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Inquiring
Photographer
by Dan Habib
"Are you satisfied with the Michigan Student Assembly's
performance in the last year?
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Ron Taylor, graduate
:student: "I think they've
been good. A number of the
issues they've pursued are
things that I think are impor-
;tant, like the code."
Diane Averill, LSA junior: Celia Peters, LSA freshman:
"I think they're doing a good "It seems to me that they've
job. They've been represen- been doing a lot with
ting us well. I know our voice women's and minority
has been heard." movements. They could
publicize their actions
more."
Kelly Parkinson, LSA
senior: "I think they should
make a better effort to let
the student body know what
they've done."
Chris MacKay, LSA
sophopmore: "It seems like
last year MSA started a sin-
cere movement to improve
and their involvement has
been increasing.They've
show concern for what goes
on around campus."
'Jim Bray, LSA freshman:
"Well, they're controversial.
They're not as represen-
tative as they ought to be."
$usan Sawyer, LSA Jason Frank, engineering Heather Braun,- music
sophomore: "They've taken freshman: "I feel that they freshman: "I haven't been
a liberal stand, and they need to examine the base of aware of what MSA has been
don't really seem to be students they're represen- doing, and in general I'm a
representing the U-M ting. They paid too much at- pretty aware person. Sup-
serdenting tention to the sensational porting protests shouldn't be
students very well. issue of Bush's visit." what a student - assembly
does."
Mariam MacLean, LSA
sophomore: "I'm fairly
satisfied with what they've
done because politically my
views coincide with theirs.
Sometimes they're not ob-
jective."
Students disapprove
of MSA spolicies
IN BRIEF
COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS
Reagan to meet Soviet media
WASHINGTON - President Reagan, seizing an opportunity to explain
his views directly to the Soviet people, will be questioned today by four
journalists from Moscow in the first interview granted by an American
president to the Soviet press in nearly a quarter of a century.
The session is "a unique and historic opportunity for the president to
communicate directly with the people of the Soviet Union," said White
House spokesman Larry Speakes. "We hope it is a sign of a new and more
open information policy on the part of the Soviet Union."
No restrictions have been imposed on the Soviet's questions, although
they are likely to focus on Reagan's summit Nov. 19-20 with Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva and superpower relations, Speakes said.
"We think a sufficient amount of the interview will be conveyed,"
Speakes said. "We have no reservations about the matter."
NATO is fully behind President Reagan as he prepares for his Novem-
ber summit with Gorbachev, defense ministers of the NATO countries
said yesterday.
They also declared NATO's backing of the U.S. position at the Geneva
arms talks.
Whites support racial reform
in South African elections
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Whites in five districts voted
yesterday in special Parliament elections that were seen as a gauge of
support for racial reforms.
The National Party, putting its race reform measures on the line with
white voters in five special parliamentary elections, handily won one
race yesterday, narrowly defeated an ultra-rightist in another and lost a
third, unofficial returns showed.
Meanwhile, police said at least seven blacks were killed yesterday and
late Tuesday in violence believed linked to unrest against apartheid,
South Africa's system of enforced racial separation.
Loss of even one seat in yesterday's voting would probably slow the
pace of any racial reforms in South Africa, where change depends on
what the governing, whites-only National Party believes its supporters
will accept.
Italy to toughen PLO stance
ROME.- The partners in Italy's coalition government agreed to
toughen their stance toward the Palestine Liberation Organizatioin as
part of a compromise reached yesterday to resurrect Socialist Bettino
Craxi's five-party Cabinet.
The government collapsed Oct. 17 in a dispute over the handling of the
Achille Lauro hijacking.
The settlement, based on a compromise policy declaration, defined
Italy's foreign policy objectives and stressed the need for closer con-
sultations on major decisions. It also renewed a pledge to fight inter-
national terrorism.
The agreement to revive the Cabinet, barring unforeseen developmen-
ts, apparently assures Craxi of leading Italy's longest-lasting postwar
government. His coalition, formed in August 1983, will set the longevity
record Nov. 14.
"We have overcome the government crisis," Craxi declared after a 2
-hour meeting of leaders of the five parties - the Christian Democrats,
Socialists, Republicans, Social Democrats and Liberals.
Germans sponsor shuttle tests
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - History's largest space crew soared into
orbit yesterday aboard the shuttle Challenger for a week of West Ger-
man-sponsored experiments on the effects of weightlessnless on plants,
animals, materials and humans.
Challenger lifted away from its Kennedy Space Center launch pad -
precisely on schedule at noon EST atop a 700-foot-long tail of fire.
On board for the 22nd shuttle flight, the ninth by Challenger, are five
U.S. astronauts, two German scientists and a Dutch physicist. They will
conduct seven days of around-the-clock research in the European-built
space laboratory carried in the cargo bay.
The 23-foot science module is jammed with biological samples, fur-
naces for melting metals and glasses, and a sled to test the reaction of the
human balance mechanism to the almost zero gravity of near-Earth or-
bit.
West Germany is paying the National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration $64 million to fly the experiments. The research will be
directed from a science control center at the West German town of Ober-
pfaffenhofen, near Munich.
Security prepares for Gandhi
NEW DELHI, India - Sharpshooters in trees will help guard Prime
Minister Rajiv Gandhi at a rally today wherehe will address a 'crowd
projected at 1 million people on the anniversary of his mother's
assassination.
Angry Sikh militants in Punjab called a counter-rally to glorify her
slain Sikh assassin as a martyr.
Elaborate security plans, including helicopters overhead, were laid out
yesterday for the New Delhi rally honoring Indira Gandhi, Rajiv's
mother and predecessor.
"Security is so tight that even birds will not reach him (Gandhi)," the
Statesman newspaper reported.
Throughout the capital, more than 35,000 police and security groups
were posted to prevent Sikh terrorist attacks on the first anniversary of
the day when Mrs. Gandhi's own security guards shot her on the garden
plath of her residential compound.
In Sikh-dominated Punjab, security forces were bolstered as militants
put up hundreds of posters of Beant Singh and other slain extremists and
set a rally for today in the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine of the Sikh
religion.
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to camnus issues and away from
national and international affairs,"
Shapiro said. "If they want to protest,
fine, but they shouldn't use our
money. I think they're acting really
childish."
Shapiro said he and several friends
who have supported him may form
their own party or throw support
behind the Moderates of the Univer-
sity of Michigan (MUM) party that
made an unsuccessful bid for the
presidency and vice presidency of
MSA during last spring's elections.
MUM will probably run again next
spring, according to LSA senior Tom
Salvi, who was the party's nominee
for vice president.
SALVI FEARS, however, that
several parties entering the election
will split the conservative vote, effec-
tively nullifying the changes for a
moderate-dominated assembly.
MSA President Paul Josephson en-
couraged any students who disagree
with the assembly's positions to form
a party, and said he referred a fresh-
man engineer who expressed such an
interest to Evans and Davidson.
"If the student sentiment is that
they would rather have those guys
representingrthem than me - that's
fine," he said.
"DEFUNPING MSA is probably
the stupidest thing these people could
do," Josephson said. ."They would
lose any kind of student voice.",,
"MSA is representative of the
students - period," said Steve
Heyman, chairman of the assembly's
legislative relations committee.
"I defy anyone to suggest that MSA
has dealt with an issue this year that
isn't a campus issue," he said.
"George Bush coming to campus is a
campus issue..
But engineering senior Ed Krause
said he doesn't "like my five dollars
every term going for political events
(MSA members) sponsor that I don't
agree with." Krause, who contacted
Evans and Davidson after seeing
their poster, supports giving students
the option of funding MSA, as they
now do in regards to the Public In-
terest Research Group in Michigan.
MSA's controversial endorsement
of theABush protest passed by a slim
11-10 margin, and assembly members
remained divided yesterday over
MSA's stance on student concerns.
A MUM party member on the
assembly, Mary-Ann Nemer, for in-
stance, said she "completely agrees
that MSA is not representing the
students and should focus more on
campus issues."
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