The Michigan Daily-Saturday, January 26, 1980-Page 3 SPAR TICISTS SPE AK ON AFGHANIST AN SYL supports Soviet presence INTERVIEWS LSA-SG GOVERNMENT IS INTERVlEWING to fill positions on LSA-SG, MSA and several Student-Faculty Committees. MONDAY, JANURY28 and TUESDAY, JANUARY 29 Come to LSA-SG Office (4003 Union) for more info. and to sign up for an interview. By MITCH STUART The Spartacus Youth League (SYL) supported the presence of Soviet troops in Afghanistan in a public forum at the Michigan Union last night. Spokesper- son Irene Rhinesmith said that the SYL hoped to "expose (President) Carter's war drive and defend the Soviet Union's presence in Afghanistan." The forum's featured speaker, Joseph Seymour of the Spartacist League Central Comittee, called Carter ld National Security Adivisor Zbigniew Brzezinski "crazy men who are running this country, who have the capacity to destroy the world many. times over." , SEYMOUR SAID the SYL doesn't necessarily support the motives behind the Soviet troop movement. "The motives of Soviet Union troops were not altruistic," he said. Rather, Seymour explained, the SYL supports the social reforms which he id the Soviet presence would bring as side-effect. A second organization, the Revolutionary Worker's Group, caused a slight disruption before Seymour began speaking. A spokesman for the Worker's Group said, "We defend Soviet Union (troops) but don't give support to bureaucracy, we don't say 'Hail Red Army."' "Haid Red Army" is ohe of the SYL's new slogans. BRUCE RICHARD, another SYL ' okesman, explained that the SYL and the Worker's Group had come into con- flict in the past. "They haven't done very much. Basically, they've failed," Richard said. SYL members claimed they had received "several threatening phone calls" yesterday. Some people coming into the Kuenzel Room at the Union were searched, they said, as a "precaution." In his address, Seymour contrasted *e situations in Afghanistan and Iran. He said that the American people were "hot" on Iran and somewhat cooler on Afghanistan. The U.S. government, he said, felt just the opposite. "AS FAR AS one can tell, Jimmy Carter talks like he's going to start World War III over Afghanistan," he said. Seymour said the results of the situationin Afghanistan were threefold. First, he said, although diplomacy hasn't changed it has come to the sur- face. He used what he said was U.S.- China defense coordiantion as an example. "Anybody who believes the U.S. and China have just started coor- dinating defeses believes in the tooth fairy." Second, Seymour said, Carter's human rights stand has been affected. He said the U.S. is not as harsh oi third world countries as it has been in the past. FINALLY, HE SAID that the U.S. has developed a "hate Russia, fear Russsia, seige mentality." On the possibility of reinstatement of the draft, Seymour said, "In order to have an army that fights you have to have some sort of ideological commit- ment." Woody Allen's 1977 ANNIE HALL Allen extended hiisdelightful comedy into regions of greater emotional depth. Annie Hall succeeds on all levels-os good filmmaking, as fine acting, and as intelligent, probing love story. Allen and Diane Keaton co-star in this chronicle of a relationship between ,two loveable neuorotics. Oscars for the film and Keaton. Short: QUASIAT THE QUACKADERO. Sun: THE BOFORS GUN Man: Hitchcock's PSYCHO CINEMA GUILD TONIGHT AT 7:00 8 4:05 OLD ARCH. AUD. $1 .sa J 7:00 9:05$1.5 1 Daily Photo by LISA KLAUSNER JOSEPH SEYMOUR, a member of the Spartacist League's Central Com- mittee spoke at a forum on Afghanistan last night and stated the Spartacus Youth League's support of the Soviet presence in that nation. In his speech at the Union, he referred to President Carter as a "crazy man." presents e DERSU U ZALA '°% (Akira Kurosawa, 1975) In this brilliant, Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film of 1975, Kurosawa brings us a great adventure story filmed entirely'on location in Siberia, amidst beautiful thickly forested mountains and endless plains. A Russian expedition trying tob chart and map this vast wilderness meets Derso Uala-a hunter who becomes their guide and savior from near disaster more than once. "DERSU UZALA has passages of tremendous power and great warmth . . . an awesome portrait of man and nature." Korosawa has once again created an endearing masterpiece! Chrysler state aid outlook good ANGELL, HALL $1.50 tomorrow: THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE 7:00 & 9:20 ECOLD COLD DETROIT (UPI)-Having won its life-or-death battle for federal gover- nment help, Chrysler Corp. appears headed for success in efforts to win financial aid from the states. States where Chrysler is a major tax- payer and employer and the city of Detroit are considering financial aid worth more than $250 million-the sum Congress ordered the company to raise from local governments when it ap- proved a $3.5 billion rescue package in State stalls medicinal pot law, patient says LANSING (UPI) - Michigan has *.roken its promise to cancer and glaucoma sufferers by delaying im- plementation of a new medicinal marijuana law, a glaucoma patient who smokes pot daily said yesterday. Robert Randall. a guest of the Michigan chaipter 'of .t'he National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), said the state Department of Public Health has stalled details of prescribing pot for medical use, a bill signed into law last * 11 which-should have taken effect last uesday. "If I had to depend on the state of Michigan for legal action for marijuana," the Washington -D.C. resident said, "I might well go blind before I got the aid." The state legislature almost unanimously approved the medical pot bill last fall following emotional public hearings where cancer and glaucoma atients pleaded for the legal right to oke marijuana to ease their discom- fort. The compound in marijuana which induces a "high'', called THC, is suc- cessful in relieving unpleasant side ef- fecFt from Cancer chemotherapy and. also helps stabilize sight deterioration and discomfort in glaucoma cases. Dr. John Isbister of the health depar tment - in charge of state andsfederal health and drug enforcement requirements for the medical pot program - said Michigan's proposal will be submitted to Washington within a week, but would not predict when the Food and Drug Administration would give the go-ahead. Randall -who wears thick-glasses to ease his eye ailment - noted even when medical pot is available the state may not be able to obtain enough from federal government and should use con- fiscated marijuana to supplement its stock. Isbister admitted caches - of marijuana taken by police could be used medically, but said "no physician would ever prescribe anything not assayed for true content." Although most medical marijuana users smoke about four cigarettes each day - about 2.5 ounces a week - Ran- dall needs 10 joints daily to keep his glaucoma in check. Th THC content of government- growh pot is double that available illegally and a grinning Randall said chronic use does cause one "un- pleasant" side effect. "I don't get high anymore," said the former college speech professor who now gives lectures advocating medicinal pot. "After about a week of 10 joints a day you develop a toleran- ce." December. TO :QUALIFY for $1.5 billion in federal loan guarantees, Chrysler must raise $1.43 billion on its own including $250 million from state and local gover- nments. In some cases, state officials face in- ternal dissent -and technical or con- stitutioanl questions in their quest to preserve jobs and revenue. Chrysler is seeking help from Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Delaware, Missouri, Illinois, New York, Alabama as well as the city of Detroit. Specific aid packages are advancing in many of those states. PROSPECTS THAT Chrysler will meet the local aid requirement are 'very good," a company spokesman said. "It's moving very quickly." Michigan, Chrysler's largest client state with 82,000 employees and a $24 billion payroll last year, is working out the largest single rescue effort. Michigan Gov. William Milliken proposed a $150 million state aid package, the bulk of that in the form of a mortgage loan from state pension funds onthe company's engine plant in Trenton, which is being extensively remodeled and retooled. CHRYSLER'S MICHIGAN facilities are concentrated in metropolitan Detroit, which is considering building a $28.5 million car painting facility ad- jacent to Chrysler's Jefferson Avenue assembly plant, presumably using a federal grant for that purpose it hopes to secure before the end of March. Indiana, with 14,675 Chrysler workers and six plants in four cities, is second only to Michigan in importance to the automaker. A bill before the Indiana Senate would provide Chrysler with about $32 million in loans from a pool of funds assessed against the state's public banks. INDIANA BANKERS opposed the measure on grounds of con- stitutionality, but it won approval in a Senate committee on a 12-1 vote. Ohio has ear .marked for Chrysler up to $15 million in loan guarantees from the Ohio Development Finance Com- mission. Chrysler has plants in six Ohio cities. In Delaware, where Chrysler has a major assembly plant, a proposed $5 million package of loans and tax deferrals is expected to win final sup- port from the state legislature. Chrysler's attempts to raise funds in Missouri are hampered by the state's constitutional ban on public financial. aid to private business. Undaunted by that provision, the state reportedly is trying to pull together a $25 million loan guarantee-mortgage arrangement. The prospects for aid appar dimmest in Illinois, which has no specific aid pr- posal. An aide to Gov. James Thompson siad the state has no statutory framework for providing financial help, but has encouraged Chrysler to submit an aid request. Chrysler said a $17 milion state- assisted expansion of its New Process Gear operation in Syracuse, N.Y. could count toward meeting the local aid requirement. The company also is seeking $3 million in aid from Alabama, home of its Huntsville Electronics Division, but no concrete plan has emerged. TeAnn Arbor FIt? i Oper'St4'ePresents at MLB: $1.50 Saturday, January 26 STRAW DOGS (Sam Peckinpah, 1971) 7:00-MLB 4 When coping with an ever-imposing modern world becomes too much to handle, a'young intellectual returns with his English wife to her quiet home town to seek escape and seclusion. However, their welcome is not quite what. they expected, and when the town bullies become increosin~ly belligerent and dangerous, they learn that there are some things that you cannot run away from. 'STRAW DOGS is about some guy who finds out a few nasty secrets about himself-about his marriage, about where he is, about the world around him. Some people don't like facing that sort of thing. It makes them itch." --Sam Peckinpah. DUSTIN HOFFMAN. SUSAN GEORGE, DAVID WARNER. THE GRADUATE . (Mike Nichols, 1967) 9:00-MLB 4 A classic American comedy about a college graduate who is "a little worried" about his future. After being seduced by a family friend (ANNE BANCROFT) 8en falls in love with her daughter (KATHERINE. ROSS)!A fine performance by DUSTIN HOFFMAN as Ben, Oscar Winning direction by Nichols and sound- track by Simon and Garfunkel highlight a film that is as fresh no as it was in 1967. Next Mondays Dusan Makevejev's LOVE AFFAIR at Aud. A-FREE. ...a L.. r.... u! tl~ wry ww~ws _ ..a a. . ... . ..' stn Avenue a liertyS t. 761-9700 I Formerly Fifth Forum Theater TIM DON , CONWAY KNOTTS IN A Knockout Comedy! Sat, Sun-2:30, 4:20, 6:20, 8:10, 10:00 Sat, Sun-Adults $1 .50 til 3:00 (or capacity) C Mon, Tues-6:20, 8:10, 10:00 $ Mon, Tues-Adult $1.50 til 6:45 (or capacity) -r* b Next Thursday: THE BEGGARS OPERA and THE MAGIC FLUTE at Aud. A-$1 .50 FILMS Alternative Action-Play It Again Sam, 7, 9 p.m., Nat. Sci. Aud. Ann Arbor Film Co-op-Straw Dogs, 7 p.m., MLB Aud. 4; The Graduate, 9 p.m., MLB Aud. 4. Ann Arbor Committee for a New Jewish Agenda-We Are All Arab Jews in Israel, 7:30 p.m., Congregation Beth Israel, 2000 Washtenaw. Cinema Guild-Annie Hall, 7, 9:05 p.m., Old Arch. Aud. Cinema Two-Dersu Uzala, 7, 9:20 p.m., Angell Hall Aud. A. Mediatrics-Muppet Movie, 6:30, 8:30, 10030 p.m., MLB Aud. 3. PERFORMANCES U-M Danco Co./Ann Arbor Cantata Singers-"The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and the Manticore," 3, 8 p.m., Power Center. School of Music-Javanese Dance Concert with University Gamelan En- semble, 9 p.m., Hill Auditorium. SPEAKERS ACLU Forum-Mark Rilling, Michigan ACLU delegate to National ACLU Board, "Inside the National ACLU Board," 8 p.m., 1006 Lincoln St., Call Julie Carroll 662-6036.