University Dally Kansan, September 26, 1980
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Judge tells bureau to correct census
DETROIT—The U.S. Census Bureau ignored millions of minority Americans in the 1980 census—mostly blacks and Hispanics—and must correct its figures for the second time in its 190-year history, a federal judge ruled yesterday.
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The court ruling came in a lawsuit filed by Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young.
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U.S. District Judge Horace W. Gilmore said that the Census Bureau failed to count accurately the residents in the sixth-largest U.S. city and that the error was paralleled nationwide.
Mayors of the country's large cities, who had claimed angrily that the census figures would cheat them of government aid and congressional representation, were elated with the ruling.
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Gilmore ordered the bureau to adjust the figures at all levels and barred
the delivery of any population counts to the president or the states until
census officials complied with his ruling.
In his ruling, Gilmore cited Census Bureau estimates that 8 percent of America's minorities and 1.9 percent of its whites were not counted in the 1970 census.
The Census Bureau has miscounted only once since the first census in 1790 a voluntary addition of 5 million people in 1970.
1970 census. That made blacks and Hispanics four times as likely as whites to be miscounted, a factor he said adversely affected cities with large minority populations.
League proposes one-on-one debate
The League of Women Voters, faced with the collapse of its 1980 presidential debate schedule, changed its previous position yesterday and invited President Carter and Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan to participate in a one-on-one debate the week of Oct. 12.
According to the League's new proposal, that debate would be followed by a three-way debate during the week of Oct. 28 that would include in
There was no immediate assurance from either Carter or Reagan that the debates would materialize.
The Carter campaign had no comment, and Reagan, in California, would not answer one way or the other. His senior adviser, James Baker, said that the GOP campaign strategists were "learning against" the wrong approach to the war by adhering to "principles" by succeeding to White House pressure for a one-on-one debate.
Baker said that the new proposal was what Carter had proposed all along and that there was no guarantee the president would show up for the three-way confrontation. Reagan learned of the League's new proposal when he landed at the airport in San Jose, Calif.
When told of the proposal, Reagan said, "These were the very kinds of proposals that we ourselves have made and Carter turned down."
Search for fugitives covers six states
LINCOLN, Neb. -A massive sixstate manhunt for two "extremely dangerous" federal fugitives, one a former Illinois policeman, was being conducted last night in a search for a Lincoln police officer abducted by the suspects.
Police Capt. Don Bruckner said the suspects, Donald Reynolds, 29, and Edward Miller, 20, were wanted on a variety of felony charges and were believed to be fugitives from the Peoria County Jail in Illinois.
Bruckner said officer Sydney Yardley, 24, was abducted while checking on a suspicious car in a northeast Lincoln neighborhood about 6 p.m.
An intense search was conducted in the Raymond area using dogs, a search light and a helicopter to comb county roads. A command post was set up at the Raymond Volunteer Fire Department.
Bruckner said all available off-duty Lincoln police officers were called in, and the FBI, the State Patrol and all sheffler's offices in eastern Nebraska were involved in the manhunt. The search was expanded to include Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wyoming and South Dakota.
Synfuels nomination bargain rejected
WASHINGTON—Republicans, accusing the White House of election year politics in its rejection of a compromise on nominations approved by Ronald Reagan, yesterday vowed a Senate floor fight over appointments to the top posts at the newly created U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corp.
The president's nominations of John Sawhill as chairman and five others as directors were approved by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources
The committee turned down the compromise offer that Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., said was backed by Republican presidential candidate Reagan and congressional Republicans.
The nominations were approved, 12-6, with Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., joining the Democrats.
joining the Democrats.
Under the compromise, Republicans would have approved the nomination of Sawhill—now deputy energy secretary—as chairman and three other directors nicked by President Carter, including a Republican.
The other directors would have been nominated after the November presidential election, "which may be won by a member of my party," Hatfield said. This, he said, would let the corporation start functioning with a working majority on the board.
Actors wary about proposed terms
"one proposal to end the 10-week-old strike, which has crippled the country, is movie industries, was reached at 3 a.m. CDT after an 18-hour bargaining session."
HOLLYWOOD—Movie and television producers reached a tentative agreement with striking actors yesterday, but dissatisfaction with some of the terms and expanded picketing by striking musicians threatened to block a quick resumption of filming.
The strike by the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which began July 21, has cost the industry an estimated $40 million a week and has cancelled much of the 1980-81 television season.
Edward Amer, star of the 'Lou Grant' series, said he would vote against him because the musicians expand their pickets to every studio in Hollywood.
Only hours after the agreement was made, many of the industry's best known actors joined almost 700 striking musicians picking CBS Studio recordings.
Official says move of Cubans illegal
FORT CHAFFEE, Ark.-New Cuban refugees began arriving yesterday at Fort Chaffee from Florida as part of a federal operation to consolidate refugee housing, but the Arkansas attorney general said it was illegal to hold them in the camp because of their undetermined residency status.
Clark said his opinion was based on the fact that the 114,000 Cubans had never been given any legal designation as immigrant refugees or legal aliens.
autonomy General Steve Clark said that President Carter lacked authority to permit the refugees to enter the United States and that no law enforcement agency had jurisdiction.
If they had legal status, federal authorities would have control, he said, adding that Fort Chaffee also had not been legally designated as a detention center.
State Department officials at Fort Chaffee said they had not heard of Clark's opinion and referred all calls to the Cuban-Malaiti Task Force in New York. The state Department has no official contact with Mr. Clark.
A flight carrying 114 refugees landed here yesterday from Florida as consolidation operations began. More than 8,600 Cubans, who have yet to spot sponsors in the United States, are scheduled to come to Fort Chaffee from camps in Florida, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
FDA cautions women against using Relv
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The government yesterday urged men to stop using Rely tampons when contacting the sometimes-fatal toxic shock syndrome.
The warning was issued to reinforce last week's Food and Drug Administration advice that women consider not using Rely. It came amid new reports of deaths blamed on toxic shock syndrome, which has killed 20 women since 1975.
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"Now we are flatly telling them to stop using Rely," said FDA spokesman Bill Rados.
THE AGENCIY IS MOVING to require a warning label on all tampon packages to alert women to the link between men and the bacterial disease, Rados said.
Procter & Gamble, the manufacturer of Rely, asked stores this week to halt
Women who have free samples of Rely tampons received in the mail should throw them away, the FDA said.
sales of the tampon and offered refunds to purchasers. P&G, officials predicted that virtually all the tampons would be off store shelves by mid-October.
The actions followed a report from the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta last week that said Rely tampons were associated more frequently with toxic shock syndrome than other brands.
however, the FDA said women using other brands also had suffered the recently recognized illness. It said women could reduce the risk of their menstrual periods or by stopping tampon use altogether.
TOXIC SHOCK syndrome only affects about three out of every 100,000 women of menstrual age. About nine-five percent of the victims are women, most under age 30.
The symptoms of toxic shock syndrome are high fever, vomiting.
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Her father, Richard Glandon, filed a $15 million damage suit in Portland, Ore., Wednesday against Proctor and Gamble Corp. and PlayStation Corp. that the liars responsible they manufactured were responsible for her illness.
One such victim was Vickie Glandon, 16, who suffered brain damage after she contracted the disease last fall and lapsed into a coma.
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