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University Daily Kansan, February 17, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Longshoremen working after agreeing to a contract
PHILADELPHIA — Dock workers in Philadelphia, Delaware and southern New Jersey gave in to their fears of their ports' losing business and returned to work with a new contract yesterday, leaving only piers in Boston idled by a weeklong strike.
The returning workers were among 6,200 East Coast longshoremen who had walked off the job last Thursday after rejecting local versions of a three-year International Longshoreman's Association master contract written last month.
Despite a wage increase that will bring the hourly rate to $17 by the end of the new agreement, the reduction in total hours means workers will receive almost $1,000 less in total guaranteed income over three years.
Castro visits Spain's prime minister
"It was a great pleasure to be able to greet our friend, our comrade—may I call you comrade? — Felipe Gonzalez here in Madrid." Castro said, as Gonzalez nodded yes at an airport news conference near the end of the brief visit.
MADRID, Spain — Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez pressed Fidel Castro yesterday to improve ties with the United States during the Cuban president's first official visit to Western Europe.
Both Castro and Gonzalez said that their meeting had been a friendly one. They discussed Central America, relations with the United States and a Spanish named Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, who has been imprisoned in Cuba since 1965.
CHERRY TREE, Pa. — An explosion and flash fire in a western Pennsylvania coal mine yesterday injured 10 miners, four of them seriously, and sent more than 100 fleeing for their safety. Three miners were missing 450 feet underground.
Three missing after mine explosion
About 130 people were in the Pennsylvania Mines Corp. mine in nearby Green Township, about 75 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, when the fire spread.
"Three did not come up," said Barry Novotny, spokesman for Pennsylvania Mines. Four miners were badly burned and the other six were injured.
The missing men were thought to be 4,500 feet from the bottom of an elevator shaft. They were identified as Walter Depto, 47; Gary Miller, 34; and Stephen Parzakta, 31.
Groups sav ads cloud smoking issue
WASHINGTON — The heart, cancer and lung associations said yesterday that recent tobacco company advertisements seeking to open a debate about smoking were a smoke screen to hide the hazards of cigarettes.
In an unprecedented, joint news conference, leaders of the three national health organizations said nothing was left to debate. They said that cigarette smoking caused lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and pneumonia. They also said that American would die prematurely this year of diseases linked to smoking.
Gerald Murphy, president of the American Cancer Society, said a new series of advertisements by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Salem, N.C., was designed to make something that was not reasonable seem reasonable.
Suspect said to point to roommate
DALLAS — A suburban policeman testified yesterday that Leneli Geter had denied involvement in any robberies but seemed to suggest during questioning that police question his roommate, Anthony Williams.
District Judge John Ovard is hearing a defense motion to dismiss the case against Geter.
Gary Cochrane, a Plano, Texas, police officer, said, "I do not recall exactly what I asked him about my robberies, but he said something to me that was so funny."
Geter was arrested Aug. 24, 1982, in Greenville, Texas, for the armed robbery of a fast-food restaurant in Garland, Texas. He was sentenced to life in prison for an armed robbery in Balch Springs, another suburb, and will stand trial again in April.
Study links deviance to marijuana
CHICAGO - Marijuana users are more likely to participate in deviant activities and tend to associate closely with other marijuana users, a study showed yesterday.
Denise B. Kandel, a researcher at the Columbia University School of Public Health in New York, studied 1,325 young adults. Users are more likely to participate in deviant lifestyle and are more likely to need psychiatric hospitalization, she said.
Marijuana use reaches a peak between ages 20 and 22 and declines at age 25. Kandel said in the American Medical Association's Archives of General Psychiatry. The study indicated that nationwide in 1982, 64 percent of the people ages 22 to 25 used marijuana.
Party begins for Mardi Gras
WASHINGTON — Thousands of Mardi Gras revelers yesterday began their 38th annual nonstop, three-day party in Washington's festive forerunner of the legendary carnival season that begins next weekend in New Orleans.
Thirty festival queens, with titles like "Miss Crawfish" and "Miss Swine," are among the thousands of Louisiana residents and officials who have taken over a downtown hotel as official headquarters for the festival. The crowd is abuzz with snowy night's gala ball hosted by a secret society, the Mykiluck Krew Club.
New Orleans' famed carnival season, which annually draws more than a million people for what has been called the world's largest free party, begins Feb. 26 and lasts through Fat Tuesday, March 6, the last day of revelry before Lent begins.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST. 2-17-84
Today will be partly cloudy over the Plains states.
Locally, today will be partly cloudy. The highs will be in the low to mid-50s. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Tomorrow will be cloudy with rain likely and thunderstorms possible. The high will be in the upper 40s.
January housing starts highest since '78
Bv United Press International
WASHINGTON — Optimistic builders set a five-year high for new housing construction last month, starting 15 percent more projects despite high mortgage interest rates, the government said yesterday.
Considering housing's appetite for steel, textiles, appliances and labor, the improvement was the most sparkling move. The factory filled with especially favorable reports.
But on Wall Street, the better-than-expected performance across the board translated into an even bigger threat of higher interest rates.
THE COMMERCE DEPARTMENT said the housing industry's benchmark, the pace of production in houses per year, reached 1.9 million in January, the best month since December 1978, a decrease from December's 1,67 million unit level.
Americans, on average, added $104 to their annual after-tax income.
climbed a healthy 1.1 percent in January.
In a separate report yesterday, the department said U.S. personal income
Income went up, at annual rates, by a million to a seasonally adjusted trend.
Disposable income, after income taxes were subtracted, also rose 1.1 percent.
December's improvement was $24.1 billion, or 0.8 percent.
THAT WAS AN INCREASE of $104 in the average annual take-home pay of every American — $10,487 for 12 months to January, the department said.
The report also measured personal spending on both goods and services during the month, showing a 1.2 percent increase in December's revised 1 percent gain
Spending on both goods and services grew slightly more than income, 1.2 percent, forcing the savings rate down * to point to 2.3 percent of disposable income.
Federal Reserve System economists yesterday said American industry worked at 79.9 percent of its capacity in January, the busiest pace in slightly less than two years and a 0.7 percentage point jump from December.
That was the figure Wall Street seemed to focus on Wednesday, recalling the warning a week earlier of Paul Volcker, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, that in a few months he would be straining to meet demand, a circumstance that historically has pushed up prices and interest rates.
ALREADY THE PAPER industry, the nation's textile mills and manufacturers of electrical machinery are using around 90 percent or more of their capacity, the latest figures showed.
Yet high interest rates are holding down the business borrowing necessary to finance new investments.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The nation's personal income rose 1.1 percent in January, the most since October, while spending also outpaced December's income, the Commerce Department said yesterday. Income rose at an annual rate of $30.8 billion to a seasonally adjusted $2.89 trillion.
Mondale criticizes NCPAC campaign in Iowa
By United Press International
DES MOINES, Iowa — Walter Mondale, ahead in the polls but leaving nothing to chance, yesterday opened a final assault before the Iowa caucuses that launched a conservative group that launched a $2 million campaign against him.
Mondale campaigned from city to city, addressing groups of his precinct in New York.
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At his first stop at the University of Dubue, Mondale excoriated the National Conservative Political Action Committee, whose chairman an- nounced that a $2 million campaign to "expose" the former vice president as a liberal.
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