0 Vol. L.XXXV111, No. 28-S ichi an I~IIT Saturday, June 10, 1978 MichiganT Sixteen Pages Ann Arbor, Michigan Ten Cents Govt. gats Daedalus Cha pexport ermit By JUDY RAKOWSKY The Commerce Department reversed an earlier license denial on Thursday, giving preliminary approval to Daedalus Enterprises Inc. to sell $2.8 million worth of geological scanning devices to the People's Republic of China (PRC). The approval was based on an appeal made by the Ann Arbor company to an April 26 denial by the Commerce Department. Both actions came after reviews of the export license ap- plication by representatives from the Commerce Department and various government agencies including State, Defense, Energy and the Central In- telligence Agency (CIA). DAEDALUS Vice-President Tom Casoglos said he thought the original denial, "was really a misunderstanding about what the equipment could and could not do. Casoglos said the license was supported hy NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. The license must be finalized by a Doily Photo by PEt iERLING Second wind A lone runner makes his way along the hot dirt road in the Arb which will carry him parallel; to the Huron River for another quarter mile of solitary striding. coordinating committee with represen- tatives from North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries. That action is expected to occur within the next 30 days. Casoglos said the decision is just "a formality," but the Commer- ce Department's Deputy Secretary, Stanley Marcuss, said approval is a rigorous process, not just a rubber stamp decision. Marcus said the agencies during the appeal "took a closer look at the diver- sion of the equipment and the potential of its conversion to military purposes." The government has been concerned that the infrared scanners and high- speed magnetic tape recorders would be used by the Chinese "to detect military installations on the ground," according to Marcuss, and for elec- tronic surveillance such as satellite communications. THE COMMERCE Department issued a statement saying, "The gover- nment concluded that for this specific export to the Peoples' Republic of China, the likelihood of the diversion of the equipment to military/strategic use is minimal." Casoglos said the strongest evidence in the company's favor was the fact that it's twenty-two-year-old technology ... If the Chinese really wanted it they could get it." However, Marcuss said all of the nations which produce the devices have the same method of approving exports to Com- munist countries. Casoglos said the United States is the "toughest" of the NATO representatives. Casoglos said the company probably would not have made the appeal if the sale was not of such great magnitude. It See DAEDALUS, Page 4 STATION BALKS AT 'U' DECISION: Non-students ordered off WCBRN By RENE BECKER Committee, which oversees the radio students - 15 out of a total station crew WCBN, the only student-operated station, will come up with a policy on of 200 - does not prevent students from radio station on campus, will soon have tie issue in the next few months, accor- working on the station. to discontinue its traditional policy of ding to Vice President for University Rather, the non-students, most of permitting non-students to work as disc Relations Michael Radock, a Commit- whom are University alumni, serve an jockeys, according to University of- tee member. He said the policy will important function at the station, ac- ficials. allow only students and recent cording to Poceta. He said they are But students at the station are graduates of the University to work as most useful as a source of expertise, protesting the administration's disc jockeys on WCBN. especially for those who have never decision to force non-students off the Steve Poceta, WCBN-FM program ir Thp .t tlaim the Uv ersit director, said the small number of non- See NON-STUDENTS, Page5 air. ie stuuen s claim e unive y is interfering in radio station policy which should be determined by student workers at the station.' ACCORDING TO Floyd Miller, a student disc jockey at WCBN, a majority of the students at the station are in favor of keeping non-students there. He said a vote was taken of WC- BN workers just before winter term finals and that the majority voted for retaining non-students. Administrators, including University. President Robben Fleming, have said that student organizations should be for students only. They also claim that limiting broadcasting to students would not interfere with operation of the station. The issue has been brewing since last year when a parent reportedly com- plained to the University about non- students at the station. THE UNIVERSITY Broadcast , - Denms file Open Meetings suit By DAN OB An attorney for three Democratic City Council members filed suit yesterday charging all seven Republican Council members held a private meeting which, according to the plain- tiffs, violates Michigan's Open Meetings Act. The suit asks that amendments to the city budget totalling $328,500-which were discussed by the Republicans at an in- detrminate number of closed causus meetings in May-be stricken from the record. The reallocations were approved by City-Council after those meetings and were to take effect along with the rest of the budget July 1. JOINING DEMOCRATIC councilmembers Susan Green- berg (First Ward), Ken Latta (First Ward), and Leslie Morris (Second Ward) in the suit are the Ann Arbor chapter of the League of Women Voters and two private individuals: Univer- sity Economics Professor William Shepherd and second year law student Paul Pratt. Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge Henry Conlin will preside over preliminary hearings beginning June 21. The suit charges both the Republicans and the city in its request that the amendments to the budget be overturned. It does not state what should replace them. If the suit succeeds, options for a new budget include City Adminstrator Sylvester Murrary's budget blueprint or holding a second round of hearings to draw up a new budget. Before a final decision is reached, however, the suit asks that a temporary injuction be placed on the Republican amen- dments, which would, in effect, enact Murray's plan. CITY ATTORNEY Brue Laidlaw, who will defend the Republicans and the city in the case, said three possible defen- ses came to mind: -that a quorum was not present at the meetings; -that the meeting did not constitute a meeting of a public body as stipulated in the act; that the act cannot apply to individuals who are not taking official action. Republican Mayor Louis Belcher said the suit would have no immediate effect on city operations. "We are moving ahead just like the suit was never filed," he said. IMMEDIATELY in doubt is the fate of $250,000 for street See DEMS, Page 4