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NCAA wages war against
drug use by college athletes
NEW ORLEANS Drugs are out,
but boosters are still in.
The NCAA voted Tuesday to slap
penalties on athletes who test positive
for drugs before or after postseason
games, but failed to slam the door on
boosters making on-campus contacts.
The anti-drug program, which failed
a year ago to reach the floor for a vote,
partly because it didn't include cocaine
and other "street drugs," was over
whelmingly passed this time around
despite scattered complaints that its
cost will be prohibitive and the NCAA
has no business getting involved.
And "the potential for abuse" was
cited several times as the reason for
not extending the off-campus ban on
booster contacts to the campus as well.
As the second day of its annual con
vention, the NCAA also voted:
O To reduce from eight to seven
the number of sports needed to remain
a Division I-A member.
O To delay for at least one year a
proposal to allow five year's of athletic
eligibility instead of four.
O To keep the Division I and Div
ision II men's and women's indoor
track championships.
O To permit, "when circumstances
clearly warrant," the restoration of
eligibility of an athlete involved in
"major" or "secondary" rules violations.
O To limit to one game or tourna
ment per year what a basketball team
may play without it counting toward
the maximum games allowed.
O To approve a resolution calling
for stronger federal legislation against
gambling on college sports.
Walter Byers, executive director of
the NCAA, said the convention drew to
a close that he felt its three major
achievements were the anti-gambling
resolution, the drug testing and Mon
day's approval of eligibility standards
based on high school grade-point aver
ages and SAT or ACT scores.
"In the domestic arena, the NCAA
has taken a leadership role in dealing
with a problem that is greater than
most of us recognize," Byers said of
drugs.
And in a specific reference to the
use of steroids, Byers said, "Somebody
had to step in and break the chain in
high school to get scholarships to col
lege and in the college area to get a
professional contact."
The list of 79 banned substances is
divided into seven groups psychom
otor stimulants, sympathomimetic
amines, miscellaneous central nervous
system stimulants, anabolic steroids,
substances banned for specific sports
(such as alcohol for riflery), diuretics
and street drugs (amphetamine, co
caine, heroin, marijuana, methamphe
tamine, THC and "others").
Among the other drugs mentioned,
the NCAA places limits on the amount
of testosterone (asteroid) and caffeine
which can legally show up in urine
samples.
For football bowl games, according
to Jim Brock, executive vice president
of the Cotton Bowl, 72 players will be
tested, 36 from each team, Of those 36,
22 will be notified beforehand that they
will be tested while the remaining 14
will be selected at random.
The price tag for pre-bowl testing:
$200 per player. That comes to $14,000
worth of testing, the cost to be shared
by the NCAA (50 percent) the bowl (25
percent) and the competing teams (12
12 percent apiece).
In track and field and other individ
ual sports, medal winners and a few
other random competitors will be tar
geted for testing, similar to the U.S.
Olympic Committee's screening pro
cedures. The NCAA, with its $44 million
annual budget, estimates that the total
cost during 1986-87 will be $620,000.
Daub predicts Mideast negotiation
OMAHA Rep. Hal Daub said Wed
nesday he found officials in Israel and
Jordan "more moderate than I ex
pected" during a six-day visit and pre
dicted the two Mideast nations will try
to negotiate a peace settlement.
Daub said Jordan's King Hussein
and the Israeli government are more
determined to negotiate because of
recent actions by Libyan leader Moam
mar Khadafy. The Reagan administra
tion has charged Khadafy with support
ing terrorism, including recent attacks
on airports in Vienna and Rome.
"He's made Hussein more commit
ted and he's made the coalition govern
ment in Israel more committed," Daub
said. The Nebraska Republican said
Jordan and Israel know that if support
spreads for Khadafy's religious funda
mentalism, "there's less of a chance"
of peace in the region.
The grip last week to Israel and Jor
dan by Daub, his wife and Rep. Ron
Marlenee, R-Mont., was sponsored by
the Washington-based National Asso
ciation of Arab Americans. Among the
officials with whom Daub met were the
prime minister, commander in chief
and foreign minister of Jordan and, in
Israel, a foreign policy adviser and
former ambassador to Canada.
Diplomatic relations between Israel
and Jordan ended in the 1967 Mideast
war. Negotiations between the two
nations are "an opportunity to settle
the area down," Daub said.
Daub said officials in Israel and Jor
dan told him that the U.S. government
should "become less involved" in the
effort to arrange peace talks.
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Newsmakers
President Reagan hailed Martin Luther King Jr. on
Wednesday as a brave and passionate "drum major for
justice," and a gutsy civil rights leader whose sacrifices
make America "different, and better." The president
celebrated King's birthday with a visit to a Washington,
D.C., grade school named for the slain minister.
Sen. Edward Kennedy had to be flown out of the
Santiago, Chile, airport by helicopter after 200 supporters
of Chile's military government blocked roads from the
airport. Later protestors stoned the senator's car with
rocks and eggs and carried signs that said "Death to
Kennedy."
In a speech at a Conference on Low-Intensity War
fare, Secretary of State George Shultz said the United
States must have "the stomach" to strike back at terror
ists and to take covert military action to further U.S.
interests abroad.
Rep. Virginia Smith, R -Neb., officially opened her
campaign for a seventh term in Congress. "I have the fire
and desire to do it," she said. Smith is 74.
A Reagan administration official complained to
U.S. publishers that their textbooks are "hyper-critical of
American institutions" while "glossing over" the faults of
the Soviet Union and other totalitarian governments. The
books should not read as if they were "written by neutrals
in the struggle between freedom and slavery," the educa
tion officials said.
Forty-thousand pounds of pinto beans grown in
the Panhandle were sent to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where
they will be distributed to a home for the elderly, a clinic
and a school providing nearly 500,000 meals. The Share
the Harvest Project has sent more than a half million
pounds of beans to hungry people in Haiti and in the
Panhandle.
Statehouse Roundup
LINCOLN A bill that would establish a state lottery was introduced Wednesday in the Legislature, setting the stage
for another sharp debate on the volatile issue. Introducing LB1021 were Sens. Bernice Labedz, Tim Hall, Marge Higgins
and Dan Lynch, all of Omaha, Rex Haberman of Imperial, John DeCamp of Neligh and James Pappas of North Platte. The
bill would create a five-member Lottery Commission, which would determine what form of lottery would be established in
Nebraska.
Nebraskans who were adopted could obtain information about their biological mothers and their medical
histories. "What greater right can an individual have than to know their roots," Sen. John DeCamp of Neligh said in
touting his LB1031, known as the Adoption Information Act.
O Nebraskans who adopt foreign-born people would have an easier time getting state birth certificates. Sen Shirley
Marsh of Lincoln sponsored LB1024. She said current law is "unclear" regarding foreign adoptions and delays occur as a
result. Under the senator's bill, Nebraska courts would recognize a legal adoption by state residents of a foreign-born
person when a court of another country issued the adoption decree.
D Lawmakers gave initial approval to a bill designed to protect consumers by requiring that money involved in
pre-burial agreements with the cemetery industry be placed in trusts. "We believe that this proposal will ensure
Nebraska's consumers of a dependable marketplace while at the same time encouraging private enterprise to engage in a
positive consumer sales program relating to pre-need sales," said Sen. Lowell Johnson of North Bend. Johnson and Sen.
James Pappas of North Platte are co-sponsoring LB643, which was advanced 27-0 to the second-stage of floor action. An
accompanying appropriations bill also was advanced.
Soviets announce new arms plan
MOSCOW Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev announced In a state
ment read on national television Wednesday that the Soviet Union Is
proposing a plan for "ridding the earth of nuclear weapons within 15
years."
The statement, on the eye of the fourth round of Geneva arms control
talks between the Soviet Union and the United States, said the Soviets
also will extend a unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing for another
three months.
Reagan to return for colon checkup
WASHINGTON President Reagan, who underwent surgery seven
months ago for removal of a cancerous tumor from his colon, will return to
Bethesda Naval Hospital on Friday for his first follow-up examination to
check for any new growths in the bowels.
Spokesman Larry Speakes said Wednesday Reagan would undergo a
colonoscopy, the same type of examination in which doctors discovered
the tumor last July, Speakes said the president "feels great" and called
the procedure routine.
Journaiist-ln-Spaeo surge predicted
COLUMBIA, S.C. TheJournalist-in-Space program had received only
230 applications by Tuesday, but a program spokesman said he expects a
flood of last-minute applications because a journalist is "a creature of
deadline."
More than 4,000 applications had been sent out since early December,
but as of Jan. 10, only 49 had been received.
Bass said the search is an attempt to find someone who can describe
the experience in a way that scientists and astronauts cannot. The winner
will be announced April 17 and will fly a space shuttle mission in the fall,
Bass said.
Jackson plans midterm meeting
WASHINGTON As part of the effort to modify its image, the Demo
cratic Party dropped plans to hold a midterm conference this year, but
now the Rev. Jesse Jackson is planning to' hold a convention of his own.
While it will have no formal ties to the Democratic Party, the conclave
sponsored by Jackson's Rainbow Coalition is likely to attract many of the
activists who found party midterms a handy forum for expressing their
discontent.
"It's something we need to do since they're not doing it," said Frank
Watkins, spokesman for the Jackson group.
Study links cholesterol, artery damage
BOSTON The earliest stages of hardening of the arteries can be seen
in teen-agers who have high cholesterol levels in their blood, and efforts to
control this lethal condition should begin during childhood, researchers
say.
Hardening of the arteries what doctors call atherosclerosis - is a
major underlying cause of heart attacks, strokes and other diseases of the
blood vessels. Cholesterol in the blood is a key culprit in this condition.
A new study found that youngsters who have relatively high blood
cholesterol levels also are most likely to have fatty streaks of cholesterol
in their blood vessels.
Single-family home boost expected
WASHINGTON More abundant in income than offspring, the matur
ing Baby Boomers are likely to boost sales of single-family homes during
the next decade, but the outlook isn't rosy for apartment builders, a
private population study group reported Wednesday.
The first members of the Baby Boom generation, people born in the
period just after World War II, are about to enter their 40s, years of
increasing affluence when people traditionally are married and seeking to
move from apartments and starter homes into more costly surroundings,
according to the study by the Population Reference Bureau.
Nelson manager denies cocaine reports
Published reports Wednesday suggested that a fire ignited by "free
basing" cocaine caused the New Year's Eve plane crash that killed rock 'n'
roll star Rick Nelson and six other people, but Nelson's manager and
brother vehemently denied the possibility.
"That's pure nonsense," manager Greg McDonald said when contacted
at his Palm Springs home about the stories in the Washington Post and
Dallas Morning News.
The Post quoted unidentified sources as saying preliminary reports
indicate Nelson's body contained a meosuratb level cf unmetabolized
cocaine, which means the drug had net teen absorbed into his system at
the time cf death. But the sources said final ktcratery reports are not
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Record deficit to hit $220 billion
YVASHINGTON Corressional and administration budget officials
Wednesday federal deficit for fiscal 1988 will exceed a staggering
$220 billion and trigger the first round of government-wide spending cuts
under the new Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing law.
In separate projections required under the new law, the White House
Office of Management and Budget predicted a deficit of $220.1 billion,
while the Congressional Budget Office said that this year's red ink would
amount to $220.9 billion. -
Last fiscal year's deficit was $212 billion.