Page 10 THE BATTALION
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1981
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WASHINGTON — Sandra
Day O’Connor will face painstak
ing scrutiny of her record as a state
legislator and judge at confirma
tion hearings this week on her
nomination as the Supreme
Court’s first woman justice.
Conservative forces that want
President Reagan to withdraw the
nomination of the Arizona Appeals
Court judge have deluged the
Senate Judiciary Committee with
about 20,000 pieces of mail —
mostly form letters — running 4-
to-1 against her.
But Senate leaders have pre
dicted her confirmation, perhaps
without dissent, because no sena
tors are on record opposing her.
This has not discouraged abor
tion foes, who contend they will
use the hearings as a forum to
show Reagan he “should never in
sult his friends again.”
“No observer of this fight —
and it is a fight — should judge by
the final number of votes,” said
Peter Gemma Jr. of the National
Pro-Life Political Action Com
mittee.
O’Connor’s nomination is a
“complete break of faith in light of
the promises in the Republican
platform,” which endorses “pro-
life” judges, said Conservative
Caucus head Howard Phillips.
Sure to be aired at the hearings,
which begin Wednesday, are data
on her votes on state abortion bills
— votes that are “consistently
anti-life,” abortion forces charge.
Also, the conservative groups
claim O’Connor is too soft on
crime, too liberal on women’s
issues and has ignored conflicts of
interest in voting on areas affect
ing family interests.
William Billings, director of the
National Christian Action Coali
tion, spent two weeks perusing
O’Connor’s record in the Arizona
Legislature.
His research has been turned
over to so-called “pro-life” sena
tors and to United Families of
America, which is scheduled to
testify during three days of hear
ings.
Billings said O’Connor favored
abortion measures four times, in
cluding a 1970 bill that would have
legalized abortion three years be
fore the Supreme Court’s land
mark decision that a woman has a
constitutional right to an abortion.
Douglas Johnson of the Nation
al Right to Life Committee
charges O’Connor misrepre
sented her relations with “pro-
life” forces seeking anti-abortion
bills in the Arizona Senate. Dr.
Carolyn Gerster, a personal foe of
O’Connor’s, will review the
judge’s state legislative record at
the hearings.
Gemma said questions about
the Arizona judge go beyond the
abortion issue.
“Her lack of experience — only
18 months on the state court —
would normally be questioned.
But she has a lot of important and
influential political friends,” he
said.
A review of O’Connor’s record
shows she voted against manda
tory prison sentencing bills and
opposed restoring the death pen
alty, Billings reports.
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Conservatives have said other
“black marks” on her record in
clude her sponsorship of a bill to
abolish public drunkenness as a
crime and her support of a bill
lowering the drinking age from 21
to 19.
The only bright spots on her
legislative record, conservative
forces contend, are her support for
measures urging Congress to
allow prayers in schools and and
opposing forced school busing and
handgun controls.
For years, O’Connor pushed for
passage of the Equal Rights
Amendment in Arizona. But more
damaging in the eyes of conserva
tives is her alleged support for
allowing women to take part in
military combat.
In her answers to a lengthy Sen
ate Judiciary Committee ques
tionnaire, O’Connor made no sec
ret of her feminist record, noting:
“As a legislator I worked to equal
ize the treatment of women under
state law by seeking repeal of a
number of outmoded Arizona sta
tutes.”
O’Connor also may face ques
tioning on some alleged conflicts
of interest during her four years in
the state Senate. One charge is
that while she was Arizona Senate
majority leader, she brought a
state Medicaid bill favored by her
brother-in-law to a floor vote after
it was twice killed in the approp
riations committee.
Another charge is that while
serving as a board member ofttfl
First National Bank of Arizoml
she excused herself from votingoil
only four of 16 major banking bill
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to be serious polluters.
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claims that appears likely to sun I
many votes against her —sheuiil
pass Senate muster. Senate leadf
ers predict confirmation by i
September and the swearinginol|
the first woman justice by Septl
25.
Manson family member
appeals murder conviction
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Former
Manson family member Leslie
Van Houten is appealing her con
viction in the 1969 LaBianca kill
ings to the Supreme Court on
grounds her jury was shown grue
some pictures of murders for
which she was not charged.
After three trials. Van Houten
was found guilty of murder and
conspiracy in the deaths of Leno
LaBianca, a wealthy grocery chain
executive in Southern California,
and his wife, Rosemary. They
were killed as part of Charles
Manson’s “Helter Skelter” revolu
tion.
Van Houten has asked the high
court to overturn her conviction
because prosecutors showed her
jury several gruesome color
photographs of the Manson fami
ly’s slaying of actress Sharon Tate
and four others, a crime that
occurred the night before the
LaBianca slayings and for which
she was not charged.
But prosecutors, in arguments
filed with the high court by the
California attorney general’s
office, defended their use of the
photos at Van Houten’s trial and
urged the justices to reject her
appeal.
Introduced at her third trial
were photos of the bloody bodies
of Tate — wife of film director Ro
man Polanski — and four others
killed on Aug. 9, 1969. The other
victims were Voitcek Frykowski,
Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring and
Steven Parent.
Five color photos shown to the
jury are included in a packet that is
part of Van Houten’s petition to
the high court.
Prosecutors said the Manson
family members who participated
in the Tate slaying were Susan
Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, Lin
da Kasabian and Tex Watson. The
following night, they said, Wat
son, Krenwinkel and Van Houten
killed the LaBiancas.
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TIJUANA, Mexico — Famed
defense attorney Melvin Belli says
he will help the parents of 2-year-
old leukemia victim Amanda
Accardi fight for the right to
choose their child’s medical care.
Belli, 74, met with the Accardis
Friday at the Mexican Laetrile cli
nic where Amanda has been tre
ated for cancer, and told reporters
he would fight Los Angeles Coun
ty officials in a battle that might go
to the highest court in the land.
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Belli said he charges $400) loans an
hour for legal consultation andk |nations
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and publicity did not motivate hilt hide in
to represent the Accardis. ions ol
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cause they haven’t got any,” Bel Treas
said of Michael Accardi, 26, afor- sport I
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agent, and his wife, Catherine [Humber
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and placed Amanda in the cared ^ults, ;
Dr. Ernesto Contreras at the Cen
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complex. There she received
Laetrile, chemotherapy and en
zymes, and almost immediatel)
appeared to improve.
Contreras attributed the im
provement to conventional che
motherapy rather than to Laetrile
and enzymes.
Several weeks later, Dr.
Kung, a San Diego cancer sp
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Belli said, “A parent has the
right to make the decision on k
child’s medical treatment
whether it be here, in Belgium,ot
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Juvenile Court law can reach out
across the border and bring bad
the parents or the child. 1 thin*
parents have a God-given and con
stitutional right to make decisions
over their child and choose what
doctors are going to do.”
The Accardis have been
ordered to demonstrate in a Los
Angeles Juvenile Court hearin?
Sept. 16 that Amanda is gettinf
proper medical attention in Ti
juana.
If the court finds that she is not
the county’s Department of Publi'
Social Services may take custod)
of Amanda.
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