4 .Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Sunday, April 8, 1984 PROF WORKS TO END ARMS RACE SIN BRIEF,- Vander dreams o peace By ANDREW ERIKSEN During his sleep four years ago, some- thing happened that changed Arthur Vander's outlook on life. "I kept having this recurring night- mare," said the slightly balding, brown-eyed Vander. "My wife and I would be listening to music on the radio and then an announcer with a British accent would interrupt the broadcast. "THE ANNOUNCER would say that radar has picked up several thousand PROFI ,LE nuclear missiles headed for the United States. The announcer then added that they would be here in 15 minutes and then the music started to play again. "I turned to my wife and started to explain to her what was about to hap- pen. I told her about the burns from the radiation and the rest of the death and destruction that was about to follow. ,"I felt a deep anger and a sense of revulsion that I had known the effects of a nuclear weapon but had made no at- tempt to communicate these facts," says Vander, a physiology professor in the University's medical school. '- THAT NIGHTMARE pushed Vander to join Physicians for Social Respon- nibility (PSR), a group that started in the 1960s to protest the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere. - Today, Vander is actively involved in much of PSR's work in Washtenaw 'County. Such projects as PSR's public forum after the broadcast of the ABC movie "The Day After" in January or at Civil Defense pamphlet outlining the effects a nuclear strike would have tin Washtenaw County, have become a Central focus in Vander's life. , "Art (Vander) does what most of us talk about doing," says Dr. Donald Aucknagel, a University genetics -professor and an active PSR member. BY EDUCATING people - especially students - about the dangers of a nuclear holocaust Vander says he hopes to break down feelings of apathy. Through his work with PSR he tries to show that public criticism and participation can help slow the arms race. Most students today, however, are more concerned about getting jobs than the threat of a nuclear war, says Van- der. Although he's sympathetic to the academic pressure students are under, Vander says people must speak out against the dangerous direction in which the government is leading the U.S. The emphasis on increasing the first- strike capability of the U.S. by building more weapons must be challenged, Vander says. In addition to his work with PSR Vander often speaks on the arms race. He also wrote an article entitled "The Delusion of Civil Defense" that appeared in the 1982 Fall issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review. AT A STATEWIDE conference on "Job Security and National Security" sponsored by the University's Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, Van- der told the audience that politicians do not understand that the U.S. arms build-up "moved beyond deterrence." Compared to the late 1960s and early 1970s when the U.S. followed a "Mutually Assured Destruction" policy in nulcear weapons, today the gover- nment is following a war-winning strategy. Under the Mutually Assured Destruc- tion policy, both the Soviet Union and the United States would maintain enough nuclear weapons to deter the other side from striking first. THE ESCALATING arms race today, between the U.S. and the Soviet Union will make it impossible to maintain deterrence, however. Despite his fears, Vander has a positive outlook for the future. "I think once this denial and physical numbing are overcome then there is an over- whelming emotional response to the issue," he says. -"I genuinely think that once people are given the facts (about the arms race) they will make the right decision.'' ASIDE FROM his work with PSR, Daily Photo by CAROL L. FRANCAVILLA Medical Prof. Arthur Vander says public criticism and participation are an essential tool to end the arms race. Vander teaches, does research and has written several textbooks. Some students say Vander brings the same level of enthusiasm he uses to combat apathy about nuclear war into the classroom. "He was just amazing," says Chris Block, a sixth-year Inteflex student, who had Vander for Physiology in 1980. "He was so excited about teaching." Vander's ties with the University date back to the 1950s when he was an undergraduate majoring in history. During that time there was little ac- tivism or student interest in politics, says Vander. "Those were the quiet McCarthy years," Vander says. Profile appears every Sunday Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Israelis bomb Lebanese town BEIRUT, Lebanon-Israeli jets bombed a suspected Palestinian target overlooking Beirut yesterday, highlighting ominous troop movements in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and an exchange of warnings between high Soviet and Israeli officials. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens said in Jerusalem the dawn raid destroyed a hotel on the Beirut-Damascus highway, which is under Syrian troop control. He charged the target belonged to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which claimed responsibility for an attack in Jerusalem Monday in which one terrorist died and 48 civilians were injured. The organization, founded in the early 1940s, advocates the unification of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, pre-Israel Palestine, Iraq, Kuwait and Cyprus into a "greater Syria." It is allied with Syrian-backed Lebanese Druse and Shiite rebel forces. Police said rival Christian and Moslem militias traded barrages of rocket- propelled grenades and gunfire across the "green line" between Christian east and Moslem west Beirut at mid-afternoon. It followed random overnight shelling that killed at least seven people and wounded 53. Five lost after helicopter crash PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE, Fla.-Military aircraft and ships combed the Atlantic Ocean yesterday for five people missing in the crash of a helicopter providing support for the test launch of a Trident missile by a submarine. A submarine support ship picked up three crewmembers after the crash, but there was no immediate word on their condition, said Air Force Lt. Col. James Moore. The CH-3 helicopter and its eight-man crew went down in the Atlantic shortly after 2:40 a.m. yesterday, Moore said. The aircraft had been in the air for about an hour and 20 minutes and had just completed surveillance support for the test launch of a new Trident missle by the submarine USS Georgia when it went down. Moore said. The cause of the crash has not yet been determined, Moore said. A board will be appointed to investigate the aeident. L.A. tops Chicago's population WASHINGTON-New York is still No. 1, but Los Angeles-the western anchor of the fast-growing Sun Belt-has replaced Chicago as the nation's second largest city, the Census Bureau reported yesterday. Chicago, which has been the country's "second city" since the 1890s, lost population from 1980 to 1982 and slipped to No. 3. Los Angeles grew by 1.8 percent during the same period to overtake Chicago. Houston, with the fastest-growing population of any major city, displaced Philadelphia for fourth place. ' Detroit suffered the biggest population loss, falling from 1,202,493 to 1,138,717, a 5.3 percent decline, but its ranking remained unchanged at sixth place. Following Detroit are Dallas, San Diego and Phoenix, Ariz. The bureau put the population of New York City at 7.086 million, up a slight 0.2 percent from the 1980 census. Los Angeles' was estimated at 3.022 million, compared with Chicago's 2.997 million. In February, the bureau put the total U.S. population at 234 million. This was a 3.3 percent increase from 1980 to 1983, with half of the growth coming in Caifornia, Texas and Florida. The new city rankings also reflect the population boom in the.Sun Belt, with Texas for the first time placing three cities in the top 10 and several large Northern cities showing population declines. Cameroon claims win over rebels ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast-Cameroon President Paul Biya said loyalist government forces achieved "complete victory" yesterday over palace guards attempting a government coup in the West African nation's capital of Yaounde. "Regular units of our national army who remained faithful to the constitution. . . fought methodically and with determination, and late Saturday morning they achieved complete victory," Biya said in an address on Radio Yaounde, monitored in Abidjan. "Calm prevails all over the national territory," he said. He made no mention of casualties in the two-day rebellion. Biya said dissident elements in the presidential palace guard "sought to seize political power through violence" in an armed revolt that started early Friday. Before Biya's victory announcement, Kathleen Lang, a State Department press officer in Washington, said the embassy reported no injuries among any of the estimated 1,200 Americans in Cameroon. Vietnam says Chinese attack was extremely blatant act of war Vietnam, now fighting on two fronts, charged yesterday that several Chinese battalions crossed into its territory and fought a three-hour battle with Vietnamese troops in an "extremely blatant act of war." The accusation, in a statement released by the Vietnamese Embassy in Peking, coincided with a drive by Hanoi against Chinese-backed rebels in Cambodia that overran a key guerrilla base near the Thai border. There was no immediate Chinese comment on the Vietnanese charge. If the Vietnamese account is accurate, the incursion Friday would be the most serious since the communist neighbors fought a brief border was five years ago. The official Chinese news agency Xinhua said only that heavy cross- border shelling continued Friday, with Chinese gunners "destroying many Vietnamese military installations and killing and wounding a number of Vietnamese soldiers." 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Crippen and pilot Dick Scobee will nudge the shuttle to within 30 feet, and Hart will grab the satellite with the robot arm and gently place it in a rack in the open cargo bay, where Nelson and James van Hoften will try to repair it. satelite The astronauts will replace an at- titude control system that failed three years ago and prevented Solar Max from pointing its instruments precisely to study solar flares and other mysteries of the sun. Solar Max cost $77 million in 1980, but its replacement today would be about $235 million. A M, I Students take Jello plunge (Continued from Page 1) On hand to host the event was WHYT disc jockey Merri Lee Bartalucci. The grand prize, an all expenses paid weekend in New York City went to Robert Rose, who wasn't present at festivities. In all, 25 prizes were raffled off. A Muscular Dystrophy Association spokesman said that he was pleased by the turnout, but he wished that more people would contribute. 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