Eastern Illinois University The Keep August 1990 8-24-1990 Daily Eastern News: August 24, 1990 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1990_aug Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: August 24, 1990" (1990). August. 6. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1990_aug/6 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1990 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in August by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Friday, August 24, 1990 addam appears ready- to play hostage card ' -�· ...· -----------=------------------- ......, • Eastern reservists at aca- - e stage was set for a showdown in occu­ demic risk. Page 3 Eastern grad fears Kuwait over Iraq's order that embassies their doors Friday, and Saddam Hussein • Economy held hostage. for family's safety e home his readiness to play the hostage Page7 as the Persian Gulf crisis entered its By TONY CAMPBELL Senior reporter week. In scenes shown Thursday on Iraqi televi­ he Bush administration on Thursday sion, Saddam put foreign captives on display, For the families of American troops stationed in Marine guards and most diplomats out ruffling the hair of one little boy and joking the P.ersian Gulf, the thoughts of a possible war are e U.S. Embassy in Kuwait, but left with the tense and uncomfortable-looking frightening. But for Kuwaiti native Ali Dashti, the sador Nathaniel Howell and a skeleton group. Gulf crisis is already a nightmare. behind in defiance of Saddam's eviction The Iraqi president strongly suggested the "Even when you're smiling it's not from your r. Deadline time was 9 p.m. (noon CDT) foreigners' fate depends on the outcome of • Continued on page 2A y. • Continued page 2A Asbestos lawsuit in judge's hands By JEFF MADSEN $29,000 last spring in its own suit News editor filed against a bankrupt division of the Johns Ma nsville Corp. A federal judge will determine Prior to its bankruptcy five years next month whether to award ago, that division established a Eastern $100,000 in a pending law­ trust fund to help pay for pending suit against a firm that manufac­ settlements, such as Eastern's. tured cancer-causing asbestos insu­ Eastern awaits another $100,000 lation used in campus buildings. from that trust, but may not get it Last spring, 29 state's attorneys all because an agency representing from across the nation filed a 1,000 colleges and universities class action suit against 26 across the nation has filed a collec­ asbestos firms for installing the tive suit apart from Eastem's. fibrous substance. The asbestos In a U.S. District Bankruptcy was commonly used in homes and Court, the National Association of buildings as fireproof insulation. College and University Business Celotex Corp., one of the other Officers recently filed a similar firms named in the suit, has a fac­ suit seeking damages. If the asso­ tory in Charleston. But that facili­ ciation does collect damages from ty produces primarily foam insu­ the suit, the money will cut into lation and has not manufactured the $100,000 that Eastern awaits. asbestos for several years. "I imagine the court will rule in The lawsuit was a demand for their favor," said Richard Pyles, the industry to pay for asbestos an assistant to Eastern's vice pres­ removal, which is expected to ident of administration and collectively exceed $750 billion. finance. "That could mean a dif­ In the past five years, Eastern ference of $10-$12,000." � fA.ll!U'• •Ill) IU.o:J.o:J U,- alone has spent more than $4 mil­ Eastern is a member of the lion in asbestos removal. association, as are all of the Big 11 Troy Roark, a music education majo1� juggles Thursday afternoon on the lawn between Thomas The university received • Continued on page 2A aylor ha IIs. uce, a veritable PAC man, listens when money talks ideological and other interests in the cam­ "I like the House version a lot better," paign finance game. They make substantial Bruce told the group of 25 constituents, campaign contributions, almost always to contrasting the bill with another piece of it goes with most congressmen, when incumbents, in the hopes of winning reform legislation passed by the Senate. "It Bruce talks, many of his constituents friends and votes in the Capitol. limits the amount of money Political listen - especially when the talking So far, Bruce has received 86 percent of Action Committees can put into a cam­ in person. It is one of the truisms of the money in his campaign coffers from paign and how they can put it in," he said life. PACs. That's about $199,000 of the total of the House version. when the Olney Democrat, now $231,000 he has received in contributions But that bill, HR 5400, does very little to g his fourth term in the U.S. House for his November race against Republican limit the influence of powerful Political presentati ves', • . challenger Bob Kerans, an opponent Bruce Action Committees. The PAC contribution to Charleston Analysts defeated by a landslide 2- l margin in the limits in the House bill are modest, at best. day, anxi ous 1988 general election. In general, they would limit overall PAC ents gathered at his "county meet­ But Bruce told constituents Thursday in contributions to $275,000. hear their congressman talk about the Charleston City Council Chambers, "I In his 1988 election, Bruce collected ues of the day. think that we have got to try to limit the $276,000 from PACs - meaning, under the there is another truism in life and amount of money that PACs contribute to House bill, he would have to reduce the s: People also listen when money campaigns." amount he accepts from PACs by only $1,000 and Bruce is apparently no exception. Bruce did not tell his constituents about to meet the stipulations of the new law. ce is one of nine House members his own acceptance of PAC money. However, on the other side of the ll inois who have relied heavily on Instead, he said that he supported a bill Capitol rotunda, the Senate version of the ampaign contributions given by passed by the House in the final hours bill would completely ban contributions File photo al Action Committees, or PACs, as before adjourning for its August recess that from PACs, a measure taken in recognition U.S. Rep. Terry Bruce, 19th Co11gressio11a/ commonly known. tackles the issue of campaign finance of the highly questionable nature of PAC District. has relied 011 PAC funding for s represent corporate, industrial, reform. 011 .,. Continued page 2A nearly 90 cents of erery campaign dollar. ---.��-- eserv-ists at risk called to duty IKE CHAMBERS (the member)." And according to Eastern 's Veteran's Affairs Office, there stern students serving in are currently 134 National linois National Guard and Guard and Reserve members e units risk losing money enrolled at Eastern. class credits should they be All of those members are cur­ ated and sent to the Middle rently receiving G.I. Bill Chapter 106 benefits (monetary ccording to a copy of the awards). And most of those al Governing Policies and members also are receiving ures of Eastern, a mem­ tuition benefits for their ser­ of the Guard or Reserve vices. d lose college credits and And should students be called · g, depending on the num­ into active duty, Eastern plans to f weeks completed in the help the students any way it can, ster before being called said Glenn Williams, vice presi- ' uty. dent for student affairs at called upon before the first Eastern. weeks of the academic "Individual circumstances we the student will receive no would handle individually," he t and the term will not be said. "We would do whatever is RALPH SORDVL JR./Staff photographer as a term in residence. reasonable to make the most called upon after the first humanistic response to the situ­ Class act weeks of the term or before ation faced by that student." Along with a host of others, Freshman Ryan Garth, a psychology major, contemplates course options st two weeks left in the The United States has not Thursday during Add/drops in the University Union. Add/drops conclude Friday. the student will be given a activated an Illinois National drawal" or "incomplete" Guard unit since 1968 when the s classes and the term will 126 Supply and Support Ba- Council beefs up city with grant in residence. allion was sent to Vietnam. Inyart said his group's goal is merchants move toward called upon during the last There are currently Na- By MIKE CHAMBERS 70 Staff writer to make the area more attractive shopping malls and franchises. eeks of the term, full class tional Guard and Reserve units and easily accessible in order to "I think general shopping t will be given and grades located throughout Illinois. In an effort to beef up interest bring additional consumers to habits have changed as towns be given at the time of The latest reports published in Charleston's uptown area and the square. grow," Campbell said. "But drawal. In addition, the in Chicago -Tribune the say possibly attract more business, "You improve parking and the we'd like to keep that personal will be counted in resi- some National Guard and the City Council has approved·a merchandise offered, it all goes feeling alive in the uptown Reserve units are likely to be grant from its tourism fund for together.