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Pi Sigma Epsilon is open to all majors - Everyone interested in PSE is welcome. For more information, please call: Rob Sue Kevin Mike 693-5180 696-4162 696-3419 693-3905 HOW TO PASS YOUR EXAMS... WITH LESS EFFORT A special report shows how to handle material in your toughest course so that you know it for your exams. Get a copy now in time for your upcoming exams and keep it to save time ; worry and get better grades in every course you ever take. Send $2. 75 plus .250 for handling to: COLLEGIATE SERVICES P.O. BOX 7610 PASADENA, TX. 77508 Narrua Please Print College. Mailing Address. .Zip. (Send Cash, Check or Money Order) INDIO, Calif. (AP) — Liberace died of a disease caused by AIDS, the Riverside County coroner said Monday, and he accused the enter tainer’s doctors of covering up the cause of death. “Somebody along the line wanted to pull a fast one on us,” Coroner Raymond Carrillo said at a news conference. Miscroscopic tissue analysis showed that Liberace died because of cytomegalovirus pneumonia due to human immunodeficiency virus disease, Carrillo said. “In layman’s terms, Mr. Liberace died of an opportunistic disease caused by acquired immune defi ciency syndrome/’ he said. Cytomegalovirus is a common vi rus that affects more than half the adult population without ill effects. It can be fatal, however, to people whose disease-fighting immune sys tem is weakened by the AIDS virus. In addition to the fatal pneumo nia caused by the cytomegalovirus, Carrillo said the contributing causes of Liberace’s death included lung and heart disease and a hardening of the valve in the heart. Carrillo said he believed that Lib erace’s doctors covered up the cause of his death. He died Wednesday at his Palm Springs home at the age of 67. “The original cause of death did not make sense,” he said. Dr. Ronald Daniels, a physician who treated Liberace, said the enter tainer died of cardiac arrest because of heart failure brought on by suba cute encephalopathy, a brain inflam mation. “Encephalopathy does not cause heart disease,” Carrillo said. The coroner added that Daniels’ failure to report the correct cause of death would be reported for possible disciplinary action to California’s Board of Medical Quality Assur ance, and that Forest Lawn’s similar failure would be reported to the state board responsible for regulat ing mortuaries. Daniels’ receptionist said the doc tor was declining comment. Liberace’s aides repeatedly denied he had contracted AIDS. They maintained he was suffering perni cious anemia, heart disease and em physema. coroner had not been contatitl required in the case ofpossibltT tagious diseases, and because] tor wasn’t in attendance whenlifci n--) ace died, Carrillo said. MP Fans of Liberace have expre outrage about the investigate see whether the popularenteraj had AIDS. It was first reported Jan. 24 by the Las Vegas (Nev.) Sun that Liberace was suffering from AIDS. The news paper attributed the information to unidentified sources. Riverside County officials refused to accept the death certificate signed by Daniels when they discovered the "It just made me sick klel heard all this digging up dia" Petersen said Sunday at Forest Memorial Park in the Hills, where Liberace was entoi “1 resent anyone going intoann private life.” Coroner’s investigator Sabas sas said if proper procedure BEIF lieen followed, it wouldn’thavel lem kic 1 necessary for his office to kt ing to news conference on the caislTuesda death, offending Liberace’s fans prisone An meric Child-care programs growing in importance Beirut ■nan. fhe WASHINGTON (AP) — Child care programs, today a crucial prob lem for working couples, likely will become increasingly important to employers who want to keep experi enced staffers on the job, a new study says. “In the future, tight labor markets will make it harder to replace experi enced female employees who leave work to start a family,” says the re port, published Monday by the pri- Bi vate Population Reference Bureau. In the years since the end of World War II, women have flooded into the labor market, and time away from their traditional homebound duties has faced millions of families with a dilemma of finding care for small children. Today, more than half of married women with children under age six are employed, compared with only one in eight in 1950, Census Bureau statistics show. Responses to this change have varied from family to family and re gion to region, with some employers initiating programs to assist their workers. Those actions will become increasingly important, says the study by Martin O’Connell of the U.S. Census Bureau and David E. Bloom of Harvard University. Some women can hire help, but most domestic workers do less than half the housework and “husbands are not much help either,” with the majority of them doing less than one-fourth of the housework, the authors state. Women have been seeking jobs in a market with a surplus of labor, during the time when the children of the post-World War II Baby Boom flooded the market. But that will end in the 1990s as the smaller “Baby Bust” generation comes along and there are more jobs than work ers, the report comments. In addition, pressure for better child-care programs also will he cre ated by other recent trends such as delayed childbearing and the high divorce rate, according to the report “Juggling Jobs and Babies: Ameri ca’s Child Care Challenge,” pub lished by the private, non-profit population research center. Meanwhile, “lack of affordable child care probably is preventing many poorly educated and low-in come mothers from working at all. when they are the women who need jobs the most,” the study says. Even after lal>or becomes more scarce, the report suggests that “most employers will need coaxing by federal, state and local govern ment to adopt progressive child-care policies.” A variety of approaches is possi- a ble, O’Connell and Bloom state, in cluding: Contras (Continued from page 1) ii , , j, the Nat • flexible work schedubK,^ j signed to make it easier ferpHpjt a |s to ai range their work times, gi W()r • Block scheduling, a! foraiu workers to work fewer,loiwnR [ n to reduce the number of dais Conuni care is needed. in • Other programs such cH t leased employee leave lorrft i’ 1 im nils and paternity, governnie Israel s benefits and school progimphling for nee such re ■ Israt Rs no minds iainic | abuses that, to date, (lie Contras show no sign of curbing.” Specifically, the re|M»rt said the Contras “engage in selective but sys tematic killing of persons they per ceive as representing the govern ment, in indiscriminate attacks against civilians.” It added that rebel kidnappings of civilians have been widespread, ap parently for the purposes of recruit ment and intimidation. But the study also said the Nic ara guan government engages sive interrogation unr .•« esl: 1 prisoners, including MydoR^ 1 ' 111 pressure and threats usedtotR‘ ll,)l f confessions. R . Fhe report also objected|R' 11 closing last summer of La inde|>endent newspaper,noteR 11, 1 this ac tion left NicaraguawithR c s ‘ u government-sponsored medi ™ al U( “dangerous situation.” Manufacturers unveil new toys; interacting dolls to hit the market NEW YORK (AP) — Once upon a time, dolls just sat there and looked pretty. Then they wet, they talked, and they walked. Now they hold conversations with each other with out a child even being in the room. At the 84th annual American In ternational Toy Fair, which started Monday, manufacturers unveiled animated talking toys that not only communicate with each other, but “understand” what a child says to them and respond with an appropri ate answer. Also introduced were high-tech action figures that will take electro nic cues From signals beamed by new animated TV shows. Manufacturers are hoping such toys can enliven the relatively flat $12.5 billion toy market. Rick Anguilla, editor of the trade publication Toy and Hobby World, said, “We see the area of growth in true interactive toys — not just toys that have something to say and ran domly say it, hut those that almost seem to think and can have real con versations. Put two Talking Cabbage Patch Kids ($100 a piece, retail) in a room and press the buttons on their stom achs. They’ll sense each other’s pres ence and begin chatting. They may discuss ice cream — some are programmed to like va nilla, others chocolate or strawberry. Children can join in the discussion, too, of course. The new dolls know what’s going on around them. Take them for a humpy car ride and the doll might say, “OK, that’s enough. All this bouncing up and down makes me dizzy.” Kiss the doll’s cheek, and it’ll say, “Thank you for the kiss. May 1 have another one, please?” Worlds Of Wonder, the company that introduced the animated talking Teddy Ruxpin, now has Julie. Unlike past dolls that shot out random phrases with little relevance to what a child said, Julie has more than 100 sound-activated responses in her computer chip memory. She recognizes voices and words. When she hears someone say he or she is hungry, Julie will respond, “Let’s eat.” Take her into a dark room and she’ll ask, “Can you see OK? It’s kind of dark.” The doll can even be trained to only respond to its owner’s voice. Council (Continued frompa^el will we do so.’ | A S' Juslic c thieal the Ut lion. a good chunk of the 61) square-foot expansion for the MSC. Perry Eichor, executive president for administrate* present the Council doe know how much space the# nization will be allowed. It 1 seph | . ?e Alneri Edwat wno 1 VL at afrer ^ Oil! B Be “We are applying for J Jac k fi tion,” Eichor said.‘‘Exacilj Amer muc h, we’re not sure." was fi “The Board of Regeiffi paida proved the monies toexpujT MSC last spring,” he i MSC notified the UniversiiJ ter Advisory Board in Moves to put together a program | quiements — space and q needs for the expansion pm The plan calls for thee sion to extend from theeaiil of the MSC, Iretween itafq n o der Tower. It is to be a story expansion. One of t ies will he on the basemen!lL un| ' v ‘Remember Your Valentine” INTERNATIONAL HOUSE Qf PANCAKES* RESTAURANT All you can eat Daily Specials 1 0 p.m.-6 a.m. I lb. 4 ot. Pink and Whlta Taffata Haart 1 lb. 4 oc. 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