Page 4-Sunday, February 4, 1979-The Michigan Daily LOOKING BACKTHE WEEK IN REVIEW day. He said it is difficult to coordinate his "They're making plans for this grandiose T T ~workers and that morale is sometimes low new hospital and w can't even get people off Sau ud e 'U' H-os pital mn mlyebtDitni lohpfltebdpn rpry"si r Harry S moff group State budget that the new hospital will eliminate these Colfer, president of the hospital's House Of- l~tTproblems. ficers Association. "There definitely is need h u t U pla ued by Yet other staff members are unwilling to for a new hospital, but it seems that we ought dem onstrates m ay hurt U wait for completion of the hospital renovation to be taking care of the other problems as " i ie cy n e fwhich may take up to seven years. well." Chanting "Tenure for a teacher, not a jive University Vice President for Academic Af- researcher," and "Ours is not to reason why, fairs Harold Shapiro's previous experience as ours is but to quantify," between 50 and 75 an economics professor should prove useful demonstrators marched on the Diag and in over the next few months. Shapiro, the University Hospital, one of the most respec- front of the LSA Building Thursday to protest University's top budget official, must now ted university-operated hospitals in the coun- Political Science Assistant Professor Joel wait for a final version of the 1979-80 State try, is apparently not living up to its Samoff's tenure denial., budget submitted this week by Gov. William reputation.ThMilliken before he can begin drawing cost and. r d ss Theprotest came as a result of LSA Dean revenue curves for University spending. Patients, administrators and hospital staff Billy Frye's refusal to discuss the Samoff have complained that problems such as poor case with members of the Samoff Student Milliken has suggested that the legislature housekeeping, staff shortage and over-* H. ;; crowding-th....cil.ty an. in some"x . E' ' Support Committee the day before. The increase state funding for the Uiversity by crsgs h plague th faciity ain sme . demonstration was staged by the committee $10 million. The proposed hike is an eight per cases have led to inadequate patient care r and approved by te Literary College's cent increase over this year's level, but it is workplace as a "zoo". "It's absolutely insane student government (LSA-SG. less than half of the 18 per cent hike requested workpla s a -by the Regents last October. in here," she said. "I leave shaking every According to LSA-SG President Bob day"ay meeting The governor's proposal calls for total fun- No one ivolved, however, has been able to "Frye does not want to get involved; he ding of $144 million to the University which come up with concrete solutions to the refuses to talk about Joel's case." should make up approximately half of the hospital's problems, although most were able Unversity's general fund. to place the blame somewhere. Labor leaders Stechuk and many members of LSA-SG and pointed the finger at the administration, whilem d- The Regents' budget request called for the administration blamed the situation on ':P'''P'./, the Samoff Student Supprt Committee com-uigoeralnfteicesefra1. e the dmiistatio blmedthe itutio onplain that current LSA procedures do not in- using over half of the increase for a 10.1 per the poor physical condition of the hospital cude student input, a situation they say cent faculty salary increase. Since then, building and equipment. results in teaching being given a lower however, President Carter has called for a Last month the Regents approved a $254 priority than research, seven per cent ceiling on wage increases, and million Hospital Replacement Project that is Interim Unversity President Allan Smith scheduled to replace the decaying and ob- said the University will "probably" comply solete structure by 1986. Samoff and the committee are waiting to with Carter's program. But criticism of the hospital goes deeper hear from the LSA Executive Committee The legislature is expected to hike than these physical problems, and eventually which has yet to make an announcement on Milliken's request for the University by ap- turns toward the hospital administration. its decision in Samoff's tenure denial. But ac- pimately s millior th oever, won't Misplaced lab tests and complicated testing ยข cording to Stechuk, the LSA Executive Com- qute make up the original budget request. 'rcdrslogwaits and shabby main- gyp ~~- ~'~ mittee has told the political science depar-, tenance are often blamed 'on the inefficient tment that it can begin searching for someone And although University officials declined coordination of the hospital's "system." to teach the department's courses on Africa, comment on a possible tuition hike, it's quite 'U' Hospital Director Jeptha Dalston said which is currently Samoff's field. But Stechuk possible that Econ 201 will cost more next these management problems are inherent to also said that Samoff. may, be offered a year._________________ an institution like the hospital, where a huge .teaching position at the Residential College. The Week in Review was written staff services a tremendous case load every by Editor-in-Chief Sue Warner. 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Eighty-Nine Years of Editorial Freedom When Bella A bzug was really fired Vol. LXXXIX, No. 105 News Phone: 764-0552 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan U. S.-China alliance T HE RED CARPET treatment given by the Carter Ad- ministration to visiting Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Teng Hsiao- ping symbolizes the new era of "recon- ciliation" between the U.S. and China. But it may also symbolize an apparent new Cold War alliance between the two powers balanced against the Soviet Union. The administration's acceptance of the word "hegemony", the Chinese code word for what they view as Soviet aggressive activities, only adds credibility to the Russians' claim that the' U.S. is being dragged into a recon- ciliation with China that will nicely serve Peking's continuous propagandic attack against the Kremlin. The word "hegemony" was adopted by the two nations in a communique released Thursday which states, "the two sides reaffirm that they are opposed to effor- ts by any country or group of countries to establish hegemony or domination over others." Although the administration managed to include the .word ''domination" to broaden the Chinese formula to cover aggression in general,. the joint communique still was an obvious reference to their con- cern over the Russians' imperialistic intentions in Africa and the Middle East. And these references, especially when listed publicly, can only serve to jeopardize the prospects for con- cluding a new arms-limitation agreement with the Russians even though American officials contend the communique will not harm a SALT pact. Already the Russians have denoun- ced the Chinese leader's anti-Soviet remarks as "slanderous" and "incen- diary," and called for a clarification from the United States on'its attitude. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance has obliged by assuring Soviet Afn- bassador Anatoly Dobynin that the United States and China are not aligning against the Soviet Union. But this is not enough. Any assuran- ce by Vance of our intentions will go unnoticed by the Kremlin if we con- tinued to issue communiques denoun- cing, the efforts of any country to establish "hegemony or domination over others." It is clear the United States is pur- suing the only proper policy in trying to bridge the huge gap in its relations with China. The reconciliation process has been long overdue and its advantages are numerous. However, this one clear disadvantage has sparked increasing tension to U.S.- Soviet relations and must be removed if we are to stay on the path toward peace. In May, after National Security Af- fairs Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski went to China, a Kremlin statement warned the U.S. not to "play the China card as a club in dealing with strategic arms and detente. Let's hope that the Carter administration - in making a sound diplomatic move by recognizing the Chinese - is not letting Teng Hsiao-ping play the America card. By Mim Kelper "When men are fired from the White House, it's usually because they've committed a crime," commented Bella Abzug at a Washington press conference the day after White House aide Hamilton Jordan announced her summary dismissal as co-chair of the National Advisory Com- mittee for Women (NACW). "When women are fired, it's because they've spoken out." What Abzug spoke out about was the Administration's budget priorities which included a repor- ted $15 million cut in human ser- vices programs and a 10 per cent boost in military spending. ALTHOUGH THE NACW's ad- vance release of a statement summarizes its criticisms of Car- ter's policy was what White House aides reported triggered the firing, the decision to remove Abzug had its real genesis at the Democratic Committee meeting in Memphis last November. Abzug had played a leading role at the meeting in the liberal attempt to win approval of a resolution challenging Carter's anti-inflation policy. Under the unfriendly eyes of an army White. House aides, she had made a strong speech arguing that women would carry the main burden of the budget cuts under the Carter program. Two years earlier, Abzug - impressed by Carter's statement that he wanted to be known as the president who won equal rights for women - had campaigned for him after being asked to help by campaign manager Hamilton Jordan. ABZUG DEVOTED much of 1977 working as the unpaid head of the International Women's Year Commission which held the successful women's conference in Houston that November. The conference, attended by more than 2,000 elected delegates from every state, produced a 26-point plan of action that Carter sub- sequently described as a "national agenda to achieve women's full rights and equality."- Afterythe national IWY legal mandate expired in March, 1978, Abzug and Carmen Delgato, a former IWY commissioner and president of the National Con- ference of Puerto Rican women,. were appointed to, co-chair. Ab- zug and Votaw obtained a modest set of offices for the committee in the Labor Department and spent the summer scrounging services, personnel and funds from other departments. A $300,000 budget - mostly services - was worked out, and the committee held its first formal meeting in late --------------------------------------- -----inhmnvrn On Nov. 16, notice came that the - President had allotted. 15 minutes on the afternoon of Nov. 22, the day before Thanksgiving. WHEN ABOUT 39 of the mem- bers assembled Nov. 21, some coming from as far away as Hawaii and Texas at their own expense, they realized the meeting would be merely ceremonial. Their anger deepened when they learned that the President was taking the time to fly to Utah the following week to receive an award from the Mormon Church, a focal point of opposition to the ERA. Without visible opposition, the committee passed a resolution to cancel the 15-minute meeting and ask for a full scale one at a later date. Abzug, who had been absent when the resolution was passed, argued long and hard against it on her return. It would, she reasoned, create White House animosity against the committee, and she "would be the one to pay for it." The committee, however, overruled her and a letter, ex- plaining its decision to cancel, was hand delivered to the White. House. Abzug and Votaw sub- sequently made a personal phone call to the President. CARTER RETURNED the call later and apologized for the brevity of the meeting that had been scheduled. He was friendly, agreed to a longer meeting, told Abzug and Votaw to work it out with the staff and suggested that they also' meet with his chief domestic policy advisor Stuart Eisenstadt. The women were elated, feeling that the committee's show of militancy had paid off. On Dec. 20, the two co-chairs and several other members presented Eisenstadt with a 24- page memorandum decribing specific budget cuts that im- periled women's programs. "INCREASINGLY," the memo reported, "poverty in the U.S.A. is becoming female poverty" - cau-ed by the rise in the number of female headed households, segregation of women into low- paying occupa'tions, with 80 per cent of the women's work force clusiered at the bottom of the pay scale; the continuing wage differential,. with women averaging 60 cents an hour for every dollar earned by men; in- sufficient job training programs, grossly inadequate number of child care facilities for the six million pre-school children whose mothers work, and for the millions of other children whose mothers are locked into welfare. The NACW memo further argued that planned slashes in Alaskan Eskimos and the rumored decision not to fund a new program for independent living centers for the disabled. EIZENSTADT DISPUTED the women on some issues, but ad- mitted there was no overall policy on women in the economy and suggested that he and the women's committee meet regularly. Later, the women heard that the $60 million teenage pregnancy fund and some other health programs had been- restored to the budget, but although $1 billion in CETA funds were also restored, the Ad- ministration's major jobs program was still due for big cuts. On a week's notice the meeting with Carter was finally scheduled for Jan. 12, seven months after the committee had been appoin- ted. A statement was drafted and reviewed at a committee meeting in Washington on Jan. 11. There was general agreement that the committee would ask Carter to devote part of his forthcoming state of the union speech to women's issues. Co-chair Votaw approveda press release summarizing the main points of the full statement to Carter. Abzug, who could not be at the meeting until the following day, did not see the release but said later she saw nothing wrong with it. The press statement was embargoed for release the following afternoon and sent to the White House press office as a backgrounder. ACCORDING TO a Washington Post report' Jan. 17, when Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell saw the release the night before the meeting, they decided on the spot that Abzug had to be fired. They then informed the President, who agreed. When the women's committee was ushered into the cabinet room at 2:30 the following after- noon, they had no suspicion of wyhat was to come. Abzug and Votaw had been handed a note from Jordan saying he wanted to see them later but they didn't know why. After picture taking, Carter. in an almost inaudible voice reiterated his commit- tment to women's rights and said he wanted a harmonious relationship with the committee. Abzug, to break the ice, joked that she knew it was quite a tough day for the president, with George Meany and other labor leaders having just finished meeting with him, the heavy snowstorm, and now the women. Carter. looked out the window and said he liked the snow. As the committee members in- troduced themselves, Carter blew kisses to the few he knew him and released a press release that was "95 per cent critical of him." He said he felt there was an irreparable breach but then went on to say that he wanted a more harmonious and regular working relationship with them. He also suggested that they set up small committees to'confer, with cabinet members and other ad- ministration officials. As the president left tt e room, the women stood and applauded. Abzug and Votaw then went out to tell the press they had had a very positive meeting with President Carter, they were- pleased, and they' looked forward to better relations. AS COMMITTEE members headed for planes and trainsin the late afternoon, the two co- chairs went to Jordan's office. Votaw went in first and was told by Jordan that Abzug was being dismissed. Could she suggest a replacement? Votaw was stun- ned. Abzug then went in and found Jordan with Robert Lipshutz, the president's counsel, and another aide. Kordan handed her a letter of dismissal signed by himself and said-they wanted her to resign immediately. Abzug protested and demanded an ex- planation. Jordan mentioned the cancelled meeting and the offen- ding press release. According to Abzug, she told them she was being made a scapegoat. Lip- schutz called her a liar. Abzug said she was prepared to leave the committee but wantedftime to discuss it with other members. She said she had personal problems (her husband had been ill), and wanted to leave in an or- derly manner. Jordan replied if she had personal problems, she shouldn't behead of a committee. Abzug left, saying she would think about it. By the time she reached the NACW office, Jordan was on the phone. He needed to know im- mediately whether she would resign because, he said, the press already knew about it. Abzug and Votaw then issued a joint statement saying Votaw was resigning in solidarity with her co-chair. 24 other members did likewise. Abzug has declined to speculate on whether - her dismissal would encourage a "dump Carter" movement. She is known to be more interested in' building, an independent political action movement than in getting tied to any particular presiden; tial candidate, but there is little doubt that the "Friday night massacre" has cost Carter sup- port among Democratic women activists. Under a recently reached agreement, half the l e ttcl igttn + ttil Engebrecht, Mary Faranski, Ron Gifford, Marion Halberg,"