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BOTHER’S BOOKSTORES BIG BUCKS FOR USED BOOKS THE PRICE IS RIGHT AT ROTHER’s 340 Jersey 901 Harvey The Battalion WORLD & NATION Friday, December 1,1989 Lawyers ask Supreme Court to nil parents must be told about abortions r- V< # <a % LAST CALL FOR RESIDENCE HALL CANCELLATIONS ! CANCELLATION DEADLINE FOR STUDENTS LEAVING HOUSING for the SPRING 1990 SEMESTER: Dec. 1, 1989 by 5:00 p.m. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court was asked Wednesday to rule that most young girls have no right to abortions without first tell ing their parents. The justices, who have allowed limits on the availability of abortions for minors in the past, questioned lawyers defending and attacking pa rental-notification laws in Minnesota and Ohio. In two hours of relatively narrow arguments, they gave no sign they are considering the broader possibility of scrapping the court’s 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion — an idea much discussed outside the court when ever they take up any abortion case. “The court showed no interest in overturning a woman’s constitutional right to abortion,” Cleveland lawyer Linda Sogg said after the argu ment session in which she attacked the Ohio law. Minnesota Chief Deputy Attorney General John Tunheim agreed. “I don’t think Roe should be on the table in this case,” he told reporters af ter defending his state law before the court. Last July, the court voted 5-4 to give states more authority to regulate abortions for all women. Four justices appeared ready to go even further and overturn Roe vs. Wade, but Justice Sandra Day O’Connor refused. Groups on both sides of the abortion issue had looked to the court this term to help clarify its al legiance to the 1973 decision. But settlement of an Illinois dispute over regu lating abortion clinics — a case that was to be ar gued before the justices next month — may have eliminated the greatest immediate threat to Roe vs. Wade. The Illinois settlement still must be ap proved by a federal judge. O’Connor is expected to play the pivotal role again in the Minnesota and Ohio cases, to be de cided by July. At issue in both are laws requiring f tarents to be notified before abortions are per- ormed on unmarried girls under 18 who are still supported by parents. become pregnant o| About half the states have laws requiring|j rental notification — or even parental conseraj in such cases, but most of the laws havebeenj validated after court challenges. Nationwide, about 40 percent of the neaii| million teen-agers who b year seek abortions. Of the 1.5 million legal abortions perfotnj annually since 1973, about 12 percent —18B a year — have been toi irit is 1 7 and younger.,' The Ohio law requires that one of a miiK!j parents be notified by a doctor at least 24 hoij before an abortion is performed. According to the Ohio law', the girlcanawj telling her parent if she persuades a judge sbi| mature enough to make the decision onherw or that telling her parents is not in herbestitj est. The Minnesota law requires that the ray two biological parents be notified at leastj hours before she has an abortion. Romanian gymnastic star defects Previously scheduled for Friday and Saturday December 1 and 2 has been CANCELLED for Bonfire and the t.u. game. Watch for showings of The Abyss to be rescheduled in January. Keep Alcohol from Shattering the Tradition BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Nadia Comaneci, the Olympic gym nastics champion who disappeared from her native Romania in an ap parent defection, may be at the U.S. Embassy in Switzerland, her coach said Thursday. Embassy officials, however, den ied she was there, adding another twist to the mystery surrounding the 1976 Olympic champion, who crossed the border into Hungary in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday. “As far as I know, she is probably in the U.S. Embassy in Berne,” Bela Karolyi told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Stut tgart, West Germany, where he is coaching an American women’s gymnastics team. “She is waiting to get some travel papers,” Karolyi, who defected to the United States in 1981 and be came a citizen in May, said. He lives in Houston. Michael Korff, a U.S. Embassy spokesman in Berne, told the AP: “We can categorically deny that she is at the U.S. Embassy waiting for her travel papers. . . . I’ve talked to everybody at the embassy. She isn’t We can categorically deny that she is at the U.S. Embassy waiting for her travel papers... . I’ve talked to everybody at the embassy. She isn’t here. She wasn’t here.” Michael Korff, U.S. Embassy here. She wasn’t here.” Swiss Justice Ministry spokesman Joerg Kistler said “we have had abso lutely no hints whatsoever that she has been in Switzerland.” Asked about the possibility of a re union with his former pupil in Stut tgart, where his team is competing, Karolyi said: “There is a possibility, but she obviously needs some travel documents.” On Wednesday from Clarens, Switzerland, Karolyi told the AP he was “ready to help her in any man ner if she needs it.” Karolyi said he had not spoken with Comaneci since her (lignt, al though he told the U.S. Gymnastics Federation in Indianapolis: “My kid is looking for me.” Federation spokesman Patti Auer said she had no idea where Co maneci was or whether she planned to travel to the United States. “As far as we know she has not contacted the U.S. Embassy,” Auer said. “As far as we know she’s going to Bela first.” She said Karolyi called from Stut tgart, and “he knows she’s looking for him. Gorbachev calls summit for ’90 to speed European integration ROME (AP) — Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorba chev proposed Thursday that a summit of European nations, the United States and Canada be held next year to speed up the integration of Europe and elimi- " J dh nate East-West divisions. Gorbachev said the meeting he called “Helsinki 2” should be moved up from 1992 as originally called for under the 1975 Helsinki Accords on human rights and security in Europe. He made the proposal in a speech from the Miche langelo-designed Campidoglio, Rome’s city hall, where the treaty was signed in 1957 establishing the European Common Market. Gorbachev said the sweeping changes in Eastern Eu rope are irrevocable. He insisted they do not signal “the collapse of socialism,” but rather the further devel opment of a concept with noble goals and “enormous humanistic and democratic potential.” On the eve of his historic meeting with Pope John Paul II, Gorbachev said that Soviets have changed their attitude toward religion and now believe religious va lues can help in the restructuring of Soviet society. Gorbachev’s 20-minute speech, delivered while standing in front of a 12-foot-nigh statue of Julius Cae sar, was interrupted three times by applause from seve ral hundred dignitaries. At the end, they stood and clapped politely. Expanding on his desire to build “a common Euro pean home,” Gorbachev said recent events, presumably the dramatic rush toward reform in Eastern Europe, “underscore the desirability of an all-European summit, a Helsinki 2 meeting. We could consider advancing its date from 1992 to, say, as early as 1990.” The Soviet Union had been pressing for an interna tional human rights conference to be held in Moscow next year as part of the process leading toward the next 35-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. W. Germai terrorists kill banker! BAD HOMBURG, Westl many (AP) — The terrorist I Army Faction, dormant fort years, killed West Gerimmi most powerful banker Thursi H by blowing apart his anndP| Mercedes with a light-sen*! bomb on a bicycle. Alfred Herrhausen wascbd man of Deusche Bank, WestGftl "■mm many’s largest, and oneofCbB® cellor Helmut Kohl’s ch: economic advisers. Police said the the biai:| bomb apparently was placedcr;:l street of this spa town ouL«l Frankfurt, where the 59-year-ot| banker lived, and detonatedbwl sophisticated light-beamdeviceal he drove by on nis way to work I They said it was the firsttial terrorists had used suchadt;:>| nator in West Germany. Federal criminal policeoffei a reward of up to $2.2 one of the largest ever in te Germany. Police with helicopters searching for two men seen to ing the area. A stolen white lx cia believed to have been used the getaway was found a cloned in a Frankfurt suburb “For a long time, the Deutsdt Bank and Herrhausen in pan; ular have been targeted by Red Army Faction,’’ Hans-Juc: gem Foerster, spokesman for lb chief federal prosecutor’s offE said. He said the ultra-leftists cuse Deutsche Bank of ftnanc a worldwide “military-industrial complex. Tlie explosion turned Hei rhausen’s armored limousineine a heap of twisted metal. His driver, Jakob Nix, wasst riously injured, but policesaidb condition was not critical. ♦ I M A G E S GRAND OPENING SALE By Of nit 1 FUTONS A couch by day, a bed by night starting at $199! 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