a Page 2-Thursday, January 8, 1981 -The Michigan Daily EDUCA TION PICK COMPLE TES SEAR CH 1"' R.eagd WASHINGTON (APKrPresident-elect Ronald Reagan tapped Utah education official Terrel Bell yesterday to be education secretary, ending a long segrch for someone to head an agency that President Carter created and Reagan has vowed to dismantle. ,,And Reagan told a meeting of senators yesterday that he has infor- med U.S. Ambassador to Japan Mike Tdansfield that the former Senate Democratic leader will be re- nominated to his Tokyo post. an nominates Bell Bell, 59, was U.S. education com- missioner during the Nixon and Ford administrations. He is now Utah's commissioner of higher education. THE CHOICE of an education secretary comes two weeks after Reagan's earlier self-imposed goal of completing his Cabinet selections by Christmas. The president-elect admit- ted publicly that some candidates tur- ned down his offer of the educationjob. As with the other Cabinet selections. Reagan was not present for the Bell an- nouncement, which was handled by White House press secretary-to-be James Brady. Neither was Bell present at the announcement. Brady said Bell would be available to answer questions at a news conference next week, when the new special trade representative and the Council of Economic Advisers are expected to be announced. BRADY SAID Reagan and Bell agree on the administration's approach to the department, but Brady would not elaborate on whether Bell agrees specifically with Reagan's oft-stated in- tention to eliminate the agency, formed only two years ago. The naming of Bell left the final makeup of the Reagan Cabinet with one black, New York lawyer Samuel Pierce Jr., nominated to be secretary of housing and urban development. For the first time in six years, there was no female Cabinet secretary. The only woman so far named to a top-echelon job in the incoming ad- mirlistration is Jeane Kirkpatrick., a Georgetown University professor who was named United Nations am- bassador, a post Reagan has described as Cabinet-level. IN A SPEECH Nov. 27, Bell said he was concerned about federal domination of local education but did not believe the Education Department was in immediate danger of being dismantled. "Whether we keep education as a department or just a free-standing agency does not bother me." Bell said. "It is important to keep it from becoming or being swallowed by a monolithic agency." During the presidential campaign, Reagan called the department un- necessary. But there has been recent speculation that the new president might simply choose to downgrade its status rather than eliminate it entirely. Reagan, meanwhile, met yesterday with members of Congress amid in- dications he was pulling back from his campaign pledge to abolish the Depar- tment of Energy. n PLANNED PARENTHOOD I 912 N. Main St., Ann Arbnr " Pregnancy Testing (same day diagnosis) " Problem Pregnancy Counseling " Complete Contraceptive Clinic (women and teens) V Birth Control Information / Education " Vasectomy Services " Early Abortion Services " Board Certified, Licensed Gynecologists E COMPLETELY CONFIDENTIAL Watt speaks in Senate as opposition. rallies WASHINGTON (AP)-James Watt, nominated as interior secretary and already under fire from conser- vationists, said yesterday the nation must adopt "a reasoned, environmen- tally conscious program for developing and utilizing" its resources or risk a disastrous crash program in the future. "All too often, the federal gover- nment moves in a crisis not with the precision of a surgeon's scalpel, but the force of a meat ax," Watt said in his opening statement to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Com- mittee, which is considering his nomination. "Those of us who live and are com- mitted to preserving the beauty and values of our environment fear this possibility," he said. "We want the right kind of development to come over time, not the wrong kind of develop- ment to come in a crisis." ALTHOUGH WATT describes him- self as an environmentalist, established conservation organizations disagree and are vigorously opposing .his nomination. . The conservation groups base their opposition on his service for the past 31/2 years as president and chief legal of- ficer of the Mountain States Legal Foundation in Denver. That conser- vative public-interest law firm has op- posed many federal land management policies in the courts. Watt said about 20 percent of the firm's cases were filed against the In- terior Department, although the foun- dation supported the department in other cases. IN A JOINT statement issued yester- day by The Wilderness Society, Friends of the Earth, the Sierra Club, the En- vironmental Policy Center, and the National Audubon Society, conser- vationists said Watt's record "is one of consistent and unbending advocacy for the destructive exploitation of the public lands. "It is unlikely that an individual with such a narrow record of special interest representation could make the reorien- tation required to be the Cabinet's chief conservationist and guardian of the nation's public land," the statement said. However, Sen. Pete Domenici (R- N.M.) a member of the Energy Com- mittee, said the environmentalist op- position was "a phony issue." He noted while that environmental organizations often sue the Interior Department over adverse rulings, many of their mem- bers served in the department during the Carter administration with no out- cry about-conflicts of interest. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Northeast hit by snow, cold New-Yorkers, plagued by a flu epidemic, shivered yesterday through an Arctic assault that dumped 7 inches of snow on the area, closed schools and forced some people to flee heatless apartments and take shelter in an ar- mory. Up to 14 inches of snow buried parts of Ohio. Blowing and drifting snow swept parts of Indiana and Pennsylvania and pushed through New England. Snow, sleet and ice stretched over Tennessee and Georgia. Schools shut down by the scores in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ten- nessee. Influenza deaths up; nearing epidemic levels ATLANTA-Preliminary data from around the nation indicated yesterday that influenza is nearing epidemic levels in some areas, with deaths from flu and pneumonia surging above expected levels for a fourth consecutive week. Officials at the national Centers for Disease Control said they were studying still incomplete data collected by its extensive influenza sur- veillance network, which includes state health departments, hospitals and "sentinel physicians." Another black youth reported missing in Atlanta ATLANTA-The count of missing and slain black children in Atlanta rose to 16 yesterday when a 14-year-old boy was added to the list of missing, rekindling fears that had begun to ebb since the most recent slaying two months ago. Lubie "Chuck" Geter was last seen Saturday when his stepbrother drop- ped him at a shopping center where he planned to sell car deodorizers, Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown said yesterday. But Browrrcautioned reporters at a news conference that "we should not assume there is a relationship between this'case and other cases." Contempt charges leveled in school integration case BUCKEYE, La.-A federal judge yesterday began contempt proceedings against the parents of three white girls, school officials and a state jdge who has been escorting the girls to all-white Buckeye High School in defiane of a desegregation plan. U.S. District Judge Nauman Scott, who wants the girls bused 15 miles to a. racially integrated school, signed a charge of contempt of court two hours after state District Judge Richard Lee bucked federal authorities for the third straight day. U.S. Attorney Ransdell Keene had asked Scott to deal with such defiance by imposing a $1,000-a-day find on Lee and heavy fines on others involved. Signed without comment, Scott's "show-cause" order set a hearing for Jan. 15 at his court in Alexandria, 20 miles from Buckeye. Big Three auto sales down sharply in 1980 Domestic car sales by U.S. automakers in 1980 declined 20.3 percent to 6.6 million from 1979 for the industry's lowest total since 1961, while imports claimed a record 26.4 percent of the U.S. car market. Reports from the Big Three auto companies showed they sold 6,251,731 U.S.-built cars in 1980, down 21.1 percent from 7,897, 856 the previous year. Ford Motor Co. sales declined 30 percent, the biggest drop among the Big Three. Foreign car makers sold 2,368,400 cars in the U.S. in 1980, up four percent from last year. Snow socks Austria, Italy VIENNA, Austria-Ten feet of snow stranded thousands of people yester- day in the mountains of western Austria where four tourists have died in "white death" avalanches. Authorities said the blizzard-like conditions in the Arlberg mountains stranded some 6,000 winter tourists, including Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who was flown out of the Lech ski resort by helicopter after waiting three days. The icy winter weather, moving into Italy, dropped a foot of snow on the southern Italian mountains east of Naples, bringing more hardship to the tens of thousands of victims of the Nov. 23 earthquake still living in tents and house trailers. Stocks set record volume, plummet almost 24 points NEW YORK-The stock market suffered a sharp drop in record-breaking trading yesterday and the Dow Jones average of 30 industrials fell 23.80 to 980.89-its biggest drop since it lost 26.45 points last Oct. 9. In the first three sessions of the year the average climbed 40.70 points to 1004.69, its highest level in more than four years. New York Stock Exchange volume reached 92.89 million shares, breaking the old record of 84.08 million set last Nov. 5. Vol. XCI, No. 84 Thursday, January 8, 1981 The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. 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