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Networks asked to not predict
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California's secretary of
state is urging the broadcasting networks not to project
winners in the Nov. 2 election until after the polls close at 8
p.m. Pacific time.
In letters Thursday to the presidents of NBC. ARC and
CBS, Secretary of State March Fong Eu urged the networks
to hold off on projecting winners so as not to affect late
voting.
Such action, she said, would be "consistent with the
public's right to know and to be free of media meddling in the
election process."
Last year, Ms. Eu estimated that 401,000 Californians who
had intended to vote late, didn't vote in the 1980 general
election after TV networks declared Ronald Reagan the
winner and President Jimmy Carter conceded before the
polls closed on the West Coast.
Several legislative and congressional races were affected,
she said.
Students strike for better food
MUTARE, ZIMBABWE (AP) - A school headmaster
called troops and police to end a hunger strike by 700 high
school students demanding better meals, a newspaper
reported Friday.
Headmaster Mark Bofu later suspended all striking
students at the Mutambara school, the Mutare Post
newspaper saia.
The school has been closed indefinitely while Bofu awaits
instructions from the Education Ministry about the fate of
the suspended students, it said.
Streaker photo exposes identity
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) - A man who ran naked through a
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newspaper printed a picture of his prank.
"I'm pretty uptight about that photo. It didn't leave any
question about who I am," said the man, who asked not to be
identified.
The Exponent, the student newspaper at Montana State
University, printed the full-frontal nude shot in Tuesday's
edition.
The Exponent received calls "ranging from disgust to
anger," said editor John Burgess. Comments around campus
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The picture seemed to represent the spirit of homecoming
weekend, so the paper's editorial board decided to print it,
Burgess said.
But the streaker said the newspaper should have considered
the photo's effect on him.
"People see me and shake their heads and think 'what a
freak.' It's the first thing I've ever done like that," he said.
The student said he ran across the football field during the
MSU-Boise State game on a challenge. He was arrested after
his streak and charged with indecent exposure.
"I could walk across campus without everyone knowing
who I was before the picture came out," he complained.
President William Tiptz's nffirp rorpivpri tvur? pftmnlnintc
from callers disappointed the picture got in the paper.
Copies of the 8,000-circulation paper didn't last long,
Burgess said. "They're probably being used as wallpaper in
the dorms."
Mail carriers win back wages
WASHINGTON (AF) - The U.S. Postal Service says its
agreement to pay $400 million in back wages to mail carriers
will not force it to increase postage rates.
The Labor Department on Thursday announced the terms
of the court agreement, which will mean an average
payment of $500 apiece for some 800,000 past and present
postal employees.
It is the largest settlement ever obtained for alleged
violations of federal wage and hour laws, the Labor
Department said.
A spokeswoman for the Postal Service, who asked not to be
identified, said that the agency had put aside money to cover
the back pay settlement and that no hike in basic postal rates
is planned.
Labor Secretary Raymond J. Donovan called the
agreement, approved by U.S. District Judge Aubrey E.
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Free gun with piano purchase
LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) - The hunters aren't exactly
knocking down the door to get the free shotguns Ken Miller is
giving away with pianos and organs.
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a couple of pianos since the promotion started, but I haven't
givei away any shotguns."
He said he timed the promotion to run just before birdhunt
ing season.
The idea isn't new, Miller said ; a store in Texas had "great
success" with it.
Miller said it made sense to him because he had noticed
that "morn and the kid come in to look at a piano and dad gets
dragged along. He doesn't care what kind of piano it is, as
lonf* as .t has keys and costs less than $1,000."
USC *ocJay
RH film: " Tho Wild Bunch" starring William Holden
ami Robert Ryan. 6:30 and 9:30 p.m., FREE.
rheatr: "loot's Delight," Drayton Hall, 8 p.m.
w Tickets: $3, faculty/staff.
, Concert: USC Orchestra, 8 p.m., Booker T.
Washington auditorium, FREE.
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Communities
(AP) - The Tylenol scare and fears
of copycat killers are prompting more
and more communities to ban trickor-treating,
or at least urge parents to
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Earlier last week, an Associated
Press survey found only one town with
a Halloween ban. But by week's end at
least five cities had outlawed trick-ortreating,
and dozens of others were
strongly suggesting that parents keep
their children off the streets.
"It's like banning Santa Claus but
keeping Christmas," explained City
Council President Bernard Chartrand
after Fitchburg, Mass., banned
Halloween trick-or-treating by saying
"the safety or our children is at
stake."
Four other Massachusetts towns
voted similar bans, and at least one
other community is scheduled to
consider such a resolution next week.
All cite the Chicago-area deaths of
seven people who took Extra-Strength
Tylenol spiked with cyanide. Since the
deaths three weeks ago, authorities
have discovered isolated cases of acid
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP)
bringing peace to Northern Irelanc
Saturday,after Protestants, sworn nol
Roman Catholics,gained a majority in t
Catholic radicals won unexpected victor
But the British Northern Ireland Seci
vowed to press Britain's peace effort
should not be expected in Northen Irelar
Counting from Wednesday's voting ;
with results in from 72 of 78 districts, am
parties won 44 seats ? 24 for the Officia
the militant Rev. Ian Praisley's Democi
Sinn Fein, political arm of the Roma
Provisional Irish Republican Army, ga
the vote, or five seats. It was the firsl
ticipated in an election under its own ba
"Provos" were formed in 1969.
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had been the Catholic minority's main
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BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - The
Reagan administration's economic
record is the worst of any president
since World War II, according to a
statistical analysis by two university
economists.
"An Economic Report Card of the
Presidents" gave the Reagan years a
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administrations rated by two
professors at the University of
California at Berkeley.
The study scored each president's
term on 16 key indicators of economic
performance. The Reagan administration
ranked last in 10 of the 16
measures and next to last in three
others.
The professors added, however,
that inheriting a depressed economy
from a previous administration would
affect the score.
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states, including California, Florida,
Ohio and Colorado.
"Our concern is for the
youngsters," said Police Chief Harold
L. Olson in Palmer, Mass., where
selectmen voted unanimously
Wednesday to ban trick-or-treating.
"It's not to punish the kids."
Benton Harbor, Mich., commissioners
approved a resolution
urging parents to keep their children
home or throw private parties.
Although they didn't make trick-ortreating
against he law, Commissioner
Mildred Wells said, "We're
not sanctioning it."
"Maybe we 11 have to do away with
Halloween," said Dr. Russell Currier,
chief of disease prevention for the
Iowa Department of Health. "Maybe
it's a custom that has outlived its
usefulness."
A hospital in Des Moines, Iowa, and
another in Cheyenne, Wyo., will be
offering free x-rays of trick-or treat
bags.
"I'm afraid it's come to this," said
Mary Ellen Kimball, a spokeswoman
at the Red Cross blood drive, held Friday at
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national product, productivity, employment
and real income were lower
under Reagan than any other postwar
president, the study said. And
unemployment rates, business
failures, real mortgage rates and the
share of income devoted to taxes were
higher.
The study, released Thursday, was
conducted by Jeffrey M. Perloff,
associate professor of agricultural
and resource economics, and Kenneth
T. Rosen, professor of economic
analysis and policy in the School of
Business Administration.
"In the last few months, there's
been a lot of comments by Democrats
and Republicans about who's
responsible for the current mess, and
we wanted to know how previous
administrations compared," Perloff
said Friday.
"We're not attempting to influence
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at Northwest Community Hospital in
Des Moines. X-rays can only detect
metal objects, however, not poisons,
she added.
A Perry, Iowa, hospital decided
against offering free x-rays because
4 it might be the impetus for some
crazy to put something in the candy,"
said a Dallas County Hospital
spokesman.
On Wednesday, for example, a teenager
in Austin, Texas, said she found
a needle buried in a candy bar purchased
at a convenience store. Police
said it appeared to be an isolated
incident.
Miami Mayor Maurice Gerre has
asked the city manager to put extra
police on patrol Halloween nignt tor
"our children's safety."
Trick-or-treating in Massachusetts
has been banned in Methuen, Dudley
and Holland - as well as Fitchburg and
Palmer. Officials in Hull ordered a 6
p.m. curfew on trick-or-treaters and
Weymouth imposed a5p.m. to 8 p .m
limit.
Most city officials have been
reluctant to forbid all trick-or
treating.
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any particular election, but we
thought voters should be aware of how
the state of the economy in this administration
compares to others."
Perloff said he was a Democrat;
Rosen said he was an independent.
A White House spokesman, Anson
Franklin, said late Friday he had not
heard of the study and had no comment.
Reagan has admitted the
economv is bad but said most nf thp
blame belongs to previous administrations
and that his policies will
need time to take effect.
"If you've inherited a bad situation,
that could reflect on your performance,"
Perloff said. "Reagan
didn't inherit in great shape, but it has
gotten substantially worse."
Of the postwar presidents, Harry
Truman's economic performance was
the best, the study said. The
economists gave him an "A."