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>CONA: Press left out of Grenada to keep secrecy
By ROBIN BLACK
Stal't Writer
poll conducted by ABC’s
! ghtline program shows that
i nost half of the American
I iblic surveyed believe the me-
a gave a more accurate report
• the Grenada incident than
e government did, ABC Pro-
J ^cer Frank Manitzas said Fri-
ly at the 29th Student Confer-
ice on National Affairs.
Manitzas mediated a panel
discussion on Grenada in retro
spect featuring Newsweek mag
azine’s Chief White House Cor
respondent Thomas DeFrank,
Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Public Affairs at the Penta
gon Michael Burch and na
tional correspondent for Wash
ingtonian magazine Victor
Gold.
Much of the debate centered
on why the media was excluded
from the mission and the rea
sons for that exclusion.
Burch said that many mili
tary leaders feel that the media
treat every military operation as
a possible scandal, and that in
the Grenada situation they
didn’t feel that there was a way
to both include the press and
maintain the level of secrecy
necessary for the mission to be a
success.
“I don’t think the trust be-
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tween the two institutions was
stable enough to include the
media beforehand,” Burch said.
Burch said he thought the
story would have been better
told if the press had been there
from the beginning, and that
even though the press was still
screaming about being barred
from the invasion until the
third day, this would not set a
precedent for the government’s
treatment of the media in simi
lar situations in the future.
DeFrank, however, said
many members of the media be
lieved that the goverment did
not want the public to know
what was going on.
“I’m not one of the reporters
who feels that the press had a
god-given right to know about
the invasion beforehand, and I
don’t necessarily think they
should have come into Grenada
on the first wave,” DeFrank
said.
He said he thinks that many
of the military leaders still have
bitter feelings about the media’s
coverage of Vietnam, and
blame them for America’s loss
in the war.
“I’m also not a reporter who
falls back on the First Amend
ment and the ‘people’s right to
know,’ but I do feel that the
public needs an unbiased
source from which they get
their news,” DeFrank said.
In an address earlier Friday,
Manitzas said that international
reporters are often viewed as
“troublemakers” if they do their
job well.
Citing language as a big fat
tor in international reporting
he said that being able to com
municate with the peopleoftit
nation to find out everythin!
that goes on is impo riant so thii
a reporter doesn’t rely solelyffi
goverment reports for inform
lion.
The activities of a forciji
country can lie complex and
when you as a reporter stan
asking questions you mig
different answers, Manila
said.
New housing policies help freshmen
By JAN PERRY
Reporter
Two changes in Housing Of
fice policies should make it eas
ier for some freshmen to get
dormitory rooms and make
housing operations more effi
cient, housing officials say.
The changes are:
• Reducing the lottery appli
cation time for students apply
ing for on-campus housing
from six weeks to four weeks.
• Considering students as in
coming freshmen for one aca
demic year rather than for the
fall term only, as the current
policy states.
Currently, the lottery system
gives all students an equal
chance of obtaining housing in
the spring semester.
For the fall semester, 80 per
cent of dormitory space is al
lotted to incoming freshmen.
Ron Sasse, associate director
of student affairs, said the
shorter application lime will al
low the housing office more
time to process and prepare the
computerized notices inform
ing students of their housing
status and will enable students
to make plans accordingly.
The reduction in application
time will not impose any great
hardships upon the students,
Sasse said, since most students
who want to be considered for
the lottery system usually apply
within 30 days anyway.
The housing office appears
to be the main beneficiary of
the shorter application lime.
two full semesters rather thai
only one semester.
• Leaving the freshmen fJ
wailing list intact for thespriii!
process.
• Allotting 20 percent of avi
able space to returningstudeni!
and transfer students.
Considering freshmen as in
coming for the
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for trie full academic
year will have these results:
• Providing more opportu
nity for freshmen to obtain on-
campus housing by giving them
80 percent of available space for
The main objective of tit
change is to make it easier fc
students to live on campiii
Sasse said. He added thatfresf
men during the springsetnesir
w ill be the only real benefactor
of the change.
Black female lawyer to speak tonight
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By ERIN PYLE
Reporter
Black advocate Patricia Russell
McCloud will speak in Rudder
Theater tonight at 8 p.m.
McCloud’s speech, entitled
“The Cost of Freedom in 1984”
is sponsored by the Memorial
Student Center’s Black Aware
ness and Great Issues pro
grams.
McCloud is a graduate of the
University of Kentucky and
Howard Law School. She also
has studied law in a program at
Harvard University. McCloud
currently is a practicing attor
ney with Patricia A. Russell
Consultants of San Antonio.
McCloud is a member of the
National Bar Association, the
National Association of Busi
ness and Professional Women,
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple (NAACP), and the National
Urban League, as well as other
organizations. She has received
keys to over 20 cities.
by Congressman Louis Stole
of Ohio.
McCloud is the former chit:
of the Complaints Branch,Mas
Media Bureau, Federal G®
municalions Commission.
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ten speaks on are; law am
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In 1983, McCloud was the
youngest person to receive an
honorary doctorate of law from
the Bethune-Cookman College
in Florida.
McCloud’s speech, entitled
“If Not You-Who?, If Not Now-
When?” was entered in the
Congressional Record in 1981
tics, telecommunications arl
communications, education
women’s affairs, black histon
race relations, and religion.
open to the public.
American claims to be escapee
United Press International
EL PASO — Police held an
American man Sunday who
claimed to be one of eight es
capees from a Juarez, Mexico,
E nson, while authorities on
oth sides of the Texas-Mexico
border pressed their search for
the fugitives.
An El Paso police spokesman
said an American whose iden
tity was being checked was ar
rested by police Saturday for
public intoxication.
“It’s kind of funny,” the
spokesman said. "He’s an
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lum. He begged not to be sent
back there.”
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prisoned on drug offenses
ganged up on a prison guard!
and forced their wayoutoftltf
prison Friday. J uarez is jul ;
across the Texas-Mexico bordfll
from El Paso.
Terrazas said at least two of
the escapees were armed and
that all the men are considered
dangerous. Terrazas said seve
ral of the other prisoners wen
serving time for convictions of
homicide, robberies, attempted
murder and breaking and eo
tering.
U.S. Border Patrol official!
Sunday said they had received
no reports about the escapee!
and speculated all remained®
Mexico. Investigators said theit
best lead is a white Chevrolei
pickup truck with Oklahomalv
cense plates which is believed®
have been used in the escape.
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their search for the desperados
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