NUCLEAR SATELLITES See Editorial page \: '. StE an 143Iai1 FLUTTERING High-21 Low-12 See Today for details Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 100 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, January 31, 1978 Ten Cents 8 Pages Carter: Atomic satellites must go WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter promised yesterday to ask the Soviet Union not to send up any more atomic satellites like the one that fell on Canada and said "we would be glad to forego the deployment of any such satellites altogether." Calling for more rigid precautions among all nations, the President said the United States and the Soviet Union should try to develop a "sure-fire" safety system to keep such nuclear power satellites from falling to earth or into the atmos- phere. "IF WE CANNOT evolve those fail- safe methods," Carter said, "then I think there ought to be a total prohi- bition against earth orbiting satel- lites. I would favor at this moment an agreement with the Soviets to pro- hibit earth orbiting satellites with atomic or radiation material in them." Carter spoke at a nationally tele- vised news conference, his second this year. He pledged to pursue the "fail safe" system and the atomic- satellite ban with the Soviet Union. Carter said the Soviets had told him See CARTER, Page 2 Middle East military talks resume toda JERUSALEM (AP) - Egyptian- Israeli military negotiations on the future of the occupied Sinai peninsula will resume tonight in Cairo, spokes- men in Jerusalem and Cairo an- nounced yesterday. Israel said Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and his negotiating team will leave for Cairo earlier today. WORD OF the resumption came as U.S. mediator Alfred Atherton hand- carried an Israeli proposal for a dec- laration on overall peace principles to Cairo after a final meeting yester- day with Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan in Jerusalem. The assistant secretary of state helped write the draft in a week of talks with Israeli leaders. Talking to reporters in Cairo, he said those negotiations "advanced matters a bit" but declined to go beyond that statement before meeting Egyptian officials. Weizman and his Egyptian coun- terpart, Mohamed Abdel Ghany Ga- massy, recessed their military talks Jan. 13 in deadlock over the future of the 20 Jewish settlements established by Israel on the northern and southern edges of the Sinai Penin- sula. PARALLEL political negotiations snagged the following week when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat recalled his foreign minister from Jerusalem. At the urging of Presi- dent Carter, Sadat did not halt the military talks, but Israel delayed sending Weizman back to the Egyp- tian capital until Egypt tempered a series of anti-Israeli attacks in the Cairo press. Officials in Jerusalem say the formula worked out between Israel and the United States on the critical Palestinian question may clear the way to complete Egyptian-Israeli peace principles. "Israel has gone a long way" in making concessions, said one official who asked not to be ide'ntified. "We think it can be accepted by Egypt." AGREEMENT with Egypt on the principles would constitute a high point in the 11-week-old Israeli-Egyp- tian search for peace and could spark resumption of political negotiations in Jerusalem. Some officials speculated Sadat may hold up his reply until after talks with President Carter this weekend. Mu sh! With a big party in the works and a big snow blanketing the ground, these resourceful University students dust off the ol' sleigh to haul their brew home from Campus Corners. Apartheid in S. Africa wiltopple, says expert By RENE BECKER "The apartheid structure (of South Africa) will be toppled-of that there is no doubt whatsoever." With that bold declaration, Ted Lockwood of the Wash- ington Office on Africa last night stirred a Rackham Auditorium crowd who attended the first installment in the long-awaited "University Forum on Corporate Investment in South Africa." LOCKWOOD SAID the people who are engaged in the struggle against apartheid, a system of racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa, are asking a simple question: "Whose side are you on?" "To continue with business as usual," he said, "means that the fight to topple apartheid will be longer, bloodier, and more dangerous." Lively applause rose from the audience when Lockwood said, "Not since Hitler has there been such a combination of racism and fascist repression."r LOCKWOOD, WHO has been director of the Washington Office since 1972, said "South Africa is the only country in the world, with the possible exception of Rhodesia, which openly and systematically bases its legal, economic, and political system entirely on racism." Lockwood quoted liberally from the recent report by the ALLEN WANTS HIS SEAT BACK The Fi'rst Ward tussle By KEITH RICHBURG and DENNIS SABO No matter how you slice it, Ann F. Arbor's First Ward is considered "safe" for Democrats. A pie-shaped section of the city stretching north and northwest from the intersection of Packard and State Streets, this heterogeneous ward embraces all the traditional Democratic party an- chors - students, in South and West Quads, and large blocks of blacks and elderly citizens. In fact, the ward has been consid- ered so safe for Democrats that in ; 1976, most First Ward residents f didn't even bother to cast their Kk cit elctons'7 Lockwood Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa which called the performance of U.S. corporations in South Africa "abysmal." "Collectively,, United States corporations operating in South Africa made nh significant impact on relaxing apar- theid or in establishing company policies which would offer a limited but never-the-less important model of international responsibility," he read from the report. "THE NET EFFECT of American investment has been to strengthenthe economic and military self-sufficiency of South Africa's apartheid regime, undermining the fundamental goals of U.S. foreign policy.", Lockwood, who favors an all out economic sanction on South Africa despite the reluctance of the U.S. government to do so, said, "To impose a hold on U.S. corporate investments See S. AFRICAN, Page 8 ballots. Electorate apathy, particu- larly among students, combined with a vote split between the liberals - Democratic and Socialist Human Rights Party (SHRP) - resulted in an upset that sent Republican Wen- dell Allen to City Council. ALLEN IS presently running for a second two-year term, but the one- time Cinderella candidate now has the incumbent's advantage in his contest against Democrat Susan Greenberg. BUT AS A Republican running in a See FIRST, Page 8 . Allen: 'I've been Greenberg Re- a n e S Gnberg Re an mbarrassment1 publicans don't likei to the Democrats on Wendell Allen. He Council. They think has been an embar- if, yo you're U're black, rassment to them supposed to for the past two be poor. years. BLESS U Cancelled classes won't be made up Despite the chills and sometimes spills, last week's storm has improved student life in at least one way: the two-days of missed classes will not have to be made up. Ernest Zimmerman, assistant to the vice president for academic affairs, said yesterday that the University calendar will stay just the way it is. That means the dates of the last day of class, study days, final exams and commencement exercises will remain as they are in the published calendar. ZIMMERMAN'S OFFICE, however, has urged faculty members to take "appropriate steps to make up work which was missed because of the can- cellation of classes on Thursday and Friday." Meanwhile, University Chief Financial Officer James Brinkerhoff an- nounced yesterday that all University employes-including clerical, tech- nical and unionized workers-will be paid for last Thursday and Friday despite the suspension of University operations. Are we destined for Seafarer? By DENNIS SABO Though President Carter has publicly endorsed Project Seafarer, it's unclear if the controversial submarine com- munication system is destined for the state's upper peninsula. Carter said last week he supported Seafarer, reversing his previous oppos- ing stance to the system. "I DO THINK we need that com- munications system," Carter told a group of news editors, "but I am very committed to be sure that nothing is done to disturb the quality of life of the people there." Jim Purks, assistant White House press officer, said Carter's reference to "there" did not necessarily mean Michigan. "The President has not made a firm commitment on the location as of yet," Purks said in a telephone interview. fense officials say could trigger a nu- clear attack. The Navy originally wanted 2,400 miles of underground cables, but envi- ronmentalists and state officials, in- cluding Governor Milliken, opposed the plan. The current Seafarer plan under con- sideration would hook-up with a trans- mitter at Sawyer Air Force Base in the Upper Peninsula, which would receive micro-wave signals from another sta- tion at Clam Lake, Wisconsin. THE CLAM LAKE station, located in the middle of a national forest, has been operating for the past eight years and currently communicates with sub- merged submarines. Paul Bergschneider, engineer in charge of Seafarer at Clam Lake, said the current communication project was chosen over several others, including one plan calling for one-mile deep an- tenna tunnels. He said the project Car- ter is reviewing, although more vul- nerable to, enemy attack than the others, has the cheapest installation price - about $300 million. Admiral Clyde Bell, director of Naval Communication, said the proposed. system would be adequate in providing the U.S. with first-strike potential. "IT WILL NOT do as much as the lar- ger system," Bell said, "but it will be sufficient in providing for national se- curity." Bill Restom, special assistant to the governor, said Milliken was "upset" with Carter's support of Seafarer and said the governor will make a personal response within a few days. "We're not clear if the president is supporting it or not," Restom said. "The governor certainly hopes the president will abide by his promise to the people of Michigan." Other state officials were also wary of Carter's decision. "He's promised more than he intend- ed to follow through on," said Rep. Perry Bullard. "It's obvious he is re- sponding to military pressure." IN MARQUETTE, a northern Michi- gan city which lies in the path of Sea- farer, several protests have been staged. Unofficial votes in that city show opposition running as high as eight to bne. "People are violently opposed to it," said Craig Swanson, city editor of the Marquette Mining Journal. "The Pen- tagon sent some people up here for a session to tell their side of the story, but I haven't heard of anyone who has A "-"