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Show ). Body Punishment I: . ATLANTIC CITY, I' i NJ. panel of educators mended lhal the policy-makin- (UPI)- -A has recom- 7,000-memb- er body of the National g Education Association establish a lime table for abolition of corporal punishment. Emphasizing that no teacher wants intentionally to inflict pain either physically or psychologically, the NEA task force on corporal punishment attributed the continued use of physical punishment to poor working conditions. Among them, the report said, are Pinball Bribe Case Withstands Dismiss Motion - Michigan Court Takes 4 Cases Ending Urged many students per faculty member to permit individual attention, lack of provision for education for teachers to loo learn alternate and measures, Against GM - disciplinary The LANSING, MICH. (UPI) outmoded Michigan Supreme Court has agreed curriculum and methodology im- to hear the cases of four posed upon the profession. accident victims who charge that the accidents they were involved in The report was presented at the were caused through negligent 110th annual convention here, June product design by General Motors 28. The task force recommended a Corporation and several smaller one-yeperiod, beginning with the companies. At issue is whether the Wayne 1972-7- 3 school year, for phasing out all use of physical punishment. It County Circuit Court, where the four also asked NEA affiliates to help suits were started, should hear the teachers in "securing minimal cases. Four Wayne County Circuit conditions for dealing with judges have denied motions by disruption, and in developing and General Motors that they decline identifying alternatives to inflicting jurisdiction. The high court said it will hear the physical pain on students. four cases at the same session, The task force said Ilia I it had which will be scheduled as soon as found physical punishment hindered he plaintiffs and defendants are learning, may increase raLher than eady. The cases involve: reduce disruptive behavior, implies Basil Cray of Brewer Lake, Me., lhal those who use it believe that vho was blinded in 1969 when a "might is right, and is oflen a )elco Remy battery exploded as he symptom of frustration rather than ised jumper cables in his 1966 Buick a disciplinary procedure. to start another car. He contends the of negligent design, manufacture, It called for an increase testing and sale of the battery and counselors and other psychologists, trained personnel who could help the Buick electrical system was the students on a basis. It jiroximate cause of Ids injury. Alice Roy of Kentucky, whose said that few students would be husband was killed in 1971 when his disruptive if they were motivated out-of-sta- one-to-o- ne Malibu equipped with Firestone wide oval tires went out of control. She contends the steering suspension of the car was negligently designed and defective. Beatrice Zimmerman, whose home was not given, whose husband was permanently paralyzed in 1966 from injuries received when their 1960 Corvair went out of control as Zimmerman attempted to avoid hitting an animal. She contends the 1960-6Corvair was an unsafe and dangerous product. Patricia Butler of Georgia, 1970 Chevrolet Suffers Heavy Verdict GE The Justice Department has charged the pinball operators with bribing Garrison and the two policemen into allowing illegal pinball gambling to take place in the city. The 13 defendants, excluding Garrison, filed motions seeking to the laws declared un- constitutional, to have evidence in the case suppressed, to gain access to government evidence and to have separate trials for each of the defendants. In Nevada 5 CARSON CITY, NEV. (UPI) -- The Nevada Supreme Court has whose daughter was in auto accident inan paralyzed volving their 1972 Chevy II. She alleges negligence in the lack of seat back restraint devices. ordered General Electric Corporation to pay a record $3.5 million to Keith Bush, a workman injured d cabinet fell from when a a hoist and struck him in 1968. Christenberry summarily Bush was permanently paralyzed, dismissed all motions, saying in his made blind and speechless and estimation the laws were con- suffered brain damage from the stitutional and the government had strictly conformed to all rules concerning the arrest and presentation of evidence to the grand jury. After careful study, the court is convinced that defendants motions for dismissal of the indictments are without merit and must be denied, Christenberry said i 2 School Area Demonstration Bans Voided - WASHINGTON (UPI) The Supreme Court unanimously struck down, June 26, city ordinances of Chicago and Rockford, 111., banning peaceful public demonstrations near schools in session. "Above all else, wrote Justice Thurgood Marshall for the court, "the First Amendment means that government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content. "To permit the continued building of our politics and culture, and to assure for each our individual, people are the to guaranteed right express any thought, free from government censorship," Marshall said. "The essence of this forbidden censorship is content control." Though he joined in the opinion in the Chicago case, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger felt compelled in a brief opinion to state his reservation that "some of the language used in the discussion of the First Amendment could, if read out of context, be misleading. The 1968 Chicago ordinance had been invalidated as "overbroad by the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but the Illinois Supreme Court had upheld the virtually identical Rockford ordinance self-fulfillme- it-- , nt IT, te ar NEW ORLEANS (UPI) A Court federal District judge has refused to dismiss bribery and gambling charges against a Chicago pinball machine company and 13 men arrested in a government sweep a year ago. U.S. District Judge Herbert W. Christenberry ruled out more than 100 defense motions, aimed at having federal gambling laws and government prosecution procedures declared unconstitutional. The 13 men and the Bally Manufacturing Company were indicted by a federal grand jury after and if the educational experience the arrest of the company's interested them. president William O'Donnell, 10 pinball operators, two former New Orleans Policemen and New Orleans Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison. have THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1972 THE DAILY RECORD PAGE EIGHT 1,100-poun- accident. The Supreme Court, in upholding a district court jury judgment, said the award, in view of the damage done, does not shock our judicial conscience. GE attorneys had argued the judgment, made in October of 1970, was excessive. The court overturned a $150,000 award to Bush's three children, but upheld $3 million for the care of Bush and $500,000 to his wife, who suffered sadness, shock and anguish. Bush was injured when an electric control cabinet being hoisted aboard an earth moving truck at Ely, Nev., for delivery to the Kennecott Copper Mine fell and struck him. Court Won't Hear Bias Challenge To B-Gi- rl' - The WASHINGTON (UPI) Court June 26, a Supreme rejected, challenge that California liquor laws prohibiting dancers and waitresses from soliciting drinks from customers discriminate against women. The court acted in a brief order, without opinion. The case was brought to the High Court by Westent, Inc., operator of a topless bar called Mocambo (103 Powell St.) in San Francisco. The license company had its revoked on Nov. 11, 1971, on grounds it had violated restrictions on activities. Testimony showed that patrons of the Mocambo had been asked by to buy drinks for other girl employes. Westent argued that the law discriminates against women. The appeal also challenged Californias license revocation proceedings on the grounds they do not provide for independent judicial review of the evidence. le "B-Gi- rl ls f. -WASHINGTON (ACCN) Because of ihe international aspects of the drug problem, Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD) agents operate throughout the world. As the international operations of the Bureau extended, it became necessary to provide specialized language training for agents assigned to foreign regions. To facilitate this instruction, BNDD utilized the facilities of the Foreign Service Institute in Washington, D.C. and the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California in 1971. Since this lime most personnel requiring language proficiency have received training in these institutions prior to their . ' assignment Law on-sa- Create Language Institute For BNDD Personnel overseas and have continued in language training programs after reporting to their foreign posts of duly. As the Bureau's international operations expanded, many of our Agents with foreign language capability were selected for foreign assignment. This fact, coupled with the increased incidence of .foreign traffickers involved in domestic drug trafficking, required that the Bureau establish a program to train domestic agents in language-speakin- g foreign languages to be used in investigations in several regions of the U.S. specialized school developed specifically for RNDD's needs was created at the Foreign Service Institute in Washington, D.C. The first school, attended by over 20 BNDD agents, provided 11 weeks of intensive training in the Spanish language. The second school, just completed, provided training in French. This program will not only assist the Bureau's domestic enforcement effort but has the capacity to provide a corps of foreign language trained individuals fur future overseas assignments. A Parochial School Aid, Losing In Courts, Gains Politically many of Americas 45 million Catholics. All leading candidates for By Louis Caisels UPI Religion Writer The Catholic drive for public aid to the But its doing well politically which may be more important in the long run. In just a little over a year, federal courts have handed down nine adverse rulings on plans for channeling lax money to the support of church-relate- d schools. Three of these rulings were by the Supreme Court. The rulings knocked out plans which had been developed in several stales to provide parochial schools with public funds on the theory the endorsement of some kind of public help for parochial schools. About 5.4 million children over 10 per cent of the total school enrollment are now being educated in privately-finance- d schools, most of which are operated by the Catholic Church. But sharply rising supporting religious institutions. Also invalidated by the courts was a different approach under which costs and growing parental resistance to tuition increases has placed many private schools in extreme financial difficulty. A recent government study indicated stales reimbursed parents for tuition paid to private schools, and an arrangement under which teachers hired and paid by the enrollment in nonpublic schools is likely to be cut in half by 1980 unless some way is found to ease the financial burden. That means about 2.5 million extra children for public schools to educate at public expense. U.S. Education Commissioner public school system were "loaned to parochial schools to leach specific secular subjects, such as math and foreign languages. Advocates of aid to parochial schools have by no means given up, however. They now are pinning their hopes on a proposal made by President Nixons panel on nonpublic education. It calls for federal income lax credits to cover half of the tuition paid to private schools up to a total credit of $400 per student. Bills embodying this proposal already have been introduced in the House and Senate by Republicans who usually speak for the White Sidney P. Marland, Jr., says public schools can absorb these transfers if necessary and it may not be as big a trauma as many had imagined. The reason, Marland says, is that a sharp drop in the birth rale has led to a leveling off of growth in public school population. In these remarks, Marland seems to be contradicting his boss, President Nixon. Nixon said in April lhal closing down parochial schools would swamp public school systems in many big cities and add at least $3 billion a year to public school costs. House. In a speech before Catholic educators in April, President Nixon said flatly his administration must and will find ways to provide public aid to parochial schools. Nixon acknowledged, however, lhal there are constitutional difficulties. Sen. Robert Taft, Jr., feels that these difficulties are so great no scheme of aid, including tax credits, can gel by the courts. So he has proposed amending the Constitution to legalize lax aid for private schools. Democrats arent about to let Republicans have sole possession of an issue that is very important to Rabbi Is Suing Jersey City on Arrest Incident - An orNEWARK, N.J. (UPI) thodox rabbi sued Jersey City and six of its patrolmen for half a million dollars, June 28, in a federal civil action, alleging that he was falsely arrested, jailed and beaten for no. reason two years ago. Rabbi Norbert Leiner, 39, the head of alumni relations at Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore, MD., said he was driving through Ramsey Clark Hits Buildup In Police Arms Jersey Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark has charged that the Justice Department is slowly turning America into a police state by pouring millions of ar- maments for local police. Clark, who served under President Lyndon B. Johnson, delivered a bitter attack against the Department he once headed at a hearing, here June 26, of the Congressional Black Caucus on governmental lawlessness. Clark said the law enforcement assistance administration was giving local governments millions to buy electronic surveillance systems, high powered guns, riot control devices and even airplanes and helicopters. We are slowly buying ourselves into a police state, her said.' He pointed out that much of the money was going to control blacks and other minorities instead of protecting them against the crime that often wracks their borhoods. neigh- City on July 5, 1970, developed car trouble and pulled over. His court papers contended that Patrolmen Joseph Colletee, Daniel Narddilli and James Bower, along with Edward Bennett, now a sergeant. Pushed him into a patrol car and handicuffed him for no reason. They allegedly refused to tell him if he was under arrest, what charges he faced, or any of his constitutional rights. At the city jail the four parolmen (UPI)-For- mer dollars into sophisticated Presidential year. Sen. George McGovern, Sen. Edmund Muskie and Gov. George Wallace have made more general slate was merely "purchasing educational services rather than WASHINGTON Democratic nomination have endorsed public aid to parochial schools. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey has advanced a tax credit proposal under which parents could be reimbursed for up to 80 per cent of their tuition costs, up to a maximum of $150 per student per parochial schools has taken a terrible beating in the courts lately. along with Patrolmen Richard Lindsay and Edward now a sergeant, allegedly shouted derogatory epithets at the (RED) . ki, clergyman and falsely and fraudulently charged him with obstructing justice and failing to give a good account of himself. In jail the next day, Leiner complained he was subjected to Derogatory racial epithets and obscent comments from other and was refused prisoners, religious objects taken from him by police and necessary for him to perform his religious duties. Lindsey allegedly called the rabbi various and obscene and racial epithets in front of other prisoners and then took him from the cell to adark corner of the jail. There Lindsay allegedly beat the rabbi, punched him to the ground, stomped on him and continued to voice epithets. The court suit said municipal can you justify saturation policing when you are killing programs that would help feed people in the area," he said. He said it was possible there would be violence in the cities again if government did not stop spending money simply to contain minorities and begin working to correct the court Judge Samuel Lanzet dismissed the charges Dec. 29, 1970, faults of the cities. The legal papers noted that a three-judg- e If we seek to use the police federal court had previously simply to make people keep their "failure to give a good declared places.. .then we will know violence, account ordinances and we should, he said. How anti-Semit- ; ic |