Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 21, 1985 Republicans hold conference a .I By NANCY GOTTESMAN Last weekend the University's chapter of the College Republicans hosted a three-day conference to train young Republicans for success in the political arena. - The event's primary goal was to bring together College Republicans from the State of Michigan. But the attendance at the conference was low, only four people were present for the opening remarks which were scheduled for 7 p.m. last Friday evening. THE CHAIRMAN of the Univer- sity's Chapter of the College Republicans expressed disappoin- tment over the low turnout. "We thought we'd have much better attendance," said Chairman Karl Edelmann, "We were hoping for around 40 people. Hillsdale College and Michigan State promised us people, but they didn't show up." lgelmann said that the Univer- sitys current active membership is between 50 and 70 people. He feels that the attendance from University students was so low because there was a cost of $39 per person for the conference, the football game was away, and because it is mid-term time. EDELMANN said that the poor at- tendance does not reflect people's in- No one faces cancer alone. ~ Call us. AMERKAN CANCER SOCElY' terest in the group. "It shows no in- dication as to the commitment of the group. They are more concerned about their studies than something that is not going to be of immediate value., The conference's program, called the College Republicans Fieldman School, was designed to teach young Republicans how to organize political campaigns and how to develop stronger campus Republican organizations. Congressman Carl Pursell (R-Ann Arbor) and Dan Murphy, Oakland County Chief Executive, were two of the featured speakers. PURSELL spoke informally to a group of eight students that attended the 9 a.m. session last Saturday. Pur- sell told campus Republicans to pick one or two specific issues, like tax reform, and generate support. "Pick a target, be selective and go after it. I think there are a lot of issues here on campus that students would rally around." "The voice of verbal protest is so loud here that the minority appears to be the majority. There are two groups here but I don't mean the issues are black and white," Pursell added. MURPHY spoke to students about the need for economic change in the state. At a session on Saturday afternoon, the College Republican's state chair- man said she considers hereself a conservative Republican. Suzanne Miller, a student at Wayne State University, said she opposes federal and state support for abor- tions, supports funding the Contras fighting the Nicaraguan government, and believes the University should engage in SDI research. Miller said that she would also like to increase the number of College Republican clubs in Michigan from 20 to 30. She said she would like to see total membership increase by 25 per- cent. "I think the College Republicans can ensure the future of the Republican party. We can recruit new people and educate them on Republican philosophy so that the Reagan administration can sweep the entire spectrum," said Miller. "Our government is unique and we are going to be a flagship for freedom." Edelmann said that the College Republicans are "students first. We are not political activists." Chrysler workers tentatively end strike TORONTO (AP) - The United Auto Workers of Canada and Chrysler Canada Ltd. tentatively agreed yesterday on a contract that would end a five-day walkout against the automaker in Canada, Chrysler's chief negotiator said. The agreement came as 70,000 UAW members in the United States remained on strike against Chrysler. "IT'S REAL good," Chrysler Canada Vice President William Fisher said of the settlement. "It meets all of our expectations of full and complete parity with Ford (Canada) and General Motors of Canada in terms of wages, pensions and benefits," said Robert White, powerful leader of the newly indepen- dent Canadian union. Chrysler workers had fallen behind because of concessions given when the automaker was in financial dif- ficulty. THE TENTATIVE pact also would give a $1,000 Canadian ($730 U.S.) lump sum payment to all Chrysler workers and retirees represented by the union, White said. Canadian union members will con- sider the 23-month pact today at ratification vote meetings. White said he was confident they would approve it and that the 10,000 Chrysler em- ployees could be back on the job as early as today. Both the U.S. and Canadian unions struck Chrysler on Wednesday, vir- tually shutting down operations. By the weekend, smaller auto component suppliers had begun to lay off workers because Chrysler wasn't buying what they built. ANALYSTS SAID the walkouts were costing the company $15 million a day. Details of the Canadian agreement were worked out in all-night negotiations that lasted until mid-day yesterday, but the breakthrough came when White and Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca met Saturday in New York City. The Canadian settlement puts in- creased pressure on UAW President Owen Bieber, who is scheduled to resume negotiations with Chrysler of- ficials in the United States today in Highland Park, Mich. "I am hopeful that the agreement we have reached today will help the U.S. negotiations," White said. Bieber may face questions about how the militant Candian union was able to reach an earlier settlement with Chrysler. The questions could be made more difficult if it appeared that White won concessions from the No. 3 automaker that the U.S. union is still seeking. LSA STUDENTS YOUR STUDENT GOVERNMENT will be holding elections Nov. 18 & 19. Those interested in running should come to a mass meeting on MONDAY, OCTOBER 28 @ 7:30 p.m. MICHIGAN UNION WELKER ROOM For more info call or stop by 4003 Michigan Union - 763-4799 and' GET INVOLVED AI Al "V of an ne jus Vic tht be ho an ho T tio Ever consider murder, torti and the over ~sovereign g Protesters target AIDS DS. (Continued from Page 1) endorsed by a number of local groups Rights are violated, she said, including the University's women's here AIDS patients are thrown out studies program, the Ann Arbor their homes, fired from their jobs, Women's Crisis Center, Ann Arbor id kept out of their schools. There is N.O.W., Dignity of Ann Arbor, and the ither a medical nor an ethical Revolutionary Workers' League. stification for such measures. These ACTION against Aids also held a atinS is easil etrnoisablev conference yesterday at St. Andrews au AIise hesitaADasmisabsnofChurch, from 3 to 7 p.m. The keynote cmosexuality and use the disease as speaker was Evelyn Fisher, a staff msexuety exdres theisaeosphysician at Henry Ford Hospital who excuse to express their hatred of has seen a number of AIDS patients. mosexuals." She gave a detailed description of the the protest was organized by Ac- symptoms, transmission, treatment, n Against Aids of Ann Arbor, and and rate of growth of the incidence of the disease. There were also a num- ber of workshops dealing with such issues as the legal rights of people a career in with AIDS, "safe sex," and social services availablein Ann Arbor for people with AIDS. Chuck Krugman, a social worker ure, ape, from Ann Arbor, discussed the need for social services for AIDS victims and their families. %throw o f"We're going to need a considerable amount of consciousness raising to make people aware that people with AIDS deserve medical services just v e r n m en t s? like people with any other illness," said Krugman. He suggested that in- surance companies would be trying to avoid coverage, noting that this problem is common to people with other types of life-threatening medical histories.- QA IGOKrugman said that some kind of legislation that mandates coverage will be necessary to deal with the problem. IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS Young condemns youth gy DETROIT - Detroit Mayor Coleman Young - in reaction to the shooting of 206 school-age Detroit children so far this year, 23 fatally - urged citizens to "take control of our own children. "We're not going to stand for the shooting down of our young people as if this were some kind of television or Rambo movie," Young said Satur- day in an address to 150 Democratic precinct delegates from Detroit's 1st and 13th congressional districts. "At some point we've got to stop complaining about the police....and take control of our own children," Young said. The 1985 statistics are higher than for the same period in 1984, when 192 children under 17 were shot, 16 of whom died. And the problem continues, with the last 10 days being particularly bloody. S. Korea sinks N. Korean ship SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean warships began a search today for survivors or bodies from a North Korean boat sunk in a gun battle off the southern tip of South Korea. The Defense Ministry claimed the North Korean vessel was trying to land spies when it was intercepted yesterday. A ministry announcement said a soldier on shore spotted the North Korean boat and gave the alarm that brought navy units backed by jet fighters to the scene. It said the North Korean vessel was ordered to halt but failed to do so, and the exchange of gunfire followed. Military officials said one of the South Korean ships sustained slight damage but no casualties. No official information was released about the North Koz ean vessel, but the Yonhap News Agency quoted unidentified sources as saying it was 28-feet long and probably would have had six crew members. There was no comment from North Korea's communist authorities on the incident. It was the first time South Korea claimed to have thwarted a North Korean infiltration attempt along the southern coast since its military forces sank a North Korean boat and captured two armed agents in December 1983. Reagan letter backs Craxi ROME - President Reagan's "Dear Bettino" letter was credited yesterday with making it more likely Bettino Craxi would be asked to form a government to replace his own, which was toppled by the Achille Lauro hijacking. President Francisco Cossiga said he would reflect yesterday on con- sultations he had with political leaders one day earlier before naming a premier-designate with the task of lining up a new government, Italy's 45th since World War II. Cossiga was expected to announce his choice today. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead flew to Rome on Satur- day to try to smooth relations between the United States and Italy, frayed by developments which followed the hijacking. During a meeting he gave Reagan's letter to Craxi, who has been considered a valuable U.S. Ally. Craxi told Parliament in a speech just before resigning on Thursday that a showdown had developed between Italian and U.S. troops after U.S. warplanes forced an Egyptian airliner carrying the hijackers to land in Sicily. Fed. workers travel luxuriously WASHINGTON - A congressional investigation uncovered "numerous examples of extravagant" trips on luxury liners by federal employees traveling at taxpayer expense to and from overseas assignments, a House committee chairman says. Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Texas), head of the Government Operations Committee, said trips on ocean liners at prices several times the cost of equivalent airplane trips were turned up by a study begun last year by the General Accounting Office, the investigative wing of Congress. Copies of the GAO report have not been made public by the committee, but a source familiar with the document cited two examples found by the GAO of ocean liner travel by State Department personnel. In one case, an official and his family, returning to Buenos Aires, Argentina, from home leave in Los Angeles, flew to Cartengena, Colom- bia, and then took a 25-day cruise to Buenos Aires, according to the sour- ce. The source, who spoke on condition he not be identified, quoted the GAO as saying the voyage cost $18,156, compared to $3,360 had the trip been made by air. In the other case, an employee and his six dependents flew from New Delhi, India, for home leave in Spokane, Wash., and began the return trip by flying to New York. There they boarded the Queen Elizabeth II for a five-day crossing to England, where they took a flight back to India. U.S. flies aid to typhoon-hit land MANILA, Philippines - Military planes airlifted food and medicine to homeless families yesterday as officials counted 54 dead in the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines in 15 years. The death toll from separate storms in India and Bangladesh rose yesterday to 102 as eight more bodies were found in India and four more in Bangladesh. Both countries were hit by severe storms or typhoons last week. Red Cross authorities in the Philippines said they feared the death toll from Typhoon Dot, which hit the main island of Luzon Friday night and Saturday, would rise as reports came in from remote areas. At least 33 people were injured and about 35,000 people were homeless, the Office of Civil Defense said. Floods up to four feet deep were reported in many towns, the Red Cross said. The government television, which flew a crew of reporters into the cen- tral Luzon region, the country's rice bowl, estimated damage in Nueva Ecija province alone at more than $5.3 million. 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