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THE PANTAGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEB. 3, 1984 A3 ISU moves to curb alcohol promotions Usual tight security for Reagan's visit Jack Smith, Secret Service spokesman in Washington, D.G, said a team of advance agents In Illinois and coordinating preparations with agents from Springfield and Chicago. Agents look at each site to be visited to determine what kind of security is necessary. Smith said each site has its share of problems, but motorcades are the most difficult security problem because the time and route are published beforehand. Crowd surveillance Is a major Job of agents during a motorcade.

Smith said agents look for concealed weapons. Individuals who have made threats against the president, open windows and vehicles parked where they shouldn't be. He said the agency may use dogs trained to find explosives. A threat on the president's life was allegedly made Tuesday by a 50-year-old Princeton man. Frederick W.

Schoaf was charged with threatening the president during a conversation at a Princeton truck stop. Princeton is about 35 miles south of Dixon and about 60 miles north of Eureka. In Dixon, Reagan will tour his boyhood home; eat lunch with his brother, Neil, and Neil's wife, Bess; ride in a parade; and go to Dixon High School for a birthday party. Then he will fly to Eureka for a 3 p.m. speech.

His visit coincides with the college's annual Founder's Day Convocation the 129th anniversary of the founding of the college. The president's speech is the first in a "Distinguished Speakers Program" sponsored by Time Magazine. The program is a series of two lectures a year by individuals featured on the cover of Time. take place in Eureka where the security contingent will Include deputies from Livingston and McLean counties. Eureka Police Chief Gerald Reinmann said White House agents have been in town about one week to check the Reagan Center where the president will deliver his speech on "Where the United States Stands, Where the Free World Stands." Agents have checked hospitals in Eureka and Dixon and designated Peoria's St.

Francis Medical Center as the hospital where Reagan would be taken in an emergency. By DAVE HANCOCK Pontagraph staff Illinois State University President Lloyd Watkins yesterday announced a new policy to restrict promotions of alcohol on campus. "What we are saying to students is don't get caught up with marketing approaches that equate the good life with drinking," Watkins said. Watkins cited an increase in irresponsible drinking among the nation's college students as another reason for his action. He said some college students drink to excess and require hospitalization.

The policy was recommended by the university's vice presidents and staff administrators and was approved by Watkins. Some of the policy's major points include: Alcoholic beverages, such as kegs of beer, cannot be provided as awards to individual students or campus organizations. Campus marketing programs that include "drinking contests" or "uncontrolled sampling" are not permitted. Promotional activities should not be associated with otherwise existing campus events or programs for students without the prior knowledge and consent of the appropriate university administrator. Display or availability of promotional materials specifically targeted for students must be determined in consultation with the Office of Student Affairs.

Watkins said the new policy is a preventive measure and not a reaction to the marketing practices of alcohol distributors in Blooming-ton-Normal. Normal Police Chief David Lehr criticized beer distributors in the Twin Cities last week, saying their promotions on campus encourage underage drinking. Watkins said there is a national effort among university administrators to restrict alcohol promotion on campus. He said Southern Illinois University-Carbondale also has a new policy concerning the promotion of alcohol on campus- Residents give ideas to curb student parties By EMIUE KREBS Pantograph staff Dixon will get its first taste of mass security Monday when 100 Secret Service agents and about 300 other police descend on the community during President Reagan's visit The heavy security is for Reagan's trip to Dixon for a 73rd birthday celebration in his boyhood hometown and a second trip almost 100 miles south to deliver a speech at his alma mater. Eureka College.

Similar security precautions will Washington High hires Peoria firm for labor relations WASHINGTON (PNS) The Peoria law firm of Clem and Triggs was hired last night by the Washington Community High School Board of Education to handle the district's labor relations work. The firm was one of two interviewed by board members at a special meeting. Dennis Triggs represented the firm at the interview. Because of the complexity of new laws on collective bargaining in schools, the board decided to seek attorneys to handle such work. Eleven law offices were contacted before last night's decision was made.

Superintendent Raymond Torry, said the firm's contract is for the 1984-85 school year and takes effect immediately. He said the lawyers will start by negotiating the teachers' contract for the next school year. Although Triggs offered possible rate structures to the board last night, Torry said the firm's actual fee was not determined. Kiddie Korner registration Registrations for 1984-85 are being accepted by the Kiddie Korner Nursery School located in Our Saviour Lutheran Church, 1510 N. Main Normal.

Classes are conducted from 9 to 11:15 a.m. Tuesday through Thursday for children who will be 4 years old on or before Dec. 1. Annette Lobdell, registrar, 1202 Valentine Drive, Normal, can be contacted for details or to register. Focus on birth defects By SHARON GILFAND Pantograph staff Normal residents who have been very vocal in complaining about student party problems got their first chance last night to talk to a committee whose sole purpose is to ease the problem.

Stricter enforcement of underage drinking laws, controlled distribution of alcohol, and unified zoning laws were mentioned as ways to control the problems of noise, littering and parking violations. About 16 Normal residents who have been highly visible in complaining about the disruptions were invited to the meeting. Ten attended. The meeting marked the first time the advisory committee on student party problems met with the residents facing the problems. Assistant City Manager Tom De-Giulio said many avenues to ease the situation will be explored, including whether Illinois State University could expel students for alcohol-related offenses.

I 4... -i 1 AP Klansman condemned A Mobile, judge broke state precedent yesterday when he overruled his jury and sentenced Henry Francis Hays, a Ku Klux Klansman, to death for killing a black man and hanging the body from a camphor tree. According to testimony, Hays killed 19-year-old Michael Donald at random "to show Klan strength in Alabama." One committee member. Gene Smedley, said residents found it encouraging that the university was taking steps to stem the advertising promotion of alcohol on campus. But they also blamed falling property values largely on the reputation that student housing brings.

After the meeting, Jim Turner, 709 Dale cited the example of a house in his block that would be worth about $90,000 in a "good" neighborhood, but was sold for less than $50,000 last fall to an owner who rented it to students. Dr. Dale Vetter, 214 W. Willow a retired ISU professor, said students should be treated like adults and subject to the same laws that are enforced in other neighborhoods. What is needed, he said, are the "principles and courage to carry out things that are right." After the meeting, DeGuilio, who lives in El Paso and has been trying to sell his house for 37 months, said he would trade it for a house in a student neighborhood.

$50 Wendell Watson Agent Orange study sought WIN CASH in The Paragraph's SmsaE GouGBon iveatnrav By MARK PICKERING Pantograph staff The Illinois Agent Orange Study Commission will be asked next week to lend its support to a proposed statewide medical study of children of Vietnam veterans who were exposed to the outlawed herbicide during their tours in Southeast Asia. The proposal is being drafted by David Weisbaum, the commission's executive director. Specifics of the plan have yet to be worked out, but the study would focus on determining "any signs of genetic damage" in children of veterans exposed to the defoliant. State funding would allow the 13-member commission to hire a major medical facility to conduct the study, said Weisbaum. The commission will meet Tuesday in Springfield to discuss the plan.

The government's 10-year program of spraying Agent Orange on mJ It's easy! Just count the number of cents- and dollars-off coupons that will appear in The Pantagraph and its Inserts in the next week (Sunday through Saturday). If you're within 50 coupons of the correct number your entry could win in the weekly random drawing and the big grand prize drawing. WEEK 3 WINNERS $250 $100 s50 Lori Ebey Normal Teresa Bean Bloomington Mrs. H. W.

Stuart Bloomington Salvador bishop's murder Administration cover-up the jungles of Vietnam has become a hotbed of debate in recent years as thousands of war veterans have claimed exposure to the dioxin-laced herbicide has caused countless illnesses, including heart disease, cancer and birth defects in their children. Dozens of studies into those charges are under way by various government agencies and the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, which is also concentrating on birth defects. Weisbaum's plan would be a first in Illinois and although it would not approach the magnitude of the Atlanta study, it could determine if there is a higher incidence of birth defects in the children of Vietnam veterans as opposed to children whose fathers did not serve in Southeast Asia. If backed by the commission, the proposal would be sent to the General Assembly. The cost of the pro might benefit politically by release of classified information about his alleged death squad connections because some Salvadorans are upset with U.S.

interference in their domestic affairs. D'Aubuisson, who is considered a leading contender in El Salvador's March 25 election for president, has repeatedly denied involvement in Romero's assassination. However, White said the U.S. embassy received an eyewitness account of the March 22, 1980, meeting that plotted Romero's, murder. In testimony prepared for delivery to the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Latin America, White said a reliable informant told the U.S.

embassy that D'Aubuisson summoned about 12 men to the meeting, announced the decision to kill Romero and supervised the drawing of lots for the "honor" of carrying out the plot. The scheduled subcommittee gram has not been determined, he said. Weisbaum's proposal is the latest in a recent series of activities relating to Agent Orange. The most important of these is a data-collection program the commission announced this week. Questionnaires relating to veterans' service records, medical history and treatment, illnesses and other areas relating to Agent Orange are being circulated throughout the state.

Veterans are being urged to complete the questionnaires and return them to the commission, 1107 Strat-ton Building in Springfield. The questionnaires are available at regional state Department of Veterans' Affairs offices at 219 N. Main Bloomington; the courthouse in Pontiac; the courthouse in Lincoln; 4 Hensen Place, Champaign; 132 S. Water room 630, Decatur; and 2012 Liberty Morris. claimed hearing was postponed because of a full committee debate over U.S.

policy in Lebanon, but White released copies of the testimony and discussed it at an impromptu news conference with reporters. In the testimony, White identified the winner of the lottery as Lt. Francisco Amaya Rosa and said Amaya Rosa chose a sharpshooter named Walter Antonio Alvarez to fire the bullet that killed Romero. White said D'Aubuisson later decided that Alvarez could not be trusted and ordered him killed by a death squad. "For three years now, I have refrained from revealing the full extent of our government's knowledge of official terror in El Salvador," White said in his prepared statement.

"But it is now clear that the administration covered up vital documents from the Kissinger commission and the Congress, and I can no longer remain silent A total of 73 cents- and dollars-off coupons, worth $302.93 appeared in Week 3. To claim your prize, bring proper identification (driver's license. Social Security card, senior citizen's card, etc.) to The Paragraph's marketing services department from 8:30 a.m. to noon or 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Winners may also mail their claim, enclosing their phone number and a photostatic copy of proper identification, to: Marketing services department, The Pantagraph, 301 W. Washington P.O. Box 2907, Bloomington, IL 61702-2907. All prizes must be claimed by March 31, 1984. Clip coupons and you'll save! Count coupons and you could be a winner, too! Watch for Week 5's official entry blank and contest rules in Saturday's Pantagraph! WASHINGTON (AP) A former U.S.

ambassador to El Salvador charged yesterday that the Reagan administration has covered up evidence that Salvadoran rightist leader Roberto D'Aubuisson ordered the assassination of that country's Roman Catholic Rooert E. White, who President Reagan removed as ambassador in January of 1981, said D'Aubuisson presided over a lottery to select which Salvadoran military officer would assassinate Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was gunned down while saying Mass on March 24, 1980. White said the administration had evidence of D'Aubuisson's alleged role in the killing when it entered office in 1981. White House spokesman Robert Sims declined comment on the allegation, while a State Department official, who spoke on condition he not be identified, said D'Aubuisson The Pantograph Number One in Central Illinois for a lot of good reasons. 309829-941 1.

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