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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1978)
From Associated Press reports Carter ‘surprises’ Latins U q ye"e*uela — Jimmy Carter, the most popular U.S. president in Latin America since John F. Kennedy told Ven tereatiinS‘ *** S,enate approval of Ms Panama Canal treaties will be a cause for celebration.” Carter spoke in fluent Spanish during his arrival ceremony surprising many on his first state visit to America’s southern neighbors. He learned Spanish as a midshipman at the U S Naval Academy, and he made only a few small grammatical errors in his remarks. It was a welcome gesture in this Spanish-speaking nation. It a so avoided repetition of embarrassing translation errors that plagued his visit earlier this year to Poland. Consumer prices rise again WASHINGTON Prices of beef and other foods increased substantially in February, pushing overall consumer prices up 0.6 percent and adding to fears that inflation may be worse than expected in 1978, government figures showed Tuesday. Severe winter weather was partly to blame for a 1.2 percent increase in food costs, the same as in January, the government said. Grocery prices rose by 1.3 percent, with beef prices up 4 1 percent and pork up 2.6 percent. Dole won’t challenge Ford KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Sen. Bob Dole says the only Repub licans he would not challenge for the 1980 GOP presidential nomination if they seek it are former president Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. More than names the same ORLANDO, Fla. — Two men with the same first and middle names allegedly had the same idea of doing the same thing in the same city on the same day and ended up the in the same place — jail. Police say Willie Lee Fisher, 54, of Orlando, and Willie Lee Smith, 42, of St. Petersburg, were both arrested for stealing an umbrella. The similarity ended there. Fisher pleaded innocent in court Monday. Smith pleaded guilty, was fined $10 and sentenced to the time he had served in jail. Judges granted immunity from womens’ lawsuits WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court, despite angry disagreement by three members, said Tuesday that judges are vir tually immune from lawsuits by women they have ordered to be sterilized — even when such or ders are mistakes. Voting 5-3 in a major decision on judicial immunity, the court said an Indiana judge who approved a mover's request that her unsus pecting teen-aged daughter be sterilized was not subject to dam ages. Judges cannot be sued for damages unless they act in “a clear absence of all jurisdiction,” the court said in adhering to a judi vial immunity doctrine fashioned in an 1871 Supreme Court deci sion. Judges’ mistakes — even malicious mistakes — are shielded by immunity, that doc trine says, so judges facing dif ficult decisions remain uninflu enced by fear of personal conse quences. Tuesday's decision reversed a Ararat promises help for UN peacekeepers BEAUFORT CASTLE, Leba non (AP) — Guerrilla chief Yasser Arafat said Tuesday that his Palestine Liberation Organization would extend “all our military capacities” to help United Nations peacekeeping troops in southern Lebanon disengage the Palesti nians and invading Israeli forces. But radical guerrillas in the field, under Arafat’s nominal but imper fect control, vowed to fight any U.N. attempt to impose a cease fire in their two-week-old battle with the Israelis inside Lebanon. And the commander of the U.N. forces — Maj. Gen. Emmanuel Erskine of Ghana — said despite Arafat’s offer of cooperation: "Whether they will stop firing or not, I can’t tell.” The complexity of the situation was further underlined when a U.N. spokesman in New York, reading a statement from Secretary-General Kurt Wald heim, said: "Mr. Arafat informed me, through Gen. Erskine, of his acceptance of my call for a gen eral cease-fire.” Waldheim issued his appeal Monday after the Sec urity Council made a similar call March 18. But Arafat did not say specifi cally that his guerrillas would ob serve the cease-fire declared by Israel last Tuesday. Nonetheless, only scattered shooting incidents were reported Tuesday, after heavy clashes and artillery exchanges during the previous night. federal appeals court’s ruling that DeKalb County Ind., Circuit Judge Harold D. Stump could be sued for his sterilization order. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled that Stump’s order was not a judicial act “be cause of his failure to comply with elementary principles” of constitu tional law. An opinion by Justice Byron R. White said that Stump had the au thority to issue the order so any possible misuse Of authority is beyond legal challenge. Justices Potter Stewart, Thur good Marshall and Lewis F. Pow ell Jr. dissented, calling Stump’s order "lawless conduct.” “I think what Judge Stump did on July 9, 1971, was beyond the pale of anything that could possi bly be called a judicial act,” Stewart said in opinion for the three. Taking the rarely used privilege of reading his dissent from the bench, Stewart said, “A judge is not free, like a loose cannon, to inflict indiscriminate damage whenever he announces that he is acting in his judicial capacity.” Linda Kay and Leo Sparkman of Kendallville, Ind., sued in 1975 seeking damages for the tubal lig ation performed on Mrs. Spark man four years previously. Then Linda Kay Spitler of Au burn, Ind., Mrs. Sparkman was 15 when her mother decided she had to undergo the operation. CAMPUS CHRISTIAN MINISTRY W.E. (Wednesday Evening) is an educational program of the Campus Christian Ministry ... offering the following seminars for students, faculty, staff and community people: WORSHIP IN THE CHURCH - Kent Burtner...20 centuries of Christian tradition in worship...Jewish roots, early Christian developments...guest lecturers WOMEN AND THE CHURCH - Evelyn Gerardo, Betty Luginbill...Exploring this relationship past, present, future...examining the need for change in various areas of church life ARCHITECTURE AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH - George Matanic...A SEARCH course relating theology to architecture...moving toward designing a Roman Catholic Church YOUR GOD IS TOO SMALL - Norm Metzler...an in-depth discussion of conceptions of God...dispelling misconceptions, exploring con temporary options MANUAL COMMUNICATION - Raymond Rideau...Introduction to signed language of the deaf...includes learning basic skills and some prayers and hymns BONEHEAD BIBLE - Dave Simpkins...A basic study of the biblical literature...looking at the his torical development , evolution of the authorita tive texts Seven Wednesday evenings at the Newman Center, 1850 Emerald Sponsored by: Begins Wednesday, April 5 (No Cost for Seminars) Schedule: 6:00 - 7:15 p.m. Seminars Meet 7:15 - 7:45 p.m. Dessert! Fellow ship! Celebration For more information call 484-1707 or University extension 3597 Koinonia Center 1414 Kincaid 686-3597 Newman Center 1850 Emerald 686-4468 Wesley Center 1236 Kincaid 686-4694 These centers are open all week for relaxation, study, prayer ... and campus ministry sta ff are available for you
