Page 4-Tuesday, May 18, 1982-The Michigan Daily Supreme Court ruling extends sex bias laws WASHINGTON (UPI)- In a big boost for women fighting sex bias in education, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 yesterday , that a key anti- discrimination law protects not only students but also teachers and other employees. The justices upheld a lower court fin- ding that Title IX-one of the most im- portant federal tools to combat sex discrimination in education-covers not only admissions, scholarships and other student benefits but also em- ployment practices. While it clearly extended discrimination laws to cover em- ployees, the high court limited the government's authority to police sex discrimination to those specific programs within a school that receive federalfunding. THE COURT, beginning its end-of- term push to wrap up its work before July, also took these actions: " Agreed to decide whether un- solicited advertisements for contracep- tive devices can be sent through the U.S. mails. A federal trial judge struck down the federal ban on such mailings after the New Jersey-based manufac- turer of Trojan brand condoms pursued a free-speech challenge. Greatly increased the chances of trade and professional groups being sued successfully for federal antitrust Justice Lewis Powell ... casts historic vote violations. The immediate loser is the 100,000- member American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which faces paying monetary damages because its volunteer officials took part in a plot to cripple a now-defunct manufacturer. Left intact a ruling in a case from Washington state that allows a judge to force reporters to sign news-coverage agreements before they attend hearings in open court. In Brief Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Storms cause massive floods Floods chased hundreds of people from their homes yesterday in Texas and Oklahoma, where a week of violent thunderstorms and tornadoes has left millions of dollars in damage. People scrambled onto rooftops and climbed trees to escape the water in some communities as National Guard helicopters and police boats plucked others to safety. At least 10 deaths have been blamed on the week of storms which spread yesterday from the Mexican border in Texas, to Kansas City, Mo., with powerful winds, blinding rain and hail as big as baseballs. Three drowned in Texas and two others were missing in floodwaters surging around San An- tonio. The barrage of twisters continued Sunday and yesterday with six hitting rural areas of Oklahoma, five in Texas, two in North Dakota and one in Illinois. Some homes and farm buildings were destroyed. In Wichita Falls, Texas, where floods last week had chased about 5,000 people from their homes, 500 people remained homeless. About 60 who had returned home, went back to a Red Cross emergency shelter yesterday morning assa flood warning was posted. OPEC holds down production CARACAS, Venezuela- OPEC's president said yesterday the cartel is holding its total oil production substantially below 17.5 million barrels a day, the ceiling set two months ago as the group sought to regain control over world oil markets. Meanwhile, OPEC's secretary general repeated earlier statements that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would not cut oil prices at its semi-annual meeting Thursday in Quito, Ecuador. Informal consultations were under way here in Venezuela yesterday to formulate pricing and production recommendations for the Ecuador session. OPEC President Mana Saeed Oteiba, who also is oil minister of the United Arab Emirates, said the cartel was producing "something like" 16 million barrels a day and that OPEC was committed to holding down production to push prices higher. Panamanian crew suspects in mutiny; first officer killed HOUSTON- Five Panamanian freighter crewmen suspected of killing their first officer and plotting to kill seven other crew members were detained aboard the vessel after it docked yesterday in Houston, officials said. Immigration and Naturalization Service supervisor Ray Larson said the only U.S. action in the matter would be to make sure the five crewmen were not permitted off the ship while it is in U.S. waters. The FBI said the incident failed to meet any of the tests that would permit U.S. legal involvement because the killing took place in international waters, there were no U.S. crewmen on board and the vessel was not owned by a U.S. company. The freighter Evergreen arrived from New Orleans at the Houston city docks after the Coast Guard and FBI on Saturday night responded to a report of a mutiny aboard. Haig, NATO ministers meet LUXEMBOURG- Secretary of State Alexander Haig and European foreign ministers held detailed talks on President Reagan's arms control initiative and other issues yesterday despite the distraction of the Falklands Islands crisis, a high U.S. official said. The Falklands dispute between Britain and Argentina is causing in- creasing strains in the European Common Market and concern among Nor- th Atlantic Treaty Organization nations whose defenses have been weakened by Britain's dispatch of a naval fleet to the South Atlantic. The spring meeting of the NATO foreign ministers, including Haig, is being held concurrently with a separate conference of Common Market ministers debating whether to extend trade sanctions against Argentina, which were to expire at midnight. Hinckley defense questioned WASHINGTON- A prosecutor suggested yesterday that John Hinckley cribbed and embellished symptoms out of a "cookbook" of mental disorders to bolster his insanity defense after the shooting of President Reagan and three others. Assistant U.S. Attorney Roger Adelman also got the chief defense psychiatrist to condede that Hinckley managed to travel, get good marks in college, and write clearly in the years when the physician claimed the defendant was psychotic. "You can no more see a delusion than you can see if someone believes in God," Dr. William Carpenter argued under Adelman's cross-examination. Carpenter, director of the Maryland Psychiatric Center, testified last week hat Hinckley suffered from "process schizophrenia" that began in childhood and built to psychosis around 1976 when Hinckley was 21. He said the defendant shot Reagan and the others on March 30, 1981 as an act of suicide, hoping for a post-life union with actress Jodie Foster, with whom he had become infatuated. Britain puts deadline on Falk lands talks From AP and UPI Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said yesterday that Britain will give U.N. talks one more chance to settle the Falkland Islands conflict, but repor- tedly warned Argentina that it has 48 hours to make peace. "We have gone as far as we can," Thatcher told Independent Radio News. "They are the invader. They are the aggressor. We are the aggrieved. It is up to them," she said. HOURS LATER, eight of the 10 Common Market nations extended trade bans against Argentina, but only for a week. Asked how long she would wait before abandoning the efforts by U.N. Secretary-General Javier' Perez de Cuellar, Thatcher said: "My guess is that we shall know this week whether we are going to get a peaceful set- tlement or not." Earlier, Britain's domestic news agency Press Association quoted military sources as saying Thatcher told U.N. Ambassador Anthony Par- sops q; ivaArgentinenegotiatarsstey must settle in 48 hours or she would or- der troops aboard the Royal Navy war fleet to storm the South Atlantic islan- ds. "UNLESS THERE is an unexpected breakthrough at the United Nations," Press Association said, "the invasion now appears certain." In Buenos Aires, an Argentine spokesman accused Britain of "intran- sigence" in the negotiations and said the government had little optimism that the talks could bring a peaceful solution. The spokesman said a key source of disagreement in the negotiations was Britain's insistence that- the United States guarantee that the islands will not be invaded again once Argentina withdraws. "WE FELT that a treaty with the guarantee of the United Nations is suf- ficient," the spokesman said. "The United States is a part of this conflict and' its guarantee constitutes ,aggressi form."