…01 eMit ig n :43 Itj Ninety-four years of editorialfreedom Vol. XCIV, No. 31-S 19c84DeiI, Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, July 31, 1984 Fifteen Cents Sixteen Pages Study praises improvements in f NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)- A year after a stream of reports warned of mediocrity in American classrooms, a 'We've made progress, but if we stop here study released yesterday by a task for- .c ce of governors, educators and we'll quickly find ourselves fa...…
…Page 2 - The MichiganDaily-- Tuesday, Juiy-31, 1984 Nine-day old British girl gets new heart LONDON (AP) - Doctors gave a new heart team, took five and a half hours. Yesterday after- Cosgrove said it would be several days before yesterday to nine-day-old Hollie Roffey, the world's noon, Cosgrove announced Hollie was in stable con- Hollie's chances of survival became clear. "We are youngest heart transplant patient, after her surgeon dition. ju...…
…The Michigan Daily - Tuesday July31, 1984 - Page 3 FIRE VICTIMS SUE FOR $9 MILLION Illegal aliens ile landmark case SAN DIEGO (AP) - A landowner's duty to provide the United States, including an estimated 3 million legislative proposals. safe housing for migrant workers, including illegal who have been in the country since 1982 and could "Trying to create a remedy through legislation is a aliens, is the focus of a trial spawned by a fatal fire...…
…4 Page 4 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, July 31, 1984 Doctors choose sexes for separated twins IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports TORONTO (AP)- Doctors separating 2 -year-old Siamese twins chose "the more active, aggressive in- fant" to leave as a boy, and made the meeker child a girl, the chief of surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children said yesterday. Dr. Robert Filler, who headed a team of 4...…
…GOP senators rebel against secret platform WASHINGTON (AP)- Liberal I don't think you can turn around the members of the Republican Party, par- next day and ask them for votes." ticipating in a well-attended but unauthorized platform hearing, told Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa) told the GOP leaders yesterday that large blocs senators that the Republican Party of voters could be alienated if President should not allow its "New Right to go Reagan's pol...…
…s OPINION Page 6 ,Obe Mict-gat Bti Vol. XCIV, No. 31-S 94 Years of Editorial Freedom Managed and Edited by Students at The University of Michigan Editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily Editorial Board Missing the point R ECENTLY, REP. Joseph Addabbo, (D- New York), issued a report on military readiness that concluded that the United States was incapable at this time of sustaining a military action for a prolonged period. White ...…
…ARTS Tuesday, July 31, 1934 The Michigan Daily Page 7 'Purple Rain' is no desert By Phillip K. Lawes F OR MOST of its hour and forty minute length Purple Rain suc- ceeds so well that one is tempted to take it seriously, to judge the film by stan- dards which are too stringent for its genre. Purple Rain is a latter day musical, which is to say, an elaborate music video. Judged on those terms, it comes close to being brilliant. Judged as a f...…
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…Page 10 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, July 31, 1984 Not m uch Floyd left in Waters By Paul Heigren Special to the Daily TORONTO - It wasn't Pink Floyd. But it was something else. Never mind that the featured album of the concert, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, is only a spotty success. Never mind that Roger Waters, the featured Floydian, egocentrically utilized Pink Floyd as a medium for his great nightmarish vision until it alienated t...…
…The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, July 31, 1984 --Page ii Books The Dead Girls Jorge Ibarguengoitia Avon/Bard, 156 p., $2.95 Reminiscent of Faulkner's sleazy Southern characters and settings, The Dead Girls, by Jorge Ibarguengoitia, is an excursion through the suffocating smallness of isolated rural Mexico. The book depicts a sub-culture within a sub-culture, revealing as many preconceived notions and attitudes of the sub-sub-culture as it does ...…
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…P Page14 '-fthe M'ichiian Ociily - Tueda', Ju1;?f984 Cubs outshine Philadelphia for fourth straight CHICAGO (AP) - Jody Davis' tie- breaking double in the sixth inning yesterday powered the surging Chicago Cubs and Dennis Eckersley to a 3-2 vic- tory over the Philadelphia Phillies. The triumph was the fourth straight for the Cubs, second in the National League East, and their sixth in the last eight games. WITH ONE out in the sixth, Leon Durh...…
…-The-Michigan Daily - Tuesday, July31,4984 -Page 15 Soviets belittle 01ympics (Continued from Page 1) the opening ceremony being "shown during the intermissions." IZVESTIA SAID U.S. athletes were taking advantage of the absence of the Soviet Union and East Germany to win events in which "they have not shone for a long time." Other competition was compared unfavorably to the 1980 Summer Olympics, which were held in Moscow and were the target o...…
…SPORTS Tuesday, July 31, 1984 Page 16 The Michigan Daily U.S. women wipe out Yugoslavia INGLEWOOD, CALIF. (AP) - Cheryl Miller scored 23 points and paced the U.S. team to an 83-55 victory over Yugoslavia in the opening round yesterday of the Olympic women's basketball competition. The 6-foot-3 Miller, who helped the University of Southern California win the last two national college titles, led the American women's fastbreak of- fense, sev...…
