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• Published: 1987
• Subjects: Barents Sea; Dent; Gilmour; Kathleen; Moen; Orion; Ortega; Perez; Rene
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THE CONCORDIAN • September 18, 1987 WORLD 55-year-old grandmother gives birth Last week a 55-year-old grandmother in Nottingham, England gave birth by Caesarean section to a healthy boy. Kathleen Campbell became the" oldest woman in Britain to give birth. Campbell's husband is 65 years old. They have six other children, ranging in age from 16 to 22. Religious leader urges continued opposition Sunday, on the eve of his trip to the United States, the Dalai Lama urged Tibetans to con-tinue their opposition to the Chinese annex-ation of their land. The Tibetan high priest fled his homeland 28 years ago after a failed uprising against the Chinese, who had invad-ed Tibet. The priest said that China's Tibet policy included both reform and repressive measures. The United States views the Dalai Lama as an important religious leader, but does not recognize him as leader of a govern-ment in exile. Two planes crash over Norwegian air space Norway's defense command said that a NATO plane collided with a Soviet jet fighter in international air space over the Barents Sea. Both aircraft landed safely. The Norwegian plane was a Air Force P-38 Orion, used for surveillance, and the Soviet plane was a Su-27 fighter. Vietnam will release 6,685 political prisoners The official Vietnam News Agency said Saturday that Vietnam plans to release 6,685 prisoners, including generals and senior offi-cials of the South Vietnamese government it toppled in 1975. Some of the prisoners have already been released. The government has also ordered the amnesty and reduced the terms of 5,320 other prisoners. The amnesty was granted to mark National Day Sept 9 and the 42nd anniversary of the first proclama-tion of a Communist government in North Vietnam. Nicaraguan talks won't include contras Sunday Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced that his Sandinista govern-ment would begin talks Oct. 5 with political opponents, but not with U.S.-supported con-tras. The contras have said they will not put down their weapons until there is freedom in Nicaragua and are demanding talks with the government Sixteen Central Americans ar-rested while fighting with the contras were granted pardons by Ortega. He also relaxed a law allowing the government to seize the property of anyone remaining out of the coun-try for more than six months. U.N. spokesman talks with Iraq and Iran United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar arrived at Baghdad, Iraq from Tehran, Iran Sunday to pursue a major Security Council effort to end the war between the two countries. Iraq threatened a more severe war unless a cease-fire resolution drafted by tHE* Security Council is adopted. The U.N. leader said his two days of talks with Iranian leaders dealt "exclusively with the implementation" of the resolution. Women arrested for protesting in Moscow Three women were dragged from a Moscow restaurant Sunday for protesting the prison sentence given to Mathias Rust, the West Ger-man teenager who flew a plane into Red. Square. Police escorted the women from the the Praga Restaurant to a blue and white police bus. Hundreds of bystanders watched the incident. Fifty plainsclothes and uniform-ed policemen arrived on the scene as the women began their protest. Police tried to keep a television crew from filming the inci-dent, according to Sandy Gilmour, NBC-TV's Moscow correspondent. AGE TWO NATION PEOPLE Stephanie Moen Stephanie Moen, a senior majoring'in political science and business administration, was one of 50 students nationwide selected to participate this past summer in Leadership America, a prestigious new 10-week program managed by the International Leadership Center, Dallas. Moen, one of three Minnesota students participating in the program, was selected from a group of over 1,000 applicants. Moen attended seminars in four states and interned for one month at McKenzie and Associates. Dr. Polly Fassinger Dr. Polly Fassinger, instructor of sociology and social work, has received the first annual Dissertation Paper Award of the American Sociological Association's Section on Sex and Gender. Fassinger's paper was titled "Heading a Household Alone: The Impact of Gender and Past Marital Experiences." It was based on her 1987 dissertation on men's and women's reactions to how single parenting changed their lives. The award was presented Aug. 20 at the group's annual meeting in Chicago. CAMPUS Concordia students are encouraged to audition for co-anchor of Campus News, a weekly program broadcast on Prairie Public Television at 10 a.m. Saturdays during the academic year. The auditions will be held Wednesday, Sept 23 from 1-4 p.m. at the TV studio in Weld Hall on the Moorhead State University campus. If you would like more information about the auditions, please contact Dr. Martin Grindeland at MSU or call 236-2985. Wayne Martin, a Peace Corps representative will be on campus Sept. 24-25 in Knutson Center to discuss program options. Martin will be conducting interviews Oct. 15 at the Career Placement Office for individuals interested in joining. Winter and spring graduates should apply now to be considered for assignments that will be opening soon after they graduate, according to Martin. To obtain more information on the Peace Corps visit, call 1-800-247-0567 or write: The Peace Corps, 212 Third Avenue South, Room 104, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55401. On Sunday, July 19, Concordia's International Language Villages (ILV) were featured nationally on "CBS Sunday Morning" with Charles Kuralt The coverage was spurred by a report from a committee of southern U.S. governors evaluating the lack of quality foreign language instruction in the United States. Over the summer, ILV also received a $85,425 grant from the Charles K. Bladin Foundation of Grand Rapids, Minn, to share its language teaching methods with others. Beginning in 1988, five specialists in folk music and dance, ethnic arts and sports and environmental awareness will be added to the Language Villages summer staff. President Dr. Paul Dovre took a two-month sabbatical this summer. He and Mrs. Dovre spent three weeks attending the American Summer Institute at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Following the institute, they did some additional traveling in Europe and then returned to their Bad Medicine Lake home. KCCM 91.1 FM, Minnesota Public Radio, broadcasts CONCORDIA TODAY from 11-11:30 am. Monday through Friday. Mondays through Thursdays the broadcast features daily chapel services and campus news and music. On Fridays the program features music department faculty and performance groups. The Lutheran Summer Music Camp was held at Concordia June 14-July ' 12. The month-long program offered talented high school musicians concentrated music study in all orchestral and band instruments, keyboard and voice under the instruction of nationally known faculty. Rene Clausen, directocof the Concordia Choir, was one of the three principal conductors of the program. Other faculty members from Concordia involved were Bruce Marking, Jonathon Retzlaff and Dr. David Worth. Elderly couple finds blood on floor Last week an elderly couple in Atlanta found blood on the walls of their rented house. They reported the incident to the police, who were unable to determine where it came from. The blood type didn't match that of the occupants. William Winston, 79, and his wife, Minnie Clyde Winston, 77, have lived in the rented house for 22 years. Mrs. Winston reportedly stepped out of the bathtub and found the floor covered with blood. U.S. students behind others in science A study recently released by the Inter-national Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement found that American elementary and high school students know less about science than their Japanese and English counterparts. U.S. students also scored lower than their counter-parts who participated in the same study in 1970. The study, which compared students in 24 nations, found that English students scored the best on the test. The study also found that even those U.S. students taking advanced science courses were subpar in every category tested, that American boys outscored American girls in every category tested and that students in 1986 spent about one to two hours less on homework than students in 1987. Study finds more older Americans single The Census Bureau reported last Wednes-day that the percentage of Americans in their early 30s who have never married has more than doubled since 1970. This increases the prospects that a growing number will remain single all their lives. The total number of men between the ages of 30 and 34 who had never married was 23.1 percent, up from 9.4 per-cent in 1970. Compared with 6.2 percent in 1970, the number of women 30-34 who had never married was up to 14.6 percent. Historically, only 5 percent of Americans have never been married by the time they are 50. That figure is likely to rise to 10 percent The median age for an American bride in 1987 was 23.6 years, the highest it has been since 1890 and up from 20.3 in 1950. Quadriplegic shoots ' wife from wheelchair Last Monday a quadriplegic from Houston shot his wife of two weeks with a wheelchair-mounted gun. James B. Burns fired the gun by pulling a string attached to a 9mm pistol with his mouth. His wife, Bertha Mae Burns, placed the string in her husband's mouth. Burns was upset because his wife planned to go to California. Bums was shot by a previous wife, leaving him a quadriplegic. Judge affirms verdict against man with AIDS A federal judge recently affirmed a jury's verdict that the mouth of an inmate carrying the AIDS virus constituted a deadly weapon. James Vernell Moore bit two guards while at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minn. Moore was convicted in June of two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. Moore, who is scheduled to faced sentencing on Sept 25, faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Neither of the guards has tested positive for AIDS. Northwest drops two flights to area Last Wednesday Northwest Airlines dropped two morning flights between Fargo and Minneapolis. The change.leaves North-west with six out-bound and six in-bound flights between the two cities. The service will now be handled by one large plane, instead of two small planes. The change is expected to last six to eight weeks, until the airline's next scheduling change. •. . , ' t •