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United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Sup-
ne Court Monday rejected
peals from five former offi-
sof the air traffic controllers’
ion for review of their crimin-
convictions under a federal
ition act.
'The justices, without com-
, let stand the convictions,
six controllers, five of whom
ie union officials, from the
las-Fort Worth area. The
tnwere prosecuted under a
making it illegal for a person
idd a federal job if he “advo-
lesoverthrow of our constitu-
nalform of government.”
Afterthe 15,000-member un
rejected a tentative contract
ill the government, the na
n's air traffic controllers went
itrike Aug. 30, 1981, protest-
ppay offers and complaining
of being overworked.
President Reagan fired the
more than 11,000 striking con
trollers and labeled them as law
breakers.
Their union, Professional Air
Traffic Controllers Organiza
tion Union — PATCO — later
was stripped of its legal status
and eventually disbanded.
The six controllers bringing
the suit to the high court argued
they were singled out for selec
tive prosecution because they
were union officials'. More than
250 controllers participated in
the strike in the Dallas-Fort
Worth area, they told the court.
Gary Greene and Harry
Grant were presidents of the loc
al PATCO units. Another de
fendant, Ronald May, had been
a local unit president.
They argued that in addition
to selective prosecution, they
were not given fair warning that
participation in a strike would
carry a criminal penalty.
On the discriminatory pro
secution issue, the court said
they had not proved they were
singled out for any obvious
reasons, or that the government
acted in bad faith in bringing
cases against these six.
Greene, Grant and May were
each sentenced to a year and a
day in jail and fined $750, but
the judge shortened their sent
ences to 90 days plus probation.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals upheld the convictions,
noting the defendents “have not
proven they were prosecuted
for their protected union activi
ties, rather than for their actions
as leaders and organizers of an
illegal strike.”
...AWD NOW,TWO INTERESTING
CLOSING STORIES: A PRACTICAL
TOKER IN THE LIBRARY TODAY
FASTENED A CHAIN AND A "USE-
OTHER-GATE"SIGN TO THE THIRD
AND ONLY WORKING EXIT GATE
FROM THE LIBRARY...
..TRAPPING SOME VERY CONFUSED
PATRONS INSIDE FOR ALMOST S
HOURS. AND, FROM THE WORLD
OF MUSIC, FANS OF NEIL DIAMOND
AND SCIENCE FICTION WERE
THRILLED BY LAST YEAR'S SONG,
"HEARTLIGHT," A TRIBUTE TO
THE CHARACTER, “E T."...
..NOW IT SEEMS AN EARLIER NEIL
DIAMOND SONG WAS A SIMILAR
TRIBUTE TO A CHARACTER OUT
OF STAR WARS. THE FIRST
VERSE OF THE SONG TITLED,
ODDLY ENOUGH, "ON THE WAY TO
THE SKY" REVEALS...
China left off itinerary
Reagan to visit South Asia
fopport measure passes
or special ELS cotton
United Press International
WASHINGTON - The
i Sysco msf Monday passed a sup-
vith de- itprograni for extra-long sta-
cotton, a speciality crop
sed in Texas, New Mexico
iArizona, that supporters say
save the government $27
bn over five years.
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The measure, which passed
[House on a voice vote, now
esto the Senate for considera-
ii.
Total U.S. production of ELS
lion, used primarily in thread
home shirts, was estimated
)fficial says women
dong in coal mines
oint for
alysis or
ice from
ked as a
intsville.
involve
. Smith’s
ions.
lattalion
at 99,000 bales last year com
pared to 11.9 million bales of
Upland cotton.
Rep. Jerry Huckaby, D-La.,
and chairman of the House
Agriculture Committee on Cot
ton, Rice and Sugar, said the me
asure would treat ELS cotton
nearly the same as Upland cot
ton, wheat, feed grains and rice.
“This bill will save the federal
government almost $27 million
over the next five years,” said
Rep. Arland Strangeland, R-Mi,
and ranking minority member
on the subcommittee, “because
of allowing the government to
sell surplus ELS cotton, reduced
storage and smaller commodity
lean outlays.”
The bill includes provisions
that create a target price prog
ram for ELS cotton, put the
minimum price support loan
rate at 50 percent of the Upland
rate rather than the current 75
percent and allow the Agricul
ture Department to sell govern
ment-owned surplus ELS cotton
at any price the Secretary of
Agriculture decides is approp
riate.
United Press International
WASH INGTON — President
Reagan will travel to Asia in ear
ly November, visiting Indonesia,
Japan and Korea, a White
House spokesman announced
Monday.
Deputy Press Secretary Larry
Speakes said the dates have not
yet been arranged.
China was noticeably missing
from the agenda.
Speakes said a visit to China
remains a future possibility and
the President has expressed in
terest in traveling to Peking; but
it was not possible on this trip.
“We have had discussions
with the Chinese on a visit by the
Premier (Zhano Ziyang) in the
near future,” Speakes said. He
added that dates for such a visit
are being discussed and mean
while the United States and Chi
na continue to exchange visits by
high-level officials.
“The president wants to reaf
firm the importance we attach to
the Asian-Pacific region,”
Speakes said. “The United
States is a Pacific nation and our
interests in this part of the world
have grown rapidly in the past
decade in the face of common
challenges and the fact that our
political and security arrange
ments in the area have taken on
added importance.”
Speakes said the nations
Reagan will visit have “a very in
ternational economic system.”
“As a result, we share a wide
and growing range of interests
with these countries,” Speakes
added.
Speakes said the announc-
ment of Reagan’s travels to the
Pacific had no specific bearing
on the Japanese upper house
elections that gave Prime Minis
ter Yasuhiro Nakasone’s Liberal
Democratic Party a solid victory
in elections over the weekend.
The visit will take Reagan to
Tokyo, the bustling capital of
Japan, for talks on trade and
military cooperation with the
outspokenly pro-Western Naka-
sone, to Seoul in Korea where
the United States maintains
Army ground forces and Air
Force personnel, and to steamy
Jakarta in Indonesia, the world’s
largest Moslem nation with a
population of more than 150
million.
Speakes said Reagan has had
invitations from most of the
Pacific nations.
He said the president wanted
to travel to the Asian region be
cause he already has visited
Europe and South America.
“A visit to China remains a
future possibility,” Speakes said.
“The premier had expressed in
terest and we are discussing
dates.”
Administration officials have
said it is China’s turn to visit the
United States.
President Ford was the last
U.S. president to visit China in
1974.
U.S. and Chinese relations
have not been smooth since
Reagan became president, with
his former strong ties to Taiwan
a stumbling block.
Justices agree to consider
relaxing exclusionary rules
United Press International
DAWSON, Pa. — A woman’s
teis in the coal mines — if she
i loses — and mining is better
^ e 8' n a 'because of it, United Mine
Marshals lr |, ers President Richard
rnnka said Saturday.
Trumka told the Fifth Na
nai Conference on Women
nets, the first such meeting
gnized by the UMW, that
union also has improved
te women donned their first
idhats in 1973.
You belong in the mines if
a want to be there,” Trumka
Uabout 100 women miners at
(conference near Pittsburgh.
Du have made the coal mines a
tier place to work and you’ve
made the UMW stronger.”
At a press conference later,
Trumka admitted that, propor
tionately, more women miners
are being laid off than their male
counterparts. He attributed that
to the layoffs occurring under a
seniority system. Trumka urged
women to learn every job in the
mine so they become more valu
able and less likely to be laid off.
Nearly 4,000 women work in
the nation’s coal mines, the
UMW said.
Trumka blamed shortcuts
and a desire for profit and speed
of production for a mine explo
sion in Virginia Tuesday that
killed seven miners, including
one woman.
“Ideally, mine disasters like
that should never, never occur.”
Trumka said.
Trumka said that while the
short-term outlook for the coal
industry has dimmed, he is con
fident about the industry’s long
term prospects.
“We’re not going to experi
ence the boom growth that we
anticipated six months ago,” he
said. “(But) in the long run, I see
a bright, bright future for coal.
It will enable us to supply our
own power and energy needs,
and those of our allies,” he said.
Trunka also said the union is
for the passage of the acid rain
bill calling for accelerated study
of the problem with only a few
intermediate actions.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Sup
reme Court Monday rekindled
hopes in the administration and
law enforcement circles it will re
lax a rule of criminal evidence
often blamed for allowing guilty
persons to go free on legal tech
nicalities.
In a brief order, the Justices
agreed for the second time in a
year to consider creating an ex
ception to the controversial “ex
clusionary rules,” which bars the
use at trial of illegally seized evi
dence.
Only three weeks ago, in a
giant letdown for critics of the
rule, the high court announced
it had tried but could not settle
the issue this term.
But it wasted little time in
tackling it again, this time by tak
ing up cases from Mas
sachusetts, California and Col
orado that each ask the justices
to forgive honest mistakes that
technically make a search illegal.
The cases will be argued after
the new term begins in October.
In all three cases, law enforce
ment officials argue their evi
dence should be permitted in
court because police acted with
the “reasonable, good-faith” be
lief their searches or arrests
were legal.
The cases give the high court
its second chance to create a
long-sought “reasonable, good-
faith” exception to the exclu
sionary rule.
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ed from WASHINGTON — The Sup-
and Ruddei 1116 Court Friday struck down
unconstitutional an 11-year-
ed fronitlif ^P osta l law that banned con-
ftptive manufacturers from
olkscycle Id’ ^ng unsolicited ads for birth
ton HalllAP 01 devices.
An 8-0 ruling upheld a court
jrescent 111®' 011 that the U.S. Postal Ser-
restricted free speech rights
halting the controversial
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broken appi-^tant social issues such as
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aterials and helps parents su-
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to their children’s hands.
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