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Supreme Court victory, loss by Jay Brown Saying the law was unclear, the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision, declin- JONAHS TH E Place for Seafood! On* of Portland'« Fhw d oflwtng a wMa variety of daMdoue aaafood diahee «■partly prepared ft «arvad In Mw moat plan« ant aurroondinga. The Original JONAH s. on Bartxir Bivd. continues to be owned and operated by its founder since 1977 CASUAL • INTIMATE • K El .AXING LOUNGE OPEN EVERY N IG H T UNTIL MIDNIGHT AND WE FEATURE A SPECIAL BAR MENU LUNCH • DINNER SERVED DAILY SEAFOOD & CHAMPAGNE BRUNCH ON SUNDAY 7425 S.W. H A ItH U K A T T E K W IL L IG E K (7 MINUTES I MOM DOWNTOWN PORTLAND) KESEKVATIONS SUGGESTED 245-218« CATERING AVAH ARLE ed to hear review of a New York Court of Appeals ruling which struck down a Buf falo. N.Y., law used to prevent gay people from gathering in public places. The vote left intact a New York Court of Appeals decision that the law was un constitutional. Justices Lewis Powell, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, William J. Brennan Jr., and Marshall said that the lower court opinion was murky and that the justices had erred in accepting the case. New York vs. Robert (Jplinger and Susan Butler. Nineteen other states have similar laws. The provision denied review by the court prohibited loitering for the purpose of engaging in sodomy. The New York court voided the law because it had pre viously ruled that the stte may not prohibit sexual behavior conducted in private be tween consenting adults. In another action affecting gay and les bian civil rights, the justice voted 8-1 to deny review to a 5th U.S. Circuit Court ruling that gay people have psychopath ic personalities and may be denied CI.S. citizenship even if immigration officials do not obtain medical certificates specifying sexual deviation. The rulinowas in appa rent contradiction to a ruling earlier in the month by a different appeals court. The court's opinion that a man living in Dallas, Texas cannot become a natural ized citizen seems to conflict with a ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco which stated that such Public Health Service certificates must be ob tained before gay immigrants could be denied citizenship. The New Orleans court held that Richard Longstaff, a prominent Dallas. Tex., businessman was unlawfully admit ted as a permanent resident in 1965 when he wrote “ No" when asked if he had “ ever been afflicted with psychopathic person ality. epilepsy, mental defect, fits, fainting spells, convulsions or a mental break down." The court’s opinion said that Congress intended the term "psychopathic person ality" to include homosexuality and since Longstaff was unlawfully admitted, he cannot become a naturalized citizen. According to Ron Ranum, National Gay Rights Advocates spokesman, the Immigration and Naturalization Service initiated, last week, deportation pro ceedings against Longstaff. "We re man euvering to keep him in the country," Ranum said, in a telephone interview. The National Gay Rights Advocates, a San Francisco-based public interest law firm that specializes in gay rights cases took the Longstaff appeal to the Supreme Court. _______ Six nations urge N-freeze Six prominent political leaders in Africa. Asia. Europe and Latin America, expres sing the view that "the survival of mankind is in jeopardy." called on the United States and the Soviet Union, late last month, to halt the testing, production and deploy ment of nuclear weapons. Prime Minister Indira Ghandi of India. President Miguel de la Madrid of Mexico. Prime Minister Olof Palme of Sweden. Pre mier Andreas Papandreou of Greece. President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania and Argentine President Raul Anfonsin simul taneously announced the initiative in their respective countries. Olof Palme, at a news conference in Stockholm, said. “We want to show that leaders on four continents have the same attitude to peace and disarmament." The declaration is a result of "the esca lation of the nuclear arms race ... the deployment in Europe of U.S. Pershing 2 and cruise missiles in response to the Soviets’ SS-20 missiles, and the Soviets’ de ployment of SS-22 missiles as a response to the U.S. deployment. Palme said. Palme said further, that a m o^torium on nuclear weapons would favor both tne Soviet Bloc and the West because taking all nuclear weapons into account, there is nuclear parity and the overkill capacity of both East and West is enough that a third of the arsenals could wipe out the human race. The Reagan administration turned thumbs down on the proposal, "because a comprehensive freeze for all nuclear powers would not enhance stability or re duce risk of war." The administration has used the same arguments against nuclear freeze pro posals within the United States. • • • • Low Fees — Sliding Scale Individuals, Couples, Groups Hypnotherapy Evening & Weekend 2 3 5 -3 4 3 3 Problems ..............We Can Work It Out! 4 Western Goals Foundation, a private right-wing organization founded in 1979 by the late Congressman Larry McDon ald. and the Los Angeles Police Depart ment are targets of a suit by the ACLU of Southern California which alleges a con spiracy between officers of Western Goals and members of the LAPD including De tective Jay Paul. Western Goals was founded with the purpose of combatting what it calls "com m unist" or "anti-American" expres sion of political beliefs by collecting and distributing to “ interested individuals and organizations" through a computerized network of information obtained from local law enforcement individuals and agencies. Through prior police litigation, it was learned that Officer Paul, with the knowl edge of certain of his superiors had stored hundreds of boxes of LAPD data which had then been entered by him into the Western Goals computer. The current suit represents the first litiga tion linking law enforcement agencies with the activities of ultra-right-wing groups. Hart co-sponsors S.430 Senator Gary Hart (D-Colorado), became, early last month, the ninth co sponsor of S. 430, the Senate fair employ ment bill for lesbians and gay men. Hart had been under considerable pressure from the gay and lesbian com munity around the nation to add his name to the bill. Hart had previously said he would support lesbian and gay civil rights but would not become a co-sponsor. According to Gay Rights National Lobb\ JRNL) Deputy Director Jerry Weller. 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