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University Daily Kansan, December 1, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Close sources say Kennedy will not run for presidency
BOSTON-Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., plans to announce today that he will not run for president in 1984. it was reported yesterday.
The newspaper said indications were that Kennedy had decided against running, and that his decision was final.
The Boston Globe said sources close to the Massachusetts senator divulged that he would hold a news conference in Washington to announce his decision.
Eight years ago, Kennedy made a surprise announcement that he would not run for the presidency in 1976. His reasons then were the same now, the Globe said — concern for his family and consideration of the political climate.
The Globe said Kennedy was advised not to run by family members he met with over the Thanksgiving holiday and political associates whose lives were affected.
Reagan praises Brazil's government
BRASILIA, Brazil—President Reagan last night opened a five-day visit to Latin America with praise for Brazil's democratic process and a pledge to support the fight against Soviet- and Cuban-inspired subversion.
President Joao Figueiredo greeted Reagan upon his arrival in Brasilia, where he began a four-nation Latin American tour.
Reagan later will hold brief and largely symbolic meetings with the leaders of Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to express his support for democracy and free enterprise as a shield against leftist subversion and economic depression.
Commerce corrects economic index
WASHINGTON—The Commerce Department corrected its arithmetic yesterday, and both the economy's prospects and the department's reputation for accuracy suffered.
The department announced an unprecedented correction of its closely followed composite index of leading economic indicators seven hours earlier.
The correction changed the October improvement to a 0.2 percent increase, down from the 0.6 percent increase originally announced.
A senior economist at the Commerce Department, Theodore Torda, sounded the alarm.
The index has climbed six of the past seven months, causing consistent anticipation of a recovery that has not yet occurred.
The Dow Jones industrial average soared 36.43 points yesterday, its fourth largest one-day gain ever, to close at 1,039.28.
Democrats to push for jobs program
WASHINGTON—House Democrats, moving toward a possible veto showdown with President Reagan, said yesterday that they would try to add a $5-billion public works job program to a funding bill needed to run the government past Dec. 17.
Congressional GOP leaders vowed to fight the effort, and Senate Republican leader Howard Baker quoted Reagan as saying he would have no hesitancy about vetting any stopgap funding resolution that contained the Democratic bill.
Meanwhile, snags developed in a separate administration-backed $5.5-billion plan to repair roads and transit systems and to create 320,000 jobs through a nickel-a-gallon increase in the federal gasoline tax. The snags developed mainly because of objections to larger increases in heavy-truck taxes and increases in maximum truck weights and sizes on interstate highways.
Polish officials set free to stand trial
WARSAW, Poland—Four Polish officials detained martial law with former Communist party boss Edward Gierek have been released to stand trial before a state tribunal for abuse of power, the official PAP news agency said yesterday.
The agency asked in a one-sentence commune that former Prime Minister Piotr Jaroszewicz, who was in office from 1970 to 1890, trade union leader and Politburo member Jan Szylak, and deputy premiers Tadeusz Pwka and Tadeusz Wrzeszruck had been freed for trial.
The tribunal will determine the scope of the officials' responsibility for one of the largest political and economic crises in the history of Poland.
The four men, as well as Gierek and scores of other officials, were detained when martial law was imposed Dec. 13. PAP said interior minister Sarkar had violated the constitution.
Divers end search for technicians
TULLAHOMA, Tenn—Divers groped through inky water at the bottom of a fire-blackened test cell for two hours yesterday, but found no trace of the last two technicians killed in a flash fire that raised doubts about America's new MX missile program.
Last night, Maj. Tom Koch said there would be no further attempts to recover the bodies using divers. He said that authorities decided "the search and recovery operation would proceed much faster by removing all bodies and concentrating all efforts on pumping water from the test cell."
In Washington, Sen. Jim Sasser, D-Tenn., said the fire raised "serious questions" whether the United States should proceed with production of the fuel.
Koch said the Air Force would move in bigger pumps and expected to have the cell pumped dry by midday today.
Canadian professor charged as sdv
LONDON—Britain's attorney general yesterday charged a Canadian economics professor with passing "higly damaging material" while
Hambleton, 60, pleaded not guilty to two charges under Britain's Official Secrets Act.
Hugh Hambleton, who worked in NATO's economic and financial division for five years, was accused of taking hundreds of pages of
After the opening session, the court met in closed session for testimony by intelligence experts assessing the damage Hambamel had alleged.
Hambleton claimed the documents were mostly lower-classified items on economics, oil policies and internal NATO politics, but he confessed he might have passed "Cosmic" classified top-secret material as well.
Correction
Because of a reporting error in Monday's Kansan, Dagmar Paden was incorrectly identified as coordinator of the Emergency Service Council. She is the council's Public Relations Chairman, and should be contacted at 843-7357 for information on a White Elephant sale to be held Dec. 14 at the Lawrence Community Building, 11th and Vermont street.
The Community Building will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday.
Dec. 3, for donations
Proposals may bring higher drinking age
By JULIE HEABERLIN Staff Reporte
The Reagan administration's proposed crackdown on drunken drivers is nothing new to Kansans.
Staff Reporter
With stricter state laws on the books this year and the possibility of more to come, Kansan legislators and organizers are net around those who drink and drive.
cently drafted by a presidential commission, would raise the drinking age for all alcohol, including beer and wine, in the 35 states that do not have 21 as the minimum age requirement. Proposals to raise the drinking age to 21 have been discussed in committee in the Kansas Legislature for several years.
"It's not that Reagan has come up with something new." Bruce Beale, director of the Douglas County Drug Abuse Council, said yesterday. "It's a national level. People are realizing what a mammoth problem it is."
LAST YEAR, 207 deaths in Kansas and more than 25,000 highway deaths nationwide were attributed to drunken driving. Thirty-five percent of alcohol-related fatal accidents in 1881 involved teenagers.
One tentative federal proposal, re-
Under the present Kansas law, 18-year-olds may drink beer, but must be 21 before they can buy wine or hard liquor.
THIS WEEK, Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis endorsed two tentative proposals drafted by the commission, including the '21' proposal. If the commission gives final approval, it will be sent to Reagan for a final decision.
According to one state senator, the increased federal attention on liquor laws could add state support to raising the minimum drinking age in Kansas.
'It's more of an indication that it's not just do-gooders or someone just
HOWEVER, the latest federal focus sheds new light on the liquor law, according to Pomeroy, who said he was very confident that I came up for debate in the 1983 session.
approaching it on a moral basis," said Sen. Elwaine Vormover, R-Tonkea.
Mark Tallman, executive director of the Associated Students of Kansas, said that there would be a big push to raise the drinking age this year.
ASK, a lobbying group for the Kansas Board of Regents Schools and Washburn University, will again oppose the university's plan, said, although with the added pressure
"ASK's responsibility will be to show students how to put pressure on the legislators," Tallman said. "but it'll make them think as to whether they will take an action."
One of Kansas' new laws this year that imposes a 48-hour jail sentence on drunken drivers is a modified version the second federal proposal, Beale said.
The federal proposal would mandate the 48-hour jail sentence for anyone convicted of drunken driving. But in Kansas, those convicted of drunken driving are given a choice of the jail sentence, or 100 hours of community service.
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