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Reagan chooses
security advisor
WASHINGTON
William Clark, Pres Reagan's
new national security adviser,
spent his first day on the job
Tuesday, attending the pre
sident's meeting with West Ger
man Chancellor Helmut
Schmidt
Meanwhile, White House
spokesman David Gergen said
that it was "certainly a possibili
ty" that Richard Allen, Clark's
predecessor, would be given a
job with the administration after
he finishes the temporary con
sulting task he was assigned
But Gergen said he was not
aware of "a current search for a
job” for Allen, who left the White
House payroll Tuesday
One White House source who
asked that he not be identified
said Reagan’s top advisers had
concluded before Christmas
that Allen would have to be re
placed by Clark as a result of
questions raised about $1,000
he received from Japanese
journalists and watches he
received from Japanese friends
Allen said Monday evening
that even as he entered the Oval
Office to meet with the pres
ident. he sought to remain in his
job
Gergen said Clark, appointed
Monday after Allen was forced
out. would meet with Reagan
daily at 9:30 a m to deliver a
national security briefing, im
mediately after the president's
daily conference with the top
three members of his staff,
counselor Edwin Meese. chief
of staff James Baker, and depu
ty chief of staff Michael Deaver
Compact cars
more dangerous
WASHINGTON
Motorists in small cars are
twice as likely to be killed in
accidents as those in full size
models, and Japanese autos
are generally less safe than their
American counterparts, ac
cording to a new insurance in
dustry study released Tuesday
The study is based on claims
submitted to 10 insurance com
panies, handling half of the na
tion's auto policies, from 1978
through 1980
William Haddon. president of
the Insurance Institute for High
way Safety, said the survey
provides the first "real world
collision'' information which
shows the danger of driving the
increasingly popular, fuel-ef
ficient subcompacts
The study was released by the
institute and the United Ser
vices Automobile Association,
the country s ninth largest in
surer of automobiles
There was no immediate
comment from US au
to makers
"Obviously small cars are
here to stay because of their
fuel efficiency But as the study
shows, small cars are much
more deadly in accident situa
tions because they are so much
lighter than large cars,” Robert
McDermott, chairman of USAA.
told a news conference
The survey showed that
among occupants of subcom
pacts, there were 34 1 deaths
per 100,000 vehicles in 1980 By
comparison, there were 23 8
deaths per 100,000 compact
cars and 15 6 deaths per
100,000 full-size cars
The industry survey singled
out American-made cars as be
ing safer than their Japanese
counterparts, especially when
comparing small cars produced
in both countries
On average, said Haddon, the
risk of being killed in a crash in
most Japanese subcompacts
"is 34 percent higher than in the
same size class American-made
cars ”
Reagan sinks
summer cruises
VANCOUVER, British Columbia
A Russian cruise ship won't
be making its Vancouver, British
Columbia-to-Aiaska run this
summer, thanks to Pres Ronald
Reagan's latest round of eco
nomic sanctions against the
Soviet Union
The ship's Vancouver agent
was informed Monday the
Odessa's 1982 program has
been canceled Mindy Hodson,
manager of March Shipping
Passenger Services of Van
couver, said the ship now is in
Havana where her captain is
awaiting instructions from the
vessel's owner, Black Sea Ship
ping Co of Odessa
"It’s very unfortunate, but the
political situation in the U S has
made it impossible to continue
the cruise program," said Hod
son
"The people hurt most are not
the Soviets, but American and
Canadian tour operators It's
put a lot of people out of work
She said the 500-passenger
Odessa was already 85 percent
booked for next summer's Alas
ka season Cancelation notices
are being sent out
Odessa was cruising in the
Caribbean out of New Orleans
when Reagan announced
sanctions against Soviet ships
calling at U S ports
The vessel's 300 U S pas
sengers disembarked in New
Orleans
Anti — Semitism
doubles in 1981
NEW YORK
For the third straight year
reported acts of anti-Semitism
in the United States more than
doubled in 1981. marked by an
increase in violence against
Jews and Jewish institutions,
the Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B'rith reported Tuesday
Anti-Semitism “has always
been there," said Nathan Perl
mutter, league national director
Lately, he added, "it's coming
out of the closet,”
The league's annual audit cit
ed 974 cases of anti-Jewish
vandalism and 350 attacks on or
threats against "Jews as Jews"
in 31 states and Washington,
D C , last year In 1980 the
league found 377 cases of van
dalism and 112 assaults
Violence increased despite
new state laws against anti
religious acts and new
procedures for investigating
them, the national survey said
In New York, where the
league reported the greatest
increase, a police official said
he did not notice a big upswing
in anti-Semitic acts last year
"The question has always
been. Are there more incidents
or are more people coming
forward?’ " said Lt Abraham
Kushner. who monitors bias in
cidents for the police depart
ment
The establishment a year ago
of New York s Bias Investigation
Unit undoubtedly led to in
creased reports, he said A
squad statistician said figures
would not be available until later
this week
The Anti-Defamation League
reported 326 incidents in New
York state, followed by Califor
nia with 150, New Jersey with 94
and Massachusetts with 59
Court overrules
creation theory
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.
A federal judge on Tuesday
struck down an Arkansas law
requiring schools that teach
evolution to balance it with the
theory of creationism The
judge ruled the statute violated
constitutional guarantees of
separation between church and
state
It was simply and purely an
effort to introduce the biblical
version of creation into the
public school curricula, U S
District Judge William Overton
said of the law. which would
have taken effect next fall
The verdict, following a nine
day trial last month, was a vic
tory for the American Civil
Liberties Union, which said in a
May 27 lawsuit that the law was
too vague, infringed on
academic freedom and
abridged the First Amendment
ban on laws that establish
religion Overton invalidated the
law on the religion issue only
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