4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, December 8, 1983 VA panel protests Agent Orange film WASHINGTON (AP)-The Veterans Administration has been asked by an advisory panel to stop showing a videotape made to inform VA health workers around the country about Agent Orange. The advisers say the tape is condescending on a matter that many Vietnam veterans consider "the most important issue of their lives." But the agency said yesterday it has not intention of scrapping the tape, made at a cost of $7,682 and sent to all 172 VA medical centers with instruc- tions to show it to all employees. THE TAPE discusses efforts to learn See FILM, Page 5 Solidarity AP Photo Six of the Democratic candidates for the 1984 presidential election link hands in a show of solidarity against the Reagan administration's policies at an Albuquerque fundraiser yesterday. The six, who concluded a five-city campaign estimated to raise $1.5 million, are (left to right) Walter Mondale, George McGovern, Sen. Gary Hart (D.Colo.), Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio), and Sen. Ernest Hollings (D.-S.C.). Snawball fight becomes Madison St, melee By NEIL CHASE Snowball throwing during the first big snow of the season got out of hand on Madison Street Monday night, culminating in a dangerous exchange of beer bottles and other projectiles, housing officials said yesterday. The scuffle began when some West Quad residents saw students they thought were from South Quad pelting their dorm with snowballs, according to West Quad Resident Director Harold McMillin. THE RESULTING confrontation gradually escalated into "the ugliest snowball fight we've ever had," said Assistant Housing Director David Foulke. He said a security officer was hit by a bottle but was not seriously in- jured. A West Quad resident's hand was severely lacerated by a broken beer bottle when she put her hand into the snow to make a snowball, West Quad Building Director Alan Levy said. He said the fracas, which involved at least 100 people, may have included students from other dorms and nearby frater- nities in addition to the West and South Quad residents. Levy said the melee was controlled by the resident staffs of both dorms, who locked the gate to West Quad's courtyard and encouraged dorm residents to return to their buildings. No disciplinary action has been taken against residents, Levy said, but he ad- ded that he would "follow-up" if he found out the names of anyone who threw something other than a snowball. Levy said he and South Quad Building Director Mary Antieau are planning cooperative activities for residents of the two Central Campus dorms, but he denied that there is animosity between the students living in the two buildings. He said the dorms have been quiet since Monday night's incident. Correction The steering committee for the School of Art is staging a benefit con- cert at Joe's Star Lounge on Dec. 11 and will be conducting an art show and sale at the Michigan Union on Dec. 14 and 15. The dates and locations of the events were incorrectly reported in a photograph caption in Tuesday's Daily. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports U.S. officials promise to push for disarmament negotiations BRUSSELS, Belgium - Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger promised the European allies yesterday the United States would go "anywhere in the world" to negotiate an arms control agreement with the Soviet Union. Weinberger also said he saw no advantage in merging the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks on long-range nuclear missiles with the talks on medium- range missiles in Europe that the Soviets quit on Nov. 23. And U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz said in Bonn, West Germany, earlier in the day he would be ready to meet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko of the Soviet Union at a disarmament conference in Stockholm next month and will do what he can "to make such a meeting possible." Schultz is expected to repeat the pledge to a meeting of 15 NATO foreign ministers in Brussels. Schultz and Weinberger are in Europe assuring the NATO allies that the U.S.-Soviet diaglogue will continue despite deployment of new U.S. missiles and the Soviet walkout on negotiations to reduce intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe. Storms kill four in Michigan Blistering winds whipped up near-blizzards yesterday in the central Rockies and New England, toppling trees, cutting power and burying high- ways big and small under blankets of snow. Interstate 80 was a no man's land for the length of Wyoming, where truck stops and motels became small cities of huddled truckers and anxious motorists seeking refuge from a foot of new snow and wind gusts of up to 70 mph. A small Cessna airplane that took off in a snowstorm from Pontiac, Mich. crashed a mile away on a golf course and all three occupants perished late Tuesday, authorities said. A weather-related traffic accident claimed a life outside Detroit and authorities in Muskegongave up the search for a fisherman missing in a Lake Michigan storm. Columbia mission ends today EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - The six men aboard the shuttle Columbia yesterday finished their experiments, packed up Spacelab and prepared to return home today with the priceless product of 10 days and 4 million miles in orbit. Scientists on the ground eagerly awaited the film, recorded data tape, super crystal samples, unique alloys, frozen blood samples and other ex- periment results returning in the orbiting laboratory anchored in Colum- bia's cargo bay. "The excitement has just begun," said mission scientist Charles Chappell in mission control in Houston. "You have to feel overwhelmed about the enormity of accomplishment this mission represents." Pilots John Young and Brewster Shaw and scientist-astronauts Owen Garriott, Robert Parker, Ulf Merbold and Byron Lichtenberg were tired but exuberant from America's longest manned space flight since Skylab flew in 1974. Kidney failure threatens panda WASHINGTON - Ling-Ling, America's female panda whose years of dif- ficult mating took a tragic turn when her cub died in her arms, is seriously ill from kidney failure and anemia, and National Zoo specialists said Wed- nesday her chances of recovery are very poor. "It's difficult to say how long she can survive," said Dr. Mitchell Bush, the zoo's chief veterinarian. He said Ling-Ling is being treated with antibiotics and may undergo short-term kidney dialysis. "She's very sick right now, and the illness and complications could lead to her death," Bush said. Hsing-Hsing, the zoo's male panda and Ling-Ling's reluctant consort, is healthyand in no danger of contracting her illness, which is not contagious. She has been given an emergency triansfusion of Hsing-Hsin's blood. Bush told reporters that Ling-Ling's illness might have been caused by her long-awaited pregnancy, which ended last July when she gave birth to a cub, the first panda to be born in the United States. The cub died three hours later while cradled in its mother's arms, the victim of fluid in its chest cavity. OPEC freezes price, output GENEVA, Switzerland - OPEC oil ministers agreed yesterday to keep the cartel's current base price of $29 a barrel and production of 17.5 million barrels a day, two members said. "The commitment we have tonight covers production, quotas and prices," Indonesian Oil Minister Subroto said on leaving a late-night session. "We cleared it, cleared it all." Gabon's oil minister, Etienne Guy Mouvagha Tchioba, added that "only a few more details" needed to be wrapped up today. He said production ceilings and prices could be reviewed in the first quarter of 1984 if adjust- ments were needed. However, other ministers said full agreement on prices and production had yet to be formally completed and members had several loose ends to wrap up when the conference resumed today. They did not elaborate. Agreement had been expected because the most powerful member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Saudia Arabia, said earlier that it would not charge more for its crude for at least two years even if the other 12 countries raised their prices. nbe £irbisan afain Thursday, December 8, 1983 Vol. XCI V-No. 76 (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. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to THE MICHIGAN DAILY, 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. 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