The Michigan Daily Vol. LXXXVII, No. 6-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, May 11, 1977 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Carter asks tougher NA T LO N DON {P} - President Carter capped his first round of summitry yesterday by telling the North Atlantic alliance to toughen up because the Com- munists are building a offen- sive force in Europe. Carter said the North Atlantic T r e a t y Organization should make "high priority itmprove- ments" on, the European forces, report on progress in December and submit a full program to a NATO summit nekt spring in Washington. THE PRESIDENT spoke to a NATO ministerial meeting in gilded, red-carpeted Lancaster House near Parliament. He spent the rest of the day talking privately with individual prime ministers of NATO countries. Carter was blunt in his speech. "The threat facing the alli- ance has grown steadily in re- cent years," he said. "The So- viet Union has achieved essen- tial nuclear equivalence. Its theater nuclear forces have been strengthened. "THE WARSAW Pact's con- ventional forces in Europe em- phasize an offensive posture. These forces are much stronger than needed for any defense pur- pose. "Since 1965, new ground and air weapons have been intro- duced in most major categories: See CARTER, Page 7 PRESIDENT CARTER and NATO Secretary General Joseph Luns confer over some papers at the opening ceremony of the NATO Summit conference yesterday. Carter made a speech and emphasized the importance of f u r t h e r strengthening NATO forces throughout Europe in retaliation for the buildup of troops by non-NATO countries. Senate committee in favor of Cuban trade WASHINGTON () - The Senate Foreign Re- lations Committee voted yesterday to partiall lift the trade embargo against Cuba to permit that nation to purchase agricultural, food and medical supplies in the U. S. market. However it balked at opening U. S. markets to exports of sugar and other Cuban agricultural products after senators heard arguments that such a step would give away an important bar- gaining chip in continuing negotiations with the gos'ernment of President Fidel Castro. THE AMENDMENT, a diluted form of the pro- posal offered by Sen. George McGovern, was adopted 10 to 6. The original McGovern amendment would have lifted the embargo on imports of Cuban agricul- tural products and medicines entirely. However, Sen. Richard Stone, D-Fla., many of whose constituents are exiled anti-Castro Cu- bans, said this amendment would give away vital U. S. bargaining leverage just at the time that negotiations with Cuba are beginning to yield results. KEEPING TIIT leverage, he said, could open the way for negotiations on such matters as the long-pending requests of more than 1,000 U. S. citizens still in Cuba to leave the country. The vote clearing the amendment for floor action by the full Senate came after nearly two hours of debate. There was no immediate word on when the measure might be taken up by the Senate. President Carter had told McGovern he would not oppose the McGovern amendment, which was tacked onto the pending State Department auth- "ization bill, and State Department represen- :ives present for the session maintained that -seance of neutrality. BUT CULVER Gleysteen, 'the State Depart- ment's coordinator of Cuban affairs and a mem- ber of the negotiating team dealing with Cuba, said the prospect of renewed Cuban sugar exports to the lucrative U. S. market gave the negotiat- ing team the most problems. The amendment passed by the committee would permit Cuba to purchase medical supplies and such agricultural products as rice, oats, barley and wheat in the United States. It would be a significant benefit to the Cubans in that it would greatly reduce shipping costs. Ctba is only 90 miles from the U. S. coastline. McGovern has contended lifting ,the embargo to permit Cuba to export food products to the ,United States would have been a hard-headed business proposition which also would improve the political climate between the two nations and, hopefully, lead to further negotiations and concessions. "IT DOES seem to me that a limited action on the part of the Congress doesn't need to compro- mise our negotiators at all," McGovern said. Sen. Hubert 11. Humphrey, D-Minn., called, the final compromise "a modest concession." But Stone called it "a major, major concession" which grants Cuba something of value without insisting on something of value in return. The embargo against Cuba was imposed in 1960 but that embargo allowed trade to continue in food, medicine and agricultural products. How- ever, trade in those areas was closed off in 1964, completing the sanctions against Cuba. VP hopefuls screened By MICHAEL YELLIN Twelve members of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA) and two student representatives sat down earlier this week to start screening applicant's for the position of Vice President for Academic Affairs. Frank Rhodes is the current Vice President but will vacate the position to become the president of Cornell Uni- versity on August 1. THE MAN or woman to be chosen by President Robben Fleming and the Regents to fill Rhodes' position will be second in power and responsibility only to President Fleming in the University's administrative bureaucracy. The Vice President for Academic Affairs is responsible for drawing up the University's yearly budget and has widespread power ->ver academic departments, budget cuts and tuition increases, among other things. Out of a total of 47 applicants for the position, the screen- ing committee will choose five or six hopefuls by June 15. These candidates will then be reviewed by President Flem- ing, who will ultimately make his recommendation to the Board of Regents. THE NEWLY elected Chairman of SACUA, Charles Leh- mann has said the names of applicants will not be made public at this time because, "for some people working at other institutions it would be embarrassing to have their names exposed." Fleming has kept a list of the names of the applicants but has indicated he will pay little attention to the matter until the SACUA group has reduced the number to a handful. Professor of Social Work Harold Johnson has been named by the committee to act as a liaison between minority groups who wish to express particular concern regarding the search for a new Vice-President and SACUA. Assistant Director of the Law Library, Margaret Leary, and Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, May Votaw have been chosen to act on behalf of any concerns womens groups may have in re- gards to the review and selection. Steve Carnevale and David Vogel are the student representatives on the screening com- mittee.