The Michigan Daily-Saturday, September 21, 1980-Page 3 GOVERNMENT REQUESTS SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS Drgistrants face decision A)"mqSwpu We stock a full line of clothing, boots, camping equipment, hunting clothing & winter coats. 201 E. Washington at Fourth Open M-Sat 9-6 994-3572 - i- By BARRY WITT Registrants for the draft who failed to include their social security numbers-either willfully or through neglect-when completing forms this past summer must now decide whether they will comply with the government's request for the information. All 19- and 20-year-old men who registered, whether or not they completed the social security number section, were mailed confirmation letters this week, according to Betty Alexander, Selective Service public information director. THE CONFIRMATION LETTERS include a photocopy of the registrant's form. Men who did not complete the request for their social security number= br made any other errors on the forms have 10 days to return the completed photocopy. Alexander said there is no count on how many men did not comply with the social security number request. Howard Simon, Michigan executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said yesterday there are three options for those who did not enter their. social security numbers in the summer: They can complete the form as requested, refuse to comply, or return the form uncompleted and include a letter stating they are plaintiffs in the current ACLU class action suit against registration. THE ACLU IS USING the 1974 Privacy Act as the basis for contesting the Selective Service requirement that registrants submit their social security numbers. The act prohibits any new uses of the number as a means of identification without prior congressional approval. (Because it began using the number for identification before the act was passed, the University can continue to do so.) Simon ,said the use of the number on draft registration forms was an administrative decision by the Selective Service, not a decision by Congress. Another ACLU suit, which contests registration because it may discrimiante against women, is ex- pected to be heard by the Supreme Court this fall. The ACLU anticipates a decision in this suit by December or January. ACLU attorney David Landau, who is leading the Privacy Act case, suggested that those who do not wish to comply with the social security number request but want to minimize the risk of prosecution should return the incomplete form with a letter. The letter should indicate that the registrant is awaiting a decision in the ACLU suit (expected sometime around Thanksgiving) and that he will comply with the request if the judge rules against the r suit, Simon said. U I I I I I I I I I I S15% OFF ALLI Merchandise with this coupon (except sole items) Expires September 27, 1980 ; Iranians don't plan to leave U.S. *mmmmmmmmmmmmmm~mmmmmU From United Press International Iranian students in the United States who backed the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's overthrow of the shah don't appear too eager to return home to help fight Iraq. A check of college and university can)puses around the country yester- day found little evidence of any impen- ding patriotic exodus. IRANIAN STUDENTS said they were monitoring the fighting closely. Some accused the United States of helping Iraq and said they didn't believe that battle reports were accurate. Parvis Karimi, 34, a graduate student at Texas Southern University, said he -had talked to his family in Iran Wed- nesday and was told "they didn't need any more soldiers." Saeid Safari, 21, a TSU mechanical ;engineering student, said he would :return home to help if needed "but they've got enough people back there." "THERE'S NO NEED for us to go arid fight," Safari said. "The news we're getting now is not accurate. We ;have destroyed many Iraqi bases, but youtdon't-see that in the news." E'f they called us, we would go back 'because that is our home," said Moshen Mphazzab, 26, an engineering student atthe University of Houston., At Stanford University in Galifornia, a group of students who declined to give their names said they believed the United States was helping Iraq. "THE FACTS ARE that the United States is behind this war," one of them said. "The U.S. is dividing up Iran. The ultimate aim is the Persian Gulf, the oil." A 26-year-old doctorate candidate in engineering said he was wondering if he should return to help his family in Tehran. "I can't make decisions," he said, "but if they declare real war, yes, I get my ticket." FEW OF THE 52 Iranian students at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., are pro-Khomeini, said graduate student Neguin Yavari. But she said they realize the alternatives found in Khomeini's political opposition are "pretty shaky, too." For that reason, she said, most students were reluctant to return unless the fighting spread, adding she and a few of her friends were considering a move to Europe. "Khomeini destroyed a whole lifestyle," she said. "An education isn't worth anything there any more." PIXIE MARTIN, who works at the in- ternational student advisor's office at the University of Minnesota and who is engaged to an Iranian graduate student, said the Iranian students 'she knows felt that Khoneini was acting on "religious fervor and not political reality." "Rushing home is about the last thing on their minds," she said. A check with foreign student advisers also turned up little evidence of homeward bound activities. "NONE FROM PITT have gone back-at least that I'm aware of. We meet with them daily and we would know," said a foreign student adviser at the University of Pittsburgh. Texas Tech immigration counselor Debbie Martin said "a couple" of Iranian students were considering returning to their homeland to fight against Iraq. "They are very worried right now," Martin said. "As to whether they will follow through, I have no way of knowing." "Our Iranian students are keeping a low profile," said an official at Roger 'Williams College in Bristol, R.I. "Our foreign student adviser, John Christina, talked to them yesterday and nobody is leaving to go back and fight. They aren't sure what it would do to their immigration status." Air Force checks Arkansas illnesses FHAPPENINGS- i FILMS wl AAFC-The Awful Truth, 7 and 10:30 p.m.; Arsenic and Old Lace, '8:30 p.m., MLB 3. Alt. Action Films-Blazing Saddles, 7 and 11 p.m.; The Twelve Chairs, 9p.m., MLB 4. Cinema Guild-Julia, 7 and 9 p.m., Lorch Hall Aud. Cinema II-Destination Moon, 7 p.m.; Death Race 2000, 9 p.m., Angell Aud. A. MEETINGS Japan Club-Open meeting, 7:30 p.m., International Center. PERFORMANCES Ark-"Owen McBride," 9 p.m., The Ark, 1421 Hill St. Canterbury Stage Co.-"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," 8 p.m., Canterbury Loft. Eclipse Jazz-Ann Arbor Jazz Festival, 8 p.m., Hill Aud. N.Y. Street. Theatre Caravan-"Morey Maguire," 8:30 p.m., R.C. Aud. School of Music-"Dances for Two," 8 p.m., School of Music Recital GUY, Ark. (AP)-Air Force experts began testing water and soil in this rural Arkansas community yesterday to determine what caused some residents to become ill following' last week's explosion at a Tital II missile silo, authorities said. The state Health Department also sent an investigator since "there is enough suspicious information there that it ought to be checked out in more detail," said Robert Yong, director of the department. MAJ. ED NEUNHERZ, a spokesman at Little Rock Air Force Base, said the Air Force had sent three two-man teams to talk to residents of Guy "to let them know the Air Force is concerned." In addition, he said several "bio- environmental engineers" from the Air Force were in Guy to make tests "to see if there's been any toxic release in and around Guy."' Richard Merritt, a spokesman for the state Department of Pollution Control and Ecology, said the dipartment had asked the Air Force to find out whether the silo cracked and leaked chemicals into water which feeds wells in the area. ABOUT 3 A.M. on Sept. 19, a 103-foot Titan II exploded in a silo five miles northwest of this town of about 200, killing one man, injuring 21, and blowing a nuclear warhead several hundred feet from the underground silo. Sgt. David Livingston, 22, of Heath, Ohio, died partly as the result of lung damage caused by breathing toxic material, according to a spokesman at the Little Rock hospital where he died. Mayor Benny Mercer, 39, said that a fog that looked like a "light snow" drif- ted into Guy about 4 a.m. that day, dissipating after about 15 minutes. It made his nose burn to breathe the fog, he said. LATER THAT DAY, he said, mem- bers of at least nine families in Guy began to suffer similar sym- ptoms-burning sensations in the nose, throat,'lungs and stomach; nausea, and dry, salt-tasting lips. Young said some reports to the Health Department indicated that the "fog" was " brownish-red color that' could have been a nitrogen-type cloud." Nitrogen tetroxide was one of the chemicals that was used to form the propellant in the Titan II, the Air Force has said. " A QUESTION THAT arose in our mind was the far-out possibility that maybe there was another leak in another silo at that time," Young said. He said the Air Force denied that any others were leaking. Dr. Richard Hinkle, 58, of nearby Quitman, said he had seen eight or nine patients from Guy who were com- plaining of the symptoms. They probably breathed some fumes from the blast, he said. Mercer said 'some individuals, in- cluding himself, have had the sym- ptoms off and on for a week. Mercer blamed the silo and complained that the Air Force "wouldn't admit to anything." I Hall. MISCELLANEOUS I Ann Arbor U. Women's Club-Book Sale, 12-9 p.m., Union Ballroom. Grad. Women's Network-Conference, "Women in Academe: The Time. That Try Men's Souls," 9:30 a.m., Union. ICLE-Workshop, "Gov't Controls on Imports," 9 a.m., Hutchins Hall. ILIR-Conference, "Discovering Workers' Culture in American Society," 9 a.m., Rackham Aud. ISI-Canoeing and picnic, open to all foreign students, noon, 994-4669. Literary Council of Washtenaw County-Workshop, volunteer adult reading tutoring, final day, 9 a.m., Ann Arbor Public Library. UAC-Auditions, Pint-sized Productions' "Winnie the Pooh," 6:30 p.m., Union; Dance, 9 p.m., Union Ballroom. 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