The Michigan Daily-Sunday, March 27, 1983-Page 3," Reagan stands by his 1 41 decision WASHINGTON (AP)-As President Reagan defended the record of the En- vironmental Protection Agency, his administration moved this week to clean house at the embattled agency where all but three top appointees have now departed. Administration officials privately have expressed the hope that William Ruckelshaus' appointment as head of in EPA scandal the EPA would quiet the controversies and allegations that have held center stage in the nation's capital for nearly three months. But the controversy has not died. Last week, a House subcommittee released a document that appeared to link a White House official to allegations of political manipulation of EPA "superfund," the billion-dollar HAPPENINGS- Sunday Highlight School of Education Dean Joan Stark will speak on "Intellectual Indepen- dence: The Challenge of the College Years" at the University's 60th annual Honors Convocation. The event begins at 2 p.m. at Hill Auditorium. Films Alternative Action - Bambi, 12:30, 2 & 3:30 p.m., MLB 4. AAFC - Firemen's Ball, 7 p.m.; Contract, 8:20 p.m., MLN 4. Cinema Guild - Don Quixote De La Mancha, 7 & 9:40 p.m., Lorch Hall. Mediatrics- Gone With The Wind, 4 & 8 p.m., Aud. A., Angell Hall. Performances Michigan Ensemble Theatre - "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof," 2 p.m., Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Ark - The Boys of the Lough, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., 1421 Hill St. Music at Michigan - Percussion recital, Jane Botkin, 2 p.m.; euphonium recital, Jonathan Busch, 4 p.m.; trombone recital, Brooks Barnes, 6 p.m.; piano recital, James Winn, 8 p.m.; Recital Hall. Faculty cello rectial, 4 p.m., Rackham Auditorium. Meetings Genealogical Society of Washtenaw County - Monthly meeting, 1 p.m., Washtenaw Community College, 4800 Huron River Dr. Gargoyle - Staff meeting, 2 p.m., first floor, Student Publications; Building. Cornerstone Christian Church - Worship, teaching, and fellowship, 7 p.m., second floor, Ann Arbor Inn. Washtenaw County Coalition Against Apartheid - 5 p.m., Trotter House, 1443 Washtenaw. Miscellaneous Racquetball - Practice meeting, 9 a.m.-noon, courts 1-5, NCRB. Aikido - Practice, wrestling room, Athletic Building. Artists and Craftsmen Guild - Watercolors by Richard Sears, University Club, Michigan Union. . Kelsey Museum - "Karanis, Am Egyptian Town in Roman Times: Discoveries of the University pf Michigan expedition to Egypt (1924-1935)," 1-4 p.m., Kelsey Museum. Highlight. Three Canadian documentaries on acid rain and nuclear war, which have been designated as "political propaganda" by the U.S. Justice Department, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in MLB 3. Following the films, atmospheric and oceanic science Prof. Perry Samson will comment on the acid rain issues and communications Prof. John Stevens will speak about freedom of speech. Films Cinema.Guild - Middle Eastern Film Series, 7 p.m., Lorch. Performances Performance Network - "Airlooms," 7 p.m., 408 West Washington. ' Music at Michigan - Percussion ensemble, Michael Udow, Rackham Auditorium; Doctoral piano students recital, 8 p.m., Rackham Assembly Hall. Pigs With Wings -10 p.m., The HalfWay Inn, East Quad. Guild House - Poetry series, John Peter Beck and David Epstein, 8 p.m., 802 Monroe. Speakers Society for the Promotion of American Music - Martin Williams, "Duke Ellington: A Dance Band Leader as a Major Composer," 7:30 p.m., Room 606, Burton Tower. Computing Center - Forrest Hartman, Introduction to TEXTFORM, I, 3:30-5 p.m., 176 BSAD. Students for Origins Research - George Mefferd, "Scientific Evidence for Creation," 7p.m., University Lutheran Chapel, 1511Washtenaw. Alpha Phi Alpha - George Goodman, "The Education System and You," 7:30 p.m., Bethel AME Church, 900 Plum St. Hispanic American Student Services - Rocardo Campos, "The Political Economy of the Puerto Rican Migration," 8p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre. Chemistry - William Butler, "X-Rays, Microcomputers, and Crystallographic Data Base Searches," 4 p.m., Room 1200, Chemistry Building. Near Eastern Studies - Giovanni Pettinnato, "The Archives of Ebla: A New Civilization from the Third Millennium B.C.," 4 p.m., lecture room 1, wMLB. SPublic Health Student Association - Larry Holcomb, "Toxic Substance Management in Michigan," 7:30 p.m., School of Public Health Building. Near Eastern and North African Studies - Raji Rammuny, "Proficien- cy-Based Approach to Arabic Instruction," noon, Lane Hall Commons Room. Renaissance Universal Club - "The World Conservation Strategy," 8-9:30 p.m., Welker Room, Michigan Union. Medicinal Chemistry - Eric De Clerq, "Antiviral Activity of 5-Substituted 2'-Deoxyuridines," 2 p.m., 3554 CC Little. Meetings F.L.O.C. - Weekly meeting,,7:30 p.m., 308 E. William. Ann Arbor Chapter of the Indoor Light Gardening Society - 7:30 p.m., Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd. Narcotics Anonymous - 1 p.m., United Way Building, 2301 Platt Rd.; 8:30p.m., Carriage House, First Unitarian Church. SACUA -1:15p.m., 4025 Fleming. Christian Science Organization - 7:15 p.m., Room D, Michigan League. Miscellaneous Near Eastern Studio - Book sale, 1-4 p.m., Room 3050, Frieze Bldg. Chabad House - Passover Seder, 8 p.m., Chabad House, 715 Hill St. program designed to pay for cleaning up the nation's toxic waste. THE HAND-WRITTEN notes of a meeting between Rita Lavalle, former head of the fund, and White House aide James Medas detailed several 1982 gubernatorial races and noted the can- didates backed by the administration. After first dismissing the meeting as insignificant, the White House staff acknowledged it focused on politics, but denied there were discussions of using the cleanup funds for political pur- poses. THROUGH ALL the turmoil, Reagan has defended his environmental record and appointees. "No proof of any wron- gdoing has been presented in all of this fuss, as yet," he said at a news con- ference Friday, minutes after five EPA officials resigned. Reagan said on the day Burford stepped down that he did not engineer her resignation. But sources, who spoke on condition they not be identified, said Reagan's staff passed the word to her that she should leave. When Reagan announced his choice of Ruckelshaus, the president ignored the allegations of conflict-of-interest, political manipulation and mismanagement that have spawned several congressional inquiries. He also dismissed congressional criticism of the EPA as simply an argument over which hazardous waste dumps should be cleaned up first. RUCKELSHAUS, who headed the EPA when it was created in 1970, agreed earlier in the week to return. He is expected to gain Senate confir- mation. 'Reagan criticizes Dem. budget (Continued from Page 1) increase domestic spending by $33 billion. BY USING MORE optimistic economic assumptions and calling for higher taxes, it also puts the deficit at $174.5 billion, well below Reagan's figure. On virtually every issue last week, Democrats in the House took advantage of a new-found and more cohesive majority to produce a tax and spending plan radically different from the one Reagan submitted in February. " - The Legal Services Corp, which Reagan wants to eliminate, would receive nearly $300 million under the House budget. Energy conservation grants, Community Services Block Grants and the Work Incentive Program, all of which the president wants to phase out, also would get con- tinued funding. " - There is enough room in the Democratic budget to pay for a fifth space shuttle, a purchase the White House does not favor. "c- There is money for a $4 billion jobs bill to be passed next year. In ad- dition to the $4.6 billionmeasure Reagan signed Thursday. " -- The House budget contains an additional $150 million for the En- vironmental Protection Agency. ," - The White House favors a pay freeze for military and civilian gover- nment employees, but the House wants a 4 percent pay increase. The Reagan budget also calls for no cost-of-living increase next year for federal retirees. The House wants a six-month delay in the cost-of-living increase. " - There is also extra money for a variety of social programs, including job training, low-income energy assistance, mass transit, welfare and education programs. 4"4 Nasal nip Nippy weather isn't bothering organ grinder Tony Lupo of Newton Mass. instead it's the playful Perhaps Lupo wasn't paying his co-worker enough bananas. A AP Photo antics of Angelo. 'Revolutionary' scanner to probe cell and tissue SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP)-Scien- tist at General Electric Co. say they have developed a "revolutionary" system for medical examinations that surpasses CT scans and X-rays while eliminating the need to use chemicals or radiation. The system, which uses a 9-ton magnet and sound waves, allows doc- tors to examine the human body in ways that in the past would require surgery, says Rowland Redington, one of the GE scientists who developed the system. The magnet-producing a power field 20,000 times the strength of Earth's magnetic field is the first one' "big enough, strong enough and uniform enough" to allow analyses of heads and torsos, Redington said. Earlier experimental systems have only been large enough to handle hum- an limbs, Redington said. THE SYSTEM allows doctors to see through bones and into cells, and to gather more subtle information about living tissue than X-rays or CT scans, Redington said. Scientistat GE's research and development center here said the system will have "a revolutionary im- pact on the field of medicine." THE SYSTEM, called NMR for nuclear magnetic resonance, would make cellular changes immediately detectable to doctors who would nor- mally have to wait days for measureable physical changes, Redington said. Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania hospitals are working with GE researchers on the project, which GE is expected to offer for use in hospitals shortly, Redington said. NMR systems will cost more than the million-dollar CT scan systems - in the $1.5 million to $2.5 million range - and will most likely require that hospitals add special wings to shield the powerful magnetic waves, he said. THE MAGNETIC waves can disrupt heart pacemakers, watches and com- puter coding, Redington said. With the system, a patient is placed inside the huge magnet and the body is probed by high frequency radio signals which can be used to produce animage of the soft, living tissue as well as a chemical analysis, Redington said. "One of the most likely applications for NMR will be monitoring therapy, such as radiation therapy for cancer,'' Redington said. THE GE scientists have been A . OK "ENERGY SAVINGS IN RENTAL HOUSING" VOTE YES APRIL 4 Paid by Sport Guides 415 Detroit Street working on the project in a specially constructed building at the companyes research center since 1978. GE is one of about a dozen companies working on NMR projects, Redington said. "It's the big brass ring and everbody. is chasing it," he said. LAS SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE Merit Award Recipients Laird Bloom Anita M. Brinker Margaret T. Fleming Marjorie E. Howes Chrystopher Nehaniv Stephanie Satchfi eld, John M Schloerb :k c Michael P. Strathmann: Subscribe to The Michigan Daily 'LSATm'-. 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