University Daily Kansan, October 3.1983
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Views change for couples, study shows
By United Press International
SEATTLE — Post-war baby boomers — the rebellious "us" generation of the 1960s, then the "me" generation of the 70s — have become the "we" generation in the 1960s, a study of 6,000 American couples shows.
Now in their 20s and 30s, they are pairing up despite changed views about work, money and sex and the ease of education at Washington sociologists say.
Schwartz and Dr. Philip Blumstein began studying 6,000 American couples — married and cohabitating, heterosexual and homosexual — across the country in 1977 through a 38-page questionnaire. They also interviewed 300 couples living near Seattle, San Francisco and New York
AMONG THEIR MAINLY white, middle-class and college-educated sample, "the idea that both partners should work is the norm, not the exception." Schwartz said, noting 80 percent of the wives they questioned had jobs.
Many married men were gratified that their wives were bringing in money, but their gratification waned when the women's success competed with their own. The researchers also found a fair amount of career competition among gay male couples. There was much less among lesbian couples.
Perhaps the most striking difference between the sexes — heterosexuals and homosexuals alike — is that women equate sex with love, the study found.
"IT'S MORE COMMON for men to feel, as one of our husbands said, 'Sex can be like shaking hands or eating a sandwich, something you do with a stranger when the mood strikes,'" said Blumstein.
"Nobody in any of our couples likes their partner to have an affair, married or divorced."
As a result, men were less threatened by thought of their spouse's infidelity.
"Men, while they generally expect to have intercourse, are not that unhappy if intercourse doesn't occur in a given session of love-making."
Bill Griffin, Topeka, guides concrete into a form at the new addition of Haworth Hall. Workers were busy last week on the addition and expect to complete the project by July 1985.
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ROME — Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger arrived from Asia yesterday for meetings with Italian leaders and a visit to Hill II on the final leg of a worldwide tour.
Weinberger to meet with pope
By United Press International
He stopped for an hour in Egypt on his way route from Pakistan and met Egyptian Defense Minister Abdel Alab Ghazala at Cairo Airport at Egypt's request to brief him on his talks in China last week.
Though brief, the 24-hour stop in Rome is designed to give Weinberger an opportunity to meet for the first time with the new Italian defense minister, Giovanni Spadolini, and to have an encounter with ape, a first for a U.S. defense secretary.
Both meetings take place today.
"WEINBERGER FEELS meeting with the pope is necessary because he his opinions on a wide range of matters in an angon spokesman Michael Burch said.
The pontif has traveled to Central America, where the United States is deeply involved in seeking an end to the Israeli occupation. John Paul has visited El Salvador and
Nicaragua, which U.S. officials have said is supplying the Salvadoran guerrillas.
Another underlying element in the meeting with the pope is the question of disarmament. American Roman Catholic bishops favor a nuclear freeze by the United States although the Vatican opposes unilateral disarmament.
Burch declined to say who asked for the meeting with John Paul, which is to be discussed on Wednesday.
THE TALKS WITH Spadolini were certain to center on Italy's role in the multinational force in Beirut and the U.S. deployment of 572 Pershing-2 and cruise missiles in Europe beginning in December unless there is a Soviet-integrated agreement on limiting the numbers of intermediate-range missiles.
Italy is one of the five countries that will install the cruise missiles and is preparing sites for them in Sicily, despite opposition by a majority of Italy. The other countries are West Germany, Britain, Belgium and Holland.
Before departing Pakistan for the 11-hour flight to Rome, Weinberger told a news conference that world opinion was shifting against the Soviet
Caspar Weinberger
Union because of its invasion of Afghanistan and among other reasons, with 269 people hurt
"The Soviets are losing the battle to the moral ground and the battle for public opinion in which they've been engaged for such a long time," he said.
Weinberger was to arrive in Washington tonight.
Airlines may face more disruptions
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Airline industry officials, feeding over the bankrupt Continental Airlines and disagreeing about the future of air carriers, agreed yesterday that more disruption might occur in the industry in the future.
Federal deregulation of airlines in 1978 was both blamed and praised on CBS's "Face the Nation" program as the culprit in air carrier failures and the cause of fare wars that benefit passengers.
number of overall flights. A year and a half age Braniff International collapsed
Continental filed for bankruptcy last week, triggering a strike against it by the Air Lines Pilots Association. Eastern Airlines, $100 million in debt, has announced it needs labor concessions to stay in business.
The four agreed that economic instability in the industry seriously jeopardized the nation's transportation system, and Andrews said airline industry safety ultimately could be affected.
Appearing on the show were Dan McKinnon, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board; Sen. Mark Andrews, R.N.D.; Henry Duffy, president of the Air Lines Pilot Association, and Michael Knakes, vice president of Continental.
TWA ALSO IS $100 million in debt and a number of other airlines have been acquired.
"When you skirt the edge of bankruptcy as airline after airline after airline is, you tend to cut corners," he said.
going to (cut corners), but is this the way we want to have it?"
ON ANOTHER INTERVIEW show,
ABC'S "This Week with David Brinkley",
Continental chairman Frank
Lorenzo called the safety issue nonsense and said that pilots were flying only 53 hours a month.
“It's not good for a nationwide transportation system to have carrier after carrier skiving that issue. Everyboddy is going to save we’re not
"I wish that the only problems that Continental had on Saturday night were union contracts," he said. "Unfortunately, over the last five years Continental has had nearly $500 million in losses."
The airline lost $80 million in first six months, exposing its losses of $80 million this quarter.
The pilots struck Continental early Saturday. Duffy claimed that half the airline was grounded, but Bakes said that only five flights had been canceled. The pilots were willing to cross picket lines and planes were flying 70 percent full.
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