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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.
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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.
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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. '
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