4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 28, 1984 Bush criticizes CIA cutbacks WASHINGTON (AP)-Vice President George Bush joiped President Reagan yesterday in criticizing cutbacks he said former President Carter ordered at the CIA, but he refused to link such cuts to the bombing of the American Embassy an- nex in Beirut. Reagan himself had appeared to make just such a connection on Wed- nesday, but he chided reporters yester- day for having "distorted my remarks about the CIA." He refused to elaborate. A WHITE House spokesman, com- menting on condition he not be named, was asked yesterday if Reagan had been aiming his criticism at the Carter administration. "If you concluded that, you wouldn't be wrong," he replied. In a plane side news conference in Saginaw, Mich., Bush was asked whether Reagan was blaming Carter for intelligence failures that resulted in a lack of warning about last week's em- bassy attack. His reply: "No. I don't believe that. I don't believe anyone can say that." Reagan, in a campaign appearance at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, said, "The real protection and where we're feeling the effects today of the near destruction of our intelligence capability in recent years-before we came here, the effort that somehow to say, well, spying is somehow dishonest and let's get rid of our intelligence agents, and we did that to a large ex- tent. Your biggest protection is to-and we're trying to rebuild our intelligence to where you'll find out and know in ad- vance what the target might be and be prepared for it." BUSH, himself a former director of the CIA, said yesterday, "I do believe there were cuts made in the intelligence business during Carter's term that were inappropriate and ... here's what I objected to, Carter kind of coming in and going out to the agency there and saying, well we know everything's wrong and we're going to clean up something that, you know, if it wasn't broke why do they need to fix it-and laying off a lot of people and thus cur- tailing a lot of our sources of intelligen- ce." Bush said such steps were "not good for the overall intelligence community and I think that's what the president is trying to say. On any specific incident, I couldn't level that kind of charge" that Carter was responsible for the Beirut bombing. He said agency contacts with sources overseas also had been damaged during the Republican administration of Gerald Ford when CIA wrongdoing was investigated by congressional committees. RETURNING TO the intelligence question at a later news conference, Bush said the Carter administration had cut back on the clandestine ser- vice, saying, "I do think for awhile we diminished the human intelligence side of the business." Even so, Bush said the United States has the best foreign intelligence service in the world, although he acknowledged that other countries might be superior in collecting information in individual countries. Reagan's charges about CIA cut- backs angered congressional Democrats, who argued that Carter, beginning in 1979, increased the agen- cy's personnel and budget after cut- backs under GOP administrations of the early 1970s. After the news conference, Bush went to Eisenhower High School. Students from Eisenhower and nearby MacAr- thur High School-more than 2,000 in all-attended the rally. The two schools, on opposite sides of the room, competed in shouting "Reagan" and "Bush" to see who could be the loudest. 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THE RELATIVELY small number of black and Hispanic medical school students is due, in part, to the fact that "the pool of minorities who are coming out of high school and going to college is relatively small," she said. "It isn't in- creasing fast enough to have an effect on professional schools like medicine." Crowley also said minority students in high school may. not be directed toward science and medicine. The AMA said the number of women enrolling in medical schools in the United States has been growing since NOON LUNCHEON Friday, Sept. 28 Prof. Buzz Alexander, LS&A, Prof. David Bassett, Internal Medicine, Dorothy Whitmarsh, Nurse and Activist: "Acts of Conscience and University Policy" Guild House 802 MONROE Homemade soup and sandwich available for $1.00 pro udly presents MEET THE PRESS NO WSHO WING in the Pond Room of the Michigan Union Special Guest Star: DR. MARTIN GOLD 1969, when increases were first seen. IN 1983-84, more than 32 percent of the medical school students and more than a quarter of the expected graduates were female. There are 67,443 students in the 127 U.S. schools. Of U.S. black students in medical schools, nearly one in five attends three schools - Howard University in Washington, D.C.; Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn.; and Morehouse College in Atlanta. While enrollment in U.S. medical schools is at an all-time high, the AMA said the number of people applying has been falling since 1978 and first-year enrollment has declined for the last three years. Total enrollment in U.S. medical schools increased by less than one percent in 1983-84. Fire Victims considered lucky (Continued from Page 1) that the basement was flooded. "At one point, the firemen were doub- tful of saving the house, or (afraid) the roof was going to come in," Disch told residents. The house has been closed. Residents are not allowed to return once they have taken enough belongings for several weeks away from home. Second floor residents should be able to return in about three weeks, while third floor residents may have to wait until next term to return, Disch said. THE HOUSE will probably resume meal service in about three weeks, she said. Meanwhile, Kappa Alpha Theta, Delta Delta Delta, and Alpha Phi sororities opened their doors to many of the homeless women. Beginning Mon- day, residents will move to the Briar- wood Hilton and Collegiate Sorosis house. Several fraternities also aided the homeless residents. AS MEMBERS of the sorority stood among 200 people watching their house burn late Wednesday night and early yesterday morning, Delta Upsilon fraternity members passed out hot chocolate and coffee. Phi Kappa Psi fraternity donated $125 to the residents yesterday. Disch said that the house's insurance policy would cover the cost of repairing or replacing the rugs, household fur- nishings, fixtures and doors, as well as any reconstruction or remodeling costs. She said, however, that residents' personal belongings were not covered by the policy. House officers also said that a rush party scheduled for Sunday would have to be moved to another location. Daily staff member Tracey Miller filed a report for this story. Correction IN BRIEF Compiled from AssQciated Press and United Press International reports U.S. banks reduce prime rate NEW YORK-Major banks yesterday lowered their prime interest rate to 12/4 percent from 13 percent, with two banks going to12 percent. The prime rate is a base lending rate from which other loans are priced, most often upward. Among the banks reducing their prime rate to 12% percent were the nations largest, Bank of America, based in San Francisco, and such big New York banks as Citicorp, Chase Manhattan, Manufacturers Hanover and Chemical Bank. First National Bank of Chicago was among the first non- New York banks to announce a reduction to 12 percent. Mubarak urges Mideast peace CAIRO, Egypt-President Hosni Mubarak urged the United States yester- day to "double its efforts" for Middle East peace following the restoration of relations between Egypt and Jordan. At the same time, Algeria and Iran joined hard-line Syria and Libya in denouncing the Jordanian move. In a telegram to President Reagan, Mubarak called on the United States to take advantage of the Jordanian decision and launch a diplomatic offensive in the Middle East. "We are confident that the United States, under your leadership, will not hesitate to double its efforts toward achievement of a just and comprehen- sive peace in the area that would preserve for all peoples their legitimate right to a free and secure existence," Mubarak told the American president. In a telegram to Mubarak following Jordan's announcement on Tuesday, Reagan was quoted by the Egyptian agency as saying he hoped King Hussein's move in breaking with 16 other Arab League states and restoring ties to Egypt "will lead to a new stage of common action by peoples who share the same view of events to achieve security and peace throughout the region." The17 Arab countries broke relations with Egypt in 1979 after the late President Anwar Sadat made Egypt the first Arab nation to sign a peace treaty with Israel. Fla. bus-train wreck kills two PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - A freight train smashed into a bus carrying four private school students yesterday, killing two and injuring the driver, who was the mother of one of the victims, officials said. The other two students escaped in time and were not injured. "It appears that the bus stalled out while making the crossing," said Linda Main, a Florida Highway Patrol supervisor in nearby Fort Pierce. A railroad official said he understood that the bus went around a lowered gate at the intersection. "When I got there the crossing was activated and the arm was down," said Chief Warren Alford of the St. Lucie County sheriff's department. The National Transportation Safety Board sent a team to investigate. "Two of the children were able to exit the bus from the front door just prior to the collision," the Highway Patrol said. "There was one child asleep on the rearmost seat. While two of the children exited ... the third child ran to the rear of the bus to awaken the sleeping child." Those two ... identified as Raimie Finn, 12, and John Dothitt, 10 - were thrown from the bus. They were pronounced dead at the scene, said Thomas Honaker, administrator of Port St. Lucie Hospital. Troops crash Plplipme protest MANILA, Philippines - Riot troops with guns, clubs, water cannons and tear gas attacked 3,000 protesters trying to reach the presidential palace yesterday, leaving 34 people injured and drawing unprecedented criticism from the National Assembly. At least 12 of the injured suffered gunshot wounds after police fired pistols and rifles at demonstrators as they marched down a Manila street toward the bridge leading to President Ferdinand Marcos' palace. Some of the protesters threw rocks and homemade bombs at the police, and seven of ficers were among the injured. Rally leaders said at least 11 people were taken away by troops, but police said they had arrested only five. The injuries and arrests led to a unanimous resolution by the National Assembly calling for an investigation and condemning police threats on Filipinos' right to assemble "without forcible interference." It was the first time an opposition measure implying any criticism of a government action was passed by the assembly, where Marcos' governing party holds a two-thirds majority. The demonstrators included two National Assembly members, an 86-year old former senator, a former Cabinet minister, a publisher whose newspaper was closed, and both the brother and son of assassinated opposition leader Benigno Aquino. N.C. woman to be executed RALEIGH, N.C. - Gov. Jim Hunt refused Thursday to grant clemency for Velma Margie Barfield, who is scheduled to die Nov. 2 for poisoning her boyfriend, saying she should "pay the maximum penalty for her crimes. Barfield, who also confessed to three other killings, had asked that her death sentence be commuted to life in prison. The U.S. Supreme Court last month rejected her request for a new trial, and her attorneys said then they would forego further court appeals and focus on attempting to persuade Hunt, a death penalty supporter, to grant executive clemency. If executed, the 51-year-old grandmother would bethe first woman put to death in the United States in 22 years and the first in the state since the 1940s. "I have listened to supporters of Mrs. Barfield for clemency and her at- torneys," Hunt said at a new conference in his office. "I have also listened to the views of those who oppose clemency, including relatives and friends of Barfield's victims. "Mrs. Barfield should pay the maximum penalty for her crimes," he said, adding that there was "no question of her guilt." Vol. XCV - No. 20 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967X) is published Tuesday through Sunday during the Fall and Winter terms and Tuesday through Saturday during the Spring and Summer terms by students at the University of Michigan. 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