4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 22, 1983 Sy IN BRIEF- Palesti~ne rebels besiege PLO forces (Continued from Page 1) But at the Baddawi refugee camp, wit- nesses saw artillery firing repeatedly from Syrian bunkers on Mount Turbol into loyalist positions to the south. Small-arms fire echoed everywhere. The outgunned loyalists lobbed a few rockets and shells at their attackers. In the city, a few small stores opened and civilians ventured out of their homes in- to the debris littered streets. Hundreds of others flew south, creating traffic jams of cars loaded with mattresses, suitcases and other belongings. Firing hundreds of shells and rockets, the dissident Palestinian and Syrians apushed forward from the refugee camp of Baddawai, just north of Tripoli, into the northern neighborhoods of Mallouleh, Kubbeh and Bakkar. In Beirut, U.S.aMiddle East envoy Donald Rumsfeld completed his first Middle East tour, and state radio said he conferred with President Amin Gemayel of Lebanon before leaving for Washington. Rumsfeld made no statement. Daily Photo by DOUG McMAHON Speakers at a panel discussion last night tell an audience of 120 in the Michigan Union that a real nuclear holocaust would be far worse than the one dramatized in the ABC television movie, "The Day After." Weapons halt needed (Continued from Page 1) who received lethal doses of radiation would simply be left to die, Rucknagel told the 120-member Michigan Union audience. Highways would be clogged and it would be difficult to get gas, he added, making evacuation near impossible. And while the movie showed only one blind person, Rucknagel said that everyone within 30 to 50 miles of a nuclear explosion would lose their sight. The only way to prevent such a disaster is for citizens to push the government to freeze weapons build up and demand a mutual nuclear freeze with the Soviets, said Rucknagel. "WE CANNOT tolerate this anymore. This situation is beyond our imagination and must be prevented at all costs," he said. Civil defense plans which the U.S. government has relied on since World War II are not the answer, Rucknagel said. "To think we can maintain any semblence of shelter after a nuclear explosion is impractical," he said. Clearly the course we've been pur- suing has brought it to this sorry state of affairs. A MUTUAL, verifiable freeze is the only answer, he said. It is useless to worry about weapon inequity with the Soviets when we have the capacity to kill them 25 times, he said. If Ann Arbor were hit by a nuclear explosion people would be vaporized in only a couple of seconds, said Dan Axelrod, associate professor of physics who spoke at the forum sponsored by Students for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE.). "The U.S. has enough nuclear warheads to retaliate on 4,000 Soviet cities at the same time," Axelrod said. The Soviets don't even have that many cities." AXELROD urged the audience to refute the Reagan administration's - panelist arguments that a weapons build-up is a deterrent. "The Pentagon isn't seeking deterrence, what it's seeking is first- strike capability," he said. The community should support the Nuclear Free Zone proposal, expected to go before the city voters in April, that would prohibit weapons research or production in Ann Arbor. If approved, the proposal could have a significant impact on Pentagon-sponsored resear- ch on campus. "If Ann Arbor is a Nuclear Free Zone, we will send a message saying that we won't allow our community to be prostituted by the Pentagon," said Axelrod. REPRESENTING the Reagan ad- ministration's point of view at last night's panel was James Blaker, a visiting political science lecturer who is also the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. Blaker defended weapons build-up and the administration's $4.1 billion civil defense plan, initiated in 1981, that would prepare the nation for a nuclear disaster by 1988. Blaker said that a civil defense plan and maintaining weapons build-up for deterrence will not increase the liklihood of a first strike, but such moves protect the U.S. Dr. Richard Ketai, a psychiatrist from the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, spoke on the psychological ef- fects of watching the movie. Ketai said people shouldn't deny their fears of a nuclear holocaust. "The most dangerous thing would be to slip into denial and entrust our future to those in power," said Ketai. Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports West German protest U.S. missiles BONN, West Germany - Thousands of anti-nuclear activists defied riot squads firing water jets yesterday, and marched outside Parliament as the government reaffirmed its pledge to deploy new U.S. missiles. Police arrested at least 180 protesters. Chancellor Helmut Kohl, opening a parliamentary debate on the medium- range missiles, said some of the weapons would be operational on German soil "by year's end" unless U.S. and Soviet negotiators in Geneva break their deadlock. "We are not wanderers between East and West," Kohn said. "Between democracy and dictatorship there is no middle road. We stand on the side of freedom." The debate, scheduled to end tonight with a vote, is considered largely symbolic because Kohl's conservatives have a 58-seat majority and are determined to approve the deployment. Kohl had agreed to the debate because of public pressure. He said the Soviet Union must not be allowed "to intimidate Western Europeans, to limit our political freedom of action and to separate us from the U.S.A." Imelda Marcos quits post MANILA, Philippines - First Lady Imelda Marcos resigned yesterday from the powerful Executive Committee and renounced any presidential ambitions. And President Ferdinand Marcos' governing party proposed restoration of the vice presidency it abolished 11 years ago. Opposition politicians dismissed the moves as ploys to defuse a gover- nment crisis and to satisfying uneasy foreign creditors. Marcos' speech in the National Assembly came as an estimated 75,000 an- ti-government demonstrators marched through the central Philippine city of Bacolod. In Manila, the military and police went on full alert in anticipation of demonstrations to mark the 51st birthday Sunday of slain opposition leader Benigno Aquino. His assassignation Aug. 21 has strained the nation's political and economic stability and triggered calls for Marcos to resign from the office he has held for 18 years. Mrs. Marcos, 54, remains a member of parliament, governor of Metropolitan Manila and minister of human settlements. rish church killings condemned BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Politicians, religious leaders and the IRA yesterday condemned a machine-gun massacre of worshippers at a Protestant church service and cautioned against acts of revenge. A Protestant leader threatened to revive vigilant squads. Police said they suspect that Northern Ireland's most wanted terrorist masterminded the shooting spree Sunday night in which three church elders were killed and seven people were wounded. Some 60 men, women and children had just begun singing the hymn, "Are You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb?" Then two hooded men burst int the Mountain Lodge Pentecostal Church in Darkley, deep in an Irish Republican Army stronghold in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, near the border with the Irish Republic. The outlawed IRA said it had no part in the attack, which it condemned as "blatantly sectarian." The IRA, which is mainly Roman Catholic, isfighting a guerrilla war to wein independence for Northern Ireland from Britian and unite it with the Irish Republic. Northern Ireland is predominantly Protestant, while the republic is mainly Catholic. Bomb meant for Reagan found NEW YORK - A ticking bomb containing two sticks of dynamite and ad- dressed to President Reagan was found yesterday in a U.S. Postal Office at Kennedy International Airport, authorities said. The parcel was discovered inside the post office building about 2:30 p.m. by a postal worker, "address to President Reagan and it was ticking," said Port Authority police Lt. Jose Elique. The building was evacuated. Port Authority police alerted the New York City Police Department's Bomb Squad, which responded and verified the parcel containing two sticks of dynamite. The bomb was removed from the building, and officials waited for a bomb disposal team from the New York City Police Department to take the device to a range in the Bronx. Ruling identifies hazardous chemicals for factory workers WASHINGTON - The Reagan administration is expected to announce a "right-to-know" rule today that would disclose to more than 2 million factory workers the identities of the hazardous chemicals they are handling, while safeguarding industry trade secrets. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's new "hazardous communications" regulation, which has been in the works for more than two years, was denounced by an AFL-CIO spokesman as ineffective and praised by a former OSHA official in the Carter administration as "a major step in the right direction." "We certainly feel this is the most far-reaching action that OSHA has taken" in its 12-year history, OSHA director Thorne Auchter said in a telephone interview. It also will be one of the most expensive OSHA regulations for industry, at an estimated $600 million in starting costs. Under the new rule, companies would be required to conduct education programs to inform workers of the nature and hazards of the chemicals they handle. Companies would be permitted to withhold the names of chemicals under certain circumstances by invoking provisions intended to protect trade secrets. Tuesday; November 22, 1983 Vol. XCI V-No. 66 (ISS N 0745-967X) I 4 4 I Prof petitions faculty for 'U' research forum 14 (Continued from Page 1) "I SUBMIT that many persons believe that the issue of 'harmful research' has not been fully and adequately dealt with by the regents vote." Bassett said his request is not related to recent student demonstrations against pentagon-sponsored research on campus. He said the conference would be designed not to change the regents' minds - a desirable outcome, he added - but to promote discussion of research issues. "MORE importantly, there is the possibility of finding those persons who have grappled with the problem in their minds and bring' them together to discuss possible solutions," Bassett said. Although the regents said last week that they stand by their decision on the non-classified research guidelines, Bassett says the issue is not closed. "The regents say that there are no new circumstances, but it's my opinion that there are new circumstances. One has to take note of the increasing possibility of conflict. Look at what's happening in Beirut. Look at the Korean Airlines incident. You also have to take note of what students are saying," Bassett said. RESEARCH guidelines are not to tally unmanageable, Bassett says, policies which have been -successfully im- plemented in recombinant DNA, research. "The- topic was dealt with in a num- ber of forums. These conferences and subsequent conferences. . '. led to the adoption of guidelines, which it appears, have served the research community well," he said. "It might be possible to do the same with 'harmful research.' " Bassett says he has personal reasons for bringing the idea to the assembly. "This issue has been one of my thoughts since the late 1940s. But more impor- tantly, my presence at the University in the school of medicine as a physician has influenced my views."' His proposal will now go before the top faculty governing committee, the Senate Advisory Committee on Univer- sity Affairs (SACUA), which will decide if it wants to bring the issue before the Senate Assembly at a later date. "I believe it is clear that there is more to be said. We have an open university. We take pride in that," Bassett said. "The areas of conflict have not gone away.'. """ """ 4 il 1216 SOUTH UNIVERSITY Next to the Campus Movie Theatre Great s ape FRIDAY, NOV. 18 to THURSDAY, NOV. 22 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. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. 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