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Vol. XVC, No. 5 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, September 11, 1984 15 Cents Ten Pages
Pope tells
Canadian
Indians to
control
own future
STE. ANNE DE BEAUPRE,
Quebec (AP) -Wearing headdresses
and crucifixes, Canada's Indians and
Eskimos flocked to this revered shrine
by the thousands yesterday and
received the blessing of the pope-and
his support in their struggle for civil
rights.
"You want to control your future,"
Pope John Paul II declared to the
throng of Roman Catholic native
Canadians. "You must be architects of
your own future, freely and respon-
sibly."
HIS BUCKSKIN-clad listeners,
arrayed by tribe before the Ste. Anne de
Beaupre Basilica, cheered. The
Polish-born pontiff had stepped
cautiously into a political conflict long
simmering in Canada.
Many of the more than 600,000 In-
dians, Eskimos and mixed-blood
Canadians have for generations been
locked in disputes. with the white
majority over claims to land and
resources. Many want a greater
measure of self-government.
The pontiff, who requested meetings
with Indians and Eskimos on his
Canadian tour, endorsed no specific
political program.
"The church does not intervene
directly in civil matters," he told the
Indians. "But you know its concern for
you.
Joyous Indians showered the leader
of their church with gifts, including
peace pipes and caribou-hide mukluks,
native boots from the far north-"to
wear after he goes skiing," explained
the Indian donor.
From this town beside the St.
Lawrence River, John Paul boarded a
special papal train for the city of Trois
Rivieres, Quebec, to continue his
grueling schedule on the second day of
a 12-day Canadian visit, including a
Mass near Trois Rivieres and an
evening train trip to Montreal.
r Later this week, John Paul travels to
Canada's Atlantic provinces, then
doubles back to Toronto. Next week he
will visit the Canadian West.
Mondale
sets
program to
cut deficit
From AP and UPI
PHILADELPHIA - In a major cam-
paign gamble, Walter Mondale
proposed $85 billion in higher taxes
yesterday as part of a $177 billion
deficit-reduction plan, and challenged
President Reagan to "stop avoiding the
deficit issue."
"You can't hide your red ink with any
more blue smoke and mirrors," the
Democratic presidential candidate said
as he unveiled a plan tha also
proclaimed a "pay as you go" policy for
new spending on future programs.
THE DEFICIT would fall from a
projected $263 billion to $86 billion by
the end of the 1989 fiscal year under the
plan.
He said -his blueprint would have an
"excellent chance of gaining support of
the Congress."
"Mr. Reagan, all my cards are on the
table - face up. Americans are now
calling your hand," Mondale said at a
news conference that the campaign
made available to television and radio
stations around the country via
satellite.
At the White House, Reagan said the
Mondale proposal was "nothing new..,
He told us several weeks age he was
going to raise people's taxes and new
he's repeated it."
WHITE HOUSE spokesman Larry
Speakes said the administration will
produce its next budget proposal on
schedule - next January.
Aides to the Democratic presidential
candidate said 75 percent of the new
taxes - amounting to $85 billion a year
at the end of a first Mondale term -
would be paid by the upper 14 percent of
the wage earners. A family of four
making $100,000 would pay $2,800 more
a year in taxes, they said, while the
same family earning $30,000 would pay
about $95 more.
The plan includes a net of $24 billion
in spending cuts - $54 billion in cats
partially offset by $30 billion in
restoration of some of Reagan's budget
reductions.
See MONDALE Page 5
Daily Photo by DOUG McMAHON
Play ball!
Members of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity take batting practice yesterday at Burns Park.
Students pay for divestiture of AT&T
By KERI MURAKAMI
Students and phone companies agree that
AT&T's television ad has it wrong-the more they
hear, the worse AT&T sounds.
The government's break-up of AT&T into
regional phone companies last winter was hailed
as a blessing for the consumer. But now represen-
tatives from phone companies are singing a new
song.
"THE BREAK-UP has caused more problems.,
than it has solved," said Dave Perez, a sales
representative for Michigan Bell.
"People are used to the way it was done for 75
years. Now they're confused," Perez said.
Students staying in University dormitories will
not be affected by the break-up unless they have a
problem, said Dave Gagnon, manager of phone
operations for the University.
THE HEADACHE begins for Gagnon's staff
when a student's phone fails or service is poor.
The staff first must "figure out what's wrong
before we can call anybody. If the problem's with
the lines we have to call Michigan Bell; if not, we
call AT&T."
For students in off-campus housing, the break-
up means standing in long lines at the local
Michigan Bell office to set up service, then,
another trip to a phone distributor to buy or rent a
phone.
"People are used to one-step shopping," Perez
said. "Before, all you'd have to do is come in and
say, 'I want a phone,' and we'd handle everything.
Now all we can do is direct you to a phone sup-
plier."
STUDENTS waited 30 minutes in line to order
phone service last week at the Michigan Bell office
on E. Huron. According to office manager Eve
Brooks, the office handled 2,300 new customers
Wednesday and Thursday.
"Once you get to the desk the people are real
friendly and it's pretty simple," said LSA senior
Lev Anderson. "You just fill out a form and they
come install you line a couple of days later. It's
just waiting in line that's a pain."
Ordering service wasn't "that bad of a hassle,"
agreed LSA senior Ed Rafferty. "But then having
to go find a phone is," he added.
THE BREAK-UP has other flaws too, Perez
said. "The problem with the divestiture is that it
started in the 1950's, but didn't take effect until
1984. Some of the rules are outdated and the tran-
sfer didn't go as smoothly as it could have," he
said.
One of the foul-ups, he said, has led to a jump in
the cost of installing a new line. The charge nearly
doubled from $22.95 last year to $42 this year.
Customers also blame the break-up for in-
creases in local service charges. The separation of
state phone companies from AT&T means that
revenues from long-distance calls no longer sub-
sidize the cost of local service. Instead, the actual
cost is passed on to the customer.
And although customers are still hooked up to
AT&T's long-distance service when they order
local service, many students are switching e to
MCI or SPRINT, companies which often provide
cheaper long-distance service.
- "The number of students subscribing to us has
sky-rocketed," said Greg IDuda, a sales represen-
tative for SPRINT.
Racing lobsters go for dough
By LISA NICHOLAS
There was something fishy going on
at the Gandy Dancer Sunday afternoon.
A standing-room-only crowd at the
seafood restaurant anxiously waited as
13 champion lobsters dressed in white
capes and pennants psyched them-
selves up for the First Annual Great
Lobster Race.
STEADY DRIZZLE, added a New
England atmosphere as the
crustaceans, fresh out of salt water, en-
tered the four-lane, six-foot-long racing
pool. Jockies stepped forward with
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'84's first
hurricane
sweeps
East Coast
From AP and UPI
SAVANNAH, Ga. - Schools closed and
residents left for high ground yesterday
in the face of Diana, the first hurricane
of 1984, following a wobbly course up
the Southeastern coastline with 80-mph
winds and 12-foot storm tides. i
Diana became a hurricane yesterday.
morning and at midday was about 110
miles southeast of Savannah, moving
north-northeast at about 5 mph that
would take it into the South Carolina
coast.
SCHOOL WAS canceled in South
Carolina and Georgia, beaches were
closed from Florida to North Carolina,
rescue boats were towed inland, and
military planes were flown to safer
fields. Banks in Savannah closed at 2
p.m. yesterday and sent employees
home.
"Even though the hurricane is now
moving toward the northeast, steering
currents are weak and only a slight
change in track could bring the
hurricane on shore in just a few hours,"
cautioned forecasters at the National
Hurricane Center in Miami.
Forecaster Hal Gerrish of the
Hurriance Center said the storm eould
continue its very slow drifting into
See DIANA, Page 3
Associated Press
Money madness
James Dotson from the U.S. Secret Service counterfeit and fraud squad in East Orange, N.J., displays a wad of counter-
feit bills. Agents yesterday found sixpeople printing phony money and confiscated $6 million in $100's, $50's and $20's.
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TODAY
Ghostbusters, live
and start up a conversation." Auerbach, 28, is one of a
small band of professionals who conduct "Spontaneous
Case Investigations"-or investigations of paranormal
occurrences outside of laboratory conditions. The
professionals call themselves "pychical field resear-
chers," or "Parapsychological Field Investigators."
These days, however, they're known as ghostbusters. In
the movie, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis
portray three New York City parapsychologists who laun-
ch a private enterprise, "Ghostbusters," during an on-
slaught of ghosts and nasty spirits that reaches epic
Something fishy
C HOCOLATE BARS and potato chips, move over. A
research group is hoping to hook American snack
food lovers on a treat tentatively dubbed "Fish Chewies."
The newest entre planned for the highly competitive and
lucrative snack food market is made from "Un-
derutilized" fish and fish byproducts and rumoured to be
nutritionally sound, said Mitchell Griffith, a
microbiologist for Research Corp., a non-profit
Griffith said. Researchers have long been trying to find
way to put to use fish species not common to the dinner
plate, such as bake, he said. Fish Chewies were developed
by Endel Karmas, a professor in Rutgers' Cook College
food science department, and Ellen Lauber, a graduate
student. Steve Bacon, a spokesman for Research Corp.,
Fish Chewies are unlike many other junk food because
they provide an economical source of protein balanced
with carbohydrates while still being low in calories.
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