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    me liaiiy coiiegian Friday, Oct. 12,1979
■News briefs
Two people die in snowstorm
By United Press International
Roads turned into bobsled runs
yesterday in the snow-swept East
raked by. a storm that brought the
earliest snowfalls in history to some
areas.
Icy roads were blamed for at least
two deaths.
Most easterners got a respite from
Wednesday’s snow, though a dusting
of snow wafted over the Buffalo,
N.Y., area. Ice formed by arctic
temperatures that followed Wed
nesday’s sloppy mix of rain and snow
posed the major problem.
Ice covered. roads across the
Boston area, and police reported
Three-day market slide stalls
NEW YORK (AP) The stock
market’s three-day slide stalled
yesterday as trading on the New York
Stock Exchange, although still heavy,
was off considerably from Wed
nesday’s record-setting pace.
Analysts were cautious in
predicting an end to the market’s
skid, attributing the calming in the
market to a number of internal
factors.
The closely-watched Dow Jones
industrial average, after plunging
48.29 in the first three days of the
week, began the day with a ■slight
increase, fell sharply, and recovered
to close at 844.62, down 4.70.
Bolivia coup attempt falls short
Walter Gueuara Arce
Joint committee is deadlocked
WASHINGTON (UPI) A House- The abortion and pay raise issues
Senate conference committee are tied to and holding up a con
yesterdayJailed to break tinuing resolution that would provide
fundingiv Shd a.-- authority for. payments. to be made
congressional' pay, raise that until regular appropriations for fiscal
threatens to delay regular pay checks 499 b have been passed. Fiscal 1980
for more than 2 million federal em- began Oct. 1.
P^°y eeS- , .... The conferees were on the verge of
The conference committee a compromise plan by which the
scheduled another session for this Senate would agree to a 5.5 percent
morning in an effort to resolve the increase and accept additional
dispute and keep government restrictions on abortion funding, but
agencies from running out of money. it co n aDse( i
If Congress does not resolve its v
differences this week, 1.6, million
members of the armed forces will
miss their payday Monday and some
1.25 million federal employees
more than half of the 2.3 million
federal workers will get only half
pay
Thornburgh explains shake-up
HARRISBURG (AP) Gov. Dick
Thornburgh said yesterday that he
made his first cabinet shakeup “to
enhance the management
capabilities” of his administration.
In two unexpected moves, Health
Secretary Gordon MacLeod and
Labor and Industry Secretary Myron
Joseph were asked to leave after
meeting with the governor this week.
“Both tendered their resignations
as a result of discussions we had had
concerning the direction of the ad
ministration,” the governor said at
an appearance in Hazelton.
“I think change is a necessary
characteristic of government as you
try to adjust your course, your per
Senators denounce Talmadge
WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate
voted overwhelmingly yesterday to
denounce Herman E. Talmadge, one
of its senior members, for
“reprehensible” handling of
government funds.
The 81-15 vote culminated months
of investigation by the Senate Ethics
Committee and a brief debate on the
Senate floor. It was the first time the
Senate has used the word “denounce”
in expressing disapproval of the
actions of one of its members. .
Sen. Adlai Stevenson 111, D-111.,
chairman of the ethics panel,, had
urged the Senate to “discharge a
disagreeable duty” and accept the
panel’s resolution of denunciatioh
Cambodian refugees given aid
TAPRIK, Thailand (UPI) The
Thai military and international relief
organizations yesterday distributed
emergency food and medicine to
thousands of Cambodian refugees
who crossed into Thailand to escape
Vietnamese attacks.
A Thai military officer at the
border estimated that more than
15,000 Cambodian refugees, mostly
women and children, fled Cambodia
scores of traffic accidents during the
morning rush hour.
A 22-year-old woman was killed
when her car skidded off an icy
highway and struck a telephone pole
in Boston’s suburban Waltham
yesterday. An 88-year-old
Southampton, Mass., woman was
struck and killed by a truck that
skidded on the snow-glazed road in
front of her horrfe Wednesday.
Temperatures dipped to the 30s and
40s in much of the Northeast early
yesterday. Boston’s 32-degree low
equalled a century-old record for the
date.
Trading was not at the fever pitch
that characterized Tuesday’s session,
when 55.56-million shares moved on
the New York Stock Exchange, or
Wednesday’s session, when a record
81.62 million shares changed hands,
but the volume of 47.53 million shares
was still heavy.
Despite the recovery, there were
many tales of woe.
At the Merrill Lynch booth at
Grand Central Terminal, investors
gathered to check on their holdings. l
“I want to get out of the market,”
said one man. “But my wife doesn’t.
So far I’m not winning. My. wife
bought some stocks three days ago.
So far she’s lost $400.”
LA PAZ, Bolvia (UPI) Army
troops in the city of Trinidad took up
arms yesterday to demand the ouster
of President Walter Guevara Arce
and the installation of a military
government, but the rebels were
persuaded to call off the coup attempt
and return to their barracks, the
government said.
The government said Guevara,
with the full support of his top
military leaders, yesterday per
suaded rebellious army garrisons in
the northeast jungles to call off the
revolt.
The coup.threat began shortly after
midnight when troops of the Sixth
Division based in Trinidad, 310 miles
northeast of La Paz, streamed out of
barracks and took over major public
and private buildings as well as radio
stations in the city of 40,000 people.
UPI wlrephoio
The plan floundered when the
Senate conferees insisted that the
House first vote on the compromise
abortion language before the Senate
considered the pay hike. The House
members said the two issues should
go as a package.
sonnel and your policies to meet the
problems as they arise on a day-to
day basis,” Thornburgh said.
“These were changes undertaken
to enhance our management
capability within the ad
ministration.”
One administration source said
both were asked to quit “to improve
the overall top executive structure. ’ ’
There had been no public inkling of
dissension in the Thornburgh cabinet,
but friction apparently had been
building during the 30 weeks of
service.
Both men will return to teaching at
•Pittsburgh universities after they
depart at the end of the month.
against the Georgia Democrat.
While Stevenson listed the charges
against Talmadge, the Georgia
Democrat sat quietly in the Senate
chamber with his lawyer.
After detailing the charges of
financial misconduct against the
senator, Stevenson urged the Senate
to “characterize his conduct as
reprehensible (and) denounce that
conduct...”
Immediately after the vote,
Talmadge took the floor to say he had
made mistakes of negligence and that
he regretted them. However, he
added that the Ethics Committee had
found nothing to indicate his actions
were Willful.
in the past two days
Some of the refugees were so weak
from disease and lack of food they
collapsed as they tried to get away
from the border.
Thai soldiers guarding the ragged
procession of refugees said the best
fed were unarmed Khmer Rouge
soldiers, Communist Party cadre and
their families.
X-ray scientists capture award
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Dr. Godfrey Hounsfield
Castro's arrival turns city into 'armed camp'
NEW YORK (UPI) Fidel Castro, surrounded by
bodyguards and Secret Service agents carrying sub
machine guns, came to the United States yesterday for
an address to the United Nations and turned a quiet
Manhattan neighborhood into an armed camp.
Castro went into seclusion in the Cuban U.N. Mission,
just one block from the Shelbourne Hotel, the East Side
establishment he stormed out of during a 1960 visit to
New York. Castro was upset because the management
refused to fly the Cuban flag and demanded a $lO,OOO
cash deposit against damages.
The hotel later claimed the Cuban president’s en
tourage had plucked chickens in their rooms and
scattered feathers and bones over the carpets. '
, On this visit the bearded Cuban leader said he
brought lobsters, which he caught himself, for dinner,
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPI) - An
American and a Briton yesterday won
the 1979 Nobel Prize for Medicine for
developing a revolutionary X-ray
scanner whose pinpoint accuracy has
made some once-incurable diseases
curable.
Allan MacLeod- Cormack, 55, of
Winchester, Mass., • and Godfrey
Newbold Hounsfield, 60, of Middlesex,
England, shared the $193,000 award for
work in the field of tomography, an X
ray method by which a “slice" of the
human body is photographed.
“This is the biggest breakthrough
since the invention of the X-ray,” said
Uls Rudhe of the Nobel committee of the
Karolinska Institute.
Especially remarkable, the Nobel
committee said, was that the two men
conducted their research independently
of one another.
Cormack was cited for pioneering
research into the theory of tomography
and Hounsfield for building the first
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and he reminisced about a'“honeymoon" trip to New
York in 1949 —lO years before he came down from the
Sierra Madre Mountains to oust dictator Fulgencio
Batista.
“I am happy to be in the United States," Castro said
on his arrival at Kennedy Airport at 12:53 a.m. In an
interview aboard his jetliner later broadcast by NBC
TV, he scoffed at President Carter’s plans to increase
the U.S. military presence in the Caribbean.
“I think that’s very interesting,” Castro said in
Spanish. “They’re spending a lot of money of the U.S.
taxpayers and they’re not solving any problems. We
like movement troop movement. It keeps us on the
alert.”
Anti-Castro Cuban exiles promised demonstrations
outside the United Nations during Castro’s scheduled
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device to put the theory into practice
the computerized axfal tomography
machine, also known as the CAT
scanner.
Both men received the first news of
their award when they were called by
reporters for their reaction. '
Cormack awoke to a ringing telephone
in his suburban Boston home and it took
him a minute to comprehend the news.
“I’m astonished,” he managed to say.
“I had no idea. I’m astonished.”
As the morning wore on, the telephone
kept ringing. Cormack said he was
mostly looking forward to breakfast with
his wife and three children, “if I ever get
toit."
Cormack heads the physics depart
ment at Tufts University in Medford,
Mass. He was born in Johannesburg,
South Africa, but moved to the United
States in 1956 and became a U.S. citizen
10 years later.
Hounsfield, a bachelor who has won 25
scientific awards besides the Nobel, is
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mission on East 38th Street yesterday was one of calm,
enforced by the presence of hundreds of police officqps
and security men.
Police dogs sniffed garbage cans along the streets for
explosives. , '
Other dogs, including a Boston terrier named
Hayden, were miffed that their favorite curbstones had,
been declared off limits. “His whole modus operandi
has been upset by that cigar smoker,’’
Hayden’s owner. ‘ ! !
About 30 members of the anti-Castro group known as
Alpha-66 carried placards reading, “Cuba is a Soviet
satellite,” and chanted, “Fidel, go to hell,” and
“Human Rights for Cuba.” V
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chief of the Medical Division of Electric
and Musical Industries (EMI) in Mid
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“That’s fantastic,” he exclaimed
when reached at his laboratory and told
the news. “You’ve knocked me
sideways'. I didn’t expect anything like
that.”
His background is in radar systems
and he headed the design team for tss
first large, solid-state'.computer to be
built in Britain.
Cormack was' cited by the Nobel
committee as the first person to make an
accurate analysis:of the conditions for
precise X-ray pictures of “entire
biological systems.” t Wft
Hounsfield, the committee said,
“made the major contribution to in
troducing computer tomography into
medicine by Constructing the first
practical system applied to general
healthcare.”
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• The Red Cross will sponsor blood- should meet in the Blue course parking Zoller Gallery. A reception for Siskind
mobile registration from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. lot on Route 26 south of State College. will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday in the
today at the' dining halls during gallery,
mealtimes and in the HUB basement.
• lota Alpha Delta will sponsor a
• An exhibition of mixed-media works ■' picnic on Sunday at Sunset Park,
is on display in the Kern Gallery until • Interlandia Folkdancing will be held
Oct. 20! at 7:30 tonight in the HUB Ballroom.
• The Landscape Architecture Student
Society will sponsor a fall festival from
10:30 a.m. today to 6 p'.m. Sunday on the
campus mall'at Willard.
• The Penn State Organization for the
..Reform of’Marijuana Laws will give
. refunds fdr Chris Rush tickets from
second through fifth periods today on the
'W . HUB ground floor. ■
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• Professor Robert Kosseff of the
DelewaresLaw School will be on campus
to talk with-students interested in law
school a.tjl:3o p.m. today in 113
Appointments can be made by con
tacting tlie political science department
s’• secretary, 107 Burrowes, at 865-7515.
• Terrace Boom at the HUB will
hold Homecoming '79 Candlelight
Dinners from 4:45 t0.6:45 tonight.
* -! • • The model railroad club will meet at
W 7 tonight in the* HUB basement
clubroom. , . .
, • The Shaver’s deek Nature Center ‘The Free University will hold a
' will sponsor a star Watch at 8 tonight on ' •Photographs by Aaron Siskind will, general meeting at 6:30 p.m. Sunday in
!’ the Blue golf cou: 'interested persons, be on display beginning Sunday at the 223 HUB.
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• The ballroom dance club will meet
at 7 tonight in 133 White Building.
• The Black Caucus Social Services
Committee will sponsor a Sir Skate at 11
* tonight at the State College Skating
Rink. A Sadie Hawkins night will also be
sponsored at 11 tomorrow night at the
Paul Robeson Cultural Center.
* The staff of the Paul Robeson
Cultural Center will sponsor a talk by
Joseph L. Johnson from the class of 1918
at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Paul Robeson
Cultural Center.
• The West Point Cadet Glee Club Will
join the Penn State Glee Club for the
annual Homecoming Concert at 7:30
tomorrow . night in Eisenhower
Auditorium.
• Campus 4-H will sponsor a square
danceat7:3o tomorrow nightin the HUB
Ballroom.
• The Unity Christian Ministries Mass p.m. Sunday at the Shaver’s Creek
Choir will present an open-air gospel Nature Center located in Stone Valley
concert at 4 p.m. tomorrow on the steps Recreation Area.
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• The Catholic Center will sponsor a
Homecoming Mass at 11 a.m. Sunday in
Eisenhower Auditorium.
• The Office of Religious Affairs will
sponsor a University Chapel Service at
11 a.m. Sunday in the Recital Hall of the
Music Building.
• John Loyd Jr. of Washington, D.C.,
will give the morning message at the
services of the Unity Christian
Ministries at 11:15 a.m. Sunday in the
Frizzell Room of Eisenhower Chapel.
• The PSOC bike committee will
sponsor a bike ride to Valley View and
Bellefonte at 1 p.m. Sunday. Meet at the
HUB parking lot.
• Greek Council will sponsor an Inner
Greek Forum at 2 p.m. Sunday at the
Paul Robeson Cultural Center.
• A winter weeds walk will be held at 2
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Local arson attempts fail, police say
• State Police at Rockview
reported two cases of attempted
arson yesterday.
The first fire occurred at the U. S.
Post Office in Pine Grove Mills either
late Tuesday or early Wednesday,
police said.
Glass in the door at the rear of the
building was smashed, and the door
unlocked, police said. The office was
then ransacked and $75 taken from a
USG committee to promote women's concerns
By JAN CORWIN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Increasing the awareness of women’s concerns is the goal of
the Undergraduate Student Government department of
women’s affairs, acting director Jill Jacoby said Wednesday.
Jacoby said the department existed last year, but “nothing
really happened’ ’ since there was no input.
About 20 women came to a meeting to discuss reorganizing
the department, Jacoby said, but attendance has dropped at
the last few meetings. Jacoby said apathy is a problem, and
the department needs active members who are willing to
make the commitment to get the organization on its feet.
“We’d like this to be more of a feminist-oriented
organization,” Jacoby said. “We want to raise awareness on
campus as far as women’s concerns.”
Some of the concerns include better lighting on campus,
which Jacoby said would be a project of the department.
Member Helene Meyers said a rape prevention committee has
been formed, and the department has discussed an escort
system consisting of pairs of women, as an alternative to the
male escort system provided by student counselors.
Jacoby said the department would like to have women
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safe, police said.
Oil was poured on the floor and
under a desk and then lit, but police
said the oil did not ignite although the
floor was charred. An estimate of the
damages is unknown, police said.
The Harris Township Municipal
building was the scene of the second
fire at 5 a.m. Wednesday..
Police said their office was first
burglarized and a fire set afterwards
speakers on campus and has discussed the possibility of co
sponsoring a speaker with Colloquy. The department also
hopes to hold a seminar on women’s health concerns and to
publish a newsletter for women.
Everything is still tentative, Jacoby said. Input and
dedicated people are needed to help establish the department,
she said, and “if it doesn’t get off the ground, it will eventually
be abolished.”
“At this stage, we need student support and student input,”
she said. Meyers said the department wants to represent
women on campus, and is “interested in women asa whole.”
Meyers said feminism is misunderstood, and the depart
ment hopes to increase awareness on campus that feminism is
a combination of the extremes most people associate with the
feminist movement.
Member Lisa Petru'zzi said feminism is “making women
aware of themselves as individuals, and their own self-worth.”
She said that goal would entail restructuring a society that
keeps women from becoming individuals.
“Women should be aware that there are other choices open
to them,” Meyers said.
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in two places.
There was an unknown amount of
damage and it is not known whether
anything was taken, police said. The
Boalsburg Fire Co. responded.
• University Police Services
reported yesterday a vehicle was
driven through the lawn area of the
North Halls quad. Damage was set at
$125, police said. —by Lynne Reese
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