The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, October 14, 1981-Page 5 Sudan fears Libyan invasion; asks U.S. to speed arms delivery CAIRO, Egypt, (AP) - Troubled Sudan, the largest African country, is strengthening its ties with the United States to counter what is sees as the threat of a Soviet backed Libyan in- vasion. President Gaafar Nimeiri, in Cairo for the funeral of his assassinated ally, President Anwar Sadat, told reporter that Libya - his neighbor to the north- west - has been bombing Sudanese bor- der villages daily for two months and has based strategic bombers within striking distance of his capital, Khar- toum. THE UNITED STATES has offered $130 million in military aid this year, primarily in anti-aircraft weapons and rockets, but this isj said. not enough, Nimeiri He said Secretary of State Alexander Haig with whom he met after the Sadat funeral, told him he knew the situation in the area was dangerous. Haig said the United States was looking into means of speeding up arms deliveries to Sudan. The week before Sadat was killed, his vice president and apparent successor Hosni Mubarak went to Washington to urge the United States to increase its aid to Sudan. LAST MARCH, Sudan followed Egypt's lead in offering the United States military facilities in case fighting erupts; in the oil-rich Middle East. Nimeiri said Sudan would join Egypt and the United States next month for the first time in expanded military exercises designed primarily to train the American Rapid Deployment For- ce. He said the United States was com- mited to helping Sudan in the event Libya launches a "traditional" military attack, but there was no such agreement regarding guerrilla ac- tivity. RELATIONS WITH the United States have been rocky. Diplomatic ties between the two countries were suspended between 1967 and 1972 as a result of the Arab-Israeli war. In Mar- ch 1973, Palestinians in Sudan mur- dered U. S., Ambassador Cleo Noel Jr. and Deputy Chief of Mission George Moore. Sudan later released the assassins, bringing another chill in relations. The official Soviet news agency Tass, meanwhile, accused the United States of stepping up a "hysterical" campaign against Libya, and referred to the plan- ned military exercises as a "dress rehearsal" for an invasion of Libya. Cellar may leave Union WORKMEN REMOVE A poster of slain Egyptian President Anwar Sadat from a wall in downtown Cairo yesterday. Mubarak referendum held amid violence CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Millions of Egyp- tians, not deterred by fatal bomb blasts at Cairo's airport and a gunbattle bet- ween police and Moslem extremists in Giza, voted yesterday in a referendum to confirm Hosni Mubarak as successor to, slain President Anwar Sadat. No violence was reported at the polling stations, guarded by heavily armed soldiers and police. Although security was tight, it was not con- sidered unusually strict. Egyptian media broadcast reports of the airport bomb blast and the shooting near the pyramids throughout the day. MUBARAK, the country's vice president and the only candidate, was certain to win approval from Egypt's 12 million eligible voters. The Interior Ministry said the time bombs exploded on an Air Malta flight from Libya shortly after it landed at Cairo Internatinal Airport and discharged its 93 passengers. Police said a baggage handler was killed, and that another baggage han- dler, an Air Malta stewardess and two security guards were wounded. They said three of the wounded were seriously injured, but did not say which ones. Police said the first bomb exploded while on a baggage cart below the plane. There wassa second blast 14 minutes later, they said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blasts. AN INTERIOR Ministry statement said the bombs had beedn timed to ex- plode inside the airport terminal, but detonated during unloading because the flight was 15 minutes late. Earlier in the day, the ministry, which controls the country's police, said that authorities seized five heavily armed Moslem extremists after a dawn shootout near the Giza pyramids, Egypt's top tourist attraction southwest of Cairo. It said two policement and one soldier were injured. The ministry said two of the five cap- tured men were ringleaders in the fan- damentalist assault on security men in the southern city of Asyut yesterday. Security officials said 118 persons, nearly half of them policemen, were killed in the two-day battle. The three other captured men were said to be ac- complices. Despite the violence, officials said voter turnout was heavy for the referendum on Mubarak. (Continued from Page 1) per square foot and could pay for up to $250,000 in renovations. But, Cianciola has thus far refused to back down from his proposed rental hike to $9.07 and estimates for the renovation have ranged as high as $350,000. Caballero said one advantage the U- Cellar would enjoy by moving out of the Union would be the ability to sell in- signia items and make the bookstore more of a general retail store. Under the U-Cellar's current agreement with Cianciola, the Union director per- sonally maintains control of what the U- Cellar may and may not sell. "We have to give him a laundry list;" Caballero said. "Then Frank must tell us whether or not we can sell all the items on the list. But we have no guarantee against someone else in the Union selling the items he has approved for us." CIANCIOLA SAID this provision is necessary in order to balance out the services and programs the Union will provide in the future, as well as protect one of its major sources of revenue-the insignia items. A number of other issues stand in the way of agreement between the Union and U-Cellar. U-Cellar board members say they are concerned by the fact that Cianciola's proposals do not include any set formula for rent increases over the seven-year lease period. "WE HAVE TO see an escalator for- mula otherwise we're signing just about anything," U-Cellar Board Mem- ber Donna Wesley said. Other bones of contention concern who should pay for a new sprinkler system and fire wall in the new location. "The concept of the sprinkler system was tossed back and forth all summer but nothing was ever decided," Wesley said. "Then it came to our attention that it had been decided we'd be paying for the sprinkler system and a fire wall." She said the cost for the sprinkler system alone would be over $25,000. U-CELLAR officials say they are also concerned by Cianciola's refusal thus far to renew their guarantee of use of the Union ballroom during fall and win- ter book rush. "The ballroom question is a real dilemma for me," Cianciola said. "It is in the interest of the Union and in the in- terest of students to have accessibility to that facility at the beginning of the academic terms for programming ac- tivities. Caballero said denial of the use of the ballroom would be financially devastating for the U-Cellar. DESPITE THE many disagreemen- ts, both Cianciola and Cellar officials insist they would prefer the store remain in the Union. "The U-Cellar is one of the most im- portant components in making the Union a center for student interests," Cianciola said. "We want them to be a part of that." "We don't want this to become a political battle of any kind," Caballero said. "We believe the Union and the Cellar havethe same goal of student service. It seems as if it's just not meshing anymore." Subscribe to the Michigan Daily OCO ERe1 1 I e ed powh - co ? ,1 Bret( N 01110,,. is on8. so British conservatives Araqfat moderates p oC toward Isr TOKYO (UPI)- PLO chief Yasser of Israel but far from ful Arafat put out a moderate signal to dition Washington has s Israel yesterday and appealed to Japan PLO dialogue-outrightz to push for U.S. recognition of the Israel's right to exist. Palestine Liberation Organization. Arafat's remarks ca "I ask the friendly people of Japan renewed controversy i. who support the just cause of the States over the PLO. Palestinian people to persuade the Presidents Ford and Car United States to change its policy day en route home fromI toward the PLO," Arafat told the Egyptian President Anv parliamentary Japan-Palestine Frien- Cairo that they foresawe dship League. Japan has not formally PLO talks. recognized the PLO. ON MONDAY, Presi At a luncheon on the second day of his clarified U.S. policy< 72-hour Japan visit, Arafat was asked if saying, "Unless the PL the PLO still advocated the destruction Israel's right to exist, th of Israel. toward the PLO will "IT IS JUST the opposite," he said. changed." "It is Israel that would not allow us to Arafat praised the For exist." Monday as "very good' Arafat's moderate response differed hoped "Mr. Reagan wi from his usual public insistence on an that the PLO is the mo independent Palestinian state in place figure in the Middle Eastq rurge t aiin 1 BLACKPOOL, England (AP) -Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's suppor- ters urged dissidents to keep faith with her hard-line economic policies as the ruling Conservative Party's annual conference began yesterday. Many delegates also urged restoration of capital punishment. PARTY CHAIRMAN Cecil Parkins on told what he termed the party's "doubters and deserters" that the world envied Briton for having a leader who will not "suffer a loss of nerve." But Norman St. John-Stevas, one of a half dozen moderate cabinet ministers fired by Mrs. Thatcher this year, said at a meeting during a lunch break: "Let us have some sense of outrage at this conference about the truly horrific unemployment figures and less of what has become callous chatter about a leaner, fitter British industry." There are nearly 3 million out of work in Britain, or 12.2 percent of the work for- ce, a 5-year record. The 5,000 delegates gathered at this northern resort joined in singing "Hap- py Birthday to Thatcher, who turned 56 yesterday. Parkinson insisted that Thatcher's monetarist policies would soon "bear fruit." His speech was seen ads laying the ground for a stark message of little or no change from ministers during todays economic debates. "We have made a beginning in rever- sing our nation's economic decline," said Parkinson, installed last month af- ter the previous Tory chairman, Lord Thorneycroft, a Thatcher critic, step- ped down. "...I promise you that the doubters will regain their faith and the deserters will come back to us for refuge," Parkinson said to loud ap- plause. rael ifilled the con- et for a U.S.- recognition of ame amid a n the United Both former ter said Satur- the funeral of war Sadat in eventual U.S.- dent Reagan on the PLO LO recognizes he U.S. policy remain un- d-Carter stand ' and said he ll understand ost important question." in MAPLE 1 A E SHP CTR " . e *ON -FR $2 til 6PM Robert DeNiro WILAM HURT Robert Duvall KATHLEEN TURNER 375 N. MAPLE 769-1300 HkIVER.SITYfMUSICAL '8OCIETY presents a special concert in collaboration with the School of Music MUSICOF ALBERTO GINASTERA University Symphony Orchestra, Gustav Meier conducting - IN A VERY SPECIAL eCizp;e BENEFI T PERFORMANCE Variazioni e Toccata sopra "Aurora lucis rutilat," Op. 52 (1980) Marilyn Mason, organist, faculty guest artist Serenata on Neruda's "Love Poems," Op. 42 (1973) AURORA NATOLA-GINASTERA, CELLIST Leslie Guinn, baritone, faculty guest artist Contemporary Directions Ensemble Carl St. Clair, conductor Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 28 (1961) ANTHONY DI BONAVENTURA, PIANIST University Symphony Orchestra i . i