4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 1, 1984 City objects to high fire costs By COLIN ZICK Ann Arbor city officials filed an ap- peal in the state Supreme Court last week to try to overturn a lower court decision that would require the city to foot a nearly $500,000 bill for the University's fire protection costs. Since 1977 the state of Michigan has reimbursed the city's fire protection costs for public universities, but Gov. William Milliken cut those funds for that year in 1980. AND ALTHOUGH Washtenaw Coun- ty Circuit Court Judge Ross Campbell ordered the state to reimburse Ann Ar- bor $468,000 for 1980 fire costs to the University, that decision was overtur- ned this month by the Michigan Court of Appeals. The city's appeal to the Supreme Court is based on a tax amendment ap- proved by voters in 1978 that prohibits the state from reducing funds from existing municipal services. It will probably take .at least nine months before the Suprememe Court will decide whether to consider the ap- peal, said City Attorney Bruce Laidlaw. The state has paid the University's fire protections costs since Miliken's 1980 veto, said Laidlaw. Jack Weidenbach, the University's director of Business Operations said he supports the city's appeal because the state should pay fire protection costs for public universities. Two drop out as .Hart triumphs From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - Sen. Gary Hart's triumph in the New Hampshire presidential primary throws the political spotlight onto a self- proclaimed "new ideas" candidate from the West who wants the Navy to buy smaller ships, urges overhauling Medicare, and supports busing but op- poses quotas for racial balance. "The ideal of the Democratic Party is new ideas," Hart said at a victory rally in Manchester, N.H., after Tuesday's balloting. "FDR proved it with the New Deal, JFK proved it with the New Fron- tier. We will prove it with a New Democracy in 1984." HART'S UPSET victory in the New Hampshire primary may have changed the outlook in Michigan, which previously had been viewed as locked up for Walter Mondale. Mark Blumenthal, a University student who is coordinating Hart's Michigan campaign, said the big vic- tory has fired up the senator's backers here. But he said Michigan still may not be a high priority. U.S. Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) pulled all of his paid staff out of Michigan about three weeks ago due to money problems, that decision may not be at least partially reversed, Rep. Richard Fitzpatrick said. ELLEN GLOBOKAR, Mondale's coordinator in Michigan, said she still expects to do "very well." She said the Hart upset may rally complacent Mon- dale backers in this state. Zolton Ferency, who is supporting Jackson, said the Qutcome "augurs well" for his man. Former Sen. George McGovern said he would follow the election calendar into Massachusetts. Former Florida Gov. Reubin Askew finished last and said he would decide by today whether to stay in the race. The first-in-the-nation New Ham- pshire primary was the last hurrah for Sen. Alan Cranston of California who dropped out of the race yesterday. Telling a news conference in Concord, N.H., "I know the difference between reality and dreams.' "I can not hide my disappointment that I won't be the Democratic nominee for president," the 69-year-old Cranston said. South Carolina Sen. Ernest Hollings, who finished sixth in the New Hapshire South Carolina Sen. Ernest Holling, who finished sixth in the New Ham- pshire primary, plans to announce today he is withdrawing from the race for the Democratic president nomination, a campaign aide said yesterday.. The campaign official, who spoke on the condition he not be identified, said money was the main reason for the decision. Hollings sank most of his financial resources into the New Ham- pshire primary, there he received 4 percent of the vote in the eight-man field. Cranston ... bows out IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Trade deficit hits record high WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit hit a record $9.5 billion in January in what one analyst called an "economic disaster" as a flood of foreign im- ports and increased demand for oil darkened an already gloomy trading picture. Both government and private economists said yesterday's bad news blostered their fears that this year's red ink will easily top $100 billion, sur- passing last year's trade deficit of $69.4 billion. The poor foreign trade situation, which is sure to lend support to growing protectionist moves in Congress, contrasted with some bright economics news as the government's main gauge of future economic activity showed a strong increase.. The Index of Leading Economic Indicators rose 1.1 percent in its best showing in three months, prompting presidential spokesman Larry Speakes to predict "hearty economic growth in the months ahead." But economists said the U.S. recovery from the 1981-82 recession was being held down more and more by the foreign trade deficit. David Ernst, a trade analyst with Evans Economics, said the deteriorating trade picture cost the United States between 1.2 million and 1.5 million jobs last year. Gemayel meets Assad in Syria BEIRUT, Lebanon - President Amin Gemayel met in Damascus yester- day with President Hafez Assad of Syria for talks that could determine the future of Gemayel's government, which is facing a strong challenge from Syrian-supported rebels in Lebanon. Gemayel immediately had a private meeting with Assad and the Syrian. president then gave a banquet for Gemayel at the Presidential Palace. No statements were issued on the progress of the talks. Beirut newspapers said Gemayel's hurried trip to Syria underscored his resolve to scrap Lebanaon's troop withdrawal pact with Israel in exchange for a settlement with Syrian-backed Druse and Shiite Moslem opponents of his regime. U.S. Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger, meanwhile, visited American warships off Beirut, as a new round of shelling hit the Lebanese capital. In New York, the United Nations Security Council was scheduled to meet to discuss the situation in Lebanon and consider a French resolution for a U.N. peacekeeping force in Beirut following the-withdrawal of American, Mtalian and British troops from the Lebanese capital. Iran-Iraq clash kills hundreds NICOSIA, Cyprus - Iran-claimed it beat back an Iraqi counterattack aimed at recapturing Majnoon Island in the marshes of southern Iraq yesterday, leaving "hundreds of Iraqi dead and wounded." An Iraqi commander said the island was under Iranian control, but said he believed Iran's military supply line had been cut off. Iraqi military com- muniques made no mention of fighting near Majnoon. Iran also issued two separate statements warning the United States to stay away from the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the non-communist world's oil passes. One statement called U.S. military presence in the gulf "an act of aggression and blackmail." In fighting in the southern sector, Iran said it shelled Iraq's second largest city of Basra and four small border towns, killing seven Iraqi civilians. Iraq said its helicopter gunships destroyed 5 Iranian boats in rivers and marshes in the same area. Navy officials worried about Libya's remote-controlled boats WASHINGTON - Libya has obtained a fleet of small, remotely controlled boats that could be packed with explosives and sent at high speeds against targets such as U.S. warships, the Navy's intelligence chief says. Rear Adm. John Butts reported that the boats, although short in range, have "potential for use in situations like we face in Lebanon," where the United States has massed more than 20 ships close to that country's coast. U.S. officials have been on alert for some time to the possibility of some form of attack against those ships by anti-U.S. Moslems. Although Butss did not mention it in his report to the House Armed Ser- vices Committee on Tuesday. such drone boats also could represent a threat to U.S. warships that sail into the gulf of Sidra, an area on the Mediterranean Sea that has been confrontations between the United States and Libya. In his discussion of the growth of Libya's sea power, Butts said the North African Arab country has "obtained a remotely controlled explosive boat system consisting of 30-knot drone boats packed with high explosives con- trolled from a cabin cruiser-type craft." He added that they have obtained "more than 50" of these boats. Killer storm buries cities A superstorm that buried some cities under almost 3 feet of snow and killed 49 people fired another broadside at the Northeast as it headed out of the country yesterday, leaving new snowfall records even in the Snow Belt. A dozen Deep South cities from San Angelo, Texas, to Mobile, Ala., repor- ted record low temperatures for the date and light snow fell in Atlanta for a second day. Across the Midwest into western New York, many travelers remained stranded as snowplow operators jousted with snow blown into drifts as high as 10 feet in Illinois. In western New York, State Trooper W.M. Ryan said a plow would open a road and an hour later it would be covered again with deep snow. "It's a little like pushing an ocean back with a teaspoon," Ryan said Up to 31.4 inches of snow had collected in the Buffalo, N.Y., suburb of north Tonawanda, with 26.9 inches at Buffalo International Airport and more on the way. Ashtabula, Ohio, got 26 inches from the storm. 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