European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 19, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 5 1  to study sex Ury by the Baltimore Sun Washington the supreme court promising a major decision on sex Bias agreed monday to Mac on the constitutionality of lawyers efforts to keep All men or All women of juries. The ruling will settled constitutional dispute among the lower courts about the use of Poten tial jurors sex As a basis for barring them from a jury. The court will hold a hearing on the Issue next fall and decide the dispute sometime next1year. Just As lawyers for generations tried to shape the racial makeup of juries until the supreme court banned the practice in decisions starting in 1986, attorneys Long have attempted to control the sex supreme court makeup of juries on the theory that a jury s gender might help their clients. In the Case the court will review stat lawyers in Alabama tried to keep All men from acting As jurors to decide a paternity Case against a Man while the Man s own attorneys tried to keep All the women off the jury panel. The jury wound up with 12 women and no men. The jurors ruled that the Man was the father of a child As the child smother had claimed in the lawsuit. The most effective Way for lawyers to control who sits on a jury is to use Auto Matic challenges or strikes against potential jurors. Those strikes technically called peremptory challenges permit a lawyer to bar an individual without giving any reason for doing so such challenges Are not second guessed by the judge. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago May 19,1983 president Rea Gan saying that it is time to draw the line in his budget Battle with Congress vowed to reject any Bill that would raise taxes while the nation is emerging from recession. 20 years ago May 19,1973 attorney Gener Al designate Elliot l Richardson chose Archibald Cox a Democrat and a former High ranking official in the Justice department As the Spe Cial watergate prosecutor 30 years ago May 19,1963 president Kennedy went to Nashville tenn., to Tell residents of the racially troubled South that the determination to secure full rights for All citizens is in the highest tradition of american. Freedom.". 40 years ago May 19,1953 american Sabre jets blasted 12 More Mig-15s out of the skies. Three of the kills went to capt. Joseph Mcconnell or. Of Cali fornia making him the world s Lead ing Jet Ace with 16 migs destroyed. 50 years ago May 19,1943 an estimated 120,000 germans were homeless in the heart of Hitler s War oriented Ruhr Valley after Raf bombers Cre ated a flood that a Harvard scientist called the greatest dam disaster the world has Ever known. World War ii 50 years ago today May 19 19� 43 delegates to a food conference meet in hot Springs va., for two weeks of discussions on fairer distribution of the world s resources after the War. On Attu Island in the aleutians troops of the . Army s 7th div push the japanese Down Clevesy pass toward the Sarana Valley and Chicago Harbor. Source 2194 Days of War w h. Smith publishers inc. World almanac Book of world War ii. Bison books corp. ,1981 a Bon upheld on Bible distribution Rensselaer ind. A the . Supreme court on monday let stand a ban on distribution of i icon bibles in Public schools. The ruling was an answer to alien Burger s prayers and ended his four year Legal Battle with the runs Delacr. School corp. On behalf of his two Chil Dren. The court left in place ruling. That ended the school system s decades old practice of allowing Gideons inter National to distribute bibles to fifth graders in runs Sclar Public schools in Northwestern Indiana. The justices without comment rejected arguments by school officials who claimed the practice did t Vio late the constitutionally required separation of Church and state. Our private prayers have been an swered said Berger an anthropology professor at St. Joseph s College in Rensselaer. /  r. Price a attorney who rep. Resented the school District criticized the Indiana civil liberties Union which argued against distributing the bibles in school. Actor arrested i actor Martin Sheen was among 52 people arrested at the White Gani cd by Greenpeace and Ohio environmental groups. Oppo House on monday during a demonstration against a hazardous a cols say Hie incinerator is too close to Homes and a school. Waste incinerator in East Liverpool Ohio. The protest was or Sheen was released after Greenpeace paid his $50 Fine. Tighter limits sought on tobacco legislation would ban free samples sales to minors Washington a two House members introduced a Bill monday to ban the Sale of tobacco to americans younger than 18 and put the tobacco Industry under the authority of the . Food and drug administration. The legislation would bring this nation s leading cause of death and disability in line with the Way other Legal products Are regulated said rep. Mike Synard okla. The Bill is cosponsored by rep. Rich Ard j. Durbin d-i11., and endorsed by a coalition of health organizations. It also would prohibit free samples and discount coupons for tobacco products. Demand additional health warnings on cigarette packages. Ensure that All chemical additives used in cigarettes Are Safe. Prohibit tobacco companies from sponsoring sports cultural or other pub Lic events. Require the tobacco Industry to pay the Cost of regulation. Similar efforts in recent years have failed to win congressional approval but Synar said there was definitely a Green Light this year with a new and sympathetic president in the White House. He said the Bill aimed at reducing the estimated $65 billion that smoking costs the United states every year in lost productivity and health care costs tucks in very nicely with the National health care plan that president Clinton will soon introduce. A spokeswoman for the tobacco Institute said the Bill was unnecessary be cause 49 states already have Laws barring sales to people younger than 18 and cigarette manufacturers have Long disclosed the ingredients of their products to the health and human services department the Parent Agency of the Fra. The premise is that there is no Regula Tion of tobacco. That is flatly and demonstrably false. There is an alphabet soup of agencies that regulate tobacco said lure Nan Dawson. Hut Durbin insisted that the tobacco Industry has been shrouded in secrecy. We Don t know what s in the  said the Industry has escaped the Law Long enough by gaining exemption from regulation on the grounds it is neither food nor a drug. The coalition on smoking or health released results of a Gallup organisation poll showing that 68 percent of american believe the Fra should regulate tobacco products in the Way drugs Are regulated. I said two thirds favored restrictions on advertising that encourages people to smoke