State News Roundup

Gov. L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia has endorsed a proposal by the Virginia Military Institute to establish a state-funded military-training college for women.

The plan represents an effort to comply with a U. S. Supreme Court ruling that V.M.I.'s all-male admissions policy is unconstitutional. The Court ordered the school, which receives public funding, either to admit women or to establish an equivalent program for them elsewhere.

Governor Wilder last month embraced the school's plan, which would provide $6.9 million in state funds for construction, operating expenses, and scholarships to Mary Baldwin College to set up the Virginia...