T LE EEP BoSee Weekend Magazine Ninety-four Years Downpour of L I E I~tg90 percentchanceofrain, with EditorialFreedom possiblethunderstorms and a Eitor.Cia. F do t 9high in the upper 60s. Vol. XCIV - No. 8 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday September 16, 1983 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages Japanese find U.S. passengers belongings on coast From AP and UPI Japanese searchers found the first be- longings of a U.S. passenger aboard downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007 yesterday. Japanese police said searchers on the northern Hokkaido coast found the business card of Kathy Brown-Spier, 35, of New York. THE CARD, listing the name of her New York employer, Huk-A-Poo clothing manufacturers, was the first piece of identification belonging to one of the Americans aboard the plane. Searchers also found pieces of human flesh and wreckage believed to be from the downed airliner. So far, the remains of at least five people have been found. As the search continued for the 15th day, Japan's Maritime Safety Agency reported the 12,000-ton Soviet rescue ship Georgi Kozumin was seen retrieving a small submarine at a point about 20 miles north of the Soviet island of Moneron. THE AGENCY said red and orange buoys were seen in the water where the Spviet craft was raised, raising speculation that the Soviets may have found the main wreckage of the Boeing 747. The agency said 21 Soviet ships were in the area. Officials said the Soviets were searching in international waters, 20 miles north of Moneron island. A U.S. Navy tug, the USS Naragan- sett, scanned the ocean floor for signs of the airliner's black box, containing the vital record of the plane's final minutes. IN WASHINGTON, President Reagan told Portuguese leader, Antonio Ramalho Eanes yesterday the Western allies must "rededicate ourselves to the defense of human freedom" as a legacy to the people killed aboard Korean Air Lines Flight 007: In welcoming Eanes to the White House, Reagan said the Russian downipig of the KAL jumbo jet with 269 aboard "sickened the world," but should strengthen free nations. "The Korean Air Lines massacre reminds us that although we in the West belong to a community of nations that strives to do good, others in the world do not shrink from doing evil," Reagan said. THE MEETING came as the Inter- national Civil Aviation Organization convened an emergency session in Montreal to condemn the Soviet action and as the Soviet airline Aeroflot closed its U.S. offices under sanctions imposed by Reagan. A resolution condemning the Soviets was virtually certain to pass at the Montreal-based U.N. agency. No nation on the council has veto power. In Moscow, international restrictions on air traffic with Moscow incon- venienced many tourists but a U.S. con- sular official said none were stranded. After President Reagan issued an edict earlier this week barring passage to anyone with connecting tickets on Aeroflot flights, Moscow's state-run airline retaliated Wednesday by rejec- ting all airline tickets issued by U.S. carriers. NATO nations, with the exception of France, Turkey, and Greece, began a two-week boycott of the Soviet airline Aeroflot yesterday. 'U' votes to axe Engin. Humanities 1I By SHARON SILBAR and JACKIE YOUNG A year of uncertainty for the College of Engineering's weakened humanities department came to an end yesterday with the University Regents unanimously approving a plan to gradually eliminate the department. At their monthly meeting, the Regen- ts also delayed until today their decision on a new dean for the School of Education and budget cuts for the financially troubled school, and withheld approval of the University's 1983-84 budget, deferring a decision un- til next month. Under the plan, LSA would gradually begin teaching literature to engineering students though courses in "Technology and Society" and technical communication would remain in the college. * Over the past few years, seven faculty members have left the depar- tment, but the college has not replaced 2 the professors, causing some class sizes- to balloon from 35 to 80students. "Humanities is central to the y engineering curriculum, (but) the department of humanities is not central to the mission of the College of Engineering," said Billy Frye, vice president for academic affairs and provost. Frye told the Regents it is hard to Daily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER predict now what the economic advan- tages of phasing out the program will be, but said it would not be worth it to of Natural History. rebuild the department which has lost so many faculty members. Booking it LSA freshman Wil Cwikiel lounges outdoors while reading in front of the Museum Shi~t~sprotest U.S. policy in Lati~n A-merica Engineering Dean James Duderstadt said the decision to discontinue the department would be "not just in the best interests of the faculty, but good for the University generally." Duderstadt said the move also would encourage a "broad and liberal" education for engineering students. Regent Thomas Roach (D-Saline) said he thought the move was an "excellent idea" and should be carried out "as rapidly as possible." Although no decision was made about the recommended 40 percent cut in the School of Education budget, the Regen- ts and the University's executive of ficers discussed the reports of several key University committees which reviewed the school and heard com- ments from the outgoing dean and her proposed successor. The School of Education was one of three University schools slated for major . cutbacks 20 months ago. Reviews of the School of Natural Resources and the art school led to cuts of 25 percent and 18 percent respec- tively. In his recommendation to the Regen- ts, Frye said there are no plans to "ac- tively decrease enrollment" in the school, and that the school should retain its undergraduate program. Outgoing School of Education Dean Joan Stark cited enrollment levels, the recruitment of new faculty, and the future of existing tenured faculty as potential trouble spots for her proposed successor, who presently is the school's associate dean. Carl Berger. See REGENTS, Page 5 Druse rebels renew attack From AP and UPI BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanese and Israeli jets roared over Lebanon yesterday and a grenade attack woun- ded two French peacekeepers in west Beirut. Bazooka shells also killed one Israeli soldier and wounded seven in southern Lebanon. All six Hawker Hunter jets that make up Lebanon's operational air force took off from Beirut's shell-ravaged airport at dawn and buzzed insurgent Druse positions on the hills surrounding the capital. The thunderous low passes that lasted 30 minutes involved no bombing sorties, although Druse gunners shelled army positions in Souk el-Gharb and at the Khalde highway intersection on Beirut's southern outskirts heavily overnight. It was the first time Lebanese war- planes scrambled since battles broke out between Druse and Christian SeeFIGHTING, Page 2 By GEORGEA KOVANIS About 60 students carrying banners reading "Stop the killing in El Salvador" and chanting "No more Vietnam Wars" gathered in front of the graduate library yesterday to call for an end to U.S. involvement in Latin America. Members of the Latin American Solidarity Committee, along with those from the Black Student Union, the All People's Congress, the Progressive Student Network and the Michigan Alliance for Disarmament staged the hour-long Diag rally commemorating the death of Chilean President Salvador Allende who was assassinated ten years ago. SPEAKERS AT the rally blamed U.S.-backed juntas for human rights violations in Latin America and the un- stable political climate in Latin America on U.S. imperialism. PSN member David Miklethun, an LSA senior, called for an end to military research on campus. "DOD research is up... at the same time they're cutting the School of Art said. Justin Schwartz, a member of MAD, said people should be made aware of repression in the Third World. "We wanted to get people mad about that," said the graduate student. But not all onlookers agreed with the speakers. Blaming the United States and calling for nuclear freeze is "a way of undermining the American people," said one student, who added he thought the opinions voiced at the rally do not reflect student concerns. "How many intellectuals do they get out here...they're all unemployed?" s Daily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS These two students chanted, "No more Vietnam Wars," at yesterday's Diag rally which called for an end to U.S. involvement in Latin America. The protest was sponsored by the Latin American Solidarity Committee and several other campus groups. .... ...... xx x, .. .. .. .. ............ ..... XX, ...... ....... ..... ....... .............. K ....... ... . ... . . .................... . .. . .. ..... ......................................... I TODAY Chicken little T O GO BAREHEADED to work is to court a bump on the head, says State District Judge Theo Bedard, who says' falling tile in her Dallas courthouse are making her life a trial. So, the judge has taken to wearing a hardhat to the bench. "I think this is such a beautiful old building," says Bedard of the 93-year-old Old Red Courthouse where sheI Library tours T HE UNIVERSITY'S Graduate Library will hold reference department tours beginning next week for those interested in learning more about what's available at the library. Tours will include explanations of the card catalogue, research materials, on-line computer searches, and research consultation service offered by the library staff. Although the tours are intended for graduate students who may be doing in-depth research, such as a dissertation, undergraduates are welcome to attend. The tours will be ds. This year, they topped it with a 222.5-pound melon. "We like to grow these for bragging rights," Vernon Conrad said Wednesday after picking the melon at his family's vegetable farm in Bixby, Okla. This year's record breaker grew from a seed from last year's monster. "We've developed this variety right here on the farm during the past eight years - we call it Oklahoma Giant," Conrad said. Conrad said the farm this year is growing five melons larger than last year's winner. The family has fenced in the field in which the melons grow, and has posted a guard at the plot each night. Also on this date in history: " 1975 - The University announced it would have to cut $1 million from its budget, or 1 percent from every school, in order to make up for a state funding cut. " 1976 - A campus communist organization announced it was filing suit against the University to force members of the Michigan Marching Band to play for presidential can- didate Gus Hall at a speech later in the month. " 1979 - The University cleaned up after 400 people at- tended a weekend toga party at East Quad. D I i