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BOSTON — It was the first time the four had been together
since the funeral of Chad Green, whose parents are wanted for
disobeying a court order and taking their child to Mexico for
laetrile treatments.
At a secret meeting at a New England restaurant, the boy’s
parents and grandparents looked like any other family greeting
one another after a year’s separation — there were hugs,
kisses, damp eyes, handholding and long looks.
But the Greens are not like any other family. Gerald and
Diana Green are wanted on four contempt warrants, which
have no statute of limitations in Massachusetts and are punish
able by fine, imprisonment, or both.
Diana Green, 26, and Gerald, 30, took their son to Tijuana,
Mexico, in January 1979, two days after a Massachusetts court
ordered them to resume chemotherapy treatments for leuke
mia and stop the at-home nutritional and laetrile therapy they
preferred.
Chad died in Tijuana on Oct. 12, 1979, two months short of
his fourth birthday. The Greens buried their only child a week
later in Hastings, Nebr., his birthplace, and until nine days ago
made their home with Diana Green’s mother in Hastings.
The older couple, Hollis and Vera Green, had urged them to
“come home and face the Massachusetts courts.”
“Take your chances in court and leave the rest to God, ” Vera
Green told her stepson. “Then you can get on with your life.”
But Gerry and Diana Green are still agonizing over what
they should do.
The Greens say parental rights should have been the central
don’t think I could have come back and faced up toitay eil| .
but now I’m ready. I just want to go back and get it overJ 1
“Take your chances in court and leave
the rest to God, ” Vera Green told her
stepson. “Then you can get on with
your life. ”
She tells her family she has no qualms about perfeJ
some sort of community service should they go to court),
convicted. Several judicial officials have said several r
“community service” would be an “appropriate, not-un]
sentence for a contempt conviction of this nature.
“That’s certainly better than going to jail,” she tell
husband. “And we would actually be helping the chill,
the elderly persons we were working with.”
issue during their year-long litigation. Instead, the case be
came a legal tug-of-war between the chemotherapy-oriented
Massachusetts General Hospital and the pro-laetrile forces
who rallied around the Greens’ cause.
Hollis Green urges his son to think about the future rather
than waste time dwelling on the past.
An obliging waitress pours round after round of coffee dur
ing the weekend reunion. Gerry lights, smokes and discards
cigarette after cigarette.
He is rail thin, his shoulder bones jutting through a brown
plaid Western shirt. He admits he is desperately afraid of
being thrown in jail for two years. One state official told him
that’s what he would get if he returned to his home state.
Diana Green sits calmly, dressed in red slacks and a navy
blue top with rainbow striped trim. Her features are much
softer and prettier than they appear in pictures.
“I have needed this year to get ready,” she says slowly. “I
Her Christian faith is unwavering. She believes wli^
pened to her son was for some purpose. “God tookChadf
and we know he is happy and peaceful now.”
She wants to get on with her life, too, and have at leyjj
more child. Her husband wants to build a house j
country.
She tells him they can’t do any of these things until \
really free. We want to be able to go home to Massachd
Gerald Green needs more convincing. He fears thatlj
return to Massachusetts to face charges, it will be intern
as an admission of guilt. Both of Chad’s parents sayM
never be sorry for the efforts they made to save their sotf
“We did what we thought was best for Chad,” saysli
Green. “We had no intention of flouting the court’s auiri
But we couldn’t treat him the way we wanted to at homiij
had to go elsewhere.”
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s men in blue
are wielding chain saws on a new beat: harvesting the
state’s illicit, billion-dollar cash crop of marijuana.
The code name for the crackdown on clandestine
marijuana growers is “Operation Sinsemilla” — so cal
led for the state’s manicured, high quality marijuana
that sells for $175 or more an ounce.
The joint operation by federal, state and local law
enforcement agents has, so far, netted millions of dollars
worth of pot plants — some so large they must be cut
with chain saws.
Those favoring the legalization of pot scoff at police
efforts, however, saying the fight to curb marijuana
cultivation is a losing battle — just like “the Vietnam
War. ” They predict there will be a bumper crop of the
weed this year, about twice as big as last year.
Steve Helsley, the California Department of Justice’s
top marijuana policeman, agrees that the number of
marijuana farms is increasing in Northern California. He
estimates the value of the state’s crop at more than $1
billion annually.
But Helsley opposes legalization of marijuana — the
goal of the National Organization for the Reform of
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme
Court agreed Monday to decide
whether military retirement pay is
property that may be divided in a
divorce settlement.
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The justices said they would hear
arguments on an appeal by Richard
John McCarty from a case in which a
California appeals court decided his
retirement pay was subject to divi
sion with his ex-wife, Patricia Ann.
Conflicting rulings on the issue
have been handed down by courts in
Alaska, Texas, Montana, Arizona and
California.
McCarty filed for divorce in 1976
after 19 years of marriage and the
divorce became final in February
1978. He retired from the Army
seven months after the divorce, fol
lowing 20 years of active duty.
The San Francisco Superior Court
awarded Mrs. McCarty half of his
retirement pay, accepting her argu
ments that the pension was “quasi
community property” divisible upon
divorce.
The court rejected McCarty’s
argument that the ruling would con
flict with federal statutes and the
supremacy clause of the Constitu
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McCarty took the case to a Califor-
Marijuana Laws (NORML), which describes
emment effort as impossible.
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winning the war against marijuana cultivation in
nia than the U.S. military was in winning theV
War,” said Gordon Brownell, NORML s SanFi
based national director.
“We expect the harvest in 1980 to be twice as
the one last year, on the basis that marijuana is
grown by many more people all over the state,”1ki
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