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Thursday, September 3. 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Fertility marriage rates low
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The nation's fertility rate fell to a record low last year, while life expectancy reached a record high and marriage and divorce rates dipped to the lowest levels in a decade, a government bureau reported yesterday.
Average life expectancy in 1986 reached a record high of 74.9 years, said the Center for Health Statistics, an arm of the Department of Health and Human Services. That was up from 74.7 years reported in 1985.
The highest life expectancy was 78.9 years for white females, up from 78.7 last year. White males saw an increase from 71.8 to 72.0 years.
Life expectancy for black people rose from 65.3 to 65.5 years for men, but declined from 75.7 to 73.6 years in the same decade. A summary of vital statistics reported.
Births totaled 3,731,000, down
18,000 from 1985.
That represented 64.9 live births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44, 2 percent below last year and the 8 percent in the United States, the report said.
The drop reflects the trend of recent years, as many young people have postponed marriage and families to pursue education and careers, the report said.
Social scientists have debated in recent years whether this represents merely a delay in having children or a decision not to have families.
Trends in the number of annual births are affected by two factors: the rate of births among women and the number of women in the childbearing age.
The number of women ages 15 to 44 increased one percent between 1985 and 1986, but the bulk of that was among women ages 30 and over, where birth rates tend to be lower.
Alan Sholz of Raymore, Mo., lows a bucket of hot tar to construction workers below him. Sholz was part of a crew working yesterday on the roof at Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall.
ACLU says Reagan afraid of Bork's past
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union said yesterday that the Reagan administration was afraid of the speeches and articles Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork had produced over the years.
White House officials "have made a strategic judgment they can't sustain the nomination based on (Bork's complete) record," ACLU President Norman Dorsen told a news conference. He said the administration was trying to hide the truth about Bork, a federal appeals court judge.
Caustic exchanges between the White House and the ACLU have become a daily occurrence after the
civil liberties group departed from its traditional neutrality on judicial selections and announced Monday its opposition to Bork's confirmation by Sage.
White House spokesman Martin Fitzwater on Tuesday accused the ACLU of playing partisan politics.
MANILA, Philippines — Conspirators in plots leading to last week's bloody coup attempt discussed killing U.S. citizens and burning CIA headquarters in Manila, the government said yesterday.
Filipino officials say rebels targeted U.S.
A general who commanded the army under deposed President Ferdinand E. Marcos was involved in plotting a military takeover, said the report, prepared by President Corazon Aquino's security force and released by the Presidential Palace.
Aquino, in a national broadcast yesterday, said that 53 people were killed in Friday's coup attempt, including 12 loyal soldiers, 19 rebel troops and 22 civilians. Hundreds were wounded, including her son, Benigno Aquino III.
Col. Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan, who led the coup attempt, remained at large, and the military intensified air and ground searches for him in Manila and north and east of the capital.
The "after-battle" report said Marcos laysons loyal to July 14 at a Manila restaurant to discuss "CIA support for destabilization," bombing campaigns, the assassination of three unidentified U.S. citizens and "burning of CIA headquarters." It did not elaborate.
It named Maj. Gen. Josephus Ramas, former army commander, as being involved in plotting a military takeover. Aquino fired Ramas after taking power in a February 1986 civilian-military uprising that ousted Marcos, who fled to Hawaii.
The report said intelligence agents learned that Ramas and Honasan planned a "blitzkrieg attack" last June, but it was postponed
The charges about killing U.S. citizens and the CIA were in the background part of the report, and it was unclear whether all the alleged plots were part of the same conspiracy and why other plots were postponed.
Maj. Gen. Eduardo Ermita, deputy chief of staff, declined comment and
said he was unaware of the report.
Aquino said that 50 officers and 1,300 enlisted men took part in the revolt, but did not say whether that included those who joined in Cebu City, San Fernando and southeastern Luzon. She said 1,033 mutineers were in custody.
The mutineers "turned their backs on their duties and pursued their own goals," Aquino concluded, switching from English to Tagalog, a Malayan dialect spoken in the Philippines. "They ignored the lives of our brothers because all they wanted was to kill me and run our government."
"I grieve for the dead on both sides," she said. "When I ordered the attack I knew that there would be violence. But it was necessary because I had to prevent greater violence."
Honasan led attacks Friday on the presidential palace, broadcast stations and key military installations, as well as headquarters at Gama Argueda.
The rebels said they were acting because of the government's handling of the Communist insurgency, its move to give some autonomy to Muslim rebels in the south and mountain tribesmen in the north, and because of generally poor conditions in the military.
Even Aquino's generals have pressed her to give the military more say in national policy and to address the military's needs.
On Tuesday, armed forces chief of staff Gen. Fidel Ramos demanded the immediate convocation of the National Security Council, the joint military-civilian policy-making committee that Aquino has never convened.
Military sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said they believe the president's civilian advisers do not want the council convened because it would give the military more say in national policy and because of bitter memories of the 1972-81 martial law under Marcos.
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