Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Saturday, November 17, 1984 Inquiring Photographer By Dan Habib IN BRIEF "How do you feel about the proposed student code of non-academic conduct?" Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports a Dave Reiter, RC/LSA sophomore: "It gives the University undue power over the students." Julie Buch, LSA senior: "I don't think it's fair to be punished for the same crime twice." Kim Garrett, LSA sophomore: "I think we should keep the freedom we have now." Paul Cohen, RC/LSA senior: Adam Cort, LSA junior: "It is "The administration does not general and indiscriminate need the headache involved and it can be used to infringe with the code as it now stan- on student rights and ds." freedom.' :Karim Eldib, LSA junior "It is in opposition to the academic and intellectual freedom at a university of this caliber.' Brigette DeLay, RC/LSA junior: "I feel it's an in- fringement on student rights. Claire Allen, Nursing fresh- woman: "I have mixed feelings. It's good because there is an increasing alcohol problem on college campuses, however people who are legally able to drink should not have their rights taken away." Dana McPhall, LSA senior: "I'm not sure our opinions would be fairly represented and the fact that we could be incriminated even though the courts found us not guilty would be unfair." Suzie Pollins, LSA senior: "I don't feel it's the University's right to have that control over our lives." Inquiring Photographer will appear every Saturday. Equal pay 'loony,' official says Salvadoran rebels talk peace WASHINGTON-Salvadoran rebel leader Guillermo Ungo said yesterday his group is willing to consider a unilateral cease-fire and some form of par- ticipation in upcoming elections as part of a process he hopes will lead to a political settlement with the U.S.-backed government. Ungo said the leftist rebels would agree to a cease-fire if certain conditions are agreed to by the Salvadoran Army. He did not specify the conditions. Ungo, accompanied by three colleagues, spoke to a news conference spon- sored by Foreign Policy magazine. Hector Oqueli, one of Ungo's colleagues, declined to say whether the rebels will formally set forth a cease-fire proposal at the next round of talks between the government and the insurgents, which may be held later this month. Ungo is head of the Democratic Revolutionary Force, the political army of the Salvadoran rebel movement. Landmark shuttle mission ends CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.-Shining brightly in the rays of the rising sun, the shuttle Discovery coasted gracefully back to Earth yesterday from a 3.3 million-mile voyage, carrying the first satellites ever salvaged from outer space. "This certainly has to be looked at as a very historic day in America's space program," said Jesse Moore, director of NASA's shuttle program, af- ter the space plane dropped gracefully out ot orbit, carving a series of circles in the sky as it headed for a landing just three miles from the launch pad where the space travelers started their daring and unprecedented mission eight days earlier. Because of the early morning landing, earthlings got a glimpse of the shut- tle rarely seen-illuminated by the rising sun during the hottest part of re- entry. It glowed "brighter than a shooting star" over Texas and glistened in the Florida dawn. In the missions the astronauts deployed two communications satellites, boldy snared two others from their wayward orbits and conducted crystal- growing experiments that could lead to a major new industry in space. U.S., Iraq end diplomatic silence WASHINGTON-The United States and Iraq edged closer to resuming full diplomatic relations as the White House announced yesterday that President Reagan will meet Nov. 26 with the highest Iraqi official to visit Washington since ties between the two countries were severed in 1967. Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz will confer with Reagan at the White House. Speakes refused to speculate on the purpose of the meeting or to confirm widespread reports that the United States will resume diplomatic relations., with Iraq, which is engaged in a long and bloody war of attrition with Iran. In Baghdad, the Iraqi foreign ministry confirmed the meeting and said Aziz would discuss "bilateral relations and Middle East developments" with 1 Reagan. Speakes noted that Aziz will be "the most senior Iraqi official to visit Washington since relations were broken in 1967" after the Arab-Israeli war. U.S. sends more aid to Ethiopia WASHINGTON-The United States is sending an additional 85,000 tons of food worth $37.5 million to drought-stricken Ethiopia as part of an all-out ef- fort to feed the estimated 7 million people who are threatened with star- y vation there, the chief of the U.S. foreign aid agency said yesterday. M. Peter McPherson, administrator of the Agency for International Development, said port and transport facilities in Ethiopia are inadequate to accomplish the task of getting the food from cargo ships to "the mouth of the starving kid." McPherson told reporters at the White House that efforts are under way to double the capacity of the food distribution system inside Ethiopia, the African nation hardest hit by the drought. In addition to the new aid for Ethiopia, McPherson said, the United States is sending $5.9 million in food aid to Mozambique, $8.5 million to Mauritania and $5.6 million to Chad, totaling 52,000 tons of food. The aid agency chief said arrangements being made in Ethiopia to in- crease the number of available trucks, and to install equipment to ac- celerate unloading of grain from ships and bag it for shipment to the interior of the country. Factory slowdown spurs worry WASHINGTON-The operating rate at factories, mines, and utilities edged down in October for the third consecutive month, the government reported yesterday, as signals of a sharp slowdown in the economic expan- sion continue to mount. The Federal Reserve Board reported that industry operated at 81.8 per- cent of capacity in October, down 0.2 percentage point from the September level. The October decline compared with an even sharper drop of 0.6 percen- tage point in September and a 0.1-point decline in August. The August drop broke a string of 20 consecutive increases as industry hired new workers and expanded operating rates, which had shrunk to a low of 69.6 percent during the 1981-82 recession. The three consecutive declines left some economists wondering whether the current pause in economic growth is, in fact, the beginning of another recession. Vol. XCV -No. 63 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) 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 United Press International, Pacific News Service, Los Angeles Times Syndi- cate and College Press Service, and United Students Press Service. I.- .1 E 4 14 WASHINGTON (AP) - The chair- man of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, echoing criticism by the Reagan administration, said yesterday that comparable pay for women is "the looniest idea since Looney Tunes came on the screen." Clarence Pendelton said he was expressing his personal opinion, and predicted a "lively debate" when the eight-member commission formally takes up the subject early next year. IN THE midst of the presidential election campaign last month, White House economist William Niskanen labeled comparable pay "a truly crazy proposal." White House spokesman Larry Speakes said President Reagan thinks the idea is "nebulous...at best." Pendelton spoke at a news conference along with Linda Chavez, staff director of the independent commission which turned markedly conservative a year ago with the addition of new Reagan appointees. Chavez said comparable pay is "against the grain of what the women's movement has stood for the last 20 years" - opening of doors to traditionally male jobs. THE NEWS conference was called to release 16 scholarly papers on com- parable pay that were presented to the commission last June. Eight favor the concept, also called comparable worth, and eight are opposed. Comparable pay means that people in different jobs of equivalent worth to an employer should get the same salary, such as a librarian and a chemist, or a cafeteria worker and a truck driver. It is not equal pay for equal work, which bars wage discrimination if men and women hold the same job. Equal pay for equal work is required by law and supported by the commission. "THIS IS probably the looniest idea since Looney Tunes came on the screen," Pendelton said, referring to the popular children's cartoons. "I think you just cannot begin to do things to the market place that have served this country so well. "If a truck driver makes more than a secretary, she should be able to apply for a job as a truck driver" - and use the law to fight any job discrimination, he commented. By forcing salaries higher in some traditionally female jobs, he said, com- parable worth could backfire if em- ployers with "cafeterias and other kin- ds of services...exchange that for coffee machines and other kinds of vending machines." If the concept is used in government employment, Pendleton added, gover- nments would have to raise more money and "it doesn't come from the tooth fairy." Diann Rust-Tierney, a staff attor- ney at the national Women's Law Cen- ter, disputed the Pendleton-Chavez comments, saying comparable worth "is a legal concept designed to deal with a very real problem that existing laws don't deal with. "Existing laws require equal pay for equal work only when men and women are performing the same job," she said. "Men and women by and large do not perform the same jobs. Therefore, we want to deal with wage disparities that exist. The reason for wage disparity is sex segregation in the work force. 14 i, Ex-diplomat charged QIlburcli 3Utrsbip K'~IME in Gandhi's murder CAMPUS CHAPEL 1236 Washtenaw Ct. A Campus Ministry of the Christian Reformed Church Rev. Don Postema, Pastor 668-7421 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship. 11:15a.m.; Refreshments 6:00 p.m. Evening Worshop. Wednesday 10:00 p.m.: Evening Prayers. UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL and STUDENT CENTER 1511 Washtenaw Robert Kavasch, Pastor 663-5560 Sunday Services at 9:15 and 10:30. Thursday: Bible Study at 7:30; Vocal Choir at 8:30 and Handbell Choir at 9:30. * * * FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH AND AMERICAN BAPTIST CAMPUS FOUNDATION 502 East Huron, 663-9376 (Between State and Division) Sunday Worship, 9:55 a.m. November 18: "In All Things Give Thanks" Midweek Study and Dinner for Students: Thursday, 5:15 p.m. FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 120S. State St. (Corner of State and Huron) 662-4536 Church School and Sunday Service 9:30 and 11:00. November 18: "Jonah: The Prophet of Universalism" by Dr. Donald B. Strobe Ministers: Rev. Wayne T. Large Dr. Donald B. Strobe Dr. Gerald R. Parker Rev. Tom Wachterhauser Education Director, Rose McLean Broadcast Sundays 9:30a.m. - WRNS, 1290AM Televised Mondays 8: 00p.m. - Cable Channel 9. * * * FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 1432 Washtenaw Ave., 662-4466 (Between S. University and Hill) Worship and Church School at 9:30 and 11:00. Senior Handbell and Youth Choirs. Mary Catherine Edwards, Ann Arbor Chamber Orchestra, Violin. Broadcast of Service: 11:00 a.m. - WPAG, 10.50 AM New Delhi, India (AP) - In- vestigators probing Indira Gandhi's assassination have asked that a former Indian diplomat be extradited from Norway on grounds he was involved in a conspiracy to kill her, news reports said. The former diplomat, Harinder Singh, a Sikh, told Norwegian television in Oslo yesterday night that he was sur- prised by the charges reported by the pro-government Hindustan Times newspaper and the Press Trust of India news agency. "I WAS completely taken aback, sort of numbed. I did not expect that the goverment of a country like India would use such mean tricks to prevent me from obtaining asylum in this country," he said. He added that he did not defend the slaying of Gandhi, but considered her death "the revenge of fate." Harinder Singh, 37, resigned last June as India's charge d'affaires in Oslo, renounced his Indian citizenship and applied for asylum in Norway after the Indian army's assault on the Golden Temple, the holiest Sikh shrine, which had become a sanctuary for Sikh terrorists. HE REMAINS in Oslo on a tem- porary resident permit while the Nor- wegian government studies his ap- plication, the Norwegian Broadcasting Co. said. Foreign. Ministry spokesman Tor- bjoern Froeysnes told the network that the government "would have to recon- sider his resident permit if India requests his extradition." The Hindustan Times also said in early editions of its Saturday paper that the Indian government had asked In- terpol to help find several European-based Sikh extemists who may have plotted the Oct. 31 assassination. YESTERDAY the newspaper said Harinder Singh financed the slayng with a $100,000 payment to Beant Singh, 36, who was identified by authorities as one of two Sikh assassins who were members of Indira Gandhi's security guard. Beant Singh was shot to death by other security guards right after Gandhi was killed. The reports said the former envoy was a relative of Beant Singh, a specially trained police commando who reportedly had traveled with Gandhi abroad. Foreign Ministry spokesman Salman Haidar had no comment when asked about yesterday's report. 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