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IX Weather Coastal low clouds extending Inland night and morning Local drizzle Cooler with highs in the 60s to a mid 70s Small craft advisory Includ- ing Suisun Bay and the west Delta for winds 15 to 25 mph 'h edition of ths North East Gav InHpnpnripnt- nnH rtn-vot-t-r Concorde landings Judge orders UC to admit student 1 Sylvia McLaughlin named winner of Benjamin Ide Wheeler Award A woman who studied French in college and then went on to help start and win the battle to save San Francisco Bay has been named the 1977 recipient of Berkeleys Benjamin Me Wheeler Award She is Sylvia McLaughlin a Berkeley resident who in 1962 wiht two other women founded the Save San Francisco Bay Assn whose efforts led to the Legislatures creation of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) and a remarkable rebirth of the rimarily an armchair conser-' vationist until she joined Mrs Clark Kerr and Mrs Charles Gulick to luanch Save-the-Bay Mrs McLaughlins efforts became nationwide as a director of the National Audubon Society and National Recreation and Park Assn A Denver native she came to Berkeley in 1949 as the wife of Donald McLaughlin former University of California Regent Most of her civic work has been in Berkeley where she joined with others to form Urban Care as a forum for discussing the problems of the city in the restless 1960s Created in response to a plan to widen 50 streets Urban Care recruited members from throughout Berkeleys diverse populace By The Associated Press 'lhe proposed extension of landing rights for the Concorde supersonic jetliner at 13 US airports generated protest in some ot the cities while oificials in the others greeted the decision warmly And across the Atlantic the builders of the Anglo-French craft also were divided their reaction Friday to the Carter administrations announcement that opened the way for use of the Concorde on a permanent basis in the United States beginning next year The 11 new cities on the list plus New York and Washington DC would receive federal permission for Concorde landings only after the federal government finished action on a new noise rule for the sleek aircraft That process should take about four months officials said The cities would be permitted to ban the Concorde on their own through reasonable nondis-criminatory noise rules In Los Angeles airport officials said It cannot land here We will not permit it to land There also was official opposition in San Francisco Boston Seattle and Chicago David Davis head of Bostons Logan International Airport called the Concorde a terrible noise polluter that will not be allowed to land At the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport an official said Were pleased The news was greeted positively in Miami Anchorage Alaska and in Philadelphia where officials previously asked that the jet be granted landing rights But environmental groups in those cities said they would fight any moves to allow the aircraft to land Officials in Honolulu and Houston were non-committal Washingtons Dulles airport where the Concorde has been landing experimentally and New Yorks John Kennedy Interna- (Turn to Page 4 Col 1) No Concorde at SF Airport SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Even if the federal government permits the supersonic Concorde to fly to San Francisco local officials say they wont let it land The Concorde simply does not meet San Franciscos antinoise requirements and therefore will not be allowed to land at our airport Mayor George Moscone said Friday His comment came after the Carter administration opened the way for the controversial highflying jetliner to land next year in (Turn to Page 4 Col 2) INDEX For late papers call the Gazette circulation department 843-4800 BEFORE 6:30 pm To reach the news department ONLY call 843-4809 after 6:30 pm Area News 2 Church News 7 Classified 11-19 Comics 6 Coming Events 2 Crossword 6 Happenings 8 Horoscope 6 Sports 9 10 TV-Entertainment 5 Vital Statistics 19 Now 11 years old Urban Care has focussed on supporting the citys central area ana strengthening neighborhoods It has worked for creation of the citys Architectural Heritage Commission and to protect Berkeleys bayfront Mrs McLaughlins conservation work sparked by a 1960s plan to fill 2000 acres of the Bay led to service on city and county committees She is chairman of UCs Water Resources Center Advisory Council and a director of San Franciscos Exploratorium She was a delegate to the 1963 White House Conference on (Turn to Page 4 Col 3) violated Bakkes equalprotection rights under the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution and ordered him admitted But the US Supreme Court blocked that ruling from taking effect while the university appealed In a long-awaited friend-ofthe-court brief submitted this week the Justice Department argued that the California Supreme Court was wrong in its decision The nations high court is scheduled to hear arguments in the Bakke case Oct 12 A ruling in favor of Bakke could effect -minority-preference programs in schools nationwide (Turn to Page 4 Col 2) system Their greatest victory came in 1954 when the Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation as inherently uneaual Now the nations highest court is considering a case many constitutional scholars believe could yield a decision equally historic A year and nine days ago the California Supreme Court invoked the 14th Amendment to strike down a special admissions program used by a state-run medical school to give minority students a boost The court said the program discriminated against a white man by denying him equal protection Israelis shell Palestinians in Lebanon Beirut Lebanon (AP) Israeli gunners shelled Palestinian positions in southern Lebanon today as the United Nations tried to arrange a cease-fire to evacuate its two observers from the embattled town of Khiam A Palestinian spokesman in Beirut otlered to accept a temporary cease-fire at the hilltop town three miles from the border where guerrillas held off Lebanese Christian rightists for a 10th day The Israeli aggressors and their rightist allies should first stop shooting the spokesman said We are only answering fire Once they stop we stop" Tne Phalange radio station retracted a claim by the Christians that they had captured Khiam focus of the fighting that erupted Sept 15 across southern Lebanon The broadcast said the battle continued today and Israeli gunners on their side of the border began firing at dawn trying to dislodge the Palestinian defenders from Khiam and other guerrilla strongholds along the 60-mile border Two UN soldiers an American and Frenchman have been trying to leave their observation post in Khiam for a week They told UN headquarters in New York Friday they had enough food and water for only a few more days The two observers and UN officials in Beirut have been trying to arrange a cease-fire to allow the men to leave The fighting is a carry-over from the 1975-76 Lebanese civil war between leftists and rightists The Israelis and Christians are trying to keep the Palestinians from reestablishing bases in southern Lebanon for crossborder raids on Israel Palestinians however hit three Israeli border settlements with rockets this week Guerrilla spokesmen said the strikes were a retaliation for the Israeli bombardments of guerrilla strongholds AP Laserphoto LOCKED IN SILENCE Donald Lang shown himself He is unable to speak hear read write behind bars in Chicago's Cook County jail in or learn sign language See story on page 4 1966 is charged with murder but cant defend Federal judge orders UC to admit white student in to medical school SYLVIA MCLAUGHLIN her efforts led to BCDC Committee to study UC investments The University of California has taken another step closer to allowing social responsibility to enter into its controversial stock investment policies William Coblentz chairman of the board of regents yesterday named three fellow regents to a special committee that has been authorized to study the question of social responsibility in managing UCs $19 billion investment portfolio Specifically the committee will draft a statement defining principles governing UCs investment practices ana consider recommending whether UC should establish a panel to advise the regents investment committee on social issues Coblentz was empowered to name the committee by a vote of the full board at a meeting last week in Los Angeles after a measure calling upon UC to sell off its stock in companies doing business in South Africa failed A companion measure asking the regents to establish an advisory group to advise the regents investment committee also failed The vote to establish the special committee was a compromise measure which depending on who is appointed to it would have major or no impact on UCs current practice of voting stock proxies with corporate management Coblentz a longtime advocate of hiring an outside consultant to advise UC how to cast proxies in shareholder proposals involving social issues has appointed a committee favoring his view Named yesterday were liberal Stanley Sheinbaum one of six regents who voted last week to sell off stock in companies doing business in South Africa and two conservative regents opposed to dives- titure as well as socially responsible investing They are William Wilson and Robert 0 Reynolds But Coblentz and two other regents favorable to outside investment counseling will meet with the committee giying it a majority (Turn to Page 4 Col 4) Allan Paul Bakke a white civil engineer who decided relatively late in life to become a doctor was the victim erf racial discrimination the court said Bakke ha carried his case against the University of California at Davis Medical School to the states highest court after being refused admission to the school in 1973 and 1D7-I He claimed the universitys special admissions program which reserved 16 of the 100 openings in each entering class for disadvantaged students was really a racial quota that placed less qualified reserving 16 of the 100 places in each medical school class for disadvantaged minorities While the legality of minority admissions remains to be resolved in the case of Allan Bakke now before the US Supreme Court Mrs Clancy would suffer if she were not admitted immediately MacBride said Bakke another white student was rejected by the Davis medical school in 1973 and 1974 and was not placed on the waiting list He filed suit saying lessqualified minorities were admitted under the special admissions program The California Supreme Court ruled last year that the program SACRAMENTO Calif (AP) -In a setback for the University of Californias minority admissions program a federal judge has ordered the admission of Rita Clancy a white medical school applicant Mrs Clancy a 22-year-old Russian immigrant will enter classes next Monday at the UC Davis medical school which had placed her at the top of its waiting list US District Court Judge Thomas MacBride issued a temporary restraining order Friday night requiring the university to admit her He said there was a ood likelihood she would have een admitted but for a program Focus Constitutions 14th Amendment key to Bakke case black hispanic and Asian- American applicants ahead of him The California court said the 14th Amendment applies to any person and its lofty purpose to secure compatible with the premise that some races may be afforded higher degree of protection against unequal treatment than others 1 While some affirmative actions were proper taking race into consideration for admissions could not meet constitutional changes the California court said The nations leading civil rights attorneys most of whom admittedly were unaware of the Bakke WASHINGTON (AP) The Constitutions 14th Amendment which 109 years ago held out to blacks the promise of full membership in American society soon may be the instrument by which a devastating blow is dealt to the nations minority civil rights movement The amendment ratified in 1868 granted citizenship to recently freed slaves and ordered all states not to deny to any person the equal protection of tne laws Civil rights activists have employed those words ever since in efforts to stamp out what they perceived to be vestiges of the slave case until the California Supreme Court decision was handed down recognized immediately the potential impact If Bakke wins the differences between school programs wont matter said Ralph Smith a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and member of the National Conference of Black Lawyers A Bakke victory jeopardizes every program it could spark challenges to every schools affirmative action program "To say there would be 1000 (Turn to Page 4 Col 1) i i 31 4.