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PAGE 12 THE MUNCIE EVENING PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1988 I NEW HAVE ABOUT HAVE SENATOR, A TO TO THIS GOOD POLITICS, I'M TELL By Garry Trudeau 1-1 SERVICEMEN INCLUDED Reagan PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) President Reagan interrupted his New Year's vacation to sign an executive order granting a 2 percent pay increase to federal employees and a 4.2 percent costof-living increase for federal retirees. Reagan signed the order and four other bills Thursday as he relaxed at the 205-acre retreat of wealthy publisher Walter Annenberg, the White House announced. The president and his wife, Nancy, have traditionally rung in the New Year with their long-time friends at the festive, black-tie gathering in the desert hideaway. Reporters were not permitted to attend the party.

White House deputy press secretary Leslye Arsht said the pay raise signed by Reagan excludes mem- PRETTY WELL, I JUST THINK BUT WHY'S A LOT OF LATENT YOU, I THAT, OUT THERE FOR THE FEELING TED? YOU FIND YOURSELF CAMPAIGN! HART Preside OKs pay hike bers of Congress, federal judges and executive officials and military officers making more than $72,500. The executive order affects nearly 2.2 million military personnel, as well as 2.1 million civilian workers in all government agencies. The order also provides for a 4.2 percent cost-of-living increase for 3.6 million military and civilian retirees. The overall cost of the bill amounts to $2.3 billion, Arsht said. The basic pay increases for the military go into effect Friday, while the pay raises for all others are effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period on or after Friday, the executive order said.

Reagan also signed legislation increasing benefit payments to more than 2.2 million veterans with service-connected disabilities. More about: Baby and napping. "She's pink, active, healthy and cute as hell," Greenspan said. It may have been a happy ending for Gibbons and Miraculous Mary, but the mother of the infant, if found, faces attempted murder charges. "This kid was hidden, and left there to die." Dirickson said.

"It was only an act of God that it was discovered. We're investigating it as attempted murder." The first lead in the case came from a witness who saw a latemodel, light-color Volvo station wagon parked near the area about 15 minutes before the child was discovered, Dirickson said. The witness told deputies the Volvo's lights flashed on and the car pulled away. The department is analyzing the towel and brown paper grocery bag in which the baby had been wrapped. Detectives also are hoping more witnesses will step forward.

The newborn certainly didn't lack for attention Thursday. Hospital staff members and reporters trooped in and out of the nursery Continued from page oohing and ents. The THERE'S I MEAN, THERE MUST BE MILLIONS OF COURSE, SYMPATHY OF MARRIED GUYS WHO'VE GOT EVENTUALLY SITUATION SERIOUS HORMONAL IMBALANCES, YOU'LL HAVE KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? TO BROADEN YOUR for federal workers The bill, which also applies to Also approved were measures about 310,000 surviving spouses and authorizing additional appropriachildren of veterans whose deaths tions for the San Francisco Bay were service-connected, provides a National Wildlife Refuge and estabcost-of-living increase of 4.2 per- lishing the El Malpais National cent in monthly benefit checks. Monument and El Malpais National The increase is the same as Conservation Area in New Mexico. Social Security beneficiaries and White House spokesman Marlin recipients of veterans' pensions will Fitzwater said Reagan, who did not receive.

play golf on the Annenbergs' priThe increase is payable begin- vate golf course on Wednesday retroactive to Dec. because of unseasonably cold ning in January, White House said it will weather, might try his luck on the 1, but the March links before the New Year's Eve not show up in checks until when computer systems are party. changed. The March payment will The president and his wife were include a retroactive lump sum to be joined at the gathering by adjustment. Secretary of State George Shultz, CIA Director William Webster and The president also signed bills Charles Wick, the director of the approving a land claims settlement U.S.

Information Agency. and water compact between the Seminole Tribe and Florida state The Reagans plan to return to officials. Washington on Sunday. More about: Chess champion Continued from page have a prize fund that is big enough that if I do well I will win back my expenses." His next tournament, scheduled for mid-January in Columbus, Ohio, offers a first prize of $2,200. "I'll be ranked a lot lower in that tourney, though," he said.

"There will be people from all over." Tournament competition drags on for hours. "The first rounds are usually quicker," Mills said. "An average game might take about three hours. If I'm playing someone stronger, someone similar to my ability, it might be four or five hours on the average." Each player is allowed two hours in which to make 50 moves. Therefore, a player can take as long as he wants before making a particularly difficult move, but he then must account for that by subsequently making quicker moves.

"I spent 45 minutes on a single move this past weekend," Mills said. "It was so complicated. That was the game I lost (to the Tennessee player). I was trying desperately to find something." Mills keeps sharp by playing a heavy schedule of tournaments. "When I was younger, I used to have plenty of people to practice against, but that was when I wasn't as good," he said.

"Now it's mainly tournaments. You have to keep playing people who are as good or better than you." Although he said he wants to improve, he said it is unrealistic to expect to get much better without devoting considerably more time to the game. That would involve time off from work in order to travel to more tournaments and study more books. Mills learned the game as a youngster from his father, James Dodging into the new year Six-year-old Kurtis Preston game of dodge ball Thursday night game was one of several played youngsters. Kurtis held out for opponents as the last, man on his Brian Drumm.

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It really did. I feel that that mother threw her baby away, treated it like Greenspan directed such offers to San Mateo County Children's Protective Services, which will arrange for placement of the baby in a foster home when she leaves the nursery. The baby will stay at the hospital for two to three days for observation, although tests indicate she's healthy. "She's just a doll," said obstetrician John Hoff. "It's hard to believe someone would give her up." More about: Treaty Continued from page This continues to be an issue in arms control talks between the two countries.

Reagan said, "Today, both America and the Soviet Union have an opportunity to develop a defensive shield against ballistic missiles, a defensive shield that will threaten no "For the sake of a safer peace, I am committed to pursuing the possibility that technology offers," the president said in his talk, which ran five minutes and 12 seconds. Gorbachev, in remarks that ran five minutes and 27 seconds, made no reference to the Star Wars issue. Reagan told the Soviets, "As you know, we Americans are concerned about human rights including freedoms of speech, press, worship and travel." Saying that "Silence is a form of falsehood," he pledged, "We will always speak out on behalf of human dignity." In his nearest approach to the issue of human rights, a touchy one between the two superpowers, Gorbachev said, "Human life is equally priceless, whether in the Soviet Union, the United States, or in any other country. So let us spare no effort to affirm peace on earth." In a reference to such trouble spots as Afghanistan and Nicaragua, where the United States backs guerrillas fighting Soviet-supported regimes, Reagan said, "We Americans are also concerned, as I know you are, about senseless conflicts in a number of regions." "In some instances, regimes backed by foreign military power are oppressing their own peoples, giving rise to popular resistance and the spread of fighting beyond their borders," he said. "Too many mothers, including Soviet mothers, have wept over the graves of their fallen sons.

True peace means not only preventing a big war but ending smaller ones as well. This is why we support efforts to find just, negotiated solutions acceptable to the peoples who are suffering in regional wars." Reagan videotaped his message in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, across a corridor from the Oval Office. He was seated in front of the Nobel Peace Prize medal ahhing like proud paridentification card on the awarded to President Theodore Roosevelt, a reminder of the honor his admirers hope he will receive if nuclear accord is reached. The Soviet broadcast opened with music and began and ended with views of historic buildings in Moscow. Gorbachev, speaking in Russian with an interpreter translating his words into English as they were heard, sat at a desk with a small, frosty-boughed tree, decked with glass ornaments, at his elbow.

R. Mills of rural Muncie. The younger Mills graduated from Delta High School, then attended Ball State University for two years. "I think you need to have good logic, so that you are able to see ahead. You need to see sequences," he said.

"But I don't think you necessarily need any special qualities. I remember people who did poorly in school work who were good in The top local players often can find a challenge at the Ball State Chess Club, which meets on Sundays in the Pittenger Student Center at BSU. "It's my opinion that if you can beat an ordinary computer chess game two-thirds of the time, you're good enough to play in the rated tournaments," Mills said. He lives with his wife, Leisa, and their children, Chad, 7, and Holli, also has a third child, two, Kelli, also 7. "I entered my wife in a beginners' tournament in Fort Wayne a couple of years ago, and she got three out of five possible points," he said.

When the two play a friendly game, he gives her odds. "I give her my queen, a knight, a rook and a pawn," he said, smiling. More about: 1988 Continued from page 1 arrested 18 First Nighters. In Philadelphia, 20,000 Mummers members of 25 string bands and 20 marching brigades prepared their feathered headresses and satiny, sequined costumes for the nation's oldest and longest New Year's Day parade. The marchers will flap, flutter and cakewalk up Broad Street to the strains of the Mummers' traditional "Oh Dem Golden Slippers" theme.

The New Jersey Highway Authority said it would offer motorists free coffee, tea and milk at service areas along the 173-milelong Garden State Parkway for 12 hours, beginning Thursday night. In Portland, the Tri-Met transit agency and a service called Holiday Cab said they would offer free rides home for partygoers. In Seattle, an organization called Club Soda sponsored a non-alcoholic party; the only bubbly was from complimentary bottles of sparking cider. Recovering alcoholics in Northhampton, turned a county courthouse into a nightclub for a no-booze New Year's Eve bash. In Dallas, site of today's Cotton Bowl parade and football game matching Texas and Notre Dame, more than 550 senior citizens rang in the New Year with the traditional countdown Thursday but at noon, not midnight.

Veola Davis said she and her husband liked the midday dinnerdance sponsored by the Dallas Parks and Recreation Department better than a late-night celebration. "I guess we've gotten too old for that," she said. Rust committee to meet City Councilman John Rust's ad hoc committee will meet at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Kelly's Restaurant, 4000 N. Broadway.

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