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Chi's chit-chat
Virtually everything President
Carter and other Americans have
said to China's, Vice Premier
Teng Hsaio-ping during his M
historic visit to this country has r.
been interpreted by the gen-
tleman pictured to the left of
Teng. The interpreter has gone
largely unnoticed, and has been
dismissed in most picture cap-:
tions as an '"unidentified inter-
preter." But, according to Prof.
Albert Feuerwerker, the director
of the University's Center for
Chinese Studies, the interpreter,
Chi Choa-Chu, is actually a high-
level Chinese government official
who is, of course, fluent in
English. Feuerwerker, who at- ;
tended many of the Washingtonr
festivities honoring Teng earlier
this week, went to school with Chi
at Harvard in the 1940s. He said
Chi left the United States in 1949
when the Communists gained
control of mainland China and
has served as an interpreter for
Mao Tse-tung and Chou en lai.
New Daily Editors

NUCLEAR POWER INVESTMENTS CHALLENGED:

The Michigan Daily-Friday, February 2, 1979-Page 3

Shareholders to fight Edison

BY CYRENA CHANG
Detroit Edison shlareholders plan to
challenge the company's nuclear power
program at its annual stockholder
meeting April 23, according to
shareholder David DeVarti. At that
time, shareholders will make a formal
recommendation urging Edison to
cease investment in nuclear power.
The challenge surfaced as a response
to record rate hike requests by Edison,
and an announcement that Edison's
1978 earnings were down 1.5 per cent
from the previous year.
EDISON PLANS to construct two
Greenwood nuclear power plants in St.
Clair County in addition to the incom-
plete Fermi II plant in Monroe. To
finance Edison's nuclear construction,
issuance of new stock will also be
required which will bring down per
share earnings by 12 per cent.

DeVarti, who is from Ann Arbor,
owns six shares and represents ad-
ditional holdings of 1,000-plus shares..
DeVarti said he thinks the company
should investigate alternative power
sources such as cogeneration of energy.
Initially, Detroit Edison attempted to
withhold the matter from its proxy
materials, but DeVarti requested,
through the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC), that a proposal
guaranteeing public safety be included.
THE SHAREHOLDERS' proposal
maintains, "We recommend that
energy needs be met by methods other
than nuclear power. Key questions
regarding public safety and economics
should be resolved before continuing
development of nuclear power."
The SEC determined in early
January that the proposal was presen-
ted in a timely fashion and should be in-

cluded.
An Edison official said yesterday that
the company has not yet prepared a
response to the shareholders' com-
plaints.
DeVarti cited several reasons in
defending his proposal and said that
construction of Edison's 1,000
megawatt Fermi II plant began with
projected cost of $300,000,000 and a 1974
completion date. Still uncompleted,
cost estimates now- approach
$1,000,000,000.
HE ALSO SAID nuclear fuel costs
have risen from $8 per pound in 1973 to
more than $40 per pound in 1978. Edison
has contracts for only four years below
the $40 market price, he said.
Charges have also been brought
against Kerr-McGee and Gulf Oil Com-
panies (Edison's uranium suppliers)
for participation in an uranium cartel,
DeVarti said.
In addition, he said, exploration on
half of Edison's speculative uranium
resources in Wyoming indicates a
300,000, pound known reserve. This
would supply only one-fourth of Fermi
II's first year fuel requirements.

A FEDERAL government offer to
,dispose of nuclear wastes at $232 per
kilogram means Edison could pay
disposal costs of approximately
$287,680,000. Costs of decommissioning
are not yet determined.
DeVarti said there is no known
method to safely dispose of nuclear
wastes, and Michigan has been con-
sidered as a possible disposal site'° by
the federal government.
The Public Services Commission
(PSC) which regulates all utilities in
Michigan, is under increasing pressure
to refuse rate increases or refuse new
stock issues and no guarantee of con-
-tinued favorable rulings exist.
DeVarti has made initial contacts
with environmental, labor 'and church
organizations and intends to ask for
their full cooperation in a campaign to
support his proposal.
"I intend to bring this issue before the
entire state and expect the
shareholders of Michigan to unite.
behind it. The public awareness in our
state is great due to past consideration
of Michigan as a nuclear dumping
ground."

Amtrak, Conrail face
suit in murder ease


Today's Daily is the first issue published under the direction of
1979's senior editors. The editors were selected by a vote of the entire
Daily staff and will spend the next year under a constant deadline.
Left to right, in the back row: Personnel Director Shelley Wolson,
from Toledo, Ohio, a journalism and speech major; Editorial Director
Michael Arkush, Albany, New York, political science; and Managing
Editor Rick Berke, Bethesda, Maryland, political science. Second
row: Special Projects Editor Dennis Sabo, Warren, Michigan, Jour-
nalism; Arts Editor Eric Zorn, Ann Arbor, English; Magazine Editor
Judy Rakowsky, Lima, Ohio, political science; Special Projects
Editor Elizabeth Slowik, Utica, Michigan, journalism; and Arts
Editor R. J. Smith, Farmington, Michigan, BGS. Front row:
Magazine Editor Owen Gleiberman, Ann Arbor, English; Editor-in-
Cheif Sue Warner, Dearborn, Michigan, history; City Editor Keith
Richburg, Detroit, political science and journalism; and Editorial
Director Julie Rovner, Bethesda, Maryland, political science. Missing
from the group is University Editor Brian Blanchard, a history major
from Madison, Wisconsin.
Happenings
FILMS
Ann Arbor Public Library - Yellow Submarine, 4:15, 7:30 p.m.,
Fifth and William.
Ann Arbor Film Co-op - The Tall Blond Man With One Black
Shoe, 7, 10:20 p.m.; The Thief of Paris, 8:40 p.m., Aud. 3, MLB.
Cinema II - Obsession, 7, 9p.m., Aud. A, Angell.
Cinema Guild -- Adam's Rib, 7, 9:05 p.m., Old Arch Aud.
Gargoyle - Carnal Knowledge, 7, 9:05 p.m., 100 Hutchins Hall.
Mediatrics - Which Way is Up?, 7, 8:40, 10:20 p.m., Nat. Sci. Aud.
PERFORMANCES
Energy Action Group - Folk, Country, and Rock and Roll Benefit,
8 p.m., Aud., F. Quad.
French Experimental Theatre - Tutuguri-La, 8 p.m., Canterbury
Loft, 332 S. State.
Music School - Chamber Choir, Chamber Orchestra, Bach's
Mass in B Minor, 8 p.m., Hill Aud.
PTP -,"Side by Side by Sondheim," 8p.m., Power Center.
UTP - "In Celebration," 8 p.m., Trueblood Theatre, Frieze.
LECTURES
Guild House - Removing the Creative Block, noon, 802 Monroe.
Mechanical Faculty Candidate Seminar - Torsional Fatigue
Failure in Eutectic Composites, noon, Faculty Lounge, West
Engineering.
Southeast Asian Studies - Comparative Pattern of Economic
Development of India, Pakistan, and Indonesia, at noon, Commons
Room, Lane Hall.
Southeast Asian Studies - Colloquium on Southern Asia: What is.
Development, 3 p.m., 200 Lane Hall.
Environmental Science and Technology - Health Aspects of
Wastewater Reuse in Israel, 3:30 p.m., Engineering 1-A.
Nuclear Seminar - Title to be announced, 3:45 p.m., White
Auditorium, Cooley Building.
WHolistic Health Group - Astrology and Polarity Energy Balan-
cing, 7:30 p.m., 602 E. Huron.
MEETINGS
Hillel Foundation - Orthodox Minyan, 5:30 p.m., 1429 Hill.
Expressions Discussion Group - E.S.P., out of body, and Other
Related Experiences, and Friendship, 8 p.m., Unitarian Church, 1917
Washtenaw.
Israeli Workshop - 8 p.m., Activities Room, CCRB.
SPORTS
Wrestling - U-M vs. Iowa, 7:30 p.m., Crisler.
MISCELLANEOUS
Turkish Dance Demonstration and Instruction - 3 p.m.,

By GREG GALLOPOULOS
A $6.5 million lawsuit has been filed in
Jackson County Circuit Court against
the Consolidated Railroad Corporation
(Conrail) and the National Railroad
Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) on
behalf of personal representatives of
three murdered Conrail employees.
The three employees, Robert Blake,
Charles Burton, and William Gulak,
worked at an Amtrak-owned depot in
Jackson, where they were murdered on
the night of December 31. The three
men were in a restricted area of the
depot, about 100 feet from a passenger
waiting room, when they were each
shot in the head at close range with 12-
gauge shotgun slugs.
GULAK AND Burton were found
dead at the scene, and Blake died later
at University Hospital.
Jackson police arrested Rudy Bladell
of Elkhart, Ind. in connection with the
murders, but he was not charged and
has been released.
B i OfficialBulletin
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 2.19719
Daily Calendar:
Guild House: Soup and sandwich .752 luncheon,
Robert Berry, Psycho-therapist, "Removing
Creaitive Block,' 802 Monroe, noon.
CenterS outh/Southeast Asian Studies: Thomas E.
Weisskopf, "Comparative Pattern of Economic
Development in India, Pakistan and Indonesia,"
Commons Rm., Lane Hall, noon; Linda Lim, Swar-
thmore College, "Colloquim on Southern Asia: What
is Development,'200 Lane Hall, :3 p.m.
Physics/Astronomy: B. Savit, "Duality in Field
Theory and Statistical Systems," 2038 Randall Lab..
2 pm.
Recreational Sports: Advisory Committee
meeting, Bell Pool Conf. Rm., 4:15 p.m.
Music School: Chamber Choir, Chamber or-
chestra, Bach's "Mass in B. Minor," Hill Aud., 8
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Will interview here Weds. Feb. 7 from 9 to 5.Many
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with innercity children, handicapped or standard
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The time has come - Cedar Point will be here -
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too. Will interview here Weds./Thurs. Feb. 14-15
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The lawsuit, filed by the law firm of
Peter Barbara & Associates, charges
that Conrail and Amtrak failed to
provide adequate security and protec-
tion for the three murdered employees.
SPECIFICALLY, the suit claims that
companies did not provide a sufficient
number of adequately trained security
guards, and that they did not warn their
employees of the unguarded condition
of their working area. If Amtrak and
Conrail had not been negligent in these
matters, the suit maintains, the three
men would not have been murdered.
Amtrak officials, contacted this week
in Washington, said they were unaware
of the lawsuit, which was filed on
January 19. Conrail officials said that
they had just received the paperwork
on the case, and have not yet prepared
any response.
The lawsuit, which demands a trial
by jury, is assigned to Circuit Court
Judge Russell Noble. No hearing dates
have been set.
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