Page 2-Wednesday, April 6, 1983-The Michigan Daily Bishops ease strict stance on nuclear freeze WASHINGTON (AP) - Months after the White House's protest, Roman Catholic bishops yesterday softened their call for a nuclear weapons freeze and added a warning against negotiating "naively" with the Soviet Union. But their attempt to set church policy on war and peace would still rebuke President Reagan's arms buildup. Two earlier drafts of a ground- breaking pastoral letter - a departure from ,customary Catholic hawkishness on national defense issues - called for bilateral agreements to "halt" testing, production and deployment of nuclear weapons - a nuclear arms freeze. BUT THE NEW proposal calls for agreements to "curb" testing, produc- tion and*deployment - a change that may be hotly debated when the document is laid before the nation's 285 Catholic bishops in Chicago May 2-3. Adoption by a two-thirds vote would make it official policy of the American branch of the church. "Admittedly this document is more flexible than the previous documents but I submit that the document as a whole has not really lost its prophetic character or its basic moral thrust," Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, archbishop of Chicago, told a news conference. The proposed letter is a broadly wor- ded denunciation of nuclear war. It describes virtually any use of nuclear weapons as immoral. It calls for an "ongoing public debate" on the morality of the decades-old strategy of nuclear deterrence as a way of keeping the Soviets from attacking. New in the revised version, notably, is a statement of warning against blin- dly entering into negotiating with the Soviets. "It is one thing to recognize that the overwhelming majority of our brothers and sisters through the world are good, decent people who do not want war any more than we do," the draft states. "It is quite another thing to attribute the same good motives to regimes or political systems that have consistently demonstrated precisely the opposite in their behavior." qJhbeMid1,iChw1r'1O1,IV and Canterbury Loft present Campus Meet the Press with SFrye Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Thursday, April 7, 4:30 p.m. Michigan Union, Pendleton Room AP Photo Wolverine warm-up The Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.'s Wolverine prepares to leave its Cleveland home yesterday to pick up iron ore in Minnesota. Fijis vote not to 'black-up' (Continued from Page 1) fended by the fraternity's party, adding that the fraternity had no malicious or racist intent. "It is difficult to know how minorities feel about certain practices. There is a lack of knowledge in general to what those sensitivities are," he said. Black leaders on campus said Phi Gamma Delta should be commended for its decision. The Phi Gamma Delta vote to aban- don "blacking-up" is a positive step, said John Powell, director of Trotter House. "I don't know how it (blacking-up) could have gone on for so long, but since it has stopped I am very pleased about it," he said. Situations like these are not limited to fraternities, said Matthew Harris, ad- ministrative vice president for the In- terfraternity Council. All University groups that hold parties, including dormitories, should use discretion when choosing party themes, he said. "Although the intent might not be racist, the original tradition of blacking-up is a racist idea," Harris said. "Traditions have to be able to be restructured because the mores of the past become obsolete and people must discard them." IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Backing Nicaraguan guerrillas may violate law, senator says WASHINGTON - Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said yesterday that the Reagan administration may be violating the law by "actively supporting, and perhaps even guiding" anti-Sandinista guerrillas in Nicaragua. "What we are dealing with here is not a partisan issue of whether the ad- ministration's Central America policy is right or wrong," Leahy told the Senate. "The question is whether it is within the letter and the spirit of the law." Leahy, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, noted the panel "has already held hearings with senior officials from the executive branch on the question of compliance with the law." Leahy, who visited several Central American countries in January, said he submitted a highly classified report to the Intelligence Committee that "bears materially on the question of whether the executive branch is com- plying" with this legislation. Allegations have appeared recently that forces fighting the leftist San dinista government have been largely financed, armed and trained by the United States, or by nations with close ties to Washington, chiefly Honduras and Argentina. Braz0iians protest poor economy SAO PAULO, Brazil - Thousands of jobless Brazilians went on a looting rampage yesterday and 2,000 people marched on the governor's palace protesting unemployment and inflation. At least one person was shot to death, 99 others were injured and 190 were arrested in the looting spree, authorities said. State police surrounded the palace. The demonstrators wanted to talk to Sao Paulo state Gov. Andre Franco Montoro, who took office last month af- ter his election from a party opposed to Brazil's 19-year-old military regime. The governor spoke instead on television, pledging to "mobilize all the state's resources to create jobs." Foreign banks and the International Monetary Fund have insisted that Brazil apply austere economic policies to qualify for $10 billion in new emergency loans. The policies incude wage cuts, a currency evaluation, and an overall cooling-off of the economy. Heist breaks British record LONGON - At least $10.5 million in unmarked bills was stolen Monday in Britain's biggest cash holdup, pulled off by six hooded gunmen who swigged cheap wine while rifling the vaults of a security firm thought to be as secure as Fort Knox. Scotland Yard's Flying Squad combed London's tough East End looking for the thieves. But police reported no immediate breakthroughs by the 200-man squad, called in after the raid on the headquarters of Security Ex- press. Security Express officials said "preliminary calculations" put the gun- men's haul at about 7 million pounds, the equivalent of $10.5 million. A spokesman said a "final count will be completed before the end of the week." Police sources said the total could reach $13.5 million. They said the loot was all in small, used banknotes that could not be traced. The previous biggest cash heist in Britain was the 1963 Great Train Rob- bery when a London mob stole the then equivalent of $7.3 million from a mail train carrying old banknotes to London to be destroyed. Lloyd's of London, which insured most of the money, posted a record $5Q,000 reward for information leading to the thieves' capture. Detectives who questioned the security firm's employees discounted the possiblity of an inside job. France expels Soviet diplomats PARIS - In France's largest expulsion of Soviet personnel, the Socialist government yesterday ordered 47 diplomats and journalists out of the coun- try for spying. Moscow warned the move would have "highly adverse" con- sequences. The Soviet Embassy called the expulsions an unjustified political act by the government of President Francois Mitterrand and said France would have to bear all the consequences. The French Interior Ministry said police uncovered "continual efforts in France by secret service agents of the U.S.S.R. to find scientific, technical, technological and particularly military information." French news reports said those involved included the third-ranking of- ficial at the Soviet Embassy. They said 40 deportees were diplomats, two were journalists and five were officials with the Soiet commercial in- stitutions in Paris. The French action against more than half the 86-member Soviet Embassy diplomatic staff followed recent expulsions of Soviet diplomats by other Western European governments. Pa. derailment causes oil spill COCHRANTON, Pa. - A freight train derailment yesterday spilled 60,000 gallons of crude oil into French Creek, setting it on fire and creating a 20- mile oil slick that threatened wildlife in the popular fishing stream. "It's a terrible mess," said state Fish Commission official Cloyd Hollen. "It's a slick in some places. Other places, there's chunks of oil piling up." Seven cars in the middle of a 73-car Conrail freight train jumped the track about 1:10 a.m. between Meadville and Oil City in northwestern Pen- nsylvania. Four of the cars leaked, said Conrail spokeswoman Patricia Illuminati. Each of the four cars contained 30,000 gallons of crude. "A significant amount of oil did go into the creek. Dikes have been built at the site and oil ground is being pumped into tank cars. The cars have all been cleared from the track," the Conrail spokeswoman said. The derailment and fire ocurred in rural Cochranton, a town of 1,139 people about 11 miles southwest of Meadville. State Department of En- vironmental Resources official James Erb estimated 60,000 gallons of oil poured into the creek. Vol. XCIII, No. 147 Wednesday, April 6, 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, MI 48109. 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