The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, September 9, ?980-Page 3 'U'INDIA EXPERT Prof. Park dead at 60 University Political Science Prof. Richard Park, 60, died munexpectedly early yesterday at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital ollowing a long and protracted recovery from a stroke suf- (ered last winer. Park, a noted authority on India, was scheduled to teach a course on the "Politics of India" this term The professor served in India as an Air Force officer during World War II and wrote extensively on Indian affairs. He was also a frequent consultant to government agencies and other organizations interested in the Far East. PARK WAS A faculty member of the University of California at Berkeley for six years. He came to the Univer- sity in 1958, where he served as director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies from 1959 to 1962, and was acting chairman of the Political Science Department from 1971 to 1972. Park was also a faculty member at the University of Pit- tsburgh from 1964 to 1966. "Professor Park was unusual in his devotion to the, political science department and to the University," said colleague Samuel Barnes, current chairman of the Political Science Department. "He always undertook more than his share of departmen- tal work, loved working with students, and was an effective and popular teacher," Barnes said. Barnes said the late professor consistently lent his sup- portto students of and from India, worked with professional organizations concerned with Indian affairs, and promoted Indian studies. Park traveled and studied in India many times during his professional career. His books and articles include "Leader- ship and Political Institutions in India,". "U.S. Foreign Policy: Asia," and "India's Political System." He received his baccalaureate degree with honors at Nor- thwestern University in 1942, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard University in 1950 and 1951. Park is survived by his wife, Donna Divine Park. Memorial services are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Wed- nesday at Muehlig Funeral Chapel. Park's -body was cremated yesterday. School board rejects arbitration; city teachers remain off the job AP Photo Tax-cutting task Shiawassee County Drain Commissioner Robert Tisch (left) and his lawyer, Joseph Reid of Lansing, file papers yesterday with the Michigan Court of Appeals. Tisch is appealing a circuit court judge's ruling that removed his proposed tax cut from the November ballot. By JULIE BROWN Ann Arbor's public school strike con- tinued yesterday, with no formal negotiations held in the week-old dispute. Approximately 900 members of the Ann Arbor Education Association held a general membership meeting at the, Michigan Theater yesterday morning. The meeting was the first since the teachers voted by a 4-to-1 margin last Tuesday to strike. A The meeting, which was open to teachers' association members only, included discussion of both salary and non-salary issues, and of the status of negotiations, according the AAEA spokesman Dan Burroughs. Burroughs said teachers' association leaders spent slightly more than three hours explaining various'salary offers and answering teachers' questions. He said that AAEA President Richard Taylor indicated to the teachers that the school board offered no new proposals either on Friday or over the weekend. THE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION proposed Friday afternoon that the dispute be settled by binding ar- bitration. According to Board of Education President Wendy Barhydt, the school board decided Saturday not to accept the proposal. Barhydt cited several reasons for the decision. "We feel it's abrogating our responsibility," she said, noting that school board members are elected by the local community, and thus should settle the dispute. In addition, an out- side arbitrator would not have a vested interest in Ann Arbor or familiarity with the city's background, she said. "Astmuch as we want the teachers back to work, we do not feel it's ap- propriate to submit it to binding ar- bitration at this time," she added. Classes were scheduled to begin last Wednesday, with teachers reporting last Tuesday. Refugees storm compound FORT McCOY, Wis. (AP)-One hundred iCuban refugees rushed the chain-link fence that surrounds a refugee compound for single men for the second day in a row yesterday aqd were turned back by military police, a State Department spokesman said. David Nichols said that the distur- bance, similar to one which took place Sunday, resulted in minor injuries to five refugees and four military policemen. He said 20 refugees were apprehended by civilian and military personnel, about the same number as Sunday. LSA Graduation Procedures PANNING TO GRADUATE IN DECEMBER 1980? Submit your diploma application and senior concen- tration release form (for AB/BS candidates) or BGS Check Form' (for BGS candidates): TO: 1221 Angell Hall BY: THURSDAY, OCT. 2 DUE DATE FOR ALL GRADUA a A= Reagan caImpaigns among the jobless,, calls economy full-blown depression TION MATERIALS. This will ensure that your name appears on the Tentative Degree List and in the Commencement Program. LAST DAY TO SUBMIT GRADUA- TION MATERIALS. FRIDAY, DEC. 12 From the Associated Press Ronald Reagan campaigned among the jobless in the nation's industrial heartland yesterday and said that for them, the national recession is really a full-blown depression. While the Republican presidential nominee hammered away at President Carter's handling of the economy, White House press secretary Jody Powell accused Reagan of trying to "hide behind" independent candidate John Anderson and avoid a one-on-one debate with Carter. Anderson himself, campaigning in New York state, said Carter's refusal to admit him to the first presidential debate with Reagan "could become one of the major issues of 1980 cam- paign"-and one Anderson would win. IN ADVANCE OF a private dinner with former President Gerald Ford in Chicago, Reagan aides said the can- didate had won a commitment from Ford to campaign for the GOP stan- dard-bearer for 11 days this fall. The aides did not say where or when Ford would campaign for Reagan. Visiting Kokomo, Ind., where the unemployment rate is 19.5 per cent, Reagan attacked Carter's recovery program as too late to repair the economic damage wrought by his earlier policies. L"It's cynical, it's political and it's too late," he told several thousand people in a shopping mall parking lot a few blocks away from two large auto in- dustry plants that dominate the area's economy. Reminding his audience that unem- ployment in Kokomo is 19.5 per cent, and 25 per cent in another automobile town, Flint, Mich., Reagan said, "Those are the figures that are com- parable to the Great Depression of the 1930s. That's not the recession he (Car- ter) speaks of, that's depression." CARTER TOOK THE day off from campaigning and remained at the White House. He is to visit a New Jer- sey steel plant Tuesday. Anderson got an assist on the debate question from an unexpected quarter, former President Richard Nixon. "I say include him, and we'll see which is the better man," the former president said in an interview prepared for broadcast Tuesday on NBC-TV's "Today" program. But Nixon also conceded he might see things differently if he were in Carter's position, and might try to exclude An- derson from the first debate. NIXON SAID, ANDERSON would have no chance of playing a key role in the election or carrying any state in November if he is excluded from the debates. Carter has said he is willing to debate Anderson, but wants to meet Reagan alone first. Powell said, "We are per- fectly willing to participate in a multi- candidate debate, but we feel there has got to be an assurance that there will also be a one-on-one debate" between Carter and Reagan. China, U.S. reach agreement to begin commercial aviation PEKING (AP)-China and the United States initialed a long-awaited aviation agreement last night providing for direct commercial airline service between the two countries for the first time in almost 30 years. The agreement provides for more than one airline to fly the route, said Boyd Hight, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for transportation and communications. IN THE FIRST two years, however, only one U.S. airline will fly the route that includes Shanghai, Peking, T.okyo, Honolulu, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, sources #reported. A second airline will be added later, sour- ces said. Neither the U.S. nor the Chinese negotiators would provide further details on the agreement. It was signed in the Peking Hotel by Hight and Lin Zheng, deputy director general of the Civil Aviation Ad- ministration of China. THE AGREEMENT IS to be signed later in Washington but Hight said he did not know when. He said he could not predict whether the first flights would take place before the end of the year. It was learned, however, that a major signing ceremony is planned for aviation, maritime, textile and possibly a consular agreement between the U.S. and China. China had wanted only one carrier on each side, but the U.S. had insisted on multiple carriers. Pan American World Airways, Northwest Airlines, Trans World Airlines and United Airlines have expressed interest in the route. Observers said the route is not busy enough to justify its use by all four carriers. 1 1 HAPPENINGS- FILMS Ann Arbor Film Cooperative-Supershorts, 8:40 p.m.; Rock and Roll High School, 7, 10:20 p.m., Aud. A, Angell; He Who Gets Slapped, 8 p.m., Michigan Theater. Cinema Guild-Freaks and The Nickelhopper, 7, 9 p.m., Lorch Hall (Old Arch.) Aud. MEETINGS UM Rowing Club-5:30 meeting for old members, 7:30 meeting for new members; Henderson Room, Michigan League: Project Outreach Mass Meeting-7 p.m. Hill Auditorium. Orienteering Club-Open meeting, 8 p.m., Room 2230, CCRB. MISCELLANEOUS Office of Financial Aid Work/Study Job Fair-9-4 p.m., Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union. Financial aid authorization required for admittance. WUOM/WVGR-"A Profile of Leopol Stowkowski," Abram Chasens and Fred Calland, 10 a.m.