Page 2--The Michigan Daily- Saturday, October 13, 1984 Bible classes 'Contiue despite court injuction HUDSONVILLE, Mich. (UPI) _ members in that district ignored A Christian group yesterday was in- suggestions that the classes could vited to conduct noon "Bible clubs" in legally be lld off the school grounds or six public elementary schools despite at some time other than during the almost certain legal action by the state. school day. Superintendent Jack Musser said Musser said he asked the board to Bible Center Ministries of Jenison was consider asking Bible Center Ministries asked to hold the voluntary religious to find an off-campus location for the classes in the district's elementary classes or conduct them after school schools at the request of the district's hours. board of education. He declined comment when asked if THE BOARD Thursday voted 4-2 to the district would be able to fight the continue the classes. The vote came state in a lawsuit on the issue. only one week after U.S. District Judge Richard Emslen issued an injunction Musser said he had not yet been barring the same group from conduc- notified of any pending legal action by ting religious classes during school the State Board of Education, although hours in the Tri-County School District, that body acted swiftly to recommend a lawsuit against the Tri-County district Musser said he did not know when the once its board voted to hold the clubs in sessions would begin, defiance of the law. The vote came at ' the request of Musser, who reported the state's legal "They can make any decision they action against the Tri-County District want as long as they can live with it and and suggested aternatives that would be able to take the consequences," said allow the clubs to be held legally. Jay Wabeke, head of the local chapter .of Americans United for Separation of THE STATE filed suit against the Church and State. Tri-County schools because boardk Oaify Potoby A TT PETR IE New business A crowd listens to yesterday's dedication of the new building for the Business School. Seated at left are the Kresges, large donators to the fund for whom the building was named. Researcher calls caffeine possible pesticide WASHINGTON (UPI) - Caffeine, the kick in coffee, killsinsect lIrvae and could be useful as a commercial pesticide, a researcher said Thursday, Mr. James Nathanson said caffeine occurs naturally in many plants - notably tea and coffee shrubs and cacao trees, the source of chocolate - and probably acts as an insect repellant. IN NATHANSON'S tests,insect larvae of various species died within days when placed in lab dishes or on tomato leaves covered with high concentrations of powdered coffee or tea, pure caffeine or related com- pounds.0 In lower concentrations, about the strength of 10 cups of coffee, the caffeine and derivatives made the larvae jittery, kept them from eating and stunted their growth. The stimulant also appears to enhance the effect of some pesticides, he said. One particular pest-killer, was 10 times more powerful when combined with a synthetic caffein-like substance, he reported in the journal Science. CONCENTRATIONS of caffein found naturally in undried tea leaves or coffee beans were enough to kill tobacco worm larvae, Nathanson found. While flour beetle adults survived a dose of caffeine-related compound, long-term exposure prevented them from reproducing, the study said. Nathanson, also a Harvard Medical School neurologist, was out of the country and not available to elaborate on his findings. In comments released by the hospital, he speculated it would take five years of research to con- firm his belief caffeine-like insecticides could be made for commercial use. Noting the toxic nature of many pesticides, Nathanson said, "The side effects of caffeine-like compounds appear to be relatively minor in animals and humans." It is uncertain what high gurface con- centrations of caffeine might do to plants. Nancy Ragsdale, a pesticide specialist with the Agriculture Department, said although the concept of using caffeine as a pesticide may be new, many other naturally occuring substances are the basis for chemicals currently used to kill insects. "Always, everybody's looking for better ways to control pests," she said. "If this isn't quite the thing, perhaps another compound modelled on if could be- good." IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Thatcher uninjured in hotel blast BRIGHTON, England - A powerful bomb aimed at Prime mnister Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet tore through an elegant seaside hotel early yesterday, killing four people and injuring 30, including key gover- nment officials. Eleven hours after the explosion, the prime minister went before the con- ference, conducting business as usual, and received an eight-minute stan- ding ovation. "All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail," Mrs. Thatcher said in her keynote address. She spoke with strength and composure. The IRA, seeking to end British rule of Northern Ireland, claimed respon- sibiltiy for "the detonation of 100 pounds of gelignite in Brighton against the British Cabinet and the Tory (Conservative Party) warmongers." "We were very lucky," Thatcher told reporters later at Brighton police station. "I was up working. I had just turned to one final paper and then it went off.... You hear about these atrocities, these bombs, but you don't ex- pect them to happen to you. U.S. can borrow money again WASHINGTON - Senators interrupted their vacations and re-election campaigns yesterday to fly back to Washington and pass an emergency bill restoring the government's authority to borrow money. The 37-30 vote, which came without debate, sent the measure to President Reagan for his signature. The Air Force was enlisted to ferry four of the missing Republicans back to the capital and others took commercial flights. The lawmakers had left Thursday under the mistaken assuption that the borrowing bill would be passed without a roll call vote and allow the Senate and House to adjourn un- til January. Republicans, who control the Senate by a 55-45 majority, had said in ad- vance of yesterday's vote that the bill could not pass without Democratic help. They were wrong. The final roll call showed no Democrat voted for it. Four Republicans and 26 Democrats voted no. A second vote on that measure - which raises the federal, debt limit to $1..824 trillion - was the final hurdle standing in the way of adjournment. CBS.ends opening arguments NEW YORK - Comments from intelligence officials, a congressional committee, and Gen. William Westmoreland himself led CBS to belive that the former U.S. commander in Vietnam deceived his superiors about the strength of the enemy during the war, a network attorney said yesterday. As opening arguments concluded in a $120 million libel suit filed by West moreland, CBS attorney David Boies said those sources gave correspondent Mike Wallace and documentary producer George Crile ample reason to believe that the general misled President Lyndon Johnson and the rest of the nation in 1967. Westmoreland contendsthe 1982 broadcast "The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception" falsely portrayed him as heading a conspiracy to report enemy strength at under 300,000 men when the CIA believed the num- ber to be twice a high. The broadcast said the alleged deception left American forces unprepared for the strength-of the Communists' Tet Offen. sive in early 1968. In his opening remarks Thursday, Westmoreland's lawyer, Dan Burt, said Crile "fabricated" the case against the general to advance his own career. Third quarter prices decrease WASHINGTON - For the first time in eight years, wholesale prices posted back-to-back monthly declines, dropping 0.2 percent in September as both energy and food prices eased, the government reported yesterday. The Reagan administration, looking toward the November election, hailed the price report and a sharp rebound inretail sales as a "winning team" that will-insure continued non-inflationary growth in the months ahead. The 0.2 percent September drop in the Labor Department's Producer Price Index followed a 0.1 percent decline in August. It meant that for the first nine months of the year, inflation at the wholesale level has been run- ning at a modest 1.9 percent, far below the 5 percent forecast when 1984 began. In other good news, the Commerce Department reported that consumers streamed back into stores in September, boosting retail sales by 1.6 percent. It was the best gain in five months and partially made up for two consecutive monthly declines. At the White House, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said President Reagan, campaigning Friday in Ohio, could face voters riding "the crest of good economic news." UAW's negotiations with Ford stall on job security, economics DEARBORN, Mich. - Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers missed their informal noon deadline yesterday but continued negotiations on a new contract covering 114,000 workers at the nation's second largest automaker. Meanwhile, the union's tentative contract with General Motors Corp. ap- pears to be passing with an edge of about 60 percent. An informal tally shows 70 locals have voted for-the pact, while 23 have opposed it, with one-tie vote. The deadline for voting on the contract is tomorrow. In a noon statement, UAW President Owen Bieber and Vice President Stephen Yokich said the two sides were making progress at Ford "but there are many issues still to be resolved in several major areas, including job security and economics. "We will continue to bargain with the aim of reaching a tentative agreement as quickly as possible," the statement said. Vol. XCV - No. 33 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, $ยข.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 United Press International, Pacific News Service, Los Angeles Times Syndi- cate and College Press Service, and United Students Press Service. I Re at 's joke' put Soviet army on alert WASHINGTON (AP) - National security officials have confirmed that a Far Eastern element of the Soviet army went on a short alert two month ago af- ter President Reagan joked that he was ready to "start bombing" the Soviet Union, a congressional staff official said yesterday. Victor Johnson, director of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Western Hemisphere affairs, said the panel's chairman, Rep. Michael Barnes (D-Md.) was told in a briefing that the alert was issued by a "wayward operator" in the Soviet army, and that it was quickly countermanded. THE BRIEFING, earlier this week, was accorded Barnes after the congressman wrott Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger asking for a response to a Japanese newspaper's account of the episode. The newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, reported that the Soviet Far Eastern Army issued a coded signal saying it was going into a state of war with the United States but withdrew the signal 30 minutes later. The action followed by two days Reagan's joke during a microphone test for an Aug. 11 radio address that he had signed legislation that "outlaws Russia," adding that "We begin bom- bing in five minutes." Johnson said officials of the National Security Agency told Barnes that the alert had indeed been issued, but-that it came from a Soviet official who was not authorized to order it and was quickly .reversed. t. CAMPUS CHAPEL 1236 Washtenaw Ct. 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"IF YOU (the Daily), are going to stay, then there will not be a meeting," Lehmann said. Lehmann did not set another date for the meeting. Spindle said that the U-Club board meetings should be open to the public. The Daily considers the board to be a public, decision-making body which is prohibited from holding private meetings by the Michigan Open Meetings Act, he said. rTn- 1ti iv.. nif".fr n ri..:-fin- tember. THE U-CLUB board has five days before it has to respond to the state Liquor Control Commission regarding the citations. This date, however, is not a strict deadline, said Walter Keck, a Liquor Control Commissin enforcement of- ficer. Liquor control officials would ac- cept a response from the U-Club board even if it is mailed after that date, Keck said. The club can challenge the violations and go before a liquor control com- mission to resolve the challenge or it can admit to the violations and explain why they occurred. Editor in chief ............... 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