Copyright 1986, The Michigan Daily Mit igan itIai1t Ninety-six years of editorial freedom Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, February 5, 1986 Vol. XCVI - No. 89 Reagan WASHINGTON (AP) - In a State of "I am talking al the Union Address celebrating what emancipation," h he called a "great American success of welfar comeback" after years of economic byhow many of its woes, Reagan set what he called "an independent of we agenda for the future" that highlights Reagan set no many of the policies he set during his for reform other t previous five years in office, government'sr Reagan yesterday directed his ad- "provide shelter a ministration to develop a welfare those who cannot strategy to help the poor "escape the selves." spider's web of dependency" and to BUT HE said," work with private insurers to develop replace program affordable insurance against the costs name of compass] of catastrophic illness. moral worth of "IN THE welfare culture, the family breakups breakdown of the family, the most communities into basic support system, has reached crisis proportions - in female and child poverty, child abandonment, D e m horrible crimes and deterioratinge schools," Reagan said in a speech prepared for a joint session of Congress. sumt oCngestoa aynR eaA He said little of the budget he will submit to Congress today saying, "Tonight, let us speak of our respon- WASHINGTON sibility to redefine government's Party leaders, role." President Re "After hundreds of bilions of dollars Pressdentoft in poverty programs, the plight of the assessment of th poor grows more painful," he said. portrayed the pr "But the waste in dollars and cents over a devastati pales before the most tragic loss: the floundering farm sinful waste of human spirit and dangerous red- potential." ledger. SAYING "we can ignore this StateoftheUnion terrible truth no longer," Reagan or- American famil dered his Domestic Policy Council to warned that R report by Dec. 1 with "a strategy for policies will u immediate action to meet the finan- stability and indep cial, educational, social and safety TO PRESENT concerns of poor families." the state of the u Ten Pages praises meback' bout real and lasting e said, "because the e should be judged s recipients become Ifare." specific guidelines han to acknowledge responsibility to nd nourishment for t provide for them- "We must revise or ns enacted in the ion that degrade the work, encourage and drive entire a bleak and hear- tless dependency." Reagan said he wanted to "redefine government's role: not to control, not to command, not to contain us; but to help in times of need; above all, to create a ladder of opportunity to full employment so all Americans can climb toward economic power and justice on their own." "But we cannot win the race to the future shackled to a system that can't even pass a federal budget," the president said in a blunt criticism of Congress' failure to complete its own budget-writing process. "WE CANNOT win that race held See REAGAN, Page 5 tocrats criticize man S (AP) - Democratic responding to eagan's upbeat e state of the union, esident as presiding ng budget deficit, a n economy, and a ink foreign trade to the president's theme stressing the y, the Democrats eagan's economic undermine family pendence. ' the party's view of nion, the Democrats record turned to former Virginia Gov. Charles Robb, and to Sen. George. Mitchell of Maine, Harriett Woods, the lieutenant governor of Missouri, and Reps. Tom Daschle of South Dakota, and William Gray of Pen- nsylvania. Mitchell, chairman of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, moderated the nationally televised response to Reagan. In a closing statement, Mitchell said the ad- ministration's policies are "driving more families into hard times and apart, and they're causing American jobs to move overseas." See DEMOCRATS, Page 5 Navigation problems Daily Photo by MATTPERE Sandy Hofmann, an employee of Film Projection Services, tries to maneuver around yesterday's puddles and ice. Temperatures will rise to 45 today. MI Senate awaits vote on smoking bill By JILL OSEROWSKY THE BILL, introduced last March in both Jack Faxon (D-Southfield), who introduced Under the act all governmental agencies medical insurance. Special tothefDailv - 3 . .. - the-bill, but was not on the committee. "I - including the University - must impose But Gregory Niehaus, Univers 1- - ity LANSING - The vote on whether or not to send the Michigan Clean Indoor Air Act to the state Senate floor was delayed in- definitely yesterday when a member of the Public and Mental Health Committee which was reviewing the bill, failed to attend the meeting. Sen. John Kelly (D-Detroit) who would make the deciding vote, was called away from Lansing at the last minute because of an emergency, said Rosemarie Barone, Kelly's administrative assistant. tne Senate and i-ouse pronibits smoking in public places except in designated smoking areas. Controversy over the bill was sparked by a conflict of interests between the tobacco industry and health professionals. Four of the five senators on the Public and Mental Health Committee listened to public testimony forthree hours before deciding to send two bills on to the Senate while retaining two others - owing to a deadlock vote. "Certainly I was disappointed, said Sen. fully intended him (Kelly) to be here." THE BILL, which was originally spon- sored by 20 senators, is popular among the public but not the tobacco industry, ac- cording to Faxon. "It's amazing what money can do," Faxon said, adding that "it's cheaper (for the tobacco industry) to spend all their money on lobbyists instead of trying to in- fluence public opinion which is against them." the policy, which designates non-smoking areas, by Jan. 1 next year. All non- governmental public places which receive state funds must adopt the act by 1988. All other non-governmental public places would be bound by the law in 1989. IT IS NOT clear how much money the state and businesses will lose or save if the bill is passed. Many witnesses who testified said that costs incurred from putting up non- smoking signs and giving smokers breaks to smoke, would be offset by paying less for assistant prof. of finance and insurance, said businesses and the state will lose some money trying to implement the bill. Niehaus and Robert Tollison, a .George Mason University professor, collaborated on a study that quantifies the costs of the proposed legislation. Niehaus presented their findings to the committee. The tobacco industry sponsored the report. "Legislation of this sort is not cost free," Niehaus said. See COMMITTEE, Page 2 Scientists say budget cut effects uncertain By ROB EARLE University researchers, while ex- pecting cuts in their funding as a result of the Gramm-Rudman- Hollings law, are- nevertheless cautious in trying to predict the specific effects those cuts will have on their own projects. The National Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense are among the major government research sponsors slotted for cuts. IN A Jan. 22 memo, the University vice-president for research Wilson warned that these agencies would be making cuts ranging from 3.7 percent at the energy department to 9.5 percent in some defense-funded programs. Wilson is planning a meeting with research unit heads in the near future to discuss strategies for handling the cuts and maintaining as much funding as possible. David Heebink, director of the Of- fice of Federal Relations in the University's Office of the Vice- President for Research said it's still too early to determine Gramm- See SCIENTISTS, Page 7 Israeli,-s intercept jet in effort to nab terrorists MSA urges By MARY CHRIS JALEVIC The Michigan Student Assembly unanimously passed a resolution last night urging the University to bestow an honorary degree on South African dissident Nelson Mandela. The resolution cited Mandela as "an example of courage and dignity in the face of inhumane conditions," and said that by granting the degree the University will "add another fine first to its list of distinctions. No other predominantly white university has awarded a degree to Mandela. ' to honor Mandela MSA Min'rity Affairs Coordinator Lawrence Norris said that the action would be a morale booster for black students on campus. Also at last night's meeting, the assembly agreed to place a referen- dum on the MSA elections ballot this spring asking students to vote on a proposal requiring firms to pledge that they are "not directly engaged in supporting terrorist activity" before they are allowed to recruit on cam- pus: The referendum also asks whether a committee be appointed to review the activities of the firms in the case that a portion of the student body petitions to have the firm's activities reviewed after they have accepted the pledge. "We've got to get it out into that forum, in the fishbowl, on the Diag. Maybe it's going to increase voting in the next election. It has obvioulsy caused a lot of controversy here (at MSA)," said MSA member Tom Marx. See PROPOSAL, Page 7 AN AIR BASE IN NORTHERN ISRAEL (AP) - Israeli warplanes in- tercepted an executive jet and forced it to land in northern Israel yesterday seeking to capture Palestinian guerrilla' leaders but winding up in- stead with Syrian politicians, officials said. The plane was en route to Syria from a conference of Arab revolutionary groups in Libya, the officals said. THE AERIAL interception, over the Mediterranean 50 miles east of the island of Cyprus and about 200 miles off the Israeli coast, turned out to be a blunder. No Palestinians were among the nine passengers and three crew, Israeli military spokesmen said - just Syrians. including Abdullah al- Ahmar, deputy secretary of Syria's governing socialist Baath Party. Israel apparently had hoped to cap- ture one of two Palestinian ;guerrilla; leaders, either Abu-Nidal - whose real name is Sabry al-Banna - or Ahmed Jebril. George Habash, head of the Popular Front for the Libertation of Palestine, part of the Palestine Liberation Organization, told a news conference in Tripoli he considered himself the main target of the Israeli intercep- tion. IN DAMASCUS, the Syrian government issued an official an- nouncement condemning the intercep- tion of the Gulfstream II and calling for an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting to debate what it called Israel's "air piracy." Tripoli radio, in a broadcast mon- .itored in London, said a "Libyan Arab Airlines plane was forced by Jewish air pirates to land in occupied Palestine," the Libyan news media's term for Israel. The radio said U.S. naval units in the Mediterranean "provided full in- formation to the Zionist pirates about the movenients of the civilian plane." AN ISRAELI source refused com- ment on the claim "as a matter of policy." Joseph Read, a State Department spokesman, said, "There was no U.S. military involvement in the inter- cept. " The plane was allowed to leave for Damascus, capital of Syria, after being held at a secret air base in nor- thern Israel for about five hours. "THEY DIDN'T find who they were looking for," said one Israeli source, who, like the officials and spokesmen, insisted on anonymity. Khaled Abdul Majid, a spokesman for the Palestinian Salvation Front which groups hard-line Palestinian factions, warned in Damascus that retaliation would follow. TODAY- Surf's up better," Brame said Monday. "I could handle that." Water officials attributed the million-dollar-plus over- billing to a problem that resulted when an old meter was replaced with a new one. "The computer com- pared the first reading off the new meter with the last reading off the old meter," said Robert Berg, press secretary to Mayor Coleman Young. Eula Hill, 83, who lives in one of the 30 homes that make up the tiny town on Maryland's marshy eastern shore, said Monday. "It's sad," she said. The first din- ner sponsored by the church featured six muskrats, Hill said. In recent years, about 100 muskrats were prepared to feed crowds of up to 1,000. Muskrat con- noisseurs came from as far away as Pennsylvania, --INSIDE PERCUSSIVE: Arts previews guitarist Michael Hedges' return to the area. See Page 8. r- -, I I i