Ninety-Three Years of Editorial Freedom Sir igau 1~Ia41V Dandruff Flurries likely this morning with highs in the 20s. Vol. XCIII, No. 108 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, February 10, 1983 Ten Cents Ten Pages Carter, Ford head policy conference Daily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS Former President Jimmy Carter makes a point during yesterday's formed Domestic Policy Association's conference at the Gerald Ford news conference as other former president Gerald Ford looks on. The Presidential Library on North Campus., two former nresidents are in Ann Arbor as co-chairmen of the newly Past presidents entertain and advise policy makers By GLEN YOUNG Former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter came together yesterday at the University's Gerald Ford Presidential Library for the inaugural conference of a newly formed group devoted to increasing the public's involvement in government decision-making. The two have not appeared together sin- ce they attended the funeral of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in October 1981. The conference was formed to discuss social security, jobs, productivity, and in- flation. Though each issue was raised at yesterdays sessions, no solutions were proposed, except to work at educating the public so they will be more able to help make decisions. THE DOMESTIC Policy Association has sponsored local town forums throughout the country over the past year, and this week's conference is a culmination of the smaller meetings. "The aim of the Domestic Policy Association is to generate public discussion of major issues throughout the country," Ford told a mid-morning press conference. "The aim is not to come to any concensus on the topics, "but to air dif- fering views, and let the people know there are possible solutions, though they may not be their own," he said. Carter said the public can become more involved in determining policy and he agreed the policy conference was the place to start. "If people can learn more this time, it can lead to a strengthening of the democratic process," Carter said. AT THE PRESS briefing, Ford and Car- ter said the Reagan administration is not taking the best road to economic recovery. Ford said he agreed with strengthening rthe defense department but added, "we can do the same job by buying the same package in six years instead of five years." Ford also said growth of domestic programs should continue to be held in check, and that federal tax indexing should be rescinded. Carter agreed. "Reagan doesn't realize the enormity of this deficit; it could possibly absorb 60 percent of all lending capital in the country," Carter said. The two former presidents used the nation's economic problems to focus on the theme of the conference. How the public can become more educated about domestic policies. "Personal experiences of individuals, such as college students and small businessmen, are the perfect place to learn about (economic trouble)," Carter said. But Ford said the solution is not so easy. "It's hard enough to educate the people about the national economy, but we have to educate people on the in- terrelatedness of economy on a global scale," Ford said. DAVID MATHEWS, Ford's secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and president of the Kettering Foundation, the chief supporter of the group, said the association "wants to find better ways to get across the gap between the public and policy makers. The language of the policy world is technical, the language of the public is grocery bills and doctors visits. This conference allows us to begin to bridge that gap," Matthews said. Daniel Yankelovich, a national pollster, said the public feels left out of the policy making process. "As matters stand today, there is little public input into issues such See CARTER, Page 2 By SHARON SILBAR After a long day of policy meetings and press conferences, former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter addressed over two hundred din- ner guests at the Michigan League ballroom last night, reflecting on their presidencies, their current occupations, and their plans for the future. Ford, hobbling on crutches, quipped tha his golf game has improved since he's left the Oval Office. "I'm hitting fewer people," he said: THE FORMER Michigan alumnus shared with the attentive audience some of the privileges of being a former president. "For example," he said, "you can selectively remember what you choose to remember, and you can selectively forget what you choose to forget." "I don't ever remember saying anything bad about Jimmy Carter," he said with a grin. After crediting Carter with his successful han- dling of difficult issues of national interest, such as the renegotiation of the Panama Canal treaties, the normalization of relations with China, and the Camp David accords, Ford in- troduced the slim and healthy-looking Carter. THE THEME of Carter's speech coincided with the topic of the conference that has brought the former presidents to Ann Arbor: the in- volvement of the public in public policy making. "I think that this particular forum will prove that the education of the public - of a knowing public - is a crucial element of the strength of our government," he said. See FORD, Page 2 1j assaere panel's report' 9 1W 1* Major Events director fired stirs Israeli cabinet From AP and UPI reports JERUSALEM - Members of the Israeli commission that investigated the Beirut massacre believe between 700 and 800 Palestinians were killed in the two-day bloodbath. But the panel added that no one knows for certain how many died in the massacre, blamed on Christian Phalangist militiamen. The commission says Israeli secret agents failed to heed the warnings cf military intelligence and wrongly believed that Lebanese Christian militiamen could be sent into Palestinian refugee camps without committing atrocities. THE DISCLOSURES point not only to a split between the two Israeli in- telligence services, but to blunders and incompetence that belie the legend of the Israeli spy agency, Mossad. The Israeli Cabinet met yesterday to decide the fate of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon but postponed its decision for a day to permit two generals criticized by the Beirut massacre commission to plead for their careers. THE TWO officers are Maj. Gen. Yehoshua Saguy, military intelligence chief who the commission said should resign, and Brig. Gen. Anos Yaron, former Beirut commander who the commission said should be barred from senior posts for three years. The cabinet will meet again in special session Thursday in its third debate on Sharon's future since the commission findings were released Tuesday. Two thousand supporters of Sharon shouted encouragement, as the burly defense minister drove up to Begin's of- See PANEL'S, Page 2 Begin .favors early election - Cuts threaten Great By THOMAS MILLER The University's Great Lakes and Marine Waters Center would lose $250,000 of its budget if the Reagan administration goes through with plans to shut down a local environmental research lab, the center's director said yesterday. And if the center does lose these funds, more than, 30 students could be out of jobs, according to At- mospheric and Oceanic Science Prof. Alfred Beeton. FOR THE second year in a row, President Reagan has called for the elimination of the Ann Arbor-based Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL). The federally funded lab supports research at the University's center, which will lose the funds if Congress approves Reagan's 1983 budget recommen- dation. The lab would not be the first of its kind in the Great Lakes area to be closed down over the past few years. The National Atmospheric and Oceanic Association, which runs the lab, has suffered a number of budget cutbacks, and funds to the Argonne National Laboratories and the Great Lakes Basin Commission have been cut off. THE UNVERSITY'S Sea Grant College Program, in which students conduct marine research, should be the next victim if Reagan's proposed budget is ap- proved. Lakes lab The Sea Grant program, which is run cooperatively with Michigan State University, receives $1 million annually in federal funds. The two universities are expected to match these funds. The health of the Great Lakes would be jeopardized if the labs are closed down, according to Mike Quigley, a biologist at the lab. "BY CLOSING the labs, you're losing the scientific eyes and ears of the lakes," he said. "It's a foolish strategy in the long run." Quigley said he is confident the lab will not be shut down, but doubts it will escape any budget cuts. "I feel we will be put back on the budget. But it's going to be a long process. The taxpayers are getting their See BUDGET, Page 2 after ' By ROB FRANK The director of the University's Of- fice of Major Events was fired last week as the result of a financial audit, the University's top attorney confirmed yesterday.- Karen Young, head of the office which schedules and promotes concerts on campus, was fired after the audit began on Feb. 1. according to Roderick Daane, the University's general coun- sel. ROBERT DAVIES, head of booking and production for major events, also said last night Young has been fired but refused to link the firing to the audit. Vice President for Student Services Henry Johnson and Michigan Union Director Frank Cianciolo, Young's immediate supervisors, refused to audit comment. Neither the audit nor major events' bookkeeping records will be made public, said Daane. If the two were released, it could be "personally damaging" to Young, he said. The major events office has been plagued by other financial problems in recent months. About $2,000, most of which was major events' receipts, was taken from the Michigan Union last Thanksgiving, Ann Arbor Police said. Officials said there is no connection between the theft and either the audit or Young's firing. T he money was taken from a locked box in the Union, police said. The rob- bery is still under investigation. . ..... ...... 1: TODAY Grin and bare it A HIGH SCHOOL girl in Massachusetts has been told she is welcome to bare it all, just so long as she doesn't use the school's yearbook to tell about it. Loretta Martin, 17, says she has a con- stitutional right to disclose in her high school yearbook her ambition to be a Playboy magazine model. She says she sored. In the senior class of 550, a total of 110 were rejected by school officials. "Things were getting out of hand. They had to be edited," Archambault said yesterday. Martin said she never thought her ambition would offend anyone, but since it has become known she has received obscene phone calls and sees her male classmates whispering when she walks by in the hall. "I mean, some people are really immature," she said. "I am just a responsible adult who is proud of her body." Word has it she intends to go on grin-E ning-and bare it. nna_n niep trv ficially suspended Tuesday but he was at work yesterday. Police Chief Dwayne Sparks declined to say when the punishment would begin or how long it would last. "(Bar- nshaw) is probably one of the finest animal control officers there is anywhere," Sparks said. "It just got to him. After having to destroy so many of them, he thought, well, he'd give these dogs a chance. He was wrong and he knows that now." Barnshaw ended up having to kill two of the dogs, in- cluding the one that reminded him of Dobie, later the same day because someone saw him release the animals and notified police. The third dog was never recaptured. He cAia h r irjhn(a theIhrP monvnirc P ria lnnar than the 9 term for stabbing 20-year-old Jeanne Boukau to death in the Arboretum a few months before. Wilson claimed Boukau asked him to kill her, promising him a motorcycle and $50 to do it. Also on this date in history: " 1948-Sudents were allowed to rate their LSA professors for the first time in history. " 1969-University officials raised LSA enrollment limits by 200 but slashed the number of out-of-state students as part of a" controlled college growth" plan. " 1967-Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (R-Conn.) told a Rackham audience that "they are afraid to get their hands dirty" by .i I