Daybreak; 1977-12-28; Part 1

[MARK ROSSMAN]: Good morning. This is Washington State University Radio, KWSU [Inaudible] Pullman greeting you on this twenty eighth day of December 1977. Andersen And it's nice having you here. Studio transmitter link is KWC30 in Pullman. And the forecast for the Palouse country is calling for considerable low clouds and fog through Thursday. Slight chance of a few snow flurries or local freezing drizzle today. A chance of a little snow or local freezing rain tonight and tomorrow -- so look for highs in the 20s with the lows 15 to 25. Current temperature right now on College Hill is 24 degrees Fahrenheit -- that's minus 4 Celsius. And the time is now 6:30. Let's check some news and go to Rod Jackson now -- Rod? [ROD JACKSON]: Good morning, everyone, including yourself, Mark. State Senator Hubert Donohue of Dayton says Washington will have a $50 million surplus in two years instead of the predicted $167 million deficit. In Donohue's words, "let's promote growth and let business take care of the problem." Donohue is chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee. The Democrat says a special session of the legislature is not necessary. A special session, Donohue says, could cost taxpayers $500 million. Donohue says the state doesn't need new laws or changes in the tax structure.

Republican representative E.G. Patterson of Pullman and Otto Amen of Ritzville, say data on revenue lost from repeal of the food tax won't be available until late January. And they say it's difficult now to determine whether a special session is necessary. A Yakima County commissioner says bright orange mobile jails might be used to speed up booking of people stopped for drunken driving in Yakima County. Graham Tollefson says a detention van carrying a breathalyzer, video camera, and fingerprint equipment could be available to the county in March on a now-and-then basis. Tollefson said the van would be used at celebration times and holiday areas. He says the van could be provided by the State Traffic Safety Commission and operated by the sheriff's department. Tollefson says that use of the van could cut DWI processing time from two or more hours to 30 or 40 minutes. He also says if the van is possible, people might avoid driving while intoxicated. The Yakima area has the worst fatality on the state's -- in the state, in the state area. Emergency services spokesmen say direct radio communications

have been established for the first time among hospital administrators in Spokane and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. During a simulated disaster exercise, the Hospital Emergency Administration Radio Network was tested yesterday on a mock explosion and fire about halfway between Coeur d'Alene and Spokane. George Allison is a safety and security director at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane. Allison says the "HEAR" -- H E A R -- network must be tested at least twice a year for approval by the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Hospitals. All seven major hospitals in the Spokane and Coeur d'Alene areas participate in HEAR. The radio network allows law enforcement and military officials to communicate with hospitals to direct victims to the best services needed and avoid burdening any one hospital. Gonzaga University Law School has been admitted to the American Association of Law Schools. The membership comes after a three-year effort by Gonzaga administrators to reorganize the law school and strengthen its accreditation by the American Bar Association. School officials say former problems at the school have been corrected,

including overcrowding, low admission standards, and inadequate library and excessive transfers of law students' tuition to the university's general fund. A Law School Association spokeswoman says Gonzaga's law library now holds more than 110,000 volumes, making it one of the largest law school libraries in the West. On the national scene, another grain elevator explosion -- the second in the nation in a week -- spelled death and destruction in Galveston, Texas, last night. Galveston authorities say the series of explosions and fires left at least 10 persons dead. Nine are confirmed dead and another 35 hospitalized, 12 of them with serious burns. The search for more bodies continues today, including in the water where some victims may have been blown off the wharves. The explosion occurred at Pier 33 at the farmers export elevator, a cluster of about 40 silos with the capacity of three and a half million bushels. The cause of the explosion was not immediately determined, but fire investigators say the first blast came in a tunnel where grain was being unloaded from a boxcar.

UPI reporter Jim Overton was in Galveston. [JIM OVERTON]: Officials don't know exactly what caused the explosion. It apparently began in a tunnel area near the loading pen, ripped through the tunnel and up through the silo itself. At the time it went up through the silo, it blew two people out of the grain elevator office atop the silo. All of the debris came crashing down, sending grain dust, and smoke, and fire from the explosion through the main part of the elevator, which was about two blocks long. [ROD JACKSON]: Police in Los Angeles report that the so-called Hillside Strangler may be disguised as a policeman. Bob Fuss has more. [BOB FUSS]: Officials hunting the Los Angeles Hillside Strangler say the killer of 11 young women may be impersonating a police officer. Assistant Police Chief Daryl Gates also confirmed the department is checking on the possibility that it could even be a policeman, and admitted some officers are under investigation.

Gates said though the department has no prime suspects, they are confident the case will be solved. [DARYL GATES]: Well I think, uh, that in time, whether he does or does not commit any more crimes, that we will catch him. I don't think there's any question about it. [BOB FUSS]: Police plan to release composite drawings tomorrow, though they are having trouble getting witnesses to agree on one description, and admit they may have more than one strangler on their hands. Bob Fuss, Los Angeles. [ROD JACKSON]: Elsewhere within the country's borders, Buddy Cochran is back in custody after a prison break that gained him just 17 hours of freedom yesterday. He's serving time on an aggravated assault conviction for driving his sports car through a Ku Klux Klan rally in Plains, Georgia, last summer and injuring 32 persons. He escaped yesterday morning from the Sumter County Jail in Americus and was picked up last night in an Atlanta suburb. His companion in the escape, Michael Proctor, is still at large. Former Attorney General John Mitchell gets out of jail today, at least for a while. Mitchell's getting a medical furlough from a federal prison camp at Alabama's Maxwell Air Force Base. Mitchell will undergo a medical exam to determine whether he needs surgery

on his arthritic hip. And he's due back at the camp no later than January 15th. Mitchell has been at the facility since June, serving a one to four year term for his role in the Watergate coverup. United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller is telling his men to get ready for a long, cold winter on the picket line. With the coal miners' strike now in its fourth week, Miller continues to be pessimistic about any quick settlement. Negotiations between the union and coal operators resumed yesterday in Washington after a brief holiday recess. The subcommittee set up by the bargainers will go over details on several issues Monday. While the strike continues, the violence has subsided, at least temporarily. Striking coal miners raided several working nonunion mines last week in an attempt to shut them down. No such incidents have been reported this week. Turning to international news, the Israeli Knesset, or parliament, has been hearing Prime Minister Begin's peace plans and about his recent meeting with Sadat. Ohad Hazani reports. [OHAD HAZANI]: Begin's plan has not yet been released officially, but according to various sources it calls for a large scale Israeli withdrawal

in the Sinai and self-government for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Begin has already come under sharp attack from Israelis living in dozens of settlements established in occupied Arab territory since the 1967 Middle East War. But since his coalition government has a sizable majority in parliament, approval of his peace plan is almost a foregone conclusion. Ohad Hazani, Tel Aviv. [ROD JACKSON]: When Begin finished his presentation, a major opposition leader, Shimon Peres, took the rostrum to outline the position of the Labor Party. Peres said that while the Labor Party is very critical of certain details of the plan, his party did not want to disturb the peace process. However, Peres made it clear the Labor Party is not willing to accept any compromise on the West Bank issue. And he criticized Begin's willingness to leave the question open for now. The Egyptians continue to hold the position, at least in public, that there can be no peace until Israel completely abandons military and administrative control of the West Bank. But Begin vowed that his government would not give in to the

international pressure to accept a Palestinian state on the West Bank. However, he did offer an olive branch on the issue. He noted that Jordan and the Palestinians have claims to the land, as does Israel, and he's willing to leave the question open for discussion. And this story just in -- Egyptian President Sadat said today that his nation definitely would not agree to the presence of Israeli security forces on the West Bank. Nor, he said, will Egypt accept any limits on the movement of its troops in the Sinai Desert. Sadat made his remarks to the Associated Press after Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin revealed his peace plan to the parliament calls for West Bank security to remain under Israeli control and it seeks to limit Egyptian forces in Sinai to an area near the Suez Canal. Said Sadat, "for sure, for sure -- I'm against the presence of Israeli security in the West Bank. The security of the area should be in the hands of the people living in the area." Elsewhere on the African continent, Somalia has reported an air attack by Ethiopia on a former Soviet base. Ray Wilkinson has further details.

[RAY WILKINSON]: Somalia says Ethiopian warplanes have bombed its northern city of Hargeisa and northern port of Berbera. Somali forces, however, shot down three Ethiopian planes during the raids -- two Soviet-built MiG fighters and an American-built F-5 warplane. It was the first reported attack against the port of Berbera, and indicates Ethiopia could be escalating its aerial war against northern Somalia. Until only a few weeks ago when Somalia closed the base, Berbera was the site of a major communications center and missile re-handling facility for the Soviet Union, which has now fully switched its support to Ethiopia. Ray Wilkinson in Nairobi. [ROD JACKSON]: As you heard Mark say a couple of moments ago, the weather forecasts for the Palouse is calling for considerable clouds and fog through Thursday. There's a slight chance of snow flurries or local freezing rain today. Highs will be in the 20s today and moving into the 30s tomorrow. The overnight lows will be in the teens. Currently on College Hill and outside the KWSU studios, it's 24 degrees Fahrenheit -- that's minus 4.4 on the Celsius scale.

I'm Rod Jackson. [BRIEF MUSIC] [MARK ROSSMAN]: And thank you, Rod. It's now 19 minutes prior to 7 o'clock in the morning. Good morning, this is DAYBREAK -- the 28th day of December, 1977. Another day you can take, uh, presents that don't fit back to the store, and get 'em exchanged and all that. Yeah? It's time to check our agri-business report this morning. We go now to Dale Harrison -- say good morning, Dale. [DALE HARRISON]: Good morning. Good morning. The Yakima Valley Herald Republic reports that Bob Mickelson of Dayton has been appointed state agriculture director. The newspaper says the appointment of Mickelson to succeed Gary Strohmaier was confirmed yesterday by the governor's office in Olympia, with an official announcement planned for today. Mickelson is a longtime Green Giant company employee and Democratic Party member from Dayton who owns an 80-acre farm near Othello. He says he expects he would want to make some staff changes when he takes over as agriculture director, but adds, "I don't have anyone in mind to bring on." When Strohmaier quit earlier this month, there were reports of conflict between he and other agency heads since returning to his home in Touchet Valley.

However, the former agriculture director and Governor Dixy Lee Ray have remained closed mouthed on the subject. Senate aides say that a hearing into the government's method of estimating world crops and the grain-buying practices of the Soviet Union, still is in the works, but may be delayed for at least another month. The CIA and the Department of Agriculture, despite opinions to the contrary, estimated that this year's Soviet grain output at 215 million metric tons until Moscow announced in November the harvest was only about 195 million tons. And some persons, including South Dakota Senator George McGovern, believe the Soviets made secret arrangements to buy grain from private companies, or their foreign affiliates, when they knew that the 1977 harvest would be smaller than last year's record crop. Kansas Senator Robert Dole requested the hearings of the Senate Agriculture Committee following the disclosure that the CIA and the USDA were wrong about the Russian harvest. Senators Richard Stone of Florida and McGovern also sought a hearing to explore the latest surge of grain purchases by the Russians and how those bear on U.S.

grain prices. Agriculture Secretary Bergland says that he would welcome such a hearing. The Soviet Union is committed to buy a minimum of six million tons of wheat and corn annually from American suppliers, but because of this year's smaller harvest, Russia has been given permission to buy from the U.S. up to a total of 15 million tons. The Senate Agriculture Committee's top Republican has joined the committee's Democratic leader in a blast against proposals to break up the Agriculture Department. The counterattack was begun on Monday by Democrat Herman Talmadge, chairman of the Agriculture Committee in the Senate, and was continued in a statement yesterday by Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, the committee's ranking Republican. Dole said he was shocked and dismayed by efforts currently underway in Washington to split up the USDA and to distribute many of its powers to other government agencies. If that happens, Dole says, the Agriculture Department will no longer be a major government agency. And, in the senator's words, "I doubt if the Senate and House Agriculture Committee could ever get another farm bill passed."

Dole and Talmadge both noted that the Interior Department is trying to get control of the USDA's Forest Service and Soil Conservation Service. They pointed out that Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Califano is reaching for control of the USDA's food inspection and feeding programs. Also, Dole says, he has heard reports of proposals to move USDA farm and rural credit programs to other agencies. Dole says the Agriculture Department is the only government agency which gives proper priority to rural needs. And he adds that, quoting now, "In this time of economic crisis on the farm, we certainly don't need to muffle the voice of rural people." Agriculture Secretary Bergland last week told reporters that controversies over proposals to reorganize the government may be among his greatest challenges in 1978. Bergland said he is convinced his department can operate its programs as efficiently as any agency in government and more efficiently than most. Taking a look at the closes on the Portland Grain Exchange yesterday, the bid for white

wheat for Portland for the second half of December was $2.99 a bushel. The bid for the first half of January, $3 a bushel, for the second half of January, $3.01, and for the first half of February, $3.03 for white wheat. On the barley market for the second half of December, the bid was $89 a ton, for the first half of January, $90 a ton, for the second half of January, $90 a ton, and for the first half of February, $90.75 cents a ton. And that's the agri-business report. Stay tuned for the weather, and then Bob Serfoss has the Cooperative Extension Farm reporter. I'm Dale Harrison. [MUSIC] [MARK ROSSMAN]: And thank you, Dale Harrison. We're looking at 14 and a half minutes now prior to 7 o'clock, this morning on DAYBREAK. And good morning -- nice having you here this morning. Always do enjoy your company these wee hours of the morn. While speaking weatherwise -- or weatherly, I guess... No, it's weatherwise. Clear skies prevail over most of the western Washington area and the northern part of eastern Washington. In southeastern Washington, fog and low clouds are reported in many areas.

A high pressure area over British Columbia -- high center moving southeastward into Idaho and western Montana making it easier for the moisture from the south to move north. Meanwhile, a weather disturbance in the Gulf of Alaska is moving toward the coast. As a result, the forecast for western Washington calls for an increase in cloudiness and probably some precipitation before long. Checking our forecast for the Washington Cascades in the Olympics, increasing cloudiness today, except for extensive low clouds or fog on the east slopes of the Cascades, for a chance of a little snow or rain in the Olympics in the south part of the Cascades today, spreading south over the North Cascades tonight and tomorrow. Chance of local freezing rain in the passes and the east slopes of the Cascades tonight and tomorrow, with the snow level near six thousand feet in the Olympics -- snow level about 4500 feet in the Cascades, but freezing level at the surface along the east slopes of the Cascades and also through the passes. Afternoon pass temperatures will be 15 to 25, with winds from the east 10 to 20 miles per hour. Checking that forecast now for northern Idaho...

looks like, uh, this -- cloudy with a few showers, make that a few areas, of fog in the valleys. Otherwise, partly cloudy today and tonight, mostly cloudy with a few snow showers Thursday. Highs in the 20s to lower 30s. Lows overnight, 15 to 25 in the valleys, 5 to 15 in the mountains. And our forecast now for Moscow, Pullman, and the Palouse reads -- considerable low clouds and fog through tomorrow. Slight chance for a few snow flurries or local freezing drizzle today. Chance of little snow or local freezing rain tonight and tomorrow, also. Look for highs in the 20s today, 25 to 35 tomorrow. Overnight lows should be 15 to 25, with variable winds 5 to 15 miles per hour. At a low this morning of 23 degrees Fahrenheit -- our high yesterday was 25, and the current temperature right now is right smack dab in the middle of that, 24 degrees Fahrenheit, minus 4 on our metric Celsius scale. We're looking at 12 minutes now before 7:00 o'clock in the morning. That's a look at the weather situation. I'm Mark Rossman reporting -- on DAYBREAK. Time to go to our farm reporter, and here's Bob Serfoss. [BOB SERFOSS]: In

the last couple of years, there've been a number of changes in food consumption patterns of Americans. On the program today is extension nutrition specialist Sue Butkus. And Sue, tell us some of the changes that have taken place in food consumption patterns. [SUE BUTKUS]: In the last, um, few years, the total sugars that we eat have risen somewhat. Americans are now -- and this is based on sales and market disappearance data -- consuming about 3/4 of a cup of sugar every day. And this amounts to 113 pounds of sugar a year. It looks like most of that is consumed in soft drinks. [BOB SERFOSS]: And I understand the soft drink consumption has risen tremendously in the last couple of years. [SUE BUTKUS]: Especially since 1975. So just in the last year, year and a half, it's gone up quite a bit. I suspect this may be because of coffee prices that are

going up and people are switching from coffee to soft drinks, because in that time, coffee has declined. Interestingly enough, so has whole milk. [BOB SERFOSS]: The beverage comment was related to the sugars -- I want to get back to that. It looks like 3/4 of a cup of sugar a day. Now, is that, like, just like sugar that you'd get out of a bag or something? Is that the equivalent that you're talking about? [SUE BUTKUS]: Yes, that's the equivalent, but most people don't get sugar directly out of a 5 or a 10 pound bag of sugar. They eat it primarily in other foods, such as, um, the soft drinks, because each soft drink has about three tablespoons of sugar in it. Um, they may get it in sweet rolls or bakery products or cereal products, because the bakery goods industry is the second largest user of sugar in the US. [BOB SERFOSS]: What other food products have had marked changes in the last couple of years, Sue? [SUE BUTKUS]: Um, the proteins that we eat are basically staying the same.

But fats are continuing to go up -- a total amount of fat that we eat every day. In the protein foods, although the actual amount of protein is about the same, we're seeing a great rise in poultry products, like chicken and turkey, but a decrease in egg consumption. We're also noticing that red meats are staying about the same. Some dairy products are decreasing -- like I said, the whole milk is decreasing, but skim milk and low-fat milk are actually increasing, and we're noticing an increase in cheese products. [BOB SERFOSS]: I wonder if the, uh... oh, what might be called the "back-to-the-earth" movement or the "natural foods" movement has had any impact in a large way on the percentages of what Americans on the average are eating, or about their diets and things.

[SUE BUTKUS]: I didn't notice as I went through the material prepared on what people have been consuming in the last year, I didn't notice any great swing toward whole grain or natural foods, as they're often called. But we are seeing some effects, um, of medical people putting people on low-cholesterol diets because of the egg consumption dropping, and we are seeing those sorts of changes. [BOB SERFOSS]: I'm certainly seeing more whole wheat breads in the bread section of supermarkets, though. [SUE BUTKUS]: Well, I think there are, actually, more whole wheat products on the market, and we're just not seeing it in a large enough percentage to make a big impact on the market yet. By next year, we may have that impact. [BOB SERFOSS]: Sue, thank you very much. That was extension nutrition specialist Sue Butkus. This is Bob Serfoss reporting for the Washington State University Cooperative Extension

Service. [BRIEF MUSIC] [MARK ROSSMAN]: And it's now 8 minutes before 7 o'clock in the morning on DAYBREAK. And it's time now to mosey on in, take a gander at the sports scene. And doin' so, we're checking with Jim Wagner, good morning. [JIM WAGNER]: HEY, YEAH! Good morning, Mark. Good morning, everybody. Time for a look at DAYBREAK Sports. The WSU Cougars open play in the Far West Classic in Portland tonight. Washington State will be facing a highly regarded Illinois at 9:30. In the early game tonight, it will be Oregon against Colorado State. The opening round of the eight team tournament got underway last night, as Rick Simon reports. [RICK SIMON]: Washington Huskies will be matinee idols in Portland -- they blew two second-half leads and dropped a 78-73 decision to undefeated Villanova last night. The Huskies seemed to have control early in the second half -- a couple of free throws with no time left in the first half, plus 8 straight points to start the second period put them on top, 46-34, just two minutes after intermission. But the Wildcats

from Villy put up a very impressive press, reeled off 10 straight points in a minute and a half, and then eventually tied things with 13:50 to go. The Huskies seemed to take command again, moving on top by 5, with 6 minutes left. But guard Rory Sparrow got hot for Villanova. A couple of long jumpers put the Wildcats on top, 68-67, and they held on to win, with Sparrow and Keith Herron each shooting four clutch free throws to ice it. They tied for scoring honors in the game at 21 a piece -- though All-American candidate Herron shot poorly from the floor, Sparrow was seven for eleven and freshman Alex Bradley hit eight for ten towards his 17 points. Mike Neill led the Huskies with 16, Kim Stewart added 15. The tourney's opener, Oregon State, easily topped Rice, the classic 200-to-1 shot. It was *uninteresting.* Yes, the Beavers won 75-58 -- Rickey Lee scored 15 and freshman center Bill McShane 14 for the tournament host.

In Portland, this is Rick Simon. [JIM WAGNER]: Again, the Cougars face Illinois tonight in the second night of the opening round of the Far West Classic. Tip off in that one is scheduled for 9:30 p.m., and KWSU will have coverage of that basketball game beginning at 9:15 tonight with the George Raveling show. Elsewhere in college basketball -- in the dwindling ranks of the undefeated, two more teams fell. Number 12, Holy Cross succumbed to Georgetown 79-65 in the first round of the Holiday Festival Tournament in New York City. And number 18 Florida State, suffered its first loss of the season at the hands of number 11 Cincinnati. The score there: 77-75. Fifth-ranked and defending NCAA champion Marquette captured its Milwaukee Classic Championship by staving off Texas, 65-56. Number 20 Detroit also won its Motor City Classic title, rolling over Eastern Michigan, 109-71. 13th-ranked Providence clipped Lafayette, 70-59 in the first round of the Rainbow Classic out in Honolulu.

And number 15 Indiana advanced in the Gator Bowl by whipping Jacksonville, 69-59. In the pros, Freddie Brown's 29 points and Marvin Webster's 18 couldn't stop the hot-shooting Phoenix Suns last night, as the Seattle Sonics fell in NBA action 131-105. Ron Lee led the Suns with 30 points, followed by Walter Davis with 23, and Paul Westphal with 22. The Suns shot 61% in the first half to put them ahead by as much as 21 points in the second quarter. The Sonics' loss was their second in a row now, and dropped the team's record to 16 and 20. The Suns are 20 and 12. Newly-acquired Charlie Scott scored 12 points as the Lakers trimmed Golden State 123-82 in NBA action last night. That victory ended a 16-game losing streak in Oakland for the Lakers, who held the Warriors to their lowest point production of the season. Scott was obtained yesterday from the Boston Celtics in exchange for Don Chaney and currently-suspended Kermit Washington.

Scott was one of seven Lakers in double figures. Chicago ended Portland's 7-game win streak, with Wilbur Holland tossing in a career high 36 points to spark the Bulls past the Blazers, 115-106. That's the first time Chicago's beaten Portland in regular season plays since February of 1976. Chicago is tied with idol Denver atop the NBA's Midwest Division. Pistol Pete Maravich fired in a season high of 42 points to pace the New Orleans Jazz over the Cleveland Cavaliers 113-102. Jazz teammate Leonard "Truck" Robinson added 25 points and 20 rebounds. The victory ended a string of 7 straight road losses for the Jazz -- it also broke Cleveland's 3-game win streak, and dropped the Cavs a full game behind idol Washington in the Central Division. Dave Meyers poured in 7 clutch points in the last five minutes to lift Milwaukee over the Buffalo Braves 108-106. Meyers finished with 16, and Milwaukee's Marques Johnson led all scores with 28 points. Braves center Swen Nater missed that game with bruised ribs. And the Indiana Pacers trimmed the San Antonio Spurs, 96-89, just the fourth road victory in 14 contests for

the Pacers. In the National Hockey League last night, the Montreal Canadiens erupted for four goals in the second period, then held onto a 5-3 win over the Cleveland Barons. Guy Lafleur and Pierre Larouche each scored and had an assist for the Norris Division leaders during the second period rally. Fourth loss in a row there for Cleveland. Chicago downed Atlanta 4-2 as left winger Ted Bulley tallied two goals and an assist. It was 6-3, Boston over Washington. One to nothing, Minnesota -- a shutout victory over the St. Louis Blues. Netminder Pete LoPresti stopped 37 shots in that one for the North Stars. Detroit over Colorado, 5-2. The Islanders turning back the Vancouver Canucks 4-2, to pull within 2 points of Philadelphia in the NHL's Patrick Division. And in the WHA the New England Whalers stomped Birmingham 8-1, while Edmonton beat Quebec 9-3. Chuck Knox said yesterday he intended to continue as head coach of the Los Angeles Rams in the National Football League. There's been speculation that Knox plans to leave the

Rams, who have won the National Conference Western Division title the past five years but haven't been able to advance in the playoffs. The Rams lost to Minnesota 14 to 7 Monday in the first round of the NFL playoffs. And three suspended players on the University of Arkansas football team will seek reinstatement today for the Orange Bowl in a federal court hearing. The hearing is slated for Little Rock, Arkansas, before U.S. District Court Judge Terry Shell. Attorney John Walker filed the lawsuit yesterday on behalf of Arkansas running backs Ben Cowins and Michael Forrest and flanker Donny Bobo. The three were suspended by coach Lou Holtz last week, reportedly over a dormitory incident involving -- get this, Mark -- a female! [MARK ROSSMAN]: (humorous grunting sound) [JIM WAGNER]: YES. And that's round one of DAYBREAK Sports -- I'll be back in an hour. [MARK ROSSMAN]: Thank you, Jim -- and we'll be looking forward to you at 7:52. Coming up next half hour on DAYBREAK, we'll be checking in with NPR, as we do usually about this time, for a gander at world news, as well as a closer look. We're going to the National Weather Service

here very shortly to check in with the National Weather Service weather report for the area, and also Barb Hanford will have our DAYBREAK calendar for us this morning. This and a bunch more to come as we continue on DAYBREAK. You're listening to your NPR affiliate for the Palouse empire. This is Washington State University Radio, KWSU in Pullman. The time now is 7 o'clock. [MALE VOICEOVER]: From National Public Radio in Washington, The Morning News. [CARL KASELL]: Good morning. I'm Carl Kasell, reporting that President Carter is meeting at the White House this morning with his economic advisers to take a final look at his proposed 1979 federal budget. The budget is expected to total about $500 billion, and the president says it makes a good start at cutting the share of the nation's wealth given to the government. The president is also expected to announce this morning that deputy agriculture secretary, John White, is his choice to head the Democratic

National Committee. White will succeed Ken Curtis, who is resigning amid party budget problems and reports of White House dissatisfaction. Tomorrow, the president will leave on his world tour, and today, he is expected to put in much of his time preparing for his departure. There will be more talks in Washington today between the United Mine Workers Union and the coal industry. That story from Greg Gordon. [GREG GORDON]: Negotiators for the United Mine Workers and the coal industry go back to the contract bargaining table today, trying to find a way to end a three-week old strike by 188,000 workers. Union Chief Arnold Miller and officials of the Bituminous Coal Operators of America were tight lipped yesterday after the first session since a five day Christmas recess. Miller and an industry spokesman both refused to reveal the areas of disagreement being discussed by management and union subcommittees set up by federal mediators. But Miller offered some optimism, saying the tone of the negotiations looks much better than it did a couple of weeks ago.

Greg Gordon, Washington. [CARL KASELL]: There was another major grain elevator explosion last night. This one occurred in Galveston, Texas, and according to officials, claimed 10 lives. Twenty others were hospitalized -- it is also feared that five people may be missing. The initial explosion set off a series of explosions and fires in a loading chute, but did not hit the main part of the adjacent grain silo. A similar explosion took place last week in a grain elevator in Westwego, Louisiana. That blast killed 35 people. No cause has been determined for either explosion. Israeli Prime Minister Begin said today that his country would not meet an Egyptian demand to pull back its army from the occupied West Bank of the Jordan and the Gaza Strip. The comment came as Begin outlined to the Israeli parliament the results of last Sunday's summit meeting with Egyptian President Sadat. More on this story from Jim Letterman in Jerusalem. [JIM LETTERMAN]: Mr. Begin's statement of principles was almost identical to those already broadcast. This plan envisages administrative autonomy for the residents of the West Bank and Gaza,

with Israel retaining responsibility for security and public order. His plan for the Sinai includes demilitarization of the peninsula and retention of Israeli settlements -- under Israeli law, with an Israeli force to protect them. "In Ismailia," Mr. Begin said, "we did what we had to do, and gave what we had to give." Now, he claimed, it is the turn of the other side. Pressure on Israel to make more concessions now, he said, won't help, because Israelis are used to it. In fact, he stated, "I'm sure there will be no international pressure." Officials said after the Begin speech that Israel is now awaiting the new Egyptian counterproposal, which President Sadat promised to present to the political working group that will convene in Jerusalem on January 15. This is Jim Letterman, in the Knesset, in Jerusalem. [CARL KASELL]: Somali radio reports today that the Ethiopian Air Force has bombed two Somali cities, killing at least two people and injuring 13 others. According to correspondent John Osmond, the incident is the latest in the escalating war in the Horn of Africa. [JOHN OSMOND]: In the past few days, fierce

fighting has been reported from the Red Sea port of Massawa, between Eritrean and Ethiopian forces. In Somalia, Mogadishu Radio says the two northern cities of Hargeisa and Berbera have been attacked by Ethiopian Air Force planes. And in Kenya, a daily newspaper in Nairobi reports a landmine incident near the Ethiopian frontier, resulting in the deaths of five soldiers and two policemen. According to the Somali radio version, two children were killed and thirteen other persons injured when Ethiopian planes raided Hargeisa and Berbera on Tuesday afternoon. According to Somalia radio, the Northwest Regional Secretary of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party has condemned the Ethiopian raid as being part of a Soviet-Cuban conspiracy against Somalia. [CARL KASELL]: That report from the BBC is John Osmond. Two conservative Republicans,

Robert Dole of Kansas and Paul Laxalt of Nevada, will leave for the Panama Canal Zone today. They'll discuss the new Panama Canal treaties with members of the U.S. Army's Southern Command. I'm Carl Kasell in Washington. [BRIEF MUSIC] [ERNIE MOYE]: This week, President Carter turned down the Pentagon's request to begin full-scale development of what could be our largest and most costly missile program ever. Some discussion of what may have gone into that decision -- as NPR takes A Closer Look, I'm Ernie Moye in Washington. The money was to go to develop the new MX mobile missiles to replace today's generation of stationary intercontinental ballistic missiles. However, some development of the new system may continue anyway. We asked Dr. Charles Sorrels, a defense analyst at the Brookings Institution here in Washington, just what makes our current weapons delivery system obsolete. [DR. CHARLES SORRELS]: The concern primarily is with the 1000 Minuteman ICBMs,

and that there's general agreement that by the early- to mid-1980s, that a very large portion of the Minuteman ICBMs will be... vulnerable to a Soviet strike, which would still leave the Soviets with most of their ICBMs, uh, after the strike. So the debate is really over how soon the U.S. should do something -- or, should we rely upon a strategy which, which emphasizes ambiguity -- that if we saw, literally with the radar screens, the Soviet attack coming, that we would launch most of the Minuteman ICBMs, uh, before the Soviets had a chance to destroy them. So, it's partly a question of should we change our strategy and adopt a sort of so-called "launch-on-attack" posture, or should we move, in the next couple of years, to building a major new ICBM system, which could cost over $20 to $30 billion dollars, and which some people think

would be excessively powerful, vis-à-vis the Soviet Union. [ERNIE MOYE]: Is there any danger, then, in the Soviets deciding that we have become too great a threat? [DR. CHARLES SORRELS]: Thats a, that's a legitimate question, because at some point, since the Soviets themselves have put more of their strategic forces capability in ICBMs than the United States has, that our ability to destroy most of the Soviet ICBM force, in a sense, is a more devastating threat to them than their ability to destroy most of our ICBM force, because we have deliberately had a posture which emphasizes the so-called triad, of -- in this case today -- at least with a bomber force and a submarine- launched ballistic missile force, so that we have more confidence that if one particular portion of our force is destroyed, that we'll still have at least one or probably two other forces that can, can more than adequately respond to...after a Soviet attack.

[ERNIE MOYE]: Dr. Charles Sorrels of the Brookings Institution. Last week, a delegation from the U.S. Conference of Mayors met with administration budget officials to urge that some of next year's defense budget be trimmed, and that money be put into the nation's cities. After one of those meetings, conference president Lee Alexander briefed reporters on what was discussed. [LEE ALEXANDER]: They said to us that they were concerned, too -- that they were principally concerned at a distribution that would be shared between the urban side of the budget and the military side of the budget. And, of course, that's a very difficult decision to make. They are aware that we are not asking for cuts, per se, in the military budget, and that we accept the fact that there must be an inflationary increase in the budget. What we are talking about is the allocation of 25 percent of the growth of that budget to the military side. I think they recognize -- my own conclusion is -- that they recognize that that kind of allocation, combined with a tax cut, combined with the need

to balance the budget, as instructed by the president, by '81, means some serious consequences to the urban programs in this country. There's only so much money that can be distributed, and what we're trying to achieve is an equitable distribution of those funds. These programs, presently, are main arteries that are nourishing our cities, If you bleed these arteries to pump up, for example, the military side of the budget or to use those programs to finance a reform of the welfare system, what you have is not a reformation -- you have a deformation of that system. Let me emphasize, we have been invited to join in this discussion with OMB. We're grateful for that, because traditionally the domestic side of the budget is always reviewed very carefully, considered very carefully, but very little opportunity is ever given to the constituencies that we represent to examine into the military side of the budget.

We often talk about efficiency and management control on the domestic side, but we very seldom -- and probably never will -- get that opportunity to review the military side of the budget with regard to those items, perhaps for security reasons, or one reason or another. That's something that can only be done internally. [ERNIE MOYE]: U.S. Conference of Mayors President Lee Alexander. [BRIEF MUSIC] Next month, President Carter is expected to appoint a special commission to study the decline of foreign language instruction in American schools and colleges. NPR's Bob Siegel reports the idea comes largely from a congressman who has taken the issue of foreign language teaching to heart. [BOB SIEGEL]: Representative Paul Simon of Illinois says he became interested in our commitment to foreign language teaching through his membership on the Helsinki Commission. It's the panel that oversees compliance with the Helsinki Accords.

Those agreements made headlines for legitimizing the postwar borders of Europe and for stating guarantees of human rights. But they also included a lot of fine print, some of which piqued Congressman Simon's interest. [CONGRESSMAN PAUL SIMON]: One of the provisions of the Helsinki agreement, which is little noted, is that we're going to promote the teaching of foreign languages and cultures. Well, that intrigued me, because obviously we're doing nothing to implement that particular provision. And I started checking, and when I started checking, I found not only were we not implementing it, but we're going backwards. [BOB SIEGEL]: Since the late 60s, high school and college enrollment in foreign language courses has dropped by about 15 percent. Only one in four high school students studies a foreign language, now; among college students, one in three. Congressman Simon's office found that among current college graduates trained to be teachers, one in 20 has studied a foreign language. Why has the teaching of foreign languages declined? I asked Richard Brod, director of foreign language programs for the Modern Language Association.

[RICHARD BROD]: Our principal explanation for the decline has been the erosion of the whole concept of the required curriculum. Foreign languages in the 60s were required at about 90 percent of American colleges in the mid 60s. That meant that, in order to get a B.A., uh, in that many American colleges, you had to have taken a language at some stage in your career. That eroded in the late 60s -- about half the colleges in the country did something to that requirement. Most of them did something to requirements in other fields as well, and as a result, the pressure and the recognition -- the official recognition on the part of the colleges -- that language was a part of the liberal arts education, uh, eroded. [BOB SIEGEL]: Congressman Simon cites a case of extreme erosion. [CONGRESSMAN PAUL SIMON]: We have one state university in Illinois which does not teach a single foreign language. How you can have a state university in the year 1977 or 1978 and not teach a foreign language,

you know...it just is beyond me. [BOB SIEGEL]: Even at the most rarefied heights of higher education, the figures on foreign language instruction are startling. A researcher at the University of Pennsylvania has found that 20 percent of doctoral and post-doctoral students in the so-called "area studies" -- Latin American studies or Asian studies, for example -- can't speak even one language of their area. The problem here isn't just one of international relations. As Congressman Simon points out, the fourth-largest Spanish speaking population in the world is now in the United States. I'm Bob Siegel, in Washington. [ERNIE MOYE]: That's A Closer Look. I'm Ernie Moye in Washington. [MALE ANNOUNCER]: Funding for the morning news is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. This is NPR -- National Public Radio. [MARK ROSSMAN]: And this is DAYBREAK on KWSU 1250 Radio in Pullman at 14 minutes now past 7:00 in the morning. This is Wednesday, 28th day of December, 1977.

Only four more days -- that's including today -- left in this year, 1977. And it's time to check sports in brief. [BOB HONIG]: In hockey, in the NHL -- Detroit defeated Colorado 5 to 2, it was Boston over Washington 6 to 3, Montreal defeated Cleveland 5 to 3, Chicago beat Atlanta 4 to 2, Minnesota blanked St. Louis 1 to nothing, and it was the New York Islanders - 4, Vancouver - 2. And basketball in the NBA -- Chicago defeated Portland 115 to 106, Milwaukee over Buffalo 108 to 105, New Orleans defeated Cleveland 113 to 102, Indiana beat San Antonio 96 to 89, Phoenix got by Seattle 131 to 105, and Los Angeles defeated Golden State 123 to 82. There'll be a court hearing today in Arkansas relating to a suit seeking to get three Razorback football players back on the squad. The three were restricted from playing in next Monday's Orange Bowl game. The Pro Football Hall of Fame's NFC Rookie of the Year is Tony Dorsett of the Dallas Cowboys; AFC honors went to Miami's A.J. Duhe.

And Nevada oddsmakers say it'll be Dallas and Oakland in the Super Bowl. That's sports. This is Bob Honig. [MARK ROSSMAN]: And it's now 15 and a half minutes past 7:00 this morning. You can expect some considerable low clouds and some fog through tomorrow anyway, with a slight chance for a few snow flurries and maybe some local freezing drizzle in the next day or two. Highs should be somewhere in the 20s. And for an official report now on the weather situation for the area let's go to the National Weather Service in Lewiston -- here's Pete Gertonson. [PETE GERTONSON]: Thank you, and good morning. Cold, stagnant air continues over the Inland Empire, and white areas of fog and low cloudiness are being reported. Some freezing drizzle is falling in the Spokane area, so motorists heading in that direction should be alert for black ice on the highway. The satellite pictures show a small storm moving slowly out of the Gulf of Alaska toward the Washington coast. This disturbance will bring an increasing chance of showers to the Pacific Northwest as it moves inland tomorrow. The showers will be light, and we'll start

off with snow and turn to rain and snow by evening. The extended forecast for the holiday weekend calls for periods of rain and snow, with the highs in the 30s and low 40s and the lows in the 20s. Here's the forecast for the "U" Cities and Palouse Prairie -- mostly cloudy through Thursday with an increasing chance of showers. Expected high today 30, overnight 20, and tomorrow's high 30 degrees again. Chance of showers will be 10 percent today, about 20 percent tonight, 40 percent tomorrow. The high yesterday in Pullman was 25 degrees, low this morning -- 23. The sun sets this evening at eight minutes after 4. It rises tomorrow morning at 7:31. This has been Pete Gertonson reporting from the National Weather Service office in Lewiston. [MARK ROSSMAN]: And the current temperature right now on College Hill is standing at minus 4 on the metric Celsius scale, or 24 Fahrenheit, under overcast skies this morning.

And it's 17 and a half minutes past 7 o'clock. [BRIEF MUSIC] [MARK ROSSMAN]: Well, a North Carolina bride and groom are scheduled to walk down the aisle Thursday night, somewhere in the skies over Greensboro. Twenty three year old Bonnie Kennedy will wed Mel Conner, 30, in a flight aboard a chartered Piedmont Airlines Boeing 737 at 8 o'clock sharp. An aerial wedding was suggested by a friend, James Flynt, after the couple announced their wedding plans last May. Conner said, "Sure, you get the airplane, and you can get the best man." Well, Flynt got the airplane, and he will be the best man. It may be a nervous wedding party, however...including the bride -- she's only flown once, and that was in a small plane. More than half of the guests have never flown at all. Should be interesting. However, I wasn't invited. [MARK ROSSMAN]: Eighteen and a half minutes past 7:00 this morning.

Time to check...uh, go on down to the home front and check in with Lorraine Kingdon. [LORRAINE KINGDON]: When you breathe asbestos fibers, you're risking certain forms of cancer. That's the reason the Consumer Product Safety Commission has now forbidden two products containing inhalable asbestos -- they are patching compounds and artificial fireplace ash. Patching compounds, or spackling, are used to cover or seal cracks or holes in walls. Approximately half of all patching compounds contain asbestos. Until recently, you had no way of knowing which was which. Now some manufacturers are careful to label their brand, particularly if it does not contain asbestos. The Safety Commission's ban must first be published in the Federal Register, probably very soon. Thirty days later, manufacturers will not be allowed to produce or distribute asbestos-containing patching compounds. After 180 days, such products will not be allowed sold. In the meantime, read the label. I'm Lorraine Kingdon for the Cooperative Extension Service at Washington State

University. [MARK ROSSMAN]: And it's now 20 minutes past 7:00 in the morning on DAYBREAK. Well, Christmas time is not always the best time for scientists and science teachers. The host of Science in the News, Al Butler, finds it a time when the National Association for the Advancement of Sciences holds its winter meeting or the Association of Science Teachers meets for a board meeting. Professor Butler tells of Christmas through a scientist's eyes, and this afternoon at 3:30 on Science in the News, that's when you'll hear it, right here on KWSU Radio. Just about 20 and a half minutes now past 7:00 this morning. Let's check in with Don Gay as we find out what's in store for us on the classic music scene this morning. [DON GAY]: Thank you, Mark -- good morning. This morning on the Classic Motif, Part One: we'll hear an interesting collection of tunes by Henry Purcell, the great 16th century English conductor, composer...wrote for Queen Mary. This was called Come Ye Sons of Art, and it's done by members of the Early Music Concert of London. We'll hear Pavane by Ravel, with Emil

Gilels. We'll hear the Piano Concerto in A minor by Schumann with Claudio Arrau, and a violin concerto by an American modern composer by the name of David Amram. The afternoon segment -- Yardumian's Symphony No. 2 and Haydn's 63rd, juxtaposed in the first portion of Part Two of the Motif. We'll also hear Divertimento by Walter Piston; a bit of Debussy, interpreted by Tomita; and Philippe Entremont -- conducting this time -- the Gymnopédies by Satie... two of them, orchestrated. And of course Wednesday afternoon we visit the legendary pianist, but this time, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff. Tonight, the concert hall is abbreviated somewhat, and it starts a little early because of the late basketball game from Portland. The Cougars are taking on Illinois at 9:15, so we'll begin our concert hall at 7:15 -- a little music by Stokowski for you -- and then join the New York Philharmonic for their traditional broadcast at about 7:25 or thereabouts.

Join us, if you will, then. I'll see you at 10:30 this morning on the Classic Motif, Part One. I'm Don Gay. [BRIEF MUSIC] [MARK ROSSMAN]: Twenty two minutes now past 7:00, we've got 24 degrees as our current temperature Fahrenheit, minus 4 Celsius. A busboy cleaning tables at a Howard Johnson's restaurant along Illinois' Northwest Tollway near Chicago Monday, found what some people might have construed as a late Christmas gift. Well, Brian Carlson found a shaving kit a customer had left behind, and it contained nearly $23,000 in cold cash. Yep. The 17 year old high school senior admits he thought briefly about buying a new car or taking a winter trip to a warmer climate -- luxuries he can't afford on his wages of $2.40 an hour. But Carlson, who lives in Des Plaines, Iowa...well, make that Illinois...turned the money over to state police. It was claimed by Joseph Faust of Marathon, Florida, who told police the money was from a real estate deal

he wrapped up in Wisconsin. Police gave Faust his money back yesterday, saying he had proven himself the rightful owner. Carlson is still busing tables and hasn't heard anything about a reward for his honesty. Honesty's the best policy -- so my mother says. 23 minutes past 7:00 now on DAYBREAK. Let's check in with science and man, here's Al Rossiter, Jr. [AL ROSSITER JR.]: We know it feels a lot colder in the winter when the wind's blowing, and forecasters tell us how cold it can be with their chill factor measurements. The American Medical Association notes in a recent report that a breeze blowing at just five miles an hour carries away eight times as much body heat as still air. Air that is not moving, it turns out, is a pretty good insulator. We know, for example, that wool clothing will keep us warm, but the insulating effect of wool does not come from the fibers, but from air trapped by fibers. Whether it's damp or dry, wool tends to regain its thickness after being compressed more readily than some other fabrics -- and this allows the fibers to attract more air. Since air is not a good heat conductor, the AMA

notes that the human body can maintain its heat balance without effort in still air at 85 degrees. Heat flows more readily from your skin in water. For example, a man may die after 60 minutes in ice cold water, but he can live much longer in air at the same temperature. Al Rossiter, Jr., Washington. [BRIEF MUSIC] [MARK ROSSMAN]: Twenty four now past 7:00 on DAYBREAK this morning, Wednesday, the 28th day of December. And checking our by-the-way department this morning -- do you know what would have happened if the federal government had invested Social Security taxes in the stock market in the 1930s and 1940s? Hmmph. Well, I'll tell you -- if the federal government had invested the funds in the stock market, experts believe it would now own most major businesses. Hmmm, something to think about. It's now 25 minutes past 7:00 this morning on DAYBREAK. Twenty four degrees, our current temperature...looking nippy outside, might want to dress a little warm this morning. And it's time for our DAYBREAK calendar.

Here's Barb Hanford [BARBARA HANFORD]: On our DAYBREAK calendar this morning -- a reminder about the special hours being observed this week at Washington State University. Classes are in vacation and will not resume until Tuesday, January 3. WSU offices are open through Friday, with regular 8:00 to 12:00 and 1:00 to 5:00 hours. The university will be closed on Monday, January 2. And, of course, Ferdinand's Dairy Bar in Troy Hall will remain closed until January 3. Recreational facilities are being made available to Pullman residents during the vacation, however. The facilities are being opened in conjunction with the Campus Recreation Program and Pullman Parks and Recreation Department. The general public is invited to use the facilities in the new gym -- Bohler Gym -- Smith Gym, the handball and racquetball courts, Hollingbery Fieldhouse, and the saunas. Those facilities which will be closed during WSU's vacation include towel cages, weight rooms, and gymnastics facilities.

The gymnasiums will be open today, Thursday, and Friday from 5:00 to 9:00 -- that's from 5:00 in the afternoon to 9:00 in the evening -- and you will be able to swim from 7:00 to 9:00 in the evening through Friday. On Saturday, the hours are noon to 6:00 for the gymnasiums. The pools will be closed on Saturday and Sunday, and the gymnasiums will be closed on Sunday, January 1. For additional information, call after 8:00, 335- 2651. Washington State University library hours for the holiday -- the Holland Library building will be open through Friday, 8:00 to 5:00 daily. The Science and Engineering Library will be open through Friday from 8:00 in the morning until midnight. The Agricultural Sciences Branch Library is open through Friday, 8:00 to 12:00 and 1:00 to 5:00. The Veterinary Medical Library and the Education Department Library in Cleveland Hall will both be open through Friday daily, 8:00 to 5:00. For Pullman senior citizens, activities today include the bowling team meeting at 1:30, and the

weekly trip to the post office will leave the center at 1:30 this afternoon. Tomorrow's activities include arts and crafts from 10:30 to 3:30 at the Senior Center, and there is a trip scheduled to Spokane tomorrow. The bus will be leaving the center at 8:30 in the morning; be sure and give them a call after 8:00 today if you plan to take that trip to Spokane tomorrow. For more information or transportation to the Pullman Senior Center, remember, their telephone number is 564- 1251. For Parents Without Partners in the Pullman-Moscow- Lewiston-Clarkston area, they're having a leftovers party tonight -- that will be at 7:00. It's for members, their youngsters, and their leftover goodies from the holidays. That will be at Eleanor Grady's home in Lewiston for Parents Without Partners and their families -- 7:00 tonight. And tomorrow night, Parents Without Partners will be playing pinochle at the home of Harlan Vandenbark in Lewiston -- that's 8:00. And Saturday night they're holding their annual New Year's Eve Party. The WSU Cougars are in Portland this week for the Far West Basketball

Classic. The Cougars' first game is tonight against Illinois, and that will be at 9:15 on KWSU -- pregame show -- with tipoff scheduled for 9:30 tonight. The Moscow-Latah County Library will be observing some shortened hours this Saturday on New Year's Eve. On December 31, they will be open in Moscow from 9:00 in the morning to 3:00 in the afternoon. The library in Moscow with branches in Potlatch, Genesee, Juliaetta, and Troy will be closed on New Year's Day and on Monday, January 2. The Bookmobile is also on vacation in Latah County -- it will resume its schedule on January 3. And in Pullman, the Neill Public Library is closed on New Year's Day, January 1 and on Monday, January 2. Also, there will be no Story Time this week; that's no Thursday Story Time this week at Neill Public Library. The Palouse Area Singles Group is holding a New Year's Eve party this Saturday -- that will be at Margaret Kessler's home in Moscow. And another listing of special closures for the holiday weekend:

the Pullman City Hall is open through Friday. It will be closed on Monday, January 2. The Whitman County Courthouse in Colfax is open through Friday. It will also be closed on Monday, January 2. And, of course, Pullman schools will resume classes on Tuesday, January 3, as well as classes on the Washington State University campus. That's our DAYBREAK calendar for this morning. Hope you'll stay tuned for our next calendar at 9:25, and that you'll join me again at 12:10 this afternoon for a more detailed calendar of events. I'm Barbara Hanford.