s 6 }C -ge 4 fi r d tgan w at lg Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan vol XCII, No.96 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily's Editorial Board )PINION Wednesday, January 27, 1982. The Michigan Daily Wasserman False assurances / SOMEHOW, IT wasn't a very convincing pledge. Yesterday; Pakistani strongman Mohammad Zia ul-Haq repeated his promise that Pakistan, which is about to receive a large amount of military azd economic aid from the United States, has no intention of developing a nuclear arsenal. He also claimed that his country did not possess the capacity to produce nuclear armaments. .His assurances, however; seem to fly in the face of a mounting tide of evidence which suggests that Pakistan not only wants a nuclear arsenal, but that it is well on the way toward having one. A few facts: . Despite its leaders' public pronouncements that it does not want Snclear weapons, Pakistan continues td refuse to sign the Nuclear Non- proliferation Treaty. > Although it has'publicly pledged to nd.devel9p nuclear weapons, it has not rdted out the development of a "peaceful nuclear device," presumably similar to the "peaceful" nuclear bomb India has exploded. ? he International Atomic Energy ,rmission has detected an excep- ti nally large number of "anomalies" ii'the operation of Pakistan's nuclear reactor near Karachi. The IAEC fin- dibgs might mean that Pakistan is 'sneaking extra fuel into the reac- t r -extra fuel that could eventually be K epi HE SUPREME Court, in a laudable move this week, halted efforts of 16ver courts and the Reagan ad- r"ixnistration to push the Equal Rights 4znendment toward a premature burial. The court decided to stay an Idaho federal court ruling that would have made the ERA a dead issue. An Idaho judge ruled that Congress 'had uncon- stitutionally extended the amen- dment's or4ginal 1979 expiration date, and that five states had acted legally When they voted to withdraw their previous approval of the amendment. But the Supreme Court's action has made the Idaho ruling ineffective until tte high court itself can, review the matter. Now; efforts to pass the amen- dment, whose ratification extension expires June 30, can continue unim- peded by legal obstruction. Both the Idaho court and the Reagan administration recently have made reprehensible efforts to block the amendment. The Idaho judge's ruling against ERA seemed grounded more in per- sona1~ philosophical opposition to the amendment than in judicial reasoning. But the administration's efforts to used to construct a nuclear bomb. * Just one day before Zia made his latest nuclear disclaimer, the Central Intelligence Agency published a report which asserted that Pakistan will have the capacity to detonate a nuclear bomb sometime within the next three years. The whole issue to Zia's statements would not mean much were it not for the fact that the United States is abqut to give his government an enormous amount of military and economic aid. President Reagan has taken pains to ' get the aid package to Pakistan ap- proved over the objections of critics in the Congress and in spite of the fact that U.S. 1w forbids giving military aid to cofntries that have a nuclear weapons program. According to the recent CIA report, the only factor which will deter Pakistan from detonating a nuclear bomb is the possibility that the United States might cut the $3.2 billion military and economic aid it has plan- ned to give Pakistan. The prospect of losing U.S. aid ap- parently has already frightened the Pakistanis into not testing their bomb if and when it is completed. But the United States can do more. The ad- ministration can use the aid package- as the Carter adninistration attem- pted to do in its last months in office- to try to persuade the Pakistanis to scrap their nuclear weapons program altogether. ERA: alive block ERA were more insidious than the blatant move by the Idaho judge. The administration attempted to kill the amendment not through forthright action, but through neglect. When the National Organization for Women pressed for an immediate Supreme Court ruling on the Idaho decision, the Justice Department refused, claiming that ERA might be defeated by June and thus not require a'ruling. The ad- ministration almost seemed ready to keep its fingers crossed for the next five months in hopes that the amen- dment would be defeated, rather than seek a definitive ruling on its con- 'stitutionality. The Supreme Court plans to review the Idaho court ruling, but not before the ERA deadline date has already expired. Granted, ERA's prospects for ratification look bleak. As its extension time runs out, ERA remains three states short of the 38 necessary for ratification. But the high court's action has at least preserved the opportunity for ratification. Although it seems unlikely now that such approval will be forth- coming, any possibility for ratification deserves unrestricted support. 0 6 LETTERS TO THE DAILY: Schooling for society S reform To the Daily: I've got news for Roger Kerson ( "Growing Up in the Real World," Jan. 21). "The machine" of society will not just run out of gas if enough of us walk away, as he= suggests. In fact, 4too many: people just walking away could be just what "the machine" needs to run amock at levels previously unimagined. The suggestion that those of us committed to social change should stay out of graduate and" professional schools frightens me. The most powerful weapon available in the fight against poverty, racism, and militarism is an army of individuals as highly-trained and informed as their counterparts in the ruling' elite., 'Does Kerson seriously believe 'that we'd be better off without the thousands of attorneys who have brought countless. civil rights, consumer, and environmeptal actions over the past two decades?. Does Kerson really want to leave the medical profession- solely to the whims of card-' carrying American ,Medical *Association members, who are* often oblivious to the needs of the poor and enemies of, socialized medicine? Who does he think will staff the thousands of struggling low-cost linics across the land? Has Kerson never had an in- spiring teacher? I can't believe. that his admirable political con- s.ciousness sprang forth spon- taneously. One good teacher or.4 professor can instill the values Kerson holds dear in hundreds of students over th generations, students who may in turn pass therm on to hundreds of others. Yes, the University and its; "peer" institutions are training- grounds for the ruling-elite, but they are also invaluable tools for those in opposition to the rulin$' elite. For. Kerson and those who share his basic goals to ignore 'that fact is self-deluding and self- defeating. "Knowledge is power" is a trite phrase, but it holds- a_ - great.deal of truth, regardless of one's politics. -Daniel Morris January 25 Bring back Gerry To the Daily: A couple of years ago we joked that Gerry Ford thought the presidency-of the country as well as the University-was an appointive ,job, and therefore wanted to be considered a can- didate for the office. Ronald Reagan became president of the country, however, and Harold Shapiro president of the Univer- sity. We all forgot about Gerry Ford. Given that the Reagan ad- ministration and the Shapiro ad- ministrations have the same policy-that the rich should get richer, and nothing else mat- ters-I must conclude that we would be better off having Gerry Ford as president, in Washington and in Ann Arbor. Item: The day the football coach was given his $25,000 raise, the associate director of the LSA Counseling Office was, notified that her position was being eliminated. After all-as the president' says-what's -important is who wants the most money. The rich shall inherit the earth. Let us en- dorse the Greed Machine-and to hell with services to society, or to students. I suspect that Gerry Ford would not abide such a policy. -Bert Hornback January 22 Economical invitation I Misleading rally . ._ . . - - - I iY 1 111 1 y . .J:.:: '". .. +at 00 r 'R"' ., s "w :! 1 WIND~OW .or VI.HEVAaIuIV 1 To the Daily: The members of the Campus Labor Support Group (CLSG) felt that the Daily's coverage of the Solidarity rally was extremely misleading. The caption under the picture of Prof. Andrew Ehrenkreutz, which stated that he was in favor of sanctions against the USSR, was misleading because it was jux- taposed with the headline on the rally (STUDENTS SUPPORT SOLIDARITY WITH RALLY). The rally supported no sanctions against the USSR. The demonstration was organized as a united front. All the groups who participated in this united front rally agreed to support certain slogans, one of which was to supports no sanctions against the USSR. Prof. Ehrenkreutz's position on the Soviet, Union was directly an- tagonistic to :,the slogans of "the demonstration. For this reason, Prof. Ehrenkrettz was not allowed to speak. Also, for this very same reason, CLSG felt that Prof. Ehrenkreutz's behavior was unjustified when he took the microphone without the per- mission of the rally in the name of ~"freedom of speech". His support for building anti-Soviet hysteria in the name of "Solidarity" is typical of Reaganites and reac- tionaries of all colors. -Mark°Airgood Wade Hannah Paul Lefrak Carl Levine January 23 To the Daily: This is an open letter from members of the Omega Society (University geography depar-o tment survivors) to Economics Prof. Harvey Brazer in what has to be a truly trying time. The burning of the Economics Buildings on Christmas Eve has no doubt impacted greatly on your life. To suddenly find the academic careers of so many in- discriminately damaged by the fire touches us all. We understand that your office was one that suffered from the mishap. We also understand that many of you in economics are * now housed in the old St. Joe's; Hospital. As that seems to be geographically isolated from the rest of the campus community, we have an offer for you. We suggest that you move in with us. Over the past year (since June 19, 1981) we have had{ students and faculty leaving, and now have several unused desks in our graduaterstudent's space. The furnishings are nothing elegant, but they would certainly serve as an auxiliary office or a stop-over spot in the course of 'a busy day. Our centrality to the university community is un- paralleled. We remember that you, Har- vey Brazer, were chairman of the review committee that recom- mended discontinuance of the geography department. But that doesn't deter us from making this offer. So, we extend to yoi in the 1conomics. department, especially. Harvey Brazer, an open invitation to use some of our unused space. But hurry, 'this of- fer is good only through June 30, 1982, (When the geography department is formally discot- tinued). -Bob Rice January 25 4 4 I Letters and columns represent the opinions of the individual author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the attitudes or beliefs of the Daily. U . : F ., . b ' Y ; : . ,E . C Weasel r HIISis Mor R UM' A 4wNATicNAL stwv~( HAS REiP THAT OMAYLSTUDENTS~ ~I NA(~IMW, shgUVAuAptwtO~w#' OP~oS ABO fTtM AlArS. WE ANTr SURe. IT- SIR, cAN L.OO%6 -m me LAK OFART ? OBVIOUSLVT u~ TO6TNfE t AtRotd. t AF~AI Not, SIR. 7141. IS A PRINT OF A PAINT N6 tiYf- 5W PICASSO, WELL., ZI h Wc~sof ADV"c4 FQ.. THIS " PICAS$o" 6L&W. THiE J1SA W PVZZL.6A START 1A~iM6Stt4 By Robert Lence 6 r II A 1 ii 1.