European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 23,1993 . The stars and stripes supreme court to Rule on civil rights cases Washington a the supreme court agreed monday to decide whether the civil rights act of 1991 applies retroactively to court cases pending when Congress enacted the Law. The justices said they will use two cases a Texas woman s 1989 sexual harassment lawsuit against her former employer and two Black garage mechanics Law suit against their sex employer to decide the Issue. The court s eventual decision expected sometime in1994, will affect thousands of cases in which employ ment discrimination is alleged. In other action the High court rejected Rock n Roll legend Chuck Berry s plea to move his Legal Battles from state to Federal court. The Singer says Missouri officials Are trying to destroy him financially. Agreed to decide the scope of Public school districts obligations to pay for the private schooling of pupils with special educational needs. � refused to revive a lawsuit against the Navy by Nancy Lewis of Nort Cvijic mich., Mother of a Sailor killed with 46 shipmates in a 1989 explosion aboard the battleship Iowa. Let stand rulings against attempts by the parents of a retarded girl to collect damages from the government for an army base civilian doctor s failure to diagnose the Mother s pregnancy in time to prevent the girl s birth. Rejected Tennessee Divorcee Mary sue Davis Stowe s Appeal to use seven Frozen embryos to become pregnant against her sex husband s wishes. Refused to free the environmental Protection Agency from enforcing the ban on cancer causing pesticide residues in processed foods. Refused to let environmentalists create one nation wide Case from lawsuits against strip mining. Lit the Texas civil rights Case Barbara Landgraf sued Usi film products after working at its Tyler production Plant for 16 months. Before she quit in Early 1986, Landgraf worked the overnight shift As a machine operator making plastic bags. Fellow employee John Williams subjected Landgraf to what a Federal judge called continuous and repeat cd inappropriate verbal comments and physical  lower courts found Williams sexual harassment Tobe severe enough to make the Plant a hostile work Environ ment for Landgraf and make her employer liable under title Vii of the civil rights act of 1964. But lower courts ruled that Landgraf was not entitled to Back pay because she could not prove she was constructively  the second Case granted review by the High court came from Ohio where Maurice Rivers Ana Robert Davison sued Roadway express inc. After they were fired in 1986. Both had been longtime employees working As garage mechanics. Legal briefs filed in the Case did not state where the men worked. In the stars and stripes 10 year Sago feb. 23,1983 president Rea Gan said the United states is ready to guarantee the Security of Israel s Northern Borders if it withdraws its forces from Lebanon. 20 years ago feb. 23,1973 the United states and China announced plans to open official government Liaison offices in Washington and peking to Speed up normalization of relations Between the countries. 30 years ago feb. 23,1963 two . Shrimp fishermen described How a cuban based Mig fighter Jet attacked their boat on the High seas after they sought its help when the boat be came disabled in the Florida Straits. 40 years ago feb. 23,1953 communist Bor Der guards shot to death a West Berliner who was guiding an East German couple to Freedom. The guards opened fire at his truck As it crashed through a Border control station into the . Sector. 50 years ago feb. 23,1943-the 8th air Force formally made the Camp grif Fiss air base in Britain its european theater of operations Headquarters. The Camp is named for one of the first americans to die in the line of duty in the theater. World War ii 50 years ago to a feb. 23 1.943 soviet troops capture sumy and Lebedin Northeast of Kharkov in the Ukraine but the German counteroffensive begins to make gains to the South particularly in an attack toward bar Venkova. In the Norm Atlantic Allied Convoy on 166 is in the midst of a five Day attack by German submarines that will sink 14 cargo ships at the Cost of Only one a boat. Source 2194 Days of War. W h so n publishers inc world almanac Book of Wai ii. A n books corp1 is 1 a nation of islam founder did t order killing of Malcolm a Farrakhan says Chicago a nation of islam Leader Louis Farrak Han says his organization s founder Elijah Muhammad did t order the assassination of Mal Colm x 28 years ago. But Farrakhan said Many member were angered by Malcolm x s criticism of Muhammad and would have been capable when. Malcolm x Farrakhan of killing him. Stepped across that line death was inevitable Farrakhan said. Three men including two members of the nation of islam were sentenced to life in prison for shooting Malcolm x Ashe spoke at new York s Audubon Ball room on feb. 21,1965. Farrakhan who spoke sunday to about 11,000 people at the University of Illi Nois Chicago Pavilion said he was break ing his Public silence on Malcolm x to Clear up questions that Spike Lee s movie raised about the Black Muslim Leader. Lee said during an appearance in new York on sunday that he has t discussed the film with Farrakhan. The movie Malcolm a hints that the nation of islam or agents of the . Government May have been involved in the assassination. Farrakhan said the film also unfairly portrayed Muhammad As a grotesque figure of Low morals a Man who manipulated people to make them think he Wasman sent from  he taught us the value of a moral life. He lived the life he taught us until the time in his development when he took on several wives Farrakhan said. He said  allows a Man up to four wives although it advises against that. Farrakhan also introduced four of the women by whom Muhammad had fathered children. He treated us with dignity and re sped said Evelyn Muhammad. He was an honorable  Spike Lee returns to jail to show movie encourage inmates to use time effectively from wire reports new York Spike Lee went to jail sunday. The movie director was Only vis iting but corrections commissioner Ca Therine Abate thought he was Back among old friends. Lee went to riders Island to show in mates his critically acclaimed film Macolm x on the 2�lh anniversary of the Lack Leader s assassination. But during her introduction Abate referred to Lee As someone who had been through the penal system and had become successful. He made it through and made some thing out of his life and so can you Abate told inmates. Apparently Abate mixed up the details of Lee s life with his film s subject Mal Colm a who did spend several years in Pris on before becoming a religious and Politi Cal Leader in the late 1950s and Early 1960s. Lee has never been incarcerated. As Abate made her comments Lee first appeared stunned by her error. Then he began shaking his head and making hand gestures to the audience so they would be aware that Abate was mistaken. Several in mates also began making catcalls to Abate trying to Clear up the situation. Finally one of Abate s assistants whispered to her. Red faced she said obviously i Don t know very much about or.  when Lee finally made it to the Micro phone he took the situation with goo humor. She put me in jail he told the audience of about 500 inmates. The prisoners cheered. Lee went on to Tell the inmates that he hoped they would come away from the film realizing How effectively Malcolm x used his time in prison. Hopefully once you get out you won t be Back either he told the crowd. Lee reminded the inmates at the Rik ers Island jail that Malcolm x was imprison when he turned to education and religion and turned his life around. Be said he was showing the film in the Hope of inspiring inmates to stay out of prison. In a question and answer period with the inmates after the screening Lee chided the Academy of motion picture arts and sciences for nominating scent of woman and not Malcolm x for Best picture. He said scent of woman will be forgotten in 40 years but Malcolm x won t. Lee whose film opens with portions of the videotape of the Rodney g. King police beating alluded to racial Bias in the criminal Justice system. He said it was no coincidence that most of his prison audience sunday was Black or hispanic. He said he was inspired to show the movie in prisons after Boxer Mike Tyson serving a sentence in Indiana for rape asked to see it. T on loved inc movie and is now Reading several books a week and stud ing for a High school equivalency degree Lee said. Other groups commemorated the anniversary of Malcolm x s assassination across the City. In the Harlem Section of manhat Tan members of the Black nation marched to the Audubon ballroom where Malcolm x was gunned Down feb. 21,1965. Handicapped boy who was guest at inaugural Dies Sandusky Ohio a Joshua Cox a handicapped boy who attended the presidential inauguration ceremonies As a guest of vice president Al Gore s wife Tipper died from complications of pneumonia. He was 12. Joshua of Milan township died sat urday at Akron children s Hospital said his father Dean. The boy had been in a coma for tight Das. Did t look Good. He had a rough week he said. Joshua suffered from a severe form of menu retardation and cerebral palsy caused by a Lack of Cisgen at Binh. He Cou a i walk or Ulk and co a hear orgy with hearing Ai. The coxes  . 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