18 —The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Oct. 22, 1986
Pat Robertson sues
officials for libel
By TOM SEPPY
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Television
evangelist Pat Robertson sued Rep.
Andrew Jacobs and former Rep. Paul
N. McCloskey for libel yesterday,
accusing them of spreading false
stories that he used his senator-fa
ther’s influence to avoid combat in
Korea.
Robertson, who has indicated he
may seek the Republican presidential
nomination in 1988, accused Jacobs,
D-Ind., and McCloskey, a Republican
former congressman from Califor
nia, of making “wanton and reckless
statements” about his role as a U.S.
Marine.
The suits ask A federal court to
order a retraction from the two men
and to award him $35 million from
each for damages.
McCloskey retorted in a telephone
interview, “I know of no place better
to seek the truth than in the court.”
Both he and Jacobs denied any
wrongdoing, saying other Marines
had backed up the allegation against
RobeVtson.
In separate libel suits, Robertson
accuses the two men of spreading
false statements “for the purpose and
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However, Snider said he did not
believe more emphasis was placed on
Schreyer’s appointment than Gree
ley-Beahm’s.
“Students should be patient and see
what happens ... I think that it is
highly advantageous for us to have
student representation on the board
and I’m positive the students can rest
assured there will always be rep
resentation,” he said.
Claster said that while he had been
under the impression Schreyer had
replaced him on the board, “I don’t
think it is any plot ... it is in the
governor’s interest as well as the
state’s to have a student on the
board.”
Greeley-Beahm said her original
application form for the position
stated the term would be for three
years.
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with the effect of injuring, disgracing
and defaming (Robertson’s) good
name and reputation.”
“These statements were made,
published and disseminated willfully,
intentionally and maliciously,” Rob
ertson said in the lawsuits filed in
U.S. District Court.
In the suits, Robertson said Jacobs
gave to newspaper columnists Row
land Evans and Robert Novak an
Aug. 4 letter McCloskey had written
to Jacobs. The letter said the evangel
ist, when a Marine second lieutenant
in February 1951, called his father,
Sen. A. Willis Robertson, from Japan
to request transfer from a troop
transport bound for Korea and possi
ble combat duty.
“This statement is false and de
famatory,” Robertson said in the
litigation.
In the suits, Robertson said that
Jacobs and McCloskey “intended to
and did convey to the community at
large the impression that (Rob
ertson) was a coward and sought to
use political influence to avoid com
bat duty, untruthful in his denial of
having sought his father’s interven
tion and a hypocrite in seeking to
stand up against the worldwide Com
munist movement.”
Devin Malone, Council of Common
wealth Student Governments rep
resentative to USEC, who worked
with the student committee to review
the selection process for the student
trustee last spring, said the commit
tee assumed the position would be for
three years because Walsh was given
a three-year term.
“We had every reason to believe
that that’s the way it would be done,”
he said. i
Kenneth Mortimer, acting asso
ciate secretary of the board, said a
student has been' appointed to the
board by the governor since 1971. The
decision of whom to appoint and for
what length of time is up to the
governor because a student is only
appointed by tradition, he said.
Greeley-Beahm said it is a “very
difficult situation. There doesn’t have
to be any student representation on
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the board at all. That’s up to the
governor.”
She added that because a new gov
ernor is being elected, a student
might not appointed.
A spokesman for Republican gu
bernatorial candidate, William W.
Scranton 111, said it is “very safe to
say” that Scranton would appoint a
student to the board.
A spokeswoman for Robert Casey,
Democratic gubernatorial candidate,
said Casey is interested in state col
leges and universities and will review
the trustee question thoroughly.
Frank Kautz, assistant director of
human relations for the Undergrad
uate Student Government, addressed
the USG Senate last night and urged
them to create a resolution that would
ask the gubernatorial candidates to
issue statements saying they would
apppoint a student for a three-year
term.
Kautz, who said he was acting as a
concerned student rather than a
member of USG, also urged the USG
senators to write to both candidates
asking them to appoint a student for
the three-year term.
Making the position of student
trustee a permanent seat on the
board is also an issue which USG
should push for,” he said.
Snider said he would have no objec
tions to making a permanent student
seat on the board, but he has no
question that when Greeley-Beahm
leaves there will be another student
appointed to the board.
Sturgis said, “I believe a student
will be appointed ... it is just very
difficult to go through this whole
selection process again.”
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