Ninety-One Years of Editorial Freedom P LIE 43UU I~kIIIQ WARMER Partly cloudy today with a high around 40, and a low around 30. No precipitation expected. Vol. XCI, No. 75 Copyright 1980, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, December 4, 1980 Ten Cents Ten Page BS U.S. to Soviet Union: Stay out of Polish K udos to Carter Daily Photo by BRIAN MASCK UNIVERSITY WIDE receiver Anthony Carter was the only sophomore named to the Associated Press 1980 All-America football team yesterday. See story in Sports, Page 9. New party seeks policy change or blacks, poor WASHINGTON (UPI) - The United States, from its Democratic president to Republican senators, spoke yester- day with a single voice to the Soviet Union: Don't send your tanks into Poland. President Carter, in a White House statement, said Soviet military inter- vention in Poland would have the "most negative consequences" not only for future Washington-Moscow ties but for all East-West relations. SECRETARY OF State Edmund Muskie, himself a Polish-American, warned the Soviets of the "tremendous costs" they would face in invading Poland from the resistance of the Polish people and possibly military ac- tion by the Western powers. Republicans who will take over Senate leadership in January forecast "slaughter and bloodshed" if the Soviets attempt to solve their political problem in Poland as they did by force of arms in Czechoslovakia in 1968. President-elbet Ronald Reagan was closely following the situatioi frequent briefings by the Sta tment and U.S. intelligence. K House aides, reading statement, noted similar sE had been expressed by spoke Reagan - and America'sl allies. NO ONE FLATLY predicte tanks were about to roll a Polish borders, or threatened med retaliation, but all si determination the Soviets st miscalculate Western reaction Carter said, "I want all cot know that the attitude an policies of the United States directly and very adversely af any Soviet use of force in Polar "The United States cont believe that the. Polish pe( authorities should be free to their internal difficulties wit side interference," the statem DECLARING THE Unite affairs ,n through "has no interest in exploiting in any te Depar- political ends," Carter warned: Key White "Foreign military intervention in Carter's Poland would have the most negative entiments consequences for East-West relations esmen for in general and U.S.-Soviet relations in European particular. . . I want all countries to know that the attitude and future d Russian policies of the United States toward the cross the Soviet Union would be directly and very I gSar adversely affected by any Soviet use of gnaled a force in Poland." .ould not Muskie, in a speech to the Overseas n e Writers Club in Washington, said the untries to Soviets "must make a balanced d future judgment" between the costs and would be benefits of military intervention. ffected by As well as strictly military costs of td." meeting Polish resistance, Muskie said, imues to West Europe would react more strongly ople and than it had to Afghanistan, economic work out retaliation could -destroy basic Soviet hout out- programs, and a strategic arms; ent said. limitation pact would become im- *d States possible., By DAVID SPAK "Political parties should be involved in more than just politics," said a member of the newly-formed National Black Independent Political Party. Manning Marable, one of 2,000 founding members of the party, which will be directed by blacks, said NBIPP will focus on "the most disenfranchised and alienated people in the political process," namely, blacks and the poor. "OUR SUCCESS will be determined- by our impact on public policy and community development goals," said Marable, a professor at Cornell University. Although the party is national, Marable said most of its work will be done at state and local levels of government. "We will have more impact upon policy if we are able to elect blacks as superintendents of schools, mayors, city com- missioners and the like, than if we try to elect 10 or so congressmen," said Marable. Jemadari Kamara, the Midwest regional representative to the organizing committee and director of Trotter House's Minority Student Center, added the party would be set up through local and state chapters to best "reflect the diversity of the black community." Marable said the growth of the party depends upon how ef- fective the party is in changing public policy toward blacks. NBIPP's hopes for growth were fueled by a survey appearing in Black Enterprise magazine in which 33 percent of the respondents said they would support a new black political party as an alternative to the Democrats and Republicans, Marable said. THE PARTY hopes to do more than just run candidates for office, Marable said. Potential activities include: * Organizing boycotts and demonstrations - the party has already organized protest marches in North Carolina. " Organizing "freedom schools," some of which have been established, to teach black youths Afro-American history and other subjects after school and on weekends; " Increasing community involvement among blacks. " Working to correct some of "the fundamental wrongs in our process of democracy," and raise questions about the economic and political situation which cut across racial barriers. In Michigan, Kamara said, the party hopes to take aim against issues affecting the state, such as unemployment and maintenance of financial aid for students. KAMARA SAID he hopes the party will "capture the con- cerns of the black community" and make it more self-reliant, although the issues the party deals with will have an impact "not only on the black community." Marable said, NBIPP members will likely vote on a con- stitution sometime in July or August of 1981. "We are trying to distinguish ourselves from the old (political) process because politics is a process not a thing" which is the way the Democrats and Republicans treat it, the Cornell professor said. "This is a new commitment under one movement. That has never happened in our history," he said. Underground leader Dolrn surrenders CHICAGO (AP) - Still proclaiming her support for "rebellion," one-time Weather Underground leader Bernar- dine Dohrn surrendered yesterday af- ter 11 years in hiding and pleaded in- nocent to charges stemming from a' series of violent anti-war demon- strations. "I regret not at all our efforts to side with the forces of national liberation," Dohrn, 38, who once appeared on the FBI's most-wanted list, told reporters after she was released on $25,800 bond. HER SURRENDER - the latest in a series by former radical figures of the late 1960s - had been preceded by rumors she was negotiating for a deal. But Larry O'Gara, an assistant state's attorney, said there had been no attem- pt to plea bargain with his office. She was ordered to appear at a hearing on Jan. 13. Dohrn arrived at the Cook County Criminal Courts Building accompanied by New York attorney Michael Ken- nedy, her sister Jennifer Dohrn- Melendez, and William Ayers, another ex-student radical who said he lives with Dohrn on Manhattan's Upper West See '60s, Page 7 ... still supports "rebellion." Drop-add deadline remains i e in limbo By JOHN RUSSELL' Eugene Nissen, assistant LSA dean for academic affairs, charged late last night that a vote taken yesterday by the college's -ad- ministrative board against ihain- taining the present three week drop- add deadline, is invalid because of improper handling of the vote. The 4-3 vote, which pitted the board's student members against the faculty is void, Nissen said, un- der faculty rules which state that a two-thirds majority of voting mem- bers present is necessary to carry an action. ONE VOTING faculty member was absent from the meeting. "The vote .was not properly han- See DROP, Page 7 iiitii iii, :'i ii; i~ < > >'; Earthq uake prediction in its infancy, says 'U' prof By GREG DAVIS Two recent catastrophic earthquakes-one which killed hundreds of thousands in Algeria in October, another that killed at least 3,000 in Italy and left some 265,000 homeless-are leading geologists to press on with studies aimed at predicting the natural disasters. Frederick Mauk, University associate professor of geology and mineralogy, keeps tabs on earthquake developments at the University seismological observatory in the C.C. Little Building. "EARTHQUAKE prediction is in its infancy," he said. "Now we can attempt to predict locations, seismic gaps, or places characterized by large earthquakes." Mauk said the Algerian and Italian quakes, both of which occured over a relatively short period of time, were the result of the geologic plate Africa is located on, is moving north with respect, to Europe. The movement caused stress to ac- cumulate in the region, triggering the earthquakes. Mauk added it is not unusual for quakes to occur in the region. He also said the Italian and Algerian disasters oc- cured at random and were not related. MAUK SAID the University has been studying the unlikely area surrounding Anna, Oh. for seismic activity with a grant from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. That site, surprisingly, has suffered earthquakes of up to 5.1 on the Richter scale, which is unusual for an area in the middle of a continent. Every 15 years or so, Mauk said, the area has an earthquake strong enough to cause structural damage to nearby buildings. "We use data from this study to help us try to understand the mechanisms of faults and the earth structure," he e'x- plained. MICHIGAN residents may feel secure from the ravages of earthquakes, but just this summer a temblor measuring ap- proximately 3.0 on the Richter scale rattled windowpanes in buildings in Ann Arbor and southeastern Michigan. Most earthquake-prone areas of the nation, according to an Earthquake Information Bulletin published by the U.S. Geologic Survey, are on the Pacific coast. Severe quakes, however, have occured in 39 states, as far east as Massachusetts and as far south as South Carolina. The states suffering from the highest degree of potentially dangerous'seismic activity, the bulletin said, are Hawaii, Alaska, and California, respectively. MAUK SAID there is no truth to the myth that quake-prone California will slide into the sea, but said the state is well, See GEOLOGISTS, Page 3 Daily Photo'by DEBBIE LEWIS FREDERICK MAUK, University associate professor of geology and mineralogy, reads a seismological graph which is one of the tools used in earthquake forecasting. TODAY Catalog courtship LONELY HEARTS CLUB, look out! Anna Keefer of Orlando, Fla., has compiled a book entitled "For Ladies Only" that lists a flurry of eligible bachelors ready, willing, and able to become bet- ter friends with members of the opposite sex. Keefer, a mortgage company employee, gives each of the 85 men a Horse sense Handicappers in the Albany, N.Y., horse races were given a rare opportunity recently. . . they were able to bet on a race that had already been run, and whose results had already been announced in the betting parlors. The error apparently occurred when the start of the evening's race was delayed. A computer operator entered the delay into the computer to allow additional wagering time, but betting was accidentally reopened for about a minute for the first race. Officials of the Capital District Regional Off Track Betting Corp., saiid four Dennle cashed in on the mistake and name. The query prompted a New York City television newsman to name the faraway planet "Brian" after the questioner, Brian Carmody of Woodstock, N.Y. In a letter to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, WNBC meteorologist Frank Field wrote: "I realize that NASA is so busy on other planets and moons and naming them that the earth's moon doesn't have a name ... I am puzzled about why the earth's moon doesn't have a name." WNBC news reporter Chauncey Howell announced the switchover on the Tuesday newscast by saying, "In honor of Brian, we have renamed our moon Brian. At Christmas there will fortunately be a full brian," he continued. ago to do away with parking meters and try free parking in- stead. However, after trying unsuccessfully to sell the meters to other cities and meter manufacturers, Hutchin- son officials decided to sell them to the public. Surprisingly, the public turned out to be a willing buyer, and the city had collected $7,186 by yesterday. Although the meters did not go on sale until Tuesday, people began lining up at city hall Monday at midnight, and by Tuesday morning, ap- proximately 500 people had gathered. "I don't know what I'll use them for," said Ralph Sickendick of San Pedro. Calif., who bought two meters."I guess I'll bolt them onto the toilet door." I i i