CARTER'S SLOW SHOW See Editorial Page LtrPi4u 1~ ailti BAD TO WORSE High-32O Low-22d s See Today for details Vol. LXXXVIII, No.70 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, December 2, 1977 Ten Cents 12 Pages Birth control class postponed in A2 By TOM MIRGA Bill Casello had hoped his 8:00 a.m. biology class at Community High would, make history yesterday, but the Ann Arbor Board of Education put a quick halt to his dream. Casello's class wanted the distinction of being the first public classroom in. the state to offer instruction in birth control provided for under a bill signed into law by Governor William Milliken Wednesday. "I just .guess the school board wants to move cautiously on this issue," Casello said. THE BILL, which was introduced by Ann Arbor state Sen. Gilbert Bursley, permits public schools to teach birth control, but does not require schools to offer such a program. In addition, parents may withdraw their children from these classes. The biology class petitioned the board on Nov. 7 to approve a set of tentative guidelines before the governor actually signed the bill. A unit on contraception was to be presented as part of the regular curriculum the morning after the signing. Casello said he was "a little disap- pointed," and added, "but I learned long ago that I couldn't talk about reproduction without taking into con- sideration the social consequences. It's like telling a government class that they shouldn't talk about Watergate or the Lockheed scandal." SHARON WATKINS, Secretary to the Board of Education, said the board was not being "anti-kid or anti-birth control, but they aren't being anti-law either." "For one," she said, "we didn't know if the law would take immediate effect after signing. If not, there might have been a 60 to 90 day period when it still would be illegal (to teach birth con- trol)." Watkins also said that the law requires the State Board of Education to set up guidelines for the classes. She said some board members felt local school boards were obliged to match the guidelines of the state. "We don't exactly know how to t proceed," she said. Z -AL CO.MMUNITY HIGH ha s traditionally been at loggerheads with the school board over the birth control issue. In 1974 an explicit article on con- traception appeared in the school paper, Yenta. Linda Feldt, the former student who wrote the article, said that at one point she and the rest of the editorial staff of the paper were threatened with suspension if they prin- ted the story. "We argued that the school board was violating our First Amendment rights if the article wasn't published," she said. The board's lawyers agreed, and the story appeared in the paper. Elizabeth Grey, Assistant Dean at Community High, said the courses in contraception would probably be im- plemented through the students' coun- seling groups, called forums. GREY SAID that she expected the students' to handle the new program well. "Some of them are eager for in- formation," she said. "They have very few areas for counseling, especially if they don't have strong ties to a church or know about Planned Parenthood." Kassy Adams, a student at Com- munity, agreed. "A lot of people rely on Planned Parenthood, but most of the kids don't know it's there." She said that when most young people realize they need birth control, it's already too late. "If they're taught in school it'll be a great help," Adams said, "not to men- tion a big relief to many parents." Grey said it would be hard to predict the reactions of parents to the new program. "Most of them won't deny the necessity for teaching birth control to young adults," she said, "but they might resent that role being taken away from them." Grey said she feels the school shouldn't take away .that role, but rather should act as the parents' aide. "And if they feel we aren't the right aide, they have the right to say no," she said. Arab leaders meet in Libya to thwart v' Sadat TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Hardline Arab leaders opened a Libyan-spon- sored "summit of resistance" here yes- terday to break the momentum of Pres- ident Anwar Sadat's bold new peace overtures to Israel. "No negotiations, no settlement, no recognition," read fresh signs along the palm-lined streets of this seaside capi- tal, reflecting the intransigence of Lib- yan leader Moammar Khadafy. Other banners said: "Welcome, heroes of steadfastness, to the land of steadfast ness." s peac peting conferences spawned by Sadat's voyage to Jerusalem. Still to come is another "rejectionist" conference called by Iraq in Baghdad next week, Sadat's pre-Geneva meeting in Cairo on about Dec. 13, and another preparatory conference called by U.N. Secretary-1 General Kurt Waldheim. Only Israel, the United States and the United Nations are expected to attend the Cairo talks. Waldheim's invitation drew a negative reaction from Israel while among the Arabs only Jordan in-1 dicated it was accepting.1 The assemblage of Arab leaders in Tripoli, particularly President Hafez Assad of Syria, was clearly a symbolic victory for Khadafy's oil-financed Arab revolutionary brand of leadership, op- posed to any concessions to Israel. PRESIDENT HOUARI Boumedienne of Algeria, wearing a long, black North African cloak, was the first to land at the former Wheelus U.S. Air Base, now Khadafy's military airport for Tripoli. He was followed by Palestinian chief - tain Yasir Arafat, in his familiar check- ered keffiyeh headdress, and Assad . several hours later. President Salem Rabayiah Aly of South Yemen also was scheduled to attend. Iraq, which vies with Libya for lead- ership in the radical Arab camp, dis- patched a five-man delegation, headed by Taha Yassin Ramadan Getrawi of the ruling Revolutionary Command Council and including Foreign Minister Saadoun Hama di plans LIBYAN OFFICIALS and radical Palestinians of Dr. George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine appeared eager to capitalize on Sadat's peace moves, using the out- rage against them to assemble a united hard-line Arab camp. Sadat's initiatives appeared to be causing him trouble in his own govern- ment as well. Morad Ghaled, Sadat's ambassador to Yugoslavia and a for- mer foreign minister and ambassador to Moscow, announced in Belgrade that he 'vas quitting in protest against the Daily Photo by ANDY FREEBERG TH E REVOLUTIONARY COM UNI ST Youth -Brade-demandan- end to the-selling or the-kruggerand, a gold coin minted by the South African government, during a protest in front of the National Bank and Trust Company. The protestors claimed yesterday that the bank and brokerage firm, Merrill Lynch, are supporting apartheid by selling the coins. Protesters demandend By RENE BECKER Protesters picketed offices of the National Bank and Trust (NBT) Company, of Ann Arbor' and Merrill Lynch yesterday demanding those companies stop selling the Kruger- rand - a gold coin minted by the South African government. The group accused them of "financing the apartheid system and minority rule (in South Africa)," by selling the coin. At noon, 16 members of the Revolu- tionary Communist Youth Brigade (RCYB) marched into the Campus. Branch of NBT chanting, "Ban the krugerrand right now." While RCYR member Joel Benin shouted a state- ment to the customers and tellers, his cohort Don Alexander confronted bank manager Jack Pelton. IN A PREPARED statement, Al- exander told Pelton the profits from the sale of the coin are used to fund the South Arican government. With- out this support, the RCYB claimed, the racist regime of Prime Minister John Vorster could not survive. The profits derived from the mining of the gold and the overseas sale of the coin constitute 30 per cent of the, country's foreign sales, ac- cording to the RCYB. Executives of the Anglo American Corporation, a mining concern oper- ating in South Africa, have said that without cheap black labor, the min- ing of gold in South Africa would be impossible. The government's sys- tem of segregation and discrimina- tion (apartheid) insures a large pool of cheap black labor. PELTON TOLD the group, "I have not sold a krugerrand out of this office; we do not stock it." But when pressed by the protesters he did say the coin could be ordered on custom- See PROTESTERS, Page 5 Khadafy, dressed in an olive drab. kepi and sporting a gold-inlaid swagger stick, beamed behind dark glasses as he greeted guests for two days of anti- Sadat speechmaking and strategy ses- sions. IT WAS THE first of several com- Khadafy Jerusalem trip. Sadat's initial announcement that he was going to Israel two weeks ago prompted his foreign minister, Ismail Fahmy, and Fahmy's top aide to quit the government. See ARABS, Page 2 PROPOSES PLAN AFFEC TING 100,000 POOR: HEW blasts forced sterilization' WASHINGTON (AP) - The De- partment of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), which pays for sterilization operations for 100,000 poor persons each year, proposed. new regulations yesterday to ensure that no one is forced to undergo the procedure. The changes also are designed to guarantee that a patient fully under- stands "the irreversible conse- quences" of sterilization, HEW Sec- retary Joseph Califano said. The proposed rules would extend the minimum three-day waiting per- iod between the time a poor person signs a voluntary consent form and the time of the surgery to a minimum of 30 days. THEY ALSO WOULD forbid or sharply limit federal funding of hysterectomies performed solely to sterilize a woman. The rules would continue the requirement that patients be told they will not lose any welfare or other federal aid if they refuse to be sterilized. The regulations also would con- tinue a current ban on using federal funds for sterilization of persons under age 21. However, Califano said HEW is considering allowing sterili- zation of some mentally incompetent persons in states that consider these persons ''capable of giving informed consent." VOLUNTARY sterilization of any- one in a jail or mental institution would be funded only if a special Deanto ta'ke action in nursing dispute By MITCH CANTOR Nursing School Dean Mary Lohr will announce today what action she will take to resolve faculty disputes regarding racial tensions in the psychiatric nursing graduate program. Friction between Acting Chairperson, Betty Davis, who is black, and staffers has resulted in four white professors asking to be relieved of their teaching duties effective Jan. 1. DAVIS TOOK OVER THE TOP POST in the psychiatric nursing program last July. Staffers claim that beside racial tensions, the dispute also concerns Davis' administrative style. Dean Lohr and her assistants met with faculty members Wednesday, includ- ing Profs. Kathy Krone, Jean Wood, JoAnne Horsely and Maxime Loomis, all who have asked to be relieved from teaching. Assistant Dean Barbara Hansen said that the meeting's purpose was "to be sure all views had been heard, and to let all faculty express all views that may have been missed in gathering information." HANSEN EXPLAINED THAT THERE WERE disagreements at the meeting, review committee and a court ap- proved, Califano said. He called for public comment on whether to follow this proposal or to keep the current ban on federal funding of sterilizations for mentally incompetent persons. Califano ordered a full review of HEW's sterilization programs after the General Accounting Office in June sharply criticized the informed consent records kept by HEW's Indian Health Service. CALIFANO SAID HEW's Medicaid Program has'refused to pay claims for about 2,500 sterilization opera- tions performed in the past four years because the existing'regula- tions were not followed. He said "a significant number" of sterilizations were performed on persons under 21, were made with improper consent forms or were made in cases where the three-day waiting period was ignored. But he said HEW has not kept careful records on sterilizations and does not know exactly how many persons were sterilized in violation of the rules. The current rules were written in 1973 after U.S. District Judge Ger- hard Gesell ordered the government to protect the poor from being coerced into sterilization. Gesell acted in a case involving two young' sisters sterilized in a Montgomery, x ? '