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Page 2 ? February 11, 1985 Dateline THE GAMECOCK world today?? 24 die in North Sea ship disaster BREMEN, West Germany ? A Polish freighter rolled over and sank in the icy North Sea during a winter storm, and only nnp cailnr ic Innwn tn havn cnrvivpH from thp rrpw r\f 9S n West German maritime agency said Saturday. Gale-force winds and a blinding snowstorm forced rescuers to call of their hunt for 15 missing crew members of the Busko Zdroj, which sank quickly Friday night. Only one person was rescued, from a drifting lifeboat, and the bodies of nine others were found. Searchers had to abandon their efforts after 14 hours because of poor visibility and stormy seas, according to the West German Society for Ships in Distress. Doctor savs Chernenko 'not dvino' ? B LOS ANGELES ? A prominent Soviet heart specialist on Saturday sought to dispel speculation about Konstantin Chernenko's health, saying the Soviet president has been working and "that means he's not dying." However, Dr. Evgueni Chazov, director-general of the USSR Cardiology Research Center and deputy minister of public health, declined to say whether the 73-year-old president and Communist party head was healthy or ill. He cited strict adherence to the Hippocratic oath, saying he could reveal nothing about any patient's medical condition. Explosives experts diffuse WWII bomb SHEFFIELD, England ? Army explosives experts on Saturday defused a 2,200-pound bomb, one of the heaviest dropped by the Germans during World War U, that had been .1 J : ?. uncarmeu uy construction wor*ers. But officers said the bomb still was unstable, and orderd 300 families evacuated the day before when it was found to remain in community hall shelters in this north England steel city until it could be removed. The families spent Friday night in the shelters on makeshift beds. A workman driving a mechanical digger near Sheffield's Bramhall Lane soccer stadium hit the 6-foot-long bomb Friday, police said, he made several attempts to scrape up what he thought was a lump of metal before the forman, an army veteran, realized what it was. Tip O'Neill calls Reagan 'old man' WASHINGTON ? House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. charachtcri/.cd president Reagan's State of the Union address as little more than "clever rhetoric" from a "kindly old man. The Massachusetts Democrat, in his sharpest attack on the president since Reagan's landslide victory last November, repeatedly calling Reagan an "old man" in a news conference on Capitol Hill. Reagan celebrated his 74th birthday on Wednesday; O'Neill is 72. "He hasn't been honest with the American people. They haven't asked him for honesty," O'Neill declared. Doctors say memory loss is By Appelated Pratt wouId need c The New York Times reported in its quoted Dr. G Sunday editions that Schroeder's heart, saying, implanted Nov. 25, is funtioning flawless- Schroeder's ly, but that strokes he suffered Dec. 13 improved sine severely impaired his memory. significant ne Schroeder has been unable to learn how "discouraging to operate the machinery that powers his saying. "Tf mechanical heart, and does not retain neurological r much new information, although his and not goo,' recall of events before the stroke is good, Doctors ea me / imes quoieu uociors as saying. several weeKS As a result of the stroke, even if fects, because Schroeder did not have an artificial heart, significant fi h?? "couldn't function on his own and stroke. V oe ] Royal insurance Representatives from the Royal Insur of America will be on campus the ev February 17, 1985 at 6:00 p.m. to co information?! meeting concerning the for data processing personnel in their Charlotte, North Carolina. Recruitinj students will be conducted on Mond; February 18 & 19 at the Career Plac< 1 6th floor H.W. Close Bldg. WgL -">? **%**Saiji'&-: i 8Sj it >. Jreag^*: Ant's-eye view Kristie Miller, left, a senior, and Jill C Managers 'hands a Reagan says Bv Associated Press WASHINGTON ? President Reagan on Saturday accused Congress of thwarting his administration's efforts to run the government more economically, and said he will push hard "across the country" as well as on Capitol Hill for his proposed spending cuts. "Our efforts to reduce bureaucracy through efficiencies and reductions in unnecessary personnel have been thwarted by congressionaily mandated employment levels for certain programs," Reagan said in a weekly radio address from the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md. "Our managers could get the job done just as well with fewer mmam scii ; severe He; ustodial care," the Times ?^ ary Fox, a neurologist, as l.O recipii alertness and mood have and d e December, but a lack of caugh urological improvement is surge< the paper quoted Fox as Satun le prognosis for much Tht ecovery is certainly guarded fected ' Fox said. ruled rlier had said they needed recent to assess the stroke's ef- spoke many stroke victims regain | Sch jnctions months after a from could Ifw ? THI ance Company ^pp ening of j nduct an ^ :ir staffing needs I th? new office in g peb. 5 for college I Tc ay & Tuesday, I Fe^( ?ment Center - I Feb ' j H ,11 iliilmm in urn Miin i wmSESm oulder, sophomore, study on the Horseshoe d ire tied' ; he will push h employees, but their hands are tied," he said. Reagan also renewed his plea for a balanced budget constitutional amendment and for legislation to allow him to veto individual items in apUlMr ..,<*11 ?r (Vf U r. r ^ r. piu^i iaiv,u uiua, as as iui uiv ding cuts that arc the heart of his program to reduce the federal deficit. "This week we've begun a new journey," he said. "If Congress works with us, we can accomplish great things for America. But the time to act is now." Reagan said the tax cuts enacted during his first term had resulted in "two straight years of economic growth, leaving inflation and all the iroeder )rt trancnlant nationl mm ? ??mi >v^#f M Ik %IUI I I tociated Pre?? mcd U1SVILLE, Ky. ? If artificial heart jnt William Schroeder has the flu, ar|d octors think he has, he could have coul t it from almost anyone ? even his not >n, a hospital spokesman said just Jay. S< : possibility that Schroeder was in- wee I by Dr. William DeVries cannot be com out because DeVries has had the flu they ly, said Humana Hospital Audubon sman Linda Broaddus. betv roeder, 52, "could have gotten it deB" a family member or visitor, or he have gotten it from one of the the ? ?*l CJSC-FM and I MINORITY STUDENT AIRS COMMITTEE of SG/ esent a Black History Series i Tuesdays at 6:00 p.m. through e month of February. 12 >p/cs in Afro American Culture. 19 SC, Community and State Histoi 26 istory of the Jazz Movement JENNIFER STEIB / Th? Gamecock bring yesterday's warm weather. 'e iard for cuts experts' pessimistic predictions in the dust." In the Democratic response to the President's address, Sen. James Exon of Nebraska said Reagan was seenig to rosy a picture of America and called on him to move quickly to averts disaster for farmers. "Again he glossed over a raging economic firestorm. Either he does not know or care or both about a major economic catastrophe haoDenine now," Exon said. "Right now in rural America, banks and small businesses are closing at a near record rate . . .Our country needs long-term agricultural policy which will insure that we have food available at fair prices for all." ? h maw hat/o flu k muy IIU Vu I IU lical staff," said Broaddus. There are so many people that are in out of the room every day, somebody Id have had a cold or the flu an just realized it and transmitted it. There's no way of knowing," she said. :hroeder's temperature went; up last*k and doctors first thought it (night b? nected to his medication. But later g& ' began suspecting influenza. r ' His temperature actually fluctuated veen normal and about 101 and 102 rees," Broaddus said. 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