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The attorneys general of four states — California, Hawaii, Nevada and Texas — had warned the high court that such a ruling could spark even more kidnapping. “The longer custody remains un resolved, the greater . . . the parent’s frustration increases, and self-help becomes an increasingly attractive alternative,” the attorneys general said. But writing for the court Tues day, Justice Thurgood Marshall said Congress in 1980 meant only to en courage more cooperation between state courts — and did not envision federal court intervention. Marshall acknowledged that “child snatching” is a national prob lem, citing congressional estimates that up to 100,000 children are kid napped each year by parents unable to obtain legal custody. But Marshall said it is up to Con gress to devise new solutions if state courts refuse to cooperate as urged to do in the 1980 law. The decision was sparked by the 1979 divorce in Los Angeles of Da vid A. and Susan A. Thompson. They initially were awarded joint custody of their son, Matthew. In 1980, a Calilorma court presid ing over the Fight for permanent custody of Matthew allowed Mrs. Thompson to keep physical custody of the boy as she moved to Baton Rouge, La., to become head of the Child Neurology Division of the Louisiana State University School of Medicine. Mrs. Thompson began custody proceedings in Louisiana courts, and in early 1981 was awarded perma nent sole custody of Matthew. Shortly thereafter, the California court awarded permanent sole cus tody of Matthew to his father. Thompson sued in federal court, seeking a ruling that California courts had the authority to settle the custody matter. Now, Thompson will have to con tinue his custody battle in the Loui siana courts. In other decisions TuesdaJ court: • Ruled that state judges| presumbably f ederal judges ail may be sued for monetary da: over their administrative d« The ruling reinstated a against an Illinois judge byafi employee who says she was fir® 1 * v/ . cause of sexual discrimination. 1 ‘ • Made it easier in a New p ,esu ‘ case for people to File federal sa> ' s a suits stemming from pendinii|jfk en criminal investigations. pp m P li report • Threw out a South Cam “I I man’s murder conviction, (rj||| ron 8 him for now from the state si said f row. iruerv The justices also heard argad tions over the Central Intelligence|ipa//as cy’s Firing of an agent whoi M superiors he is gay. Police link murder-suicide of teen, mother to satanism NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — In No vember, Thomas Sullivan Jr.’s Cath olic school teacher assigned students to research other religions. The stu dious 14-year-old did his paper on Hinduism but police say he became more interested in the subject that earned friends an A: satanism. Within weeks, the all-American neighborhood paperboy became a defiant, hostile teen buried in library books on the occult and listening to heavy metal rock music. His teachers noticed the transfor mation and warned his mother last Thursday. By Saturday night, mother and son were dead. Police say Sullivan was entranced by the occult as he stabbed his mother at least 12 times and tried to kill his father and 10-year-old brother by setting fire to their Jef ferson Township house. Then he slit his throat and wrists with a Boy Scout knife, slumping dead on bloody snow in a neighbor’s back yard. Word of the murder-suicide and the hint of cult worship among other youngsters left the rural 45-square- mile township in northwestern New Jersey searching for answers to ques tions few ever imagined aking. “I’m willing to bet there’s got to be more involved,” Mayor Fran Slayton said. “There’s just something that’s bothering me about this situation. It bothers me that a good kid like that can go in two weeks.” Counselors are working with Sul livan’s classmates at the Rev. George A. Brown Memorial School in nearby Sparta and the mayor said a town meeting has been scheduled for next week to help concerned parents. “I want fathers and mothers to come and even children to make sure something like this never hap pens again,” she said. “Not in Jeffer son Township or anywhere. It doesn’t hit home until it happens in your back yard.” Thomas Sullivan Sr. is burying his wife and son in private. But he has spoken to some reporters, recalling how his namesake’s obsession turned from model airplanes to the occult and urging parents to heed such changes in their children. Sullivan told the New York Daily News that all last week his son had been singing a song “about blood and killing your mother.” He said his son had told a friend of a vision in which Satan came to him, wearing his face, and urged him to kill his family and preach sa tanism. “The rest, I think, is history,” Sul livan told New Jersey Nightly News. “I’m surprised I’m still here.” Investigators said the boy indi cated in a suicide note that the mur der and suicide were planned and influenced by his interest in the oc cult. They also said the teen-ager ar gued with his mother before the at tack. Last week, Sullivan was caught passing a classmate a note that had to be reversed and held up to the light to be read, police Chief George Stamer said. The note’s message seemed to he in Latin and had to do with the oc cult, he said. Now, Stamer is trying to determine if other area young sters are involved. “I spent most of last night trying to read up on what I could get my hands on,” Stamer said. Agents seize over a ton of marajuanc PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP)-fj eral agents seized morethanJ of marijuana and arresteej Mexican nationals who if hackpacking it across the ern Arizona desert, a spokeJ for the U.S. Customs Senict Charles Conroy said inai phone interview from hist in Houston Tuesday that tli rests occurred Saturday and day. A U.S. Customs agent pJ ling on horseback came acrotI First group of smugglers Sattf afternoon 15 miles west of 1 on the Tohonoh O'odhamlitt reservation about 60 miles stl west of Tucson, Conroy said Agents seized 1,165 poun4 marijuana and arrested th backpackers, Conroy said. “That much marijuana w have a retail street value ofiii $700,000," he said. Two agents discovered tht! ond group of smugglers Sits afternoon, Conroy said. Agents seized 1,186 pound marijuana worth about S71l | Conroy said. For Israeli , anger on the West Bank Editor's note: — Israeli soldiers patrolling the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the past month have become the focus of worldwide debate over their response to Palestinian protes ters. Here is a close-up report by Nicolas B. Tatro, Associated Press chief of bureau in Jerusalem, who went on a recent patrol. NABLUS, Occupied West Bank (AP) — Walking through the streets of this West Bank city, a squad of red-bereted Israeli paratroopers en countered angry stares and a street barricaded by protesters. “The Arabs hate us because they don’t know us,” said Lt. Nir, an Is raeli paratrooper, as he watched Pal estinian youths hurl stones at an other squad of soldiers near the tomb of the biblical prophet Joseph. The city of 50,000 was tense with stores shuttered in the second day of a general strike. A residential street near Joseph’s tomb was blocked with boulders and tin cans. Clouds of black smoke billowed from a burn ing tire. There was a sharp report, then another, as a squad of soldiers from another unit fired rubber bullets and then tear gas at about 20 Arab teen-agers. A stone the size of a softball struck the wheel of an army jeep 20 yards away. But soldiers pushed back the demonstrators and dispersed them. The soldiers’ mission was to keep the main roads open and to show presence, to demonstrate they had control of the situation. But some times the green uniforms only pro vided targets. “Walking alone in the streets among civilians sometimes does pro vide a reason to start disturbances,” said Lt. Col. Israel, commander of a paratroop unit that has been sta tioned here during the past six weeks of unrest in which 32 Arabs have been killed. “On the other hand, for a big part of the population which are not guided by the terrorist organizations the presence of those forces in the street cools down the situation and gives them a feeling of security,” he argued. As the soldiers walked through Clock Square, the center of the city 35 miles north of Jerusalem, Arab residents accosted a reporter walk ing with the soldiers. Mohammed, a 27-year-old engi neer, said the patrols appeared de signed only to “make people feel bad.” “The only thing that will make things quiet is to give us our rights and stop Jewish settlements,” he said, pointing to a hilltop settlement overlooking the city. An elderly man, his head wrap ped in a red kaffiyeh headdress, complained that helicopters had dropped tear gas on demonstrators the day before. “Why do they do that?” asked the man. “There needs to be democracy here. This is our land.” (about a solution),” he said first it must be quiet. We can when people are throwing and putting up barricades." Tne soldiers on patrol said, had been unfairly portrayedi; slingers in the world medi: blamed television camera: stirring unrest, aboc “Nobody in this unit has s': weapon in the six weeks w HI been here,” said Eitan, 20. Lt. Col. Israel said soldieP strict orders to fire live ammu' only as a last resort, when thei were in danger. But he conceded his soldiers been trained to fight other so! not put down riots or police the ian population of 1.4 million tinians living in the territon tured from Jordan in the Middle East War. 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