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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.
The child will be rushed by jet
back to Minneapolis as soon as a
suitable liver becomes available,
Najarian said.
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Squash seeds date
U.S. agriculture
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Resear
chers using a new carbon dating
technique on ancient squash seeds
say agriculture in the eastern Un
ited States developed at least
7,000 years ago, about 2,500 years
earlier than previously believed.
The scientists at the University
of Rochester, Northwestern Uni
versity and the Center for Amer
ican Archeology in Kampsville,
Ill., dated carbonized remains and
seeds of cultivated squash plants
from archeological digs in Illinois
using a new radio carbon dating
technique.
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. However, aides
indicated more work needed to be
done on these matters.
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