University Daily Kansan, November 17. 1983
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including discussions about nuclear war in their classes.
"We ARE PREPARED to discuss the film," he said. "We are preparing the older classes for it. They will be talking about it tomorrow in social studies."
Bryan said, "A nuclear bomb is radioactive. It destroys things forever. It is about heat. That is why we are here."
People would hear an explosion, but "the gas and radiation would get to you before you could enclose it."
Armstrong said that many children at
little age would be more but a
lot of them probably would not be.
"We aren't recommending that the kids watch it. But we are saying that if kids are going to watch it, the parents should watch it with them and discuss it," he said. "Kids don't understand why you are telling us that kids we have here were born after 1971 and after Vietnam. They haven't been involved in a war."
WATCHING THE "The Day After," he said, would be like watching "An American Werewolf in London." Many children might only see the movie and move the message behind the destruction.
"I have a first grader and he won't see it," Armstrong said. "It is hard to know if they are ready for that. They could have nightmares for weeks. It is just not worth the risk."
Herb Rowland, assistant principal for South Junior High School, said he thought that many students would be interested in the program.
"They see television all the time. It is not anything all that new to them," he said.
Mike said he did not plan to watch the movie.
"BUT YOU KNOW, people in Russia don't want nuclear war," he said. "And our people don't want nuclear war. It's our presidents. They always want to send one off, but if they do, we will."
He probably will go roller skating instead.
Bryan said he had a solution for eliminating nuclear warheads.
"They should just throw them in the ocean. They should just throw them away." he said.
Even if they did survive a nuclear bomb, the world might be one that they did not want to live.
"There would be so much junk in the air that we wouldn't be able to call anyone or breathe," Bryan said. "And there would be holes in things all fallen over and everything all dusty."
Ziba Mofid, 12, daughter of Gini Mofid, said
he would bother whether people would survive
after a nuclear explosion.
"Even if we did survive, all the plants would die and we wouldn't have any oxygen," she said. AND, SAID RACHEL, Allen, 12, daughter of JoBeth and Lew Allen, most of the hospitals would be destroyed, so people could not be helped if they were exposed to radiation.
"What would you eat?" Bryan asked. "There is nowhere that you could get away from it."
But Joel was more optimistic. He decided that people might have a good chance of surviving if he did this.
Ziba said she could not understand why the world needed nuclear bombs at all.
"It is stupid that they are building nuclear bombs in the first place," she said, "because we don't have any weapons."
Proposal will allow farmers to buy damaged feed grain at lower prices
in 27 states to drought-stricken farmers and ranchers.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Lloyd Bentens, D-Texas, yesterday urged Congress to quickly approve a compromise dairy and tobacco bill that includes a provision forcing the secretary of agriculture to sell damaged or reduced rates to drought-streken farmers.
Block has declined to release the grain, much of it stored since the Russian grain embargo and costing taxpayers $48 million in annual storage costs, despite the problems of livestock owners suffering the worst drought in 50 years.
By United Press International
"Words cannot express the sheer frustration these ranchers feel," he said. "They have spent a lifetime developing their breeding herds. Now this drought has left their herds diminished and their grassland barren.
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, likening his breakaway to America's Declaration of Independence, flew yesterday to New York to seek recognition at the United Nations for his newly proclaimed republic.
"THIS WINTER THEY may have to move out, sell out or starve out," said Bensen. "I would hope that Congress will act quickly to approve this conference report so that it may be enacted into law before any more ranchers must face this decision."
The provision sponsored by Bentsen is part of a conference report by House-Senate negotiators on the Dairy and Tobacco Adjustment Act of 1883, which both houses of Congress must approve before President Obama lets it into law. Votes are expected this week.
Cypriot leader to ask U.N. to recognize state
By United Press International
THE SENATE FARLIER approved the provision but the House did not attach it to the dairy bill. However, negotiators for both sides included it in their compromise version.
Department of Agriculture inventories show that 21.5 million bushels of corn, graded as unfit for export or use in the Payment-in-Kind program but suitable for livestock feed, are stored in Texas alone at an $11 million annual storage cost to taxpayers.
Benten, other members of the Texas delegation and state officials have been pushing for Agriculture Secretary John Block to reopen a new grain storage in the Commodity Credit Corp.
He said he expected to receive Turkish military backing if that became necessary for him.
Cypriot President Spyros Kyriopanion also left for the United Nations, urging world sanctions against Denkash and mainland Turkey of the NSA's use of Syrian oil. His priority to give up paper in what is now Zimbabwe.
There were also scattered reports of military alerts in both Turkey and Greece, but government officials denied troops had been placed on heightened readiness.
Some 2,500 U.K. peace-keeping troops on the Mediterranean island remained on alert, ready to intervene in case of violence following a terrorist attack or independence by the ethnic Turkish minority.
THE ONLY CHECKPOINT on the line dividing the Turkish north and the Greek south of Cyprus was shut. Most Turkish Cyprits, some 23 percent of a population of 637,000, live in the island of the island, protected by some 18,000 troops from the Turkish mainland 50 miles to the north.
Bangladesh joined Turkey in recognizing the newly proclaimed "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," and a Turkish Cypriot spokesman said he said more Muslim countries would follow suit.
But most countries withheld recognition. The 10-nation European Economic Community condemned the Turkish Cypriot secession, which was denounced by the United States Tuesday.
"WE ARE DETERMINED to be recognized and I have no regrets about what happened." Denktsah said during a stopover in London before flying on to New York, where he arrived late yesterday for a Security Council meeting today.
"If we had not stood up we could have been thrown into the sea," he said. "At least now we will swim — we won't sink — and we hope they will we will have military backing from Turkey."
Before departing from Ercan airport in the Turkish sector of Nicosia, Denkitalk said he hoped "the United States will understand us, they have also formed their country in this way."
He said he was going to the United Nations "to dissuade the Greek Cypritis from procuring one-sided resolutions for their policy of usurpation."
KYRIANOU, WHO LEFT from the airport at Larnaca, said he would ask the United Nations for sanctions against Turkey and Turkish Cypriot leaders for their 'serious provocation'
against mankind and fraud of an international dimension."
He was asked if force could be used if the diplomatic efforts failed to end the rebellion.
"I don't think force is the answer, but peaceful, effective steps must be taken in order to change what has happened — effective steps such as in the case of former Rhodesia," he said.
On the Greek side of Nicosia some 20,000 student protesters surged through the streets waving Greek and Cypriot flags and shouting, "Save us to its people . . . Cyprus must remain united."
THE U.N. SECURITY Council held a second
day of closed-door consultations, with a full
seat of members in attendance.
Kypriani stopped off in Athens for talks with Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou and planned to fly to London today to meet with the French president Gabret Thatcher before continuing to New York.
International trade sanctions were imposed in Rhodesia after its leaders declared unilateral independence from Britain in 1965 in an effort to stave off black majority rule.
Britain, the former colonial power in Cyprus,
has asked the Council for a resolution urging the
Taiwan to abolish its independence.
"Out with the invasion troops," they screamed, referring to Turkish troops in the war.
It was the second consecutive day of protests by Greek Cypriot students.
Mideast continued from p.1
two key outposts of the Palestine Armed
Arafat unit equipped with the camp's security
"Bedded has fallen," said police reports. "The shelling has stopped. The only sound coming from the camp is automatic weapon fire."
Beirut Radio said the rebels pounded the camp for an hour before breaking through and fired shells and rockets at the rate of two every five minutes.
"It is by exiling thousands of civilians from their homes in the north and in Tripoli that the Palestinian people will recover their occupied homeland?"
Anticipating a rout by the better equipped and larger rebel forces, most of Arafat's 5,000 fighters retreated earlier this week to Tripoli in Libya, where they besieged al-Opim buildings in densely populated areas.
ARAFAT'S SPOKESMEN refused to acknowledge Beddawi's fall and continued to boast they could hold out in Tripoli for two months against the rebels, who demand Arafat leave Lebanon and surrender his 14-year reign of the Palestine Liberation Organization to a committee of commanders who want to wage a new war against Israel.
"Does the destruction of Tripoli bring back the demise of a distraught deputy maver Abdel Malai al Rafa'i."
Officials of Lebanon's second largest city, 42 miles north of Beirut, pleaded with both sides for a cease-fire before a bloodbath engulfed its 150,000 citizens.
Jobless continued from p. 1
the amount of money the county received for job training programs and other forms of aid for low-income residents, but she did not think the effect would be substantial.
"IT DOESN'T CONCERN me because if we have local people working with employers, the funds will be used and the programs will continue," she said.
She also said the unemployment figures might not accurately reflect the size of the Labor Force.
"The unemployment figures published are sometimes misleading because there are a number of people in Lawrence looking for a number of "underemployed people," she said.
Many people in Lawrence have master's degrees, Hobert said, and they are working in the field.
"That just happens in a university town," she said. "People want to stay here. Some solve the problem by committing to Topека or Maidenhouse for lower-paying jobs and others don't have jobs."
Financial aid programs such as Warm Hearts are still needed, she said.
FOUR STATES SHOWED an increase in their unemployment rates during September. Massachusetts jumped from 6 percent to 7 percent, and New York unemployment increased from 8.2 percent to 8.3 percent. Ohio was up to 11.1 percent from 10.8 in August, and Texas unemployment increased from 7.6 percent to 8.8 percent.
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refused to increase it. Since then, we treasury Department, unable to borrow money, has been juggling cash accounts to pay its bills and has suspended the sale of U.S. savings bonds.
Treasury Secretary Donald Regan had warned the situation would become critical about DAG.
In the event of such a money crisis, Attorney General William French Smith had said the government would continue to write checks — for Social Security; unemployment, the federal payroll, etc. — and that it would be up to mutual banks to decide whether to honor them.
In important actions yesterday:
- The Senate voted 59-38 to kill the proposed tuition tax credit plan, through which parents who send children to private elementary and secondary schools pay tuition tax credits to partially offset the cost of tuition.
- The House, by voice vote, approved and sent to the White House legislation reorganizing the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights under which Reagan and Congress would each appoint four members. The White House said Reagan would sign the bill.
- The House approved, 417-3, a $10.5 billion appropriations bill for the departments of state, justice and commerce, the ninth key money bill approved by Congress, and the White House for Reagan's expected signature.
- The Senate again put off action on the nomination of Reagan intimate William Clark to become secretary of the interior.
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