Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 20, 1984 Court to rule on police shootings WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court said yesterday it will decide whether police officers may shoot suspects fleeing from non-violent crimes if that's the only way to stop them. The court will consider reinstating a Tennessee law that allowed police to use "all necessary means" to arrest a fleeing or resisting suspect. A federal appeals court struck down the law last year, saying it authorized an "unnecessarily severe and ex- cessive police response. About half the states have similar laws. -In other matters yesterday, the justices: Refused to hear the appeal of for- mer Tennessee Gov. Ray Blanton, clearing the way for federal prosecutors to seek the start of a three- year prison sentence Blanton received for his 1981 conviction in a state liquor licensing kickback scandal. " Saved natural gas consumers nationwide a billion dollars or more by refusing to salvage an innovation pricing structure created by the federal government four years ago. " Agreed to hear the appeal of convic- ted Oklahoma killer Glen Burton Ake, who says he was denied a fair trial because the state did not provide him with a free psychiatric exam to help prove he was insane. * Agreed to decide in a case from San Diego, Calif., whether police in- vestigating a suspected crime must treat a mobile home, for purposes of getting a court-approved search warrant, as a car or a house. * Left intact a ruling that the sexually explicit movie "Caligula" is not legally obscene because, rather than arouse people, it offends and repulses them. * Ruled by a 6-3 vote that states may not regulate the rates radio and television stations may charge for political advertisements. The court refused to let Texas authorities impose discount rates for political advertising that go beyond the discounts required to be offered under federal law. Refused to bar Western Air Lines from disciplining or firing flight atten- dants who fail to meet sex-based weight limits. The dispute over Tennessee's "fleeing felon" law stems from the Oct. 3, 1974 fatal shooting of a 15-year-old suspected burglar in Memphis. According to court documents, police officer E.R. Hyman and his partner were checking into a reported burglary in progress when they intercepted Ed- ward Eugene Garner running from a house. Hyman, who from across a backyard could see the boy was unarmed, shouted "halt." As the boy jumped to the top of a fense, Hyman shot and killed him. THE OFFICER later testified that he fired at Garner because he knew that once the youth cleared the fence he could easily escape. Garner's father, Cleamtee Garner, sued Memphis officials and Hyman in 1975, charging that his son's civil rights had been violated. After years of hearings and rulings, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived the father's lawsuit last June 16 when it ruled that the Tennessee law allowing is unconstitutional. The law states: "If, after notice of the intention to arrest the defendant, he either flee or forcibly resist, the officer may use all the necessary means to ef- fect the arrest." The appeals court said the law was unreasonable because it allowed deadly force against non-dangerous criminal suspects fleeing from non-violent crimes. "A state statute or rule that makes no distinctions based on the type of offense or the risk of danger to the community is inherently suspect because it permits an unnecessarily severe and excessive police response that is out of proportion to the danger to the community," the appeals court said. Tennesses Attorney General William Leech urged the justices to reinstate the law. Candidates prepare for key Illinois primary (Continued from Page 1) years, and just showing up when the fight was over . . to shoot the wounded afterwards is not what you need," Mondale declared. He said Hart's, proposal for a $10 a barrel tax on imported oil is an example of his inexperience, since it would cost the average homeowner $600 a year in heating costs. Snow and freezing rain hampered the candidates as they blitzed Illinois on the day before the primary. Both flew south to St. Louis to reach the heavily black vote in East St. Louis, Ill., hopscotched back up the state and returned to Chicago seeking votes in the too-close-to-call primary. WHILE THE popular vote was a tossup according to most observers, Mondale had an edge in the separate battle for 171 Illinois delegates to the Democratic National Convention. That is because Hart originally was able to qualify for only 42 delegate slots in the crucial primary state, but Mondale fielded a full slate. The senator from Colorado recently has picked up at least 34 delegate candidates originally pledged to contenders who dropped out of the presidential race, but still will fall short of a complete slate. A new poll conducted by ABC News and The Washington Post, published yesterday, found Hart held a 41 percent to 37 percent edge in the popular vote over Mondale in the state. It showed 16 percent were backing Jackson, with 6 percent undecided and a 4 percent margin of error. THE BATTLE for Illinois is being fought on two major fronts. Organized labor is putting on an all-out effort for Mondale - a drive that failed the former vice president in Massachusetts and Florida, where the rank and file went to Hart, but came through for Mondale in industrialized Michigan. There also is a fierce fight between Mondal and civil rights activist Jesse Jackson for the vote among blacks, which make up 40 percent of Chicago's population. Hart has been trying to pry that vote away from Mondale with charges that he is wed to the vestiges of the white-dominated machine built by Mayor Richard Daley. MEanwhile, Jesse Jackson's Michigan supporters said yesterday the apparent delegate split resulting from Saturday's caucuses is unfair and indicated they will seek an adjustment. Preliminary figures show Jackson will get only eight of the 138 delegates up for grabs, even though he polled 16.3 percent of the vote statewide. Walter Mondale will get 79 and Gary Hart 49. Joel Ferguson, co-chairman of Jackson, said he believes the candidate is entitled to 15 delegates. UAW will reject wage freeze, chief says DETROIT (UPI) - Despite utomakers' plans to import foreign Fars, the United Auto Workers will not igree to wage freezes and cutbacks to ielp the firms become internationally competitive, union chief Owen Bieber said yesterday. Bieber, in a speech to the Economic Club of Detroit, maintained high union wages are not to blame for increases in the price of domestic cars. He said worker productivity is increasing at a far faster rate that their wages. Each of the major domestic automakers plans to import vehicles made outside the United States in the next few years. They contend high wage and other costs are making it too expensive to build small cars here. General Motors Corp. plans to import 100,000 Suzuki and 200,000 Isozo autos from Japan, will build cars with Japanese automaker Toyota, and likely will import cars it will build with the Korean firm Daewoo in that country. Ford Motor Co. plans to produce a compact car in Mexico, while Chrysler Corp. already sells cars produced in Japan by Mitsubishi and may set up a joint venture with that firm. IN BRIEF Complied from Associated Press and United Press International reports Meese investi ation op ens WASHINGTON-With Presiden eagan standing s dly behind his man the Justice Department formally opened an investigation yesterday of a $15,000 interest-free loan to Attdrney General-nominee Edwin Meese. Reagan reaffirmed his confidence in Meese, who won a delay in his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee while the department conducts a preliminary inquiry into the loan. Meese failed to report the loan on his financial disclosure statements and the issue, coupled with other controversies, prompted Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd to say, "He's in trouble." Justice Department officials declined to comment on particulars of the inquiry, which could lead to the appointment of a special prosecutor-called an independent counsel"-to pursue allegations against Meese. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker said that the inquiry "doesn't help" Meese's chances of being confirmed attorney general. Ma*or banks raise prime rate NEW YORK-The nation's largest banks raise their prime interest rate t 11.5 percent from 11 percent, the first hike in more than seven months. Officials said the increase was a reflection of higher money market rates since the first of the year. The federal funds rates that banks charge one another for overnight loans increased to the 10 percent level last week. The prime rate is a base lending rate on which banks calculate other rates, usually upward. Some economists expect the prime to rise to 12 percent. William Sullivan senior vice president at Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., said the move was expected because of "a substantial increase in short term money market rates in the last few weeks." Sullivan also said there has been an explosion in short term credit demands by business in recent weeks. E ypt gets U.S. radar planes C O, gypt- he United States sent two AWACS ra ar planes to Egypt yesterday to track Libyan air activity following an air attack on the Sudanese capitol that killed five people, Egyptian and U.S. officials said. A U.S. embassy spokesman said the planes-he gave no number-were made available to Egypt and Sudan at their request following Friday's air attack against the Sudanese town of Omdurman. The raid, by a Soviet-built TU-22 bomber that Egypt and Sudan say came from Libya, killed five people and injured 14, but missed the Omdurman radio station that was its apparent target. The AWACS, sophisticated radar tracking planes, and their support aircraft arrived in Egypt at 12:30 p.m. local time yesterday, U.S. officials said. Pentagon officials said the planes will stay in Egypt and Sudan air space for an indefinite period "as a result of the unprovoked Libyan attack last week." Second defendant testifies amid tight security in gang rape trial FALL RIVER, Mass.-A woman was "laughing away" as she had sex witl several men on a barroom pool table, a defendant in a gang rape trial testified yesterday. "She was enjoying herself," John Cordeiro testified two days after another jury convicted two other men of aggravated rape in the case. Cordeiro's testimony came as court officials enforced stringent security in an effort to keep the jury from learning of the weekend guilty verdicts against Daniel Silva and Joseph Vieira. They were among six men charged with taking part in a barroom gang rape last year in New Bedford. Spectators were frisked and warned against speaking in the courtroom. Newspapers were forbidden in the courthouse. Extraordinary steps have been taken to keep the verdict from the jury. The bus used to drive the jurors to the courthouse had its windows covered with brown wrapping paper and a sheet separated the jurors from the driver. The bus was driven to the courthouse steps and the jurors were hustled inside. All spectators were kept out of the courthouse until the jury was safe inside. Salvadoran army kills 38 in drive to thwart election violence VILLA EL TRIUNFO, El Salvador-Army units sweeping eastern El Salvador in a drive to prevent rebel disruption of Sunday's elections killed 38 leftist guerrillas in three clashes, military authorities said yesterday. The army clashed with rebel fighters who staged a town meeting in El 1 Semillero, 55 miles east of the capital in Usulutan. Col. Domingo Monterrosa, commander of the eastern front, said a civilian told him seven guerrillas died in El Semillero, one of them an American woman. Rebels set up road blocks on the Pan American Highway, the main east- west highway, in the eastern battlefront Saturday and Sunday, taking identification cards needed for voting in Sunday's presidential elections. Rebel attacks in 1982 failed to quash a voter turnout of more than 1 million to elect a constituent assembly and guerrilla leaders later said they had made a public relations error. Elsewhere in El Salvador, Catholic Archbishop Arturo Rivera Y Damas dismissed right-wing allegations that leftist rebels assassinated the previous archbishop. Tuesday, March 20, 1984 Vol. XCIV-no. 134 (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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