University Daily Kansan, October 17, 1984 Page 11
NATION AND WORLD
Libel trial witnesses disagree
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Witnesses offered contradictory evidence yesterday in the $120 million libel trial brought by Gen. William Westmoreland against CBS for producing a documentary that accused him of falsifying enemy troop strength reports during the Vietnam War.
A former ambassador in Vietnam testified yesterday that West-moreland ordered undoctored reports on enemy troop strength forwarded to President Johnson.
Robert Komer, an ambassador who went to Vietnam to head the South Vietnam pacification program, said that he had asked for new enemy estimates after arriving in Saigon May 4, 1967, and that Westmoreland had accepted those figures and forwarded them to Johnson.
Westmoreland is suing CBS for saying he lied to Johnson about the number of enemy troops in South Vietnam while he was commander of
U. troops to make it look as if the United States was winning the war and thus obtain Johnson's approval for an additional 200,000 U. troops.
But Walt Restow, Johnson's national security adviser, testified earlier yesterday that troop counts were lowered between 1966 and 1967.
Rostow said it was his understanding that in 1966 the troop estimate was for 285,000 enemy troops, but that in 1967 the number lowered to 242,000 by eliminating the Viet Cong's self-defense.
School aid favored, report says
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Four out of five Americans fear that a college education will soon be too expensive for the average young person and four more federal aid and low-cost students, a survey report said yesterday.
"There is a clear-cut message here that deserves the attention, of decision makers in the government and the public," said Mann, president of Group Attitudes.
Corporation, which conducted the survey.
The survey was sponsored by the College Board, the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. Group Attitudes is a research subsidiary of Hill and Knowlton, Inc., a public relations conglomerate.
Respondents, by 87.4 to 10.6 percent, favored federal funding of grants to low-income college students and, by 85.2 to 11.7 percent, supported federal financing for
colleges and universities with many low income students.
People favored federal financing of low-interest loans to middle income students by an 85.9 to 11.6 percent margin.
When they were read a list of 14 programs that the government finances and were asked, for each, whether federal financing should be increased, decreased or kept at current levels, 63.3 percent said federal aid to higher education should be increased.
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