University Daily Kansan, April 10, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Bradley favored to win post
LOS ANGELES — Mayor Tom Bradley, one of the country's most popular black officials, and City Councilman John Ferraro ended a bitter, hard-fought campaign yesterday as votes were cast to decide who would become mayor of Los Angeles.
Despite optimism voiced by both men, polls indicated that Bradley would be the one rejoicing when he wins an unprecedented victory. The mayor of the nation's second largest city,
Officials predicted a 37 percent turnout in voting for the non-partisan primary candidate, going to run-off if Ferez and seven minor candidates Bradley short of a 50 percent majority.
Plane crash kills 14 in India
NEW DELHI, India — An Airian air force jet fighter on a training mission crashed into a village in northern India yesterday at least 14 villagers and residing six others.
The Press Trust of India, quoting the defense ministry, said the plane was on a routine training mission when it developed mechanical problems.
The pilot, the only person aboard, ejected safely after realizing he could not make an emergency landing or steer the plummeting jet clear of the village of Bhopir in Uttar Pradesh state.
Food poisoning strikes 1,500
SPRINGFIELD, Ill — The largest outbreak of salmonella food poisoning in U.S. history may have caused the deaths of 193 people in five states, health officials said yesterday.
The two deaths suspected of salmonella were both reported in Illinois. Most of the cases have been reported in the Chicago metropolitan area.
More than 2,242 cases of salmonella poisoning symptoms have been reported in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin, with at least 1,518 of the cases confirmed.
Victims receive sticky fingers
LONDON — Scotland Yard said yesterday it was looking for three gunmen who held up a Wimpy hamburger franchise Saturday, stole 6,000 pounds from the safe and used Superglue to stick the hands of three employees to the floor.
"One person did not stick well so they had to tie him up," a Scotland Yard
Two of the employees were locked in a freezer, two were stuck to the floor and another man who came unstuck was tied up.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Post guilty of libel, appeals court rules
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court yesterday reinstated a libel verdict against the Washington Post, saying the newspaper had a "reckless disgard" for the truth in an article about former Mobil Oil Corp. President William Tavolareas.
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in a 2-1 decision, said evidence introduced at the libel trial was sufficient to show the Post held "actual malice" toward Vawoularea when an article was published indicating he used his position at Mobil Oil to set up his son in a lucrative business.
business. The case now returns to the trial court to determine how much the Post must pay Tavoularea in damages.
Boufeiluille Jones, the Post's vice president and legal counsel, said the newspaper would ask for a review of the decision by the entire 10-member appeals court.
HE SAID THE newspaper management continued to believe the Mobil article was "carefully done" and "substantially accurate."
The libel suit stemmed from a Nov. 30, 1979, article written by Patrick Tyler that said Tavoulareas had used his position as Mobil chief to get his son, Peter, a job at Atlas Maritime Co., a London shipping management firm that did millions of dollars worth of business with Mobil.
The article also hinted that Tavoularea and Mobil may have violated securities laws by failing to disclose the younger Tavoularea's company involvement.
tarea company in Tavoulareas denied the story and demanded a retraction by Post editors. The Post refused and asserted the story was true. (And it was also false.)
The Tavoulareases subsequently filed the libel suit against the Washington Post Co.
THE JURY RULED that the newspaper story defamed Tavolareas and awarded him $250,000 in compensatory damages and $1.8 million in punitive damages.
But after receiving the verdict, the trial judge examined the evidence and threw out the jury's decision. He said "there was no reason" defendants had acted with actual malice.
But the appeals court disagreed. "At a minimum, the article implies that...William (Tavoulareas) misused Mobil assets and his position as president to advance his allegedly undeserving son," the court said.
majority, said the story was not "hot news" and the newspaper was under no deadline to publish it, "yet it contained misstatements of fact and law and defamatory implications
Judge George MacKinnon, writing for the
The court said the Post "deliberately slanted" the story and ignored evidence that would have portrayed Tavoulareas in a more favorable light.
In a harshly worded 49-page dissent, Judge Skelly Wright said the ruling "vastly increases journalistic liability" for articles concerning public figures.
Wright said the majority ruling chiselled into the protections of the First Amendment and could chill investigative journalism in the future.
Teen-age guerrilla's attack kills 2
"The message to the media will be unmistakable — steer clear of unpleasant news stories and comments about interests like Mobil or pay the price," he said.
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A teen-age guerrilla detonated a car packed with explosives near an Israeli checkpoint in southern Lebanon yesterday, killing two Israeli soldiers and wounding two others, the Israeli military said.
The Lebanese National Resistance Front guerrilla group issued an ambiguous communique saying, "There were several casualties among the Israelis, estimated at 50, in addition to the destruction of several vehicles." It was unclear whether the Front meant there were 50 Israelis at the scene or 50 killed or wounded.
The 16-year-old girl who was driving, identified as Sana Mohaydaleh, also was killed in the suicide attack, the Front said.
The teen-ager drove a Peugeot 504 automobile packed with about 440 pounds of TNT into a group of Israeli soldiers and vehicles on a road between the villages of Bater and Jezine. 23 miles southeast of Beirut, the guerrilla group said.
IN JERUSALEM, an Israeli military spokesman confirmed that a girl drove the car, but said that the auto did not "storm" into the soldiers as the guerrillas claimed. He said it stopped short of the checkpoint before exploding.
Beirut television showed what it said was film of Mohaydaleh — a member of the pro-Syrian Popular Syrian Party — in
which she talked about her suicide mission prior to leaving.
"I decided on martyrdom to free our land because I saw the misery of my countrymen under the occupation," the girl said. "I hope I will be successful and able to kill the highest number possible of our enemies. I hope that my soul will unite with the souls of all the martyrs before me."
Counting the two men killed yesterday, Israel says 649 of its soldiers have died in Lebanon since the June 1982 invasion to expel Palestine Liberation Organization
Earlier yesterday, Israeli warplanes attacked a Palestinian guerrilla base near Beirut, killing up to four people.
Polish priest burned in surprise attack
By United Press International
WARSAW, Poland - A masked man surprised a pro-Solidarity priest in his home, knocked him out with a blast of Mace-like gas and burned a V-sign into his chest with cigarettes, a Catholic official and a union source said yesterday.
Cardinal Franiciszek Macharski of Krakow said in a telex message to the church hierarchy that the Rev. Tadeusz Zaleski, 29, had been attacked Saturday at his home in the southern Polish city of Krakow.
"the priest was stunned and then his face, hands and body were burned," Macharski said in a message sent to Polish Primate
Jozef Glemp and Archbishop Bronislaw Dabrowski, who is secretary of the Polish Episcopate.
An independent Solidarity source reached in Krakow by telephone said Zaleski was an ardent supporter of the outlawed union.
The incident came a few weeks after the car of another pro-Solidarity cleric was stoned in Krakow and six months after dissident Reserv. Jerzy Popeluszkow was slain by three secret police agents in northern Poland.
The Solidarity source said Zaleski was walking to the basement of his house when he was confronted by a masked man and knocked out with a Mace like gas from a small container
"The priest collapsed and later woke up in pain as his hand and body were on fire," said the source.
'A V-sign was burned out on his breast' by about 30 cigarette burns, the source said.
Solidarity sympathizers use the V-sign symbol by raising two fingers during rallies and anti-state demonstrations in defiance of communist authorities.
The cardinal called on authorities to find the priest's assailant and assure the church that the incident would not be repeated.
Popieluszko was kidnapped and beaten and his bound body dumped into a reservoir near the northern city of Torun on Oct. 19 by the agents, who were sentenced to lengthy prison terms in February.
Ford, Carter lead experts in arms talk
By United Press International
ATLANTA — Former presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and many of the nation's top foreign policy experts joined with a key Soviet delegation yesterday to open an international conference on arms control.
control.
The five-day meeting at the Carter Center on the Emory University campus was called by Ford and Carter to seek resolution of differences among nations in the nuclear arms race and reductions in arms.
Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin led the Soviet delegation. Also attending are representatives from China, Korea, Japan, France, Great Britain and West Germany.
Other participants include former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; former secretaries of defense James Schlesinger and Harold Brown; former diplomat Charles W. Bernstein; former national security aides Zbigniew Brzezinski, McGeorge Bundy and Brent Scroewcroft.
The sessions were closed to the press and public yesterday and today. No reason was given for closing the sessions, but several participants, including Kissinger and Dobrynin, have said diplomacy required privacy
Carter, who entered the White House promising open negotiations, was quickly convinced of the merits of private meetings between world leaders. He has said he wanted the Carter Center to provide a place for such meetings.