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Page 10/The BattalionAVednesday,January 25, 1984 ERA impact debated United Press International WASHING I ON — Adop tion of the Equal Rights Amend ment would provide constitu tional backing for the “terrible scourge of legalized abortion,” a law professor told the Senate Tuesday. But another legal expert dis agreed, saying the proposed amendment would nave “no practical impact” on existing abortion laws. “I believe the issue of abor- ERA,” Ann Freedman, associate professor of law at Rutgers Uni versity Law School in Camden, N.J., told the Senate Judiciary ibcc su be ommittee on the Constitu tion is not germane to congres sional consideration of the tion. Freedman said she resents allegations by some ERA critics that supporters of the measure view it as a means for granting women a constitutional right to abortion. “I don’t need any covert reasons to be for it (the ERA),” she said. 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Main Downtown Bryan 822-3119 MC VISA AND Culpepper Plaza College Station 693-0677 DINNERS CLUB AM EXPRESS LAYAWAYS INVITED at the University of California in Berkeley and a leading oppo nent of abortion, argued that adoption of the ERA would eli minate all existing legal restric tions on abortion. “I am a believer in the equal ity of men and women, and a defender of the rights of both sexes,” Noonan said. “My only concern — and I admit it at the start — is that the terrible scourge of legalized abortion, which now devastates our coun try, not be wittingly or unwit tingly given new strength by any formal amendment of the Con stitution.” If the ERA would have no effect on abortions, he reasoned, “why won’t its suppor ters accept an amendment that says so?” Freedman rejected the sug gestion, saying the adoption of any clarifying amendments would “cast doubt on the weight to be accorded to the remainder of the ERA’s legislative history as a guide to judicial interpreta tion.” Abortion opponents, led by Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R- Wis., have tried to add a so- called abortion neutralization clause to the ERA proposal, , which would say that nothing in the proposed amendment “shall be construed to grant or secure any right relating to abortion or the funding thereof.” But ERA advocates and back ers of the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision legalizing abortions 1 have fought the move. Deathrow inmate awaits ruling United Press International STARKE, Fla. — Anthony Antone brushed up on his metaphysics and watched tele vision in his death row prison cell Tuesday, while state offi cials asked a Supreme Court justice for permission to ex ecute him. State officials asked Justice Lewis Powell to let them pro ceed immediately with the ex ecution of Antone, by lifting a lower court stay issued six hours before he was to be strapped into the electric chair at 7 a.m. EST Tuesday. Antone, 66, the oldest man on Florida’s death row, was granted the stay of execution until noon today by a three- judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. His death warrant does not expire until noon Friday. The appeals court judges said they agreed with lower court rulings upholding Antone’s death sentence for arranging the 1975 gangland killing of a Tampa detective. But they gave Antone’s lawyers one last chance to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has declined to review the appeal in the past. Antone’s lawyers made a frantic last-minute appeal to the Atlanta appeals court late Monday, after a federal judge in Tampa refused to block the execution. U.S. District Judge George Carr said Antone’s attorneys raised the same arguments two years before, and Carr had rejected them then. Antone would be the 12th man put to dealt since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976 and the third in Florida. The last man to die in Florida’s electric chair was Robert Sulli van, executed on Nov. 30, 1983. Antone, who said he had no fear of death and was ready to “go on to the next life,” was awakened early Tuesday with the news of the temporary stay. “He was very pleased but had very little comment,” said prison spokesman Vernon Bradford. “Someone told him he had won a stay and he was happy with the news. Then I think he went back to sleep.” The condemned prisoner spent Tuesday in his death row cell browsing through his metaphysical library and w au hing television, Bradfoii said. He has refused ak meal and a visit from a clerg. man, and no visitors cafe Tuesday. A n tone, w ho suffers from, cardiac disease, gallstone, chronic lung ailmeni,in- paired vision and seizure said Monday at a newsconfe ence here at Florida Pre® that he was ready to die. “I don’t fear death. As[j as I'm concerned, deatln merely discarding the vehia and ife goes on,’ he said'; want to get it over with andjl on to the next life." C Convicted of arrangingiii contract murder of formt Tampa vice squad Sji Richard Cloud in 19/i Antone maintains his inn cence. Former British envoy confesses affair with his children's nanny United Press International Vaccine Study Screening Samples $5.00 We will be taking blood samples to select for future vaccine studies as follows, Jan. 24-26: Health Center, Basement Rm 03: Tues, Wed, Thurs. 9:30am-4:00pm Commons Lounge: Tues, Wed-9:30am-7:30pm Thursday 9:30am-6pm Come to these locations for more information or to give your sample. Dr. John Quarles 845-3678 LONDON — A new British sex scandal blossomed Tuesday after Peter Jay, former British ambassador to the United States, admitted he had an affair with his children’s nanny while in Washington and may have fathered her child. Jay, 47, said in a statement issued late Monday that provi sional blopd tests were “not in consistent” with the child being his son. Jay, former economic editor of the London Times, capped a dazzling civil service and jour nalism career when he was ambassador to Washington from 1977 to 1979. He resigned when Margaret Thatcher’s Con servative Party regained power from the Labor Party. At the time, he was married to Margaret Callaghan, daugh ter of then-British Prime Minis ter James Callaghan. They are now estranged following wide spread reports that she had an affair in Washington with The Washington Post’s Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein. Jay’s former nanny and housekeeper for 11 years, Jane Tustian, 33, alleged her 3-year- old son, Nicholas, was his child, in an interview printed Sunday in Britain’s Daily Mail news paper. “I have kept my silence until now because 1 was happy to l>e his housekeeper,” Tustian told the Daily Mail. “Nicholas and I were fed, clothed and had a roof over our heads . 1 am tired of living a lie, and I decided to make this public because I can not support myself.” Tustian said she had a two- week affair with Jay at the time Mrs. Jay was having an affair with Bernstein. But the Jay statement said, “Mr. Jay also wishes to make it clear that there is no foundation whatever to the suggestion that Mrs. Jay’s conduct at the time was in any way responsible for his relationship with Tustian. The statement issuedbt|i law yer said, “When MissTi left his employment, he firmed in writing in Oeia 1983 through solicitorstk would support the child,i was the father.’ 1 11 also said, “He war formed of the provisional* suits of these (blood) wc Jan. 19. These were not coni sive but were not incon: with his being the fathen Nicholas.” Other blood tests are Im carried out in Canada toda mine who is the boy's (a Tustian’s lover at the timt lives there. : Drugs linked to restaurant killings United Press International KILGORE — The Texas Ranger who supervised the in vestigation into the killings of five people at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant last fall said the case, which has narrowed to two suspects, may be drug re lated. Meanwhile, authorities said they had two suspects in mind, and might press for grand jury indictments in March. No arrests have been made so far in the killings, in which four employees and a bystander were taken from the restaurant as it closed the night of Sept. 23 and methodically killed in on a back road 18 miles south of Kilgore. Texas Ranger Capt. G.W. Burks of Dallas, who supervised the investigation, said Monday he believed the killings, appa rently connected with a $2,000 robbery, may have been drug re lated. “The people we’re dealing with, the people we think might be responsible for it, are drug users,” said Burks. “Either they were out of their heads when they did it, or there is the possi bility that a drug deal went sour.” Rusk County district attor ney’s investigator William Brown said the inquiry had identified two suspects, and in vestigators were firming up the evidence to present to a grand jury that convenes in March. “It will not be hard to come up with them once the case is put THE LOW-DOWN ON A HIGH-PAYING CAREER WITH LUBY’S. 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