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South Africa fights new foe
The Associated Press
SPRINGS, South Africa — Dressed in drab brown uniforms, former soldiers and guerrillas abandoned arms for power tools and shovels yesterday to train for a different kind of war — one against social ills.
They were the first volunteers for South Africa's answer to a bloated military — a new Service Corps based on job-corps programs launched after World War II.
"What we're talking about here, in a country crying out for skilled labor, is a preparation of demobilized soldiers," Deputy Defense Minister Ronnie Kasrils said.
With apartheid a relic and regional
wars waning, President Nelson Mandela's government must integrate the military with former guerrilla fighters and soldiers from now-dismantled Black homelands.
At the same time, the government needs money to eliminate daunting social problems left over from the apartheid era: housing shortages, unemployment and illiteracy among the impoverished Black majority.
Integrating the military while scaling back for peacetime operations would swell ranks to 35,000 more than needed, said Defense Minister Joe Modise.
"Without skills, we will not be able to rebuild our country," he said.
Instead of sending the extras straight to the streets, the Service Corps would offer volunteers a bridge to civilian life, including job training and certification of skills.
This first batch of 400 volunteers began training in December. Eventually, the Service Corps expects to number 10,000 and could help with government development, disaster relief and foreign projects.
If the business community and foreign donors contributed, the program could be expanded to offer unemployed youths training in bricklaying, motor mechanics and other vocational skills.
Emmanuel Skunene, learning to set up proper drainage for laying
concrete, said he preferred Service Corps training to the harsh life at a military integration camp.
"It's better here," said Skunne, 26.
"Here, you choose your skills."
Others sawed and shaved wood with industrial power tools as instructors and visiting dignitaries watched.
The uniforms, barracks and general order contrast with conditions at some integration camps, where recruits held demonstrations and strikes last year to protest alleged racism and rugged conditions.
Less money available for students Nearly $1 million in scholarships may be eliminated
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TOPEKA — Federal funding cuts have already eliminated 1,000 state scholarships and more cuts are expected, said Steve Jordan, executive director of the Board of Regents.
He told the House Subcommittee on Education and Legislative Operations that he expected the federal government to cut $900,000 in funding from the state's $1.1 million scholarship program. The committee held hearings Monday and yesterday on funding for the Regents.
Tuition increases also have hurt students from low-income families, he said, and state grants can't help everyone.
Only one out of eight students eligible for state-supported grants receives money from the state's only need-based financial aid program, Jordan said. The average family income of students eligible for the program is $15,000 annually.
The students are part of a program that enables them to attend Regents institutions in Kansas for 1.5 times the cost of the state's resident tuition, or about $3,000.
Jordan also said the Regents would be willing to work with the subcommittee on a proposal that would take out-of-state students in the Midwest Higher Education Consortium out of the appropriations process.
In return, Kansas students can attend the participating states' universities for 1.5 times their resident tuition.
By including the students in the appropriations process, their full tuition—not their reduced tuition—is figured into the Regents budget, causing it to be about $500.000 short.
Jordan said the governor granted the Regents most of their requests in his proposed budget, but Jordan asked the subcommittee for a 3.5 percent increase to account for inflation of the cost of operational expenses, such as office supplies and utilities. The governor proposed a 1.5 percent increase.
The Regents are working with the governor's staff on a new way to look at tuition, but Jordan declined to comment on the new program, saying it was too early to release any information.
Experts: With exercise little can count for lots
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — People too busy, too lazy or too bored to exercise for a half-hour straight can still get major health benefits from minor stints of moderate activity scattered throughout the day, experts say.
Walking briskly, climbing a flight of stairs or two, playing with children, gardening or cleaning house all can count toward reducing your risk of heart disease and other long-term health problems, they say.
The key is to make the activity at least as intense as brisk walking, accumulate at least 30 minutes of it daily and do it virtually every day, according to an expert panel convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine.
The panel reviewed research on exercise and made its recommendations in today's issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
"We've got so many people in our society that are just dead sedentary," said the report's lead author, Russell R. Pate, chairman of exercise science at the University of South Carolina's School of Public Health. "The message for those folks is get more activity, regardless of how it's packaged."
The authors were careful to note that good health resulting from an active lifestyle is different from physical fitness. Moderate activity will not produce the capacity for hard physical work or play but will promote general health, they said.
Millions of Americans — about one in five — still get no significant physical activity, Pate said.
Studies indicate that at any fitness level, the more activity the better. But the least active people who modestly increase their activity stand to gain the most, they said.
Society can promote more physical activity by doing such things as putting attractive staircases at easy-to-use locations in buildings instead of tucking them away in hard-to-find, dimly lit places. Pate said.
John O'Leary, a representative of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, said: "We're happy about this coming out. We hope that the message from this really rilips its way through."
One exercise researcher who was not involved in the work agreed that sedentary people would benefit from the kinds of moderate activity recommended. But he disagreed with the conclusion that sedentary people have more to gain by increasing activity levels than people who are already highly active.
"They're showing something like a 12-fold greater benefit in the sedentary group than in the active group, and I think the data on that are lacking," said Paul T. Williams, a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.
Williams recently reported on a study of thousands of runners that found the benefits of exercise continue to climb even at the most intense levels. Runners who logged 40 miles a week, for example, had a lower heart disease risk than runners who covered 30 miles a week.
"There's big difference between doing housework and gardening for 30 minutes a day and running at levels we're seeing improvements at," Williams said Monday.
Postal service urged to change
The Associated Press
Postmaster General wants service to be more professional
WASHINGTON — Yesterday, Postmaster General Marvin Runyon urged the Clinton administration and Congress to help with major changes to make the service more businesslike.
Runyon has made sweeping changes in the post office since taking over two years ago, but his efforts have been hampered by complex rules that delay new products and limit price flexibility.
"We've got a '70s law that isn't cutting it in the '90s. We need to fix it and fix it now," Runyon said in a speech at the National Press Club.
Top postal managers see in the new Republican-controlled Congress an opportunity to transform their agency, and Runyon has been spending much of his time in discussions with lawmakers.
Runyon focused on three areas
where he said change was urgently needed: people, prices and products.
The collective bargaining process is broken, he said, noting that three of the last five postal contracts had to be settled by arbitrators.
Arbitration laws discourage agreement by permitting both sides to walk away from the table and pass the buck, he said. That means outsiders make key decisions on costs and, as a result, prices that the agency will have to charge.
As for prices, he said, the law created a complex 10-month process to change postal rates. The law pits customer against customer, and competitors lobby to raise their prices.
With flexibility to make rate changes quickly, including offering low rates to big customers, the post office could better compete against other delivery firms by sharpening its products, he said.
Runyon also called for the ability to offer postal workers merit pay rather than the current pay system based on seniority.
"With enough latitude, I believe one day we could become a profit center for the federal government," he said. "Frankly, much of our product line is stuck in the last century."
He said the agency should consider rates based on speed of delivery rather than what was being sent, volume discounts, combinations of electronic and printed mail and other innovations.
Unlike most of his predecessors in the 25 years since the agency became semi-independent, Runyon is even willing to talk about privatization — though he's against simply hanging up a "for sale" sign on the post office.
No private business would be able to carry out the basic job of the post office, he said, which is "service guaranteed to everyone, everywhere, every day."
But if privatization means making the post office more businesslike and market-driven, Runyon said, he would consider it.
He warned against piecemeal changes, though, calling for consideration of all aspects of postal operations.
Russian good luck 'charm' will fly in U.S. shuttle
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — On his first trip into orbit, cosmonaut Vladimir Titov almost crashed into a space station. Five months later, he was catapulted off an exploding rocket. Another time, he had to abort a spacewalk when a wrench broke.
Who would want to fly with this guy? Five NASA astronauts for starters. They consider Titov a good-luck charm. After all, he's still around to talk about his space misadventures.
The Associated Press
The six are scheduled to blast off aboard Discovery early tomorrow on a mission to rendezvous with the Russian space station Mir. Titov will become only the second Russian to fly on a U.S. space shuttle.
Titov, 48, a cosmonaut since 1976 and a Russian Air Force colonel, had been waiting for this moment for more than three years.
Titov and cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev moved to Houston in 1992
Titov will talk via radio to the three cosmonauts mirb Mir as Discovery飞iles within 35 feet of the 100-ton station. NASA wants the practice before space shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir in June; that will be the first of seven Atlantis-Mir dockings.
to train at Johnson Space Center as part of an astronaut-cosmonaut exchange. Krikalev flew on Discovery in February 1994; Titov was his backup.
During the eight-day flight, Titov will use the shuttle robot arm to release a science satellite and move two spacewalkers around the cargo bay.
Titov has far more experience than his American crewmates: He has spent 368 days in orbit, 366 of them on a single mission.
Astronaut Michael Foale said that Titov did not push his experience on the astronauts.
Titov admitted he'd better if Discovery had an escape system
His first close call occurred in April 1983 during a docking attempt with the Soviet Saluty space station. Lacking rendezvous radar, Titov had to rely on his eyes and ground radar. His spacecraft closed in so fast that Titov, fearing a collision, swerved and aborted the rendezvous.
like the one that saved his life in 1983.
"But if not, OK, I will feel like American astronaut," he said, smiling.
On his next launch attempt, in September 1983, fire erupted at the base of the Soyuz rocket one minute before liftoff because of an open fuel valve. Burned wires prevented the automatic escape system from kicking in, forcing launch controllers to activate the system via radio commands.
onds later, the rocket exploded.
With the rocket engulfed in flames and tilting, the escape module holding Titon and cosmonaut Gennadii Strekalov were thrown clear. Sec-
Finally, in December 1987, Titov returned to orbit. His wrench snapped during a spacewalk outside Mir. The mission also lasted a year and eight months too long for his taste. He missed his wife and two children. He also missed the world news.
Four months is best time for a space flight, Titov said.
"It's enough time for adaptation. It's enough time for good job. You have enough power. You feel good," he said.
Titov and cosmonaut Musa Mararov's 366-day mission was a space endurance record until January, when cosmonaut Valery Polyakov surpassed that mark aboard Mir.
There will be no more long space flights for Titov. He said Russian doctors have restricted him to missions of one month or less to limit his exposure to space radiation. Titov doesn't mind. In fact, he said, he's grateful.
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