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THE BATTALION Page 7 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1979 udge’s order halts ree train routes United Press International WASHINGTON — Three iney-losing Amtrak trains, kept hning for an extra week during lions court challenges, may have ■ally ofbusiness for good. ^Supreme Court Justice Byron Hiite Monday overturned an order (om the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of ipeals in Denver that had kept trak from dropping the three ns — the Chicago-to-Houston ne Star, the Chicago-to-Miami Floridian and the Chicago-to- [attle North Coast Hiawatha — as Irtof a budget-cutting move. J-White’s brief order voided a rul ing the appellate court had issued It Friday to keep the trains run- |ig until an Oct. 26 hearing. That ring would have been on a re- iest filed by the states of Kansas and Minnesota and the city of Nashville, Tenn., for a preliminary ^junction. Those places claimed t dropping the trains would cause parable harm to their areas. fWe’ll have to review the legal ifications of this in conjunction :h the attorneys for other states involved and try to find if we’ve ’■me to a dead end,” said Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan, udo had filed the original suit with a federal court in Wichita, Kan. It could be we re so far out of this ill game there is no logical or legal son to continue,” he said. We’ve always been convinced if ley got those trains closed, the bat- , . B to (get) them open again would P^t't I be just tremendous, almost insur- tween W mountable.” j-mpn'Mlhe Kansas official said if he had ■earned the Supreme Court would Bsue an order without going : through the lower courts, he would lave filed his original action directly with the high court. I “It’s just that we’ve fought so hard tad so long and so well,” Stephan said. “No one in this office antici- Jated an order without a hearing. ” |An Amtrak spokesman in Chicago, Pam Dickson, said passengers Monday were being re- fc touted to alternate trains. “People CtU> W( . r( , thoroughly confused,” she -ouM vvcij ■y “jftey weren’t sure what was il f , “'^itaning and what wasn’t.” U i eu IB N one °f th e trains left Chicago ndfinert Afo nc I a y anc J the last train scheduled ight-weigt arr j ve at destination waS the 're aieiu Floridian, due in Miami at 1:10 t. • Vfora ; p.m. Tuesday. is springtep Congress had seemingly sealed - engine the fate of the three trains, along odynamic Cfgjth ^ j^ ew York-to-Kansas City IB engine,fg a tj ona j Lj m jt e( J and the Boston- ■Calettsburg, W. Va., Hilltopper, , „ith the passage of the 1979 Amtrak jgncd 111 Reorganization Act, signed into law like con'r';: by President Carter. ^jng, to g ut Stephan, along with the other ,_ate and local officials, challenged 5 nl P“ "I jlie order and U.S. District Judge nd20mpMp' ran i c xheis in Wichita issued a mporary restraining order keep- trains running past their ■ *CT1 Oct- 1 discontinuation. iAb I IB Theis. however, dissolved his _ ypn Brder three days later, saying he be- 0» cn |)ievedthe decision by the President OUSE I jo sign the bill made any further at- . n/'co ■ m pts to keep the trains running RANGP'fttile. g ■ The plantiffs then took their case the appellate court and won an Ith-hour reprieve only hours he re the trains had once again been heduled to make their last runs. d in twin gait Among the dozens of cities served by the trains were Dallas; Houston; Birmingham, Ala.; Minneapolis; Chicago; Louisville; Nashville: Montgomery, Ala.; Kansas City and Oklahoma City. Rape law gets first test California in United Press International LOS ANGELES — Actress Car rie Snodgress’ charge that a rock musician raped her with a pistol barrel Tuesday provided one of the first court outings for the so-called “Born Innocent” law, inspired by a television rape scene. Snodgress charged that Jack Nitzsche — who has worked with singer Neil Young and the Rolling Stones — broke into her apartment in June, beat her with a pistol, threatened her 7-year-old son and frightened away a guest, actor- director Paul Williams. He then violated her with the pis tol barrel, she charged. Today’s hearing was called to con sider five felony charges against Nitzsche, 42, including a count of “rape by instrumentality.” The law traces its origin to the TV movie “Bom Innocent,” in which a teen-age inmate of a home for juvenile deliquents was shown being raped with a broomstick by other inmates. In 1974, four San Francisco chil dren assaulted a 9-year-old girl with a beer bottle, allegedly mimicking the scene they had seen on televi- Although a court refused to find the broadcasters liable for damages for allegedly suggesting such a crime, the film did leave its legal mark. Rape law was traditionally inter preted to cover violation by the male organ. In 1978 George Deukmejian, then a Republican state senator and now California at torney general, introduced legisla tion extending the law to include as sault with an “instrument.” The law went into effect Jan. 1, and Snodgress’ complaint was one of the first three filed under its provisions, said Deputy District At torney Marissa Batt. The other two cases have not come to trial yet. Nitzsche, who is free on $5,000 bail, is a musician, composer and record producer who wrote the score for the film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and worked with the Rolling Stones, Phil Spector and Sonny Bono in the 1960s. Snodgress, 33, was nominated for an Academy Award for her starring role in “Diary of a Mad Housewife” in 1970. F DRS « 0KE Students sprem let diplomas and dollars United Press International i‘Lafayette, Colo. — some ATTtrT jgjj students seem grateful ust to receive their sheepskins on graduation day, but students at a ■olorado school can graduate with a iploma and $1,000 in their pockets. The money represents four years fsavings students at the 9-year-old olorado Junior Republic school are need to keep during their educa- nal careers at the Lafayette facil- We’re very structured here with supervised situations,” said John IHarmon, headmaster and chief ad ministrative officer. “And the kids ike it. They know what’s expected of them.” The school day is divided be tween morning academic classes hat apply toward a high school dip- bma and a work program in the af ternoon. The school is situated on a 400- acre farm which the owner and plunder, G.B. 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