European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes . Thursday november 12,1992 top . Judge resigns amid blackmail charges new York up judge sol Wachtler considered he most powerful judge in state history has resigned As new York s top Jurist amid allegations that he blackmailed a former mistress. Hours earlier tuesday Wachtler attended a 15-min-uic detention hearing before magistrate Sharon Gru bin in . District court in Manhattan where he agreed to place himself under House arrest. Wachtler looking Pale and tired left a Hospital psychiatric Ward to make his first Public appearance since being arrested by Fri agents saturday. Flanked by two lawyers the 62-year-old Wachtler walked gingerly into the packed courtroom and did not make Eye Contact with anyone before sitting Down behind Federal prosecutors. In an agreement worked out by both sides Wachtler then accepted several conditions that place him under House arrest in his Home in Manhasset Long Island. Wachtler is charged with extortion for allegedly blackmailing his former mistress Joy Silverman a prominent 45-Ycar-old Manhattan fund Raiser with close tics to the Republican party. He also is charged with threatening to Kidnap her teen age daughter. At a hearing after his arrest Grubin ordered wacht ice held for psychiatric observation at Long Island jewish Hospital in new Hyde Park where be remained shackled to a bed under a suicide watch until tuesdays hearing. Wachtler a resignation was announced by his attorney Charles Stillman. Quot the charges against him Bear no relation to his role on the court Stillman said in a statement. Stillman said Wachtler a resignation was prompted by the judges wish Quot to prevent his situation from harming the institution he reveres and the extraordinary judges and staff who serve  under the House arrest agreement Wachtler will pay for a private Security company to watch his activities and Wear an electronic ankle Bracelet to Monitor his movements. . Attorney Michael Chertoff of Newark n.j., said the conditions were necessary because the government must take the threats allegedly made by Wachtler seriously. Authorities allege the judge made Anonymous threatening phone Calls to Silverman at least one from the Hospital where he had been undergoing treatment for an undisclosed illness. According to the Fri an affair of several years Between Wachtler and Silverman ended in 1991, but last Spring Wachtler allegedly began sending her obscene letters and making threatening Telephone Calls often using a device that disguised his voice. The Fri said the Calls also included demands for $20,000 and threats to Kidnap Silvermann a 14-year-old daughter. Wachtler has been married for More than 40 years and has four children. At a Hospital news conference last month in Anaheim calif., 53-year-old grandmother Mary shearing and her husband Don shearing 32, answer questions about her test tube pregnancy. Grandmother has test tube twins Anaheim. Calif. Apr a 53-year-old grandmother who turned Back her biological clock by Way of artificial hormones and test tube fertilization has Given birth to twin girls. The babies born 12 weeks premature tuesday to Mary shearing were listed in guarded condition at Martin Luther Hospital. Both were under 3 pounds. Shearing who has three children and two grandchildren from a previous marriage was going through menopause when she was implanted May 15 with embryos created with sperm from her 32-year-old husband Don and eggs donated by a woman in her 20s. Her name was not made Public. Hospital spokesman Dennis Gaschen said the oldest Post menopausal woman in the United states to have delivered a test tube baby previously was 52. The guinness Hook of records lists the oldest Mother As Ruth a. Kistler who was nearly 57 when she gave birth in California in 1956. Shearing a attempt to thwart her biological clock stirred debate Over the ethics of test tube pregnancies among older women. The couple went Public with details of the pregnancy partly because of negative comments they had heard. Shearing and her husband of seven years said they wanted to encourage older women who might be considering pregnancy. Quot the age consideration while it s important is not something you run your life by a shearing said last month. She had miscarried a non test tube pregnancy four years ago. The twins were due feb. 5. But doctors expected an Early delivery because of the Mother s age and the complications associated with multiple births. Babies delivered after 24 weeks Are considered to have some Chance of survival. The first baby to be born Amy Leigh was delivered vaginally. She weighed 2 pounds 2 ounces. Her sister Kelly Ann was delivered by caesarean Section and weighed 2 pounds 121-i ounces. Hormones were used in the first trimester to sustain the pregnancy but medication was discontinued after the embryos were  senator denies raping woman in 1963 from wire reports Hastings Minn. A sen. Dave  in a court response to allegations that he raped a woman and fathered her son 29 years ago says any Contact he had with the woman was consensual. His filing monday in Dakota county District court repeated a denial that he raped Joyce Rauscher 57, now of cottage Grove and fathered her son Kenneth Millette 28. The senator did not specifically address whether he and Rauscher had a sexual relationship. He said Only that any Contact with her was a at All times  he denied visiting her Home where she says the rape occurred when he was her divorce lawyer in 1963. Durenberger said last week that he was positive he was not Millette a father and would agree to take a blood test Only to help Millette a seek the truth Quot schools won t ban Bible Brooklyn Center Minn. A school Board in Brooklyn Center unanimously has rejected a bid to ban the Bible from its Public schools. An atheist Gene Kasmar filed a petition in july asking the school District to remove the Bible on the grounds that it is full of obscene and offensive passages. The school Board in this Minneapolis suburb announced the result of its Roll Call monday night to a cheering crowd. Assistant superintendent Dennis Morrow has said bibles Are used in schools for learning purposes. Without referring to biblical sources it is nearly impossible to explain topics in Art history or entire themes in humanities  believed found san Diego a traces of apparent cyanide were found in a vehicle where a British National died mysteriously Days after his wife and three children were fatally shot in the family a luxurious rental biome a newspaper reported wednesday. Law enforcement authorities who requested anonymity told the Blade citizen of Oceanside on tuesday that sheriffs investigators found evidence of what they believed to be cyanide in the Ford explorer where the body of Ian Stuart Spiro was found. Spiro 46, was an International commodities broker who had ties to British and . Spy agencies. An autopsy performed monday did not reveal How Spiro died. The results of toxicology tests Are expected in six to nine Days investigators said. Spiro was found slumped Over the steering w Heel of his vehicle in a Remote desert Park on sunday afternoon. Spiro has been identified by sheriffs authorities As the prime suspect in the slaying of his family. Movie screens still Smoky Washington a there a still plenty of smoking going on in movies these Days and both the Good Guys and bad Guys Are far More Likely than their audiences to Light up a Survey released wednesday said j the researchers expected to find that smoking and other signs of tobacco had All but disappeared from the big screen Over the past 30 years As smoking declined in the general populace. Instead they found that there a been Little change during that period. Quot the amount of smoking or tobacco related events remained fairly constant a said Anna Russo Hazan of the Institute for health policy studies at i the University of California san Francisco. She was j delivering a paper on it wednesday at the meeting j of the american Public health associations annual i meeting. L or months the researchers sat with Kitchen timers pencils and rating sheets As they watched movies that were released Between 1960 and 1991. D hey kept track of who smoked what they looked for billboards with the names of cigarette brands on j them and they watched when somebody played with i matches. The Flash of a lighter also would catch 1 their Eye