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15, national Battalion/Page 9 July 15, 1982 ed that Wenn| t0 run forli seat was ^ vVentwortlj challenge ill Anti Tuesdsl [)t asked tliesT it on hisbeltl •ch Warped By Scott McCullar CARTOONIST STUFF TYPE neriibers, s n ot avatt -thaii v THE. CARTOONIST UNPER WATER THE CARTOONIST SWEARING S) e # % (*) CARTOONIST CLUA\Sy WITH THE PRESS DOTS HEY, WATCH IT WITH THOSE THINGS? THE CARTOONIST W A HURRY '^TRANSLATION- STAR, SWIRL, N\OOiy, NUMBER, PER CENT 71-year-old runner tries to set second record Senator opposes budget Constitutional amendment United Press International BREWER, Maine — On Saturday afternoon, Barrington Ivers will nervously paw the dirt of a running track. One hun dred meters away, a handful of judges will nervously paw the starting buttons on their stop watches. The three-time Brewer mayor will try to break his second world sprinting record in three weeks. But Ivers is no ordinary world-class runner — he is 71. He must break 13.5 seconds to take the world record, or 13.9 seconds for the American re cord. Three weeks ago he set the 100-yard dash world record for 70-year-olds at 13.4 seconds. All-around world records for the distance are only several seconds faster. In 1936, he won the 100-and 220-yard dashes and the broad jump events at a Maine state championship meet, but he didn’t run another race for 40 years. Then, in 1976, Ivers saw a television program on elderly people who still ran competi tively. “1 figured I could run thos£ times, if I practiced,” he said." At the time, Ivers was living in Canada. At first, he just walked 2W miles a dayi A month later he began to jog. In two months h£ was running. And in a little more than a year he had shat tered the Canadian records for the 100-and 220-yard dashes ijrj his age group. ^ Ivers, who suffered a heart attack in 1963, swears by run ning. “ “I probably wouldn’t hav£ had that first heart attack, if I had started running earlier,” he said. rep- : C T tal among but which exiials. it is a rare orria — tick aging} i,caij?mgti nother' e pneumo ;ases of the been . lf)3ofthevw v-five percer; an(ler45an(i; 15. led to the 50 percent ii inths, said ers. preside® edical Cenlei ?ly. this is ntinue to git« e f aced with ite large prop ;) unsettling, res’ diseased miCOf thispi me case pert ie last naif rs said. “I > have been s per day. Ini .5 cases peri ted.” t seems ise immune ied out. The: lelps the b# tiling agents, i mated, Cum is a target me knows ifi ay plague’ s her agent. iey il axes iternational N — Attorne French Smili that he re severance pf l deductions!! res to end a® lis personalt ikfast nieetini imith insisltt re “perfecll 1 ling the seifl- received hoc firm andtht he took hot United Press International WASHINGTON — Saying |he Constitution should not be sed as a “fig leaf,” Sen. Charles Mathias, R-Md., introduced a measure to mandate a balanced budget through a simple law in stead of a constitutional amend- iment. The proposal, co-sponsored ty Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., epresents the first bipartisan ipposition to the proposed con stitutional amendment to re quire a balanced budget. Noting Congress just approved a budget with a deficit f more than $100 billion, Mathias said: “I don’t think we should use the Constitution as a ig leaf to hide our embarrass ment over that deficit.” Mathias, in introducing his proposal, said: “The Constitu tion is too important a document to be used to get us over a transi tory political dilemma. “I think we ought to level with the American people. The only thing that is going to get us out of the box we’re in is courageous leadership and mature, respon sible judgment. Sen. Harry Byrd, I-Va., however, noted he sponsored a balanced-budget statute that was enacted by Congress in 1979 and subsequently ignored. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chief Senate sponsor of the con stitutional amendment, urged his colleagues to “vote against any and all amendments,” con tending they would only dam age its chances of passage. Although the amendment is expected to have a better chance of passage in the Senate than in the Democratic-dominated House, House Speaker Thomas O’Neill, D-Mass., predicted Tuesday it will pass both cham bers this year. “My honest opinion is, yeah, it’ll pass,” O’Neill said. “It’s an easy out in an election year. A cowardly way out, but an easy way out.” A Republican co-sponsor, Senate Budget Committee chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico, told his colleagues he believes the measure has several potentially serious problems, and he will introduce a series of perfecting changes to make it workable. The Domenici changes would make it clear the amendment would not give the president new impoundment powers. To become part of the Consti tution, the proposed amend ment must be approved by two- thirds of the Senate and the House, and ratified by three- fourths of the states, 38, within seven years. 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