saw Only four or five cars make it through the intersection at a time before the Light quickly switched to yellow then red. Normally the computerized traffic Light stays Green for several minutes especially during Peak morning and evening commute times traffic engineers say. Traffic sleuths could not solve the mystery at first then someone last week looked into the pull Box that contains signal wiring. Gophers had burrowed up from underneath and stored their excavated soil there. A when we lifted the lid it was packed full of Sand a Yee said. A i guess they thought it was a convenient place to put  traffic authorities theorize that moisture collected in the Box causing wiring to Short circuit after the Sun beat Down All Day on the Damp dirt. Most problems were reported in the evening. It could happen again in similar older pull boxes that sit on the ground Yee said. But newer traffic Light controllers Are built atop Concrete to prevent critters such As gophers rats and spiders from invading. Raleigh Young a Park manager for the Santa Clara county Parks and recreation department said gophers have Long been a nuisance in the Region. Poisoned food fumigation and traps done to defeat them. Quot every time we try to get them out of the Parks they seem to come Back in multitude a Young said. A they seem to thrive on adversity. A in the wild they have a useful role. But when they come in Contact with civilization All we have Are  Federal judge says High court fails in duty to help minorities Texas College sued for Banning signs it called obscene Lufkin Texas up a politically conservative students Are suing their University because it prohibited them from posting signs using a quote by former sen. Barry Goldwater that was deemed sexist and obscene. The signs read a sex and politics Are a lot alike. You done to have to be Good at them to enjoy  in the suit filed Friday in . District court in Lufkin the Young conservatives of Texas accuse officials at Stephen f. Austin state University in Nacogdoches of violating the groups first amendment rights. School officials declined comment. The suit says the Young conservatives a wish to Post signs expressing political ideas and opinions similar to the ones at  it says school officials in september told students they could not Post the fliers the school considered sexist and obscene and in violation of Campus policy. The policy also requires such postings to be approved by the University. But students Michael Bartlow and Guy Hatch posted about 500 signs nonetheless. They were not disciplined but were warned they would be if they continued posting the fliers. The suit filed by the american civil liberties Union asks a judge to Rule that the University a sign posting policy is unconstitutional. By Henry Weinstein los Angeles times Federal appellate judge Stephen Reinhardt publicly attacked the supreme court for the second time in a month saturday declaring that the court has shown it no longer cares about the needs and concerns of minorities and consequently has sowed disrespect for the Law. A the message the new supreme court has delivered to the minority communities is Clear we no longer care. Look elsewhere for help a Reinhardt said in a graduation speech at Golden Gate University Law school in san Francisco. The nations Federal courts have become a a bastion of White America a Reinhardt said. A they stand As a Symbol of White  the judge linked the recent rioting in los Angeles to a growing disrespect for the Law and said the supreme court under chief Justice William h. Rehnquist has helped engender that Lack of respect. He noted a recent poll showing that 84 percent of Blacks believe they do not receive fair or equal treatment in . Courts. The poll was taken shortly after the acquittal april 29 of four White men in the los Angeles police beating of Black Motorist Rodney g. King. A what is most disturbing about this distrust of the judicial system is that Only a few years ago it was the Federal courts a and particularly the supreme court of the United states a that offered the greatest Hope to our minorities a the judge said. A it was the United states supreme court that acted to end segregation in this country when neither the executive nor legislative Branch had the will or the courage to do what common sense and the Constitution demanded. The Federal courts led by chief Justice Earl Warren expanded the rights of All citizens helped transform this nation into a land in which african americans for the first time were afforded the full rights of citizenship a land in which our Constitution flourished a Reinhardt said. A fall that has changed. A judicial revolution has occurred a a revolution that will not be easily  he cited a series of recent supreme court decisions that made it More difficult for minorities to win discrimination suits or protect other rights. A with the Rehnquist court m full Sway a minorities no longer believe the Law is on their Side Reinhardt said. A their current belief leads Only to despair a and to disrespect for the  Reinhardt also said that by their appointments of Federal judges during the past 11 years president Bush and former president Reagan have ensured that the Federal courts will not be representative reversing a trend of judicial integration by former president Carter. He noted that when Carter took office in 1977, there were Only two Black Federal appellate judges on the Bench. Carter named nine Blacks to Federal appeals courts among the 56 appointments he made during his single term. Reagan reversed that course. Of his 83 Federal appeals court appointments Reagan found a Only one Black he deemed  a George Bush with 32 appointments thus far has also been Able to locate Only one african american he thought qualified to serve a in his Case guess who a Clarence Thomas a Reinhardt said