6 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 30, 1984 Dole seeks independent Senate WASHINGTON (AP)-Although newly chosen Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole says he is ready to cham- pion President Reagan's programs, the leadership team he will head when the h 4 99th Congress convenes Jan. 3 will likely be more independent of the White House than its predecessor. This week's Senate shakeup put political moderates in many key Senate positions, suggesting that the GOP-controlled Senate will be something less than a rubber stamp for administration initiatives. AND WHILE Dole claimed he Dole would work hard for administration ... wants GOP control policies, he also told reporters that a top priority under his stewardship of RABBINICAL SCHOOL. 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If he runs the Senate the way he ran the Finance Committe, senators may be in for some long, late hours. Dole also has indicated that he favors the ef- fort to streamline the Senate rules to minimize the kind of parliamentary snarls that marked the past session. However, he agreed such a change could only be accomplished on bipar- tisan basis. Peruvian police quell violent demonstrators IN JERUSALEM-IN NEW YORK Visit for a semester with credit r or enroll in a degree program. Open to all academically qualified students. For information on opportunities call or write. TH m AND The Jewish Theological Seminary of America S 3080 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY 10027 sCONSUED (212) 678-8832y S:1cYI!)ITI -NO1'LiVISJ SNI1(jV1OOHIS AV'N 5I NV)O!)Osd - INIAVIVHS[13A IHS31)ilP S100HJS Rabbi Morris Allen, Director of Recruitment, will be at Hillel to answer questions and with information about JTS programs. THURSDAY, DEC. 6 9:30 - 3:00 for appointment call 663-3336 1429 HILL ST. LIMA, Peru (UPI)-Police enforcing a state of emergency fired tear gas and water cannon yesterday to disperse hundreds-of workers and students who blocked roads and burned buses during a general strike to protest economic conditions. At least 100 people were arrested and four people were injured in violence in the capital and at least two northern cities during a 24-hour general strike called by leftist labor unions to protest high unemployment and annual in- flation of more than 100 percent. Just hours before the strike began, suspected terrorists dynamited an American culture center, election of- fices, and banks in foreign cities. One woman was injured. Police attributed the bombings to Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla group waging a 4-year-old war against the Peruvian government. The strike was only partially suc-, cessful in shutting down Peruvian ac- tivity. President Fernando Belaunde Terry, warning the strike would be "suicide" for the devastated economy, imposed a national state of emergency in the country of 19 million people Wed- nesday. The measure allows police to make arrests and search homes without warrants and outlaws public and private meetings. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Reagan nominates EPA head WASHINGTON-Lee Thomas, now head of EPA's toxic waste program, was nominated by President Reagan yesterday to head the Environmental Protection Agency in place of retiring chief William Ruckelshaus. By moving swifly to replace the popular Ruckelshaus, who resigned late Wednesday, Reagan defused a potential controversy over environmental policies and their management. The EPA announced, meanwhile, that Ruckelshaus' deputy, Al Alm, also is resigning. The toxic waste program had been the target of mismanagement charges under former EPA head Anne Gorsuch Burford. When Ruckelshaus retur- ned to the agency for a second stint after Burford resigned under fire, he brought Thomas in as acting deputy, then moved him to toxic waste. Reagan seeks budget freeze WASHINGTON-President Reagan tentatively decided yesterday to at- tack bulging federal budget deficits with a virtual freeze on overall gover- nment spending, according to administration sources. "The president tentatively decided to try to hold spending to the '85 current level," said an administration source who asked not to be quoted by name. The source said that such action would be the result of a combination of ac- tions that "could be accomplished by terminations, by freezes and by cuts in services." He said it would not be an across-the-board freeze as such. Sources said Reagan made the decision at an afternoon meeting with the president's senior budget advisors. That session followed an earlier White House meeting during which Republican congressional leaders told Reagan that there is bipartisan sup- port on Capitol Hill for across-the-board action to control federal spending, but resistance to any plan that would cut domestic programs while leaving the Pentagon untouched. Key economic indicator drops WASHINGTON-The government's main economic forecasting guage fell in October for the third time in five months, the Commerce Department reported yesterday as economists bemoaned an economy they said was "sputtering" or maybe even slipping toward a mild new recession. The 0.7 percent October decline in the Index of Leading Economic In- dicators marked the first time since the recessionary year of 1981 that the index had dropped in as many as three of five months. At the .White House, presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said that although "obviously we're in a period of economic slowdown... we don't think this is an indication of recessionary tendencies." At the same time, private economists described the economy as very sluggish, and one of them said his firm's forecast was "within arm's length of a recession." There were no predictions, however, that such a business downturn-if it should occur-would be as long or severe as the 1981-82 recession. The leading indicators index blends 10 separate forward-pointing economic measures and is designed to foreshadow trends in the economy. ; m 6 5- # , 'B I f r 6 * # e I~ f 4 d 4 #s # A 0 S Pornography Jmerchants face $5 million fine LANSING (UPI)-Porn merchants face up to $5 million in fines and a year in jail for distributing obscene materials under a bill approved 9-4 by the House Judiciary Committee yester- day. The measure-which does not actually' alter Michigan's prevailing legal stan- dard for determining what is ob- scene-now goes to the full House for further consideration. The bill, sponsored by conservative Republican Sen. Alan Dropsey of DeWitte, has already passed the Senate in a somewhat different form. Judiciary Chairman Perry Bullard (D-Ann Arbor) said the committee's changes reflect the view that por- nography is an "economic crime.' Bullard opposes the bill, but said, "I understand its (political) necessity." He said results of this; year's general election gave the victory to "forces concerned about the impact of por- nography." AIDS cases increase by 74% ATLANTA-Nearly three-fourths of the people who contracted AIDS before 1983 have now died, and the number of cases is up 74 percent this year compared with last year, government scientists said yesterday. The national Centers for Disease Control reported that as of Monday, 6,993 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome had been reported; 3,342 victims, or 48 percent, have died. But the fatality rate is much higher for people who have had the disease for more than two years. Of the people who were diagnosed with AIDS before January 1983, 73 percent have died, the Atlanta-based health agency said. More than 86 percent of AIDS cases have been reported in the last two years. So far in 1984, 3,821 cases have been reported-up 74 percent from the same time last year. ''We should expect the cases to continue to increase for the next year," said Dr. James Curran, director of the CDC's AIDS task force. Device gives deaf first sounds WASHINGTON-The government yesterday approved a device for surgical implantation in the ears of totally deaf adults that can help them hear sounds like sirens, car horns, and doorbells as well as human voices-the first approved mechanical substitute for a human sense. Dr. William House of the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles whose work led to development of the device, said it would raise a person's capacity to hear to about 45 to 50 decibels. It takes 70 decibels to hear conversation at arm's length and 80 decibels to hear one's own voice, he said. The sound is too crude to permit words to be understood, they said, but supplies important clues, such as rhythm and varying volume, that can enhance a deaf person's ability to read lips as well as to speak. House said having the devices can make an extraordinary difference in the lives of deaf patients. "It makes them and their families feel much better about their safety," he said. "They are more employable because they can hear a fire bell." The processor is a battery-operated unit about the size of a pack of playing cards and worn on a belt or in a pocket. hie ficbiwgn 1]ai)g Vol. XCV- No.70 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Tuesday through Sunday during the Fall and Winter terms and Tuesday through Saturday during the Spring and Summer terms by students at the University of Michigan. Sub- scription rates: September through April - $16.50 in Ann Arbor; $29.00 outside the city; May through August - $4.50 in Ann Arbor, $6.00 outside the city. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. 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