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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The
[government’s breach-of-contract
suit against a former CIA officer
who wrote a book about the fall
of Saigon went to trial Tuesday
before a federal judge who de-
Jared no one hits a right to re
peal classified information.
The government, in a civil suit
igainst Frank W. Snepp, con-
lends the former CIA officer vio
lated his contract with the
igency by publishing “Decent
Interval” about the communist
tkeover of Vietnam. CIA em-
■loyees are required to submit
januscripts to the agency before
publication.
■ The government seeks
jiSnepp’s profits from the book
land wants to prohibit further dis-
Blosures.
The central issue, U.S. Dis-
tict Judge Oren R. Lewis told
Jiwyers in the opening 90 min-
lutes of the trial, is, “Does an in-
vidual under the basic law of a
fiduciary relationship, have a
feght to get inside information,
imlans, modus operandi, and then
Kcsign and divulge it to the whole
IWide world?”
H “Nobody has got a right to di
vulge classified information,”
Lewis said.
Lewis rejected Snepp’s re
quest for a jury trial, saying the
facts were not at issue.
“We are not going to try the
fall of Saigon here,” he said.
Lewis initially refused to allow
the book to be entered as evi
dence, but then changed his
mind, saying, “The court of ap
peals might want to read it, but
not buy it.”
Lewis said he had not read the
book.
Snepp’s lawyers argue the
government does not maintain
classified information was con
tained in Snepp’s book.
“We are dealing with seman
tics, Lewis replied, reminding
the lawyers he disagreed with
their definition of classified ma
terial.
Both sides contend the case
involves serious questions far
beyond those at hand, pitting
constitutional rights of free
speech and “whistle blowers”
against the right of government
to protect what it regards as
legitimate secrets.
“This is not a First Amend
ment case,” the judge said.
Death row inmates
decline in number
THE BATTALION Page 5
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 21, 1978
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Death sen
tences were handed down against
133 people in 19 states last year, but
the total of death row convicts in the
nation declined, the Law Enforce
ment Assistance Administration re
ported Tuesday.
The agency said that as of Dec.
31, there were 443 people — eight
of them women — on death row in
22 states, compared with 463, in
cluding seven women, a year ear
lier.
The drop resulted mainly from
the lifting of death penalties in 152
cases, often because states revoked
capital punishment laws and rede
signed them to meet the Supreme
Court’s constitutionality tests.
Although federal laws also permit
capital punishment, the only federal
prisoner on death row received a
reduced sentence during the year,
the LEAA said in an Advance Re
port on Capital Punishment 1977.
Five of the 22 states accounted for
nearly four of every five prisoners
under death sentence — Florida
with 82, Ohio 78, California 68,
Texas 58 and Georgia 45, the report
said.
It said the South had the largest
proportion of death row inmates,
nearly three out of every five, while
the Northeast had only two prison
ers facing a death sentence — both
senator to introduce legislation
to freeze 15-cent postage four years
in Rhode Island.
The report noted that seven states
which began 1977 with one or more
prisoners sentenced to die ended
the year with none. In six of those
cases, it said, all or part of the state
capital punishment statutes were
struck down by a state supreme
court or the U.S. Supreme Court.
Eleven states now have some
form of death penalty, but no pris
oners awaiting execution.
Two years ago, the Supreme
Court refused to block the first
execution in almost a decade, allow
ing murderer Gary Gilmore to die
as he requested before a U tah firing
squad on Jan. 17, 1977.
But in a major ruling in 1976, the
high court upheld for the first time
death penalty laws in Georgia,
Florida and Texas, indicating the
Constitution does not prohibit capi
tal punishment if it is carried out
fairly.
The justices are expected to rule
soon on Ohio’s more restrictive cap
ital punishment law, which allows
consideration of only three “mitigat
ing” mercy factors that could pre
vent imposition of death sentences
for seven offenses.
We Service
Calculators
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United Press International
■VASHINGTON — Sen. John
wenn, D-Ohio, has announced he
will introduce legislation to freeze
■t-class postage for individuals at
15cents for four years.
11 bill would extend the federal
Slbsidy of nearly $1 billion for the
nee ijne period of time but require
4 Bcter accounting by the Postal
■vice.
iton Vhe legislation was co-sponsored
■ Sens. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska,
Ind Jacob Javits, R-N.Y. and Glenn
^ Innounced that hearings will be
feld next week.
■These amendments, if enacted,
lould constitute the most signifi-
Ht changes in the nation’s postal
institution since the Reorganization
tat of 1970," Glenn said. “They
Bild not, however, turn back the
clock.”
■In many ways, I consider this an
interim bill,” Glenn added. “It’s
Bv clear that the 1970 goal of
lostal Service self-sufficiency prob-
ply will never be realized with re-
Kired labor costs up and particu-
Srily with general support for keep-
ng rural post offices and maintain-
Pg six-day-a-week deliveries.”
IGlenn said at a news conference
pt by freezing the first-class post-
(Je rate for individuals at 15 cents
■ recently raised from 13 cents —
[would benefit the consumers —
post notably those on fixed income
separate classification in the event of
a general postage increase before
September 1982. Congress, how
ever, would have to appropriate the
loss of revenue to the Postal Serv-
— and help maintain a higher vol
ume of mail which is needed to sus
tain the huge system for six-day-a-
week delivery.”
First-class postage for individuals
would be established through a ice.
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