Ninety-four Years Off EditorialFreedom P Mitt 4 IaiQ Alvin Mostly sunny today with a high bouncing around in the mid-50s. Low tonight will stick right around 40. w Vol. XCIV-No. 44 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, October 27, 1983 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages Grenada Invasion hurts U.S. credibility, profs say By BARBARA MISLE Threats to Americans in Grenada were not severe enough for President Reagan to send in U.S. troops, but Tuesday's invasion points to Reagan's dangerous eagerness to use military force, University professors said yesterday. The obvious reason Reagan sent 1,900 U.S. troops to the Caribbean island of Grenada was to overthrow its Marxist government and preserve America s image, said Political Science Prof. Peter McDonough. MCDONOUGH, who this summer traveled to Barbados, an island near Grenada, said although there was the possibility that the 1,000 U.S. citizens in Grenada could be in danger, it was not strong enough to call for U.S. military in- tervention. "The U.S. relies too much on military means and too little on constructive inter- national dialogue. I don't see what (the IU.S.) has to gain (from the invasion) except uniform international condem- nation," McDonough said. While it should be easy for the U.S. troops to overthrow the leftist gover- nment in Grenada, a country whose en- tire population of 120,000 could fit in the Michigan stadium, it will be difficult to install a new rule. REAGAN'S initial explanation for moving troops into Grenada was to See 'U', Page 2 Si c dead Gnenada; battle may end soon Daily Photo by TOD WOOLF About 400 local protestors march in opposition to the U.S. invasion of Grenada. The group assembled at the Ann Arbor Federal Building and marched to campus, yesterday. Local-marchers protest U.S. attack on Grenada WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. forces in Grenada met "diminishing resistance" yesterday, but had yet to crush all op- position from Cuban and Grenadian troops, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said. He said six' Americans were killed, eight were missing and 33 wounded. Weinberger, providing the first detailed account of the U.S. attack, said the military "operations are progressing extremely well" and predicted that the 3,000-man American force would gain its remaining objec- tives "before too much longer." HE CITED THE Richmond Hill Prison, where U.S. officials believe Grenadian political dissidents are jailed, as the primary military objec- tive still not won. Sources have said the initial U.S. attack on the prison was repulsed by, Cuban and Grenadian defenders Tuesday. Weinberger also told reporters that a Cuban colonel had been captured when a Cuban base was overrun yesterday. Weinberger said about 600 Cubans had been taken into custody, including many "with rifles who had been shooting at us." Gen. John Vessey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed that the invasion force, consisting largely of Marines and Army airborne units, "got more resistance than we expected" when American and Caribbean forces began their surprise attack before dawn on Tuesday. THE PRESS CONFERENCE took place as the first American citizens were being evacuated - Weinberger said "rescued" - from Grenada and were arriving in Charleston, S.C. About 140 Americans were aboard the first two Air Force transport planes out. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union lodged a formal protest against the U.S. action, and the Canadian government com- plained that the United States had refused to allow it to send in one of its own planes to evacuate Canadians. And a representative of Grenada's leftist government made an emotional appeal to the Organization of American States to demand the immediate with- See 140, Page 2 By CLAUDIA GREEN Nearly 400 protestors joined a march to protest the U.S. in- vasion of Grenada yesterday, chanting and carrying signs as they moved from the Ann Arbor Federal Building to North Hall, finally stopping at the Diag. "It should be the purpose of this rally to tell the gover- nment that they are isolated from the American people" in the decision to invade the tiny Caribbean island, said speaker Rebecca Scott, an assistant professor in the history depar- tment. MAINTAINING THAT the invasion of "the helpless coun- try" was in response to a "feeling of helplessness about the death of Marines in Lebanon," Scott called the invasion "an affront to the world." Chants of "Self-determination for the people of Grenada" and "Hey, hey, Uncle Sam, we remember Vietnam" echoed through campus, and protestors carried signs reading "U.S. out of Grenada" and "President Reagan: It's not a movie - it's reality and it's murder." See MARCHERS, page 3 Rush visits Beirut bombing site From AP and UPI All the floors are pressed down and Marines said their morale was raised BEIRUT, Lebanon - Vice President everything is squished." by the visit of Bush and Marine com- George Bush donned a flak jacket and During his three-hour stay, Bush met mandant Paul Kelley on Tuesday, helmet to look at the horror of the bomb with President Amin Gemayel and the although Bush spent less than an hour devastated Marine camp in Beirut commanders of the French and Italian on the ground. yesterday and declared that "insidious peacekeeping forces in Lebanon. "Yeah, we're mad," said a 25-year- terrorist cowards" would not shift U.S. He landed while the Marines at old corporal. "I'd like to take this place policy in the Middle East. Beirut airport were on their highest out, turn it into the biggest parking lot "International terror in the world is state of alert following a dawn attack in the Middle East," he said. simply driven home when you see this," with small arms, mortars and "Just seeing the commandant, he Bush said as he stood before the bazookas. came up and said 'Good going guys' and crushed concrete of what had been the "The shooting all along our eastern saluted. Yeah, that's motivating," said four-story headquarters of the Marines' perimeter stopped shortly before 7 a.m. Lance Cpl. James Stephens, 21, of Cin- battalion landing team headquarters. when we fired two rounds of 81mm mor- cinatti. Bodies continued to be pulled from tars," said Marine spokesman Maj. Bush said he had spoken with the rubble during Bush's visit. The U.S. Robert Jordan. No Marines were hit. President Reagan just before leaving death toll stood at 219 from the bombing Bush arrived amid tight security Washington and that Reagan would not Sunday. The French said 54 of their shortly before 9 a.m. by helicopter from shift U.S. policy toward Lebanon troops died in an almost simultaneous the USS Iwo Jima off the Lebanese because of the attack. bombing in a building a mile north. coast. He had flown to the amphibious Meanwhile, the Gemayel government Cpl. Randy Barefoot, 21, of Kenly, assault ship nearly two hours before repeated that it is still planning to con- Bush N.C., who was helping to dig through the and his arrival in Beirut was delayed, vene a reconciliation conference among wreckage at the Marine camp, said: presumably by the firing on the Marine Lebanon's warring Moslem and .calls terrorists "insidious cowards" "We've given up hope anybody is alive. camp. Christian leaders Monday in Geneva. SA panel to study college 's future By NEIL CHASE A projected drop in the number of college-age Americans has LSA wondering - and worrying - about the effects on the college of a declining student body. "There's a major problem coming because there are going to be far fewer college-age students," said mathematics Prof. Hugh Montgomery, one of six members on the newly-formed LSA Blue Ribbon Commission on Demographics and Educational Policy. THE COMMISSION was formed by LSA ad- ministrators to help the school cope with an estimated 25 percent drop in the number of college students nationwide, and a 40 percent decrease in Michigan, Montgomery'said. If the literary college cannot do something to maintain its present size in the face of declining numbers of students, LSA will have to cut down, he said. "Does (the student population drop) mean the literary college is faced with the prospect of shrinking 40 percent?" Montgomery asked. "If you drop the student body by 40 percent then college education becomes very expensive. If you drop the student body and faculty, that could have major con- sequences too." MONTGOMERY and other commission members said they could not say what the panel will recom- mend because they have yet to begin their meetings. "What I would love to see would be to have the demographic changes offset by very vigorous recruiting and undergraduate scholarships," Mon- tgomery said. He said that the college might be able to maintain its present size by admitting more out of state studen- ts, beginning an aggressive program of high school recruiting, and finding financial aid money for highly qualified students who cannot afford to attend the University. He said the panel would have to determine which of See PANEL, Page 7 Daily Photo by TOD WOOLF Virginia Nordby, the University's director of affirmative action, said the University will try to reverse a six-year trend of declining black student enrollment at the University. Nordby spoke yesterday in the Michigan Union at Campus Meet the Press. ' official pledges to boost black enrollment By BARBARA MISLE "Vigorous efforts" must be made to stop the University's plummeting black student enrollment and inability to attract black faculty members, Virginia Nordby, the Un- iversity's affirmative action direc- tor, said yesterday. Nordby told more than 30 people at a Campus Meet the Press forum that the University has to put a stop to the consistent decline in the number of black students at the University over the past six years. "I WILL BE absolutely supportive of anything that will help minority students feel (the Univeristy) is not hostile and (just) a place to sur- vive," said Nordby. 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