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Page 10 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30. 1979
Study finds watching TV
increases sexist attitudes
United Press International
WASHINGTON — People who
watch a lot of television have more
sexist attitudes than those who
rarely watch it, a University of
Pennsylvania study said Monday.
Researchers sampled 3,600
people and found that those who
watch television more than four
hours a day scored higher on a test
to detect sexist attitudes.
“Television tends to perpetuate a
sexist view of the world where men
have all the adventures and women
are relegated to staying at home,’
said Dr. Nancy Signorielli, one of
the authors of the study.
She said in the more than 1,300
network television programs
monitored over the past 10 years,
men outnumbered women three to
one, and women characters were
less likely to have a job and more
likely to be married than were male
characters.
The number of minorities, on the
other hand, has been relatively ac
curately represented on television
recently, she said.
The study showed that total
minority representation has risen
from 6 percent in 1969 to 13 percent
in 1979.
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Court wont hear
landowners’ case
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court Monday denied a hearing
to a group of landowners challenging a federal program to protect
flood-prone land on grounds it diminishes the value of their land.
The justices let stand a lower-court decision that the Flood Disas
ter Protection Act of 1973 does not violate the rights of the Texas
Landowners Rights Association, the state of Missouri, 40 local gov
ernments and several hundred landowners.
In 1968, Congress passed the National Flood Insurance Act, a
federally subsidized program to protect property owners against flood
damage by providing government-supported insurance.
As a condition of the program, the act required flood-prone com
munities to adopt local flood plain management measures to reduce
or avoid damage.
Congress, realizing the program was not sufficient to induce com
munity participation, passed the Flood Disaster Protection Act of
1973, which included sanctions against communities that did not take
part.
The act prohibited federal assistance for construction and loans
from federally supervised lending institutions to landowners in
flood-prone communities that did not participate in the program.
The landowners charged the 1973 law transformed a voluntary
federal insurance program into one that coerced landowners and local
governments into taking part in the program.
A federal district court judge dismissed the landowners’ suit against
the government, ruling the act was in the interest of the public’s
safety, health and general welfare. The decision was upheld by the
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Appealing to the Supreme Court, the landowners argued that
property is designated flood-prone without a hearing and the deter
mination often reduces land values.
The landowners said some land was declared flood-prone with no
evidence that it was under greater risk than other areas.
"Only since 1973, however, has the scheme of enforcing local gov
ernment and landowner participation in the program had the effect of
forcing petitioners to accept irrational adjudications,” the landowners
argued in their appeal.
The government, opposing review, said Congress has determined
there is a “need for a comprehensive scheme of flood disaster man
agement.”
“Part of the scheme involves discouraging new investment in
flood-prone areas because the public must bear the expense of the
subsidized insurance,” the government said.
Government lawyers said designating land as flood-prone does not
reduce property values.
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Crash kills prisoners
on way to freedom
Texas A&
United Press International
SAN DIEGO — A Mexican gov
ernment plane carrying American
inmates destined for a prisoner ex
change with Mexicans jailed in this
country slammed into a utility pole
in fog and burned near the border
Sunday, killing all 10 people aboard.
A Federal Aviation Administra
tion official said there was no indica
tion of any emergency or problem
with the twin-engine Otter turbop
rop plane, which was attempting to
land at Tijuana International Airport
in heavy fog.
The blazing wreckage containing
the four American prisoners, two
Mexican pilots and four prison
guards burned intensely for two
hours as molten aluminum flowed
several yards from the impact area,
a half-mile north of the international
border.
The FA A said the pilot had re
quested clearance into U.S. airspace
through the Tijuana airport tower
several minutes before the crash.
“One wing caught the telephone
pole and the baby just started turn
ing,” said Border Patrol Sgt. Jack
Doherty. “As near as we can tell the
cause was bad visibility and the pilot
didn’t know where he was at.”
The prisoner exchange program,
which began in December 1977, al
lows American prisoners in Mexico
to complete their sentences in this
country and Mexicans jailed in
America to return home.
The four Americans were iden
tified as Steven Michael Olsen, 30,
of Imperial Beach, Calif.; Lotus
Marie Sanchez, 29, of Garden
Grove, Calif.; Julie Ann Sheldon,
25, of Cambria, Calif.; and Gerald
Lapinski, 35, hometown unknown.
Olsen and Miss Sheldon, daugh
ter of jazz trumpeter Jack Sheldon of
the Merv Griffin television pro
gram, had been married in Mexico
and were returning to the United
States to start a new life with the
couple’s 9-nH)ntlH)ld(W::.l? een t: ! (
Relatives said the coupltjk^
vacation in Mexico about
\\ hen they were arrestei.
marijuana charge.
The two Mexican
identified as Rene Hernai
riguez and Marco AntoDi]
Villa. The four federalgi
Rafael Gama Avistas, Ea
Estrada, Fernando Igiai
and Raul Santos Benavife
U.S. Patrol agents louiij
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American traffic controllu
ported a plane haddroppe
radar screen.
The rugged Otay Mesa
is crisscrossed only by i
used by Border Patrol Am
ing the area for i
Debris from the ‘
scattered over a i' - t i
..ml touched off a small Ini we]
which was quickly extingri c i a
$19.3 million deficit
County lays off 5,000 tvorken
United Press International
DETROIT — Pink slips are being
mailed in Wayne County, the na
tion’s third largest county, inform
ing nearly 5,000 county workers
they will be out of work in two
weeks.
The county, facing a $19.3 million
deficit, Monday planned to mail the
layoff notices and to notify state offi
cials it cannot maintain essential
services. The layoff's are scheduled
to take effect Nov. 12.
County officials also were slated
to ask the Michigan Court of Ap
peals to rule on the county’s obliga-
Wilson saic
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Baylor e
t ion to fund its four couitsi ^
fisc ;d year ends Nov. 30.
Earlier this month. CM
Circ uit Judge RichardDe $
dered $1.5 million in wT
set aside for operation oftkj
tormation
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TRICK OR TREAT
AT T.J.’S
Drawing for
prizes & drinks
Drawing at 11 p.m.
$100.00 — 1st Prize for best costume
$ 25.00 — T.J/s Gift Certificate
Costume judging by Diamond Darlings
707 Texas Ave. College Sta., Texas
nonymou!
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hoped to pay its uorta S «P leth,n g
missory notes over the ntiil
weeks, or until the
r ear. But Friday, H'aynd
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he brougr
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.1 lose, promissory notei^B] may
permitted 1>\ law. Burdiu®ting the
T he county proposal, bourr
l.isi week In the* Boardof(*" e P as:
is w.n to idle ■t,8ES^jL./“' un
workers and then immedi^J 5
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the county ovet the wetbmough ti
ing its financial crisis ccif
been avoided with a
cent spending reductionilj
ginning of the year.
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