4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 16, 1985 Capital increases inaugural security WASHINGTON (AP) - Security at President Reagan's formal inauguration on Monday wil Tbe the tightest ever for a major public event in the nation's capital, including precautions against terrorist attack from the air or the ground. For starters, the 140,000 people ex- pected to attend the noon swearing-in ceremony at the West Front of the Capitol will be required to pass through metal detectors, even though it is an in- vita tion-only crowd. THE SAME applies to the 60,000 holders of $125 tickets for the inaugural balls, presuming Reagan drops by all eight of the black-tie parties for adults as well as the one for young people. Another first, as revealed last week by The Los Angeles Times, is that security officials have drawn up plans to protect the Capitol ceremony from air attack, probably with a sentry ar- med with the shoulder-fired Stinger missile. The extraordinary precautions are far more severe than in Reagan's first inauguration, and capital veterans say the security effort is the stiffest ever seen in the city - and rivaled only by the protection accorded the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and the two national political conventions last year. The reasons are obvious: Since his first swearing-in, Reagan himself was shot, hundreds of Americans around the world have been kileld by terrorists, and the Capitol was bombed for the secnd time in a decade.. Associated ress Advice columnist Ann Landers holds some of the thousands of letters that have flooded her Chicago office after she asked readers if they would forgo "the act" in favor of just "cuddling.". Landers loses wit sex experts IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports thernenko feared ill again MOSCOW - Western diplomats said yesterday that the abrupt concellation of a Warsaw Pact summit could be a sign that a high Kremlin official, possibly President Konstantin Chernenko, is ill. In Sofia, Bulgaria, where the mid-January summit of Soviet bloc nations was to have taken place, foreign political experts speculated the session had been postponed because the 73-year-old Chernenko was too ill to make his first journey abroad since taking office in February 1984. Chernenko, head of both the Soviet government and the Communist Par- ty, has made no public appearances for nearly three weeks. He is known to have respiratory problems, which can be aggravated by the kind of sub- freezing weather that has prevailed in Moscow since late November. Some Western observers in the Bulgarian capital also speculated that the seven-nation Warsaw Pact may want more time to prepare a common response to the U.S.-Soviet pledge made at Geneva last week to negotiate controls on nuclear missiles and space-based weapons. A diplomat in Moscow said that was improbab. Questioned in Moscow about what prompted the cancellation, a Soviet Foreign Ministry official said, "There is no specific reason... It was just agreed among everyone to postpone it." Bomb damages U.S. army base BRUSSELS, Belgium-A car bomb exploded less than a mile from NATO headquarters yesterday, shattering windows and wrecking the facade of a U.S. Army social center, which officials said also housed offices of a Pentagon security agency. The concussion from the blast blew out all the windows on the facade of the three-story building housing Army NATO Support Activities. The bomb "damaged the entrance, some administrative offices, the snack bar and the theater inside the building," Taylor said. He estimated damage at about $500,000. An extreme leftist group, the Cellules Communistes Combattantes Fighting Communist Cells, which has said it was behind other recent bomb attacks against NATO-related targets, claimed responsibility for the bom- bing and called its target a "base." The explosion was the eighth bomb attack in four months in Belgium for which the Cellules Communistes Combattantes have claimed responsibility. Earlier targets included the offices of Western defense contractors, a con- servative party study center, the regional office of Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens' Christian Democratic party in Ghant and a NATO tran- smission tower. Volcker wants $50 billion in cuts to lower interest rates WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, giving a boost to efforts by Senate Republicans to trim deficits, said a $50 billion reduction in red ink next year with "follow-through" in the future would probably lead to lower interest rates. "If you're going to have a convincing program, you're going to have to start in the area of $50 billion... with some follow-through," Volcker said. Asked to specify how big a drop in interest rates would result from enac- tment of a program, he said, "I'm not going to project a level on interest rates. Lower than they would otherwise be." The nation's central banker made his comments as Senate Republicans continued their efforts to draft a plan to cut deficits from roughly $200 billion to $100 billion or less over the next three years. Citibank and Chase Manhattan Bank yesterday led a reduction in the prime lending rate to 11 percent from 10 3/4 percent, the lowest in 16 mon- ths. The lower rate was expected to spread throughout the industry. State aids ice storm victims LANSING-Gov. James Blanchard yesterday issued a state disaster declaration making low-interest loans available to residents of 13 counties where homes were damaged in recent ice storms. The ice storm-described as the worst of its kind in five years-hit lower Midhigan on New Year's Day, leaving more than 431,000 homes and businesses without power and causing an estimated $50 million in damage. "By issuing a declaration of disaster, funds that are normally reserved for home improvements will now be made available to many of those residents." Loans will be provided for non-insured damage to owner-occupied struc- tures through the Michigan State Housing Development Authority. The loans will be available to residents of Allegan, Barry, Berrien, Calhoun, Eaton, Genesee, Ingham, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Lapeer, Livingston, Oakland, and Van Buren counties. 4 I 4 (Continued from Page1) THIS QUESTION, several sex exper- ts said, presents an either-or situation and does not establish any frequency. "I seriously doubt that 72 percent of all women would be happy without sex, which is somehow what this con- cludes," said Dr. Toni Grant, a nationally syndicated radio psychologist based in Los Angeles. However, Grant added in a telephone interview that she is not surprised by Miss Lander's results, which indicate the need "for closeness, tenderness and touching is far greater than the need for any explicit sexuality....There's less of an urgency to female sexuality than male sexuality." OTHERS, however, said interpreting the results could be harmful to sexual relations. It may "give men the permission to say 'Why do I have to work so hard to please her?" Westheimer said. And Petersen said the findings are misleading. "Indeed, women are in- terested in sex and they have sexual desires," he said. He also criticized Landers, saying that for years she has "separated love and sex." "I'm wondering if she's on the verge of saying, 'Nice girls don't like sex.' That's a throwback to the '50s," he said. "I hope she's not talking in that way." 41 Three Floors of Almost Everything! -I 1111 1I1IIIL 1st Floor Insignia clothing and gift items " cards e Calendars " Soft luggage Office supplies * School supplies Animals * Candy * Refrigerator Cap & gown Greeting " Paper " " Stuffed rentals * m - I Ipmgm.qmI . I mI mImI.ImI I . 1 pL~lWR 2nd Floor Computers * Calculators Telephones " Art supplies " Drafting tables " Mechanical drawing instruments " Lamps " Film " Photo processing " Picture frames " Professional texts " Professional reference manuals " Computer books " Software " Medical sup- plies o Lab coats Retail sales fall, govt. remains Optimistic (Continued from Page 1) banks cut their prime interest rate a quarter point to 10.5 percent and the stock market continued on an upward roll that started last week. The prime rate is now at its lowest level in 17 months and the stock market the highest since November. At the White House, presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said: "The economic record in industrial produc- tion andrretail sales for 1984 is an in- dication that continued economic growth is in store for the coming year. Coupled with declining interest rates, this speaks well for the American economy." MICHAEL EVANS, president of the Washington forecasting firm Evans Economics, concurred with Wescott that the December retail sales figure was better than it might look at first glance. "This is more bullish than I thought we were going to get," said Evans. "The economy should move right along until interest rates start going up again, probably about the middle of the year." Commerce Secretary Malcolm Balrige noted that retail sales rose at an annual rate of 10.5 percent during the last three months of the year, but he ackowledged that pace might not be sustained. "CONTINUED growth in incomes in- dicates another good year ahead for retail business, but gains will be slower than in 1984," said Balridge. Noting that auto sales are a major component of the overall retail sales index tracked by the Commerce Depar- tment, Evans pointed out that auto in- dustry figures showed increased sales in December, not a decline, and suggested a reporting lag skewed the Commerce figures. "You have a 2.5 percent increase sin- ce october not counting autos and that is not a bad increase," said Evans. ALSO possibly contributing to the less-than-robust December figure was the 2 percent spurt in November that analysts attributed to early Christmas buying. They cautioned at the time that the early buying could cut into the December figure. DRED FLANNEL & DANCEWEAR SHOPPE Daling down for winter? Keep warm in our good old- fashinned rpd flannole Brazil elects civilian leader Brasilia, Brazil - Congressmen yesterday elected opposition candidate Tancredo Neves as Brazil's first civilian president in 21 years, marking an end to a military regime unable to cope with a huge foreign debt. Congressmen voting in a 686-man electoral college gave the opposition lawyer an absolute majority of 480 votes to 180 for businessman Paulp Maluf. "It's the first time that Brazilian history is being written by the people and not by the elites," said opposition leader Ulisses Guimaraes, who formally proposed Neves. The new government will face a world record foreign debt of $100 billion, an annual inflation rate of more than 220 percent and pressure from lower paid workers whose purchasing power has been cut in half in 20 years. 4 01 be Mirbigan Bat-IV ..._________. Vol. XCV-No.87 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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