4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, December 7, 1984 'U' profs criticize U.S. foreign policy IN BRIEF. By DAVID KLAPMAN Eight University professors painted a not-too- pretty picture of United States foreign policy in many parts of the world yesterday at a forum on world problems in Rackham Amphitheatre. For example, the first two phases of the Reagan's administration's foreign policy in the Middle East have failed, Political Science Prof. Jerrold Green told an audience of about 50 professors and students. THE UNITED states viewed the Mid-East as a turf to settle its own problems with the Soviet Union bet- ween 1980-82 and ignored the region's problems, Green said. Likewise, the second phase of the Middle East foreign policy - dubbed the "Reagan Initiative," - aimed to balance the interests of both Israelis and Palestinians. But this plan failed also after Israel rejected it within 12 hours and Jordan'srKing Hussein followed suit when it became clear Palestinian Liberation Organizaton leader Yassar Arafat would not allow Hussein to speak for the Palestinians. Political Science Prof. Ali Mazrui also said that the American government places too much emphasis on Soviet presence in Africa. He pointed to constant fears about Moammar Khadafy's dictatorship in Libya and the presence of about 25,000 Cuban soldiers in Angola. U.S. fears about Soviet subversion are close to ap- proaching "paranoia," said Alfred Meyer, a professor of political science. Soviets are actually ''very cautious,"he added. Meyer criticized both the United States and the Soviet Union for zero-sum thinking - the political theory that a success for one party must be compen- sated by an equal loss by another. This mode of defining foreign policy increases chances for nuclear war and decreases the possibility of cooperation," he told the audience. Meyer ... our view toward USSR close to "paranoia" Local schools can now halt busing programs From The Associated Press WASHINGTON-For the first time, the Justice Department told a court yesterday that a local school board can abolish a court-ordered busing problem and return to neighborhood schools even if that increases racial segregation at its schools. The department filed a friend-of-the- court brief in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a case involving Norfolk, Va. But Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds, head of the department's civil rights division, said the principles he was advancing could effect "many, many other school districts around the country." IN THE BRIEF, Reynolds argued that Norfolk had every right to halt the court-ordered crosstown busing of elementary students even though the number of schools which are 90 percent black will rise as a result from zero to 10. If accepted by the courts, the com- plex legal justification offered by Reynolds would solve a major political and legal problem he has faced since taking office four years ago. Reynolds moved swiftly to implement President Reagan's opposition to the use of busing to achieve school desegregation. In doing so, he refused to have the Justice Department support in- tegration plans that required busing, but that only affected new cases. THE SUPREME COURT long ago ruled that busing is a legal means of ending school segregation and hun- dreds of cities are operating under court-approved busing orders. Until yesterday, Reynolds had never advan- ced a legal justification for junking those court orders. He argued that Norfolk was legally entitled to end the busing system which had been used to break down school segregation and replace it with a neighborhood system for two reasons: First, he said, a court ruled nine years ago that the busing system had ended Norfolk's illegal dual schools, system and replaced it with a unitary system for both blacks and whites. Since that declaration ended court supervision of the system, he said Nor- folk was free to implement any system whose purpose was not discriminatory. And he concluded that despite the in- crease in school segregation the pur- pose of the new Norfolk residential plan was a legal effort to stem white flight from the schools and to increase parent involvement in schools. "It is time in Norfolk-as in many, many other school districts around the country that have sustained for years good faith compliance with court- ordered desegregation plans-to restore to the local authorities full responsibility for running their public schools," Reynolds said. "Our filing in this case urges that result." AN INVITATION YOU CANT REFUSE TO THE MOVIE EVENT OF, THE YEAR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Mackey may head U of Hawaii HONOLULU-Outgoing Michigan State University President Cecil Mackey and the University of Hawaii Board of Regents are working out final contract details that would make Mackey the next UH president, the Honolulu Advertiser reported yesterday. There is an agreement in principle and only contract details need to be worked out, the newspaper said, citing "board sources." Mackey met with regents about a month ago in Honolulu and was im- pressive, the newspaper said. If contract details are worked out, Mackey would probably move to Hawaii in June. The newspaper said University of Connecticut President John DiBiaggio would take over as MSU president in July. The search for a new UH president began early this year. Death toll exceeds 2,000 in India BHOPAL, India-The death toll in history's worst chemical disaster passed 2,000 yesterday as hundreds of Indians who fled a choking cloud of poisonous gas returned to their homes facing a future threatened by blin- dness, kidney failure and liver disease. "The worst is over," said a state official at Hamidia Hosital. which was swamped with dead and injured after 25 tons of vaporized methyl isocyanate spewed from a U.S-owned pesticide plant, engulfing the city and a 15-square mile mile area early Monday. Five members of a Union Carbide team-a doctor, two engineers, a chemist, and an occupational health expert-flew on to Bhopal, a central In- dian city of 900,000, to investigate Monday's leak of methyl isocyanate from a 45-ton underground storage tank. They were denied permission to enter the plant, which had been sealed to prevent tampering with evidence about the leak, the United News of India said. Hijackers kill two Americans BEIRUT, Lebanon-Five Arab gunmen threatened to kill every U.S. citizen aboard a hijacked Kuwaiti airliner at Tehran airport yesterday and then shot to death two more hostages, including the second American reported killed. It was the worst case ever of cold-blooded hijack executions. The killings brought to at least three the number of hostages slain in the three-day showdown at Mehrabad Airport. At least 56 hostages were roped to their seats aboard the Kuwaiti Airways A-300 Airbus as the hijackers pressed their command that Kuwait free 21 people imprisoned for the bombings of U.S. and French facilities last December. The official Iranian news agency said one of the two passengers killed Thursday was an American, reportedly the second U.S. citizen slain since the plane was comandeered Tuesday. His body was riddled with six bullets. McNamara breaks long silence to defend Westmoreland NEW YORK-Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara yesterday broke his long public silence about Vietnam to defend retired Gen. William Westmoreland, the wartime commander accused by CBS of suppressing the facts about enemy strength. Testifying in Westmoreland's $120 million libel suit against the network and three of its employees, NcNamara said he repeatedly warned CBS producer George Crile in 1981 that the thesis of "The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception" was wrong. "I kept repeating that I did not believe the data had been faked. I did not believe the data had been suppressed. I did not believe Gen. Westmoreland had conspired to deceive the president and me," McNamara said. The CBS documentary, broadcast in January 1982, alleged that West- moreland headed a 1967 "conspiracy" to suppress the news that communist strength was much greater than had been believed and that it was still growing. As a result, said CBS, President Lyndon Johnson and others in Washington may have been taken by surprise when the communists laun- ched their powerful Tet offensive in early 1968. Mexico steps up peso devaluation MEXICO CITY-The government yesterday increased the daily rate at which the peso is devalued, in an attempt to promote tourism, make Mexican goods more competitive abroad and slow the flow of dollars out of the country. The decision had long been expected despite the government's inter- nationally praised efforts to bring the economy out of a serious tailspin. It increases the daily slide of the peso to 17 centavos a day-less than one- tenth of a U.S. cent-from the 13 centavo daily slide in effect for more than a year. A year from now, if the 17 centavo rate remains in effect, 266.02 pesos will be worth $1. The rate yesterday was 204.97 pesas to the dollar. The plan went into effect Thursday. It is the first change in the regulation of the peso since September 1983, and is intended to boost exports, attract tourists, and make goods on the Mexican side of the border more com- petitive with those on the U.S. side. The sliding, controlled scale also is aimed at averting a trauma like the one triggered by three major devaluations that weakened the peso currency. in 1982 when Mexico was plunged into its worst recession in half a century. bhe fithgan. aa ly Vol. XCV-No. 76 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. 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