Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Saturday, November 10, 1984 Black family harassed in Chicago CHICAGO (AP)-The FBI said yesterday that it was investigating possible civil rights violations against a black family that endured two nights of violence, obscenities and racial slurs after moving into an apartment in an all-white neighborhood. Results of the probe will go to the Justice Department, which will decide whether the case is prosecutable, FBI spokesman Bob Long said.. AND Cook County State's Attorney Richard Dailey yesterday ordered an investigation into the husband's report that during the worst of the violence early Wednesday, he saw a uniformed police officer from neighboring subur- ban Cicero on the scene. Spencer Goffer said the officer talked with members of an angry mob that had hurled bricks, rocks and a tire iron through the widows of the Goffers' apartment after they moved in last weekend. The mob also shouted racial epithets at the terrified family huddled inside. The officer did not appear to try to discourage them, Goffer said. The Cicero Police Department, Steve Filipowski, an attorney representing the city of Cicero, said yesterday. POLICE would not say whether anyone had been arrested in the case. Goffer, a 32-year-old auto mechanic, said that when he rented the five-room, $280-a-month apartment, he was unaware that the surrounding four- square-block West Side area was oc- cupied only by whites, some of whome suburbs refer to it as "the island". There are integrated areas near the neigh- borhood, which borders the mostly white suburb of Cicero. MANY residents of "the island" questioned Thursday said they want to keep blacks out and most approved the violence. "Once you let one in, they're all gon- na come in," said a bartender in a tavern near the apartment that Goffer fled early Wednesday with his wife, Patricia Franklin, 28, a word processor at Northwestern University's law school; and their 8-year-old son, Michael. "Ten years ago there were not too many black people in the area, not they're all over," said the bartender, who refused to give his name. "People who've lived here 40 years don't want that." Anthony Cappetta, a lawyer whose office is a block from the apartment, said he did not believe area residen- ts-most of whom are retired and elderly-would mind blacks moving in. But one bar patron, who would not give his name, said his lease stated that he could not rent the building to non- Caucasians. Mike Gillespie of Cicero, a teenager who works in the area, said trouble between blacks and whites was com- mon on "the island." "They, whites, will do anything to get back at blacks," said Gillespie. "Almost all of them that come around here are trouble," he said. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Wholesale prices still falling WASHINGTON - The nation's wholesale prices fell 0.2 percent in Oc- tober, the Labor Department said yesterday. It was the third consecutive monthly decline and the longest continued decrease since 1967. The drop in the seasonally adjusted index of producer prices for finished goods followed declines of 0.1 percent in August and 0.2 percent in Septem- ber. The last such long decline came in the final three months of 1966 and the first three of 1967, when wholesale prices fell six months in a row. That was during an era of low inflation which began to crack in the late 1960s and was shattered in the mid-1970s. While producer prices do not alone determine future consumer prices, they help set the trends. Many private economists expect consumer price inflation - now running a little over an annual rate of 4 percent - to remain at close to that level through 1985. Shuttle sends Canadian satellite ,: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Discovery's astronauts, gaining on two errant satellites in a 17,000-mph race through space, launched a Canadian relay station yesterday to make room for the rescue of the first spacecraft monday. The glittering new, 9-foot-tall satellite owned by Telesat Canada was pushed out of Discovery's cargo bay by springs at 4:05 p.m. EST, as Discovery swept over the Indian Ocean on its 23rd swing aroun Earth. The communications satellite leased by the Navy will be deployed from' the shuttle Saturday to clear the way for the retrieval Wednesday of the second of the two satellites stranded in the wrong orbit by rocket failj)ure nine months ago. After covering 1.7 million miles 65 times around Earth, shuttle pilots Fredeick Hauch and David Walker plan to fly Discovery withing 95 feet of the first satellite, called palapa. Westar 6 will be rescued Wednesday. Associated Press Aaack!,,,, No, it's not Bill the Cat, it's Baby Fae, the historic baboon heart transplant recipient listening to her mother's voice over the telephone. Mom was suf- fering from a cold which prevented her from being in the room with Fae. State abortion funds in danger, ,t Soviets interested in reopening arms talks WASHINGTON (AP) - The Soviet Union has shown interest in reopening talks to curb nuclear missiles within the "umbrella" framework proposed by President Reagan in September at the United Nations, an administration official said yesterday. Negotiations broke down 11 months ago in Geneva, Switzerland, when the Soviets failed to thr- wart NATO's installation of new U.S. medium-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe. THE DISRUPTION of the talks left the two sides free to add to their weapons arsenals, restrained par- tly by past agreements. Reagan's call Sept. 24 at the U.N. General Assem- bly for a new negotiating "framework" was designed to sidestep the negotiating impasse. Since then, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobyrnin and lower ranking Soviet officials have expressed in- terest by asking questions about the formula, said the U.S. official, who spoke only on condition that he not be identified. THIS OFFICIAL said, however, that the Soviets "continue to emphasize substance over procedure," meaning they apparently are more con- cerned about the conflicting U.S. and Soviet positions on reducing nuclear weapons than about how the talks might be resumed. One way of implementing the "umbrella" proposal is to have Secretary of State George Shultz meet with Gromyko, accompanied by U.S. and Soviet arms control experts. "Out of these high-level chan- nels, formal negotiations would spin off," the U.S. of- ficial said. Reagan is considering the appointment of a special arms control envoy to assist Schultz in meetings with Gromyko. Among the possible candidates are Brent Scowcroft, national security assistant in the Ford administration, and current U.S. negotiators are Paul Nitze and Edward Rowny. Talks on the two classifications of nuclear weapons as well as space and anti-satellite weaopons would be lumped together, providing the Soviets with a face- saving opportunity to resume negotiations even though the new Pershing 2 and cruise missiles remain in Britain, Italy and West Germany. "WE THINK a new format could be helpful to them," the official said. "They have not endorsed the 'umbrella,' but they are asking questions." The official discussed the situation after The Washington Post published an account from Santa Barbara, Calif., where Reagan and some key ad- visers, including Robert McFarlane of the National Security Council, are mapping plans for the president's second term. The newspaper, quoting an unidentified official, said the talks could begin in a few months if the Soviets agreed. According to the official who spoke to The Associated Press, the Post account "goes a little bit too far" in indicating the Soviets were attracted to Reagan's proposal. "When we say they are interested in it, we mean they are asking questions," the official said. "It remains to be seen whether they want to pursue it." He said Dobrynin questioned Shultz about the idea at a meeting here Oct. 26, and Gromyko took it up with U.S. Ambassador Arthur Hartman in Moscow on Oct. 31. Informal discussions have been held at lower levels since then. Classified research proposal tabled LANSING - A spokesman for Planned Parenthood conceded yesterday the new House will convene next year without enough votes to preserve'. welfare abortions, but he was not ready to give up altogether. Mark Bertler and other abortions rights activists told a Capitol news con- ference that the results of Tuesday's election were a total disaster for their cause. The defeat of three Macomb County Democrats who had supported welfare abortions apparently gives the anti-abortion side the 74 votes it ned= to override Gov. James Blanchard and cut off state funding; most observers", agree. Bertler, representing Planned Parenthood Affiliates of Michigan, did not quarrel with that assessment yesterday. "We enter the 83rd Legislature without a pro-choice margin that woul support or sustain the Governor's veto in the House," he admitted. Redgrave awarded $100,000 BOSTON - A federal jury yesterday awarded actress Vanessa Redgrave $100,000 but rejected her claim the Boston Symphony Orchestra fired her from a 1982 narrator's role because of her pro-Palestine Liberation Organization politics. Redgrave, 47, had sought nearly $1.2 million in her civil rights and breach - of contract suit against the BSO. The jury accepted BSO claims it feared violence from the militant Jewish Defense League, her unrelenting opponent ever since she compared Israel with Germany and said it should be eliminated. Thomas Morris, general manager of the orchestra said that he was "pleased and delighted" that the jury dismissed the civil rights claim. "We did not take her politics into account, and the jury has confirmed that," he said. "If the jury had found for the BSO, no job would be safe," Redgrave told a crowd of reporters in the courthouse lobby. At the 1977 Oscar ceremonies, she criticized "Zionist hoodlums" as she ac- cepted the best supporting actress award for the movie "Julia." Times Sq. renovation approved NEW YORK - A $1.6 billion plan to replace some of the tawdry glitter of the Times Square area with huge office towers and a merchandise mart passed its last city government hurdle yesterday. After a day of public testimony and a night of backroom dealing, the city Board of Estimate voted unanimously at 1:30 a.m. to approve the city- and state-sponsored private development to clean up 42nd Street between, Broadway and Eighth Avenue. The plan was bitterly opposed by groups worried that undesirable denizens of Times Square would move into nearby residential areas and by those who contended it would rob the "Crossroads of the world" of its ex- citement. The go-ahead was obtained only after the city and state agreed to add $10. million to a $15 million, five-year program for the surrounding Clinton neighborhood. The money will be used to rehabilitate hundreds of apar- tments in Clinton, to help its small businesses and to fight to keep prostitution and pornography from moving in from Times Square. Planners said construction could start by late next year, but several court challenges already have been mounted against the plan and more were ex- pec ted. t Ir 14 (Continued from Page 1) may benefit the Navy in some way, but that that was not the main purpose of this project, Megzger said. Birdsall, too, did not rule out the possibility of military application. If in the long run we are terribly suc- cessful, I would say "yes" there may be some military application, he said. But any applied research would be the responsibility of the Navy, he added. Aronoff, however, told the committee that Birdsall told her the research could be better used to find submarines. BIRDSALL said he did not tell her this. "I told her it was basic research," he said. The RPC meeting took place behind locked doors. Even the press was barred from the conference room. But that didn't stop 13 of Aronoff's suppor- ters from crowding in to the hallway outside the room. SOME SAT quietly studying while others crouched, ears pressed to the door, straining to hear what was going on inside. Peter Putnam, a graduate student in English, said he came to make a statement, but also to find out more about the proposal. "This committee is a force that legitimizes weapons research," said Erica Freedman, Aronoff's predecessor as student representative on the Classified Research Review Panel. FREEDMAN raised similar objec- tions to one of Birdsall's projects last year, but the RPC approved the proposal against her protest. "Just because there's no protesting of military research going on on campus doesn't mean it (military research) has stopped," said Freedman. The RPC chose to postpone its decision on the proposal until it receives a written statement from Bir- dsall describing the purposes of his research, said commitee chairman Williams. Williams added that if Bir- dsall's schedule permitted, the commit- tee would like him to make a presen- tation at their Dec. 14 meeting. Birdsall is presently visiting the Massachusetts-based Woodshole Oceanic Institute. Woodshole resear- chers will be working with Birdsall and Metzger if the project is approved by the University. The RPC is not the final authority in project approvals, said Williams. He said the committee will make its recommendation to Alfred Sussman, acting vice-president for research. Sussman said he will consider the committee's recommendation, but ad- ded that he then makes a recommen- dation to the University executive of- ficers for the final decision. Although the board has the final say, "My recommendation will have some for- ce," said Sussman. 0 (Cb~ ur~ 31&inliip eruire0 Petition gains signat'ures 15 percent energy credit for up to $3,000 (Continued from Page 1) worth of expenses, he said. ability for tenant representation." Not all landlords are against the Other criticisms of the plan point to proposal, because many have already the wide variety of rental properties in complied with the standards Kaller Ann Arbor. "What works well in one said. apartment may not work well in Jensen Cheng, an independent lan- another," said Dick Vail, the manager dlord, agreed with Kaller saying, "I've of Ravalp Management. "Landlords done all that. I've got no trouble with would be against it. It's never going to (the proposal)." work on any broad spectrum because it Ed Gottschalk of Post Realty said the is so cost inefficient." weatherization plan "has a chance and BUT SUPPORTERS of the new plan, is headed in the right direction," say this proposal is much less expen- because the proposal is more flexible sive than the previous one. Kaller said than the old plan. the materials needed to comply with Currently, the law relating to energy the proposed ordinance should only cost efficiency in rental property requires about $300 per house, and would be a that landlords furnish their tenants one-time investment good for about with information of monthly utility bills twenty years. before they sign the lease. Landlords could also receive a tax If the weatherization proposal credit for completing the required passes, the law would go into effect in work, Kaller said. They could collect a December of 1985. Pill proponent visits 'U' CAMPUS CHAPEL 1236 Washtenaw Ct. A Campus Ministry of the Christian Reformed Church Rev. Don Postema, Pastor 668-7421 10:00a.m. Morning Worship. 11:15a.m.; Refreshments 6:00p.m. Evening Worshop. Saturday Sermon: "Paying Attention to Our Distant Neighbors." Sunday 6:00 p.m.: Celebration of World Hunger. Wednesday 10:00 p.m.: Evening Prayers. LUTHERAN CAMPUS MINISTRY at Lord of Light. (LCA-ALC-AELC) 801 S. Forest at Hill St. 668-7622 Pastor: Galen Hora Sunday Worship; 10:30 a.m. 6: 00p.m.; Supper. Wednesday Evening Worship, 9:30 FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 120 S. State St. (Corner of State and Huron) 662-4536 Church School and Sunday Service 9:30 and 11:00. November II: "Obadiah: The Prophet of Hate" by Dr. Donald B. Strobe. Ministers: Rev. Wayne T. Large Dr. Donald B. Strobe Dr. Gerald R. Parker Rev. 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