4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 26, 1985 Bullard unveils plan to put trash to use IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports By DAVID KLAPMAN with wire reports State Democratic representatives Perry Bullard of Ann Arbor and Thomas Scott of Flint want the state to clean up its act. The two Democrats unveiled a bill to create a $10 million "Clean Michigan Fund" yesterday at a press conference at the city's fire department. IF PASSED, the bill would close lan- dfills and support both recycling and composting. The bill would also fund feasibility studies in recycling, and composting-a way to turn organic trash into fertilizer. "This legislation represents an im- portant first step in reducing the state's fundamental reliance on landfills to dispose of trash," Bullard said. Brian Weinert, operations coor- dinator for Recycle Ann Arbor, ex- plained that the city stands to benefit more from recycling and composting aspects of the bill than landfill-closing provisions. BULLARD said. the bill will "authorize the Natural Resources Commission to administer a $10 million grant program for the development of new systems for processing and disposing of solid waste and to fund closure of open trash dumps still operating in some parts of our state." According to David Dempsey, en- vironmental advisor to Gov. James Blanchard, more than 100 of the State's landfills are unsound and are potential sources of groundwater contamination. The bill would allocate $300,000 for a series of recycling and composting feasibility studies. Such studies would establish a basis upon which a decision to commit financial resources to a proposed recycling or composing project can be made. THE BILL also calls for $1 million to be invested in waste-to-energy feasibility studies. Sites for such a study will be carefully selected with criteria including community activitiy in waste conversion to energy and a desire to distribute such studies throughout the state. If the bill passes, it will empower the natural resources commission to spend $490,000 on a "resource recovery education grant program." The com- mission is looking for recipients with substantial commitment to the education project. Another example of the bill's function is the recycling and composing capital grant program. The program would support recycling efforts by both municipal governments and private en- tities. The commission would spend no more than $1 million pn the program. The commission would not only sup- port the capital costs of recycling; they would allocate $500,000 for a recycling operational grant program and a com- posting operational grant program, the bill said. IN ADDITION, $50,000 would be spent on a household hazardous waste disposal program. "The program shall assist municipalities in projects that educate citizens as to methods of household hazardous waste reduction and disposal option, promote the safe handling of household hazardous waste, or dispose of household hazardous waste at a state or federally permitted or licensed hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility," the bill said. The Natural Resources Commission would spend $1 million on a program to "determine the extent of groundwater contamination associated with the sanitary landfills and open dumps and the need for remedial actions on those sites." Two kidnapped in Lebanon 4 BEIRUT, Lebanon - Gunmen kidnapped a British journalist yesterday near Beirut, and a Lebanese underground group said it abducted a French- man who was reported missing in the northern port of Tripoli. The Lebanese Armed Revolutionary factions demanded that a comrade jailed in France be freed within 48 hours in exchange for the Frenchman, Gilles Peyrolles. He was the fourth French citizen to be kidnapped in Lebanon since Friday. Eight Westerners have disappeared in Lebanon since March 14. A U.N. official, who asked not to be identified, said Briton Alec Collett, 63, was in Lebanon on a special writing assignment for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency. He said gunmen stopped Collett's car about 2 p.m. near the Khalde junction south of the capital. The gunmen took Collet away in a car, the U.N. official said, leaving behind an Austrian traveling with him. Officials of the U.N. agency in Vien- na identified the Austrian as Fritz Heindl, an employee of the refugee agen- cy. Contractor reduces bills to U.S. WASHINGTON - General Dynamics, criticized for charging country club costs and dog kennel bills to the Pentagon, told Congress yesterday it is reducing its bills to the government by $23 million. Even so, the nation's biggest defense contractor drew more complaints from congressmen. The latest criticism involves allegations that General Dynamics was in- volved in a conflict of interest by hiring an assistant secretary of the Navy and that the company overlooked warnings that its Electric Boat division was performing poorly in building Navy submarines. General Dynamics chairman David Lewis denied to the House Commerce investigations subcommittee'that the firm was involved in conflict of .in- terest and said it had tried to improve the Electric Boat yard. However, Lewis acknowledged that the company's oversight of'its billing practices was sloppy and "left much to be desired." Three weeks ago, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger suspended overhead payment of $35 million to General Dynamics for 30 days until the Pentagon could investigate billing practices. Soviet diplomat defects to U.S. NEW DELHI, India - Indian authorities expressed "serious concern" yesterday over the defection of a New Delhi-based Soviet diplomat to the United States and demanded that U.S. officials provide full details of the episode. The U.S. Embassy confirmed that Igor Gezha, 37, an attache in the infor- mation department of the Soviet Embassy in New Delhi, had defected. "A diplomat of the Soviet Embassy in New Delhi has requested and been granted political asylum by the U.S. government at a point outside India," U.S. press attache William Miller said. "He is safe and well in the United States." Gezha, who had been in India for about six years and was about to return to Moscow for a new assignment, failed to return home from his morning walk March 17. his disappearance was not reported until 12 hours after he was last seen by his wife and 10-year-old daughter. The Soviet Embassy suggested that Gezha was spiritedut of the country against his will. Nearly all Ohio S&Ls reopen COLUMBUS, Ohio - Virtually all of the Ohio savings and loans ordered closed due to a banking emergency reopened yesterday. Some reported long lines, but most said business was returning to normal. Meanwhile, a state lawmaker was finishing work on legislation designed to speed up the acquisition of Home State Savings Bank, the Cincinnati- based thrift who closing on March 9 after a three-day run on deposits triggered the crisis. Checks with the savings and loans showed all but a few of the 69 thrift in- stitutions that were closed March 15 were opened by yesterday. Lines were reported outside at least three Cincinnati-area thrifts, but there were no signs of the panic that had prompted the closings 10 days earlier. Lines were reported yesterday outside Oakmont Savings and Loan and at Charter Oak Savings Association in Cincinnati. Bostonians clash on handgun bill BOSTON - Thousands of gun owners and handgun control advocates ex- changed verbal fire at the Statehouse yesterday as they lobbied for and against numerous firearms bills before a legislative committee. Hundreds of sportsmen, many wearing orange National Rifle Association hats, jammed the Statehouse front steps to proclaim their right to bear ar- 4 ins. "The media doesn't want to lose its right to free speech, but they don't give a damn about our right to bear arms," Michael Yancino of the Gun Owners' Action League shouted through a bullhorn to the crowd on the steps. The group chanted "We want the Duke," but aides to Gov. Michael Dukakis said he would hold no official meeting with them. At a competing news conference, paraplegic Ronald Beilicki of Hyannis urged the passage of stricter handgun controls, telling reporters he was shot as he was getting into a cab two years ago in Portsmouth, Va. "My assailant went free, but I got the chair," he said from his wheelchair. Student may pursue trial (Continued from Page 1) research laboratory of electrical engineering Prof. George Haddad in the East Engineering Building. The following day, she was accepted to a study-abroad program at the Univer- sity of Freiburg. For the last seven months she has been studying in Ger- many. Goode, who was contacted by the Daily while vacationing in Jerusalem, said she wasn't sure if she would let the incident blow over, or try to bring the case to trial when she returns to An- Arbor next fall. Subscribe to The Daily-Phone 764-0558 "I'M REALLY not sure," she said. "I don't know what the scene is like back there." She said if the issue of military research is lively when she returns, she might pursue her case. But if there is a more pressing issue which she feels strongly about, she said she may devote her time to it. The mood on campus and the advice of defense attorney Donald Koster, she said, will have a lot to do with her decision.: KOSTER WOULD not comment on the advice he will give Goode in the fall. Goode said she wanted to be in Ann Arbor for the trial becuase "the out- come of the trial will be important for politics on campus." But studying in West Germany was a "once in a lifetime opportunity" she couldn't pass up.. Her original trial date was scheduled for mid-August. She said she was plan- ning to appear in court, but when the trial was postponed until November, she knew she would not be there. Nancy Aronoff, an LSA senior, one of the demonstrators found guilty in January,,said she wished Goode could have been with themsat the trial to ex- perience the feeling of group solidarity, but it was a personal decision only Goode could make. Although Goode did not go through the trial with the rest of the group, she had the opportunity to wit- ness all the anti-nuclear demon- strations in West Germany this year, Aronoff added. In February, three of the protesters served sentences handed down by the judge after they were found guilty at their January trial. Presiding Judge George Alexander declared a mistrial in the case of the other seven demonstrators in March when the jury could not reach a unanimous decision. The case is scheduled to be retried in May. Vol. XVC - No. 138 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: through April - $4.00 in Ann Arbor; $7.00 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. 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