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Show NAnoi DRLD t. A4 1.HIRSDAY. JLNb 24. 1994 THE DAILY HI R l D Supreme Court boosts states' rights in bitter GLOBAL BRIEFING New charge in Colo, attack A man GOLDEN. Colo. (AP) accused of selling a handgun that the used in the Columbine two teen-ager- s flifjh School massacre was charged Wednesday with an additional count possession of a sawed-of- f shotgun. r Mark Manes, 22, who was allowed ro remain free on bond, also has been 9 charged with selling the TKC-DCmm pistol that Kric Harris and Dylan Klebold used to kill 12 students and one teacher. The latest charge against Manes is j i felony that carries 1 to 3 years in rison upon conviction. The TKC-harge carries a sentence of 2 to 6 ; ears, but could go as high as 12 ; ears if a judge finds extraordinary 9 9 By RIC Aociated Press W nlcr WASHINGTON protected rights. The justices killed lawsuits that accused Maine of illegally failing to pay some employees for overtime work and Florida of violating federal patent and trademark The Supreme Court dramatically enhanced states' rights Wednesday in decisions that exposed an increasingly bitter ideological split among the justices over how to balance federal and state powers. Dissenters called the conservative majority's rul5-- Announced as the court 199S-Hterm, the decisions three eroded Congress' power over the states. But the biggest losers may be businesses and indi ended its con-tinue- d rulings, has shown increasing sensitivity to how individual states' authority fares when pitted against the federal government. As in those previous rulings, the conservative coalition of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices 5-- 4 - O'Connor, Day Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. and Clarence Kennedy Thomas prevailed over more liberal colleagues John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer. In the Maine case, the court said states cannot be sued against their will in state courts by people seeking to enforce some federal right. The ruling spelled defeat for 68 probation officers who sought to collect overtime pay. Kennedy wrote for the court that the Constitution's "structure and history" not power. Wednesday's decisions a recent trend in which the court, by a series of laws. The court's dissenters and others voiced outrage, accusing the court of placing states above the law. The relationship between the federal government and the states what constitutional scholars call federalism is not v idely considered as politically explosive ings "indefensible." Sandra as abortion, religion and other topics that reach the nation's highest court. But the court's view of that relationship defines in profound and fundamental ways the ebb and flow of political vidual Americans who think states violated their federally HARD CARFI.M state-employe- d 5-- spli 4 only shield states from being; sued in federal courts but also make them immun from state court lawsuits ii which private parties seek tt enforce a federal right. That left Maine's proba tion workers with a federally protected right to be pait for all work!; in excess of 40 hours a week!' but with no way to enforce! that right besides trying to! get the federal government to -- i sue the state for them. "Congress has vast power? but not all power," Kennedyi said in a opinion tha surveyed over zuu years ol American history. time-and-a-ha- lf e irctimstances. ( Voes for Russian McD's j MOSCOW (AP) Natalya Gracheva is giving McDonald's heartburn. A security guard at the company's 'iMcCoinplex" factory outside Moscow, Cracheva wants to form a trade linion. The company has blocked her (jt'forts. The struggle is tarnishing the reputation of a pioneer foreign among companies in Russia, and observers warn its fallout could stain other multinationals here, too. (ince-golde- n Orchestra chooses leader BERLIN (AP) Ending a lengthy search for one of the classical music world's most prestigious posts, the (timed Berlin Philharmonic on Wednesday chose Sir Simon Rattle to he its chief conductor after Claudio Abbado retires in 2002. The Briton, who led the of City Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to international fame, was selected "by a great majority" in a vote by orchestra members, said orchestra chairman Rudolf Watzel. Hillary on the stand? J In a move first lady's political aspirations, prosecutor Kenneth Starr has named Hillary Rodham Clinton as a potential witness for the trial of former law partner Webster Hubbell, legal sources said Wednesday. The independent counsel's office submitted Mrs. Clinton's name April 2 as one of 6.'5 potential witnesses in the Hubbell case, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Hubbell's lawyers countered with a list of 1 7 possible defense witnesses May 25. The defense filed both lists i nder seal in federal court. 1 Priest cheats on poverty vow A Catholic NEW YORK (AP) r.riest who took a vow of poverty was c larged Wednesday with trying to s miggle into the country $2.4 billion ii amateurish counterfeit Treasury liotes. , Father Mario 35, a who was citizen Spanish running a wirochial school in the Philippines, v as arrested Tuesday at Kennedy irport after U.S. Customs agents dis- ivered he was carrying the fake cur-- r ncy in his luggage. Prosecutors said the priest tried to sill 24 phony $100 million notes t irough a broker. He also had $2,000 iii cash, plus a document indicating h e had access to another $65 billion if) fake currency. Beato-Prieto- fljlexico keeps U.S. criminals Mexico this y ;ar has deported fewer Americans v anted for crimes in the United S tates than it has in the recent past, r lising concerns within the U.S. government, a Justice Department offi-cjsaid Wednesday, j "We have seen a noticeable decrease in surrenders from Mexico, a s tuation we had not anticipated g ven the steady progress last year," WASHINGTON eputy Assistant Attorney General ary Lee Warren told a House panel. Her report disturbed House mem-ts, who had called a hearing V Wednesday because of complaints tfiat Mexico does not cooperate r criminal cases. enough in I b cross-borde- British foreign secretary urges ethnic Albanians against seeking revenge By FAWN VRAZO Knight A dele- gation of European foreign ministers visited Kosovo on Wednesday, saw for themselves the site of one of the worst atrocities, then offered words of encouragement and warning for the newly liberated province and its people. Europe is committed to Kosovo's rebuilding, said British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook. But Kosovo's ethnic Albanians must not take revenge for the murder of their loved ones by Serb forces, he said, and Albanians and Serbs must learn to live together in the province again. "We want to see a Kosovo in which there is a multiethnic and rnultireligious society living together in a peaceful democracy," said Cook, joined by the foreign ministers of Germany, Italy and France. "The (job) f bringing justice to those who died is for the international community and the war crimes tribunal. ... Let us break the cycle of violence." During the day Cook, German Minister Joschka Fischer, France's Hubert Vedrine and Lamberto Dini of Italy went to Velika Krusa, site of an April massacre in which 105 people are believed to have died. The bodies of 45 men and boys have been found so far. The ministers saw their remains in and out of body bags, and the farmhouse where they were killed. "I have not been surprised by what I have sen, because we had full reports of what was happening," Cook said. "But however much you know of the reports of the atrocities and the massacres, it cannot prepare you emotionally for the shock Foreign bullet-pocke- 'A IJA T' Ridiler Newspapers PRISTINA, Yugoslavia ! WASHINGTON (AP) tfliat could complicate the European leaders visit farmhouse filled with bodies d t, l m A . JULIE DENESHA1CRT Glad to see you: British Foreign Minister Robin Cook, center, receives an enthusiastic welcome from Kosovo Albanians upon arriving in Pristina, Kosovo, on Wednesday. of being confronted with the site where it happened and the evidence of the skeletons still on the ground." Fischer and German Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping looked shaken after emerging from the farmhouse in white protective suits. "I think it was justified to fight that war until peace came," Fischer said. visit, the During their ministers met with Kosovar Albanian political leaders as well as leaders of the Serbian Orthodox of who complained Church, Albanian attacks against remaining Kosovar Serbs. Between 50,000 and 120,000 Kosovar Serbs have fled the province to other parts of Serbia or to Montenegro. Many are still too afraid to return. But Cook promised that NATO's military peacekeeping force one-da- y in Kosovo, now 20,000 troops but scheduled to rise to a full strength of 45,000 to 50,000 in coming weeks, will be "working hard" to assure that returning Serb refugees feel as secure as the hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees returning to Kosovo after having been forced from their homes by Serb forces. Meanwhile, tensions remained high in many parts of the province. U.S. Marines manning a checkpoint in Zegra, south of Gnjilane, came under fire from unidentified assailants hiding in a building, the commander of U.S. forces in Kosovo said. The Marines returned fire, killing one man, wounding two and capturing a fourth, said a Pentagon spokesman, Army Col. Richard Bridges. No Marines were injured, Army .' Brig. Gen. John Craddock said from, his headquarters. He said that per haps five or six other assailants, remained in the building Wednesday night and were surrounded by 20 to 30 Marines, who were urging the J gunmen to surrender. In the northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica, Serb residents had reportedly taken control of one sec-- , tion of the city, refusing to let ethnic Albanian residents enter the area. On Tuesday night, French NATO forces exchanged gunfire with a Serb civilian who had forced aff Albanian family from its apartmentj He was arrested and remained irj custody. In northern Kosovo, Frenctt peacekeepers found a mass gravtf containing as many as 180 bodies? French officials did not say exactly where the grave was. U.S. officials to review Russian files on Oswald before public doe! By KAREN GULLO Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Intelligence and defense agencies will review KGB files on Lee Harvey Oswald that may detail Russia's own investigation of Oswald's role in the assassination of President Kennedy. Officials said Wednesday there is no estimate when the public might see the material. The uncertainty over timely access to the information troubles some advocates of public access to government documents. The documents 'a surprise gift from Boris Yeltsin to will first President Clinton be reviewed for material sensitive to national security concerns, while also taking into account privacy considerations. The interagency review set up by the White House will consist of officials from the CIA, the National Security Council and the State and Defense Departments, said David NSC Leavy, spokesman. Kate Martin, a lawyer for the National Security Archive, a private research group and library, believes the papers should go to the National Archives, which oversees assassination records and makes them publicly available. "This procedure they are l I' v. jr talking about is very troubling to us," she said. "It's very hard to imagine any real national security considerations for withholding these from the documents American public." Leavy said the White House expects ultimately to make the documents public. "Our approach would be to declassify and make public as much as possible," he said. He could not specify how long it would take. About 85 papers, all in Russian, were turned over by Yeltsin on Sunday when he met with Clinton during the Group of Eight summit. Oswald, a former Marine, defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 and renounced his American citizenship. That attracted the attention of the KGB, which bugged his apartment in the Belarus capital city of Minsk, paid neighbors to inform on him and kept Oswald and his Russian wife Marina under constant surveillance. The KGB amassed a file on Oswald's activities in Minsk. It was sent to Moscow after the assassination but returned to Minsk after the breakup of the six-volu- Soviet Union. The documents handed over by Yeltsin are thought to be the KGB files compiled in Moscow, said John Tunheim, former chairman of the gov ernment's Assassination Records Review Board. The board, which went out of business last year, was cre- ated to locate, gather and! eventually make public all known assassination records Tunheim said the documents could shed light on what the KGB knew about' Oswald and how Soviet officials reacted when1 they learned that Oswald was the suspected gunman. 2 "The KGB had sophisticated intelligence at the could have uncovered" facts that we didn't get," said Tunheim, who was a member of a board delegation that tried but failed to get the doc uments from Russia in 1996. top-ranki- time!-The- , |
