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House approves grant bill
WASHINTON (AP)j? The House has overwhelmingly approved
a bill that seeks to prevent the Reagan administration
from cutting federal grants next year for college students
from low- and middle-income families.
The bill, passed 381-19 on Wednesday, goes to a House
Senate conference. The Senate passed a similar bill last
Thursday.
The final compromise measure faces a possible veto by
President Reagan, who considers it too expensive.
Education Secretary T.H. Bell has proposed new formulas
that would sharply reduce federal Pell Grants for needy
college students. The grants are awarded each year to more
than two million college students from families with incomes
ud to about $25 000
Dade County wantsto secede
TRENTON, G A. (AP) ? A group of Dade County residents
has about half the signatures needed to seek a referendum on
whether the county should secede from Georgia and try for
annexation into adjacent Tennessee, a spokesman said.
"We're dead serious," said C.M. Smith Jr., sponsor ol tne
petition. The 18 to 20 people circulating the document have
gathered about 1,000 of the 2,000 signatures needed to seek a
referendum on the issue, he said.
"If it's the wishes of the people...I see no reason why they
should not take legislative action and give us to the state of
Tennessee," Smith said.
If enough signatures are obtained, the petition will go to
County Commissioner Larry Moore, Smith said. Moore said
he would refer the matter to County Attorney Arch Farrar
Jr.
"The county commissioner has no authority to do anything
about it," Farrar said Sunday. "I guess the only thing he
could do is refer it to the state legislator for his district...I
really can't tell you. I can't find anything in the (Georgia)
code that really spells out any procedure on this."
The secession drive was triggered by recent rain-induced
flooding in the county, which borders Alabama and Tennessee.
Some residents contend Georgia officials didn't do
enough to help the county repair damage caused by the high
waters.
Prayer increases bank balance
SANTA CRUZ, CALIF. (AP) ? As Stanton Powers stood
and prayed, the automatic teller machine continued to add.
He watched his bank balance rise from $1.17 to $1,600. Early
the next morning, Powers had $4.4 million.
"Mr. Powers' very simple contention is that he prayed for
the money and his prayers were answered," attorney
Marcello DiMauro said Wednesday.
"If You (God) can turn water into wine and bread into
fish," said DeMauro, scrambling the Bible a bit, "You should
be able to put $4 million into somebody's account."
But officials at the County Bank of Santa Cruz say they're
not ready to accept the conversion of a Santa Cruz artist on a
Social Security disability income into a millionaire. Bank
president Reese Davis says his lawyers are investigating the
incident.
The night of Sept. 7, the 39-year-old pen-and-ink artist
peered at his balance in the automatic teller "and before his
eyes, it increased to $26 and $201 and $600 and $1,600 while he
was standing and looking at his balance and praying or
meditating," DiMauro said.
Powers went home, but unable to sleep, returned to the
bank at 5:30 a.m. and "discovered his balance was in excess
of $4 million," DiMauro said.
A bank officer suggested that Powers -- not God - had
punched in spurious deposits. Powers denied it.
"If the money belongs to the bank, I'd like to see them keep
it," DiMauro said. "But I'd like to see them prove it."
Monkey helps in cancer study
OAK RIDGE, TENN. (AP) ? Neil Clapp hasn't discovered
a cure for cancer, but the biologist and his colleagues at Oak
Ridge Associated Universities have found a tiny New World
monkey that may give a few clues.
Clapp, a radiation biologist, and three assistants are
studying a colony of monkeys, known as cotton-top tamarins,
that frequently contract colon cancer both in the wild and in
captivity.
Colon cancer, which can be cured, is the second most
common form of the disease, behind breast cancer in women
and lung cancer in men.
So Clapp, 53, wants to know why ? and how ? the cottontops
get it.
"It relates a lot to humans because they develop high incidences
of colon cancer," Clapp said. "The interesting part
of this is that we have two other closely related species living
together, but they get no colon cancer except from transplantable
tumors or tumors caused by chemical carcinogens,"
he said.
"We're trying to find a biological marker that will tell us
why they have cancer. That would help us to possibly locate
the same thing in humans," he said.
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BEIRUT, LEBANON (AP) - Amin
Gemavel became oresident vesterdav
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only one hour after an arms depot
belonging to his Christian Phalange
Party militia exploded, wounding
several people and threatening to
aggravate Lebanon's bloody strife.
A French detachment of 300
paratroopers raced to arrive by sea in
the afternoon to serve as the advance
unit of the 3,000-man peacekeeping
force reassigned to Lebanon to
protect civilians. A massacre last
week left hundreds of Moslem
refugees dead at two west Beirut
camps.
Israel, which invaded Lebanon June
6 to rout the Palestine Liberation
Organization, blamed the massacre
on its Phalangist militia allies
avenging the Sept. 14 assassination of
their leader, President-elect Bashir
Gemayel, younger brother of the new
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate de?
R-N.C., a procedural blow yesterday tha
certain defeat of his campaign to i
legislation through the Senate this year.
The Senate voted 51-48 to table - and 1
regarded as providing Helms the close
record vote on the prayer issue.
The proposal would have sent back to
Committee the debt ceiling bill to which i
weie aiiacnea. rne committee would
recycle the bill and return it--with all bu
ment removed-for final Senate action.
Helms already had lost four attempts I
filibuster against the prayer proposal, i
yesterday and the tabling vote sounded tl
prayer issue in the 97th Congress.
The tabling vote apparently broke wh
Howard Baker, R-Tenn., had called a "I
over school prayer, when it appeared 1
Selective Guidi
GREENVILLE, S.C. <AP) - After
being snubbed in the first edition of
the Selective Guide to Colleges, USC
can now turn up its nose at any other
schools that didn't make it into the
book.
In next year's edition, USC joins
^lemson university, Furman
University and the College of
(llarleston among entries in the
second edition of The Selective Guide
to Colleges.
"We're sorry we did not have space
the first time," said Edward Fiske,
education editor of The New Yorh
Times and author of the guide. "The
reason (for USC's exclusion in the
first edition) was very simple. We
could only do so many first-rate
schools, and we wanted geographic
Hiucrcitu "
His guide to "265 of the best and
most interesting four-year institutions
in (he country" ? according to the
book's introduction ? caused a furor
in South Carolina earlier this year
because of USC's omission.
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leader.
Amin Gemayel took the oath of
office before Parliament at the
Lebanese military academy in
suburban Favyadieh, three miles east
of Reimt His reaction to todav's blast
was not immediately known.
The number and identities of
casualties in the explosion could not
be immediately determined, but local
radio stations said civil defense
workers warned people to stay out of
the blast site, Al-Abed square, as
ambulances raced there to rescue the
fatalities.
Phalangist militiamen control the
whole of east Beirut and the Christian
hinterland in the mountains north and
east of Beirut.
Israeli Defense Minister Ariel
Sharon, who ordered his forces into
wesi Beirut toiiowing bastur
Gemayel's death, said Thursday no
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Fiske said he and 25 research
assistants initially picked colleges
with high admission requirements for
inclusion in the guide. They added
some major state universities as well
and a few small colleges notable
because of unique academic
programs or location
He and the assistants eolleeted data
based on questionaires distributed to
25 students at eaeh of the institutions.
Colleges were rated on a five-star
scale in academics, social life and
quality of life.
Fur man received three stars for
academics and social life and fourstars
for quality of life. Clemson
received three stars for academics
and four stars for social life and
quality of life. The College of
Charleston received two for
academics, three for social and four
for quality of lite.
Fiske made the comments Wi?H
nesday at Furman's Religion in Life
Lecture series.
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Israeli soldier or commander took
part in the three-day slaughter at the
Chatilla and Sabra camps, where
most of the residents were Moslems.
Sharon told angry legislators during
a debate in the Israeli Parliament or
Knesset that the army helped plan
and support a Fhalangist militia raid
into the camps to flush out PLO
guerrillas believed hiding there, but
never expected "in our darkest
dreams" the massacre of civilians.
Estimates of victims range from 300
by the U.S. government to 1,400 by the
PLO. As of Wednesday the confirmed
toll was 293.
In New York, the United Nations
General Assembly announced it will
meet in emergency session Friday to
consider a Palestinian demand for an
inquiry into the bloodbath. Lebanon so
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neither to kill the Helms amendment nor
r against it.
te refused for the fourth and final time to
e Helms proposal by a 53-45 vote. This
irolina conservative was seven votes short
>reak the filibuster.
to give Helms a final, record vote on the
5sue and end the debate over social policy
3 the Senate's attention for more than a
ervatives and liberals were pressuring
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ace up to the fact that it (the prayer
>ing anywhere," said Sen. Bennett Johnis
supporter, during Wednesday's debate,
fight, a brave fight, but battle is over."
iarry Goldwater, ll-Ariz., said Helms is
'es by continuing to push his prayer bill.
i he has helped the conservative cause a
iter, the 1964 Republican presidential
deludes USC
The College of Charleston, Clemson
University and Furman University
received high ratings from the guide,
which has sold about 75,000 copies
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The guide will be revised about
every two yep~s, he said. Twelve
schools will be added to the book in the
second edition, which will be
published next summer, and USC is
"one of the obvious first ones to add,"
Fiskesaid.
"Nobody anticipated this kind of
flack," he said. "We were addressing
a need. The point of the book was to
say if you know the type of school you
want to go to, how do you decide which
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"A lot of people attach too much
significance to what it says. I want it
to Ixi used correctly. I have a certain
responsibility for how it is used."
Fiske said Wednesday it was not
valid to rank schools by adding the
stars together because some students
would place a higher priority on one
category than another.