University Daily Kansan, January 12, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
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Storm brings East rain, snow
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By United Press International
The East's first winter storm of 1984 dumped up to 15 inches of snow from Virginia to Maine yesterday, caused at most three deaths, then moved out to
Heavy rains doused the Southeast. Drivers in Atlanta skidded on icy roads, causing so many accidents police could not respond to them all.
Subzero temperatures chilled the Great Lakes region for the first time since December's deadly freeze. International Falls, Minn., was the nation's cold spot at 35 below zero and a string of records fell in Michigan, where Pelletier reported 23 below zero. Midday readings remained in the single digits.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER Service reported 15 inches of snow at Portland, Maine, and up to 8 inches in New York City.
"I like the snow because it covers the
garbage," said New Yorker Bill Fitzgerald, formerly of Chicago. "But this is nothing compared to the Windy City."
city. While the snowfall scrambled traffic and dented city snow-removal budgets, it was a boon to the skiing industry
"It was a good, gold" dumping of that white gold," said Candy Moot, spokeswoman from the Vermont Ski Areas Association. "Last year, we didn't have a major storm until Jan. 16."
Washington, D.C., got only a light dusting of snow that combined with icy roads to delay the opening of some offices.
Heavy snowfall in Boston closed Logan International Airport for five hours early yesterday. Winter storm warnings over New England expired during the day but travelers from New York and North Carolina were warned of ice roads.
AT LEAST THREE deaths were reported in New England - two
Massachusetts men suffered heart attacks after removing snow and a snowmobiler hit a tree in Maine. The storm kept Democratic presidential candidate John Glenn away from a Boston campaign stop.
About 3 inches of rain soaked Raleigh and Wilsonville, N.C.
Gate warnings were posted over the southern New England and middle Atlantic coasts after the snowstorm moved out to sea.
"Literally hundreds" of accidents occurred on slick roads in Atlanta, said state highway patrol spokesman Bill Gentry. The crash only to accidents involving injuries.
The snow stretched as far south as Virginia, where up to 5 inches was reported.
A heavy snow warning was posted over the mountains of northern Utah and a winter storm warning was issued for the mountains of Colorado as a new storm developed. Dense fog enveloped parts of the Pacific Coast.
Big freeze squeezes orange harvest
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WASHINGTON — The Christmas freeze that heavily damaged Florida's citrus crop has reduced the potential orange harvest by 23 percent over the past month to 129 million boxes, the government said yesterday.
The Agriculture Department's first official estimate of the crop since the devastation of citrus and vegetable crops in the South said the Florida orange crop would be 8 percent less than last season's crop. A month ago, the Florida orange crop was projected to be 168 million boxes.
Much of the Florida crop was salvageable because most Florida oranges are grown for their juice rather than for the fresh citrus market. But the freeze reduced potential yields to 1.23 gallons of frozen concentrated juice per box.
BEFORE THE FREEZE, experts had predicted the crop would yield 1.43 gallons per box. Last season's yield was 1.48 gallons per box. They said the price impact of the freeze be moderated by imports of orange juice.
Broken down into varieties, the estimate of Florida production of early and mid-season oranges was reduced by 21 percent over the past month to 74
million boxes. The forecast of Valencia oranges was reduced by 26 percent to 55 million boxes.
The new estimate of the Florida grapefruit crop was reduced by 7 percent to 43 million boxes, but still 9 percent greater than last season.
The freeze also stuck citrus areas of Texas, where the grapefruit crop was reduced by 61 percent to 4.5 million boxes. 60 percent less than last season.
Florida Gov. Robert Graham this week estimated freeze damage to all Florida crops at $500 million and said the largest part of that would be citrus.
AIDS scare may be jeopardizing blood supplv
In Texas, citrus industry leaders estimated damage at $50 million to $100 million.
By United Press International
BOSTON — Unfounded anxiety that donating blood increases the risk of contracting AIDS has blood bank directors concerned the trend may snowball, jeopardizing the nation's ability to collect adequate blood supplies, a Yale University doctor said yesterday.
Separate studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine add credence to the hypothesis that Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome can be transmitted through blood and from mother to unborn child.
But doctors said it is impossible to contract AIDS by donating blood. The risk of contracting the almost always
fatal disease through transfusions is so low people should not panic and postpone necessary surgery, the doctors added.
BLOOD BANKS ARE losing donors and as the number of transfusion-transmitted cases of AIDS increase it "will almost surely heighten concern in the minds of the public," said Dr Joseph of the Yale University School of Medicine professor and Yale-New Haven Hospital blood bank medical director.
No one knows what causes AIDS, which impairs a victim's natural ability to fight infection. But the two new studies add credence to theories it is transmitted by a virus or some other agent in a person's blood. Other proposed ways of transmission are intimate sexual contact and use of
contaminated needles.
Homosexuals, some bisexuals, Haitian immigrants, hemophiliacs and drug abusers are at especially high risk for AIDS, although a small number of people - including children - who fit no risk category have contracted it.
OF THE MORE than 2,000 cases of AIDS reported to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta last year, only 40 were believed to have been transmitted through blood transfusions and 42 from mother to infant.
"It is of continuing concern that those in need of surgery will panic from irrational fear and postpone necessary operations. This is considered a much greater threat to human life than that posed by AIDS," said Dr. John D. Milam, president of the American Association of Blood Banks.
VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II was greeted yesterday by a group of U.S. Marines and sailors from the carrier Independence as he arrived in the Paul VI Audience Hall for his weekly general audience. The United States reopened diplomatic relations with the Holy See Tuesday for the first time since 1867.
Hollings opposes Vatican ties
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - Sen, Ernest Hirst
H野s, D.C., called the establishment of formal diplomatic relations with the Vatican "bad precedent" yesterday, but congressional opposition to the new ties appeared limited and handcuffed.
"There is a constitutional fundamental involved in the separation of church and state and, therefore, I oppose not the special representative but the formal diplomatic recognition," Hollings said in a statement.
WITH CONGRESS IN recess, there was little other public criticism on Capitol Hill of the restoration of diplomatic relations with Vatican for the time in 116 years.
The move, announced yesterday in Washington and Rome, touched off strong criticism among some Protestants who believe some Jewish and civil liberties factions.
The resumption of diplomatic ties with the Vatican was made possible through legislation enacted by Congress last year that gave President Reagan the authority to resume relations.
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A spokesman for Lugar said "there have been rumors" of discontent regarding the resumption of full diplomatic relations with the Vatican but "there has been no visible opposition."
OPPONENTS ARE SEVERELY limited in actions they can take
The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., as an amendment to the State Department authorization bill, was approved by Congress with virtually no opposition and little debate.
The administration has asked to increase the money for the Vatican establishment from $400,000 in fiscal 1984 to $1.1 million.
Some opponents can try to block administration efforts to shift money already appropriated for a new embassy to replace the current offices.
"There's not a whole lot to fight," Lugar's spokesman said.
Reagan's personal representation to the administration since 1961, assured assays of his ability.
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