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Tuesday Fishbowl Special Food Service Fresh-baked Apple & Cherry turnovers 60' OREGON STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP General Interest Meeting October 19, 1982 Tuesday 7 PM Forum Room EMU Everyone is Welcome to Attend! For More Information, Call the OSPIRG Office 686-4377 Suite 1, EMU, University of Oregon A statewide student-directed research and advocacy organization working on consumer, social justice, energy, and environment issues Flag-burners’ convictions stand but Justice calls it censorship WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court, warned by its senior member that it was sanc tioning political "censorship pure and simple,” left intact on Monday two Communists' con victions for burning a U S flag By an 8-1 vote, the high court refused to hear arguments that the convictions violated tree speech rights "I am confident,” Justice Wil liam Brennan wrote in his lone dissent, "the court after ar gument would reverse these convictions and uphold the vital constitutional principle forbid ding government censorship of unpopular political views " Teresa Kime and Donald Bonwell were convicted and sentenced to eight months in jail for burning a flag, owned by Kime, during a demonstration in Greensboro, N.C.. two years ago The two were prosecuted under a federal law imposing penalties on anyone who "knowingly casts contempt upon any flag of the United States by publicly mutilating, defacing, defiling, burning or trampling upon it.” Kime and Bonwell, avowed members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, never denied having burned the flag Instead, they argued that the burning was a form of political protest protected by the Constitution In a separate case, the court agreed to decide whether the government ever can be or dered to pay legal fees incurred by people who unsuccessfully sue over alleged non-en forcement of A major clean air law A lower court said the government could be forced to pay The justices will be study ing Environmental Protection Agency arguments aimed at avoiding payment of some $90,000 to lawyers for the Sierra Club and the Environmental Defense Fund The ERA was ordered to pay the fees, even though the two environmental groups lost a lawsuit seeking to force the agency to tighten pollution controls on coal-fired power plants Chicago police use magic in hunt for Tylenol killer CHICAGO (AP) - The magic pen scrawled a tidbit of infor mation The shaking right hand wrote three names How to have class between classes. jjafe Vien na AUSTRIAN STYLE INSTANT COFFEE BEVERAGE Of Nf ra! Foods iNTf RNATiOINAl CofffES Indulge yourself in a warm cup of Cafe Vienna. It's a light and cinnamony touch of class. And just one of five deliciously from (ieneral Foods' GENERAL FOODS* INTERNATIONAL COFFEES AS MUCH A FEELING AS A FLAVOR ---— —— ____ _____ Page 4 Amateur detectives sniffed out a couple of leads Stockbrokers passed on their theories The police took them all ser iously —< the pen, the hand, the mystery buffs and the portfolio men — because investigators trying to find the Tylenol killer are desperate, and the stakes are high ‘ So many people can be harmed in such an easy man ner," said Sgt Leonard Mus colino, a Chicago police officer investigating the deaths last month of seven people who took Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. It scares you. You just have to get to a guy like this " The random nature of the killings makes the case hard to solve, he said While there's always the hope for a nugget, many of the tips have been fool's gold or worse — murky offerings from dreams or trances Investigators work on scores of tips each day from a public eager to help solve the murders From London to the Los Angeles area, from psychics to psychologists, the calls and let ters come in to more than 130 investigators working around the-clock "They all mean well," Mus colmo said "All of them attempt to give us their theories." Stockbrokers play sleuth, suggesting manipulation of the stockmarket Doctors offer profiles of the killer Mystery buffs note that clues may be sitting on library shelves — par ticularly books with poison plots UrlC Halloween Special Network Perm *25 haircut included Retf *40 Haircut *25 Re#. *11 Acrylic Nails *11 Reg. *40 i outran Hoy. I. Id! 20 W 25th 342-7061 ~~~ —-t« Tuesday, October 19,1982
