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T7V Friday, July 22, 1977 Santa Cruz Sentinel 5 iCharismaticsi Turn Up By Millions In Kansas Hitchhiker Ruling Feminists Are Bitter LOS ANGELES (AP) -Feminists have reacted bitterly to a judge who reversed a rape conviction and suggested that women who hitchhike should expect sexual advances. "We find it outrageous that a judge can make such a decision," Joan Robbins, co-director of the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women, said Thursday. "He obviously doesn't understand what it means to be a woman in this society and what it means to be a rape victim," she added. "We feel this decision gives a green light to men who pick up female hitchhikers to assault, rape or molest them." Gloria Allred, Los Angeles Chapter coordinator for the National Organization of Women (NOW) said the judge's decision represents a step backward for the women's John Moody lifti hii "landing gear" as he fcv makes a running takeoff In the motortied "yone can fly the powered glider In the back hang glider he designed. Moody says almost yard.

(AP Laserphoto) Jogging Has Him All Up In The Air By GEORGE CORNELL KANSAS CITY (AP) -They lift their arms upward, eyes closed, their lips murmuring in seemingly ecstatic prayer, a look of apparent bliss on their faces. That's a typical mark of the "charismatics" who have turned up by the millions lately in the country's staid, mainline churches, and who have flooded this heartland city with outspoken Christian fervor. "The Holy Spirit is working more mightily among people today than in centuries." said the Rev. Charles Murphy, an Episcopal pastor from Nashville, Tenn. On Friday, the third day of their biggest, most ecumenical national conference, about 45,000 "baptized-in-spirit" Roman Catholics and Protestants met in various arenas to analyze the impact.

"It is a spiritual renewal sweeping the earth in our day," the Rev. Larry Chris-tenson of Northfield, a Lutheran charismatic leader, told a vast rally Thursday night In Arrowhead Stadium. "Hallelujah, our God reigns," they sang, swaying, clapping their hands in rhythym. Ruth Carter Stapleton, President Carter's sister and an evangelist-psychologist, told the crowd of various instances in her ministry in which she said Jesus had brought "inner healing" to persons with emotional problems. "It's tragic that many church people don't believe i 1 if 1 movement.

She said it also indicates that justice is "succumbing to the fantasies of the male who wants to think women want rape." Barbara Jacobson, a member of Women Against Rape and Men Against Rape.concurred, saying the decision perpetuates the myth that rape is a sexual assault. "Rape is a crime of violence," she said. "When a woman makes a decision to hitchhike, she is only deciding on a ride, and not on a sexual encounter. She is certainly not making a conscious decision to be raped." On Wednesday, Justice Lynn D. Compton of the 2nd District Court of Appeals, overturned the rape conviction of Clifford Alan Hunt.

Compton wrote in support of his decision: "The lone female hitchhiker in the absence of an emergency situation, as a practical matter, advises all who pass by that she is willing to enter the vehicle with anyone who stops and in so doing advertises she has less concern for the consequences than the average female. "Under such circumstances it would not be unreasonable for a man in the position of defendant here to believe that the female would consent to sexual relations." Despite his admonition to women hitchhikers, Compton based his ruling on the fact that the trial judge erred in his instructions to the jury about admitting evidence of a prior sex offense by Hunt. Hunt had picked up a waitress, Chris Tobian of Thousand Oaks, on the Ventura Freeway after she left her car with a mechanic. Tobian testified that she yielded to Hunt's sexual suggestions because she feared he would rape and murder her. A friend of hers had been raped and killed in the same area, she said.

In reversing the verdict, Compton noted that Hunt used neither physical force nor expressly uttered threats against the woman. Ruth Carter Stapleton, President Carter's sister and an evangelist-psychologist, left, joins in singing behind the podium during the National Conference on Charismatic" Renewal In Christian Churches in Kansas City on Thursday night. (AP Laserphoto) Moody, who says he has sold several dozen kits domestically and in Europe, Australia and South America, says he uses a standard 12.5 horsepower, 2-cycle go-kart engine to crank the tiny propeller behind the pilot's head. "It's noisy," he says, "but when you get up you turn it off and just ride the currents." Moody, who has taken his glider up to 8,000 feet, chortles at stories of how non-powered pilots drive long distances to steep cliffs and spend hours dragging gliders uphill for 15-second flights. "When I start getting too low, I just kick the motor back on and up I go again," he says.

Moody says his powered glider not only allows flying from flat ground, but also makes it easier and safer for the beginner. "With the engine, you can fly under more controlled conditions," he says. "You learn only a few feet off the ground in an open field rather than jumping off a mountain. If you crash, it's more like falling off a bicycle." Moody, who says he has heard of no serious injuries among his customers, says would-be powerized glider pilots should have average coordination and the patience to proceed cautiously as they learn to fly. "It's not for daredevils, even though that's what a lot of people think," he says.

By TIMOTHY HARPER KANSASVILLE, Wis. (AP) When John Moody jogs, he often ends up a mile above the ground. Moody walks out his back door, straps himself into his 80-pound motorized hang glider, turns it on and runs across the yard, about the length of a tennis court. The whole thing takes a few seconds, and his "motor scooter of the skies," is airborne. His tennis shoes, or "landing gear," dangle for a moment before he pulls them up.

"It's just a ball," says Moody, 34, a short, stocky former electrical engineer who designed the powered hang glider after becoming frustrated by the Midwest's lack of big hills and open spaces for soaring. Moody sells the powered glider in $1,500 kits by mail order. "The concept is not new," he says. "Some people think I'm crazy, but this is one of the most stable and most forgiving and easiest to fly airplanes in the world." It's so easy to fly, he says, that his customers don't need any pilot training, Not even ground school. On May 13, the Federal Aviation Administration ruled that the motorized hang gliders are not airplanes and that neither machines nor pilots need to be licensed, registered, certified or inspected.

Control In Yosemite Fire Looms MARIPOSA (AP) A fire that charred 280 acres of heavy brush and timber five miles southwest of Yosemite National Park was expected to be contained late tonight, the state Division of Forestry said. The fire, described by officials as the biggest in Central California this year, was centered in rugged terrain on Chowchilla Mountain about 10 miles east of here. Officials said about 400 firefighters were battling the blaze, aided by airtankers, fire engines and bulldozers. It had been burning since Thursday morning, officials said. Don Jones, state Division of Forestry spokesman, said the fire was about 75 per cent contained.

"It's almost definite that it won't get away from us," he said. Jones said, ground crews God's power is being made manifest among his people." Altogether there are an estimated 10 million charismatics in the country, half of them in the old-time holiness Pentecostal churches, the other half newly involved in the major middle-class denominations, Catholic and Protestant. in physical healing through prayer, but it really does take place," said the Rev. Francis MacNutt of St. Louis, a Roman Catholic specialist in the field.

"It's needed especially in sophisticated civilizations, such as in Europe and the United States. Thank God, it's beginning to happen. Woman Sues To Allow Her Mother To Die SANTA ANA (AP) A New- alive by doctors, port Beach woman has filed a The suit filed in Orange suit asking that her paralyzed, County Superior Court could be blind and comatose 83-year-old a test case for the state's seven-mother be permitted to die month-old law permitting per-naturally, instead of being kept sons to be taken off life-sustain ing medical equipment if they wish. The suit was filed on behalf of Mrs. Marie Welday by her daughter and guardian, Marie Leuck.

were hampered by dense brush, high winds and darkness as they worked to extinguish the Heiress Receives License To Head Vegas Tropicana fire. The U.S. Forest Service con tributed "hot spot" crews and four engines to aid local fire fighters. Crews worked a half mile ahead of the fire, digging fire breaks and clearcutting trees The state Division of Forestry fought the blaze with five crews, 15 engines and three bulldozers. "It was moving pretty fast," Jones said.

"But it's slowed down quite a bit. Our men have ment plan, and then stepped out of management and into a landlord position with the Jaffes. The Doumanis are now building a $20 million, 22-story tower that will add 540 rooms to the Tropicana, for a total of about 1,100 rooms. Mrs. Briggs said the addition "will turn this into a very viable enterprise.

We should be in a strong profit position." The Gaming Commission postponed action on a recommendation by its investigatory arm, the state gaming Control Board, that Joe Agosto, who runs the "Follies Bergere" show at the club, be called in for licensing. The GCB recommended the action on grounds Agosto may have associated with unsavory types. Under the licensing plan, Mrs. Briggs serves as president, treasurer and director. Anthony Torcasio serves as vice-president, secretary and director, with an option to acquire a five per cent interest from Mrs.

Briggs. Briggs will hold most of the stock in the operation. Other interest holders include Minneapolis, businessman Diel Gustafson, with 20 per cent, Las Vegas gaming figure Paul Lowden with seven per cent, and other smaller shareholders. The Tropicana's money woes reached a peak while Gustafson operated the club from 1971 to 1974. He launched an expansion program, only to have a big loan to fund further expansion fall through when a lending firm folded.

The club had also reportedly been victimized by an organized scam involving nonpayment of big gambling debts. Gustafson sold most of his interest in September 1974. The land on which the club is located is owned by Eugene Jaffe of Chicago and other members of his family. During the emergency licensing period, a series of investors came and went. Las Vegas brothers Ed and Fred Doumani put together the initial invest CARSON CITY, Nev.

(AP) -The Nevada Gaming Commission has permanently approved licensing for heiress Mitzi Stauffer Briggs of San Francisco as head of the Tropicana hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The action Thursday ended a period of nearly three years in which the club, long a landmark on the Strip, operated under emergency licensing and survived a series of financial hassles. Mrs. Briggs, granddaughter of the founder of Stauffer Chemical said after the Gaming Commission decision that finalization of licensing "puts everything in order. Now I hope we can turn this into a really great operation." Mrs.

Briggs' legal counsel, Shannon Bybee of Las Vegas, said the permanent icensing removes a "cloud" which existed under the emergency license, in trying to arrange for financing of the club. Mrs. Briggs declined to say how much of her own money she has pumped into the club so far. But sources say the sum is more than $7 million. Under the plan approved by gaming authorities, Mrs.

been able to catch it pretty well." Jones said excessive dryness had hurt containment efforts, especially in higher elevations. An earlier fire that blackened about 200 acres in the Stanislaus National Forest about 30 miles northwest of here, was brought under control at 6:00 p.m. Thursday, a U.S. Forest Service spokesman said. About 350 of the original 500 man-crew remained on the lines' for "mop-up" operations, the spokesman said.

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