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WASHINGTON Henry A. Kissinger
announced Wednesday that despite
concessions on both sides, the United
States had won all the substantial changes
it had sought in the Vietnam settlement,
including firmer prospects for an early
cease-fire throughout Indochina.
President Nixon's chief negotiator, at a
lengthy, nationally broadcast news
conference at the White House, said, "It
is our firm expectation that within a
short period of time there will be a
formal cease-fire in Laos which, in turn,
will lead to a withdrawal of all foreign
forces from Laos."
He said he expects "a de facto
cease-fire will come into being over a
period of time" in neighboring Cambodia,
linked to developments in Laos, but that
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by Stephanie Bolick
Staff Writer
RALEIGH A bill to protect North
Carolina newsmen from being forced to
disclose their confidential sources of
information was introduced in the state
senate Wednesday afternoon by Sen. A.B.
Coleman, D-Orange.
Referred to as a "shield law," this bill
would protect newsmen . if -there was. a .
prior agreement of confidentiality
between the reporter and his source.
Coleman's bill defines a newsman as a
"person who is employed for the purpose
of gathering or reporting news
information for any newspaper,
magazine, radio station, television station
or news wire service."
According to the bill, the individual
source of information must have "agreed
with said newsman that such information
was being given purely on a confidential
basis and that the newsman would not
disclose the source of information."
Weather
TODAY: Sunny, high in the mid
50s. Increasing cloudiness tonight and
warmer, low in the mid 30s. Almost
no chance of rain through Friday.
Dinin
facilities
improved
Servomation announced recently that
it plans improvements in its three dining
facilities on campus Chase cafeteria, the
Pine Room and the Student Union Snack
Bar.
Improvements already implemented
include: Prices visible on all food; a wider
vegetable selection including
Southern-stjle vegetables (cooked with
pork); posted base price information; a
greater variety of breads; a larger
sandwich selection in the Pine Room; an '
additional condiment stand in Chase as
well as larger salad bowls, glasses for
water and centralized drink dispensers.
Servomation will attempt to secure
United Farm Workers Lettuce. It has also
agreed to the establishment of an
eight-member quality control board
consisting of students and faculty that
would report any lapses in food quality
of cleanliness and provide written reports
of its findings daily.
According to Bob Greer, director of -UNC
Servomation, the changes have
occurred in response to complaints and
suggestions given to Servomation by the
UNC Student Food Committee in
December. :;
Servomation did deny several requests
of the committee including a salad bar in
both cafeterias and special , atmosphere
dinners in the Pine Room.
"we expect the same to be true there."
He refused to elaborate, but the
Washington Evening Star-News, in a
dispatch from Vientiane, Laos, reported
agreement on a Laotian cease-fire to
begin Feb. 1 1 , just 1 5 days after the
Vietnam cease-fire starts on Saturday.
Meeting reporters less than 24 hours
after he initialed the cease-fire agreement
in Paris with Hanoi's Le Due Tho,
Kissinger disclosed that the first of nearly
600 American prisoners would be freed in
Hanoi within two weeks.
The prisoners are to be met by U.S.
authorities and flown out aboard U.S.
military planes probably to Vientiane, as
their first stop on their journey home.
They will be released in groups roughly
every 15 days until the troop withdrawal
and prisoner release is completed within
60 days, he said.
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The newsman must testify to this
agreement before he can claim to be
incompetent to testify under this act. He
is protected from revealing information
to any court of law or grand jury.
The second part of the bill makes the
same provisions for a newsman who
actually publishes the information. There
must have been an agreement between
the! newsman and his source that the
information was "privileged and that the
source would not be revealed.
If passed later in the session, this
"shield law" would become effective on
Jan. 1, 1974.
Explaining his decision to introduce
the bill, Coleman said,. "It has to do with
the type of society we profess to believe
in one with a' free flow of information."
The press has a right to be free,
Coleman said.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against
newsmen's privileges to withhold
information from grand juries on June
29, 1972. The five-to-four ruling said that
the power of a grand jury takes
precedence over any presumed
protection, resulting from the First
Amendment, for newsmen not to have to
reveal news sources.
Since that decision, several reporters
have spent varying lengths of time in jail
for refusing to answer questions or
provide information in court.
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Tuesday was one of those warm, sunny days that infects everyone with spring fever
and makes the toes itch to be free of shoes and socks. Now if only there were some
sand to wiggle in. . .
Chapel Hill. North Carolina,
The slightly more than 100 Americans
still held captive within South Vietnam
will be released at the same time at yet
undetermined sites in the south. The
others are held in North Vietnam or Laos.
The White House released the full text
and four accompanying protocols of the
agreement to be signed formally in Paris
on Saturday.
Kissinger declined to elaborate on
further details of the additional cease-fire
plans but said:
"It is our firm expectation that within
a short period of time there will be a
formal cease-fire in Laos which, in turn,
will lead to a withdrawal of all foreign
forces from Laos. And, of course, to the
end of use of Laos as a corridor . of
infiltration.
The Cambodian situation is more
complex, he said at the televised news
conference, but he commented, "It is our
expectation that 'a de facto cease-fire will
come into being over a period of time."
All the prisoners are to be liberated
and the remaining 23,700 American
troops pulled out of Vietnam by March
28 under the agreement which is to be
signed in Paris Saturday with Secretary of
State William P. Rogers representing the
United States.
Defense Department sources said the
initial reunions of prisoners with their
families will probably take place within
10 days of the first release.
Officials at the Defense and State
Departments have identified 587 U.S.
military personnel and about 40
American civilians as prisoners of war in
Southeast Asia. An additional 1,335
servicemen and 1 1 civilians are listed as
missing. Some of them may be captives.
Defense sources said the first release
date has not been set because of the need
to get international control teams in
place, which could take up to 48 hours
after the cease-fire signing, and Hanoi's
need to gather the prisoners.
Student fees:
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by William March
Staff Writer
Editor's Note: This is the third in a
series of articles on the collection,
allocation and distribution of student fees
at UNC.
At the beginning of last semester, Dr.
James A. Wilde of the Economics
department conducted a survey
attempting to . plumb the depths of
student ignorance about student fees.
Thursday, January 25, 1973
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The depths were great.
The survey sampled responses from
about 100 members of a course in
Economics 141 public finance. The
members, therefore, were not beginners
in economics, and they should have been
more interested than the average student
in such things as budgets of public
organizations.
The survey asked for impressions of
the amount and use of two student
fees-the athletic fee of $25 per year and
: the student activities fee of $ 1 8 per year
or $14 for graduate students. The
activities fee supports student
government and is distributed by SG.
When the group was asked the amount
of the athletic fee, the average response
was $27.03 per year. The highest
Polling
Rules Committee sets plans
by Bob Ripley
Staff Writer
The Student Legislature (SL) Rules
Committee established 26 polling places
for the Feb. 6 campus elections in a bill
to come before SL tonight.
If approved the bill will allow
undergraduates to vote in their dorms,
and graduate students to vote in buildings
near their departmental offices.
Off-campus undergraduates will vote at
the Student Union or the Y Court.
The Rules Committee, chaired by
Randy Wolfe, spent over two hours
Wednesday afternoon to insure that the
placement of ballot boxes would be fair
and without prejudice.
The bill largely follows the
recommendations of Elections Board
Chairman Leo Gordon.
The following is the proposed list of
polling places:
Y Court-off-campus
undergraduates. Old East, Old West, Carr.
Student . Union-off-campus
undergraduates, graduate students in
English. Speech and Physical Education.
Mclver-Mclver, Alderman, Kenan.
Ruffin-Mangum. Manly, Grimes,
Ruffin.
Conner-Winston. Conner,
Alexander.
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by GregTurosak
Staff Writer
After last week's dozen bills and
four-and-one-half hours of decision,
Student Legislature meets again tonight
with just seven items on the agenda.
' The center of attention will be the
student attorney bill, passed out without
prejudice by SL's Finance Committee on
Monday after months of discussion.
SG President Richard Epps called the
bill "undoubtedly the biggest project
Student Government has taken this
year."
Epps also rebutted complaints that the
$28,000 to be appropriated for the
project in the first year would not be
worth it. He noted that last year students
voted overwhelmingly to increase their
fees by $3 per person (or $57,000 total)
to support a N.C. Public Interest
Research Group (PIRG) lawyer.
Despite all the talk about money, the
bill itself does not appropriate any funds
for the attorney, but only defines the
duties of the attorney, the procedures for
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response was $75, and the lowest was
$10.
When asked to estimate the student
activities fee, the group's average response
was $50.34, over twice the actual
amount. This would yield an annual SG
budget of over $800,000. The high
response was $ 1 20, and the low response
was $ 1 0.
The group was also asked what they
would be willing to pay as a student
activities fee. They were asked to set up
an ideal budget indicating what
percentage of the desired fee should go to
the activities that SG currently supports,
in whole or in part.
"In the area of student activities,"
states Wilde's report, "while , the group
greatly overestimated the present fee,
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Undergraduate residents of the
following dorms vote in their respective
dorms: James, Morrison, Ehringhaus,
Spencer, Cobb, Granville and Joyner.
All graduate students may vote in
Odum-Victory Village and Craige, as well
as by departments in the following
manner:
Hill-Art, Art History, Drama,
Music, RTVMP, Recreation, Computer
Science.
Hamilton Classics, Folklore,
Philosophy, Religion, History, Political
Due to the funeral arrangements this morning for the late President Johnson,
all state offices, including University offices, will be closed until noon.
Accordingly, only classes scheduled to begin at noon or later today will be
held.
Those students who had scheduled interviews with on-campus recruiting
officers at the UNC Placement Service should go to offices 210 and 211 Gardner
Hall at 12 noon for special instructions.
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hiring him and the salaries of the lawyer
and secretary.
If the bill is passed, money for the
attorney will be included in next year's
SG budget, which does not come up until
March.
SL will also consider another Finance
Committee bill providing $3,500 to the
Men's Glee Club for their trip to Kansas
City in March.
Rules Committee met Wednesday and
passed out five bills, three of them
dealing with elections procedures.
One of the bills tries to decide the best
way to place 26 ballot boxes in 20
election districts. Another provides the
procedures for the recall of SL members.
The third is a special bill to get two
graduate students back on the ballot after
they had been disqualified. SL raised the
required number of signatures last week,
after the two had already turned in their
petitions.
The remaining two bills deal with a
resolution affirming the supremacy of SG
in light of the possible student attorney,
and with the approval of the, new UNC
Crew Club's constitution.
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they expressed willingness to pay an
average of $39 to support the activities
funded by SG. This figure is less than the
average of $50 they thought they were
paying, but it is still over twice what they
actually are paying. So much for fiscal
rationality!"
Based on a fee-paying student
population of 19,224, the average desired
student fee would have resulted in an
ideal SG budget of $704,462. The group
figured its results on this basis. The actual
budget of $275,000 for fiscal year
1972-73 is based on a student body of
about 16,400.
It is interesting to compare the group's
average estimated budget of over
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Science, Sociology, Library Science.
New Bast -Anthropology, City
Planning, Social Work, Psychology,
Geography.
Carroll Linguistics, Romance
Languages, Business, Statistics,
Operational Research, Chemistry, Marine
Sciences, Mathematics, Slavic Languages.
Wilson-Botany, Geography."'
Medical S ch ool -Zoology,
Dentistry, Nursing, Medicine.
Public Health-Pharmacy, Public
Health. Peabody-Education.
Law School-Law.
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