Ninety-four Years of Editorial Freedom £ir 43UU Iai Brightening Sunny today with highs in the low to mid 40s. Getting cloudy tonight, with a low dipping into the 20s. OVol XCIV-No. 62 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, November 17, 1983 Fifteen Cents . Ten Pages PLO orces riv e n from Stronghold From AP and UPI TRIPOLI, Lebanon-Guerilla mutineers drove Yasser Arafat's fighters out of their last Mideast stronghold in fierce hand-to-hand com- bat at the Baddawi refugee camp yesterday. At the same time, Israeli jets flew reprisal raids against Moslem ex- tremist bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. UNCONFIRMED RADIO reports said 100 were killed and 600 wounded in the final Syrian-backed onslaught on Baddawi, and that 33 were killed and 80 wounded in the Israeli air strikes on the Janta and Shaara camps in the Bekaa Valley, just three miles from the Syrian border. Arafat's troops were seen retreating south on the coast road to Tripoli as Syrian tanks crossed the barbed-wire outskirts of the refugee camp on the second day of an all-out tank and ar- tillery onslaught. One Arafat soldier said Syrian tanks struck so swiftly that "we did not even have time to take our wounded and dead comrades." ARAFAT APPEARED at his headquarters in Tripoli early in the af- ternoon, but made no public statement. See PLO, Page 5 SAID resumes LSA-SG control By CAROLINE MULLER LSA juniors Eric Berman and Jean Wyman trounced their opposition by a more than two-to-one margin to become the next president and vice president of the LSA Student Government, election officials said yesterday. The two representatives of the Students for Academic and In- stitutional Development party (SAID) will have plenty of friends in LSA-SG because SAID candidates captured nine of the 15 at-large council seats in this year's election. TWO INDEPENDENTS had also- been named winners at press time last night, after LSA-SG workers spent all Tuesday night and part of yesterday counting votes in the basement of the Michigan Union. Two SAID candidates and four independents are tied for the four remaining seats, according to elec- tion director David Surovell. Voting results are incomplete because election officials couldn't validate ballots yesterday for some Residential College students. There are approximately 250 ballots left to be counted, Surovell said. He said he expects to have complete election results today. THE NINE SAID council members are: Chris Cobb; Junior Elizabeth Evans; junior Joel Herz; sophomore Winston Lee; sophomore Sara Massarik; sophomore Andrew Plevin;junior Jane Ross; Michelle Tear; and sophomore Michael Jay Walker. Wi'm an Berman ...says SAID worked hard ...pleased with turnout Daily Photo by TOD WOOLF Takin' care of business Steve Smolinski welds part of a stairway yesterday in thenew business school library. Most of the external structure for the privately-funded facility, which has been under construction for over a year, is now complete. The two independent winners are juniors Ruth Bard and Robin Morgan. "I'm very happy with the results of the campaign and the fact that more students turned out to vote," Berman said. A total of 2,143 ballots were cast this year, an increase of 600 votes over last year's election. "PEOPLE ON THE SAID slate worked very hard and deserved to win," said Wyman. Berman has said he will lobby to put a student on the LSA executive commit- tee; will try to enact a college-wide program to train teaching assistants; and will institute a campus-wide escort system, and increase the -number of security guards to improve campus safety. SAID's opposition, the IGNITE party had little luck in the elections. None of the group's seven at-large candidates See SAID, Page 3 PSN member fired for anti-military views By BARBARA MISLE A member of a student activist group was dismissed from his job as a research assistant in the College of Engineering because the professor said the student's anti-military views could affect his work. Mechanical Engineering Prof. Joseph Dat- sko said "it was not an easy decision" to fire engineering school junior Piers Lewis, who is a member of the Progressive Student Network, the group which blockaded a University radiation laboratory last week. ALTHOUGH Lewis did not participate in the blockade, he did join a candlelight march to support the sit-in and protest the presence of military research on campus.. In a separate incident, a University em- ployer threatened another PSN member with dismissal after the student took two hours off work to assist protesters during the blockade. The employer said if he had known why the student was taking time off, he would not have given his permission for the absence. DATSKO, WHOSE current research is funded by the Department of Defense, said he fired Lewis last Thursday night for several reasons, including his affiliation with PSN. "It seems inconsistent that a student would be willing to work on a Department of Defenser project and be in PSN," said Datsko. "It shouldn't be necessary to terminate him. (He) should resign." "I feel I'm in a position - morally, respon- sibly, and ethically - where I have no other recourse," he added. BUT LEWIS who had worked for Datski sin- ce May said he was fired because of a misun- derstanding about PSN's position on military research. Reports in local media said PSN wanted all Pentagon-sponsored research banned from campus, but the group actually supports adop- ting guidelines only to restrict research that could be used to kill people. "There was a misunderstanding in what PSN wanted and what was printed. PSN wants guidelines extended to non-classified research and means of enforcing (the guidelines). Get- ting the DOD off campus is impractical," Lewis said. LEWIS SAID he is not against all Pentagon- sponsored research, only those projects which have military applications. Datsko is studying how computers could be used to cut metal more efficiently. Such work is mostly used in in- dustry for car parts and tools. Although it is possible that Datsko's work could be used for weapons technology, such an application is unlikely, Lewis said. Another factor which prompted the dismissal was Lewis' misuse of a University building key Datsko gave him. During the sit-in last week, Lewis used his key to the East Engineering Building to let in a PSN member and a Daily reporter at 2:40 a.m. University security officials confronted Lewis, searched him, confiscated the key, and repor- ted the incident to the College of Engineering. See 'U', Page 5 PIRGIM forms new 0a toxic waste c By JACKIE YOUNG A new organization to help coordinate state government assistance with toxic waste problems has been formed, representatives from chapters of the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan at both the University and Michigan State University announced yesterday. According to Amy Gibans, University campus coordinator for PIRGIM, the Toxic Education Citizens Assistance Program (TECAP) will use 100 student volunteers to in- vestigate citizen complaints about hazardous wastes in the state. Organizers hope the new group can assist government of- ficials with handling citizens' complaints, instead of acting solely as critics of how the state agencies deal with the problem. "WE RECOGNIZE the lack of consolidation and the lack of accountability," in the state government agencies, Gibans said. "We want to patch up the holes and make the picture clearer on particular toxic waste sites." To accomplish this, Gibans said the volunteers will coor- dinate their activities with workers from the state Depar- tment of Natural Resources. The group will catalogue existing toxic waste sites and publish brochures to make nformation about the problem more available to the general public, she said. A hotline (1-800-841-6795) has been installed for citizens iction group wishing to file complaints about toxic contamination. The volunteers will also work on a case-by.-case basis to identify and research toxic sites, determine the public health dangers, and recommend action to state agencies, Gibans said. ORGANIZERS hope the group eventually will be able to compile a comprehensive report using the case studies to highlight general problems with enforcement of toxic waste laws. They also intend to recommend new legislation to resolve some of the problems. Two student coordinators at both the University and Michigan State campuses will direct research at targeted sites, Gibans said. The organization has received endor- sements from the governor, the Toxic Substance Control Committee, and the Department of Natural Resources. TECAP grew out of work PIRGIM was involved in last spring with the South Macomb Disposal Authority and residents near the Spiegelburg and Rasmussen dumpsites in Green Oaks Township, Gibans said. LSA Senior Debbie Bergman, a University student volun- teer coordinator, said she will be organizing citizen assistan- ce and educaton programs at sites in Attica County and with the Wolverine Disposal Company. Bergman said PIRGIM and TECAP will host a campus film-lecture series on such issues as toxics, feminism and nuclear war. Organizers hope eventually to expand the series into a University course. Daily Photo by TOD WOOLF Fancy pants High-fashion models strut their stuff last night at the Ebony Fashion Fair in the Michigan Theatre. Proceeds from the event, which was sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, will go into a scholarship fund for minority students. TODAY- Professor for a term THE WOMEN'S STUDIES Program is looking for students interested in facilitating small discussion groups for Women's Studies 100, an introductory course on women's issues. Students would register for the 4-credit Women's Studies 320 which meets two hours a week. The weekly discussion sessions also are two hours long. Women and men of all backgrounds, cultures, and sexualities are tland, Ore., would include mourners wearing black arm bands and a drummer pounding a funeral dirge. 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