NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, January 16, 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
Prime lending rate reduced
NEW YORK - Citibank and Chase Manhattan Bank yesterday reduced their prime lending rate by $ \frac{1}{4} $ percent to 10$ ^{\frac{1}{2}} $ percent, the lowest in 16 months. The lower rate was expected to spread throughout the industry.
Alan Greenspan, chairman of Townsend-Greenspan & Co., and a mem-
ber of President Reagan's Economic Poli-
cy Council, expected the prince rates could drop in 10 percent.
"I see the prime at $11\%$ percent to 12 percent by year-end," he said.
But Greenspan said uncertainties arising from lack of action on the budget deficit would push interest rates higher later in the year.
Teachers to watch for herpes
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Teachers following a court order yesterday inspected preschool students for herpes lesions and were told to send home any child with a "watery" sore.
A federal judge ordered the visual searches when he ruled that a 3-year-old girl with a mild form of herpes was entitled to attend her special education classes as long as she had no sores and stayed off the school bus.
The girl, identified only as Jane Doe, is one of three preschoolers nationwide whose herpes infections have drawn protests.
GM workers strike in Missouri
A 3-year-old boy has been the solitary student of a substitute teacher in a Pasadena, Md., school. Parents last week picketed the Sacramento, Calif., school attended by a 4-year-old who has a mild form of herpes.
WENTZVILLE, Mo. — More than 3,100 General Motors Corp. employees went on strike yesterday at the Wentzville assis-
sion building over work rules soubled by the automaker.
The strike is the first at the plant, which opened in December 1983.
"The line is not operating and the team is still in plant," said GM groeskenman Bob Hartnagel.
Hourly employees represented by United Auto Workers Local 2250 began streaming out of the plant at 10 a.m., the strike deadline set by union officials.
Negotiations between GM and the union were to resume at 9 a.m. today, Hartmargel said. The strike was called after negotiation ended in agreement in several hours of talks Monday.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Brazilians reject military regime, elect civilian
By United Press International
BRASILIA. Brazil — Congressmen yesterday elected opposition candidate Tancredo Neves as Brazil's first civilian president in 21 years, marking an end to a military regime unable to cope with a huge foreign debt.
Nevales, 74, will succeed Gen. Joao Figueiredo, who will turn over power to the civilian government in March. Figueiredo is the last of five military rulers to govern the world's sixth largest country since a 1964 coup.
"I'll be rooting for the success of your administration." Figueiredo told Neves in a phone call of congratulations from his mother, where he was recovering from back surgery.
Flag-waving supporters of Neves danced in the rain on top of the dome-shaped Congress building as congressmen voting in a 689-vote electoral college gave the opposition lawyer 480 votes to 180 for businessman Paulo Maluf.
Neves was supported by a loose coalition of opposition parties and government dissident.
MALUF RAN FOR the party supporting the outgoing military regime. Twenty-six vote.
Crowds gathered in city squares throughout Brazil in a carnival atmosphere to follow the voting on television, often accompanied by samba bands and folk dancing.
"It's the first time that Brazilian history is being written by the people and not by the elites," said opposition leader Ulisses Guimaraes, who formally proposed Neves. "This is like the birth of a child, a miracle of nature."
Jo Black/KANSAN
Sheila Walker, Glasco sophomore, and Dawn Glassey, St. Louis junior, use food trays borrowed from Lewis Hall for an afternoon sled ride. Walker and Glassey said that yesterday was the first time they had tried "traying."
Retail sales fall by 0.1 percent in Xmas season
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Christmas selling season was strong for department stores but weak for auto dealers as retail sales fell 0.1 percent in December, the Commerce Department reported yesterday.
The decrease was the first overall sales setback since August and only the sixth Christmas-season report in the last 15 years to show a decline.
Economists hope, however, that further improvements in interest rates, like the quarter-point drop to a 10.5 percent prime rate on the place, will spark retail sales early this year.
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker yesterday again held out hope that decreases in government borrowing will cause interest rates to decline. After a meeting with Senate leaders, Volcker said a $50 billion reduction in the projected $225 billion deficit for 1986 would be an important first step.
COMMERCE SECRETARY Malcolm Baldridge said, "Continued growth in incomes indicates another good year ahead for retail stores, but gains will be slower than in 1984."
Cash registers rang up $110.8 billion in December sales after seasonal adjustment, capping a 1984 total of $1.3 trillion in sales — 10.4 percent more than in 1983.
The White House seemed more optimistic. Spokesman Larry Speakes called the latest statistics "very encouraging for the year ahead."
The Commerce Department yesterday also reported a slight increase in industrial production for December.
Lebanon needs U.N. troops after pullout, Israelis say
By United Press International
JERUSALEM — Israel yesterday urged that U.N. troops be moved into vacated areas of Lebanon to prevent massacres and the killing of an Israeli palestinian who the wake of an Israeli palestine outfall, from Lebanon.
Senior officials in Jerusalem reiterated the demands made at the stalled troop with US forces.
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, whose plan to withdraw from Lebanon in three stages was approved Monday, briefed U.N. Undersecretary-General Brian Urquhart on Israel's decision.
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the vacuum created by
laura's departure
"FOR THE SAKE OF preventing blood in southern Lebanon, we think it's a good thing that they take over," an official said. "We also have to law and order rather than anarchy."
But the official in Jerusalem stressed, "It's a problem, not our problem, whether UNFILI is."
The sources said Israel also would return to the Naqoura troop withdrawal talks with Lebanon Thursday to propose to the Lebanese "an orderly takeover" by the Lebanese army as well to avoid disorder and bloodshed.
After meeting with Rabin, Urquhart traveled to Beirut and met Lebanese foreign ministry officials. Lebanon would have to ask the United Nations to allow UNIFIL to change its mandate and expand. The force now numbers 5,700.
Israel's Cabinet voted 16-6 Monday night for a three-stage unilateral withdrawal — from southwestern Lebanon within five weeks, and later, at unspecified times, from the Beka valley in the east facing Syria and then back to the Israel-Lebanon border.
ISRAEL INVADED LEBANON in June 1882 to drive out the Palestine Liberation Organization. Some 10,000 Israeli troops have preserved a presence in the country ever since.
Amid sharp political division over the decision, Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Israel's top military commanders fanned out the country to explain the withdrawal plan.
"True, there is a danger of massacre in Lebanon," Peres told high school students in Yokneam, Israel Radio reported.
"One of the reasons we wanted to reach an agreement with Lebanon and Syria was to prevent a massacre," Peres said.
The senior sources said there could be massacres when the Sunni and Shiite Moskens the Palestinians, the Druse and the Islamist forces for dominance in the new vacuum.
RECREATION SERVICES ACTIVITY CALENDAR SPRING 1985
JANUARY
Tues. Jan. 15 Sunrise Fitness Informational Day 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Robinson 208
Wed. Jan. 16 SUNRISES FITNESS BEGINS 6:15 p.m.
Mon. Jan. 21 Basketball Managers Meeting 6:15 p.m. Old North Gym, Robinson
Tues. Jan. 22 INSTANT SCHEDULING FOR BASKETBALL BEGINS
8 a.m.-5 p.m. Conference Room Robinson 308
Wed. Jan. 23 INSTANT SCHEDULING FOR BASKETBALL-ALL ENTRIES DUE THIS DATE 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Conference Room Robinson 208
Basketball Officials Meeting 6:15 p.m. Robinson 156
Thurs. Jan. 24 Basketball Officials Clinic 6:15 p.m. Old North Gym Robinson SPORT-A-THON ENTRIES DUE 5 p.m. Robinson 208
Fri. Jan. 25 SPORT-A-THON COMPETITION 5:30 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
Mon. Jan. 28 BASKETBALL BEGINS 5:15 p.m.
Wed. Jan. 30 Water Polo Managers Meeting Recreation League Competition only 7:15 p.m. Robinson 202
Thurs. Jan. 31 S.S.S. One-on-one Basketball Free Throw Entries Due Robinson 208 5 p.m.
FEBRUARY
Sat. Feb. 2 S.S.S. Basketball & Free Throw Competition 9 a.m.
Tues. Feb. 5 F.A.T.S. 7 p.m. 202 Robinson Fitness Awareness Techniques Seminars
TOPIC: Wellness Center Orientation
Thurs. Feb. 7 Entry Deadline Racquetball Singles 5 p.m. Robinson 208 $1 plus unopened can of racquetball balls
Sun. Feb. 10 Racquetball Singles Tournament 1:30 p.m. Robinson 1st and 2nd rounds
Tues. Feb. 12 Indoor Track Meet Entries Due 5 p.m. Robinson 208 WOMEN & WEIGHTS CLINIC 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
Wed. Feb. 13 INDOOR TRACK MEET 8:30 p.m.
Thurs. Feb. 14 S.S.S. Entries Due Walleyball Tournament
Sat. Feb. 15 S.S.S. 10 a.m. SATURDAY SPORTS SPECTACULAR Walleyball Court 12
Mon. Feb. 18 BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS BEGIN
Tues. Feb. 19 INTRO TO WEIGHT TRAINING CLINIC 6:30-8 p.m.
Thurs. Feb. 21 Entry Deadline Racquetball Doubles 5 p.m. Robinson 208 $1 plus an unopened can of racquetball balls Entry Deadline 5'10'' & Under Basketball Tournament 5 p.m. 208 Robinson
Sat. Feb. 23 5'10'" & Under Basketball Tournament 9 a.m. Robinson
Sun. Feb. 24 Racquetball Doubles Tournament 1:30 p.m. Robinson 1st and 2nd Rounds
Thurs. Feb. 28 Wrestling Entry Deadline TEAM AND INDIVIDUAL ENTRIES 5 p.m. Robinson 208
MARCH
Sat. Mar. 2 WRESTLING WEIGH-INS 8:8:30 a.m. Robinson Service Center WRESTLING CLINIC 10 a.m. All wrestlers must attend! MEET BEGINS 10:30 a.m.
Tues. Mar. 5 Water Polo concludes Spring Soccer Managers Meeting Old North Gym Robinson 6:15 p.m.
Wed. Mar. 6 SOCCER INSTANT SCHEDULING BEGINS 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
BASKETBALL HILL CHAMPIONSHIP CO-REC (TBA) Thurs. Mar. 7
Thurs. Mar. 7 SOCCER INSTANT SCHEDULING CONCLUDES 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
BASKETBALL HILL CHAMPIONSHIPS MEN AND WOMEN (TBA)
SPRING SOCCER BEGINS
Floor Hockey Managers Meeting 6:15 p.m. Robinson 202
Floor Hockey Officials Meeting 7 p.m. 202 Robinson
Entries Due S.S.S. SUPER STAR COMPETITION 5 p.m.
Robinson 208
Entries Dixed Racquetball Doubles 5 p.m. Robinson 208
$1 and an unopened can of racquetball balls
Sat. Mar. 23
S.S.S. 9 a.m. Saturday Sports Spectacular
SUPER STAR COMPETITION
Sun. Mar. 24
MIXED RACQUETBALL DOUBLES TOURNAMENT
1:30 p.m. Robinson 1st and 2nd rounds
Mon. Mar. 25
FLOOR HOCKY BEGINS
First Aid Workshop Registration Deadline 5 p.m. Robinson 208
FIRST AID WORKSHOP 6-10 p.m. Robinson 202
FIRST AID WORKSHOP 6-10 p.m. Robinson 202
Entry Deadline Golf League 5 p.m. Robinson 208
Play held at Orchards Golf Course
ENTRY DEADLINE FOR DAM RUN-In conjunction with Lawrence Parks and Rec. 5 p.m. Robinson 208
Sat. Mar. 30
DAM RUN Holcom Park Early Registration 8 a.m. Run begins at 9 a.m.
APRIL
Wed. Apr. 3 Golf League Begins at the Orchards 4 p.m.
Thurs. Apr. 4 Entry Deadline TENNIS SINGLES 5 p.m. Robinson 208 $1 and an unopened can of tennis balls
Wed. Apr. 10 SOCCER PLAY-OFFS BEGIN Golf League 4 p.m. Orchards Golf Course MANAGERS MEETING FOR INTERNATIONAL OLYMPICS 7 p.m.Robinson 202
Thurs. Apr. 11 Deadline entries for PUTT-PUTT GOLF 5 p.m. Robinson 208
Fri. Apr. 12 NATIONAL INTRAMURAL RECREATION SPORTS ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE BEIGNS Columbus, Ohio
Sat. Apr. 13 PUTT-PUTT golf 10 a.m. S.S.S. Saturday Sports Spectacular PUTT-PUTT GOLF COURSE (Across from K-Mart on Iowa)
Sun. Apr. 14 TENnis SINGLES Tournament 1:30 p.m. Robinson NATIONAL RECREATION SPORTS WEEK
Wed. Apr. 17 Golf League 4 p.m. Orchards Golf Course
Thurs. Apr. 18 Entry Deadline 1-Day Softball Tourney Men's & Women's 5 p.m. Robinson 208
Fri. Apr. 19 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPICS BEGINS
Sat. Apr. 20 S.S.S. Saturday Sports Spectacular Men's & Women's 1-Day Softball Tourney 9 a.m.
Mon. Apr. 22 Entry Deadline SQUASH PLAY-DAYS April 23-26 5 p.m. Robinson 208
Wed. Apr. 24 Golf League 4 p.m. Orchards Golf Course
Thurs. Apr. 25 Enter Deadlines for Tennis Doubles and Tennis Mixed Doubles 5 p.m. Robinson 208 $1 plus an unopened can of tennis balls ENTRY DEADLINE FOR CO-REC SOFTBALL 1-DAY TOURNAMENT
Sat. Apr. 27 SOCCER HILL CHAMPIONSHIPS (TBA) S.S.S. SATURDAY SPORTS SPECTACULAR CO-REC SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT 9 A.M.
Sun. Apr. 28 Tennis Doubles and Mixed Doubles Tournament 1:30 p.m. Robinson 1st and 2nd Rounds