4 Page 2- The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 24, 1984- M an's death sentence reinstated IN BRIEF WASHINGTON (AP)-The Supreme Court, in its latest venture into the legal quagmire of capital punishment, made it easier yesterday for states to send convicted murderers to their deaths. The justices ruled, 7-2, that death sen- tences may be imposed even when state courts do not try to determine whether others convicted of similar crimes were treated more leniently. WRITING FOR. the court, Justice Byron White said the Constitution's bar against cruel and unusual punishment does not require the "comparative proportionality review" that a lower court demanded for every death penalty case. The decision reinstated the death sen- tence of California murderer Robert Alton Harris for the 1978 slayings of two teen-agers in San Diego. Harris was convicted of murdering John Mayeski and Michael Baker after abducting the two 16-year-olds from a San Diego hamburger drive-in. THE 9TH U.S. Circuit Court of Ap- peals had thrown out his sentence, saying a proportionality review was needed to make sure Harris was not being punished arbitrarily or capriciously. The Supreme Court reversed that ruling. It may be months before the ultimate effect of Monday's decision on the nearly 1,300 men and women on death rows nationwide is assessed. But aside from apparently clearing the way for Harris' execution, the decision could have immediate reper- cussions in Texas, where some 170 people are on death row. IT WAS JUST over three months ago that White spared the life of condemned murderer James David Autry, who was already strapped to a wheeled cot in the Texas death house awaiting a lethal in- jection. The last-gasp legal argument raised by Autry's lawyers was comparative proportionality review, and White said he should be kept alive until the Harris case was decided. Texas officials said White's order last October effectively blocked all executions. It appears the state now is free to reschedule Autry's execution, and others as well. WHITE ACKNOWLEDGED that any capital sentencing scheme may occasionally produce aberrational out- comes," but noted that the Supreme Court previously has said there is "no perfect procedure" for deciding when the death penalty should be imposed. Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, who are opposed to capital punishment under all circum- stances, dissented. The court also refused to hear the death row appeal of a Deer Park, Texas man sentenced to die for mur- dering his 8-year-old son by giving him Halloween candy laced with cyanide. In other matters yesterday, the court struck down a ruling that would have forced Pennsylvania to close down its once-notorious Pennhurst Center for the mentally handicapped. The justices, by a 5-4 vote, ruled that a federal appeals court exceeded its authority in ruling that state law White ... wrote majority opinion requires Pennhurst to be phased out and its patients be placed in "com- munity living arrangements." WE'LL PAY YOU SH A PE TH IS - ee TO GET INTO SUMMER. Dorm rate committee recommends increase (Continued from Page 1) If you,have at least two years of college left, you can spend six weeks at our Army ROTC Basic Camp this summer and earn approximately $600: And if you qualify, you can enter the ROTC 2- Year Program this fall and receive up to $1,000 a year. But the big payoff happens on graduation day. That's when you receive an officer's commission. So get your body in shape (not to mention your bank account). Enroll in Army ROTC. For more information, contact your Professor of Military Science. ARMY ROC. BE ALLYOU CAN BE. gas prices, Foulke said. The figures for the increases were calculated by looking at projections for. utilities, telephone, labor, and equip- ment costs. The committees also com- pared projected figures from other Big Ten universities and area landlords. The 5.7 percent increase would in- clude: " 2.2 percent for labor and equipment; . 1.4 percent for utilities; " 1.3 percent for food costs; and " 0.8 percent for telephone charges. THE COMMITTEES also examined possible ways of changing the services provided by the residene halls, but found the level of service is good. "We decided to keep the services the same," said LSA sophomore Doug An- derson, a member of the rate commit- tee. Anderson added that he felt the rate increase was fair and justified because of the rising costs. There are two rate study committees, one for single student housing and one for family housing. The committees, composed of students and housing of- ficials, started meeting in early Npvember, 1983. They continued to meet about twice a week until the beginning of January, said LSA sophomore Margaret Martin, a mem- ber of the student rate committee. Hughes probably will present the final recommendation to the regents in February, Foulke said. ' ' Regent Sarah Power may run for Congress CONTACT MAJ. JIM DENT 764-2400/2401 NORTH HALL (Continued from Page 1) contest, well before the June filing deadline. Sallade added that if the district can raise enough money, they will hire a national pollster to determine the par- ty's best strategy for ousting Pursell, who has held the seat since 1976. Power served in 1980 as deputy assistant secretary for human rights and social affairs in the U.S. State Department's Bureau of International Organization Affairs. She has also represented the U.S. at a number of United Nations conferences, and worked on many Democratic political campaigns. Despite Pursell's formidable record, she said, "I think a good candidate can put up a good race in this district." Compled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Rebel factions battle near Beirut BEIRUT, Lebanon-Druse and Christian militiamen battled in the hills south of Beirut yesterday and authorities warned that the capital's elec- tricity may be cut to four hours daily because of fighting around the coun- try's main power plant. The battles in the mountainous Kharroub province northeast of Israel's Awali River front, 22 miles south of Beirut, erupted in late afternoon. The mountains rise from the coastal town of Jiye, site of Lebanon's main power plant. Officials announced yesterday they will have to cut Beirut to four hours of electricity a day from six because repair crews cannot reach the plant, which was damaged during fighting earlier in January. Also yesterday, Libya's second-highest official was quoted as warning that the multinational force that includes U.S. Marines "will suffer painful blows from the Lebanese resistance" if it does not soon withdraw from Lebanon. But Maj. Abdel-Salim Jalloud, whose country backs anti-government militias in Lebanon, did not make clear whether he was making a threat or a prediction, said the Kuwait News Agency. Courts indict 53 in drug ring ATLANTA-Fifty-three people have been indicted in the "largest nation- wide narcotics investigation ever," with 30 of them accused of smuggling five tons of cocaine worth $3.8 billion into the United States, authorities an- nounced yesterday. The 53 were named in indictments unsealed Monday in Atlanta, Los Angeles Miami and Little Rock, Ark., with some defendants indicted in more thin one city. "We believe..:it is the largest nationwide narcotics investigation ever," FBI agent Jim Nelson said in Los Angeles. The 30 named in Atlanta were accused of operating what a Justice Depar- tment official called "the largest cocaine trafficking ring in the nation's history." Associate U.S. Attorney General Lowell Jensen said the ring smuggled about five tons of cocaine from Colombia into Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and Pennsylvania between June 1982 and September 1983. Of that amount, authorities seized 2,700 pounds valued at $940 million, he said at a news con- ference. Germans charge woman with stealing U.S. military secrets KARLSRUHE, West Germany-The federal prosecutor yesterday filed charges against a West German woman accused of giving U.S. military data to the terrorist Red Army Faction while she worked at a U.S. Army base., Federal Prosecutor Kurt Rebmann charged 31-year-old Gisela Dutzi with membership in a terrorist organization, participation in a bank robbery, forgery and violation of the weapons law, his office said. The charges were filed in a Frankfurt court. A date for the trial was not announced. Dutzi was armed with a loaded .45-caliber pistol and fake identity papers when she was arrested last March 1 in Darmstadt, police said. She has been in investigative custody since then. Special-effects experts testify at 'Twilight Zone' trial LOS ANGELES-Two special-effects experts testified yesterday that the mortar used to blow up a lean-to on the "Twilight Zone" movie set was not of the type that would normally explode upward, hurling debris that disabled a helicopter. The witnesses said the type of mortar used was instead designed to hurl most of its discharge horizontally along the ground. Prosecutors contend the mortar explosions hurled debris vertically into the air, disabling the helicopter which crashed atop actor Vic Morrow and two children and killed them during filming of a Vietnam war scene. "This is the most significant part of the entire testimony yet," said Arnold Klein, an attorney for special-effects coordinator Paul Stewart, who was among five moviemakers charged with involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of Morrow, Renee Chen, 6, and Myca Le, 7. Yesterday's testimony came from Kevin Quibell and Jerry Williams, who were in charge of setting off a series of mortars andbullet-impact explosions throughout the mock Vietnam village during the 1982 filming. Nation recovers from arctic cold The nation thawed out a bit vesterday with the departure of a dome of record-setting arctic air, but fresh snow and freezing rain left a dangerous swath from Oklahoma to Wisconsin. The ice storm in cities such as Kansas City, Mo., St. Louis and Omaha, Neb., caused numerous highway smashups and school buses came to a halt in many areas across the Mississippi Valley. About 30 cars and trucks were involved in one pileup in Utah as new snow also fell in the Rockies. The weeklong cold wave was blamed for at least 46 deaths in 15 state< before it drifted out over the Atlantic on Sunday. During the siege 100 U.S. cities marked record-low temperatures for individual dates, and some had their coldest readings ever. Among the victims was a New York state man who police said froze to death when he was locked outside a friend's home overnight while drunk and an intoxicated woman who fell down and froze to death in Charlottesville, Va. Police in Setauket, N.Y., said three youths were using serving trays to slide down hills at a golf course shortly before midnight Sunday when the three collided and Kenneth Razzetti, 19, of New Hyde park was fatally in- jured. GJbr £ihian 1Oai1g Tuesday, January 24, 1984 Vol. XCI V-No. 94 (ISSN 0745-967X) The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday mornings during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109. 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