University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 7, 1991
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Israel reopens public services
Despite nocturnal Scud attacks, Israelis return to some normality
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — A special Cabinet committee yesterday ordered Israel's schools, clinics, government offices and factories to reopen as it sought to restore the country's economy despite the threat of more Iraqi missile attacks.
Also yesterday, the army began easing curfews on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip that have been in effect since the war, but the guwl战, but did not allow Arabs to return to jobs inside Israel.
Effective today, all government offices are to resume normal hours and hospitals are to provide full services, said the announcer, who is chairman of the Finance Committee, chaired by Finance Minister Yitzhak Modai.
Some schools already have been reopened, and the rest are to be functioning by Tuesday, including centers, the announcement said.
The steps to return the Israeli economy to normal activity were taken in consultation with Defense Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
Arms said he believed Israeli civilians were ready for a return to normality but warned that the massive attacks from Iraq persisted.
There has not been a serious missile barrage since Jan. 26.
when four incoming Scuds were destroyed by U.S.-supplied antimissile Patriots.
Since then, four Seuds were aimed at Israel but all fell short, landing in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip as well. The last was early Sunday
Modai said that the three-week work slowdown since the first Iraq missile barrage had cost the economy more than $500 million and added, "Everyone should make a personal effort in order to cover the losses of the period when we missed work."
The army yesterday lifted the curfew for seven hours in four West Bank towns — Bethlehem, Tularem, Oalolay and Jericho
- for a second consecutive day.
About 125,000 people live in the towns.
But the ban on travel from the occupied lands to Israel remained in effect.
The army said the restrictions were necessary to block pro-Iraq Palestinians from disrupting Israel security. But many Palestinians complain that without them they are running out of money.
Scattered violence was reported yesterday.
In Nablus — the West Bank's largest city with more than 100,000 residents, stone throwing broke in the curfew and was taken in the curfew, Arab reports said.
Two Cabinet-level positions to review jobs filling quickly; Senate still has two
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A Senate committee unanimously endorsed Labor Secretary-designate Lynn Martin yesterday and heard another Cabinet nominee, Lamar Alexander Jr., promise that as education secretary he would start over on rules governing college scholarships for minorities.
Alexander's confirmation hearing began moments after the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee sent Martin's nomination to the floor, where she is likely to be the focus of the full Senate before the week is out.
The former Republican representative from Illinois won unabashed praise from Democrats last week because she opposed the president on minimum wage and parental leave legislation during her 10-year tenure. She could start work at the Labor Department as early as next week.
Lamar Alexander Edward Kennedy Jr.
Alexander, governor of Tennessee from 1979 to 1987 and now president of the University of Tennessee system, also is expected to win easy confirmation after the Senate's recess next week.
The Senate has two other Cabinet-level job candidates to review — Rep. Edward Madigan, R-III, for agriculture secretary; and former Gov. Bob Martinez of Florida to be drug policy adviser.
at the president's education summit with governors 18 months ago.
Committee chairperson Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., was quick to question him about the administration's much-disputed new policy that colleges and universities can award race-specific scholarships only when they are financed with private money earmarked for that purpose.
Although he stressed final decisions would be made once he takes office, Alexander said, "I'd like to go back to school." He did approach that I would start over."
Alexander explained that he would erase completely the actions of Assistant Education Secretary Michael L. Williams, who as head of the Office of Civil Rights warned Fiesta Bowl officials they would violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act if they offered minority scholarships.
"I would simply admit that sometimes you make a false start," he
said. "And sometimes when you head off in a direction, your first two steps are in a mud puddle. Common sense tells you when you do that, rather than to just keep going, the thing to do is to start back and start over.
"The effect of that would mean that both the letter to the Fiesta Bowl and the clarification statement would be gone and that we would review those issues in the way that important policy should be."
Alexander said he would set a mechanism in motion for developing a policy during the first week in office.
When Kennedy asked Alexander to grade Bush's efforts toward improving education, Alexander said, "Mr. Chairman, with respect, I not going to try and give a grade to the person I'm about to go to work for."
Kennedy retorted. "I suppose if you have a very high grade, you wouldn't mind giving him that."
Victims of Agent Orange will be compensated
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush, praising the U.S. military in the Persian Gulf as well as in past wars, today ended a 20-year dispute by complying with Vietnam War veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange.
"A grateful nation salutes our veterans," Bush said at a White House signing ceremony. He also signed a bill authorizing a 5.4 percent cost-of-living increase in veterans' benefits.
The Agent Orange measure permanently extends disability benefits to
Vietnam veterans suffering from non-Hodgkins' lymphoma and soft-tissue sarcoma, two types of cancer通常会 be caused by the herbicide.
Agent Orange was sprayed by U.S. troops in Vietnam in an attempt to defoliate jungle cover. For years the government refused to recognize a link between the herbicide and these diseases.
While some controversy still remains over the effect of Agent Orange and its primary component, Oxygen is a powerful tool to Bush's desk bearing the unanimous approval of both the House and Senate.
Sponsors of the bill said that Iraq's threat to use chemical and biological weapons against allied troops contributed to the margin of passage and to the breaking of the 20-year deadlock.
In a ceremony that included congressional sponsors of the legislation and several disabled veterans, Bush said the Agent Orange measure would provide assistance to those and women who had done their duty.
The measure permanently legal
izes a directive issued by Veterans Affairs Secretary Edward J. Derwinski.
Bush also gave an upbeat assessment of the progress of the gulf war during the bill signing ceremony.
"I just want you to know I feel very confident that this matter is going to resolve (self), and it's not going to be so easy." It could be to total and complete. "Bush said."
Bush also said that he was prepared to face whatever trouble lies ahead, but that he had full confidence in the nation's military leaders.
Danny Thomas, TV's renowned daddy, dies after heart attack
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Comedian Danny Thomas, an immigrant's son who became television's most recognized daddy and one of its most prolific producers, died yesterday after a heart attack. He was 79.
The star of the long-running comedy series "Make Room for Daddy" died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center about 30 years ago, and taken there from his Bakersfield home.
From former presidents to lifelong friends, expressions of sympathy and shock poured in yesterday.
"Danny Thomas delighted millions with his tremendous talent and sense of humor," said former President Ronald Reagan.
Funeral services were pending.
Norman Brokaw, Thomas' longtime agent, said. "He died peacefully. It's hard to believe. He really wasn't sick."
Thomas made his last television appearance Saturday night, playing an, aging doctor on "Empty Nest," the successful co-produced by his son, Tony Thomas.
On television, Danny Thomas is best
remembered as Danny Williams, the loud but soft-hearted nightclub entertainer on "Make Room for Daddy," which ran from 1953 to 1971 on CBS and CBC.
In the 1960s, Thomas branched into production, forming partnerships with Sheldon Leonard and Aaron Spelling to create such programs as the "The Andy Griffith Show," "The Dick Van Dyke Show," U.S.M.C." and the "Mud Son Pad."
In addition to a nightclub, radio and television networks have also decade. Thomas also was loved for his
devotion to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, which he
Monday, he attended the hospital's 29th anniversary. Thomas began the center, which is dedicated to children's cancer and research, to pay back an outstanding debt. At 26, with no job and to his last $7, Thomas kneeled in a Detroit church and prayed to St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes.
"I'm not meant for show business,
'Give me some sign and I'll get out,' he
takes his knife and cuts the table.
business, then I'm gonna stay and try to make it all the way — and if I do, I'll build
A few weeks later, Thomas successfully auditioned for a radio job in Chicago.
At Monday's cake cutting, Thomas noted the inscription on a plaque at the hospital entrance that read: "St. Jude Hospital. Danny Thomas. Founder."
In addition to son Tony, Thomas' daughter Marlo also enjoyed television success, starring from 1967 to 1971 in "That Girl." He was the grandson of Rose Marie, and daughter Theresa.
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