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New Batman hits bookstores
Boy Wonder replaced; female Robin joins comic book
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NEW YORK — A new Batman
has hit the bookstores —* a cynical,
middle-aged warrior who, with a fe
male Robin at his side, leaves retire
ment to lash out at the disintegration
of law and order in Gotham City.
“The Dark Knight Returns” is not
like most comic books. Its printing is
deluxe, its artwork complex, and its
mood nightmarish and somber. At
its heart is a 50-year-old Gaped Cru
sader who battles his own dark side.
“I try to show him as a very angry,
frustrated, obsessive man. Very
righteous,” said Frank Miller, the
29-year-old mastermind of the new
Batman.
“The Dark Knight Returns” is a
four-part mini-series; it will not re
place the original Batman pulp
comic books, which continue to show
the debonair young millionaire
Bruce Wayne and his ward, Dick
Grayson, fighting crime in Gotham
as they have since their first appear
ance in May 1939.
$2.95. The cover is a stark silhouette
of Batman, lit by a bolt of lightning.
“It kind of announces to the world
that this is not a typical comic book,”
said Dennis O’Neil, senior editor at
DC Comics, publisher of Batman.
O’Neil said the idea is to reach
adults and sophisticated teen-agers,
and those who do not normally read
comic books.
"In my gut, the creature wrilhn
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But while those books sell for 75
cents apiece at newsstands, “The
Dark Knight Returns” is sold only at
book and specialty stores and costs
So he shows Batman in retire
ment, drinking heavily. He tries to
fight the impulse to become a vigi
lante again, as a gang known as the
Mutants rapes, murders and robs at
will.
and snarls and tells me what I need
says Bruce Wayne, and one storm
night he becomes Batman agar
leaving wrongdoers in crumpls;
heaps all over the city.
But he’s not a young man ai'
longer. He is not sure of nisphysia
abilities, and a night of crime nm
ing leaves him aching all over.
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published Feb. 28. The Joker and
other villains of the past also playi
part in the series.
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Government rules Japan
‘dumping’ computer chips
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Com
merce Department, in a preliminary
ruling, said Tuesday that Japan was
“dumping” computer memory chips
in this country at below fair-value
costs in violation of U.S. trade laws.
A final ruling was expected by
May 27, the department said in a
statement. The finding could lead to
stiff tariffs on future Japanese semi
conductor sales.
The ruling, which could have
wide-ranging implications for U.S.-
Japan trade relations, came in one of
three separate U.S. investigations
into allegations of unfair trading
practices by Japanese semiconductor
makers.
U.S. semiconductor makers ap
plauded the decision.
The ruling came in three separate
major complaints brought against
Japan — two by U.S. semiconductor
manufacturers and the third by the
Reagan adminstration itself.
Reagan administration sources,
who spoke on the condition that they
not be identified by name, said a
similar ruling will be issued later this
week on the administration-initiated
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“We are confident that the gov
ernment will affirm its preliminary
decisions in its final ruling,” said
Tom Dunlop, general counsel for
Intel Corp., of Santa Clara, Calif.,
one of three American firms that ini
tiated the complaint.
Tuesday’s prelimary judgment
was issued in an investigation that
began last September after three
U.S. semiconductor firms — Intel,
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and
National Semiconductor — filed a
petition alleging illegal “dumping.”
Wiatt gives warning to students
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parking annex 30 on the north
side of campus, Wiatt says.
There were four burglaries of
cars in PA 30 in 1985 and six in
stances of criminal mischief,
Wiatt says.
have gone out to the Physical
Plant.
Wiatt says Kyle Field and mar
ried student apartments are also
spots where crime is high.
Joe Estill, director of the Physi
cal Plant, says lights that have
gone out are repaired the next
day. Unfortunately, Estill says,it’s
impossible to keep all lights in
perfect working order.
Most of the crimes that occur
near married student residences
are bike thefts, Wiatt says. In
1985, there were 26 reported
bike thefts in that area, he says.
Wiatt says although there are
many areas around campus that
are not well-lit, particularly near
the Academic Building, these
areas generally are not more
prone to crime.
Wiatt says officers report in
stances on campus where lights
"Certainly when you’re work
ing with a system as old as ounit’s
hard to keep all the lights work
ing at one time,” he says.
Wiatt says the police have
nightly stake-outs designed to
catch offenders, and he says the)
have been successful overall.
“We’ve caught a number of of
fenders,” Wiatt says. “Our stake
outs have been very productive.
We can’t catch everybody, of
course, but chances are we
eventually.
“If you’ve gotten away with it
10 times before, we may get you
the 11th time,” Wiatt says.
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Astronaut duty for military pilots reduced
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for civilian pilots who would not be
limited by military restrictions.
Military pilots have formed the
backbone of the astronaut corps
since there are few civilian pilots
who meet the qualifications required
to fly spacecraft.
Ross said the new system will lead
to establishing a set rate of attrition
in the astronaut corps. NASA has es
tablished a plan of annual selection
and is accepting applications con
stantly. Gomez said it is hoped that
the astronaut corps can be stabilized
at 100 to 105 members.
The limitation on the time mili
tary pilots can spend in the astronaut
corps will be firmly applied to the
group selected this spring, said Ross,
and may be applied to pilots selected
as far back as 1978.
Military astronauts selected in
1978 are scheduled to end their ex
tended tours in July of 1987 and
whether or not they are returned to
the military, Ross said, “will be a f
matter of negotiation.”
The agreement between NASA:
and the Department of Defense has
always included a limitation on f
time military pilots can spend as as
tronauts, but the limitation has been
extended routinely. Ross said dial
will no longer be the case.
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