Page 14/The Battalion/Friday, September 9, 1983 start photo hy Eric- Evan Let Birthday cakes for sale This Garfield cake, along with other custom-made cakes, are for sale at the Memorial Student Center Cafeteria. Cakes are available for all occasions. Reagan plans to erase sexism United Press International WASHINGTON — President Reagan embarks on a campaign to mend fences with women Thurs day by proposing a series of initia tives to erase discriminatory fed eral laws. The president arranged a meet ing with Attorney General Wil liam French Smith and other legal advisers to give the go-ahead to move with Congress to wipe out sex discrimination in the statutes. His decisions will be based on a review of a 50-page report pre pared by a Justice Department Task Force. Barbara Honegger, a former aide who worked on the task force, was instrumental in moving the White House to action with her charges Reagan had re neged on his promises for equality for women. Honegger called tardy adminis tration efforts to rectify inequities in the law against women a sham. She indicated Justice Department officials were thwarting efforts to move ahead on the problem. Deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said a White House aide will be consulting with Honegger. However, no one apparently has East Texas town boycotts Soviet imports in protest contacted her yet. An aide said the attorney gen eral will discuss with Reagan 18 cases dealing with discrimination his department is reviewing. The aide indicated Reagan will announce 50 more instances of obsolete federal statutes that make a sex-based distinction be tween men and women. They would be added to an omnibus bill covering 100 other laws that Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., already has introduced. United Press Inteniutionul MARSHALL — The city coun cil of this East Texas city has unanimously approved a resolu tion calling on its 21,6(K) citizens to boycott any imports from the Soviet Union in protest of last week’s downing of a South Korean airliner. Mayor Lane Strahan said he did not know whether any Russian products ever reached Marshall, but if they do, that citizens are being Urged not to buy any of them. “Whether this be vodka or some other form of liquor or equipment or tools or whatever is available for purchase in our city, we are calling on our citizens to boycott the purchase of these items to show our suppport to our national leaders, President Reagan and local congressman, to the entire "Texas congressional de legation that we are behind the action that is being taken,” the mayor said. “We deplore the terrible loss of life in the shooting down of the Korean airliner, the loss of all lives, but especially because we had some Americans on board.” Child still awaits liver; returning to Abilene Unili-d Press Intmiatiomil MINNEAPOLIS — Tiny Ashley Bailey, who has been awaiting a new liver at University of Minnesota Hospitals since May, is well enough to return home to Texas, doctors said Thursday. able donor organ has yet been found for the 1-year-old child who needs a relatively small liver. Ashley, who weighed aljout 9 pounds when she was admitted to the hospitals, now weighs more than 13 pounds. Despite two presidential pleas Dr. John Najarian, chief of fora new organ for Ashley, no suit- surgery at the hospitals, said Ashley is stable and can be trans ferred to a hospital in Abilene. Her life is no longer in immediate danger, he said, although there is no way to estimate how long she can go without a new organ. 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The technique puts the de velopment of agriculture in the eastern United States at around 5,000 B.C., 2,500 years earlier than previous evidence had indi cated, the scientists said. “For the eastern United States, that would be the earliest date for agriculture. It does date earlier in Mesoamerica (Central America) and elsewhere in the world, in the Near East particularly,” said David Asch, an archeological botanist with the Kampsville archeological center. “The signifi cance is a regional one. " People began cultivating pre viously wild plants for food at least 8,000 years ago in Central Amer ica and as early as 16,000 years agq in the Nile Valley in Egypt, Asch said. Central American techni ques carried over into the south western United States. The researchers said the mea surements, using < accelerator, were the done on a plant specimen technique can be used on a thousand times smallerl those required ii methods. These include carbon-H| ing, which measures the of radioactive carbon-14 ing in a substance. This requires a sample of at li gram, or .035 oz. "Critical specimens of pi mains are simply too small dated by traditional techni said James Brown, an anti gy professor at Northwesti a member of the team In the latest experimem carbon-1-4 in the seeds tracted for analysis by pi them at great speed in thelii sity of Rochester’; accelerator, one of that machines in existence, said Gove, director of the lab and a physics profe Rochester. The other machines are University of Arizona at li and in Zurich, Switzerland, said. The team said the experii also confirmed com was port ant in early northeasto culture than originally t Squash and a weed kn marsh alder or sump weed, seeds can be ground like were more prominent. The researchers speed squash seeds were dropped! to a camp fire where the was lacing eaten. The seedsl charred by the fire, cadi them and preserving them.| Most of the seeds were three to six years ago at the and Napoleon Hollow sites the Illinois River. Speakes told reporters the president “will receive a report on the administration s efforts on be half of women.” A panel is considering other legislative initiatives to eliminate economic discrimination against women in the fields of pensions, insurance and pay, particularly in government jobs. 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