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Paternity claim may alter law
IN BRIEF
Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two
men claiming fatherhood of a 7-year-
old girl are asking the U.S. Supreme
Court today for a Solomon-like deci-
sion in a case raising profound
questions about marriage, fatherhood
and family in American society.
"This case arises out of a societal
phenomenon of men assuming the
responsibility we've always told
them to assume as parents" says at-
torney Larry Hoffman.
Hoffman represents a married
couple, Gerald and Carole Dearing,
who are fighting a suit by Michael
Hirschensohn, Mrs. Dearing's former
lover.
Hirschensohn, who says he is the
biological father of Victoria Dearing,
wants visitation rights and "the
opportunity to be involved in the
child's life." says his attorney, Joel
Aronson.
"All he wants is to be able to
Two men battling over custody
take suit to U.S. Supreme Court
visit with the child and give the child
the warmth and nurturing a parent
gives a child." says Aronson.
The problem is a California law
which mirrors statutes in other
states. It holds that a woman's legal
husband, unless he is impotent or
sterile, is the father of any child born
during the marriage.
Aronson says the law is outdated
and unfair and wants the Supreme
Court to overrule it.
The lawyer notes the increasing
role of stepfathers and stepmothers in
the lives of children of divorce and
says Victoria would not be unique
among her classmates if she was
sharing her time with two fathers.
The events which created this
Gerald and Carole Dearing were
married in 1976. There were separa-
tions, and from. 1978 to 1984 Mrs.
Dearing had an intermittent sexual
affair with Hirschensohn.
In September 1980, Mrs. Dearing
became pregnant. Her husband at-
tended Lamaze classes with her and
was present in the delivery room
when the baby was born by Caesar-
ian section on May 11, 1981.
"Gerald was the proudest of fa-
thers. . ." his lawyer's brief states.
But Hirschensohn says Mrs.
Dearing told him soon after the
baby's birth that the infant probably
was his.
Mrs. ueanng, ruirsunensohn and
the child had blood tests in 1982
which showed a 98.07 percent
probability that Hirschensohn was
the father. Dearing has not had a
blood test and his lawyer claims it is
irrelevant because the law says he is
the father.
In the fall of 1982, Hirschensohn
sued to be named the child's legal
father.
There were upheavals in the
Dearing marriage, and Mrs. Dearing
and the child lived with Hirschensohn
intermittently until April 1984,
when she accused him of "peculiar
behavior" and obtained a restraining
order to keep him away from the
little girl. That June she reconciled
with her husband in New York.
Appeals courts in California have
ruled against Hirschensohn, uphold-
ing a law they say protects the
integrity of the family.
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of life in the 1980s. The facts
acknowledged by both lawyers are
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During an introductory speech,
Duderstadt traced the path of
women's progress at the University
from 1860, when the first woman
was allowed into the institution, to
the present day. He hopes to
"provide them with encouragement
and access" to higher levels of lead-
ership in science. "I pledge to work
towards this goal," he said.
"I grew up in an era where
women did what they had to do to do
what they want to do," said Good.
"Young women of today see it as
their right to enter any field they de-
sire." It takes more than a desire, she
said. "Women who want to lead
must be willing to compete and col-
laborate."
She said employment for men and
women is unequal noting that 40
percent of all women faculty are
tenured while 70 percent of all male
faculty have tenure. Although
women have historically made
scientific history and are in the fore-
front of science today, slightly more
than one-fourth of the scientists in
the world today are women, she said.
Among Dr. Good's awards and
achievements are seven honorary de-
grees, including one from Duke
University, and a medal from the
American Chemical Society.
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senate proposes drug m
WASHINGTON- It's election-year antennae in full working order,
Congress is aiming to finish fashioning a something-for-everyone anti-
drug bill and a $2.7 billion tax measure this week and then adjourn for the
year.
The drug bill is a two-year, $2.6 billion collection of programs rang-
ing from an expansion of the availability of treatment programs to a
stiffening of penalties for people convicted of distributing drugs to
children.
But lawmakers are lining up to offer an assortment of amendments that
are so contentious that the bill just might be debated to death.
Senators and their aides spent the long Columbus Day weekend trying
to figure out how to slash the number of amendments the chamber will
have to sort through, with Republicans ready to offer six to 10
amendments and Democrats poised to introduce more than 70 others.
Quayle answers probes of
possible presidential action
While George Bush and Michael Dukakis courted the support of Italian
Americans yesterday in Columbus Day events, Vice Presidential candidate
Dan Quayle again refined his answer to a question that has plagued him
- what would he do if he suddenly became President.
Quayle said he would speak to the nation and would consult with U.S.
allies.
"Obviously you do different things under an assassination. The first
thing you do in an assassination-I would still say a prayer for myself
and the nation-but the first thing you do is get on the phone and call thel
head of the CIA and see what he thinks it was. You don't convene a
cabinet meeting right away," Quayle said.
Today Dukakis and Bush begin preparations for their second and final
presidential debate scheduled to begin 9 p.m. Thursday.
Pro-choice condemns ads
LANSING - Pro-choice advocates yesterday criticized anti-abortion
commercials, saying they mislead the public by implying all tax-funde
abortions would be stopped by ending them for poor women.
Reps. David Hollister, (D-Lansing) and Teola Hunter (D-Detroit),
said approval of Proposal A on the Nov. 8 ballot wouldn't put an end to
tax-funded abortions.
"Any indication that we're going to save money or we're going to end
abortions is clearly wrong. It would stop only for the poorest of poor,"
Hollister said.
Medicaid recipients comprise only 18,000 of the 44,000 women
obtaining tax-funded abortions each year, Social Services Director C.
Patrick Babcock said at a Capitol news conference.
Proposal A will let voters decide if a state law banning medicaid-funded
abortions for poor women should take effect.
Crack users face strokes
DETROIT - People who use crack cocaine, even occasionally, face
potentially deadly strokes, a three-hospital study on crack-related paralysis
and deaths concluded.
Some healthy adults who used the drug only several times have be
come permanently disabled and others have died, according to re-searchers
at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
"The more pure and high potency cocaine seems to be causing the'
damage, " said neurologist Dr. Stephen Levine.
He said the study also suggests that crack use can lead to permanent
heart damage.
At Mount Carmel Mercy Hospital in Detroit, more than 50 crack users
have been treated in the emergency room this year after complaining of
chest pains, Dr. LeRoy Caudill said.
Two of those patient suffered strokes and several others sustained heart
attacks, Caudill said.
EXTRAS.
Man seeks sewer silver
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Brian Corson has found rings, silver spoons
and rare coins while working in sewers, but he says he's gotten selective
about what he brings home.
"I don't even mess with it anymore unless it's gold," said Corson.
In five years of vacuming debris from sewers in 20 suburban
communities served by the Char-West Council of governments, Corson
has retreived at least 10 gold and silver necklaces, a pair of gold earrings
and a silver bracelet.
"The necklaces that are in good shape, I give to my wife," said Corson
of suburban Kennedy Township.
Corson and his wife, Palma, clean the finds with acid. He also built a
small sifter to help him sort through the debris.
Corson has found a 1951 10-centavos coin from Argentina, a 1918
British penny bearing hte image of King George V, a signet ring with the
initials BAS, an old police badge, a 1922 trolley token and ornate silver
spoons.
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