October 11, 1984 Page 2
NATION AND WORLD
The University Daily
KANSAN
GOP could keep control, lose Senate seats in '84
WASHINGTON — Republicans would retain control of the Senate if the Nov. 6 elections were held today, but would lose between one and four seats from their 55-45 majority, officials of both parties said yesterday.
Democratic Rep. Albert Gore is ahead by about 16 points in the race for the Tennessee seat held by retiring Republican Gov. Bob Dole, both Democrats and Republicans agreed.
But Democrats also think they can pick up GOP seats now held by Sens. Charles Percy of Illinois, Roger Jerpesen of Iowa and Jesse Helms of North Carolina.
Official abducted in Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Two men with submachine guns kidnapped Spain's ambassador to Lebanon yesterday, but he remained in good condition, an embassy official said.
Lebanese soldiers said Ambassador Pedro Manuel de Aristegui, 57, had just left the seafront Spanish Embassy in Muslim west Beirut in the afternoon when gunmen forced his car to the side of the highway.
Armed with submachine guns, the men forced de Aristeguin out of his car and into a truck.
After four hour de Aristequi telephoned to report his release.
Shout caused fall, court rules
AUSTIN, Texas — An appeals court yesterday upheld a lower court decision finding a health spa guilty of negligence in the injury of a woman who fell off of a jogging treadmill when a spa employee yelled, "Suck in that stomach!"
Lois Farley sued Figure World Inc., of New Braunfels, Texas, in 1961 after she tractured her ankle falling off the treadmill.
Space: the final resting place
LONDON - A firm of undertakers in northern England is offering the ultimate final resting place: space.
Leeds Funeral Service, as agents for Aerospace Information and Transportation Service of New York, is opening a register for people who would like their ashes scattered in space. They said an ad already has attracted replies.
Getting on the register is free, and so is storage of the ashes until a flight is available. But the price of that flight is likely to be in the "thousands rather than hundreds," said the firm's chairman, Philip Williams.
PANAMA CITY — Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, Commander-in-Chief of Panama's National Defense Forces, delivers a speech on the eve of the end of 16 years of military rule in Panama. Noriega cited gains made under the military government but yesterday pledged to take a lesser role in the new administration.
Bush, Ferraro prepare for Philly showdown
By United Press International
Vice President George Bush and Democratic challenger Geraldine Ferraro spent yesterday cramming for their first and only debate, with Democrats saying a Ferraro victory would show the Reagan-Bush team as losers.
The Democrats' confidence heading into tonight's vice presidential clash comes on the heels of Walter Mondale's strong showing as president Reagan in Louisville, Ky. Sunday.
Dorothy Ridings, president of the League of Women Voters, announced last night that the panelists for tonight's debate would include: John Maskeh of U.S. News & World Report; Robert Boyd, Washington bureau chief of Knight-Ridder Newspapers; Jack White of Time Magazine and Norma Quarles of NBC News.
The television networks say as many as 50 million Americans will watch the vice presidential debate, which will be broadcast live from Philadelphia starting at 8 p.m.
BUSH, 60, SPENT yesterday in his vice presiding office next door to the White House.
He planned a third mock debate with Rep. Leon Martin, R-III, as a stand-in for Rep. Bennie Hancock.
Spokeswoman Shirley Green said, "He thinks this is an important event in the campaign."
Green said Bush thought the outcome of the debate with Ferraro would not make much
FERRARO, A MEMBER of the House who represents the Queens section of New York, spent all day last Friday, part of Saturday morning and yesterday and yesterday preparing for the debate.
difference in the voting for Reagan or Mondale.
She staged mock debates in an independent television studio in Manhattan with Washington attorney Robert Barnett, a Mondale issues adviser, standing in for Bush.
Ferraro, 49, also looked at the video tapes of Bush debating in the 1980 primaries and watched a playback of her performance on television, which could help see how she came across on television
Campaign manager John Sasso would not discuss what Ferraro will wear or how the Department would represent him.
"This is not a debate about personalities.
This is a debate about issues." he said.
POLLS SHOW MANY voters remain unconvinced that Ferraro, a relative newcomer to politics with six years service in the House, would be president if something happened to Mondale.
Bush's campaign plays up his experience as U.N. ambassador, liaison to China, CIA director and two terms in the House as making him well qualified for the top spot.
American will become first female to walk in space
Mondale and Ferraro, seeking to weaken the vice president before the debate, have criticized him in nearly every speech for paying less than percent of his income for legal taxes last year. Mondale, said the janitor who cleans the vice president's office paid a higher rate.
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Kathryn Sullivan is set to become the first American woman to walk in space today and the shuttle flight director said yesterday that Hurricane Josephine might permit a Florida landing this weekend — "if we're lucky."
Flight director John Cox said, "It's not like giving up to your gas station and getting a ride home."
DAVID HILMERS IN mission control in Houston told shuttle commander Robert
Sullivan and David Leestma planned to spend $3^{1/2}$ hours spacewalking in Challenger's open cargo bay starting at 10:33 a.m. to secure a loose antenna and practice a satellite refueling technique with dangerous, pressurized hydrazine propellant.
Crippen said yesterday that the outlook was improving for a Kennedy Space Center Saturday landing as originally planned.
"The end of the mission weather is looking a little better, he said, but that the weather is still cloudy."
"If we're lucky and keep our fingers crossed, we may have a chance to sneak into the cape either Saturday or Sunday," he said.
Sullivan and Leestima breathed pure oxygen for three hours yesterday to eliminate the risk of nitrogen bubbles forming in their blood after the spacewalk and later,
JOSEPHINE, PACKING 85 mph winds more than 400 miles east of the cape, was moving slowly toward the north-northwest. Forecasters cautioned that such storms were unpredictable and said there still was a 7 percent chance Josephine would come within 65 miles of the cape.
with the help of the crewmates, successfully checked out their bulky spacesuits in the crowded airlock.
"I sure hope things are more fun tomorrow than today," said Sullivan, a 33-year-old geologist who noted before launch that her build = 5-feet-6 and 150 pounds — made her well-suited for the exertion of a spacewalk
"I AM NOT YOUR BASIC weak, frail female and never have been. It's been nice to find a place where qualifying for the Los Angeles Rams' front four is an asset rather than a liability," she said.
By proceeding with the spacewalk on schedule, flight directors said Crippen, Leestma, Sullivan, Jon McGride, Sally Ride, Mark Garneau and Paul Scully-Power could land either Saturday or Sunday, depending on the Florida weather.
plan was to proceed toward a landing Saturday at the cape. If the Florida weather is bad, but predicted to be acceptable the ship will be kept in orbit an extra day.
Flight director Cleon Lacefield said the
HOWEVER, IF JOSEPHINE is expected to produce too much wind or cloud cover both Saturday and Sunday, Challenger will be diverted to a landing Saturday at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The ship has enough fuel to stay aloft until Monday.
Crippen twice before tried to land Challenger in Florida and each time bad weather forced a delay.
NASA is particularly anxious to land in Florida this time because a California landing would add five to seven days to the time required to prepare the ship for its Dec. 8 launch. The "turn around" schedule already is tight.
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