6o Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 22, 1984 Reagan remains loyal to Meese IN BRIEF. WASHINGTON (AP) - The controversies surrounding the nomination of Edwin Meese as at- torney general spawned another congressional in- vestigation yesterday but President Reagan says he wouldn't allow the White House counselor to with- draw his name even if he wanted to. "I would not listen even if he did offer to step aside," Reagan told midwestern reporters in a White House interview Tuesday. The transcript was made available yesterday. Meanwhile, Senate Judiciary Committee members negotiated over the cottents of a letter they are preparing to send to Attorney General William Fren- ch Smith urging him to look into all of Meese's finan- cial dealings revealed during his now-suspended con- firmation hearings. Meese has said that Smith will limit his in- vestigation to a single matter - why Meese failed to list a $15,000 loan from a friend in his financial disclosure statement. Smith's investigation will determine whether he will seek the appointment of a special prosecutor to look deeper into the nominee's background, which could delay the confirmation process for weeks. Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., announced that her House civil service subcommittee is looking ipto circumstances under which the wife of a Meese benefactor obtained her job with the Merit System Protection Board in San Francisco. Meese's primary opponent on the Judiciary panel, Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, (D-Ohio), said senators were negotiating about sending a letter to Smith. Metzenbaum said the letter would "call for the at- torney general to meet his responsibilities" as required by the Ethics in Government Law. The senator said he believed the law is clear and calls for Smith to seek the appointment of a special prosecutor unless he finds the allegations against Meese lack credibility. Reagan was questioned closely about the Meese controversy in his session with reporters. He was asked whether he would seek Meese's withdrawal as a candidate to become the nation's chief law enfor- cement officer. "No, no, because then there would be a cloud over him because he would no longer have the means, or there would no longer be investigations or anything by which he could be cleared," Reagan said. Candidates participate in first MSA debate Dangling diner .AP Photo Just when you thought Michigan had enough greasy spoons, riggers prepare to place a Hudson, Mass. diner aboard a trailer yesterday for transport to Greenfield Village in Dearborn. The diner, built in 1947, comes complete with stools, booths, pots and pans. Daily Classifieds Bring Results - Phone 764-0557 ON 27 MARCH, A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY will interview prospective applicants for positions in the WASHINGTON, D.C. AREA Positions and qualifications are: ANALYSTS - M.A., international relations, area studies, foreign languages; B.A. with overseas working experience or post B.A. edu- cation. . LIBRARIANS - MLS or B.A. Liberal Arts with library experience. GFOGRAPHERS - MS/MA, BS/BA geography/cartography or equivalent. All applicants should possess EXCELLENT WRITING ABILITY, STRONG REPRESENTATIONAL SKILLS, and KNOWLEDGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE. U.S. citizenship required. Starting .date open. Starting salary range: $17,138 - $20,956 depending on education and experience. CONTACT THE PLACEMENT OFFICE, 3200 S.A.B. TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer (Continued from Page 1) candidate, Cheryl Collins, who filled in for RAP's presidential candidate Jim Frego, reiterated his stand that "MSA has no right to be involved in plolitics - the assembly is not a political institution." ANDREW Plevin, presidential candidate of (LMNOP) Let's Make Needs Our Priority, said that the assembly is a political institution. Ron Senkowski candidate for the YOU party said that the assembly should become political by tying renewed student awareness with politics. All five parties voiced their opposition to the proposed student code of non-academic conduct, although the candidates said they would deal with the guidelines differently. PAGE FELT it most important that the assembly concentrate its efforts on preventing the regents from changing their by-laws to allow the code to be passed without MSA's approval. IOU's Weinstein said his party RSG fights t (Continued from Page 1) in April, Gantner said, and will be scrambling for money to cover that ad- ded expense. DURING HER stay in the capitol, Gantner will meet with Democratic Senators Carl Levin and Donald Riegle of Michigan and Representative William Ford (D-Mich.) of the Education and Labor Committee. She also will meet with staff on the Senate Finance Committee and members of the Ways and Means Committee. RSG also decided last night on the location of two ballot booths for next High courCt hears pht of homeless (Continued from Page 1) By "re-enacting the central plight of their life" - living and sleeping in a tent city across the street from the White House - they sought to "touch the compassion of a nation," ACLU counsel Burt Neuborne said. Neuborne argued on behalf of the Community for Creative Non-Violence, a Washington activist group that works with the homeless and destitute. The group challenged National Park Service regulations prohibiting sleeping in Lafayette Square, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, and on the mall area near the Capitol. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled 6-5 that demon- strators have a constitutional right to express themselves by sleeping. The government appealed the case to the Supreme Court. strongly believes the regents have no right to formulate a code if it only applies to students - and if they do students should have more say in the code. IOU would like to see the University's already existing codes be combined into one formal document. RAP candidate Frego voiced his op- position to the code before he left the debate. Frego said that some sort of code is necessay, however, it should not include jurisdiction over the greek system, or the co-ops. These organizations already phavetheir own judicial systems, he said. YOU candidate, Senkowski ex- pressed his opposition to the code based on his party's belief that the guidelines would turn the University into a police force and that students would suffer from double jeopardy under the code because they could, be tried by both a university and civil court simultaneously. The candidates also fielded questions from the audience. ax in capitol week's presidential election. Booths in the Cashier's Office in the LSA building will be open from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. next Thursday and Friday and in the Campus Commons on North Campus from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. Friday. A third place, the location of which is undecided, will be open for voting from non until 8 p.m. Thursday and from noon until6 p.m. Friday. niotes .. Man shot in ankle A 23-year-old man was shot in the ankle Tuesday night while getting out of a car on East Madison street, according to Ann Arbor police. The man was riding in a car driven by his mother at 9:15 p.m. when a group of five men blocked the road and made obscene gestures, said Sgt. arold Tin- sey. When the group refused to move the man got out of his car and one of the group members drew a handgun and shot at him, Tinsey said., The victim, a Mt. Clemens resident, was taken to St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, treated, and released, Tuesday night, Tinsey said. Police are looking for the suspect, he said. Woman raped A man used a gun to force his way in- to a woman's car on the 2600 block of West Liberty Tuesday night and then raped her after driving to Scio Town- ship, Ann Arbor police officials said. After the rape, "which occurred bet- ween 10 and 11 p.m., the suspect drove the woman back to West Liberty and fled, said Sgt. Harold Tinsey. The woman then drove to the police station, Tinsey said. - Randi Harris Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Factions break Beirut cease fire BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon's warring militias ignored a new cease-fire declaration yesterday, sending mortar and shellfire crashing into Christian and Moslem neighborhoods in Beirut and its suburbs. The fighting, which reportedly killed at least one person and wounded three, erupted during the night hours after a nine-day peace conference in Switzerland between leaders of the nation's Christian and Moslem factions ended in failure. President Amin Gemayel met in Paris' with French President Francois Mitterrand to discuss the situation in Lebanon, where France still maintains a peacekeeping force. Neither man commented on their discussions. After nine days of talks mediated by Syria, the faction leaders were only able to come up with an unsigned document that declared Lebanon an Arab entity and called for a ceasefire and setting up a committee to study political reforms. Reagan drops missile sale plan WASHINGTON - President Reagan, facing defeat in Congress, has decided to drop his plan to sell Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to Jordan and Saudi Arabia, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said yesterday. But another Reagan proposal - for a U.S.-armed and equipped Jordanian strike force - may now get through Congress under a compromise worked out with opponents of the arms purchases. Congressional and other sources, who declined to be identified, said the White House gained clearance for the strike force by agreeing to eliminate 58 shoulder-fired Stingers which had been earmarked for it. Speakes said the United States had notified "the appropriate parties," meaning Jordan and Saudi Arabia, about Reagan's decision. "Last night, the president decided to withdraw the proposed sale," Speakes said. He said the decision was made in "consultation with Congress,"and Reagan'sforeign policy advisers. Study says heart surgery often unnecessary, drugs sufficient BOSTON - Approximately 35,000 Americans undergo expensive heart surgery each year when they could be treated with drugs alone, according to a large study published yesterday. The study, conducted by 15 major medical centers across the country, found surgery to bypass heart vessels that are becoming blocked is no more effective at preventing heart attacks and death than are modern drug therapies. "Apparently, in patients with mild (chest pain), regardless of the extent of the disease, surgery doesn't prolong lifespan," said Dr. Bernard Chaitman, a professor of medicine at St. Louis University School of Medicine. Approximately 190,000 to 200,000 heart bypasses will be performed in 1984. About 18 percent of 35,000, of those patients fit the category of the study. Heart bypass surgery costs approximately $25,000 per operation, although the price varies widely depending on the extent of the disease and where the operation is performed. Reagan backs plan to cut deficits WASHINGTON - President Reagan, urging Republicans to "stand together," barnstormed Capitol Hill yesterday on behalf of a GOP plan to cut federal budget deficits and vowed.to veto any tax increases not linked to spending cuts. Reagan made separate appearances before Senate and House Republicans at opposite ends of the Capitol to lobby for the $150 billion deficit-reduction plan negotiated between the House and Senior GOP senators. It was apparent, however, there was not unanimous support for the package among Republicans.Copservativesin particular, are unhappy that the president has agreed to tax increases and cuts i:milita'y spending in an election year. Senate majority Leader Howard Baker (R-Tenn.), predicted there would "be an uphill fight" to pass the compromise plan because it has "enemies on both sides" of the aisle - Republicans and Democrats. The Republican plan faces election-year competition from a Democratic package that would reduce the deficit by $185 billion over three years. The Democrats' proposal would earmark more money than Reagan wants for domestic programs and substantially cut his proposed Pentagon spending increases. Four more men to face jury in Mass. barroom rape case FALL RIVER, Mass. - Four men committed "an explosion of violence and brutality against that small woman," a prosecutor said yesterday in urging a jury to convict the men of gang-raping a woman on a barroom pool table. But defense attorneys argued that the woman was "committed to the path of a lie" when she testified against the men. Jurors are expected to begin deliberating the case today after receiving instructions from Superior Court Judge William Young yesterday afternoon. TWo other men charged in the same incident were convicted of aggravated rape Saturday after a separate trial, and th'ey face possible life terms when they are sentenced tomorrow. The defendants all are Portuguese immigrants. After the earlier convictions, some members of the city's Portuguese community complained that the men were convicted because of their nationality. District Attorney Ronald Pina, a Portuguese-American, rejected the claim of prejudice. 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