Ninety-four Years of Editorial Freedom .1 L I E4k ? Iai1Q Merry-go-round You've seen it before. Chance of snow showers today, with tem- peratures in the mid-twenties. o. XCIV-No. 100 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, January 31, 1984 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages ,~ ~'8Z..2,-~# I Slave By CAROLINE MULLER The sister of one of two men allegedly held as slaves on a Chelsea farm for more than 10 years testified yesterday that she was not allowed to speak to her brother on the phone. Gizella Korbini, 74, a small, frail woman from Fredricktown, Pa. said she tried to contact her brother Louis Molitoris several times at the farm of Ike and Margarethe Kozminski, but the Kozminskis refused to let her speak with him. SHE DESCRIBED A phone conver- sation she had in August with one of the Kozminskis in which she tried to tell Molitoris that his brother had died. Gizella told U.S. District Judge Charles Joiner and 12 jury members yesterday that Ike Kozminski shouted that he didn't "give a damn if her mother was dead," and refused to let her speak with Molitoris. Kozminski, 61, and his wife, 56, and trial intensifies. Victim 'S sister barred from phoning brother , his son John, 30, are each charged with one count of conspiracy to violate civil rights and two counts of involuntary servitude. IN THE third day of the state's first slavery case in more than 60 years, Joiner warned reporters present at the early morning trial not to question at- torneys involved in the case. Joiner said he was concerned publicity about the trial would bias the jury's decision. Witnesses testifying yesterday backed up previous statements that Molitoris, 59, and Robert Fulmer, 57 were forced to live in a broken-down trailer and eat rotten food. , ONE OF THE Kozminski's neigh- bors, Carol Satterthwaite, testified yesterday that Fulmer stayed at her home in January of 1981 for three days and he was "covered with manure from his head to toe." "His fingers were all white and infec- ted," Satterthwaite said, adding that he also had a bloody nose and face. Satterthwaite said Fulmer didn't want to return to the Kozminski's farm at 4768 Peckins Rd. in Chelsea. According to Satterthwaite, Fulmer said Mrs. Kozminski warned him against going to the Satterthwaite's farm and even told him the Satterth waite's would shoot him. Another neighbor, Dale Horning, testified that Fulmer told him that he had to "get out of here. They're killing me." Joe Franklin, a former worker on the Kozminski farm, said that the trailer Fulmer and Molitoris lived in was "in- fested with bugs, spider webs, (and had) no light, no running water or heat." Their clothes were "filthy and torn," and they looked like they "hadn't had a bath for quite some time," Franklin said. U.S. District Attorney Virginia Morgan said in her opening statements last week that the two men were men- tally retarded and could not leave the farm, although they tried to several times. Eric Mattson filed a report for this story. State GOP leaders 4 I applaud r Daily Photq by BRIAN MASCK Kaleidoscope Seeing this puzzled view of the law library's windows from the corner of the quadrangle is almost like being lost in a maze. Marine dies during Reagan candidacy By NEIL CHASE The. chairman of Michigan's Republican Party and one of its newest leaders met with College Republicans in Mason Hall last night to praise President Reagan and urge students involvement in this year's campaigns. Speaking just a day afterr Reagan formally announced his bid for a second presidential term, state party chair- man Spencer Abraham said, "Things are better today. There are a lot of dif- ferent ways to look at the economic conditions, but almost any way you See REPUBLICANS, Page 6 shelling in From AP and UPI BEIRUT, Lebanon -The U.S. Marines came under rebel attack at the Iity's airport yesterday and fired back with tanks, mortars and machine guns in-a day of heavy fighting that killed a Marine and at least five other people. The dead Marine, whose identity was withheld pending notification of his family, was the 259th American ser- viceman killed in Lebanon since U.S. forces arrived 17 months ago. THREE AMERICAN troops were wounded in the fighting around Beirut airport, bringing to 131 the number of }Americans wounded in Lebanon. The fighting began with an artillery barrage from suspected Druze Moslem positions ih the Shouf mountains that was answered by the Marines and the Lebanese army. Shiite Moslem rebels in Beirut's southern suburb of Hay el Sullom said they then struck at Marine emplacements in self-defense. , F Lebanon The Marines had no comment on the Shiite charges and could not im- mediately say from which direction the attack came that killed the American soldier. OFFICIAL Beirut radio said at least two Lebanese soldiers were killed and three were wounded. Police sources said at least three civilians were killed and 30 were wounded, but unofficial sources said as many as 60 civilians were wounded. Marine spokesman Brooks said that in each clash, the Marines fired only af- ter being attacked. In the Shiite neighborhood of Hay el- Sellum, Amal fighters showed reporters a blue-green school bus with four large-caliber bullet holes in one side and fresh blood on two of the 12 seats. The bus was carrying children from the Shiite Ahileh School in nearby Bourj el-Barajneh when it was hit. Daily Photo by SCOTT ZOLTON U.S. Senate candidate Jack Lousma, himself a University Law School graduate, encourages students to join the Reagan campaign for re-election at a College Republicans meeting last night. Plans for shelter formalized v By ERIC MATTSON Ann Arbor's homeless came one step closer to a shelter last night as City Council unanimously passed a resolution to establish a non-profit organization to search for a permanent site. The Inter-Faith Congregation of churches will now look for a place for the shelter, and Councilman Larry Hunter (D-1st Ward) said it may well be at 415 N. Fourth Ave., a site which has been the source of a great deal of controversy. . ROGER KERSON, who lives near the site, presen- ted the council with a 133-signature petition suppor- ting the use of the now vacant house as a shelter. Many members of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, located about 20 feet from the house, oppose the site because of concern about "the safety of our parishioners" - especially women, children, and the elderly. The church did, however, present the council with $1,000 to be used for the eventual shelter, and proposed another site on South Division. "There is a tremendous need for hospitality (in Ann Arbor)," he said, adding that a new shelter would be a symbol of that hospitality. Hunter, one of the co-sponsors of the resolution, said a shelter is needed soon. "There is still one basic problem in Ann Arbor, and that problem is homeless people," he said. "We're not going to rest until we do find a solution." Councilman Richard Deem (D-2nd Ward), who also co-sponsored the resolution, said that city officials are negotiating for three potential houses for shelters. He declined to identify the sites, but said he hoped the new shelter would open by April 1 when the shelter at St. Andrews closes. The Advisory Committee on Emergency Housing, which approved the resolution before it went to the full council, will continue to meet and advise the Congregation of Churches on the issue. ST. ANDREW'S Episcopalian Church has provided the homeless a place to sleep for the past year and a half, and the Rev. James Lewis said he supported a permanent homeless shelter. .......... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '..:..,. .. ...... . . . >. . . . . . . . . . . . . r. . . .J. .i.. . . . . . . . a ... .... .... . . .... . . ..,.. ........ . . . 'U' faculty. to, decide on research conference By SHARON SILBAR A proposal that the University sponsor a, forum on academic freedom and military research is being considered by a subcommit- tee of the faculty's top governing body, the panel's chairman said yesterday. Nicholas Steneck, chairman of the Collegiate Institute on Values in Science (CIVS), said he is collecting recommendations from members of his committee to determine whether such a conference would be useful. He said he will have the information ready to present to the Senate Advisory Committee on University Af- fairs (SACUA) late next week. THE PROPOSAL for a forum on military research came last November from David Bassett, a professor in the medical school. He proposed a. conference which would discuss the conflict between academic freedom and the morality of military research. Although Steneck has not looked at all of the materials professors have submitted to him, he said the group appears to be split on whether the University should sponsor such a conferen- ce. "There are reservations about how much can be accomplished given the fact that positions (regarding the military research issues) are diametrically opposed," Steneck said. SOME BELIEVE there should be no limit on the academic freedom of researchers, while others say the University must carefully con- sider dangerous effects any research might have. Bassett said he wants the conference to con- front research which has the substantial pur- pose to destroy or permanently incapacitate human beings. "It seems to me that somewhere in academia, the issue needs to be addressed, and the University is the appropriate in- stitution," Bassett said. "My hope is that all the University community will consider this an important issue and give their thought to it." ONE ARGUMENT against the conference is that many of the issues have already been ad- dressed through other channels. Also, because the opinions of both sides are so divided chan- ces are slim an agreement could be reached on the issue. Bassett's call for a forum comes after numerous attempts by faculty and students to impose guidelines on non-classified research at the University. Senate Assembly votes last April and in April 1982 showed wide faculty support for such guidelines. But the regents voted down the guidelines in June 1983 saying that such rules would inter- fere with academic freedom. SIMILAR guidelines governing classified research on campus have been in effect since 1968. If the Senate Assembly, a group of 65 representative faculty members, approves Bassett's proposal for a conference, it would not be the first time such a meeting has been held. In 1964, a meeting known as the Declaration of Helsinki established universal guidelines for research on humans. 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