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Thursday, April 25, 1985
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Preschoolers release balloons,
learn about wind transportation
Renter Report
By Tammy Kaup
Staff Reporter
Preschoolers at UNL's East Campus
daycare center braved the damp
weather Tuesday in the name of educa
tion. To learn how the wind can aid trans
portation, 18 students from the daycare
at Ruth Staples Child Development
Laboratory released colored Mr. Steak
balloons from just outside of the day
care's playground.
And the wind didn't disappoint them.
"Bi-i-ig" is how Russell Meyer, 5, des
cribed it.
"We let go of them and they flew way
high up. Mine went the highest. It flew
over the building," he said.
Maggie Mildebrath, a senior elemen
tary education and human develop
ment major who designed the project,
said the launching went well.
"Just one or two balloons got caught
in a tree," she said.
Cards with the children's names and
the daycare's address were attached to
the balloons. Mildebrath said she hopes
that if some of the balloons are found
the finders will contact the daycare
center so the children can see how the
balloons moved from one place to
another.
Mildebrath said the balloon release
was part of the week's lesson plans she
and two other students had developed.
Kim Townley, director of the daycare
center and an instructor of human
development and the family, said these
exercises are a frequent part of the
daycare's programming.
"Children learn by doing," she said.
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ouse votes to continue
ban on aid to Contras
WASHINGTON The House, controlled by Democrats, Wednesday
night reversed itself and killed a $14 million humanitarian aid plan it had
earlier approved for Nicaraguan refugees. It also killed a second plan
proposed by President Reagan's Republicans which would have funnelled
non-military aid directly to rebels seeking to topple the leftist government
in Nicaragua.
The votes, which in effect continues the ban on any aid to the Contra .
rebels imposed by Congress last October, follows Tuesday night's rejec
tion by the House of $14 million in military aid to the rebels. The final vote
in the House was 303 to 123.
The Republican plan, rejected in a cliff-hanger 2 15-2 13 vote, would have
provided $14 million for food, clothing and other logistical support
directly to the Contras, who are backed by the CIA,
The Democratic alternative, tentatively approved 219-206 three hours
earlier, would have provided $10 million to refugees outside Nicaragua
and $4 million to Venezuela, Columbia, Mexico and Panama to implement
a regional peace agreement.
Reagan appeals for budget support
WASHINGTON President Reagan appealed to the American people
Wednesday night to put pressure on Congress to support his controversial
1986 budget, saying the U.S. economy was at a crossroads that would
determine future economic expansion.
"This is not just my problem, this is not just Congress' problem, this is
our problem and we must solve it together as Americans," Reagan, who
has just suffered his first defeat of the year in Congress, said.
Democrats, who control the House, have criticized Reagan's proposed
plan to cut the huge budget deficit because they say he still wants too
much for defense and not enough for social programs.
Reagan has agreed with Senate Republicans on a compromise $969
billion budget for the financial year that begins on Oct. 1. It would cut $52
billion from the record $227 billion deficit anticipated next year.
The Reagan budget is expected to be entirely rewritten in the House.
Representatives from the Senate and the House would then have to sit
down in conference and work out their differences.
Key Republicans endorse sanctions
WASHINGTON Key Senate Republicans, broke with the Reagan
administration Wednesday and proposed economic sanctions against the
South African government within two years unless it reverses its apar
theid policy.
The break with President Reagan's no-sanctions policy came as Senate
Foreign Relations Committee chairman Richard Lugar and other Republi
can leaders introduced a sanctions bill as a protest against the racial
separation policy of the white minority-ruled Pretoria government.
The key Republican shift from Reagan's "constructive engagement," or
quiet diplomacy policy, comes against a backdrop of mounting demon
strations and arrests at American universities nationwide against South
Africa.
Lebanese replace departing Israelis
GHAZZEH, Lebanon The Israeli army, abandoning an electronic spy
center and other key positions within artillery range of Damascus, evacu
ated its frontlines in east Lebanon Wednesday and Lebanese troops
moved in.
Israeli attack helicopters careened across the Bekaa Valley to guard
the huge convoys heading south to complete the second phase of Israel's
planned three-stage withdrawal from Lebanon. The pullback coincided
with Israel's Memorial Day and some departing soldiers complained that
it desecrated the memory of the 13,000 soldiers killed in six wars since
1948. Other Israeli troops, however, celebrated by letting off colored
smoke grenades and sirens as they headed for home.
The Israeli operation, the biggest stage of the withdrawal, included a
pullback in central Lebanon, where the army evacuated the strategic
Jebel Barukh mountain ridge and Christian hill town of Jezzine.
2 men found guilty in clinic bombing
PENSACOLA, Fla. A federal jury Wednesday found two men guilty of
the Christmas Day bombings of three abortion clinics and convicted two
women as co-conspirators.
Matthew Goldsby and his boyhood friend, James Simmons, both 21,
were found guilty on all seven counts of a federal indictment stemming
from the bomb blasts at three abortion clinics on Dec. 25.
Kaye Wiggins, Goldsby's 18-year-old fiancee, and Simmons' wife Kathy,
19, were convicted on one count each, charging that they aided the
conspiracy to destroy the clinics.
Sentencing is set for May 30. The two men face as much as 65 years in
prison, while the women defendants could be jailed for a maximum of five
years. ,
Study reveals traits of true yuppie
CHICAGO Fewer than one in five young American adults are true
yuppies, a study on the subject said Wednesday, and you shall know them
by their cars, croissants and home computers.
" Market Facts, an international market research organization, said it
based its findings on a sample of the Baby Boom generation those born
between 1945 and 1060 who now fill 26 million households and comprise a
third of the U.S. population.
The study said the true yuppies have average incomes of $30,700,
compared to $26,900 for the rest of the Baby Boomers, and are likely to
spend $2,000 more for a car, 50 percent more for a cocktail dress and 75
percent more for a watch. Beyond that true yuppies eat croissants, use
fresh coffee beans, drink imported beer and wine, own a personal compu
ter, buy from a catalog, use automatic bank teller machines and watch
"Cheers" on television.
Pretend yuppies eat bologna, pre-seetened cereal and instant pota
toes, shop at K-Mart, own a "blaster" portable radio, live in small towns
and watch "The A-Team" on TV.
. The study was based on interviews with 1,385 Americans, of whom 412
were Baby Boomers.
