News Digest &£»*« -- >1^ MS H Andy Manhart/Daily Nebraskan Gap closing on female wage SANTA MONICA, Calif. - The wage gap between women and men is rapidly narrowing, but an increasing percentage of the poor are women, according to a Rand Crap. study. The study found that from 1980 to 1986, wages for all working women increased from 60 percent to 65 percent of men’s wages, and in the age range from 20 to 24, women’s wages increased from 78 percent of men’s wages to 86 per cent. And 25 percent of all new graduates in law, medicine and business are women compared with only 5 percent two decades ago, said the study prepared for release Wednesday. The study, by economists James P. Smith and Michael Ward, surveyed wages and skill levels in American women since 1920. it was published in the February is Sbfcdf TM* Journal oF Economic Perspective and was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Develop ment. Smith directs the Labor and Population Program at Rand, a think-tank focusing on national security and domestic welfare is sues. Ward is an economist at Unicon Research Corp. in Los Angeles. Their “very conservative esti mate” was that women would make 74 percent of men’s wages by 2000, with a wage ratio of 80 percent more probable. At the same time, poverty has increasingly become a female phenomenon, the researchers said. Poverty was “sex neutral” in 1940, when more than 90 percent of all families included a husband and wife. But by 1980,62 percent of poor adults were women, the study said. ‘With the rising incidence of unwed parenting and divorce, the fraction of female-headed families rose and did so at an accelerated rale after 1960. By 1980, women headed almost one in seven fami lies, almost 70 percent more than in I960. The problem has reached epidemic proportions among blacks, where now more than four out of every 10 families are headed by women,” the authors said. All 144 passengers reported killed Jet crashes in Azores; plane destined for Jamaica says U. S. company LISBON, Portugal - An Ameri can charter jet filled with Italian tour ists slammed into a fog-covered mountain in the Azores today and exploded, and all 144 people on board were feared dead, officials and news reports said. Maria della Versesi, a spokes woman at the Italian Embassy in Lisbon, said all 137 passengers were Italian and the seven crew members were American. She did not release any names. The aircraft belonged to the U.S. airline Independent Air Coip., based in Smyrna, Term. The flight origi nated in Bergamo, Italy, and was to have proceeded to Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic, and Montego Bay in Jamaica, after making a refu eling stop in die Azores. The Portuguese news agency LUSA quoted an official Irom the Azores Civil Protcciion Service as saying about 50 bodies had been re covered and it appeared all on board L1JSA also quoted an unidentified member of a loc al Hying dub as say mg all the passengers and crew had been lulled. , Afonso Pimentel, a LLSA re porter based m the Azures, said the Boeing 707 was preparing to land at Santa Maria airport when it crashed into Pico Alto, a fog-covered. 1,794 foot-high mountain, and burst into llames. LUSA quoted the civil protection official, who was not identified, as saying the pilot asked the airport to clear a runway for an emergency landing. The Civil Protection Service is a state body that provides rescue services ana assistance in civilian emergencies. AjL. Piuman, president of Inde pendent Ait Corp., said in an inter view in Smyrna that the 15-year-old company makes 400 to 500 charier flights a year, mostly m the Carib bean and Europe. Piuman, who de clined to identify the se ven Ainenc an crew members, said the 20-ycar-otld jetliner that crashed had a relatively low number of flight hours and no history of trouble. Pittman said the airplane, one of two Boeing 707s owned by the com pany, had 12,500 cycles, or takeoffs and landings, and less than 50,000 hours in the air. Jack Barker, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Atlanta, said those figures were not unusually high for such an airplane. Right wing reacts Leader verbally attacked CHAM, West Germany ~ The leader of an extreme right- wing party today told thousands of cheering supporters that young Germans should be absolved of guilt for the Holocaust, and he criticized a promi nent Jewish community leader. Franz. Schocnhuber, a former Nazi SS soldier whose Republican Party is gaining in national polls, rejected suggestions he was anti-Semitic. He said there arc Jewish authors, com posers and painters “whom 1 like." “But I don’t have to like Mr. Galinski,” Schoenhubcr said. Heinz. Galinski, a survivor of Auschwitz, is president of West Germany’s Jewish community. “Mr. Galinski sabo tages Gcrman-Jewish reconcili ation.” Galinski, 76, a well-known figure, constantly reminds West Germans of the Nazi horrors and criticizes right wing extremism and anti-Semitic tendencies. “The Nazis brought us the worst chapter of our historySchoenhubcr said. “Wc don’t want another Hiller.Bul wc can’t allow our history to be reduced to Auschwitz.’’ “Today’s young generation of Germans is no more guilty for Auschwitz than the sons and daugh ters of Americans who committed genocide at Hiroshima and Nagasaki,’’ Schoenhubcr said, thumping his fist. “Bravo! Bravo!” the crowd shouted. Schoenhubcr spoke for nearly two hours in a large hall in this remote Bavarian village. The hall was packed with more than 5,(XX) sup porters, who feasted on wurst and beer. They frequently interrupted the 66-ycar-old Republican leader with cheers and applause. Outside, small groups whistled and shouted “Nazisout!” Police said about 50 people rallied in protest of the Republican gathering. About 30 people tried u> block Schocnhubcr’s entry to the hall by placing chairs and musical instru ments in his path. Police detained eight people who tried to unfurl ban ners with anli-Republican slogans. In Jan. 29clcclions in West Berlin, the Republican Party won 7.5 percent of the vote and 11 scats in the local legislature. Under West Germany’s election rules, the parly will have two scats in the national Parliament after the December 1990 federal elections. A poll by the respected Wickert institute published last week said the Republicans would get 11.5 percent of the nationwide vote if elections were held now. The crowd in Cham’s hall repre sented a majority of the parly's members. Party officials say the Republicans have close to K.OOO card-carrying members. Syria and Libya responsible Newspaper says bomb was in recorder JERUSALEM - The explosive device thal blew up New York-bound Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland on Dec. 21 was concealed in a radio casseue recorder and was traced to Frankfurt’s airport, a newspaper re ported Tuesday. The Jerusalem Post quoted un identified investigators as saying the device was similar, but not identical to one found earlier in the possession of members of Ahmed Jibril’s ex tremist Popular Front for the Libera tion of Palestine-General Command. More than a dozen members of the group were arrested in West Ger many in late October, two months before the Pan Am bombing that killed 270 people - all 259 on board and 11 on the ground at Lockerbie, Scotland. Police found among those arrested a sophisticated barometric-pressure detonating device, the Jerusalem Post said. It quoted investigators as saying the device used in the Pan Am bomb ing had a “remarkably similar” de sign. The newspaper quoted investiga tors as saying the radio-cassette re corder was transferred at Frankfurt’s Rhein-Main Airport from another plane to a Boeing 727 flying to Lon don. At London’s Heathrow Airport, baggage from the 727, including the radio-cassette recorder, was trans ferred to Pan Am’s New York-bound Flight 103, the paper said in a report from London. Investigators have not identified the bag in which the device was hid den, the newspaper said. Last week, a British radio station said Scottish police believe Palestin ian extremists hid an explosive dc- * vice in the luggage of an American CIA officer wno was flying home from Beirut with five colleagues after a failed mission to negotiate the re lease of U.S. hostages in Lebanon. CBS television said Syria and Libya were responsible for the bomb ing and that it was carried out by ■fibril's group, a Syrian-sponsored faction outside the Palestine Libera tion Organization. Japan s top oppositon leader resigns amid profiteering scandal, resignations TOKYO -- Japan’s stock-profi teering scandal claimed another casualty Tuesday, a top opposition leader. Other government opponents hope his resignation will hasten the m fall of Prime Minister Noboru Takc shita’s government. Saburo Tsukamoto stepped down as chairman of the Democratic So cialist Party. He was the only one of four opposition members linked to the scandal who had refused to step down. His departure opens the way for the opposition to unite and renew demand* for Takeshita and his entire CaUMkia resign when Parliament cofv&SaFriday. Many influential politicians and business leaders were offered cheap, unlisted shares in Recruit-Cosmos Co., a real estate subsidiary of the information-based conglomerate Recruit Co. Shares rocketed in value immedi ately after they were offered for pub lic trading in October 1986. Tsukamoto admitted in December that he earned about $77,000 in the transaction. Such lucrative dealings already have led to more than 20 resignations, including those of three Cabinet ministers of the governing Liberal Democratic Party and three other opposition members. ihc transactions arc not illegal, but they have incited public outrage and raised questions of political eth ics. Takeshua has denied any knowl edge of Recruit slock trading by his secretary, and has ruled out opposi tion demands that he resign and call an early election. Instead, he has pledged to restore public trust in politics. Tsukamoto also denies wrongdo ing. The 61-year-old party chief re signed only after parly elders de manded he lake responsibility for tarnishing the name of the third larg est opposition group as it prepares for a major legislative election in July. Vatican will release document on racism to change attitudes on various forms of prejudice VATICAN CITY - The Vati can has written a document on racism that seeks to “change people’s attitudes and h( iris’’ on the various forms of prcji lice and discrimination in the world, an official said Tuesday. The document strongly de nounces all forms of racism, in cluding apartheid in South Africa, anti-Semitism, religious discrimi nation and discrimination toward native peoples, said the Vatican official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The Vatican’s Justice and Peace Commission prepared the document and it will be released Friday. The Italian news agency ANSA reported the document also raises the issue of terrorism against Jews, adding that anti-Zionism has been used as a cover for anti-Semitism. The Vatican official said the document is not intended as a sc ries of condemnations but as a church contribution to debate on a social issue. Netfraskan Editor Curt Wagner Night News Editors Victoria Ayotte 472-1766 Chris Carroll Managing Editor Jane Hlrt Librarian Anne Mo hr! Assoc Nows Editors Lee Rood Art Directors John truce _ Bob Nelson Andy Manharl Editorial Page Editor Amy Edwards General Manager Dan Shattll Wire Editor Diana Johnson Production Manager Katherine Pollcky Copy Desk Editor Chuck Green Advertising Manager Robert Bates S|ports Editor Jett Apel Sales Manage! 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