European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes monday november 21,1994 Legal Boston a former solicitor general Erwin n. Griswold who served under presidents Johnson arid Nixon and whose More than 100 cases before the supreme court included the Pentagon papers arguments died saturday. He was 90. Griswold who lived in Belmont died at 2 25 . At Massachusetts general Hospital after a Brief illness. His Legal career spanned 65 years More than half of them As a faculty member at Harvard Law school in Cambridge. He was Dean there for 21 years before joining the Johnson administration in 1967 As solicitor general the Federal government s top ranking courtroom lawyer. At the time of his death he had argued More cases 127, before the nation s High Griswold Dies at 90 est court than any other living attorney. Erwin Griswold was one of the giants of american Legal education and the american Legale ofe Sion said Obert c. Clark the present Dean of Harvard la Griswold school. What was possibly Griswold s most famous Case came in 1971, when he argued on behalf of the Nixon administration in attempting to halt publication of the so called Pentagon papers which chronicled the . Involvement in the Vietnam War. Griswold a Liberal Republican argued unsuccessfully that publishing the Federal documents would have the effect of causing immediate and irreparable harm to the Security of the United  in a 1986 interview with the times Griswold said the Nixon administration had not known exactly what documents the newspapers possessed at the time. In Hindsight he said publishing the Penta gon papers was harmless. Still Griswold had a sense of humor about the cases he lost. A plaque on his Bookcase read babe Ruth struck out 1,330  aside from his ability in the court room Griswold was a noted Constitution Al scholar and a Champion of civil rights. As Dean of Harvard Law at the height of the Mccarthy Era Griswold in 1954 wrote the Book the fifth amendment \ today examining the constitutional Protection against self incrimination and denouncing sen. Joseph r. Mccarthy. Mccarthy r-wis., led a Campaign to identify supposed communists in the government and in Public life ruining Many careers in 1986, Griswold testified on behalf of chief Justice William Rehnquist at sen ate confirmation hearings but he later criticized Rehnquist As too conservative. He also derided president Bush s statement that Clarence Thomas was the Best Man for the supreme court. Seems to me a fantasy he told the Washington Post in 1991. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago nov. 21,1984 police and sol Diers pulled bodies from the ruins of a shanty neighbourhood near Mexico City that was flattened by a natural Gas explosion. At least 544 people were killed officials said. 20 year Sago nov. 21,1974 the government accused american Telephone and Telegraph co. Of monopolizing Tele communications service and equip ment in the United states and asked a Federal court to order the firm to sell off its major subsidiaries. 30 years ago nov. 21,1964 As the first Volley of protests resounded against the Pentagon s order to close 95 Mili tary installations the . Chamber of Commerce urged affected communities to hold their fire. 40 years ago nov. 21,1954 . Secretary of state John Foster Dulles and French Premier Pierre Mendes France informally agreed to reject the soviet Union s proposal to delay the ratification of the agreements on rearming West Germany. 50 years ago nov. 21,1944 cigarette sales were indefinitely halted in the United kingdom for All personnel except combat soldiers their replacements and Hospital patients because of an acute shortage. I world War ii 50 years ago today nov. 21 the japanese battleship Kongo and a destroyer sink Northeast of Formosa after an attack by a . Submarine. Heavy japanese resistance bogs Down a . Attack in Leyte s Oroc Valley in the Philippines. In Europe albanian guerrillas occupy their country s capital Tirana a Day after the germans Retreat. British forces close in on Venlo in the Netherlands. Polish troops take Monte Fortino Italy. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War u. Bison books corp., 1981 a Susan Smith charged with murdering her two sons wipes a tears she sits Friday with attorney David Brack in a York ., courtroom. Mom in drowning Case ignores husband in court York  Apr for the first time since she confessed to drowning their two sons in a Lake Susan Smith shared the same room with her husband. She ignored him. David Smith tried to catch the Eye of his estranged wife throughout her 90-minute court hearing Friday but she just stared straight ahead occasionally glancing at her lawyer or dabbing her eyes with tissue. The defendant refused to look at either her husband or his family sitting across the courtroom about 15 feet away. Susan Smith has sent him a letter from prison said her Hus band s lawyer j. Michael Turner. But that apparently is the couple s Only communication since she was arrested nov. 3. David Smith would t reveal the contents of the letter. Turner said David Smith wants to talk to his wife and May make an appointment to see her at a prison near Columbia where she has been in solitary confinement since her arrest. She is accused of drowning her sons Michael 3, and Alex 14 months. Police say she admitted that she let her car Roll into a Lake oct. 25 with the boys strapped into their safety seats. The hearing was Susan Smith s first court appearance since her arrest. Her lawyer David Bruck was fighting a request by prosecutors that she undergo a psychiatric evaluation. I can give you a three word reason Why Bruck said. Thed Siath  Bruck said a psychiatric examination could be used As Evi Dence to sentence Smith to the electric chair if prosecutors seek the death penalty and she is convicted. Susan is a lot like a 6-year-old child Bruck said. She needs to be protected from the Legal peril that is before  prosecutor Thomas Pope said he won t decide whether to seek the death penalty until at least january. Storm weakens As it Heads Back toward Florida Miami a indecisive tropical storm Gordon rolled Back toward Florida on saturday a Shadow of its former Hurricane self that probably will die out before it hits the Peninsula. It s continuing to weaken said Max Mayfield meteorologist with the National Hurricane Center in Coral babies. It could be downgraded soon to a Tropi Cal  Gordon born nov. 8 off Nicaragua zigzagged As a tropical storm through the Caribbean killing More than 500 in Haiti before snaking across Florida where it battered Homes and crops. Gordon next Slid into the Atlantic where it strength ened into the third Hurricane of the season and brushed the coastal outer Banks of North Carolina. Beach lovers were out with sail boards saturday As the storm trailed away to the South. The wind s howl ing. It s great out there said Edward Yerkovich of Buffalo n.y., As he hauled his Board out of Roanoke sound. A. Early sunday Gordon was about 320 Miles East of Daytona Beach. It was moving South and was expected to turn gradually toward Florida in the next 24 hours. However Gordon s Power was greatly diminished. Its sustained wind Speed had dropped from 70 Mph Early Friday to near 40 Mph. Once its wind dropped below 39 Mph it would be reclassified a tropical  May have Cost Florida s agriculture Industry $336 million the state department of agriculture  state grows about half of the nation s Winter vegetables including Squash Sweet Corn tomatoes Green Beans peppers eggplants and potatoes. As a result of Gordon some producer and retail vegetable prices could Rise As much As 20 percent on the East coast. Boys 10 and 8, admit sex assault on 5-year-old Lacon 111. A a 10-year-old and his 8-year old brother pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 5 year old girl who lived next door. The older boy who was 9 at the time of the assault admitted Friday in court to having sexual Intercourse with the girl in a vacant House near their Homes in Henry about 40 Miles North of Peoria. He pleaded guilty to aggravated criminal sexual assault a felony. The younger boy pleaded guilty to aggravated Crimi Nal sexual abuse a lesser charge that does not involve penetration. Marshall county juvenile court judge c. Brett Bode said he would decide at a future hearing whether to place the boys in a Foster Home or institution until they reach age 18. _ in the meantime he ordered psychological evaluations for them and their parents. I be probably had More juvenile cases than anyone else in this area. But this is something new for me Bode said. The parents of the victim now 6, attended the hear ing. They moved out of their House soon after the May assault but the two Brothers and the girl still attend the same school. The youths weren t identified because of. Their Ages and the nature of the crimes