Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 5, 1985 Dow chamber collapses, reasons unknown 40 IN BRIEF (Continued from Page 1) make sure this does not happen again,"sSchlaff said. He estimates the rebuilding time to take from a minimum of eight to sixteen weeks. Workers have been clearing the site from Thursday's damage. Vest sasid "They worked all weekend. The whole thing is practically cleaned out." Vest said the crews tore out the roof and pulled out the equipment that was in- side the utility chamber. "The room is basically an empty hole again." Most of the damage was done to the electrical equipment for the almost completed basement area which in- cludes a satellite library, an instruc- tional televisiion center, and a Com- puter Aided Engineering Network facility. THE ONLY damage to the Dow building was caused by leakage of water from a broken water pipe and ceiling tiles which popped out of the grid because of a tremendous in- struction Co., and the architect was crease in wind and air pressure, Schlaff said. Temporary ventillation had to be provided for the computers since the ventilation units in the utility chamber were ruined. The accident caused no injuries. "For such a major collapse we've been very fortunate," said Schlaff. The original contractor for the utility building was Fairview Con- Sims Varner and Associates. Schlaff said he knows of no other similar utility structures on campus. He said there is no concern for the stability of the structure of the rest of the Dow building. The building was closed after the collapse Thursday but is opened for classes now, including the basement ' professor uninterested in government position (Continued from Page 1) says he isn't interested in a policy- making position, he clearly enjoys getting media attention for his con- troversial opinions. He spouts off the merits of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative and "Star Wars" research on campus, yet he prefers to think of himself as a scholar rather than a salesman. "He's very complex," says Melanie Whitt, his research assistant. "There's a lot of layers." TANTER CAME to the forefront of debates on campus over "Star Wars" and the University's research guidelines last May when he proposed a project that would have brought SDI research into the realm of the social sciences, perhaps for the first time in the nation. Tanter wanted to study non-formal approaches to arms control, such as using SDI as a lever to force the Soviets to abandon ICBMs in favor or weapons less likely to be used in a fir- st strike. The University's Research Policies Committee reviewed and rejected Tanter's project because his findings would not be publishable for more than a year due to the inclusion of classified documents. THE COMMITTEE'S rejection prompted the Board of Regents to request the appointment of an ad-hoc panel to review the guidelines.' "Tanter's proposal showed us there! was a problem," says Regent Thomas 'Democracy is like sex. When it's good, it's very good. When it's bad, it's not so bad.' - Prof. Raymond Tanter Roach (D-Saline) who made the request. The board, he adds, had felt for some time that the guidelines adopted in 1972 needed changing, but Tanter's project provided the im- petus. "The committee thought well of (Tanter's proposal)," says Alfred Sussman, former vice president for research who was overseeing the RPC last spring. TANTER SAYS he won't resubmit his proposal unless the guidelines are first changed to give the researcher more than a year to publish his results. Yet the professor's theories regar- ding the viability of SDI as a tool for arms control, crisis stability, and strategic deterrence have thrust him into debate on campus over the "Star Wars" program. Standing in the public spotlight doesn't bother Tanter. He rarely turns down an invitation to speak publicly on the issue, and some students say privately that his American Foreign Policy course is a thinly- disguised seminar on SDI. DURING A recent meeting of the class, Tanter brought up "Star Wars" seven times. He had his students chant twice about the "nuclear utilization theory," an alternative to SDI which endorses the rapid buildup of more and more accurate nuclear weapons: "Use your weapons, or lose your weapons." Not one student challenged his lec- ture. Nor did students in Tanter's graduate class start a debate about SDI during a recent meeting. Some students say they don't argue with their professor because they already supported SDI or because Tanter has changed their minds. "I became a recent convert," says Mark Lipton, an LSA junior in Tan- ter's graduate course on nuclear policy. "I was opposed to SDI until about three weeks ago yesterday." Tanter dropped that role, however, when hecklers interrupted his speech at a campus-wide symposium last month on "Star Wars." Tanter ignored them, and continued in a steady voice. "I was torn between being a propagandist and being a scholar," he says now, "so I stayed with the professorial bit. I didn't come out with the smashing, rousing type of perfor- mance." "I took the 'high road,"' he ex- plains. Tanter's academic background is extensive. After receiving his masters and doctorate degrees from Indiana University in 1964, he went to teach and do research for three years at Northwestern University near his hometown of Chicago. In 1967 he made his first move into government as deputy director of the Department of Defense's Advanced Research projec- ts Agency. In 1968 he taught at Stan- ford and worked as a consultant for the RAND Corporation and the U.S. Agency for International Develop- ment. He left a position he held between 1969-71 with the Inter-University Con- sortium for Political Research to teach fall term at the University of Amsterdam. In 1973 Tanter began a part-time teaching job at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he continued to lead -seminars periodically even after he was appoin- ted associate chairman of the Univer- sity's political science department in 1976. Offered an appointment to President Reagan's National Security Council in May, 1981, Tanter took a leave of absence from the University. Until he was removed from his position in March, 1982 during political reshuffling, Tanter helped formulate American policies toward the Arab-Israeli conflict. He says his views were - and still are - staun- chly pro-Israeli. The reason, he says, is that Israel is a democracy and "almost anything a democracy does is not so bad. This is the great thing about democracies." "Democracy is like sex. When it's good, it's very good. When it's bad, it's not so bad." Tanter laughs, then wonders what his words will look like in print. Despite fond memories of working for the executive branch of the federal government, Tanter defensively poin- ts out he's not a "knee-jerk" conser- vative. He opposes building of MX missiles and the sharing of technology with the Soviet Union, saying both moves would be "destabilizing.". And Tanter believes that many Americans would disagree with Reagan if they paid heed to what the president's policies rather than the image he presents. "Ronald Reagan has a negative message: anti-communism and a strong defense build-up," he says. "But the young people like Reagan for the same reason they like Bruce Springsteen: they don't pay attention to (Reagan's) views on abortion, on civil rights, on prayer in schools - the social issues. "They just look at the trappings of American power, America's back, the red, white and blue, the high gloss." COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS U.S. says USSR ships cargo to Nicaragua through Cuba WASHINGTON - The Soviet Union, after an unexplained slowdown in deliveries of military hardware ot Nicaragua, has stepped up such ship- ments in recent months and is now trans-shipping cargo through Cuba, government sources said yesterday. Intelligence officials still don't have a clear picture of what type of har- dware is arriving in Nicaragua, one source said, but there have been in- dications over the past two weeks of new shipments involving trucks and tanks. And last week, the source continued, a U.S. supersonic spy plane flew over Cuba and confirmed that cargoes were being removed from Soviet and Bulgarian ships and transferred to Nicaraguan freighters. "That's a new wrinkle, but there have also been some Soviet ships going direct to Nicaragua this fall," said the source, who requested anonymity. "We don't know what all is there (in the shipments), but the point is that there has been a resumption of Soviet arms deliveries since a gap that started late last year," the source said. Senator criticizes CIA leak WASHINGTON - A published report which said the CIA had been authorized to undermine Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy prompted President Reagan to order an investigation into the leak and caused one senator to declare that if a member of Congress was responsible, he or she should be censored or expelled. In the Senate, Sen. Don Nickles (R-Okla.) expressed "complete outrage" at the disclosure and said that if any member of Congress is found to have leaked the information, he or she should be censored "or actually expelled." "There are some things that should not be divulged, and this is it," Nickles said. The Washington Post, quoting unidentified government sources and citing intelligence documents, said Sunday that Reagan signed a "fin- ding" this fall authorizing the CIA to undermine Khadafy, who has been labeled an international terrorist by both Reagan and former President Carter. Yurchenko denies defecting WASHINGTON - Vitaly Yurchenko, a high-level Soviet KGB officer who was reported by the State Department to have defected to the United States, said yesterday that he had been brought to this country uncon- scious and against his will. He said that on Nov. 2, due to a lapse in his supervision, he was able to "break out to freedom" and go to the Soviet embassy. In an extraordinary press conference at the embassy, Yurchenko said "I was forced to take some drugs and denied the opportunity to get in touch with official Soviet representatives." "On a business trip to Italy, I was forcibly abducted," he said. He did not say by whom but later he talked about conversations he held with the chief of the Soviet section of the CIA. Yurchenko, 50, was described as the No. 5 man in the KGB, the Soviet intelligence service, at the time he defected in Rome in early August. Court reviews sodomy law WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to study what should - and should net - go on in American bedrooms, announcing it will decide whether a Georgia law against sodomy violates the con- stitutional right to privacy. The justices will hear arguments, probably early next year, in the case brought by Georgia challenging an 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that found the state law infringes upon "fundamental con- stitutional rights." The appeals court order a lower court hold trial on the question. Homosexual rights groups praised the court's decision to review the case. "We're pleased the court is hearing the case because the situation in- volves a gross interference in private behavior between consenting adults," said Ron Najman, a spokesman for the National Gay Task Force in New York. "We believe the Supreme Court will have no choice but to strike down the Georgia law." Moderate leads Guat. election GUATEMALA CITY - Vinicio Cerezo, a moderate Christian Democrat, took a strong lead in ballot-counting yesterday for Guatemala's first civilian president in 16 years. But the conservative trailing Cerezo vowed to force a run-off. Under the voting laws, Cerezo needs 50 percent of the total vote from Sunday's election. With 32 percent of the ballots counted by yesterday noon, Cerezo had 270,348 votes, or 39 percent of the total vote from Sunday's election. Under thevoting laws, Cerezo needs 50 percent of the total vote from Sunday's election. With 32 percent of the ballots counted by yesterday noon, Cerezo had 270,348 votes, or 39 percent of the total, and his closest rival, newpaper publisher Jorge Carpio Nicolle, had 136,626, or 21 percent. Cerezo could face Carpio, of the conservative National Centrist Union, in a run-off Dec.8. Jorge Serrano, fielded by a coalition of the Democratic Party, National Cooperation and the Revolutionary parties, was running a poor third with 90,736 votes, or 11 percent. Eight presidential candidates, all civilians, representing 12 parties competed. Voting Sunday was for president, vice President, all 100 members of Congress, and 330 mayors and their city councils - all for 5-year terms. Cerezo claimed he was assured of victory, even in a run-off. In an interview early yesterday, Cerezo called his strong lead in the vote-counting "a victory of the people." Vol XCVI-- No. 44 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Monday through Friday during the Fall and Winter terms. 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