Ninety-Two Years of Editorial Freedom I tic Lit 9itau tti CLOUD COVER Mostly cloudy today with high near 50. A chance of showers tonight. Vol. XCII, No. 60 Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, November 18, 1981 Ten Cents Eight Pages Pentagon research: .Alive and well at By BARRY WITT First of a three-part series One University researcher is studying the basics of detonation and explosions. Another has been researching ocean acoustics to help the Navy's sonar Department of Defense contracts, and therefore sit at the center of a renewed controversy that threatens to split the University community. Are these University professors developing the technology today that will be used in the bombs of tomorrow, as many critics of the research con- tend? Or are they merely conducting fun- damental research in new technologies that will be necessary for the industries and societies of the future, as suppor- ters maintain? And what about the ethics of such defense research? Will the quest for Pentagon funds skew the University's avowed devotion to free inquiry into a broad spectrum of research topics? Or is the- University simply adapting to losses of social science research funds in the only way possible? THIS ANALYTICAL series will at- tempt to bring forth the answers to these questions; in the second and third installments the arguments for and against such research will be examined. ,'But just what is this research all about, and how extensive is it? , One University researcher describes his work as providing information for the defense department's "library of knowledge." Data in this "library" cover topics ranging from general health to political science to natural resources and materials. Most of this research is considered "basic"-researchers are seeking to understand the most fundamental prin- ciples of the materials or issues they are studying. And nearly all of it is un- classified. UNIVERSITY research guidelines prohibit projects that may lead to the destruction of human life. The policy also states the University will not ac- See DEFENSE, Page 2" systems find enemy targets. A third is using hobby store models of F-16s and B-52s to predict the effects of *electromagnetic energy on equipment inside Air Force jets. ALL THREE are working under Daily Photo by DEBORAH LEN THIS HOBBY SHOP model of an Air Force fighter plane stands in a radiation chamber, where University researchers can make tests on it to predict the effects of electromagnetic energy on instruments inside full-sized jets. .t Satellite sale to Arabs revived WASHINGTON (AP)- After one retreat, the Reagan administration is forging ahead with the proposed sale of communications satellite gear to an Arab consortium that includes Libya and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Sources said the proposal, which could stir another fight with Congress on the heels of the $8.5-billion ar- ms sale to Saudi Arabia, is being revived even though some senators object to delivering the sophisticated equipment to a group whose membership involved hostile elements. Informal discussions were set at a secret session with Key Senate staff aides, to be attended also by representatives of the Ford Motor Co., whose Palo Alto, Calif., subsidiary would be assembled by a French governmen't-owned company, with the necessary satellites launched into orbit by the U.S. space agency. The administration's move could trigger the kind of scrap that accompanied the sale of Airborne Warning and Control System radar planes and other modern weaponry to Saudi Arabia last month. President Reagan narrowly won that battle in the Senate, after a 3-1 rejection in the House. The U.S. share of the satellite and communications gear would total about $79 million of the overall French contract for about $150 million. It would in- volve two working satellites launched by the National Aeronautics and Space"Administration in the mid 1980s, with a spare held back. The subcontract deal for the Ford Aerospace and Communications Corp. was sidetracked two weeks. ago when the State Department conceded it was not prepared to answer congressional concerns about potential military application. One of the arguments in the Saudi AWACS fight was that the sophisticated planes, the world's most advanced, and other high technology might fall into unfriendly hands. Congressional sources said the same questions are likely to be raised in trying to block the satellite sale to 21 Arab countries and the PLO. State Department officials say the satellite system would simply supplement the existing international telephone system. Reagan to propose missile cut WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reaganisready topropose-to the Soviet Union that both superpowers virtually eliminate nuclear missiles from the European theater, State Department officials said yesterday. The president, it was said, will use a foreign policy speech today at the National Press Club to embrace the so- called "zero-option" approach as the goal for Soviet-American negotiations on restraining nuclear forces in Europe. Those talks open Nov. 30 in Geneva. THE OPTION consists of an expec- ted U.S. offer not to undertake the plan- ned deployment of new U.S. medium- range missiles in Europe if the Soviet Union agrees to disassemble its own missiles, stationed in western Russia, aimed at European targets. However, there is deep skepticism in U.S. arms control circles that such an approach will prove acceptable to the Soviet Union, which is believed highly reluctant to destroy new weapons such as the SS-20, capable of carrying three nuclear warheads.. A more limited, fall-back position is said to include an attempt to win Soviet acceptance of the planned deployment of 572 American nuclear warheads on Pershing II missiles in exchange for the removal of more than 900 Soviet warheads now in place on SS-20, SS-5 and SS-4 missiles. That would be a shift in force levels aimed at producing a relative nuclear balance in Europe. INITIAL reaction on Capitol Hill to Reagan's missile plan ranged from en- thusiasm to concern that the foreign policy speech may be aimed largely at deflecting atention from White House troubles with budget' director David Stockman and national security adviser Richard Allen.I On a related subject, State Depar- tment spokesman Dean Fischer said the United States remains interested in a possible summit meeting between Reagan and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev if the "necessary ground work is laid" and there are indications that a summit would prove "fruitful and productive and yield results." There are no indications Reagan will announce such a meeting in his speech, despite statements from West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt that he hopes to get the two leaders together to clear the air on arms control and nuclear issues. BREZHNEV and Schmidt meet in Bonn for a series of meetings beginning Friday. U.S. officials have said they expect a summit would take place sometime in 1982. Daily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS, Live from Ann Arbor It's WCBN. The student-run radio station broadcast live from the fishbowl yesterday as part of the station's promotional/fundraising effort. WCBN staffers "Entropy Quaint" (left) and David Seldin help run the show. Reagan .. proposes missile cuts in Europe Scalpers expecting big bucks for Ohio St. tickets By DAN NEWMAN "How much for your worst seat in the stadium?" asks a potential buyer. "Fifty," says the scalper in front of the Michigan Union. So what if Saturday's showdown is being regionally televised? Who cares if Ohio State's chances for a Rose Bowl berth remain slim even if. the Buckeyes beat Michigan? This is the game, and tickets have been selling for $50 and up the last few days in front of the Union, the usual marketplace for scalpers. "THERE ARE A l9t of ridiculous people asking outlandish prices and there's just no way they will get what they are, asking right now," said one scalper, who identified himself only as "Bookie Bob." Bookie Bob has been selling tickets for more than three years and he feels that "things are getting out of hand as far as market prices go. A few fools will pay $50 for a single," ac- cording to Bob, "but very few." Bob says he can't explain why tickets are going for so much money, but he predicts the market price on the tickets will fall. "There's a lot of excitement about the game, especially since we're (Michigan) the favorites to take the Big Ten championship," said Bob. "But I figure that the market will crash on the new guys and they won't know what to do so they'll probably get burned with a lot of tickets." BOB NOTES that a lot of people who have no experience in scalping are trying their hands at the potentially lucrative business. "It's the usual thing for the big game," said Bob. "There are new people out there who just don't have the con- nections and experience that you need. Those are the guys who are going to be eaten up." The market price for the tickets to Saturday's showdown will depend a lot on the weather, according to Bob, who believes that the market price will remain high if the sun's out Saturday. However, Bob was quick to point out that tickets dropped close to face value on the day of the game two years ago. "I just don't understand why prices are so much higher than they were two years ago," said Bob, who netted over $1300 when these two rivals last met at Michigan Stadium., How do the prices for this contest compare to "big games" in the past? During the week of this year's Michigan-Notre Dame clash, tickets were selling at a much lower rate, ranging See OSU, Page 8 Go BucKS Go Blue celebrates By GREG DeGULIS Special to the Daily GO BUCKS, GO BLUE, Ohio -- In what has become another tradition in the long-standing rivalry between the Buckeyes and the Wolverines, this small Ohio town - halfway between Ann Arbor and Columbus - has become the unlikely focal point of college football spirit. For the third consecutive year, Arch- bold, Ohio has proclaimed the week before the Michigan-Ohio State game to be "Go Bucks, Go Blue" week. And, in keeping with tradition, Ohio Gov. James Rhodes renamed the town Go Bucks, Go Blue for the week. Big Gamre GO BUCKS, Go Blue partying began last night and evidence of the two schools' bitter rivalry was evident. The town's municipal building flew both the Michigan and Ohio State banners, but Michigan's was on the top because of last years' 9-3 victory. After a short stay at the Hereford Bar in Go Bucks, Go Blue, the Michigan cheerleaders constructed a pyramid in the street where they released 'a Michigan banner for the onlookers. The next stop on the Michigan tour was Ickey's - "just another neighborly. good-time bar" according to Dale Mann, an employee of WHFD, a local See OHIO, Page 8 fI TODAYNOWUNM News, of course T HE WINTER 1982 Time Schedule hit the stands' yesterday, causing crowds to gather wherever the books appeared. Registration for seniors begins Nov. 30 and LSA students can pick up Student Verification Forms next Monday. Also available beginning yesterday were 10,000 copies of Michigan Student Assem- bly's Course Encounters, with several new features added beyond previous issues. In addition to recording student Desmond Lewis until he legally changed his name for 50 pence'(96 cents)-as all Britons are entitled-to run in the election as a joke candidate representing the pranksters of Cambridge University Raving Looney Society. There are eight other candidates in the Nov. 26 election, which has at- tracted nationwide attention because the favorite to take the seat from the ruling Conservatives is Shirley Williams, joint leader of Britain's new Social Democratic Party. But Tarquin said: "I am a non-political candidate. I am, sim- ply, very silly." Mayor William Bullen, who will have to read the full election results before millions of television viewers, said. "This is ridiculous. He may think it's a joke says he says he's not worried that few people will be able to pronounce it, just so long as the new name reflects his cultural heritage. Deniz was born in Seaford, Del., in 1960, of a Turkish neurosurgeon now living in Turkey and a Russian woman who now is a housewife in New York City. Deniz said his current name, which is Turkish, does not reflect his Russian heritage, so he filed a petition in Talbot County Circuit Court last week asking to drop all but his last name and add four new ones, two of which are Russian. The petition said Deniz wants the change "because he favors the policies of the Soviet Union," but he said his heritage was really the issue. "I take pride in my mother's side of toilet seat. The gift was presented-appropriately enough- at the Privy Purse entrance at the front of Buckingham Palace on Monday. However, three police officers on duty there insisted its proper place was the service entrance. The Prince of Wales, whose birthday was last Saturday, told curators at the National Railway Museum in York about his unusual hobby during a visit there last Thursday. London antique dealer James Cunningham, who specializes in period lavatories, came up with what he thought would be the perfect gift for Charles: an 1895 "loo," as the English call it, emblazoned with what he said looked like the em- blem for the Prince of Wales. The club's patrons raised the . l 1, i