The Michigan Daily-Friday, May 19, 1978-Page 3
Troops depart for Zaire rescue
KINSHASA, Zaire (AP) - Belgian
paratroops flew to Zaire yesterday to
mount a joint Western rescue mission
for 2,000 of their countrymen, hundreds
of other Europeans and 14 Americans
isolated and threatened by the rebel in-
vasion of Shaba Province.
Plane after plane packed with elite
airborne troops took off from Brussels'
military airport on the 5,000-mile jour-
ney to this Central African nation, a
former Belgian colony. The flight by
the U.S.-made C-130 transports was ex-
pected to take at least 10 hours.,
AN ESTIMATED 1,750 paratroops
and other Belgian military personnel
had been alerted to take part in the in-
tercontinental operation.
It was reported unofficially in Cor-
sica that three planes carrying 25 Fren-
ch Foreign Legion paratroopers had
taken off from that Mediterranean
island bound for Africa.
In Washington, a State Department
official who asked not to be identified
said the United States would not supply
troops or planes for the mission but
might provide some lesser logistical
support. About 1,500 U.S. Army airbor-
ne soldiers remained on alert at Fort
Bragg, N.C., however.
THE BRITISH also were involved in
the planning for the rescue effort, but it
was not known what role they might
play.
The Belgian troops were reported
headed for Kinshasa and then on to the
government-held air base at Kamina,
130 miles north of Kolwezi, a copper-
mining town at the heart of the rebel-
held area of southern Zaire.
There were confused reports about
the military situation around Kolwezi.
The pro-West Zaire government
claimed its forces had recaptured the
town's airport Wednesday. The rebels
said they still held Kolwezi and the area
Regents hear tuition complaints
By RENE BECKER sessions. Tim Krzesowik said in his addresst
Monica Johnson, a second year the Regents that stress placedo
About 50 University medical students medical student, told the Regents she is medical students has resulted cou
expressed their dissatisfaction with the already $14,000 in debt. She said if the seling of psychiatric care for 50 per ce
proposed 34.1 per cent medical school trend of rising medical school tuition of the students. He asked the Regents1
increase during the public comment continues, a medical education wil be consider the effect such a large tuitic
section of yesterday's Regents available "only to the children of the increase would have "on the emotion
meeting.".
Also at this month's gathering, rich." See BIG, Page 11
housed in the posh Fair Lane Conferen-
ce Center on the University's Dearborn.
campus, the Regents raised the price of
staff-paid parking fees and made
arrangements to donate an
astronomical observatory dome to
Case-Western University.
THE SIX SPEAKERS representing
the medical studen each described
the same situation to the eight Regents: t
financial aid is scarce, many medical
students are in debt, and if the costs
jumps 34.1 per cent many would be for-
ced out of school..
At their last meeting the Regents ap-
proved a tuition hike for MichiganE
resident undergraduate students but
delayed approving tuition increases for
all other students pending word from
Lansing concerning the amount of state
aid stated for the University this year.
But the Regents did release a ten-
tative plan which showed that students-
in medical school might have to pay an
additional 34.1 per cent for tuition in
1978-79. The Regents, however, will not y
vote on the remaining tuition increases
until their July meeting. Daily Photo by JOHN KNO
The luxurious, secluded home of the Medical students gather behind the Regents at a meeting held yesterday afternoo
late Henry Ford I, on the Dearborn at the U-M Dearborn campus. The medical students were protesting a 34.1 pe
campus, served as the meeting place cent proposed increase in their tuition.
for the Regents' first round of May
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IN A STATEMENT issued in
Brussels, the rebel Congolese National
Liberation Front said its forces had had
no contact with government troops sin-
ce Tuesday and that the only action was
"terrorist bombings" by government
warplanes.
It was reported that Zaire President
Mobutu Sese Seko, trying to crush the
second rebel invasion of Shaba in 14
months, flew from this capital city to
the Kolwezi area yesterday. Mobutu, a
general who seized power here in 1965,
donned a camouflage uniform for the
trip to the front, the report said,
At least 11 Europeans -- one Italian,
the rest apparently Belgians - have
been reported killed in the Kolwezi area
since the Angola-based rebels struck
last Friday, infiltrating through nor-
thern Zambia and quickly seizing
Kolwezi, a town of 100,000 people.
THE TWO SIDES have blamed each
other for the civilian deaths. The
Mobutu government said the rebels
seized scores of white hostages, and
Belgian officials said whites had
become the "main target" in the
fighting.
Some Belgian sources said the rebels
in Kolwezi had gone on a "Frenchman
hunt" because French advisers help
train Mobutu's army, but that they
eventually began searching out all
whites.
Most of the Americans in the embat-
tled area were rescued Wednesday
when the U.S. construction firm
Morrison-Knudson sent helicopters and
trucks to a company compound outside
Kolwezi and took 77 company em-
ployees and dependents to safety. The
firm is building a power project in the
area.
The Americans who missed the
pickup were eight missionaries, a
tourist, a copper company employee,
and two Morrison-Knudson employees
and two dependents.
THE LAST FOUR were identified as
William Starkey of Boise, Idaho, the
firm's home base, Lonnie Glenn of
Yerington, Nev., and Glenn's wife and
child.
See TROOPS, Page 12
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-today-
Tut, tut
Yesterday we received a personal, handwritten
note from our own Congressman Carl Pursell. The
missive was printed as if it had been dashed off
between committee meetings, and to add to the in-
timacy and informality it was signed simply
"Carl." We were all very pleased to have received a
personal note from an important congressman, un-
til a reporter informed us that he too had received a
'personal' note from the honorable Mr. Pursell. We
compared the two notes, and, sure enough, they
were identical right down to the last ink blob. Un-
doubtedly every newspaper in the state was
honored with a 'personal' note from Mr. Pursell
yesterday, with some assistance from Mr. Xerox.
Shame on you, Carl.
Clerk Bill Puzz ordered that each candidate pick
cards from a deck in turn until one of them turned
up the deuce of clubs, at which point that person
would become the new town councilperson. If Har-
ding wins, she'll become the town's first coun-
cilwoman. And number one cardplayer.
Happenings. .
... today begin bright and (ugh) early with a
meeting of the Regents billed as a "public
discussion" session. This begins at 9 a.m. in the
Regents' Room, Administration Building. Then at
3:30 p.m.,, a tour of the Renaissance Center with
dinner in Greektown leaves from the International
Center. No admission fees, but you buy your own
dinner at Greektown ... On towards evening, a Bed-
time Storytime for children aged 3-6 will be held at
the Meeting Room of the Ann Arbor Public Library.
... at 8 p.m., the Wsshtenaw County Branch of the
ACLU of Michigan is having a forum on "The Doc-
trine of Separate'But Equal: What Does It Do To
Girls?" The meeting is at 1006 Lincoln.... also at 8,
"Disarming the New Cold War" is the subject of the
Quaker Community Forum on Peace. The meeting
will be at the Ann Arbor Friends Meeting House,
1420 Hill St. That's it!
Can 'ttake a joke
Open, honest elections have a way of getting
out of hand sometimes. Or at least so goes the
opinion of the army of the Dominican Republic,
which stepped in to stop the vote count in this week's
presidential election, when it appeared that Antonio
Guzman was beating incumbent President Joaquin
Balaguer. Under U.S. prodding, the government
has promised to resume the counting, but would not
say when. Pressure has also been coming from the
representatives of the Organization of American
States (OAS) to Santo Domingo, themselves former
presidents of Ecuador, Guatemala, and Colombia.
On the outside...
More sun is predicted for today, with the rercury
huffing and puffing its way up the glass, finally
coming to rest at 79°. And for once, no rain. Yes, no
rain! Go havea picnic.
Not playing with a full deck
In Show Low, Arizona, an election will be deter-
mined by the cards. Candidates from town council,
Brent Wilcock and Joy Harding each received 188
votes in last Tuesday's municipal election. Town
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