12
Wednesday, February 25. 1987 / University Daily Kansan
McFarlane leaves hospital
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane, a key figure in the Iranian arms-for-hostages deal, has been released from Bethesda Naval Hospital where he was treated for a drug overdose, a hospital spokesman said yesterday.
McFarlane, 49, was rushed to the medical facility in suburban Maryland on Feb. 9 after taking what police said was between 20 and 30 Valium pills, a tranquilizer often prescribed for anxiety. That day he had been scheduled to undergo questioning by the Tower Commission investigating the Iran arms-contra aid scandal.
A detective said the case was investigated as a suicide attempt
A hospital spokesman said only that McFarlane was released Monday. He declined to say why McFarlane was held for two weeks after being reported in good condition, or what treatment he underwent.
McFarlane was President Reagan's national security adviser until
December 1985 during the period when the United States changed its policy to begin selling arms secretly to Iran Later, McFarlane's successor, Vice Adm. John Poindexter, called him back to service to head a secret missions to Iran in May 1986, and in November 1986 he worked on an Iran arms chronology for the White House.
McFarlane has been the key public source of the rationale behind the policy that has led to the scandal involving the selling of arms to Iran and diversion of funds from the sales to the Nicaragua contra forces seeking to overthrow the Sandinista government in Managua.
Members of the Tower Commission, appointed by President Reagan after the arms deal was made public to probe the activities of the National Security Council staff, twice went to Washington in 1985 to meet McFarlane at the hospital. The report is due to be made public tomorrow.
A source close to McFarlane said,
"I think the whole thing weighs on him, obviously. I think he feels bad that this (the Iran arms deals) turned into a big problem."
White House officials said that McFarlane was selected for the clandestine mission to Teheran conducted in the spring of 1986 because he was trusted by Reagan and had an ability to stay out of the national limelight.
In a nationally televised speech Nov. 13, Reagan said that McFarlane tried to renew relations with moderate elements in Iran.
McFarlane, a protege of Henry Kissinger, stepped down as national security adviser Dec. 4, 1985, saying that after more than 30 years of public service, he wanted to devote more time to his family.
In extensive testimony before House and Senate committees investigating the deals, McFarlane insisted that the first goal of the secret mission was to establish some kind of discourse with sensible elements in Iran.
Tuition in '80s rose twice as fast as inflation, lobby group says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A college lobby group released a study yesterday saying tuition has risen twice as fast in inflation in the 1980s, increasing nearly 10 percent a year on both public and private campuses.
During the past 16 years, the study said, tuition has gone up at a slower pace than medical care, energy costs and the price of new homes, but faster than the price of food and new cars.
Analysts Arthur Hauptman and Terry Hartle said that since 1970, tuitions have grown by an average 7.8 percent a year, compared with the 6.7 percent annual increase in consumer prices and 8.2 percent growth in disposable personal income.
In the 1970s, tuitions lagged behind the inflation rate, but in the 1980s, tuitions surged ahead, increasing 9.8 percent a year. That is double the 4.9 percent rate of inflation and much faster than the 6.5 percent annual growth in personal incomes over the past six years.
The report was commissioned by the American Council on Education, a lobbying and research group for more than 1,500 colleges and universities. ACE President Robert H. Atwell predicted that the tuition
spiral would slow down, saying, "I think everybody understands that they cannot continue to increase at twice the rate of inflation."
Hauptman and Hartle said they thought that colleges were not trying hard enough to control costs, and they suggested that campuses take a harder look at the productivity of the faculty.
"I think colleges can do a lot more, whether it be research universities letting their faculty teach a little bit of the subject," said Hauntman, a consultant.
Hauptman said consumers might start pressuring colleges to let bright students "graduate in three years as a way of cutting costs."
"There's nothing magical about the four years," he said. "Institutions place restrictions on the degree earned by a student, and part because it means loss of tuition."
Hartle, a fellow at ACE, said that because colleges had much of their budgets locked up in long-term contracts for tenured faculty, "they have a flexibility problem in trying to control costs."
"My opinion is colleges are conservative organizations. They don't change very rapidly," Hartle said. "But we have to get their costs under control."
The College Board says it costs
$5,604 to attend the average four-year public college this year, including $1,337 in tuition, and $10,199 at four-year private campuses, including $5,793 in tuition
College costs went up 6.9 percent this past year at a time when consumer prices rose less than 2 percent. Several Ivy League schools and other elite institutions have already announced 6 percent increases.
The report said, "Some elite schools have discovered that they can increase tuition with no appreciable effect on the number or quality of their applicants." That is no different, it said, than "what happened to the price of Japanese cars in the early 1980s, when the supply of that desirable product was restricted by import quotas."
The report said the "good news" about college prices is that "over the long term, the growth in college prices appears to be only slightly higher than the increase in consumer prices." Consumer prices rose 182 percent between 1970 and 1986, while personal rose 40 percent and personal income went up 253 percent. Median family income grew by 187 percent.
"The bad news," it said, "is that college tuition are rising much more rapidly in the 1980s than the prices for other goods and services."
Budget forms will be available in the Student Senate office - 105 Burge Union
Student Organizations your budgets will be due March 9th,1987 by 5:00 p.m.
CUP AND USE RUSTY'S COUPONS
You Can't Pay More than *44.95!
SINGLE $24.95 VISION
BIFOCALS $34.95
1,000 frames to choose from. First quality lenses only.
Our only Extras: Cox Coating (scratch guard)-$10 and
Photo Grey Extra (lenses that darken)-$10.
Payless Optical Outlet
M-F: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sat. 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
742 MASSACHUSETTS
842.5208
Wednesday - "Cheap Drink Night"
"Cheap Drink Night"
$1.50 Beers and shots
$1.25 Well Drinks (Highballs)
$3.00 Long Island Teas
Thursday - "The Usual"
The Madhatter
8 until ?
700 New Hampshire
842-9402
LAWRENCE