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Show Pruo, I tan Monday, December 4, 1WS THE DAILY HERALD. Benefits withhe rom child conceived after da d's death Mother to fight for 'high-tec- : k S By JANET. McCONNAUGHEY... Associated If ress Writer" NEW ORLEANS Judith Hart may look like her late father, but she isn't eligible to collect federal survivor's benefits because she was conceived after his death, with a sample of sperm he had frozen. Four-year-o- "An individual ld cannot acknowledge paternity of a child who is not yet in existence," the Social Security Administration appeals council, said in. a ruling announced Thursday. The council overturned a ruling by an administrative law judge who found in May that the girl is clearly Edward William Han Jr.'s child, that she was born at his wish and that she should receive survivor's benefits. Nancy Hart, the girl's mother, plans to ask a federal judge to overturn the council decision. "Federal law has not caught up medical science," said with Kathryn Kolbert, a lawyer for the Harts and vice president of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy. Ad well-know- id d, - id reviews standard for future of TV WASHINGTON i The. federal government" relies on state law in deciding who gets movie-scree- to reality with a high-definiti- space engineer would entitle Judith to nearly $700 a mqnth. for a total of at least $150,000, since survivor's benefits up to still 19 is the child 18 if or age -- -- - are-qxii- Mrs. Hart, an elementary-scho- f I " f V ol I I V yi y in high school. .; ; hih-tec- Nancy Hart, was told Tuesday by the advisory committee. The Grand Alliance proposal was the only one considered by the committee, which was formed in 1987. "Friday is a historic moment in the annals of American broadcasting." said FCC Chairman Reed Hundt at the advisory group's final meeting. "We can only begin to imagine the many possibilities for babies." h delivery of entertainment and information that this flexible, dynamic digital standard can provide." He called the possibilities and said they mother Nancy Hart, shows a photo of her daughter, Judith, in a 1994 file photo. She is suing the government for Social Security benefits for her daughter who was conceived using frozen sperm after her late husband's ' death from cancer. Hart has vowed to fight for the legal ". babies. rights of 'high-tec- Social Security. Judith was conceived in September 1990 with sperm frozen before he began treatment for the cancer that killed him in June 1990. Hart signed a statement saying his wife could do whatever she wanted with the sperm after his death. Commission Communications music teacher in Slidell, said she will never give up the fight. "I'm going to sell my house and sell my piano. I've taken the law, school entrance exam. I'm going 'to: law school. And I'm going to spend the rest of my life fighting for the rights of these babies.": com- el federal standard. TV system, The proposed by a group of companies called the Grand Alliance, "is superior to any known alternative system in the world," the Federal ; "I'm goingito sell my; house and sell my piano. I've taken the law school entrance exam. I'm going to law school. And I'm ' going to spend the rest of my life fighting for the rights of these high-tec- h high-lev- mittee's recommendation for a spokesman. Hart's work history as an aero- k The (AP) next generation of television, n which will boast and sound that of rival to clarity compact disks, is one step closer accommodate medical changes, said Phil Gambino, an agency "eye-popping- ," range from stunning images, to thousands of pages of ttAt, to uses still unimagined. high-resoluti- number A i h' ap Photo of steps legal remains before the FCC formally establishes the system as the standard to be followed by television manufacturers and broadcasters. Congress also is considering legis- lation. Young Russian voters won't tune in or turn out assessments questioned FRESNO, Calif. (AP) Should farmers be forced to pay ' assessments to promote a crop they grow, even if they sell to a company that heavily advertises its own brand? The issue has sent many a farmer and company to court to stop assessments for generic advertising.. Cooperatives that n sell under such brand names as Blue Diamond Almonds and Sun-MaRaisins have won court battles against generic advertising. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said generic advertising assessments under'' a' federal almond marketing order violated the right to free speech. The same court made a similar ruling for peaches, plums and nectarines.' r.. : The popular,, "Dancing Raisins shuffled , off the stage last year after the California Raisin Advisory Board went out of business for much the same reason. Its demise delighted which has used a girl wearinga bonnet to promote its brand for generatjpns. "We've spent hundreds of millions of dplkjrs developing linkage with consumers. That's what branded- - advertising- has President Bardone," Sun-Mary Kriebel said recently. "It'kmd pf unfair to have an this type of industry board-alloSun-Mai- 1, FCC Committee The Social Security Administration is reviewing whether to ask Congress to rewrite the laws to ceived after a parent's death as an h' rigfifsC babies iY Like other states, Louisiana ""doesn't recognize a child con- Page AS By DAVE CARPENTER Associated Press Writer competition in the marketplace," Kriebel added. "Marketing orders are not MOSCOW They were weaned on "Grandpa Lenin." grew up under perestroika and cheered the collapse of commu- supposed to create competition with an (industry) group.. They're supposed to be win-wi- n for everyone involved." Besides. Kriebel said, the award-winnin- g ads that featured animated raisins strutting to the tune of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" boosted raisin sales overall for only a short time before their impact declined. "Like most fads, they come and go," he said. But Mark Houston, president, of, the California Kiw.ifruit Commission, said generic prosmall-scal- e motion allows growers the economy of scale needed to advertise. The assesskiwi farmer ment for a two-acr- e totals $850, "which would be a waste of money if he spent it himself," he said. Houston said both branded and generic advertising can be valuable. "Generic is trying to create a bigger pie," he said. "Branded is trying to create a bigger piece of the pie." Anjprneyf Thomas jEi Canf-pagn- e who1 won the appellate decisions in the almond and fruit cases, said the legal challenges are causing significant ' chances. nism as teen-ager- s. ... Now. after witnessing so much wrenching change so early, young Russians are turning their backs on politics while their elders try to turn back the dock to Soviet times. The consequences, analysts and reformers say, could be devastating for Russia's fragile democracy in upcoming parliamentary elections and beyond. While legions of angry pensionhave thrust ers and other have-not- s the Communists into the lead in who opinion polls, the young are largely appear to be either taking democracy for granted, disillusioned or just too pro-refor- m busy with other things. As few as 9 percent of eligible voters under age 25 plan to vote Dec. 7. surveys show. "It's useless to vote." said Natasha Zabaletnova, 20. wearing a black fur coat and black hat as she stood outside the prestigious Foreign Language Institute on a recent frosty morning. "I don't see any party that I can support." "The election will be rigged anyway." she said disdainfully, echoing a view shared by many Russians. Similar apathy in 1993. when young voters stayed away from the polls in droves, helped allow a stunning showing by Vladimir Zhirinovsky that tilted Russian politics toward nationalism. This time, with the presidential election just six months after the parliamentary vote, similar torpor could ultimatelv hand the Kremlin back over to Communists. Young voters see little reason to vote: not the specter of a return to communism, not the 1 s" pleas of President Boris Yeltsin and others, certainly ll Western rock not the bands brought in to perform under a leading party's banners. In August 1991, it was largely over-the-hi- enthusiastic young people who flocked to the streets and helped reformers topple the Soviet system. According to Sergei Markov of the Carnegie Endowment in Moscow, their current political stupor is actually a measure of Russia's progress as a democracy. "If these young people see any real danger to reforms, they will come forw ard." he said. "The fact that the young generation doesn't want to vote reflects that we have achieved some kind of stability. They see that reforms are irre versible." Those who will vote, he said, tend to back either Russia's Democratic Choice Yegor Gaidar's or. original radical reformers Zhirithe less educated. among novsky as an statement. The rest appear to be preoccupied with careers, business, the opposite sex, anything but politics. Pavel Zelenov, a tall, outspoken student at the Foreign said he won't Institute, Language vote because "there are too many parties political parties, that is." Besides, he said, "We don't trust anybody in Russian politics now. We're all looking for someone we can trust." Some analysts say the young hold the key to the elections, particularly if any party can lure them in great numbers. 1 ' m ijjy mim in imnn t i i i rm mil r'Tr-r-f- 'i y stir S3 MWrrgflTt Book of Bootlegging grandmother in jaii again for selling "I sold a little whiskey. What I'm trying to do is pay my bills," she said. "I don't take nothing DALLAS This isn't the first from nobody. I don't do anything time Collie Brown's to anybody. I don't misuse anybeen to jail. Not by a long shot. body and I don't steal." She reported to jail Wednesday Even though they've had her in dry Grayson County to begin jailed, officials have an affection sentence for for Mrs. Brown. serving a . y bootlegging, the 50th or so time "It's a Mrs. Jekyll and Mrs. she has been fined or jailed for Hyde thing. You couldn't find a running an illegal bar out of her better person." Goodson said. shanty home. as anybody. "She's as Since 1947, Mrs. Brown has ... She'll feed anybody that w:alks run the county speakeasy that is in the door. But she's had her place known to townsfolk as "Collie (illegally) seven days a week open B's." People come to chat, listen to all those years." jazz or the blues on the jukebox, County Attorney Bob Jan is play pool or dominoes and have a called her "your typical grandma-typ- e drink. just a little old person Until recently, local law officers lady." mostly left her alone, writing her "But I told her very bluntly, 9n occasional ticket for selling it's getting too rough. We're hquor and beer without a license. to have to shut you down going Now, however, they are crackand put you in jail,'" Jarvis said. ing down on Mrs. Brown because Mrs. Brown moved to Texas in drug dealers have started gathering 1935. Married and w idowed, her outside the shack in Whitewright, two children have moved away. a. town of about 1700 people 60 She says a grandftiles north of Dallas. There have he is raising his always daughter in been fights, stablings and, been afe from her customers; " April, adeadIyhrourig. , 'They don't mess with her "It used to be peaceable. ... because she's always in here with Now, crack and dope dealers from Brow n said. "The ones Mrs. me," Sheras far away as Houston and that usually come in here, don't man are coming up there," Mayor bother her." Bill Goodson said. "They're not Goodson. Jarvis and Sheriff inside her place, mind you, but Driscoll agreed that Mrs. Jack tO COl You've it lAininn nn. Brown and probably will reopen for the soap just go out and get as soon as she's freed. business orush out ana scruo h ucmn. the tele"In past, she'd leave the jail Mrs. Brown could not take the and to who liquor store and pick go phone calls or see visitors cache and be back in another She Iclt DCOPlC up ufr nr.. on a list of said. "She Goodson business," with her Gravson County jailers. 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