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By ALEXANDER.G. HIGGINS saying that bad weather has prevented Wednesday's shelling by U.S. Navy ships. forces in Lebanon and a large part of his The official said American gunners were
Associated Press Writer damage assessment which usually is made. The senior administration official briefed general staff. under strict orders not to fire at a target if it
by reconnaissance aircraft. foreign reporters on condition he not be The network quOted intelligence sources was located in or next to a village.
WASHINGTON Sixteen-inch shells It is known that the United States is identified and denied Syrian claims that the as saying the bunkers were near the town of "The fire directed by the Navy is focused
fired by the U.S. battleship New Jersey capable of monitoring communications. shelling had hit civilian areas in Lebanon. Hamanna, 15 miles east of Beirut. exclusively on military targets and the
smashed a Syrian command and control Sources were unable to give any details on "We do know that among other targets State and Defense Department officials targets are sources of fire as well as those
center and killed some Syrian commanders the ranks of the Syrians caught in the that were hit, the Syrian artillery brigade 'contacted by The Associated Press could not directly related to support for that fire," he
in Lebanon, administration sources said command and control center. The United headquarters was apparently demolished," confirm the report. An intelligence source said.
yesterday. States repeatedly accused the Syrians of the official said. "I would conclude that, if said the United States has received reports
"Under no circumstances are sources of
The command post was one of about 15 supplying and in some cases directing that is correct and this is based on some. that a Syrian general may have been killed
targets which the Pentagon said was struck military operations by Moslem factions ' reporting that is as yet unconfirmed that but that there is "no definite proof" to fire (which are) co-located with civilian
during the barrage of fire from 16- and 5- opposed to the U.S.-supported government that would obviously have an effect on their substantiate that information. locations being targeted," he added.
inch guns from the New Jersey and a of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel. ability and their willingness to fire when we The senior official who briefed foreign "Indeed, those sites are not targets."
destroyer. Earlier yesterday, a senior can fire with such accuracy against those reporters said, "Our forces have very good He said, however, that he did not yet know
The sources, who spoke on condition that administration official said that targets." intelligence on where fire originates, where in detail what had been hit by the more than
they not be identified, did not disclose how unconfirmed reports indicated a Syrian ABC News reported last night that ammunition depots are located and where 550 shells fired by the U.S. ships New Jersey
the United Statis learned of the deaths of artillery brigade headquarters had been Wednesday's shelling by the U.S. ships command and control communication and Caron on Wednesday. There was more
the Syrian officers. Officials have been "apparently demolished" during killed the commanding general of all Syrian centers are located." shelling from the U.S. fleet yesterday.
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Drug bust:
By LESLIE THOMAS
Collegian Staff Writer
Preliminary hearings for 16
people arrested last week in a
major drug operation connecting
Miami to a fruit market in Mount
Union will begin Monday before
District Magistrate James Kyper
in Huntingdon.
Walter Williams, regional
director of the Bureau of Narcotics
Investigation and Drug Control,
1315 S. Allen St., yesterday said
state and local narcotics agents
used for the first time a reverse
undercover operation to break up
the drug connection.
The reverse-undercover
operation is one in which police
posed as drug suppliers instead of
purchasers. Such methods are
common at the federal level, but
last week's was the first time it was
used at the state level.
Williams said he expects the
breakup to have a "dramatic effect
in Mount Union and Huntingdon
drug trafficking, with lesser effects
in Lewistown and other counties."
Since the investigation began in
1982, Williams said agents have
used "literally every tool
available" in the attempt to break
the connection. He said he was
"super-pleased with the results of
the investigation."
To aid them in the investigation,
the Bureau of Narcotics
Investigations used undercover
agents, street surveillance,
Professors attack
criteria used for the report is not
validated nor subjected to open
criticism and the rating methods are
Many educators associated with not explained.
the study of higher education do not Jack Gourman, the author, said it
give the Gourman Report a rating is an evaluation pf colleges and
of national and international universities, both national and
colleges and universities much international. Gourman is a
credibility. professor of political science at the
According to figures from a California State University at
revised edition of the 1983 Gourman Northridge.
Report released late last year, Penn The report is prepared by a staff of
State scored a 4.60 out of a possible more than 50 people evaluating the
4.99, Gourman said. By comparison, different majors of a college,
Princeton, Harvard and Yale Gourman said, all of them with
universities scored 4.95, 4.94 and 4.92 doctorate degrees in their respective
respectively, he said. disciplines.
William E. Toombs, director of the Gourman said the report has a
center for the study of higher strong validity throughout the nation
education at the University, said the and the "third- and fourth-rate
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Sixteen await hearings for interstate ring
informants, various forms of wire
and body tapping, search warrants
and the reverse-undercover
operation.
State Attorney General Leßoy S.
Zimmerman said, "The northern
end of the connection was a
dilapidated roadside stand where
fruit and vegetables were the
advertised produce but the real
business allegedly was in cocaine,
marijuana and LSD."
"From that front, a steady
supply of drugs flowed to users in
Huntingdon, Blair and Mifflin
counties," he said.
The top local figures in the drug
trafficking operation were
identified by Zimmerman as
George E, Walters, 72, and his son,
Robert G. Walters, 45, the owners
of the Allenport Fruit Stand on
Route 522 in Allenport, Huntingdon
County, just south of Mount Union.
Four Cubans served as suppliers
from the Miami end of the
connection. They bought cocaine
and marijuana in Florida and
delivered it to the fruit stand,
Zimmerman said.
was . during a delivery on Dec.
10 that the first arrests were made
Narcotics agents seized the
suppliers' car as they arrived at the
fruit market from Florida. Three of
the suppliers were arrested then,
Williams said. •
Zimmerman said three-quarters
of a pound of cocaine, estimated
wholesale value of $24,000, and 30
pounds of marijuana, estimated
the
daily
olle • lan
wholesale value of $15,000, were
found in the vehicle. Williams said
the Walters' residence was also
searched Dec. 10 but they were not
arrested.
"One of the informants had been
purchasing drugs on credit and was
being pressured to pay up —•to the
tune of $20,000," Zimmerman said.
"Meanwhile, through wiretapping,
we had information indicating a
new shipment from Miami was
being arranged. We obtained 10
pounds of hashish that had been
seized in a separate case, and
under tight surveillance, the
informant delivered the hashish to
the fruit market in lieu of cash."
Agents then began making
further arrests on Feb. 2. Sixteen of
the suspects have been arrested
and are being held in the
Huntingdon County Prison in lieu of
$150,000-$200,000 bail. The other two
suspects have been identified and
agents are watching them closely,
he said.
George Walters has been charged
with 60 criminal counts, and Robert
Walters has been charged with 91
counts. Robert Walters is one of the
suspects still at large.
Two other suspects are from Ohio
and one from West Virginia.
The drug charges filed against
the 18 suspects carry maximum
penalties per count ranging froth
one year in jail and a $5,000 fine for
possession to five years and $15,000
for delivery or possession with
intent to deliver.
university rating report's credibility
critics (of his report) are out of
Toombs said the figures do not
mean anything because no one
knows how he arrives at them.
Gourman said he evaluates each
major on the basis that each has a
certain number of fields of study
within the major. Gourman said he
evaluates each major according to:
how many of these areas of study
are offered; the number and quality
of the faculty members; the quality
of the administration; the strength
of the curriculum; the amount and
quality of the resources available;
and the amount of money allocated
to the department by both the
university and the state legislature.
The institution that the staff rates
Bill repealing fairness doctrine sparks debate
By AMY FELLIN
Collegian Staff Writer
A U.S. Senate bill that would repeal the
fairness doctrine and equal time laws and give
broadcasters the power to limit debate on
controversial issues has evoked varied reactions
from local broadcasters and University
professors in the field.
In addition if the doctrine is overturned,
broadcasters would be given the power to
determine which political candidates may
receive air time without providing equal time to
other candidates.
The Freedom of Expression Act (Senate bill
1917), introduced in October 1983, is sponsored by
committee chairman Robert Packwood, R-Ore.
Senate hearings began last week.
Barbara Allen, news director at WTAJ-TV in
Altoona, said she does not think the repeal would
have much affect on daily news programming
decisions.
"We are bound only in our roles as journalists
to decide what responsibilities we have to our
viewers," Allen said. "The repeal of the doctrine
wouldn't have much impact because news
programming decisions are basically left up to
as the highest is then given a
numerical rating for that particular
major, he said. The other
institution's majors are then rated
numerically in relation to the top
figure, Gourman said. The
numerical figures of each major are
then combined to reach an overall
rating for the university.
David Webster, an assistant
professor of education at the
University of Pennsylvania,
declined to comment on the 1983-84
report because he had not seen a
copy of it. However, Webster said he
began a detailed critique on the 1967,
1977 and 1980 Gourman reports as a
graduate student at the University
of California at Los Angeles. He
finished the critique in 1982 when he
our own judgement."
Ron Miller, news director at WJAC-TV in
Johnstown, agreed with Allen, saying: "It is up to
our own policy and good conscience to provide
equal time to candidates and the like."
Miller said he is in favor of the bill and he does
not think the laws are really necessary.
"I don't think the repeal of the fairness
doctrine and equal time laws would have any
great negative affect on news reporting," he
said.
Section one of the fairness doctrine states that
radio and television broadcasters have a positive
duty to seek and air programming which
addresses "controversial issues of public
importance."
However, Richard E. Labunski, University
assistant professor of journalism, thinks this part
of the doctrine has been ignored by local
newscasters.
"Part one of the fairness doctrine requires
broadcasters to report a variety of stories,"
Labunski said. "Local stations cover nothing but
fires, press conferences, government meetings,
demonstrations and auto accidents and by
sticking to these types of stories do not fulfill
their part one requirements."
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became an assistant professor.
Webster said after examining the
1967 report very carefully he felt it
was an honest effort on Gourman's
part but as a rating of schools,
Webster called it an "absolute
disaster."
Gourman responded to the
allegations saying, "The state of
higher education is in a poor state of
health," and that educators critical
of the report have not done an
adequate job in training teachers.
Gourman said in an earlier
interview that he was "not afraid of
other opinions and criticisms of the
report. My mission is academic
excellence for all students."
Toombs said the report is not
credible because it is done by one
person and the Method Gourman
uses to rate schools has not been
explained. Most reports evaluating
higher education are put together by
an advisory committee,,Toombs
said, which usually publishes
technical papers explaining the
methods used and findings of the
study. •
Gourman said he collects data
from faculty members from
different universities and programs
who respond with solid information
about their departments.
Gourman said he has a description
of his method that is hundreds of
pages long but his publisher did not
want him to print it with the report
because it would make the report too
expensive.
While Labunski thinks the fairness doctrine
does infringe on the First Amendment rights of
broadcasters, he still does not agree with the
repeal: "It is my view that broadcasters do not
yet deserve to be free of the fairness doctrine,
equal time laws, personal attack rules and other
content regulations, even though they clearly
raise First Amendment questions."
Robert Farson, University professor of
broadcast journalism, said he does not think the
bill will pass.
"I am in favor of keeping the fairness (*trine
and equal time laws because I think they're
important in assuring elementary fairness,"
Farson said. "I predict the bill will not pass and
even if it does I'm sure there will be severe
challenges to it."
Farson said he does not believe there will be
additional coverage of controversial issues even
if there were no restrictions on broadcasters.
"Fairness really hasn't been an issue mostly
because there isn't a lot of coverage on the
controversial issues," he said. "Even if you
remove the fairness doctrine I don't thiqk there
will be an outpouring of public affairs
programming."