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Shield law for newsmen gets tentative approval
TOPEKA (UPI) - A so-called shield-law for newsmen and a motor vehicle safety-inspection bill received tentative approval yesterday in the Kansas Senate.
The measures were among 19 tentatively approved. The high chamber also passed six bills, sending them to the house.
The shield law, sponsored by Sens. Jack W. Robinson, R-Wichita, and Frank S. Hodge, R-Hutchinson, provides that news reporters need not reveal in court the source of a controversial story. Robinson said the bill would not exempt reporters from current libel laws.
The safety-inspection bill strengthens the right of the highway patrol to make spot inspections of motor vehicles at anytime on the state's streets and highways. The only proviso
is that the inspections of motor vehicles at anytime on the state's streets and highways. The only proviso is that the inspection not cause unnecessary delay or detours.
Failure by a driver to agree to the inspection would be a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a $100 fine.
LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- Sirhan B. Sirhan, marking his 25th birthday, heard himself described in court yesterday as "paranoiac, aggressive and socially inadequate."
Sirhan fidgeted with his fingers, whispered to his attorneys and sometimes stared into space in apparent detachment as Dr. Roderick Richardson, a psychologist, described results of intelligence and personality tests given last July 20.
The bill would require the highway patrol to maintain a sufficient number of men to handle the inspections on a regular basis throughout the state. The troopers, after inspecting a vehicle, would either issue a sticker of approval or require the driver to have fixed the parts, that failed to pass.
"When I saw him, he was getting worse," said Richardson. "He was a very ill person descending further into mental illness."
Sirhan hears test results
The bill gives the driver 10 days to comply. A safety sticker would be good for one year.
Sirhan was "severely depressed" and ususually hostile and aggressive in his attitude toward sexual relations, and was dependent on his mother, the witness said.
Before the court session started, Sirhan received a birthday card from his attorneys. His mother, Mary, and brothers, Munir, and Adel, were late in getting to court. They passed cards to a bailiff who gave them to the defendant at the midmorning recess.
Water fight ends quickly
10 KANSAN Mar. 20
1969
A water fight between several fraternities in front of the Alpha Delta Pi house came to an abrupt end last night when Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, his wife, and Emily Taylor, dean of women, appeared at the scene.
Chancellor Wescoe and Miss Taylor were dinner guests of the ADPis, and when the ruckus broke out, they and the ADPis went to investigate.
"When the Chancellor appeared, everyone started waving the peace sign, and it was soon over," Marsha Maxim, Kansas City sophomore and ADPi member, said.
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Associate prosecutor David N. Fitts cross-examined Richardson.
Richardson said various tests showed Sirhan had “a definite suicidal potential” and “a definite homicide potential.”
In answer to direct questions from associate defense counsel Emile Zola Berman, Richardson replied in the negative as to the ability of Sirhan to premeditate a murder or carry out such an act with malice aforehought.
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