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digest Play spawns record NEW YORK (AP) ? Garry Trudeau, the cartoonist who turned his Pulitzer Prize-winning "Doonesbury" strip into a Broadway musical, has expanded a talk-song performed in the play by a Ronald Reagan sound-alike into a recording. "Rap Master Ronnie," to be released Monday by Silver Screen Records, is spoken by Reathel Bean, who did the brief street-talking "rap" as Reagan in the Broadway show. Also featured on the record are actors sounding like first lady Nancy Reagan, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and presidential counsellor Edwin Meese. The record is a 12-inch single with background music by Elizabeth Swados, who wrote the score for the play. Side two is the instrumental version. Trudeau also drew the album cover, the White House with a balloon above it, surrounding the words, "That be fine." Salvador to join maneuvers SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) ? Salvadoran troops reportedly will join in U.S.-Honduran war games next month, and a source said a military investigative panel is urging that El Salvador's next president not reform the powerful armed forces. The source, a member of the panel, said the recommendation was prompted by press reports that Jose Napoleon Duarte, if elected president, would eliminate the Treasury Police, a branch of national security forces linked to rightist death-squads. The source requested anonymity. Duarte said he made no such vow, and the military high command denied that the panel had urged the Defense Ministry to oppose major restructuring by the next administration. A top military officer said El Salvador will send a 1 nnfl.man II Q .trainpH hattalion and ahout 1 fiO paratroopers to the U.S.-Honduran war games in Honduras in May. The officer, who asked not to be identified, has access to the military decision-making process. Although Salvadoran troops have received U.S. training here and in Honduras, the war games would be the first time they have taken joined maneuvers with the United States since El Salvador's civil war began 4!/* years ago. The first phase of maneuvers began April 1. In the se I cond phase, scheduled for May 23 to June 30, about 1,000 U.S. troops will practice anti-guerrilla tactics with the Salvadoran and Honduran soldiers. In a development concerning EI Salvador's presidential runoff election May 6, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday that the interim president, Alvaro Magana, has HpriHfH fo v^tn l<*oiclntir?n fhat would allow the runoff to be held without use of a $3.4 million U.S.-funded voter registry. Confusion in using the registry was cited as one reason more than 200,000 Salvadorans did not vote in the initial presidential balloting, involving eight candidates, on March 25. The runoff will match Duarte, candidate of the moderate Christian Democrats, against ultra-rightist Roberto d'Auduisson, whose Republican Nationalist Alliance party had pushed for the bill. The State Department said Wednesday it believes Salvadoran election officials have substantially corrected technical problems that cause the confusion in the first round of balloting. nwi USC today RH FILM - "Never Say Never Again/' directed by Irvln Kershner and starring Seen Connery, shows at 2:30 p.m. for $1 and 7 and 9:30 for $1.75. THE SPUR - "The Blanks" perform at 9 p.m. Admission is $1.50, . L, jk. Support .--.y '"WZ ^ _ _ >' ? ssam. "VrllmilMiM March i pJJ L. Truck and Trailer Rental AHEAD! 1 ?-? t_..~i, i;j gg heserve your ituuk ui nonei m 1 10% DISCOUNT rsZT I CHECKYEL^^PAGE^ORNEARE^^EA^^* ] ;! . : . . I t ' ? ? ? iMl ' i ... ' " " ^atelinE Kennedy death pos; PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) ? A medical investigator said there is a "strong possibility" drugs caused the death of 28-year-old David Kennedy, whose erratic life and battle with drugs since he watched his father assassinated on television had long troubled American's most famous family. "Drugs, I would say, are a strong possibility," Rick Black, the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner, said after an autopsy was performed Wednesday. "With the types of problems he's had, I guess that's not surprising." Police said they considered the possibilities of homicide and suicide unlikely, and were inclined to believe the death was due to an accident or natural causes. THE ST. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press, quoting unidentified sources, reported that Kennedy had been released this past Thursday from St. Marv's Rehabilitation Center in Min neapolis after a month of treatment for chemical dependency. Jay Hauge, director of the chemical dependency program at St. Mary's, refused to comment on the report. Asked why, he hung up the telephone. The copyright story said Kennedy had been admitted in late March under the name of David Kilroy, but told his counseling group he was David Kennedy. The Boston Herald reported that Palm Beach South paramedic Lt. Ronald Perron, the first official on the scene, said he saw a half-filled bottle of amber-colored prescription pills on the bed. Perron said he did not know what kind of pills were in the bottle. KENNEDY, THE fourth child of Ethel Kennedy and the late S^ i. Robert Kennedy, was found by a hotel secretary on the floor between two beds of his suite in the posh Brazilian Court Hotel. His body was to be flown today to Virginia, site of his family's Hickory Hill estate, said a spokesman for the Quattlebaum-Holleman-Burse Funeral Home in West Palm Beach. He and his brother Douglas, who had left the hotel the day Uofrvro ho/i i rt Ki i c r\orf nmnl/ f /-> %/ioit tVi/iir r?rn n /-I uv,iuiv, uau v.-iiv,v,kvv,ii 111 lino wwv,iv iu vmi tiivii gi aimmother, 93-year-old Rose Kennedy, at the family's mansion several miles away. "This is a very difficult time for. all the members of our family, including David's mother, Ethel, and his brothers and sisters who tried so hard to help him in recent years," David's uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said in a statement Wednesday. "ALL OF us loved him very much," the senator said. "With trust in God, wc all pray that David has finally found the peace that he did not find in life. No drugs or drug paraphernalia were found in the room, where a hotel secretary found the body, and there were no signs of violence or foul play, said Police Chief Joe Terlizzese. "There were no pills found in the stomach. And there was no real aroma of alcohol but that is something that will have to await the results of the tests," Black said. Palm Beach Police Sgt. Henry Marchman said it will be Democracy defeated t BRASILIA, Brasil (AP) ? After a FIFTY-FOUR de tumultuous 17-hour session of Con- reeime's nffirial r?n gress, the military-backed government proposal during th party today defeated a proposal to yesterday, but the have Brazilians directly elect their was 22 shy of the n president this fall. passage in the 41 Brazil's last direct presidential elec- Representatives. tion was in 1960, and the next one The proposed cor would not be held until 1990 under the ment had galvanizec government's current timetable. tensely as any issue s "We will keep fighting. The govern- takeover of the c ment can't ignore the will of 130 forces 20 years ago. million Brazilians," said the bill's Anticipating the sponsor, Rep. Dante de Oliveira of the vote would general opposition Brazilian Democratic Figueiredo, the fiftl Movement Party. nation since the rThe Golden Spur & Budweiser S present f] TU I A/?al Arf!<4 Cai>Sa0 l! iiv o?vvcii riiii?i vviiea m mm Live at The Golden Spur TONIGHT, April 27 - 9:00 ?< rA O . J ' - ? ? - f<auii?iuil I.PU OUCfl LignT f>" jj - |l:'.l|?a I V^y GGBLhO I I' ' sibfy drug-related several days before chemical test results pinpoints the cause of death. ' u/r'Vi' DDrTTV ..,,>11 u ? _ IIIJ iu i nii ill Wfcll 1 UICU UUl UIC (JU)MUllliy U1 'A suicide. That just wasn't in his profile. Homicide is always in the back of your mind when something like this happens, but we're leaning toward a natural or accidental cause," Black said. A Harvard University dropout, Kennedy had an apartment in Boston and had worked as an intern at Atlantic Monthly magazine for five months in 1982 and 1983. Kennedy's problems with drugs came to light in 1979 when he reported being robbed of $30 in a seedy Harlem hotel where police said he had gone to buy narcotics. He was hospitalized with a heart infection often associated with drug abuse. "M? H|| ? Mil. I i x- * f KannDnu nntsmictiP1 lliblly . UjJUmloUL, but unsure of talents BOSTON (AP) ? Like other bright young people, David Kennedy was "op^mistic" although unsure of how to channel his talents, his college adviser said. Bi\t other acquaintances believe the young man died in spirit the day he witnessed his father's assassination. In the five years between his reported mugging in a harlem drug hotel and his death Wednesday in a posh Florida resort, Kennedy had been twice treated for drug addiction arid was Once arrested for drunken driving, and had very briefly returned to Harvard University. He had also worked at everything from selling Amway products in Sacramento, Calif., where he was able to get away from Kennedy "groupies," to journalism, his pro-* fessed ambition. ' ^ " Results of an autopsy in Palm Beach* Fla., were not expected for several days? but drugs were believed to be a "strong possibility/- a county medical investigator said. The fourth of the 11 children of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy, Kennedy had majored in history while attending Harvard from 1974 through 1979. He had enrolled there this past September, but never received a degree, a universi S7 ofvuvauitw ?uwt "He i*a* doing we? in every regard" during a visit a few weeks ago, said John Marquand, his college adviser and close friend^ He said Kennedy, who haddiscussed several Marquand said he did not believe Sen. Robert Kennedy's assassination on lane 5, 1968, weighed unduly on the son's mind. MHe did not brood,** ' . But a retired journalist who for 30 years has lived next door to the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Mass.* cauMio kiitimiiwt Ii'Annuilip nnutw *** WM?V*VU **V | VV\/?V? VM MUVt WW ?*l V*****|> I his father bleed to death*" on national television. I iy Brazilian military ifectors from the clamped a state of emergency on the rty supported the federal capital district this past week, le roll call early In Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, vote for approval Brazilians by the thousands defied the umber needed for emergency ban on public gatherings r9-seat House of and flocked to downtown squares to watch the vote tallied on huge istitutional amend- scoreboards set up by supporters of the I tHp rnnntrv J1C in- QmonHrv-iont TTVio atnorhonm; mPQC11 ?.?W %/vy V4.1V1 J MVJ ill UlUVliUIIlVlll. 1 11V V1IIV1 UIVUOUIVJ ;ince the right-wing included a ban on media coverage of ountry by armed the vote. The final result was 298 yes votes, 65 high emotions the no, three abstentions and 113 absent, te, President Joao All but one of the absentees were from -? o??n#?rn1 tr\ thf? ortvprnmpnt'c Hprnnprafip 1964 coup, had Party. I mr nr 1 riMTit in i m mmm i n?? h mm mub i win ? C.H.A.M.P.S. Columbia Hall's Annual TMarathon for Public Services TENUIS MARATHON ar April za, 11:00 am S Blatt P.E. Center Courts I ?8 (Rain date April 29) * (JSC students Scott Zeigler and Jimmy Young will attempt to break the singles tennis marathon record of 25 hours. Come out and support them as vou suo- i port the Special Olympics! Donations for the event will be accepted both at the ! courts and around campus with all pro; ceeds going to the Special Olympics. 1 BE A CHAMP! | TOUR HELP AND SUPPORT | WILL MAKE THE PIFFEBEHCE. |