October 25,1984
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NATION AND WORLD
The University Daily
KANSAN
Governors doubt motive in query of voter drives
WASHINGTON — The Democratic governors of New York, Texas and Ohio charged yesterday that a top White House official tried to curtail voter registration drives by suggesting partisanship in the drives.
Texas Gov. Mark White and speakersmen for Govs. Mario Cuomo of New York and Richard Celeste of Ohio told a house panel they had received letters from Donald Devine, chief of the White House's Office of Personnel Management, saying registration drives by state agencies might have been tainted by partisan political activities and threatening to cut off federal funds for some programs in those states.
Hotel blaze kills 9 Americans
BAGUIO, Philippines — Firemen yesterday retrieved the bodies of more victims of a blaze that swept through a luxury hotel and killed 17 people Tuesday, raising the number of American dead from two to nine.
At least 51 people, including 36 members of an American Legion tour visiting for the 40th anniversary of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's return to Texas, have come out with a message that gutted the Pines Hotel in the hillside tourist resort of Baguio, 125 miles north of Manila.
Long ride ends subway revolt
NEW YORK — An angry conductor cursed a group of belligerent subway riders who refused to get off a disabled train, then dealt with the rebellion by taking them on a mystery ride through the bowels of New York City.
Transit Authority officials yesterday said they were investigating the incident, which occurred Monday, to determine if the conductor acted abusively.
The conductor took more than 80 passengers for a ride when they refused to leave the train after it was taken out of service during the evening rush hour because door-indicator lights failed.
MIAMI—Nathaniel James, 28, has been fined $55,000 for a series of traffic violations, bringing his total to 70 citations in 11 years.
Man fined after 70 citations
James, owner and operator of Shanell's market and arcade, was placed on four years probation and warned that if he is sentenced he will be sentenced to 12 years in prison.
James' license had been revoked twice, but that did stop him from driving and being on the road.
United Press International
He has already paid $23,576 of the fine,
and the remainder is due next week.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR — Salvadoran soldiers carry the casket of one of the four top Salvadoran commanders killed in a helicopter crash Tuesday. Rebels said they were responsible for shooting down the craft, but President Jose Napoleon Duarte said yesterday that early findings refuted their claim.
Annual inflation triggers Social Security increase
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Consumer prices rose just 0.4 percent in September, holding the annual inflation rate to a moderate 4.2 percent, enough to boost Social Security payments 3.5 percent next year, the government said yesterday.
The price report was the last major inflation statistic that the Labor Department will issue before the Nov. 6 presidential election and did not contain any bad news for President Reagan. But on Nov. 2 the department releases the report on September unemployment, just four days before voting.
Social Security payments will go up for 37 million Americans in January — $15 monthly for the typical retiree — the government said yesterday.
The benefits will increase because tax
payments will be paying more into the Social
Security.
THE INCREASE WILL boost the check of a typical retired worker, now $43 a month, to $40, according to the Social Security Administration. The couple will get $26 more, or $76 a month.
trust funds an additional $6.1 billion in 1985.
The increase will cost Social Security's
The inflation report also helped determine how much American taxpayers will save next year under the new personal income tax indexing system, designed to keep inflation alone from forcing people to pay higher rates.
The government announced yesterday that a new tax program tying income tax brackets to inflation would protect those with pay raises under 4 percent.
Sen William Armstrong, R-Colo., author of the indexing provision, hailed the announcement.
"TAX INDEXING IS finally here and with it comes tax reform for middle America, a more honest and fair tax law, and an end to the government's profit from inflation." Armstrong said.
"No longer can Congress allow inflation to do the dirty work of raising taxes," he said in a statement issued by his Washington office. "If members of Congress want to raise taxes, they will have to vote to do so."
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole, R-Kan, a sponsor of the indexing proposal, estimated it would save taxpayers nationwide about $6 billion in 1985.
Residents of Grenada rely on U.S. support
By United Press International
ST. GEORGE'S. Grenada — One year after U.S. Marines stormed ashore the Caribbean island to put down a Marxist rebellion, residents of Grenada are relying upon the United States for economic support and still thinking of Americans as their liberators.
"I, as well as most on this island, supported and still support the American intervention and presence," said Nicholas Brathwaite, chairman of Grenada's interim advisory办公室.
Over the past year, Grenada has become dependent on outside lenders. The United
Unemployment is also a problem on the island. Brathweite estimated that about 20 percent of Grenada's residents are out of work.
Pivotal in handling the job problem is the opening Oct. 28 of the international airport at Point Salines. The airport, begun by the Cubans who were thrown out by the Americans, was completed largely with U.S. funds.
THE AIRPORT, WHICH the Reagan administration charged was to have been used by the Soviets and Cubans for military exercises in the now international flights to land on the island.
Previously, travelers had to change planes at Trinidad or Barbados and enter Grenada at Pearls Airport, a one-hour drive from the capital over potholed roads.
capital.
With Point Salines just 15 minutes from St. George's, officials predict increased tourist traffic. Brathwaite said the government hoped to create 1,500 new hotel rooms on the island in the next 18 months.
DESPITE GRENADA'S GRAND plan, officials here acknowledge that the crucial U.S. support may be affected by the Dec. 3 elections.
The Reagan administration has hinted it may not endorse the new government that emerges
One concern is that former Prime Minister Eric Gairy, whose administration was largely regarded as corrupt, could come to power again.
The Oct. 25, 1983, invasion of Grenada came a week after a bloody coup in which Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was killed. Bishop had been engaged in a power struggle with his hard-line Marxist deputy prime minister, Bernard Coord. Board and 18 others are on trial for the coup-related deaths of Bishop and 10 others.
Until the Americans arrived, residents of the 133-square-mile island lived under a shoot-to-kill curfew imposed by the military leaders.
The Reagan administration has maintained that the invasion was carried out to
ensure the safety of more than 600 American students at the medical school in the capital.
PRESIDENT REAGAN VESTERDAY at a White House ceremony saluted the medical students, whose presence on Grenada was cited as a major reason for the U.S. invasion, and cried the a burning point in America's "self-doubt and national confusion."
Referring to the Carter administration when Walter Mondale was vice president, Reagan said: "During the latter part of the 1970s, America passed through a period of great turmoil and crisis continuation. We talked and acted like a nation in decline and the world believed us."
NOW, HE SAID, "I believe this period of self-doubt is over. History will record that one of the turning points came on a small island in the Caribbean where America went to take care of her own and to rescue a neighboring nation from growing tyranny."
Sixty-eight of the students at St. George's University School of Medicine were invited to the ceremony, along with eight of the participants who participated in the pre-dawn invasion.
The students earlier had lunch on Capitol Hill. They also attended a news conference at which student Joe Galati said the group had been asked frequently if the military raid was really necessary and if the students were in danger.
"The story of Grenada boils down to one word — freedom," he replied. "Freedom for a group of Americans studying medicine who became stranded on an island where there was a breakdown of law and order . . . and freedom for the people of Grenada who were on the verge of losing the last few rights they had to a group of hard-line Marxist determined to turn Grenada into a totalitarian Cuban-Soviet military outpost."
Residents of Grenada generally refer to the invasion by more than 6,000 American and Caribbean troops as a "rescue mission" for the island's 110,000 inhabitants.
"IT HAS BEEN a satisfying year, principally because we have created in the country — during that period — an atmosphere that could be truly described as democratic." Braithwaite said in his office just off St. George's lush botanical gardens.
"There is now freedom of speech, freedom of the press," he said.
Many on the island say their security is due largely to the continued presence of about 250 American soldiers:
"I SUPPORTED THE invasion then and now for my personal safety," said Brian Carroll, a 28-year-old fourth-semester student from Fairfax, Va. Carroll and his roommate, John Carmack, 25, of Roanoke, Va. were among the students evacuated from the island last year.
LIBERAL ARTS & SCIENCES Undergraduate ENROLLMENT PROCEDURES SPRING-1985
1. Enrollment Card & Folder Handout OCTOBER 30 and 31 9:00-4:30 Kansas Union Ballroom—Picture I.D. Needed
2. Advising: 2 weeks only NOVEMBER 5-16
3. Dean's Stamp:
NOVEMBER 5-16 Only!!
8:30-12:00 & 1:00-4:30
102 Strong Hall
PARADE
The University of Kansas 1984 Homecoming Celebration
1:30 p.m. Friday, October 26
Jayhawk Boulevard
PICNIC
11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 27
Tent southeast of the stadium
Adults—$5.00
Children 12 and under—$3.00
For advance tickets call 864-4760.
JAYHAWKS vs. OKLAHOMA SOONERS
1:30 p.m., Saturday, October 27
DANCE
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 27
Kansas Union Ballroom
Clyde Bysom's Crimson and
Blues Alumni Swing Band
Tickets—$5.00, half price for
students with KU I.D.