University Daily Kansan, February 19, 1985
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NATION AND WORLD
NEWS BRIEFS
Death mars carnival revelry
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Twenty-six people have died since last Friday in the freezed activity surrounding the city's annual Carnival, police said yesterday.
The five-day Carnival ends on Ash Wednesday, beginning of the Catholic observance of Lent.
Thatcher will discuss strike
Carnival violence has included six damages at Copacabana and Ipanema beach.
LONDON — Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher agreed yesterday to meet union leaders for the first time to discuss Britain's 47-week-old coal strike, as almost 1,000 more miners gave up and returned to work.
It was the first time Thatcher has agreed to discuss the strike with miners since they walked off the job March 12 of last year.
Norman Willis, leader of the nationwide Trades Union Congress, asked for the meeting Sunday.
Meese filibuster planned
WASHINGTON — Sen. David Boren, D-Dakla, plans to filibuster the long-delayed nomination of Edwin Meesae as attorney general unless Congress promises to take quick action on the farm credit crisis, sources said yesterday.
The Mmees nomination, already delayed by the year, ran into a new roadblock with the
Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kansas, plans to begin Senate debate today on President Reagan's highly controversial choice to head the justice
Boren doesn't object to Meese's nomination, but he will filibuster unless farm legislation is acted upon first, a spokesman for the senator said.
Amputee ends 3.300-mile iog
LOS ANGELES — A telephone call from President Reagan and a cheering crowd of 400 well-wishers yesterday welcomed a one-legged cancer victim who jogged across the continent carrying the message that anyone can overcome a handicap.
Jeff Keith, 22, of Fairfield, Conn., treated
the end of a nine-month, 3,400-mile advise
"There were many doubts, many who didn't believe I'd complete this journey" Keith
Compiled from United Press International reports.
"I always knew I would to it get my message across to America. My message is, I'm not physically handicapped — I'm physically challenged."
Doctors happy with state of new heart patient
By United Press International
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - With a new mechanical heart beating in his chest, Murray P. Haydon gave nurses a thumbs-up sign yesterday but doctors expressed concern about the condition of artificial heart patient Bill Schroeder
Allan M. Lansing, chief medical spokesperson for Humana Hospital Audubon, said Haydon was in excellent shape, very healthy and well-fed. The third permanent artificial heart recipient.
At a late afternoon medical briefing,
Hayton's condition was "good.
It's quiteitchy."
down the corridor from Schroeder, who has not been well enough to leave Humana Hospital Audubon since his Nov. 25 implant.
Halydon, 58, of Louisville, was recovering from Sunday's implant in intensive care just
LANSING'S ASSESSMENT OF Schroeder, 53, of Jasper, Ind., was the most pessimistic made by the Aubudon surgical team since he first reported that he left him briefly paralyzed and speechless.
Schroeder's spirits have declined because of repeated delays in his hospital discharge caused by an unexplained fever that has persisted on and off since Feb. 1, Lansing
"He was on the verge of leaving the hospital, and now the door is slammed in his face again." Lansing said.
Schroeder's emotional state and his recurring fever could be a threat to his health, Lansing said yesterday morning.
But at the late afternoon briefing, Lansing said he had noted progress by Schroeder
He said if Schroeder continued to recover, he might be able to make short trips outside the city.
HOWEVER, HAYDON, WAS in high spirits. Lansing said Haydon had received visits from relatives and at one point waved to his attending doctors and nurses, giving
Haydon had difficulty speaking, Lansing said, because of soreness caused by a tube that had been placed in his throat during the plant surgery. The tube was removed lately.
"He has only said 'yes' or 'no' or given thumbs up." Lansing said.
Comparing both men one day after their
implants, Lansing said Haydon was much, farther along than Schroeder had been, noting that Schroeder has been returned to his old job. "After his implant to stem excessive bleeding."
Haydon, a retired auto worker, has shown almost no sign of bleeding. Lansing said, and limited bleeding would be normal around ubes entering Haydon's chest.
Because of the lack of excessive bleeding, doctors were able to give Haydon aspirin, which acts as a blood thinner, and an agonist drug to reduce the risk of stroke.
Robert Jarvik, the inventor of the device that bears his name, said that with three implants he can feel pain and tear comp on the practical as well as scientific aspects of the heart research.
Westmoreland case may deter libel suits
By SYDNEY SHAW
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Retired Gen. William Westmoreland's surprise surrender in his $120 million ibibel suit against CBS, after testimony that made his case virtually impossible to prove, will likely deter other public officials from filing similar actions.
The unprecedented suit over the 1982 CBS TV documentary "The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception" was entering its 19th week in U. S. District Court in New York City Monday when Westmoreland quit. The case then expected to go to the jury within two weeks.
The TV show accused Westmoreland of faking critical estimates of enemy troop strength to make it appear that the United States was winning the war of attrition in the period before the 1968 Tel offensive. Westmoreland had hoped to become the first federal official ever to sue successfully those students made about his performance in office.
Westmoreland had several skirmishes during the trial, moving the packed courtroom near tears with his own testimony, but CBS, whose strategy was to prove the broadcast was true and therefore not libelous, scored a stunning victory last week as two of Westmoreland's top officers testified against their former commander.
Although the testimony from McChristian and Hawkins was the most devastating, Westmoreland's case began to unravel as early as October, when several of what should have been his strongest witnesses contradicted themselves on the stand or presented testimony that differed from their pre-trial depositions.
enemy strength to Westmoreland in May 1967, the general called the estimate "politically unacceptable."
Retired Gen. Joseph McChristian, Westmorland's intelligence chief in early 1987, testified the general had called an updated, "political bombshell."
Libel attorneys predicted throughout the trial that the case could lead to less aggressive journalism if the general won. Although the resolution of the suit was a clear victory for CBS, it came at a tremendous
CBS's next witness, retired Col. Gains Hawkins, in charge of the Order of Battle — a roster of enemy troop estimates — said when he delivered a report showing increased
'The question for the future is this. Will more plaintiffs be deterred from suing because of the totally harmful effect that this case has had on General Westmoreland? Will journalists be deterred from covering 'hard' stories because of the extraordinary costs to which CBS has been put? My own sense is that it is very likely that potential plaintiffs will think twice, and then again, in light of the humiliating result of this case. On the other hand, it's harder to predict the long-term reaction of the press.'
ANALYSIS
Floyd Abrams,
libel lawyer
price. Both sides spent some $7 million on the suit.
"The question for the future is this," said Floyd Abrams, a well-known New York libel lawyer. "Will more plaintiffs be deterred from suing because of the totally harmful effect that this case has had on General Westmoreland? Will journalists be deterred covering 'hard' stories because of the extraordinary costs to which CBS has been put"
"My own sense is that it is very likely that potential plaintiffs will think twice, and then again, in light of the humiliating result of this case. On the other hand, it's harder to predict the long-term reaction of the press."
Unlike private citizens, who must show defamatory statements are made negatively, a public official seeking to prove libel must show the statements about his conduct in office were not only false, but made with reckless disregard for their truth or falsity.
Westmoreland's lawyers failed to win permission to present a piece of evidence they felt would bolster this argument—the so-called Benjamin Report, an internal CBS investigation into the documentary that found some of the network's fairness guidelines were violated during the production.
Poles claim Solidarity has CIA tie
By United Press International
WARSAP, Poland —Poland's communist government charged yesterday that a Belgian-based Solidarity union group has links to the CIA and receives from Americans, including AFL-CIO chief Lane Kirkland and former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski.
The charges appeared to mark the beginning of an important propaganda campaign aimed at discrediting the outlawed Solidarity union movement, which has been causing Pess on stage to a protest in Feb. 10 against expected food price increases.
Col. Zbigniew Pudysz, chief of the Interior Ministry's investigation office, said a military prosecutor was conducting an investigation into a Solidarity office based in Brussels.
In an interview carried nationwide in Polish newspapers, Pudszy said exiled Polish leaders of the Belgian Solidarity coordinating office had been working with the CIA and with TKK, underground in its Temporary Coordinating Committee.
"The Brussels office heads are Jerzy Milebski, Miroslaw Chojeki and others known for their anti-state activity," Pudyszs said in the state newspaper Zycle Warszawy.
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