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I WASHINGTON — Strongly
^affirming its 1962 ban on orga
nized prayer in public schools, the
Supreme Court on Tuesday out
lawed daily moments of silence if
students are told they may pray dur
ing that time.
■ By a 6-3 vote, the justices ruled
that an Alabama law allowing such
periods for “meditation or voluntary
prayer” by public school students vi
olated the constitutionally required
separation of church and state.
B The decision does not necessarily
mean that every state law providing
for such daily moments of silence is
invalid. If the law does not mention
“prayer” — and if state legislators
did not intend the law to endorse
■chool prayer — it is valid.
B About half the states have mo-
ment-of-silence laws, but not all of
them mention prayer. For example,
Arizona and Connecticut laws pro-
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mentioning prayer.
I Writing for the court, Justice John
Paul Stevens said, “The addition of
W voluntary prayer’ indicates that
the state intended to characterize
prayer as a favored practice. Such an
endorsement is not consistent with
the established principle that the
government must pursue a course of
complete neutrality toward reli-
feon.”
| The case was as politically charged
as any on the high court’s docket this
year. Numerous political candidates
m 1984 — including President Rea
gan — called for a return of orga-
fjiized prayer in public schools.
| The Reagan administration, en
tering the Alabama case as a “friend
of the court,” told the justices that
such state laws “enhance the oppor
tunity for students to include silent
prayer as part of their activities at
school.”
i President Reagan favors a consti
tutional amendment that would, in
effect, overturn the Supreme
Court’s 1962 decision.
The 1962 ruling did not outlaw
“voluntary prayers” in public
schools. Instead the court’s ruling 23
years ago drew the line at official
sponsorship of prayer sessions. No
state or student can stop a student
from engaging in silent prayer.
Terry Eastland, chief spokesman
for Attorney General Edwin Meese
III, said: “We regret that the court
did not agree with our position in
the moment-of-silence case. We are
pleased, however, that the court did
not hold that the moment-of-silence
laws now existing in some two dozen
states offend the Constitution.”
Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C.,
another backer of a constitutional
amendment to allow school prayer
sessions, called the decision “unfor
tunate and unfair.”
Dan Alexander, former president
of the Mobile, Ala., County School
Board and now head of a pro-prayer
organization called Save Our
Schools, called the ruling a disap
pointment.
The ruling had its enthusiastic
backers as well.
Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn.,
said, “The court’s decision reaffirms
that, uniquely in the United States,
religion is a matter personal to each
of us and not the business of govern
ment.”
Charles Sims, an American Civil
Liberties Union lawyer in New York
City, prhised the decision and said its
importance will transcend the
school-prayer controversy.
Joining Stevens in Tuesday’s rul
ing were justices William J. Bren
nan, Thurgood Marshall, Harry A.
Blackmun and Lewis F. Powell. Jus
tice Sandra Day O’Connor agreed in
a separate opinion.
Welcome Back!
Summer school students stand in line
to get their official “greeting cards”
from the University — a fee slip and
Photo by GREG BAILEY
class schedule for the the first session.
Students have until June 6 to pay their
fees.
University expanding to meet demands
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By JERRY OSLIN
Staff Writer
I Closed streets and the sound of
jackhammers should continue to be
a part of life at Texas A&M as the
University continues its construction
of new buildings.
I Gen. Wesley Peel, vice chancellor
of facilities planning and construc
tion, said the new Chemistry Build
ing, being built at the corner of
Spence and Ross streets, is behind
schedule. It was scheduled to be
completed in May 1986.
Peel said construction of the $14.4
million building is behind schedule
because of the large amount of rain
last winter.
“When they were digging the hole
for the building, the rain kept filling
it up,” he said. “Whenever they
pumped the water out, it rained.”
The new building will consist pri
marily of laboratories, he said.
The Engineering/Physics Build
ing, orginally priced at $12.3 mil
lion, will be completed in April 1986,
Peel said.
Peel said construction on the new
Medical Sciences Library is complete
and that the library should be fully
occupied by July. A new under
round walkway running under
niversity Drive connects the library
with the Veterinary Medicine Com
plex
And construction on the new
alumni center should begin in a few
days, Peel said.
The aerobics track, surrounding
the proposed site of the new center,
will be rerouted behind the con
struction site but will be rebuilt after
the center is completed, he said.
Houston Street at Jersey Street in
tersection will be closed sometime
during construction, Peel said.
A new track and events center and
a new intramural center off Jersey
Street west, of Welborn Road will
open this December, Peel said.
Construction on the Physiology
Research and Conditioning Labo
ratory, located next to the Universi
ty’s tennis courts, will be completed
in May 1986, he said. The athletic
and physical education departments
will share the use of the $1.79 mil
lion building, Peel said.
Construction of a new Poultry Sci
ence Center will be completed in
March 1986, he said. The original
price of the center was $3.7 million.
Peel said. The center will be located
off Farm Road 2818, south of Jersey
Street.
Construction of a new Civil Engi
neering/Texas Transportation Insti
tute/ Engineering Design Graphics
Complex has been approved by the
Board of Regents and should begin
sometime in September, Peel said.
The $11.3 million complex will
take about 18 months to construct
and will consist of an eight-story
tower and a four-story lab building,
he said. A restaurant will occupy the
entire first floor of the tower, he
said.
Peel said the University will need
more parking because of all the new
construction. He said the University
plans to build 5-story parking garage
that would hold 2,000 cars, but the
Board has yet to approve the plan.
The garage would be built on the
site where the physical plant cur
rently stands.
Father, son
arraigned
in spy case
Associated Press
BALTIMORE — A retired Navy
officer and his seaman son pleaded
innocent Tuesday to charges of spy
ing for the Soviet Union.
John Walker Jr., 47, who left the
Navy in 1976, and his son, Michael
Walker, 22, a seaman on the aircraft
carrier USS Nimitz, entered a U.S.
District courtroom together to enter
pleas before Judge Alexander Har
vey II.
Attorneys met with the judge pri
vately to begin discussion on ground
rules for access to classified Navy
documents for this case. The judge
set a pretrial conference on prelimi
nary motions for July 3.
In Norfolk, Va., the Internal Rev
enue Service was granted a state cir
cuit court order placing a $250,000
lien on the elder Walker’s property
there. The IRS said he owes
$252,487.66 in back federal taxes
since 1979.
Jerry Alfred Whitworth, 45, of
Davis, Calif., was arrested Monday
in this widening espionage case. He
was later ordered held without bail
after he surrendered on charges of
conspiracy to deliver top-secret na
tional defense information to the So
viets.
Walker’s brother, Arthur, 50, has
also been arrested, and court docu
ments indicate a fifth person, rep
resented by the code name “F.” was
also involved in spying.
John Walker’s attorney, Fred
Warren Bennett, denied that his cli
ent has cooperated with the FBI.
Bennett filed a motion on Monday
accusing Bill Baker, assistant direc
tor of the FBI, of violating a local
court rule prohibiting the dissemina
tion of information not on the public
record that could prejudice a case.
The judge indicated during the
arraignment that he would sign a
preliminary injunction ordering
Baker to adhere to the rule.
John Walker’s right to have court-
appointed counsel is being reas
sessed because of a new financial
statement, which shows he has a net
worth of $174,000. Bennett, how
ever, said that Walker did not have
enough ready cash to meet legal
fees.
One of Walker’s daughters, Mar
garet Walker, 27, has told authori
ties she would be willing to help her
father, but Bennett said she could
not provide enough assistance.
Tne elder Walker allegedly tried
to recruit another daughter, Laura
Walker Snyder, into the spy ring
when she was an Army communica
tions specialist from 1978-1979, two
FBI informants said in an affidavit
filed in support of the charges
against Whitworth.
Army records indicate that she
married while in the Army to Phillip
M. Snyder, and the Army is trying to
determine if Snyder also was in the
service, Army spokeswoman Elaine
Henrion said.
Whitworth, previously identified
by the code name “D,” faces a deten
tion hearing Friday and a prelimi
nary hearing June 18. He did not
enter a plea.
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'Star Wars' survives senators'
attempts to restrict program
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Reagan’s
“Star Wars” proposal for a futu
ristic shield against nuclear attack
survived five Senate attempts
Tuesday to limit the research
program’s spending and scope.
The Senate rejected, 78-21, a
move by Sen. John F. Kerry, D-
Mass., which basically would have
limited Star Wars spending to the
current level of $ 1.4 billion.
Kerry said that even Star Wars
supporters agree the system
won’t be totally effective, and
added that “any system less than
100 percent effective renders us
open to an unacceptable level of
damage” from a Soviet strike.
But Sen. John Warner, R-Va.,
said Kerry’s move “would gut the
program” and contended the re
search plan was the only reason
the Soviets had renewed arms
control talks.
Later, the chamber rejected,
57-38, a proposal to cut Star Wars
spending to about half the $3.7
billion Reagan originally sought
next year and ban some tests and
research which critics said could
violate arms control treaties.
And still another attempt to
limit the program to $2.5 billion
next year was defeated 59-36. It
was proposed by Sen. Albert
Gore, D-Tenn., who also pro
posed limits on tests.
As the night wore on. Sen. Mal
colm Wallop, R-Wyo., was de
feated, 62-33, on his proposal,
which would have ordered some
of the Star Wars money to be
spent on systems that could be de
ployed in the near future.
And later, Sen. Carl Levin, D-
Mich., lost 48-38 when he pro
posed the creation of a 10-mem-
ber panel which would oversee
the program and report back to
Congress.
CS man receives 99 years
for sexually assaulting child
By KAREN BLOCH
Reporter
A College Station man was sen
tenced to serve 99 years in the state
penitentiary Tuesday after being
found guilty of sexually assaulting
his 4-year-old stepdaughter.
Richard “Ricky Don” Green, 23,
was convicted of charges filed by his
wife, Velisa Green. These charges
held that he sexually assaulted his
stepdaughter Feb. 13, 1985.
The two-day trial in the 272nd
District Court ended Tuesday when
the jury, after one hour of deliber
ations, recommended that presiding
Judge John Delaney sentence Green
to 99 years in the Texas Department
of Corrections.
A videotape of testimony given by
the 4-year-old was admitted as evi
dence by the state Monday. The de
fense attempted to show the child
was an incompetent witness by call
ing her on the stand Tuesday but
failed to do so.
Closing arguments for the pros
ecution, made by District Attorney
Bill Turner, focused on Green’s
prior conviction, bad reputation and
the seriousness of his crime. The
state requested that the jury assign
Green the maximum penalty of life
in prison.
Joseph Nance
for leniency in
Defense attorney
based his argument
sentencing on the fact that Green
had never before been accused of a
sex-related crime.
Since this was Green’s second fel
ony conviction, possible sentences
were life or no less than 15 years in
prison and a fine not to exceed
$10,000.
Green was sentenced to serve 6
years in prison in 1982 for commit
ting a felony robbery.
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