Page 4-Tuesday, February 12, 1980-The Michigan Daily Carter w President Carter brought some new faces to Washington,. but U.S. foreign and military With his Mr policies are run by the same old crowd. The ter had beenc folks that gave us Vietnam. And gave the Ayatollah Spmoza dynasty to the Nicaraguans, the Shah Domestically to the Iranians, and Pinochet to the Chileans. equally from1 vNow they are preparing to edge us closer to Mr. Carter N W4rld War III. They want their pawns to get threatenedv ripdy; they want you people to register for a military forc nbw draft, just in case. hostages but THAT IS NOT all. President Carter has an- Khomeini in h *nced his readiness to use military force and left by gi against "any attempt by any outside force to American fe gain control of the Persian Gulf region." God policy has pr help us all if the Ayatollah expires and countries. feudalism falters in Iran; there are a lot of As Mr. Wa y4ung leftjts in that country, many of them Iran, the host Pro-Soviet: had the Ame OMeanwhile, those great strategic minds in with a U.N.-s Washington are now going to try to bolster the crimes of (neral Zia's hated regime in Pakistan with porters. Tha huge shipments of arms. Perhaps you will soon question. Ho be asked to go over there and help Zia keep his morale of a people in line, regimes, if W. But the folks in Washington don't want you to to condemnin think about that. Just rally around the flag, wisely obser" please. Remember the hostages, and don't ask reaching con any questions about our foreign policy. Above SO THE ST 4l, don't debate the draft; instead, debate military lead viether women, too should be drafted! lives of theI AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL election years military actio ire becoming more and more dangerous for all creasingly f brmankind. Macho-politics are at a premium. precedented Especially, as L. F. Stone has warned as on take diplom many occasions, when the Democrats are in opinion, too, power, and on the defensive against rightwing not, was this Republicans, blood, as heir vants youth . Nice Guy image, President Car- doing badly in the polls, until the By C came and rescued him. , the two appear to have profited his American; the protracted hostage situation. years? East is E ecame the tough President who Then came th with economic sanctions and Afghanistan, at ce, which did nothing for the Soviet-supported t boosted his popularity; while up fury over the' his country was able to unite right given free vent ving free vent to the intense anti- anti-SALT sentin elings that our masterful foreign the new Mr. Car oduced, in Iran as in many other and the hopes fc could be thrownc aldheim apparently found out in The stockmar tages could soon have been freed, away. An early e ericans been willing to go along ticipated. Prosp sponsored tribunal to investigate upswing for arm fthe Shah and his American sup- the many related at was, of course, out of the IRONICALLY ow could the U.S. protect the American reacti ll the other oppressive client- Afghanistan wer Vashington now were to be a party were said to ha ng the Shah? As the Shah himself Vietnam-type no ved, such a trial would have far- then a total ban a sequences., nam would seen TALEMATE continued. Even our, President Carte ers conceded their impotence: the unprecedented hostages could not be saved by world must no on. American opinion became in- Americans may urious: it was indeed an un- other countries, violation of international law to "Committee on ats as hostages. But Iranian USSR is evidentl was enraged: uniprecedented or of cricket, outsid crime, without the shedding of fluence (as defir nous as the crimes of the Shah and the end of WorldI to register for 'hristian Bay accomplices over so many ast, and West is West ... he Soviet military invasion of the invitation of the shaky d regime. Washington's pent- Tehran situation could now be against, the USSR. American ment could now be appeased by rter; and the dream of peace, br a de-escalating arms race, out of the window. ket responded favorably right end to the recession is now an- ects for war always mean a big .s production, steel, autos, and d industries.. , THE FIRST semi-official ions to the Soviet invasion of re almost gleeful: The Soviets ve gotten themselves into a -win situation of their own. But on any further mention of Viet- m to have followed, to allow r to wax indignant over this act of aggression, which all the w condemn. Whatever the do with their military might in or with their omnipresent International Altruism," the y expected to play by the rules de their supposed sphere of in- ned at Yalta and Potsdam at War II). That President Carter's new macho could easily destroy the Olympic gam festival of peace is unfortunate; while not succeed, they are expendable. Fa serious is his apparent readiness to pla II on ice indefinitely, and to accelerate ms race, even beyond all the frig measures he announced last year-in over 500 nuclear intermediate-rangej to be installed in Western Europe, and giant MX first-strike long-range systems in North America. Over the last thirty years the U.S. h sistently been the leader in over-all a penditures for strategic as well as tac ms production and deployment. The US its weaker economy has had to stru avoid falling too far behind, and to dissidents harshly to preserve disciplin caught up with and surpassed the U.S. weapons systems, but has repeatedly, a last year, tried to achieve de-esc agreements. In the USSR, too, there ar however, and their influence in theI grows whenever Soviet peace initiati rebuffed in Washington. THE SITUATION PRIOR to the inv Afghanistan was all in favor of theI hawks: with the U.S. Senate likely to vo SALT II, or to ratify it only at the pri massive new MX-system; with West E nuclear defense forces alfout to be es (and a deaf ear in NATO to a Soviet pro reduce their nuclear missile strength in instead); and with evidence of increasi Chinese military collaboration, the R WWH may well have become increasingly -politics pessimistic about the prospects for peace. nes as a When the Afghan regime seemed in danger of he may collapsing, the hawks evidently won the day in ar more Moscow. ce SALT A costly mistake it was, I am sure, and a e the ar- crime that must be condemned. But a heinous, ghtening unprecedented crime, as Mr. Carter ncluding repeatedly asserts? Not by the standards the missiles American government has set over the last the new thirty years. missile If we avoid a wider war until past the Presidential elections, will cooler heads come has con- to prevail. Or will we, and more particularly rms ex- you, be bogged down in another war in Asia? Or tical ar- will some irresponsible jivngo even find his way 3SR with to one of the many nuclear triggers, and do all uggle to of us in? repress MUCH COULD DEIFEND on what American e. It has students do, or fail to do, in the months and in some years ahead. nd even In the sixties, students were in the forefront calating of resisting the American crimes in Indochina, e hawks, President Johnson conceded that the unrest in Kremlin the universities had much to do with his ves are decision not to run again and to seek to negotiate for peace in Vietnam. asion of Will the new generation 6f students wake up Moscow and organize a movement to resist the new ate down draft registration before some of you will find ice of a yourselves killing and being,killed, for no good uropean reason, in Iran, or Pakistan, or Saudi Arabia? scalated Or do you prefer to debate whether or not aposal to women, too, should be drafted?- Europe Christian Bay is a p/ofessor of political ing U.S.- Russians science at the University of Toronto. Ninety Years o f Fditorial FreIono WIQB owner defends change 4 Vol. XC, No. 109 News Phone: 764-0552 Edited and- managed by students at the University of Michigan Israels plans ASIDE FROM its unpopularity among its neighbors, Israel is noted as being unique in at least one other respect from the surrounding nations. With only occasional excep- tipns, the country's press is free to comment as it pleases on the nation's affairs. This is especially gladdening in light of a recent Israeli Cabinet dycision that one Israeli daily, Ha'aretz, had the -good sense to criticize. iIn a preliminary communique that, fortunately, will require further governmental action to have any authority, the Cabinet said that it has ";no objection to Jews living in Hebron as in any other part of Israel." Hebron is a West Bank city heavily irhabited by Palestinian Arabs, the control of which is crucial to the resolution of the Palestinian question. 'The Israelis had been moving-toward a halfway measure they term "4iutonomy" for the Arabs, and control of Hebron by the Arabs was taken as bbth a gesture of good will and a prac- tical move toward some degree of self- rule. The trouble started when a Jewish student living in Hebron was shot in the city's market. A faction of the Palestine liberation Organization (PLO) claimed respon- sibility, which provoked understan- dable demands by Israelis for some kind of governmental reprisal. The violent act by the PLO was inex- cusable, but the Israeli stride toward for Hebron, hawkishness is not going to help the situation. While many of the results of Palestinian nationalsim are condem- nable, the heart of the militants' anger is the justifiable quest for self- determination. The Israeli response to the latest act of terrorism can only exacerbate the strife. Israel's right wing has as much freedom to put forward its ideas as any moderate voices-more, anti-Zionists would argue-and each time a killing occurs, Gush Emunim and the other groups inspirited with an aggressive settlement policy adamantly insist that Jewish Israelis can and should settle anywhere within the nation's shifting borders. But how can they point to the PLO terrorists as the only party acting without a grain of reason? Editorial policies. Unsigned editorials ap- pearing on the left side of this page represent a majority opinion of the Daily's Editorial Board. Letters and columns represent the opinions of the individual author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the attitudes or beliefs of the Daily. The following is the tran- scribed record of a conver- sation that took place last Friday between Daily reporter Steve Hook and Ernie Wynn, the general manager and "51 per cent owner" of WIQB- FM. After taking over the radio station last December and researching the local radio market, Wynn shifted WIQB's format from a free form, album-oriented style to an automated one featuring soft rock. Wynn served for seven years as general manager of T. M. Programming in, Dallas, Texas, before moving to Ann Arbor last fall. This company designs formats for American radio stations and produces the automated format WIQB now uses. Why was the decision made to change formats? Wynn: The decision was made for many reasons. The primary reason was the fact that WIQB was not getting enough share of the Washtenaw County-Ann Arbor area listening audience. So you have essentially shifted the audience you are aiming for. Wynn: I have broadened the audience I am now aiming towards. The basic target demographic that WIQB has been aiming towards has historically been men, 18 to 24 years old. That is with the type of music under the old format, which is called in the industry a free-form progressive album- oriented format. Certainly there are some people out of the primary demographic that listen, but the 18-24 males have been the primary audience. We have broadened that scale to have our primary target as men and women, 18-34. Actually, it will lean, if it does what it has across the country, a little heavier towards women than it does merr. Have there been too few sponsors under the old format? Was WIQB losing money when you bought it in December? Wynn: No, I wouldn't say WIQB was in a losing position. They simply weren't in a highly profitable position, and there didn't seem to be a way to expand that profit center. We want to expand our potential for advertising support into a lot of the areas we have not been able to tap. How has response been s'o far? Wynn: We've had both phone and mail responses that are at this point mostly negative. I don't feel that it has been an overwhelming response, but it, has certainly been a well thought- out respnse. I'm very impressed with the type of listeners that were listening to WIQB. What was the main fault of free-form? You'd think it could work if done well. Wynn: The station was. basically programmed by the telephone response of the listeners. The audience surveys have shown that there weren't thatsmany listener's, so that means a few people in Ann Arbor were programming a radio station that was geared towards a great number of people. And that is primarily why it didn't have a very large audience. There aren't very many top professional radio stations in this country that have found this to be a very successful method of broadcasting. In any major city that you could name, you're not going to find a totally free-form-progressive album format anymore. We're a part of the advertising business. If we have enough listeners, we can convince advertisers to support us so we can meet our payrolls, buy our equipment and pay the rent. It's a business. _ So your decision to change,. formats was made primarily for financial reasons. Wynn: It wasn't based strictly on finances, although this was' a major factor. The station undr the previbts- o ership , was operated successfVly. The old owner paid $235,000 for the station; I paid $1,235,000 for-the station. I have got to expand our advertising support,. which was quite limited when I bought WIQB. If things don't work out with the new format is there a chance you might bring back the old one? Wynn: Highly doubtful, .but more probably six months from now that in several weeks. It won't have anything to do with storm or rage either.What it will have to do with is my success. I will evaluate the next audience survey, which will be taken around August first. I must be very candid: there is no circumstance that I could think of, at this moment, that could put the old format back on as it was. That was tested for over three years, and it simply didn't generate the audience. Daily Photo by PAUL ENGSTROM WIQB-FM PART-OWNER Ernie Wynn talked recently about his station's format change from album-oriented selections to automated soft rock. LETTERS TO THE DAILY: PIRGIM utility attack inaccurate 0 To the Daily: On =the editorial page of the February 2 edition of the Daily, there appeared an article entitled "Checking Utility Power" authored by PIRGIM member Dan Carol. This article contained several inaccuracies which I would like to correct for your readers. Moreover, it was in- complete in its exposition of PIRGIM's proposals before the Michigan Public Serviced Com- mission (MPSC). The first misstatement is that the five major utility companies in Michigan spend "at least $6 million annually to get rate in- creases" from the MPSC. That is a figment of someone's imagination. In Consumers Power's electric rate case, U-, 5979, (mentioned elsewhere in the PIRGIM article), it was shown that for all electric rate litigation before the MPSC in 1978, Con- sumers Power spent $63,009 on regulatory commission expense, plus an additional $112,275 for be accepted as true or accurate. The PIRGIM article continues to state that the utilities employ "well-trained, full-time staffers specializing in public service hearings." 'The persons ap- pearing for Consumers Power are well-trained. For the most part they are full-time em- ployees. It is not correct, however, to say that these em- ployees are employed for the sole purpose of specializing in MPSC hearings. Rather, the participan- ts for Consumers Power are regular employees who have a full load of responsibilities in the regular day-to-day conduct of the utility business. Their appearan- ces in an MPSC hearing result from the fact that they possess expertise necessary to the ratemaking process. Another 'gregious error in the PIRGIM article is that "Con- sumers Power Company has 19 attorneys working full-time on hearings at the MPSC." That is news to me and I have the Consumers Power. { Finally, I think your readers, expecially those interested in academic freedom and freedom of speech, would be interested in the complete PIRGIM position in U-5979. PIRGIM proposed setting up a censorship board (euphemisitcally called a "for- mal mechanism") for mandatory "evaluation of utility-sponsored energy education materials, prior to their dissemination." This board would review all such materials distributed by the utilities whether or not the utility sought to recover the cost of such -materials from its customers or would pay for them from shareholders' funds. This proposal ignores that under the present set-up, Consumers Power forces no one to request or accept the materials available, but allows the individual teacher to request material, review it and decide whether or not to use it. This proposal ignores that in 1974 and 1975 the MPSC clearly stated' the fundamental 1st Amendment' freedoms which this Commission clearly recognizes. . ." and that its standards for allowable ex- penses to be paid for by utility customers would "not in any way attempt to restrain (a 'utility) from disseminating other infor- mation, either through the news media or by pineans of advertising chargeable to its stockholders." By the way, according to the PIRGIM proposal, the expenses of the censorship board would be borne by the utility and apparen- tly, at least for materials deemed acceptable, would be paid for by utility customers. Moreover, PIRGIM's proposal evidences a philosophy which is not respectful of the individual person's ability to read materials, assimilate; them, and judge their worth. This erosion of respect for individual freedom is not in the public in- terest. -Lawrence Lindemer Vice-President and General Counsel, I - ~A~mhIllUIu1LIIflmIin,..~ i