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UN asked to find crew
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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.
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Decision
Cities may use nativity scenes
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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.
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that Christmas is a “sti
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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.”
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The ruling came on the
same day the Senate began
debate on a constitutional
amendment to permit volun
tary prayer in schools, a prac-
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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.”
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the Senate began detutWi exas Ranj
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to allow st htx>l prayer ! I state of I exr
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Supreme Court decision Ixir-
ring prayers for public
schools, also accused the high
court of playing politics by is-
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paid foi and put up for
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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.
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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
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Autry deserves to die,” Jimmy
Svarnas, older brother of shoot
ing victim Tommy Svarnas,
said.
“I don’t think this Autry is
crazy. I think he has no morals.”
Autry, 29, is scheduled to die
by injection March 14. A last-
second stay spared him from
execution last October.
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-
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