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Apology to women
backfires on Reagan
From AP and UPI
WASHINGTON - For 10 minutes an White House a day earlier and blamed
abject Ronald Reagan apologized it on the bureaucracy.
yesterday for a snag that turned 1,200 THEN, discussing "the recognition of
women conventioneers away from a women's place," he said: "I want you
long-scheduled White House tour, but in to know that I've always recognized it
the process he made a crack about because I happen to be one who believes
cavemen "in skin suit, carrying clubs" that if it wasn't for women, us men
that soured the gesture for some in his would still be walking around in skin,
audience, suits and carrying clubs."
Joking he was "going to do penance," The remark didn't go over well.
Reagan appeared before a meeting of There was a murmur in the hall. At a
the International Federation of news conference immediately after
Business and Professional Women the Reagan departed, Madenwald ex-
morning after busloads of delegates pressed ire.
expecting a special tour were turned "He's always two steps behind
away from the White House Tuesday. whatever is happening," she said. She
"I THOUGHT it was very degrading; said she found Reagan's remarks
I though it was inappropriate and I was patronizing in general and his comment
offended," said a piqued Polly Maden- about men in skin suits insensitive.
wald of the president's remarks. She is ALL OF THIS added up to bad news
the newly installed president of the for a White House that has been seeking
Club. ways to heal an indication in polls that
Reagan's talk to the women was women, now a majority of the
hurriedly arranged by election-minded American electorate, are substantially
White House aides, concerned about the more opposed to Reagan than men are.
"gender gap" - Reagan's political Women have the power to defeat
problems with women. Reagan in 1984 "if they choose to,"
Reagan joked about the mixup at the Madenwald said.
Redford's daughter
questioned in slaying
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BOULDER, Colo. (UPI) - The 23-
year-old daughter of actor Robert Red-
ford was among those questioned
yesterday in the slaying of a Colorado
University student she has dated for
three years.
Authorities said Sidney Wells, 22, a
senior who lived in the posh Spanish
Towers condominium complex east of
the university campus, was shot in the
back of the head Monday with a large
caliber weapon.
"WE ARE questioning anyone and
everyone," a police spokesman said.
"We have made no arrests. We are
trying to get all the information
possible. At this time, we are looking in-
to everything."
Among those questioned was Wells'
longtime girlfriend, Shauna Redford, a
CU student who lived in the same con-
dominium complex, a afloor below
Wells. She went to stay with friends af-
ter she learned of the shooting.
Police impounded and searched a
1977 black BMW that Wells owned, but
would not explain their actions. Friends
said the car was given to Wells as a gift
by Redford, a junior arts and sciences
major at the school.
REDFORD told police she last talked
to her boyfriend about 11 a.m. Monday.
His body was found at 12:30 p.m. by his
brother, Samuel Wells, 23, who had
returned from an overnight camping
trip in the mountains west of Boulder.
A neighbor reported hearing a loud
noise "like a door slamming" about
11:30 a.m,
IN BRIEF
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press international reports
Libya threatens to sink carrier
The Libyan regime of a Col. Moammar Khadafy, bucking Western
criticism of its intervention in Chad's civil war, threatened yesterday to sink
the U.S. aircraft carrier Eisenhower if it entered disputed waters off Libya.
The Libyan warning, immediately dismissed by the United States, came
as the United States rushed anti-aircraft missiles and advisers to help
Chad's government repel the Libyan-backed rebels.
In Washington, the State Department said the United States would oc-
ntinue to exercise its right to sail in international waters.
Libya's threat, carried by the official news agency JANA, was issued a
day after two U.S. navy fighter jets chased off two Libyan MiG-23s ap-
proaching the U.S. nuclear-powered carrier Eisenhower off Libya in the
Mediterranean Sea.
Solidarity calls for protests
WARSAW, Poland - Dismissing martial law's end last month as a
"propoganda gesture," the Solidarity underground called yesterday for
nationwide demonstrations on Aug. 31 to mark the third anniversary of the
outlawed labor federation's birth.
"On Aug. 31, let us manifest our devotion to the ideals of August 1980," the
union's five-man Temporary Coordinating Commission said in a leaflet
distributed to Western correspondents. "Let us give testimony that
Solidarity lives on."
The leaflet called for clandestine union chapters to organize
"celebrations" locally.
It also urged supporters to boycott public transport between 2 and 4 p.m.,
when factories change shifts, offices close, and the rush hour begins all over
Poland.
The statement was the first fromthe underground leaders since theCom-
munist government ended the military crackdown after 19 months and
declared a partial amnesty on July 22.
Although the government lifted martial law, it replaced it with legislation
incorporating most of the restrictions and prohibitions it promulgated
during the period of military rule.
Lebanese fear army deployment
U.S. Middle East Envoy Robert McFarlane conferred with
Israeli leaders yesterday on way to ease Lebanese fears that imminent
redeployment of Israel's army could lead to a permanent division of
Lebanon.
Last week, the Israeli government decided to redeploy its soldiers to more
secure positions in the south. Lebanese officials, including President Amin
Gemayel, have expressed fears the Israeli move could lead to dividing the
nation permanently into Israeli and Syrian-controlled regions.
McFarlane's talks in Jerusalem came as a U.S. Marine spokesman in
Beirut acknowledged an unsuccessful machine gun attack on American
peacekeepers near Beirut airport last weekend.
A spokesman for the U.S. Marine peace-keeping contingent confirmed that
an unknown assailant opened fire with a machine gun at two groups of
Marines jogging near the city's airport last weekend. The spokesman said
the gunfire came no closer than 25 yards from the Marines and no one was
hurt.
U.S. advisers arrive in Chad
N'DJAMENA, Chad - Thirty U.S. Redeye anti-aircraft missiles and three
American advisers arrived in Chad yesterday as President Hissene Habre's
government charged that Libyan jets intensified their bombing of the nor-
thern outpost of Faya-Largeau.
Unconfirmed reports said that despite the Libyan bombing, Habre and his
troops pushed northward and captured the garrison town of Gouro, a
stronghold of ex-President Goukouni Oueddei's forces 10 miles from the
Libyan border and 150 miles north of Faya-Largeau.
But as the day wore on without official confirmation, Western diplomats
and other diplomats said they were increasingly doubtful that the reports
were accuate.
Habre's government clamped a total ban on information about arms
shipments, but officials in Washington confirmed the arrival of the missiles
and the three American instructors in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad.
Gov't files lawsuit against GM
WASHINGTON - The government filed suit against General Motors Corp.
yesterday to force the recall of 1.1 million 1980 X-cars with brake defects and
asked that the auto maker be fined $4 million for trying to cover up the
problem.
The request for a fine was an unprecedented move by the Justice Depar-
tment, which charged the No. 1 car manufacturer attempted during a
government investigation to hide the extent of the brake problem that can
cause vehicles to skid out of control.
GM officials had no immediate comment on the legal action.
The lawsuit, filed by the Justice Department in U.S. District Court in
Washington, c'. ims GM knew before it began producing its front-wheel-
drive 1980 X-cars - the Chevrolet Citation, Pontiac Phoenix, Buick Skylark
and Oldsmobile Omega - that the rear wheels had a tendency to lock
prematurely.
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Justice releases marchers
WATERLOO, N.Y. (AP) - The re- bail and two escaped from the elemen-
maining peace marchers arrested in a tary school where the protesters were
confrontation with townspeople near being held.
the Seneca Army Depot were released Nessler said that, under normal cir-
yesterday after a village justice drop- cumstances, even if the women had
ped disorderly conduct charges against been found guilty, "they would have
the women. been released.
"After thought and consideration, I "This whole thing has disrupted the
have decided to dismiss all the charges community," he said. "I'm also taking
against the defendants in the interest of into interest the safety and welfare of the
justice and taking into consideration... community." -
the fact these ladies already have been The protesters, on a legal march,
incarcerated five days," said VilIge were blocked by about 300 angry town-
Justice Thomas Nessler. speople as they headed to the Women's
Fifty-three women were arrested in Encampment for a Future of Peace and
Saturday's confrontation. Eight posted Justice next to Seneca Army Depot.
Reading provides escape
(continued from Page 3) Even if students are in school, like
they see more clients during the Sarah Marek, they may read just to
summer since people can slow down keep themselves busy during the
and read the novels they heard about slower pace of summer classes. "If I
during the school year. didn't read, I'd go crazy," said
"Generally, people read big, fat Marek, whose fare has included
novels," said librarian Judy Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut and
Calhoun -'iAnd Bidney Sheldn -we=- Anthony Burgess's.Earthy.Powers....
can't keep him on the shelf." "School is not that stimulating."
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