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Columbians brave cold
in march to honor King
By atarb RusscQ and Gail Snider
Bssourisn sSxfl writsfx
Marching side by side, blade by
white, young by oJd, more than 100
candle- bearin- g Colombians com-memorated
the" Rev. Martin Luther
Kn'sbirthdaySaturdaynigbL
Many prominent rifoens were
anmng the marchers' ranks, but a 7- year- - okl
boy may have best captured
the nidi's mood.
" He ( Bug) helped the black peo-ple
because they weren't really
' You can never forget
the death or the
martyrdom, but we
strive to keep it
from being a funeral.
This is the celebration
. ofaman'sJife.'
Arvarh Strickland
treated bice people. Then after that
be tried to help poor people. Then
they tried to kill him after that be-cause
the rich people dent want the
poor people to be like them," says
Jeremy Flanagan, the son of Bob
aad Mary Flanagan, Route 1.
Saturday marked what would have
been King's 54th birthday. He was
assassinated in Memphis. Tenn... on
April 4, 1968. Colombia has honored
his memory eachyear since.
" It is a flay of celebrating accom-plishment,"
said Arvarh Strickland,
a member of the Martin Luther King
Jr. Memorial Association ( which or-ganized
the event) and chairman of
the University's history department.
" You can never forget the death or
the martyrdom, but we strive to
keep it from being a funeral," he
said. " Tins is the celebration of a
man's me."
Liz Schmidt, 52, former president
of the local League of Women Voters
chapter, chairwoman of the city
Board of Adjustments and commu-nity
activist, offered a slightly dif-ferent
perspective--
Certamly, it's tike a story if it
isnt retold it wfll be lost, she says
of the importance of p? pc on
King'slegacy to fstone generations.
The chAben seemed well aware of
the significance of King's life and
story as they struggled to keep their
candtea-. inthecris- p wind. They
wereeitrTtPniCnifrf ul, nopefuL
Some more experienced marrTwTs
bad trouble keepmg their mood com- pfete- iy
festive.
" Sometimes yon wonder if be did
die in vain, said Wynna Faye El-bert,
director of the J. W. " Band'
Boone Coiismniity Center where the
marchbegan.
" I sure do think we ( blacks) are
going back in time," Mrs. Elbert
said. " So many of ( King's) ideas
have tended to shoe." She supports
her assessment by citing President
Reagan's position on issues that af--
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Marchers walk along Broadway; above, Saturday, night in
honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King's birthday. A speaker,
above left, at the Second Baptist Church, 407 E. Broadway,
talks about King's accomplishments.
feet low- inco- me people the people
Kingstrivedmosttohelp- -
Paul Harris, minister at SL Paul
African Methodist Episcopal
Church, echoes Mrs. Elbert's senti-ments.
' Tm not satisfied with bow far
blacks have come in Boone County,"
Harris said. " The racist element is
subtle, but it's there." He said the
array of studies done by cities,
states and federal government on
blacks and racism are strictly " de-lay
tactics."
Columbian George Farris knew
King personally. His brother mar-ried
the slain civil- righ- ts leader's
sister.
" When you talked to him private- -
ty, you could really see his sinceri-ty,"
Farris recalled.
" He believed that there were some
things worth dying for, he sincerely
felt that," Farris said: " I asked him.
" I asked him about bis children,
who were very young at the time,
what would happen to them without
a father he said that for them to
live free was more importanL"
The march ended at Second Bap-tist
Church at 407 E. Broadway.
There, the marchers joined 150 en-thusiastic
celebrants to honor with
song and prayer the man they knew
as the architect of the modern ctvO- rigb- ts
movement a man whose
dream, some conceded, is not yet a
reality.
Russians predict February satellite crash
MsarVorfcTimss
MOSCOW A senior Soviet srien-. ti- st
went on national television Sat- nrda- y
to amwnnce that the nuclear
fad core of the Cosmas- lta- z satellite
would pifFiff into Earth's atmo-sphere
in misVFebraary, bat he as-sured
viewers that any fattoat
wndd bewithin safe Emits.
In las lO- minu- te explanation, Cfleg at Befotoeriaxsky, director of the
MiwiTn Fnyar- Trfhririii- T TtwIiliTfc.
seemed to change me Soviet position
Cram previous assurances mat radio-active
portioas of the satellite would
eomplsdeSy born op in the atmo-sphere.
Instead, the scientist
claimed that any particles reaching
Earth would be within intensatknal- h- j
agreed saGeh limits.
Delobeitursfcy said flat the fuel
care of the sputnik would born op in
the dense layers of the atmosphere
sometime in mid- Februar- y, and that
in the process its materials would be
dispersed into " finely divided psrta- de- c"
He gave no indicatson of the size or
Radiation level deemed safe
possible re- ent- ry trajectory of the
radeoachve segment, winch he said
was separated from the main body
of the satfgiSe on command on Dec
28.
Bektserkovi& y's detained expla-nation
of the pfght of Cosmos 1402 in
prime- tim- e Saturday evening view- in- g
boars snggrstrd that Soviet fcad- er- s
were considerably more anrioos
about the satrffitf than their earner
asagances indicated. In effect; Be- bstsehtar- sky
confirmed the base as-sertions
of experts in the United
States, who warned earlier this
month that the sputnik, which they
identified as a naLttsry reconnais-sance
sategjte, bad malfunctioned
and that its nadear compocents
would fall to the Earth.
Belot5erlsovstys main deviation
from the American description of
the sanation was his contention that
radioactive fauont would not exceed
limits '" recomroffidgd by the Inter- naSoB- Bl
Commission on Radkaogi- -
cal Protection,' a reference to a
VH. body that studied the issue.
American experts have noted that
when a similar satellite with a simi-lar
reactor. Cosmos S54, plunged into
the atmosphere in 1978, several ra-dioactive
fragments landed in Cana-da's
Northwest Territories. The
rieanop took months and cost about
$ g minkm, part of which was paid by
the Soviet Union.
Several nations, mcloding the
United States, Britain and Sweden,
have set up special teams to monitor
the progress of Cosmos 1402. Contin-gency
plans are being reviewed for
finding and recovering radioactive
fragments in the event that any sur-vive
re- ent- ry and fall to Earth.
A week ago, officials at the North
American Aerospace Defense Com-mand
said the satellite was in an er-ratic
orbit about ISO miles above the
Earth and was losing altitode at a
rate of about three or four miles a
day. They said it could plunge into
the atmosphere by the end of this
month, but that they would not be
able to give more than a few hours
warning of when and where the frag-ments
are likely to fafl--
Part cc the concern about Cosmos
1402 stems from its relatively large
size five tons. But the main prob-lem
lies with its nuclear reactor,
containing more than 100 pounds of
enriched uranium, which has been
used to generate electricity to oper-ate
the satellite's radar for observ-ing
the movement of the world's
navies.
Belotserkovsky, who did not ex- plaintfcemis- sknn
of the satellite, said
mat Cosmos 1402 completed its work
Dec 28 and was separated on com-mand
into three parts. One of these
parts re- enter- ed the atmosphere and
burned up Dec 30, be said.
" Accenting to preliminary calcu-lations,"
he said, " the main part of
the satellite structure wifl enter the
dense layers of the atmosphere late
in January, and the fuel core in mid- Februa- ry
this year."
Social Security panel
reaches compromise
Benefits to be taxed, frozen
WASHINGTON UPI) The bi-partisan
Social Security Commis-sion,
trying to rescue the troubled
system which provides aid to mil-lions
of Americans, reached an 11th- ho- ur
" compromise solution" Satur-day
night, the White House an-nounced.
President Reagan, who created
the bipartisan group after Social Se-curity
proposals of his own ran into a
political firestorm, told aides who
briefed him on the final package late
Saturday that " it suits me." said
deputy press secretary Larry Speak- e- s.
Speakes said the commission
voted 12-- 3 Saturday night to accept
the plan, which would immediately
raise $ 16 billion for the system
through a combination of payroll tax
increases, taxes on benefits and a
six- mon- th freeze on benefits.
He said there had been " direct
contact" between staff members of
the White House and House Speaker
Thomas P. O'Neill to affirm support
of both Republican and Democratic
leaders on the compromise.
" We've succeeded," commission
chairman Alan Greenspan told a
news conference following the meet-ing.
" We put the interests of the na-tion
in front of our individual solu-tions."
Greenspan said Reagan and O'N-eill
both agreed to the proposal,
adopted by the panel with dissenting
votes from three conservative mem-bers.
" Each of us recognizes that this is
a compromise solution," Reagan
said in a statement released by his
press office. " As such, it includes el-ements
which each of us could not
support if they were not part of a bi-partisan
compromise.
" However, in the intrest of solving
the Social Security problem prompt-ly,
equitably and on a bipartisan ba-sis,
we have agreed to support and
work for this bipartisan solution."
According to a White House fact
sheet, the main points of the plan in-cluded:
- the $ 169 billion trust fund im-provement
from this year through
1989, " restoring Social Security re
serves to safer levels of about 30 per-cent
of outgo by 13."
a six- mon- th delay on cost of liv-ing
payments to all beneficiaries,
with low- inco- me elderly protected.
- insuring future solvency by
" trigger" mechanisms which would
shift the method of adjusting the cost
of living index and providing " catch
up" benefits at certain points.
bringing newly- hire- d federal
employees into the Social Security
program beginning Jan. 1, 1984. and
banning future withdrawals from the
system by state and local employers
after the new legislation becomes ef-fective.
Those moves would bring in
another $ 23 billion.
creating incentives for later re-tirement
O'Neill, in a statement, termed the
agreement " acceptable to the presi-dent
and to me, one which 1 can sup-port
and will work for. I am hopeful
that it will provide the basis for bi-partisan
cooperation in the ( House)
Ways and Means Committee and the
full House of Representatives.
" As I stated on Jan. 3." O'Neill
continued, " this legislation is at the
top of the agenda of the new Con-gress.
It is vitally necessary."
Reagan issued an immediate exec-utive
order extending the life of the
commission, which was scheduled to
expire at midnight, until January 20
in order to allow the commission
staff members time to officially pre-pare
its report.
Republican congressional leaders
said they approved the plan. Senate
Majority Leader Howard Baker
called it " a sound plan" and pledged
he would work with the Democrats
for legislative passage. Rep. Robert
Michel, R- 0- L, the minority leader in
the House, said the recommenda-tions
" are not entirely what I would
have preferred," but endorsed them. :
White House aide James Baker
and others briefed the president
about 7 p. m., immediately after
Reagan concluded a White House re-ception
honoring Dr. Martin Luther
King.
Speakes said the administration
group then returned to Blair House
for a meeting of the full commission
" to hash it around some more."
Federal spending freeze
could be coming for ' 84
WASHINGTON ( UPI) Senate
Budget Committee Chairman Pete
Dosnerdci says no deep domestic
budget cuts can be made this year
and a broad spending freeze will
likely be used instead to keep the
deficit below $ 200 billion.
" I think anything more than a
freeze would be very difficult to live
with," Domenici. R- N.- M., said.
Without any budget changes at all,
he said, the deficit could rise to a
whopping $ 250 billion or $ 260 billion
in fiscal year 1931, winch begins Oct.
1. The deficit was a record $ 110.7 bil-lion
in fiscal year 1982.
But be said emphatically that Con-gress
will keep the federal red ink
under $ 200 bfllion, " and it will be
coming down" in later years.
Domenici, chairman of the Budget
Committee the past two years, said
he was " not privy" to the details in
President Reagan's 1984 budget pro-posal,
which win be submitted to
Congress Jan. 31. But he said be
doubts it contains $ 30 billion in do-mestic
budget cuts.
" That wont happen," be said.
That's too much. That's too high."
" The best I can see is a collective
composite freeze that would come
out at about the same level ($ 30 bil-lion),"
Domenici said. " That's the
direction I think it will go."
He also said he does not expect a
major tax increase for fiscal year
1984, which begins Oct. 1, except per-haps
in the Social Security area
where scheduled tax hikes might be
accelerated to save the system.
He said he would not " pass
judgment yet" on Defense Secretary
Caspar Weinberger's reduction of $ 8
billion from a $ 247 billion defense
spending request for 1964, saying be
was more interested in the cuts in
defense growth for 1985, 1986 and
1967.
' Tm not going to pass judgment
yet, but it does appear to me that
there ought to be more savings in
" 85, " 86 and 87, and men maybe
there has to be more in the " 84 bad- get- ,"
Domenici said.
Unless the 1984 budget shows defi-cits
declining from $ 250 billion to $ 80
bfllion or $ 90 billion over the next
four or five years, Domenici said, in-terest
rates win not come down and
me economy will not recover.
' Tm not terribly fearful of infla-tion
in the short term," be said.
' Tve become quite angry when pub-lic
officials representing the exec-utive
branch say they dont think
deficits matter any more. They mat-ter!"
Analysts predict 9Ws as time of transition for nursing
Adrian Myaatf
Ob one particularly bad night, Patty, amem
frisn oat of school, ftwad herself worioog on a
basEBtol Soar with several critically fll pa- tfr- nt
rwlaadnrffltahiaoadureMf. Patr
ty bad to check their vital signs every 10 to IS
states. Intravenous solutions bad to be ad- Jast- ed.
Csrisg for the critical patieats was only one
off Pas defies. She and too other nsases
tsgre reqsmsib for the 35 patients cat her
Boar, saaae of when bad been crowded oat of
the feteoore eare cstL Adnaoistrafive tasks
aed dasabennaid chares were waiting to be
Kaicses across the country are joining the
ffafot in gtrf aara wafciaag gBnaHfoim. Health
eare asahjrxts predict the SSKta trill be a deci- ar- e
decade far aerajag. yeggs' profesafonri
fgatta in Jeopardy as Oat fight fctensifies to
hse$ a sfeare of the abrisjdsg health cere doV
lar, tie analysts say-- The dgggtSSwi takes by
America's 12 naJSon sones wffl feewe a pro- fiam- d
effect en fbe way patients are treated is
m
hospitals, doctors officr ft1 clinics. Colum-bia,
a regional nwroral center, is sore to feel
theeffectscfthnprofessionalevolation.
A profeaaoc wsh a bug- standi- ng tradition
for service, iwiiiafiig is sometimes rewarding.
" At times, the work is fasansting. It can be
one of the most saftafying things youTl ever
do," aays Patty, who rocen& y quit her nursing
job at a local boapaal because of brgnont. " If
someoae goes into code bine ( heart failure),
aad yoa muccgmriiiiBy reiMirifatf them, you go
home ttanldBg, 1 saved a fife today. It's re- mard- jag
when garaeane taitfa a fiat ESG ends
Bjp recovering.
Yet, there are stall a 1st ti drawbacks to the
fPBfe& SaB. l& ssmg is bard physical work,
says Aon BeSett, lobbyist for the afissoari
Norac Asaorfation. Noaicg requires lifting,
ttfffSfnssL waTsons, wsosig. ba& sxog things cp.
B cdea msans taastdog Christmas Day and
BJear Year's Ere IPs fnabatiog at times on
weekends, for example, when yoa cent get a
dean sheet because the laundry's dosed, Kel- l- et
says. Above ally nursing is stressful.
" Ifs physically impossible to do everything
they expect you to do, says another victim of
noising burnout, wham we will call Karen.
like Patty, she recently quit her nursing job at
a Colombia hospital. " They teH you, You must
chart everything.' God, I'd love to have the
time to chart everything. Instead, yon shave
off a Btfle bit here, a little fait mere. You work
overtime and Tnnches, and hope you havent
forgotten something vitaL"
Largely because of these frnstratiens, the
uuiiuug profession has an annual turnover rate
of 38 percent. Within five years after gradaa- tio- n
from coBege, more than S percent of all
registered noises are inactive as nurses, re-ports
the Winter 1982 edition of " Nursing Ad--
" It got to the point where it didtft hart to see
a patient hurting," Karen says. " Then ifs
time to get oat when you can say to seme- on- e,
1 cant give yoa year pain medication
now. ITsnattin'witbojfeefingaaTy."
Most people enter nursing because tney want
to help people, says Lydta Goad, director of the
Columbia Visiting Nurses Association, ideally,
a nurse is concerned with protecting a pa-tient's
health in the presence of disease. Nurs-es
do this by observing how patients respond to
their treatment and teaching them to better
care for themselves. But nurses are often frus-trated
in carrying out these duties, she says.
" Ask a nurse if they can conceive, develop
and carry out something as innocuous as a
simple education procedure," says Steven Dfl- Iead- er,
a staff nurse in the University Haspj- tal-' s
surgical intensive care ward. " You come
up against doctors, established pohcies, tradt- twns- ."
Karen's last job involved working with crit-ically
ifl patients on the cancer ward of one cf
Colombia's hospitals. Many of the patients
were frightened.
" Yon would love to sit down and talk to them
for a whue, but you cant. Yoa don't have
enough time. You dont get to do what you're
taught Anyone can hang an LV., but yoa cant
very well sit and talk to someoae about death
and dying while someone else bleeds to death
Sm NURSES. Pago SA
2 fo 4 pjn. " Visions 83." featur-ing
the works of contemporary
Midwest artists. University Fine
Arts Gallery. Hirt Street and
University Avenue.
3 pjn. British comedy film
" Tight Little Island." Pickard
Hall Auditorium at the Universi-ty.
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8 pan. Joffrey II Dancers at Uni-versity
Jesse Hall.
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