6 Page 2-Saturday, March 26,1983-The Michigan Daily Going ape AP Photo Robert Vicino, president of Robert Keith Co., poses with scale models of the Empire State Building and King Kong in front of a part of the 84-foot rubber model of the ape his company will build to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the original movie. High-tech defe nse: Too far out? NEW YORK (AP) - Inteviews with ,aientists around the country suggest That President Reagan's idea for a high- 'echnology defense against nuclear at- ack may be a scientific pipedream. The technical difficulties in building ich a system, many scientists say, are 'imense. "I SEE no prospect of deploying on t ,e ground or in space an effective _fense," says Sidney Drell, a pofessor of physics at Stanford jTniversity and former defense con- sultant to the White House and the National Security Council. In a televised speech Wednesday, Reagan called on scientists to "embark on a program to counter the awesome Sgviety missile threat with measures that are defensive." In a briefing at the Whig following Reagan's speech, Keyworth, the president's sc: viser, reportedly said weapo on lasers, particle beams, mis microwaves were among t technology alternative. GARWIN AND others questioned whether laser and weapons will work at all. The that the atmosphere and the magnetic field would interf them, and that supplying powe and aiming them accurat quickly would be difficult if possible. Satellite weapons also could4 destroyed by inexpensive mines." Not all scientists say fl eFBI agent says Rowe te House defense against nuclear attack is r: George feasible. Some say it is not yet possit Gence ad- to know whether an effective defen ns based system can be built. siles and Debate on the effectiveness of defer she high- sive weapons goes back to 1969 ar 1970. But the Salt I treaty in 1C' have prohibited construction of missi Iparticledefense weapons and testing themi ey object space. y Ets DRELL SAYS that even if resear ere with on defensive systems is successful, t r ithm treaty would prevent testing. r to them Advances in computers and radari ely and the past decade have been great enoug not im- to reopen the anti-ballistic missi debate, says Roy Woodruff, associal easily be director for nuclear design at t "space Lawrence Livermore Nation. Laboratory in California, one of tf atly that nation's two nuclear weapons labs. was 'volatile' e made a of March 26, agreed with Colema nedy and report. problems m, ,,Rowe BI "was According to Snow, Rowe said that1 am police had "wasted a white whore." and to; job," ac- Coleman that he had just "screw( also said up." ert Hum- Earlier in the day, U.S. Distri we as a Judge Charles Joiner, who is hearin morning the case without a jury, agreed to a4 ar of his cept lie detector tests as evidence fro Rowe and two of the Klansmen wh were in the car with Rowe. The thi: he guy," Klansman is dead. him and een to my Daily staff writer Tracy Miller alt r Henry contributed to this report. rly hours (Continued from Page t) 44owe pulled a gun on a man whose wife le was having an affair with. In ad- dition, Rowe shot a black man in ,peme 49Pj allegedly ut self, ForerBirmingham, Ala , police of- cer LaVaughn Coleman also testified sterday via videotape, that Rowe jimmoned him to his apartment early h the morning of March 26 and told m he had just shot someone. He said "that he had killed some ale," Coleman said. "He said he oked a whore, or burned a whore." :iuzzo was killed between 8 and 9 n. on the night of March 25. #13UT COLEMAN said he never told yone about Rowe's apparent con- sion. He said he didn't contact the I because "Rowe was the FBI." 'He had the credentials," Coleman id. Author convicted on drug- related charges PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A jury yesterday convicted Richard Stratton of federal drug conspiracy charges, rejecting defense contetions that the 37-year-old aspiring writer only got in- volved with the drug world to gather material for a book. The jury returned its verdict after deliberating for about three hours following a three-week-long trial that included authors Norman Mailer and Doris Kearns as defense witnesses. UPON LEAVING the courthouse, Stratton indicated to reporters thatuthe verdict would be appealed. U.S. District Judge Edward Gignoux said sentencing would be later. In his instructions to the jury, Gignoux said journalistic license was no justification to find the defendant innocent of con- spiring to possess more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana with intent to distribute it. "The fact that he intended to write about that experience would not be a defense to that charge" if Stratton was a willing participant in a drug smuggling conspiracy, Gignoux said. STRATTON WAS one of 15 suspects indicted as a result of last year's seizure of $1.5 million worth of marijuana and hashish in Sanford, If convicted, he could face up to 15 years in prison. His novel, "Drug War," completed while in jail awaiting trial, was delivered personally by Mailer to a literary agent in New York. Mailer said he believed Stratton was doing resear- ch, not actually trafficking in drugs. Much of the testimony in the case was by admitted drug dealers, alleged ac- complices who spoke at length for the prosecution and were cross-examined by the defense. One identified Stratton as "boss" of its smuggling operation. "THE GOVERNMENT has proved every single thing it alleged it would," said U.S. Attorney Richard Cohen. The defense portrayed Stratton as an aspiring writer who got caught up in the shadowy world of big-time drug- dealing, but never crossed the line from observer to participant. He was "in the stadium but not on the team," defense attorney Ira London said. "The fact thatdRi chard Stttfis a writer does not entitle hiftto be fbu d not guilty," London said ii his clsing arguments. "It does entitle him to be in certain places at certain times where you and I might not be going." Legilature approves tax hike (Continued trom Page 1) bill immediate effect. The Senate minutes later followed suit on a 28-7 vote. Without that, the measure could not legally take effect until next year. "I feel like this is the first day of my term in office," said Blanchard of the final action on the measure he has devoted the first three months of his term to. He said he expected to sign the bill Tuesday. "THIS IS the first day we've been ;able to get off our knees from in front of the bankers of Japan," said Blan- chard, referring to last year's agreement with Japanese banks which allowed Michigan to borrow $500 million. The bill hikes the state's income tax rate to 6.35 percent retroactive to Jan. 1. The measure includes annual phase- out rates as well as provisions for reducing the levy as state unem- ployment falls. Blanchard has frequently said that Michigan is among 33 states which have raised or are in the process of raising taxes. Since the beginning of 1981, at least 16 states have raised personal or corporate income taxes, including Michigan's southern neighbor, Ohio, which recently enacted a 90 percent in- come tax hike. Last year, lawmakers approved a six-month addition to the tax rate, hiking the tax from 4.6 percent to 5.6 percent. The levy dropped back to its current 4.6 percent rate last September 30. The new bill will raise $3.013 billion over four years. Of that amount, $635 million will be dedicated to a special account to reduce Michigan's long-term $800 million cash shortage. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press ands? United Press International reports Five top EPA officials resign WASHINGTON - President Reagan yesterday accepted the resignations of acting Environmental Protection Agency chief John Hernandez and four other top EPA officials in a major housecleaning at the embattled agency. Career EPA employees broke out bottles of champagne to celebrate the shakeup, while administration officials said more resignations are expected a before William Ruckelshaus assumes command of the agency in the coming m weeks. "I don't think it necessarily looks bad," Reagan told a news briefing in, response to questions about the latest exodus of high-level EPA officials, which brought to 13 the number of political appointees who have quit or been.> fired from agency posts since early February. But presidential aides said several of the officials, accused of cozy ties with companies EPA regulates, were pressed to resign by the White House in hopes of silencing the controversy surrounding the agency before Ruckelshaus takes charge. Economist foresees partial recovery by year's end WASHINGTON - President Reagan declared yesterday that "we are definitely into a recovery," and his chief economist rushed out a more bullish 1983 forecast calling for stronger growth, lower inflation and unem- ployment receding below 10 percent by year's end. The administration moved in record time to replace its original, eight- week-old forecast, which had been widely criticized by experts in and out of government for being unusually pessimistic about the prospects for a ' healthy rebound from the deep 1981-82 recession. A batch of unexpectedly good economic reports, particularly an emerging housing boom and falling oil prices, prompted chief White House economist Martin Feldstein to bury the initial forecast. The new forecast predicts 4.7 percent inflation-adjusted growth between the fourth quarters of 1982 and 1983, up from a weak -3.1 percent, as first suggested. Inflation is now expected to be 4.5 percent, down from 5,6 per- cent. "On balance, it looks like the recession ... reached bottom in December and we're on the way up," Feldstein told reporters at the White House. "There remain a number of uncertainties about the strength of the recovery but things definitely look better now than they did before Christmas." Reagan to stick with Adelman as arms control nominee WASHINGTON - President Reagan said yesterday "you bet I'm sticking by" his much-criticized arms control nominee, Kenneth Adelman, and ad- vised Americans to "tune in next week" for a possible shift in proposals to slash nuclear missiles in Europe. Adelman has been under attack by congressmen skeptical of his commit- ment to arms control and concerned that he lacks the experience to head the agency. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which has recommended against the nomination, this week released memos showing that Adelman was involved in an exchange of notes about major personnel changes in the agency he does not yet head. Reagan said, "How someone can be hung out to dry for having received a letter from someone else .. But when reminded that Adelman wrote a memo of his own, the president replied: "All right. But isn't this natural, that someone who is in a position of assuming the directorship of an agency. . . is going to make inquiries of people on the scene with regard to personnel." Exxon must .4y undue profts WASHINGTON - A f deai tge'uled yesterday tAt Exxon Corp. over- charged $895.5 million for crude oil from a Texas field and ordered the nation's largest oil company to reimburse the public through state run con- servation programs. U.S.. District Court Judge Thomas Flannery ruled that Exxon improperly classified "old" oil under federal price controls from its Hawkins field as "new" oil between 1975 and 1981 in order "to unjustly reap huge profits." The refund is the biggest ever awarded under the 1973 Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act, which set up a two-tier system of federal price controls on domestic oil production immediately after the Arab oil embargo. School bus overturns killing 9 UNO, Ark. - Four high school students and five teachers were killed yesterday when their convention-bound bus missed a curving intersection at a rural crossroads and overturned in a soybean field shortly before dawn. Twenty-eight of the seven teachers and 35 students which the Jonesboro School district said were aboard were injured. Fourteen were hospitalized, including four seriously injured who were flown by helicopter to hospitals in Memphis, Tenn., about 85 miles to the east, and Little Rock, about 80 miles to the southwest. Area residents said crashes on the road are common and other buses have slid off the road. A state police officer said he considered the road adequately marked and safe. The bus was bound for Little Rock, the state capital, for an annual weekend convention of the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America. By yester- day afternoon, 600 people had arrived at the Excelsior Hotel for the conven- tion and skills competition. Michael Pearce, principal of the Grubb School near Uno, said residents began circulating petitions within hours of the crash, asking the road be changed. "There's an intersection right in the middle of a curve," he said. "It's kind of like two curves coming together. It's not like the way you'd ex- pect two roads would come together." hibe £Mirbigan Ba It Vol. XCIII, No. 138 Saturday, March 26, 1983 The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday mornings during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109. Sub- scription rates: $13 September through April (2 semesters); $14 by mail out- side Ann Arbor. Summer session published Tuesday through Saturday mor- nings. Subscription rates: $7.50 in Ann Arbor; $8 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to THE MICHIGAN DAILY, 420 Maynard Street, Ann Ar- bor, MI48109. 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