q Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, December 11, 1984 Drug user fights to counsel drug abusers IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Schultz to confer with NATO . FARGO, N.D. (AP) - A woman who says she uses the hallucinogen peyote for religious purposes has overcome criminal charges but now is fighting to win back her job - counseling children on the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse. Frances Warner, 50, was found in- nocent by a jury of distributing peyote and now has appealed her dismissal to the state. She say she will take legal ac- tion if necessary to regain her post as a program specialist with the Lake Region Human Services Center in Devils Lake. WARNER AND her husband, John, were arrested July 13 at the state Capitol in Bismarck while attending a chemical dependency seminar. A day earlier, state and federal authorities confiscated 5,000 peyote buttons and peyote tea from their rural home at Tokio. Warner lost her job for admitting during their trial that they used peyote, a powerful drug derived from a cactus and used in Indian ceremonies. Her various counseling duties in a six coun- ty area surrounding Devils Lake had included educating children on the dangers of alcohol and drug abuse. Many of those children were on the Fort Totten Indian reservation. "Her use of peyote damages her credibility and the credibility of the department," says John Graham, director of the state Human Services Department, which oversees the Devils Lake center. Warner was suspended without pay after the couple's arrest and was fired Sept. 27. A federal jury found the War- ners innocent on two drug charges Oct. 29. GRAHAM upheld her firing last mon- th. "I think I made a judgment in as ob- jective manner as possible," he said. "I didn't intend to persecute her." The Warners argue that they are members of the Native American Church. An exemption to the Controlled Substances Act of 1967 allows members of the church to use peyote in religious ceremonies. Prosecutors argued that the exem- ption didn't apply to the Warners because they do not have at least one quarter Indian blood. "The Human Services Department. said I destroyed my credibility as a drug counselor, but I didn't destroy it, the government did it by bringing charges against me ... and we were acquitted," Warner said. The Warners were represented in their trial by American Civil Liberties Union. INFORMAL MEETING FRANCE AND SPAIN SUMMER PROGRAMS Tuesday, December 11 4:10 p.m. Lecture Room II, MLB Spend July and August 1985 in France or Spain and earn U of M credit for second- or third-year French or Spanish All interested persons are welcome DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES 4108 MLB 764-5344 Face to face Safety engineer Angelo Joseph gets a close up view of the Statue of Liberty, which is being refurbished. The refurbishing will be completed in 1986, the 100th anniversary of the statue. WASHINGTON - Secretary of State George Shultz plans high-level talks in Western Europe this week with the NATO allies to learn their ideas for the U.S. negotiating strategy when arms control talks resume with the Soviet Union next month. Shultz was leaving Washington late yesterday for an overnight stop in England to confer with the British foreign secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe. He will go to Brussels tomorrow for a three-day meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organization foreign ministers, followed by a brief stop in Frankfurt on Saturday to confer with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl before returning to Washington. In all of the meetings, Shultz will discuss his trip to Geneva on Jan. 7-8 to confer with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Also on the agenda in Brussels will be discussion of plans for strengthening NATO's non-nuclear defenses. Shultz also will discuss the problem of international terrorism and press for improved coordination of anti-terrorist efforts and a joint stand on how to deal with it, aides said. FAA chief calls airlines safe WASHINGTON - Federal Aviation Administration chief Donald Engen said yesterday that commuter airlines are safe, despite a fatal crash last' week in Florida, and said he "wouldn't hesitate" before taking a commuter flight flight. Engen said the FAA's order to airlines late Sunday to inspect the tail assemblies of about 13 planes used by 20 commuter lines was a "precautionary measure." He said the agency wants to make sure the Brazilian-built Embraer 110, known as the Bandeirante or Bandit, does not have a structural flaw. It was an Embraer 110 twin-engine turboprop flown by Prvincetown Boston Airlines that crashed last Thursday after taking off from Jacksonville International Airport, killing the 13 people. Engen, in an interview with wire service reporters said his message to the American public is "please don't have any concern." Court curtails defendants' rights WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court, which punctuated its 1983-84 term with decisions curtailing the asserted rights of criminal defendants, yester- day took up where it left off last July. Announcing decisions in four relatively minor criminal cases, the court ruled against defendants in each. The justices unanimously upheld the 1981 drug conviction of a Tennessee man by ruling that defendants who fail to take the witness stand because they fear cross examination bout prior convictions have no right later to ap- peal a trial judge's decision to allow such questioning. They reinstated the conviction and 25-year prison sentence of a California bank robber by ruling 9 -0 that objected to testimony was proper. They unanimously reinstated the federal convicton and four-year prison sentence of a San Diego woman linked to a family drug-trafficking business by ruling she could be found guilty of using a telephone to promote a drug conspiracy even though she was acquitted of participating in the conspiracy. And they voted 6-3 to uphold the convictions and 25-year sentences of two Miami men, ruling that the federal law making it a crime to rob mail or money from Postal Service workers also applies when the victims work for other federal agencies. Astronomers spot new planet' WASHINGTON - Astronomers in Arizona have discovered what appears to be a giant ball of hot gas orbiting a distant star, which would make it the first planet observed beyond our solar system, the National Science Foun dation announced yesterday. The government research agency said a team led by Dr. Donald McCar- thy of the University of Arizona used a new technique to detect heat radiation from the apparent planet around the star Van Boesbroeck 8, which is 21 light years from Earth. McCarthy and associates calculated the object to be 30 to 80 times more massive than Jupiter, the largest of the nine planets circling the sun. They estimated the outermost temperature of its gases is about 2,000 degrees - hotter than any of the sun's planets, but too cool to be a star. "This one is certainly not a habitable planet and the star it is going around is not very hot like our sun so there probably isn't any life there," McCarthy said. "But it is a step in the direction that should lead to the discovery of systems of plantets around other stars." Army kills 15 in Sri Lanka COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Army troops killed 15 people and rounded up 750 during a weekend drive against separatist Tamil guerrillas in northern Sri Lanka, authorities said yesterday. The authorities said 375 suspects were detained from among those cap tured in the sweep. The army also removed 260 inmates, most of them Tamils, from Jaffna prison Sunday.after intelligence reports indicated that guerrUlas planned to storm the prison and free them, government sources said. U.S. special envoy Gen. Vernon Walters, meanwhile, was reported to have delivered a message from President Reagan stressing the need for a political solution to the violence that has claimed more than 400 lives in three weeks. Authorities imposed a 61 hour curfew on the entire northern Jaffna penin- sula, stronghold of the minority Tamil rebel movement. 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