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Page 12/The Battalion/Tuesday, October 4,1983 Supreme Court won’t rule on stringent handgun law United Press International WASHINGTON — The Sup reme Court signaled Monday that it will not stand in the way of community efforts to ban hand guns from resident’s homes. Opening its 1983-84 term, the high court declined to re view a federal appeals court rul ing approving a stringent hand gun ordinance enacted in Mor ton Grove, Ill. — believed to be the first of its kind. BUDGET TYPEWRITER SERVICE Cleaning & Repair 1903 College Ave 779-8572 In other action at the begin ning of the new nine-month term, the justices agreed to con sider a series of First Amend ment cases — ranging from reg ulation of cable television to pro testers’ rights to express their political views by sleeping in tents pitched across from the White House. Gun-control advocates hailed their action in the Morton Grove case as a green light for local authorities to enact tough gun laws. But spokesmen for the Na tional Rifle Association pre dicted it would have no major legal impact. “Basically they have not re solved anything,” NRA spokes man Jack Adkins said. “They’ve merely thrown the ball back into the Illinois court system.” The marble-and-mahogany courtroom was packed when the justices ascended the bench for the traditional “First Monday in October” term beginning. A first order of business was to hear arguments — for the second time — in the celebrated Sony “Betamax” case that will decide whether Americans may videotape TV programs and movies at home without violat ing copyright law. The justices also will consider to what extent cable television programming may be reg ulated. The court will take up the question in a case from Okla homa questioning whether states may ban liquor advertis- ments from cable television and from the “super-stations” they transmit. Also on the court’s agenda for the new nine-month term is a federal appeals court ruling that held sleeping in a national park is a constitutionally protected form of expression. The case was sparked last March when temporary tent cities — dubbed “Reaganville” and “Congres sional Village” — were set across from the White House and the Capitol to dramatize the plight of the homeless. The government said it was OK to set up the tents — but that sleeping in them is illegal. The justices also will examine whether newspapers sued for libel can publish information obtained from the other side during pre-trial investigations. The case involves the Seattle Times and a religious leader, who sued the paper for libel- In other actions, the court: •Said it will review the constitu tionality of a New York law pro hibiting loitering for the pur pose of soliciting a sex partner. •Agreed to consider whether a city must pay the minimum wage to employees of a municip ally owned mass transit system. 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Karpov, speaking to repor ters after arriving in Geneva for the resumption of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, said progress has been blocked by “the one-sided U.S. position not intended for agreement.” He said the United States said it desired an agreement, but charged “Its proposals are de signed to legitimize American military programs, the im plementation of which would enable the United States even to build up the number of strategic arms and nuclear weapons.” Chief U.S. negotiator Lt. Gen. Edward Rowney, scheduled to arrive Wednesday in Geneva, said Friday in an interview that despite the obstacles facing the START sessions, the United States remained “serious about arms control.” The START negotiations, scheduled to resume Thursday, are the fifth round of talks that began June 30, 1982. The negotiations deal with in tercontinental nuclear weapons systems, including the proposed American MX Missile. 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Navy Officers Get Responsibility Fast staff photo by DtanS Langford Architecture Center Students traveling between classes Architecture Center are dwarfed Monday in the Langford ty ks roof supports Former CIA agent to be in murder saif ’aul Brandon, i rom Irving, exai rater during the Itudent Center. 1 nother show sche United Press International NEW YORK — Edmund Wil son, the former CIA agent who has twice been convicted of illeg ally running guns, sought the help of a prison murder gang called the “Aryan Brotherhood” to kill his wife and government witnesses against him, a prisoner testified Monday. The witness, John Randolph, 30, a bank robber serving a 16- year sentence at the federal pris on in Otisville, N.Y., said Wil son, 55, was mistaken in think ing Randolph was a member of the murder-for-hire gang. Randolph said he allowed the mistake to continue “for his own protection in jail,” and he re ported the scheme to federal au thorities “out of concern for the targets of the plot.” Randolph testified he did not qualify for membership in the Aryan Brotherhood because he never had killed anyone, the key membership requirement. Members also must be white, he said. District Court in Manhall Wilson’s motion to barb another Otisville prisoner testifying at Wilson's as® tion-plot trial, which isi HUNTSVILLE — l duled to begin Tuesday.) Wjusdce Byron WI High UtX) United Press Intern Randolph said the group had contract killers outside prison, and claimed Wilson had given him instructions “on how to lo cate his wife so that she could be murdered.” “If I had been a member of the brotherhood,” Randolph said, “the target of the assassina tion plot would be dead.” Randolph testified in U.S. Edward Weinfeld, v, B 111 Washington gi preside at the trial, rejedP'dwy Autry a stay motion. Bthan an hour before Spokesman for Texa ■tite’s office said. Wilson, a former CIA* , was indicted in Au g » ., ] ^ ^ can ) e an 1 charges he sought toar f 1: • S : C ’ rcu,t Court ' the Otisville prison the»f d a , similar sta / ^ of four key governmemfr 1 was untimely ses and his ex-wife, Bar J Texas A ?f ant “frntez said Justice V [e stay on the basis on r is serving 32 years in pri# his convictions on chaif™ L . „ smuggling firearms andfP robablecause -, f. h .v. By can pursue a full sives to Libya. Icuit court of appeals DRAFT BEER ■ Essentially, the justk llouhl have the time to, jfuL before the circuit ■ State attorneys had n [Is on justice White’s Iration of the stay. BTexas authorities s; re not executed I tdnesday, a new ex buld have to he set. ■The stay promoted ai [Ipointment in a crowd fhered outside and aw tion. 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