NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 5, 1984
Page 14
Protester ends hunger strike
SAN FRANCISCO — the bow of the tanker Puerto Rican, saved by watertight bulbheads, floats in the Pacific Ocean southwest of San Francisco. The ship broke apart Saturday, three days after it was rocked by explosions that ripped its hull and started fires that burned for nearly two days. The stern section sank 2,400 feet to the ocean floor, creating two oil slicks, one 24 miles long.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Mitch Sovader, a champion of street people, yesterday ended his 51-day old protest fast as the government agreed to renovate a shelter for the homeless, a spokeswoman for his organization said.
"There been a resolution, and Mitch will be taken to the Howard University Hospital emergency room," said Carol Fennell, spokeswoman for Community for victims of Violence, of which Snider is a member.
Snyder and 10 other members of the activist group began fasting in September, pledging not to eat until the Reagan administration appropriated $5 million to renovate a dilapidated federal building that has been run as a shelter for the homeless by the group and to retract
a report on the homeless that Snyder labeled "fraudulent."
Fennelly would not give any details of the agreement reached yesterday with the government to renovate the building.
THE 11-YEAR-OLD Snyder was described "in very grave condition," by Fennelly earlier yesterday. She was killed in an attack on Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp.
Assistant.
Snyder, who has only taken water during his fast, has been bedridden for several days.
Fennelly said earlier that Snyder had lost 2 pounds per day, and "he's down to 118 pounds now. He's lost 35 percent of his body weight.
On Saturday, District of Columbia police, U.S. Park Police and uniformed Secret Service officers arrested 61 CCNV demonstrators during an2$^{2}$ hour protest outside the White House, police said.
The demonstration culminated a
month-long "Harvest of Shame" series of CCNV protests against the Reagan administration.
ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS repeatedly had said they would not respond to the group's demands, although the Pentagon said it was pushing ahead with its plans to turn refurbished old military facilities around the country over to localities for use as shelters for the homeless.
Election Day trading first for Wall Street
By United Press International
"I'M GOING TO be screwed out of a day off," said one floor trader. "The only reason they're doing this is that it is not a holiday and they don't have to pay overtime."
NEW YORK — Wall Street investors tomorrow will be able to trade stocks for the first time ever on a presidential Election Day but some traders think the change is a "disgrace" and reflects the financial community's greed.
Hooper, who is 89 years old and has been working on Wall Street since 1919 when Woodrow Wilson was president, was more genteel than most in his comments about the Election Day trading.
"I think it is a disgrace," said another trader. "This decision shows clearly how much brokage houses put their own profit objectives over responsibility as citizens," she said.
"The financial community knows very well why they are keeping the market open," she added. "Wire houses are greedy all over the place. They are like banks."
Opening the market on Election Day for the first time "is like losing the America's Cup after 132 years, the same feeling of loss and regret," said Monte Gordon, vice president at Drevfus Corp.
Some of those questioned commented on the possibility of rumors affecting market activity, and others
questioned whether some financial community employees might not fail to vote because they had to work, but for the most part disapproval seemed linked to losing a day off — even if it came only once every four years.
"They feel they get the most money from institutions and not from the public. They also look on as 'being international these days.'"
"By remaining open on Election Day, a day when most industries around the world conduct business as usual, we are providing an essential service to investors both in the United States and overseas," said John Phelan, NYSE chairman and chief executive officer.
William LeFevre, vice president at Purcell, Graham & Co., said. "If you carried that argument to a logical conclusion, not everybody celebrates Christmas so why not trade on Christmas? Not everybody celebrates New Year's on Jan. 1, so why not trade on Jan. 1?"
NYSE RULES WERE amended in 1970, during one of the more dire periods in the securities industry's history, to drop Election Day as an official holiday, while allowing the board the discretion to open or close. On July 6 this year, the board announced it had voted to open.
"THIS WAS A concession to greedy wire houses wanting to get extra bucks," LeFevre said. "The fact that volume is so low on semiholdings that institutions don't have that much desire to trade on those days."
"I think this is foolish but the New York Stock Exchange management thinks they will lose something," said Thompson of Thompson, McKimson & Co.
Most in the investment community look for trading to be light as it was on Oct 8, Columbus Day (a one-time exchange holiday) when 46,363,602 shares changed hands, the slowest session in nearly two years. NYSE volume has averaged about 90 million daily this year.
banks, insurance companies and local, state and federal government offices will be closed. And when banks are closed, the stock market generally doesn't do much.
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