4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 30, 1985 BUSINESS 'U' program aids U.S. exports By MISUN DAWKINS The University has created a program to help American industry learn a little from the Japanese way of doing business. The East Asia Business Education program is a cooperative project bet- ween the School of Business Ad- ministration and the Center for Japanese Studies. The new project's goal is to increase graduate business ;students' and company executives' foreign language fluency as well as their knowledge of international ex- port activity. THE EAST Asia program offers a ,double masters program consisting of 'a masters in Asian studies and an M.B.A. in International Business. According to John Campbell, direc- tor of the Center for Japanese Studies, the Chinese and Japanese companies, unlike the Americans, monitor inter- national activity to forecast future levels of competition. Campbell feels American businesses can successfully compete with Asian firms if they focus on long- range rather than short range plan- ning. By gathering concrete data and monitoring Asian export activities, American firms can learn to follow a long-term schedule. IN AN ATTEMPT to help American firms make that transition, the program offers courses, and seminars such as "Introductory Japanese for Business" and "Quality Control Prac- tices in Japanese and American Fir- ms." The program also offers sum- mer internships working within Japanese firms. EAST ASIA program associate Schon Beechler, who participated in the in- ternship program to Japan last sum- mer, explained the difference bet- ween American short-term analysis and Asian long-term industrial projection. A long-term outlook, he said enables Asian firms to keep an "eye on the survival of the company, rather than short-term profitability." In working for the Sumitomo Metals Corporation, she said that the Japanese see their country on top now in the steel industry and Americans in the dump. But she felt that in another 10 years American firms will return to their leading position in the steel in- dustry. She said the Japanese are preparing for the change now. In addition, she learned to com- municate with the Japanese effec- tively, by understanding the way they think. Campbell says the Asian business Former employee sues MichCo, uncovers destroyed records DETROIT (UPI) - A former Michigan Consolidated Gas Co. executive said MichCon destroyed documents when it fired 300 em- bloyees in 1983, altered some person- nel records and hired a private in- vestigator to follow a dismissed worker who sued the company for age discrimination. The Detroit Free Press reported yesterday that Susan Keller, a former PUT US TO THE TEST! MichCon executive personnel director who helped carry out the dismissals in January 1983, described the firings in a deposition given in a age discrimination lawsuit filed by Dante Bianco against MichCon. BIANCO, who was 58 when he was dismissed, had been with the com- pany for 18 years as the employee recreational activities director. His' suit is underway in Wayne County Circuit Court. In an Aug. 1 deposition, Keller said BLODM COUNTY Watch for it in, she and other executives who planned the firings understood that the documents related to planning the dismissals, "that could be damaging," would be destroyed. She said MichCon purchased a paper-shredder for that purpose. KELLER SAID MichCon also rewrote documents that explained the reasons why some employees were fired. She said the firm's fear of being sued prompted that action. In testimony, Keller also said that MichCon hired a privated investigator to follow Bianco, in an effort to determine whether Bianco had "vulnerabilities" in character, credit, whatever" that could be questioned by MichCon lawyers during a deposition by Bianco. MichCon stopped the investigation, Keller said, on the advice of one of its lawyers, but that another detective was later hired to again follow Bian- co. The former executive personnel director said the reason for the firing was "simply money. The ratio of labor costs to sales was inappropriate for MichCon's profit protections." A MichCon spokesman said the company has no comment on the case because it is under litigation. I UO- and language training in the double masters program prepares a student or American executive in Asian business techniques that can be ap- plied to American business. The funding for this program comes from the School of Business Ad- ministration and from the Center for Chinese Studies in conjunction with the Michigan Department of Com- merce. Career Planning & Placement Recruiting Schedule The follo wing employers and representatives from graduate/professional schools will be on campus to conduct in- terviews. The following is the schedule for the next three weeks. September 30 and October 1 Inmont October 3 National Starch & Chemical Co. October 3 Arby's Inc. LimitedExpress October 7 Kennedy School of Gov't/Public Policy Program Michigan Citizens Lobby October 8 Atlantic Richfield National Bank of Detroit Signal Research Center, Inc. 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Some businesses, already hit with property damage in scattered cities in Rhode Island and in Cape May County, N.J., reported incidents of looting. Officials reported 10 arrests in Rhode Island. Over 600,000 customers on the East coast remained without power two days after Gloria roared from North Carolina to Maine. "The power thing is really the problem," said Larry DeBear, spokesman for Conn. Gov. William O'Neill. "It really has a ripple affect that involves almost every aspect of life you can think of and that's what the real problem is. Ship spills oil on Del. River MARCUS HOOK, Pa. - A Panamanian tanker went aground south of here, opening a hole that spilled oil over the surface of the Delaware River for more than eight miles, officials said yesterday. Crews were busy yesterday cleaning up the spill from the Grand Eagle, a 761-foot tanker, U.S. Coast Guard and Sun Oil Co. officials said. The ship lost about 435,000 gallons, or the equivalent of 10,376 barrels, of crude oil after running aground about 11:30 p.m. Saturday near Claymont, Del., U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Robert Mitchell said. The oil first stretched shore-to-shore for up to three miles, then broke up into narrow strips over an eight- to nine-mile stretch of the river from near Marcus Hook to the Delaware Memorial Bridge, south of Wilmington, Del., the Coast Guard said. Mitchell said any spill of more than 100,000 gallons is considered a major spill, but he said the environmental impact of the accident was un- clear. The ship proceeded to its destination, the Sun Oil Co. refinery in Marcus Hook, and was no longer leaking oil by 4:30 a.m., Coast Guard officials said. Cleanup, monitored by the Coast Guard and other agencies, will take days, Mitchell said. Coast Guard Capt. Edward Roe established a "safety zone" in the area of the spill yesterday meaning no vessels could enter the area without his permission as captain of the Port of Philadelphia, Mitchell said. U.S. cracks down on espionage WASHINGTON - Fueled by recent spy cases, pressure is building on the Reagan .administration to crack down on espionage by reducing the number of Soviet bloc officials allowed to live in the United States, and the number of security clearances given to U.S. military personnel. Of the approximately 2,500 Soviet and East European officials in America, former FBI officials estimate that 33 percent to 40 percent are spies. "The other 60 percent would cooperate if called on to do so," said Raymond Wannall, former assistant FBI director in charge of intelligen- ce operations. The armed services and defense contractors appear to be meeting Defense Secretary Caspar Weinbergr's three-month goal of reducing security clearances by 10 percent. Final figures on the crackdown, which grew out of a Navy spy scandal, are not expected until next month. But Weinberger's deadline for an across-the-board, 10 percent reduction in clearances expires today and some preliminary figures have been compiled. When the cuts were ordered June 11, there were 4.3 million Pentagon employees, congressional aides and contractor employees with clearan- ces ranging from Confidential to Top Secret. S. African mob kills black man JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - A mob burned a black man to death yesterday in the second straight day of clashes between rival black groups near Durban, and anti-apartheid violence spilled into white areas for the third day in a row, police said. Police also reported they shot and killed a black man heaving a gasoline bomb in Dordecht in eastern Cape Province. An explosion that police believed was caused by a bomb went off in the men's room of a hotel near Durban where about 150 black youngsters were guests at a "children's day," but no one was injured. Peter Davidson, owner of the Executive Hotel in Umlazi, a black town- ship west of Durban, told The Associated Press: "We don't know who would have done it. Iam not involved in politics." However, local Zulus and sources within Inkatha, the million-strong Zulu political movement, said Davidson is one of the more than 100 mem- bers of the Inkatha central committee, which advises hereditary Zulu Chief Gatsha Buthelezi. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity. Sikhs take office in Punjab CHANDIGARH, India - Punjab's new chief executive and five other Sikh Cabinet ministers took the oath of office yesterday wearing bullet- proof vests and pledging to "heal the wounds" of terrorism and repression. 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