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Friday, December 1,1989
Lawyers ask Supreme Court to nil
parents must be told about abortions
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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
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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.
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