A Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, January 23, 1986 v IL Inquiring Photographer By Dan Habib 1 "How do the ideals of Martin Luther King Jr. compare with the realities of today?" U- Dan Edmonds, LSA fresh- man: I think the movement that he led achieved the legal goals that it strove for, but some social implications remain to be solved. In commemorating the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King, it's important to stress equality of all people. There is still existing racial prejudice, whether it's allowed or supressed. People are all prejudiced, whether they admit it or not. Alex Gamota, Natural Laura Stephens, graduate Mike Keegan, LSA Resources freshman : student: I think there is still sophomore: I think he Legally they've probably a movement, but not much. opened up everybody's eyes. taken effect, but socially I'm It's reached a plateau. In his speech, he said he not sure if much has hap- People are at least em- hoped little black girls and pened. Many blacks stay barrassed to admit that they white girls could play together, they don't really are racist or sexist. together. I see that all the integrate. Like the Bursely time. If that's what he said, family, which is sort of a things are headed in the reverse discrimination. right direction. Sara Withers, LSA junior: The. white community doesn't understand Martin Luther King's dream. They make superficial con- cessions to what we and our parents have fought for. I don't think the whole population is sensitive to the racial barriers in em- ployment, health care, and housing. Lisa Green, LSA junior: They've definitely been held back at the University. There are major problems with minority enrollment and in what minorities have to do to get funding. The white community is apathetic to King's ideals. I think it's less severe here than at other universities. But you can see the attitude here in Monday's rally. It was organized and held solely by minorities. The white progressives at Michigan are not as progressive as they claim. Cornell Hooton, graduate student: We've made a lot of progress in the legal in- stitutions, but informally there is a long way to go. In- tegration has expanded, but attitudes have to improve. Anjanette Hampton, engineering sophomore: I think in some ways his ideas have been realized. We, as minorities, have a lot more opportunities that he worked for. We should work harder towards unity among our races. There is still a lot of work to be done. A lot of the enthusiasm was lost when he died. Many of the younger people, like University students, take things for granted. Lisa Dedden, LSA junior: I don't think his ideas have faded out in today's society, and they never will. Recen- tly, the focus on apartheid has brought them out a little more, but they never really diminished. I think there has been progress made, but his ideals are still being held back. Darryl Wasson, part-time student: It's a social issue. Civil rights were enacted because of him, but we still have a long way to go in equality for blacks. We've made gains but the brick wall of prejudice still exists. It may not be as visible as 30 years ago, but it still exists. IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS Gandhi's killers convicted NEW DELHI, India - A judge seated behind bulletproof glass convic- ted three Sikhs yesterday and sentenced them to death for the murder of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984. More than 200 riot police guarded the jail to prevent a possible attack by Sikh militants and to enforce a 48-hour ban on public assembly that authorities imposed Tuesday in surrounding neighborhoods. One of those convicted, a member of Mrs. Gandhi's personal guard, was accused of firing the shots in the garden of the prime minister's residential compound, along with another guard who was killed at the scene. The other two defendants were found guilty of conspiracy. Judge Chandra said the prosecution "established beyond a reasonable doubt" that the Sikhs conspired to kill Mrs. Gandhi. The prosecution claimed the assassination was an act of revenge for the June 1984 army attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Mrs. Gandhi was assassinated Oct. 31, 1984, four months after she sent the army into the holiest Sikh temple to route out Sikh terrorists who were using it as a refuge. No date was set for the executions, which in India usually are by hanging. S. African riot patrol kills 7 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Riot patrols shot dead seven blacks and wounded 40 others in a township where a crowd of black miners stab- bed and stoned to death two white policeman, authorities said yesterday. Residents said as many as 10 blacks may have died Tuesday when the policemen were killed. Riot patrols returned to Bekkersdal township west of Johannesburg yesterday, sealed off the area and conducted house-to-house searches in an effort to track down some of the mob involved in the killings. Police said a crowd of about 500 miners turned on a pair of white poli'emen who tried to break up an illegal gathering in an open field Tuesday where the gold miners apparently had been discussing labor issues. Outdoor gatherings by blacks have been outlawed since 1976. Police headquarters said yesterday that 250 blacks from the township were rounded up for questioning and that at one roadblock, police found a Soviet-designed AK-47 assault rifle and six grenades in a car. Two black men were arrested for possession of weapons, a police statement said. Eleven blacks were arrested and held on murder charges in connection with the slayings of the policemen and appeared briefly in court, the statement added. It was the first time white policemen were killed in 17 months of unrest that has left more than 1,000 people dead, nearly all of them black. Peres pushes for peace talks LONDON - Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel appealed yester- day for a meeting with Jordan and moderate Palestinians to arrange an international peace conference on the Middle East. "In order to expedite this process, the agenda, the composition, the procedure and the international support can be discussed and agreed upon in a preliminary meeting of small working teams," Peres said in a policy speech to the Royal Institute of International Affairs. "Alternatively, a summit of the relevant national leaders may of itself presage an entirely new era in the history of our region. Meetings of that nature can take place in Jordan, Israel or any other location," he said. The prime minister did not name the countries he considered relevant to the process. There have been various proposals for either the two superpowers or the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council to take part in negotiations. Those five are the United States, Soviet Union, China, Britain and France. Congressmen fail to find conclusive MIA evidence WASHINGTON - Members of Congress who visited Vietnam and Laos "did not receive anything" to encourage the belief that American ser- vicemen are still being held prisoner there, the head of the delegation said yesterday. "I don't want to raise any false hopes," Sen. Frank Murkowski, (R- Ala.) told a news conference called to report on the delegation's recently concluded Southeast Asian tour. Murkowski, chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, said the panel will hold hearing next week on the possibility American prisoners remain in captivity in Southeast Asia more than a decade after the end of the war. A top Pentagon official had said last week that the Vietnamese gover- nment has pledged to join U.S. authorities in investigating nearly a hun- dred "live-sighting reports" of Americans missing in Indochina. Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.), another member of the delegation who. returned last week from the nine-day overseas tour, said yesterday "It is my belief that it is very, very likely that there are some Americans there." Inflation rises 3.8% in 1985 WASHINGTON - Despite a year-end surge in food and fuel prices that economists called temporary, retail prices rose only 3.8 percent in 1985, held to 4 percent or lower for the fourth consecutive year, the government said yesterday. But the low overall inflation rate was accompanied by the slowest growth in the U.S. enonomy since the recession year of 1982. In a separate report, the government said the Gross National Product expan- ded by a lackluster 2.3 percent in 1985 - even slower than previously reported. Economists said the twin reports pointed toward another year ahead of sluggish growth with moderately rising prices. The Labor Department's Consumer Price Index of 3.8 percent would have been lower had it not been for a bulge jn energy and food prices in November and December. 01Ihe Sichiganu'vatIg 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. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and Sub- scribes to United Press International, Pacific News Service, Los Angeles Times Syndicate, and College Press Service. Anti-CIA demonstrators face tr (Continued from Page 1) president for student services, said he was in the Student Activities Building at the time of the arrests. He added that he would probably be present at the proceedings today, but declined to comment on the case. Other officials expected to testify as witnesses, Plunkett said, include Deborah Orr May, director of the placement office, Ane Richter, assistant director of the office, and Leo Heatley, director of safety. Lipson said he sent "about 10" sub- poenas, including some to the same officials called by the prosecution as well as University President Harold Shapiro. But Shapiro who has declnined to testify at other trials of campus demonstrators, probably won't be present, Lipson added. Lipson anticipates a deferred sen- tence for his clients. That means if they have no police record, they will ial today have to pay a fine and court costs and complete up to 72 hours of public ser- vice work. After six months, the judge will dismiss the charges made against the defendants. 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