•4—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, April 23,1980
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There was a turkey at the White House yesterday.lt alighted in a tree on the
front lawn of the White House grounds, causing such a commotion that
President Carter, the Humane Society, White House police and Park Service
workers were unable to capture it. Carter said he did not want the turkey
harmed.lt probably was just coincidence, but. the menu at the White House
yesterday included sliced turkey with cranberry relish.
Aides allegedly resign because of crime link
CHICAGO (UPI) Mayor Jane Byrne
yesterday blamed published allegations
of links between City Hall and the crime
syndicate for the resignations of her two
top aides, who said they quit because
they no longer had confidence in the
mayor.
Byrne, in her first comment on the
abrupt resignations of chief of staff
William Griffin and legislative liaison
Michael Brady, charged they have been
“smeared.”
In a joint statement, Griffin and Brady
said they had been frozen out of the
mayor’s inner circle.
They denied any wrongdoing
specifically allegations they pressured
top police officials to make depart
mental changes desired by politically
connected mob figures.
Ky.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (UPI) The Ten
Commandments must be displayed in
Kentucky public schools for their
“secular” message and that does not
violate state and federal constitutional
bans on church-state entanglements, the
Kentucky Supreme Court ruled
yesterday.
The court split in a 3-3 tie the
seventh justice disqualified himself
automatically upholding a ruling of the
Franklin County Circuit Court in favor of
posting the Ten Commandments.
The seventh justice, Robert F.
Stephens, Kentucky’s Attorney General
during an earlier stage of the dispute,
took no part in the high court decision.
A lawyer for a group representing
several faiths, a teacher and an atheist
said the ruling “absolutely” would be
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to post Ten Commandments .
The two said they were resigning
because they “no longer possess the
trust and confidence in the mayor
needed to perform our duties.”
“I think they’ve been excellent public
servants and perhaps they didn’t like to
get smeared,” Byrne said as she arrived
at her City Hall office yesterday amid a
swarm of reporters. "The pressures
they’ve been under and the smears put
on them probably hurt them quite a bit.”
She later issued a brief statement
saying she accepted the resignations
“with regret.”
The mayor’s . husband and press
secretary, Jay McMullen, said Brady
and Griffin were no great loss, saying
they .“haven’t been much aid lately.
They’ve never been around very much.”
McMullen denied he created a wall
appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“There is no question this, involves
federal issues of establishment of
religion and entanglement of church and
state,” Louisville attorney William C.
Stone said.
One justice in favor of throwing out the
1978 commandments law was Robert 0.
Lukowsky who wrote, “The same power
which could place a copy of the Ten
Commandments on the wall of every
public elementary and secondary
classroom' could place a copy of the
Communist Manifesto upon the same
wall.
“Who, on earth, is to declare what is
‘right’ or ‘moral’ for the rest of us?”
Lukowsky said, also writing for Chief
Justice John Palmore and Marvin J.
Sternberg. “The wall that separates
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around his wife and froze .out the two
aides. If their access to the mayor had
been limited, he said, “it’s been their
choice, not the mayor’s.”
Cook County State’s Attorney Bernard
Carey said he was contacted yesterday
morning by attorneys for Griffin and
Brady and was asked to arrange to meet
separately with .each of the two former
Byrne aides.
Carey has said a 90-minute conference
with former acting Police Superin
tendent Joseph DiLeonardi and former
Deputy Superintendent William Duffy
indicated the accusations of mob in
fluence in police affairs should be in
vestigated by a grand jury. __
He expected the grand jury to begin
the investigation this week and urged
quick work so the the police department
church and state protects as it
restricts.” ,
The law requires if enough volun
tary contributions are made to cover the
cost posting of a 16 by 20-inch framed
copy of the Ten Commandments in every
public school classroom.
Below the final commandment in
small print must be the words, “The
secular application of the Ten Comm
mandments is clearly seen in its
adoption as the fundamental legal code
of Western Civilization and the common
law of the United States.”
Justice James B. Stephenson argued
the law is valid because no tax money is
involved, students and teachers aren’t
required to do anything and references
to “Almighty God” are contained in the
Kentucky Constitution.
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cloud of suspicion.”
Carey said he still wants to discuss the
allegations with former Deputy:
Superintendent James Zurawski, the:
third demoted police official, currently
on police furlough, and with Police
Superintendent Richard Brzeczek.
He also said he assumed he would see
the 29-page journal Zurawski
kept detailing the allegations.
Brzeczek has said he is prepared to go
before a grand jury with a detailed log
he said will refute charges of mob in
fluence in the demotions of DiLeonUrdi,
Duffy and Zurawski.
' Griffin and Brady denied ally
wrongdoing and said they knew of no
mob influence in City Hall.
“The constitutional wall separating
church and state is in no danger,”
Stephenson said. He was joined by
Justice Boyce G. Clayton who wrote a
two-page opinion and J. Calvin Aker who
offered no written comment.
Stone said, “I’m not surprised at
Stephenson’s view. During oral
arguments, he made similar comments
about the phrase ‘ln God We Trust’ on
coins. But I was hoping the three who
sided with me could bring along either
Clayton or Aker.”
Lukowsky said it was clear the
drafters of the law “recognized the
potential conflict between church and
state” by requiring the reference to
“secular” content of the Ten Com
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