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Thursday, April 19, 1979
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN- Capsules From the Kansas's Wire Services
China, Vietnam look for peace
BANGKOK, Thailand—Pace negotiations between China and Vietnam began in Hanoi yesterday with a Vietnamese proposal to establish a joint military base.
Vietnamese negotiator Vice Foreign Minister Phan Hien said Chinese troops still occupied more than 10 areas in Vietnamese territory and continued to attack the city.
Hien proposed that both armies withdraw between two and three miles from the border recognized before the Chinese invasion in February. He also proposed that prisoners of war be exchanged soon, according to a Radio Hanoi broadcast.
China's response to Vitam's proposal was not immediately known. But earlier yesterday, Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, accused Vietnam of recent border provocations and said there were casualties on both sides in fighting between April 9 and April 16.
Voters hampered by guerillas
SALISBURY, Rhodesia—The second day of national elections yesterday showed a low voter turnout in southern Rhodesia because of high rates of illiteracy. The electoral commissioner, Despite guerilla activity, officials predicted at least 60 percent of the electorate would vote in the five-day elections to bring limited black rule to power.
Only 3 percent of the approximately 6.8 million people in Rhodesia are white.
Election register Eric Poeumbassimilis said 13 percent of the electorate had
white skin.
Drug resists.
The country mobilized 100,000 soldiers to protect voters and voting places from terrorist attacks.
voted from pan poll on Tuesday not holding a vote yet. Holdeds said enervilla activity had been lower than expected.
Christian army to rule itself
TYRE, Labanon -The Christian military in southern Lebanon yesterday declared itself under "self-rule" and proclaimed a new "Free Lebanon" state.
A militia leader, MaJ. Saad Haddad said the Christians' intention was to liberate the country from all invaders and foreigners who have bad in-
tention.
The militia, which is supported by Israel, contends that Lebanese forces are heavily influenced by Syria, which they see as a rival for control of Lebanon. The Israeli and Christians think that a Lebanese army aided by Syria would allow Palestinian guerrillas to infiltrate the Israeli border and heighten tension
Southerners flee flood waters
JACKSON, Miss.—Thousands of Mississippi residents packed bags and fled yesterday to escape record flooding on the Pearl River that already has cost an estimated $20 million in damage.
In Alabama, hundreds more joined the 5,000 families in the Black Belt region who have abandoned their homes to rise waters. Officials warned of the threat.
The Pearl dropped to 42.5 feet in Jackson after cresting at 43.2 feet Tuesday, more than 25 feet above flood state.
SALT monitoring is disputed
POLICE and National Guardmen continued to patrol the flooded downtown area, permitting only authorized people and dump trucks with sandbags dirt
Civil defense officials said about 2,000 people had left their homes in Columbia, Ala., before the river's crest, which is expected this weekend. About 500 other families in Selma, Ala., were evacuated as flood waters surged into west central Alabama.
WASHINGTON-Defense Secretary Harold Brown said last night he was convinced that the United States would be able to verify the Strategic Arms Committee's assessment.
There had been concern about the ability to monitor Soviet compliance with the treaty after two U.S. monitoring stations were lost in the Iranian revolution.
There had been concern about the ability to mobilize slower compliance with the treaty after two U.S. monitoring stations were lost in the Iranian revolution. It had been reported that CIA chief Stansfield Turner had told senators in secret that it would take five years to replace the lost Iranian monitoring station.
Brown said in a CBS interview that the United States had a wide variety of monitoring stations and that the monitoring of Soviet missiles had never relied on them.
"What I believe is that within a year we'll have regained the verification capability as regards SALT limits that we lost in Iran," Brown said.
Cold shutdown one step away
HARISHBURG, Pa. — Technicians successfully dropped the temperature in Three Mile Island's primary cooling system yesterday, but they must take one more day to complete the job.
The final step is the designing and building of a backup cooling system, which would serve as an extra precaution against breakdowns or leaks in the primary system.
A spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the move toward cold shutdown would not be made until the backup system, now in the design phase, is operational.
Technicians sped up the cool-down by changing the primary cooling system's elaborate plumbing makeup to allow more steam to pass through a condenser.
The condenser drained off heat and dropped the temperature to 233 degrees. The cooling system's temperature was 243 degrees before the steam process began.
Topeka police seek more clues
TOPEKA- Police are seeking additional clues to the death of Sandra Meuli, a woman missing eight months, whose remains were discovered on the city's east side.
Topeka police Capt. Don Demore said no cause of death had been established. A skull, minus its lower jaw, was found Friday night in a wooded area within 20 yards of interstate 70. The Shawnee County district coroner Tuesday identified the remains as those of Meull, 43, who disappeared from her apartment Aug. 24.
Additional skeletal remains were found Tuesday a short distance from the spot where the skull was found. Investigators also said personal belongings of the woman were found on the opposite side of the interstate about two miles east of where the skeletal remains were found.
New Kansas turnpike proposed
Demore said police were checking with the woman's children and relatives to determine whether any of these belongings seemed to be missing from her.
Demore said robbery did not seem to be a motive.
The proposed toll road would replace part of Kansas Highway 96, running east from near Leoon in Butler County, to Highway Kansas 39, about six miles north of Fredonia. The bill's sponsors, State Ses. Frank Gaines, D-Augusta, and Mike Johnston, D-Parents, contend the exiting route is dangerous.
TOPEKA-Gov. John Carlin yesterday signed into law a bill authorizing a $100,000 salary to determine whether a 55-mile turbine could be built in New York.
The bill allows the state Department of Transportation to transfer $100,000 from the state highway fund to the Kansas Turnpike Authority for the survey and assessment of the road.
The money would be repaid to the highway fund if the road proves feasible and bonds to build it are sold. Rough estimates place the cost of the road at
Correction
In yesterday's story about Agent Orange, the Kansas incorrectly identified Mike Hand. Hand is vice president at Campus Veterans. Lance Bombough is present.
Weather
Skiers today will be mostly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight. Temperatures will be in the low 70s, according to the U.S.
Voting 6-3, the justices ruled that reporters and editors are not constitutionally protected from having to explain how they prepared a challenged report. They may be asked to provide an explanation of the state of mind" during that preparation, the Court said.
Editorial process open to question
WASHINGTON—Public figures who sue a journalist or news organization for libel may ask to know the "editorial process" which led to the alleged libelous statement, the Supreme Court said yesterday.
But Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White said yesterday, "According an absolute privilege to the editorial process of a media defendant in a label case is not required, authorized or pressaged by our prior cases." That "would substantially enhance the burden of proving actual wrongdoing" the court did not intend its 1948 label decision to do, he said.
THE SUPREME COURT, in the landmark New York Times v. Sullivan ruling in 1964, made it difficult for public officials or other prominent people to bring successful libel action against such defendants or "reckless disregard" to establish their damage claims.
WHITE SAID there is no First Amendment privilege barring a libel plaintiff who has "a specific claim of injury arising from a publication that is alleged to have been defamatory or false." This would mean that processes that went into broadcast or publication of a story.
"That is not to say that the editorial discussions or exchanges have no constitutional protection from casual disclosures."
Herbert, who was stripped of a battalion command, gained national prominence in the early 1790s when he formally charged his superior officers with war crimes and atrocities in South Vietnam.
HERBERT'S 1973 suit named as defendant CBS and its 900 minutes," news program, correspondent Mike Wallace; and "Eric Schultz," news program, correspondent Kevin Moore.
The decision in the journalism case is a victory for former Army Lt. Col. Anthony Herbert, who is using CBS and CNN to report on his wounds.
Lando's investigation of Herbert's experience led to a 1.94, 1704 "Minute" telecast called "The Selling of Colomel
LANDO ALSO wrote an article for the Atlantic Monthly based on his findings.
Herbert's suit charged that the program and article injured his reputation by "falsely and maliciously" portraying him as a liar.
When Herbert's lawyers questioned Lando, the producer refused to comment on the editorial process or how he planned to write.
The decision was hailed by Mary O'Melveny, one of Herbert's lawyers.
White, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, and Justices Harry A. Blackmun, William H. Rehquist, Lewis F. Powell J, and John Paul Stevens, voted in the majority. White, Chief Justice Richard W. Stewart and William J. Breman J, voted with the minority.
H.B. Quirks
Jack C. Landau, director of the Committee for Freedom of the Press, said the decision "is a major defeat for the First Amendment, because it allows courts to intrude into journalism." He said the committee's judicial discussions of journalists and news organizations.
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