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THURSDAY
AFTERNOONS
A REMINDER
Most classes will meet
Saturday. There goes an
other beach weekend (may
be). CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1965
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High Court Grants
New Murder Trial
To Frank Rinaldi
By ERNEST ROBL
Tar Heel Asst. Editor
- ; Frank Joseph Rinaldi, for
mer UNC graduate student and
part-time English instructor,
convicted last fall on a first
degree murder charge, will
get another trial probably
before another special session
of Orange County Superior
Court in Hillsborough this fall.
'Rinaldi, found guilty of slay
ing, his four-months pregnant
wife, had his conviction over
turned by the North Carolina
Supreme Court Friday. The
court; in a five to two ruling,
overturned the conviction on
the basis of incompetent evi
dence given, at the trial.
'Solicitor Thomas D. Cooper
Jr. of Burlington said Satur
day that he would request a
special term of Orange Coun
ty Superior Court for Rinaldi's
second trial. Cooper said how
ever that he would not be able
to try the case before Septem
ber because of the heavy case
load in his district.
Rinaldi had been held with-,
out bond since his arrest on a
grand jury indictment last
summer.v After, his trial last
November, he was transferred
to Central Prison in Raleigh.
'The r prosecution based its
case on the fact that . Rinaldi
was to receive as much as
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'A Purely Political Move'
By JULIA PARKER
Tar Heel Staff Writer
; "Washington says we're
sending marines into the Do
minican Republic to prevent a
communist take-over, but I
don't think there's any appre
ciable communist influence
there."
That's the opinion of Harry
B. Mrukland, retired associate
editor of Newsweek magazine.
Murkland and his wife moved
to Chapel Hill recently after
his retirement.
: "At least there have been no
signs of communist activity in
the country prior to the re
volt. I think this is a purely
political move on the part of
the Johnson administration,"
he continued. .
"The public wants action
it doesn't care what kind, just
so long as the government acts
decisively on an international
$40,000 in insurance payments
for the accidental death of his
wife. . .
Rinaldi and a friend, insur
ance agent John F. Sipp, al
legedly found the body of Ri
naldi's wife upon returning to
the Rinaldi apartment after a
Dec. 24, 1963, shopping trip to
Durham. -
Rinaldi was freed after a
preliminary Recorder's Court
hearing failed to find a proba
ble cause. However, he was
' later indicted after a grand
jury heard evidence from
Chapel Hill handyman Alfred
" Foushee that Rinaldi had at
tempted to hire him to kill
' Mrs. Rinaldi.
During Rinaldi's November
' tnai, ioushee, chief "state's
witness, again testified that
Rinaldi Ind attempted to hire
him to kill his wife and also
- said that Rinaldi had made
sexual advances toward him.
It was on the basis of the
latter . evidence that the Su
preme Court overturned the
Superior Court conviction.
Associate "Just'ce- Will'am B.
" Rodman, presenting the ma
jority opinion, wine: "evi
dence tending to show that the
defendant is a sexual pervert
does not, standing alone, tend
to establish the fact that he is
also a murderer. To make such
"evidence competent,- the state
would have to" show some- di
rct connection between the de
fendant's abnormal' propensi
. ties and the charge of homi-
: cide for which he is on trial.
"The jury should not be prej
. udiced to the defendant's detri
; ment by evidence tending to
prove that he is a moral de-
- generate, prepared-to commit
; the abominable and detestable
- crime against nature, a felony.
The court has repeatedly held
such evidence incompetent, re-
; :quiring a new trial."
; Rinaldi's first trial began on
Nov. 9. 1964, and ran through
November 18. The first two
days of the session were taken
up by the selection of jurors.
Three of the jurors selected
were women.
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Sending Marines To DR
upheaval. Often the far better
course is to leave things alone
especially in the case of
Latin American countries."
For -20 years, Murkland has
covered revolutions and fol
lowed economic developments
in Latin America for News
week, Current History and oth
er leading news - analysis pub
lications. "It has always been one of
the chief complaints of Latin
America and, one of the most
justifiable that the United
States is being imperialistic
through its forcible interven
tion in internal politics of
these countries.
"It is' primarily in the in
terests of the United States'
position that such intervention
occurs not necessarily to
the direct benefit of the Latin
American nation.
"Every revolutionary move-
Administration Undergoes
Top-Level Reorganization
TOO HOT TO STUDY: Summer session student Ann Waesche
of Richmond, Va., takes a break from the books and retreats
. to the cool water of Navy Pool. The pert biology major sets
the mood for those sweltering summer afternoons when Both-
ing feels better than the cool refreshment of a pool or the
i welcome shade of a towering oak. Photo by Ernest RobL
Kenan Professor Emeritus
B. L. JJllman Dies In Italy
I Dr. Berthold L. Ullman, 82,
Kenan Professor Emeritus of
classical languages and litera
ture at the University, died
Monday in Florence, Italy,
where he was engaged in a
research project.
; Ullman, regarded as one
of the world's outstanding clas
sical scholars, had retired as
chairman of the UNC Deoart
ment of Classics in 1959. Since
then he had worked with the
joint Duke - UNC humanities
. ment in Latin America has an
: element of virulent national-
ism an urge to escape from
any kind of foreign bondage
and the economically pow-
erful U. S. with its finger and
the chief target of the nation
alists." According to Murkland, the
past U. S. policy of favoring
dictators, such as Batista, who
cooperated with . Washington
: economically, has perpetuated
s an anti American attitude in
the Southern Hemisphere. How
' strong this element will be in
the future depends on the U.S.
' conducting itself with restraint
' in a potentially critical situa
tion like that in the Dominican
Republic.
; The key to the present state
of affairs in the Dominican up
heaval, lies in the basic pat
. tern of modern revolutions in
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program sponsored . by the
Ford Foundation " and had
planned to teach in that pro
gram next year.
He was a former president
of the American Philological
Association, had served as
president of the Medieval So
ciety of America, and was a
member of the board of the
Balzan . Foundation of Itay,
which awards prizes in peace,
literature, science and other
categories.
Ullman was awarded an
honorary doctorate of letters by
the University last October at
University Day ceremonies.
"Inspiring teacher, painstak
ing scholar, gracious friend, he
is a living example of the vir
tues of the great Roman writ
ers he so eloquently portrayed
in his writings and lectures,"
Ullman's degree citation stat
ed. The classical scholar's life
was a refutation of the myth
that scholars live away from
the world of reality. In an in
terview last year, he said:
"You hear so often in re
gard to the humanities about
humanists living in the ivory
tower, away from the hurly
burly of life. I've always been
interested in what's going on.
I've tried to keep up with
things. I'm a great believer
in travel, meeting people with
a different outlook. I think
that's the best way to try to
find permanent peace. I don't
mean tourists. I mean teach
ers and others who speak their
language and try to learn."
.' Ullman, who came to t h e
University in 1944 as Kenan
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Sitter son,
Palmatier
Promote
Two new vice chancellorships
and a new dean's appointment
were announced last week by
Chancellor Paul F. Sharp. The
appointments are part of a ma
jor change in top administra
tive levels.
Dr. J. Carlyle Sitterson, Ken
an nrnfessor of histnrv and
dean of the General College
and the College of Arts and
RfMonrc an1 Fir TTIvprptt T
Palmatier, Kenan professor of
physics and chairman of the
Department of Physics were
named vice chancellors.
Dr. George R. Holcomb, a
UNC faculty member since
1957 with teaching duties in the
Department of Anatomy at the
Department of Sociology and
AnthroDolocv. was named Dean
of Research Administration.
The top - level administra
tive reshuffling has two major
objectives. It combines admin
istrative offices having similar
functions and gives more peo
ple an over - all view of all
of the University.
Previously the Academic Di
vision and the Division of
much as separate operations,
like two institutions within the
University.
"Special emphasis is being
placed upon the administration
of advanced studies and re
search throughout the Univer
sity under, the reorganization
plan," Sharp said.
- "The expanding character of
each of these functions called
attention to the importance of
creating positions adequate for
rapidly growing demands upon
the University and the need
for effective, administration of
the research programs and the
personnel of the University."
Ritforcnn u;hn will hwnmfl
vice chancellor next Thursday,
will assume the duties of both
the dean of the faculty and the
administrator of the Division
of Health Affairs. Designed to
increase cooperation between
the Division of Academic Af
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Inside
Tar Heel eager Ian Mor
rison will trade UNC for a
Florida school this fall. See
this and other sports news
on Page 10.
Dr. William Geer looses
an attack on the speaker
ban law in a speech to
members of the Scholastic
Press Institute, Page 8.
Keep abreast of enter
tainment and the arts in the
Triangle area. See Page 2.
Tar Heel columnist David
Rothman is back, and this
time Washington is the tar-1
get of his satire, Page 7.
A roundup of this year's
General Assembly session
i appears on Page 5. i!
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