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Eastern Illinois University The Keep November 1983 11-4-1983 Daily Eastern News: November 04, 1983 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1983_nov Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: November 04, 1983" (1983). November. 4. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1983_nov/4 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1983 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in November by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Friday, November 4, 1983 will be clearing and cooler with highs in the low 50s. Friday night will be fair and colder with lows in the upper 20s to low 30s. Satur day's high will be in the mid to upper 50s. Eastern Illinois University I Charleston, Ill. 61 920 I Vol. 69, No. 53 /Two Sections, 28 Pages Grenada a ntici pati ng new government ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada-The registration and ballotisoonng. governor general of the troubled island Charles Gillespie of the U.S. State nation of Grenada said Thursday he Department said Bernard Coard and will name a non-political transitional Gen. Hudson Austin, leaders of the government by early next week, and bloody coup that precipitated the U.S. added that elections might not be held led invasion of Grenada on Oct. 25, for a year. would be turned over to Grenadian Sixteen Libyans, including four authorities in a day or so. Gillespie, diplomats; left for London on a U.S. assistant deputy secretary of state for military plane. Preparations continued Caribbean affairs, talked to reporters lt the press center on the University of to evacuate 49 Soviet citizens and members of the Cuban diplomatic mis- West Indies campus in Grenada. sion, although the Cubans said they Coard and Austin, who went into would not leave until the estimated 600 hiding but were captured last weekend, Cuban prisoners being held on were being held on American Grenada are repatriated. helicopter aircraft carrier Saipan, off After· Governor General Sir Paul the coast. Scoon's order earlier this week that the Roadblock checks for weapons in Cubans leave the country, U.S. cars driven by Grenadians will con . paratroopers· surrounded the Cuban . tinue, Gillespie said, "until we're sure Embassy, not allowing anyone in or we've found everything there is to out except top officials taken under find." guard to meetings with State Depart Officials also were preparing for the ment representatives. scheduled arrival Friday of a group of Scoon said the Cuban prisoners U.S. congressmen on a fact-finding would leave in a day or two . mission. The governor general is a Grenadian As more American troops prepared appointed to his largely ceremonial io leave the island, Gillespie said he post by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in believes there will be "no need" for her capacity as titular head of state of U.S. military presence in Grenada six . Grenada and head of the Com months from now. ;::.·��� monwealth. Air Force Gen. Robert Patterson �;/i� Scoon said the elections may not be said 1,800 members of the Army's held until this time next year because it 82nd Airborne Division would be Lynn Dillow clowns around with children outside Buzzard will take that Jong to set up a flown Friday morning. part of the Children's Film Festival. (News photo by Rich Viano) bureaucracy that can ovesee voter stinians pound Arafat's last Mideast stronghold Lebanon (AP)-Palestinian mutineers Defense Secretary Donald E. Rumsfeld as his new try to negotiate peace between Israel and the Arab r Arafat's last Mideast stronghold Middle East troubleshooter Thursday and Rumsfeld world. artillery Thursday, leaving 34 dead quickly admitted he did not have any solutions for Arafat was in the beleaguered stronghold near ed outside Tripoli. the region's problems. Tripoli, a British Broadcasting Corp. camera crew in Beirut, meanwhile, foiled an in "It is worth our best efforts," said Rumsfeld, 51, a said . He refused to talk with them. pt and predicted more attacks on their former congressman and holder of key jobs in the The center of the fighting was Mount Turbo), Nixon and Ford administrations. which rises from the eastern edge of Arafat's head 50 "poli, miles north of Beirut, gave the He replaces Robert C. Mcfarlane, who was named quarters in the Baddawi camp. Beirut radio said the t in the fighting, which broke out at Oct. 17 as the White House national security adviser. mountain changed hands several times during the through the day and into the night. In his new job, Rumsfeld will oversee U.S.' efforts day. and more than 100field artillery guns to bolster the government in Lebanon, try to ac A huge column of black smoke rose above Tripoli d the city. celerate withdrawal of Syrian, Israeli and Palestine from an oil refinery on the edge of the Baddawi camp on, President Reagan named former Liberation Organization forces from Lebanon and set ablaze in the fighting. military affairs discussed by panel Inside ne over. He emphasized that policies con buildup by the United States. Family affair y War College Current cerning Grenada are unrelated to Latin The basing of missiles in the Persian One child or ma ny presented Eastern America. I Gulf and Germany gives the United children-what do you want? In faculty with the U.S. Currently, the United States is States good striking position in case of honor of Parents Weekend, the es such as Grenada, assisting some Latin American coun a conflict, Col. David G. Hansen, a takes a look at different ns with Third World tries with economic conditions and Verge rriember of the Department of National aspects of the family. the deployment of military training, he said. and International Security Studies at ' See last section in Western Europe and They are also protecting them from the war college, said. Wednesday. invasion of outside forces, but "com In addition, Lt. Col. Julius F. Title try ented an overall view bat will be avoided," Life added. Johnson, student and infantry man at The Panther football team will be s policies and strategies The panel also answered questions the war college, complimented the U.S. vying for its fourth-straight con Id issues at a lecture in concerning the nuclear arms race with policy of a volunteer armed service. ference title when it faces ditori um. Russia. "Recruits are well-trained and Southwest Missouri State Univer A. Life, U.S. Navy Panel members said President prepared to man sophisticated sity Saturday. cer, said the U.S. inva Reagan is trying to direct the military weapons and military situations," he See page 13 was an international away from· destructive offensive said. ing Communist take weapons and to slow down nuclear 1 Friday, November 4, 1 983 Greyhound workers go on str Ar (AP)-Greyhound Bus PHOENIX, iz. "If I was unemployed, I'd be in line Lines Inc. shut down 60 percent of the nation's - 49-year-_old bus driver Jesse Ellison inter-city bus service for at least two weeks N.Y., who was picketing at the Nia Thursday as thousands of drivers and other Transit Authority Bus Terminal in • B workers went on strike rather than accept 9.S Rival c�panies added routes and percent waaecuts. honored Greyhound tickets. But k>Rs Pickets marched in front of depots and lines were reported irt some places an passengers went looking for seats on other bus Greyhound will remain shut fortwo lines or simply stuck out their thumbs. will "invite the employees to retu Retailers say sales up in October . And long lines of job applicants appeared out jobs," said spokeswoman Dorothy L side Greyhound offices in response to newspaper said copies of Greyhound's fi by the Associated Press ads seeking new emoployees. But there was little fer-including wage cuts-were bei The nation's major retailers reported large October sales animosity between pickets and the job ap members of the striking Amalgamat gains on Thursday, prompting industry watchers to predict plicants. Workers. that the strong buying trend should hold through Christmas, possibly making it the best selling season in years. Industry leaders Sears, Roebuck & Co. reported a 32 per cent increase in October compared with the same month a Jackson declares candidacy. year ago. No. 2 K-Mart Corp. reported a 10.6 percent gain WASHINGTON (AP)-The Rev. Jesse L. holds no illusions about his chance of and third-ranked J.C. Penney Co. Inc. posted an 8 percent in Jackson formally started his quest for the nominee. crease. Democratic presidential nomination on "My candidacy will be a quest for a· Robert Gough, senior vice president of Data Resources Thursday, vowing to "give a voice to the ty and a peaceful world," he said. ' Inc., in Lexington, Mass., said that among consumers, voiceless, representation to the unrepresented didacy will help to change the present "There's a'tremendous ability to purchase, and tremendqus and hope to the downtrodden." our nation and to rekindle the dormant willingness. This Christmas looks like it could be a real good Jackson, only the second widely-known black idealism for all Americans." one." candidate to try for the presidency, is starting He said his campaign would focus months and millions of dollars behind the seven · a "rainbow coalition"-blacks, Hispa Inquiry starts into airplane crash white men also seeking the 1984 Democratic minorities-, women and the poor-that CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP)-A special government inquiry nomination. spire millions of new voters to register into operations at Air Illinois has been started after a plane The 42-year-old Baptist preacher and civil thousands of new officeholders.