Ruppe sees famine as threat to peace (Continued from Page 1) the Peace Corps. "Is it ludicrous that Iwe double (the Peace Corps) budget #when every program, except the tmilitary, (is) suffering cuts? Seeking ~pace is the most important challenge we face now," he said. "We must in- lcrease our ability to wage peace." Shriver urged the country's foreign- policy makers to learn from the Peace Corps by using education, rather than imilitary force, to win allies. "Instead of learning to love our enemies, as Jesus of Nazareth had said Americans are indoctrinated to r fear our enemies," Shriver said. "We Shall not overcome our fears with ibombs, but with spirit." "A SPIRIT IS moving across the country, and not just a Cap Wein- berger spirit," he said. "Now we use :'Star Wars' and boycotts against our ;enemies. Every year we seem to be #making a few more enemies." Shriver also recounted the naming of the Peace Corps. "The conser- vatives opposed the word peace," Shriver said, "because they thought it ,was soft, wishy-washy, vague, weak. I'he liberals were opposed to the work corps because it sounded too militaristic." "Finally, I decided to use both names," he said, and "get the best out of both words. Peace is precisely what pit stands for and corps shows that we Are not individuals but a group." WHILE THE group does symbolize 1 peace, there have been some ob- stacles in obtaining it. Drought and famine are these major obstacles, according to Ruppe. 'And shortages resulting from these occurrences constrain development in ether areas throughout the continent f Africa, she said. The organization's job is "to bring forth from our collective experience Vind creativity new strategies that will Ehrhichman (Continued from Page 1) Crowd of over 1,000 students and ear- .ing an average of $3,500 to $4,000 a peech, said Gary Muck, Ehrlich- ~nan's agent. THE SPEECHES are "usually Oacked and always favorable," he said. 6 Ehrlichman, currently living in Santa Fe, New Mexico after writing three books, was fired in 1973 after Peing in the White House for 4%/ years. He was convicted of the Watergate cover-up and imprisoned for 18 months. Looking back, he said his biggest mistake was that "I know I had those instinctive, cautionary feelings, and I isregarded them." Ehrlichman did not mention Vice President George Bush's visit to the Jniversity, but said Bush is a discrete and able guy who has step- bring us closer to the day when all the world's people may eat...when Africa takes its rightful place as the con- tinent of vast promise." ACCORDING TO Ruppe, the major factors contributing to these con- ditions are "lack of rainfall, uncon- trolled population growth, inadequate infrastructure, price controls, the vagaries of international economics, declining forests, deteriorating soil." There are no immediate answers to these problems, she said. But the Peace Corps can help formulate solutions. Shriver acknowledged that not everyone believed the organization could have an impact. But the Peace Corps has survived the "realistic and cynical claims it was naive, impractical, and even dangerous." "The Peace Corps has the best record of any agency in the gover- nment," Shriver said. "No one has ever defected from the Peace Corps. No one has ever been accused or prosecuted for treason. Other gover- nmental agencies with hard-headed machismo and security measures can't measure up to the Peace Cor- ps. "Listen to what he said back in 1960," Shriver said, quoting Kennedy. "'How many of you, how are going to be doctors, are willing to spend your days in Ghana? Technicians or engineers, how many of you are willing to work in the foreign service and spend your days traveling around the world." "The Peace Corps were our answer to his words and his challenge," Shriver said. Daily staff writer Christy Riedel filed a report for this story. The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 8, 1985 - Page 3 COMPUTERS Pollce usig computers to put bite on bad guys Ruppe ... concerned about famine SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - When police recently identified Richard Ramirez as the prime suspect in the "Night Stalker" murders, the hero of the story was a computer that mat- ched a fingerprint found on a stolen car. Matching tiny data from finger- prints found at crime scenes to prints on file, the Japanese-made system can do in minutes what might take a human analyst months or even years to do by hand. IT'S A TOOL, computer consultant Tom Ruggles says, which can "find a needle in a haystack." The system is in use in Tokyo, Alaska, and California, where the Legislature recently approved a bill that would provide local police jurisdictions with remote terminals connected to the central computer in- Sacramento. In the "Night Stalker" case, finger- prints were taken from a car spotted at the scene of an Aug. 25 shooting linked to the Stalker and flown from Los Angeles to Sacramento to be checked by the new Department of Justice computer. It was the com- puter's first case. In 14 minutes, it spit out the names of Ramirez and five others with similar fingerprint patterns. Ramirez's name was at the top of the list. RAMIREZ, 25, was charged in Angeles with 68 felony counts, in-. cluding 14 murders and five attem- pted murders as well as various rob- beries, rapes, and kidnappings. He has been held without bail since his Aug. 31 arrest. Since installing a computer like Sacramento's 19 months ago, San Francisco police have tripled the number of identifications, according to Sgt. Bob Dagitz. With this computer, we have been able to identify perpetrators that would have never been caught under the old system," said Dagitz, a 27- year police veteran and head of the department's Crime Scene In- vestigations unit. IN CASES where investigators have no suspects to narrow the field and must rely solely on fingerprints, Dagitz said, the computer has made month as human analysts previously made in a year. Investigators used to identify fingerprint traits like whorls, arches, and loops to narrow the field, then dug through files one at a time, com- paring prints to make an iden- tification. Dagitz once calculated that one person working eight hours a day would take 33 years to manually com- pare a single fingerprint to the more than 300,000 cards the department has on file. maybe an hour," he said. Dagitz and other investigators place a photograph or a tracing of a fingerprint in the reader, which relays the pattern into the computer's memory. 'I-i With red dots, the machine marks the "minutiae points" that distinguish a fingerprint from any other, then links the dots together. The investigator then enters any in- formation known about the person to whom the fingerprint belongs - sex, race, and approximate age. almost as many identifications in a "With te computer, it wouldetake Shriner ... urges corps expansion DON'IT LET THE 'U, FOOL YOU! ABOUT IBM COMPUTERPRICES.A MENU THE 'U' GSP service $20 Freef fee__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ warranty 90 days 6 mos. deiey you pick to your delivery _ it up door delivery 3-5 wks. 1-3 wks. time financing none available purchases only 1 unlimited y per student yO WE WILL BEAT ANY UM PRICE ; ON COMPARABLE SYSTEMS " FREE Installation " FREE Service and Counseling 9SP Graphic Softwear Products, Inc. 706 Emmet Street YPSILANTI, MI 48197 (313) 487-4500 speaks on current issues ped back into the shadow and not asserted himself." Ehrlichman said Bush is the leading candidate for the Republican presidential ticket in 1988. Referring to the White House staff, Ehrlichman said "we're able to deal with just about one problem at a time.. .God help us if they come with two or three." .A current problem, he said, is get- ting Reagan ready for the upcoming summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. "It is a time of great stress," he said, explaining that "Reagan simply refuses to deal with anything that can't be reduced to half a page." Looking to the future, Ehrlichman said Reagan and Gorbachev will be like "ships that pass in the night - Reagan is going to tell funny stories about Ireland...and Gorbachev will be loaded." But the central issue right now is "the state of the economy and the federal deficit," Ehrlichman said. He added that when speaking about the deficit, "the culprit is not defen- se ...but the dramatic increase in tran- sfer payments and the interest on the national debt." "Congress does not wish to be analytical about what caused the deficit," and Ehrlichman said, adding that David Stockman has remarked that Ronald Reagan "does not have the stomach to go the American public and say, 'This is where the problem lies,"' Ehrlichman said. HAPPENINGS Highlight The international symposium on "America's Role in Africa's Development: Past and Future" continues at 9 a.m. in the Rackham Building. The symposium is part of the Peace Corps' 25th anniversary. Films CG - Images, 7 and 9 p.m., Angell Aud. A. MTF - The Deer Hunter, 8 p.m., Michigan Theater. Peace Corps - The Toughest Job You'll Ever Love, 7:30 p.m., Inter- national Center. Near Eastern & North African Studies - Anwar Sadat, Part II, noon, Viewing Room, MLB. Performances School of Music - Recitals: Jeffrey Fowler, 10:30 a.m.; organ, Almut Roessler, 4 p.m.; organ, Todd Wilson, 8:30 p.m., Hill Auditorium. Speakers cumenical Campus Center - William Worger, "Focus on South Africa," noon, 603 E. Madison Street. Geological Science - Dennis Kent, "Geomagnetic Polarity Rever- sals," 4 p.m., Rm. 4001, CC Little Building. College of Architecture & Urban Planning - Grady Clay, "Design Competitions: Lessons from the Past," 8p.m., Rackham Auditorium. Chinese Studies - Michael Oksenberg, "New Light on the Long March: Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary," noon, Lane Hall Commons room. Russian & East European Studies - Nina Tumarkin, "War, Peace & the Russians: The Soviets Remember World War II," noon, Rm. 200, Lane Hall. Human Growth & Development - Paul Baltes, "Implications of Life- Span Perspectives," noon, Rm. 1000, 300 N. Ingalls. Ann Arbor Public Library - David Geherin, "From Sam Spade to Spenser: the Private Eye in American Fiction," 12:10 p.m., meeting room, Main Library. Ann Arbor-Washtenaw NOW - Pat Tompkings, International Women's Studies Institute, 7:30 p.m., 1917 Washtenaw Ave. Meetings Armenian Students Cultural Association - 7 p.m., Union. Gay Liberation - 7 p.m., main floor, League. Rugby Football Club - 7 p.m., Elbel Field. Miscellaneous Michigan Ensian Yearbook - Free senior protraits, 9 a.m. to noon, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., Student Publications Building. Matthaei Botanical Gardens - Orientation, canoe trip on Huron River, 7 p.m., 1800 North Dixboro Road. Chemistrv - Colloquium. Peter Dervan. "Design of Sequence SDecific