European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday january 12,-1993 . The stars and stripes b Page 7 anti a Bort i on in Iti Active blocked by High court supreme com Washington a the supreme court of monday refused to order Oklahoma officials to put an antiabortion initiative on their state ballot. The justices without comment left intact an Oklahoma supreme court decision that squelched the ballot question Quot to avoid a costly and useless  in the Oklahoma Case a group called the Oklahoma coalition to restrict abortion in 1990 proposed a ballot initiative to outlaw virtually All abortions in the state. The initiative proposed allowing abortions Only in cases of rape or incest grave mental or physical defects of a fetus or to prevent Quot grave impairment of a woman s health. After the . Supreme court last june upheld in a landmark decision on women s constitutional right to abortion the Oklahoma court ruled that the proposed initiative was clearly unconstitutional. The state court ordered the initiative stricken from last november s ballot. In the Appeal acted on monday lawyers for the antiabortion group said the state court ruling amounted to an unlawful a prior restraint of a score political  a although a state is not required to provide its citizens with the right of the initiative that right once created May not be restricted on the basis of the initiative s Content a the Appeal argued. Oklahoma attorney general Susan Loving urged the justices to reject the Appeal. A there will be no vote on the proposed measure because the measure was found outside the scope of the Peoples initiative Power a she said. The justices were told that half the states have initiative petition procedures but that Only seven of the states permit screening based on Content. Those states according to the anti abortion groups lawyers arc Oklahoma California Florida Montana Nevada North Dakota and Utah. The Case is Oklahoma coalition to restrict abortion is. Feldman 92-784. In other action the High court a let stand a $4.3 million judgment against Soldier of Fortune Magazine which published a personal and through which an Assassin was hired to kill a Georgia map. The development could put the publication out of business. A refused to revive a $4 billion lawsuit by a Florida Man who claimed that Abc television falsely portrayed him As a liar in a Story about his Airlift of 63 african elephants that had been marked for death. A refused to let panamanian citizens seek damages from the . Government for deaths and injuries caused by the 1989 invasion of Panama. The panamanians had argued that the 1977 Panama canal treaty gave them the right to  left intact a ruling in a Massachusetts Case that bars states from protecting Consumers who incur late fees on their credit card debts. A refused to revive a negligence suit by the survivor of a 1986 shoo Down of a Supply plane in Nicaragua. The event helped uncover the Iran Contra arms for hostages scandal. V a r. A a founder of crazy Eddie returned to . From Israel from wire reports Newark . A Quot crazy Eddie Antar was led into the Federal courthouse in Handcuffs sunday night three years after he fled new Jersey for Israel to avoid paying a $73 million penalty for securities fraud. A a a ,. Federal marshals surrounded the Black a carded suspect As the former discount electronics King was brought upstairs for processing. He refused to answer reporters shouted questions Antar 46, who was indicted after fleeing the country on charges that he defrauded investors in crazy Eddie inc. Of millions of dollars was to be arraigned before a Federal magistrate in Newark. . Marshal Arthur Borinsky called Antar Quot a gentleman a saying they chatted on the drive from new Yorkus Kennedy International Airport where Antares flight from Israel arrived about 5 . Sunday. Borinsky spent the flight from israelis Ben Gurion International Airport handcuffed to Antar who founded crazy Eddie a texan launches grass roots watchdog group Dallas apr Ross Perot is Back in the Public Eye. He returned to the podium monday asking not for votes but for Money. Two months after garnering nearly 20 percent of the vote in his bid for president Perot has changed his supporters organization United we stand America into a political watchdog group. A we will stick together one for All and All for one a he told a news con Fere Nee monday. Using his organization As a base the Dallas billionaire Hopes to maintain some political influence after president elect Clinton takes office Jan. 20. But Perot said he would consider it a a personal failure if he were drawn Perot into making another presidential bid in 1996. Perot said the new organization will create a counter pressure to Washington a special interests allowing the Clinton administration to proceed with government reforms and painful deficit reduction measures. Holding up flip charts that became a kind of trademark during his whirlwind presidential race Perot urged americans to write his group and begin paying $15 annual dues. He plans talk show appearances Inis week and 60-second to commercials starting Jan. 25. A your goal is to have millions of members in every City and town and neighbourhood a he said. The organization with a paid staff of 30 in Dallas will Monitor elected officials voting records and follow issues particularly government Reform and deficit reduction which Perot championed in his Independent run for president last fall. It won t Back candidates but it May rate officeholders As other interest groups do. Perot a 19 percent of the vote was the most of any third party candidate since 1912, based on that showing Perot believes United we stand America can become a Force to be reckoned with. A anybody who got 19 million votes has made a place for himself no question about it a said Bruce Buchanan a University of Texas political scientist. Perot faces some hurdles such As More clearly defining the group s purpose and managing it belter than he did his Campaign. The Campaign was beset by infighting and is the subject of an Fri investigation for alleged computer hacking. Plus Perot will have to sustain members interest a a he a going to find particularly after the first year it s really hard to get people to pay does like that a said Benjamin Page a political scientist at Northwestern University. In Maine where Perot received his highest percentage of the vote in november a 30.4 percent a Campaign chief Steve Bost said he has spent More than a month getting other backers ready for Perot a next political Jaunt. Astronauts psyched up for Mission Cape canaveral Fla. Apr the countdown has begun for a shuttle Mission that has just about everything toy show spacewalk satellite release and astronomical research. Meteorologists said there was a 70 percent Chance the weather would cooperate for wednesday mornings planned launch of endeavour. A first launch of 1993, the countdown is going extremely Well. We have no problems and things Are going very smoothly a shuttle test director a1 Sofge said monday. The five astronauts assigned to the flight arrived at Kennedy space Center shortly after the count Down began sunday. A a we re psyched up and ready to go a said Mario Runco jr., one of two designated space walkers. Nasal a newest spaceship holds a $200 million tracking and data relay satellite. The astronauts Are to deploy the satellite six hours after liftoff. Soon afterwards an attached rocket is to proper the Craft into a 22,300-mile-High orbit. Once the satellite is freed the astronauts will activate an a Ray spectrometer designed to study emissions from hot interstellar gases conduct. Plant rat and fire experiments and conduct a toy demonstration for elementary  puts out the lights Bedford ,�? town officials say they done to want people to be in the dark a they re just cracking Down on annoying Neon signs. The Battle of the Bright lights pitting the town against Neon lighted businesses was supposed to go to court Jan. 27. But the two sides Are planning to negotiate a settlement. The court Date Likely will be postponed town officials said. In november the new York City suburb of 1,800 residents started enforcing a 9-year-old zoning prohibition of Neon signs for businesses. All but two of 34 businesses grudgingly turned off the lights a including red eyeglasses and an and for Ham and eggs on a Roll. Two shops Berners jewellers and the Katonah image refused to get rid of the signs because they insisted it helps their businesses a new military medal of d Washington president Bush signed an executive order monday creating a medal for those in the military who perform outstanding Volunteer service to the civilian Community. Bush said he was establishing the military outstanding Volunteer service medal with accompanying ribbons. It he said that the Secretary of defense will designate the award for All of the services except the coast guard. The coast guard will have its award designated by the transportation Secretary. Under the order the defense Secretary will prescribe the regulations to govern the award. It May be awarded posthumously. In such a Case it will be presented to representatives of the  irk Black journalists new York the new York daily news May be leaner and meaner after massive layoffs by new owner Mortimer Zuckerman but the tabloids staff now is whiter than Ever critics charged sunday. A i think they Only left four Black reporters a said one fired Black journalist who spoke on condition of anonymity. Quot the publication that Calls itself a new Yorkus Hometown newspaper never had a High percentage of minority reporters and employed 11 Black reporters before Zuckerman fired 170 employees from the 530 newspaper Guild members at the newspaper on thursday when he bought the paper. The National association of Black journalists lamented All the layoffs in a statement that took aim at the racial Impact of the dismissals. Quot we Are outraged by the disproportionate layoffs of african american and other journalists of color a the group said