4 Page 2 -- The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 30, 1983 IN BRIEF ] Courts give OK for execution STARKE, Fla. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court and a federal appeals panel refused yesterday to spare the life of convicted murderer Robert Sullivan, clearing the way for his execution this morning. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals first vacated a stay of execution that had been issued Monday, and the case went to the high court, which refused to issue a stay yesterday evening. It was the third time the Supreme Court had rejected his case. THE ELECTROCUTION, originally scheduled for yesterday morning, was rescheduled for 10 a.m. EST today, ac- cording to Steve Hull, a spokesman for Gov. Bob Graham. Florida State Prison Superintendent Richard Dugger earlier set the elec- trocution for 7 a.m. today, but delayed it three hours to give defense attorneys more time to prepare an appeal claiming that Sullivan may have an alibi, according to Sidney McKenzie, the governor's general counsel. Sullivan won a temporary reprieve Monday night from Chief Judge John Godbold of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. But the court's 12 judges decided yesterday'not to hear Sullivan's ap- peal, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell was asked to say whether the convicted killer should die in the electric chair. An appeal had been filed with Powell on Monday, but his role was superceded when the appeals panel issued the stay. With the stay vacated, the case was back in Powell's hands. He passed it on to the whole court yesterday night. On Monday afternoon, Graham received a communique from Pope John Paul II seeking mercy for Sullivan, a Catholic who grew up in Massachusetts. The plea, relayed by telephone by Archbishop Edward Mc- Carthy of Miami, was rejected. Steve Hull, the governor's press secretary, said Graham thanked the pope for his concern. The governor told anti-death penalty protesters in Tallahassee yesterday that "the time has come for finality" for Sullivan. College fights feds over sex bias laws WASHINGTON (AP) - A tiny Pennsylvania college, fighting "to remain independent," took on the Reagan administration yesterday in a Supreme Court confrontation over the government's attempts to combat sex bias on campus. And although the justice's questions and comments are not always an accurate indicator, Grove City College appeared to get the best of it. THE COURT is to decide by July whether students at the liberal arts college may receive federal grants and loans even though school officials refuse to pledge in writing that they do not discriminate again- st women. Justice Lewis Powell noted that the denial of federal aid may force some students to leave the college of their choice. The government says requiring such written assurance is a valid regulation under a 1972 law, commonly called Title IX, banning sex bias in educational programs subsidized by federal money.. THE REAGAN. administration's interpretation of the law's scope has been attacked as too narrow by women's rights groups, giving the case added atten- tion. But that dispute was hardly mentioned during the court's 60-minute argument session yesterday. Grove City College, founded in 1876 as a coeducational, liberal arts school affiliated with the Presbyterian Church, never has been accused of discriminating against anyone. In fact, the school was on record opposing bias based on race or sex long before such discrimination in education was outlawed. But the school, located 70 miles north of Pittsburgh, historically has refused all forms of direct gover- nment assistance, either federal or state. THE COLLEGE only "seeks to avoid governmen- tal entanglement, to remain independent," lawyer David Lascell of Rochester, N.Y., argued yesterday. He said the school is not a "recipient" of federal aid under the law. If the Supreme Court agrees, it need go no further in reversing a federal appeals court and ruling for Grove City College. But if the justices decide the school fits the legal definition of a federal aid recipient, they likely will tackle a more controversial issue: Just what is an "education program" covered by Title IX? In ruling against Grove City College last year, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said, "Where the federal government furnished indirect or non- earmarked aid to an institution it is apparent to us' that the institution itself must be the 'program.' " Arguing for the college, Lascell contended that no relevant "program" exists so Title IX does not ap- ply. ATTENTION STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY AND DEPENDENTS DENTAL CARE provided by the University of Michigan School of Dentistry is available in the Health Service building. Treatment is provided by staff dentists. Clinic hours are Monday - Friday 8:00-12:00 A.M. and 1:00-5:00 P.M. A reasonable fee is charged for dental services. Health Service fees do not apply to the dental clinic. To arrange an oppointment please call: 763-3760 U.S.-Soviet strategic arms talks resume GENEVA, Switzerland - U.S.-Soviet talks on reducing strategic arms resumed yesterday and they were ex- pected to continue despite the Soviet walkout from parallel negotiations on medium-range missiles in Europe. Soviet negotiator Viktor Karpov met for more than three hours with American negotiator Edward Rowny, and said the Strategic Arms Reduction, or START talks, would go on despite what he called U.S. efforts to block an accord. PAUL NITZE, the U.S. negotiator at the aborted medium-range talks, told a London news conference he hoped and expected the Soviets would also resume the meduium-range negotiations but that he had no firm evidence they would. The Kremlin scuttled the parallel In- termediate-Range Nuclear Force talks Nov. 23 after the West German Parliament approved NATO deployment of the 572 new missiles. It's Here! The 1983=84 f,: Um -M STUDENT DIRECTORY ON SALE NOW Moscow has announced counter-plans to put new Soviet rockets in East bloc states, and on submarines near U.S. shores. There had been speculation the Soviets would also break off the long- range talks but the delegation turned up for the scheduled session. BUT KARPOV, upon coming out of the START session, accused the United States of blocking progress. "There is no progress up to now," Karpov told reporters in English. "As I have explained many times, the position of the American side is not for an agreement." But he said the talks would go on. Asked if the negotiations would con- tinue beyond Thursday, the next scheduled session, Karpos replied with a laugh: "A step at a time." Karpov's comments suggest the Soviets want to keep open avenues of negotiation while showing anti-missile opposition groups in the West "good faith" by staying at START as the current round approached an expected recess date next week. This would allow Moscow to keep pressure on NATO while it draws up strategy, including a possible merger of the two sets of talks. Western analysts have said, however, that a merger could complicate the strategic talks without raising prospec- ts for an agreement on medium-range Euromissiles. Beirut hit by heaviest shelling in months (Continued from Page 1) down. Phalange radio listed seven people dead and 30 wounded. Official Beirut radio identified the source of the shelling as the Upper Metn mountains, a Druze area within the Syrian-controlled sector of Lebanon, east of the capital. A main power station was reported hit, forcing Beirut back ontorpower rationing after only a one-week break from three months of restrictions. The darkened streets made a 3-month-old 8 p.m. curfew even more oppressive. THE DRUZE-CHRISTIAN battles followed an exchange of abductions that pushed tense Christian-Shiite relations closer to another explosion of sectarian killing. After Christian Phalange militiamen kidnapped several Shiites on the high- way south of Beirut, Moslem gunmen retaliated by seizing two buses loaded with 60 Christian employees of Middle East Airlines, the Lebanese flag carrier. Michael Teague,. a spokesman for the Complied from Associated Press and United Press International reports German government official charged with taking bribes BONN, West Germany - The government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl was rocked yesterday with the announcement that Economics Minister Count Ot to Lambsdorff will be charged with taking $50,000 bribes in a corporate tax scandal. Bonn public prosecutor Johannes Wilhelm announced the charges against Lambsdorff and said four corporate and political figures including the president of the giant Dresdner Bank had already been charged in the affair. The announcement was a serious embarrassment for Kohl's 14-month-old coalition government and was likely to lead to cabinet changes. Opposition Social Democratic Party leader Hans-Jochen Vogel im- mediately called for Lambsdorff's resignation. Poland to allow Walesa's wife to collect peace prize WARSAW, Poland - Poland's Communist authorities will allow Lech Walesa's wife to go to Norway to collect his Nobel Peace Prize, a gover- nment spokesman said yesterday, but it appeared doubtful a Solidarity ad- viser could accompany her. Danuta Walesa, reached by telephone at her apartment in the Baltic port of Gdansk, said she would "refuse to go" if Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a long-time adviser to Walesa, is denied the passport he needs to travel with her. Walesa, awarded the Nobel prize Oct. 5 for his leadership of the now- outlawed Solidarity labor federation, designated his wife,rtheir eldest son, Bogdon, 13, and Mazowiecki to collect the award and $190,000 prize in his place. The 40-year-old shipyard electrician said he does not want to leave Poland while other union activists are in jail. He has been quoted as saying he might not be allowed to return. State Dept. denies visa request WASHINGTON - The State Department, in a show of displeasure toward perceived leftist and right-wing extremism in Central America, said yester- day it has denied visa requests from a top Nicaraguan Marxist and from El Salvador's most prominent anti-communist politician. The department said both applications were denied under a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act that excludes aliens "whose activities here would be contrary to the public interest." There was no further elaboration. The denial of the visa request from Robert d'Aubuisson, president of the Salvadoran Constituent Assembly, seems related to the Reagan ad- ministration's heightened concern over an upsurge in activity by, rightist death squads in that country. Nicaraguan Interior Minister Tomas Borge said he was informed of the decision at midday and was "filled with surprise" because he said the U.S. ambassador to Managua, Anthony Quainton, had told him a month ago his visa request would be granted. Borge, who spoke by telephone to U.S. reporters assembled at the Nicaraguan Embassy, had planned at least three appearances here, starting tonight. Spacelab crew begins work SPACE CENTER, Houston - Scientists on the ground marveled at the work of scientists in orbit yesterday as the crewmen of Spacelab spun and jumped and stuck themselves with needles in exhaustive tests of human adaptation to weightlessness. The six men aboard the space shuttle Columbia, with the excitement of Monday's launch behind them, concentrated on around-the-clock science yesterday, working on some of the 73 experiments that will fill almost every moment of their nine days orbiting 155 miles above Earth. A mission scientist monitoring the astronauts from the science control room at the Johnson Space Center said the experiments were "going ex- tremely well" and the crew was dong "a great job" The largest crew ever launched into space divided itself into two shifts, the Red Team and the Blue Team, and kept work gong nonstop in the 23-by-14 foot science module called Spacelab, which was carried in Columbia's cargo bay. Spacelab is a $1 billion module designed and built by the European Space Agency. It is packed with 73 experiments developed by scientists from 14 nations. Principal investigators are able to sit in the science room at Mission Control and monitor the work of the astronauts, Police seek gold bandits LONDON - Scotland Yard detectives issued descriptions yesterday of two vans bandits might have used to haul away three tons of gold bars worth $39 million. "I'm not discouraged," said Cmdr. Frank Cater, appealing to the public for more clues to help his investigation of the heist at a Brinks-Mat security depot Saturday. A $3 million reward has been offered for information leading to the conviction of the gunmen who pulled off Britain's largest theft. Police have refused to identify either the offerer of the reward and the gold's owner. Cater said the stolen gold was worth about $39 million - about $1.5 more than investigators' original estimate. At a news conference, Cater and two other police commanders showed photographs of the two types of panel trucks and of two kinds of cartons - the size of shoeboxes - in which the 6,800 gold bars were kept. Cater, in charge of the investigation, also displayed a beige cloth bag that was one of the hoods used by the gang to blindfold the six security guards at the depot. Wednesday, November 30, 1983 Vol. XCI V-No. 69 (ISSN 0745-967X) 4 14 r4 4 4 The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. 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