state/nation/world All women astronauts' hopes ride with lady now By PAUL RECER AP Aerospace Writer SPACE CENTER, Houston Perhaps nobody is watching the performance of Sally Ride more closely and with more self-interest than the seven women who stayed behind. “What I do will probably reflect on them,” acknowledged Ride in a preflight interview. Much is at stake; only one of the seven women has been assigned to an upcoming flight. It took 22 years for NASA to send a woman into orbit and there are still some in the agency who are unconvinced that women belong there. How well Ride’s mission goes, it’s felt, could well determine the composition of future space flights Ride recognizes this and feels the tension. “The main pressure I feel is just to show that I’m capable of pulling it off,” 'she told The Associated Press. “It’s important to me, but I think it’s also important to the rest of the women astronauts.” NASA selected six women astro nauts, including Ride, in 1973, and Reagan: Education proposals changed ■ since election campaign began By MICHAEL PUTZEL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON President Reagan’s proposals for improving Ameri can education changed abruptly about the time the White House decided to thrust the issue into the 1984 presidential campaign, a review of his public remarks shows. , , Shortly after the publication in April of a hard-hitting report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education decrying the condition of learning in America, Reagan disengaged from the education policy of his administration and embraced the simple, straightforward tenets put forward by the commission. He ignored the part, however, that says the federal government has a major role to play in improving the schools. Now he has taken to the hustings to promote the new policy, and his would-be Democratic rivals are rushing to counter the Reagan offensive. After education-oriented trips to three states already this month including his first visit as president to a public school Reagan goes out again this week on a mission to encourage companies to adopt schools in their communities and help them excel. ... ... , Administration records beginning with the first budget-cutting plan Reagan unveiled a month after he took office show he repeatedly has sought to cut spending for the programs that provide federal aid to public schools and to students going on to college. At one point last year, Reagan asked Congress to slash education programs by one third, from the $14.8 billion appropriated in fiscal 1982 to $1 As l he°be f gan l the second half of his term, the president described a program of block grants, tax breaks and a constitutional amendment tailored to appeal to his conservative, long-time supporters. “In 1983, we seek four major education goals,” Reagan said in his Jan. 25 State of the Union address: "a quality education initiative to encour age a substantial upgrading of math and science instruction through block grants to the states; establishment of education sayings accounts that will give middle-and lower-income families an incentive to save for their children’s college education and, at the same tirne, encourage a re increase in savings for economic growth; passage of tuition tax credits for parents who want to send their children to private or religiously affiliated schools; a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America s classrooms in the first place.” , , . He sounded that theme again in March. In a weekly radio broadcast, Reagan decried declining standards and federal interference in educ - tion and repeated the plea for a school-prayer amendment. two more the following year. All are mission specialists, excluded from actually flying the shuttle, who perform scientific experi ments and other activities. The women vie with one another and with 71 male astronauts in competing for seats on space shut tle missions. Aside from Ride, only Judith Resnik has been assigned a flight. The others are waiting and hoping Ride’s mission, says astronaut Kathy Sullivan, may provide the final little push to topple emotional barriers against women in space. A lot of people, said Sullivan, still feel “discomforted” about women in non-traditional roles, “whether its driving a schoolbus or flying a spacecraft.” Ride’s mission, _ she said, “will bring a very substantial demonstration, beyond all ques tion, that it (the shuttle) works just as well with women aboard. “Kepler’s laws are not sponta neously violated, the spacecraft will not fall from the sky,” she added. “Believe it or not, the in strument panel does not know if it is a male or female hand that flips the switches.” The women of America’s space in space corps are scholastically gifted and fiercely independent. Two are phy sicians, Rhea Seddon Gibson and Anna Fisher. The rest hold doctor ate degrees in science or engi neering. Ride got her PhD in astrophysics. Sullivan holds one in geology. For Mary Cleave it was civil and environmental engi neering. Shannon W. Lucid is a biochemist, Resnik is an electrical engineer and Bonnie Dunbar is a biomedical engineer Each, to a greater or lesser de gree, overcame barriers to earn the qualifications needed to become astronauts. Lucid, at 40, the oldest of . the group, said once in an interview: “The feminine revolution took two kinds of people. Some pointed out the problems to the establishment, and then others were ready to step into the jobs that were created. I was one of those.” Lucid is married and the mother of three. Cleave, a 5-foot-2 woman who jokes she was selected as an astro naut “in case they ever had a job for a midget,” gives an environ mental explanation for the new role of women in space. i •»» r r^tr* * p,.;; rll I. £ m mt bitii, gjlgk 3££a v^ M t* 4 *;* ■ ’ -v** »» Sally Ride 1 ■ * S 51 * -H - * ■}' ♦<* Assassination attempted, 50 PLO guerrillas abducted By TERRY A.ANDERSON Associated Press Writer CHTAURA, Lebanon Gunmen wounded a top military aide to Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat yester day and a radical PLO faction claimed it had kidnapped 50 mem bers of Arafat’s Fatah guerrilla unit. The shooting which a PLO official blamed on mutinous guer rillas and an overnight siege at a PLO battalion 1 headquarters here deepened the crisis between Arafat and radicals who say he is too soft in dealing with moderate • Arabs and the United States. Lt. Col. Ezzedine Sherif, one of Arafat’s top aides, was wounded in the legs and one arm in an assassi nation attempt at a Palestinian camp just outside Damascus, Syr ia, PLO officials said. The 45-year old Sherif, known as Abu Ziad, is head of the PLO’s occupied-terri tories office in Damascus. An Arafat aide in Damascus blamed “the rebels” within Fatah of the attempted assassination. Fatah is the largest of a half dozen Palestinian groups that form the PLO. The Daily Collegian Monday, June 20, 1983 Sherif’s teen-age son also was wounded in the ambush by what the officials said was more than 25 men. Doctors at the Palestinian run Jaffa hospital in Damascus said neither victim was in serious condition. In the United Arab Emirates, the newspaper A 1 Khaleej report ed that a radical PLO group claimed it abducted a senior Fa tah military leader and 49 other Fatah men in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley, - The paper said a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liber ation of Palestine-General Com mand claimed the . kidnapped Fatah officials included Brig. Sul tan, the overall commander of PLO artillery units. It quoted the spokesman as say ing the abductions were in retalia tion for the Fatah kidnapping of four PFLP-GC guerrillas, two of whom purportedly were killed while trying to escape. The shooting of Sharif and the battalion headquarters siege forced the third postponement of a series of crucial leadership meet ings of Arafat’s own Fatah faction. 0 '■i, AP Laserphoto state news briefs new state GOP chairman Asher: GRANTVILLE, Pa. (AP) Robert Asher, a political ally of Gov. Dick Thornburgh, is the new state Republican Party chairman, after a weekend show of unity that belied talk of a political family feud Political observers believe the change in leadership could in crease Thornburgh’s power over the Pennsylvania delegation to the 1984 Republican national convention next year in Dallas, enhancing his position in helping a Reagan-Bush campaign, or his prospects for the national ticket if Reagan does not run for a second term. A long-expected battle between two top GOP officials never materialized Saturday after a compromise was reached between the party vice chairman and the resigning chairman. House, Senate working on budget HARRISBURG (AP) Both the House and Senate go to work this week on separate budget bills in an effort to get -a state spending plan approved before the end of the fiscal year on June 30. Dozens of amendments have been drafted by rank-and-file members to be offered during budget debate, but it is questionable how much impact those proposed changes would have. If the budget process develops as it has in recent years, a six member House-Senate conference committee will wind up drafting its own budget as a compromise between the two chambers. With just 11 days left in the fiscal year, Senate Majority Whip John Stauffer, R-Chester, said he isn’t optimistic that a budget can be passed on time. Legislative leaders and Gov. Dick Thornburgh have said they will not support “stopgap funding,” which means that if a new budget isn’t in place by July 1, the state no longer will be able to pay its bills, provide paychecks to state workers or send out welfare checks The Senate is considering a $7.4 billion budget House may approve tax cut limit WASHINGTON (AP) With a strong push from its Democratic leaders,' the House is virtually certain this week to approve a cap on this year’s tax cut for individuals who earn more than $50,000. But while' that chamber is poised to approve the cap, the Republican-led Senate, with President Reagan’s support, will likely refuse to go along, and thus allow the approximately 10 percent reduction to take effect as specified in the 1981 tax bill. As approved by the House Ways and Means Committee, the cap would limit the final.slice of a three-year tax cut to about $720 per couple and $637 per single person. Economy is continuing to boom WASHINGTON (AP) The last time the economy appeared to be booming, the Reagan administration swore it wasn’t so.‘But not this time. ' The Commerce Department will make its first public estimate tomorrow of how much the economy has expanded in the nearly finished April-June quarter. And that estimate could be as high as an annual rate of 8 percent, the best showing in five years. The administration is already crowing, with Treasury Secretary Donald Regan saying that the revival will last through next year and that the president’s economists will have to raise their official projections of 1983 growth for the second time since February. Most economists and administration officials speaking for the record say a 6 percent rate is a safer bet. But even that would indicate the economy was rising strongly out of the 1981-82 recession, surging at the fastest pace since the first quarter of 1981. Group pushing for TV ad monitors WASHINGTON (AP) A children’s advocacy group is launch ing a bid to force broadcasters and cable operators to insert inaudible electronic signals in television commercials aimed at kids so parents can black them out. “For years, broadcasters have been sloughing off their responsi bility for directing ads to young audiences, claiming that it s the responsibility of parents to monitor, their children’s viewing, said Peggy Charren, the founder and president of Action for Children s “Well the technology is at hand to do that effectively, she added, “it’s up to the Federal Communications Commission to give parents the chance.” ... ACT’s proposal is contained in a petition that will be filed with the FCC today, Charren said. A copy of the petition, which is also supported by Public Advocates Inc.,'a public interest law firm in San Francisco, was released yesterday. The 13-page petition calls on the FCC to require broadcasters and cable operators to insert a "Children’s Advertising Detector Signal” in any commercial aimed at children. A TV set attachment could then be developed that would respond to the inaudible tones by blacking out the commercial. A similar tone would signal the end of the commercial and restore the normal picture. Common Market vows closer unity STUTTGART West Germany (AP) —, The Common Market sidestepped crisis yesterday and agreed to the outline of a new plan to keep the European Community from bankruptcy. They also signed a ‘‘solemn declaration” on closer European “After long hours of intense negotiating under the chairmanship of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, including two late sessions that ended after midnight, leaders of the 10 Common Marke nations emerged with a plan that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called “a solid basis for further development of the C °Agreement on the outline for long-term financing came only after ' Britain won a rebate on its 1983 budget contribution, a pressing issue that threatened to torpedo the entire summit. , Thatcher said she was pleased with the decision to return the equivalent of about $675 million to Britain, achieved only after “hard* tough negotiating” and a lot of British pounding. Kohl said there was “no cause for euphoria as a result of the summit's work. He said some of the leaders would go home to ace criticism, "but we were all here to make sacrifices and get an agreement." Israeli doctors continue hunger strike TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) Israel’s medical hunger strike spread to 1,000 public-health doctors in all 17 major hospitals yesterday. The fast is the latest tactic in the physicians’2* a-month-old dispute with the government over higher pay and shorter hours. Two of the three surgical wards were emptied and patients were sent home at Soroka Hospital in the Negev Desert city of Beershe )ba where doctors began the fast on Tuesday and some were reported unable to work. Emergency cases were being flown to hosDitals in Jerusalem, said Soroka’s director, David Ronen. Some paUents at Soroka, which serves most of the Negev region, said they were joining the fast in solidarity with their physicians, but others lashed out at the strikers. “You are hurting us. You are hurting our children!" shouted one parent whose child was turned away from the emergency room. “We will stop fasting immediately, the minute s , t , r “ g^ le is taken out of (Finance Minister Yoram) Aridor s hands, said Dr. only thing «tor ns to do is to hurt ourselves,” Pest said in a telephone interview. He said four hunger strikers collapsed yesterday. ' Tonight otthe Brewery P.l. AND THE HURRICANES NO Suzie Wong's EggrQlls served nightly 10*2 COVER. The ONLY Penn State ring with all these features: • Backed by the Josten lifetime Golden Warranty • Precision cast by the world s largest manufacturer of emblematic rings • Serviced and backed by Gary Moyer Penn State's longest continuous class ring dealer. • Crafted to the finest detail in real gold (10 or 14K)or Jewelers quality Lustrium. A s 5 OO deposit is all it takes! 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