The Michigan Daily Vol, LXXXVI, No. 40-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, July 7, 1976 Ten Cents Sixteen Pages High court cuts prisoners' rights Daily Photos by STEVE KAGAN Struggle for freedom The announcer looked foolish in the Uncle Sam get-up and the crowd hooted skeptically as the ritual began, but for Magician Dennis Loomis bone-crunching injury was only a hundred- foot fall away. Loomis, a local talent who has displayed his magic act around town for some time, took to the sky at Buhr Park on the evening of July 4th, dangling from a helicopter in a straitjacket in a Houdini-like attempt to startle and amuse the Bicentennial crowd. Just before the fireworks display began, Loomis was hauled aloft on a swing illuminated by searchlights, and the bantering crowd was suddenly quiet. A twist here and a jerk there, and Loomis was free. An exultant moment later, he set his feet on the safe, sweet sod, seconds over a record for the stunt. WASHINGTON A' - The Su- federal court if they have al- preme Court, in a break with ready had a fair chance to per- the Earl Warren court, cut back suade state courts they were the power of state prisoners to convicted with illegally obtain- challenge their convictions in ed evidence. federal court. By a 6-3 vote yesterday, the AT THE same time, the court court said prisoners are not en- followed up its decision on cap- titled to a second chance in ital punishment last Friday by PLO to release suspects in Meloy murder incident BEIRUT, Lebanon (P) - The Palestine Liberation Organiza- tion (PLO) has agreed to turn over to the Arab League the sus- pects in the murder of U. S. Ambassador Francis Meloy, a news- paper with close connections to the Palestinians reported yester- day. On the war front, Christians reported they had beaten back an attack by leftist Lebanese Moslems and their Palestinian alaies into the Christian enclave north of Beirut. Figures compiled from hospitals and security sources indicated more than 200 persons had been killed since Monday. A PLO SPOKESMAN said last week the heavy fighting in the Lebanese civil war had sidelined an investigation of the June 16 murder of Meloy, economic adviser Robert Waring and their Lebanese driver. The newspaper reported yesterday that PLO chief Yasir Arafat had agreed to turn over the eight Lebanese and Pales- tinian suspects and a report of the PLO investigation into the killings, but did not say when this would occur. Few international terrorists have been punished severely in the past. A U. S. State Department adviser told a congressional committee last week that many are released without trial and the average sentence for those convicted is only 18 months. See PLO, Page 10 striking down Oklahoma's man- datory death penalty for several categories of murder. The court acted on a series of oases, including the prison- ers case, involving the guaran- tee a g a i n s t unreasonable searches and seizures in the Fourth Amendment to the Con- stitution. In 1961, the Supreme Court ruled that state courts must exclude from criminal trials any evidence obtained in viola- tion of this constitutional ban. This is called the exclusionary rule and is designed to deter police misconduct. IN YESTERDAY'S decision, the high court specifically re- tained that ruling as far as it applies to the use of evidence in trials and the right of the defendant to appeal to state courts. The court, however, severely weakened the impact of a 1969 decision which allowed prison- ers to argue in federal court that the evidence was obtained illegailly. The exclusionary rule deci- sions were among the most con- troversial rulings handed down by the court under the late Chief Justice Earl Warren as it broadened the rights of crimi- nal defendants. IN AN opinion by Justice Lewis Powell Jr., the court said that the rule, as now ap- See HIGH, Page 11 Local team loses 'guts Frisbee' By STU McCONNELL "Come on, baby, shoot me, shoot me," says the man in the bright orange t-shirt, a member of "Mr. Natural's Frisbee Team." Your best shot, let's see it." Fifteen yards away the throw- er goes into a baseball-like wind--up and hurls the disc across fifteen yards of lawn in a split second. The receiver clutches hard, but it pops out of his grasp and flies thirty feet in the air. The tosser grins. "C'MON NOW," he shouts, "right back at me." The action took place in At- lantic Mine, Michigan last week- end is the 19th annual Interna- tional F r i s b e a Tournament. Teams from around the mid- west and Canada competed in "guts Frisbee," the flying disc See LOCAL, Page 10 Day Phoo bey ST I MeCONE Chuck Schultz of Ann Arbor's Humbly Magnificent Cham- pions of the Universe goes high in the air to grab a toss during an International Frisbee Tournament match with Houghton's Library Bar team. The Air Aces of Roches- ter, Mich. won the IFT title for the second consecutive year.