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Page 8/The Battalion/Tuesday, April 22, 1986 t fosufet ta fu&kiMX 4f044/i 1985 -AifiCflelcuiJt Aggielands are available every weekday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the En glish Annex on Ross Street across from Heaton Hall. Bring your I.D.! JfljgAi. /SPECIAL sfliVEny ATTENTION ALL DORM STUDENTS ANNOUNCING PIZZA HUT DELIVERY'S 2nd ANNUAL DORM CONTEST $2000 GIVEAWAY -Hut. March 24-Aprll 6 Pi^a -Hut. April 7-13 DORM CONTEST PAIRINGS Aston Purycar > Aston Law Law April 14-20 Aston Briggs Briggs Davis-Gary Hart > Davis-Gary Davis ‘The Final Foury \ April 21-27 / Davis Clements Spence Briggs Gainer Gainer Clements Hotard Hotard > Gary / Gar * Clements ^Clements Dunn Crocker > Dunn Mclnnis Mclnnls Dunn 1st place-$500 2nd place-$300 3rd place-$200 Krueger Fowler Haas Haas < Hobby Keathley Hughes Moses Moore > Moore Dunn Keathley Krueger Krueger Valton 3chuhmacher^> Walton Walton Mosher <J Legett McFadden Mosher Mosher < Mosher Underwood Neeley < Underwood March 24-Aprll 13 Dgrm 2 CORPS CONTEST PAIRINGS Dorm 9 High court: Burden of proof not media’s in libel cases = WASHINGTON (AP) — The news media do not have to prove the truth of defamatory statements that prompt libel lawsuits, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. By a 5-4 vote in a case involving T he Philadelphia Inquirer, the jus tices said the Constitution requires people who sue the news media to prove that the defamatory statement about them is false. Past rulings had established that public officials and public figures who sue for libel have the burden of proving the allegedly libelous statements were untrue. But until Monday, state laws varied over who — a plaintiff or defendant — has the burden of proof when a private citi zen sues the news media. Pennsylvania law had created a presumption that the defamatory statement is false, but the Supreme Court said that presumption violates free-press rights. "We hold that, at least where a newspaper publishes speech of pub lic concern, a private-figure plaintiff cannot recover damages without also showing that the statements at issue are false,” Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote for the court. The justices left unanswered whether non-news media de fendants sued for libel bv private cit izens ever may be forced to prove the allegedly libelous statements are true. O'Connor acknowledged that some people who are hurt by libel ous statements may not be able to prove the statements are f alse. But she said the only alternative would be to make the news media pay damages for some truthful statements that cannot be proved. Thai alternative “could onlyresuliin a deterrence of speech whic Constitution makes free,"O’Conmi said. She was joined by Justices ]. Brennan, Thurgood Marsbl Hans A. Blackmun and Lewis!. Powell. Chief Justice Warren E. Bur; and Justices John Paul Stevens,! ion R. White and William H. Re quist dissented. ■ In addition to proving anallesP edlv libelous statement is false,prs vate citizens who sue must proved statement was made negligently. 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Perry Rivkind, district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said, “I’m repeatedly amazed that these Cubans are so willing to risk their lives to come here. You have to be awful desper ate to try something like this.” Coast Guard Lt. Tom Tabrah said, “A trip like that under the con ditions they’ve described to us could be considered a miracle.” The treacherous Gulf Stream cur rent. which regularly has 8- to 10- foot waves, carried the men over 250 miles, the Coast Guard said. I lie men rescued Monday were picked up by the sport fishing boat Tempris and then turned over to a Coast Guard patrol boat. Thev said thev survived on water and tomato juice and Tabrah said they made no mention of food they carried with them or were able to ob tain during their trip. Both were suffering from sun burn and dehydration and were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital. On Saturday, the Coast Guard rescued three Cubans from inner lubes near Marathon Key. They had been afloat for several days and were in fair condition when rescued, Riv- kind said. A Cuban exile leader said last week that newly arriving voting Cu bans claim lack of economic oppor- tunity in Cuba has caused wide spread disaffection among Cuban vouth. Cuban refugees who make it out of their communist-governed home land generally stand little risk of de portation if they have relatives here or qualify for political asylum. How ever, INS has sent Cubans to such countries as Spain and Costa Rica if they first obtained visas to go to third countries and then tried to slip into the United States. Bill would stop 'legal tax evasion 1 NEW YORK (AP) - Aram cans avoid paying billions of do! lais in sales tax by buying prod nets In mail from out-of-sutt companies, hut bills in Congmi would stop what one officialcali "legal tax e\asion." Although mail-order custom ets are supposed to pay a “uk tax equal to the sales tax in then home state, in most rasescatalo! companies at e not required to collect it. state tax authoritte can’t force compliance and »t goes unpaid. In l‘)()7, the Supreme Cotin i tiled that firms only doingbtm ness thtough the mailcannotte required to collect state salesut unless they have a retail oudeui some other physical presenceint state. Yet now, with federal m tance waning and direct mail sale booming, states are eager to sur collecting these taxes that haw fallen I>etween the cracks. T he Direct Marketing Assoor (ion estimates mail order sale wete S44.5 billion in 1983-tiit last s ear for which figures an available. U.S. Senate battling over use of filibusters WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate was once a place of unfettered free speech, a legislative cockpit where a senator could rise to his feet and get off his chest anything that was on his mind. And he could do it at whatever length he chose, and virtually whenever he chose to do it. It was in the Senate, after all, that the word filibuster was appropriated from the buccaneers and freebooters. It was meant to describe stemwinding Senate speeches to stop action on legislation senators opposed. But bit by bit over the decades the right of unlimited speech in the Senate has been shaved and trimmed and pruned. Now, Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., says the threat is greater than ever that the tree of Senate oratory may be cut back beyond recognition. This week, Proxmire is celebrating two decades with out a missed roll call vote. T hat adds up to 9, call votes in a row over 20 years. Proxmire also spoil on the Senate floor every clay the Senate isinsessiK| He has done so for at least 19 years. But now the right of daily speeches is undersiegt Senate Majority Leader Boh Dole, R-Kan., recef reduced the permitted length of speeches in theSe ate’s traditional “morning hour” — when senators® speak on any subject — from 15 minutes to five® utes. As of this year. Senate sessions are broadcast by ni — gavel to gavel — and thev may soon be televised! well. If the changes Dole wants are made, Proxmiresit on busy clays it will be “too bad and tough luck f reedom to speak on that day.” JALTECH Industrial and Cultural Seminar Tours JAPAN, HONG KONG & CHINA 14 DAYS •Japan’s Industrial and Technological Advancements •Industrial and Economic Seminars •Cultural and Historical Seminars •The Japan Experience •In Addition. . .Visit to Hong Kong and China (Guangzhou) •DEPARTURE DATES Los Angeles June 25 July 23 San Francisco June 18 July 16 TOUR PRICE From Los Angeles/ San Francisco $2,048.00 Brochure and Information JAPAN TRAVEL OF HOUSTON 920 First City Tower, Houston TX 77002 (713) 658-1933