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1,1 i 3 JAN 14 1988 On Today's Editorial Page Is Missouri Really Moving? Editorial Th New Scientific Frontier EH i tori at T.LOU Dow Jones 3.82 Close 1924.73 (Page 10A) Vol. 110, No. 14 64 Pages (5) THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1988 Copyright 1988 25', DS PATCH Iqd Soqd'E Educators Elated; Not So Students Censoring In Schools Permitted I -J By Michael D. Sorkin and Tom Uhlenbrock Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The decision Wednesday by the U.S. Supreme Court favoring Hazel-wood school administrators is a victory for the right of school boards everywhere to control their classrooms, school officials say.

But former Hazelwood students and their supporters say the court has embraced censorship and declared the First Amendment off-limits to high school students. "The authorny of boards of education was being threatened if this case been lost," said Francis Huss, superintendent of the Hazelwood School District "It's a victory for our authority to control our own curriculum." Leslie D. Edwards, a lawyer, called the ruling "an absolute victory for the principal's power" to control freedom of speech. Edwards represents the three students who tried unsuccessfully to publish articles about teenage pregnancy, divorce and abortion "The First Amendment applies to everyone until today," Edwards said. "Now if you are 14 to 18, you are not entitled to express yourself unless the principal agrees with you." Andrea Callow, co-author of several of the censored articles, called the ruling a major setback for student journalists who try to deal with anything more controversial than prom queen "puff articles.

"In high school, we were taught our I I tfsafli. Sam LeonePost-Dispatch Court's ruling on control of content of student publications. Teacher Cheryl Stoller is at left. Hazelwood East High School Principal Robert E. Reynolds talking to a journalism class Wednesday about the Supreme chiardi, a prize-winning journalist who now teaches at Mizzou, where she works with both high school and college journalists.

Bidwill 'Has Made Up His Mind' On Big Red's Home, Lawyer Says Molestation Suspect Is Freed By Mistake "We've removed the First Amendment from our high schools," Ric-chiardi said. "It will have an incredi-See PRINCIPALS, Page 8 i LEGISLATORS QUESTION sports authority bill Page 1SA fives and Arizona officials in Tempe. If Bidwill decides to move, the Phoe-nix-Tempe area appears to be the front-runner for the Cardinals, sources said. And in another development Wednesday, officials in Baltimore conferred with a financial consultant for the Cardinals but expressed no optimism that Bidwill would decide to move the club there. If Bidwill wants to move the team, he is expected to begin the process by filing a letter at the National Football League's offices in New York by Friday.

First Amendment rights, yet now we're not going to be allowed to practice them," said Callow, now a journalism student at the University of $130,000 bond in a felony sex case involving a young girl. Word of the erroneous release came on the heels of a county grand jury report that roundly criticized "serious gaps in the security" of the bonding window, the main entrance to the jail at Clayton. Lynn is charged with two counts of sodomy and one count of first-degree sexual abuse. He Is accused of regularly sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl and then threatening her to ensure her silence. Authorities said the girl had kept the incidents to herself for almost two years.

The girl's 14-year-old sister then reported that she had been attacked in a similar manner earlier. See JAIL, Page 8 By Edward H. Kohn Of the Post-Dispatch Staff 1988, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Football Cardinals owner William V. Bidwill "has made up his mind" about the club's future home, al-1 though he has yet to tell anyone of his decision, his attorney said Wednesday.

But Bidwill's decision may not be made public- as expected Friday, sources told the Post-Dispatch. Meanwhile, attorneys for the Cardinals continued their discussions with Arizona State University in Tem-pe, about a proposal to lease Sun Devil Stadium there. The proposal was the topic of lengthy meetings last week among Bidwill, other Cardinals representa- By William H. Freivogel Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Public-school administrators have broad powers to censor student views expressed in school-sponsored activities like newspapers and dramatic productions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a case from Hazelwood, Mo.

In a 5-3 decision, the court said the principal of Hazelwood East High School, Robert E. Reynolds, had acted reasonably and constitutionally when he excised articles on teen-age pregnancy and divorce from the issue on May 13, 1983, of the school newspaper, Spectrum. Justice Byron R. White, writing for the court, said high school newspapers were part of the school curriculum, not public forums for the exercise of free speech. "Educators do not offend the First Amendment by exercising editorial control over the style and content of student speech in school-sponsored expressive activities so long as their actions are reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns," White said.

In a sharp dissent, Justice William J. Brennan Jr. said, "The mere fact of school sponsorship does not license thought control in the high school." The decision was criticized by the See PAPER, Page 8 COURT GIVES states leeway in setting executions Page 8A But sources said that if Bidwill sends a letter, it might omit any mention of the area to which he wants to relocate. The letter also might not be made public immediately, the sources said. The Jan.

15 notification deadline for owners who want to move was set up in 1984 by NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle. The transfer procedure outlined by Rozelle, which includes filing detailed financial reports and projections, has yet to be followed because no team has moved since then. The reports and projections could be given to other NFL owners when they meet to consider Bidwill's request to move, the sources said. A See BIDWILL, Page IS Ramallah and Kalkilya. Only half of the 1 10,000 residents of Gaza and the West Bank who work in Israel turned up at work Wednesday, Israel Radio said.

U.N. officials in Gaza said that food was "desperately low" in two camps, Bureij and Khan Younis. U.N. Deputy Secretary General Marrack Goulding toured one of the refugee camps that are run by'the United Nations in Gaza but left when 500 youths throwing rocks began to battle Israeli soldiers. The soldiers fired rubber bullets and tear gas.

Goulding blamed the soldiers' for See ISRAEL, Page 8 win on the aldermanic floor. The city has about 935 billboards. That number has changed little since May 1986, when Mayor Vincent Schoemehl Jr. ordered a freeze on new ones. "We would like our neighborhoods to be just as good as those in Bridge-ton and Webster Groves, and to do that they have to be attractive and appealing," Schoemehl said in a rare appearance before an aldermanic See BILLBOARDS, Page 4 NATION 3 4f Missouri at Columbia.

"It's going to change student journalism around the country." Her fear was shared by Sherry Ric- Tourist Recovers Body Of His Dog By Thorn Gross Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A Dutch tourist recovered the body of his dog here Wednesday and flew to the Dallas area, where he planned to bury it in his sister's yard. Meanwhile, an official of the U.S. Department of Agriculture said he would investigate Trans World Airline's handling of the dog. The animal was found dead at the eastern edge of Lambert Field after baggage handlers failed to put it on a connecting flight Thursday. The dog's owner, Leo Koewe, said Wednesday that despite his grief, he felt better after claiming the remains of Loekie, a 4- See DOG, Page 4 In 1986, Japan sold about $59 billion more in products to the United States than it bought Reagan and Takeshita seemed to Reagan White House.

Israel Deports Four Arabs Accused Of Leading Riots By Mary E.Chollet Of the Post-Dispatch Staff 1988, St Louis Post-Dispatch The SL Louis County Jail accidentally released a man accused of child molestation on the man's own signature and the defendant is nowhere to be found, the Post-Dispatch has learned. Authorities spent more than a year getting the man behind bars, and they are not optimistic about finding him again. The suspect is James E. Lynn, of Gallatin, Tenn. He was released Dec.

23 from the County Jail at Gumbo on a "recognizance bond," a written promise to reappear for court Earlier, a judge ordered Lynn held on a Japan Offers To Promote Trade Peace By Robert Koenig Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita said Wednesday that he would pursue policies aimed at lowering Japan's trade surplus and at opening some public works projects to foreign construction companies. Takeshita made the comments after meeting with President Ronald Reagan at the White House to discuss trade, defense and other issues affecting the two countries. The meeting was the first since Takeshita took office in November. For his part, Reagan said he would continue his efforts to "combat protectionism" in VS. trade legislation aimed at Japan and would seek to reduce the federal budget deficit and improve the competitiveness of U.S.

businesses. In a joint statement, the two leaders pledged to work toward "greater stability of exchange rates" and agreed that a further decline in the dollar's value "could be counterproductive." A senior U.S. official said after the meeting that the two sides were considering a move to replenish the U.S. supply of yen, which was depleted in the recent effort to prop up the dollar. WEATHER Compiled From News Services JERUSALEM Israel has deported four men accused of being leaders of Palestinian riots, flying them by helicopter on Wednesday to southern Lebanon, army officers said.

And Israeli soldiers proceeded with a drive to bring riot-prone areas into submission by barring Arabs from going to work and by limiting food deliveries. Total curfews were imposed on all eight refugee camps in the occupied Gaza Strip they are home to 400,000 people as well as on five camps in the West Bank of the Jordan River and the West Bank towns of MuTiiiMiirninintr-1 -p n. J. AP Aldermanic Panel Advances Bill To Bar New Billboards In City By Tim O'Neil Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A measure that would bar new billboards in SL Louis and slowly reduce the number that exist was approved Wednesday by an aldermanic committee. Billboard companies fought it and pleaded for time to suggest an alternative.

The 6-1 vote by the Housing Committee sends the long-disputed issue to the Board of Aldermen. The bill has 15 co-sponsors enough to Wednesday in the Oval Office of the Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita (right) in conversation with President Ronald The talks between the leaders of the world's two richest nations took place in the shadow of Japan's big trade surplus with the United States. INSIDE THURSDAY IE-Pressed establish a good rapport in meetings in the Oval Office and over lunch. Reagan called the sessions "construc- See JAPAN, Page 8 FEATURES American Album Joel Sternfekl is the newest master of photography that focuses on the ordinary rather than the scemcally spectacular. PAGE1E WORLD Taiwan Leader Dies President Chiang Ching-kuo of Taiwan, the son of nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek, dies after a heart attack and is succeeded by a native Taiwanese.

PAGE 7A LOCAL Mostly Sunny Forecast for SL Louis: Today: Mostly sunny and cool today. South winds 5-15 mph. High 30. Fair to partly cloudy tonight with a low of 18. Friday: Partly cloudy and a little warmer.

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