Ninety-four Years of Editorial Freedom E fLit Wigan IUtlQ Heavy Increasing cloudiness with a high in the mid-40s. Vol. XCIV-No. 63 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, November 18, 1983 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages GEO ratifies first pact since '76 Contracl By JAN RUBENSTEIN The Graduate Employees Organization, though barely getting the number of votes necessary to ratify their first contract since 1976, voted overwhelmingly in favor of the new agreement, union officials announced yesterday. Of GEO's 637 members, 325 voted in favor of the contract and five voted against it, officials said. Contract ratification required that 50 percent plus one of the union's total member- ship - or 319 members - vote in favor of the agreement. The contract, which is effective immediately, will run through March, 1985. THE UNION, which represents the University's 1700 teaching and staff assistants, will now focus its efforts on enlarging its membership and assisting present members, GEO President Celeste Burke said yesterday. The contract gives teaching and staff assistants a 5.1 percent pay hike and a 7 percent reduction in tuition, and it guarantees a net gain between salary and tuition increases. The pact also en- courages departments to develop a class size policy and a TA training program, and it gives TAs a voice in those processes. makes it by 6 votes Abraham Ehrlich, who headed GEO's negotiation team, said that the union had to give up more of its original demands than the University did in or- der to reach an agreement. "I think (the union) made all the important con- cessions. The University conceded to us on a very few things," Ehrlich said. GEO HAD HOPED to get a full tuition waiver and affirmative action guaran- tees from the University. At first, the University was unwilling to negotiate on either item, according to Burke, who was a member of the bargaining team. While the University conceded a bet- ter tuition break, it continued to refuse to negotiate on affirmative action issues. "(The pay raise and tuition decrease) is in our interest in terms of attracting and retaining the best graduate studen- ts," said Colleen Dolan-Greene, the University's chief negotiator. The University's response to affir- mative action "flows between us and the federal government, and not us to the GEO," Dolan-Greene said. The University did concede on the duration of the agreement. Although the University wanted a three-year con- tract, GEO was able to shorten its length in hopes of gaining even further concessions in future negotiations. GEO ALSO TRIED to get the Univer- sity to set general guidelines ensuring that departments would develop and enforce measures to limit class size and train TAs. While the current contract encourages these measures, GEO wan- ted "to tighten up the language to make sure it gets done," Burke said. But Dolan-Greene said that "the University has always functioned on a decentralized basis," and that is why the University "would not agree to making (class size policies and TA training programs), mandatory," she said. Ehrlich, the GEO negotiator, said that the union could not press the University on these issues because of an absence of membership support. "In large part, (apathy) is a matter of the times," said Ehrlich. BECAUSE GRADUATE students are career-minded, and dependent on academics to achieve career goals, they "don't want to jeopardize that, and they don't see beyond that. People think twice about doing things which may even remotely antagonize somebody," Ehrlich said. See GEO, Page 7 Profs predict economic upswing By ERIC MATTSON Michigan will experience a robust economic recovery during the next two years, University economists predicted yesterday at the 31st annual Conference on the Economic Outlook. The forecast by professors Joan Crary and Saul Hymans projects steadily shrinking unemployment, moderate inflation, and an upswing in consumer purchasing power through mid-1985. THE REPORT was not without a caution, however: "There is a concern about whether our forecast* is an in- dication that the expansion will have petered out by the end of 1985," Hymans said. "The bottom line is that we have good news and bad news. The good news is . . the strong likelihood of another two years of economic expansion to the ac- companiment of a fairly moderate rise in inflation." The forecast, one of the most widely- quoted economic predictions nation- State's jobless rate expected to decline wide, says major gains in the manufac- turing sector will pace the state's em- ployement increases - adding ap- proximately 200,000 jobs by 1985. CRARY AND HYMANS also predic- ted the state's treasury will continue to improve as a result of both the 1983 tax increase and a widening tax base. "The next two years," Crary said in her presentation to the conference. "should provide us with the opportunity to assess our options and choose the course for the Michigan economy in an atmosphere which is a pleasant change from the 'crisis management' framework in which we have been for- ced to operate for the past several years." Despite the generally optimistic outlook - the first for Michigan in several years, Crary said - the economists warned that continuing high interest rates combined with a lower demand for labor in the auto in- dustry will prevent manufacturing em- ployment from reaching pre-recession levels. THE MICHIGAN forecast predicts unemployment'rates will drop from 14.3 percent this year to 11.7 percent next year and 9.6 percent in 1985. The 9.6 percent prediction, if true, represents the first time since 1979 that Michigan's unemployment rate will drop below double digits on an annual basis. Besides manufacturing employment See PROFS, Page 3 (rarv ... forecasts turnaround for Michigan 7---- French jets strafe pro-Iranian extremists Bus-ted AP Photo Police try to haul away a striker from the path of a Greyhound Bus at theBoston terminal yesterday morning. See story, Page 3. SAID witns majority 0fLSA-SG ,seats By CAROLINE MULLER Final results from the LSA-Student Government elections were announced yesterday, with the Student for Academic and Institutional Develop- ment (SAID) party carrying 10 of the 15 council seats. Five other seats were filled by in- dependent candidates, with the newly- formed IGNITE party coming up em- pty. SAID presidential and vice presiden- tial candidates Eric Berman and Jean Wyman won by a 1240-518 margin. THE NEW SAID council represen- tatives are: junior Joel Herz, 921 votes; From AP and UPI BEIRUT, Lebanon - French jet fighters bombed, rocketed and strafed Shiite Moslem guerrillas holed up in the Bekaa Valley yesterday. Radio stations reported scores of casualties among the pro-Iranian extremists believed to have plotted suicide attacks on French, U.S. and Israeli troops. The targets of the French attack were about 10 miles northeast of the Nabi Sheet area of the Bekaa, where Israeli jets on Wenesday bombed other bases of pro-Iranian Shiite militiamen and Iranian Revolutionary Guards. ALL BROADCASTS said scores of casualties resulted from the French operation but that no specific break- down could be given because of difficult telex and telephone communications with the stricken area in Syrian- controlled Lebanon, 50 miles east of Beirut. The French Defense Ministry in Paris said all jets returned safely to their base on the aircraft carrier Clemen- ceau. "Of primary importance was the prevention of new terrorist actions against French forces in Lebanon See FRENCH, Page 2 4% 4 4: I ;. p 44 , 44, 4 z ?, " 444w ' ~4%4 4~ , I! 44'.. sophomore Sara Massarik, 855 votes, junior Elizabeth Evans, 825 votes; junior Jane Ross, 815 votes; sophomore Michael Walker, 815 votes; freshman Cris Cobb, 807 votes; freshwoman Michelle Tear, 805 votes; sophomore Winston Lee, 789 votes; sophomore An- drew Plevin, 786 votes: and sophomore Derrick Widmark, 722 votes. The five independent winners, all juniors, had campaigned together in a "block." They are Ruth Bard, 827 votes; Cheryl Goldfarb, 777 votes; James Rosenberg, 750 votes; Robin Morgan, 784 votes; and Larry Bottnick, 690 votes. AP Photo A supporter of Yasser Arafat fires his assault rifle into the Baddawi refugee camp in Tripoli, Lebanon yesterday in house to house fighting between pro and anti-Arafat factions in the camp. TODAY The game THE OLD ADAGE that those who can't play be- come sports writers will be put to the test when the Daily's men's and women's football teams (the Libels and Libelles) face the Ohio State newspaper's men's and women's teams (The Lantern and Lanternettes) tonight at 8 p.m. on the Tartan Turf on South State near Yost Ice Arena. The Libels have managed to lose the last three Last chance W E MAY LOSE the game to Ohio State tomorrow, but it looks like we'll beat them at something else. As of Wednesday, the Wolverines were pounding the Buckeyes in the annual Michigan-OSU blood drive, sponsored by the American Red Cross. The Michigan donors may be on their way to retaining the "Blood Drop" trophy for the second year in a row, after collecting a total of 4,722 pints to OSU's 4,020 as of Wednesday. But the blood drive's campus coor- dinator Neal Frye warned that the competition isn't over yet-both schools rallied on the two final days of the last by Bruce Richmond, a computer whiz at Lincoln Park High, School, has one object: defeat your opponents and score points before the City Council meeting adjourns in 60 seconds. Players first decide if they want to be Mayor Harold Washington or Alderman Edward Vrdolyak, the mayor's chief city council rival. If a player picks Washington, the black gavel floats onto the screen to the tune of "Hail to the Chief." If the Player decides to be Vr- dolyak, a white face with an open mouth appears on the screen, moving along to the tune of "Dixie." The City Coun- cil convenes, with 29 white figures representing Vrdolyak aldermen and 21 black figures renresentine the mavor's mothers noted that female students were neglecting newly- scheduled Saturday morning classes. Also on this date in history: * 1958 - Eleanor Roosevelt told students that the best way to combat Communism was to provide Third World countries with food, and to try to understand their cultures. *1963 - LSA faculty members narrowly approved the concept of a residential college, but made it known that they would withhold final approval until the plan was more concrete. * 1977 - The regents approve: necessary funding for the $8 million Medical Library. 1 ' Id I