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University Daily Kansan, January 28, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Truckers to shut down rigs over new taxes and fees
In the rough-and-tumble trucking industry, the call is going out for independent drivers to pull their big rigs off the road Monday and not move a wheel until Washington rolls back new fuel taxes and highway user fees.
"The industry is overtaxed," said Mike Parkhurst, president of the Independent Truckers Association. "The only way Congress is going to listen to us is if we shut down."
littered to us as if we haven't downed.
Organizers predict the protest will be more effective than a strike,
which was tried almost three years ago. A successful shutdown could
have a serious effect on the nation by choking off supplies of fresh food
There also is a fear of violence. The Reagan administration is urging the independents to keep on trucking and has promised to protect those
A recently-passed tax bill will cost the average independent $5,277 a year. Parkhurst said.
WASHINGTON — The number of American workers receiving regular state unemployment benefits dropped below the 4 million mark for the first time since July, the Labor Department reported yesterday.
Since July, the Labor Department reported At the same time, the department's Employment and Training Administration said new claims for benefits plummeted to 491,000—the lowest point in 16 months — during the week ended Jan. 15.
Despite the apparent good news, economists were not ready to attribute any long-term significance to the data.
attribute any long-term significance to the claim.
"I fear it is still not an indication that unemployment will go down," said Jerry Jasinowski, economist for the National Association of Manufacturers.
Manufacturers. Jasinowski noted that the unemployment benefit statistics could be misleading because they did not include unemployed persons who had exhausted their benefits.
GM to call employees back to work
DETROIT — Spurred by sales increases, General Motors Corp. announced yesterday that it would recall more than 21,400 workers from indefinite layoff in the next three months at seven car plants across the country.
untry.
GM currently has 168,000 workers on indefinite layoff
GM currently has 100,000 workers. Included in the callbacks in six cities is the reopening of GM's mothballed Framingham, Mass. plant, the only remaining car plant in New England.
New England.
GM President F. James McDonald said the callbacks were made possible by an increase in dealer orders resulting from an offer of 11.9 percent financing on new-car loans.
The automaker's sales have risen for eight consecutive 10-day periods because of its offer of lower interest rates on new car loans.
About 9,000 workers will return to assembly plants while another 12,400 are being called back to component plants.
Troops may leave Lebanon in 1984
BEIRUT, Lebanon — American, French and Italian troops will stay in Lebanon until the Lebanese army is ready to replace them, possibly within a year to 18 months. U.S. diplomatic sources said yesterday.
The present target date for upgrading four Lebanese battalions to take over security tasks inside Lebanon is now March 1984, a month longer than earlier estimates, the sources said.
longer than earlier estimates have made. The 4,200-member multinational peackeeping force includes 1,200 U.S. Marines who entered Beirut in the wake of the massacre of Palestinians in the refugee camps of Sabra and Chatila.
But Lebanon has requested a larger force and the sources indicated the number of soldiers might be increased as part of an agreement to get Syrian, Palestinian and Israeli troops out of Lebanon.
Senators grill arms control nominee
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said yesterday that he was not inclined to approve President Reagan's new arms control chief until the administration took a stand on limiting nuclear testing.
on limiting nuclear testing.
The declaration by Sen. Charles Percy, R-Ill., cast a new shadow over the fate of Kenneth Adelman, Reagan's nominee as director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
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Adelman told the panel he would "work tirelessly" to cut back international nuclear arsenals.
international nuclear attack. Several seminal chapters challenged Adelman, 36, on his lack of experience in the field and views he has expressed in the past.
the arms control heed and view. Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., took the lead in attacking the nomination, charging Adelman has been scornful of efforts to control nuclear weapons.
Violent storm hits California coast
LOS ANGELES — A fierce storm battered the length of the California coast yesterday with waves up to 20 feet destroying beach houses, forcing families to flee flooded homes and crumbling a portion of the famed Santa Monica pier.
famed Santa Monica pier.
Winds of hurricane force hammered expensive seaside homes from Stinson Beach to San Diego, casting three homes into the churning ocean and damaging dozens more.
High tides and waves covered the entire width of the Santa Monica, Venice and Hermosa beaches, witnesses said. The famed Venice walk, where vendors, roller skaters and street musicians congregate, was under water and sand.
and sand.
"I've lived here 43 years myself and have never seen anything of this magnitude since a big storm devastated some houses in Redondo Beach in the 1950s," said Lifeguard Capt. Steve Voorhees.
Inner-city hospitals short of nurses
WASHINGTON — The number of practicing registered nurses in America has doubled in 20 years, but a shortage still exists in inner-city hospitals and nursing homes, a National Academy of Sciences panel said yesterday.
The committee's study found that the general nursing shortage of the last two decades has largely disappeared, but that there is an uneven distribution.
Arkansas has only 268 nurses for every 100,000 people, but the District of Columbia has 885 for every 100,000. The New England states have far more nurses for their populations than the Southern states:
nurses for their population than the current Congress asked the Academy's Institute of Medicine to conduct the study to see whether continued federal funding for the Nurse Training Act was required in the 1980s.
The act has provided more than $1.6 billion for nursing education programs in the last 10 years.
Senate agrees to pay $500 owed speaker
By SARA KEMPIN Staff Reporter
Despite an objection by one student senator who said the Student Senate violated its rules, the group voted last night to pay a $500 honorarium it had owed a Higher Education Week speaker for over a year.
THE FUND WAS set up through the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center to support special statewide programs, such as workshops and speakers, to improve educational opportunities for KU women.
The Higher Education Week steering committee had reneged to pay Taylor, who was KU dean of women from 1956 to 1974.
A move was made to suspend the rules to consider a bill to take $500 out of the Senate's unallocated account to pay Emily Taylor, the guest speaker at last February's Higher Education Week banquet.
Caryl Smith, dean of student life, said the situation was aggravated because Taylor had pledged to give the $500 honorarium to the Plains Women's Fund.
Smith said the situation was embarrassing to the University and to Taylor.
Jim Cramer, president of the Senate,
explained that the rules would need to
be suspended to allow consideration of
the bill because Senate rules require
committees to consider legislation first.
The Senate Finance and Auditing Committee has not met yet, he said; so it had not had a chance to decide on the bill.
After the motion to suspend the rules was moved and seconded, Bill Adkins, Topeka graduate student senator, moved to table the bill.
THE BILL, he said, violated a Senate rule saying the Senate cannot spend money on speakers unless the finance
committee says in writing that the funds cannot be obtained from other sources. His motion failed.
Cramer then said that if there was no objection, he would yield the floor to Art Farmer, assistant director for Student Organizations and Activities and Higher Education Week adviser, so he could answer any questions.
But Adkins objected to a non-senator speaking. The Senate overruled him in the 1985 House vote.
"It was a case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand was doing." *I*
Someone on the committee told Taylor she would receive a $500 honorarium, which she usually receives for speaking, Farmer said. The rest of the committee didn't know about the agreement, and when it found out,
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ADKINS AGAIN objected, saying that if the bill was passed it would mean that "we pass laws that apply to our constituents but don't apply to us."
Chris Coffett, journalism senator and Hays junior, said that the reputation of the University was on the line, as was the reputation of the Senate.
The Senate passed the bill with only two objections.
most its $1,500 budget had already been spent on advertising and promotion, Farmer said.
In other business, Senate leaders voiced support for the appointment of Wendell Lady to the Kansas Board of Regents. In the face of opposition, State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, and other University groups including the Senate will give a reception at 5 p.m. Wednesday at the Kansas Union.
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