The Michigan Doily - Tuesday, July 10, 1984 - Page 7 Lous-ma r >attacks Dunn in statement LANSING (UPI) - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jack Lousma yester- day called his opponent's recent at- tacks "awfully distasteful" and warned such tactics threaten to "inflict a mor- tal wound" on the party's chances this fall. The comments, billed as Lousma's first formal response to rival Jim Dunn, were made in a letter sent to 4,000 Republican leaders and volunteers. "It seems to me these kinds of at- tacks demean our electoral process, of- fend the voters, embarrass the Associated Press Republican Party and threaten to in- flict a mortal wound on the hopes of any Computerzed convention Republican in November," Lousma - .J~J L LI ~ said in the letter. A workman installs a computer terminal on the floor of the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco yesterday in s theew n m t s preparation for the Democratic National Convention. Each state delegation will have a terminal in its assigned area on There was no immediate response thefrom the Dunn campaign. Interpreter phired by Purdue for deaf students INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - Purdue University has created a said Betty Nelson, Purdue's associate dean of students who new faculty position designed to improve communications works with disabled students. with deaf students. "Much of Yoder's time will be spent in classroom inter- Myron Yoder of Goshen was appointed the school's sign preting," Nelson said. "We have undergraduate student in- language instructor and interpreter for deaf students. School terpreters who will continue to work in this program and who officials said they hoped Yoder's work would attract more can look forward to the leadership Yoder can provide." deaf students to the university. Yoder has a bachelor's degree in sign language studies "We don't have a great number (of deaf students), but from Madonna College in Livonia, and will complete his maybe it will encourage more deaf students to come to Pur- master's degree in applied Linguistics at Indiana University due," Frank Arganbright, a senior officer in the department in August. of public information at Purdue, told UPI. He also is certified by the Sign Instructors Guidance Yoder's appointment represents a milestone for the school, Network and the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf. Americans visit Europe in record numbers From The Associated Press There are so many Americans in percent from the same month the year Even in smaller places, such as In Paris' department store, Galeries Europe this year that they're bumping before. Lucerne - the charming Swiss town Lafayette, English seems to be heard into each other in Paris subways, BILL JACKMAN of the Air Transport surrounded by snow-covered Alps - almost as frequently as French under asking each other for directions in Lon- Association in Washington said most there are lines at the hotel reservation the huge dome. Harrods, London's don and sitting shoulder-to-shoulder in air carriers are booked this summer, office at the station. On one week night, famous department store, has enticed Italian cafes. thousands of consumer-oriented The booming U.S. economy, the Americans hoping to pick up that real strong dollar, the 40th anniversary of D- Shetland sweater or English china. day and many Americans' desire to see MARY PATTERSON, a travel agent the old country have combined to in White Bear Lake Minn., said this produce the biggest-ever tourist in- 'College students, many with Eurail passes year she's noticed more "younger, asn o re that allow unlimited travel for a period pop junior executive" types heading for PRESIDENT Reagan set the pace Eurpe"h tletting loose, last month, seeking his ancestral roots up everywhere.ey're jst t in looe, in Ireland, touring the Normany she said, noting that the recession a few beaches in France and attending an racrimp on overseas economic summit on London. At the American Society of Travel He was just one of roughly 5.5 million At eeinncid, "fTrel Americans - more than Ireland's Agents, Dee Minnick said, "Student ac- population - expected to visit Europe and international traffic was up 14 per- the clerk said there was one double this y appears to have really picked up in 1984. cent in May. room available in the city. thise" Trans-Atlantic flights are booked At the European Travel Commission Obviously, Aemricans aren't the only College students, many with Eurail solid, travel agents are doing a brisk in New York, spokesman Hans Friis travellers in Europe, but they make up passes that allow unlimited train travel business and State Department of- said the commission is looking for a 15 a hefty share. Because the dollar has for a period, pop up everywhere. Two ficials are working furiously to keep up percent increase over the record 4.8 appreciated against all European groups - one from Pennsylvania State with the crush of passport applications. million Americans who went to Europe currencies, Americans find their University, the other from Illinois - AMERICANS - from college beck- last year. money buys more. crowded into an automatic laundry in packers to retired people - seem to be "Everybody is pleased with the great THE BRITISH pound, for example, Baden-Baden, the German resort town everywhere in Europe. influx," Friis said. "The hoteliers are fell to an all-time low of $1.3090 in early on the edge of the Black Forest. They "Europe's a bargain because, ob- doing very well," he said, adding trading yesterday in London. On swa ries aught up on their viously, the dollar is buying more," Europe can easily handle the crowds Friday, it cost $1.32 to buy one pound. said Vivian Deuschl, an official at the because "the infrastructure is so The traditional sights, like Windsor BIG CITIES are the major draws, Commerce Department's travel and good." Palace, the Tower of London, the Eiffel particularly London, according to tourism division. In major cities, London, Paris and Tower and Arc de Triompe, are packed Deuschl. The Cabinet War Rooms - the One gauge of European travel is Rome for example, hotels are packed. with Americans. "Do you speak new museum that displays where Win- passport applications, which the State On Paris' trendy Left Bank, it's almost English?" one young tourist asked ston Churchill directed his country's ef- Department says have jumped 50 per- impossible to find a hotel, regardless of another on Paris' Champs Elysees. forts against Nazis - is more popular cent so far in 1984. Some 600,000 price, which doesn't have a "complete" "Yes, very well," laughingly responded with Americans than the British, one passports were issued in May, up 53 sign out front. the other in a thick southern drawl., guide said.