…Ninety-four Years Of Editorial Freedom .:1'1 SirF itIaiQ Balmy Breezy, partly sunny in the after- noon, with a high of 35 degrees. IVol. XCIV-No. 95 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Mihigan - Wednesday, January 25, 1984 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages Inflation rate hits Slowest mark in 11years From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - Consumer prices rose 0.3 percent in December and just 3.8 percent in all of 1983, the lowest in- flation rate...…
…Page 2 -- The Michigan Daily - Wednesday; January 25, 1984 Americans watch 7 hours of TV daily, I NEW YORK (AP) - America's television fixation reached an all-time high in 1983, with daily TV viewing breaking the seven-hour mark. A.C. Nielsen's numbers revealed that TV watching per home hit a new high - an average of seven hours, two minutes, an increase of 14 minutes over 1982's record. IT WAS A year that featured the top- rated "M*A*S*H" f...…
…The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 25, 1984 - Page 3 Ford, Dems attack defense budget 1 WASHINGTON (AP) - House Majoi Jim Wright, in a preemptive Democrati President Reagan's State of the Unio declared yesterday that the nation's pric grown "cruelly deranged" at the White I spiraling military spending draining hun f~s 'ces And former President Ford urged Reag ch out the defense budget, and impose ne well, to stem what he called the "dar]...…
…4 OPINION Page 4 Wednesday, January 25, 1984 The Michigan Daily I 'U' leaps at the chance to babysit By David Spak If I had any dottbt that the over- whelming majority of students couldn't give a damn about what happens at this University, those doubts were all thoroughly obliterated in the past two weeks. In that time, students have been getting into the swing of a new term, worrying about the chemistry problems due Monday, and trying t...…
…, ART The Michigan Daily Wednesday, January 25, 1984 Page 5 Folk festival brings in the stars By Joseph Kraus SOME THINGS are worth a whole year's wait. Things like the first day the snow really melts in spring, your birthday (the superbowl?) and, of course, the Ann Arbor Folk Festival. This, the seventh annual festival, promises, as all those in the past have been, to be the single biggest folk or folk-related event of the year. :,Once agai...…
…4 Page 6 - The Michigan Daily- Wednesday, January 25, 1984 .. a .. . .... _.MEL. GIBSON. I I I. F. I -- ---- --,. - - - -.. "Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy ,Dean" MEL GIBSON IN "RoadWarrior" F; ' If youjind your name in today's MICHIGAN DAILY classified page YOU WIN TWO FREE TICKETS to any one of STATE 1-2-3-4 MIDNIGHT MOVIES "NEW YORK BABES" and "FILTHY RICH" BOTH XXX His 0 rnHangups 0 Are' in~lalarious! M~dA...…
…Womens Swimming versus Michigan State, Thursday Matt Mann Pool, 7 p.m. SPORTS Basketball at Purdue, Thursday Ann Arbor Cablevision Channel 19, 7:30 p.m. The Michigan Daily Wednesday, January 25, 1984 Page 7 MSU By SCOTT SALOWICH The Michigan wrestling team ran into one too many All-America candidates last night, as they fell to Michigan State, 23-16. The Wolverines were ahead of the Spartans up until the 190-pound match, when State's Eli B...…
…4 Page 8 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 25, 1984 FORMER 'M' TRACKSTER GOES FOR GOLD Foster dashes t( By RICH WIEDIS For some athletes, years are devoted towards one overriding goal - making it to the Olympic Games. Others develop slowly and realize, quite suddenly sometimes, that they are among the best. Such was the case with Sue Foster, a 1983 Michigan graduate who is currently ranked as the fifth- fastest woman in the United S...…
