Billy Frye: Fighting a Weekend budget warSe Magazine J Ninety-four Years - ~(i lP11It's coming 43o l .j~lff * l i Mostly cloudy with a chance of ''Edioria Freedom~u __~ 9 light snow and a high near 40. Vo.XCI V-No. 57 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, November 11, 1983 Fifteen Cents Twelve Pages .s. jes attacked by Syrian fighters I. I:bano BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - U.S. jets came under attack for the first time in Lebanon yesterday when Syrian gun- ners fired missiles at the carrier-based planes. At a Beirut airport, small-arms fire hit Marine positions. Pressure mounted on Yasser Arafat leave the northern city of Tripoli and d the fighting between Palestinian ctions that has killed at least 1,000 people. The PLO chief said he might return to Tunis. SYRIA said its missile batteries in central Lebanon drove off four U.S. F- 14 Tomcats. No hits were reported. Lebanese radio stations said the Syrian firing began in the early morning when the jets scrambled from the carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower on recon- See U.S., Page 2 Inflation rise lowest snce 1964 WASHINGTON (AP) - Falling percent, reflecting the harsh weather of energy prices helped offset a big jump last spring and summer, analysts said. in food costs as inflation at the Energy costs fell 0.1 percent, the first wholesale level measured only 0.3 per- decline in six months. Natural gas cent on October, the government repor- prices were down 2.8 percent. Over the ted yesterday. Economists say that en- past year, those costs have slipped 0.7 sures a showing of well under 2 percent percent, their first 12-month decline for the entire year - the best in nearly since 1965. Analysts attributed the two decades. decline largely to a surplus of reserves Through October, wholesale prices caused by the mild fall weather and by rose at an annual rate of just 0.6 per- an increasing switchover of industrial cent, compared to 3.7 percent for all of users from natural gas to other fuels. 1982. With only two months to go, Canada also has cut its prices to some private analysts are betting this year's U.S. customers, they said. overall increase will come in between 1 percent and 1.5 percent. THE OCTOBER advance in the THAT WOULD be the lowest figure Produced Price Index for finished since the 0.5 percent of 1964. goods was in line with the seasonally Deputy White House press secretary adjusted 0.4 percent gain of August and Larry Speakes, in Tokyo with President the 0.2 percent of September. Reagan, called the October figure "a Price changes that show up in the significantly low rate of inflation" and producer price measure are a good added that "in recent weeks we have barometer of how food, energy and seen a remarkable string of indicators other commodity prices will move at of a flourishing economy.'The October the retail level. The Consumer Price producer prices showed the foundation Index, though, checks for a broader for the recovery is strong." range of items, including housing and Donald Ratajczak, economic medical care, than does the wholesale forecaster at Georgia State University inflation index. in Atlanta, predicted that wholesale in- Gasoline prices fell 0.2 percent, a bit flation would still remain modest at ahead of the 0.1 percent decrease of a around 4 percent next year. "It month earlier. looks like we've knocked double-digit inflation out of the system." Other Fuel oil prices soared 4.2 percent af- economists, however, say the wholesale ter rising 2.5 percent in the previous figure could hit 6 percent in 1984. month. OVERSHADOWING the new report The report also said new car prices was a strong 1.1 percent increase in surged 0.8 percent past month and light food prices, the sharpest advance since truck prices skyrocketed 10.8 percent. a similar gain in April. "The October advances reflected price Fresh fruit prices soared 18.5 percent hikes for 1984 model-year vehicles by in October and vegetable prices rose 5.3 domestic producers," it said. AP Photo PLO Chief Yasser Arafat told reporters yesterday that he will leave Tripoli if, asked to do so by the Lebanese inhabitan- ts. Arafat's departure from the city could signal an end to the fighting. LSA-SG election: A near miss By CAROLINE MULLER LSA students will have two choices for LSA Student Government president next Monday and Tuesday, but only because election officials extended the filing deadline when they found them- selves with only one candidate. LSA-SG ELECTIONS' LSA junior Eric Berman almost won the election by default until Andrew Hartman, a LSA sophomore, made his ampaign official within the three-day extended deadline last week. RUNNING WITH Berman and the Students for Academic & Institutional Development (SAID) party are vice presidential candidate Jean Wyman, and 11 other candidates for the 15 at- large council seats. Vice presidential candidate Andre Sriro is running with Hartman and seven candidates for LSA-SG under the Ignite party. The twelve independent candidates for the at-large seats means students will have 30 LSA-SG hopefuls to pick from, which is slightly more promising than last year's 22 candidates. But the numbers are still much below figures from two years ago, when 58 candidates ran for the at-large, presidential, and vice presidential positions. "IN A BROAD sense, the problem is communication between students and student government," said Rajeev Samantrai, current LSA-SG president, who said that LSA students didn't seem to know about the elections despite ads in the Daily and posters around cam- pus. Samantrai said that presidential candidates have traditionally been in- cumbent LSA-SG members, and that the parties usually reflected an ideological split in the outgoing council. But this year, no such split occured, he said, making it necessary to look har- der for presidential candidates. LSA election officials are hoping students show up at the polls. Average voter turnout ranges from 1,200 to 1,500 students, but this year we're hoping for twice that turnout," said elections directer David Surovell. LSA students can vote next week at the Undergraduate Library, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Monday, and 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Polling places will be open both days at the Fishbowl and MLB, 8:45 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.; and at the Michigan Union from 10 a.m. to2 p.m. Voting areas will also be set up near dorm cafeterias from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Students can vote in all of the Hill area dorms except Stockwell on Mon- day, and at West Quad, South Quad, East Quad, and Bursley on Tuesday. For a profile of IGNITE presidential candidate Andrew Har- tman, see page 5. 'U' astronomer brings the stars down to earth By ANDREW.ERIKSEN To the average University student, astronomy means no more than a cour- se which can be taken to fulfill the oft- dreaded natural science requirement. But for Jim Loudon, staff astronomer at the University's Exhibit Museum, it goes beyond such earthly con- siderations. LOUDON HOSTS AstroFest, a series f free films and lectures that regularly attracts 500 people and is one of the most popular events on campus. The monthly programs explore sub- jects ranging from female astronaut Sally Ride to Soviet space missions. At 7:30 p.m. tonight in MLB 3, Loudon will present "Orbits: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Gravity." The program started in 1970 while koudon was teaching a basic astronomy course in the Residential College. The course required laboratory time, but Loudon said he didn't know how to deal with this. "I COULDN'T give them a star and have them dissect it," he said. Instead, 'I can bring a person to the frontier of (astronomy) with little or no previous background.' - Jim Loudon University astronomer Loudon decided to show films to fulfill the laboratory requirement. Loudon figured that as long as he was showing these films to his students, he might as well invite the public also. He put up flyers around East Quad and the program was billed as the "Residential College Astronomical Film Festival. "The first night we had about 50 people in- cluding my students who were required to be there," Loudon recalled. AS THE program's popularity grew, its name was changed to the "Univer- sity of Michigan Astronomical Film Festival." According to Loudon, the name AstroFest came from one of his studen- ts. He liked it and decided to keep the condensed version as the new title. Today, the program is co-sponsored by the Exhibit Museum and the aerospace engineering department and is usually held once a month. ROBERT BUTSCH, director of the Exhibit Museum, said the program's popularity keeps it going. "The program could be cancelled just like that," he said, snapping his fingers. But he added, "the support is there.. . A lot of people like his approach." Loudon said he enjoys the lecture See ASTRONOMER, Page 3 University astronomer Jim Loudon rests against a telescope in the observatory on the fourth floor of Angell Hall. Loudon hosts the monthly AstroFest program, a series of films and lectures on astronomy. TODAY Floating along HERE'LL BE lots of balloons floating above the Diag at Millers. Many students have already bought their raffle tickets, said Sigma Delta Tau member Leslie Leyine, but the sorority will be selling more tickets on the Diag tomorrow. Li Top secret STATE DEPARTMENT officials have an embarrassing I problem - they're trying to determine how much crrtifat-inn wc emmrnmics d when a file einet James Adams, a reporter for the station, said the documen- ts he saw included information from the Central Intelligen- ce Agency and embassies of other countries in Washington. Two of the documents, he said, "appeared to be especially sensitive and so important they should not have been divulged." Adams said they dealt with Soviet missile deployment and "a coup in a third world country." A search ch was conducted at the prison Wednesday that turned up more documents in addition to ones still in the safe, which was found Oct. 25. The documents in the safe dated from January, February, and March of 1983, and included sum- maries of the morning briefing given to Schultz - some of " 1932 - Dean of Women Alice Lloyd spoke to the Women's Self-Government Association on "encouraging in- tellectual honesty." " 1968 - A committee in the Residential College proposed the individual concentration program, allowing them to choose courses and independent study projects correspon- ding to LSA requirements. " 1974 - A University official proposed giving faculty members a 13 percent pay hike in the following year. O I