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Football player
pleads guilty to
amended charge
Anthony Steels, a sophomore reserve wingback
for the Nebraska football team, pleaded guilty to
a charge of disturbing the peace in Lincoln Muni
cipal Court Friday and was fined 60 dollars plus
court costs.
The amended charge resulted from an incident
last September in which Steels was accused of as
saulting a former UNL student.
An original charge of assault was amended to dis
turbing the peace.
Ilusker football coach Tom Osborne said Friday
lie would not decide on any disciplinary action
against Steels until he had a chance to talk with him.
"The resulting publicity has been a sufficient
amount of punishment," he said. "The party in
volved indicated there was no problem. I don't want
to crucify the guy."
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Reporters go about jobs'
despite threats, expulsions
By Kris Hansen
Faulty communication lines and threats
to reporters make it hard to get news out
of" unstable foreign countries, but news
services still say they think they are getting
the whole picture.
Staffers from the Associated Press,
United Press International and Vie New
York Times said there were problems in
getting the news out of countries like Iran
and South Africa.
Nate Polowetski, Foreign Editor for the
AP, said a reporter was recently beaten and
jailed in South Africa. He added there were
problems in other places, including Nicar
agua. "They just keep going about their daily
job," Polowetski said. "A reporter is a
reporter, there are certain dangers that
they face."
He said reporters used no special pre
cautions against danger in foreign
countries.
Misunderstanding
A foreign desk staffer from UPI said one
of their correspondents was recently
expelled from Iran for a short time due to
misinterpretation of an inter-staff message.
"The police kicked him out before the
higher-ups even knew what was going on,"
he said.
The reporter was allowed to return after
the problem was explained, he said.
Other reporters were not so lucky.
Three American and British reporters
were attacked by Iranian troops just out
side their hotel recently, he said. They
were dragged outside, beaten and interro
gated, he added.
"The troops have been hostile. They
seize film, detain some reporters for some
hours-it can get rough."
He said reporters did not carry guns,
but depend on common sense to stay out
of trouble.
Phone problems
Another problem is the Telex system
which is normally used to transmit stories.
which works sporadically in Iran making
phone communication necessary, he said.
Lack of telephones in remote parts of the
country makes on-the-spot coverage
difficult, he added.
"Our correspondent speaks the language
(in Iran) so he can communicate directly
with the people. Others are unable to do
that," the UPI staffer said. "He telephones
his own sources-political opposition.
Moslem leaders-and gets a combination
of their views and the official govern
ment." Frank Stankus, foreign news assistant
for the AW York Times, said problems with
strikes in foreign countries upset commun
ications. "A general strike affects transporta-tion-to
the oil fields, larger cities -and the
Telex. Even the telephones can get bad,"
Stankus said.
Stankus said a reporter was expelled
from South Africa last week after several
cabinet ministers took offense to an art
icle. The man was allowed back into the
country, told he was "treading on thin
ice"-and then given an interview, Stankus
said.
Some not harassed
The Times reporters have not been
harassed much to his knowledge, Stankus
said.
"But, it's a very real difficulty they face
all the time-they never know when,"
he added.
Stankus said countries varied widely
in receptiveness to reporters.
"There's a whole spectrum from the
most easy to the most difficult the United
States to the Soviet Union, Iraq and
Burma," he said.
Some countries were contradictory, like
Israel, which has a free press with military
censorship, he said.
Others, like the Soviet Union and China,
have no leaks at all, he said.
"The reporters have to respond to
nuances in the choice of words -usually
they can't confirm things," he said.
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