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Theater dept. will
move to music school
(Contind from Page 3) strengthen the department.
Dean Peter Steiner, is that it would give "(The move) will put a larger group
students earning professional degrees of creative artists under one school
in theater - which are performance- which will offer more understanding
oriented, - better instruction through than LSA," Pilkington said.
the music school. Although meetings between the
Although some department faculty music school and the theater depar-
members contend that theater belongs tment have not taken place, theater
with other liberal arts programs in Prof. Allen Billings said the move
LSA, Steiner said LSA students can "could be a very good thing."
concentrate in theater through the -_-_
music school.-- Georgea Kovanis filed a report
Theater department Prof. Mark r Geory.
Pilkington said the move will for this story.
Frye sets September vote
for Engin. humanities
(Continuedfrom Page3) If the Regents do vote to end the
does not play a strong, central role in department, Stevenson said he had no
the ,college, and that teaching doubt that engineering students, who
engineering students separately was have the highest SAT scores on cam-
redundant when they could take LSA pus, would be able to compete with
classes. their LSA counterparts.
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Reagan denies panel's request
WASHINGTON - President Reagan refused yesterday to order aides to
give a congressional panel copies of any more Jimmy Carter papers found in
his 1980 campaign files, saying it is up to the Justice Department to make
that decision.
But presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said the Justice Department
would be advised privately of Reagan's "hope" that an accommodation can
be worked out with the subcommittee headed by Rep. Donald Albosta (D-
Mich.).
Reagan's statement appeared to reject a June 29 request from Albosta
that any Carter papers found by former Reagan campaign aides be routinely
turned over to the subcommittee as well as to the Justice Department.
Failure to reach an accommodation could set up the first clash between
the White House and Congress since word surfaced last month that the
Reagan camp had access to Carter briefing papers before the candidates'
climactic campaign debate three years ago.
Jet crash kills 119 in Ecuador
QUITO, Ecuador - A jetliner plowed into a mountain and exploded in
flames while attempting to land in the Andes city of Cuenca yesterday,
killing all 119 people aboard in Ecuador's worst aviation disaster.
The Boeing 737 was on a scheduled 40-minute flight from Quito to Cuenca,
250 miles south of the Ecuadorean capital. It carried 112 passengers, in-
cluding a baby, and a crew of seven, the aviation authority said.
Most were believed to be Ecuadorean civilians, although the plane
belonged to a military airline.
The aviation authority said the jet crashed with weather and visibility
normal on the approach to the Andean airport whose altitude is about 9,000
feet.
The civil aviation director, Gen. Eduardo Duran, said an investigation into
possible sabotage had been ordered after a Cuenca radio station reported
witnesses saw the plane explode before crashing.
Chad troops recapture key city
N'DJAMENA, Chad --Government forces recaptured a strategic oasis
crossroads yesterday, jeopardizing Libyan-backed rebels battling army
units for control of the northwestern city of Abeche, jubilant officials an-
nounced.
Army units and rebels were reported fighting in the streets of Abeche, 400
miles northwest of N'Djamena and the western anchor of the east-west
highway from Sudan to this capital city.
Information Minister Soumalia Mahamat reported the recapture of Oum
Chalouba, the crossroads 150 miles north of Abeche, and called it "a great
success." Oum Chalouba had been taken by the insurgents after fierce
fighting last week.
Mahamat said government troops inflicted "very heavy" losses on the in-
surgents and captured about 300. He also said 400 government soldiers taken
prisoner by the rebels last month were freed and army units seized many
heavy arms, including artillery.
If the government forces can control Oum Chalouba, they can severely
restrict the flow of supplies to the insurgents fighting for Abeche.
Brink's trial heavily guarded
GOSHEN, N.Y. - Shotgun-toting police in bulletproof vests guarded a
courtroom where jury selection began yesterday in the trial of three radicals
charged with killing three people in a bungled $1.6 million Brink's holdup.
Officials in the rural community 45 miles north of New York City feared
supporters of the defendants would attend the trial and try to spark a con-
frontation with authorities or help the trio escape.
The defendants - Weather Underground members David Gilbert, 39,
Judity Clark, 33, and Black Liberation Army member Donald Weems, 36, -
are the first to be tried on state charges in the Oct. 20, 1981, robbery and
slayings of three people.
The holdup left two police officers and a security guard dead. The stolen
$1.6 million was recovered.
EPA study clears pesticides
WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday
there no longer is reason to fear a "hidden public health disaster" from
more than 200 pesticides which were approved for sale on the basis of faulty
data.
Finishing a seven-year review of one of the world's largest toxic-test labs,
the agency said it had turned up only a handful of pesticides still in use
without necessary evidence to demonstrate safety.
As recently as last May, the EPA was saying that perhaps 15 percent of all
pesticides sold in the United States had been approved on the basis of invalid
safety data done by Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories of Northbrook, Ill.
Officials said that original estimate of 212 pesticides has now been cut to
about 35, mostly because chemical companies have come forward with test
results from other labs to replace the faulty IBT data.
"The IBT situation has not proven to be the hidden public health disaster
that some had feared," said Edwin Johnson, director of EPA's pesticides of-
fice.
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