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Show Fi day. October 16. 1981. THE HERALD. Provo, Utah-P- age 7 News Media Readies for Information Act Battling WASHINGTON (UPI) TheReagan administration and the news media are at odds over the freedom of Information Act, with the administration maintaining new restrictions are needed and the media saying the act should be left alone. Massive changes were recom- mended Thursday by the administration, including provisions for excluding government files on terrorism, organized crime and foreign counterintelligence. The Justice Department told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee that hostile government intelligence agen cies ana extremist groups now use the act to try to uncover U.S. informants and learn government strategies. To prevent this, the agency said. Congress should allow the attorney general to declare the files exempt from mandatory disclosure under the act, while allowing access for historical research and other purposes. Jack Landau, director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, testified the proposed changes would weaken an act that was designed to open the government to the eight people and injured 17 others. The administration's recommendations were contained in a Landau said he believes the provision for excluding files on terrorism organized crime and counterintelligence operations would have enabled the FBI to avoid the massive disclosure of its Cointelpro operation in "Freedom of Information Improvements Act of 1981," which Sen. Orrin chairman of the ConHatch, stitution subcommittee, introduced for the administration. At the Justice Department later. Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Rose told a press briefing the administration is writing legislation that the The disclosures, forced by media requests under the act, revealed the FBI had spent millions of dollars on "dirty mid-1970- s. Newspaper Editors. "We believe the FOI works and works well and has never been abused " said Michael Gartner, president and editor of The Des Moines Register & Tribune and chairman of the ASNE's Freedom of Information Committee. "Therefore, any change we view with especially changes that restrict the free flow of information and turn over to the government a wide power of censorshiD." - alarm Pupils- Fall Victim to Tax Battle fected by this thing too it's scary." Ms. Wenzel said, reflecting the sentiment that has prompted students to don black arm bands to mark the closing. "It's sad, you know, here's my senior year and all my good friends are on the football team." On Oct. 30 voters will be asked to approve a proposal asking for a renewal of 20.25 mills and 3.45 mills additional property taxes over the next three years. If that question fails, schools will remain closed until at least Dec. 10, when the proposal will be offered at yet another election. The school board had combined the two tax requests in three earlier elections this year. Each time they lost. Although the issue has now been split, board members warn that extracurricular activities and transportation in the countywide dis Unable to secure the ALPENA, Mich. (UPI) needed funds from financially strapped voters, officials of the broke city school system were locking classrooms today idling more than 6,800 mournful students and staff. "Why me. in my senior year?" lamented Cynthia Wenzel, 17, who has found no joy in the premature vacation. Officials said they would keep doors closed to all comers for at least two weeks while voters engage in what may be a death match over Alpena School District property taxes. The lid has finally popped off a school funding pressure cooker that has been building for two decades in Alpena, a peaceful city on lower Michigan's northeastern shore. "My younger brothers and sisters are being af Police Make Arrest in Fire Death! - would exempt the CIA from coverage. He said it probably will be offered as an amendment to another TawTRdse testified in the committee hearing the administration's purpose is not only to protect confidential sources but to correct a broad array of other serious flaws in the act. The administration. Rose said, "is firmly committed to the faithful implementation of the Freedom of Information Act by all federal agencies." The proposals were criticized by an official of the American Society of a counter- intelligence program in the 1960s. public. U.S. Briefs A PATERSON, N.J. (UPI) spurned suitor was arrested and charged with pouring gasoline into a tenement hallway, setting off an inferno that killed at least tricks" to thwart what it considered ex tremist organizations under Officials brought in a crane today to search the debris of the four-stor- y building for other possible victims of the Thursday morning fire; which also collapsed the roof of an adjacent four-stor- y apartment building. Officials Offer Nun Rapist Reward - OffiNEW YORK (UPI) cials offered a $10,000 reward for the man who raped a nun in a convent and scratched 27 crosses on her body a crime that prompted the city's mayor to call for a renewal of the death trict will be scrapped LaBita. Frank if only the renewal passes. county commissioner a Township, representing the rural Presque-Isl- e says the school board's threat to drop busing is like putting a gun to the head of county residents. The retired United Auto Workers negotiator also said the community's many elderly residents simply cannot afford any more taxes. two-prong- e Frank Wyers, 53 raises dairy cattle on a spread at the southern edge of the county near Hubbard Lake. He says farmers cannot afford a tax increase either. John Taylor stepped up from principal to district superintendent six weeks ago. He says local taxpayers are being forced to pick up the slack for a huge drop in government assistance. 500-acr- Girl Dies At Stones penalty. Hours before the reward was offered Thursday by Mayor Edward Koch and Police Commissioner Robert McGuire, a teenager sprayed a religious brother in East Harlem with mace and robbed him of $100 in front of a church. It was the third attack on clergy In the area in the past week. Program SEATTLE "despicable act of depravity." FRANKLIN FURNACE, Ohio steel form collapsed at a hydroelectric generating plant construction site, trapping workers under 3 tons of freshly poured concrete. Two men were killed and 13 injured. Rescue workers spent an hour retrieving the body of one victim A Police sketch rapist. who" was buried under 2 feet of Scioto concrete Thursday, BARBARA, Calif. A ranch hand has been (UPI) charged with murder in the death of a man reportedly shot and then roasted for two days on an outdoor barbecue so his corpse County Sherrif's Capt. Raymond Beadle said. She fell over backward before the concert. "I told them they'd better get off or they were going to fall," said a Kingdome usher who said he saw the girl moments before the accident. Dr. Mike Copass. a Sheriff's investigators said e Thursday they filed murder charges against Lewis Price III, 23, after recovering what was left of the man identified only as "Jim." first-degre- Jury Says He Murdered Four - face four consecutive physician gate for menacing after Bremerton, Wash., police said a woman was heard threatening to shoot Jagger. life Mmrtl w Colorado. National Guard troops were ordered to help evacuate residents of Sherman, Texas, where flood waters reached the second story of some patrolman David Wood. "We've got every boat we can get our hands on out helping with this. There's two major creeks that go through town and they're both out of their banks." Two nursing homes were evacuated as water and Post Oak Creeks spilled over the banks. 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