European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 16, 1993 rep. Fred Gopher Grandy . The stars and stripes Page 7 from wire reports Sioux City Iowa a rep. Fred Grandy is officially in the race for governor of Iowa promising no More than two terms if he is Able to take the Job away from fellow Republican Terry e. Branstad. Branstad is seeking a fourth four year term in next years election. A folks who have enthusiastically supported our governor in the past have told me they think he is seeking one term too Many a Grandy told a crowd of about 100 supporters tuesday in his Hometown of Sioux City. Grandy a former actor who portrayed Purser a Gopher Smith in televisions the love boat opted to run for governor instead of another two year term in Congress. His fourth term expires at the end of next year. City sued Over Cross ban Cincinnati the american civil liberties Union sued the City tuesday to Force it to Grant the Kun flux klan a permit to display a Cross. Scott Greenwood an Acle lawyer representing the klan a Knight riders group sued in . District court to Challenge a City ordinance prohibiting displays of symbols that might incite violence. The lawsuit asks . District judge Carl Rubin to allow the Knight riders to display the Cross dec. 19-29 on Fountain Square. Greenwood has said he believes the City Council enacted the ordinance just to prohibit the Cross. The Council enacted the ordinance in october after debating ways of avoiding a controversy that occurred Over a klan Cross last Christmas vandals repeatedly attacked the 10-foot wooden Cross and police had to establish 24-hour vigils to protect the display. New tests for discovery Cape canaveral Fla. Endeavour. Returned from its Hubble space Telescope repair Mission in Good shape but the next shuttle flight could be delayed by extra tests of discovery a steering jets Nasa said tuesday. Endeavours Thermal insulating tiles sustained 120 chips during the 11-Day Mission which ended with a Kennedy space Center Landing Early monday. Only 13 chips were longer than an Inch said Nasa s Bruce Buckingham. Two May have been caused by tiny meteorites. Shuttle managers ordered additional leak checks and inspections of discovery a 44 steering jets because a tiny Hole was found in one that was removed from the shuttle in october. Buckingham said the tests probably will delay discovery a science Mission by As much As a week possibly longer if any thrusters need to be replaced. Discovery was supposed to lift off around Jan. 27 with six astronauts including cosmonaut Sergei Kri Kalev who will be the first russian to Fly on a shuttle. Press team to get aide Washington a Ginny Terzano a former spokeswoman for the democratic National committee is joining the White House communications team. Terzano 34, replaces Lorraine Voles As a Deputy White House press Secretary effective Jam 1, Voles became chief spokeswoman for vice president a1 Gore a the perspective that comes from Ginny a experience in the Media and As a spokeswoman will make her a Strong addition to our communications team a president Clinton said in a statement tuesday. Health official named Washington or. Susan j. Blumenthal an expert on mental health was named tuesday to a new Post on women s health issues at the department of health and human services. Blumenthal will become a Deputy assistant Secretary for women a health working under surgeon general Joycelyn elders Blumenthal is a Captain in the . Public health services commissioned corps and chief of the behavioural Medicine and Basic prevention research at the National Institute of mental health. Or. Jack Kevorkian right confers with attorney Geoffrey Fieger in a Royal Oak mich., courtroom on tuesday. A a a a a a a v. Kevorkian charge dropped but trial set Detroit apr an assisted suicide charge against or. Jack Kevorkian was dismissed by one judge tuesday but another ordered a trial in the death Ora patient suffering from Lou Gehrig a disease and also rejected a plea to set the doctor free for the holidays. Kevorkian who has refused solid food for two weeks to protest his jailing remained behind bars after the judge turned Down a request for a Christmas amnesty Ana refused to lower his Bond. The status of Michigan a Law Banning assisted suicide was Uncertain after circuit judge Richard Kaufman struck it Down As unconstitutional Kaufman also dropped one of two assisted suicide charges pending against Kevorkian in Wayne county. A the statute is struck Down As unconstitutional a Kaufman said after Kevorkian a lawyer Geoffrey Fieger asked him to clarify his monday ruling in the Case. Kaufman ruled that the Law was unconstitutional because it infringed on liberties guaranteed by the 14th amendment to the . Constitution. The judge outlined criteria under which he said assisted suicide is a constitutional right when a severely ill rational person with Little Hope of recovery decides without interference to commit suicide. Kaufman threw out the charge in the sept. 9 death of Bone cancer patient Donald of Keefe after Fieger showed a videotape of a cancer patient saying a i want to Stop the pain Quot and �?o1 do not want to go on  opposing lawyers disagreed on whether Kaufman s ruling was finding in two other cases against Kevorkian including one in neighbouring Oakland county. Fieger said he will ask a higher Oakland county judge today to dismiss the charge on which Kevorkian was ordered to stand trial. In that Case state District judge Daniel Sawicki ruled there was enough evidence to try Kevorkian on a charge that he helped Merian Frederick commit suicide oct. 22 by inhaling Carbon monoxide. Kevorkian also faces charges in Wayne county in the death of Thomas Hyde 30, who had Lou Gehrig a disease. That trial is set for feb. 15. Kevorkian a 65-year-old retired pathologist has been present at 20 suicides since 1990. Five have been since february when Michigan outlawed assisted suicides. The Law enacted to Stop Kervorkian carries a possible four year prison sentence. Prosecutors said they would Appeal Kaufman a ruling directly to the Michigan supreme court bypassing the state court of appeals. A we believe the statute to constitutional a said assistant Wayne county prosecutor Tim Kenny. Ban on Gay rights Laws overturned by the new York times Denver a a Denver District judge has ruled that a voter approved ban on Gay rights Laws violates the . Constitution s guarantee of equal Protection. In Light of tuesdays ruling Gay rights groups said they were suspending their Campaign to Boycott Colorado an Effort that Cost the state about $38 million in convention business. Colorado attorney general Gale Norton said the state would Appeal the ruling to the Colorado supreme court but the court has already indicated that it would almost certainly strike Down the measure passed by voters in november 1992. The referendum known As amendment 2, was never enforced. It would have repealed Laws in Denver Boulder and Aspen prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals in jobs and housing and it would have forbidden the passage of any such Law in the state. A a a Clear that nothing is going to happen in Colorado to save amendment 2,�?� said Gene Nichol Dean of the University of Colorado Law school a for All practical purposes its now going to be up to the . Supreme  the state supreme court ruled in july that amendment 2 could pass constitutional Muster Only if it proved a a compelling state  Norton a Republican said the states desire to promote a family values Quot provided such a compelling interest. But in striking Down the measure tuesday judge Jeffrey Bayliss rejected that argument and ruled that the measure violated the equal Protection clause of the 14th amendment. A if one wished to promote family values a he wrote a action would be taken that is pro family rather than anti some other  the ruling was the third defeat in court for amendment 2. In january two months after the measure was passed by the voters Bayless blocked its enforcement with a temporary injunction which was upheld by the state supreme court. Tuesdays ruling followed a nine Day Couit hearing in october on the constitutional merits. Homosexuals in Colorado expressed Relief tuesday. A finally after one year the Cloud has been cleared a said Bob Schlaff publisher of quest a Gay Magazine in Denver. A Colorado has come to its  groups that advocate equal rights around the country said the ruling should serve As a warning to other states that might be considering Colorado style referendum issues. Supporters of the Colorado ballot Issue expressed frustration that a measure passed by a majority of voters could be rejected in court. Will Perkins who Heads Colorado for family values a conservative group said his group would continue to work to put the measure into Law