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Patriotic. Front guerrillas object
to British constitution proposal
By AP and Reuter
LONDON-Britain yesterday gave the guerrillas at the
Zimbabwe Rhodesia peace talks 48 hours to change their
minds and accept a compromise constitution for independen-
ce.
The future of the five-week-old conference hung in the
balance as the Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance responded
that the British demand was "absurd," reiterated its objec-
tions to key areas of the constitution and said it could give no
final verdict until all sides agreed on who will control the
government and the guns during a transition to British-
granted independence.
FOREIGN SECRETARY Lord Carrington made the
demand yesterday morning as the Patriotic Front and the
opposing delegation led by Zimbabwe Rhodesia Prime
Minister Abel Muzorewa faced each other again at the Lan-
caster House conference center after four weeks of con-
stitutional argument. Muzorewa has already accepted the
British draft.
Carrington set tomorrow as a deadline for the guerrillas
to accept British constitutional proposals radically different
from their own. He was speaking at. a full-scale plenary
session of the negotiations grouping the Patriotic Front and
the Salisbury bi-racial government of Muzorewa.
The foreign secretary did not say what he would do if the
guerrillas did not respond in the allotted time.
CARRINGTON RULED OUT any more negotiation on the
British draft and said the conference could not move on to
discuss transition arrangements unless the Patriotic Front
gave a definitive answer on the constitution when the talks
resume tomorrow morning.
Patriotic Front co-leader Joshua Nkomo urged that the
"spirit of discussion" should continue and Carrington replied
"there comes a time when the spirit of decision must take
over," officials reported after the 30-minute closed-door
session.
Britain has insisted from the start a constitution must be
finalized first if this latest bid to end the seven-year-old war
and bring an internationally acceptable black government to
the nation of 7 million blacks and 230,000 whites is to have any
hope of success.
CARRINGTON HAS RULED that constitutional
agreement will fall away if the two sides cannot also agree on
the second agenda item-setting up a transition admin-
sitration and arrangements for British supervised elections.
Unless either Carrington or the Patriotic Front backs off
its stand tomorrow, deadlock seems inevitable.
Today, Carrington will address the annual convention of
the governing Conservative Party, where right-wing
legislators are pressing for quick recognition of Muzorewa
and an end to sanctions imposed against the previous white-
minority government.
The Patriotic Front's objections to the British draft center
on strict property, pension and citizenship rights entrenched
for years in a bill of rights, which they maintain preserves
white-minority privilege.
THE GUERRILLA ALLIANCE rejects provisions com-
pelling a new black administration to pay compensation for
nationalized land, grant citizenship automatically to people
who settled after the white iovernment's 1965 unilateral
break from Britain, and guarantee pensions to officials and
army commanders of the present administration.
PATRIOTIC FRONT guerrilla leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe explain their group's rejection of key areas
of Britain's draft independence constitution yesterday at a press conference in London. They are attending the Zim-
babwe-Rhodesia cgnstitutional conference there which is nearing a deadlock. Their action threatens the month-long
negotiations on ways to achieve majority rule in that nation.
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CALLS FOR WEALTHY NATIONS TO HELP:
Baez tours
refugee camps
HONG KONG (AP) - American folk
singer Joan Baez embarked yesterday
on a tour through Indochinese refugee
camps to study firsthand what she
called the "massive form of holocaust
going on" in Southeast Asia. She said
she doesn't care what actress Jane
Fonda-thinks about her.
"At home in the United States, people
don't really want to pay much atten-
tion"to the refugee situation, Baez said
at a news conference after arriving
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here from San Francisco.
"I THINK we have to really call on
the wealthy nations to shell out. It's A
huge disaster and people don't want to
face up to it and think about it."
The plight of the refugees, she added,
was "a massive form of holocaust" on
par with the Nazi extermination of
Jews.
Baez said she expected to talk to
Vietnamese refugees and ask them
why, "after living through Japanese
invasions and famine and war ... they
are leaving now."
THE AMERICAN folk singer, who
has recently denounced Hanoi for ex-
pelling ethnic Chinese, has been
criticized for those statements by Fon-
da and others identified with the Far
Left.
"They feel betrayed, but I was
trying to end the war for everyone who
was being killed, not just for one-half,"
of the Vietnamese population, she said.
She said she wasn't making the trip to
prove to her critics that she was right in
circulating an open letter criticizing the
Hanoi regime.
"I'M NOT really interested in the Far
Left at this point, who really hate what
I'm doing, and the Far Right who say,
'nyah, nyah, we told you so, we should
have stayed there and bombed the hell
out of them'," Baez said.
Baez said that during her travels
through the area, including stops in
Thailand and Malaysia where she will
give a concert, she also hoped to
educate Americans and others about
the "faceless" land refugees from
Cambodia and Laos and the famine
facing those still in Cambodia.
Asked if she had ever thought there
would 'be mass expulsions from Viet-
nam when she was working to halt the
fighting, Baez said: "I think all of us
who worked to end the war in Vietnam
hoped there would be some kind of
relief."
SHE SAID she had been invited to
make a return trip to Hanoi, which she
visited as an anti-war crusader in 1972.
"But I think it's the wrong place to go to
find out . things the government
probably doesn't want me nosing into."
Following visits with the refugees,
Baez said she will take a swing through
Europe to meet with leaders of the
"New Left" there, including French
author Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Study shows Pa. residents doubt
statements of nuke plant officials
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EAST LANSING (UPI)-Persons
living near the Three Mile Island
nuclear plant give little credence to
utility statements about the March 28
accident at the plant, Michigan State
University researchers said yesterday.
An MSU survey of 300 households
near the Pennsylvania plant found 80
per cent confidence in reports issued by
the federal government about the in-
cident but only 3 per cent confidence in
statements and reports by utility of-
ficials.
THE SURVEY, conducted by an MSU
social geographer and two students,
found 90 per cent of those questioned
believe the utility should cover the cost
of cleaning up the accident.
Twenty-two per cent said the federal
government should pick up some of the
tab.
The study concluded government
regulatory agencies and utilities plan-
ning to build nuclear plants should in-
form residents of the affected areas
about the potential hazards.
THE 218-PAGE MSU report-the fir-
st detailed analysis of resident attitudes
and decisions about evacuation-has
been made available to President Car-
ter's commission on the accident and to
Michigan officials.
The study recommends persons near
planned nuclear plant sites be surveyed
on their feelings about the projects.
It also urged channels be established
at the state and local levels to
dissemiante information about the
plants-including evacuation plans.
The survey suggested research funds
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OCTOBER 7 - OCTOBER 13, 1979
HAPPY 75th MICHIGAN UNION!
EXHIBIT - MAIN LOBBY - ALL WEEK - 75 years of Michigan
tradition in photos, drawings, scrapbooks, posters.
TABLE CARVING - MAIN LOBBY - ALL WEEK - immortalize
yourself, your club, or housing unit. Carve the table tops that will go
in the coming student pub and grill.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12 - 4 p.m. - FRONT STEPS - RE DEDICATION
CEREMONIES AND RECEPTION
9p.m. BALLROOM - THE UAC GONG SHOW - 75ยข - See the best of
Michigan's students make fools of themselves in competition.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 - AFTER THE GAME: Free cake and
cider front steps. Free Billiards / Bowling until 2 a.m. for all students,
staff, and lifetime union members.
8 p.m. - 1 a.m. - BIRTHDAY BASH - FREE - music, dancing,
partying with the UM jazz Band, the Friars, the aMaizin' Blues, The
Wiz Kids (Rock 'n Roll and Country Rock Band)
75th Anniversary Souvenir Books & Paperweights at
Lobby Main Stand.
Info: UAC 763-1107 or Jeff Lebow 763-4182
be made available to survey residents
within 50 miles of current nuclear plan-
ts on their perceptions of risk and what,
they intend to do in case an evacuation
is ordered.
PBB intake:
too low to,
cause alarm,
studies say
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rates of infectious disease rising in
Michigan. while rates dropped or
remained steady in control samples.
"We cannot suggest that PBB is the
likely and certainly not the sole cause
(of the findings)," cautioned Public
Health School Dean Richard
lRemington.
However, he added, the project can-
not be held to eliminate the uncertainty
about the health-related effects of the
PBB incident in Michigan.
Sixty-five per cent of the'Michigan
residents questioned said they were
either "very concerned" or "somewhat
concerned" about the effects of PBB on
their health, the University's report
found.
1 Remington said research on how food
affects elimination of PBBfrom the
body produced "very encouragingk'
results, but stressed that officials still
are not ready to recommend any
specific diet.
GONG SHOW
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