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University Daily Kansan, September 9. 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Ban proposed on smoking on certain airplane flights
WASHINGTON — The Civil Aeronautics Board said yesterday it will propose a total ban on smoking on commercial flights that last less than one or two hours.
The board vated 4-0 to propose short, smokeless flights but did not decide the duration that would trigger the ban, a spokesman said.
declare the duration that would trigger "The CAB expects to draft and publish in the Federal Register the proposed ban within two weeks," the spokesman said. The proposal, approved Wednesday, will allow 45 days for public comment.
The agency also is considering a rule to ban smoking on smaller airplanes — either 30 or 60 seats or fewer — but has made no decision on that, the spokesman said.
Under existing regulations, passengers are guaranteed seats in non-smoking areas if they arrive at the ticket counter within a specified time.
Testimony heard on briefing books
WASHINGTON — An Ohio college student who worked in Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign has testified that James Baker's aides told him to copy material from President Carter's debate briefing books, sources said yesterday.
sources said. Mark Kramer, a student at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, ran a duplicating machine in the Reagan campaign.
ran a duplicating firm in Baker, now in House chief of staff, was a top Reagan campaign lieutenant and debate coordinator in 1980.
Both the FBI and a House Post Office and Civil Service subcommittee headed by Rep. Donald Albosta, D-Mich., are investigating how material from the Carter briefing papers turned up in Reagan headquarters.
Acne drug target of consumer group
WASHINGTON - A consumer group urged the government yesterday to order tough warnings on a new drug used to treat severe acne, citing adverse reactions ranging from birth defects to vision disorders.
In a letter to Mark Novitch, the Food and Drug Administration's acting commissioner, the Public Citizen Health Research Group also asked for mandatory patient package inserts for the drug Acutane.
"We urge you to immediately warn patients and doctors . . . about a variety of serious, life-threatening or vision-threatening adverse reactions," wrote Sidney Wolfe, director of the organization founded by Ralph Nader.
Accutane, a vitamin A derivative, is highly effective in treating severe recalcitrant cystic acne, a condition marked by large and inflamed lesions that afflicts about 360,000 Americans.
Fasting increases Jewish birth rate
CHICAGO - Jewish women in the late stages of pregnancy who fast on Sept. 17 may experience the "Yom Kippur Effect" and deliver sooner than expected. Israeli researchers reported yesterday.
The researchers at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem said that the birth rate for the first 24 hours after the fasting day was double the average daily rate at their facility.
the average day, the Jewish Day of Atonement, considered the religion's holiest day, traditionally means a 24-hour abstinence of food and water.
honesty day. During a fast, blood tends to thicken, so less blood flows to a fasting woman's uterus, the researchers said. The uterus reacts by contracting and if the woman is in the later stages of pregnancy, labor can result
Canadian praises EPA commitment
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration is showing a new "attitude of commitment to the environment," but acid rain is still the major irritant in U.S.Canadian relations, Canadian Environment Minister Charles Caccia said yesterday.
Minister Charles Cacca, Cacia, appears as Canada's top environmental official less than a month ago and not separately yesterday with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William Ruckelshaus and Interior Secretary James Watt.
James Watt. Speaking at a Canadian Embassy news conference following the discussions, Caccia said he found the recent change of leadership at EPA encouragement, adding that Ruckelshaus displayed "an attitude of commitment to the environment, more in tone than in substance, more in attitude than in detail."
Crime wave predicted for Olympics
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Anticipating a great increase in the number of criminal cases during the 1984 Olympics, judges here said yesterday that they were preparing a battle plan a year in advance.
Municipal Court Judge Charles Rubin revealed that his court had canceled all vacations and leaves of absence and would probably not accept civil cases during July and August of 1984.
accept civil cases during jury trial. The affluent Beverly Hills area will attract tourists from all over the world who will be carrying expensive cameras and travelers checks. Not far behind them, police believe, will be professional thieves. The Western Horizonsphere
"We expect every pickpocket and hooker in the Western Hemisphere to be here," one high-ranking law enforcement officer recently told the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.
Sinatra opposes Ford resort project
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Former President Gerald Ford and Frank Sinatra are locking horns over construction of a $90 million resort complex in the elite desert city of Rancho Mirage.
complex federated Development Corp., based in Houston, proposes to build a 250-unit hotel, 160 hotel villas, 80 townhouses and 55 single-family homes on 130 acres of undeveloped foothills on an extension of Frank Sinatra Drive.
Ford, a limited partner in the development project, has agreed to act as spokesman. Sinatra and his wife Barbara have lent their names to the opposition.
the opposition.
Opponents cite environmental issues, saying the project is a threat to the native bighorn sheep and the sheep's lambing area.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST TO 7 PM EST 9-9-83
Today will be mostly fair across the nation, with some showers in the Southwest. We will be sunny and hot, with a high snow cover.
Let's look at the image again. The word "likely" is above the word "today". It looks like a sentence.
Let's re-read the second line carefully.
"Lately, today will be sunny and hot, with a high near 95, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka."
The word "likely" is definitely there, just as it appears in the first line.
The word "today" is also there, just as it appears in the first line.
Wait, let me look at the third line again.
"According to the National Weather Service in Topeka."
Yes, that's right.
One more thing: the font of the text is bold. I'll use italics for the whole text.
Final check of the text:
"Lately, today will be sunny and hot, with a high near 95, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka."
Tought will be fair, with a low near 70. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms. The high will be near 90.
Anti-Sandinistas raid Nicaraguan airport
By United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — A dramatic air raid by anti-Sandinista rebels on Nicaragua's airport gave a new sense of urgency yesterday to a meeting of Latin American nations seeking peace in Central America.
Late yesterday, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger returned to the United States, ending his Central American tour.
D'Escoto's statements were understood to include both Marxist Salvadoran rebels and U.S.-backed Nicaraguan insurgents, whom Managua has always classified as criminals and CIA agents.
In a radical departure, Nicaragua Foreign Minister Miguel D' Escoto said before entering the peace-seeking talks in Panama that he wants to meet members of Central American rebel groups as well as government leaders in the negotiations for a regional peace plan.
"It would also be very important for guerrilla groups to sit down at the negotiations to look for a peaceful solution, but they should be representatives of the forces," D'Escoto said.
As D'Escoto was speaking, Weinberger traveled to American-built installations in neighboring Honduras and visited an air base. He called for unity of purpose between Honduras and the United States in the continuation of the ongoing struggle against communism in Central America.
D'ESCOTO SPOKE only hours after rebels attacked the Managua airport in their most spectacular attack since their guerrilla war started two years ago.
WHEAT MEET '83
Besides D'Escoto, the meeting in Panama City assembled the foreign ministers from the Contadora group — Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico and Panama — and their counterparts from
Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras,
Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
What's a ronzo?
The Contadora group was named after the Panamanian resort island where the nations first met in January to discuss peace moves.
In Managua, Nicaraguan authorities said Cesar Augusto Sandinista airport reopened following an attack by a twin-engine Cessna in which two rebels killed and the airport terminal, control tower and two hangars damaged.
A second rebel plane dropped 500-pound bombs aimed at a telecommunications installation but caused no damage, officials said.
RESPONSIBILITY for the raid on the Managua airport was claimed by the Revolutionary Democratic Alliance, led by Eden Pastora, a former Sandista who opposes the leftist Nicaraguan government.
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Officials said the second plane escaped.
At the jungle training base opened this summer, Weinberger took part in graduation ceremonies for the first week, and troops to finish the eight-week course.
Weinberger traveled extensively throughout Honduras on the final stop of his three-nation tour, inspecting American-built airstrips and visiting a base in Guatemala at the American Green Berets train Salvadoran soldiers in anti-guerrilla warfare.
the terminal, heavily damaging the building and killing the two men aboard, authorities said.
The defense secretary also arranged a visit to the command post in Palmeralo, where joint maneuvers will be conducted. Troops and about 6,000 Honduran soldiers
Two Sandinista air force personnel on the ground were injured, authorities said.
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