4 Page 2 -The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 4, 1985 t ' +" 'U' supports forum; I questions objectivity GRAND OPENING Fuji Restaurant PiseorelA dcapan. An invitation to enjoy exquisite Japanese cuisine in our lovely oriental setting at 327 Braun Ct. (across from Farmer's Market) Ann Arbor " (313) 663-3111 Lunches from $3.95, Dinners from $7.50 CLOSED SUNDAY - Major Credit Cards Accepted Catering * Private Party Room 0 Box Lunches _..+/. - J CAREERS and PROFESSIONAL GRADUATE PROGRAMS in GOVERNMENT & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS An informal discussion with representatives of both the John F. Kennedy School of Government Public Policy Program HARVARD UNIVERSITY Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Date: Monday, October 7 Time: 2-3 and 3-4 groups Place: Career Placement Office All years, all majors welcome. For additional information, please contact the Office of Career Planning and Placement (Continued from Page 1) funding from the Office of Student Services, University President Harold Shapiro's office and from the office of former Vice President for Research Alfred Sussman. But Sussman was somewhat cautious in his support. "I think the University is a place for the exploration of issues and this con- ference may help to do just that,'' he said. "I think an attempt has been made to bring indiverse points of view, but a lot depends on the fairness with which the audience and the organizers listen and act. "I WOULD suggest that looking at the program is not enough - a lot depends on implementation," Sussman added. CAWS member Ingrid Kock, who is the event's main organizer, says she is opposed to the 'Star Wars' program, and to 'Star Wars' research being conducted on campus. "I'm opposed to 'Star Wars' research because I think the research is going to be directed towards fur- thering the 'Star Wars' program," Kock said. She then called the proposed 'Star Wars' system a "destablilizing program" that "has already affected our relationship with the Soviet Union, and I think has the potential to break arms control treaties." Electrical engineering Prof. John Meyer, who has already been granted $75,000 in 'Star Wars' research funds, and engineering college Dean James Duderstadt beliveve that Kock's and CAWS's opposition may affect the ob- jectivity of the conference. "The conference is being sponsored by a group that clearly has a negative position on it," Meyer said. "I've ex- perienced things like this before. These controversial issues tend to at- tract the negative side far more." MEYER CITED last month's disruption of a regents meeting, !" .o N-' gq « w 14 a r. « Nu « w 4 as 1! 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Duderstadt agreed with Meyer that he is "skeptical anytime a group that so vehemently opposes something-... organizes an event, and says it will be unbiased." "'IN THIS CASE, the deck appears to be loaded," he said. Kock objected to any hint of a biased event, saying that "it would be silly for us to protest a conference that we're putting on ourselves." "This conference has been put together by students. Every effort has been made to make it a balanced panel, and I think it's outrageous that these doubts are being raised about our conference," she said. BIOLOGY Prof. John Vandermeer also defended the conference's objec- tivity. "The panel represents a broad spectrum of attitudes about SDI research on campus," Vandermeer said. "I would urge everyone to attend it." Kock and other CAWS members have organized a panel of speakers for the conference that does appear to represent diverse points of view on the issue. THE PANEL will include two representatives from the Reagan ad- ministration - James Ionson, the director of the Strategic Defense Initiative organization, and Alvin Streeter, a member of the Arms Con- trol and Disarmament Agency in Washington. Streeter said this week that his pur- pose in attending the symposium is to "present the Reagan administration's position on the relationship between the Strategic Defense Initiative and the arms control talks between the United States and the Soviet Union.' According to Streeter, the Soviet Union's "using the issue of 'Star Wars' as a propaganda cover for (its) status as an offensive power." UNIVERSITY political science Prof. Raymond Tanter will also serve on the panel. Although Tanter couldn't be reached for comment, he has stated his support of the 'Star Wars' program in the past. In contrast, two of the other panelists qualify as vehement op- ponents of the 'Star Wars' plan. Michio KaKu, a professor of Nuclear Physics at the Graduate Cent ter of the City College of New York, called 'Star Wars' "a trillion dollar hoax - one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people." Rosy Nimrody, a member of the National Council on Economic Priorities, said her "primary aim is to come to the conference and dissem- inate my belief that the SDI is a com- plete economic waste to the country and should be stopped. "The conference's organizers have tried to make it clear that their inten- tion is to present all points of view, and I think they're sincere in that," said Billy Frye, vice president for academic affairs and provost. "But emotions run high on this issue, so there's some risk that it might fall short of what they expect. "I hope it doesn't," he added. I 45years behind it. UVectra Custom fitting businesses has been a Hewlett-Packard tradition for 45 years. 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The newspaper, An-Nahar, said it received at 1 a.m. today an envelope containing a statement by the terrorist group, Islamic Jihad, saying it would execute Buckley in retaliation for Israel's air raid on the Palestine Liberation Organization's guerrilla headquarters in Tunisia on Tuesday. It said the execution would take place as soon as the statement was published. The statement was published in An-Nahar. A polaroid color photograph of Buckley was enclosed with the statement, the paper said. Buckley, 57, of Medford, Mass., was kidnapped March 16, 1984, outside his home. He had been in captivity the longest of six Americans kidnap- ped and believed being held in Beirut. Soviets fear for 3 surviving diplomats kidnapped in Beirut BEIRUT, Lebanon - The Soviet Union's senior diplomat in Beirut said Thursday he expects "sad news" about three colleagues held by kidnap- pers who already have killed one embassy employee. The kidnappers seized the Soviets on Monday and threatened to kill them all unless Moscow forces Syria, its main Middle East ally, to stop an offensive by Syrian-backed leftist militias against Moslem fundamen- talists in the northern port of Tripoli. An anonymous caller claimed the kidnappers were members of the Islamic Liberation Organization. Anonymous callers also have said suicide bombers will blow up the Soviet Embassy in the Corniche Maazra district of west Beirut, the capital's Moslem sector. Yuri Souslikov, the embassy charge d'affaires and Moscow's ranking diplomat, said his government had asked Syria "to exert pressure on the concerned Lebanese parties to secure their release." Atlantis joins space shuttle fleet CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Atlantis joined America's space shuttle fleet yesterday with a dazzling liftoff on a mission of mystery, carrying five astronauts and a pair of military satellites built to withstand nuclear radiation. Except for the launch, which could be seen from much of central Florida, the flight had as much secrecy as the Air Force could muster. The Air Force said in advance there would be only two public reports about Atlantis unless problems develop. The first, a status report four hours into the flight; the other, a 24-hour notice that the shuttle will land at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Atlantis' maiden flight, the 21st of the shuttle program, was the second all-Pentagon mission. A spy satellite was delivered to orbit on the first. Despite the news blackout, there was reliable information that the astronauts will deploy two Defense Satellite Communications System satellites, an advanced model known as DSCS-3. The $100 million satellites are designed to prevent an enemy from jamming their com- munications aid for use by the president to send emergency instructions to nuclear forces around the globe. Three Mile Island plant restarts MIDDLETOWN, Pa. - Technicians triggered a nuclear chain reaction yesterday to restart the undamaged Unit 1 reactor at Three Mile Island, dormant since its sister reactor caused the nation's worst commercial nuclear accident 6% years ago. "The process went very smoothly. There weren't any problems," Lisa Robinson, spokeswoman for the plant's operator, GPU Nuclear Corp., said after the self-sustaining chain reaction started shortly before 2 p.m. Over the protests of demonstrators but with the U.S. Supreme Court's approval, operators began lifting some of the 69 control rods out of the reactor at 4:30 a.m. to allow the radioactive uranium fuel to build up to the chain reaction. Technicians also removed boron from the core's cooling water. That element is often called a nuclear poison because it soaks up neutrons, the subatomic particles fired out by dividing uranium atoms that otherwise would make more atoms split. "The plant is performing very well. 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