Ninety-One Years of Editorial Freedom ERIE iga l ltig NIPPY Cloudy and windy today with snow diminishing into flurries. Windy tonight with the low near 10. G P Q i p t l h Vol. XCI, No. 73 Copyright 1980, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, December 2, 1980 Ten Cents Twelve Page r° k~ e Syria- Jordan tensions mount DAMASCUS, Syria (AP)-Fears of a second war in the Middle East heightened yesterday on reports that Syria has 50,000 troops and 1,200 tanks on Jordan's border. Jordan moved up tanks and troops and said it would not shoot first but would defend the country against attack. Tension between the two Arab neigh- bors.built up as a result of their conflic- ting positions on the Iran-Iraq war and Syrian charges that Jordan was sup- porting Islamic fundamentalists trying to overthrow the government in Damascus. IN WASHINGTON, the Carter ad- ministration was considering a ship- ment of military spare parts and am- munition to Jordan and one U.S. official rated the chances of a conflict at better than 50-50. One U.S. official said the additional sales would be limited in size and "We are not planning to open the flood gates" to sell Jordan all the arms it wants. He said he would not describe in detail the Jordanian request for arms shipments, but said it does not include a speedup in deliveries of 100 M60A3 tanks which Jordan is scheduled to begin receiving in 1982. U.S. CONCERN about the situation is matched by other countries, including Saudi Arabia, which has sent a high- ranking delegation to Damascus to try to cool the situation. Prime Minister Mudar Badran of Jordan told the parliament in Amman "We shall not shoot first, but we shall See OFFICIALS, Page 9 ;5:1 Supreme Court agrees to decide on female draft t'' s f y6 R S '2 :, ' 5<: Z . g, i':4'Y ,.- p5w x A "" y.5'. I I From UPI and AP WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court said yester- day it will decide whether any U.S. m ilitary draft, or draft registration, must include women. The justices will hear, probably in March, the gover- nment's appeal from a decision striking down draft registration as discriminating against men by ex- cluding women from the pool of potential draftees. The government contends all-male registration is necessary to preserve the military's flexibility in stationing troops, since Congress intended "all poten- tial conscripts - whether or not destined for combat assignments - should be combat-capable." WOMEN ARE NOW barred from combat roles - an issue that is not directly before the court in this case. Registration opponents argue the government has no legitimate reason to impose sex-based discrimination in deciding who must register for possible military service. The court's decision conceivably could have an effect on the future of the proposed Equal Rights Amen- dment. Opponents of the amendment, which would outlaw discrimination based on sex, have pointed to the drafting of women as one of the amendment's evils, but such an obligation now could come about without the ERA. Historically, young American men have been required to register for possible miltary service and to serve. Young women face no such obligations. A THREE-JUDGE federal court panel in Philadelphia last July struckddown the system, citing unconstitutional sex bias. If the Supreme Court were to uphold that ruling, Congress would have to amend the Military Selective' Service Act to include women as potential draftees. Despite the lower court's ruling, some four million men were required to register for the draft last July. If registration and the draft are ruled unconstitutional, the government might have to destroy all records of that registration. THERE HAS BEEN NO military draft since 1973. Even if the male only registration is upheld, Congress still would have to pass a new law before call-ups could be resumed.. While arguments before the Supreme Court likely will be limited to the validity of draft registration, the three-judge panel's decision struck down the entire Military Selective Service Act, which includes induc- tion as well as registration. The court's eventual decision likely will not be an- nounced until next May or June. Oral arguments probably will be held sometime in March. In striking down the 1949 law, the lower court said, "The principal reason the government proffers for a male-only registration is that it provides military flexibility. "THE RECORD here, however, reveals that women do serve a useful role in the military and provide im- portant skills.. . Flexibility is not enhanced but is in fact limited by the complete exclusion of women," the lower court's July 18 decision said. The legal challenge that led to the July 18 ruling was filed in 1971 by three Pennsylvania men as a protest to the Vietnam war. It had gone unnoticed in the federal courts for years but was revived last December when President Carter reinstituted draft registration in the wake of the Soviet Union's intervention in Afghanistan. On July 19, Justice William J. Brennan Jr. allowed the government to go ahead with its July 2t registration of all 19- and 20-year-old men. He predic- ted at that time that the government's appeal of the three-judge court's ruling would be accepted for review by the full Supreme Court. Under a landmark 1976 Supreme Court decision, laws treating men and women differently cannot stand if they do not serve "important governmental objec- tives".and are not "substantially related" to achieving such objectives. Court to rule on federal aid for biased school WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to decide whether the government can withhold federal money from schools that discriminate against female employees. The court said it will study a ruling in a Seattle University case that a federal law designed to halt sex bias in education does not apply to school em- ployment practices. The court's eventual ruling will carry significant impact for any school receiving some kind of federal aid - virtually every school in the nation, IN A BUSY DAY, the justices also took these ac- tions: " Refused to limit the scope of a federal trial court's inquiry into alleged bias against blacks and women by the Virginia State Police in its hiring and promotion policies. " Declined to expand their study into what legal remedies are available to women who think they are paid lower salaries than men in comparable jobs. The court turned down a request that a case in- volving alleged bias at Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s plant in Trenton, N.J., be consolidated with a Washington.County, Ore., case already under study. " AGREED TO decide whether 'a federal worker who charges the government with on-the-job age See COURT, Page 9 'Tis the seasonPhoto Workmen ..in Washington, D.C. put- the finishing touches on a large menorah in preparation for Hanukkah, which begins tonight. The annual display is in Lafayette Park across from the White House. CHRISTOPHER TO CLARIFY HOSTA GE TERMS: Uad From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher was sent to Algeria last night with the U.S. response to Iran's request for clarification on terms for freeing the American hostages. The mission appeared to keep alive the give-and-take with Iran over the 52 Americans, held captive for nearly 13 months. But there was no indication of a }::, ". . breakthrough in the e gain their release. In Algiers, Christop meet with Algerian Minister Mohamed B and Algerian offici have been serving a mediaries between th States and Iran. State Depa spokesman David N Christopher and his de will be prepared to any questions the A efforts to might have regarding the1 position. )her will Christopher conferredc Foreign the weekend with Presi 3enyahia Carter at Camp David, Mi als who about the U.S. respons as inter- Iran's request e United clarification, brought her Algerian emissaries rtment Tuesday. [all said Iran's terms, announ elegation Nov. 2, call for an Amer answer promise not to interfere in lgerians country's internal affa for, talk s US. cancellation of all American claims against Iran, release of over more than $8 billion in im- dent pounded Iranian assets and [d., return of the wealth of the late e to Shah 'Mohammad Reza for Pahlavi. e by A State Department official last said the U.S. response to Iran, which will be further expoun- nced ded to the Algerians by 'ican Christopher, is an explanation nthe of what the president and the airs, See CHRISTOPHER, Page 9 : a te.... .h ,. .. .. .. .. .. r ,i. :,: . . ,--: .:. :,. ..,..« a.. ..a,. es .,....<.'r.r...::: ....v.... :'.. .., :c<'.. .v ,.. a. ..'3 . .... .. .............., Y.... ,<>ro...<. . M.-IM SAID takes top LSA-SG BY CHARLES THOMSON Sue Porter and Margaret Talmers of Porter Talmers elected the Student Alliance for Institutional Development won by more than a two- " " to-one margin the presidency and vice- in highest turnout ever presidency of the LSA Student Gover- neti lcin edls ek nment in elections held last week. Turnout for the election was the for the council were elected. One of the SAID, student input into budget cutting heaviest in LSA-SG history. Of the more independents, Mark Bonine, received decisions. than 2,300 ballots cast in the two days of more votes than any other non-SAID Porter said she was looking forwarc voting, elections officials judged 2,203 }candidate. - to working with the new council anc - representing approximately 16 per- Porter attributed her victory to SAID that she saw a value in the diversity of cent of the 13,000-plus member LSA party campaigning and organization. views which she thinks will be student body - to be valid. The turnout "Everybody in our party got out and represented on the council. shattered the record set last year of worked," she said. "Our campaigning J. P. ADAMS, co-chairperson of the 1,500 valid ballots. was really solid." Student Alliance for Better Represen- BESIDES CAPTURING the THE SAID campaign emphasized tation, said he thought the new counci: executive positions on the student student involvement in future ad- members would work well together anc } government, SAID candidates ministrative budget-cutting decisions, said the views of the council members dominated the balloting for positions on the University's efforts of meeting its are somewhat similar. "I'm sure,' the 15-member LSA-SG executive affirmative action goals, and the Adams said, "some of the people that council. All six of the SAID candidates quality of the University's graduate ran on the SAID slate could have rur for the executive council were elected, teaching assistants. very easily on my slate and vice- and each of the six received more Votes The SABRE campaign focused its versa. . . I think the two groups will than any of the non-SAID candidates. campaign on an overhaul of the work very well together." Both independent candidates running academic counseling system and, like Tim Lee, the SABRE presidentia. 9 d d If e e it n 11 al posts candidate, spoke of the results as giving a "mandate", to the council. "Ob- viously, they (the results) speak for themselves," he said. "It's a'mandate from those who voted." "It's no big deal," he continued. "It's over and done with. I don't even care anymore." ADAMS SAID he was disappointed that SABRE won only seven seats on the council. Although each position on the council is equal, Adams said, "I didn't want them to be the bottom seven seats." The only candidates who lost were SABRE candidates. Yesterday Adams dropped a lawsuit he had filed with the Michigan Student Assembly Central Student Judiciary in which he claimed that the LSA-SG elec- tion code had been violated when SABRE posters were allegedly covered by SAID posters during the campaign. Adams said he had considered pursuing See PORTER, Page 3 Daily Photo by JIM KRUZ. Porter . . .................... .... ... ..... .................. ......................... «.ge m : s. x . ,' . s x 2f'+'. re.ca 8. ? S.. SJ.. m's' ' '. " . .. "'. ':.. : 'is. .'.. '.,. r. .: < .F" !f\ Y .. .... .... <. -A.: 5 o x..- l <.r u r: ... -, «:: ~. :...Rsz : s :1,F 3 .:. ':5':, ,..:.. ... ... f a TODAY-7 Piercing steady tones D ON'T be alarmed when the alarms go of f from atop the LSA Building and elsewhere in the city at 3 p.m. Wednesday. The noisemaking will mark the first test of a siren warning system, installed recently on the buildng's roof as part of an overall warning system for the city. Similar sirens have been placed throughout Ann Arbor to give prior warning of extreme weather conditions, according to the TTniversitv's Tnfnrmation Services A three to five minute terested in helping evacuate archeological sites in that country. "City center redevelopment, new road building programs, and rapidly changing land use are threatening the disappearance of prehistoric graves, Iron-age set- tlements, Roman villas, and fascinating relics of medieval towns all over Britain," an association spokesman said. Students with previous archeological experience have been invited to join an international team on a dig of the impor- tant medieval city of Northhampton and the Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Norfolk. Experienced volunteers, the spokesperson added, will receive free room and board for their efforts. Interested students can contact the society at 35 screaming Blue zealots. "Tradition brought me down," said 1952 alumni Cy Carlton. "It makes me very uncomfor- table to watch the game without being surrounded by Michigan people." Howard Kaplan, a 1956 graduate of the law school, said his love for Michigan football brought him to the tavern. "If you go to a Big Ten school it lasts a lifetime," he said.i d CRISP appointments There's good news for more than 1100 University students who. faced losing their CRISP appointments due to hold, credit orders placed on their student accounts. According to No place like home "The other inmates aren't very friendly and 20 or 30 mice run around my cell every night," complains Natasha Moskowitz, 27, of Great Neck Plaza, N.Y. Even though she owes $4,915 worth of parking tickets, she says prison is a "cruel and inhuman" place for her to repay her debt to society. Her recent request for release-after serving nine days of her 50-day sentence in Nassau County Jail-was refused by the judge. Supreme Court Justice Steven Derounian said Moscowitz has "a cavalier attitude" about. the 124 tickets she collected over two years. She received- II ;I i