2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 2, 1983 MSA loan helps send students to D.C. rally By PETE WILLIAMS The Michigan Student Assembly last night loaned the Latin American Solidarity Committee $900 to journey to Washington D.C. Nov. 12 for a protest against the Reagan administration's Latin American policy. The committee, a student group that opposes U.S. intervention in Latin America and the Carribean, plans to send 46 students to the demonstration on a chartered bus. LSAC PLANS TO pay back the loan with public contributions and by selling tickets to students who ride the bus. Although MSA members say they do not usually loan out money, especially for travel expenses, Assembly President Mary Rowland said the rally was big enough to warrant the loan. "It is an important event for students to participate in," Rowland said. MSA approved the loan on an 18-4 vote. Several MSA members were con- siderably more reluctant to break the assembly's policy of not loaning money. DAVID LIVINGSTON, MSA treasurer, said he would only agree to the loan if three LASC members assumed personal responsibility for the money. "Say they default...will three of their people cough up $300 apiece? Although I hate to put people in that kind of position, MSA won't eat that note," said Livingston. George Trudea, a business schol representative, said he abstained on the vote because of the riskiness of the loan. "I am just afraid they may not raise that much money," he said. Livingston also expressed concern that the lean would start a precedent among other groups. "MSA is not a group set up to loan money. How will we justify turning down other groups now? This is definitely a problem. I'm not willing to set such a precedent." MARY CORNELIUS, spokesperson for LASC, said group members would assume responsibility for the money. "The core of our group must be held personally responsible," she said. "Af- ter all LASC is just a student organization. It could just disappear." She said that LASC expects to pay back the money through "bucket drives" for contributions and by charging students who ride the bus to the rally. The group has until the end of the term to pay the loan back. "We have about 40 people who have already expressed an interest in going," she said. Currently, however, only eight people had actually paid for tickets, she said. Paper efase Mr The Chicago Sun-Times, the nation's seventh-largest daily newspaper, was sold yesterday to Australian Rupert Murdoch's worldwide publishing com- pany for $90 million cash. Murdoch's company, News America Publishing Inc., owns daily newspapers in his native Australia as well as the United States and England. His holdings include the New York Post and the weekly Star. U.S. troops capture island near Grenada i i (Continued from page 1) Near Grenada yesterday, U.S. troops searching for Cuban holdouts caputured the tiny island of Carriacou and took 17 Grenadian soldiers prisoner, U.S. officials said. No shots were fired in the operation. PENTAGON officials said Marines found a warehouse packed with more than 700 rifles, 150 cases of am- munition, 12 cases of TNT, and 38 Soviet AR-47 submachine guns. Carriacou is 15 miles north of Grenada. On Grenada yesterday, work crews pressed the search for people killed when U.S. warplanes bombed a mental hospital last week, killing as many as 20 patients. The United States has said the bombing was accidental. 'IT WAS ONE of several accidents reported in the Grenada invasion. Wounded army troops brought to Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington have said 19 comrades were wounded because a U.S. plane inadvertently bombed their position in- stead of an enemy target. T.he Washington Post, quoting Pen- tagon sources it did not identify, said several Army Rangers were killed and several others wounded when two U.S. helicopters collided and four Navy Seals in a commado unit drowned in a pre-invasion accident. The Pentagon says 18 U.S. servicemen have been killed, 86 wounded and one missing since the invasion. It has listed about 100 Cuban casualties without specifying dead and wounded. WHITE HOUSE spokesman Larry Speakes announced yesterday that Reagan has directed special envoy Richard Stone to return to Central America, where the Grenada operation touched off widespread anxiety. Speakes did not directly link the mission to the foreign outcry over the invasion. He said Stone will be con- sulting with the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica to maintain the momentum of his mission to achieve a negotiated settlement to fighting and tension in the region. The takeover of Grenada has been condemned by key participants in the "Contadora" group of Latin nations also searching for a negotiated set- tlement. The group has among its fun- damental objectives an end to foreign military intervention in Central America. THE WORLD IS YOUR CAMPUS The invasion of Grenada sparked fears that Reagan, having demon- strated his readiness to use force to achieve foreign policy objectives, might order similar action against Nicaragua, whose Sandinista regime is battling rebels supported by the CIA. Lost oil rig discovered, 81 believed to be dead PEKING (UPI) - The wreckage of the Glomar Java Sea, a U.S. oil-drilling ship that sank with 81 people aboard, including 42 Americans, has been iden- tified by Chinese searchers in the stor- my South China Sea, officials said .yesterday. The sunken wreckage of the ship, missing since last Tuesday, was iden- tified by Chinese ships using special sonar, said a spokesman for the ship's owners, Global Marine Inc. of Houston, Texas. THE WEEK-OLD search for sur- vivors, still hampered by bad weather, continued without result. "We found nothing today. It's still raining and visibility is poor. For now we will continue the search but I don't know for how long," said a spokesman for the Western Pacific Search and Rescue Center on Okinawa. Two of the Americans were identified by their families as John Lawrence, 38, of Odessa, Texas, and Bernard Patrick Cates, 39, of Midland, Texas, an under- water engineer. "They have definitely confirmed the fact that our drill ship, the Glomar Java Sea, has been sunk at the drill site," Global Vice President Dick Vermeer said in Houston, adding the Chinese ship used a special "side-scan" radar. Poice notes IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Carrier fire kills six; injures 35 SAN DIEGO - Fire raced through the main power plant of the aircraft carrier Ranger early yesterday as it operated in the Arabian Sea, killing six men and injuring 35 others, the Navy said. It was the worst Navy accident in two years, and the second fatal incident aboard the 1,071-foot Ranger since July, but the carrier continued its operations, officials said. The fire broke out at 12:50 a.m., and was extinguished within an hour, Lt. Cmdr. Tom Jurkowsky said in San Diego where the ship is based. July 18, two days after the Ranger left San Diego, a sailer was blown over- board by exhaust from jet blast on the flight deck and was declared lost at sea. The next day, the carrier collided with a refueling oil tanker, the USS Wichita from Oakland, and suffered damage to its flight deck elevator. The damage was repaired at Pearl Harbor and Subic Bay in the Philippines at the cost of more than $670,000. The Ranger fire was the worst Navy accident since May 26, 1981, when 14 crew members of the USS Nimitz were killed after a Marine jet made a faulty landing off the Florida coas. Government's credit runs out WASHINGTON - Like a consumer whose credit cards have been revoked, the government began living on its cash yesterday as congressional leaders searched in vain for a way to revive federal borrowing authority. The government yesterday reached its debt ceiling of $1,389,000,000,000 - nearly $1.4 trillion in round numbers - when the Treasury Department made as large a payment to the Social Security system as it could The Senate voted late Monday night to refuse to grant enough credit to last through mid-February and rejected, 56-39, the increased $1.615 trillion limit asked by President Reagan and passed by the House. At a White House meeting with President Reagan, Senate Republic Leader Howard Baker said he intends to delay further consideration of the debt bill until next week. There is inadequate support for passage, a Baker aide noted, saying Baker is willing to "wait and see if there is a crisis and how people react to it." Lillian Carter buried in Plains PLAINS, Ga. - In a simple, six-minute.ceremony, "Miss Lillian" Carter, mother of former President Jimmy Carter, was buried yesterday in the red clay fields of her homeland under a hot south Georgia sun. Present at the graveside along with the 39th president were former White House aides Hamilton Jordan, Jack Watson, and Jody Powell, former budget director Bert Lance, former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young, and about 300 other guests, including ABC White House correspon- dent Sam Donaldson, ABC's David Hartman and country music star Tom Hall. The Rev. Fred Collins, officiating at the service, said Carter, who died Sunday at age 85 of cancer, wanted the ceremonies "brief and simple" - and they were, lasting six minutes. After the somber country service, the former president had the ropes which had seperated the family from other guests taken down, and he began thanking people for coming. Postal service asks rate hike WASHINGTON - The Postal Service proposed yesterday to raise all mail rates next year to head off a deficit it says could hit $2.3 billion in 1985. Postage would jump from 20 cents to 23 cents for first-class letters, and from. 13 cents to 15 cents for postcards. The increases, the first since Nov. 1', 1981, would not take effect until Oct. 1, 1984, at the earliest, according to Postal Service Shairman Robert Hardesty. He said the mail agency has operated at a surplus for the last two years, but now is running at a deficit likely to hit $800 million for the fiscal year en- ding Sept. 30, 1984. The red ink could jump to $2.3 billion the next year without a raise in rates, he said. "Three and one-half years of rising costs have caught up with us," Har desty said. He said the board has delayed filing 'a new rate case "as long as we prudently can." The charge for mailing a first-class letter was i3 cents until Dec. 31, 1975, 15 cents until May 29, 1978, and 18 cents until March 22, 1981 Postal rates were long subsidized by Congress, but that practice has ended. Other proposed increases include a jump from 17 cents to 20 cents for presorted letters and from $2.24 to $2.60 for priority mail. Second class, in- county mail would jump 24.6 percent; third class maif by 5.6 percent, and parcel post by 15.4 percent. Druse, Lebanese armies clash, Christian refugees released BEIRUT, Lebanon - Druse and Lebanese army gunners shelled each other's positions yesterday in a town overlooking the Marine compound in Beirut, while their leaders 3,000 miles away in Geneva met in attempts to end the civil war. Lebanon state radio said clashes between the Lebanese army and Druse militiamen broke out shortly after midday near the mountaintop town of Souk el-Gharb. There were no reports of casualties. Meanwhile, in the Chouf mountain village of Deir el-Kamar, the Inter- national Red Cross supervised the release of 207 Christian refugeees trapped behind Druse militia lines. Buses took them to Beirut under an agreement arranged by the relief organization. Druse leader Walid Jumblatt said the evacuation was timed to coincide with peace talks among Lebanon's warring factions in Geneva as a good-will gesture to the Christian-led central government. Wednesday, November 2, 1983 Vol. XCI V-No. 49 (ISSN 0745-967X) 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: $15.50 September through April (2 semesters); $19.50 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Summer session published Tuesday through Satur- day mornings. Subscription rates: $8 in Ann Arbor; $10 by mail outside Ann Arbor. 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