Carter defers production
of neutron warheads
LSA-SG PRESIDENTIAL hopefuls smile during a debate of thei
Spak, Radical Feminist Alliance; and Eugene Juergens, SABRE.
issues. From left to right are: Bob Stechuk, PAC; Linda.
Ideas divide LSA-SG hopefuls,
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matter," said LSA-SG elections direc-
tor Tim O'Neill.
Juergens has served on LSA-SG for a
term and was one member of the unof-
ficial committee to bring back the Nite
Owl bus service. He said that if elected,
he "would get on the faculty for their
harsh policies. I'm definitely going to
fight the Administration Board and I
want to see social change and social
enrichment." Juergens said through
SABRE, the government could hold a
"profit-making venture and direct the
money to preparing projects to "enrich
the student body."
SPAK HAS ALSO spent the past term
on LSA-SG and said she is running for
social change. "Too mahy students
come to the University with set goals.
The students must become aware of
other options," she says. Spak is in-
terested in working with the ad-
ministration and wants to see affir-
mative action goals enforced with more
student voice in government.
Stechuk has served LSA-SG for a
year and has also worked on the LSA
Curriculum Committee, the
Washtenaw County Coalition against
Apartheid and on the Anti-Bakke
Coalition. He also sees the need for
social change and wants to see resour-
ces of student government used for that
purpose.
Stechuk also served on the committee
to change the distribution requirements
and worked on a new set of grievance
procedures. "We developed college-
wide procedures that students can use.
It will take some of the burden off
students who have justifiable grievan-
ces," he said. -
ALL THE candidates agree that the
University is not doing the job on
minority recruitment or affirmative
action. "I think the University's only
doing a semi-decent job recruiting
students. I don't like to see a
humongous drop-out rate. I want to
fight to keep requirements down and
set up remedial sessions or lower
phased courses to keep these students,"
Juergens says.
Spak said the University is not doing
an adequate job in minority recruit-
ment and there aren't enough minority
teaching assistants, professors and
graduate students. "I've heard black
students complain that they lose their
funds (financial aid) their last few
years. Also the work/study program is
not adequate," she asserts.
Stechuk said recruitment is atrocious
and that the sole criteria must be
educational quality. "Black action
goals have not been met - the Univer-
sity agreed to provide "10 per cent
minority enrollment and have failed
with only a 6.5 per cent," he said.
From AP and UPI
WASHINGTON - President Carter
announced yesterday he has decided
against immediate production of
neutron warheads but reserved the op-
tion of deploying them if the Soviets fail
to show restraint in their arms
programs.
In a terse, 200-word statement ending
a week of speculation, Carter also or-
dered the Pentagon to go ahead with
alterations in nuclear neutron
warheads if he decides to produce them
later.
CARTER ORDERED modernization
of some existing tactical nuclear
warheads to make them, in the words of
a White House official who briefed
reporters on the matter, "more ef-
ficient." It was left unclear whether
this meant warheads with more ex-
plosive power.
The neutron bomb in a nuclear
weapon designed to inflict battlefield
casualties with radiation while limiting
blast damage. Although it is
somethinges referred to as a bomb, the
weapon is designed for use as a
warhead for the 81-mile range Lance
missile and for howitzer shells that can
be fired a distance of 10-12 miles.
Carter was reported earlier this week
to have decided tentatively against
producing the weapons. Later reports
had him variously re-evaluting such a
decision and deciding to put off produc-
tion until later.
But yesterday the president issued a
brief statement saying, "I have decided
to defer production of weapons with
enhanced radiation effects.
"The ultimate decision . . . will be
made later, and will be influenced by
the degree to which the Soviet Union
shows restraint in its conventional and
nuclear arms programs. and force
deployments affecting the security of
the United States and Western
Europe," he said.
POSTPONING production of the
neutron weapons could cause political
embarrassment to leaders of West
Germany and England who had been
encouraged by the United Staes to
support the weapon.
European leaders generally had
resisted openly asking for production of
the weapon, partly because of op-
position to it within their own countries.,
However, Joseph Luns, secretary
general of NATO, said European allies
understand Carter's decision.
Following a meeting of NATO am-
bassadors he said members of the
alliance are concerned about Soviet
arms expansion but are aware of the
important of arms control and disar-
mament through acts of mutual
restraint.
REPUBLICAN and Democratic
members of Congress had plenty of
criticism and little priase for President
Carter in the first wave of reaction to
his decision.
Supporters of the bomb reacted in '
force, and number.
"Carter just gave away the farm,"
said Sen. William Roth (R-Del.). "He is
again sending the wrong signal to the
world. After taking our NATO partners
out on a limb, the president sawed it
off."
Democratic opposition to the move
was just as strong, although Senate
Democratic Leader Robert Byrd in-
dicated his tentative approval by
noting, "The president did not make a
decision not to go forward with produc-
tion. He simply made a decision to
defer-that decision."
The only neutron bomb opponent
heard from immediately after the an-
nouncement was Rep. John Conyers
(D-Mich.), who rapped Carter for not
scrapping the project entirely.
4 Neutron weapons, if deployed, will
obliterate the distinction between con-
ventional and nuclear war," Conyers
said. "The neutron weapon is the
ultimate obscenity."
VanderVeen enters
U.S. Senate contest
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were to the busing issue. I don't think
their attention will be diverted by the
treaties."
THE 56 YEAR OLD Grand Rapids
Democrat has accused Griffin of "in-
tellectual dishonesty" in his stand on
the treaty.
VanderVeen has been a liberal
throughout his political career, 'voting
on the progressive side on such issues
as abortion, public work programs, and
consumer's bills. Labor unions have
given, him 90 percent ratings while
business groups rate him in the low 50
percent area.
He complained that the Democratic
side of the Senate race suffers from too
many candidates. at the present time.
This "logjam" has made it difficult to
raise money and gather support.
"WE ARE approaching the deadline
for filing our petitions for candidacy,
said VanderVeen. "I don't think all of
the candidates in the field will have the
manpower to get all of the petitions
signed by the second Tuesday of June.
Hopefully this will separate some of the
candidates out and allow the rest to
gather some monetary support."
VanderVeen recently made a "par-
tial move" with his wife to Detroit. He
sees the move as a symbolic expression
of the "very high degree of interest in
the welfare of our major northern
cities.
"I feel an empathy and a sympathy
with big cities and their problems. I
believe that Detroit is critical to the
economic and social welfare of the en-
tire state."
VANDERVEEN said he felt there
were "some good things" in President
Carter's recently revealed urban policy
proposals but he feels that "no one plan
is going to solve all of our problems."
He disagrees with the president's
linkage of jet sales to Israel with jet
sales to Arab countries. He supports
Begin's position that the agreement
reached with between Israel and the
United States happened independently
of any arms agreements between the
U.S. and Arab countries.
"At the same time there are some
things that Mr. Begin has done that has
me wondering how serious he is about
peace in the Middle East," said Van-
derVeen. "His hard-line stand on the
settlements, especialy those in the Sinai
bothers me as does the Lebanese in-
vasion."
VANDERVEEN generally supports
affirmative.action programs and hopes
the Supreme Court will vote to overturn
the Bakke decision.
"You've got to let people be a part of
the institutional system of government
before they will realize they have a
stake in the American way of life," said
VanderVeen. "I think this is evidenced
in Detroit, in Washington, D.C. and on
St. Thomas .. .
VanderVeen said that the best long
range answer to Cuban presence in
Africa is for this country to "seek to
normalize relations" with the Castro
regime.
"Cuba is costing the Soviets an enor-
mous amount of money, to support the
economy which Cuba can't sustain it-
self," said VanderVeen. He sees a
'trade-off between U.S. economic aid
and a tempering of Cuban beligerency
in Africa.
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"Everything appeared to be
legitimate, recalled investigator James
Burger. The consumer Protection
Agency is an arm of the County
Prosecutor's office.
RESPONDING to an ad in one of
several area newspapers, a prospective
client would be asked to come into
Midwest's Ypsilanti office for a "screen
test." There the person would be
videotaped while reading from one of
several "scripts," and would call back
the following morning for an evaluation
of his or her performance.
If a prospective client showed
"promise," he or she was asked to
provide a photographic portfolio.
"I TOLD THEM I had a photographer
friend who could provide me with a por-
tfolio," said Lanny Steele, a student at
Eastern Michigan University. "They
told me it would be best if I had it done
through them." When Steele threatened
to complain to the County Prosecutor's
office, he wai told not to return.
The portfolio, according to Morris
and his assistants Tom Koch and San-
dra Pearce, would cost $200 to $300, but
a client would pay only $100, with Mid-
west paying the rest.
"I went over to the photographer (in
Ann Arbor) with a lot of clothes so they
could do a lot of different poses," said
Brenda Faye Smith, one of those who
paid Midwest $100. "The photographer
told me that she was only told to do ID
pictures for Midwest employees."
"WE WERE told that Midwest was
going to send over 50 of their eim-
ployees to have ID pictures taken,"
recalled the photographer, who asked
that her name be withheld. The price
Midwest had been asked to pay for each
"portfolio" was $10. The photographer
subsequently cancelled out of the deal
and no photos have been delivered.
It is clear that seven or more people
gave Midwest $100 each. The receipts
used were handwritten. They were
signed by Koch, who Morris claims is
his partner. Wbat actually happened to
the money has yet to be determined.
Koch claims that the funds were
deposited in a local bank and then with-
drawn by Morris, supposedly to pay the
company's bills. None of Midwest's
bills have been paid. Morris claims that
the money has apparently been used by
Koch. He also claims that Koch ver-
bally agreed to take over Midwest just
two days before it went out of business.
"I don't know if I believe either one of
them," said Burger, somewhat skep-
tically. Burger plans to meet with both
Morris and Koch next week to deter-
mine if there is cause to pursue civil or
criminal action.
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The students came, as keynote
speaker Heather Booth put it, seeking
"a link between the practical and the
visionary."
The day-long conference on Careers
in Social Change offered them potential
careers where they could act on their
ideas for restructuring society.
BOOTH OFFERED three principles
of mass action to initiate social change:
concrete victories for individuals and
communities or interest groups,
establishment of new power structures
to retain victories and giving people a
sense of their own power.
Booth is founder of the Midwest
Academy, a Chicago-based institution
that teaches organizing skills to groups
interested in mass action.
The greater part of the conference,
sponsored by the Residential College,
was taken up by workshops in a
multitude of fields. Speakers in law and
government, health, education, media
and the arts presented their oc-
cupations as examples of ways students
could change the system.
REACTION to the workshops and
conference was enthusiastic. "It
proved there's a lot of people out there
trying and that it's worthwhile to try,"
said LSA senior John Rexford.
"It generated a lot of energy," said
Sharon Zandman. "It helps us keep in
touch with what other people are doing
and what their ideas are."
The highlight of the conference was
an organizing panel with Booth,
Richard Fernandez and Ed Egnatious
of the Interfaith Center for Racial
Justice and Dave Ostendorf of the
Illinois South Project.
An audience of 50 heard them
describe their organizations, their
reasons , for choosing political
organizing as a career and further
strategies for change.
Booth capped the day's events with a
speech tracing the history of the Civil
Rights, anti-war and women's
movements.
Comparing prospects for the future
Booth said, "The shape of the
movement of the 80's is unclear to me.
But there is now fertile ground and
mass-based sentiment for the future."
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