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I weather-AIO CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION Is lost in daytime Recycled TV bedroom humor has gone stale PageC3 Toyota a test for UAW Business Monday 49ers whip Dallas make playoffs -sp Special crimes of the holidays City State Lexington Herald-Leader Vol 3 No 355 State Final Lexington Kentucky December 23 1985 Legislature expected to focus on university funding seek substantial money for the university system Hayes who is also state budget director that he expected higher whunHnn to receive the biggest chunk of in the proposed budget But Hayes said he would not know until the process was completed how much money would be available for expanding higher education and other areas of state government In response to questions Hayes said he thought the figure would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million for each year of the biennium In the current 1965-86 fiscal year the state has allocated $4399 million to higher education "We will see the governor make a beginning in higher just as she did with elementary and secondary education last summer he said During the July special sessidri the legislature approved a program for Kentucky schools that included salary increases for teachers reduced class sizes and increases in state aid to poorer districts It will be up to the 1986 legislature to approve fending for the $306 million package talked since the summer with Literally every special interest group and with legislators from across the state and going to move ahead as it was passed in the summer" Superintendent of Public Instruction Alice McDonald said McDonald and leading lawmakers said they did not expect any problems with financing the package despite some items that were controversial ch as longevity pay increases for teachers And they do not expect any additional major reforms in elementary and secondary education this time Hayes said last week that the governor had tiie same sentiment "She said she would not ignore elementary and secondaiy education but then is a sense that there are other competing he said Those include Medicaid overcrowded prisons and children's protective services but the Mostly sunny 45s 44 pages 35 cents highest priority would be higher education he said Higher education officials say the universities' situation is critical only one issue and spdkd said Harry Snyder executive director of the state Council on Higher Education After a summer and fall of political discontent among the universities the institutions are banding together to argue that the state desperately needs to raise faculty salaries buy more equipment and overcome an $83 million backlog of maintenance on the eight state university campuses trim to HIGHER back paga) wife held in custody Activist defies ban goes to Soweto By Alan Cowell New York Times News Service SOWETO South Africa The South African police arrested Winnie Mandela yesterday after she defied a ban imposed Saturday forbidding her to enter Soweto Her lawyers said she had been taken to jail in Kiugeredorp southwest of Johannesburg Mrs Mendel a Mack activist and wife ot an imprisoned leader of the African National Congress had been forced out of Soweto by the police on Saturday hut dipped back into tiie huge segregated township overnight family friends said She waa arrested by white plainclothes security policemen armed with pistols Witnesses at her home said Mrs Mandela had argued fiercely with tiie policemen and had initially refused to leave her house Earlier she told a Dutch television interviewer that she refused to be dictated to by "tiie occupiers of this In another interview before her arrest she said die had knowledge that if they ever find that I have set foot in the house they will eliminate Her lawyers said die was expected to be charged with offenses relating to restrictions placed on her Saturday She was forbidden to visit Soweto which is home to more than million blacks and is viewed by the authorities as a tinderbax of political unrest The police said she would be charged under South catch-all security legislation Her lawyers said they had been permitted to see her in the Krugersdorp detention cells Six white journalists were arrested yesterday outside Mrs home and were briefly detained The journalists were taken to a police station while Mrs Mandela was being removed from her home They were freed after she waa taken away Mrs Mandela is married -to Nelson Mandela of the outlawed African National Con-who has been in jail for more than 20 (Turn to UANDELA Qback paga) By Mary Ann Roser and Art Jester Herald-Leader staff writers Education once again is expected to get top billing during die General Assembly but this time the universities will command the center i Higher pay for college teachers and a bond issue to pay for needed equipment and campus maintenance are expected to be in the spotlight Education officials and lawmakers agree that higher education needs attention during the 1966 legislature which convenes Jan 7 State Cabinet Secretary Larry Hayes said last week that Gov Martha Layne Collins would Firm likely broke rules on security official says By Stephen Engelberg New York Times News Service WASHINGTON The company that employed a deliveryman accused of trying to sell secret documents to the Soviet Union appears to have violated government rules requiring thorough destruction of classified material a senior federal official said yesterday The official Steven Garfinkel head of the Information Security Oversight Office said the procedures that the FBI attributes to the Acme Reporting Co of Washington for discarding classified documents did not comply with a June 1962 federal directive It requires companies and government agencies to shred or bum unneeded classified material or turn it into pulp assessment was based on testimony by an FBI agent Michael Giglia at a court hearing Saturday that Acme copies of top secret and secret documents in its "These documents are disposed of fiy ripping them by hand and placing them in the Garfinkel said "I even begin to tell you how insufficient that His office sets the federal standards for handling classified information The Acme deliveryman Randy Miles Jeffries was arrested Friday everting and charged with espionage The FBI said he had tried to sell transcripts of secret House of Representatives committee hearings to the Soviet Union Congressional officials said Acme prepared transcripts for foe House Armed Services Committee Garfinkel said the directive on procedures for disposal of sensitive information had been distributed to all government contractors dealing with such material Government sources familiar with the case said yesterday that suspicions arose after Jeffries was seen at (Tim to FIRM AS) Emergency personnel work on Two The pad the By New Union's testing still planned had Union a Associated Press shuttles ready for launch space shuttle Challenger right was rolled onto its launching same time Columbia's scheduled launch was aborted Thursday yesterday two miles from the space shuttle Columbia It was That liftoff has been rescheduled for Jan 4 Challenger is first time two shuttles had been on the launch pads at the scheduled for launch Jan 22 Soviet test ban offer called positive step hensive ban on underground nuclear tests Negotiations on such an agreement were carried out during the Carter administration but the Reagan administration has not sought to resume them The Soviet offer to resume negotiations on a test ban moratorium has intrigued some administration officials who do not favor a moratorium Michael Gordon York Times News Service WASHINGTON Although the Reagan administration has publicly rejected the Soviet proposal for a moratorium on nuclear some administration officials say they In a Dec 5 letter to President Reagan Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev proposed that the United States join current unilateral moratorium the of see the Soviet move as a potentially positive development Meanwhile the United States cancelled a underground nuclear test in Nevada that been scheduled for yesterday and the Soviet speculated that the cancellation might the Reagan administration was considering moratorium on testing on underground testing nuclear weapons the only tests now permitted He said that under the moratorium observers could visit each territory to investigate "ambiguous and resolve about compliance Gorbachev also proposed resuming talks with the United States and Great Britain an a compre- The Soviet discussion of on-site verification is noteworthy because the administration has stressed the need for "effective verification" measures and US officials have long complained that the dosed nature id Soviet society is a major obstacle to progress on arms control (him to SOVIET back paga) V'V Vjr w- Georgia bear found dead near cocaine shipment Doctors in Boston are trying to save the life of a 10-year-old boy who spent two hours beneath the icy waters of a lake Doctors believe there is a chance the boy will live Page A3 VA medical center in Lexington fulfills simple wishes of the terminally ill Page Cl Advice C4 Business Monday Section CityState Section Classified C7 Comics B8 Editorials A8 Lifestyle C3 Movies C6 Obituaries BIO People A2 Spoils Section Associated Pres Television C5 boy after his arrival at Boston hospital weather back page Associated Press BLUE RIDGE Ga Investigators perching for cocaine dropped by airborne drug smuggler have found a rippednp shipment of the sweet-smelling powder and the remains of a bear that apparently died of a multimillkxHlollar overdose The cocaine wax thought to be die last trace of the drug dropped from a small plane by former Lexington Ky narcotics officer Andrew Thornton who parachuted to his death in Tennessee hi September said Gary Gamer of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation "The bear got to it before we could and he tore the duffel bag open got him some cocaine and Gamer said nothing left but bones and a big Investigators said tiie black bear weighing more than 150 pounds had been dead about four weeks GBI agents found the bear's remains Friday in Fannin County in the mountains about 80 miles north of Atlanta and just south of the Tennessee line near the duffel bag and 40 packages of cocaine that had been ripped open and scattered over a hillside Officials think the bear and maybe some other bears ate several million dollars' worth of the cocaine Each of the 40 packages is thought to have contained one kilogram of cocaine for about 88 pounds in all The cocaine was valued at as much as $20 million The Georgia State Crime Lab will perform an autopsy on the bear today The agents were searching for cocaine thought to have been dropped by Thornton 40 who was killed Sept 11 when he landed on his back after abandoning his plane and parachut- ing into a Knoxville neighborhood He was carrying 75 pounds of cocaine when his body was found The discovery Friday is apparently the last of the cocaine dropped from a small plane by Thornton before he parachuted into Knoxville Gamer said It was the third such find in Georgia and was less than 100 yards from where GBI (hank) COCJUHE AS) r-' Jb'f 'x7X x-txw-m-m xwf.

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