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Daily Nobraskan
Tuesday, September 11, 1084
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Who's
News
Gerhard G. Meisels, dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences at
UNL since 1983, has been chosen
president-elect of the American
Society for Mass Spectrometry
(ASMS).
Meisels, an authority in radia
tion chemistry and mass spec
trometry, will serve a six-year
term on the ASMS national board
of directors.
He will become the preside i
the society in 1986, folio in .V.s
current term as vic i esi.'r.t
for programs. A .! two r
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term on the board will follow his
presidency.
Meisels came to UNL in 1 975 as
chemistry department chairman.
Gail DiSabatino has been ap
pointed chairwoman of leader
ship development for educational
services of the National Associa
tion for Campus Activities.
DiSabatino, who is working on
her doctorate in educational ad
ministration, is program coordi
nator at UNL.
Headquartered in Columbia,
S.C., NACA is composed of more
than 900 college and university
members and nearly 550 asso
ciated firms that are involved
with contemporary entertain
ment, the performing and fine
arts and travel and leisure services.
Scholarships have been award
ed to 65 UNL agriculture stu
dents by the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben.
The $575 awards are for the
1984-85 academic year.
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Mo
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eils economic plan
PHILADELPHIA Walter Mondale Monday vowed that as
president he would raise taxes on individuals and corpora
tions by $85 billion to bring under control giant federal deficits
he says threaten the country's future.
Mondale, in presenting his major economic program of the
general election campaign, coupled his call for major tax
increases with plans for reduced federal spending and a
demand that President Reagan now present his plan to bring
the deficits under control. Under the Mondale plan, the new
taxes would be paid by Americans earning more that $25,000 a
year and corporations. The bulk of the individual tax increases
would be paid by those earning over $60,000 a year, a group
Mondale aides said constituted 14 percent of the country.
Mondale added that the goal of hi3 presidency would be to
create sustainable economic growth of 3& percent per year
over the next four years and reduce interest raises, now close to
15 percent, to 7.5 percent in 1989. He said he would cut pro
jected defense spending by $25 billion in 1 989 by dumping such
programs as the B-l bomber and the MX missile.
Mondale has made a major issue of containing the budget
deficit and has accused Reagan, who compaigned in 1980 on a
pledge to balance the budget, of being "neither a moderate nor
a conservative but a radical" on the subject.
House approves new warnings
WASHINGTON The House Monday voted to toughen
health warnings on cigarette packs and in advertisements. The
bill, passed by voice vote, would change the present single
warning that "Cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health,"
with four warning labels to be changed every three months.
The four labels, each preceded by the words "Surgeon gener
al's warning," would be:
"Smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and
may complicate pregnancy,"
"Quitting smoking now greatly reduces serious risks to your
health;"
"Smoking by pregnant women may result in fetal injury,
premature birth and low birth weight" and
"Cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide."
The new labels will be 50 percent bigger than the present
warning and will be on cigarette packs and advertisements in
newspapers, magazines and on highway billboards.
Northern Ireland official replaced
LONDON British prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
named a former junior foreign office minister Monday as min
ister for troubled Northern Ireland, one of the toughest jobs in
British politics. Douglas Hurd, 54, becomes secretary of state
for Northern Ireland, replacing James Prior, 56, who made it
clear earlier this year he wanted to quit. It was Thatcher's
second cabinet shuffle in her second term.
Prior, never one of Thatcher's favorite ministers, failed in
three years in the job to foster some form of power-sharing
between the Protestant majority and Catholic minority in the
British-ruled province.
AIDS research makes progress
SAN FRANCISCO A genetic engineering company said
Monday it had reached a "milestone" in efforts to combat AIDS,
the often fatal infection known as the gay disease because it
primarily afflicts homosexuals. Chiron Corp. ofEmeryvi!le,
near San Francisco, said it had successfully produced in a
laboratory the genetic substances that form the virus that is
believed to be a cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome,
drome.
Chiron Vice President Lacy Overby, warned against the rais
ing of false hopes that the disease was beaten, and played down
reports that a vaccine might be available imminently. He said
the potential of the products created in the Chiron laborato
ries for use in a vaccine possibly could be evaluated in six to
eight months.
About 6,000 people in the United States are known to have
contracted AIDS since it was identified in 1981, and about 45
percent of them have died. AIDS, which is usually caught
through sexual contact between male homosexuals, drasti
cally reduces the body's ability to fight other infections. Many
victims die of obscure cancers. The number of AIDS victims in
San Francisco, where an estimated 20 percent of the adult
populations is homosexual, has been rising. Last month the
death rate here among AIDS victims was almost one per day.
Aiiti-niiclear jellyfish mob retren
MIAMI Florida Power and T.icht r
shgiitly higher bills next spring thanks to hordes of jellyfish,
company officials said Monday. Thousands of the free-floating
creatures from a flotialla 20 miles long drifted in from the
Atlantic more than a week ago, jamming the water intake
scoops oi two of the utility's coastal nuclear power units at Fort
Pierce, Florida
The company was forced to switch to more expensive coal
generated electricity for 12 days while marine experts and
divers tried unsuccessfully to clear the creatures from the
muuie sheens, ine units were brought back on line over the
weexena manKS to a shift in winds caused by Hurricane Diana.
Company officials said it cost an RHHtHrmfsi i o t!i? H.-v
to produce power during the shutdown.