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AIDS - page 7 VOL XX, NO. 50 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1985 an independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s Unwanted Government faces B-ball tickets to be sold federal spending By TRIPP BALTZ Staff Reporter ‘double doomsday’ Student government plans to sell unwanted tickets for home basket Associated Press The shutdown can be averted if ball games to those students who Congress passes a stopgap ap waited in line for season tickets but WASHINGTON - Unless Congress propriations bill to fund govern did not get them. ends its impasse over the federal ment agencies past the expiration of I Ipperclassmen who want to sell a spending this week, the U.S. govern the current temporary spending bill ticket to a home game can take them ment faces a Super Bowl of - midnight Thursday. to the student government office, bureaucratic snafus on Friday, the That is also the deadline for the where they'll be stamped and likes of which the country has never government to run out of money be removed They'll then be sold at the seen. cause Congress has been unable to Rock du Lac record store. For the first time in its history, the agree on a measure to raise the "This is the first time we’ve been governm ent may default on its finan government's borrowing authority allowed to do this, " said Bill Hcaly, cial obligations - bouncing millions above its current limit of $1,823 tril Student Body President. of federal checks. lion. Mike Bobinski, Manager of the In addition, much of the federal An appropriations bill gives the ACC ticket office, has allowed the government could be shut down, government the legal power to tickets to be removed for sale by stu sending a half million or more spend money but it needs an in dent government, provided they "nonessential" workers home on an crease in the borrowing limit to have been stamped unscheduled holiday and closing raise the money to spend since it There will he a lottery for stu government offices from Was will have exhausted its financial dents who bring in their unwanted hington to Anchorage. reserves by Friday. tickets. The first prize will be $100 A government shutdown would for items at the bookstore. Second The country is being brought to be nothing new. It happened in and third will be $75 and $50, the brink of this double doomsday November 1981 and just over a year respectively. because of continued wrangling ago on Oct. 4, 1984. “Student government is paying for over federal finances. Both shutdowns had little impact these prizes, not the bookstore," While Congress has until mid on the public. said I leafy. night Thursday to reach a resolution A default, however, which has The Observer/Drew Sandler Mealy thinks this is a good op A to a s t. of the impasse, officials are reluc never occurred before, could have porunity for upperclassmen to get tantly beginning to make contin far ranging implications. money hack for the games they don’t Midshipman First Class Gary Chura makes a toast during the gency plans if this deadline is not The Treasury Department says want to attend. "They get the $4, and Nov.8 Marine Mess Night as United States Marine Corps Reserve met. that as of Friday the government's the chance for a prize," he said. Colonel Brian Regan looks on. Regan was guest o f honor at the The two problems, a government coffers will be completely empty. event, held at the University Club. see TICKETS, page 5 shutdown and a default, will require separate congressional solutions. see DOOMSDAY, page 4 Russian sailor leaves U.S. amid efforts to blockdeparture Associated Press "We re not going to forget this. jumped again from a launch which federal lawsuits and a Senate sub had a Coast Guard escort from the And we’re not going to let the took him back to the ship. poena failed to keep the 810-foot time it slipped its moorings in NEW ORLEANS - The freighter powers that be forget this," said Jeff He cut one wrist after being freighter from leaving Saturday with Reserve, 130 miles up the Missis carrying Miroslav Medvid back to Pandin, who tried to organize a forced back to the ship, but later told Medvid aboard. sippi River, until it entered interna the Soviet Union was well out of flotilla of small boats to harass the U.S. officials that he w anted to return “As for as our operations down tional waters shortly before Coast Guard jurisdiction yesterday, Marshal Koniev on its way down the to the Soviet Union. He said he had here in New Orleans, I think it's midnight Saturday. but the sailor who twice leaped into Mississippi River. fallen from his ship and could not over,” said Pandin. "We re trying to It was somewhere in the Gulf of the Mississippi in apparent attempts remember what happened after that. figure out w hat our next step will be, Mexico yesterday, said Coast Guard to defect remained in the thoughts Medvid, 25, sparked an interna through political channels in Was Petty Officer Tom King. of those who tried to block his tional uproar when he jumped ship The federal government said it hington.” see SAILOR, page 5 departure. and swam to shore Oct. 24. He could do no more, and a flurry of The 120,000-ton Marshal Koniev Major snows and cold temps sock nation Associated Press warmed to 73 degrees, one degree they didn’t know when it would be above the record for the date set in reopened. Indian summer was over yester 1931. Philadelphia and Atlantic Elsewhere in the Sierra Nevada, day for much of the country as City, N.J., had record highs of 72. 18 empty cars presumed to belong snow whitened the ground from But farther north, parts of Maine to backpackers, were found by the Northwest to the Great Lakes got 2 inches of snow during the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s and shut down an interstate high morning. deputies in the Emigrant Basin way. A cold front forcing its way Wild Area, a few miles north of Heavy snow in Northern Califor across the Plains reached Dallas ap Yosemite and about 15 miles nor nia blacked out parts of the Sierra proximately at noon and dropped theast of Sonora. Nevada, closed roads and left an es tem peratures from the 70s into the timated two dozen hikers snow 30s and 40s. Around mid morning, “It was warm during the week, bound near Yosemite National Amarillo had a temperature of just so presumably people from the Park. 28 while Brownsville, in far sout (San Francisco) Bay area thought it Three deaths had been blamed hern Texas, was already at 83 would be fun to go hiking," said on the winter like weather. degrees, and McAllen reached a Kenneth Costing of the Tuolumne Butte, Mont., was the coldest high of 91. Amarillo’s 14 mph County Visitors Bureau. “It’s im spot in the 48 contiguous states north wind made it feel like 7 possible to go in there looking for with a low of 9 below zero, and degrees. them. There’s over 1,000 square only warmed to 8 degrees above A new storm spread snow into miles to cover. It’s like finding a zero at 2 p.m. EST. The weather the Northwest, and winter storm needle in a haystack. ” He said the service calculated the wind chill warnings were posted for higher hikers may have found vacant factor at Kalispell, Mont., at nearly elevations in Oregon, Idaho, Nor cabins. 30 degrees below zero yesterday thern California and northern Every major mountain pass in morning. Nevada. Washington state was affected by Casper, Wyo., had a record low Up to 3 feet of snow fell on peaks the snow, w ith snow tires or chains for the date of 2 degrees below around Lake Tahoe, on the Nevada advised or required, and three AP P h o to zero with 4 to 5 inches of new California border, and in the were closed. The state’s snow, and Pocatello, Idaho, tied its nearby Sierra Nevada of Northern transportation department Friends and volunteers push a car o ff the curb and away from a record low of 8. California. Interstate 80 was closed reported 26 inches of new snow stop sign hit Friday in downtown Sioux Falls, S.D. Slick streets Indian summer held out in the between Reno, Nev., and Califor yesterday at Cayuse Pass, and 24 caught some drivers by surprise during the season s first East, where New York City nia and authorities said yesterday inches at W hite Pass. snowstorm. Story at left. The Observer Monday, November 11, 1985 - page 2 Of Interest Creativity, not coercion aids A Pla n n in g for Pregnancy seminar wm in United Way fundraising be held tonight and next Monday night at 7 in the auditorium of the Angela Building, 410 N. Notre Dame Avenue. The program, which is "People helping people” is a slogan we all quickly sponsored by the Natural Family Planning Program of St. Joseph identify with the United Way. We’ve heard it maybe a County, is free and open to the public. The program is targeted for million times. expectant parents and those anticipating a pregnancy in the near Amy But at Notre Dame this tall, the slogan could be ex future. The goal is to establish good health habits in women during tended to “Students helping students helping people.” Stephan child bearing years.