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OSU students
blast skin mags
CORVALLIS (AP) — A small
group of Oregon State Universi
ty students, including basket
ball star A.C. Green, want the
campus bookstore to stop sell
ing adult magazines.
The bookstore’s board of
directors already has voted
unanimously against removing
such magazines, but Green and
his roommate, Lee Johnson, say
they do not intend to let the
issue die there.
Green and Johnson say they
plan to write letters to the cam
pus newspaper and to speak to
other students about joining
their cause. Picketing of the
bookstore also is possible, they
say.
“We feel pornography is real
ly degrading our society and
our bookstore is not the place
for it.” Johnson said.
Green, a senior from
Portland, said about seven or
eight students are involved in
the drive.
“We have deep convictions
about this,” he said. “We’re go
ing to see it out.”
Johnson said the targeted
magazines are Playboy,
Playgirl, Penthouse and Oui.
A college campus is “a place
for literature, but there's a dif
ference between pornography
and literature,” said Johnson, a
senior political science major.
“Each person knows what
pornography is and what
literature is,” he added. “Deep
down in your heart you know
the difference.”
Green and Johnson, who are
members of the Maranatha
Christian Fellowship on the
OSU campus, said they oppose
the magazines on moral and
religious grounds.
But they said they are not ac
ting as representatives of the
Maranatha group.
Paul Kifer, president of the
board of directors of OSU Book
Store Inc., said the nine
member board decided during a
meeting last Friday not to act on
the group’s request to have the
magazines pulled from the
store.
The board consists of six
students and three faculty
members.
“My impression of the
discussion was the board is not
a censorship organization,”
Kifer said. “Inasmuch as the
magazines are not illegal and
courts have not held them im
moral, it’s not the function of
the board to act."
He said some of the student
members of the board also ex
pressed concern that removal of
the adult magazines might lead
to “other forms of censorship.”
Conferees find
fiscal accord
WASHINGTON (AP) — After
a week of stalemate and veto
threats from the White House,
House and Senate negotiators
agreed Wednesday night on an
omnibus money bill that in
cludes a moratorium on covert
U.S. aid to Nicaraguan rebels
but drops water projects that
have stalled adjournment of the
98th Congress.
The conferees—basically
following a House position—
agreed that $14 million could be
obligated for military assistance
to Nicaraguan rebels, but that
the money would not be releas
ed until further action by the
new Congress next March.
Then, the bargainers agreed
to drop millions of dollars in
water projects from the
measure.
“There will be no reference”
to water projects in the com
promise measure, said Oregon
Sen. Mark Hatfield, chairman of
the Senate Appropriations
Committee.
Reagan administration of
ficials had threatened a
presidential veto if the water
projects remained in the money
bill.
Among projects dropped
from the proposed legislation
was the Bonneville Lock and
Dam project on the Columbia
River, about 40 miles east of
Portland.
In other action Wednesday,
the conferees agreed to provide
$1.4 billion for research for
President Reagan’s so-called
“Star Wars” strategic defense
initiative that calls for futuristic
weapons including laser and
particle beams to defend against
missile attacks. Reagan had re
quested $1.8 billion.
The action cleared the way for
the full House and Senate to
ratify the compromise legisla
tion. The House was expected
to act later Wednesday night.
The compromise also will
allow Congress to adjourn for
the year on Thursday.
Press pool will
see future wars
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Pentagon said Wednesday that a
national press pool of 11
reporters and photographers
will accompany U.S. military
forces on any future operations
similar to last year’s invasion of
Grenada.
Michael Burch, assistant
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secretary of defense for public
affairs, said members of the
pool would be convened and
transported secretly to the scene
of military action. They would
be allowed to report back to
their news organizations “when
the operation commenced or as
soon thereafter as practical,” he
said.
The pool is to be summoned
to cover small-scale military
operations of relatively short
duration. The system was in
cluded in the recommendations
of the commission, directed by
retired Army Maj. Gen. Winant
Sidle, that was formed follow
ing the October 1983 invasion
of Grenada.
The Sidle commission,
established by Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger,
weighed news media protests
concerning the exclusion of
journalists from Grenada for the
first 48 hours of the operation. It
was the first time in U.S. history
that the media had been banned
from covering military actions.
The Pentagon said the ‘‘na
tional press pool” would con
sist of:
•A reporter from The
Associated Press and another
from United Press International.
•One reporter each from CBS,
NBC, ABC and Cable News Net
work, and a two-person camera
and sound team to be used by
all four, for a total of six.
•One reporter representing
Newsweek, Time and U.S.
News Sc World Report.
•A news photographer from an
organization not yet designated.
•A radio reporter from a net
work not yet designated.
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