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Tuesday September 25, 1984 Volume 80B, Number 23 Duke University Durham, North Carolina THE CHRONICLE Newsfile Reagan: arms talks necessary By STEVEN R. WEISMAN Celebration in Chicago: The Chicago Cubs N.Y. Times News Service baseball team clinched the National League's East divi President Reagan appealed Monday for "a better work sion title last night sending their hometown into a mad ing relationship" with the Soviet Union and proposed the cap display of enthusiasm. The last time the Cubs won establishment of a new Soviet-American negotiating their division title was in 1945. "framework" to chart the course of arms control talks for the next 20 years. Democrats attack Reagan: Democratic In a speech at the 39th session of the United Nations leaders accused President Reagan Monday of making General Assembly, Reagan declared that "We need a fresh light of the bombing last week of the United States approach to reducing international tensions," and pledged Embassy in Lebanon, and congressional committees American efforts to "join in a new beginning" with other pressed ahead with plans to investigate why security nations to lift "the dread of nuclear war" from the earth. at the embassy had been breached. See page 2. He gave no details of the new framework, other than to say that it would serve as an "umbrella" to ensure that Oil competition granted: The nations major faltering negotiations in one area did not threaten the oil companies have agreed to allow more than 50,000 chances of negotiations in another. service station operators to sell any brand of gasoline Later, Secretary of State George Shultz told reporters they choose, even though their neon signs and franchise that the proposal was "an idea" that would take Special agreements identify them with a single brand. The shape" in discussions with Moscow. result, industry experts say, will be more competition The president's speech came as administration officials and lower prices. See page 2. UP) PHOTOS stepped up their efforts to sound a conciliatory tone with President Reagan, bottom, will meet with Soviet foreign the Soviet Union. Although that message has been minister Andrei Gromyko, top, Friday. Reagan told the delivered at least since January, some aides acknowledged Ferraro fumes: Campaigning in New York, Demo 39th session of the United Nations General Assembly on cratic vice-presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro said the special significance that arose from heightened in Monday that "a better working relationship" with the terest in the presidential election campaign. she was frustrated and angered by President Reagan's Soviet Union was needed. upbeat campaign stressing the issues of leadership and Asked if politics had anything to do with Reagan's opportunity rather than the more substantial issues muting of his earlier language criticizing Soviet behavior, that the Democrats would like to see debated. Shultz responded with a smile "When is that election, anyway?" he said. "I don't think it has any bearing on this. Soviet Scholarships: The Soviet Union, the I really don't." other Warsaw Pact countries and Cuba have significant Reagan offered no proposals Monday to break the ly stepped up their scholarship aid for students from deadlock in nuclear arms negotiations with the Soviet Latin American and Caribbean countries, a study by Union. the General Accounting Office shows. American foreign The speech also did not contain any criticism of Soviet affairs and military authorities view such signs of long- actions. In contrast with his address last year to the range Soviet involvement in the United States sphere General Assembly, Reagan did not suggest that the Soviet of influence with serious concern. Union had violated arms control agreements. Reagan also did not mention the Soviet Union when he appealed for Mayors dispute recovery: Democratic oficials a "diplomatic settlement" in Afghanistan. of the U.S. Conference of Mayors Monday released a As administration officials had indicated, Reagan offered survey contending that the poor are not benefiting from a range of proposals to ease Soviet-American tensions in the economic recovery. general. Improving education: Many experts believe See REAGAN on page 9 that the key to improving education rests not with na tional commissions nor even with local school boards, but with the staff in each individual school building. Unless a school has good leadership, monitors pupil Beaufort students oppose fee use achievement and provides a safe and supportive at mosphere, they say education is not likely to improve. By MICHAEL MILSTEIN Director of Accounting at Beaufort Diane Gagnon said Duke students studying at the University's Beaufort students studying there have been charged acivity fees for Marine Laboratory are complaining that ASDU is unjustly "several years." She said this is the first semester students Weather using $320 of their student activities fees for projects they have complained about fund allocation. cannot enjoy, while the money is badly needed on their Trinity junior Eric Desman, a Beaufort student, said his campus. peers knew they would be charged the activity fee when In a letter to these 18 students, ASDU president John they received their bills during the summer. I lOVe da Cubs: Even loser Mets fans should en Baker told them their money - $41-30 each - is being However, it was not until they arrived at Beaufort that joy today's weather. Today, high in the mid 80s. Ibnight, used to plan performances, fund The Chanticleer, The they realized they would have access to only half of the low in the mid 60s. Cloudy skies, but low probability Chronicle, the ASDU General Fund, and other ASDU money. of precipitation. See you at Wrigley Field. sponsored projects. Baker said the fee is justified because the Marine Half of the money from Beaufort students' activities fee Laboratory is part of Duke's campus and the students keep remain in ASDU's treasury to fund its projects while the half of the fee for use at Beaufort, unlike students study other half is placed in an account managed by Beaufort ing abroad. students. Inside The activites fees of students studying abroad is com In a letter to the editorial board of The Chronicle, the pletely contributed to the foreign school's government, said students spending the semester at Beaufort said ASDU's an official of the Office of International Studies. keeping the money is "tantamount to taxation without Early Identification: Twenty-eight Duke sopho representation," as their interests are not represented in Students participating in internships, as required by mores are striving for positions in the entering Duke the ASDU Legislature. departments such as Public Policy, are normally charged Medical School class of 1988. The competition is fierce, Beaufort student Eric Rector said his group should have the student activities fees only if their internships take but the potential rewards are immense. See page 3. more than $700 in its account, but the "unfair place in the Durham area. assessments" brought the total to only $275. But if the internship's location does not allow students Professorial problems: A faculty ombudsman The Trinity junior added that the Beaufort campus to take advantage of Duke activities, they are not charged. position has been created to help increase communica desperately needs money to repair student facilities, such Of the half earmarked for Beaufort students, $5 was tion between professors and administrators. The new as their sailboat, volleyball court, and basketball court. taken by ASDU to pay for The Chronicle's mailing to the mediator hopes to minimize misunderstandings bet SOC Chairman Julie Guest said the money is being Marine Laboratory. ween the sometimes combative groups See page 4. spent for projects Beaufort students "can take advantage Rector claimed that not one of the students had yet of in the future" received "a single issue." Symphony Opens Season: The North Carolina She said the issue is "irrelevant for this academic year," Chronicle Business Manager Tim Dyer said Beaufort is Symphony opened its 1984-85 season last night in I^ge because ASDU "will not be able to refund the money for on The Chronicles mailing list and should be receiving Auditorium with featured violinist Elmar Oliveira, this year." their papers. He said he is plannning to move them from America's first Tbhaikovsky gold medalist. See page 5. The Beaufort fee issue is "not on my priority list," Guest third to first class mail to be sure they receive The Chroni cle soon after it is published. World & Oil companies open gas sales and ultimately the price at the pumps. The settlement could lead to further erosion of brand The nation's major oil companies have agreed to allow loyalty among motorists, according to gasoline retailing more than 50,000 service station operators to sell any officials. National brand of gasoline they choose, even though their neon signs "This goes a long way toward establishing the principle Page 2 September 25, 1984 and franchise agreements identify them with a single that a gasoline dealer is not a captive of his refiner and brand. The result, industry experts say, will be more com will be able to offer motorists significantly lower prices petition and lower prices. by shopping around," said Vic Rasheed, executive direc The accords were reached Friday and Monday in a pro tor of the Service Station Dealers of America. THE CHRONICLE posed settlement between 13 oil companies and represen He said that if the agreements, which run for five years, tatives of service station franchise holders, who in a 1971 become permanent through legislation or further negotia Assistant news editor Susan Teitiebaum lawsuit had charged restraint of trade in the sale of tion, they could substantially cut future gasoline prices Associate sports editors Jim Arges gasoline.