4 Page 6 - The Michigan Daily -Tuesday, January 10, 1984 German town wants missile protests ended U.S. task force suggests change mn food progra~m MUTLANGEN, West Germany (AP) - After months of daily blockades of the U.S. Army missile base in Mutlangen, some residents of this sourthern Ger- man town are trying to get anti-nuclear protesters to leave them in peace. "Not only are they blockading the base, but they're laying siege to our town," said Franz Niedermann, who lives a few hundred yards from the en- trance of the base where new U.S. nuclear missiles are stationed. A WEEK-OLD petition drive against the protests has collected more than 100 signatures asking the protesters to go away. Mutlangen, a southern town about an hour's drive from Situttgart, has 5,000 residents. The West Defense Ministry confir- med last month that the first battery of nine medium-range Pershing 2 missiles is ready to be fired on com- mand at Mutlangen. The nine are among 108 Pershing 2 and Cruise missiles West Germany is to receive as part of NATO's plan to deploy 572 new missiles in Western Europe. "We're against the missiles," said Anna Farstl, a resident of Mutlangen. CLASSIC FILM THEATRE AT EMICHIGA IL 3f E BOMB SONLY b ", t~i ILY r 4 1 AL ON DR. STRANGELOVE (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) with THREE STOOGES shorts & FLASH GORDON serial! One Night Only TUESDAY, JAN.10 at the MICHIGAN THEATER 603 E. Liberty St. 7:00 p.m. til.. .. Plus.... FREE *POPCORN ! Plus.... FREE MOVIE POSTER! with each CFT discount admission card purchased (10 admissions for $20) Posters courtesy of CFT and MOVIE POSTER GALLERY * 308/z S. State St. (Above Marty's Men's Fashions) 665-3151 ** ******* "But Mutlangers are against the demonstrators too." HOSTILITY is clearly growing toward the dozen or so protesters cam- ping out in an old chicken coop near the base. The protesters, a changing band of students, vacationers, joblessmand school dropouts who take turns main- taining daily blockades, say they've been threatened, harassed and snubbed by the residents of Mulangen. "The petition is just one sign of growing opposition to us," said Elisabeth Petzold, 29, an out-of-towner who for the last six weeks has taken part in the blockade. THE MOOD is in sharp contrast to the festive atmosphere that prevailed last September when the nation's anti- nuclear groups kicked off their "hot autumn" of protests with a blockade that drew some 5,000 peaceful demon- strators to Mutlangen. Author and Nobel laureate Heinrich Boell, writer Guenter Grass and American peace ac- tivists Daniel Ellsberg and the Rev. Phillip Berrigan were among the demonstrators. Back then, townspeople brought food and drink to the protesters and praised their friendliness. The protesters sang peace songs and handed out flowers. But now, the few remaining protesters say they get daily threats from anonymous callers telling them to leave. A window pane was broken once, and the trash can in the garden outside the chicken coop is routinely overtur- ned. "On Saturday there were seven calls," said one protester, a Mutlangen resident who spoke on condition she not be identified. She says she is snubbed by other townspeople when she goes shopping. WASHINGTON (AP) - A White House task force said in a preliminary report yesterday that it cannot sub- stantiate "allegations of rampant hunger" and recommended that Congress make participation in federal food assistance programs optional for the states. And, it said, "For the vast majority of low-income people, the private and public parts of the income maintenance and food assistance efforts are available, and sufficient for those who take advantage of them." While the report saw no need for major new programs, it made a series of recommendations, including one op- ponents said could change the nature of the food stamp program. The task force, meeting for the first time after seven hearings around the country, quickly approved sections of the report dealing with the definition and extent of hunger - which the report said was impossible to document. It voted 9-3, with one mem- ber absent, to recommend turning federal food assistance programs into optional block grants to the states. "The task force recommends that Congress make participation in existing federal food assistance programs optional for the states," the report said. "States which choose to establish autonomous programs will instead receive one single ap- propriation to fund these programs." That would represent a major change in the giant food stamp program, which generally acts to minimize variations in welfare payments among the states. In states with low cash welfare programs,. poor people now can get larger allot- ments of food stamps. "States or local governments are of- ten better able to identify people and their particular needs than the federal government," the report said. "Yet, under the present system, the federal government must dictate blanket eligibility criteria for all the states." The report also said budget cutbacks initiated by the Reagan administration have not cut food aid to the truly needy. Critics have charged the task force was preparing to exonerate administration policies and resurrect proposals Congress has rejected. The optional program was opposed by organizations representing mayors, counties and governors. It was denoun- ced by Sen. Edward Kennedy, (D-Mass.), who called the report "an insult to every American who has ever visited a soup kitchen." "In its cold, clinical, bureaucratic language, this document, issued in the first days of 1984, has earned a place in George Orwell's vision of the doublespeak of 1984," Kennedy said. "It is a transparent cover-up of the serious and worsening problem of hunger in America. In effect, this commission says to the hungry: 'let them eat block grants.' " Bridge people AP Photo Three of 11 people who are living under the Main street bridge in Houston co'k a meal over an open fire near their makeshift home. The community, which has existed for several months, is one of several temporary encam- pments that have grown up in the Houston area since the days of Tent City. Women Jaycees? High Court to rule I WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court said yesterday it will decide whether states may force the Jaycees, a national organization dedicated to developing leaders, to admit women as full members. The justices agreed to hear an appeal by Minnesota officials, who want to apply the state's law barring discrimination in public accommodations to the Jaycees' membership policy. THE COURT'S decision could lead to the sexual in- tegration of other men-only groups besides the Jaycees, and might affect groups whose member- ships are based on religious belief or national origin. Minnesota's appeal was backed by the National Organization for Women and other feminist groups who say the Jaycees are depriving women "of the advantages provided by the traditional avenues of ... economic and political opportunity." Jaycees lawyers said the "alarming" legal power sought by Minnesota threatens the membership policies of "hundreds of organizations" such as the Knights of Columbus, the Polish Women's Alliance, the Sons of Norway and B'nai B'rith. THE COURT, issuing hundreds of orders as it returned from a four-week recess, also took these ac- tions: * Let stand the Abscam bribery and conspiracy con- viction of former Rep. Frank Thompson (D-N.J.), who after 26 years in Congress is serving a three-year term in federal prison. * Cleared the way for federal prosecutors to bring Rep. George Hanse (R-Idaho) to trial on charges of4 filing false financial disclosure statements with Congress. * Agreed to 'decide, in a case from Ohio, whether people stopped by police for traffic offenses always must be told that anything they say could be used against them, even when the suspected offense is a misdemeanor rather than a felony. New phone system on line for 'U' students, staff 4 (Continued from Page 1) technology at the new Replacement Hospital was one of the major factors that forced the University to examine new phone systems, Plice said. Under the proposed plan, the hospital's new telephone and data transmission systems would be completely installed by the time it opens in August 1985. Other administrators have pushed the new system for the entire Univer- sity, because it offers a more efficient and economical way to carry data at a time when computers are increasingly important, Plice said. The other major factor in the decision to replace the current Bell Centrex System with one that is owned and operated by the University is simple economics. Speaking to the regents in December, Brandon said that the new system would save the University an estimated $500,000 per month over Cen- trex, and the cost of replacing the Un- iversity's 26,000 telephones would be paid back in five to seven years. BRANDON also warned that the breakup of the telecommunications giant AT&T on Jan. 1 will double the University's telephone costs. Under AT&T, the cost of local calls was sub- sidized by the national company's high rates for long distance calls. But since the court-ordered breakup, local and long distance calls will be regulated by different companies, and the Univer- sity and other consumers will have to pay for the local service that long distance calls once subsidized. Brandon also said that it would be cheaper to hook up the entire Univer- sity to a centralized computer system rather than install varied types of equipment that would complicate maintenance procedures with little flexibility for adding new technology. A detailed report on the financial viability of the plan should be released this week, and the regents will review the report at the January meeting. Installation of the system can begin as soon as the University finds a com- pany to provide the equipment, and as soon as final plans are completed. UNIVERSITY officials estimate that construction will begin sometime in August and continue until spring of 1986. Brandon said STC will install the new telephones alongside the old and will not have:to cut service to an office or dorm room while replacing the equipment. STC, which has helped the University of Chicago and Northwestern Univer- sity convert to private systems, has already received $450,000 from the University for its consultation work. Funds for the new system's im- plementation will come out of Univer- sity departments' administrative ser- vices budgets. 'U' may install emergency telephones Iflr()(ILIlilg i I lc \I Ictt-I',.aCkar(I I5(). (Continued from Page 1) project because of the price tag. But Foulke said that since the Univer- sity wants to spend $34 million on a new telephone system, now would be the time to invest in emergency phones. It would "make the University look bad," Foulke said, if it turned down requests for emergency lines while spending a much greater amount of money on other telephones. Foulke's housing security committee also researched emergency systems at other campuses, including Wayne State University and Michigan State Univer- sity, which reported much success with 4 their outdoor telephones. If the Regents approve the Univer- sity's entire telecommunications system package, the emergency phones would be installed between the fall of 1985 and fall of 1986, after work is com- pleted on the Replacement Hospital's system. [h' HEWLETT PACKARD Dance Theatre Studio 711 N. University (near State St.) Ann Arbor Classes in ballet. modern, jazz, tap. <1w a, Daily Classifieds Bring Results--Phone 764-0557 I louch the screen, instead of memorizing complicated commands. That:s how easy it is to use the new Touchscreen Pei sonal Computer from I Iewlett-Packard. It's also ease to see it. Just come visit us. 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