4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, Octobe 'U' celebrc By VIBEKE LAROI Swedish Heritage Week kicked off in Ann Arbor yesterday with a visit from the Swedish ambassador to the United States and the presentation of a grant that will allow Swedish to be taught at the University on a regular basis. The Swedish Language Endowment Fund, worth $60,000, was contributed by the Detroit/Swedish Council, Inc. The fund will pay for the instruction of first and second year Swedish beginning next fall. SCANDINAVIAN languages have been taught off and on at the University since World War II, but Swedish is the only language currently offered. Because of a tight budget, only second year Swedish is being taught this term. Although the Scandinavian Studies department is small, there is a "strong interest" among its students, said John Walters, who heads the Michigan Scandinavian Society. Many scholarships go unclaimed each year because students do not know about them, Walters added. AT THE ALUMNI Center, Wilhelm Wacht- meister, the Swedish ambassador to the United States, spoke on "Sweden - United States and the tes Swedish heritage 'The United Nations is a 'mirror of the world situation... which today is not a very beautiful pic- ture.' - Wilhelm Wachtmeister Swedish ambassador to the U.S. World." Sweden, a country of 8.3 million people that has been neutral since 1815, must back up its "neutral policy with a reasonably strong defense," Wacht- meister said. Though Sweden has one of the highest per capita defense costs in the world, Wachtmeister said the stockpiling of armaments in the Soviet Union and the United States is "at a far too high level and should not be on an increasing scale." "(THE ARMS RACE) is nothing but madness," he added. Peace and solidarity are two recurring themes of Swedish foreign policy, Wachtmeister said, pointing to the country's fulfillment of the United Nations' rule of giving one percent of its gross national product to underdeveloped countries. The United Nations, Wachtmeister said, is a "mirror of the world situation . . . which is not a very beautiful picture." "If you look in the mirror and see an ugly face, what do you do?" he asked, "You don't smash the mirror, but try to make it more beautiful" through aid to disadvantaged countries. In addition, to Wachtmeister's speech, the heritage week is featuring a Swedish film festival. Swedish films will be shown through Saturday. The Simple-Minded Murderer and Fanny and Alexander are two of the more popular showings. The Bentley Historical Library on North Campus also gets into the heritage spirit this week with a special exhibit, "Swedes in Michigan." The exhibit includes original photographs, letters and news ar- ticles dating back to 1883 about Swedish immigrants and descendants in this state. I yok Pr wi ROs NOV5 ILOT PRECISE LING BALL PENS. v WE GIVE YOU A CHOICE. Retired 'U' prof dies .. s.. I .'y I I If you love fine writing, now u can choose between two ecise Rolling Ball pens that write so fine yet flow so mqothly you'll wonder how we made it possible. It's only The Precise that allows you to write beautifully in either fine or extra fine point. The price? It's j even finer. Only $1.19.. / .' I a . I y 4 '4 A retired University English professor and his wife were killed Sun- day night when their car was struck by another vehicle near the city's nor- theast side, according to Ann Arbor police. Albert Stevens, 83, a professor emeritus of English language and literature, and his wife, Angelyn, 82, died instantly. The couple's car was traveling west- bound on Glacierway, crossing Huron Parkway when the vehicle was struck by a southbound car, driven by Steven Steiner, 22, an Ann Arbor resident. Steiner was not injured, police said. Although an investigation into the ac- cident is underway, police said there is no evidence to suggest that Steiner was at fault. Stevens joined the University faculty in 1927 as an English instructor. He frequently lectured at writing workshops and communication seminars. Steven fs ... dies in auto accident China celebrates 35th. communist annwversary IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports High court to study gay rights WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court, studying gay rights for the first: time since 1967, said yesterday it will decide whether public school teachers may be fired for advocating or promoting homosexuality. The court, issuing orders in some 1,000 legal disputes as its 1984-85 term began, agreed to judge the validity of an Oklahoma law that allowed school boards to fire teachers for such conduct. A federal appeals court struck down the law, ruling that it violates teachers' free-speech rights. The invalidated Oklahoma law stated that a teacher could be fired or otherwise denied work for engaging in "public homosexual conduct or ac- tivity." The law defined that term as "advocating, soliciting, imposing, en- couraging or promoting public or private homosexual activity in a manner that creates a substantial risk that such conduct will come to the attention of school children or school employees." Congress keeps money flowing WASHINGTON - Congress passed a short-term money bill yesterday to keep government offices open until mid-week while the Senate spun its wheels trying to free itself from an impasse over civil rights legislation that has help up a long-term spending package. By a voice vote and without debate, the Senate passed the stopgap measure that would keep money flowing at current levels to most of the government until midnight tomorrow. It then went to the White House. "It's not much, but it's all we've got," said Majority Leader Howard Baker (R-Tenn.). The House passed the stopgap measure earlier in the day on a 240-79 vote. The new fiscal year began at 12:01 a.m. EDT yesterday with most of the federal government technically out of money. Only four of 13 necessary ap- propriation bills for fiscal 1985 have been signed into law. Police clash with Sikh rioters AMRITSAR, INDIA - Five hundred riot police and paramilitary troops clashed with slogan-shouting Sikh separatists in a melee at the sacred Golden Temple complex yesterday, two days after the army withdrew from the shrine and returned it to the Sikhs. The violence erupted as 10,000 devotees celebrated "thanksgiving day" for the return of their temple, the Sikh religion's holiest shrine, after four mon- ths of army occupation Police in this Sikh holy city said they entered the 12-block temple complex in pursuit of about 50 Sikh youths who took over a building, made inflam- matory speeches and hoisted a flag for a separate Sikh state. Authorities said 300-400 people were arrested. A Punjab government spokesman said late in the day that the situation was "under control," and eyewitnesses said that temple devotees were coming and going normally last night. The United News of India said "scores" of men and womenwere injured in the melee. Miners strike two companies CHARLESTON, W.Va. - More than 2,000 miners yesterday struck two in- dependent coal companies that refused to sign a new contract with the United Mine Workers, but 110,000 others went to work under the first strike- free national settlement in 20 years. UMW members did not report to work at West Virginia, Kentucky and Pennsylvania mines owned by the A.T. Massey Coal Group, the nation's six- th-largest coal producer, according to company President Morgan Massey. Also affected was National Mines Corp., a smaller operator employing about 350 miners, most in Kentucky. Massey has called for concessions the union avoided in its new national contract with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, which took effect yesterday and calls for wage hikes of 10 percent over 40 months. Everything was "going pretty smooth" as 110,000 miners covered by the BCOA agreement or settlements with independent companies who accepted identical terms reported for work yesterday said UMW District 29 President Dennis Saunders. With the national agreement signed and a $45 million strike fund in place, UMW officials were prepared for a long battle with Massey, which runs both union and non-union operations. Jordan reJects peace talks offer AMMAN, Jordan - King Hussein dismissed an Israeli offer for peace talks as "an exercise in subterfuge and deception" and accused the United States of hesitancy in the Middle East yesterday. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres criticized Husein and warned that anyone who rejected peace will have to "pay the price." The exchange dimmed the initial optimism about prospects for a new U.S. peace initiative after last week's resumption of diplomatic ties between Jor- dan and Egypt and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy's visits to several Middle Eastern capitals. Hussein's speech opening Jordan's Parliament renewed his call for an in- ternational conference on the Middle East and defended the renewed ties with Egypt as a way to bolster the Arab struggle against Israel. Peres two weeks ago invited the Jordanian king "to come to the negotiating table in order to reach a true peace." Hussein accused Israel of a "no peace, no war" policy to achieve its "ex- pansionist designs" and said the United States should be reassuring Israel to base peace negotiations on United Nations Resolution 242. That resolution calls on Israel to withdraw from all territories captured in the 1967 Middle East war. Israel has annexed some of the territory and says it will never return all of the captured land. Vol. XCV - No. 23 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. Sub- scription rates: September through April - $16.50 in Ann Arbor; $29.00 outside the city; May through August - $4.50 in Ann Arbor, $6.00 outside the city. Second-class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. The Michigan Daily is a member of the Associated Press and subscribes to UnitedPress International, Pacific News Service, Los Angeles Times Syndi- cate and'College Press Service, and United Students Press Service. 4 PILOT PRECISE ROLLING BALL PENS. 2 OF THE FINER THINGS IN LIFE.. PILOT prec P o~n ed PEKING (AP) - At least 1 million Chinese revelers pranced in Peking's Tianamen Square last night, showered by a spectacular fireworks barrage that capped an unprecedented national day parade and gala exalting the "...A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" -ROBERT BROWNING Communist Party's 35-year-old reign. "This is the biggest dance party in the world," said Liu Yibing, a computer science major from Peking University, one of the tens of thousands of students invited to the Chinese capital's evening extravaganza. THE GALA, which was broadcast live on television, concluded a day that began in the square with a two-hour parade of China's latest weapons, pageantry portraying the march to modernization and a speech by top leader Deng Xiaoping. Earlier, Deng stood in an open-air black Chinese limousine and cruised past smartly dressed legions of 6,140 troops and weapons ranging from anti- tank guns to stubby submarine-fired missiles. It was the first military parade since the 1959 national day and was seen as Deng's way of boosting morale in the armed forces, which have remained resistant to his reforms and received a low priority in China's modernization plans. The finale came in the evening, when the vast square, capable of holding at least 1 million people, was transformed into a colossal outdoor dance hall, crammed with students, workers and other guests admitted by invitation only. Banned by Deng's radical predecessors during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, dancing has become a rage among young Chinese. The revelers pranced, whirled, pirouetted and waved pompons in the autumn chill as hundreds of loud- speakers blared Chinese music ranging from regimented Communist hymns to a foot-stomping version of the traditional ballad "The Maid of Alli Mountain." Ferraro criticizes Reagan economin1cs (Continued from Page 1) carping." As for Mondale's demand that Reagan reveal what progress - if any - was made at the meeting, the vice president said, "If you really want progress you do not disclose it - and Mr. Mondale knows this - all the tran- script or the confidences of a meeting of that nature." SEARCH PES Editor in chief.........................SBILL SPINDLE Managing Editors ................. CHERYL BAACKE NEIL CHASE Associate News Editors ............ 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