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Act signed
by Reagan
WASHINGTON — Pres.Reagan
signed legislation Wednesday
authorizing U.S. Marines to stay in
Lebanon for 18 more months, but
denounced some of its provisions
as arbitrary and inflexible and said
they could encourage enemies to
fire on Americans.
The measure, the product of
long negotiations between the
White House and Congress,
marks the first time the 10-year
old War Powers Act has been in
voked to govern the warmaking
powers of the president.
Reagan, who had promised in
advance to sign the compromise
measure, said the bill provides
"important support for the United
States presence and policies in
Lebanon, and facilitates the pur
suit of United States interests in
that region on the bipartisan basis
that has been the traditional
hallmark of American foreign
policy."
He said he signed the legislation
"in full support of its policies, but
with reservations about some of
the specific congressional
expressions."
Despite demands from Con
gress, Reagan had refused to in
voke the War Powers Act when
the Marines first came under fire
Aug. 29 in Beirut in fighting that
eventually killed four Americans.
The law requires that U.S. forces
involved in hostilities must be
brought home within 90 days
unless Congress declares war or
votes to allow them to remain.
In a statement, Reagan argued
that "isolated or infrequent acts of
violence" do not necessarily con
stitute hostilities, even if there are
casualties.
Board set to
study BPA
SEATTLE — A federal court judge
today ordered the creation of a
special board of arbitration which
will decide whether work should
resume on a mothballed
Washington Public Power Supply
System nuclear plant.
The plant, No. .3 at Satsop west
of Olympia, was mothballed for
up to three years after the supply
system was unable to borrow the
$1 billion needed to finish the pro
ject. The plant was more than 75
percent complete when work was
halted earlier this year.
U.S. District Court judge
Richard Bilby filed the order in
federal court in Seattle today.
The special board will specifical
ly determine whether the Bon
neville Power Administration ex
ercised “prudent utility practice"
in calling for the mothballing.
BPA owns 70 percent of the
plant and the region's four private
utilities the other 30 percent.
One inmate
still at large
BEND — Four of five inmates
who escaped from the Deschutes
County jail Tuesday night were
recaptured today, and a search
was under way for the fifth.
Sheriff Jim France said.
A former inmate who helped
the five men flee also was ar
rested, France said.
The five broke out at about 10
p.m. Tuesday, but the escape was
not detected for six hours, France
said.
He said the escape was made
possible by a former inmate who
pried a plexiglass window off his
former cell from the outside Tues
day and handed a hacksaw blade
to his former cellmate, Daniel
Tovrea, 24, of Bend.
Tovrea and the former inmate,
Raymond Roth, 19, were arrested
by deputies who spotted them in
a stolen car at 3:55 a.m., France
said. The jailbreak was discovered
after deputies determined that
Tovrea was an escaped inmate.
William Odell Smith, 20, was
still being sought. The four recap
tured inmates will be charged
with escape, he said.
Roth was charged with
unauthorized use of a motor vehi
cle and burglary, France said.
France declined to comment on
the reason the escape wasn't
detected sooner. He said the
Oregon State Police were
investigating.
"That's one of the things we
hope the internal investigation
will tell us," he said.
Court rules
on libel law
SALEM — The Oregon Court of
Appeals today broadened the
grounds for libel suits against the
news media, saying private parties
need only prove that defamatory
statements resulted from simple
media negligence.
The precedent-setting ruling
reversed a lower court in a $7.4
million libel suit brought against
Willamette Week, a Portland
newspaper, by the Bank of
Oregon and its president Homer
Wadsworth.
The decision returns the case to
Multnomah County Circuit Court
for further proceedings.
On a key issue in the case, the
appeals court said the bank and
Wadsworth are not public figures
and therefore don't have to prove
that the paper's statements about
them were published maliciously.
The U.S. Supreme Court
generally has made it more dif
ficult for public figures to collect
libel damages than ordinary
citizens.
Richard Meeker, an owner of
Willamette Week who was then
an editor and a co-author of the ar
ticle in question, said he had not
yet talked to the paper's lawyers,
but "I assume that what we’re go
ing to do is appeal to the (Oregon)
Supreme Court."
"What's important here is this
ruling, if upheld, will create
severe interference with the
press' ability to cover such crucial
areas of modern affairs as
business," he said, adding, "the
chilling effect of that is just
unconscionable."
Rogue River
not so free
GRANTS PASS — Soon there will
be no such thing as a free ride on
the wild section of the Rogue
River.
U.S. Forestry Service Chief R.
Max Peterson has approved a plan
to charge non-commercial rafters
for using the Rogue River between
Grave Creek and Watson Creek
during the summer season.
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Forest Service to charge a registra
tion fee for private boaters.
Olney said the Forest Service
may start charging the fee as early
as next year, but the amount
hasn't been set yet.
He added the money will go
towards covering the $42,000 it
costs to administer the wild sec
tion of the river for a year.
Olney said 5,778 non
commercial boaters rafted the
wild section of the Rogue last
summer. That works out to $7.27 a
person.
Better late
than never
ORANGEBURG, S.C.— A grand
mother elected to be Claflin Col
lege's homecoming queen says
life in the limelight has kept her so
busy she didn't have time to
design a gown for her coronation.
Zulee Samuels, who refuses to
reveal her age but admits she is a
senior citizen, says she has had so
many requests for interviews that
she has had to buy a gown for
Saturday's homecoming.
Samuels, who was elected
queen from a field of three can
didates, has attended college off
and on over 33 years in a quest for
a college degree. She will
graduate in May with a degree in
English.
Company to
fight disease
SEATTLE — A fledgling company
formed by two University of
Washington scientists and a
marketing expert is gearing up to
join the fight on two deadly
diseases — leukemia and AIDS.
The Immunex Corp., just 2 years
old, was formed to convert basic
scientific research into
marketable products.
Immunex plans soon to start
clinical tests to certify a product it
hopes will fight AIDS, or acquired
immune deficiency syndrome.
The product is lnterleukin-2.
IL-2, as it is called, is a naturally
occurring hormone that boosts
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the body's defenses against
disease, says Immunex chief ex
ecutive Stephen A. Duzan.
He believes IL-2 could prolong
the lives of people born with weak
immmune systems, or people
whose immune systems have
been broken down by AIDS or by
chemical and radiation cancer
treatments.
Federal approval for selling IL-2
isn't likely until the end of 1986,
he says.
Four AIDS victims are receiving
natural IL-2 from the National In
stitute of Health, he says, and
others soon will be given syn
thetic IL-2 made by Immunex.
Immunex also is working on a
hormone, dubbed CSF, which
could be used to fight leukemia, a
disease in which the white blood
cells multiply and crowd out the
oxygen-bearing red cells.
Leukemia is believed to be caus
ed by an unexplained, uncontroll
ed birth rate of white cells. But
Duzan says the reverse may ac
tually be the problem: white cells
that ought to die don't, and they
crowd out the red cells.
The Immunex hormone CSF has
been shown in lab experiments to
allow leukemic white blood cells
to die after a normal lifespan. The
tests will soon be tried on mice.
Immunex was founded two
years ago by Duzan and by UW
professors Steven Gillis and
Christopher Henney.
Nozzle delays
space shuttle
SPACE CENTER, Houston — A
delay of up to four months is ex
pected in the launch of the space
shuttle Columbia, a NASA source
said Wednesday, because of a
problem that an astronaut said
brought the last shuttle flight to
within seconds of disaster.
The Oct. 28 mission was
scheduled to carry the $1 billion
European Spacelab, a science
module.
A NASA official who asked not
to be identified said the discovery
of a near burn-through on a
rocket nozzle used to launch a
space shuttle mission in August
has caused engineers to question
the dependability of rocket
nozzles that were to be used on
the shuttle's Spacelab flight.
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