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Press gains legal ground
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The
Supreme Court ruled unani
mously Wednesday that
judges may only in “rare inst
ances” bar reporters and the
public from jury selection in a
criminal trial.
In a decision hailed by
press groups. Chief Justice
Warren Burger suggested
that such proceedings may
only be closed by a judge when
there is good reason to believe
that a prospective juror might
be publicly embarrassed by
questioning in open court.
But other justices, joining
Burger’s ruling but writing
separately, saidjurors’ privacy
rights remain to be settled in
the future.
The 9-0 ruling came in a
case brought by the Riverside,
Calif., Press-Enterprise,
which appealed the decision
of a judge who barred the
public and reporters from
most jury-selection proceed
ings at a 1981 murder trial,
then refused to give reporters
a transcript of those proceed
ings.
“Closed proceedings,
although not absolutely pre
cluded, must be rare and only
for cause shown that out
weighs the value of openness,”
Burger wrote in finding that
the trial judge acted wrongly.
Three justices wrote con
curring opinions to empha
size that the ruling does not
cancel the right of prospective
jurors to privacy during pre
trial proceedings.
Justice Harry Blackmun,
for example, said, “A juror
has a valid interest in not
being required to disclose to
all the world highly personal
or embarrassing information
simply because he is called to
do his public duty.”
Press-Enterprise Executive
Editor Norman Cherniss said
he was “pleased” by the deci
sion.
“It seems to us to have been
essentially an extension of
what the court has ruled be
fore — that the openness the
court wants for trials should
also apply tojury selection. It’s
a victory for the press and the
public too if you believe in
open trials,” Cherniss said.
Jack Landau, a spokesman
for the Reporters’ Committee
on Freedom of the Press, said,
“I don’t think the court could
have written this opinion any
stronger. There are only rare
instances when (closure)
should ever be approved. The
judge has to say there is no
other way to do it.
“I think there is a small
opening (for judges to close
jury selection) but, overall I
think they have made it very,
very tight now,” Landau said.
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Continental to resume
contract negotiations
United Press International
HOUSTON — Continen
tal Airlines Wednesday sent
telegrams to representatives
of pilot and flight attendant
unions seeking a meeting next
week to resume contract nego
tiations, a spokesman said.
The action was taken on
the order of U.S. Bankruptcy
Judge R.F. Wheless Jr., who
Tuesday upheld Continen
tal’s petition for reorganiza
tion under Chapter 11 of the
U.S. Bankrputcy Code.
The judge, in ruling that
Continental had no alterna
tive but to file for bankruptcy,
rejected a motion by the Air
Line Pilots Association, the
Union of Flight Attendants,
and the International Associa
tion of Machinists claiming
the action was an effort to
break the unions.
Wheless reminded lawyers
of a Jan. 30 hearing on Con
tinental’s motion to void labor
contracts with the three un
ions and urged both sides to
try to settle their difference at
the bargaining table before
they return to court.
“As the judge has re
quested and as we have done
in the past, we will be pre
pared to present a contract
proposal to hopefully end the
labor dispute,” said Continen
tal spokesman Bruce Hicks.
Hicks said a date for the
meeting was not set, but it
would be arranged at a time
“mutually acceptable” to both
sides.
ALPA spokesman'jerry
Baldwin said as of 4 p.m. the
union had not received a tele
gram, but that resumption of
talks which broke off Dec. 20
would be welcomed.
“It is quite clear in the
judges decision that he recog
nizes the Air Line Pilots Asso
ciation have been willing since
the beginning to make what
concessions are necessary to
keep the airline a viable enter
prise,” he said.
Continental filed for n
nization. The company sto,
ped flying for two days,ai
then resumed flying art.
duced schedule without,
third of its employees worl®
at half pay. It installed no
work rules and pay schedule
ALPA and UFA strutl
Continental Oct. 1 to proie;
the job cutbacks and i
payroll slashing action tire
claim effectively voided thei
contracts. The IAM wentu
strike Aug. 13, prior to
bankruptcy filing, aftera»
talks fai
tract talks failed.
“In light of that fact, we
welcome a proposal as an
offer of settling the issues,” he
said. “I sincerely hope and
trust that they will take the
judge at his word and present
us with a proposal addressing
the economic issues.”
ALPA spokesman Chuck
Arthur said attorneys for the
union expected to file an
appeal of Wheless’ ruling this
week.
Negotiations between tit
C ilots union and the airlim
roke down in Decemberow
the issue of seniority. Them-
ion wants all pilots returned!;
work, but Continental saysi
will not replace pilots
worked through the striked
who were hired after tit
strike began.
“We’re hoping their pcs
tion has changed,’’ Hickssaii
The battle between Con
tinental and the three unions
began in September, when
When asked if there h
hope for a settlement to ik
labor dispute prior to ik
hearing in bankruptcy coun
Hicks said: “Anytime you'd
talking there is a chance.”
West Texas fossils studied
United Press International
ALPINE — In the days be
fore dinosaurs, 200 million
years ago. West Texas was a de
lta area, according to a scientific
report by two Sul Ross State Uni
versity professors, university
officials said Wednesday.
A definitive scientific report
on ancient plant fossils disco
vered by an SRSU geology gra
duate student in the Del Norte
Mountains near here will appear
in Friday’s issue of “Science,” the
journal for the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Science, university officials said.
The paper, “Late Leonardian
Plants from West Texas: The
Youngest Paleozoic Plant Mega
fossils in North Ameria,” was co
authored by two Sul Ross faculty
members in conjunction with
the Smithsonian Institution.
Assistant professor of geolo
gy, Dr. David M. Rohr and assis
tant professor of biology Dr.
John M. Miller of SRSU col-
laboraed with Dr. Sergius H.
Mamay of the Smithsonian on
the paper, which deals with Per
mian plant fossils discovered in
1981.
Mamay is considered the
world expert on North Amer
ican plant fossils from the
Paleozoic and was invited to su
pervise excavations at the dis
covery site near Alpine in 1982.
Rohr said the significance of
the find lies in the fact that these
plant fossils are the youngest
Paleozoic plant fossils yet disco
vered in North America.
The fossils are expected to
provide other researchers with
key information on conditions
in North America more than
200 million years ago.
Miller, a botanist, was respon
sible for the preliminary identi
fication of the plant megafossils.
The largest of the specimens
measures about eight inches
long and is the leaf from a long
extinct plant known as “Giji
topteris.”
Several preliminary rq
on the fossil find haveapa
in other scientific journals
ing the preparation of thei
finitive report on the discow
SRSU officials said.
By piecing together eviita
from the plant fossils and ok
by marine fossils, the rest!
chers have developed a then
that the area under investigaffi
was in an ancient delta emini
ment on thn edgeoftheenerp
rich Permian Basin.
Rohr said studies ha«
pointed out a gap in informal!
from this time period. He
the paper should narrowc
gap between Paleozoic time a
the ensuing Mesozoic, thee
when giant reptiles camel
dominate the earth’s surfaff
The journal, “Science,"
said, “is probably the besi
spected interdisciplinary sew
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By MARSHA MCDADE
Reporter
Pope John Paul II has blessed
the Texas A&M Village of Hope
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to the project’s adviser.
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us all hope for the future,” Kell
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