Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 31, 1985 Inquiring Photographer by Dan Habib "Are you satisfied with the Michigan Student Assembly's performance in the last year? i 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. .hie Mrtiigan mat Vol XCVI- No. 1 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Monday through Friday during the Fall and Winter terms. Subscription rates: September through April - $18.00 in Ann Arbor; $35.00 outside the city. One term - $10.00 in town; $20.00 out of town. 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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." A ROBERT SHAYE Production "A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, PART 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE" Starring MARK PATTON -KIM MYERS ROBERT RUSLER. Special Appearances by CLU GULAGER and HOPE LANGE and ROBERT ENGLUND as FREDDY KRUEGER FROM A NEW LINE CINEMA s:1985NiWUNECINEMAcoM. 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