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Show 0 'i Uni Lukecit y . uth uth f. 112 WESTERN AMERICANA Utah Supreme Court Decisions - Capsule - BURGLARY CONVICTIONS AFFIRMED UTAH vs. SWAUS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOLUME 17, NUMBER 4 FCC Gives AT&T Limited Permit On Satellites asked at a news conference what the criteria for entrants were. Burch stressed restrictions placed on AT&T were designed to counter munications Inc. and Lockheed its power in the (COMSAT-MCIL- ) to set up a telephone field, which he said poses domestic satellite a serious obstacle to competitive multipurpose Three other field. system. applications entries. in Western are Bernard Strasburgh, chief of the The complex Union, pending by ruling General effect will give firms competing Telephone, and Hughes Commission's Common Carrier Aircraft three-yeand more are expected. Bureau, said he expected the space AT&T a head against We do not guarantee success in segment of a domestic statellite start in the market. In part, the FCC decision will this field; we merely give them a application could be cleared within chance to get into it, FCC Chair- 60 days. But, he said, it would take permit AT&T to operate a domestic communications satellite system man Dean Burch answered when about two years after authorization before such a system could become with the Communications Satellite was which operational. Corp. (COMSAT), AT&T PresidentRobert D. Lilley created by Congress to establish a issued a statement saying the global communications satellite company was pleased with the system. FCC but unhappy with the But it will restrict AT&Ts use of a domestic satellite system to certain three-yea- r restriction on some services. systems specialized for a three-yea- r period and further Limiting our use of satellites, N.C. DURHAM, (UPI) -P- even for an initial period, is an arrequire the company to divest itself resident Nixons choice for deputy tificial restriction that is not in the of its 29 per cent holding in COMSAT attorney general is a tax authority public interest, he said. during that time. who has never practiced law and COMSAT is now seeking entry The FCC decision also reaffirmed who allegedly once joined an aninto the domestic communications its intent to lower the telecomtiwar protest. field to compete with AT&T and munications costs for services in other carriers in supplying new and Joseph T. Sneed, 52, a gray- Puerto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska by haired, slightly overweight man treating them as continental U.S. inproved domestic communications with a passion for croquet, is given states. commission said. the services..., high marks as a scholar and adStock ownership by AT&T in ministrator by his colleagues at COMSAT is no longer necessary to further the policies of the com-- - Duke University. But all his writings, most of his few speeches and even his comments over coffee have been confined to tax law matters, according WASHINGTON IIANSEX We are of the opinion that Supreme Court: the crime of willful entry is not necessarily included within the charge of burglary in the second degree. Plaintiff counsel: Vernon B. Romney, David S. Young Defendant counsel: Salt Lake Legal Defenders, Raymond S. Shuey JANUARY 5, 1973 -R(UPI) earlier the decisions, eversing Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has agreed to permit the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. limited entry into the domestic communications satellite satellite act. The decision, reached December 22, also approved a proposal by ComMicrowave COMSAT, m unications near-monopolis- tic 50-pa- UTAH vs. (tAHCIA ar Supreme Court: It is not a function of the courts to review the exercise of executive discretion. . . . See details page 3. Control and the National Institute of Mental Health. Its annual budget is almost $2.3 billion. Sencer, 48, is a native of Grand Rapids, Mich., who received his medical degree in 1952 from the University of Michigan. Senator to Use Legacy in Part For Students - Gene Research Caution Urged Two (UPI) when a retired secretary years ago died she left custody of her $100,000 estate to Sen. Harry F. Byrd, Jr., ., for that use or uses which he deems best for the general welfare of the United States of America. WASHINGTON D-Va- Teacher By Law - ScienWASHINGTON (UPI) Byrd announced, December 21, that income from the bequest of tists have been urged to proceed stocks of the American Telephone & cautiously with genetic research Telegraph Co. will be used to that could lead to test tube babies in provide scholarships for needy the near future and possibly evenstudents, promote patriotism and tually to carbon copies of exbeautify and maintain historic traordinary humans or superpeople. Harold B. Green, professor of law landmarks. at George Washington University, Byrd never met Miss Annie J. said laboratory work with genes, the Bronson, a retired secretary to hereditary components of bodies, Harvard Law Professor John M. has made major progress recently Maguire, but said her friends and genetic therapy offers the described her as a great admirer of possibility for the first time of man the Senator and his father, former changing himself. We are only a very short step Virginia Senator and Governor Harry F. Byrd, Sr. from the time in which it will be In her will, Miss Bronson said she possible for parents to determine the was leaving the bulk of die estate to sex of their child, Green said at a of the American meeting Byrds custody because I have Association for the of Advancement absolute confidence in his patriotic We to December seem 28. Science, wisdom. be almost at the point of fertilizing human eggs in a test tube. He told a news conference that in the more distant future scientists may develop ways to dissect young embryos to produce dones-identichumans. And, he said, science some day may learn how to create new forms of life, superhumans or WASHINGTON (UPI)-- Dr. David possibly, subhumans. J. Sencer, director of the governHe suggested that government ments Center for Disease Control in financial support of such research Atlanta, Ga., for the last six years, be reduced to slow work in the field has been named acting ad- until its implications are examined ministrator as of January 1 erf the and steps taken to control future Federal Health Services and Mental developments. Because genetic Health Administration. research also is underway in other He temporarily fills the post countries, Green said there is a need vacated by Dr. Vernon E. Wilson for international agreements and who resigned during the postcontrols. election shakeup of HEW. a Dr. Robert G. Martin, The appointment by HEW InNational biochemist with the Secretary Elliot L. Richardson was stitutes of Health but expressing his viewed in HEW as an attempt to "enormous said views, personal placate an uneasy group of governfurther from come will ment health workers whose agency good war the in research against is not oily without a chief but is a genetic he also questioned how But disease. prime target of cuts in President some genetic work will be used. , Name Acting Head for U.S. Health Units Nixons upcoming 1974 budget al proposals. An HEW spokesman aaid the appointment had no bearing on Astronaut Honored Wilson. astronomists the eventual replacement for The HEW agency employs 28,000 workers in 16 health .?rvice programs throughout the country including the Center for Disease MOSCOW (UPI) have Crimean named an asteroid in the constellation of Leo after cosmonaut- Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, the magazine Soviet Union said. - long-distan- Nixon's Choice In Justice Spot Protested War ce go-ahea- d Call New York Police Vice Argentine Sues Nixon Nominee, Charging Libel - William P. (UPI) choice Nixons President Clements, of for Deputy Secretary Defense, is being sued for libel by an Argentine businessman who helped the Texas oilmans Sedco Inc., set up one of the largest oil drilling contracts in DALLAS history. Antonio A. Diaz filed the $15 million suit multinational against corporation the and its board president, Clements, 55, December 27. Diaz, whose interests include new communications holdings in South America, said Clements made "grossly defamatory statements about Diaz during a news con- ference, December 18, in Dallas. Clements had charged that news reports that his drilling company was involved in any conspiracy to hide $7 million in profits on the Argentine oil well cm tract were unfair and misleading. Diaz had filed a civil suit in 1966 claiming Clements and three other officials and stockholders of Southeastern Drilling Co., a subsidiary of Sedco, had attempted to defraud him. The suit has gone through one trial and two appeals and apparently is due for another trial in federal court in the spring. The Diaz libel suit said the whole tenor and tone of the statements issued by defendant Clements are to discredit the honesty, reputation, character and integrity of Antonio A. Diaz. At the time said reports were made and published, (Diaz) was and is a highly respected, reputable businessman in his native coiuntry, and throughout the world for over 30 years, the suit said. to associates. Sneed, a Texas native and 1947 graduate of the University of Texas law school, served on the faculties of his alma mater, at Cornell, and at Stanford before arriving at Duke. At Stanford, he once joined 20 Widespread The Knapp NEW YORK (UPI) Commission investigating alleged misconduct by city police said, December 28, that corruption in the department was Widespread and in the 1970 antiwar included the acceptance of professors protest in Washington against the gratuities, wide involvement in drug Cambodian invasion, according to a traffic and stealing from the dead. The commission, in concluding its University spokesman. of dean Duke the school two-yelaw Sneed, investigation of the since February of 1971, headed up a department, said in its final Law Professors for report that corruption was national Nixon organization in the fall systematic and had spread through election campaign. the ranks from the cop on the beat to the chief inspectors office. Through indifference to corruption or active involvement, the report said police allowed to and flournish a of payoffs and profitable system shakedowns involving prostitutes, ar 281-pa- Brennan Wont Stay Judicial Retirement Law WASHINGTON (UPI) - Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., refused, December 20, to stay the effect of a ruling against 11 Massachusetts judges who are the states new, challenging retirement rules. The judges, all over age 70, sued to prevent state officials from denying them their jobs and their full salaries. rule was approved The retire-at-7- 0 by Massachusetts voters on November 7 as an amendment to the state constitution. A special three-judg- e federal court on December 19 found no basis for invalidating the amendment. The lower court stayed the effect of its own decision until December 21. The application is denied since, in my judgment, there is not a substantial prospect that the questions proposed to be submitted will command four votes for review, Brennan, said. Four votes are necessary for of a case by the High acceptance ' Court. ge well-coordinat- ed mafia henchmen, loansharks, bookies and heroin pushers. The report said that acceptance of unlawful gratiuties by police was the top corruption problem; organized crime was its main source; and that narcotics traffic was the single most corrupt area of law enforcement. To eliminate a source of bribes, the commission urged changes in victimless enforcement of crimes, such as gambling, blue laws and prostitution. The commissions report also was critical of a number of high police and city authorities, claiming they failed to act on tips about corruption. The document said that the acceptance of unlawful gratuities was by far the most widespread form of so-call- in the 30,000-ma- n misconduct the largest- in foe department, - nation. The report also asserted that Mayor John V. Lindsays office failed to act on charges of widespread corruption made by two officers in 1966 and 1967 until the appointment of foe Knapp Commission in 1970 by Lindsay. i |