Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Sunday, December 9, 1984 Indian technical team enters BHOPAL, India (AP) - The official death toll from a poison gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant rose to about 1,900 yesterday, and company officials said a technical team was allowed inside the plant to begin an investigation into the disaster. R.N. Tandon, the chief medical officer of the city of Bhopal, said 300 more survivors of the gas leak were treated yesterday -at Hamidia Hospital, the main facility in Bhopal. SOME fetuses had died in the wombs of their mothers, while other victims were treated for eye irritations, epileptic-like fits and vomiting, he said. The official death toll was about 1,900, he said. Officials earlier had said 1,600 people had died from the poison gas. Indian news agencies have placed the death toll from the gas leak at 2,500. Warren Anderson, the Union Carbide chairman who was arrested by police in a day earlier, met with the Indian foreign minister, Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra, in New Delhi, the U.S. Embassy said. Of- ficials said Anderson was expected to return to the United States today. Kurt Mazurosky, a spokesman at Union Carbide headquarters in Danbury, Conn., said Anderson in- dicated in a telephone conversation with company of- ficials that the technical team had been allowed in- side the plant to investigate last Monday's leak of methyl isocyanate gas from an underground storage tank. There was no immediate confirmation of the report from Indian officials. The Danbury News Times, quoting an unidentified company official, reported earlier that Indian of- ficials had agreed to allow crews back into the plant to finish processing the lethal gas into pesticides. But Mazurosky said yesterday he could not confirm that report. "As far as we know, we have not received reports that India is allowing workers into the plant," he said. AN ESTIMATED 150,000 to 200,000 people were af- fected by the leak. Hamidia has only 1,000 beds, and officials set up gas plant makeshift clinics under tents around the hospital. A number of social organizations also set up relief camps near the hospital, and they supplied free medicine to victims. The United News of India reported that Union Car- bide had appealed to Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa to adopt children orphaned in the gas tragedy. Mother Teresa runs a Calcutta-based missionary organization. There was no immediate response from her. Two executives of Union Carbide's Indian affiliate, who were arrested with Anderson on Friday, remained under house arrest at the company guest house overlooking Bhopal. The two were identified as Keshub Mahindra, the chairman, and V.P. Gokhale, managing director. Police arrested Anderson and the two Indian executives on a series of preliminary charges that in- cluded negligence and corporate liability for the gas leak. In the Indian legal system, formal charges may follow the preliminary Charges and an investigation. IN BRIEF China still has Marxist goal, say diplomats PEKING (AP)-Communist China's retreat from orthodox Marxism is a means of justifying profound economic reforms begun six years ago, but the nation has not shelved Marx's ultimate goals, diplomatic analysts say. The Communist Party newspaper People's Daily said Friday that while it is useful to study the works of 19th- century philosopher Karl Marx, con- sidered the founder of communism, China must look elsewhere for guidance in the 1980s. THE DIPLOMATS, who condition that they not be spoke on identified, said they considered the statement a significant one underpinning China's shift toward a mixed economy and away from unbending devotion to any one school of thought. "They are trying to develop an evolving ideology," one diplomat said. "This is not to deny Marx's goals, but it's time to stop going back to Marx to solve problems he saw last century." Quoting the late Chairman Mao Tse- Tung, the revolutionary who led the 1949 communist takeover, the newspaper editorial said the party must mold itself to suit Chinese con- ditions. But in the six years since Chairman Deng Xiaoping took over, he has done away with many of Mao's policies and buried Mao's exhortations of class struggle and egalitarianism. While claiming loyalty to Mao, Deng has nevertheless declared Mao's 1966- 76 Cultural Revolution a disaster. House passes health, prison bills LANSING, (UPI)-Lawmakers approved major legislation regarding health care costs and prison over- crowding during a marathon meeting that completed the main action of the 1984 session. The meeting-stretching from Friday morning until about 2:30 a.m. yesterday-was the second grueling endurance test in a row for lawmakers who did much the same thing Thur- sday. A MAJOR accomplishment was adoption of the final bill in a package designed to curb health care costs by authorizing creation of so-called preferred provider agreements. The state house has also completed a modification of the controversial early prisoner release law and approved spen- ding about $16 million to begin work on several new prisons. The bill changing the state's so-called Emergency Powers Act-under which the minumum sentences of most inmates are slashed by 90 days when the prisons are jammed beyond capacity for more than a month-was approved 92-0 by the House and sent to Gov. James G. Blanchard. The House vote early yesterday came as representatives finished their 1984 session. The Senate, however, must still complete work on the prison financing next week. INFORMAL MEETING FRANCE AND SPAIN SUMMER PROGRAMS Tuesday, December 11 4:10 p.m. Lecture Room II, MLB Spend July and August 1985 in France or Spain and earn U of M credit for second- or third-year French or Spanish All interested persons are welcome DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES 4108 MLB 764-5344 Huck Finn turns 100 (Continued from Page 1) ITS ABILITY to stir controversy is another measure of the vitality of the book first published Dec. 10, 1884, in Britain and Canada, a few months ahead of its U.S. appearance on Feb. 18, 1885. It was condemned as "trash" and pulled from school library shelves almost as soon as it was published, and it's avoided as a text even now in many schools-including Hannibal High. Detractors first wanted it banned as "vulgar," later as "racist." THE PLOT OF the novel that Ernest Hemingway said "all modern American literature comes from" is simple: a boy's escape from his father's beatings and his guardian's "sivilizing," his alliance with a runaway slave, Jim, and their adven- tures while floating down the river on a raft. But the book's rich themes, the frien- dship between the black man and the white boy in a pre-Civil War setting, the graphic portrayal of Huck's brutal Pap, Huck's humor and his salty vernacular made it more than a children's story. "Ityrequires adult objectivity," said Betty Anders, whose junior high English class in Hannibal studies the more nostalgic "Tom Sawyer." "'HUCKLEBERRY FINN' doesn't represent some sort of idyllic society," said Justin Kaplan, who has written and edited critiques of Twain. "The society Huck sees makes him sick." At one point, the rafters pass a back- water town where the disgusted boy- narrator says the local "loafers" set dogs on fire and "laugh at the fun and look grateful for the noise.' Huck learns lessons in virtue from Jim, and his river experiences force him to reassess the values he was taught. WHEN HE'S confronted by men searching the river for runaway slaves, Huck faces a moral struggle. Taught to value property-including slaves-the boy reasons that helping a runaway and flouting the rules he's learned is not just wrong, but ungrateful. Still, he's the "only fren' ole Jim's got now," and he resolves not to turn him in. "All right, then," Huck says later, settling the dilemma, "I'll go to hell." "The whole business of right and wrong is the paradox and humor of the book," Kaplan said in an interview from Cambridge, Mass. "It has a kind of powerful moral passion that you find in other great works of literature. But it's not preachy." Hijackers threaten to kill more hostages (Continued from Page 1) the earlier victims. In Tehran, Mustafa Mirsalim, an ad- viser to Iranian President Ali Khamenei, told Tehran radio the hostages were "in serious danger" and said President Reagan's criticism of Iran's handling of the hijacking was based on "either faulty information or the prejudice of the American president in this crisis." Mirsalim also said Iran had planned to storm the plane with "crack" gover- nment troops, but said Kuwait overruled the idea because "any kind of provocation should be avoided." Compiled from Associated Press and. United Press International reports Mine collapse death toil hits 44 TRIPEI, Taiwan - Rescuers digging through tons of fallen rock in a collapsed coal mine found the bodies of seven miners yesterday, bringing the number of workers confirmed killed in the disaster to 44. Fifty more miners are trapped 7,500-foot underground at the Hai Swan' coal mine, 22 miles southwest of Taipei. Rescuers said the 44 bodies found showed signs of decomposition, in- dicating they had died soon after the mine collapsed Wednesday and held out little hope for the survival of the miners still trapped after four days in the mine shaft filled with poison gas. The rescue center said a series of newly found cave-ins made it impossible to estimate how long it will take to reach the trapped miners. A total of 96 miners were working in the mine when it first collapsed. Only two escaped death - one has minor injuries and the other has remained un- conscious and in critical condition. Philippine president bares chest MANILA, The Philippines - A jovial President Ferdinand Marcos, bereating aides who doubted his health and baring his chest to show he never had heart surgery, ended a 25-day silence yesterday and presided over a Cabinet meeting. "Is this how a heart bypass looks? Is this how?" A grinning Marcos, 67, asked as he sat at a desk in his study and lifted his formal white shirt in a spectacle broadcast on state-run television last night. "Go ahead," Marcos told photographers. "Take a shot." Cabinet members burst into laughter. Then Marcos asked his appointment secretary Marian Ruiz, who had undergone heart surgery, to bare his shirt and show his scars. The shirt-raising recalled a similar incident after the Aug. 21, 1983, mur- der of Benigno Aquino, when Marcos, amid similar rumors he had un- dergone surgery, lifted his shirt to showhis scarless belly. Broken bridge blocks seaway MONTREAL-The clogged St. Lawrence Seaway may not reopen until Tuesday, or even later, despite round-the-clock efforts to repair a broken shaft that disabled a lift bridge hanging in the way of shipping, a spokeswoman said yesterday. "It's not good. There's trouble with the repairs at the shop," seaway in- formation officer Gay Hemsley said in a telephone interview from Ottawa. The broken 24-inch shaft, needed to lift the bridge over the Beauharnois Canal at Valleyfield, Quebec, has stalled shipping since Nov. 21 on the 2,342- mile waterway linking central Canada and the U.S. Midwest to the Atlantic Ocean. The bridge is stuck part-way up, blocking road and rail traffic as well as the ships, although a detour is available for cars and trucks. The standstill is estimated to be costing shippers with vessels anchored in the seaway about $1.5 million a day. New foreign relations committee chair plans major policy review WASHINGTON-The incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says he plans a sweeping review of "all aspects" of President Reagan's foreign policies, including a fresh look at human rights violations in South Africa and other nations. Republican' Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana said he wants to restore the committee as an active, forceful influence in examining U.S. relationships with other countries. "I am prepared to head into a full-scale set of hearings on all aspects, the full totality of our foreign policy, sort of lay it out over the first few weeks of this nexttsession, and make some judgments on what our role as a commit- tee might be," he said in an interview. In addition to top administration officials like Secretary of State George Shultz, administration critics will be also be asked to testify at the hearings shortly after the new Congress convenes in January. "We will have some give and take with those who are responsible and others who are pre-eminent in American foreign policy," he said. Lugar said he plans no flashy confrontations with the Reagan admin- stration whosepolicies he generally supports. Just by having the hearings, however, Lugar will open the administration to critical questioning from Democratic members of the committee. FAA revokes airline's license KANSAS CITY, Mo.-The Federal Aviation Administration yesterday grounded American Central airline for violations ranging from falsifying flight crew training records to exceeding weight limitations, a spokesman said. John Shaw, deputy director for the FAA's central region in Kansas City, said the agency issued an "emergency revocation" of American Central's license effective yesterday. The airline was fined for similar violations several months ago. Airline officials, in the company's Waterloo, Iowa headquarters were the revocation papers were delivered, had no comment yesterday. A news con- ference was scheduled for tomorrow. An airline spokeswoman did say that other major airlines were honoring American Central tickets. The airline operated 38 flights a day from Chicago's O'Hare and Midway airports and serves Chicago and 23 other cities in the Midwest. 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