Page 4-Tuesday, August 10, 1982-The Michigan Daily Judge refuses to stay Cappola execution RICHMOND, Va. (AP)- A federal judge yesterday refused to stay the scheduled execution tonight of Frank Coppola, rejecting a request filed without the consent of the convicted killer, who says he wants to die. U.S. District Judge Dortch Warriner issued his decision after meeting with Coppola, 38, who had been brought from the Virginia Penitentiary here to a private holding area in the federal courthouse. THE PETITION was hrought hy J. Gray Lawrence, one of the two lawyers Coppola fired last May when he decided to accept the sentence of death and forgo further appeals. The lawyers representing Lawrence said they will seek a stay again Tuesday from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond. Lawrence argued that the brutal and dehumanizing conditions on death row at the Mecklenburg Correctional Cen- ter forced Coppola into making an irrational decision. But Warriner said he found Coppola was competent to make such a decision and questioned the legal profession's attempts to postpone executions in defiance of their clients' wishes. THE JUDGE likened Coppola's case to a terminally ill patient kept alive through extraordinary medical means. "Perhaps we are performing the legalequivalent of inserting tubes, in- jecting material . . . so we can satisfy the quite appropriate urge to maintain life, not, perhaps, for the good it does the client or the patient, but for the good it does us." Coppola is scheduled to die at 11 p.m. todsy and would become the first prisoner executed in Virginia in 20 years and the fifth in the nation since the Supreme Court revived the death penalty in 1976. THE STATE attorney general's of- fice told the judge the petition is "merely a delayng tactic to keep the commonwealth from carrying out" the execution. . Coppola, a former Portsmouth policeman, has reiterated for four mon- ths that he wants to be executed, saying he would rather die than continue to be incarcerated on Death Row. Wealth in U.S. impresses visiting Japanese students (Continued from Page 4) specialize later-when they begin their careers. Junichi Tanaka added that American students study harder in order to become specialists, but he felt that Americans have not learned enough about other cultures. The Japanese women said they were surprised by the number of American STUDENT ACCOUNTS: Your attention is called to the following rules passed by the Regents at their meeting on February 28, 1936: "Students shall pay all accounts due the University not later than the last day of classes of each semester or summer session. Student loans which are not paid or renewed are subject to this regulation; however, students' loans not yet due are exempt. 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The Japanese students agreed that Americans spend too much time dwelling on the ailing auto industry and tend to overlook the "wealth of good things in America," such as the diver- sity of successful businesses, the high standard of living, and, most importan- tly, the emphasis American culture puts on individual freedoms. Read and Use Daily Classifieds f: LSAT *-MCAT - GRE GRE PSYCH - G RE BIO - MAT GMAT -DAT - OCAT- PCAT VAT. -SAT- A CTCPA- TOEFL MSKP - NAT'L MED BDS ECFMG - FLEX - VQE NDB - NPB I - NLE " e 4. K4PUN EDUCATIONAL CENTER Test Preparation Specialists Since 1938 For information, Please Call 211 E. Huron St. E Ann Arbor, MI 48104 (313) 662-3149 In Brief Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Judge bars Alabama prayer law MOBILE, Ala. - A federal judge yesterday barred use of Alabama's new school prayer law before a trial is held on its constitutionality, and described the law as an attempt by the state to encourage religious activity. In a 11-page opinion, U.S. District Judge W. B. Hand said, "This court makes it absolutely clear that by this injunction it holds only that the state of Alabama must remain neutral in resepct to establishing a religion." His action came just weeks before start of fall classes Aug. 31. No trial date was set. Han's decision came after two days of hearings last week on a lawsuit brought by Ishmael Jaffree, a Mobile lawyer who claimed his three children were obstracized for refusing to join in classroom religious activities. Dollar hits record high abroad LONDON - The U. S. dollar's surge to record highs against several currencies in European trading yesterday puts extra cash in the pockets of American tourists but increases financial headaches for European gover- nments already battling an economic slump. The stronger dollar will increase Europeans' oil and gasoline import bills which must be paid in dollars. Foreign governments or companies holding debts denominated in dollars must come up with more local currency to pay them off. The cost of imports direct from the United States also will rise. But the dollar's surge comes at the height of the tourist season in Europe, sparking hopes in the industry that Americans visiting the continent will spend more. "As the dollar goes screaming up against everything, it makes it very cheap for Americans'," said Richard O'Brien, chief economist for the American Express International Banking Corp. in London. More charges expected in attempted assassination of pope ROME - Authorities are expected to file charges against several people suspected of helping Mehmet Ali Agca in the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, police sources said yesterday. They said investigators will first go to Switzerland and possibly to West Germany, Austria and Spain to gather more information, however. The sources did not say who might be accused or what the evidence was, but they said Italy is continuing to probe links between Agca, who is Turkish, and a gun-smuggling ring operating in Bulgaria and Turkey. "It's too early to say when the indictments will be handed down," said a high-ranking police official who asked not to be identified. He said it could be in several months. Gunman kills six in Texas GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas -A truck driver killed six people and injured four yesterday as he shot up his bosses' offices and crashed a tractor-trailer rig through a police barricade before he was gunned down, authorities said. Police said the violence began about 8 a.m. when John . Parish, 46, of Dallas, armed with two pistols and a rifle, walked into the Western Transfer Co. building in the central business district of this Dallas suburb. Witnesses said Parish spoke to no one as he calmly shot and killed three people, including his supervisor. He then left the building, crossed the street to another office of the trucking company, and fatally shot two more people. .A few minutes later, Parish entered the warehouse of Jewel-T, a discount grocery store, and shot a supervisor there. "We believe he was a contractual driver for both of the firms and had a dispute," said Police Lt. Gene Kilgore. Parish then took off in an 18-wheel, semi-trailer truck, officers said. About 30 minutes after it all started, police said, Parish rammed the truck through a police barricade, seriously injuring an officer who was standing outside his car. Nofziger leads Reagan's push for approval of tax hike WASHINGTON - Veteran Reagan operative Lyn Nofziger, who broke with the president last week to oppose raising taxes, was back in harness yester- day - leading aneffort to win congressional approval of the biggest tax in- crease in history. Nofziger's conversion provided President Reagan a bit of good news in his effort to quell a conservative rebellion against higher taxes. The rebels, led by Rep. Jack Kemp. (R-N.Y.), threaten to scuttle the tax bill, a big part of Reagan's strategy for reducing interest rates. Reagan, who turned up few votes for the bill in arm-twisting sessions with dozens of House Republicans last week, arranged sessions with others yesterday. Meanwhile, a House-Senate conference committee resumed work on writing a compromise version of the tax measure, which would raise taxes by about $99 billion over the next three yars. Also attached to the bill is about $17 billion worth of spending cuts, affecting mainly the Medicaid and Medicare programs. Conservatives generally oppose the tax increase on grounds it runs con- trary to the philosophy on which Reagan campaigned: economic stimulation through less government. Other lawmakers say the tax boost is needed to lower the federal deficit because last year's tax cut was too big.