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TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1986 2S Tke Segiater Once associate of Sen. Joe McCarthy Lawyer Roy Cohn disbarred By SAMUEL MAULL Associated Press ran if X- V- 1 52 IT A I one year before he was eligible to pass the bar in New York. In the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan, he worked on the prosecution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, helping convict them as Soviet spies and send them to the electric chair. He served as McCarthy's aide during the anti-Communist hearings of the 1950s.

When the Wisconsin senator's influence dissipated, Cohn moved on to work as a corporate executive and represented clients like National Airlines. The hearings which led to his disbarment were not the first of Cohn's legal woes. In the 1960s, he was dogged by the Internal Revenue Service for back taxes, and he was indicted three times on charges of fraud, blackmail and perjury. He was never convicted. Cohn's political ties remain strong, with links to many of the old-line city Democrats despite a strong allegiance to President Reagan.

He remains well-connected in other ways, and television personality Barbara Walters and real estate magnate Donald Trump testified on his behalf at the disciplinary hearing. but did not repay it until 1984, when the disciplinary hearings were under way. That he improperly used a $219,000 escrow fund established by a 1971 court order. That he reportedly submitted a false sworn statement about the disciplinary hearing while applying for a license to practice law in Washington. The court also found Cohn guilty in a fourth case in which he was accused of misrepresenting documents to a dying millionaire in his hospital room to take over the man's estate.

Cohn, 59, had scoffed at the charges against him last year, saying they would go ''no place. It's not my nature to be intimidated by this bunch of yoyos." Cohn was not in his Manhattan law office yesterday, and a secretary said he could not be reached for comment. Cohn had stayed in the spotlight during his law career, which put him at the side of headline-makers from McCarthy to reputed mobster Carmine Galante. Cohn, the son of a judge, rushed through Columbia Law School and graduated at age 20, NEW YORK Lawyer Roy M. Cohn, whose career has taken him from the Senate floor as a key aide to communist-hunting Sen.

Joseph McCarthy to the side of mobsters over four decades, was disbarred yesterday by the state. The order against the flamboyant Cohn was handed down by the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court, which polices lawyers for the state and was effective immediately. Cohn is permitted to appeal, said Michael Gentile, spokesman for the state Bar Association. "Simply Stated, the four charges involved alleged dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation," the court wrote. "After a thorough review of the record, we have come to the conclusion that all four charges should be sustained, and that respondent should be disbarred." A lawyers' disciplinary committee, an arm of the appeals court, recommended Cohn's disbarment a year ago over three cases dating to 1966.

The 7 1 i I I i I It If 1 1 1 i 1 '4t wort, 1 u- Roy Cohn: disbarred by New York court could have rejected the recommendation. Last July, it was revealed the committee had found Cohn guilty of misconduct on three allegations: That he borrowed $100,000 from a client in 1966 Navy petty officer Phillip J. Nolan, refused AIDS test Sailor convicted in AIDS test case House OKs electronic privacy bill By BILL McCLOSKEY Associated Press ment, reduced him to the lowest enlisted rank and gave him a bad conduct discharge. Nolan's lawyer said he would appeal. Zemniak said the test is "medically necessary to insure the health of military personnel." Zemniak refused a defense motion to dismiss the charge against Nolan that he refused to take the blood test April 10.

Nolan, who handles aircraft supplies for Fighter Squadron 32 at Oceana Naval Air Station, had argued that the AIDS test violates his constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) A sailor who refused to take a blood test for AIDS was found guilty at a court-martial yesterday in the first unsuccessful challenge to the Navy's requirement that all personnel undergo the examination. Navy Capt. Daniel J.

Zem-niak found Petty Officer 2nd Class Phillip J. Nolan guilty of disobeying an order for refusing to take the test. Nolan also was found guilty of failing to deploy with his ship, the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, on May 6. The judge ordered Nolan, 25, to spend 45 days in confine of court order is necessary to get access to electronic records.

The document makes clear that it is a crime to use scanners or other radio receivers to listen in on car telephone calls, although members of the House subcommittee on courts, civil liberties and the administration of justice agreed this provision is unlikely to get strict enforcement. Cellular radio phone calls are transmitted over the air like a police radio signal, and some newer scanners can tune in to them just as easily as a reporter can listen to polide dispatches. Cordless phone conversations remain uni-protected. People who make it a habit to listen in could be prosecuted if there are complaints. The maximum penalty for most forms of illegal interception would be six months in jail and a $500 fine.

The legislation also makes it a crime to tap into a computer and change someone else's information being stored there as part of the communications process. federal access to private records, including the availability of electronic carbon copies of electronic mail and telephone messages stored in computers. Such communications would have the same protection as first-class mail. A prosecutor would have to show probable cause to suspect that a crime has been committed and get a court order to rummage through electronic files. However, law enforcement officers would not be required to follow the stricter guidelines that govern wiretapping in order to obtain stored records.

Wiretap authorization, usually available only to high-ranking officials involved in investigating certain crimes, would be necessary before the government could intercept electronic communications during transmission. Owners of businesses that store computerized information about other people were also promised a clearer picture of what type WASHINGTON Electronic mail, paging devices, cellular mobile telephones and data transmission would be given the same privacy protection as first class mail under legislation passed by the House yesterday. An identical measure is pending in the Senate. The legislation also outlines "clear and much needed processes for law enforcement personnel to follow when they are engaged in the interception of otherwise protected communications," said Rep. Patrick Swindall, R-Ga.

The legislation was backed by the Reagan Administration, civil liberties groups and the businesses involved in electronic communications. It passed on a voice vote without objection. The bill would result in the first major change of the privacy laws since 1968. It sets forth procedural boundaries for License lifted in sex-for-drugs case tions for Valium and other drugs in return for sexual intercourse. The charges, lodged by the state's Board of Professional Medical Conduct, said the sexual encounters had taken place at the women's homes and at the cardiologist's office at Buffalo General Hospital.

"It's all false," said Constant when asked about the charges. "It's all based on false ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) The medical license of a 63-year-old physician was suspended yesterday by state officials who charged that he had traded drug prescriptions for sexual favors from females as young as 15. In an eight-page list of charges, officials charged that Julius Constant of Buffalo had, from 1973 through the end of last year, given at least seven women money and prescrip Anti-nuke activist Caldicott retires Gunman holds hostages in Beverly Hills By CAROLYN LUMSDEN Associated Press Hunt said the man apparently made demands but he would not describe them. In an interview with the Mutual Broadcasting Network, a man who answered the store telephone identified himself as John and said he was the gunman.

He said the hostages included three men and two women. He said he went to the store because he believed Van Cleef Arpels sold him some bogus jewelry, according to Mutual's tapes of the interview. The bandit appeared to have been caught by surprise when officers, tipped by an employee who saw the gunman on closed-circuit security television, showed up outside the store, Griffey said. EVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) Heavily armed 'police surrounded an exclusive Rodeo Drive jewelry store yesterday after a young gunman took five people hostage in a botched robbery attempt, police said.

"We have been in contact with the suspect, but I can't say any more about the negotiations. We are just kind of in limbo right now," said police Lt. David Griffey. Police Lt. Bill Hunt said the gunman, in his early 20s and armed with a pistol, had taken five people hostage including an armed security guard.

The other four hostages also were believed to be employees of Van Cleef Arpels Inc. jewelry store, he said. i "NS i I -SI Is-. 4 A to deliver another blast at what she describes, in the title of a 1978 book, as "Nuclear Madness." "The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is not telling you the truth when the agency says no one has died from radiation in America," she told hundreds of protesters demonstrating several weeks ago against the reopening of the Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth. Her break from gloomy lectures came just before Chernobyl, the kind of nuclear disaster she had predicted for years.

At least 26 people have died from radiation sickness and injuries suffered in the April 26 explosion at the Soviet power plant. "It was inevitable," she said. "This is the beginning of many meltdowns. The Northern Hemisphere is in a certain way doomed." It was this vision of doom that first drew Caldicott to her work and that her critics attack as hyperbolic and traumatizing. Harvard social scientist Robert Coles called her statements the "exaggerated rhetoric of the polemicist." Sanford Gottlieb, a leader of United Campuses to Prevent Nuclear War, warned that students were "becoming numbed by the emphasis on nuclear blast, fire and radiation." Caldicott replied that her speeches have drawn millions into the anti-nuclear movement.

GLOUCESTER, Mass. The type of nuclear accident she warned against for more than a decade has come to pass, but Dr. Helen Caldicott remains largely removed from the modern anti-nuclear movement she helped inspire with her fiery doomsday speeches. "I've been doing this for 16 years and I'm very tired," said the Australian native, who left her teaching job at Harvard Medical School six years ago to become a full-time anti-nuclear activist. She announced recently that she was calling it quits.

"It's a very depressing subject, as you can well imagine," Caldicott, 47, said at her summer home in this fishing port north of Boston. "The more you get to know, the more depressing it gets. Hence I dream about it every night." Caldicott says she wants to stop the strident speeches, perhaps forever but perhaps only until she rests enough to take up the fight again. Now she swims every day in the river that runs in front of her house and she reads the works of Mahatma Gandhi, the pacifist Indian leader who also dropped out for a few years to spin cotton and contemplate ways to free his country from British rule. Still, Caldicott will sometimes sneak out of her early retirement Bodies resemble missing crime figures CHICAGO AP) Two bodies found buried in a northwestern Indiana cornfield resemble the descriptions of reputed crime figures Anthony and Michael Spilotro, reported missing for more than a week, authorities said yesterday.

The bodies, discovered Sunday by a farmer working on his land, were of two white males who apparently had been murdered, said Jerry Parker, a spokesman for the Indiana State Police. The bodies were found buried in shallow graves, and were covered with mud, making quick identification difficult, Parker said in a telephone interview. "They resemble the descriptions of those two individuals (the Spilotro brothers)," Parker said. "But we don't know that it's them. We are in the process of trying to make identification through fingerprints and dental charts." Friends and relatives of the Spilotros in Las Vegas, who spoke on condition they not be identified, said they had been notified of the discovery.

They said, however, that the bodies had not been positively identified. "We are investigating the discovery of the bodies as homicides," said Parker. "But the cause of death has not been determined." Dr. Helen Caldicott: retires from activism Reagan request to speak denied Insurance income said taxable By MICHAEL PUTZEL Associated Press IASHINGTON (AP) In fa move that will generate hundreds of millions of dollars for the federal gov O'Neill offered the president an opportunity to appear before a joint session of Congress, which he said would be more appropriate. The speaker said that in so doing, he was continuing "my practice of supporting any presidential request to address a joint session of the Congress.

I offered President Reagan the opportunity to do so tomorrow (Tuesday), just as I have done upon every such presidential request. "I was told by Mr. Reagan that the White House did not want the president to address a joint session, that the White House wants the president to appear before a regular meeting of the House," the statement added. "In 1969, President Nixon appeared sequentially before both Houses on the eve of the Vietnam War protests to thank members for supporting his conduct on the war." "Having the president appear before only one House to lobby for a legislative proposal would be unprecedented," O'Neill said. "The only justification for such an unorthodox procedure would be if the president would use the occasion to participate in open dialogue with members of the body.

formal address should properly be made before a joint session." "My offer for a joint session remains open," he said. "On Wednesday, the House votes on Contra aid for the third time this year. If the House passes Contra aid in any form, the Senate will have to act on the matter. Since future congressional action must occur in both houses, I believe that the proper forum for an address is the traditional joint session." Presidential addresses to a single house of the Congress are extremely rare. Speakes said his research showed only a half-dozen or so cases in which a president had gone before the House.

Most of the cases he cited involved cases in which U.S. troops were in combat Speakes said O'Neill, a steadfast opponent of Reagan on the issue, declined the president's request in a telephone conversation with Regan, Thousands of non-profit organizations engage in providing group insurance to members, the court was told. The Reagan administration said hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue were at stake. In other action, the court: Gave states greater latitude in determining which poor people qualify for Medicaid assistance. Rejected an appeal by air traffic controllers fired by the government for an illegal strike in 1981.

The controllers argued they have a right to their old jobs. ernment, the Supreme Court said yesterday that tax-exempt charitable organizations must pay taxes on the sale of group insurance to their members. In a 6-1 ruling involving the nation's largest lawyers group, the justices said such organizations must pay taxes on income earned by selling insurance to members. Also, the members may not escape paying taxes by claiming part of their premiums as charitable deductions, the court said. WASHINGTON President Reagan asked yesterday to address the House on the eve of its vote on his request for aid to Nicaraguan rebels, but House Speaker Thomas P.

O'Neill Jr. denied the request, saying it would be an "unorthodox procedure," virtually unprecedented in peacetime. Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan was "deeply disappointed" that he would not -be accorded the opportunity to make a final appeal for his $100 million aid package, scheduled for a House vote Wednesday. Speakes said White House chief of staff Donald T. Regan had called O'Neill yesterday afternoon to ask if the president might deliver a speech to the chamber today before leaving for a speech in Las Vegas and a week's vacation at his California ranch..