0 Page 2 -The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 16, 1984 GEO says 'U' won't By THOMAS MILLER The Graduate Employee's Organization and the University came to an impasse yesterday morning in negotiations aimed at eliminating new taxes on the TAs tuition break. Under their recently negotiated contract, teaching assistants pay only two-thirds of in-state tuition, and until the beginning of this year, did not have to pay taxes on the other third. But in December, Congress failed to renew the tax break law, an oversight which will cost TAs an average of $75 a month. In a letter sent to the University Friday GEO said it wanted the University to abolish all tuition for TAs and staff assistants, but representatives said little progress was made in yesterday's meeting. IN A STATEMENT released after the session, GEO said "the University has clearly indicated its un- willingness to negotiate a salary and tuition agreement in which graduate student assistants maintain their take-home wage. The union also said there was little likelihood that the Congress would re-enact the law in time to affect the financial situation of TAs, quoting University at- torney Bill Lemmer as saying, "If you talk to the right people in Washington you see that it probably won't be re-enacted." Lemmer confirmed last night that he made the statement. BECAUSE RENEWAL of the tax break may be long in coming, GEO is demanding that the Univer- bargain sity abolish all tuition for TAs on the ground that the tax withholding violates their December contract. Coleen Dolan-Greene, the University's chief negotiator, said both sides had discussed abolishing TA tuition in the meeting, but added that the University has no plans to re-open contract negotiations with GEO at this time. "We talked about possible alternatives, but at this point in time I don't think the-University has respon- ded to that question," she said. "There'll be a a lot of discussion about the issue in the next few weeks." GEO members will discuss the tax withholding at their March 15 meeting, but Celeste Burke, the union's president, declined to say what action they might take. "We're just going to wait and see what happens." IN BRIEF- i Rebel militias rout -r Catch the Nev READ THE DAI Ns LY Lebanese a BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Druse and Shiite militiamen swept the hills south of4Beirut yesterday after routing the disintergrating Lebanese army for the second time in nine days. Druse leader Walid Jumblatt called for President Amin Gemayel to resign and said he should be tried for "crimes."' A Druse offensive that drove the ar- my from positions south of the capital left the U.S. marines, based at Beirut's airport, almost surrounded by leftist Druse and Shiite Moslem fighters. THE MARINES maintained access to the Mediterranean via a narrow strip, crossing the coastal highway, to a boat landing zone dubbed the "green beach." A spokesman, Maj. Dennis Brooks, said there was no fighting around the base. "It has been quiet," Brooks said. "We did receive one large-caliber round which impacted in one of the hangars. . . It could have been a tank round." No one was hurt, he said. Brooks said the Marines still had received no orders to move the estimated 1,200 troops now at the air- port out to sea. But he added: "we have been putting more people on the ships for security reasons at night." The Druse fighters and Amal, the longest Shiite militia, linked up along the coastal highway and made clean-up sweeps through the hills, picking up equipment abandoned by the Lebanese trmy again army and Christian militiamen who fled when the Druse launched their sur- prise offensive down a mountain corridor on Tuesday. POLICE SAID 50 people were killed and 89 wounded in the fighting in the hills Tuesday and yesterday. They said two people died and 14 were wounded in Beirut, where sporadic clashes con- tinued along the "green line," the devastated strip dividing Christian east and mostly Moslem west Beirut. Government sources said Gemayel was on the verge of meeting a key op- position demand by abrogating a May 17, 1983 troop withdrawal agreement with Israel. But he made no announ- cement yesterday. Jumblatt said rejec- tion of the pact was no longer enough. In Washington, President Reagan said the Marines, soon to be with- drawn, could remain stationed on the U.S. warships off the coast for a period as long as they would have been kept on shore - which could be another year or more. "As long as there is a chance for peace, we're going to stay," Reagan said. Also yesterday, telephone super- visors in Nicosia announced that telephone communications between Beirut and the outside world collapsed, cutting off the trouble Lebanese capital from the outside world. 0 Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Cave-in linked to nuclear test LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A tunnel collapsed yesterday at the Nevada Test Site three hours after a nuclear test, injuring at least 12 scientists and engineers - two critica lv. officials said. The injured workers were in trailers on the surface checking instruments that recorded the blast when the ground fell "a dozen or so feet," said U.S. Department of Engery spokesman Jim Boyer. "There was no escape of radiation when the earth subsided," Boyer said. He said the workers were "bounced around" inside the trailers during the: fall. The accident occurred shortly after noon - three hours after detonation of a nuclear test code named Midas Myth-Milagro. The test took place 1,168 feel underground. Boyer declined to give details of the test at Ranier Mesa, about 9 miles nor- thwest of Las Vegas, except to say that it was "less than 2 kilotons." One kiloton is equivalent to 1,000 tons of TNT. Several Las Vegas residents reported feeling shock waves from the. detonation Wednesday morning. Walt Raywood, a University of Nevada-Las Vegas geologist, said it registered 4.5 on the Richter scale. The injured were initially taken to a government-run hospital at Mercury, Nev., the main base camp for the Nevada Test Site. It is about 35 miles southeast of the accident site, Boyer said. U.S. diplomat killed in Rome ROME - Terrorists killed the American director of the multinational for- ce that patrols the Sinai peninsula, blowing in the rear window of his bullet- proof car with machine-gun fire as it pulled up to his home yesterday evening. At least two people jumped from a trailing car, attacked Leamon Hunt's limousine at point-blank range, then fled on foot, police and witnesses said. A group demanding that _all "imperialist forces" leave Lebanon claimed: responsibility. Hunt, a 56-year-old career diplomat, was pronounced dead at San Giovan- ni Hospital at 8:12 p.m., 2:12 p.m. EST, a little more than an hour after he: was shot. The Fighting Communist Party, a group usually identified with the Red Brigades urban terrorists, claimed responsibility for the shooting in an anonymous telephone call to a Milan radio station. The Multinational Force and Observers, headquartered in Rome, has been: patrolling the Sinai since April 1982 when Israeli forces returned war- captured territory to Egypt under the 1979 Camp David accords. The force has 3,400 troops from 10 nations, including the United States and Italy. Bombings kill 300 in Sudan NAIROBI, Kenya - Sudanese separatist guerrillas shelled and sank a: riverboat and two barges it was towing on the White Nile River, killing at least 300 people, the BBC said Wednesday. The Sudan People's Liberation Front, which is fighting to make predominantly Christian southern Sudan independent of the Moslem north, claimed it carried out the attack because the riverboat carried Sudanese troops. The broadcast said the riverboat and the two barges it was towing carried more than 1,000 people when they were attacked shortly before midnight Tuesday near Fangak, a small garrison village on the banks of the White Nile. The report said at least 300 people either were killed in explosions on the riverboat or drowned after the barges caught fire and sank in the crocodile- infested river. The nearby garrisons were raided a few hours later. The guerrillas fighting for the independence of southern Sudan are still holding six hostages, including a West German woman in her eighth month of pregnancy and her young son. Steel merger may be challenged WASHINGTON - The Justice Department said yesterday it would sue if necessary to block the proposed $770 million merger of LTV Corp. and Republic Steel Corp. into the nation's second-largest steelmaker. Increased foreign competition is not great enough to overcome the risk of domestic collusion to increase steel prices, Assistant Attorney General Paul McGarth said in ruling on his first major merger since taking over the department's antitrust division two months ago. McGrath told a news conference that lawyers for the two companies have agreed to delay the merger while they consider their next move. In a joint statement issued in Dallas, LTV and Republic said they were "surprised and deeply disappointed." They have the options of dropping the deal, proceeding with it and fighting the department in court, or revising it to meet the government's objections, but McGrath indicated the last course would entail substantial revisions. U I U A PM Daily Classified Bring Results - Phone 764-0557 . 4 t Reagan ''small stick' hurts U.S., prof. says 0 The computing company Majors in. " Computer Science/Math " Business Computer Information Systems * Engineering are invited by the Network Services Division of ADP to' C;areer Pay 84 Come and see who we are, what we do and how we do it. DATE: Saturday, February 18, 1984 TIME: 12:00-4:00 p.m . (Reception following.) PLACE: 175 Jackson Plaza Ann Arbor To reserve space, call Jim Wedemeyer as soon as possible (313) 995-6652 collect. (Continued from Page 1) costly.r LIEBERTHAHL said Reagan's foreign policy has "very little overall coherence" in its substance. But"rhetorical coherence is much more present," he said. He said that behind all the rhetoric, IA I/ II/ )I I If IVIVAIII ' T ' _ . _ ' Reagan has been able to hide a con- fused, reactive foreign policy. Political Science Professor Jarrold Green said that Reagan's Middle East policy typifies his view of the world. Green said that in the Middle East, Reagan is merely responding to the ac- tions of the Soviet Union rather than examining the political dynamics of the region itself. HE SAID Reagan responds to Middle East cries only in the short term. On the topic of superpower relations, Zimmerman predicted that relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union might improve because of Konstintine Chernenko's appointment to Soviet premier. He said, however, that the chance of arms talks between the two super- powers was directly related to how great a threat Reagan's Democratic challenger becomes in 1984. Study i n Italy this Summer BARBIERI CENTER/ROME CAMPUS Sponsored By TRINITY :. 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