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A smiling Nancy
First Lady Nancy Reagan holds up a t•shirt during a ceremony aboard the USS
America recently. She spent the day touring the carrier and learning about the
Navy's drug and alcohol abuse programs.
Drought affects
Eastern Pa. and
New England
By The Associated Press
HARRISBURG Drought con
ditions are still at emergency lev
els in the Delaware River Basin,
even though heavy thunderstorms
in the area's northern region have
helped slow the drain on New York
state reservoirs, a Pennsylvania
official said yesterday.
"The southern portion of the
basin did not receive as much
rain, as evidenced by the flow of
the Schuylkill River at Philadel
phia, which is only 28 percent of its
normal flow for this time of year,"
said Pennsylvania Environmental
Resources Secretary Nicholas De-
Benedictis.
A drought emergency is in effect
for 16 eastern Pennsylvania coun
ties, imposing restrictions on wa
ter use Tor up to 5 million people.
Deßenedictis said rainfall defi
cits in the basin have not improved
and the accumulated precipitation
shoitfall since last August ranges
from 10 inches in Lebanon County
to 16 inches in Bucks County.
The winds and air masses that
steer rainstorms have caused the
water shortages such as Pennsyl
vania's all across the Northeast.
They also have caused crop-wast
ing drought in the Dakotas and
Montana, with a dry summer sun
also parching crops and people in
Minnesota, lowa and Wisconsin.
Crop losses in one Wisconsin
county alone are put at $23 million.
Water-short Northeasterners
are paying the price now for what
happened several miles overhead
last winter and spring, Ken Berg
mann, meterologist with the Cli
mate Analysis Center of the
National Weather Service said
Yesterday.
• Normally that time of year, up
per-level winds at 30,000 feet steer
huge rainstorms up the Eastern
seaboard from their birth in the
Southeast. But this past winter
and spring, that pattern appeared
far less frequently than usual.
More often, it was shifted to the
west, so storms formed in the
Texas and Oklahoma area and
moved toward the Great Lakes,
Bergmann said.
Rainfall over most of the East
Coast has been normal the last two
months, he said, but the water
deficit from the earlier dryness
has not been fixed.
Mandatory conservation is in
effect in the New York City area,
218 northern New Jersey commu
nities and 25 in mostly eastern
Massachusetts, where eight other
towns have voluntary restrictions.
Despite heavy rain this week
up to 2.2 inches Monday and Tues
day —a 4-month-old drought emer
gency remains in effect in New
York City, largely because most of
its reservoirs are 100 miles to the
north. The city, for only the second
time in history, is drawing water
from the Hudson River 100
million gallons a day.
Hundreds of inspectors are
checking compliance with the
drought emergency requirement
that temperatures remain above
78 degrees in buildings cooled with
city 'water. Fines of $lOO to $5OO
can be levied for violations.
Fines also are being issued for
leaks, washing cars and streets,
watering lawns, turning on foun
tains using public water, illegal
use of fire hydrants end filling
private swimming pools.
New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean
last week lifted 50-gallon-a-day
rationing in 93 communities, but
left in place restrictions including
bans on lawn watering, hosing
streets and non-commercial car
washing in those and 125 other
cities.
Current dryness in Montana and
the Dakotas comes from a high
pressure ridge over the Rocky
Mountains. The ridge, at 18,000 to
30,000 feet, has been diverting
east-bound storms from the Pacif
ic Ocean toward Canada, weather
service meteorologist Donald
Stoltz in Bismarck, N.D., said
yesterday.
It also has blocked the flow of
moisture into the area from the
Gulf of Mexico, cutting off a vital
ingredient for afternoon and eve
ning thunderstorms, he said.
The dry spell has been devastat
ing. "In terms of crop production,
fire potential, water supplies, we
clearly have a drought of historic
proportions and that includes the
dry 19305," said Montana Gov. Ted
Schwinden, a wheat farmer.
Many Montana ranchers are
having to sell herds because feed
is scarce, and about 30 of the 56
counties have sought agriculture
disaster designation.
In western North Dakota, state
Agriculture Commissioner Kent
Jones said, the drought is so se
vere that some farmers had to go
20 miles to find hay. And in South
Dakota, Gov. Bill Janklow has
requested federal disaster decla
rations for 26 counties where offi
cials say half the grain crop has
withered and much of the hay and
pasture has disappeared.
Drops in farm yields also are
expected in southeastern Minneso
ta, said John Evers, manager of a
Dill Co. grain elevator in Waba
sha.
In the northern Grain Belt,
farmers are expecting below-nor
mal yields and officials are keep
ing an eye on tinder-dry forests
like those that have been•ablaze
for nearly a month in the West.
The situation is "very, very crit
ical" for crop development in the
southern third of Wisconsin, said
Beth Kurth of the Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Service office in lowa City.
The bone-dry weather has with
ered at least 40 percent of the
crops for 1,500 to 1,700 farmers in
Vernon County alone, with losses
of some $23 million, said Jack
Stintzi, head of the ASCS office in
Viroqua, Wis.
In lowa, "we're running out of
moisture," climatologist Paul
Waite said Wednesday. "In the
next DR days we'll probably be out
in a big share of the state. At this
point, when everyone is running
out of water, it's pretty hard to be
optimistic. There's no signs yet
there's going to be a reversal."
Economy sluggish in 2nd quarter
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. The economy grew at
a sluggish 1.7 percent annual rate from April
through June as a foreign trade hemorrhage
continued to rob U.S. manufacturers of sales, the
government said yesterday.
Faced with the latest bad news, the Reagan
administration conceded that its initial forecast
for 1985 growth would have to be revised down
ward, but Commerce Secretary Malcolm Bal
drige insisted he saw signs of better days ahead.
However, private economists were not so opti
mistic, contending that the country's disastrous
trading performance would continue to be a drag
on growth for most of the year.
The Commerce Department announced that
the gross national product, the broadest measure
of economic health, grew at an annual rate of 1.7
percent during the second quarter following an
even weaker 0.3 percent pace during the first
three months of the year.
The two weak quarters mean that for the first
six months of the year, the economy has expand
ed at a disappointing annual rate of just 1 percent
Law enforcement questioned
By CHRISTOPHER CONNELL
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Civil
rights lawyers charged yesterday
that the Reagan administration
has abandoned strict enforcement
of the laws that forbid schools and
colleges to discriminate by race,
sex or handicap.
A House Government Operations
subcommittee called Harry M. Sin
gleton, the Education Depart
ment's assistant secretary for civil
rights, to answer those charges and
demanded records on school dis
crimination cases that Singleton
has referred to the Justice Depart
ment.
Singleton suggested that the law
makers would be showering him
with praise if they realized how
much progress he has made in
eliminating backlogs in investiga
tions by the Office for Civil Rights
(OCR).
"You listen to the critics and
you'd think we'd totally abandoned
enforcement. Nothing could be fur
ther from the truth," the civil
rights official said.
But Marcia Greenberger of the
National Women's Law. Center
Burger battle ends in court
LONDON (AP) The Battle of the Burgers between
Americari fast-food giants McDonald's and Burger
King ended in a London High Court on yesterday with
each side claiming it had singed the other.
After five days of testimony, Judge John Whitford
granted McDonald's an injunction barring Burger
King from using an advertisement that knocked Mc-
Donald's bestselling burger, the Big Mac.
But the judge rejected McDonald's claim that Burg
er King, home of The Whopper, had maliciously
implied McDonald's hamburgers were less than 100
percent beef.
Whitford said that from photos presented as evi
dence it was clear that the Big Mac was "quite a
mouthful."
"It was described as McDonald's flagship product
but not with reference to the ease with which it can be
sunk," the judge said.
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A Farce Islander swings a gaff hook to pull in a pilot whale for killing with a knife. This scene of massive whale killing
early this month provoked demands to the International Whaling Commission meeting in Bournemouth England for more
stringent means to prevent the killings that have occured in Europe for many years.
charged that schools and colleges
are "backsliding" because "the
message has been sent out loud and
clear to schools all over this coun
try• that the government is not
serious about enforcing these
laws."
Singleton sparred with Rep. Ted
Weiss, D-N.Y., chairman of the
subcommittee on intergovernmen
tal relations and human resources,
over the OCR's failure to turn over
copies of 22 or 23 cases it referred
to the Justice Department for pos
sible civil action.
Singleton said his office did not
keep copies of those cases, except
perhaps for "a ragtag collection"
of documents that individual OCR
lawyers may have kept.
Weiss said, "My information is
the testimony you have given us is
not accurate." He demanded that
Singleton check further with aides.
Singleton repeatedly suggested
that Weiss asked the Justice De
partment for the documents. '
A disgruntled OCR employee,
Antonio J. Califa, said, "There's
been a marked decrease in the
office's vigor in enfoicing the law."
He charged the staff spends a lot of
time "filling out management re-
far below expectations of both private and
government economists when the year began.
Baldrige told reporters the administration will
be forced to revise downward its current 3.9
percent estimate for GNP growth for the full
year. • •
While he refused to say what the new yearly
figure would be, he predicted growth at a rate of
4 percent "plus or minus" in the second half of
1985.
"We see all the building blocks for increased
growth," Baldrige said, citing low inflation lev
els, continued strong consumer confidence and
low business inventories. "These factors are
clearly going to be enough to overcome any drag
on the economy from the trade deficit."
But many private analysts were less opti
mistic.
"At this point the factors dragging down the
economy are more powerful than those pushing it
up," said Jerry Jasinowski, chief economist for
the National Association of Manufacturers. He
said he did not expect any major upturn in
activity until the final three months of the year.
Allen Sinai, chief economist for Shearson Leh
man Brothers Inc., said the economy was likely
McDonald's sued its arch-rival for alleged trade libel
over a three-month 1983 ad campaign in the London
subway system.
Burger King had posted ads picturing a huge ham
burger and the slogan, "It's Not Just Big, Mac." In
smaller print, the ad described The Whopper and said:
"Unlike some burgers, it's 100 percent pure beef."
McDonald's complained that Burger King used its
product name to lure away customers and alleged that
the reference to 100 percent beef was libel by innuendo.
In granting the injunction, Whitford said the adver
tisement could mislead some people into thinking the
Big Mac was a Burger King product.
McDonald's, which has 168 restaurants in Britain,
commissioned a Gallup Poll for the trial showing that
55 percent of 1,000 people surveyed thought the ad was
for a Big Mac. Burger King, which operates 10 restau
rants in Britain, argued that the poll was not valid.
ports and listing how much time
you worked on the computer...but
there's not a lot of civil rights
enforcement going on."
Califa said he was removed last
November as director of the policy
and enforcement service and "put
in a small office, given no tele
phone, no secretary and told to look
at policy for the last 20 years." He
said he is quitting to work for the
American Civil Liberties Union.
The Office for Civil Rights has
been under federal court orders for
more than a decade to follow
timetables and file regular reports
to Congress on its efforts to force
states to upgrade once-segregated
colleges and on its handling of
complaints about discrimination
against women and handicapped
students.
Singleton said the average age of
pending complaints has dropped
from 1,297 days at the end of fiscal
1982 to 229 days at the close of fiscal
1984. He said the courts should stop
making OCR comply with timeta
bles for investigating cases.
Rep. Robert S. Walker, R-Pa.,
the ranking minority member of
the subcommittee, called it "a red
tape manufacturer's dream_...."
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to remain in a growth recession a period of
rising unemployment but not a full-blown
recession.
In another sign of weakness, the government
said production at the nation's factories, mines
and utilities increased a slight 0.1 percent in
June, matching a revised 0.1 percent May in
crease.
Since last fall, industrial production has shown
little improvement as domestic manufacturers
have continued to lose sales to foreigners be
cause of the strength of the dollar against foreign
currencies.
A strong dollar has encouraged a flood of
cheaper imports in this country while holding
down sales of U.S. goods overseas. While hurting
economic growth, the strong dollar has held
down inflation.
The new GNP report said a price measure tied
to the GNP rose at an annual rate of just 2.8
percent in the second quarter, far below the 5.4
percent pace in the first quarter.
The government said weaker than originally
expected export sales were the main reason that
GNP growth during the April-June quarter was
revised downward.
Museum
chemical
leak is
disputed
By ROBERT FURLOW
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Smith
sonian Institution museums,
among the nation's most popular
tourist attractions, will get emer
gency safety inspections today
after a report that electrical
transformers there are leaking
potentially hazardous chemicals,
officials said yesterday.
"There's absolutely no hazard
to the public," said Madeleine
Jacobs, assistant to the Smithso
nian's public affairs director.
However, • the Environmental
Protection Agency announced it
would quickly inspect all 57
Smithsonian high-voltage trans
formers that use PCBs as a cool
ant.
The transformers are in mu
seums including the popular
Museum of American History,
Museum of Natural History and
the National Air and Space Mu
seum that are visited by about
30 million people a year on the
National Mall between the Capi
tol and the Washington Mon
ument.
The inspection was sparked by
a Washington Post report that
District of Columbia Fire Depart
ment officials had found one
building's transformers leaking
PCBs that they felt would be a
major danger in case of fire.
"We're ecstatic that EPA is
doing this," fire department
spokesman Ray Alfred said yes
terday, adding that he wished
such inspections would be greatly
expanded.
PCBs have caused cancer in
laboratory animal tests, and they
are no longer manufactured in
the United States. However, the
EPA estimates that more than
100,000 U.S. buildings still have
PCB-containing transformers.
Those transformers are gener
ally kept away from the general
public in secure vaults, as at the
Smithsonian, greatly reducing
any danger of direct contact.
However, the EPA has recently
become more concerned about
what happens when PCBs burn
forming other chemicals, includ
ing powerful cancer-causing
agents such as dioxins and are
carried through a building on soot
from a transformer ruptured in a
fire.
New EPA regulations, ap
proved earlier this month, will
require removal or special addi
tional protection of such trans
formers in public buildings by the
end of 1990.
"Any place where there would
be a major PCB fire, there would
certainly be a problem," said the
Smithsonian's Ms. Jacobs.
However, she added, "the key
is that we feel our equipment is
maintained in such condition that
the danger of fire is minimal."
EPA spokesman Dave Ryan
said an inspection team based in
Annapolis, Md., would "just in
spect" the situation early this
morning.
Another Smithsonian official,
assistant secretary John F.
Jameson, told employees in a
memorandum yesterday: "The
Smithsonian's transformers do
not 'leak' PCBs in any quantity."
state news briefs
$3lO million surplus for Pa.
HARRISBURG (AP) Pennsylvania ended fiscal 1984-85 with a
$3lO million surplus, as an improving economy generated more
income- and sales-tax revenues than expected, state officials said
yesterday.
The state's general fund received $8.87 billion in revenues, $305.6
million more than expected, the largest such excess in state
history, Revenue Department spokeswoman Pat Wood said.
Unspent funds and accounting changes brought the final surplus
figure to $3lO million for the year ending June 30, she said.
Gov. Dick Thornburgh and state legislators cited surplus projec
tions earlier this year in supporting tax cuts and spending increas
es later approved by the General Assembly.
According to the department, corporate net income tax collec
tions in 1984-85 exceeded projections by $123.4 million, or 15.2
percent, because of strong earnings by many companies.
Sales and use tax revenues were $102.6 million more than
expected while personal income tax collections were $73.2 million
above projections, the department said.
nation news briefs
Madonna turned down for co-op
NEW YORK (AP) Being a material girl was not sufficient
When rock superstar Madonna tried to get - past the co-op board of
the ritzy San Remo on Central Park to buy a $1.2 million apart
ment.
, The woman selling the apartment and the agent hoping to
engineer the sale hinted yesterday that Madonna's image her
nude photos are in the current issues of Penthouse and Playboy
may have put off board members.
The 26-year-old pop sensation got the bad news Wednesday from
the San Remo Tenants Corp., which did not make public its reasons
for rejection.
"I don't know what they're doing but there's no reason why the
young woman should not be living here," said real estate agent
Phyllis Koch, who also lives in the San Remo. "Madonna is a
sensational young woman ... tremendously talented. She works on a
very high level and I would be pleased to have her as a neighbor."
Asked if she knew why the board turned Madonna down, Ms.
Koch said: "I don't know who or why or what. The world is made up
of people who have their own personal problems."
Chemical explosions kills two
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) A chemical storage tank ignited and
ruptured yesterday afternoon, setting off a series of explosions that
killed two people and forced about 100 people to flee their homes,
officials said.
The fire and explosions at Borden Chemical Co. started around
2:15 p.m. and spread to several other tanks before firefighters
brogght the blaze under control about an hour later, said Jefferson
County police Lt. Charles Cook.
He said two people were killed.
Site manager Chuck Stevens said a spark may have ignited
methanol near a tank of varnish.
At least one person was severely burned, and residents of four
nearby streets in southwestern Jefferson County were evacuated,
said county police Lt. Charles Cook. About 100 people left their
homes, and most were staying at a nearby church, he said.
Cook the immediate danger was over, and a spokeswoman at the
plant said employees were expected to resume work at the plant
last night.
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FTC head up for budget director
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP ) President Reagan is expected to
choose a successor to budget director David A. Stockman by the
end of the week, with Federal Trade Commission chairman James
C. Miller 111 reportedly the leading candidate.
Some congressional sources said yesterday they had been told
that Reagan had already decided to nominate Miller for the job, but
the White House said no decision had been made.
"No one has been offered the job," spokesman Larry Speakes
said. "The president has not made a decision, nor have there been
any recommendations to him."
Speakes said White House chief of staff Donald Regan was still
interviewing candidates and would probably make a recommenda
tion to the president by the end of the week.
The spokesman said Reagan's choice was likely to be announced
at that time.
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The congressional sources, speaking on condition they not be
identified, said the administration was spreading the word that
Miller would be named.
Stockman, budget director since 1981, is resigning Aug. 1 to join
the New York investment banking firm of Salomon Brothers.
"There is a list and the list has been narrowed, but it includes a
number of names," Speakes said.
Man becomes M.D. after crash
LOS ANGELES (AP) Don't say "I can't'! around Emmett Cox,
who made liars of doctors who thought he wouldn't survive a
horrifying bicycle crash. He endured 25 operations and became a
doctor himself.
"I've used my own self-esteem and determination to get where I
am today," said Cox, 35, intern of the year at Martin Luther King
Jr. Medical Center. "I've had a lot of setbacks in my life, but I'm
not going•to let that get to me."
His determination also earned him a residency in the hospital's
orthopedic surgery unit over dozens of other top medical students
nationwide.
In August 1978, the only question was whether Emmett Cox II
would live.
He was pedaling his bicycle near the St. George's Medical School
in Grenada, where he was in his fourth semester. He collided with a
school bus, crashing through the windshield. His friends thought he
was dead.
His nasal bridge was gone. So was his forehead. His upper jaw
was broken, his teeth shoved to one side of his face. The outer
covering of his brain was exposed, and a piece of glass was lodged
in one eye. Hardly anything was left of his face.
Days later, he risked a look in the mirror. He thought he was
hallucinating.
r world : news briefs
Riots kill 10 in India
NEW DELHI, India (AP) Rioting claimed 10 more lives in
Gujarat state, and student leaders there said yesterday they would
call off the agitation against government policies that started the
bloodshed four months ago:
The students also said after a nine-hour meeting with state
officials that they would cancel a "fill the jails" campaign of
inviting arrest, which had been scheduled for today.
Students from the upper and middle classes began demonstrat
ing early this year against plans by the government of Gujarat, in
western India, to increase the number of jobs and university places
reserved for people of India's lower social castes.
Demonstrations led to riots, then the violence expanded to
include pitched battles between the Moslem and Hindu commu
nities that had little or nothing to do with the original protest.
More than 200 people have been killed and many times that
number injured, including 100 since Wednesday night alone.
Most of the riots have in Ahmedabad, capital of Gujarat.
J.F. Ribiero, state police director, said indefinite curfews were
imposed on several Ahmedabad neighborhoods yesterday and he
ordered his men to shoot if necessary to stop looters and arsonists.
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