THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1987 T DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL
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THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1987 t DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 83, NO. 43 Krzyzewski offers praise, advice to fans Coach K entertains crowd with basketball wit By MIKE LEBER The Duke basketball team has looked good in the opening two weeks of practice, head coach Mike Krzyzewski told a crowd of about 500 in Page Audito rium Wednesday night. However, he added that they have plenty of room for improvement before the season opens. So do the Blue Devil fans. "You're so damn innovative," Krzyzewski said. "But there are some things you can improve on," Coach K urged fans not to single out an opposing player for abuse, because that player will often come through with one ofthe best games of his career. At the same time, Krzyzewski said the student body has been important in representing the University and aiding recruitment. "You create an environment that is so damn good it's unbelievable; I just want to tell you 'thanks,'" Krzyzewski said. "You walk into Cameron and you see our players and you see our students. It's a happening." Coach K said.that a recruit can't help but be im pressed by the scene at what has been called one of the best college basketball arenas in America. Krzyzewski's speech, which will become an annual event, was peppered with one-liners and quips about his players, eight of whom were in attendance. Throughout STAFF PHOTO/THE CHRONICLE the speech, Krzyzewski referred to his players by their first names, and the crowd seemed to understand ex Composite sketch actly who he was talking about each time. The above is a police artist's conception of a dan Krzyzewski said the 1985-86 team's 37-3 season was gerous Killer. Sources say the subject's snout was See COACH K on page 6 • longer, and he may not be wearing a tie. Writer talks on women's rights Public policy receives grant By CHRIS GRAHAM By ELIZABETH COHEN The veterinary profession is facing "a The Philadelphia-based foundation Pew The development ofthe women's health host of challenges and opportunities that Charitable Trusts announced Wednesday movement and the obstacles faced by have the capability of eroding the effec a $1.6 million grant to the Institute of Pol women in Third World countries to tiveness of the profession, or if properly icy Sciences and Public Affairs. The grant receive adequate care were addressed managed, of enhancing the ability of vet will fund the Institute's administration of Wednesday afternoon by noted author erinary medicine to serve the needs of so a program to strengthen veterinary medi Norma Swenson. ciety," said William Pritchard in a written cine in the United States and Canada. statement. Pritchard is a professor of vet Norma Swenson, co-author of Our erinary medicine at the University of Cal Bodies, Our Selves, a handbook for The grant is part of a $5.5 million ifornia at Davis and co-director of the women's health, spoke to about 100 peo program administered by the Institute program. ple in Von Canon Hall as the main and initiated by Pew Trusts to help pro speaker for the Shortlidge Symposium on fessionals in veterinary medicine better The program will address problems women's health in the global context. respond to changes in their field and soci arising from changing patterns of animal ety, said Diedra Lyngard, communica diseases, the worldwide lack of food due to Men view women's health issues and tions manager for Pew Charitable Trusts. overpopulation and people's changing at their international implications as "virgin DAVE PETTY/THE CHRONICLE Most of the other $3.9 million will be titudes about animals, said Edward territory", Swenson said. "Female health Norma Swenson, co-author of Our given as grants to veterinary schools, O'Neil, visiting assistant professor of pub- is not simply menstruation and meno Bodies, Our Selves Lyngard said. See GRANT on page 4 pv pause" but also "the economics of a soci ety". Women's issues must be make Third World inhabitants see abor "acknowledged on [political] agendas", tion as a plot of Western ambitions of Swenson said. domination. The women's health movement was in Swenson also said the way to stop the Dow stable, most stocks down spired by mainstream feminism, Swenson AIDS epidemic in Third World countries said, but it has differed from most femi is for women to assert themselves for the By LAWRENCE DeMARIA far produced few results. nist organizations. She compared re protection of their future children. "Men N.Y. Times News Service By the time the market opened, it was sistance to the Equal Right's Amendment have failed to take responsibilty for con NEW YORK — The stock market ab confronted with a new challenge, a steep in the late 1970's to the dangers facing dom use," she said. Women in these sorbed new pressures without losing its drop in the dollar. Stock prices began to the women's health movement today — countries are not supposed to have any re balance Wednesday — on the 58th anni fall on fears that Washington might raise "the opposition to the reproductive rights productive information because this versary of the market crash of 1929 — interest rates to halt the currency's of females in both developed and underde knowledge is considered suspicious. and the Dow Jones industrial average decline. In the first half hour, the Dow veloped countries". Swenson also noted the dangerous ac managed to close with a slight gain. was down by more than 60 points. Swenson said the health movement has tions on the part of governments to con While most stocks lost ground and sell But prices turned up as reports reached been working to secure the reproductive trol population. She said the economic in ing of smaller issues continued, the Wall Street that central banks were inter rights of women in backward countries. centives for sterilization and the develop- declines were modest compared with vening in the currency markets, modify But, she said, fundamentalist Christians See SWENSON on page 3 >- some ofthe shattering falls the stock mar ing but not reversing, the dollar's plunge. ket has recently experienced. That appeared to ease some fears that The Dow average — which had never higher interest rates, which could curb Weather known a day worse than Oct. 28, 1929, economic growth, would be used to fight Inside until 10 days ago, when it tumbled 508 the dollar's weakness. In the credit mar Clairvoyance: Mostly sunny, highs points — moved up a third of a point, to kets, interest rates rose only modestly. Psychedelic smorgasbord: in the upper 50s. As for tomorrow, our close at 1,846.82. Considering that the dollar fell to a R&R reviews the Pink Floyd concerts. crystal ball says snow. No wait, that's As the market had a relatively stable seven-year low against the West German Apparently those nutty guys cut quite just one of those shake-up things with day, White House and congressional nego mark and weakened significantly against a gig. Wow. Dig it on page 6. little white specks inside. tiators conferred on ways to reduce the the British pound and the yen, the stock budget deficit, Their discussions have so .,.,.„,-.,, - . SM MARKET on pat* 2 pv THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29,1987 World & National Newsfile Dow up a fraction, most stocks down • MARKET from page 1 But market experts were quick to point out that the BrOCk diSCOUrageS trade bill: Labor Secre market's relatively calm performance surprised some ex tone of Wednesday's market was poor. Many broader tary Bill Brock on Wednesday urged congressional perts. gauges of the market's health were down, and volume leaders to abandon their efforts to reach agreement "If somebody had told me this morning that the dollar was on a trade bill, calling the measure "dangerous" and would fall as far against the mark as it did, I'd have as 279.4 million shares, up from 260.2 million on Tues predicting it would cause "rampant panic" in the sumed that the stock market would have had a much day, and and the eighth-highest daily total. Analysts world's financial markets if approved. poorer day than it did," said Harold MacKinney, head of who track the flow of money in and out of stocks said the investment policy committee at the Fleet Financial millions of dollars continued to hemorrhage from the Dinosaurs breathed different atmo Group in Providence, R.I. stock market. sphere: Minuscule bubbles trapped in amber for 80 "I guess it's apparent that the market assumes the million years have given scientists their first direct dollar will be allowed to fall further," he said. Carl Adams, chief analyst at Carl Marks & Co., said look at the earth's atmosphere in the time ofthe dino MacKinney said he thought it was possible that Wash investors had become short-term traders "because they saurs, a mix of gases that appears dramatically dif ington was sending a message to Bonn to cut interest can't make reasonable assumptions". ferent from the air we breathe today. A preliminary rates, or else see West Germany's exports hurt as the "There is nothing that they can look to as a reference analysis suggests that the ancient atmosphere may cheaper dollar makes American products more com point," Marks said. "What's reasonably priced today petitive. have been 50 percent rich in the oxygen that sus could be high-priced tomorrow. They don't know politi tained the animal life ofthe planet.