Ninety-Two Years of Editorial Freedom Air igan ~Eati g REPRIEVE Partly sunny, high near 20, Chance of snow later in the evening. _ _ .: - - -. .. .. ---- Vol. XCII, No. 103 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily f Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, February 4, 1982 Ten Cents Ten Pages . , -~r I r.y 'A -. RO1~ It r~ N.n Blizzard blankets Midwest By POE COUGHLAN with wire reports. The latest in a series of huge winter storms moved into southern Michigan yesterday evening, dumping inchesof snow on already clogged streets and highways in the area. Last night city officials declared a "snow condition red," which requires citizens to park their cars on the even- numbered side of the street until mid- night tonight to facilitate snow removal. Tomorrow, cars are to be parked on the odd-numbered side of the street. Meanwhile, University officials said late last night that they were planning on normal operations today, despite the heavy snowfall. The University has only closed down three times in the last half century; one day in 1946 and 1974,' and two days in1978. LAST NIGHT, Ann Arbor Transpor- tation Department Street Supervisor John Millspaugh said, "The conditions are as bad as they could get, I reckon . . the town is just immobilized." But Millspaugh said he expected the roads to be "in good shape" by this niorning. He said the city has had 30. " 9 'U'to remain open as city attles snow. pieces of equipment in operation since abandoned on Detroit expressways and Sunday in an attempt to clear the surface streets. streets. Doug Fasing, University grounds ACCORDING TO the National manager said'" snow removal crews Weather Service, a huge low pressure worked through the night clearing system gave birth to yesterday's storm. roadways first, parking lots and then The same low pressure cell produced sidewalks. "We are in the process of torrential rains in the south. just trying to keep up with the snow fir- Heavy thunderstorms pounded cen- st, then trying to clean it up." tral Alabama and north Georgia with UNIVERSITY officials said, nearly 7-inch rains. Residents in parts however, that they did not'expect any of Rome, Ga., Cedartown, and Atlanta interruption of classes today as a result were evacuated as high water from of the storm. Yesterday, classes were gorged rivers and creeks clogged cancelled for University adult streets and forced schools to close. education courses, at the University's Montgomery, Ala., streets were Flint and Dearborn campuses, and at flooded by half-foot rains in a 24-hour Washtenaw Community College. span. Wayne State University and the Several families in Marietta, Ga., University of betroit cancelled all af- were trapped by rising waters in a ternoon and night classes, and Detroit housing project near the Chattahoochee public schools closed at 1 p.m. North- . River. ville Downs called off its harness races. FOUR-INCH RAINS triggered a Police said at least 1,000 cars were highway rock slide south of Canton, Health fears prompt testing for asbestos: By LOU FINTOR Concern that twq University renova- tion projects may pose a serious health hazard has prompted the University to test building materials for the 'car- cinogen asbestos, officials said yester- day. Projects In the Frieze Building and Michigan Union involve materials which were not tested before construc- tion began, according to William Joy, the University's director of environ- mental health and safety. Monday, after concern was raised over the possible presence of asbestos-a building material directly linked to cancer-in ceiling tiles and pipe insulation, environmental health and safety officials collected samples from both buildings. "I EXPECT -'RESULTS back tomorrow or Friday," Joy said yester- day. Because of tMe immediate con-. cern, he said, a local lab-rather than the Michigan Department of Public Health-is running the tests. According to Joy, the University's Department of Plant Operations or the construction contractor is responsible for submitting building material samples to his office for testing if there is a question of the presence of harmful substances. "It's (the current renovation work) is a project where they (the contrac- tors) didn't think about testing, but just getting the job done," Joy said. IN ADDITION to this week's im- mediate testing, he said, the University is taking new safety precautions in the Frieze Building and the Union. There is also a new policy of submitting building materials from both projects to en- vironmental health and safety, he ad- ded. "We have the duct work in the Frieze Building sealed off," he said, "and at the Union, before they do any further moving, they will get (material) sam- ples for us," Joy said. "It's just a mat- terof being sure ahead of time that we don't have any asbestos in the remodeling area.". Lucy Pilkinton, a teaching assistant in the theatre .and drama department, complained last week that contractors working in the Frieze Building had See HEALTH, Page 2 N.C., and caused street flooding in Asheville. The rest of the Midwest also ex- perienced problems with the stor& The snow storm slammed into Indiana Missouri,,and Illinois about a half-day' after ptedictons-and before some communities could dig free of its weekend predecessor. Downtown St. Louis hotels reported a flood of reservations from office workers unwilling to brave hazardous freeway driving. Dozens of schools were closed u Southern Illinois after 6 inches of snow fell during the morning and mounted in: to huge drifts. The succession of storms this week has been blamed for the deaths of 8 persons nationwide, 17 in Michigan. Fifteen people died of heart attacks while trying to dig out of nearly a foot of new snow in the Detroit area and a Clawson man froze to death on Saginaw, Bay while ice fishing Monday. In another incident, Detroit police, said a 32-year-old man shot and critically wounded his father after they argued over who would shovel the driveway. Sheriff's office ets tough on. drunk drivers By BILL SPINDLE A dramatic crackdown, on drunk: drivers, launched last year by the: Washtenaw County Sheriff's depar- tment, has resulted in a 256 percent: jump in the number of drunk drivers arrested in the county,' sheriff's of- ficials said. Since last April, a federal grant has allowed the Sheriff's department to employ three officers who work ex- clusively arresting and prosecuting drunk drivers. The crackdown resulted in 1,227 arrests last year, up from only 478the hear before. SHERIFF TOM MINICK said that since the program was initiated last spring, alcohol-related car accidents and deaths have dropped substantially in the county. In a report issued last month, Mnick stated that "fatal accidents (in the county) were reduced 19 percent in 1981." This figure "far surpassed our goal of 10 percent announced at the beginning of last year." The report noted th'at there were 34 fatal car ac- cidents in the county last year, as com- pared to 42 in 1980. The sheriff's report also stated that rsonal injury accidents involving alcohol were -reduced by 8 percent, while total accidents (including those involving only property damage) where alcohol was a factor were decreaedby 5 percent." IN AN INTERVIEW later, Minick said that "two years ago, 61 percent of people involved in serious accidents had been drinking." That figure drop- ped to 40 percent in 1980 and again t S1 percent last year, according to te sheriff's report. Minick also pointed out ,that the reduction of the number of fatal ac- cidents saved county taxpayers about $6 million in damage and medical costs, of which $1.3 million was saved from the dropoff in the number of alcohol-related car accidents. The program pays the salaries of three officers who, in addition to patroling county roads for drunk drivers, trace the tracks of drunk drivers who become involved in ac- See OFFICIALS, Page 2 AP Photo EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT Hosni Murabak (right) and President Reagan confer in the Oval Office yesterday. They discussed the Palestinian problem. Mubarak says key to'pece0i sone sol'u~on f a poble Social Security sent students incorrect info WASHINGTON (AP)- The Social Security Administration, already under fire for its .handling of the phaseout of benefits to college students, for months sent misinformation to some 17-year- olds assuring them they would get the aid for college, an officid1 said yester- day. "There was just a screw-up and we're going to try to fix it," Nelson Sabatini, the executive assistant to the com- missioner, told reporters outside a House hearing room, where the error was disclosed. HE SAID the Kansas City and Bir- mingham processing centers-two of only six centers nationwide-sent wrong pamphlets . to students from August until at least December and possibly into January. Associate Commissioner Sandy Crank told two House education sub- committeesthat, "through an error, the old stock of pamphlets were not destroyed at the time the new stock was received ... and some of the old stock of pamphlets was used." Congress voted last August to phase out all Social Security college benefits by April 1985 and to allow no new awar- ds unless an eligible student is atten- ding college fulltime before May 1, 1982. THE HOUSE education subcommit- tees were holding hearings on com- plaints by education groups and others that the government has not adequately See SOCIAL, Page 7 From AP and UPI WASHINGTON-Egyptian Pres- ident Hosni Mubarak declaredrhis support yesterday for Palestinian self-determination and urged President Reagan "to-make it a living reality." In his debut here as Anwar Sadat's successor° Mubarak studiously avoided a direct reference to the 1978 Camp David agreements which Israel insists are the only basis for settling the Palestinian dispute. But meeting privately in the Oval Office, the two leaders reaffirmed a commitment to the accords "as the appropriate and only vehicle for ad- dressing the Palestinian problem," a senior U.S. official said. THE CAMP DAVID partners-the United States, r'Egypt, and Israel-have pledged to try to ac- celerate the stalemated negotiations over the Palestinians' future, said the official, who declined to be identified. In his arrival statement, Mubarak insisted that the 1.3 million Palestinian Arabs living on the West Bank of the Jordan River and in Gaza "have an inherent right to exist and v - function as a national entity free from domination and fear." Mubarak did not call for statehood for the Palestinians, whose leaders insist they will settle for nothing less. But he seemed to go further in that direction than Sadat. REAGAN, SPEAKING first, said the Camp David process "offers the best opportunity for tangible results." However, he also said "we must maintain our flexibility" in the mon- ths ahead. The Camp David agreements, which led to the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, promise "full autonomy" to the Palestinian Arabs. Disagreement over the powers to be held by a Palestinian council and other issues, however, has resulted in a deadlock. "The key to peace and stability in the area is to solve the Pialestinian problem," Mubarak said. "A just solution to this problem must be based on mutual recognition and acceptan- ce." He said "the exercise of the right to self-determinatin cannot be denied to the Palestinian people." "IN FACT," Mubarak said, "it is the best guarantee for Israeli security. This is the lesson of history. and the course of the future." Mubarak continued his talks on the Palestinian issue and U.S. economic and military aid to Egypt over lunch at the State Department with Secretary of State Alexander Haig. He told reporters, with a smile, that he was "still fighting" for greater control over the way the assistance is applied to particular projects. MEANWHILE rWhite House spokesman "Larry Speakes, threatening a crackdown on press ac- cess to the Oval Office, accused a reporter of creating an "em- barrassing"'-international incident by asking President Reagan a question. Speakes, deputy presidential press secretary, threatened to banish the news media from future meetings betwen Reagan and foreign leaders after ABC-TV correspondent Sam Donaldson spoke to Reagan as he sat down with Egyptian President Mubarak. TODAY Meet your housing staff HE HOUSING Information Office is holding a Housing Staff Fair today to help acquaint students with the staff and the services theoffice offers. The open house will be held from 8 a.m.-12 p.m., this venerable tradition comes from author Louise Ber- nikow. Anyone acquiring her recent book-Let's Have Lun- ch-in the naive expectation of learning something about food is in for a disappointment. As the subtitle-Games of Sex and Power,-suggests, Bernikow apparently is impar- ting some of the fine points of lunchmanship. And, after the lunch is over, can a tax break be far behind? "Nearly everyone who goes in for -big-time lunching has an emergency list of names that come to life only on expense forms," the author confides. "It is smart to keep the list come in from the cold. Gardner, 69, had not lived indoors since 1964, when he lost his home in a sheriff's sale. Although he was invited to live in a numtber of rooming houses and apartments, he was told he could not keep his six dogs. So, he chose instead to live in his car. ,"Most people require personal comfort," said Gardner. "I sacrificed it to have dogs, to have a good tool or a good book. I love to learn things and I love to make things." But doctors recently told Gardner he has emphysema and can- not afford to stay outdoors much longer. Gardner said he accented dn offer last week of a free bed in a vacant lun- for acquiring thig stylish skill. Send your nomination, in- cluding the name of your favorite fashionable professor, his or her department, and an explanation of why he or she, merits a place on the list of the Ten Best-Dressed Professors, to the Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard, attention: Supplement-News. Please hurry, we need them by Feb. 10. The results will appear in the Daily's Spring Fashion Supplement, March 3. A 0 * IF i I . .I