November 8, 1984 Page 2
NATION AND WORLD
KANSAN
More voters go to polls; first increase since 1960
WASHINGTON — Tuesday's voter turnout totaled 92.5 million, a slight increase over the 1890 general election vote, a private study group estimated yesterday.
Curt Ganz of the Committee for the Study of the Electorate, said Tuesday's vote total was the first increase in the number of a presidential election year since 1900.
The 92.5 million amounted to an estimated 53.2 percent of the voting age population, compared with the 52.6 percent turnout when President Reagan was elected for his first term.
Women fare badly in elections
WASHINGTON — Madeleine Kunin, scoring the biggest victory for women in the 1984 election, won the race for governor of Vermont in ballot-counting that lasted until yesterday, but women did not make major gains in Congress.
More women than ever ran for Congress this year, 65 for the House and 10 for the Senate, but while Sen Nancey, an IKC Republican, won all bid, all nine women challenges led Senate bills.
All 20 women House incumbents seeking re-election won Tuesday, but only one woman challenger. Maryland Republi-
cani Dan Rapp, 54, bounced, 23 year veteran Clarence Long
Priest's beating confirmed
WARSAW, Poland — The government confirmed yesterday that a pro-Solidarity priest allegedly slayed by secret police was severely beaten before his death but said it had not identified who instigated the killing.
Initial results of an autopsy found that the Rev. Zeyi Popeluszkow "suffered blows to the head and neck from a hard object or fists and could have been rendered unconscious," government spokesman Jerzy Urban said. "However, it is not known whether he was dead or alive when he went into the water."
Nudes arrested at Acropolis
ATHENS, Greece — Three Americans were sentenced yesterday to 75 days each in prison for disparting themselves naked as officials proclaimed, the official Athenia news agency says.
The three men were allowed to buy off their sentences for $270 each and were set
They were arrested Saturday by guards as they were photographing themselves in the nude on the hill that houses the Parthenon, one of the architectural wonders of the world. There was no explanation as to why they were naked.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Winds delay shuttle from salvage mission
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Capricious high-altitude winds, which could have wrenched the shuttle Discovery off course or damaged its wings and tail, yesterday delayed for at least a day the start of its mission to salvage two satellites.
With Discovery temporarily grounded, plans were made for a future mission with a U.S. senator as a passenger for the first time on a space shuttle flight.
Sen. Jake Garn, R-Ultah, announced yesterday that his application to ride on a space shuttle was approved on the basis of his 10,000 logged hours of flight time and his charismachief of the Senate appropriations subcommittee for space flight. Also eligible for a shuttle flight if they are interested are Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., Rep. Harold Volkmer, D-Mo., and Rep. Edward Boland, D-Mass., NASA said.
Discovery astronauts Frederick Hauck,
David Walker, Anna Fisher, Joseph Allen
and Dale Gardner were disappointed at being
the first shuttle crew grounded by weather
but were told to be ready for a second launch
at 6:15 a.m. CST today.
The Air Force said the wind worsened two hours after the morning launch delay with winds reaching 155 mph 45,000 feet above sea level and coming from varying directions at different altitudes.
WEATHERMEN CONTINUED to send up
weather balloons to check the conditions
from 20,000 feet on up to see whether the
Air Force Capt. Arthur Thomas, the chief shuttleport forecaster, said the winds were expected to die down later in the week.
countdown could be resumed for a Thursday blastoff.
The astronauts must begin their unprecedented pursuit of the two stranded satellites by Sunday or their mission will have to be delayed 45 days, until the satellites' orbital paths again put them in the right position for rescue.
The problem yesterday was that a low pressure trough moving through the area created winds of varying directions high above the shattuckport. Winds were only 10 mph on the surface, but they increased to over hurricane force at an altitude of 30,000 feet.
THOMAS SAID IF the shuttle had been launched yesterday morning, it would have encountered winds from the northwest, then the southwest and back to the northwest in a matter of seconds, putting severe twisting pressures on its wings and tail.
One big problem was the erratic nature of the winds. Forecasters were unable to predict what the conditions would have been as the 184-foot tall tshuttle would have streaked away from Earth.
NASA spokesman Charles Redmond said there were two concerns: the ability of the shuttle's engines and flight controls to cope with such forces and still remain on course, and the ability of the ship's wings and tail to undergo such pressures without receiving damage. Computers predicted the forces would be close to the shuttle's structural limits.
LAKE CITY, Utah — Sen. Jake Garn, R Utah, tells reporters he will become the first congressman to ride on a space shuttle as a passenger. Garn said he received a letter from NASA officials yesterday granting his flight request
Reagan announces sketchy plans after victory
By United Press International
President Reagan, savoring an immense personal triumph at the polls, announced yesterday sketchy plans for a second term of arms control negotiations and keeping taxes down. Walter Mondale announced that his political career was over.
During a 15-minute news conference, Reagan offered few details of how he will pursue such elusive goals as arm reductions and a balanced federal budget over the next decade.
ularly in military matters where Vice President George Bush was required to cast tie-breaking votes twice in the last year.
REAGAN CONTENDED. HOWEVER, that the GOP picked up more seats in the House than might be expected in a second-term election and compared the Republican position to that when he took office in 1981 and launched his "second American revolution."
Reagan's win — 59 percent of the nationwide vote — translated into a Republican gain of about 15 seats in the House, not enough to offset the 26 lost in 1982.
Asked what the election showed, Reagan said, "I think the people made it very plain that they approved of what we're doing and approve of the economy are better for the economy is expanding."
refram. "The government is still larded with a lot of fat."
The GOP also suffered a net loss of two seats in the Senate, retaining control but narrowing the margin. That shift could hamper Reagan's legislative agenda, partic-
On taxes, Reagan denied defeated Democrat Walter Mallard's assertion that plans for tax "simplification" - a major objective of the Republican-raising revenues needed to reduce the deficit.
ON THE FOREIGN policy front, Reagan and his aides hinted at a new initiative on arms control — possibly the appointment of an arms control "czar" in the White House — to bring U.S.-Soviet discussions under a single "umbrella."
Rogan was vague about his plans to reduce the deficit, returning to his familiar
Countries around the world congratulated Iraqi and urged him to renew arms procurement.
The Soviet Union, in unusually conciliatory statements, congratulated President Reagan yesterday on his re-election and said his success would "radically less global tensions."
In a statement about Reagan to a special German television election program, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said "I am confident that he will take steps that can lead to disarmament."
Mondale flew back to Washington from
Minnesota and was met by Ferraro at National Airport after he arrived there on his campaign plane "The Louisville Slugger."
"The campaign is over. The American people have made their judgment." Mondale said. "Reagan is our president and we honor him today, but before we close the final chapter on behalf of myself and our family I want to say how proud we are of Geraldine Ferraro."
Mondale announced he has no plans to again seek the presidency, or any electoral office, and blamed his stunning defeat on a message that "didn't take" and a popular incumbent president running with a perception of a strong economy.
Mondale said he knew from the beginning he faced a "tough race" to unseat an incumbent president but there were times when he thought he could pull it off.
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