I Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, December 13, 1988 Nation shivers under record cold IN BRIEF Ry TUR A slCTAT n PDRS S -nnitai1 cl d h ynnriencA the eac TTni;.A ,.ntee cm un., T nna1 mor te n ..,caw ham7 Comilemidfromm Asscriated Pre ss and staff rnarts Du I 1E t u..'.,'.-.- A IAn" IF= r~ * nVNFLLi., .satu.* 1Cr UAUI."'-' Luc U.)L LJIILLU JLaLL..S, )aiU 1U5 I L USUUII CLS WUI~.. Wi.Ln tsier-cUU aUan a u lanw-tuu much of the nation yesterday from the Northeast and Midwest to the South, contributing to at least three deaths as temperatures plunged to -ecord lows in two dozen cities. The early deep freeze came more than a week before the official onset of winter and caused water pipes to burst, cars to die and homeless peo- ple to seek warmth in shelters. It also produced scattered power out- ages, record power demand and pub- lic transit delays. Greg McGarry, a spokesperson for the Albany, N.Y. Medical Center suozeo airiuiiy wit1 HI b ouii-- their morning paper route. "It's un- believable," McGarry said. Weekend snow and ice were blamed for a dozen traffic fatalities in the nation's midsection. Snow was falling yesterday over parts of Min- nesota, North Dakota, and Michigan. Snow was forecast for Wisconsin, a snow advisory was in effect for. eastern Oklahoma and parts of Arkansas, and wintry weather was expected in the Carolinas. The cold weather was caused by arctic air that flowed across Canada and into the north-central and north- Crowther, a meterologist at me na- tional Weather service's Severe Storms Center in Kansas City, Mo. "About 25 cities reported record low temperatures this morning," he said yesterday. Among them was Houghton Lake, Mich. at 12 below. Saranac Lake, N.Y. near Lake Placid, had the coldest temperature in the nation yesterday morning at 28 degrees below. The bitter temperatures forced the homeless off the streets i many cities, agencies reported. "We've filled every bed we have. weatner gs ucomer. reopte wno normally might not come her show up because they just can't bear the cold," said Edith Richardson, assis- tant supervisor of the 113-bed De- troit Rescue Mission. Some people didn't make it through the cold. A homeless man was found Sunday on a Brooklyn street, apparently frozen to death, police said. His identity was not known. In Baltimore fire killed a woman in her 60s in a house where heat and electricity had been turned off. Faculty approves athletic reps. I BY NOELLE SHADWICK The Senate Assembly ratified two new faculty representatives to the Board in Control of Inter- collegiate Athletics at their afternoon meeting yesterday. Professors Gwendolyn Cruzat of the Medical School and Douglas Kahn of the Law School were chosen to represent the faculty on the board by a selection committee of three faculty mem- bers, one student, and one administrator. The two will also represent the faculty in the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Big-10 Intercollegiate Conference. Outgoing representative Professor Paul Gikas thanked the assembly for allowing him two terms on the board. He presented reports on the Big-10 Conference and NCAA's efforts to im- prove academics in athletics. Gikas compared the graduation rates of re- cruited to non-recruited athletes at the University. Sixty-five percent of recruited athletes in 1982-83 graduated while the rate for non-recruited athletes was 75 percent. "All things considered this is not a graduation rate to be embarassed about," he said as he re- minded the assembly of pressures athletes must handle. Gikas said he believes that one eligibility re- quirement for athletes should be a high GPA. Currently the Big-10 Conference requires ath- letes to maintain at least a 1.8 GPA in the sec- ond year of residence and a 2.0 in the fourth and fifth year of residence. Quake Continued from Page 1 23 degrees Fahrenheit were forecast. Rescuers used more than 200 search dogs and infrared devices that can detect the warmth of bodies trapped under rubble. Aid continued pouring in from abroad. Council of Ministers spokesperson Lev Voznesenksky said 38 foreign relief planes had ar- rived. The University's Armenian Stu- dents' Cultural Association will be accepting donations of canned foods, clothing, and blankets from 4-8 p.m. at St. Nickolas Greek Orthodox Church on 414 N. Main St. Radon Continued from Page 1 "We haven't quite figured out the best way to mitigate problems with public buildings," said Alex John- son, an executive assistant at the American Lung Association. How- Look Your Best For the Holidays! + 6 Barber Stylists For MEN & WOMEN!!! DASCOLA STYLISTS Opposite Jacobson's 668-9329 ever, he said improving ventilation has proven successful in alleviating radon problems in both buildings and houses. "We're not surprised to see high levels in commercial buildings," Johnson said, adding that high radon levels are "a concern the University is going to have to figure out how to fix." Wendy Lougee, the head of the Grad, indicated she was concerned about the possible high radon levels in the library. "I would think we'd want to follow up on it," she said. '-"-''11P.J I;.. 11U111E A- J%,,1 l'.U 11U 0 C11Its .LQL4 I VlJI l4S* I Jet ighter training suspended WASHINGTON - The United States, England and Canada have agreed to join West Germany in suspending all low-level jet fighter train- ing over West Germany for the next three weeks, the Pentagon an- nounced yesterday. The suspension follows last week's crash of a U.S. warplane in the* German city of Remscheid, in which five people were killed and dozens injured. The suspension will remain in effect until Jan. 2, when fighter train- ing will resume, the Pentagon said in a joint communique from the four NATO allies. The suspension "through the holiday season (was agreed to) out of re- spect for the victims and the families of the victims of the Remscheid ac- cident, and for Capt. Michael Foster, USAF, and his family," the state- ment added. Foster was the pilot of the A-10 Thunderbolt II attack jet that crashed in Remscheid, destroying two dozed homes. British train crash injures 100 LONDON - Three trains crashed into each other near a busy south, London junction just before 8 a.m. yesterday, killing dozens of people and hurling their bodies onto the tracks as the cars "split open like a ripe tomato," witnesses said. More than 100 people were injured in the crash at Clapham Junction when a London-bound commuter train slammed into the rear of another stopped passenger train. The British Railways Board said a "technical fault" following work on signaling equipment apparently was to blame. Transportation Minister Paul Channon promised a full inquiry into the crash. Opposition Labor Party Lawmakers and railroad union leaders de- manded that the inquiry examine allegations of overcrowding and cuts in safety spending on state-owned British Rail. The trains are not part of London's subway system. Abortion ban takes effect LANSING - Michigan women.with unwanted pregnancies and little money began to search for alternatives to state-paid abortions yesterday as a voter-approved ban on Medicaid funding for the procedure took effect. Health clinics offered discounts and no-interest loans to women unable to pay the usual abortion charge of about $250, but officials said they won't be able to cover all of the $6 million the state had been spending on about 18,500 Medicaid abortions a year. "We'll be turning away some people and we think that's really unfortunate," said Margy Long, public affaris specialist at the Ann Arbor- based Planned Parenthood of Mid-Michigan. The Planned Parenthood affiliate is one of several offering financial aid to women seeking abortions. Long said Planned Parenthood will charge low-income women $195, the same amound Medicaid paid and about $70 less than what women with insurance are charged. Banks enjoy record profits WASHINGTON - The nation's commercial banks enjoyed record profits in the July-September quarter, but FDIC chair William Seidman- cautioned about an increase in bad loans and rising bank involvement in leveraged corporate buyouts yesterday. The federally insured commercial banks earned $5.9 billion in the third quarter topping last year's record of $5.8 billion. "The statistics are good, but they're not quite as good as they might appear on the surface," Seidman said. Bad loans, on which borrowers have stopped making payments,, jumped 4.3 percent from the second quarter to $76.5 billion in the third. Bad real estate loans in the New England states, New Jersey and Florida also rose. 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