Senate renews civil rights act
i
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Senate wore down the deter
mined and tenacious opposition
of a small group of conserva
tives Friday and voted 85 to 8 to
renew the crucial enforcement
provisions of the 1965 Voting
Rights Act.
A coalition of moderate
Republicans and all 46 Senate
Democrats gave civil rights or
ganizations their only major
victory of the 97th Congress.
The vote was a defeat for
conservative Sen. Jesse Helms.
R-N.C., who had vowed to
GOP selects Texas city
as 1984 convention site
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Republicans selected Dallas,
the first choice of President
Ronald Reagan, as the site for
their 1984 national convention.
Without a single dissenting
voice, the Republican National
Committee honored Reagan's
preference and designated the
Texas city for the party's
nominating convention in
August 1984.
The committee voted after
hearing a presentation from city
officials, including Mayor Jack
Evans, that cited the availability
of convention hall facilities and
more than 25,000 hotel rooms.
The Republican party’s con
vention site selection commit
tee visited no other cities before
it recommended Thursday that
Dallas be chosen.
Before the committee acted,
GOP National Chairman Ri
chard Richards predicted
Republican gains in the Senate
in this fall's elections, but was
less optimistic about the House
and governors’ races.
Richards mentioned as the
party's "greatest risk” this year
contests for governor in which
several Republican incumbents
have decided to retire.
As for the House, he noted
that Republicans would have to
defeat 25 incumbent Democrats
and hold all their present seats
to gain control, a task he ack
nowledged would be extremely
difficult.
Birth control pills reduce cancer risk
NEW YORK (AP) - Birth
control pills, already linked to a
decreased risk of uterus cancer
in women, also apparently
reduce the risk of cancer of the
ovaries, according to a study
published today
Researchers from the Drug
Epidemiology Unit at the Boston
University School of Medicine
found the protection against
ovarian cancer may persist up
to 10 years after the
contraceptives are taken.
They said the protection ap
pears greater for women who
have used birth control pills
longer
These findings, however,
were not as clearly demonstrat
ed as the overall result
The American Cancer Society
estimates that 18,000 women in
the United States will get ovar
ian cancer this year, and that
11,400 of them will die as a re
sult of it.
Earlier this year, birth control'
pills were linked to decreased
risk of cancer of the uterus.
They have also been associated
with an increased risk of heart
attack and stroke.
Last year, a different group of
researchers at the Drug
Epidemiology Unit reported that
the increased chance of heart
attack can continue for as long
as nine years after women stop
taking the pill.
About 40 percent of U S. and
European women of child-bear
ing age, and about 25 million
women around the world, use
birth control pills, officials say.
The new research, appearing
in the June 18 issue of the
Journal of the American
Medical Association and
released Friday, is based on in
terviews with 675 .women less
than 60 years old. Of them, 222
used birth control pills.
—
filibuster the legislation long
enough to block final passage.
Helms led a small group of
conservatives who argued un
successfully that the voting
rights extension gave the feder
al government too much power
to interfere in the rights of the
states to run their own elec
tions.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D
Mass , one of the leaders of a
15-month campaign to renew
the measure, said the extension
"is a heartening sign that Con
gress will not endlessly turn its
back on the needy in our society
and the minority who are not
white.”
A threatened companion
debate over legalized abortions
never materialized. But con
gressional sources said Heims
gave up his voting rights filibus
ter in part because he was as
sured that the abortion issue
would be debated later in the
summer.
The measure would have far
reaching consequences in the
federal supervision of how
elections are conducted.
Space probes search
for huge cold, dark star
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP)
— Two far-ranging Pioneer
spacecraft are scanning the
fringes of the solar system for
an unseen object, which scien
tists suspect might be larger
than the Earth and perhaps as
massive as the sun.
Peculiarities in the orbits of
Uranus and Neptune, the
seventh and eighth planets from
the sun, make it “very likely
there's something out there,”
said John Anderson of the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pa
sadena.
But it's “impossible to
predict. . . what we might find,”
he said at a news conference
Thursday at the National Aeron
autics and Space Administra
tion's Ames Research Center in
Mountain View. "I've looked at
many possibilities and I don't
like any of them very much.”
Anderson, who heads the
search, said the possibilities in
clude a tenth planet, a cold,
dark star, or even a black hole.
But he cited complications that
would make any of those theor
ies hard to explain.
The search is being made by
Pioneers 10 and 11, which left
home a decade ago and made
the first explorations of Jupiter
and Saturn. Pioneer 10, now two
and a half billion miles away,
has gone farther into space than
any other probe and will be
beyond all the known planets in
July 1983.
The spacecraft, both pron
ounced in good shape, are on
opposite sides of the sun and
moving into space at more than
30,000 mph.
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