University Daily Kansan September 19. 1983
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Man finishes six-year walk, 19,021 miles
PRUDHOE BAY, Alaska — British adventurer George Megean completed a 19.02 mile walk from the tip of South America to the Arctic Ocean yesterday, hiking the last nine miles of his six-year-long journey.
The walk that began Jan. 26, 1977 from Ushiaa, the southernmost non-scientific settlement on earth, ended at 1:30 p.m. at the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Circle on property leased by the oil firm ARCO Alaska Inc.
Meegan, 30, of Rainham, England, was permitted to complete the last nine miles of the journey by ARCO, which had refused his initial request two weeks ago to cross its property but later relented.
He was accompanied by his Japanese wife, Yoshiko. They were met by their two children, Ayumi, 5, whose name is Japanese for "walk," and Geoffrey Susumu, 3, whose Japanese name means "keep going."
"This walk is a celebration of freedom," Meegan said. "It was achieved without funds and without sponsorship. It was made possible by the 10,000 acts of kindness shown me by the people of this world."
Meegan had he made the journey because nobody had ever done it before. His press agent said the walk represents the longest continuous foot in history and the first transverse of the Western Hemisphere on foot.
He reportedly beat the record of
daring who killed 10,500 miles from
Stamford to Kendall in kending.
When he arrived at the shore of the Beaufort Sea — some 2,426 days after leaving South America and after making an estimated 31 million strides — he cried and said, "I feel like I've lost my best friend. It's my best."
Storm dampens area; cooler weather ahead
From Staff and Wire Reports
An early morning thunderstorm yesterday dropped a trace of rain on Lawrence, and a forecaster from the National Weather Service in Topeka said that more rain was expected this week.
Mike Akulow, the forecaster, also said that the hot weather this past weekend was not indicative of things to come. Lower temperature are expected with autumn, which officially begins Wednesday.
Fall will "come in right on stride," he said, predicting that the weather would turn cooler tomorrow.
No injuries or accidents were reported as a result of yesterday's thunderstorm, according to Lawrence police and fire officials.
A high near 90 is expected today, along with a 20 percent chance of showers. Winds will be from the south at 10-20 mph.
A COLD FRONT is expected to move into the area tomorrow and high temperatures should drop into the high 60% and low 70%. More rain is expected sometime tonight or tomorrow.
Akulow said the weather would stay cool for the rest of the week and probably for the next few weeks.
"It may get close to 90 again, but only for a day or so." Akulow said. "The prolonged periods of heat are over."
The 30-day outlook for the area is a reversal of the type of weather Lawrence has been having, Akulow said. Temperatures are expected to be below normal and rainfall is expected to be above normal.
So far this month, with the exception of a few days last week, temperatures have been higher than normal and rainfall has been low. Akulow said that about three-quarters of an inch of rain had fallen so far this month and that two inches was normal.
KANSAS WAS NOT the only place to receive much needed rain as thundershowers stretched from Illinois to Michigan yesterday and separate storms drenched southern Texas. Much of the nation's heartland basked in mild late summer temperatures.
The heaviest showers doused Michigan, dropping more than an inch of rain at Muskegon and Saginaw.
Winds gusting to 35 mph pushed waves up to 10 feet on Lake Michigan's eastern shore near Detroit. The Coast Guard issued a warning for fisherman and others to break waters, piers and beaches.
two fishermen drowned recently after being swept under by a breakwater.
In Dekalb, IL, lightning Saturday struck Northern Illinois University students engaged in a pickup football game, knocking down all 11 players and sending eight of the victims to hospitals. One was in serious condition.
Mild temperatures soothed much of the central part of the nation. Lows were in the 60s or low 70s from the southern Plains to the Tennessee Valley, where the Readings dipped into the mid-70s across parts of Kansas and Missouri.
Congress to trv to draft tax plan
By United Press International
than anxious to make their own proposals, particularly since they approved a $98 billion revenue-raising bill last year.
DESPITE THE PRESSURE OF 200 billion budget deficits, President Reagan has rejected calls for offsetting tax increases this year or next preferring to rely on his "standby tax" proposal, which gives him control over the economy warranted it and if Congress had made significant cuts in federal spending.
WASHINGTON — The House and Senate tax-writing committees will try to devise a way this week for raising revenue as dictated by Congress for next year's budget.
It is highly unlikely the committees will meet the congressional budget resolution's goal of $12 billion for fiscal 1984, which begins Oct. 1, and even more improbable that they can come up with the $73 billion in tax revenues proposed for the next three years.
and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Bob Dole, R-Kan., have agreed to talk in a private meeting before of their committee sessions.
But with only days to go before the Sept. 23 deadline for complying with the budget goals, House Ways and Means Chairman D.Rostenkowski, D-Ill-
The standby plan, which included a $5-a-barrel oil import fee and an income tax surcharge, never generated much attention on Capitol Hill.
Lawmakers, meanwhile, were less
Congressional and administration sources agree that there will be a tax bill this year, but it will fall far short of the budget resolution's goals.
DOLE HAS SAID repeatedly that he opposes any tax increases unless accompanied by spending cuts, but that he favors a number of "reforms" in current tax laws.
The leading candidates for such treatment this year are changes in the way life insurance companies are taxed and tax treatment of employee fringe benefits and mortgage subsidy bonds.
India's 30-year-old nuclear energy program has "aroused opposition from many countries, who accused us of imprudence and impracticality." Gandhi said.
attended, but Washington refused to send an official U.S. delegation because India did not give visas to Israeli delegates wishing to attend. India also barred South Africa because of its policy of racial segregation.
By United Press International
"The opposition continues and we are obstructed at every step. But Indian technology has acquired the capacity to design, fabricate and build nuclear power stations," she said.
"I hope you are all aware that our nuclear program is prompted not by military objectives but by developmental necessity," Gandhi told the opening session of the World Energy Conference.
India will continue nuclear projects
NEW DELHI, India - Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said yesterday that India did not possess the atomic bomb but was going ahead with a nuclear development program for peaceful purposes.
"We are opposed to nuclear weapons and do not have any," she said.
THE ENERGY CONFERENCE, expected to stress the difficulty of meeting energy demands in developing nations, drew delegations from 70 countries. In addition, representatives were sent from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the World Bank and the International Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
1974, triggering fears of a nuclear race with neighboring Pakistan. Pakistan has denied rumors that it is developing an atomic weapon with the help of Arab nations.
India exploded an atomic device in
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