Page 2 - The Michigan Daily -Saturday, January 21, 1984 OSU tuition payments stolen Some Ohio State University students who think they've paid their tuition bills may be in for a nasty surprise. More than $135,000 in checks written for winter quarter fees were stolen from the university's Office of Fees and Deposits last week, along with ap- COLLEGE$S proximately $15,000.in cash. UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS, however, aren't panicking. They spent last week gathering the names, ad- dresses, andtelephone numbersof the students whose checks were stolen. If the missing checks aren't recovered, the students will be asked to write another check, said University Treasurer James Nichols. Nichols said the checks have already been endorsed by the university and stamped for deposit. "The likelihood of one of those checks being cashed by someone is extremely small," he said. "Any clerk that would cash that check would lose their job." He added that if a stolen check does get cashed, the university will reimbur- se the student. POLICE SAID the male suspect who demanded money from one of the of- fice's tellers did not appear to have a weapon. The suspect fled the scene of the robbery on foot, and has not been found. --The Lantern Texas police face FBI investigation The FBI is investigating the Univer- sity of Texas campus police depar- tment for possible civil rights violations, university and FBI official confirmed last week. John King, an Austin attorney, filed the complaint after campus police allegedly assaulted him on campus last May. KING SAID that when he left a university building after doing some volunteer work for the campus television station, two campus police officers were standing next to his car. He said he asked officer Louis Graham if he should mov'e his car, and then moved it to an area where television volunteers are supposed to park. But Graham followed King to the new parking space, began "yelling at me about not respecting the law," and threatened to have King's car towed, King said. Graham then took King's license and called a tow truck over his police radio, King said. When Graham refused to return the license, King attempted to grab it off of the officer's clipboard. But the second officer, John Seagraves, threw King against car. FBI spokesman Al Robinson said that the results of the current preliminary investigation will be sent to the Depar- tment of Justice, which will determine if further investigation is necessary. - The Daily Texan Colleges appears every Saturday. Embryo donationsbecoming new business LOS ANGELES (AP) - A California woman soon will become the world's first to deliver a baby from an embryo donated by another woman - a major st- ep in a Chicago firm's plan to set up a nationwide "adopt an embryo" business. Fertility & Genetics Research Inc. plans to "create a network of clinics throughout the country linked by computers that would allow infertile women to have access to a panel of embryo donors," said Dr. John Buster, in chargeof the company's research effort at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. In the embryo transfer process, both the fertile donor and the infertile recipient are monitored to make sure that they ovulate at about the same time., Then the donor is artifically inseminated with sperm from the recipient's husband. AFTER FIVE days, the embryo is washed out of the donor's uterus and transferred to the recipient's uterus. The process differs from the "test-tube" fer- tilization method in which a woman with blocked Fallopian tubes has her own egg surgically removed and fertilized in laboratory glassware so that it can be implanted in her uterus. Australian researchers last week reported the world's first successful birth in which a donated egg was fertilized through the test-tube method and then implanted in a recipient. EMBRYO TRANSFER, though commonly used by cattle breeders, never before has resulted in a human birth, said Buster, chief of reproductive and en- docrinology at Harbor-UCLA, where 16 embryo tran- sfer attempts have resulted in pregnancy for two infer- tile women. The identities of both women and the hospitals where they will give birth are being kept secret. Buster and his team first reported the pregnancies last July in the British medical journal Lancet. The first woman "is due right now" and the second. is in her third trimester of pregnancy, Buster said Thursday night. HE SAID THE first birth won't be announced until several weeks after it happens, probably in the Jour- nal of the American Medical Association. "This is a major scientific event, and it is ex- tremely important that the details.. . be published in a reputable medical journal. . . rather than make a circus out of this baby's birth," Buster said. - Two to three months after the first birth, Fertility & ,Genetics Research plans to start its first commercial embryo transfer center at a subsidiary of Memorial Hospital Medical Center of Long Beach, Calif., FGR Chairman Lawrence Socsy said yesterday in a telephone interview from Chicago. FGR HAS APPLIED for patents or copyrights on the embryo transfer process, instruments used to transfer the embryos and computer programs to be used in the nationwide network, said Sucsy, an in- vestment banker. Buster said that "makes me uneasy . . . A lot of people feel it's unethical to patent a, process that would benefit human beings." But it was the only way to obtain private financing after government agen- cies refused to provide money, he added. Sucsy said his firm has spent about $3 million to finance UCLA's research. BUSTER SAID the embryo transfer process may produce a higher success rate than test-tube fer- tilization and requires neither surgery nor anesthesia, so the process is less risky. The main drawback is that it involves donated egg, but FGR plans to carefully match the genetic traits of donors and recipients and screen out donors with genetic defects, said Sucsy. He said FGR has yet to decide how much to charge for the service, but that the cost wil be competitive with the $4,000 to $7,000 charged for test-tube fer- tilization. Donors will be paid an amount yet to be deter- mined, but the basic motivation for any donor really is empathy for infertile women and a desire to give the gift of life," he said. Sucsy said FGR assumes private insurance and the Medicare and Medicaid programs initially will not reimburse patients who receive donated embryos. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Ten dead in Beirut bombings BEIRUT, Lebanon - Druse militia gunners shelled Beirut's Christian sec- tor and Lebanese army positions yesterday, and the army responded with massive barrages. At least 10 civilians were reported killed and 34 wounded in the fighting. Police said 20 civilians suffered shrapnel wounds in east Beirut outlying Christian neighborhoods during the more than four-hour-long Druse bom- bardment by tank cannon, artillery and rockets. A Druse towns in the central mountains shelled by the army and Christian militiamen. It was the heaviest shelling of population centers since a 13-hour bombar- dment on Monday claimed the lives of 34 civilians in Christian east Beirut and the Durse-inhabited hills east of the capital. The Druse are a sect whose beliefs are based on Islam and they have been fighting the Christians in the hills overlooking Beirut. Reagan to propose tax increase WASHINGTON - A top Treasury Department official said yesterday that President Reagan will propose some "cats and dogs" tax increases this year, but they won't do all that much to close the huge federal deficit. And Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige confirmed the ad- ministration is all but writing off chances -for a "proper mix" of deficit- reducing measures until next year. "We will becoming down with some tax measures" to bring in more money and trim the defict at least somewhat, said deputy treasury. Secretary R.T. McNamar. But he added that with the nation's economic recovery apparently slowing down, "we have decided not to propose a massive tax increase to close the budget deficit." Along the same line, Baldrige said that although deficits are indeed a con- cern, "the main problem is increases in government expenditures, not the fact that taxes are low." With Reagan's fiscAl-1985 budget request due in less than two weeks, Mc- Namar said there still was debate within the administration about the size of possible spending cuts to hold down the deficit that soared close to $200 billion last year. Gunmen loot London jeweler LONDON - Masked robbers brandishing sawed-off shotguns looted Christie's London showrooms of jewelry valued at $1.4 million yesterday, but a quick-witted woman managed to protect a necklace worth more than $1 million. A spokesman for Scotland Yard said the gunmen, with scarves over their faces, stormed into the prestigious auction house near St. Jame's Square at mid-morning, smashing glass cases and grabbing the contents in a lightning raid. No one was injured. The robbers got away with a diamond bracelet and an earring from the Florence Gould collection - one of the most valuable collections in the world - along with two necklaces from another collection, the police spokesman said. One of the necklaces was of diamonds and the other of diamonds and emeralds. He said the items were valued at~about 1 million British pounds, the equivelent of $1.42 million. The robbers escaped in a blue van, found a half-mile away, and tran- sferred to another vehicle. The Scotland Yard spokesman said police were examining a videotape, of the robbery taken by closed-circuit security cameras. Soldier admits faking abduction SCHWAEBISCH-GMUEND, West Germany - A U.S. Army soldier admit- ted he faked his own abduction because he was afraid his wife would be angry with him for failing to pick her up from work, American military authorities and German police said yesterday. They said Liam Fowler,' 21, of Port Orange, Fla., told authorities he decided to say he had been kidnapped last weekend after driving around for hours trying to think of something to tell his wife, Nikki, when he failed to meet her. After Fowler telephoned her early last Saturday to say he had been kid- napped by West German anti-nuclear protesters, the news of an American soldier's abduction was published around the world. Fowler admitted the hoax during police questioning in Schwaebisch- Gmuend on Thursday, a joint statement by the Army and German authorities said yesterday. The statement appealed to the public for assistance in locating Fowler's new red Dodge Charger, which disappeared during his 43-hour absence last weekend. He was found last Sunday in a barn in Bavaria. Arctic temps invade nation The second cold wave of winter swept in yesterday on an Arctic blast that plunged temperatures below zero in 34 states and spared only Hawaii from the freezing mark. People along Idaho's ice-choked Lemhi River fled the worst flooding in 22 years. At least 25 deaths nationwide have been blamed on the second frigid blast of the winter of 1983-84 - four in Utah and Delaware, three in Pennsylvania, two each in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maine, New Mexico and Wisconsin and one each in Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska and Colorado. Eight inches of snow socked Watertown, N.Y., and light snow fell at Pen- sacola, Fla. Each of the 48 contiguous states reported temperatures of 32 or lower, and 34 states - including Alaska - recorded temperatures below zero. The cold snap comes 30 years ago to the day after the coldest temperature ever was recorded in the United States - 70 below zero at Rogers Pass, Mont. C4 ileiuictsNorth Star (i~urr 1~~r~np~EVUEE0workers FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH AND AMERICAN BAPTIST CAMPUS FOUNDATION 502 East Huron, 663-9376 9:55 a.m. Sunday Worship, January 12, "Live By The Spirit." Sermon by Robert B. Wallace. Also: Choir Thursday 7:15 p.m., John Reed, director;- Janice Beck, organist. Student theological discussion Wed- nesday 6:00 p.m. (Call' 761-6476 evenings for infor- mation) Weekly Student Dinner. Sunday 6 p.m. Senior Pastor: Robert B. Wallace. Campus Minister: Rev. T. J. Ging. FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 120 S. State St. (Corner of State and Huron) 662-4536 January 22. "When Fishermen Get Hooked." Sermon by: Rev. P. Thomas Wachterhauser. Church School for all ages-9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Choir Rehearsal-Thursday at 7:15 p.m. Ministers: Dr. Donald B. Strobe Dr. Gerald R. Parker Rev. Tom Wachterhauser Education Director: Rose McLean Broadcast Sundays 9:30a.m.- WNRS, 1290 AM Televised Mondays8X00p.m.-Cable Chanel9. LUTHERAN CAMPUS MINISTRY at Lord of Light (LCA-ALC-AELC) 801 S. Forest at Hill St., 668-7622 Galen Hora, Pastor Sunday Worship: 10:30 a.m. "Friends of the Groom." The service will be led by a drama group from Cincinnati. Wednesday - 7:30 Study of the Prophets. Wednesday: Worship at 7:00 p.m. Choir at 7:30p.m. UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL 1511 Washtenaw Robert Kavasch, Pastor 663-5560 Sunday, January 22,9:15 Bible study; 6:00 Sunday Supper. Wednesday 7:30p.m. Bible Study. Wednesday 9:30 p.m. Handbell Choir. Thursday 9:00 p.m. Bible Study. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 1432 Washtenaw Ave., 662-4466 (between S. University and Hill) Campus/Career Fellowship Coordinator: Steve Spina Sunday 9:30 and 11:00 a.m. Coffee Hour-10:30 social hall. 11:00 a.m. Issues Class, French Room Wednesday p.m. 8:00 Christian Fellowship, French Room. 8:30-Study-Discussion Groups. 9:30-Holy Communion, sanctuary. NEW GRACE APOSTOLIC CHURCH 632 N. Fourth Ave. Rev. Avery Dumes Jr., Pastor 9:45 a.m. Sunday School. 11:45 Morning Worship. 7:00 p.m. Evening Service. Bible Study-Wed. & Fri. 7 p.m. For rides call 761-1503 or 487-1594. ** * CAMPUS CHAPEL 1236 Washtenaw Ct. A Campus Ministry of the Christian Reformed Church Pastor: Reverend Don Pastema 668-7421 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship: A Service of Holy Baptism. Sermon: "A Person- Conscious God." 6:00 p.m. Service of Holy Communion. Sermon: "The Wedding at Cana." Wed. 10 p.m. Evening Prayers. * * * ST. MARY'S STUDENT CHAPEL (Catholic) 331 Thompson-663-0557 Weekly Masses : Mon.-Wed.-5: 10 p.m. Thurs.-Fri.-12:10p.m. Sat.-7:00 p.m. Sun.-8:30 and 10:30 a.m. (Upstairs and downstairs). 12 noon and 5 p.m. (Upstairs and downstairs). Rite of Reconciliation-4 p.m.-5 p.m. on Friday only; any other time by ap- pointment., to vote on new offer GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (UPI) - North Star Lines said Thursday its workers will vote a second time on the company's proposal to cut wages and benefits and the mailed ballots will be counted Jan. 27. The small bus line last week threatened to stop running after its drivers and mechanics, members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1303, rejected the offer by a 27-16 vote. The contract would cut wages by 23 percent, freeze cost-of-living allowan- ces and require employees to pay 50 percent of their health insurance benefits. North Star President Lawrence Post said the concessions are necessary because the line lost more than $400,000 in 1981 and 1982. Losses in 1983 are estimated at more than $300,000, said Post, who reportedly is looking for an investor to buy the line. North Star serves northwestern Michigan and runs routes to Detroit as well as some points in northern Indiana and Ohio. Police notes. Man charged in kiosk fire A 23-year-old Ann Arbor man was ar- rested and charged with arson yesterday for igniting posters on a kiosk on the corner of N. University and State St. Nov. 7. A University security officer witnessed the fire, chased the suspect, and held him until Ann Arbor police arrived, but he was not charged at the time. An arrest warrant was issued in December, but the suspect was not located until yesterday. - Nancy Gottesman Corrections A quote in the Jan. 6 Daily inac- curately tied two statements by Mark Gorge, who is accused of scalping foot- ball tickets. In describing his "good COME HOME TO THE DAILY AND A FREEPIZZA FROM SNAPPY' Subscribe to '1 1F Saturday, January 21, 1984 Vol. XCI V-No. 92 (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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