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University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository 1984 The aiD ly Lobo 1981 - 1985 4-19-1984 New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 088, No 139, 4/ 19/1984 University of New Mexico Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1984 Recommended Citation University of New Mexico. "New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 088, No 139, 4/19/1984." 88, 139 (1984). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1984/65 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The aiD ly Lobo 1981 - 1985 at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1984 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1'1 .~ ' ~ -· NEW MEXICO Vol. 88 No. 140 Thursday, April 19, 1984 Parents, Kids Protest Possible Child Care Cutbacks By Maria DeVarenne does not provide adequate day care. ''The child can't have any develop mental needs," O'Neil said. r ~ \. ~- .~ About 150 parents and children , gathered at a public hearing \ ~ ; L ~ Special Education teacher Wednesday night to protest prop Carolyn Karnes said, "I'm outraged osed cuts in state subsidized child at the whole situation. The proposals care funding for parents, including are unacceptable. Is Anaya admit university parent students who make ting to mismanagement of funds at up 30 percent of the recipients. this point?" De The state Human Services State Senate candidate Shannon partment spends $347,000 a month Robinson said Governor Toney on child care, but their monthly Anaya should find emergency budget is $240,000. Department money to supplement the day care eli Secretary Juan Vigil said that by program. minating all students from the Title ''Money is available because this XX program, the cost would de is a natural human disaster. The de crease to $207,000. Elimination of partment knew about the funding college students would decrease the problems in December, yet nothing monthly cost to $247,900. was done," Robinson said. Vigil said the $2.8 million budgeted for child care under Title New Mexico Public Interest Re XX this year will run over by about search Group Director Keith Mohe $900,000. ban said the long term goal is to get Vigil said the administration more funding from the Legislature shares the parents' concerns and for future years. ''not just appease noted other proposals, such as an the deficit now." increase in co-payments by parents The Associated Students of the or reduced payments by the Depart University of New Mexico Senate ment to child care providers to help unanimously passed a resolution eliminate the deficit. urging the department to maintain The department allocates up to student eligibility for Title XX sub Elisa Padilla and Carlos Garcia picket the proposed child care funding cuts at the public $6.50 a day for one child's care:' sidies. The resolution stated many hearing Wednesday night at the PNM Building downtown. However, University of New Mex student recipients are needy, single ico's Child Care Co-op Director parents who can't get an education George O'Neil said this amount to move out of the pove1ty cycle. Asbestos Fiber Level OK By Steve Shoup March and involved drawing air in $10,000 Budgeted for Center the studios through extremely fine By Eric Keszler profit every quarter this year, she Results of air quality tests at the filters. The filters were then ex five used machines bought through amined microscopically to detect fi said. the medical school. University of New Mexico's Wood ward Han and KNME television stu bers. Duplicating center manager Montano said he would like to see dios show levels of airborne asbes The Associated Students of the Richard Montano said the money 10 new typewriters in the center by The tests were prompted by the tos fiber are far below what is consi University of New Mexico budget allocated for next year allows next fall. A request has been sent to discovery of asbestos earlier this dered hazardous. for next year allocates $10,000 for $5,000 for new typewriters and typewriter services for six used year in an fire resistant insulation Campus safety officer Bill Carroll the ASUNM Duplicating Center. $5,000 to be h~ld in a separate machines, he said. compound lining the ceilings of both The center did not receive any fund- ~ccount to help wath general operat- said Wednesday tests show Jess than studios. Tests on the insulation Montano said he would "like to .0 I fibers per cubic centimeter of air ing during the 1983-84 academic _ mg expenses. see as small a capital outlay as possi showed it contained about five per year If the center's revenue exceeds ats in both studios. The federal En cent asbestos by volume. · expenses, he said, the$5,000will be ble" for new typewriters. vironmental Protection Agency con The center used its own profits to applied toward the duplicating ceo "We have to decide what·we're siders exposure to one half of one Although air in the studios is con operate and help pay off its - ter deficit. shooting at,'' he said. Used typewri (.5) asbestos fiber per cubic centi sidered safe, Carroll said plans will $100,000 deficit this year. The center's typewriter rental ser- ters would cost $400 to $500 each. meter over an eight hour period to be continue to coat the insulation, sea He said, ..We could only afford ab· hazardous. ling the asbestos fibers in, and will ASUNM accountant Debbie Mor- vice was forced to shut down in probably take place this fall. ris said the center is "doing well on January because of operating costs. out seven new ones." The tests were conducted in early its own." The center has shown a It was started again in March with Tension Rises in Britain, Libya After Deadly Firing LONDON (UPI) -Libya around the town of Tripoli quite allowed diplomats and their families freely, but we are not allowed to go to leave Britain's embassy in Tripoli beyond the confines of the town. •' Wednesday but Libyans remained The diplomats' homes were still inside their London mission in a cri under guard, a British Foreign sis touched off by a deadly burst of Office spokesman said. But Britain gunfire from the building. "very much welcomes" the latest The machine-gun fire Tuesday developments, the spokesman said. from the Libyan Embassy in London In the London standoff, Richard killed a policewoman and wounded Luce, a junior minister at the Fore 11 anti-Khadafy demonstrators. ign Office, met for 40 minutes with Police sharpshooters sealed off the Muftah Fitouri, an accredited diplo~ building and maintained their siege mat at the Libyan Embassy. Wednesday for a second day. Fitouri, listed as a second secret· In the Libyan capital of Tripoli~ ary at the embassy, was not in the police and •'revolutionary students'' building when the shooting had responded by surrounding the occutred. British Embassy, trapping 25 people Lucc repeated Britain's stand that including Ambassador Oliver Miles security was the first duty of the and 11 women and two children. police and they wanted to search the Late Wednesday, a Foreign building. Britain wanted no more Office spokesman in London said bloodshed, he said. ''the Libyan government has said ''We ask them to come out peace our people can go home" from the fully and thus enable us to go in and embassy in Tripoli. search for weapons and explo In a telephone interview with In· sives, u Luce said. He hinted that dependent Television News, the progress had been made, saying the Venezuelan. singer Ana Gilda Leon and. percussionist Mario de Ia Huerga enteTtain at ambassador's wife, Mrs. Julia Libyans had "expressed regret" for Wednesday's open house party at the Latin American Institute. Miles, said, "We are allowed to go killing the policewoman. Page 2, New Mexico Daily Lobu, Apnl I'!, llJX4 Page 3, New Mexico Daily Lobo, April 19, 1984 Wire Report by United Press International Expan·sion Slowing WASHINGTON (UP!) -The Purchases of non-durable goods Senators personal income of Americans rose declined $4.5 billion with decreases a modest 0.5 percent in March and virtually across the board. Battles Rage in El Salvador, Nicaragua spending declined in major areas, Roger Brenner, vice president of Finished the Commerce Department said Data Resources Inc., an economic scene of heuvy fighting bemecn A Dctcnse Ministry communique Bush Urges New Plan Ldtbt guerrillas attacked three Wednesday. forecasting firm, said the report The Associated Students of the towns in an L'astern Salvadoran prn anti-Sandinista rebel~ and g:nvt!rn said the fighting in the eastern Mora zan province spread to El Di Economists said the figures arc "does seem to confirm that this is University of New Mexico Sen vmc:e \Vednc~day as part of a three mcnt troops for nearly two weeks. another sign that the economy is going to be a more normal kind of In El Salvador. a major battle wa;. visadero, about 3 miles southeast of ate Wednesday met for the last For Open Inspections week-old olfcn~ive they suid has kil slowing to a more moderate expan second year of recovery - not an time this semester. led more than ISO soldiers in the underway in the casicrn town of Jocorro, and Osicala, 20 miles to the north. sion from what many had feared was overheated boom year." GENEVA, Switzerland cncc room. indirectly repeated U.S.-baeked army. 1 ocorro, halting traffic on the an inflationary pace at the start of the Even with the slowdown, Ortner The Senate met in unoffical Vice Pre~idcnt George Bush earlier Soviet charges that Presi In Nicaragua, indian rebels strategic highway to the Honduran The rebels' clandestine Radio session as not enough senators Venceremos claimed that rebel year.