Ninety-four Years off Editorial Freedom St Wan 1 IaiQ Flux Snow flurries expected this mor- ning, but the sun should begin peeking through by noon. Two to four inches of snow expected, with temperatures in the mid-teens. I. XCIV-No. 82 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, January 10, 1984 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages Jackson stresses minority voters at Detroit rally Peace halt a talks amid By NEIL CHASE Special to the Daily DETROIT - Attacking big business and boosting his voter registration drive, The Rev. Jesse Jackson rolled his two-month old presidential cam- paign in to town Sunday to the greetings of more than 6,500 supporters. Although the crowd at The University of Detroit's Calihan Hall was the largest his campaign has seen, Jackson appeared tired and at times uncharac- teristically subdued - due to a hectic schedule following his recent trip to Syria. THAT, however, did not stop an en- thusiastic crowd from erupting into a standing ovation at almost every point Jackson made. Jackson focused much of his speech on the "rainbow coalition" of blacks, Hispanics, and women he hopes will push Reagan out of office, even if it doesn't propel him to the presidency. Voter registration is the key to suc- cess, he said. "WHEN YOU consider that Reagan won, in 1981, eight southern states by 182,000 votes when there were three million unregistered blacks, the boats at the bottom can make a difference," Jackson said referring to the minorities and poor who do not vote. "If we change our minds, we can retire the oppressive Reagan regime," Jackson told the spirited crowd. "We have the power." AND TO prove the point, Jackson asked unregistered voters to come forth and register. 100 people complied at the close of the meeting. Jackson assailed Reagan's corporate tax reductions and blamed the national deficit on large companies who he said don't pay their fair share of taxes. "Ronald Reagan gave corporations another $750 billion tax break," Jackson said. "Rather than take the profits and reinvest in our community, reindustrialize our economy, and reclaim our work force, they replaced people with machines. "We can no longer allow corporate America to tell us we're unemployed See WEARY, Page 5 Lebanese fighting Daily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER Presidential candidate Jesse Jackson embraces a singer who performed during his rally Sunday at the University of Detroit's Calihan Hall. Jackson enjoyed the music despite being worn out after his journey to Syria. 'U' m ay change p hone system By JACKIE YOUNG A new telephone system the University hopes to in- stall by 1986 won't free students from trudging through the snow to classes, but it'll come close. If the regents approve the proposed $34 million - telephone system at this month's meeting, the University will get much more than high-quality voice transmission, call waiting, and call forwarding. The new phone lines could also carry data and even video signals, according to Samuel Plice, director of University administrative systems and financial analysis. SINCE THE new wiring includes a computer jack in every University office and dorm room, students could set up computer terminals in their own rooms and plug into the University computer center's data base and other University buildings with computer terminals. Students could also complete homework assign- ments with the aid of the new system or use their own computers plugged into the system to communicate with their professor's computer bases,Plice said. And students might even be able to talk through com- puters to their professors face-to-face - each dorm will have the equipment to receive and transmit two- way video signals. University administrators would benefit from the new system, because it can increase office com- munication and data sharing, said Paul Brandon, president of the California-based Systems Telecom- munications Corporation (STC), which the Univer- sity hired last June to study the benefits of a new phone system. Microwave technology would link the Ann Arbor campus to campuses in Flint and Dear- born, while another part of the system would permit computer monitoring of University heating and cooling systems, Brandon said. THE NEED FOR this more complicated See NEW PHONE, Page 6 From AP and UPI - BEIRUT, Lebanon - Gunmen fired a rocket-propelled grenade and automatic rifles at a guard post outside the French military headquarters yesterday, killing one French paratrooper and wounding two others. French spokesman Lt. Col. Philipe de Longeaux said the gunmen fired from a side street at the post in front of the Residence de Pins, once home to Fran- ce's ambassadors and now headquar- ters of the 2,000-man French contingent of the multinational force in Lebanon. NO GROUP immediately claimed responsibility. DeLongeaux said the attackers opened fire at 12:30 p.m. EST with a B-7 rocket- propelled grenade and automatic rifles. He refused to say if French troops fired back. The death was the 83rd French fatality in Beirut since the deployment of the four-nation multinational force in September 1982. THE ATTACK came one day after the American contingent suffered its 258th death in a grenade and small ar- ms attack on U.S. Marines as they disembarked from a helicopter at a seafront landing pad in west Beirut. Only five minutes after the assault on the French post, another blast rocked predominantly Moslem west Beirut.- Police said a rocket-propelled grenade exploded near a clinic in the Sanayea neighborhood about 300 yards from Prime MinisteraShafik Wazzan's office, but caused no damage or casualties. Meanwhile, the foreign ministers of Syria, Lebanon and Saudia Arabia broke off a two-day conference in Riyadh without announcing the fate of the Saudi-mediated security plan to seperate Lebanon's warring factions. IN RIYADH, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al Faisal said the meetings would be resumed at the Jan. 16 Islamic Con- ference Organization meetings in Morocco, Saudi radio said. "Ministers will brief their gover- nments on the ,outcome of the talks in Riyadh," Saud Al Faisal said without further comment, Saudi radio said. Beirut radio termed the outcome "con- fusing. The state radio said "the talks were blocked by the May 17 agreement that Israel and America refuse to change." Israel has demanded implementation of the agreement it signed with Lebanon, while Syria demands its can- cellation. THE SECURITY plan called for a disengagement of warring Christian and Moslem militias in and around Beirut, to be replaced in some areas by police and army patrols. During the day, Lebanese soldiers fought sporadically with Syrian-backed Druze Moslem rebels in the mountains just southeast of the capital and the Kharoub region 24 miles south of Beirut. In other violence, a stick of dynamite was thrown at a store in the commer- cial heart of west Beirut and sporadic sectarian fighting flared in the moun- tains outside the capital. An Israeli soldier was wounded in an ambush in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, the latest in a series of nearly daily attacks on the Jewish state's oc- cupation army. In the capital, American forces took extra precautions after suffering their first death of 1984 - the 258th U.S. peacekeeper killed since the Marines arrived in Lebanon in September 1982. SEmergency phones planned By MARISA BROCK When the regents consider plans for a new Univer- sity telephone system this month, they'll also hear about some new phones that may cut crime on cam- pus. Under the plan, the University would install 50 emergency telephones on Central Campus, North Campus, the hill area, the athletic facilities, and the Medical Center that can be used to report assaults or other emergencies to campus security, said David Foulke, assistant housing director. FOULKE AND a committee of students and University staff members have estimated that the outdoor pole-mounted telephones will cost between $60,000 and $100,000 to install. In the past, the University has rejected several student proposals for an emergency phone system. While some administrators worried that the telephones would be vandalized, others rejected the See 'U', Page 6 Council rejects By TRACEY MILLER Ann Arbor City Council steered clear of international politics last night by ignoring one proposal to take a stand on the Middle East conflict and voting down a second. With no support from. any member of the council, a resolution sponsored by People for the Reassessment of Aid to Israel (PRAI) practically lost its bid to appear on the city election ballot in April. PRAI member Irene Rasmussen announced at last night's meeting that the group had collected 5,005 signatures in sup- port of the resolution - enough to place it on the ballot as a charter amendment without the approval of the council. : PRAI officials last week said they would rather work through the council because they would prefer to see the proposal on the ballot in ordinance form, which only the council can do. The proposal reads: "The people of the city of Ann Arbor urge the United States Government to withhold foreign economic aid designated for Israel by an amount equivalent to that which Israel spends to retain, settle and administer the Arab territories occupied in and after 1967." MEMBERS OF the council have shied away from the proposal, many sharing the sentiments of Mayor Louis Belcher, who said, "It is not our job as the Ann Arbor City VCouncil to sort out problems in the Middle East. This body is not able and it is not our charge." PRAI members declined comment on the future of the proposal. Councilman Raphael Ezekiel (D-3rd Ward) proposed his own resolution addressing the Mideast issue, but council defeated the measure 6-4. EZEKIEL'S PROPOSAL stated that the Middle Past crisis lideast proposal "is a conflict between Israel and the Arab communities" which was caused by more than one thing. Ezekiel listed several factors contributing to the conflict and said "violence should not be a means to end it:" Ezekial's proposal would have been put in letter form and sent to the Secretary of State of the United States if passed. Although the issue of the city's homeless shelter was taken off the agenda of the meeting, many members of St. Nicholas's Church appeared to support their president, Nicholas Raphael. ST NICHOLAS, which recently opposed the location of the proposed shelter, which is located directly behind the church at 415 N. Fourth Avenue, expressed concern for their parishoner's safety. "What you're dealing with is bad planning," Raphael said. "It is obvious that they (the commission for finding a city homeless shelter) have done no work." Councilman Larry Hunter (D-1st Ward), a commission member, responded that "A lot of people are operating off their guts instead of their brains." HUNTER DID acknowledge that there may be an added problem of security at the church and said "the decision regarding the shelter would be made with the approval of the entire community. "If everything is approved," added Hun- ter, "it's possible that the shelter would open by March 31." Street person Chris Eggleston-said the shelter is "simply a start at making street people a part of society." The council also approved new liquor licenses for The Moveable Feast located at 326 W. Liberty, the Raja Rani at 400 S. Division, and the Kerrytown Restaurants at 407 N. Fif- th. Snow w onderDaily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER University employee Jim Martin cleans the snow off his car yesterday after leaving work at the Law Quad. TODAY- Horse sense TRUE TO HER character of Miss Kitty on the television series Gunsmoke, Actress Amanda Blake is asking for Bad habits made good THE KEY TO quitting smoking may be to get your nicotine by chewing gum, a group of British scientists has found. Smokers given nicotine gum by their doctors were twice as likely to stop smoking than those who were just advised to quit. Aemricans, however, can't get their hands on the wondercure because the Food and Drug Ad- ministration has not vet finished assessing its safety or ef- smoking. So in the near future your doctor could be promoting the same habit your dentist has been trying to rid you of. ThP Onilr nlm nnqao berating the "pernicious habit" of women's smoking with a stamp of disapproval. * 1979 - A report submitted to Housing Director Robert Hughes by a group of students and administrators recom- mended that housing rates for single students increase an average of 6.89 percent of $141.21 per student. " 1982 - Because of a "severe" cash shortage, Gov. James Blanchard said that $500 million in January and February aid payments to state schools - including $26 million to the University - would be held to keep the state deficit from growing. I I i