_. 4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Saturday, January 19, 1985 Photographer "By Dan Habib IN BRIEF How do you feel about the Progressive Student Network (PSN)? Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Sharon wins key libel point 4,M NEW YORK-The jury in Ariel Sharon's $50 million libel suit against Time Inc. found in Sharon's favor today on the second major issue, falsity, and prepared to deliberate on the third issue of malice. Marshals locked the door to the packed courtroom while the jury's verdict was announced and the judge polled the panel. Jurors had been deliberating for two days since deciding the first issue before them-that Sharon was defamed by Time's report that he "discussed" the need for revenge with Lebanese Phalangist leaders shortly before the massacre of Palestinian refugees. To award the former Israeli defense minister a libel verdict, the jury must , still find that Time published the report either knowing it was false or with reckless disregard of its truth. And Sharon must also convince the jury that his reputation was damaged by the story-a separate issue from defamation. Time had conceded over the course of the trial that a secret Israeli report did not in fact contain the material that its report had alleged and printed a correction in this week's issue. West Beirut bombed after Orson Moon, LSA senior: "In Simone Zelitch, graduate this sort of environment, with student: "It's good to see a a lot of people tending towards political group working with conservativism, they do what something that's very con- they can. It's possible that crete, such as what they're by drawing attention to these trying to do with military things it might be an effective research. I admire a group way for public opinion to bear putting their bodies on the unon these issues." line." Robin Merer, LSA junior: "I Terence Rose, LSA junior: "I think it's a good organization think it's very important for because it keeps the right people to speak out for what from getting too strong on they believe in. I don't like campus." their methods, but at least they stand up for what they believe." Kay Koskey, engineering senior: "I feel that what they do is good, but sometimes they go about it in the wrong way. Basically, I think it's a good organization to look out for student welfare. gunfire barrage hits east side BEIRUT, Lebanon-A major explosion shook a crowded Shiite Moslem neighborhood of west Beirut yesterday just hours after a surprise artillery barrage injured students walking to school in Christian east Beirut. Ambulances raced to the scene of the explosion and hundreds of militiamen moved in to clear the noon rush-hour traffic and help rescue teams get vic- tims to hospitals, police and witnesses said. "It is too early to tell how many people were hurt...The situation is still confused," a police source said. The explosion came four hours after artillery shells crashed into Christian east Beirut, wounding three students, and two hours after police defused three dynamite charges under a busy bridge intersection in Moslem west Beirut. U.S. names arms negotiators { Ed Mehall, LSA senior: "I Paula Rabinowitz, graduate think they serve a purpose, to student: "I'm glad that bring needed attention to a lot someone is keeping alive the of questions most people don't legacy of student radicalism think about-university policy from the 60's. I think their issues. Students don't take the work is important and needed time to think about the im- in this era of supposed plications of research, apathy." perhaps because it doesn't hit them directly." Doug Heidman, University employee: I'm an old line radical from the 60's, and I support them completely. I support their attempts to ban the weapons research and anything else that's detrimen- tal to humanity." V4 Tom Higley, LSA senior: I'm delighted to see anyone pay attention to political issues as much as the PSN does. Oc- casionally I'm uncomfortable with certain of their methods and approaches. The freedom that they take for granted, they threaten through tactics, methods, and statements." Rick Mckenna, engineering senior: "They are a group of far left liberals and although they have found effective means of displaying their opinions, the means are not ethical. They often violate the rights of others, specifically Thomas Senior. They had a right to protest his work, but not to stop it." WASHINGTON-President Reagan today named Washington lawyer Max Kampelman to head the U.S. delegation to a new round of arms talks with the Soviet Union. Secretary of State George Shultz said Kampelman also would be the chief negotiator on that part of the three-point talks that deal with control of space - weapons. Former Sen. John Tower (R-Tex) was named chief negotiator for strategic weapons, and career foreign service officer Maynard Glitman was appointed to negotiate with the Soviets on intermediate range nuclear weapons. The U.S. and the Soviet Union have opened discussions to set a time and place for the resumption of negotiations, an administration official said today. These discussions are in response to an agreement reached by Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva January 8 to resume arms talks. Asked about Kampelman, the least experienced in defense and strategic issues, Shultz said, "Well, he's smart. He's a good negotiator, and he's ex- perienced. He did an outstanding job in his work in Madrid," where he represented the United States in talks involving the Soviet Union and 33 other countries on reducing East-West tensions. (Cburtii 11I~rsbip eruic Ford staff may have planted sign at 'U' THE FIRST UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF ANN ARBOR 1917 Washtenaw Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 665-6158 The Celebration of Life Service will be held at 10:30 a.m. January 20: Chocolate Feet? Feat? Fete?" a presentation focusing on the delegates experiences at the UUA General Assembly. Adult Forum: "Question Box Forum," directed by Kenneth W. Phifer, 9:20 to 10:20a.m. Religious Education classes at 9:30 a .m. A . co-operative nursery available at 10:30 a.m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH AND AMERICAN BAPTIST CAMPUS FOUNDATION 502 East Huron, 663-9376 (Between State and Division) Sunday Worship, 9:55 a.m. January 20: "The Centrality of Christ and Religious Pluralism," with guest speaker, Dr.uJohn Cobb. Midweek Study and Dinner for Stu- dents: Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. Pastor, Robert B. Wallace Assistant in Ministry, Madelyn Johnson * * * UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL and STUDENT CENTER 1511 Washtenaw Robert Kavasch, Pastor 663-5560 Sunday Services at 9:15 and 10:30. CAMPUS CHAPEL 1236 Washtenaw Ct. A Campus Ministry of the Christian Reformed Church Rev. Don Postema, Pastor 668-7421 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship. 11:15a.m.; Refreshments 6:00 p.m. Evening Worship. Wednesday 10:00 p.m.: Evening Prayers. * * * FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 1432 Washtenaw Ave., 662-4466 (Between S. University and Hill) Worship and Church School at 9:30 and 11:00. Jamie Schultz, Campus Ministry Coordinator Broadcast of Service: 11:00 a.m. - WPAG, 10.50 AM * * * FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 120 S. State St. (Corner of State and Huron) 662-4536 Church School and Sunday Service 9:30 and 11:00. January 20: "Haggi: The Prophet of Proper Priorities," by Dr. Donald B. Strobe. Ministers: Dr. Donald B. Strobe Dr. Gerald R. Parker Rev. Tom Wachterhauser Education Director, Rose McLean Wesley Foundation Campus Min- istry, Wayne T. Large, Director. Chancel Choir Broadcast Sundays 9:30 a.nm.- WNRS, 1290 AM Televised Mondays 8:00 p.m.-Cable Channel 9. (Continued from Page 1) fascist appeared often in reference to Ford and President Richard Nixon. The signs were necessary, Barrett said, so that Ford could respond to the widespread use of the term. Ford's visit was met by many protesters, and Barrett said it was possible that some of the protest signs included the reference to neo-fascism. "If there wasn't a sign there...yes, they'd put the sign in there," he said. "The staff thought it would be good to have a sign in the audience." THE NOTES in which the neo-fascist signs are mentioned come from the files of Warren Rustand, Ford's deputy assistant for scheduling and appoin- tments. The notes from a meeting with Chief of Staff Robert Hartmann said they would "need a sign at U of M" which read "Gerald Ford is a Neo- fascist" when Ford spoke at Crisler Arena two days later. "A few signs are necessary for leadin to the speech," the notes said. Ford began that 1974 speech with the reference to the sign. "One of the war- mest signs I saw on the way here proclaimed that 'Jerry Ford is a Neo- Fascist.' Now I don't know much about neo-fascism," Ford said, adding that while he was a University un- dergraduate in the 1930s, students 200 Million People, And Only 35,000 Get to Read ~I ' SUBSCRIBE NOW 764-0558 began to worry about "real fascists" such as Adolf Hitler. "So if Jerry Ford is a new fascist, I guess we tamed those old fascists fairly well," he concluded. RUSTAND SAID LAST night that he worked with over 100 speeches and did not remember the details of the Ann Arbor visit or the meeting from which the notes were taken. He said the notes and the lead to Ford's speech may have been the result of a Ford speechwriter "looking for an intro" to the stock speech the vice president was using at that time. "There probably weren't any signs at the University of Michigan that had (neo-fascist) on them," he said. Rustand said Ford had ordered his staff not to use deceptive methods in plan- ning such appearances. "I would be very surprised if that directive was given," Rustand said. "If someone gave me that directive I would have challenged that directive." BUT BARRETT said actions such as planting protesters are "not unusual political activity" and those who are upset by the idea "have to get a lit- tle bit more versed in politics." "There's a reality tosthefrequence of this occurence," he said. "Now that doesn't make it forgiving," he added. "There should be a better way to do it." The papers were found by Adam Ruskin, an LSA senior writing an honors thesis about political influences on the media. Ruskin said he believed such tactics were used often, but he was surprised to find references to the event in Ford's autobiography, A Time to Heal, in which Ford referred to the "neo-facist" sign and said he was "dismayed" by the protests. Similar protests and the national out- cry against President Nixon and the Watergate controversy upset many people in the White House, according to Barrett, who became Ford's military adviser after Nixon's resignation. "It was just one crushing, heavy revelation after another, and none of them were good," he said. You had to be there to know how much hatred, mistrust, and fear there was." 'Take-home' pay climbs 6.8% WASHINGTON-U.S. personal income rose 0.5 percent in December, a rebound at the end of a year that saw "take-home" pay climb by 6.8 per= cent-the best showing in two decades, the Commerce Department said yesterday. The sum of wages, salaries, government payments, dividends and interest grew to $3.013 trillion in 1984, 9.8 percent higher than 1983. After subtracting inflation and income taxes, Americans were left with take-home pay 6.8 percent higher at the end of 1984 than when the year began. It was the best performance for disposable income since 1964's 7.1 percent gain, and nearly twice 1983's 3.5 percent increase. The December figures also showed spending regained more of its first-half vigor during the Christmas season,. climbing 1.2 percent on top of Novem- ber's 1 percent increase. Reagan eyes mass transit cuts WASHINGTON - The Reagan administration is proposing major cuts in federal mass transit spending in its fiscal 1986 budget, including a phase-out of $2.7 billion in assistance over the next three years, government and in- dustry officials said yesterday. The proposal, to be submitted as part of President Reagan's budget to Congress on Feb. 4, also calls for an immediate end to funding for new rail transit projects, although project commitments already made are expected to be honored. "The object is to get out of the new-start business by the end of 1985 and not to leave any holes in the ground in the process of withdrawing," says an Of- fice of Management and Budget document outlining the administration's transit proposal. The document was leaked yesterday by officials attending the U.S. Con- ference of Mayors' mid-winter meeting and later confirmed by Transpor- tation Department officials as substantially the proposal that will be submit- ted to Congress. 4 4 I Vol. XCV - No.90 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. 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