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Monday, September 23, 1935 Pago 2 Daily Ncbraskan Digest By T he Associated Press Mew Despite rain, FarmAid concert raws 64,000-trox&g crowd CHAMPAIGN, 111. Flanked by huge bannners reading "Keep America Growing," singer Willie Nelson and a cavalcade of other stars on Sunday braved pouring rain to perform in a marathon FarmAid concert aimed at helping the nation's struggling farmers. "Thank you very much for coming to the concert for America," shouted Nel son, the driving force behind the 14 hour concert feat uring 50 stars of coun try music, rock and blues. As a crowd estimated at 64,000 filed into the University of Illinois football stadium, Nelson and Neil Young teamed up to sing "Are There Any More Real Cowboys?" Nelson then brought cheer ing fans to their feet with "Whiskey River," A steady rainfall began shortly after the concert opened at 10 am. The stage, with a rotating center disk for quick act changes, was covered with a blue plastic roof but puddles still formed and crew members armed with mops tried to keep up. Some concert-goers covered them selves with sheets of clear plastic, while others huddled beneath umbrel las and hooded raincoats. "A once-in-a-Iifetime thing like this, how could you miss it,' said Ken Lewis of Bloomington. "What's a little rain. We'll dry out tomorrow." Tom Parkinson, a University of Illi nois spokesman, estimated that about 64,000 people were in the stadium at mid-afternoon, but said the number could climb. Despite the rain, the crowd rocked as X sang "Breathless" and swayed as Arlo Guthrie did "City of New Orleans." Soon after the concert began, coun try singer Hoyt Axton got some of the rain-soaked audience up and dancing with "Joy To The World," then was joined by Tanya Tucker. By then, televi sion cameramen on stage had their video equipment wrapped in yellow plastic to keep it dry. Thousands of fans started gathering near the stadium around midnight Saturday, drinking beer and soft drinks and eating pizza delivered by a local restaurant. By dawn, the line stretched more than six blocks across the campus. "It's history in the making and it will make people aware of the farmer's problems," said Brett Ford, 24, of Indi anapolis, who was near the head of the line at midnight. "Everybody's finally helping right here in the U.S., and it's about time." Darin, Jeanna and Dennis Rexroat of Lincoln agreed it was a good cause but said they were attracted by the all-star lineup of musicians. The purpose, said Nelson, was not only to raise money to help needy farmers but to "change the attitude of the average American toward their ham and eggs in the morning. This is just the beginning of a crusade." All of the $ 1 7.50 tickets for the show sold out in three days. The concert site is in Champaign County, whose rich black soil produces harvests that are among the best in the nation. It also is the main campus of the University of Illinois, location of one of the nation's oldest and most re-' spected colleges of agriculture. While musical superstars performed in Champaign, telephone operators in Omaha were logging about one-fourth of the nationwide calls. Telemarketing Corp. of America handled calls for the FarmAid concert, as they did for LiveAid, a July concert to benefit starving Africans. Karen Gilbert, operations manager for Telemarketing, said Sunday that 200 people were on the phones in Omaha and had been busy since noon. She said an estimate on the number of calls and the money pledged to the farm crisis cause was not yet available. An official count on the number of calls probably wouldn't be available for a couple of days, she said. Fewer Nebraskans tie the knot OMAHA Economic conditions, population trends and changing social values may account for a drop in the number of Nebraskans saving "I do" in recent years, say three sociologists at the University of Nebraska. State Health Department figures show the number of marriages ahs gradually declined since 1981, and the most recent statistics indicate the downward trend may continue, the sociologists said. In the 1980s, the number of mar riages in Nebraska each year declined steadily, from 14,363 in 1981 to 13,274 in 1984, a 7 percent drop. The marriage rate the number of marriages per 1,000 population also has declined, from 9.1 in 1981 to 8.3 in 1984. College graduates who are about 22, the most frequent age for brides and grooms in 1984, may be delaying mar riage until they establish themselves financially, said Lynn White, a profes sor of sociology. White said a depressed farm econ omy also may cause couples to wait to marry until economic conditions im prove. "Whenever you have economic prob lems, people tend to postpone mar riage," she said. Patricia Knaub, associate professor of human development and family, said the "baby boomers" are getting older and past the age of marriage. Fewer people between the ages of 18 and 24, the age group that made up more than half of Nebraska marriages last year, means fewer marriages. Knaub said the number of divorced persons who remarry also has declined. Some marriage experts have projected that remarriage may drop by as much as 10 percent by 1990, she said. Some divorced people no longer feel they have to remarry because they have discovered they can make it on their own, she said. "Remaining single is more accepta ble now," she said. "More women are delaying the age at which they get married because more of them are in the work force," Booth said. More couples are choosing to live together and fewer women feel they have to be married to have children, White said. "The willingness of unmarried women to bear children has removed one of the sticks we used to beat people into mar riage," she said. "Pregnancy is no longer a reason for getting married." Out-of-wedlock births in Nebraska increased by about 15 per cent form 1980 to 1984, according to state statistics. More than 3,000 dead in quakes MEXICO CITY, Mexico Mexicans buried their dead Sunday and prayed that there were more living as rescue teams, bolstered by aid from around the world, worked to remove the deva tation left by twin earthquakes. Mayor Ramon Aguirre said 1,641 bodies were recovered and 2,000 more remained trapped under collapsed buildings and were feared dead. Other officials said 6,000 people weie injured in the jolts Thursday and Friday that left the center of the city in shambles. In Washington, State Department spokesman Dan Lawler said the Mexican government had raised the official death toll to 3,461. Four Americans have been confirmed killed, Lawler said. The first quake rocked the city Thursday morning. It measured 7.8 on the Richter scale. The tremor Friday measured 7.3 on the scale. Airplanes from around the world shuttled aid to the stricken capital, the world's largest with about 18 million people. Nancy Reagan, wife of Presi dent Reagan, was scheduled to arrive today. Governments of more than 20 countries and international organiza tions sent tons of food, medicine and other provisions. Foreign relief teams, some aided by dogs, fanned out to help rescue workers, many of whom had not slept since the first quake. More than 400 buildings were par tially or totally destroyed, said Aguirre. He said 149 were on the verge of collapse. Occasionally, the crews pulled out a child or an adult, still alive, after more than three days. Aguirre said that since rescue operations began, 1,011 people had been pulled alive from the rubble. Five thousand homeless were shel tered at schools and other public buildings. Some huddled in parks and streets. Many left the city to stay with family and friends in towns unhurt by the quake. The U.S. State Department has set up a special number for arranging mes sages between U.S. citizens in Mexico City and their families. The number is 202-653-7959. A roundup of the day's happenings Former Environmental Protection Agency chief Anne Burford was charged with public drunkenness Sun day after Washington police said she cursed and yelled at authorities who were booking her husband on a drunken driving charge. Michael Spinks wouldn't mind a rematch, but Larry Holmes says his fighting days are over. Spinks became the first light heavyweight champion to become a heavyweight champion, scoring a close, but unanimous 15-round decision over Holmes on Saturday for the Inter national Boxing Federation title. The red, white and blue 1955 Jkick in which singer-satirist Randy Newman cruised through his hit video "I Love LA" was bought for $7,000 by Richard Ardie, 28, of Northridge, Calif., who says he plans to remake the video starring himself and his friends. Ronald Ward, 15 was sentenced to death in the stab bing deaths of a classmate and the classmate's two elderly great-aunts, one of whom was raped, making him the youngest person sentenced to die in Arkansas He was moved immediately to Death Row. At their annual get together, former Nazi SS soldiers embraced a group of U.S. World War II veterans in a controversial reunion in Frankfurt, West Germany, both agreeing to continue their decade-long friendship despite -criticism from Jewish leaders. The two divisions fought each other in the Battle of the Bulge. S. African troops pull out of Angola , South Africa Nearly 500 South African troops r weeklong invasion of Marxist Angola after killing 15 JOHANNESBURG, finnHavpnded their fr.aiKiihxi nnH rflntnrinsf 49. the military said. The strike achieved "large-scale disruption" of the command structure and supply lines of rebels fighting South African rule in South-West Africa, said Maj. Gen. George Meiring. The Angolan raid provoked widespread condemnation from Western governments. South Africa also was criticized after admitting it had aided anti-Marxist rebels in Mozambique, the region's ether former Portuguese colony, in violation of a peace treaty with that country. Within South Africa, police headquarters reported sporadic anti apartheid rioting in black townships in the Cap Town area, the eastern Cape Province and near Johannesburg, but no deaths. The South Africans said they stormed into Angola last Monday to attack an estimated 400 to 800 guerrillas of the South-West Africa People's Organization, or SWAPO. General Debate sets stage for summit UNITED NATIONS U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and his Soviet counterpart meet this week to prepare for the November super power summit. They also join a parade of about 100 world leaders address ing the U.N. General Assembly in a monthlong commemoration of its 40th anniversary. : . . . The assembly's so-called General Debate, an annual event, opens today with Brazilian President Jose Sarney as the fast speaker. He is expected to emphasize the economic crisis faced by developing countries like Brazil, which has a foreign debt of more than $100 billion. Soviet Foreign Minister , Eduard Shevardnadze addresses the 155 member assembly Tuesday. -Unconfirmed news reports have said he carries with him new proposals to break the deadlock in U.S.-Scviet arms reduction talks, which resumed Thursday in Geneva. . , Senate facing Superfund deadline WASHINGTON With eight days remaining before America's toxic waste cleanup program expires, the Senate resumes debate today on its 'Superfund" renewal bill as House members scurry to get their bill ready for the floor. Still to be confronted by the Senate are how to pay for a greatly expanded Superfund and how to apportion cleanup cost liability among people responsible for creating toxic dumps. ; The Senate on Friday easily beat back an effort to .set Superfund spending through 1990 at $5.7 billion. This all but guaranteed that the ' $7.5 billion in the Senate bill will be the least that Congress will approve. Economist predicts more farm losses OMAHA Agricultural economists predict if the current economic trend continues, there will be a desettlement of rural, Nebraska which will lead to the failure of up to 30 percent of the state's farms. . ' Bruce Johnson, associate professor of agricultural economics at UNL, said the number of forms in Nebraska could decline ly 25 percent to 30 percent by the end cf the decade. Since in Nebraska the number cf fcrms hi3 fallen from 107,000 to an estimated 53,CC0 todry. The economists predict that number could be 4opecotyim- Budget official says he knew about bill LINCOLN.- State Budget Administrator Larry Bare; said 'he knew, almost immediately that the Legislature on June 5 had sent the governor a defective Commonwealth Savings Co. claims bill. Bat Bare said he didn't consider the flaw a serious impediment to the payment of the $8.5 million settlement with depositors because state government commonly issues checks, including tax refunds, without a specific legislative appropria tion. LC713, hurriedly drafted on the fleer cf thi Uzhtzi2 in the waning days cf the 1S85 session, faiLd to isclals tr.3 irzz2 "there is hereby appropriated." A 1979 requires th .t ! - - - f r a :!i expropriation Of Stiu3 South, North Korean families reunited S-OUL, South Korea Del:;. v., utlZU, and Keith Korea crossed tl.rcu;h thj illtr first exchange of visits fcy Lh . ; : - JJi 3 1 pelttlcdi strife. They r-rr.: tl:--' ti Paxrurjoa far reurJrrj f.;' " TL3 Scuih Korea grcu; -bp: U Ir ' trtLtle reamers, 2) ;t p r chalnr.33, . cocttei ca to Hit K:: i '-r- 1. J . . .., South 1: . 3 i ill; for the r,s ty wjc ana village cf n i t relics, 50 ;k! A Sou r; Korea visitors have been 1 Jc J "i An epttested 10 rdllloii pccrla v.;:; ?.. when Korea ires divided ir.to a cc -Kfch th9 nd ofVVorli Va II In 10 T; t:A it-uvj-oa fccren war. arrived in North i -1 1. toilies t -i rr.nrnunis r!;t' jr,v;:cso'fthe .t i&uvj-oo Korean war. In the years that followed there havs t:;rL:.t?t3 . 3 1 ,:o ccpitals by lied Cross and government cHkia!3 from the opposite sides, but no exchanges of private citizens hoping to meet their relatives. . Survivors could get AIDS-like disease WASHINGTON - Survivors of a nuclear war would not only face aarkness, cold, famine and radioactive fallout but also could develop a condition similar to AIDS, accordir.3 to a science study. ur. uavia b. Greer, dean of medid n Rt. iTrnjr?!t.v usid environ mental stresses on nuclear war survivors could ktIi the body's immune belUM h f d6fIy SRfection3' & AIDS, believed caused by a virus that cripples T-cell functiir edition .