Ninety-four Years E of Editorial Freedom :1 Lit 43aU iE ai1 Chiaroscuro Sunny in the morning, but even- tually shading to partly cloudy. Highs in the 60s. Ldlk P/ol. XCIV--No. 154 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michi-gan - Thursday, April 12, 1984 Fifteen Cents Twelve Paaes Family sentenced to 2 years parole in slave trial By CAROLINE MULLER In an unexpected ymove yesterday, U.S. District Judge Charles Joiner suspended the 20-year maximum prison sentence for a Chelsea farming couple convicted of holding two workers against their will. Joiner instead or- dered a penalty of only two years probation and a $12,000 fine. Ike and Margarethe Kozminski, con- victed February 10 on two counts of in- voluntary servitude and one count of conspiracy to violate two farmhands' civil rights, could each have faced up to 20 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. BUT THE couple's son John, 30, who was found guilty on only the conspiracy charge, received the same penalty as the Kozminskis and was ordered to pay See JUDGE, Page 2 p House slams CIA Panel assails-Nicaragua mining WASHINGTON - The House Foreign Affairs Committee overwhelmingly condemned the CIA-directed mining of Nicaraguan harbors yesterday, even as Reagan administration officials said privately that the mining probably would not be resumed. The committee adopted a non-binding resolution against spending U.S. funds for the mining operation on a 23-1 vote less than 24 hours after the Republican- led Senate approved a similar measure by an 84-12 margin. REP. DANTE Fascell, (D-Fla.), chairnan of the House committee, said he would try to take the measure to the House floor today. The dissenting vote was cast by Rep. Gerald Solomon, (R- N.Y.). House Speaker Thomas O'Neill (D- Mass.), also condelfined theU.S. mining of Nicaraguan ports yesterday as "terrorism at its worst" and Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd ac- cused the CIA of lawlessness. But a key State Department official told Congress the mining was justified because it was carried out in "self- defense." IN A RELATED development, the House called for a House-Senate con- ference committee on a bill providing $21 million for CIA-backed Nicaraguan rebels. "We don't have any other options. If Congress cuts the funds, the operations will end once the current $24 million has been expended," a CIA official said. The official said it would not be sur- prising if the money ran out next week - as some news reports have speculated it will. O'Neill told reporters the aid request for Nicaragua "doesn't have a chance" of being approved. He said previously Reagan might get about half the $62 million the same bill provides for emergency military aid to El Salvador. He denounced CIA Director William Casey for the mining operation, calling it "terrorism at its worst." He charged Casey has "taken liberties that no other member of the CIA has ever done before." We " me"a ,, a ~ n W iA1 Face lift AP Photo Scaffolding rises around the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, yester- day. The scaffolding is the first step in a $30 million renovation project which will give the national symbol a new look. Casey ... oversteps bounds Writing can be hazardous Mailer tells prize winners By SUSAN MAKUCH, Since he shook the literary world with The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer's words have won him Pulitzer Prizes and instant recognition, but Mailer also told about the darker side of his craft at yesterday's Hopwood Awards ceremony in Rackham Auditorium. y "Writing a book can kill you," Mailer told the 29 winners of the annual contest in essay, drama, fiction, and poetry. THE. STUDENT WRITERS "must be able to live with the bruises of bad reviews," if they expect to earn a living at writing after their college days. Mailer told the 500 member audience that his first book, The Naked and the Dead, just rolled out of the typewriter, culmination of all his experiences. "It was a long act of assembly," he said, The Naked and the Dead catapulted Mailer into the limelight - for a time, he was the critic's darling. But his next effort, Barbary Shore, was panned. "I CAN TELL you what the book was about," he said, "but I don't remember anything else. It was like someone else wrote it. The characters were strangers to me. I never knew what I was doing - where (the characters) were coming from." As in his own case, Mailer said it's hard for writers who gain success quickly to repeat their success in a second work. Mailer said he tried to force Barbary Shore too much and the unnatural effort helped to make it fail. "The most important thing to a' young writer is to be faithful to yourself - let your unconscious speak," he said. AFTER Barbary Shore, Mailer said he began combining "parts of (his) unconscious (with) the painstakingly conscious piecing together of facts." In light of the agonies of writing, Mailer said sometimes he wants to laugh at those who want to make it their profession without realizing its costs. "You don't know how much work it takes to express what you're feeling," he said. The best thing for the aspiring writer is to be utterly honest about your own ability, he said. "It's death to the soul if you're not good at it, but you have to be talented enough to tell your tale." EVEN IF A writer does have a tale to tell, the number of people who try to tear the writer's words apart can be daunting, Mailer said. "It would be hard to find another profession where criticism is so harsh. The critics keep our numbers down," Mailer said. "Even a good writer must create a (facade) that can accept the critical blows, Mailer warned. "It's not easy to acquire the stoicism that makes you goon," he said. One of the "hazards" writers must avoid, Mailer said is losing perspective on their own creation. A writer must be a good judge of his characters and not reveal favoritism that might diminish the character's believability, Mailer said. "IT TAKES as much literary integrity to be tough on a character as it is to be fair," he said. The critics are waiting, he cautions, so "you must become the best critic of them all." But Mailer wasn't entirely pessimistic about the chance of succeeding as a writer. "It's surprising how many bad reviews one can digest as long as one knows that it's the best work one can do." But after all the theories and facades, sometimes the ideas just come as a gift. Mailer said that this novel, Why Are We in Vietnam, "just flowed from me. 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