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Reagan calls or Soviet support
IN BRIEF
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
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WASHINGTON (UPI)-President "THEY HAVE
Reagan, building on the revived majority of partic
dialogue between the superpowers, serious, practic
challenged the Soviet Union yesterday developing mean
to put aside rhetoric and support steps building measur
to reduce tensions in Europe. meeting with Jame
Reagan, in a written statement delegate to the 35-n
aimed at the Jan. 29 resumption of
East-West disarmament talks in Reagan express
Stockholm, Sweden, said the Soviets have working structure,
yet to respond to a "spirit of prac- talks into categori
ticality, fairness and compromise" beginning of produ
displayed by the West. the substance of af
Writers earn
By KATIE WILCOX
Nine University students divided up more than $1,000 in
prize money this week as winners of the prestigious Hopwood
undergraduate creative writing awards, while the Univer-
sity's English department handed out more than $2,000 to
eight students in other literary contests.
Two hundred people attended the ceremony in Rackham
Auditorium Wednesday night to watch the awards presen-
tation and listen to a poetry reading by Donald Hall, author of
"The Alligator Bride" and "String Too Short to Be Saved."
THE UNDERGRADUATE awards were established in 1967
for all freshman and sophomores as an alternative to the
major upperclassmen Hopwood awards held in April.
Broadway playwright Avery Hopwood donated one fifth of his
estate to establish a fund at his alma mater that would en-
courage young writers to create, in his words, "the new, the
unusual, and the radical."
Individual Hopwood award winners in the categories of
yet to join the
cipants who favor a
cal approach to
ningful confidence-
es," he said after
es Goodby, chief U.S.
ation talks.
ed hope that a "new
," which divides the
ies, "will foster the
ctive negotiations on
final agreement" as
Washington and Moscow move on a
separate but related front to reopen
formal arms control negotiations.
"Complementing those arms control
efforts, which seek to reduce force
levels, the Stockholm conference ad-
dresses the proximate causes of
war-miscalculation and misinter-
pretation-and seeks to ensure that
those forces are never used," he said.
However, Reagan repeated a U.S.
complaint that the Soviets have blocked
progress in the disarmament talks by
focusing on their proposal for a renun-
ciation of force, to the exclusion of
"concrete measures" advanced by the
West.
The president again offered to
discuss a renunciation of force if the
Soviets agree "to negotiate seriously"
on Western proposals for improved
communication, prior notification of
military exercises, and other measures
to lessen tensions.
opwood awards
essay, fiction, and poetry are as follows: LSA sophomore
David Steingold, $250; Nursing school sophomore Renee
Bowles, $250; Residential College sophomore John Logie,
$100; Residential College sophomore Wendy Martin, $250;
LSA freshwoman Celeste Fraser, $300; LSA freshwoman Mia
Schmiedeskamp, $100; LSA sophomore Robert Salkin, $150;
LSA freshman Jonathan Boyd, $250; LSA sophomore Rich
Feldman, $150.
Prize winners in other contests included: LSA senior
Deborah Montwori, $100, Academcy of American Poets;
graduate student Brian Burt, $75, Michael Gutterman Award
in Poetry; graduate student Alyson Hagy, $500, Roy Cowden
Memorial Fellowship; graduate student Laynie Deutsch,
$500, Roy Cowden Memorial Fellowship; graduate student
Janet Hackel, $750, Roy Cowden Memorial Fellowship; LSA
junior Chandy John, $75, Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize;
graduate student M. Ozoklav, $750, Roy Cowden Memorial
Fellowship.
Hall
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Gov. unveils property tax plan
LANSING-Gov. James Blanchard yesterday proposed a new, $65 million
property tax relief program, but continued to insist that the income tax be
left alone.
Blanchard-who unveiled the plan at four news conferences around the r
state-said Michigan has America's highest average local property taxes,
double the national average. He called those levies the state's "most bur-
densome."
The plan, which requires legislative approval, calls for a 10 percent rebate..
bonus in the 1985 tax year. The 1985 tax year rebates will go out beginning
Jan. 1, 1986, he said.
Republicans were pleased at what they saw as an acknowledgement that
the state's fiscal condition justifies some form of tax relief. But they con- "
tinued to favor income tax cuts over the type of program advocated by the
Democatic governor.
Nation's mayors call proposed
federal cuts unacceptable
WASHINGTON-The leader of the nation's mayors, while voicing "grave' '
concern" about federal deficits, said yesterday that cuts in aid to cities un-
der discussion by the Reagan administration appear to be unacceptable.
New Orleans Mayor Ernest "Dutch" Morial, president of the U.S. Con- ,.
ference of Mayors, said that although he was awaiting details of the ad-
ministration's fiscal 1986 budget, "reductions as have been proposed cer-
tainly appear to fall into the category of unacceptability."
Morial said he was particularly concerned about the future of multibillion-
dollar federal revenue sharing and community development block grant
programs.
The executive director of the mayors conference, John Gunther, said the
officials also were concerned about what they understood were plans to cut
next year other programs of aid for economic development and transpor-
tation.
Housing construction up 2.4%
WASHINGTON-Construction of new homes.reached 1.74 million units in
1984, giving builders their best year sinces 1979, the government reported
yesterday.
Falling interest rates are expected to spur construction activity through at'
least the first half of this year. After that, many analysts expect interest
rates to resume rising to levels that will dampen demand.
In its report, the Commerce Department said the 1984 construction per-
formance, a 2.4 percent boost from 1983, was the best since 1.75 million
homes were built in 1979. '
It was far smaller than the 60 percent jump posted in 1983, but that was a
year in which the housing industry was recovering from the worst slump
since World War II. Construction starts plunged to 1.06 million units in 1982,
the worst level in 36 years.
"Housing has been out in front of this economic expansion for the past two
years, building more than 3.4 million new units and creating 5 million man-
years of employment and $98 billion in wages," said Pete Herder, president
of the National Association of Home Builders.
Cities spend more on police
WASHINGTON-City government spending on police protection has sur-
passed educational costs for the first time, and municipalities are paying
more of their own expenses than they have in more than a decade, the Cen-
sus Bureau reported yesterday.
The nation's cities spent $10.7 billion on police protection in 1982, up 8.5
percent from the year before, the bureau said. Education spending slipped to
second place with a total of $9.8 billion, down 3.1 percent from the year
before.
As recently as 1960, police costs ranked only fourth among city general ex-
penses, trailing spending for education, highways and sewers and
sanitation. Police expenses climbed into second spot in 1970 and remained
there until the current report.
Nationwide, however, cities finance only a relatively small percentage of
independent districts, noted Vance Kane of the Census Bureau's Gover-
nments Division.
Taiwan seeks reporter's killer
TAIPEI, Taiwan-The former head of Taiwan's Military Intelligence
Bureau has been taken into custody for questioning in a scandal linking
agency officers with the slaying of a journalist in California, a government
official said yesterday.
Vice Adm. Wong Shi-lin, 57, director of the bureau since 1983, was
dismissed without explanation by the government on Tuesday, after it was
announced that one of his deputies had been arrested for* alleged in-
volvement in the death of American political writer Henry Liu, 52.
Authorities said the deputy, Col. Chen Hu-men, 47, was implicated in the
slaying allegedly by two Taiwanese gangsters wanted by San Franciscso
police in connection with the death. The two are in custody in Taiwan. The
government said "several others" also were being questioned.
Liu, who had written articles critical of the Nationalist Chinese gover-
nment in Taiwan, was gunned down Oct. 15 by two assailants in the garage of
his home in Daly City, Calif.
He had worked in Taiwan before emigrating to the United States in the
1970s and was reported to have finished revising a critical biography of
Taiwan President Chiang Ching-kuo shortly before his death. He worked for
the Chinese-language San Francisco Journal.
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