Elack alumni lan to address rough issues The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 7, 1984 - Page 9 U.S. vetoes U.N. Middle East resolutio By GREGORY HUTTON ire than 200 black alumni are ex- cted to return to campus today for a eekend reunion which will focus on the higher education for black students. "Staying Power: Crisis in Black Higher Education" is the theme for the eighth annual. all-class reunion, and "this year's reunion is truly something innovative," according to Wilma Alexander, chairperson of the event. "We have accomplished something that we've been after for the past eight years: We are going to the University .ommunity to hear about the problems hat black students are facing. We want to hear the problems from the people involved." TQNIGHT AT the Alumni Center a panpl of student, alumni, and ad- ministrators will discuss recruitment and retention of black students in an open panel discussion beginning at 7:30 p.m. After the football game Saturday the reunited alumni will "have a banquet followed by a keynote address by Niara Sudarkasa, associate vice president for academic affairs. The evening will also include awards to four academically outstanding black students from the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Fund, which is supported by alumni contributions. Although the alumni hope to learn a great deal about the problems facing black students, Alexander said they do not expect to solve those problems in one weekend. "Maybe we can do that in later years once we have hear the problems for ourselves," she said. UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States yesterday vetoed a Security Council resolution demanding that the Israeli army in southern Lebanon remove "obstacles to the restoration of normal conditions in the areas under its occupation." The vote was 14-1: THE RESOLUTION called on Israel "to respect strictly the rights of the civilian population under its . oc- cupation." It demanded that Israel open all roads and lift restrictions on the movement of people and goods and the operation of Lebanese government institutions. Warren Clark, the U.S. represen- tative at the council, cast the veto and said, "We cannot be a party to an un- balanced solution which takes a one- sided, myopic look at only one part of the problem." "We believe it is unrealistic and unreasonabdle for the council to ad- dress the question of foreign forces in southern Lebanon and humanitarian and security problems there, without dealing with these same problems in all of Lebanon," he added. HE REFERRED to Syrian and Palestinian forces that control much of norther and eastern Lebanon. Lebanese Ambassador Rachid Fakhoury, who introduced the draft resolution through council-member Malta, said after the vote that his coun- try "deeply regrets the opposition of a friendly superpower, the United States, to a resolution limited to humanitarian aspects." He thanked the council members voting in favor for "feeling the human tragedy" of 800,000 Lebanese living un- der Israeli Qccupation and "inhuman practices." ARYEN LEVIN, deputy Israeli am- bassador to the United Nations, said the area under Israeli occupation has been kept free of the bloody turmoil and upheaval plaguing the rest of Lebanon. "In the month of August, for instance, not one Lebanese was killed in the south. But according to Lebanese police sources, some 215 were killed elsewhere in Lebanon," Levin said. He described charges of Israeli mistreat- ment of Lebanese citizens as "patent nonsense." Israel invaded southern Lebanon in 1982 to drive out Palestinian guerrillas who staged attacks ou Israeli border communities. CLASHES between Israeli troops and Arab guerrillas have increased recen- tly in southern Lebanon, and Israel has responded with tighter controls on the movements of civilians. Levin also noted the resolution made no mention of Syria, which Levin called "the tormentor of Lebanon over this past decade." Israel and Lebanon are not members of the Security Council but were allowed to take part in the debate. 'The Soviet Union's deputy represen- tative, Richard Ovinnikov, said the U.S. veto was a "go-ahead for continuation" of . the Israeli occupation and "atrocities" in southern Lebanon. He said the United States has a "100 per- cent anti-Arab record in the Security Council." Explaining his vote in favor of the resolution, Britain's representative Sir John Thompson said Israel's continued occupation of southern Lebanon "is wrong." Gromyko agrees to hiet with Shultz WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko will meet in New York City on Sept. 26 to discuss a wide range of issues, including arms control, State Department officials said ye&*rday. BUT A SENIOR official, who spoke nl on condition he not be identified, cautioned against expecting any "b eakthrough or dramatic moement" toward improved U.S.- So'iet relations. He said the meeting wo4id "not be a negotiating forum." The meeting will be held in connection witt the annual meeting of 'Pe U.N. General Assembly. A meeting also may be ranged between President Reagan arikiGromyko in Washington, although officials insist nothing is decided. 1eagan is planning to address the U4 General Assembly in New York, pr bly on Sept. 24. S4JLTZ AND Gromyko last met in Stoholm in January. It has been alhte t routine for the U.S. secretary of staand the Soviet foreign minister to met; at the United Nations each fall, although a scheduled meeting last fall, was, canceled following the shooting down of a South Korean airliner by the oviets. Authorities in New York prohibited Gromyko's aircraft from landing at area airports. American officials would have permitted a landing at a military airport, but Gromyko decided against coming.! John Hughes, the State Department spokesman, said in announcing the Sept. 26 meeting that he did "not an- ticipate any problems" in arranging landing rights for Gromyko's plane this year. IN MOSCOW, the Soviet Union an- nounced yesterday that Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov has been removed as chief of the general staff and first deputy defense minister, and replaced by Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev. The Tass announcement said Ogarkov had been "relieved...in con- nection with a new appointment," but did not say what his new post would be. Western experts have speculated that the 66-year-old Ogarkov might even- tually succeed Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, 75. But there has been no in- dication that Ustinov is ready to retire. Ogarkov has been highly visible in the last year-conducting a rare news conference to present the Soviet version of the shooting down of the South Korean jetliner Sept. 1, 1983, and speaking for the Kremlin on the stalled negotiations with the United States on nuclear weapons. Akhromeyev, 61, has for the past 10 years been a deputy and the first deputy chief of staff. Like Ogarkov, Akhromeyev is considered an expert in nuclear disarmament issues. Associated Press! The sky is falling This gift-wrapped two-ton meteorite was sent to Louise Robertson in Whitesville, Kentucky by her son yesterday. The surprise birthday present was Robertson's plaything when she was growing up on a farm in Indiana. Public executions keep Khadafy in control TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Four mon- ths after surviving a coup attempt, Col. Moammar Khadafy has regained full control of the country using youthful shock troops, prison camps and televised executions by strangulation. During 15 years of nearly absolute rule of this North African nation, Khadafy has survived at least six coup attempts, diplomats say. BUT THE last one, on May 8, against Khadafy's heavily fortified barracks- home in Tripoli was different. This time it wasn't the military but a small band of civilians that carried out the attem- pt. Most of the commandos, perhaps a dozen, were trapped by Libyan forces in an apartment building and killed, sources say. For the next month and a half, Libya was swept by a reign of terror in- stigated by Khadafy and carried out by his fanatic young supporters known as Revolutionary Committees. The armed youths prowled the sand- swept streets arresting anyone they deemed suspicious. Shots rang out throughout the nights almost to the end of June, residents said. RESIDENTS and diplomats spoke about conditions in Libya on condition they not be identified for fear of retaliation or diplomatic repercussions. Diplomats say 12 people officially were executed but the number may be closer to 120. "Seven were brutally strangled with clothes-hanging wire on television. It was obscene. They died very slowly, while the kids slapped them on their faces," one diplomat said. THE PUBLIC executions ended because of protests at home and from other Arab countries, the diplomats said. As many as 5,000 people - including Westerners - were rounded up by the revolutionary Committees and locked up in "concentration camps" in the desert, they said. Many were held only a few days until they could prove who they were, said the diplomats, who said they estimated "thousands" remained imprisoned. At the end of June, the Revolutionary Committees disappeared from the streets but they are still around - if operating more discreetly. BUT KHADAFY has repeatedly vowed, that he will hunt down and eliminate without mercy the "stray dogs" that oppose his revolution. Diplomats believe there are only a few thousand people in the Revolutionary Committees but that- they are enough to control the country., "As long as you have a big army and the Revolutionary Committees it is easy to control the country. There are only 3.5 million Libyans, after all," one diplomat said. Yesterday Libya placed its troops on alert and accused the United States of staging "huge military maneuvers" of- f its coast, the official news agency reported. U.S. Navy officials, in telephone in- terviews with the Associated Press, said they did not know of any U.S. naval maneuvers taking place in the Mediterranean near Libya. CRISP lines leave students in limbo (Continued from Page 1) o'ning, there were 400 people in line;, the line's length "could be four times . . the length of Angell Hall" and that the average waiting time hovered around two hours until about 12:30 p.m. He described the situation as "chaos" a rather radical change from one day earlier when he reported that CRISP's new home was "looking amazingly good" and that things were going "amazingly well." * "IT'S REALLY not been fun," lamented senior Pam Kaplan, who said she had been waiting in line for over thre hours and still had not reached the door to CRISP. "I don't know what the situation is," said Marvin Woods, a sophomore in the engineering school. "But it should be made more expedient," especially sin- ce this is only the drop/add period. Registration officials were somewhat baffled by the large numbers of studen- ts using CRISP, but Bob Wallin, direc- tor of Checkpoint, a University service which keeps track of which courses are closed, offered at least a partial ex- planation. HE SAID that certain lower level course sections closed early this year, leaving many freshpersons unhappy with the schedules they registered for this summer. When those freshpersons arrived this fall, many may have decided to make schedule changes, he said. Karunas said that almost all of yesterday's problems were caused by a larger-than-usual number of people at- tempting to make course changes, rather than by the tight confines of CRISP's new home. CRISP's new location is about 600 square feet smaller than its old confines in Lorch Hall. Despite chaotic conditions yesterday, Karunas said that the situation would not become even worse this winter when all students have to register for classes. 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