Govern4 federal From AP and UPI GREENVILLE, N.C. - The gover- nors of both Carolinas appealed' for federal aid yesterday as the mighty storm system that ravaged the east coast from Georgia to New England ,;and claimed at least 73 lives marched ouit to sea. The storm system spawned more than two dozen tornadoes in the Carolinas Wednesday, sent near- hurricane force winds slamming into the New Jersey shore and dumped 21/2 feet of snow in New Englantl Thursday, knocking out power to 1 million people in the biggest blackout in 20 years. OFFICIALS said at least 44 people perished in the North Carolina twisters and another 15 died in South Carolina as the tornadoes cut a 50-mile-wide swath through 300 miles of the two states. "This is the worst disaster I have ever seen in my life," said North Uarolina Gov. James Hunt as he sur- veyed the wreckage. "I expect the -damage will be in the billions of dollars." , Hunt declared 17 counties of eastern North Carolina as disaster areas and .hwas preparing an application for federal disaster assistance. GOV. DICK Riley of South Carolina made a formal request to -the White -House yesterday afternoon for disaster -aid for six counties. - At the White House, presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said federal -officials were "working around the clock" to help the states survey the, }.damage and prepare the paperwork. "The president is being kept updated and will act promptly on the disaster :requests when they are received," -Speakes said. The Michigan Daily - Saturday, March 31, 1984 - Page 5 ors appeal for emergency aid 'This is the worst disaster I have ever seen in my life,' - North Carolina Gov. James Hunt Mood / SURVIVORS started cleaning up, buoyed by private donations and the promise of federal aid. Some 200 volun- teers worked at Arden, S.C., where eight people were killed and 153 in- jured. "These people are furnishing their own saws, their own equipment and their own trucks," said town clerk William Ford. "You don't know how close a community is until something like this happens." Eric Norwood of Scotland Memorial Hospital in Laurinburg, N.C., praised passersby and people who suffered losses of their own - but helped others. "THERE WERE people who were passersby and who were amazing," he said. "They were picking up babies out of the mud and transporting them to the hospital." "There were others who had lost their loved ones, yet they went to the rescue of others. A lot of people rolled up their sleeves and made the difference," said Norwood. Another 14 people died in the wintry blast that lashed the coast with 70-mph winds that reduced sections of the famed Atlantic City, N.J., boardwalk to splinters and flooded coastal towns as far north as Connecticut, forcing thousands of shoreline residents to flee. SNOWFALL diminished but gale for- ce winds continued to beat against the Northeast shoreline and travelers' ad- visories for slippery roads were posted throughout New England and into New New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, who had declared a limited state of emergency in parts of eight counties, surveyed the beachfront damage yesterday and said, "This looks very bad." Mayor Louis Sodano estimated damage in Monmouth Beach, N.J., at up to $12 million and Cecile Norton, mayor of neighboring Sea Bright, put the damge in her town at $10 million. In Connecticut, Fire Marshall Peter Phelan said officials were checking Milford's 14 miles of coast to assess the damage. In Ocean City, Md., which was poun- ded by 15-foot waves, damage was estimated at $50 million. Who, me? The "beware of the dog" sign is hardly necessary as1 plates on State Street yesterday afternoon. AP Photo this german shepard guards over a car with WUOM radio station Ezekiel defends national issues (Continued from Page 1) dress local as well as some national problems, Ezekiel says. He points to his recent resolution to increase police foot patrols on campus to cut down on rapes and break-ins as one example of his commitment to local concerns. Last year, however, Ezekiel spon- sored a resolution asking Council to op- pose the U.S. invasion of Grenada which failed. Middleton says it's impossible for Council to take on national issues. "You can only address so many problems," she says. Problems such as the national defense or conflict in the Middle East should be left to the federal gover- nment. EZEKIEL contends such crucial issues cannot be ignored at a local level which he says is Council's usual ap- proach. Despite their differences on which areas Council should focus, the can- didates both support a shelter for the city's homeless. "I think the majority of the people... fall through the cracks," says Mid- dleton, 47, a homemaker who has been active in community organizations and the Republican party. MIDDLETON says she supports the city's arms-length approach to suppor- ting a homeless shelter. While the city is considering funding a downpayment for an old church on West Huron Street which would convert into a shelter, a local non-profit organization would run the daily operations of the shelter., Keeping some distance from the project "releases the city from any liability," says Middleton. Increasing human services, such as the homeless shelter, is Ezekiel's primary concern. "The city must con- tinue to play a thoughful role in human services, helping to fill the gaps caused by federal aid cuts and the recession," he says. WHILE COUNCIL Democrats have traditionally pitted their concern for human services against GOP mem- bers' emphasis on business, Middleton stresses that she is also concerned about the welfare of Ann Arbor's homeless. "I don't think any one party has a monopoly on human services," she says. But like traditional party battles, Ezekiel believes the city has expanded too rapidly and he is pushing to slow that growth. "Development in Ann Ar- bor is too heavily influenced by a few impulsive men," he says. Middleton admits she is "definitely more pro-business" than Ezekiel but says that she would not encourage city expansion simply to increase the tax base. dCandidates favor homeless shelter (Continued from Page 1) ensure the safety of bicycle riders. Un- der the proposal, taxes would only rise by $3.60 per household, McNabb says. Although both candidates are in favor of a city-funded shelter for Ann Arbor's homeless, McNabb says that it is an "effectively small issue' that has been "blown out of proportion" by Council members. AND JERNIGAN stresses that the city should only help with payments on the building without ;being the (till owners. Council members are ex- pected to decidet at their next meeting whether to provide the down payment on an old church, purchased by a local non-profit group, planned to be conver- ted into a shelter for the city's homeless. - Police security is also a concern for McNabb who says he would increase Night Watch program to help reduce the number of rapes and crimes in Ann Arbor. High rental rates and property taxes are problems McNabb says he would encourage Council to address. Because the number of students attending the University has decreased over the past several years, higher vacancy rates in campus property have forced rental rates up. Although Jernigan recognizes that problem he says Democratic Coun- cilmembers have not "come up with any idea about how they're going to reduce it." French complete Beirut pullout Jernigan ... supportshomeless shelter Tomorrow: Profiles of Fifth Ward candidates, ballot proposals, and information on where students can vote. Salvadoran army changes tactics SAN MIGUEL, El Salvador (AP) - The Salvadoran army on the hard- pressed eastern front is abandoning the small-unit tactics pushed by U.S. ad- visers and trying its own strategy against leftist guerrillas. It is getting help from U.S. Air Force planes flying reconnaissance missions from bases in Honduras. WHEN U.S. special Forces advisors began training Salvadoran troops in the San Miguel area more than a year ago, they molded them into 350-man hunter battalions. But now the regional commander, Lt. Col. Domingo Monterrosa, has concen- trated his troops into larger, hard- hitting units backed by increased air power to take on large rebel bands. With more than 7,000 troops under his command, Monterrosa reorganized all forces early this year in the eastern provinces into 80-man units. He said in- creased guerrilla strength in the area forced him to use bigger battalions. U.S. INTELLIGENCE estimates have put the guerrillas operating in Monterrosa's jurisdiction at3,000, but BEIRUT, Lebanon, (UPI) - French peace-keeping troops abandoned their last guard posts between Beirut's warring Christian and Moslem militias yesterday and boarded ships for home with the crash of mortar fire echoing around them. The mortar barrage near the port in Christian east Beirut came as renewed fighting erupted between Christian and Moslem militias east of the capital, threatening a fragile cease-fire negotiated only Thursday night. FRANCE'S contingent of 1,250 soldiers, the last of the multinational peace-keeping force that included U.S., Italian and British troops, began its withdrawal from the capital last weekend. U.S., Italian and British peace-keeping troops left Beirut last month. The French troop withdrawal was to be completed today when the remaining 500 soldiers sail for home. Forty lightly armed French cease-fire monitors were staying behind in the city. Witnesses said about a dozen mortar shells smashed into buildings near the port as the French soldiers boarded their ships. They had gathered in the port after relinquishing their positins along the line that divides the Christian east from the Moslem western parts of the city. POLICE SAID the shelling did not delay the departure of the French peacekeepers. About 750 French soldiers had left yesterday. The Voice of Lebanon, the radio station of Lebanon's main Christian militia, blamed Moslem gunmen for the mortar attack. Moslem militia officials acknowledged that gunfire had been exchanged with their Christian rivals on the other side of the city. "Moslem militiamen fired several rocket-propelled-grenades in the air as more French troops sailed out of Beirut port. Maybe that's their way of showing jubilation," one witness said. Monterrosa said he thinks there are more. With automatic rifles, machine guns, support weapons such as mortars and sophisticated communications equip- ment, guerrillas in groups of 200-300 are battling the army across hundreds of ravines and hilltops in the east. The guerrillas have advanced from their old hit-and-run tactics against small army and security force units and have launched major assaults against big army concentrations. * Spy scandal reported in Britain LONDON (UPI) - A new British spy scandal emerged yesterday raising fears in Britain of revived U.S. mistrust in the country's leaky intelligence ser- vices. An official report disclosed that just after the Falklands War in 1982, a teenage corporal was given casual ac- cess to the nation's most secret in- telligence and was caught just before he passed it to the Soviet Embassy. A SEPARATE sex-spy case - in- volving young soldiers working at Britain's Middle East listening post in Cyprus - also looked like it might pile further embarrassment on Britain's accident-prone intelligence services. The cases follow the unmasking of Soviet spy Geoffrey Prime, who worked in the Government Communications MSU students acquitted of gang rape charges Headquarters at Chelteham (GCHQ), 100 miles west of London. The Prime affair shook Western in- telligence because GCHQ, a major elec- tronic intelligence clearing house for the United States and the NATO allies, works closely with America's National Security Agency at Fort Meads, Md. THE DAILY Telegraph newspaper said yesterday the case of army Corp. Philip Aldridge, 19, coming on top of the Prime affair, would "revive American reluctance to share their closest secrets" with Britain. In Washington, the CIA refused comment on the largest spy cases. THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEN'S GLEE CLUB Patrick Gardner, Director "VIBRMT EROTICISM" -Molly Maskell; Vogue Magazine - A FILM BY CARLO5SAURA CARMEN (R) L2 INDIVIDUA~L I VIAT I t 5th Aye oflirberty 761.9700 $2.00 SHOWS BEFORE 6:00 P.M. DAILY 1:00 P.M. SHOWS MON. THRU FRI. (Continued from Page 1) stand trial on a reduced charge of third- degree criminal sexual conduct instead of first-degree. BOTH CHARGES involving sexual - penetration using force or coercion, but evidence of aggravating circumstan- tes, such as use of a weapon, is required for a conviction of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. The higher charge carries a life term. All of the defendants except Jemison were MSU students at the time of the incident. Lewis was a counselor for minority students. Smith, Dixon, Seay and Lewis currently are enrolled at MSU, as is the alleged victim. She took incomplete grades last term, however, and has yet to register for the current term. Following the verdict, Lewis said he felt "like a billion-pound weight has been lifted from my shoulders and I -can go on with my life." FRI., MON. 1:00, 7:10, 9:10 SAT., SUN. 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:10, 9:10 ANN ARBOR LATE SHOWS FRI. & SAT. NIGHT - ALL SEATS 2.25 AT 11:00 P.M. "CARMEN" (R) AT 11:20P.M. "LIQUID SKY" (R) "GENUINELY STARTLING! The rght audiences are hound to appreciate the ariginality, the color, rage, nonchalance, sly humor, and ferocious fashion sense. --Japet Mashn. N Y Times sL: AI I JOB OPPORTUNITIES