European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Sunday june 19,1994clinton assails cancer of crime Washington apr pushing Congress to pass anti crime legislation president Clinton said saturday that the a cancer of crime and violence is eating away at the Unity of the american people. A unless we do something about crime we can to be really free in this country we can to exercise the opportunities that Are there for us and our children can to inherit the american dream a Clinton said in his weekly radio address. The president taped the remarks on Friday before leaving Chicago where he visited a South Side housing project that is infested with crime and gang activity. A i went there because its a Good place to emphasize to All americans that we have begun a nationwide Effort to drive the guns the gangs and the drugs from Public housing and from All neighbourhoods where americans feel terrorized a Clinton said. He said the crime Bill pending in Congress would a provide us with the tools we need to help prevent and punish  a no Issue poses the need to come together More to Deal with the problems we face than docs the cancer of crime and violence that is eating away at the Bonds that unite us As a people a he said. In Chicago Clinton defended police sweeps of Public housing projects in search of weapons. A Federal judge ruled earlier this year that the Chicago housing authority had violated constitutional protections when it began searching apartments a in the same Robert Taylor Homes project Clinton visited a for guns without first obtaining search warrants. After the ruling the administration proposed that clauses be added to Public housing leases requiring tenants to agree to submit to police searches for guns. The proposal was criticized by both the american civil liberties Union and the National Rifle association but Clinton said a i support this very strongly a he brushed off the argument that people had a right against warrant less searches of their Homes saying americans arc often required to give up certain rights. He mentioned for example going through Metal detectors at airports. The Issue of warrant less searches is not resolved in either of the crime Bills passed by the House and Senate. Negotiators Are trying to write a final Compromise version Bill that would put More police on the streets ban assault weapons finance prison construction and create More crime prevention  the stars and stripes 10years ago june 19,1984 a the Reagan administration characterized As a a ties a British report that a korean air Unes jetliner shot Down in september with a loss of 269 lives was on an intelligence Mission to test soviet radar.20 year Sago june 19,1974 nato Secre tary general Joseph Luns warned delegates at the 25th meeting of the alliances Council of ministers that the primary lesson of the october War in the Middle East was that the soviet threat still existed.30 years ago june 19,1964 a Arizona sen. Barry Goldwater virtually certain to win the Republican nomination for president said he would Quot reluctantly Quot vote against the Compromise civil rights Bill regardless of the political consequences.40 year Sago june 19,1954 a democrats on the army Mccarthy investigating subcommittee called for the Eisenhower administration to clarify promptly the question of possible prosecution for perjury or misuse of secret Locum eos As a result of the hearings.50 years ago june 19,1944 a rapidly advancing . Infantry units slashed through to Frances Cote tin Peninsulas West coast completing a steel Collar around German forces still in the French port City area of Cherbourg. World War ii 50 years ago today june 1919 a 4 4 japanese aircraft carriers launch 372 warplanes to strike the . Fleet waiting West of Saipan but the americans crush the attack a Japan loses 240 planes in the air and 50 on the ground in nearby Guam to a . Loss of 29, and . Submarines sink two japanese carriers. A Lour Day storm begins battering Normandy severely disrupting Supply operations at the allies beachhead. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War ii Bison books corp. 1981 a Nixon wanted to dump Agnew on supreme court sex aide says by Jules w1tcover Baltimore Sun Washington a president Nixon considered nominating Spiro Agnew for the supreme court in late 1971 to get him out of the vice presidency but decided he could not be confirmed according to John Ehrlichman the Nixon White House Counselor convicted of conspiracy and perjury in the watergate cover up. The supreme court nomination Ehrlichman said in a Telephone interview with the Baltimore Sun was to induce Agnew to resign the vice presidency. That would have cleared the Way for Nixon to nominate his Secretary of the Treasury John Connally to the Post and put Connally rather than Agnew in the line of succession for the presidency Nixon also thought he might get Agnew to step aside by arranging for a some High paying Jeff a for him Ehrlichman said but a Agnew   attorney general John Mitchell a became agnews go Between and persuaded Nixon to keep him a said Ehrlichman who is now working for an environmental firm in Atlanta. Efforts to reach Agnew 75, at his Home in California were unsuccessful. Ehrlichmann a recollections follow the recently published White House Agnew diaries of the late chief of staff . A a bobs Haldeman that indicated Nixon had talked to him several times about removing Agnew. Haldeman and Ehrlichman a leading adviser on Domestic policy were Nixon a two closest confidants in the White House. In addition to wanting to put Connally into the line of presidential succession the diaries indicate Nixon expressed concern that Agnew was not qualified to be president but could attain the office if something happened to the president. At the time two vacancies on the supreme court had resulted or were about to take place with the resignations of associate justices Hugo Black who resigned sept. 17, 1971, and died a week later and John Harlan who resigned sept. 23. Nixon Ehrlichman said a had a notion to put Agnew on the court but he remembered that he had to be  by that time Agnew was a highly partisan and divisive figure by virtue of his vocal attacks on Nixon administration critics. Moreover the Senate which would have had to pass on the Agnew nomination was firmly in democratic hands. The two appointments finally went to Lewis Powell of Virginia and William Rehnquist later appointed As chief  steer juries help convicted killers from death sentence Washington a the supreme court gave some convicted murderers a better Chance to avoid the death penalty ruling Friday that they can Tell sentencing a juries there s no Chance they could be paroled from a life in prison term. The court by a 7-2 Vole ruled that such defendants have a right to Tell jurors when the Only alternative to a deals sentence is life without parole. The decision struck Down a South Carolina Law that barred jurors Many of whom might think a a life sentence Quot does no to really mean a lifetime behind bars from hearing that parole is impossible for some defendants. Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas the court s two most conservative members dissented. A the heavily outnumbered opponents of capital punishment have successfully opened yet another front in their guerrilla War to make the death penalty a practical impossibility a Scalia wrote Lor the two. A in other decisions the court a said Federal regulators generally cannot give Long distance Telephone companies competing against att amp to greater leeway to decide what Rales to charge customers. A barred Massachusetts from requiring milk wholesalers to pay an asses Meni on All milk sold in the Stafe and then distribute the Money to Only in state Dairy Faim supreme court ers. The Deall sent acc decision yielded five opinions writing for himself and three others Justice Harry Blackmun said a where the defendant s future dangerousness is at Issue and state Law prohibits the defendants release on parole due process requires that the sentencing jury be informed that the defendant is parole ineligible a but Justice Sandra Day of Connor and two other members who voted against the South Carolina Law did not join Blackmun a language about a requirement for due process. In an opinion written by of Connor they said the constitutions due process Protection a entitles the defendant to inform the capital sentencing jury. He is parole  the apparent Bottom line a defendant has a due process right to let a jury know there s no Chance of parole but the defendant must initiate it. Two other slates a Pennsylvania and Virginia a join South Carolina in barring sentencing juries in death penalty cases from learning about parole ineligibility. Fridays ruling casts a Cloud Over the Validity of their Laws As Well. Most states impose life imprisonment without possibility of parole for certain crimes. All but those three however routinely Tell jurors when parole is not available. A the state May not create a false dilemma by advancing generalized arguments regarding the defendants future dangerousness while at the same time preventing the jury from learning that the defendant never will be released on parole a Blackmun said. He was joined by justices David sout or John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Souter and Ginsburg also wrote separate concurring opinions. Of Connor was joined in  less sweeping concurrence by chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justice Anthony Kennedy. The decision overturned the death sentence of Jonathan Dale Simmons convicted of the july 1990 beating death of Josie Lamb during a burglary at  Richland county Home. Simmons admitted killing the elderly woman and he pleaded guilty to charges of burglary and criminal sexual conduct in two unrelated assaults on elderly women in 1989 and 1990. Under South Carolina Law the Only possible sentences for Simmons murder conviction were death or life without parole. But the trial judge relying on the state Law barred any mention of parole to the sentencing jury a even after jurors sent a note to the judge asking if parole were possible