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Tuesday, March 21, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Begin in U.S. to talk to Carter about Mid East peace prospects
WASHINGTON (AP)—Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrived in Washington yesterday for talks with President Jimmy Carter on Middle East peace prospects and the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon.
A marine band greeted Begin as he arrived at Andrews Air Force Base from New York in advance of Carter's return from a St. Simons Island, Ga., vacation retreat. Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance headed the U.S. welcoming delegation.
Begin made no statement on his arrival.
Meanwhile, Israel's U.N. ambassador, Chaim Herzog, said in New York that the first steps were taken yesterday to implement a U.N. Security Council resolution and he indicated there was a cease-fire in the area.
A WHITE HOUSE official traveling with Carter said that "it is the United States' desire that the talks on Lebanon not be the dominant topic." He said overall peace prospects in the Middle East also should be a focus of the talks.
In another development, the State Department announced that the United States was responding to Lebanon's request for assistance to refugees, saying more than 150,000 had been forced to flee the fighting. The department said it was responding to Lebanon and help amounting to several million dollars would be provided after additional consultation.
U. S.-ISRAELI problems were aggravated by last week's israel attacks across the southern Lebanese border after a Palestinian terrorist raid in Israel 10 days ago.
The Carter administration has said that the Israeli response was out of proportion to the provocation. The administration has helped push through a U.N. resolution calling on Israel to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, 4,900 man peacekeeping force for the area. Israel has long been skeptical of U.N. efforts to ease tensions in the Middle East. Israeli government
Before his departure from Jerusalem Saturday, he told us that he had a fortune in the mining industry and no destiny.
southern Lebanon during his meetings with Carter.
officials have doubt over the property of Sunday's U.S. Security Council accuser.
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The appeals court's order for a new trial was left standing by the Supreme Court.
SURVIVING RELATIVES of the four slain students and the nine students wounded in the incident sued state officials for allowed civil rights violations.
The United Mine Workers rank and file, which has the final say on whether to end the 106-day coal strike, began meeting in union locations yesterday for a first war look at the contract that could halt the walkout by next week.
Israeli officials said Begin would outline his ideas for dealing with the problem in
UMW looks at offer
A 1975 trial cleared Rhodes and the National Guardmen of all charges. One of the jurors had been assaulted and threatened during the trial, however, and a federal appeals court said the effect of those incidents on the outcome should have been
WASHINGTON (AP) - Ohio authorities must face a $46 million damage suit for National Guard shootings of Kent State in 1970, the Supreme Court said yesterday.
IN A BUSY DAY, the justice also considered three significant free-press cases. In one, the court agreed to decide whether public officials suing for libel may force the judge to hold their thousands, opinions and conclusions were while preparing a news story.
By denying the appeals of Gov. James Rhodes and members of the Ohio National Guard, the court cleared the way for a new federal trial in Cleveland.
Decision would allow new Kent State trial
National Guard troops killed four students and wounded nine others in a 13-second outburst of gunfire May 4, 1970, during a raid on Cambodia by U.S. troops in Vietnam.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in an unprecedented decision, ruled that
Reaction varied from disappointed opposition to resigned acceptance.
THE SUPREME COURT's eventual decision can carry tremendous impact for all future libel suits filed by public officials or public figures.
Allowing such questions would "strike at the very heart of the vital human component of the editorial process," the appeals court said in ruling against former Air Force Ll. Col. Anthony Herbert in a libel action against CBS and others.
*Yesterday's meetings were the first of hundreds of meetings held across acclimation today.*
journalists have a constitutional right not to answer such questions.
Under a landmark 1964 decision by the court, such persons must prove "actual malice"—whether the statement was made "with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not."
Herbert, who gained national attention in 1971 when he formally charged superior officers in Vietnam of covering up war crimes, was praised widely and maliciously denounced him as a liar.
HERBERT $44.7 MILLION damage suit is still pending but Herbert's lawyers have been barred from asking Bardo Lance, a producer for CBS "60 Minutes" program, about his "sister of the Killer," Feb. 4, 1973, telecast called "The Selling of Colonel Herbert."
In the two other free-press cases, the justices left standing a Florida law that bars reporters from secretly recording interviews and left untouched a ruling that high school students have no constitutional right to distribute or publish a sex survey.
so there was no clear indication of how Friday's vote would go.
Prudy's vote would go.
In Noton, Va., Bill Conner of Local 8017
said, "I'm going to vote no. I could hold out a
year if I need to."
But fellow local member Orcall Conn said, before locals have had about all they travel finance.
IN WASHINGTON, UMW president Ar-
lane H. McGrath the past month had good chances for success.
Local and district UMW leaders were less certain. Many said members were ready to give only grudging approval – if that, and bank and file reactions seemed to bear that witness.
West Frankfort, Ill., president James
Bernhard of Local 2200 said, "All in all, it’s
a great opportunity for our staff."
still not just exactly a good contract, as far as I'm concerned, but I can live with it."
Over the weekend, local leaders were briefed in district meetings on the 28-page contract that was hammered out last week by the union's bargainers with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association. Yesterday, the first copies were being at the start of the first meetings, and local leaders were explaining the new proposal.
THE COAL MINERS have demonstrated their independence—first by defying their leadership two years before, then by contract settlement; then by defying President Carter when the members almost universally ignored a Taft-Hartley back-to-work order obtained by the Miners.
A federal judge in Washington last Friday refused to renew the temporary order, saying miners weren't paying any attention to it.
Meanwhile, national production of soft coal remained cut by about half, and coal stockplumes remained short at utilities in Appalachia and parts of the Midwest and East. The decreased coal supply has forced power cutbacks that have been blamed for leaving more than 20,000 workers laid off each day.
Two killed in shell blast in Rilev trailer residence
RILEY (AP)—An 18-inch military tank shell exploded in an mobile home yesterday afternoon killing a Fort Riley soldier and his two friends who found the shell, and injuring five others.
The blaze knocked out the walls of the single-width 12-by-50 mobile home, causing the roof to collapse. Windows in a neighboring trailer were blown out.
The trailers were in the Riley Mobile Home Park along U.S. 24 near the northern edge of Fort Riley. The park is about a mile from the Fort Riley tank range.
One of the two killed was thrown into the vard by the explosion.
Injured in the blast and ensuing fire were the soldier's wife, mother, father and two children.
Manhattan, about 15 miles away, but their conditions were not immediately known. Officials were withholding the names of the dead.
The father of the victims told Riley County police the 12-year-old found the shell in a ravine about 100 yards east of the trailer park.
He said the boy was showing the shell to him, who was home when it slipped from his hand and exited.
THEY WERE TAKEN to hospitals in
Authorities refused to speculate on how the shell got into the ravine, but Alvan Johnson, assistant director of Riley County police, said it was not unusual for shells to be found around the outer reaches of the fort.
JOHNSON (AP) - Striking farmers in JOHNSON Kansas plan to plow up a portion of their wheat crop tomorrow as a agricultural movement.
Plowdown gains support among Kansas farmers
Bob Duran, spokesman for the state strike office in Johnson, said 61 farmers had signed up by noon yesterday to take part in the plowdown, committing from 20 to 100 percent of their crops to destruction.
FARMERS SAY they also intend to fence off part of their wheat crop for livestock grazing.
A nationwide wheat plowdown is scheduled to begin today, according to Jerry Wright of the organization's national headquarters in Springfield, Colo.
But the plowdown action in 22 southwestern counties is the only activity scheduled in Kansas this week.
Some of the farmers plan to plow up their wheat at one time, Duran said, while others say they will plow up 5 percent a week.
A check with the other five farm strike regions in the state revealed that farmers there will have to wait until dry before they can take any action.
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Although ITT Chairman Harold S. Geneen also had been a prospective target in the department's perjury investigation, he was not named in yesterday's action and the department said that no other actions were planned.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department yesterday charged two officials of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp, with allegedly giving false testimony nearly five years ago to the U.S. Senate about ITT's work with the CIA in
Attorney General Griffin B. Bell announced that two criminal informations, each containing six felony counts, had been filed in U.S. District Court against Edward J. Gerrity Jr., 34, a senior vice president of the regional regional manager of the corporation and a former Latin American official of the conglomerate.
The action against Gerrity and Berreler was made on the last day that charges could be brought before the five-year statute of limit on liability. The case was within two weeks of that expiration.
with the 1973 investigation by the Senate subcommittee on multinational corporations into ITT's activities in the 1970 presidential election in Chile.
ALL THREE MEN testified at the hearings that ITT had not acted in any substantive way to prevent the election of Marxist Salvador Alende as president of
BOTH MEN were charged with perjury, obstruction of government proceedings and making false statements in a government matter. The charges were in connection
Gerrity was charged specifically with three counts of perjury, one count of obstructing governmental proceedings, one count of submarination of perjury and one count of making a false statement in a government matter.
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ITT heads face charges
1980年, it was disclosed in late 1979 that the equipment and ITT had funded Alliance electronics.
Berrellese was charged with one count of conspiracy, three counts of perjury, one count of obstructing governmental affairs and a false statement in a government matter.
The maximum penalties are five years in prison and $2,000 in fines for each count of perjury and subsecution of perjury; five years and $2,000 for obstruction of a court order; six years and $10,000 for conspiracy and making a false statement in a government matter.
Harris confirmed as energy head
Rep. Arden Dierdorff, R-Smith Center, offered the amendment to double the amount of money, contending that the need of the local units is great. His amendment failed, 62-54, with the vote largely along party lines. Republicans supported the bigger appropriation and Democrats opposed it.
TOPEKA (AP) — The controversial appointment of Steven Harris as director of the Kansas Energy Office was confirmed yesterday by the Kansas Senate after a 30-hour debate in which the beleaguered director was labeled an incompetent by his opponents.
The vote on the appointment was 25-7,
with five senators refusing to vote.
The Kansas House tentatively approved a bill yesterday to appropriate $5 million from the state general fund to local units of the Kearney water pitole damage to roads and streets.
The Senate Education Committee yesterday stripped from a house-passed bill that would allow students to vote in the state senate.
That and several other confirmation votes
the only actions taken by the Senate
yelected.
BUT BEFORE the measure cleared the preliminary test, House Republicans sought to increase the amount to $10 million, criticized the precedent the bill would set.
developing a statewide program for determining the amount of student learning and whether remedial instruction should go into effect in the 1979-80 school year.
program of competency-based education
would allow the language to set up a pilot
program.
THE PANEL won't necessarily use the House's plan for setting up the pilot program in 20 of the state's more than 300 unified district districts next school year.
That pilot plan was to be the basis for
Landlord shoots deaf boy after warnings go unheard
Ciprian's relatives said they couldn't understand why the boy would have entered the building, four blocks from his home on the lower East Side of Manhattan.
Paul Monaco, 33, was to be arraigned on a murder charge yesterday in Manhattan Criminal Court. He told police he shot Ciprian in the head Sunday after the boy and another man both took their warnings and climbed out down the second-floor window and down a ladder.
Monaco told police he thought Ciprian and the other youth were planning to rob the
NEW YORK (AP) - Thirteen-year-old Ciprian Seimolt could not hear the landlord yell at him to stop as he climbed out of the window of a vacant apartment. Nor could the deaf boy hear the rifle shot that killed him moments later.
The dead youth's father said the boy generally played with younger children because of his physical handicaps. "What kind of trouble could he get in? He only played with kids five, six, and seven years old."
The child suffered from a chronic heart condition that left him physically and intellectually underdeveloped, friends and relatives said.
vacant apartment he saw them enter. The landlord he hurried to his first-floor apartment, loaded his legally registered 30-30 caliber rifle and ran to the second floor.
Monaco said he shouted in vain for the boys to stop and then fire a single shot from the rifle, which dropped the 4-foot-8, foot-25 feet from a ladder to the alley below.
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