4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, January 12, 1984 Dam wants Marines i Beirut WASHINGTON (AP) - Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam, declaring that "now is not the time to flinch," told a Senate committee yesterday that U.S. policy in the Middle East hinges on keeping 1,800 Marines in Lebanon. If congress or further terrorist attacks force a pullout of American troops from Beirut, Dam said, "the result will be that the United States would be back to ground zero in its Middle East policy." Recalling the terrorist bombing that killed 241 U.S. servicemen in Beirut Oct. 23, Dam said, "It would be disasterous if our reaction to such terrorist attacks were to withdraw from the field." Dam testified before the Republican- controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee, whose members are in- creasingly uneasy about keeping U.S. troops in Beirut after the bombing of Marine headquarters near Beirut In- ternational Airport. Sen. Charles Percy (R-Ill.) the com- mittee chairman, called the hearing on President Reagan's policy in Lebanon in advance of Congress' return Jan. 23 from a two-month recess. A major congressional battle over Lebanon - and whether to shorten the Marines' authorized stay there - is expected when the recess ends. Dam said a U.S. withdrawal from the multinational peacekeeping force in Beirut would ruin the chances that Syria might be willing to negotiate a peaceful settlement among warring factions in Lebanon. "If our determination is now seen as flagging, then we can be sure that Syria will turn its back on the path of recon- ciliation and negotiations," he said. If Congress advances the April 1985 deadline for withdrawing the Marines, Dam said, "then Syria would be en- couraged to believe that it can win the game by digging in. . . . Syria might conclude that we are finished in Lebanon and on the way out.". When Congress reacts to public opinion and moves to limit the U.S. military presence in Lebanon, Dam said, "it shows that we don't have the same kind of patience that some of our adversaries and friends have in the Middle East." Under questioning, the State Depar- tment official said Syrian forces would not necessarily have to pull out of nor- thern Lebanon for U.S. Marines to come home, although a major goal of U.S. policy has been the withdrawal of all foreign troops. "We have not said that all foreign forces have to come out for the Marines to come out," Dam said, adding that a plan for a Syria pullout would be adequate if the United States were assured it would be carried out. Dam reported "slow and tortuous" progress in pulling together various religious factions in Lebanon, and said the United States supports no par- ticular faction or religious community. "But we are not neutral in our sup- port of the legitimate government of Lebanon," he said. Dam disclosed that the Lebanese government had requested a substan- tial increase in U.S. military aid, and said that "we are sympathetic to the idea." He said the administration has not agreed on a specific request to submit to Congress. Percy urged that U.S. allies be per- suaded to rotate their forces with the Marines so they and French peacekeeping troops no longer would stand alone as targets of Syrian and Moslem factions in Lebanon. State panel approves high school guidelines LANSING (UPI) - The State Board of Education voted unanimously yesterday to see that Michigan students spend more time in school and meet their requirements for graduation And the Board made clear - in adop- ting a "blueprint" for better schools - that it is willing to breach Michigan's strict "local control" tradition in order to assure that high school diplomas go only to those with a well-rounded basic education. The blueprint calls on the Legislature to require a 200-day school year, in- cluding at least 190 days of instruction and 10 days for record keeping and. teacher development, to be phased in over a four-year period. The current requirement is 180 days. The following high school graduation requirments are recommended: Four years of communication skills, two years of math, two years of science, three years of social studies, one year of health or physical education, one semester of computer science and two years of foreign language, fine arts or vocational education. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports U.S. pilot killed near Nicaragua WASHINGTON-A U.S. Army helicopter pilot was killed by hostile fire "from the direction of the Nicaraguan border" after his chopper made a for- ced landing in Honduras, the Pentagon announced yesterday. Two Army engineers, who were passengers in the downed OH-58 obser- vation helicopter, were taken to a U.S. hospital at Palmerola Air Base in Honduras, where they were treated and released, said Col. Robert O'Brien, a Pentagon spokesman. "A U.S. Army OH-58 helicopter participating in Big Pine II made a forced landing on a Honduran road near the Nicaraguan border at 9:30 a.m. EST. "The helicopter was on routine flight from San Lorenzo to Aguacate in support of exercise engineering activities," O'Brien said. None of the three U.S. Army men was identified. Ziyang rejects anti-Soviet pact WASHINGTON-Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang yesterday ruled out forming a comprehensive anti-Soviet strategic partnership with the United States, declaring China and the United States have too many foreign policy dif- ferences. Zhao cited a list of those differences - from the U.S. invasion of Grenada to U.S. policies on the developing Third World - and said: "In these circum- stances it is therefore impossible to establish any comprehensive strategic partnership." He reassured China's independent foreign policy and said his country adopts its positions on world issues case-by-case and "on their own merits." He also said China has not been asked and therefore has not considered taking part in a four-way conference with the United States, North and South Korea to help stabilize the volatile korean peninsula and help bring about the reunification of the two Koreas. He said China would support a three-way U.S.-Korean conference of the kind South Korea has apparently already rejected. The Seoul government Wednesday branded North Korea's proposal for such a conference "insin- cere." Environmentalists condemn Supreme Court oil lease ruling WASHINGTON- The Supreme Court, in ruling environmentalists said was "devastating," gave the government a free hand yesterday to sell oil and gas leases beyond three miles of the nation's coasts. The court, by a 5-4 vote; said the Reagan administration may sell high- priced oil-exploration leases off the California coast without determining whether the sales endanger the state's environmental safety. In the oil leasing case, the high court reversed a 1982 federal appeals court ruling that then-Interior Secretary James Watt violated a federal law in ac- cepting $220 million in bids in mid-1981 for 29 tracts of land off the central California coast. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals barred Watt from leasing the land until he determined the sale is consistent "to the maximum extent prac- ticable" with California's coastal zone management plan. But Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing for the court yesterday, said Congress intended that any such consistency review be postponed until after the leases are sold. In a strongly worded dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens said, "Congress unmistakably rejected the position embraced by the majority today. Leasing sets into motion a chain of events designed and intended to lead to exploration and development." Beirut fighting siows peace talks BEIRUT, LEBANON-Heavy fighting erupted yesterday among Lebanon's warring factions, complicating efforts by U.S. Middle East envoy Donald Rumsfeld and Saudi Arabia to bring peace to the capital. As Rumsfeld returned from talks with Israeli leaders in Jerusalem, fighting raged near the U.S. Marine base and Druze Moslem gunmen later broke a brief truce in the mountains overlooking Beirut, state-run Beirut radio said. At least one person was reported killed, the radio said. A small bomb exploded in a garage 50 yards from the French Embassy in West Beirut, a French spokesman said. The blast followed two days of at- tacks on the French in which one French soldier died. A U.S. Marine was killed on Sunday. Rumsfeld, after talks with Lebanese leaders, hoped to visit Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam to discuss the lack of progress in agreeing on a Saudi-inspired security plan for Beirut, Lebanon's official National News Agency said. Reagan hesitant on new tax hikes WASHINGTON-President Reagan is leaning against any new taxes in his 1985 budget and may decide to have a bipartisan national commission tackle the problem of huge deficits, an administration official said yesterday. But creating a commission on taxes and the looming $200 billion federal deficit is only one of the options Reagan is considering, an aide said. "It may not fly," he said. Deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said the president would like to reach a decision by the end of the week on the tax question. Martin Feldstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and some other aides are pushing for a $50 billion contingency tax tied to com- parable cuts in federal spending. "The President's preference is not to rdise taxes," one aide said. "The burden of proof is on those who want,to." Bulgarian jetliner crashes killing all 50 passengers SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - A Bulgarian jetliner crashed short of the runway while trying to land in snow and fog at the capital's airport. All 50 people aboard were killed, the state-run news agency BTA said yesterday. THE BALKAN Airlines TU-134 crashed Tuesday evening at the end of a scheduled flight of nearly three hours from East Berlin, BTA said. Western diplomats said the passengers were Bulgarians, East Germans and Turks. It was believed to be the worst air disaster in this eastern European nation since the crash of a Balkan TU- 134 on a flight from Sofia to Warsaw in March, 1978, killed 73 people.j EAST GERMANY'S official news agency ADN said seven of those on board are East German while a Turkish foreign ministry statement released in Ankara said nine others - seven men and two women - were Turks. There was no official Bulgarian breakdown on the nationality of the dead, but a British diplomat stationed in Sofia said, "Balkan Airlines told us that the passengers were Bulgarians, East Germans and Turks." Both he and an American diplomat cited reports reaching their embassies saying that the wreck of the plane was about two miles short of the landing strip at Sofia's Vrajdebna Airport, on the city's eastern outskirts. The diplomats, who asked for anonymnity, also said there were un- confirmed reports of an explosion on board just moments before the crash. 4 Horsing around AP Photo Inebriated cowboys have always been a terror in saloons, but a drunken cowboy on a horse can be grounds for arrest. Will Hammet of Stockton, California, charged with drunken horseback riding opposes the charge asking "since when has it become illegal for a man to ride his horse into town and have a drink?" 14 ' plant department buys breathalyzer RUSH PHI SIGMA KAPPA Need a ride, Call 663-0385 (Continued from Page 1) THE PLANT operations department is the only University unit that uses the breathalyzer machine. Sate Police Trooper Dwayne Brantley said he wasn't aware of any businesses in the area that use the device, but added that "it's perfectly legal for employers to use it." Leaders of the employees' union, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), will not comment on the new breathalyzer tests until union members and University officials discuss the situation, according to Dwight Newman, president of AFSCME Local 1583. Maylou Poage, a building main- tenance employee, said she has worked for the University for three years and knows of no instances of workers drinking on the job. "The supervisors) make it very clear to us that we are for- bidden to drink on University grounds and will be fired it caught doing so," she said. I 'U' reissues guidelines on alcohol (Continued from Page 1) alcohol task force, would like to see the guidelines become part of a "Univer- sity-wide statement on the consumption of alcohol, similar to the sexual harassment campaign" in the past. The sexual harassment issue received extensive publicity on campus - defining sexual harassment, setting up channels for reporting harassers, and supplying students and staff with information on the procedures and con- sequences for dealing with sexual harassment. Levy hopes the importan- ce of responsible consumption will be as well-publicized. "My goal is a statement at the pr- sidential level on the consumption of alcohol on campus by students and staff," said Levy. He said that the definition of acceptable drinking and consequences for abuse should be spelled out at the administration level. UNTIL THE guidelines were put in writing this winter, "it was hard to follow rules that you've never been told" said Levy. "It's a reasonable attempt by the Housing Office to make the policy less confusing," said Mandy Bratton, the building director at Couzens. "It may be revised again when students learn to get around the rules, though." One resident adviser at West Quad who asked not to be identified, agreed that the guidelines made the rules on drinking "more explicit" and would "hopefully take the emphasis off alcohol and make dancing or the theme of a party the center of attention." Another RA who requested anonymity said the guidelines would provide a change in attitudes towards drinking, but that there may be a problem trying to enforce them in mid- year. He also said that it may destroy the relationship between the residents and the staff. "WE LIKE to be viewed as peers, not as police," he said. The student reaction was not as favorable to the guidelines. South Quad Dorm Council President Ni gel Hines said that many of the social activities around his dormitory involve drinking, and he was concerned about the possible effects of a crackdown by resident staff. "I think it's a little bit drastic," he said. "I don't think alcohol should be the mainstay of the party, but I think you're going to kill a lot of dorm ac- tivities" with strict enforcement. "As long as the drinking age is 21 there's going-to be some conflict," ad- ded Alice Lloyd Dorm Government President Adam Mansky. He said the major impact at Alice Lloyd would come at the beginning of the year when residents attend large parties in order to meet each other. 4 s'. POIce notes. Gunmen take radio, cash Residents at a home on the 2900 block of Verle were robbed at gunpoint about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday by two men who demanded money, guns and marijuana,. Ann Arbor police said yesterday. The two men got away with an AM/FM radio and a small amount of cash from the house. One of the suspects pointed a gun at the 21-year-old resident who answered the knock at the door ordering him and another occupant to lie face down on the kitchen floor. 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