The Michigan Daily- Wednesday, January 18, 1984-Page 5

Rights panel denounces

affirmative action

quotas

HUNT VALLEY, Md. (AP) - The
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,
reversing a policy of its former mem-
.bers, denounced affirmative action
quotas yesterday as "unjustified
discrimination" that ,creates a "new
class of victims."
At a news conference ending a two-
day meeting, commission Chairman
Clarence Pendleton said the panel
voted to "declare our independcence"
of past policies that supported man-
datory quotas for hiring and promoting
women and minorities. He said the
commission will go on to study the af-
fects of President Reagan's budget cuts
in social programs.
BUT COMMISSIONER Mary Fran-
ces Berry, one of three members ap-

pointed before the president
reorganized the panel last year, at-
tacked the panel's new majority and
called them White House puppets.
"Ed Meese has a right to be elated
today," she said referring to the
presidential counselor. "The White
House now has for the first time in the
history of this institution, its first civil
rights commission. And it's just in time
for election year 1984, which I believe
was the plan all along from the begin-
ning of this struggle."
Before the news conference, the
commissin voted 6-2 in favor of the
resolution against quotas.
REFERRING to an affirmative ac-
tion plan for blacks in the Detroit police

department, the resolution said, "Such
racial preferences merely constitute
another form of unjustified
discrimination, create a new class of
victims, and when used in public em-
ployment, offend the constitutional
principles of equal protection of the law
for all citizens."
The resolution was prompted. by the
Detroit case in which promotions from
sergeant to lieutenant are made alter-
nately from lists of whites and blacks:
The plan, which the Supreme tourt has
refused to disturb, is to remain in effect
until 50 percent of the lieutenant corps
is black. The department estimates
that the balance will be achieved by
about 1990.

Special honor AP Photo
Singer Michael Jackson is congratulated by colleague after he receives a special Award of Merit Monday night at the
11th annual American Music Awards in Los Angeles. Entertainer Kenny Rogers looks on.
Liberals attack Kissinger report

U.N. boss offers help in Mideast

WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Kissinger Commission report on Cen-
tral America had its good points but
"blew the whole thing" by advocating
more military aid, a group of liberals
and labor leaders said yesterday.
In its report to President Reagan last
week, the bipartisan commission
recommended the United States
provide $8.4 billion in general economic
aid to Central America over the next
five years and "a significantly larger
program of military assistance."
THE REPORT was "riddled with a
lot of truths," but "they blew the whole
Dnotes
Chase ends in arrest
After a mile-long car chase, Ann Ar-
bor police Monday apprehended an Ann
Arbor man who was later found to
possess several bags of what "ap-
peared" to be cocaine and $1,900 in
cash, according-to a police spokesmnan.
The man, origirnaIg Vursued for
a speeding violation, <ws held at The
Washtenaw County Jail Monday night,
awaiting analysis of the chemical he
possessed and his arraignment yester-
day.
Police originally detected the man
speeding on the 1900 block of Green
Road, where an officer pursued the car
intil the man lost control attempting to
make a right turn and slid into a snow
yank. The man was taken to the Ann
Arbor police station where the bags of
white powder and money were found
when he was searched.
Burglaries reported
Police received two reports of
burglaries Monday. An apartment
building on the 600' block of Catherine,
was burglarized Sunday night, while
another apartment on the 900 block of
Greenwood was broken into on Monday,
poliee said.
In the first case, police said there
were not signs of forced entry and
believe that a key may have been used
to enter the apartment. Less than $200
was taken, and no suspects have been
reported, police said.
Burglars apparently entered the
second house by forcing open a window
sometime Monday afternoon, police
said. A camera and jewelry valued at
$800 were reported missing. Police
currently do not have any suspects.
Rapes by brother alleged
A 22-year-old Ann Arbor woman
reported to police that she had been
raped three times during the last two or
three years by her 20-year-old brother.
The victim's brother lives at his paren-
ts' home on the 2200 block of Hardyke.
Police are investigating allegations
that on several occasions when the vic-
tim would go to her parents' home to do
her laundry, she would be raped by her
brother.. -Nancy Goffesman

thing" by recommending more
military aid, said Patricia Derian, who
was an assistant secretary of state un-
der President Carter. -
Former Rep. Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.
said, "I fear we're talking about
military activity to the bitter end. . . The
enemy in that area is not communism
or Marxism. The enemy is povery."
Derian, Abzug and most other
speakers at a joint news conference en-
dorsed the commission's, proposal for
more economic aid to Central America,
but they had a variety of criticisms as
well.

"The United States should support a
negotiated settlement before it's too
late," said Jack Sheinkman, of the
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile
Workers Union.
He said the. report "recommends
more of the same policy, which will not
work," adding that he saw little eviden-
ce that economic aid now going to Cen-
tral America was helping. Sheinkman
said he did not think the AFL-CIO would
support further U.S. military aid
without substantial improvements in
human rights in Central America.

CASABLANCA, Morocco, (UPI) -
United Nations Secretary-General
Javier Perez de Cuellar offered yester-
day to convene a U.S.-sponsored Middle
East conference to help mediate
solutions to the complex problems of
the region.
The initiative, made in an interview
carried by the official Moroccan news
agency, reflected the dismay felt
among delegates at the Islamic Con-

ference Organization summit over a
split between moderate states led by
Saudi Arabia and radical states like
Syria and Libya.
THE CONFERENCE would be held
under the . auspices of the Security
Council and provide a forum' for trying
to resolve the differences in the many
plans and prenosals made to find peace
in the Middy East.
"There a- e many plans, including the
Brezhnev plan, the Reagan plan, the

Franco-Egyptian initiative, but there is
no single forum where all problems can
be dealt with," Perez de Cuellar said.
"There is no better forum than the
U.N. Security Council."
The U.N. leader said countries "con-
cerned in the Middle East" and mem-
bers of the Security Council would par-
ticipate, but the interview left unclear
whether rotating members of the Coun-
cil would take part or just the per-
manent members.

Shultz aims to resume arms talks

State. may trade aid
for tuition controls

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squeezed by the state of Michigan," he
said.
"There is a great desire on the part of
the University to keep tuition as low as
possible," said Sauve. "We don't think
of the University as a business, but if
tuition is too high, students can't afford
it and it may change the mix of stud-
ents."
Last summer the state appropriated
a 9 percent increase in aid, allowing the
University to keep its tuition hike to 9.5
percent, the lowest increase since 1980,
when it was also 9.5 percent. Tuition
rose 15 percent for the 1982-83 school
year and the year before it was hiked 18
percent. All of these percentages were '
much higher than the inflation rate
each year.
INADEQUATE amounts of state aid,
however, resulted in "jacking up"
tuition to accommodate the Univer-
sity's budget, according to Sauve. And
because the state routinely promised
and then cut appropriations during the

last several years, tuition fees have
become a more substantial percentage
of the University's general fund budget,
increased from 26 percent in 1969 to 43
percent currently, said Sauve. State
appropriations and student fees com-
prise a large percentage of the general
fund.
"The proportional impact of such an
increase is the least for us of any state
school," said Brinkerhoff. "A 10 per-
cent increase in state funds is in fact a 5
percent increase in our general fund."
State appropriations are 49 percent of
the general fund for the 1983-84 year,
while other smaller state schools have
state appropriations accounting for up
to 70 percent of their total general fund.
THE UNIVERSITY receives $169
million in state aid in this year's $339
million total general fund budget, an
increase of $13 million in state aid from
the year before.
Blanchard's annual state of the state
address to the legislature will be
tonight at 7 p.m. and telecast on Detroit
television stations.

Cockroaches bug dorms

From AP and UPI
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - On the eve
of a key meeting with the Soviet foreign
minister, Secretary of State George
Shultz yesterday appealed to Moscow to
resume nuclear arms talks and called
for a global ban on chemical weapons.
"We are ready for. negotiations
whenever the Soviet Union is
prepared," Shultz told the 35-nation
East-West conference on security in
Europe.
THE CONFERENCE was called to
consider measures to prevent war in
Europe between NATO and the Warsaw
Pact.
Shultz will tell the Soviet foreign
minister today that the United States
would welcome talks on any level in an
effort to control nuclear weapons and
curb conventional forces in Europe.
Administration sources told the
Associated Press yesterday that if the
Soviets are reluctant to resume the ar-
ms control talks, the United States is
ready to open alternative channels in a
bid to reverse the U.S. and Soviet arms
buildup.
"WE ARE PREPARED to talk in any
case," said the U.S. official, who spoke
on condition he not be identified.
Shultz, seeking to reopen a dialogue
with the Soviet Union, will meet
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko on
Wednesday. The Shultz-Gromyko
meeting would be the first since the two
wrangled in September over the
Soviets' downing of a South Korean
jetline with 269 people aboard.
THE SOVIETS broke off arms'con-
trol talks last year after NATO started
a five-year deployment of 572 new
medium-range nuclear missiles in
Europe.
The Soviets have said they won't
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return to the Euromissile talks until
NATO pulls out its new rockets.
Negotiations on ocean-spanning
nuclear weapons and conventional for-
ces also are suspended, and the Soviets
have refused to set a date for resum-,
ption.
Shultz has already had several talks
at the State Department with Anatoly
Dobrynin, the Soviet ambassador to
Washington, seeking a" thaw to the
frozen relationship.
HE URGE6 the Soviet Union to lift
the Iron Curtain, saying the United
States "does not recognize the
legitimacy of the articficially imposed
division of Europe."
Shultz said Germany was "hear-
tlessly divided" by the barrier between
East and West and declared, "this
division is the essence of Europe's
security and human rights problem,
and we all know it."
Shultz also proposed a, six-point
, program to ease anxieties in Europe by
exchanging information on military
maneuvers in order to prevent an inad-
vertent war.
The measures include:
" An exchange of information about the
organization and location of NATO and
Warsaw Pact military forces.
* Annual previews of military exer-
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" Advance notice of significant military
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The trouble is that the drawing board
is full of solutions that only work for a
few weeks, said White. The traps
sometimes work and spraying is also
useful in the short term, but there is
really no way to eliminate cockroaches
altogether.
To at least keep an upper hand in the
battle, however, the University tries
several things, White said.
OUTSIDE CONTRACTORS come in,
to treat the dormitories about every two
weeks, but the treatment often includes)
spraying and the University is trying to,
minimize the chemical use, White said.
Less frequently, each dorm is put,
through a "total clean-up" to try to get

rid of as many of the bugs as possible
before the school year begins. Most
dorms recently have received a clean-
up. But Mosher-Jordan has not had one
in a while, and according to one housing
maintenance official, students are star-
ting to notice. South Quad has al4o
reported a problem since students have
come back from Christmas break.
The University's newest, battle
strategy is to get students to cooperate
with building services by rinsing out,
empty pop bottles, keeping food
securely stored, and cleaning their
rooms thoroughly. "Even with reliable
outside sources providing an effective
program, reinfestation can occur
within a relatively short period of
time," White said.


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