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United Press International
NEW YORK — The Big Ap
ple has paid 10 professors ac
cused of being communist sym
pathizers in the era of Joe
McCarthy, the Wisconsin Re
publican who conducted com
munist witch-hunts nearly 30
years ago, nearly $1 million be
cause they were dismissed from
university jobs after being
caught in a “web of suspicion. ,v
estates of three professors now
dead.
Oscar Shaftel, 69, received
his payment more than 29 years
after he was fired from his post
in 1952 as assistant professor of
English at Queens College.
The awards Wednesday
marked the end of years of liti
gation between the city and
those dismissed and, jn the eyes
of Comptroller Harrison Gol
den, gave New York a chance to
right a wrong.
The payments totalling
$935,098 were divided among
the survivors through individual
annuity funds. Lump sum pay
ments were to be given to the
Shattel said his dismissal
occurred because he refused to
answer government questions
about his political affiliations
during the Red Scare set off by
the McCarthy accusations.
But despite his dismissal,
Shaftel said:“I never lost
honor."
my
Shaftel, and Bernard Riess,
75, were two of seven teachers
still alive to see the checks.
In all, Goldin said, 10 profes
sors — two women and eight
men — were caught in the
McCarthy era’s tide of suspicion
and the Fein berg law, which
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allowed the city to haJ MEXICO C
belonging to a subvfrsj:scue units wer<
from holding ajob. eight v illages a
The law was declardlouthern Mexi
stitutional in 1967. ano, but for
Shaftel, of Long E another harnle
Queens, was question crater, the E
Senate judiciary sub: says.
Remembering that I A ministry
time, his wife was prey: Wednesday tl
their third child, Shal formed a circl
could not afford tog mile radius of
Nevertheless, he rcnot been able i
answer the committeicause knee-de<
tions and when hen ash was blocki
New York he wasduhil He said th<
Using the name OJ are within the
Shaftel became a “had 1 111
until he could again j
teaching job.
Riess, who said hehai|
put on a danger list asa
1 b.‘bj, said he was disiM
cause he was the presifc|
feathers Union.
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tested in Supreme Court
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Hume
buyers, real-estate agents and
lenders — all squirming under
unrelentingly high interest rates
— are eyeing a Supreme Court
case that could either condone
cut off a source of low-
interest home mortgages.
During more than an hour of
arguments Wednesday, the jus
tices indicated they are split on
the question of whether federal
savings and loan associations —
even in states with consumer-
oriented mortgage laws — can
hike the interest rate on an ex
isting loan when a home is sold.
The issue arose in California,
but will affect a dozen states with
laws that prohibit lending insti
tutions from automatically rais
ing interest rates on assumable
mortgages. It a'so will set an ex-
ple for the nation.
tion, a California homeowner
could invoke state law and con
tinue to assume low-interest
ample
William Rehnquist staunchly
came to the defense of Califor
nia’s right to enforce its own
property laws, free from federal
interference. Under his posi-
mort gages.
But Justice Thurgood Mar
shall stood up for the Federal
Home Lxian Bank Board’s au
thority to pass a nationwide rule
allowing federal savings and
loan associations to enforce “due
on sale” clauses when mort
gaged property is sold.
The board, which oversees
federally insured lending insti
tutions, contends it has a right to
protect the associations' finan
cial stability.
Its “due on sale" rule, passed
in 1976, permits a federal lend
ing institution to call for full re
payment of a mortgage when a
piece of property is sold. In that
way, the savings and loan can
issue a new loan, at a higher in
terest rate, and avoid being
stuck with a low-interest mort
gage-
Stephen Shapiro, a govern
ment attorney representing the
board, said savings and loans are
going up and
. * i . Americans stil
m the midst ot an e*, avsU)kc . t .
slump not seen since ’
days of the Great Deptts first-timer:
The chief reasonistb travelling will
portfolios of old, lo™he travel in
mortgages being earned competitive ai
rates in a time of soanngii variety of low
charges. package tours
But Robert Boehmer. transportation
ney for three California; baggage hand
buyers who are defendf tipping, taxes
right to assume low tials. They vv
mortgages, related his m necessary arn
tale to tne justices. extra cost.
In (.aliiiiiiiu jj^Eravelling
Boehmer said, theonhit be ch r lh
tions involve assumptions own because
isting loans. With inters:. t0U1 operatol
at 1 / or 18 percent, thea pl a ne seats at
family could not buy a bulk rates and
and even a wealthyfamilim,, sav ; n g- s a i r
have trouble buying." Travelers his.
The case has : 'caught jOp <>ut l *
spread attention from abjp
half the states in thecountnjf
National Association of Rts
and various lending groiipl
The court is expectedi 1 ',
on it by July. ■ United Pre,
KNOXVIL1
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3,000-year-old
my and a tiny c
Wall of China
rived at the W<
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The
Food and Drug Administration
has announced the recall of
heart pacemakers that it said
may fail suddenly, endangering
the lives of cardiac patients.
Involved is the “Ventricular
Inhibited Pulse Generator VVI,
Model 100’’ under brand names
“Valleylab” and “Synthemed.”
The agency said Wednesday the
implanted devices have a 10-
year life expectancy with a uni
que “reserve cell” for backup
power.
But it said the manufacturer,
Synthemed Corp. of Boulder,
Colo., which is conducting the
recall, reported that the “units
may be subject to unpredictable
failure.”
The units involved were dis
tributed in Colorado, Washing-
New York, Oif(
for Saturday’s
ton state,
Vermont, Texas, CalifoJ
Missouri, Japan and Austfit
Promoters
The FDA said 108 units'*
subject to the recall, but*
were no longer in use. It sai;
remain implanted in Air.ni
patients and 22 in Japanese
tients. In addition, it said'
units have been removed!
U.S. patients.
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