Basketball Supplement Inside FREE iFREEE iSSUECh i Ann A4b1 hISSUE Vol. XCII, No. 79 Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Mich ign-Thursday, January 7, 1982 Free Issue Ten Pages plus Supplement . Top U.S. officials: Maintain draft structure WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Reagan, urged by two top ad- ministration officials to retain draft registration, will rule soon on the volatile issue affecting m lions of young men, an aide said yesterday. "The president may act in the next several days on the draft," said White House spokesman Larry Speakes. REAGAN WAS not expected to an- nounce a decision before early next week on whether to retain the existing registration system or to end it and thus eliminate the prospect of having to at- tempt prosecutions of the . estimated 800,000 young men who have not registered. Administration officials said yester- day Defense Secretary Caspar Wein- berger and Secretary of State Alexan- der Haig have urged Reagan to retain the registration system instituted by President Carter in July 1980 as a response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Reagan-who opposed the program during the campaign and criticized Carter for it-has on his desk a task for- ce report on military manpower that reviews his options. A POSSIBLE factor in a decision could be the situation in Poland, and a perceived need-for the United States not to back off from its military buildup at a time of tension. Without a Reagan decision on the program, the Justice Department has held up efforts to prosecute 183 of the estimated 800,000 young men who have failed to register for a draft. About 6.6 milion young men have complied with the registration requirement. Administration officials said Haig and Weinberger were firm in their belief registration should remain in place to bolster military readiness. "They both came down very hard on it," one official said. Their recommendations were put on his desk along with the manpower task 'force report, which Reagan said he wanted to review before making a decision on the program. Students plan resistance 0 in Poland From AP and UPI Polish students are reported trying to organize an underground resistance to the martial law regime, and the Soviet Union pledged yesterday to plow nearly $4 billion into Poland's feeble economy. Attempts to rally students into passive resistance were reported by. Poland's army newspaper, Zolnierz Wolnosci. The paper said students from the Warsaw Medical Academy had passed out leaflets saying "the present situation forces us to start un- derground activity. Students of the Medical Academy should begin passive resistance to all orders. There will be a time for action." . ZOLNIERZ Wolnosci, in Tuesday's edition, said members of the now- dissolved Independent Students' Association - which the paper called "strictly counterrevolutinary" - p- lanned to call a meeting in Warsaw to organize a new international association with "anti-Communist aims." The students' plans were thwarted by the imposition of martial law, the' newspaper said. Its report was the first official acknowledgment of student unrest since the crackdown Dec. 13. A British student ariving in Copenhagen from Warsaw yesterday said leaflets distributed in Poland urge workers to "act like morons," work slowly and claim sickness often. He also said about 50,000 people have-been seized, or 10 times the number claimed by authorities. THE STUDENT, who requested anonymity, described Warsaw as "a relatively calm showpiece of confor- mity to martial law," but said "in Katowice, I saw helicopters scanning city streets nightly with, spotlights, See POLISH, Page 2 RAY CLASSEN OF Boulder Creek, helps a neighbor me California have caused severe damage to homes and man3 2 8 klled1ii e damages i BEN LOMOND, Calif. - Rescue workers yesterday dug through tons of mud loosed by a violent rainstorm that killed at least 28 people, forced the closing of the Golden Gate Bridge and caused an estimated $100 million in damage. Up to 20 people were trapped when a mountainside collapsed at 2 a.m. Monday and washed over 300 acres of expensive homes in this wooded Santa Cruz County com- munity about 60 miles south of San Francisco, witnesses said. One body was found, and rescue teams, stalled more than two days by fog and mud, expected to find more. EARL ROBERTSON, spokesman for the rescue effort, was asked if there was any hope for residents caught in the slide. "If there's anybody in there - no," he replied. The death toll from the storm stood at 28 yesterday afte noon, and officials said it could go higher. Here in Ben Lomond, Monday morning's massive slide made a quagmire of Love Creek, where expensive homes had stood in a beautiful redwood-studded valley. "It looks like a pile of matchsticks," volunteer fireman Ross Harriman said. "They (the houses) bear no relationship to homes anymore." EMERGENCY MEDICAL technician Rodger Lee, who saw the landslide, said many of the homes cost $300,000. "The whole mountain moved and came down on the 300 acres," he said. love mud-covered belongings from their home. Mudslides in y families have been forced to evacuate. 11 mudsli-de, in m1110nS In Marin County, more mudslides sent two homes crashing down the hills above the resort village of Sausalito, killing one woman and closing a detour route which had allowed the temporary reopening of the Golden Gate Bridge. About 600 persons were evacuated from Sausalito for fear of more slides. Residents digging out from the winter onslaught sur- veyed damage exceeding $100 million by some preliminary estimates, much of the loss suffered directly by homeowners uninsured against the rare flood and mudslide damage. HIGHWAY 101, the main route north from San Fran- cisco across the Golden Gate Bridge through Marin Coun- ty, already was closed by slides. Highway officials said foundation ground beneath the highway remained un- stable threatening further slide damage. Officials were trying to open four of the highway's eight lanes just north of the bridge by last night. With the bridge closed, tens of thousands of commuters suffered through a massive traffic jam on the Richmond San Rafael Bridge, a large span across the bay north of the Golden Gate, or turned to private boats and ferries Though Marin and Santa Cruz were the hardest hit areas, Gov. Edmund Brown declared a stae of emergency there and in four other counties, including wine-producing Sonoma County north of Marin, and San Mateo, Contra Cosa and Humboldt counties around San Francisco Bay. State, University woo robot manufacturers By JOHN ADAM This week a three-member delegation from the University aided the Michigan Department of Commer- ce in negotiations with General Electric to locate a plant to manufacture in- dustrial robots in Michigan. A spokesperson from GE said yesterday that a final decision probably will not be reached until this summer. Donald Smith, director of the Univer- sity's Industrial Development Division and a member of the briefing commit- tee, said yesterday the Commerce Department will brief another large manufacturing company next week about the benefits of robots in Michigan. Smith declined to give the name of the corporation. THE BRIEFING sessions are part of a continuing effort by the state and the University to lure manufacturing com- panies and research dollars to Michigan under Gov. William Milliken's., plan to establish a world class robotics center in Ann Arbor. Such giant corporatins as General Motors and General Electric have ex- pressed an interest in the University's robotics center within the College of Engineering and in the proposed $200 million center which would probably be located in Ann Arbor. Triygve Vigmostad, deputy director of the economic development office in the Commerce Department, said the briefing committee is briefing both foreign and domestic firms. "WE'RE TALKING to a number of companies, and it's going well," Vigmostad said. "(They) can't afford not to be a part of it." The firms have expressed interest in See STATE, Page 5 LSA instructor fails to show up for exam Reagan seeks more cuts, tax hike in '83 By JOYCE FRIEDEN Many students dread final exams, but the 121 students taking Political Science 412 last term faced a different kind of problem when their instructor failed to show up to give his test. Visiting lecturer Robert Kaufman's Legal Process exam, which was worth 100 percent of the course grade for most students, was scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 19 from 4 to 6 p.m. After waiting an hour and a half for Kaufman to show up, four students went to his apartment. There they found a very surprised, apologetic instructor. "IT WAS A simple human mistake," Kaufman said. "I thought the exam was supposed to be given on Sunday." According to Department Chairman Samuel Bar- nes, this was the first time anything like this had ever happened in the political science department. Most students were quite upset when Kaufman failed to arrive. "People were fairly perturbed," said LSA junior Dave King. "I was a little upset because I had studied for the test and was prepared to take it 'It was a simple human mistake. I thought the exam was supposed to be given on Sunday.' -Robert Kaufman, Political Science instructor right then." AS SOON AS he learned of the error, Kaufman said, he began to call his students to inform them of alter- nate exam dates. "I was in my office until 2 a.m. making phone calls," he said. Kaufman gave the exam to about 10 students in his office later that evening, and arranged for four other make-up exams during what was left of finals week. Kaufman, an attorney, is currently working on two doctoral degrees for Harvard and Columbia Univer- sities. He also said he carries the heaviest\ instructor load in the department. IN A LETTER sent to all the students in the class, Department Chairman Samuel Barnes outlined the following five options from which they could choose in completing the course: Students can take an alter- nate exam tonight at 7:30; students who have already taken the exam can take tonight's test, receiving the. better of the two grades; students can make arrangements for a different exam time, or "another form of evaluation, such as a research paper;" and students also have the chance to take the course pass- fail, or to drop it retroactively. "I bent over backwards to be fair to the students," Kaufman said, adding that there is no specific deadline for the students who elect to write a paper. Other than the final exam, an optional 15-page paper due on the last day of class was the only other factor in students' grades. Only 12 students chose to write the paper. "THE POINT IS, because there was the option of doing a paper, it is inaccurate to say that the final exam was worth 100 percent of every student's grade," he said. Several students said they were unhappy with the way Kaufman was assigning their grades. Two See LSA, Page 5 WASHINGTON (AP)- The Reagan administration neared completion yesterday of a fiscal 1983 budget that will seek new tax in- creases, further cuts in social programs and a fattened military spending plan. President Reagan- already has decided to ask'Congress for cuts of more than $30 billion in domestic programs and will make up his mind this week on how large a package of tax increases he will support to keep the deficit under $100 billion, ad- ministration officials said. REAGAN'S spending blueprint for the new fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1, also is expected to include: * An 18 percent jump in the Pen- tagon's budget, to a record $215 billion; " A plan for returning more federal money to states and cities-along with new budget responsibilities now shouldered by Washington; * An "enterprise zone" proposal to assist decaying inner cities by of- fering tax breaks to businesses that locate and hire residents in up to 25 specially designated areas a year; * Significant cuts in welfare benefits, food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid, nutrition programs, sub- sidized housing and job training for the poor and a long list of other non- military programs. Social Security is the only social program the president has placed off limits. See REAGAN, Page 5 I TODAY Driven crazy AMAN WAS driven to "autocide" by Washington's first major storm. That's what Bellevue Police Major Jack Kellem called the strange case of an irate motorist who beat, then shot his car after it Begging for recognition Indian beggars have formed their own organization to fight for their rights and have called upon "beggars of the world" to unite with them. "This is a profession like any other profession and also as old," Beggars Federation spokesman K. Kenna said. "Ours is the organization of those who support their families by begging," Kenna ad- ded. He did not indicate how many beggars are in the new federation. There are an estimated 1.6 million beggars Westerdal of Cheyenne, Wyoming has completed five days in a bathtub filled with 49,975 jellybeans. The East High School student emerged Tuesday with $5,057 worth of pledges to fight muscular distrophy. He said he also hoped to earn a note in the Guiness Book of World Records, along side those who have sat out anxious moments in tubs filled with spaghetti. Westerdahl got up for five minutes each hour to rest and for 30 minutes each morning to shower away the sweetness. One person pledged $200 if he'd sleep wearing only swim trunks. Westerdahl complied. "I preferably don't care to see any more jellybeans again," a weekly newspaper Ilustrovana reported. The newspaper gave no details of the arrests, but said they were made with the help of ornithologists (bird experts). On the happier side, the gravedigger in the village of Cimego, Italy was "unemployed" last year and had to be given other duties to keep him busy. Officials there said no deaths occurred in 1981 in the town. Seven births rallied the population to 430 healthy citizens. Further European updates upcoming.cn aT . . 1 II .I ;I