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Battalion Classified 845-2611 Page 12/The BattalionfThursday, November 7,1985 World and Nation Slouch By Jim Earle “Now that’s what I call seniority!” Defense spending World military expenditures reach $800 billion this year Associated Press WASHINGTON — World mili tary spending will reach $800 billion this year — $60 billion more than last year — continuing a post-World War II weapons builclup at the cost of social programs, a report by arms control advocates said Wednesday. The United States and the Soviet Union, with 11 percent of the world’s population, account for more than half the military spend ing, the report said. Among the United States and its European allies, annual per capita military spending amounts to about $45, compared with $11 for health research, the report said. The world spends about $450 to educate each child and $25,600 to support each soldier. The findings, based on official U.S. and international statistics, were published by World Priorities, an economic research group whose sponsors include the Rockefeller Foundation, the Arms Control Asso ciation and the World Policy Insti tute. Associated Press Democrats and Republicans infor mally inaugurated their 1986 elec tion campaigns Wednesday, posting rival claims of success on the day af ter off-year balloting produced a GOP runaway in New Jersey and a historic Democratic sweep of Vir ginia. Statewide races aside, several of the nation’s big-city mayors savored new terms in municipal elections, in cluding Ed Koch in New York, Cole man Young in Detroit and Kathy Whitmire in Houston. Miami’s six- term Mayor Maurice Ferre was the most notable casualty. He ran third behind Raul Masvidal and Xavier Suarez, who will square off in a run off election Tuesday. Democratic Party chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. hailed moderate Gov.- clect Gerald L. Baliles in Virginia as the profile of a winner, and said ac companying, first-time statewide vic tories Tuesday by a black and a woman showed a powerful, historic and positive force. The aim of the report is to use of ficial statistics to demonstrate the disparity between spending on weaponry and that on health, wel fare and education. For example, it said: • The Soviet Union spends more on its military than the governments of all the developing countries com bined spend for the education and health care of their 3.6 billion peo ple. • The U.S. Air Force budget is larger than the cost for educating the 1.2 billion children in Africa, Latin America and Asia, including Japan. • Developed countries on aver age spend 5.4 percent of their GNP for military purposes, 0.3 percent for development assistance to poor countries. • Since 1960, Third World mili tary spending has increased five fold, and the number of countries ruled by military governments has grown from 22 to 5/ . Baliles, somewhat more modestly, said of his party’s triple victory,“Ob viously we have a winning formula in Virginia and people may be asking questions about it.” Noting that President Reagan had campaigned for the losing GOP ticket in Virginia, Kirk said Demo crats “need nave no fear” of presi dential popularity as they bid to win control of the Senate in 1986. But at the White House, spokes man Larry Speakes countered that Republican GOP Gov. Thomas Kean was re-elected by a landslide in New Jersey, and said the significant thing was GOP control of the State Assem bly for the first time since 1972. Leaders of both parties had agreed in advance that New Jersey and Virginia were the key battle grounds as they looked ahead to the 1986 congressional elections, with the GOP looking for signs of a na tionwide Republican realignment and Democrats hoping for a comeback after Reagan’s 49-state re- election sweep in 1984. Romanian man seeking asylum in United States Associated Press WASHING I ON — A Romanian merchant seaman jumped ship in Jacksonville, Fla., the Justice Depart ment reported Wednesday, and a government source said he re quested political asylum in this coun try. The source, who spoke on condi tion of anonymity, said no decision had been made on whether to gram asylum. Meanwhile authorities stud ied the results of an interview with him. Patrick Korten, Justice’s depul) director of public affairs, said he could not identify the seaman or provide details of the circumstances surrounding his leaving of the ves sel. But the source identified the sea man as Stefan Vranea. Korton said an interview in Roma nian was completed Wednesday eve ning by an interpreter under con- s tract with the goverment. He said eat her the man was in the custody of Immigration and Natu ralization Service agents and “isn't going anywhere until they have questioned him thoroughly in the | right language.” Korten evidently was alluding to the case of Soviet seaman Miroslav Medvid. Medvid twice jumped offa I Soviet grain freighter near New Or- £ leans last month but was returned to | the vessel after telling U.S. officials | that he wanted to return to the So I viet Union. Duke Austin, an INS spokesman, said Wednesday, “We can’t comment publicly until they (the person or people who would defect) go public themselves.” The State Department issued a statement confirming it was “inter viewing a Romanian seaman in Jack sonville, Fla.,” New atlas views Earth from space Associated Press WASHINGTON — Its publishers f call it “the most riveting look at our , continent ever put between covers of f a book.” Bef ore the first copy was re ady, 200,()()() had been sold for $29.95 — or $39.95 for the deluxe issue, which comes with a magnifier. | The National Geographic Socie ty’s “Atlas of North America,” my veiled Wednesday, looks at the conti nent from space and presents a - stunning portrait. In vivici blues, greens and reds- | photographic images printed in col- | ors other than their own to bring oul : details invisible to the human eye- the atlas is, according to the society, I “a new way of seeing the earth thatis ; neither mappping nor photography, | but does the work of both and better , than either.” In addition to containing the fa miliar maps and illustrations found in conventional atlases, the new one makes heavy use of pictures from > space to show not only what the earth below looks like but also what it’s made of and how it is being I shaped by natural and man-made forces. The societv got its pictures from Landsat satellites, weather satellites, 1; crews of the Apollo, Skylab and shuttle spacecraft and from air- f planes. 7:30 & 945 NOVEMBER 8,9 Rudder Auditorium FRIDAY and SATURDAY Politicians looking toward '86 races