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BZUp Iii'KwllitiliUlIs uT 'wiPft fuHl 'f i 1k rYilw TODAY, SMnrdtK OcMtof 1ITI SA High Court Gets College Bias Case Astronauts Honored Mrs. Joseph Kerwlri, checks. out her husband's newly received Service Medal as members of the Skylab crew and Secretary of Navy John Warner, left, look on. Kerwin, Charles Conrad, second froip TODAY AP Wlrt left, and Paul Weitz, second from right, received the medals for their achievements during the first Skylab mission. The medals were present to the all Navy crew at the Pentagon.

No "Life Probe' Seen In Russian Mars Shots TODAY LA ThnM Niin itrvlct LOS ANGELES, The project. scientist for America's Viking program to search for life on Mars in 1976 said he doubts any ot the (our Soviet spacecraft now heading for the U.S., Soviets 'On Schedule' MOSCOW (AP) The American project director of the proposed joint U.S. Soviet space venture says he is "fully confident" the joint mission will go ahead as scheduled. Glynn Lunney, of the National Aeronautics and Space Administatlon, told newsmen Thursday "the project is on schedule" on the American side and added, "as far as I can tell" the Soviets are on schedule too. He and 45 other members are here to work on the.

Soyuz Apollp mission which involves orbital linkup, and joint flight and crew transfers Apollo and Soyuz spaceships. red planet will look for organisms! "For one thing." Dr. Gerald Soffen of NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, said In a telephone interview, "I don't believe the Russians plan on sufficient operational time for 'their parachute launders to carry out biological experiments. "Characteristically," he explained, "such tests would require at least one week and more likely plans IS days for each of four sequences but nothing reports or literature suggests prolonged operation" on the Martian surface." Soffen said Thursday he believes the Soviet spacecraft are designed to function on Mars for no more than a few days at most probably the same type lander that failed after about 90 secdnds in 1971. "As a biologist who has been working in the field for a long time," he said, "it is clear to me that unless, they have some terribly clever.

new technique no one's ever heard of, they aren't going to test for life forms with the probes now flying. Soffen said he based his opinion on the unlikely chance of a radically new technique and on the fact that Soviet literature showed no life detection programs until about two years ago. By WILLIAM RINGLE OtwmM Ntwt tATTlCt WASHINGTON A case that could threaten recent policies of state colleges and universities bending admission requirements for ethnic minorities is being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Antl Defamatlon 'League of B'nal B'rith, the Jewish organization that fights discrimination; has jumped in on the side of the appellant, a 24 year old Phi Beta Kappa who was denied admission to the University of Washington Law School.

Jewish groups, particularly B'nal B'rith, have opposed any racial quota systems, especially In higher education. This has been a "consistent position. It stems from the days when quotas' were used either to keep out or restrict severely minority students, chiefly Jews, entrances into prep schools, colleges, and graduate schools; blacks frequently couldn't make it for financial or scholastic reasons. Now the practice has changed somewhat Qualified, white students including Jews are disregarded by educators in order that some minority students mainly blacks, perhaps with lesser qualifications, will be given an opportunity to enter. The purpose usually Is to eliminate continued effects of past segregation and discrimination.

The 'appellant, Marco De Funis Jr. was denied admission to the law school. In September, 1971. His undergraduate grades ant) his legal aptitude test scores were both high. In his appeal, DeFunis challenges what he says Is a law school policy of gIVen "preference on the basis of race along to members of certain so called minorities in the competition" for limited openings to the exclusion of better qualified general students." A Washington state superl or court judge agreed, with DeFunis that the practice was an unconstitutional denial of equal protection of the law.

Said Judge Lloyd Shorett In his decision: "It seems to me that the taw school here wished to achieve greater minority representation and In accomplishing this gave preference to the members of some races. "In doing this the Admissions Committee assumed that all members of minority with the exception of Asians, were deprived persons. "Some minority students were admitted whose college grades and aptitude test' scores were so low that had they been whites their applications would' have been summarily denied." He noted that only one minority student out of 31 admitted had a predicted first year average above DeFunis's. Last March 8, the Washington State Supreme Courts by a 7 2 vote'overruled Judge Shorett The majority said that In the race of those applicants who "indicate competence to successfully compfete the law school gram" the admissions committee was not being arbltary or capricious. The two Judge dissent, conceded the aim of the policy toward minorities was laudable, but added: "The circle of ihnequality cannot be broken by shifting the inequities from one man to his neighbor.

4 Zumwalt: Cuts Weaken Navy TOOAY Wirt ttnlctl Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt said Friday that "the United States will havetoback down' in future confrontations with the Soviet Union if Congress continues to cut the Navy budget. The chief of naval operations said the year after year slash of funds for modern ships, planes and weapons is "taking us behind the Soviet Union. "If trends.

continue, it is absolutely inevitable that the United States will be unable to control the seas in a conventional war with the Soviet Union," Zumwalt told a Pentagon seminar ELMO zumwalt iri Washington. The chief of naval operations said the year after year slash of funds for modern ships, planes and weapons is "taking us behind the Soviet Union. "If these, trends continue, it is absolutely inevitable that the United States will be unable to control the seas" in a conventional war with the Soviet (Union," Zumwalt told a Pentagon seminar in Washington. The Navy's top admiral noted that his service TODAY'S Names and Faces rH Cookies May Cost Detroit $1,000 has retired or scrapped 400 oHts ships in the past 10 years while, he said, the Rus'sians have been building times as many new ships. James Stacy 'Satisfactory' Actor James Stacy was reported In Los Angeles Friday to be recovering satisfactorily from severe injuries suffered in a motorcycle auto collision in which his left arm and leg were severed.

Stacy, 36, was taken off the critical list Thursday. He had been near death since the Sept. 28 accident in which his' motorcycle was sideswlped by an automobile on a winding canyon road. Stacy's companion, Clair Cox, 27, was killed. Carter B.

Gordon, 34, of Woodland Hills, the driver of the car, was arrested for investigation of felony manslaughter. Curtis Drops Custody Suit Actor Tony Curtis has dropped a suit seeking to gain custody of his 15 year old daughter Jamie Lee, who lives with her mother, actress Janet Leigh. Last February, Curtis won custody of another daughter by his marriage to Miss Leigh, 17 year old Kelly Curtis. But the actor's attorney, Marvin Mltchelson, said in Santo Monica Thursday. Curtis is now satis lied that Jamie should remain with her mother.

DETROIT (AP) A postal clerk crushed Ann Deyer eaux's cookies with a thumping hard stamp, triggering a chain of eventS'that's likely to cost the city of Detroit at least $1,000. Miss Devereaux was mailing the box of cookies to a friend who works at the Michigan Court of Appeals in Lansing. When the postal clerk slammed the stamp on the package of frail cookies, Miss' Devereaux winced. The clerk saw her wince and thought the package, surely, must contain a bomb. The package was confiscated, the bomb squad was called and Miss Devereaux found herself being whisked into a squad car bound for police headquarters.

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