Show StandarrJ-Examn- 2A Saturday June £3 1931 WASHINGTON — Saving there is no difference between a white snake and a black snake because “they both bite rearing Supreme Court Jusuce Thurgood Marshall warned Friday that filling his seat with another black person could become a pretext for “doing wrong Asked at a farewell news conference whether President Bush has an obligation to name a minority candidate to his job Marshall a stubborn liberal in an era of growing conservatism and the only black justice ever on the high court bristled “I don't think that should be a ploy and I don't think it should be an excuse one way or the other" he replied “An excuse for what?" a reporter pressed “Doing wrong" Marshall said Much speculation on Marshall’s replacement has focused on conservative black and Hispanic judges Bush who left for his ‘What’s wrong with me? old I’m getting old and coming apart — Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall I’m ment and his renowned curmudgeonly home m Maine Friday said he would move quickly in choosing a new justice He said he hopes to nominate a justice er of affirmative action said that race' should be a factor in the choice but “I think the most important factor is to pick the person for the job not on the basis of the room His tie askew as always his voice gruff and raspy and his tone sharp and unforgiving Marshall who turns 83 next week denied he was leaving out of bitterness or disappointment over the court’s rightward w "within a very few day's" and has narrowed choices to “a handful of names" Marshall who has been a strong defend- race" Slumped into a broad leather chair in the turn MassssEnsssSs bank fails Yugoslavia FrwnIA Boston Globe BOSTON — First Mutual Bank Of Savings the oldest and largest sider his action if the Europeans got assurances that Croatia and Slovenia would temporarily' suspend their bid for independence mutual bank in the state Friday became the biggest Massachusetts financial institution to fail since the January collapse of’ Bank of Poos said i Italian Foreign Ministers Gianni dp Michelis stressed that the European Community expected to see the' agreement implemented within hours Ejhe Europeans made clear however that the accord was intended only to defuse the immediate crisis and halt the violence “We know that we cannot solve the problems of the Yugoslav poli- New England The failed bank was immediately taken over by Bank of Boston which is trying to reassert its claim of regional dominance after losing the bidding war for BNE instiFirst Mutual a tution with Si I billion in assets had been insolvent for months Headed until May by former state bank commissioner Gerald T Mulligan the bank’s failure was caused by the collapse of the commercial real estate market which First Mutual had pursued aggressively dur ld tics in one night of discussion" Poos said “The main aim of our mission is bringing about ' The delegation of foreign ministers from Luxembourg Italy and the Netherlands returned to Luxembourg after the talks to report to the ongoing community summit After arriving Friday night they met with federal Premier Ante Markovic and Milosevic then flew to Zagreb to meet with Croation President Franjo Tudjman and with Slovenian President Milan ’ ing the 1980s building boom Mulligan now heads Andover Bancorp Also Friday regulators seized and moved to liquidate the Barnstable Brady permit-to-purcha- se 72-ho- ur 24-ho- ur Under the measure the attorney general would have to certify that states are in compliance with the federal system before the waiting period phases out Any state that was not in compliance would have to remain under ed ' the five-da- y waiting restriction Federal funds would be withheld from states that fail to comply much stronger than the bill that passed the House" Mitchell said He added he did not think there would be a problem finding the $100 million needed to fund the bill despite budget restrictions But Brady told reporters Friday “I hope that every 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Managing Editor Brian A Mertz Pocatello 1 Precipitation Colorado CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS HOW TO CALL WEATHER deserts imNNlNJtylUMBIJ R-K- Slovenia and neighboring CroThe Associated Press atia declared their independence on federal after the governA Croatian man restrained by police celebrates the withdrawal of Tuesday ment refused their demands to the Yugoslavian army from his village Friday transform the nation long torn by ethnic strife into a loose confedercontrol of its borders with Austria serve the Yugoslav federation But ation Italy and Hungary Croatia did not an Associated Press reporter found No country recognized the decla- make such a move Tanks rumbled young Slovenian militiamen in rations however and the through some towns on Thursday control of at least one military said it would but no fighting was reported The federal Defense Ministry crush the secessionist movement The army announcing the truce said Friday the army would no lonThe federal army assajilt began said it had seized all 27 Slovenian ger engage the Slovenians unless after Slovenia said it was talang border posts in its effort to pre “forced to do so” Arizona ter Bank of Boston announced it will omit a quarterly dividend for the first time since the Depression' The dividend decision was immediately interpreted as a sign that the bank was gearing up to take of impending bank failures in Massachusetts New Hampshire Connecticut and possibly elsewhere Buying First Mutual assets proved that to be the case “This is an indication that despite Bank of Boston’s problems the regulators feel they have the strength to help clean up the mess” said James Moynihan New industry-sponsoreEngland bank analyst with Advest Inc posit insurer Bank of Boston which has $31 First Mutual’s 17 offices all in greater Boston will reopen Mon- billion in assets lost $395 million in 1990 and $89 million in the first day as Bank of Boston branches The acquisition came one day af three months of this year Credit Union First Mutual and Barnstable were the eighth and ninth Massachusetts financial institutions to fail this year First Depositors in Boston-base- d Mutual have nothing to fear from the collapse Deposits up to Si 00000 are covered by federal bank insurance and accounts with more than that amount are insured by the Mutual Savings Central ded Fund an Under a provision sponsored by Mitchell the federal law would not prevent states from passing a From 1A states tougher state law Twenty-si- x least we owe the American people" now have some kind of waiting peWhile generally opposed to gun riod or laws restrictions Senate Minority Lead- t Illinois requires a gun purchase er Bob Dole who was sepermit which can take up to 30 verely wounded in World War II days to secure and an additional was something of a surprise broker cooling-of- f period for in the compromise handguns and period for “When you have felt the sting of nfles a gunshot wound you can underUnder the compromise measure stand how Jim Brady feels and how approved by the Senate the 'five-da- y waiting period would apply to (his wife) Sarah Brady feels" Dole said after the vote handgun purchases only but the The Senate bill calls for spending computerized check would apply to $100 million to computerize state all gun purchases rifles or handcriminal records and to set up the guns “This is a very strong bill much national background check system Kucan Later Saturday Yugoslavia’s fed-et- al presidency was expected to meet according to Vasil Tupurov-s- ki Macedonia’s representative on the body Serbian-dominat- : First Mutual collapse biggest since Bank of New England Croatia which like Slovenia favors a loose union of sovereign states Milosevic said he would reconcenter-rig- ht ‘ dissents since he was rarely in the majority Beyond that he declined numerous efforts to engage him in (Lscussion of his colleagues the changing role of the court or the future of civil rights He also passed over attempts to get him to evaluate his own career as brilliant civil rights litigator in the 1940s and 1950s In 1954 Marshall won what is perhaps the century’s most important Supreme Court case Brown v Board of Education which led to the desegregation of the nation’s schools He was appointed to the federal bench by President John F Kennedy then named solicitor general by President Lyndon Johnson who named him to the Supreme Court in 1967 Asked why be decided to leave after having said he would stay on the court until he died Marshall said his wife and doctor wit He sat beneath a portrait of John Jay the nation's first chief justice To Marshall's left and right were his wife son and grandson and his daughter-in-lafriend William Coleman a former secretary of transportation Scores of reporters photographers and cameras packed had been discussing the question with him for six months and ail agreed that this was the tune Asked what specifically was wrong with him he retorted “What's wrong with me? Fm old Tm getting old and coming apart" On whether American blacks are “free at last" in the words of Martin Luther King Jr Marshall said: Well I'm not free All I know is that a Pull- years ago when I was a youngster been in had he man porter told roe that sure was he and this in country every city he had never been in any city in the United States where he had to put his hand up in front of his face to find out he was a Negro I agree with him" Asked what he planned to do in retirement he said "Sit on my rear end" And on how he would like to be remembered Marshall said simply: “That he did what he could with what he had" He said he had made a point in recent years of sekeung clerks who enjoy writing high court's elaborate East Conference Room fiddling with a cane on his lap and occasionally missing the thrust of a question Marshall a legend of the civil rights movement for half a century showed both his age which he said prompted his retire- Boston ' er FROM FACE ONE t Indicates missing yitormauun) (UbPS 403 840 P O box 951 Ogden UT 64402 Second class postage paid at Od'ten Utah i |