0 Page 8-B--Friday, September 11, 1981-The Michigan Daily Officials ready for bomb By JOHN ADAM International talks break down. Washington gives Moscow an ultimatum: Withdraw all foreign troops from the Persian Gulf within one week. Surveillance satellites monitoring the Soviet Union spot a migration of Soviet citizens out of the major industrial and -population centers. Washington prepares for nuclear war. And, according to federal gover- nment sources, a "one megaton nuclear air burst," equivalent to one million tons of dynamite, may be targeted for Ann Arbor if this scenario comes true. "If you look back in history, was there ever a time when there was not a ;war? We still have some caveman in- stinct," said Michigan State Police Emergency Division's Supervisor Ted Zale. Many people think that everyone will be obliterated in a, nuclear barrage, said Ann Arbor Police Major Walter Hawkins, director of Ann Arbor's civil defense. "But people will be left when the bombs are dropped." FEDERAL EMERGENCY Management Agency official Mernie Van Del estimates that the Soviets would lose about six percent of their national population while the United States would lose close to 60 percent in the typical nuclear scenario. "Right now the Soviets have the capability to evacuate their high risk areas. We can't. We're behind by years,"said Van Del. , "This is why we're concerned Russia may be able to fight a nuclear war and win," said Van Del, adding that the Soviets spend about $22 per capita on civil defense while the United States spends less than a "cup of coffee" per person. "UNFORTUNATELY, the people in the United States have decided the best defense is the best offense," said Zale, who recommended that the gover- nment develop an extensive "defense" plan for the relocation of its people from the high risk areas. High risk areas are those targeted for nuclear attack, either because they are centers of industry, military or high population. Michigan has 22 such areas - and Ann Arbor is one of them. Van Del said the Soviet missiles are accurate - "If they were to aim for a pitcher's mound, it (the war head) would land in the ball park." According to the federal government, sources at the conferencb said, a one megaton air burst is targeted for Ann Arbor. This is equivalent to one million tons of dynamite and about 10 times greater than the bomb dropped at Hiroshima during World War II. THOUGH THE speakers said there is little we could do in the event of a sur- prise attack, most believe it would be a longer, more eventual deterioration that would lead to a war. Therefore, an extensive relocation program is essen- tial, so that given advance notice, we could move the general population from high risk areas to "host areas." Ann Arbor is fortunate in being in a "self-contained county"-a county which has enough areas to host the evacuators from the high risk areas. Wayne county residents, for example, would have to go to host areas in Ohio, Indiana, or toward Traverse City, ac- cording to the state relocation plan. Though Interstate 94 and U.S. 23 would be blockaded for military and state government use, Ann Arbor residents would evacuate along Jackson, Scio Church, Whitmore Lake, and Dexter-Ann Arbor roads to shelter spaces in nearby outlying host areas. "RIGHT NOW Ann Arbor evacuates 104,000 people in 45 minutes every foot- ball Saturday," Zale pointed out. So relocating the city's population (107,316) should be little trouble, he said. Radioactive fallout occurs in the fourth step of a nuclear blast when the gamma ray emitting grain-size par- ticles fall from the mushroom cloud. The first step is a bright flash of light-so intense it can blind an onlooker. The second step is a searing wave of heat, and following that is the blast wave carrying flying debris. IF AN AVERAGE 5 megaton bomb is dropped, everything within a three- mile radius is totally destroyed. But outside an eight mile radius there is only "light damage," said VanDel. This story was reprinted from the Daily's summer edition. 6-L L- I I-T _IV C . A . I . I - J 1 i 4 L.. -i Michigan Risk Area Map FOR NUCLEAR ATTACK THREAT -L ti A r------ 1- M4 77 I t LM - ;*75WhS I i O-tU777 I7171fMMlI A I I wffr Z-M:l I I 1W1A - v .vm'h - l&1 1 - f - ___________ - ; "Full line of backpacking f & camping equipment" ARMY SURPLUS I We stock a full line of clothing, boots, camping equipment, mili- tary surplus clothing, and camou- floge clothing.' 201 E. Washington at Fourth 994-3572. Open Monday thru Saturday, 9-6 VISA One block east of Main Street 1 F-_. - 7 'It, i }I ARMY SURPLUS 1 U of M Student Offer 15% OF ALL MERCHANDISE ; With This Coupon (EXCEPT SALE ITEMS) Expires 9/19/81 3 Special Price $5498 . Ann Arbor is one of the state's 22 potential high-risk areas targeted for nuclear attack. Officials at yesterday's Nuclear Civil Protection conference in Ann Arbor stressed the need to realize that nuclear war, though un- desirable, is definitely possible and even survivable. Businesses planned I - rnu Wool Navy Pea Coat N Hes burgh suggests new pol*ic for aliens By DAVE McINTYRE The Reagan administration should consider issuing counterfeit-proof national identity cards to all American workers as a means of combating illegal immigration to the United States, the Rev. Theodore Heslurg told the University's sumnier graduates last month. In his speech to the commencement crowd Aug. 23, Hesburgh, who chaired the president's Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy, said such a worker identity card could help prevent the easy integration of illegal aliens into the American work force. HESBURGH, WHO is also presiden of Notre Dame University, said that it is imperative that the United States move to stem the growing tide of the world's poor to affluent areas by promoting affluence abroard. "As long as there is the contradiction of abundance for a few and utter hopelessness for the many, the many are going to move to wherever there is abundance," Hesburgh told the graduates. i'You in your lifetime may yet see tens of millions of star- ving people marching to where there is food. The only basic answer is to helps them now grow food where they are." "Refugees are mainly the children of war, persecution, and drought. I have seen the empty sunken eyes, their bloated bellies, their matchstick arms and legs, their miserable huts and strips of plastic against the weather, their young without schooling, hunger without food, sickness without medicine, nakedness without clothing" Hesburgh siad. "This is not an American problem. This is a global problem that needs desperately a global solution." Hesburgh said the poverty of illegal immigrants in the United States "creates a subculture that depresses labor standards and wages, an unhealthy situation for all our society, especially those caught in this trap." The select Commission's report, sub- mitted to President Reagan last march, included a "Tripartite" proposal fdr dealing with the problem of illegal im- migration, Hesburgh said. FIRST, ALL PERSONS who entered the United States illegally after January 1, 1980 would be given the chance to legalize their status, and af- ter five years apply for citizn~hip. SecondV the select commission suggested making it illegal for em- ployers to hire anyone not authorized to work in the United States; Hesburgh recommended "an upgraded and coun- terfeit-proof Social Security card 16 determine who is and is not authorized Hesburgh also called for revision of the Immigration 'and Nationality Act, which he described as "maybe the second worst law on our books after the tax law." Current laws were designed to promote immigration from Northern Europe, Hesburgh said, while today's population influx is primarily from Latin America and the Far East. The criteria uponwhich persons are to bed selected for admittance to the. United States suggested by the Commission were spouses and children of previous immigrants, a group of "seed im- migrants. . . looking for economic op- portunity, a new life, and a new hope," for women By ANN MARIE FAZIO Several Ann Arbor women have an- nounced plans to open a new women's center in the city which would include a restaurant, art gallery, retail stores, and meeting halls. The women, who said the plans are still in the early stages, said their goal is to create a "center for all women" to meet and share their ideas in a suppor- tive and encouraging atmosphere. They said they hope to complete the center within a year and a half. SUSAN EDWARDS, a 40-year-old Ann 'Arbor resident of 20 years, is leading a group of women in developing ideas for the proposed Women's Center. "Supporting women's growth," will be the center's main function, Edwards said, "providing what doesn't already exist." It would include space in which women could hold workshops and "share creative efforts." she said. The idea is still "in the planning and research phase," Edwards said, but the idea has been around the community for a long time. She added that most other major college campuses have this. type of center. SHE EXPLAINED that the group is "working on a process, rather than an end product" at this stage, and added that the center is intended to be a "community project" for women to get involved in. Being involved means participating 's IT'S THAT ~TIME& AGAIN.$ /r 0 o 0 center I } in all aspects of planning its opening, she said, including designing, finan- cing, promoting, and operating. The group will train women in areas with which they are unfamiliar, she added. They want to "support women who are trying out new things in their lives," she said. The organizing committee working on the idea has nearly 20 members and "keeps growing every week," Edwards said. Ope of the most important fun- ctions of the group is to go out to women's groups in the community to determine the. needs of Ann..Arbor' women, she said. RESEARCH questionnaires were sent out late last winter to help assess those needs. From the circulation of the questionnaires, the project gained publicity and support and grew in num- ber, she said, She said she is not sure how the project will be financed. The group might sell memberships, as co-ops do, offering discounts for members. They will also solicit donations and hold fun- draisers. The center will not exclude men, Ed- wards said, but some of the areas will be geared more toward women's in- terests. She said they have received advice and help from many men who have been "very supportive." This story was reprinted from the Daily's summer edition. lk V oC C. ) wQ' 3 J 2w 0 SAVE $4 %ru w ayui SAVE $4 MAGICOLOR POLYURETHANE 1 2.97GAL. VARNISH MAGICOLOR SAVE $1 LUSTER PLUS . 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