Page 2- The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 1, 1985 Liquor tax increases spark higher sales 4 IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS By TIM DALY with wire reports Local liquor stores yesterday repor- ted brisk sales to customers who were stocking up on alcohol before prices jump today due to federal and state tax increases. The federal liquor tax increase was approved by Congress last year to take effect with the federal gover- nment's 196 fiscal year, which starts today. Timed with that increase is a 4 percent tax approved by the state legislature this summer to provide money for the expansion of Cobo Hall in Detroit. & Don Clark, a state Liquor Control Commission official, said the average price of a bottle of liquor will rise bet- ween So cents and a dollar. Consumers sought to head off the higher prices by flocking to liquor stores at the last minute. "They're buying us out of house and home," reported Jesse Mossberg, manager of Village Corner on South University. He said that business began picking up last weekend and continued to improve through last night. But he said he won't know precisely how much sales increased until he fi the week's total. Captitol Market on Fourth Avenue has seen a modest rise in sales during the last few days as well, according to owner John Kokales. Kokales explained that the two tax increases combined will equal 23 per- cent of the liquor's base price. "The federal excise tax will be 19 percent and thestate tax will be 4 percent," he said. Liquor producers and stores ran advertisements during the past several weeks noting the pending tax 'They're buying us out of house and home.' -Jesse Mossberg Village Corner manager Washington predicts upsurge in economy; analysts disagree 4 increase and urging customers to stock up, or do Christmas shopping, while prices are lower. At some of the 75 state-run liquor stores, where all package liquor stores and bars are required to buy their stock, sales were very high. Steve Sas, manager of the Saginaw store, told the Detroit Free Press that he had orders for the last week and yesterday totaling $442,000, a 145 per- cent increase from the same period last year. Clark said he expected liquor sales for the final week in September to be up at least 50 to 60 percent statewide. However, the specific sales figures were not available. The tax increases also affect bars. Several local pubs said they plan to boost the price of their drinks to cover the new assessment. Betty Goffett, owner of the Blind Pig on First Street, said her bar will be forced to raise prices, but she wasn't certain by how much. Drinks at Dooley's have already gone up 25 cents, said Joe Herzog, assistant manager. ., : $ .rte""' 'k 4,. * 0 M Daily Photo by JOHN MUNSON S' Conflicting message Passers-by notice a sign on the Diag yesterday that urged students to buy their own beer and forego rush. RSG backs Bush protest. (Continued from Page 1) during the Vietnam War, Wiscon- sin's policy stated that no member of the Johnson ad- ministration should be allowed to speak on campus as long as the war continued, said graduate student Peter Rosset, a member of RSG and author of the Rackham resolution. "While they (government officials) are responsible for atrocities taking place outside of the U.S., we don't think they should be allowed to speak at the University. It legitimizes their policies," Rosset said. Dean Baker, president of RSG, said, "It's really insulting to the University and particularly to former Peace Corps volunteers, who find that their efforts are turned against the ends they had intended to serve." As a follow-up to the resolution, RSG also passed a motion endorsing demonstrations against Bush during his visit. WASHINGTON - The government said yesterday that its main economic forecasting gauge registered a strong increase in August, but while the Reagan administration hailed the news as evidence the economy is back on track, private analysts were not so optimistic. A new survey of economists found them predicting only a modest up- turn in growth in coming months with more than half expecting the coun- try will be in a new recession by the end of next year. The Commerce Department's Index of Leading Indicators, meanwhile, rose 0.7 percent in August, its fourth consecutive advance. The August advance matched a revised July gain and was the strongest performance for the index since last February. The administration is forecasting a surge in economic growth to a 5 percent annual rate for the final six months of 1985, far above the 1.1 per- cent pace in the first half. But in its latest survey of 350 economists, the National Association of Business Economists said its members foresee only modest growth in coming months as the economy continues to be held back by soaring federal budget deficits. Reagan pushes Mideast talks WASHINGTON - President Reagan met with Jordan's King Hussein yesterday and expressed confidence the complex issues foiling direct negotiations between Jordan and Israel can be resolved and the peace talks opened by year's end. Reagan also spoke out in support of a $1.9 billion package of arms sales to Jordan he formally requested last week as a sign of the U.S. support for the moderate monarch, whose peace plans have angered more radical Arab elements. "These arms are important in meeting Jordan's proven defense needs and as evidence that those who seek peace will not be left at the mercy of those who oppose it," the president said during a ceremony marking Hussein's departure from the White House. Militia battles rage in Tripoli TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Syrian-supported leftist militias launched a series; of attacks yesterday on besieged Moslem fundamentalists who vowed to resist "to the last drop of blood." The Palestinian-backed Tawheed Islami, or Islamic Unification, movement beat back repeated attempts by four other militias to push into the heart of the city in the savage struggle for power. The city's'streets were strewn with bodies. Police said they had been unable to gather a casualty report since Saturday, when they said at least 273 people were killed and 714 wounded since Sept. 15. Several hundred Syrian paratroopers with tanks ringed the port city and appeared ready to join the battle if their allies' failed to break through the dogged Tawheed defenses. The heart of Tripoli has been laid waste by shellfire and rockets since the fighting broke out. Tripoli's governor, Iskandar Ghibril, fled the city today to a makeshift headquarters on the outskirts. German police await riots FRANKFURT, West Germany - Authorities called in more police: yesterday to control street violence that swept over 16 cities over the weekend; in protest of a neo-Nazi party meeting and the death of a demonstrator. About 100 people held a peaceful vigil yesterday afternoon at the spot where an anti-Nazi protestor was run over and killed Saturday by a police riot-control vehicle. Officers stood guard in nearby streets but did not in- terfere. The most violent protests occurred Sunday evening in Frankfurt's cen- tral business districe, where 5,000 demonstrators clashed with riot police, smashed store windows and looted stores. Rock-throwing demonstrators attacked police stations, smashed police cars and shattered windows of banks in cities from Berlin to Munich, to protest the weekend meeting in Frankfurt of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party. Reagan urges Heckler to give up post; offers ambassadorship After class, students seek sex expert's advice (Countimuedfrom Page 1) setting up a scenario about a nurse who walked in on a patient friend while he was kissing another man. The nurse hadn't known her friend was a homosexual. After telling the story, Hacker slid off the desk top she was sitting on, took a few steps closer to her students, and casually asked them what action they would take the next day if they were in the nurses' place. THE CLASS entered into the discussion easily, offering various ways the nurse could approach her friend about the incident. After each comment, Hacker nod- ded her head in encouragement. Nor did her smile fade when one student argued, quite emotionally, that the nurse need not confront her friend at all. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Applications now available in 160 Rackham Deadline Nov. 15, 1985 TAKE THE.LEAD Help New Students or Their Parents Discover the Diversity of Michigan BE A SUIMMER ORIENTATION LEADER, Pick up applications at the Orientation Office, (3000 Michigan Union) or call 764-6290 for further information. an affirmative action non-discriminatory employer "I totally agree," Hacker told her, indicating that silence would be a proper response if the nurse wasn't troubled by the incident. "$UT WHY do you have to say, 'There's nothing bothering me?' " if the incident is disturbing, Hacker asked. She stressed honesty, but so that her sharp remark wouldn't in- timidate the student, she jokingly ad- ded, "Don't be a damn phony." In a light-hearted manner, Hacker continued: "I clearly have a bias. I know that you have a bias. I have no problem with that. Let's talk about it. .. I'm giving you permission to be in pain and doubt throughout the semester." After she dismissed the students, an hour after, Hacker explained that she emphasizes class discussion because student values often clash with her own. She added that many may be wrestling in their personal lives with issues presented in lecture. EVEN AS she spoke, four or five of her students lingered in the room, waiting for their chance to seek her advice in confidence. The professor wasn't in any hurry to leave, either. That's because students have been approaching her after class since she taught at the State University of New York in Courtland during the sexual revolution of the 1960s. "I would teach the urogenitial system and freshmen would come up to me after class and ask questions about relationships," she recalled. "I was talking about reproduction, the bare-bones of sexuality, and they im- mediately made the leap to relation- ships and love." At first, that wasn't surprising. Hacker remembered that, when she was their age, students were taught even less about sexuality. "I GREW UP in an era when I lear- ned nothing in my family of love and sex. There was a deficit of knowled- ge," she said. It was only after Hacker tran- sferred to the University of Michigan in the early 1970s to research her doc- toral dissertation on teenage sexual and contraceptive behavior, that the questions posed by her former stud- ents "started coming from the recesses of my mind." She realized that the "deficit of knowledge" about sexuality still existed. "(Their questions) started to make sense in light of what was happening on a national level," she said in reference to the 1 million teen pregnancies in 1976, 13,000 of them reported by girls between the ages of 10 and 14. HACKER began to fit the pieces of the puzzle together. In her disser- tation, completed in 1977, she hyp- othesized that American teenagers fail to use contraceptives because they deny their sexuality. Then educators and counselors grew interested in her findings. After the University publicized her disser- tation, completed in 1977, Hacker was flooded with requests for speaking arrangements. She has been popular ever since. Hacker worked, and still does, as a consultant to school systems in- terested in establishing or expanding sex education programs. Every few weeks she appears on WXYZ-TV's "Kelly and Company" to answer questions. IN MARCH 1987, she will deliver a paper at a week-long conference in Australia about adolescent health and medicine. Her paper, she said, will focus on future directions in human sexuality. With sexual freedom an issue of the past, the professor predicted that examining long-term relationships will become the new frontier of sex education. "We still have a 50 percent divorce rate on first marriages, and a 57 per- cent on second marriages," she said, leaning across her office desk. "Relationships are falling apart all over the place. I want to explore this." "I think it should start in the elementary school and build up all through college," she added, pointing to her own courses. "It's very impor- tant in college because that's where adulthood is really being explored." Profile will appear in the Daily every Tuesday. Correction The four University students who petitioned people to sign a copy of the Declaration of Independence before Saturday's football game said the purpose of their project was to show how society closes off other viewpoin- ts because of stereotyping and preconceived images. A story in vasterdav's Daily misrennesennted WASHINGTON - President Reagan asked Health and Human Ser- vices Secretary Margaret Heckler yesterday to give up her Cabinet post for the ambassadorship to Ireland, the White House announced. Heckler, who has launched a campaign in recent days to save her job at the helm of the government's largest department, asked for and was given a few days to think about it, presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said. Heckler met with Reagan alone in the Oval Office for 50 minutes yesterday afternoon to try to talk him out of reassigning her. But Speakes said the president, who denied earlier in the day that he would fire the HHS secretary, urged her to accept the job as "a promotion." Heckler, after leaving the White House, ignored reporters' attempts to question her. She returned to HHS headquarters after the session and met with some members of her staff. A spokeswoman said the secretary would have no immediate comment on the session with Reagan. 4 4 0Ihe Ailgan Bu-IV . Vol XCVI - No. 19 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Monday through. Friday during the Fall and Winter terms. Subscription rates: September through April - $18.00 in Ann Arbor; $35.00 outside the city. One term - $10.00 in town; $20.00 out of town. 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