Reagan moves Marines back to warships
By MARCUS ELIASON
Associated Press Writer
LONDON Pressure mounted on
European governments yesterday
to withdraw their troops from '
Lebanon, and President Reagan
announced that U.S. Marines
stationed at the Beirut airport
would be transferred to offshore
warships.
Italy asked for high-level
discussions among the four
countries in the multinational
peacekeeping force.
Indications were that Britain and
Italy would like to withdraw soon
but that no one wanted to take
immediate action without
consulting the United States and
France fellow contributors to the
approximately 5,000-man force,
which is virtually trapped in the
crossfire of Lebanon's civil war.
Reagan, on vacation in
California, announced his decision
to redeploy the 1,600 Marines only
hours after Marine helicopters
evacuated 39 non-essential U.S.
Embassy personnel and their
dependents from Beirut to Navy
ships.
He said the redeployment "will
begin shortly and proceed in
stages." The U.S. Navy and Marine
forces offshore "will stand ready as
"roposed Thornburgh budget pleases local officials
By K.L. KANE
Collegian Staff Writer
Area state legislators and officials are
optimistic about Gov. Dick Thornburgh's
$15.5 billion proposed budget for fiscal year
1984-85 and anticipate no problems with the
proposal's passage.
Sen. J. Doyle Corman, R-Centre, said
yesterday he was "very pleased" with the
proposed increased funding in education
and the decrease in corporate and personal
income taxes.
Corporate net income tax could decrease
from 10.5 to 9.5 percent in January of 1985.
In addition, Thornburgh is encouraging the
legislature to allow the personal income tax
to fall from 2.45 to 2.35 percent as of July 1.
"I'm delighted that we can make these
cuts in taxes and increase benefits,"
Corman said.
In his proposal, Thornburgh said the cuts
could produce "nearly $lOO million a year in
new buying power" for consumers.
Corman said he was "pleasantly
surprised" by the 7 percent increase an
additional $44.7 million in funding for
state universities. The proposed budget
includes funding for Penn State, the
University of Pittsburgh, Temple
University and the other 14 state
universities.
"I had no indication it (state funding) was
going up 7 percent," Corman said.
Penn State could receive more than $159
million in funding, as well as part of a $2O
million Ben Franklin Partnership.
Rep. Lynn Herman, R-Bellefonte, said:
"Penn State should be pleased with the
significantly higher allowance this year."
The University received a 4 percent
Bruce McCandless, Challenger mission specialist, maneuvers 150 feet from
the shuttle yesterday using a Jet•pack. It was the first time anyone has
ventured outside a spaceship without lifelines.
the
daily
before to provide support for the
protection of American and other
multinational force personnel in
Lebanon and thereby help ensure
security in the Beirut:area,"
Reagan said.
Italian Foreign Minister Giulio
Andreotti sent messages to
Washington, London and Paris
asking for a meeting "in light of the
dramatic events" in Lebanon.
The 1,400-man Italian contingent,
recently reduced from 2,100, has
suffered 11 wounded in the past 24
hours of intensified fighting in
Beirut. Two U.S. Marines and two
French soldiers have been
wounded, and one French soldier
has been killed.
Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher of Britain, under
questioning in the House of
Commons, said the Beirut situation
had "deteriorated overnight" and
her government was in "urgent and
constant touch" with other
countries in the peace force.
But she declined to say whether
she was contemplating withdrawing
Britain's small 115-man contingent
from its precarious position.
U.S. Secretary of State George P.
Shultz, on a South American tour,
told reporters aboard a flight from
Brasilia to Grenada that the United
States was reviewing the mission of
increase last year.
However, Corman said the state
legislature may ask for more than the
proposed 7 percent funding increase for
elementary and secondary education as
well as an increase in funding for local
governments.
"Our job now is to take this budget and
tear it apart," Corman said. "Today was
getting the big picture it'll be our job to
take it from there."
Herman said he anticipates the budget to
be approved by state legislatures.
Thornburgh has proposed more than $3O
million in funds marked for economic
development across the state. Of this
amount, more than $lB million is earmarked
for job training programs.
The proposed funding will be able to
stimulate the job market and economy in
the area, Rep. Ruth Rudy, D-Centre, said.
Centre County Commissioner John Saylor
said he is reserving comment on the budget
until the state panel of county
commissioners releases an budget analysis
early next week.
Rudy said the area will utilize its share of
the $lB million job training program to
encourage new business and increase
assistance to smaller businesses.
"More money is being made available for
development," she said. "We are going to
deal effectively with the rural areas."
The state's prison system is slated to
receive a proposed $6 million which would
add 'modular cells for 832 inmates; convert
Green County's Waynesburg Youth
Development Center to an all-woman
prison; create two new community service
centers . and hire more prison guards.
Anthony Biviano, press spokesman for the
olle • ian
the 1,600 Marines in Lebanon. He
would not elaborate.
The multinational force was sent
into Lebanon in September 1982
after the massacres in the
Palestinian refugee camps at Sabra
and Chatilla.
Visiting the Hague, President
Francois Mitterrand of France told
a news conference that France had
not sent troops to Lebanon "tq stay
there indefinitely."
"I have long been asking for the
quickest possible replacement of
the (multinational force) by the
forces of international operations of
the United Nations," he said.
"France cannot substitute itself for
those forces."
Italy also has suggested a greater
U.N. role in Lebanon. Italy's
Socialist premier, Bettino Craxi,
issued a statement yesterday
calling for "even greater
international cooperation" to help
end the conflict.
In the Rome square outside
Craxi's office yesterday, members
of Italy's far-left Radical Party
demonstrated, carrying signs
reading, "Save our troops from the
Beirut trap," and "Craxi, are you
waiting for a massacre?"
In France, an opinion poll taken
before the latest heavy fighting
broke out found a sharp increase in
State Correctional Institution at Rockview,
said he has not seen the final proposal but
preliminary information indicated that
Rockview was scheduled to receive
additional modular housing. ,
"This would alleviate overcrowding in a
specific cell, block area, but not in-the.
general
general population," he said.
Of the $458 million in increased spending
University may get more appropriations
By GAIL JOHNSON
Collegian Staff Writer
Gov. Dick Thornburgh yesterday called
for a 7 percent increase an additional
$44.7 million in appropriations for Penn
State and all other state-related universities
as part of his state budget proposal for 'the
1984-85 fiscal year.
If the proposal is passed, the University
will receive more than $159 million as
compared to last year's figure of more than
$149 million.
The increase, however, falls short of
University President Bryce Jordan's
proposal for'a 20 percent increase in state
appropriations this year which included no
tuition hike. The funds would have made
state appropriations 49.2 percent of the
University's total operating budget.
• G. Gregory Lozier, executive director of
planning and analysis, said it is too early to
say what effect the appropriations will have
on tuition.
Because the president's advisory
committee did not know what the
appropriations would be until yesterday, he
Space conquest:
Astronauts leave shuttle without lifeline, say it was 'thrill'
By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL
Associated Press Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
Two American astronauts left the
safety of their shuttle yesterday
and flew unrestrained for the.first
time, adding another milepost to
man's conquest of space. Said' the
first man out to the second: "Go
enjoy it; have a ball."
Bruce McCandless, then Robert
Stewart, unhooked their lifelines
and slowly rose up, up and away
from Challenger, carried by a $lO
million jet-powered backpack to a
distance greater than the length of
a football field.
"McCandless and his Manned
Maneuvering Unit comprise a
spacecraft of their own," said
mission control
Although they had no sensation of
speed, the astronauts were
traveling 4.8 miles a second.
They'll do it again tomorrow.
McCandless, who has spent more
than a decade preparing for his
historic but brief flight, happily
parodied Neil Armstrong's words
upon becoming the first man to step
on the moon in 1969.
Never before - in 59 space walks
Frenchmen who want their 1,270
men brought out of Lebanon
quickly.
The poll, by the IFRES agency for
the daily Quotidien de Paris, found
that 47 percent of the 1,000 people
surveyed want the French troops
brought home. Only 39 percent want
them to stay —compared with 51
percent in October, the survey
showed.
In Britain, Neil Kinnock, leader of
the opposition Labor Party, urged
Mrs. Thatcher to ensure that "our
troops are quickly and safely
withdrawn from a position which is
unacceptably dangerous and duties
which are now proving to be
impossible."
The Evening Standard newspaper
said: "A withdrawal is now not a
matter of if but when."
Amid the pressure for a speedy
withdrawal, Mrs. Thatcher held two
emergency meetings with Foreign
Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe and
Defense Secretary Michael
Heseltine. The three met again last
night for 70 minutes.
U.S. Ambassador Charles Price
had a 30-minute talk with Richard
Luce, the Foreign Office's
secretary for Mideast affairs. A
Foreign Office spokesman said
Lebanon was discussed, but he
declined to elaborate
46 American and 13 Soviet —had a
man ventured out without a lifeline.
Tuesday's exercise was a rehearsal
for the next shuttle flight when
other space walkers will try to
retrieve an ailing satellite, bring it
into the cargo bay for repair, and
release it to orbit again.
Unfortunately, that procedure
won't be possible for the two
communications satellites .
launched on this 10th flight of the
space shuttle. The satellites,
launched for Western Union and
Indonesia, were in a useless low
orbit. They were intended for high
orbit and lack fixtures for retrieval.
When the space walkers had re
entered the Challenger, after five
hours, 55 minutes outside, mission
control congratulated them on a
super job.
"It was a real thrill," said
McCandless in an aw-shucks voice.
"A real honor to be up there."
Each man wore a space suit
similar to those used on other
flights. What was new was a
backpack filled with nitrogen gas
awaiting them in the cargo bay.
Calling out a series of
superlatives "Beautiful, superb,
super," McCandless moved out 320.
from the general fund, $3lO million is
marked for education
School districts are set to get an extra $lO
million dollars to help improve curriculum
and $26 million to help students who perform
poorly on competency tests.
In addition, basic education subsidies to
schools would rise from $1.7 billion to $1.9
billion, a 7 percent increase.
said it has not had the opportunity to sit
down and talk about what effects the
proposed funding will have on the
University's budget.
In a prepared statement, Jordan said the
University is pleased with the governor's
recommendation.
"This recommendation, if accepted by the
legislature, would be the largest percentage
increase in Penn State's appropriation in
five years," he said. "There still remains a
large gap between the amount requested
and the amount recommended. But the
governor's recommendation will allow Penn
State to pursue, with vigor, its goals of
academic excellence and equal
opportunity." •
Jordan's original appropriations request
included $12.8 million for "critical and
unmet needs," including scientific and
engineering equipment, faculty positions
and supporting resources in high technology
fields, maintenance of the University's
physical plant and financial aid for both
general students and specially targeted
minority recruitment and retention efforts.
Exact figures of available funds for
feet from the ship by firing bursts
of gas from small thrusters.
After 90 flawless minutes, he
turned the spotlight over to
Stewart, with the good wishes: "Go
enjoy it, have a ball."
Stewart hung up momentarily in
a wrist tether as he moved out. But
he quickly freed himself and
maneuvered out, commenting:
"It's a piece of cake." He reached a
distance of 303 feet from the shuttle
before turning back.
Stewart, a 41-year-old lieutenant
colonel and the first Army man to
• fly in space, concluded his 65-
minute excursion by using a latch
device to practice hooking onto a
pin like that on the Solar Max
satellite —just as that which will be
done in April.
McCandless, also rehearsing for
the Solar Max rescue, planted his
feet in restraints on a "cherry
picker" platform mounted on the
end of the shuttle's 50-foot robot
arm, controlled from inside the
shuttle by mission specialist Ron
McNair. The restraints held
McCandless steady while, hanging
upside down, he removed and
replaced an electronics unit like
that on the disabled satellite.
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William Babcock, superintendent of the
State College Area School District, said
after the school districts in Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh receive allocations, not much
will be left for_the smaller districts like
State College.
After-you divide up the•money between
some 500 districts, there never seems to be
enough," he said.
recruitment and retention of minorities at
the University were not clear within the
proposal.
Thornburgh also requested that funds for
the Ben Franklin Partnership be doubled to
$2O million.
A proposal to increase the scholarship aid
program run by the Pennsylvania Higher
Education Assistance Agency by 7 percent
will mean an additional $5.6 million from
$BO.l to $85.7 million for the program.
Another of Thornburgh's
recommendations was to allocate $l5O
million from the sale of the state liquor
system to education for science,
engineering and other technological
equipment. Penn State is in line for $5O
million of these' funds over the next two
years.
Ruth Rudy, D-Centre, said Thornburgh
was booed following this proposal not
because of where the funds were going, but
because of opposition to the decentralization
of the Liquor Control Board.
"If the matter with the LCB is not done
(by July 1), I assume they will find the
money for education somewhere else," she
said.
inside
• A world first in surgical tech
nique was recently used by a
University surgeon to save the
life of a two-month-old girl at the
University's Milton S. Hershey
Medical Center Page 2
• After meeting with state me
diators Monday, striking teach
ers at Lincoln University
proposed that the faculty and
administration submit to bind
ing arbitration to end the six-day
walkout, a faculty spokesman
said yesterday Page 3
• Sports plus takes a look at
swimming Page 11
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weather
After a cold start this morning it
will become mostly sunny and
breezy this afternoon with a
high of 29. Mostly clear and cold
tonight with a low of 14. Mostly
sunny and milder tomorrow with
a high near 36 by Glenn Rolph