Ninety-four Years of Editorial Freedom E iau 5ai Similar Mostly cloudy and cool, with a chance of showers and a high near 60. Vol. XCIV - No. 13 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, September 22, 1983 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages Soviet admits Korean plane downing of 'a mistake' From AP and UPI EDINBURGH, Scotland - A Soviet official acknowledged yesterday that Soviet pilots made a "mistake" in the downing of a South Korean airliner. He said they wrongly identified it as a military reconnaissance plane and wouldn't have shot it down if they had known it was a commercial flight. He repeated the allegation that the Korean Air Lines jumbo jet was on a spy mission. IT WAS THE first Soviet admission of error in the Sept. I destruction of the Boeing 747 and the 269 people aboard af- ter the plane was intercepted over the Soviet island of Sakhalin. "Of course, it was a mistake in the sense that the pilots took this plane for a reconnaissance plane," the official, Viktor Linnyk, said in English in an in- 'Had we known it was civilian, we wouldn't have shot, never - even though it was spying.' - Soviet Victor official Linnyk totally different. I am absolutely cer- tain of that." He repeated earlier Soviet conten- tions that there was "strong evidence" the Koreah plane was on a spy mission but added, "Had we ,known it was civilian, we wouldn't have shot, never - even though it was spying." He noted American admissions that a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane was operating over the north Pacific at the same time the Korean plane flew over the Kamchatka peninsula, which is studded with top-secret Soviet military bases. LINNYK SAID the presence of the U.S. plane made Soviet interceptor pilots "trigger-happy." BBC correspondent Tim Sebastian reported that British delegates to the See SOVIET, Page 6 terview with the British Broadcasting Corp. The BBC identified him as an ad- visor to the Soviet leadership and one of the nine members of the Soviet delegation to an Edinburgh University conference on East-West relations. Another member of the Soviet delegation, Viktor Afanasyev, editor-in- chief of the Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda, on Sunday criticized Soviet military leaders for waiting six days before they admitted the airliner was shot down. LINNYK, WHO the BBC said is a consultant to the Communist Party cen- tral committee's department of inter- nal information, said the pilots who in- tercepted KAL Flight 007 "never thought it was a civilian plane. If they did, the decision would have been Judge demands Daily Photo by TOD WOOLF Dr. Evelyn Fisher of Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital tells Residential College students that AIDS research exemplifies modern medical challenges. AIDS: Few answers teacher-board settlement to many qi By LAURIE DELATER A Detroit-area infectious disease specialist last night said that the scien- tific community's race to find a cure for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syn- drome (AIDS) typifies the challenge of modern medicine. "We don't know what the agent is, but even it you don't you can tell how it has been transmitted by who gets.it, who doesn't and by the victim's activities," Dr. Evelyn Fisher told the Residential College audience. FISHER TOLD the students of Western and non-Western medicine course that AIDS research involves collecting case histories and drawing relationships between cases to suggest cures. uestions The students have been using AIDS as an example of how Western medical researchers solve puzzles. Little is known about the cause of AIDS, but much has been learned about its symptoms, treatment, and preven- tion, Fisher said. AIDS STRIKES by breaking down the immune system, leaving its victim defenseless against a variety of "oppor- tunistic" infections such as certain forms of cancer and pneumonia that normally would not prove fatal in healthy people. According to Fisher, there have been 13 cases of AIDS reported in the metropolitan Detroit area. The figure See AIDS, Page 6 By BARBARA MISLE A federal judge yesterday threatened to lock city school board officials and striking teachers in his chambers over the weekend if they do not reach a set- tlement by 4 p.m. Friday. At an afternoon hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Ross Campbell postponed a decision on the board's request for an injunction to force the teachers back to work and criticized both sides for their failure to settle the 16-day-old strike. EARLY yesterday morning, however, the teachers accepted the board's proposal for a new health in- surance policy - the key issue which has stalled talks and kept 14,000 studen- ts out of school for two weeks. That progress is "extremely significant," and the remaining dispute over salary increases should be resolved quickly, said Wiley Brownlee deputy school superintendent. The insurance agreement calls on teachers to phase out their insurance contracts with the Michigan Educational Special Services Ad- ministration (MESSA) over the next three years. THE TEACHERS would keep MESSA this year and have the option of choosing another plan next year. Teachers and school board officials still disagree on what would happen the third year. The school board says teachers who elect to keep MESSA should pay the dif- ference between it and a less-expensive program, but the Ann Arbor education Association, the teacher's union, objec- ts to that plan. Teachers accepted the proposal on the condition that terms for the third See JUDGE, Page 2 Daily Photo by TOD WOOLF Regental reasoning Regent Deane Baker explains his views on current campus issues yesterday. See story, page 2. Reagan hails war powers compromise with House a ~ w .. . " ' .; . _ " ' : . . . w . . : : :: WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan hailed the war powers com- promise with Congress yesterday as a "welcome step forward in our pursuit of peace" in Lebanon by authorizing 1,200 Marines to remain there for another 18 months. Secretary of State Geroge Shultz, urging approval of the comporomise fashioned Tuesday by negotiators for the White House and congressional leaders, told a House committee that the United States plans no wider role for its military forces in Lebanon. "WHAT WE are doing in Lebanon is right," Shultz said. He added it would be wrong for the United States to "turn tail and run" by withdrawing the Marine contingent from the multinational peacekeeping force. Reagan, speaking to a White House luncheon for broadcasters, said keeping the Marines on peacekeeping duty "is absolutely crucial if the fighting is to stop, the Soviet-sponsored aggression against Lebanon is to end and the diplomats have a chance to succeed." Reagan expressed reservations about a provision in the compromise dealing with the president's obligations to Congress under the War Powers Act of 1973. But he said that if the House and Senate approve the measure, "It'll send a signal to the world that America will continue to participate in the multinational force trying to help that nation back on its feet." THE COMPROMISE declared that the Marines are in hostilities requiring Congress, under the War Powers Act, to authorize their continued presence in Lebanon or allow their automatic with- drawal within 90 days. At the same time, however, Congress would avoid a confrontation with Reagan under the measure by agreeing to keep the Marines there, at their presnet strength, for 18 months. See REAGAN Page 6 ,; 4-4 *. . .- q* Dueling yachts The Australina 12-meter yacht Australia II (left) and the US entry Liberty appear to cross sails as they engage in a tacking duel off Newport, R.I. yesterday. For details of the America's Cup Race, See Sports, Page 10. Reagan ... hails compromise TODAY Haig returns WHEN ALEXANDER HAIG last came to campus, anti-military protestors had to be content with shout- ing nasty things at the former Secretary of State from a distance - only a select few were allowed to listen to his speeches. But Haig will visit the University again in Oc- tober, and this time the lecture will be open to the public. LT- _ ..M r..en..i -- AD-:- in nA arin nman, something, there's a piece of paper up on the wall that shows I know what I'm talking about," he said. Willems is closing out a law practice to provide time for his ninth college degree, this one in chemical engineering. He said it all started in 1954, when he received a degree in political science from the University. That was followed by a bachelor's degree in management from the University of Illinois in 1962, a master's in public administration from that school in 1964, master's degrees in education and business administration from the University of Michigan in 1969, a law degree from Wayne State University in 1975, a master's degree in letters and law from the same school taught by Ira Distenfield, Beverly Hills manager of the in- vestment firm Smith, Barney, Harris Upham and Co. "The goal of the program is to help inmates develop a sense of accomplishment, a basic understanding of how business operates, and to give them an opportunity to meet prospective future employers," Distenfield said. Each inmate in Distenfield's class if given $10,000 in play money to invest and orders are handled as if they were ac- tual purchases. At the end of the program, the most suc- cessful "investor" wins $500. Distenfield has run the program at various prisons since 1970 and has taught the ins and outs of the market to about " 1958 - Four University students returned to Michigan after Niagara Falls police sent them homeward. The four had been sighted a mile upstream from the brink of the falls, with a barrel carrying a sign reading, "Today at 3:00, Barrel Attempt." The students claimed they had been joking. " 1970 - The Michigan Union agreed to rent 2,300 square feet of space to a student bookstore, which was scheduled to open in January 1971. *1972 - A University housing office committee voted to continue boycotting lettuce from Arizona and California that had not been picked by the United Farm Workers I I