Purge Eight
Thursdays February 10, 1977
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J'age Eight tIE MlCHl(~AN IJAILY Thursday, February 10, 1977
Castro seeks meeting with
Carter
NUBS students plug away
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By AP and Reuter
NEW YORK - Cuban leader
Fidel Castro spoke warmly of
President Carter in a television
interview broadcast last night
and said it would be a pleasure
to talk to him - if Carter want-
ed a meeting.
Castro said he had read Car-
ter's autobiography and was
interested in his moral convic-
tions and religious feelings.
"I THINK that a man like
Carter may abide by a policy
of international principles, not,
the r-Marxist principles nor the
capitalist's principles, but rath-
er universally accepted princip-
les in the relationships among
the people," the' Cuban leader
told Bill Moyers on the CBS
Evening News.
Moyers, who was President
Lyndon Johnson's press secre-
tary, said they were discussing
the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion
when word came that Secretary
of State Cyrus Vance had told
a Washington 'press conference
that the United States may be
ready to improve relations with
Cuba.
Moyers said Castro, speaking
through an interpreter, then
turned the discussion into a
two-hour conversation on the
history of the troubled relations
between the two countries and;
the prospects for detente. Only
a segment was shown tonight.
MOYERS ASKED Castro if he
would like to meet Carter one
day.
"I don't think this can be
said unilaterally," the Cuban
leader said. "I think that if one
day this is to happen and he
so wishes I will with pleasure
talk to him."
Castro said, "We are not go-
ing to draw the conclusion that
two neighbor countries have to
live constantly as enemies.
"BUT WE WERE not the ones
to declare war on the United
States. It was the U.S.A. that
declared war to us. Had the
U.S.A., if the U.S.A. continues
their policy of peace and friend-
ship with Cuba, we will be re-
ceptive to that policy of peace
and friendship toward Cuba."
Castro said both countries
would benefit economically from
trade but for the U.S. there
would be a moral problem too.
". .Because what is the rea-
son for (the U.S.) excluding Cu-
ba from trade and trading with
many other socialist countries?
"WE ARE SUGAR producers,
important sugar producers, and
you are important sugar con-
sumers. We are close to you.
In only a few hours any of our
ships could take sugar to 'the
U.S. We are important nickel
producers. We have great re-
serves of nickel and nickel is
a very important raw material
for the devolopment of the mo-
tor industry."
Moyers tonight summed up
the interview by describing Cas-
tro as being "clearly in a con-
ciliatory mood." He had said
Cuba wanted American busi-
nessmen, goods and tourists
and )Moyers quoted him as say-
ing: "I personally want to see
our Cuba baseball team play
your New York Yankees."
In Washington, observers saw
Castro's remarks as a response
not only to Vance but to recent
overtures by the State Depart-
ment that the Carter Adminis-
tration would like to improve
U.S. relations with Havana.
THE DEPARTMENT said last
week that the United States
would like .to move towards
talks to preserve the 1973 anti-
hijacking agreement between
the two ouintries. It is due to
expire on April 15.
Cuba announced last fall it
wanted to end the pact after
the crash of a Cuban airliner.
The department last week al-
so said that Cuba had given
indications that it would like to
open talks on the impending
U.S. law to set a 200-mile fish-
ing zone.
The two countries are as close
as 90 miles at one point.
The State Department has not
said
with
face
whether it prefers to meet
the Cubans on a face-to-
basis or to negotiate
through intermediaries.
The United States and Cuba
broke ties in 1961 after the con-
fiscation of U.S. banks, indus-
tries and landholdings. Later
that year, Cuban exiles, led by
the Central Intelligence Agency,
mounted the Bay of Pigs inva-
sion in an attempt to overthrow
the Castro government.
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(Continued from Page 1) COMPUTER students count
in their cozy rooms at home, the their terminal time in terms of
University's computer students money; beginners are often al-
pamper their addiction to hum- lotted $5.00 of time for a certain
ming machines and endless project, with a single print-out
print-outs in this stark, white ha- sheet consuming about 35 cents.
ven of terminals. One early nighter claps his
It's a logical world of "infin- hands in exultation over she
ite loops" that their parents good news he sees in his stack
never knew. Drawn like lem- of cards.
mings to the god-like , MTS "Done," he shouts, "with 65
(Michigan Terminal System), cents left!"
they feed their master with all
manner of computer problems - HE HAS finished early, but
elementary and complex - in not all are so lucky. On qis way
hopes of gaining expertise in the out, he leaves those still puzzling
surreal sanctuary of NUBS. over incomplete programs and
At 10 p.m., the students sit i passes, the late nighters as they
alone or in pairs at tables, drift in for their own computer-
struggling with computer syntax ized flings. ,
or simplifying their logic. Some NUBS is open very late, and
move from the small key-punch the wee hours of the morning
room, where batches of cards lure a special breed of die-hat3s.
are prepared, to the input coun- These are the ones who seem to
ter, where their data is fed into feel a special affection, (wor-
wires that run to the actual ship, perhaps), for the behemoth
home of MTS - the University system before them.
computing center on North Cam- Indeed, MTS seems nearly hu-
pus. man It even s eaks. B dial-
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EARLY ONE evening, junior'
Tom Hilton stands patiently in
line for a brief shot at the "ex-
press terminal." Over the soft
rumble of the new, gray ma-
chines, he explains that NUBS
is only moderately crowded to-
night.
"If people did it right the first
time," he says, "this place
would be empty. It's not a sci-
ence yet; it's just an art."
A few artists exchange greet-
ings, but most just hurry
through. Their eyes are riveted
on the print-out sheets, for each
character is full of a meaning
unknown to the innocent ob-
server.
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ing a special telephone number.
one can hear an eerie, android
voice straight out. of Stanlev Ku-
brick's 2001 intoning the words,
"Good eve-uh-ning. This i.3 the
University of Michigan terminal
system." Only NUBS-ites know
how to respond, but the greeting
alone is astonishing.
AFTER announcing his plans
to stay until closing at 4 a.m.,
Bill Passman, settles back to
"hack away at it." Passman be-
comes a late-night person anout
eight times a month, and says
that people "pretty much knw
each other" at NUBS.
"We had a pizza party here a
few weeks ago," he says be-
tween sips of pop.
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Put the DAILY
While a "dating service" pro-
gram - a course problem which
matches mates through the com-
puter - occupies most of the
students, senior Don Wells and
junior Pam Hunt ponder a
tougher problem. They displav
their vexations with long sighs
and blank stares. The terminals
seldom forgive human error or
ignorance.
THE STUDENTS, particuariy
beginners, live in constant fear
of making a seemingly tr'vial
error which will send the com-
puter reeling off in a dread "in-
finite loop" - an endless jour-
iey that uses up all of a stu-
dent's computer time. Even the
tiniest error of punctuatio can
derail a program and leave its
author bewildered and without
hope.
At 1:20 a.m., a small group
gathers in front of the output
window across the room frcm
the terminals to help a per-
plexed friend.,
"Did you spell NUBS corect-
ly?" one student kids after an
exhaustive search for the con-
founding error has proved fruit-
less.
AFTER AN hour of twitchng
pencils, glazed looks, and care-
ful pecking at the terminals, two
bored students send rubberbands
flying thick and fast' at a tired
friend caught in a stare-down
with Terminal Number One. Ter-
minals Number Two through
Eight don't even notice.
Gene Won attributes his rela-
tively alert appearance to day-
time sleep. The doctoral candi-
date comes in every night until
4 a.m. to correlate statistics for
his dissertation because the
computer rates are lower and
the lines shorter. Won calls it
a fairly quiet night, but the vet-
eran predicts that "later in .he
term it'll be nuts" due to the
rush to solve big problems as
classes move into their final
weeks.
At 3:40 a.m., Don Wells de-
cides to "burn some money" in
an effort to learn some new pro-
grams. The system doesn't
charge students if they use the
computer for course work, but
the monetary value of computer
time is recorded on the read-out
sheets that are spewed from the
terminals.
ONLY A dozen computer jocks
are left to resurface and join the
real world at 4 a.m., after meet-
ing with varying degrees f suc-
cess.
Bill would be back the next
night, Pam hasn't made the
breakthrough she had hoped for,
and Don has another problem on
the docket.
But then, as the University's
own "Research News" puts it,
"Computing science is a rela-
tively unbending discipline, a
stern taskmaster."
Genesis
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leads to happiness?
"WOT GORILLA?", a short,
perky, instrumental, gives some
breezy relief from the somber
tones of the rest of the mater-
ial. "Unquiet slumbers for the
sleepers . . . in that quiet earth"
starts out slowly, builds in mo-
mentum, and eventually sekues
into "Afterglow". Both t u n e s
show magnificent instrumental
invention.
It might be interesting to spe-
culate as to the reasons for the
themes of Wind and Wutheng.
Perhaps the sudden departure
of leader Peter Gabrel t w o
years ago left them feeling di-
rectionless. If so, they've r, o
reason to worry. A Trick of The
Tail was a glorious album, and
this one is as directed as any
record could possibly be. Wind
and Wuthering is a unique and
deeply moving album - all SO
minutes of it - and well worth
any music lover's attention.
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