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Wednesday, April 2, 1986
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OMAHA Shooting and stabbing
have been ruled out as causing the
death of an 1 1 -year-old boy whose body
was found in a roadside ditch, authori
ties said Tuesday.
"We do not know what killed the boy
yet," Police Lt. Tony Mohatt said.
Mohatt said there were no bullet or
stab wounds on the boy of Richard F.
Chadek III, which was found fully
clothed by a farmer Monday.
FBI agent John Pankonin said evi
dence indicates that the killing did not
take place where the body was found.
Pankonin said there were no signs of a
struggle and no weapons were found at
the site.
Pankonin said there are "strange
circumstances around the death we
Falling
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NEW YORK Oil prices tumbled below $10 a barrel Tuesday, the lowest in
more than eight years and one-third of the cost just four months ago, caused by
bulging world supplies, warm weather and pessimism about the depressed
market.
"It's impossible to say where it will all end," said Peter Beutel, an analyst
with Rudolf Wolff Futures Inc., a New York commodities futures firm.
The price of a standard 42-gallon barrel of West Texas Intermediate, the main
U.S. crude and an important market indicator, fell to $9.90 in early dealings on
the New York Mercantile Exchange, down from $10.42 Monday.
That compares to the pre-Easter price of $11.44 a barrel and the late
November price of $31 a barrel, before the price slide began.
Oil prices had not fallen below $10 a barrel for domestic crude oil.
Futures contract prices for refined products, such as gasoline and heating oil,
also slumped Tuesday furthering declines from Monday dealings.
Among contracts for April delivery, heating oil dropped nearly 25 percent to
33.30 cents a gallon, down from 42.78 cents on Monday, caused partly by the
warm spring weather over much of the country. Unleaded gasoline fell nearly 2
cents to 34.80 cents a gallon.
"There's nothing holding the market up," said Andrew Lebow, at the
Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc. securities firm.
On Monday, United Arab Emirates Oil Minister Mana Saeed Oteiba was
quoted as saying in Abu Dhabi that oil prices would drop to $8 to $5 a barrel
without cooperation among producers inside and outside the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries.
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suspecte
want to iron out." He declined to elabo
rate. Mohatt said no motive for the crime
has been established, and there are no
suspects.
The cause of death won't be known
until toxicology tests on the boy's body
are completed, Mohatt said. He said he
expected to receive results from the
tests in about 10 days.
"It's definitely foul play that's in
volved," Mohatt said.
Richard was last seen alive on March
23 in a bank parking lot in south
Omaha.
The boy's grandfather, Robert Cham
berlin, said Tuesday that a witness to
the abduction is withholding informa
tion for religious reasons.
No RSVP from Soviets yet
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The Associated Press
WASHINGTON The nation's capi
tal has moved splendidly into spring.
The forsythia and daffodils are in bloom,
and so are the precious Japanese cherry
blossoms, a prime attraction for the
tourists who have returned with their
cameras, strollers and street maps.
But as far aslI.S.-Soviet relations are
concerned, it might as well still be
winter. Hopes raised at the 'fireside
summit" meeting in Geneva for a thaw
are dwindling. If President Reagan is to
be host of a second session with Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev here in late
June or late July, as the White House
prefers, Moscow had better RSVP
More states starting
NEW YORK The case for send
ing 4-year-olds to school sounds com
pelling. Studies from Ypsilanti, Mich., to
New York City have shown preschool
programs foster academic achieve
ment, lower droppout rates, reduce
juvenile deliquency, and save tax dol
lars in the long run.
While some parents and educators
have wondered why the rush to push
such young children into classrooms,
teacher unions and many school
chiefs in New York, Connecticut, Cali
fornia, Illinois and elsewhere have
warm'y endorsed it.
And top business executives in a
landmark school reform report last
year titled, "Investing in Our Child
ren," concluded that despite its
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LINCOLN The Legislature added
nearly $2 million Tuesday 1 0 the state's
tentative state spending plan for fiscal
1986-87, and one senator said it "looks
like the dam has broken around here."
The funds represent new money
that is, money that wasn't previously
contained in the budget measures
offered by the governor or the Appro
priations Committee.
Lawmakers ignored repeated warn
ings from Sen. Jerome Warner of Waverly,
veteran chairman of the committee,
who cautioned them against approving
amendments that provided additional
funding for a variety of programs.
The major spending items added to
the budget:
quickly.
"Time is getting close," Larry Speak
es, the presidential spokesman, observ
ed Monday. "It is getting critical to
begin to set a date where you can do
effective planning for a summit."
Last November's meeting was an
icebreaker, the first U.S.-Soviet summit
in more than six years. Smiles and
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nanasnaK.es won t be enough to satisfy
worldwide expectations this time. So,
most analysts agree, it will take at least
six weeks to reconsider the many con-
flicts between the superpowers and try
to find solutions Reagan and Gorba
chev could adopt.
But Moscow still hasn't said it is
costs, preschool is one of the best
education investments a reform
minded community can make.
Why, then, have public school
systems around the country been so
slow to adopt it?
Money is the quick answer. It's
hard to persuade taxpayers and law
makers to fund a new educational
program for 4-year-olds even one
widely believed to save money and
help students at a time when dol
lars are scarce for existing programs
serving children of more traditional
school age.
Many school officials feel uncom.
fortable pressing for a new program
for preschoolers while the public
believes existing programs are in cry
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was anchored in Augusta Golf, just
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Sicily.
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Rhode Island's capital city shut
down for the day. A battleship
steamed up Iowa's Cedar River to
$1,270 million for mental retar-
dation programs. The amendment,
approved 25-4, was sponsored by Sen.
naiuiu oierK oi rieasam uaie.
$245,000 for the School of Tech
nical Agriculture at Curtis. The amend
ment was sponsored by Education
Committee Chairman Tom Vickers of
Farnam, whose district includes Curtis.
It was approved, 2(5-9.
6 $100,000 to fund a baccalaureate
degree nursing program at West Nebraska
General Hospital in Seottsbluff. The
amendment, sponsored by Speaker of
the Legislature William Nichol of
Seottsbluff, won 25-10 approval.
All three amendments were attached
to LB1251, the mainline budget "bill.
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Arms control talks, meanwhile, are
at a virtual standstill except for some
movement toward reducing U.S. and
Soviet medium-range nuclear missiles
in Europe.
Gorbachev tried last weekend to
coax the president into another sum-
mil iu uan underground nuclear tests,
But the nronnsal was hrnchoH ,cu0
U.S. officials, evidently doubting the
Soviet leader was sincere, grumbled
that the offer was never transmitted
through diplomatic channels.
Rep. Les Aspin, the Democratic chair
man of the House Armed Services
Committee, said even if Gorbachev was
pre - school
ing need of reform.
There also are educators and par
ents who question the wisdom of
school for children so young they
might have trouble just getting to the
bathroom safely.
Yale University psychology profes
sor Edward Zigler, in a speech last
year, questioned whether preschool
ing was good for all children just
because studies have shown it useful
for disadvantaged youngsters.
"We are driving children too hard,"
he added. "We must allow children to
enjoy their own childhood, their most
precious commodity."
Supporters of universal preschool
most often cite two recent studies.
New York University researchers
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MANILA, Philippines Claim
ing he needed money to fight rebels,
Ferdinand Marcos took $4.7 million
from a ministry during his last days
in power and left no trace of the
money, the chief government audi
tor said Tuesday.
Teofisto Guingona said this
brought to at least $8.5 billion the
amount of money auditors in the
past month have found missing from
the state treasury.
amendments
Senators advanced LB1 250, a measure
providing $11 million to increase salaries
for state employees by 3 percent, to the
final stage of floor action. Before ad
vancing t he measure, senators approved
two amendments:
O $170,217 to honor the order of
the Commission on Industrial Relations
for payments to teachers in the De
partment of Social Services, the Depart
ment of Corrections and the Department
of Public Institutions.
$197,795 to provide the same
relief for teachers at the School for the
Deaf, and the School for the Visually
Handicapped.
Together, amendments to both bills
came to $1,983,145.
"demagoguing," Reagan should have
called his bluff and seen if the Soviets
were serious about a negotiated ban.
U.S. and Soviet nuclear test blasts,
except those conducted underground,
were prohibited in a 1963 treaty.
The U.S. strategy is to stick with the
American proposals already put on the
table and wait for the Soviets to give
ground. That could happen. WTien the
Soviets broke off negotiations in late
1983 the U.S. side did not blink. Reagan
waited. And the Soviets returned to the
bargaining table in 1985.
Evidently, Reagan and his senior
advisers are convinced the strategy will
work again.
programs
reported last year on the progress of
750 Harlem children who participated
in federally financed Head Start early
chldhood programs between 1961 and
1970. Their report found that those
who were in such programs had
employment rates double that of
those not enrolled, and were 50 per
cent more likely to graduate high
school.
A year earlier, another landmark
study of about 100 Ypsilanti, Mich.,
school children came up with equally
impressive results. The report also
found that while preschool cost
nearly $5,000 per child, Ypsilanti
saved more than $3,000 per youngster
because each needed less remedial
help and social services later in their
school careers.