4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily -Friday, January 18, 1985 Reagan calls or Soviet support IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports T 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 ... recites original poetry Become a Daily photographer - Get into concerts for free, Go backstage and meet the stars, Stand on the sidelines at U of M football games, Impress members of the opposite sex (or the same sex, if you prefer). 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. 4 4 A Obt Mirbigan al Vol. XCV - No.89 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. 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