Ninety-One Years Of Editorial Freedom P I IIE I U :43 tti CHILBLAINS Snow flurries this mor- ning, partly clearing in the afternoon with a high in the mid-2fln Vol. XCI, No. 88 Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan, Tuesday, January 13,1981 Ten Cents Twelve Pages LSA may take action *to cut programs this term BY JEFF VOIGT LSA administrators may take action this term towards eliminating several of the liberal arts college's programs, Acting LSA Dean John Knott said yesterday. - Speaking to about 125 LSA faculty members at their monthly meeting, Knott said the college's executive committee had been "actively" con- sidering programs for possible discon- tinuance, but had not yet reached any conclusions., In response to increasingly lower state appropriations, University adm- inistrators and faculty members have been discussing the possibility of reducing or discontinuing some programs or departments so other programs can prosper. "I BELIEVE very much that the time has come to get on with (program reduction)," Knott said. "If we are not willing to make these decisions at the department or college levels we will end up sliding (in * academic quality) more than other- wise," he added. Knott also said he agreed with University 'President Harold Shapiro and Vice President for Academic Af- fairs Bill Frye who have rejected across-the-board budget cuts in favor of mote selective program reductions and eliminations. SOME FACULTY members at yesterday's meeting also argued again-" st "shared poverty." History Prof. Louis Orlin asked Knott if the University would 'support areas. "that need boosting" in addition to elim inating programs deemed less worth- while. Knott told faculty members that it is possible that some departments would. See LSA, Page 6 Iran takes legal steps to resolve Rock and Roll veteran In a rare nightclub ap earance last night, Chuck Berr performs for an enthusiastic crowd at Second Chance. A review of the two sell-out performances will appear in the Daiy tomorrow. AR CHIVIST CAN'T RELEASE NIXON TAPES: Haig" would protect oil hostag From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - Iran took legal steps yesterday to open the way to. resolving the hostage crisis,-but a U.S. negotiating team reported "serious problems" in gaining Iranian approval of a Carter administration plan to ex- change frozen Iranian assets for the 52 American captives. President Carter, asked about prospects for a settlement, said, "It looks better, but I can't predict success. We've made them a reasonable proposition." IRANIAN PRIME Minister Moham- mad Ali Rajai was quoted by Tehran radio as saying, "the issue is making progress," but then added that "as long as we consider America as an aggressor in the world, we shall not retreat from our position." The speaker of Iran's Parliament, Hashemi Rafsanjani, told a news con- ference in Tehran that "all roads" were open to settling the 14-month-old hostage issue.' The central issues are the amount of money Iran would get when the hostages are released and the com- plicated problem of settling financial claims by individuals and companies in both countries. Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher met again Sunday with Algerian Foreign Minister Mohamed Benyahia in the drive to reach an agreement by the end of the week to free the 52 Americans and today paid a ceremonial call on the Algerian president. THE CHRISTOPHER delegation turned over to the Algerians, who are acting as a go-between, replies to a third set of Iranian questions about the. U.S. Plan to break the deadlock. Essen- tially, the plan would return billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets in ex- change for the release of the Americans, who have been held for more than 14 months. Informed sources in Washington, D.C., said the administration was working on a plan that would be "legally binding" on Carter's suc- cessor, President-elect Ronald Reagan. It calls for releasing the hostages at the same time as Iran receives the first of three installments of its frozen assets. So far, Iran has not responded to the American plan, which was revised slightly and transmitted to Iran of- ficials by Algerian diplomats on Jan. 2. ACCORDING TO the sources, who spoke on condition their names not be disclosed, the U.S. has said it would un- freeze a total of $12 billion in Iranian' assets that Carter froze in retaliation for the seizure of the hostages and the U.S. Embassy on Nov. 4, 1979, by Iranian revolutionaries. After the initial $2.5 billion payment, a second transfer would involve about $4 billion in assets which Iran had deposited in subsidiaries of American banks in London, Paris and elsewhere overseas, the sources said. These funds - some of which were seized to offset loan defaults by Iran - would take longer to deliver to Iran than those in' the federal reserve. The third category - nearly $6 billion, in assets in American banks - could take weeks to sort out because most are tied up in American claims against Iran. IRAN'S OFFICIAL Pars news agen- cy said the proposals will be discussed in an open session today-and diplomatic sources in Algiers said that often- divided body would decide if the U.S. of- fer was acceptable. crisis WASHINGTON (AP)-Alexander Haig testified yesterday that the United States must be prepared to act-alone if necessary-to protect the industrialized world's access to Middle East oil. The former NATO commander said an expanded U.S. military presence in the area is necessary because the NATO alliance cannot be counted on to expand its defense commit- ments to include the oil lifelines of the Persian Gulf. HAIG COMMENTED on his third day of testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, whose attention is divided between his foreign policy views as a prospective secretary of state and efforts to gain access to 100 hours of taped White House conversations between Haig and then- President Richard Nixon. Robert Warner, the U.S. archivist and former director of the University's Bentley Library, told the committee he had asked Nixon to waive legal time limits so the subpoenaed material sought by the panel can be released at once. Warner said the law requires that he not release any tapes or suppor- ting documents without giving the former president time at least five days to respond. The committee chairman, Sen. Charles H. Percy (R-Ill.) issued a subpoena Sunday night for the logs and indexes to the tape recordings made in the spring and summer of 1973. At the time, Haig was White House chief of staff and the Watergate scandal was engulfing Nixon's presidency. SEN. PAUL TSONGAS (D-Mass.) told Warner it was ob- vious that only one person stands in the way of immediate access to the subpoenaed logs, "and that one person is Richard Nixon." Replied Warner: "You'do hit at the heart of the matter." Percy said issuance of the subpoena, a first step toward ob- taining "relevant" tapes, was not intended to delay Haig's expected confirmation by the full Senate beyond Ronald- Reagan's inauguration as president on Jan. 20 Sen. Richard 'Lugar, (R-Ind.) said efforts by committee Democrats to obtain the tapes may result only in damaging Haig's effectiveness. Percy agreed and told Haig: "We want no cloud to hang over your head." - But Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) said he resented the im- plication that Democrats were somehow doing something wrong by insisting that the tapes be subpoenaed. Polish Nobel prize winner ' - speaks on his life as a poet By BARRY WITT Although he doesn't "consider myself a Whena Sedih jurnlistphoed zesaw.novelist," Milosz wrote his novel Seizure of Milosz at 4 a.m. one morning last fall to inform, him that he had just won the Nobel Prize for Power in 1952 to enter a contest to relieve himself t h of poverty. His novel, which only took two mon- literature, the noted Polish poet told him, "It's ths to write, won the Prix Litteraire Europeen in very early. Do you know what time of night this Geneva is?" And he went back to sleep. Liviag in France in the 1950s, he continued to That is how Milosz described himself and his write, with his works appearing in various works to reporters yesterday. The 1980 Nobel weeklies and other newspapers to "keep my lcture last i htAnn Arboro Currns the Center name on the market," he said. But he decided for Russian nd East European Studies' festival that he was unhappy with his life. ' 'y' of the arts and humanities. IN 1960, MILOSZ joined the faculty at the OF HIS Nobel Prize, Milosz said: "It was an Unversity of California in Berkeley, where he extremely warm experience." He dispelled the continued his writing and translatig. rumor that the award was given with political Milosz accepted the fact that he was writing motivations in view of recent rumblings in his for a limited audience. He said, "If one accepts native Poland. Milosz said he was told in defeat, in the sense that one writes in a void, then Stockholm that the decision was made in May, one writes truth. He added that the poet no before any uprisings in Eastern Europe. longer has to consider outside pressures, such as Milosz said one of the greatest advantages to pleasing a market. In his speech on East European poetry last ~" his winning the award is "after 30 years spent in n is pid tEat E 7r o lis poets exile . . . suddenly a reversal took place. I have night, Milosz said that 1970s Polish poets "demonstrate freedom," more similar to ~ been embraced by the (Polish) government. One' west rpt-mrn p oets. hundred thousand copies (of my book) sold in a western orTpost-modern poets. wdys ,, HE SAID THFE East European poets are con- few days." 7ly Besides turning "everything upside down" - centrating on tackling their own problems, thereby expressing more freedom. Milosz said in terms of his acceptance in Poland the he feels his Nobel award symbolizes a "victory award prompted congratulatory telegrams from over censorshi " Al the Pope, the Polish government, a leader of the oecnsrhp. tradPo , te unions, and President Carter. His award also has prompted many tran- Daily Photo by JIM KRUz Polish t T saLEFT Poland in 1951 Cfor France, slations of his work. A student of language, CZESLAW MILOSZ, WINNER of the 1980 Nobel Prize for literature, talks to andHE POET Ftr n was, o ever' Milosz always has been concerned with proper reporters yesterday before giving the opening lecture for Cross Currents, and hean honorary degree from a Polis translations of poetry to convey the proper the festival of the arts and humanities sponsored by the Center for Russian university, and he plans to pick it up personally. See NOBEL, Page 9 and East European Studies. City gambles with odds and evens ofS sow removal By JANET RAE Recipe for confusion: Take one little-known, seldom enfor- ced ordinance, enforce it city-wide with only 14 hours public notification, add city officials'who misquote the ordinance, and ticket violators. Makes one batch very confused citizens. The confusion arose during the first "snow emergency" of the season last week when a previously unused ordinance con- cerning snow removal on "secondary" streets - those main thoroughfares not designated "Snow Emergency Routes"- was enforced. During a declared emergency, parking is prohibited on the uneven-numbered sides of these streets on uneven days. Con- versely, cars parked on the even-numbered side of the street on even days can be ticketed. BUT A NUMBER of residents have complained that they did not receive enough notification of the upcoming enforcement of the law. Others say that, upon calling various city offices, they were misinformed as to which side of the street they were supposed to park on for the day. Even Ann Arbor Mayor Louis Belcher managed to get caught up in the confusion. "On odd-numbered days, you park on the odd-numbered side of the street," he told the Daily last night, misquoting the ordinance. "On even-numbered days, you park on the even-numbered side of the street." The mayor was quickly corrected by Assistant City Ad- See SNOW, Page 6 TODAY How cdo you spell 'huge?' THE UNIVERSITY of Michigan, apparently, is not the only home for great minds. Julius Bar- banel, who teaches mathematics at Union College in Schenectedy, N.Y., has come up with a scientific theory of what is huge and what isn't. Barbanel explained at a recent American Mathematical Society con- vention that his theory stems partly from the fact that some infinite numbers are larger than other infinite numbers. Battle Hymn of Philadelphia Some people just never seem to be able to outgrow their "I-want-to-be-a-soldier" days. Witness the case of former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo, who, according to his immediate predecessor James Tate, asked the city for an army tank for the police force. Rizzo asked for the tank when he was the city's police commissioner, before serving as a two-term mayor, Tate said in an interview in The Philadelphia Inquirer. " 'A tank?' I said. He said there was a city in Mississippi that had one: I asked what they used it For instance, people's food choices can help save fuel energy, says agricultural scientist David Pimentel. The Cornell University professor says, for example, the energy input of a vegetarian dinner is less than one-third that of a beef dinner. Even fish and chicken represent savings. More than twice the amount of energy is needed to produce a serving of beef than a serving of either chicken or fish, Pimentel told a symposium in Toronto on the national im- pacts of recommended dietary changes. Pimentel said a reduction by half in consumption of meat and other animal products would save half the energy, mineral resources, and land, and one-third the water used in animal produc- of imaginary ticks in their hair. The man talked his way in- to women's homes and then told them they had bugs in their hair, police said. Some women told him to leave, and he did, according to authorities, but others allowed him to go through their hair picking imaginary ticks. Police say they have finally arrested the man believed to be the culprit. Authorities said Joseph Smietana, 35, was arrested near his home on a misdemeanor assault warrant alleging that he is the "tick-picker," and it seems they have succeeded in washing that man right out of the hair of the Great Falls women. I