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Show ChnoNidE TttsdAy, Apnit Paqe Two 26, 1985 DATELINES Meanwhile, the White House said President Ronald is ideally a sense of guaranteed right with the uneasiness of unsecured privilege," Stevens said. Reagan has under consideration changes in the way the both The decision to reconsider the issue will adversely Navy conducts itself in the Gulf where U.S. forces are still in a "state of high alert." affect "the faith of victims of racial discrimination in a staBut White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said he ble construction of civil rights laws," and "have a detriReagan to, make an immediate decision WASHINGTON, D.C. (UPI)-T- he Supreme Court, vot- mental and enduring impact on the public's perception of did not expectstill are being reviewed. while options announced Monday that it will reconsider a the court as an impartial adjudicator," he wrote. ing not to be identified said one of the asked who Sources the for Blackmun said he could see "no justification major 1976 civil rights ruling, provoking four justices to is to extend the U.S. miliconsideration under predict that discrimination victims will lose faith in the bare majority's 'apparent eagerness to consider rewriting options neutral to ships that come under law." protect court's ability to protect them. tary umbrella "I am at a loss to understand the motivation of five attack. Under present rules, American air and naval The rare public airing of discord within the court sugKuwaiti vessels. of this court to reconsider an interpretation of a forces protect 11 members gests there may be a growing polarization between its conservative and liberal wings over the direction the civil rights statute that so clearly reflects our society's earnest commitment to ending racial Discrimination in court should take on civil rights law. which Congress so evidently has acquiesced." The court's action came in a pending race discriminaThe outcome of the case won't be known for about a has tion case that already been argued on other issues. In Iran-Cont- ra pre-tri- al three-page a unsigned order, the court announced it year. It will not be argued until next fall and a decision is would hear the case again and directed the lawyers to unlikely before 1989. Civil rights advocates have long feared that President WASHINGTON, D.C. discuss, whether the 1976 Runyon vs. McCrary decision prosecutor Ronald Reagan's appointments to the high court could Lawrence Walsh said Monday he was inadvertently should be overturned. The Runyon decision held that the Civil Rights Act of shift its balance on a host of issues, including racial bias exposed to protected testimony given to Congress last and affirmative action. The administration, however, has summer by tnree key figures in die scandal. 1866 prohibits private schools from excluding qualified But Walsh, who is pursuing criminal cases in the forchildren solely because they are black. The ruling largely had little success to date in pushing its view that affirmative action discriminates against whites and that civil eign policy scandal, told a pre-trisettled the debate over whether civil rights guarantees hearing before U.S. Gesell far. that he Gerhard laws have never District heard the testoo been extended enacted after the Civil War protected blacks from discrimJudge rights was and to ination by private entities as well as acts by government exposed only "fragments." timony directly The independent prosecutor testified for two hours The law provides that all citizens "shall have the same Monday at the first of what are expected to be protracted right to make and enforce contracts as is enjoyed by white citizens." hearings into the question of the protected testimony. Walsh resumed his testimony Monday afternoon. Five members of the court voted to rehear the issue, On March 16, a federal grand jury hearing Walsh's case including Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices United States, in returned indictments against former national security WASHINGTON, D.C. (UPI)--Th- e Byron White, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia and the newest member, Anthony Kennedy. what could be an expanded role in the Persian Gulf, is adviser John Poindexter; his former White House aide, The court's three most liberal members, Justices considering dispatching up to six Coast Guard patrol Oliver North; retired Air Force Maj. Gen Richard Secord and his business partner, Albert Hakim. William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall and Harry boats to the volatile area, officials said Monday. All four men testified last summer to the select House-Senat-e "The Joint Chiefs of Staff are considering assignment Blackmun, voted against hearing the issue, as did Justice committees under agreements which prevented of a Coast Guard patrol squadron to the Persian Gulf," John Paul Stevens. Both Blackmun and Stevens wrote harsh dissents from the Coast Guard said in a statement. "The squadron Walsh from using Poindexter, North and Hakim's testithe decision to hear the dispute, with Stevens labeling would consist of up to six 110-foIsland class patrol mony against them. The immunity question currently is at the heart of the wound." the court's action "a boats." defense case, in which lawyers for the accused claim 'To recognize an equality right- -a right that 12 years The Coast Guard, a branch of the Transportation the indictments are based at least in part on protectthat we declare said boat to' is then of the ago thought Department, "particularly approtype ed that is for the because of were had mission" we and small and it testimony. If defense lawyers prove their case, they unceremoniously capable perhaps priate wrong can ask Gesell to quash the indictments in question. better reconsider our prior judgment, is to replace what high speed. Top Court to reconsider major civil rights case 5-- 4, well-establish- ed U.S.-flagg- ed Prosecutor testifies at affair (UPI)-Indepen- dent Iran-Cont- ra al Coast Guard ships may be used in Persian Gulf ot self-inflict- ed 'well-established'-a- nd o o o o o o 0 o o D o INTERNATIONAL WEEK 1988 International Tuesday ( u - Todays menu : Stovies from Scotland - Debate : Dr. Hunt will discuss Nicaragua Union Saltair Room - Vides from ypur favorite spots n and the neatest T-sh-irt sale at the old spot and at lunch time on big screen by Sweet shop - Foreign Rim Festival, Union Theatre 7pm Summer by Eric Rohmer in French and at 9pm Yojmbo by Akira Kurosawa in Japanese Year Ctr. at 1pm in MTV - Four Days V Bennion to International Night - The Event of the 581-48- 11 J 0 n |
