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Page 4/The Battalion/Tuesday, March 6, 1984 UN asked to find crew United Press International ALEXANDRIA, Mo. — The United Nations was asked Mon day to seek the aid of Vietnam in learning the fate of a north east Missouri man and 36 other Americans aboard a drilling ship that sank in the South China Sea. The Glomar Java Sea sank last year during a typhoon. The ship, owned by a Houston com pany, was reported missing Oct. 25 during the storm and was found sunken near its drilling site on Nov. 1. Among the crewmen listed as missing is James K. Gettings of Alexandria, a tiny Missouri community on the Mississippi River near Keokuk, Iowa. Rep. Harold Volkmer, D- Mo., is co-sponsor of a resolu tion that asks President Reagan to work through the UN gen eral secretary to seek Vietnam ese help in determining the whereabouts of the missing crew members. Volkmer’s district includes Alexandria. “Despite an intensive cooper ative search and rescue effort by the U.S. and Chinese, no evi dence was found of the crew, dead or alive, or of the ship’s two lifeboats, which were be lieved to have been launched from the Java Sea,” Volkmer said. The congressman said Viet nam has refused to allow an in dependent search of its coastal waters into which the lifeboats or debris from the sunken ves sel could have drifted. Distress signals were received days after the ship was reported missing, Volkmer said. “Efforts to ascertain the fate of the crew have been hams trung by the fact that the U.S. does not maintain diplomatic relations with Vietnam,” Vol kmer said. We buy, sell, and repair used trucks Pickups-Plus 512 W. Carson 775-6708 Decision Cities may use nativity scenes United Press International WASHINGTON — A clo sely divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that commu nities can display nativity scenes to celebrate Christmas, because creches are tradi tional and secular symbols of the holidays. The Constitution does not require “complete separation of church and state,” Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote for the majority in a 5-4 rul ing on a controversial case from Pawtucket, R.I. He said the Constitution instead calls for “accommoda tion, not merely tolerance, of all religions and forbids hos tility toward any.” The justices reversed a lower court ruling that banned inclusion of a nativity scene in a city Christmas dis play in downtown Pawtucket. The display was challenged by a taxpayers’ group and the American Civil Liberties Union. Monday’s decision that the creche did not unconstitu tionally advance religion is the first time the nation’s highest court has directly ruled on public displays of nativity scenes, although the question has cropped up nearly every yuletide in re cent years. Burt Neuborne, legal di rector for the ACLU, called the decision “part of an ob vious movement by the court towards a more sympathetic view of government involve ment in religion.” lice the Supreme Court struck down in 1962. And, in another religion case, the court agreed Mon day to decide whether state laws protecting people from being forced to work on their Sabbath unconstitutionally advanced religion. In the nativity osej federal government and! tucket city fathers iij that Christmas is a “sti folk festival,” and tin creche was merely a U symbol. By KA But, he said, it “is not an open invitation to govern ment support of overtly reli gious events. This is not a green light for prayer in schools.” Decision appalls O'Hq Bob Co Ranger of type. He n taken for th The has been 1 ball player. !. He wears pushed bac j and behind Jpias a small, = shirt pocket the size of a |btar and says For almos i career m The ruling came on the same day the Senate began debate on a constitutional amendment to permit volun tary prayer in schools, a prac- United Press International AUSTIN — Atheist leader Madalyn Murray O’Hair said Monday the Supreme Court ruling that communities can display nativity scenes to cele brate the Christmas holidays is an “extraordinary crushing of the wall of separation of church and state.” suing the order on ilxi; ■Connell has the Senate began detutWi exas Ranj President Reagan's pnj»‘ I criminal iir to allow st htx>l prayer ! I state of I exr “Actually, what tht sion means is were into a theocracy,’’ sht “This is an extraon crushing of the wall of ration of state andchtm Arc By AD/ O’Hair, who won the 1903 Supreme Court decision Ixir- ring prayers for public schools, also accused the high court of playing politics by is- cause it does not uni ant i Enviror menorah can be built paid foi and put up for tsh people, or that somrj can be put up for the Bn ists oi llie agnostics MSC ARTS COMMITTEE PRESENTS Police arresting for tardiness United Press International ★JURIED STUDENT ARTS COMPETI- -ENTRIES ACCEPTED DURING MARCH 19-23, ENTRY FORMS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE MSC GALLERY. ★ EDIBLE ART CONTEST? BITE IT! DETAILS COMING SOON. FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 845-1515 SAN ANTONIO — Police armed with traffic warrants Monday fanned out across the city arresting tardy traffic of fenders who ignored a grace period to pay their outstanding fines, authorities said. Patrol Capt. Charles Fisk said nine, two-man teams armed with 20 warrants each began calling at the homes and busi nesses of people who failed to pay up, despite a two-week grace period to dear their re cords without paying a standard $6 warrant fee. Those arrested were not taken to jail but to Municipal Court, which was jammed with other tardy offenders trying to avoid arrest. Fisk said one team spotted a man in court just hours after they tried to arrest him at home. “We count that as successful,” Fisk said. “There are long lines at Municipal Court and that’s our preference anyway. Police don’t savor the idea of arresting people. It appears to be a gotxl response.” The roundup will continue for the next two weeks, as teams working both day and night shifts scour homes and busi nesses, Fisk said. The goal is to arrest about 400 offenders each day. However, Fisk said teams were having bear than others. In one cast cers did not make a single until they tried to sent last warrant. The warrants are bra tributed to police by the! pal Court in alpbabetkalfl so the heaviest oflendfli riot necessarily be arresidl he said. The Colit a simple stength of mgih graduates: Dallas and H means hap] again. Last year was slow, an where there jobs, opport But this yea back, with b< swing. Larry Pri professor, sa dor’s degre ranging fi Insi ne\ for, Autry victim left ‘baby-like’ from wour: By PATR Re United Press International AUSTIN — The brother of a brain-damaged Greek seaman who survived a shooting spree that landed James David Autry on Texas’ death row says his 27- year-old brother was put into a permanent baby-like condition by an immoral “punk” who should be executed for his Have the luck of the Irish. Instantly Introducing Cafe Irish Creme. Smooth and satisfying, it blends coffee with the rich flavor of Irish creme for a taste that will bring out the Irish in everyone. r 30<f MANUFACTURER’S COUPON OFFER EXPIRES 6/30/84. 30<t n Introducing Cafe Irish Creme. 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He was convicted of killing Shirley Drouet, a mother of five, during a robbery at a Port Arthur grocery store in April 1980. Joe Broussard, a priest who had driven Tommy Svar nas from a dock to the store, also was shot to death, and Tommywas left brain damaged by a gunshot wound in the face. In an interview from his Brick, NJ. home, published Monday in the Austin Ameri- can-Statesman, Jimmy said his brother “is like a baby" and has received no help with his medi cal bills from the states of Texas or New Jersey because he is not a legal resident of the United States. “One day I hope everyone in this country will wake up and make a law to help the victim," said Jimmy, who emigrated from Greece in 1968 and now owns a small house-painting business. “Me, my brother, we are vic tims all our lives. This Autry, he goes to jail. You take care of him, give him food, give him lawyers, give him everything. “Who takes care of my brother? You give my brother nothing.” Tommy was in a coma for three months after the shoot- ST. PATRICK’S O a \i.l ii. -■I ine conve mg. Although doctorsg34 o . , q , ”and sponlanc little hope of ever wala rS. talking again, his brothm , n< l ' 11 1,1 ; V ,a,r at h,s Slde ' n 1 questions o/e, pnal L wo mon H Land comm com.igcd Fommy torcajj Such is the s Fvery dav I pushec I , ks in lhe hrothe, to walk, Jiinmyd of Memoria , S| hold him up horn behind • , ‘Walk, walk, walk.' H'i g Insi }n is t down. I push again. Hflj,, T1 f rashi th again. All the time I push! serjes Sh( I ommy was dischaf M a „ 0> and months after the shoort p 0rte( j by for spent two years with his( BL S in the small village of L< f Thrash ron, Greece, then retui* f Insi hl is to America a year ago to Inff roots - type of , his brother. ; ultyand sludei IDs walking is staggeifj than aca his speech is slurred. 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