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WASHINGTON — Robert Shriver; his mother, Eunice Shriver; Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.; and Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President Kennedy, attend a special tribute given by Congress in memory of President John F. Kennedy.
Leadership of JFK is praised at Capitol memorial service
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders led a memorial celebration yesterday for John F. Kennedy in the Capitol's Great Rotunda, where 20 years ago the body of the slain plane lay in state while a nation mourned.
House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, D-Mass., and House Republican leader Howard Baker of Tennessee recalled Kennedy's style and grace and ex-
plained how he managed perhaps above all else - invigorated America with a new sense of spirit.
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"We choose not to dwell on his death, but his life, his presidency." Rep. Edward Boland, D-Mass, said in setting the tone of the 90-minute service attended by about 600 people. "He gave us a new sense of vitality."
SEATED IN THE front of the gathering were several members of the Kennedy family, including the president's brother, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., daughter Caroline, 25, and sister-in-law, Ethel Kennedy.
In the days following Kennedy's death in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, a steady procession of hundreds of tributes moved through the rotunda, slowly passing the
president's flag-draped coffin
The assassination came about 1,000 days after Kennedy rang in his new address in the east steps of the Capitol with an inaugural address that included the passage:
"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans — born in this country — by war, disciplined by hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage."
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS salute Kennedy for his leadership in civil rights, getting the United States on a path to race and forging plans for Medicare.
But repeatedly, he praised him for giving the United States a new and better system.
Said O'Neill, "John F. Kennedy's special place in history is secure."
"It is secure because of the absence of nuclear fallout . . . because of the doors that are open to minorities . . . that were closed 25 years ago," the speaker said. "He set an agenda for the United States."
Speaking in hushed tones, Baker said, "Time and youth have fled since those early days of the 1960s, and yet Kennedy is young forever."
Women live longer but need more care in old age, study says
By United Press International
BOSTON — Although women often live longer than men, women spend more of their later years unable to eat, dress, bathe or get themselves out of bed researchers said yesterday.
*n* study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also found that poor people spent more of their time traveling than those who were not poor.
The report concluded that women spent more time physically dependent on others, not because they were any different from men, but because they lived longer and therefore might endure the infirmities of old age longer.
MEN BETWEEN AGES 65 and 69 spend an average of 71 percent of their remaining years in good health, while their female counterparts can only expect to live 54 percent of the rest of their lives in good health.
The report did not speculate why the poor were incapacitated longer, although an obvious answer might be that they had no access to receive much preventive health care.
The study, conducted on Massachusetts residents in 1974, was designed to measure the quality of life rather than the life expectancy of elderly people.
the culmination of a 30-year attempt to find statistically relevant health status indicators.
He said he hoped the report would help shift the emphasis in medicine away from helping people live longer and awarding peoplelive better lives.
"AS LIFE EXPECTANCY approaches the biologic limits of longevity, it is time to recognize that the primary objective of medical care is to improve patient function and to reduce the degree of illness," the report said.
Dr. Sidney Katz, a member of the Biology and Medicine Department at Brown University, said this study was
"Improvement of the quality of life is
the goal, especially in the treatment of chronic illness, and functional assessment provides appropriate information for approaching such objectives."
The study found that active life expectancy decreased with age, from 10 years for people entering the age category of 65 to 69 years to 4.7 for those in the 80-to-84 age group and to 2.9 for those aged 85 and older
The poor live 2.4 less active years in the 65-to-69 group, and less than one additional year in the 75-and-older group.
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A FEW THOUGHTS ABOUT OPPRESSION IN CENTRAL AMERICA
On November 12th some 150 people demonstrated downtown against U.S. military intervention in Central America and the Caribbean. One piece of literature distributed by PRAXIS, a student organization which maintains "a center for . . . progressive groups on campus," mentions the United Nations International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights" recognizing that "... the ideal of free human beings enjoying freedom from fear and can only be achieved . . . (by permitting them to) freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development." Yet, in their chants and speeches, the demonstrators frequently seem to forget this great truth.
If John Linscheid, president of the Lawrence Ministerial Assn., thinks "The United States needs to be liberated from being an oppressor as much as the Central American nations to be liberated from oppression," then why doesn't he support this country's opposition to Nicaragua's Sandinista government which permitted Sandinista mobs to violently force the closure of more than a dozen churches last October 30th?
While agreeing with them that U.S. tax dollars should not be handed to the oppressors in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, I hold that our resources are being used against like-minded groups in Grenada and Nicaragua.
If, in the words of K.U. student Rhonda Neugebauer, "We don't have to make the world free. Central Americans are capable of claiming their own freedom", how did radical factions twice manage to gain total control in Grenada and why are most Grenadians now celebrating their liberation?
If the United States' attempt to assist the manipulated majority in Grenada and Nicaragua is, as KU, Professor of Economics and Soviet and East European Studies Harry G. Shaffer claims, "the gossest violation of human rights anywhere in the world today," then on which planet does he think the Soviets' four-year-old bloody invasion of Afghanistan is taking place?
While the record we've compiled in Central America and elsewhere is not without flaw, there are many Grenadians and Nicaraguans who deeply appreciate our efforts in their behalf today.
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AT&T says dividends greater after break-up
By United Press International
NEW YORK - AT&T investors will receive a slightly higher dividend once the giant company is on the 1, officials announced today.
The long-awaited prospectus detailing the finances of the post-divestiture AT&T and seven regional holding companies was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and distributed to the public shortly after 11 a.m. CST.
THE FIRST DIVIDENDS for the eight companies that the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. will become will add up to $1,365 per pre-divestiture AT&T share. That means investors who have been getting $1.35 per share each quarter from the old AT&T can count on getting slightly more once the company is broken up and shares in the new regional companies are distributed.
The dividends approved today by AT&T directors will be paid on May 1, 1984.
Wall Street and investors had asked whether the payout after Jan. 1 will equal the old dividend.
The first dividends of the new companies have been the subject of particular speculation and concern. As the most widely held stock in the nation with 3 million shareholders, old AXT paid an annual dividend of $0.46 per share skipping or reducing a dividend in more than a century of business.
AT&T AND REFUSED to confirm it would release the documents today, but invited reporters to its Manhattan headquarters for what
one spokesman called a "press watch."
The New York Stock Exchange has said it would begin trading in the new AT&T and seven regional banks on Monday. Monday under special rules
The schedule was intended to give analysts several days to study AT&T's projections before trading starts. But some seemed ready to pore nonstop over the information the moment it is released.
"I hear one of our competitors has a team of lawyers, statisticians, and accountants who are going to stay on the job as an analyst for a major brokerage firm.
"... You'd better not quote me on that," he added nervously.
"I think that's stupid. I'm going to stay in the city but I have every intention of using my hotel room for sleeping," the analyst said.
THE DIVESTITURE will permit AT&T to compete in unregulated business of its choosing, as well as offer long distance telephone service. The regional companies will continue to provide local phone service and also will be able to diversify into unregulated activities.
The earnings estimates for the new companies always have been expected to be inexact at best. These projections became even more cloudy when the Federal Communications Commission postponed implementation of an access charge on phone users that would have helped the reqirmen companies for the loss of their old AT&T subsidies.
Congress is working on legislation that would ban the charges altogether for residential and small business phones.
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