k ISRAEL See editorial page I LIEp i~fwane~ i IaiI BRISK See Today for details Ninety Years of Elirorial Fredodmi @ol. XC, No. 109 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, Februry 12, 1980 Twelve Pages Conscientious objectors try to avoid war legally By GREGG WOLPER President Carter's recently-announced port of mandatory draft registration has rred interest among draft-age citizens in conscientious objection. By law, anyone who can persuade the government that he or she opposes all wars need not fight in one. The Selective Service defines a conscientious objector (CO) as one who is "opposed to war in any form." Those classified as COs cannot be drafted into the military. Instead, they must perform some type of community service if their draft number is called. THE PUBLIC Interest Research Group In Michigan (PIRGIM) is currently attempting to educate students about conscientious objection Besides offering handbills and pamphlets, PIRGIM hands out cards for students to fill out and return. PIRGIM then files the cards as an indication of the student's anti-war belief, and sends copies to the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors in Philadelphia for it to file as well. "We've given out about 500 cards," said Dave DeVarti, a local PIRGIM worker. In addition, PIRGIM attempts to educate the public in meetings such as one held January 31 by the East Quad-based Committee Against the War Drive. One cannot get official recognition as a CO until the Selective Service reinstitutes draft classification, a system that categorizes potential draftees according to their suitability, for combat. The Service has not yet set a date for classification. IF AND WHEN classification begins, the CO would apply for classification as 1-0 if he or she opposes any participation in the military, or 1- A-0, if he or she is willing to serve in a non- combat role. When applying, COs must send a statement to the local draft board answering six questions on topics such as how they acquired the beliefs they are basing their claims on, how their beliefs affects their lives, and which incidents in their lives show they believe as they say they do. In addition, applicants can include letters from people who can attest to the sincerity of their beliefs. If the draft board rejects this application, the applicant can appeal the decision in a personal appearance before the board. The board must explain, in writing, its reasons for rejecting any application. AN APPLICANT may also make his or her' initial claim personally before the local board. Whether on first or second request, every applicant is entitled to one personal appearance before the board. DeVarti's brother successfully chose the mail route. "He just sent in the application and received his deferment in the mail," DeVarti said. "He had a friend whose father was a judge, and our father knew the mayor of Ann Arbor. He got effective reference letters and had no problem." "But he was lucky," DeVarti continued. "A lot of people don't have this option. Their parents and friends aren't community notables who can write effective references. And they See CONSCIENTIOUS, Page 7 Hostages may coming days' be freed 'in Bani-Sadr From AP and UPI Iranian President Abolhassan Bani- Sadr said yesterday the 50-American hostages in their 100th day of captivity might be freed "perhaps even in the coming days," but the State Department quickly rejected his condition that the United States admit its guilt for past policies. In an interview published in the Paris newspaper Le Monde, Bani-Sadr said his plan included provisions to relesae the hostages to the U.S. government if it acknowledges "crimes" the U.S. has allegedly committed in Iran over the past 25 years. Bani-Sadr also said the United States would have to extradite the shah and turn his fortune over to the Iranian people, and, also pledge it would no longer. "interfere"' in Iran's internal affairs. IN WASHINGTON, the State Department immediately rejected the part of Bani-Sadr's plan that the U.S. admit its guilt for policies toward Iran under the ousted shah. "I am ruling out the United States declaring its guilt to any crimes, specified or unspecified," State Department spokesman Hodding Carter said. "We have also said that we would be willing and anxious to discuss the differences between us," Carter said, adding that the safe relesae of the hostages "remains the prime objective of our policy." BANI-SADR said his plan was sent to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for approval and he expected an answer within two days from the ailing 79-year- old religious leader. In Tehran, Khomeini marked the first anniversary of his Islamic revolution by vowing to continue to battle against "the ruthless devourer," the United States. He made no mention of the hostages. Khomeini referred to America as a "criminal" in a speech yesterday, but said it might be possible to establish "ordinary relations" with the U.S. in the future. LE MONDE SAID Bani-Sadr made the discloslure during an interview late Saturday night in Tehran with correspondent Eric Rouleau. The Iranian president, a French-educated economist, has in the past used interviews with Rouleau to signal shifts in his position. According to the newspaper: " Bani-Sadr also said he had made a separate proposal that the Americans would be removed in the next few days from the guard of the Islamic militants to a third party. He said that, too, would have to be approved by the council and Khomeini. " Gave an indication how he might attempt to press a compromise solution on the embassy militants. "We would never resort to violence against young patriots. In the case of a divurgence of views, I would eventually o to the U.S. Embassy to convince them to fall in live with my view." " Said he favored a compromise solution involving both some form of "tribunal" to investigate U.S. actions in Iran and U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's proposal for an international commission to investigate the shah's rule. See HOSTAGES, Page 9 ' black enrollment con-tinutes to fall; total minority level steady. . Daily Photo by JIM KRUZ He was there Everyone has suffered through a dead lecture sometime, but things are getting a bit extreme in the struggle for seniority. A TTORNE Y GENERAL DEFENDS FBI PROBE: No more Abscam targets-Cviletti By SARA ANSPACH Black enrollment on the Ann Arbor camapus as measured in fall, 1979 declined for the third consecutive year, according to the annual report to the Regents on minority enrollment which was released yesterday. Overall minority enrollment stayed about the same. Ann Arbor black enrollment declined from 6.7 per cent in fall, 1978 to 6.1 per cent in fall, 1979. This year's figure is the lowest since the annual report was first compiled in 1972. Although total minority enrollment on all three campuses (Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint) remained constant at 10.5 per cent, Ann Arbor campus minority enrollment decreased from 10.4 per cent to 10.3 per cent. THE REPORT indicated that minority attrition rates may be improving. Of the black students who entered as freshpersons in 1975, 50.6 per cent had not received degrees and did not enroll for the fall, 1979 term. Native American and Hispanic attrition rates were 70- and 53.2 per cent respectively whileAsian American and white rates were 31.3 and 29 per cent respectively. For freshpersons who entered a year later, in 1976, the figures look somewhat brighter. Students who entered in 1976 (and will graduate this spring) have attrition rates of 37 per cent for blacks, 40 percent for Native Americans, 33.3 per cent for Hispanics, 21.4 per cent for Asian Americans and 25.6 per cent for whites. Since it is expected that some of the students who entered in 1976 will still withdraw, these attrition rates are likely to be higher when computed after the class has graduated. But since fewer students drop out in their junior See BLACK, Page 5 WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti said yesterday he believes the FBI's under- @cover bribery investigation will go no further in Congress than the eight members already implicated. Civiletti also defended the FBI again- st suggestions of entrapment in its in- vestigative methods, which involved use of agents posing as representatives of Arab investors. "CRIMES, WERE not created by the FBI at all," Civiletti said, while con- ceding that some judge might decide a third party or informant might have engaged in entrapment. In another development, Justice Department lawyers will ask 100 to 200 department employees if they are willing to take lie detector tests as part of an expanded probe of how the Ab- scam investigation was leaked to the news media, sources said yesterday. Justice Department sources, who asked not to be named, also said that Civiletti is contemplating bringing a well-known outsider, Chicago attorney Justin Stanley, into the leak in- vestigation. "OTHER THAN the unfortunate, regrettable, and inexcusable leaks that have endangered innocent persons by identifying them specifically, there are no other senators or congressmen to my knowledge in any way related to the Abscam investigation," Civiletti said at a National Press Club luncheon. Abscam is the FBI code name for the 16-month operation that resulted in allegations that about 20 public officials and 10 businesspersons took part in bribery attempts by undercover agents in exchange for promises of political favors or other services. So far, members of Congress im- plicated in' the operation are Sen. Harrison Williams Jr. eD-N.J.), and See CIVILETTI, Page 2 Cafeteria tray thefts go dowcn-trayers don 't mamm mm m ssm sas isi2Waisa %islliiisellsisslliM~nifi~ils~asilistisisaiggiliiggigesinin silisssmiteisigiisisslislsisalllisissmmimisiasilsMoiisilisiailessisss asilielMEE15mismM.4 Three Mile Island leak floods adjoining building From AP and UPI HARRISBURG, Pa. - A leak in the *ystem keeping the crippled Three Mile Island nuclear reactor in cold shutdown dumped 950 gallons of radioactive water into an adjoining building yesterday, but officials said there was no apparent threat to the public. The leak, at the rate of about nine gallons a minute, was stopped about one hour and 45 minutes after it was discovered, said David Milne, spokesman for the state Environmental Resources Department. GARY SAN BORN, a spokesman for the federal Nuclear Regulatory Com- mission (NRC), said the leak in the reactor No. 2 system posed no threat to the public, but that workers in the auxiliary building where it occurred ,were evacuated and air around the plant was being monitored. JOhn Collins, the senior NRC official See THREE, Page 2 By ARLYN AFREMOW On icy cold nights Nichols Arboretum traditionally resounds with the screams of trayers careening down the snow- covered hills. But due to the lack of snow this winter - and to the dismay of snow lovers and relief of cafeteria personnel - the Arb has had an unusual respite from the squeals and shouts of enthusiastic trayers. "TRAYING" is the oft-enjoyed recreation of sledding down hills on residence hall cafeteria trays. "I've only gone once this year," com- plained LSA sophomore Jeff Ivey. "I' showed a freshman the joys of traying. I'm pretty bummed that there hasn't been enough snow to go more often." Ann Arbor has had only 13.6 inches of snow so far this year, according to "Dennis Kahlbaum, weather observer for the University's meteorology depar- tment. Kahlbaum added that Ann Ar- bor usually has had 23 inches of snow at this point in the season. BOB SNIDER, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said this year storms have been further south than what is considered normal. Snider said this has resulted in "Southern states having more snow than usual and northern states having less." But despite student disappointment, some people on campus are very happy about the lack of snow and the decline in traying. University food supervisors and managers in the residence halls say the problem of missing trays has not been as severe this year, U~ Wi b -r {+ , let~ ) '6 1) G II INN / t d I I 9 CAk See LOW, Page 5 .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .......... registration plan, suggested other alternatives such as "beefing up the reserves." The congressman opposed registration last year when the issue appeared before Congress. Last month, he sent out a press release in which he noted, "I believe the volunteer Army is providing sufficient manpower for active duty units and to meet present contingencies. I do not believe a resumption of the draft is necessary." Pursell added that although he has not yet seen President Carter's proposal - which includes the registration of women - he has supported the ERA in the past, which he says would make a decision on the registration of wnmen a difficult one. Q up with a roster of office employees. The White House did disclose that Rosalynn Carter has 21 aides and that Edith Dobelle's salary as staff director is $56,000, but refused to release other salaries. Thg.'GOP magazine said Mary Hoyt Finch, press secretary, is paid $47,487, Madeline MacBean, the first lady's personal assistant, $45,175, and Gretchen Poston, social secretary, $45,175. E Sticky situation Coming back to work on Monday morning may not rank as one of humanity's greater pleasures, but sometimes even the most eager workaholics are thwarted in their i t Wisconsin. A shipment of supposedly sterilized seeds, destined for mixture into birdfeed, started to sprout into marijuana plants. Now it's up to the -officials to decide whether to sterlize the seeds by dry roasting, destroy them, or deport them. The seeds are prized by pigeon fanciers and parrot owners because their high oil content puts a sheen on the bird's feathers. But what about that funny glazed look in the bird's beady little eyes? 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