cl ble Lit iau Ninety-six years of editorialfreedom Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, March 5, 1986 ler 43 ttil li Vol. XCVI - No. 104 Copyright 1986, The Michigan Daily Eight Pages Botha may lift emergency alert charge and enables the detention or- der to be repeated indefinitely. IT ALSO gives security forces broad powers to use firearms in halting violence and enables them to See BOTHA, Page 3 CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -President P.W. Botha announced yesterday that the state of emergency imposed last July to quell anti-apar- theid unrest in South Africa will be lif- ted, perhaps by Friday. In a brief statement to a packed session of Parliament in the country's legislative capital, Botha claimed the racially motivated turmoil had sub- sided to "sporadic and isolated in- cidents." BOTHA SAID conditions have "im- proved sufficiently to enable me to announce that a proclamation will be issued in the near future, most probably this coming Friday, which will lift the state of emergency in those magisterial districts where it still applies." The state of emergency was im- posed July 21, 1985, in 30 urban and rural districts and remains in force in 23. An end to the state of emergency has been a primary demand of anti- apartheid campaigners and Western governments. The state of emergency empowers the police force and army to detain any person for up to 14 days without Local experts call change meaningless. By DOV COHEN "IT'S A gesture aimed at the rest of South African President P.W. the world, particularly America," Botha's pledge to lift the nation's state said history Prof. William Worger. of emergency is a meaningless "It's not meant to conciliate anyone in gesture, local experts said yesterday. South Africa. They're pretending The experts agreed that Botha there's no problem. But violence is made the promise to impress thegonupThgsaeetigwr. United States and foreign bankers going up. Things are getting worse." with whom South Africa is South Africa has been renegotiating renegotiating loans. See S. AFRICAN, Page 3 Daily Photo by MATT PETRIE Perspective alumni Scott Benjamin, an architecture and urban planning student, makes a perspective drawing of the Alumni Cen- ter yesterday. I Groupattacks funding committee By MARY CHRIS JAKLEVIC Two representatives of the Freedom Charter Coalition, a liberal student organization, said they are dissatisfied with the Michigan Student Assembly's Budget Priorities Com- mittee (BPC) at last night's MSA meeting. The BPC, which distributes MSA funding to campus groups, is curren- tly under investigation by the assem- bly due to allegations that is has discriminated against liberal campus groups in its process. RON SHORE, a student of Public Health and a member of the Coalition, said that he and other members of the group were given conflicting stories of the results of their requests for MSA= funding. Shore said they were told that they had not been granted funds when in fact they had. Though Shore could not identify the person in MSA who gave this infor- mation to the coalition, he said that in general the group has had a difficult time getting the "straight story" sin- ce December, when they first requested BPC funding. "There is some question as to whether the handling of the affair had to do with our perceived politics," Shore said. The coalition, which consists of campus groups such as the National Lawyers Guild and the Free South Africa Coordinating Committee, wan- ts funds to publish a charter describing reforms they would like to see in student decision-making and social responsibilith at the University. The charter would be distributed free on campus. SHORE said that BPC members asked "inappropriate" questions about the political contents of the planned charter.1 BPC chair Kurt Muenchow said thatl the allegations are "factually in- correct" and blamed the coalition's problems on its own internal disorganization. Muenchow said that the group was sent a grant agreement by the BPC which notified the group that it received funding, but the group did not return it to MSA. "Each group (that applies for funding) gets a checklist (of steps in the funding procedure), but most groups don't read it," Meunchow said. RACKHAM representative Bruce Belcher said that several liberal groups have had similar difficulties with the BPC, including having their funding requests disapproved by the BPC and then approved when they appealed the BPC decisions to the en- tire assembly. Belcher also said that some groups have encountered mix-ups and un- necessary red tape in getting refunds for their expenditures which the BPC had agreed to pay for. Belcher said that BPC has violated its guidelines in order to fund some 1 groups and conjured false ones as an excuse not to fund others. In the case of the Freedom Charter Coalition, Belcher said that the BPC gave a false excuse not to grant funds, that their guidelines prohibit BPC from funding 75 percent of a group's project, which, he said, they do not. Belcher accused Muenchow of having a bias against liberal groups, but he could not say if other BPC members share Muenchow's views. Meunchow said the investigation will turn up nothing, and that he does not have a liberal prejudice. "The groups aren't being treated fairly," Belcher said. Belcher said that BPC may in the future be asked to justify any violations they make in the guidelines. He also said that new procedures that don't depend on one person's approval may be established to make it easier for groups to handle the bureaucracy involved with Belcher ...says BPC is unfair receiving MSA funding. Other groups Belcher said that have encountered problems are the Alter- native Career Fair, the Voice of Reason; and the Rackham Student Government. Student continues march despite dropouts By WENDY SHARP Despite uncomfortable conditions such as lack of daily showers and laundry facilities, University student Margie Winkelman continues to mar- ch across the United States to ad- vocate nuclear disarmament. March organizers, however, have forced around 200 of her co-marchers to drop out because of incorrectly processed applications, according to Jim Blevins, a member of Pro-Peace, the group coordinating the 3,235 mile trek from Los Angeles to Washington. BLEVINS said the former mar- Candidates file for MSA elections By MARY CHRIS JAKLEVIC Four sets of candidates filed ap- plications yesterday to run for president and vice president of the" Michigan Student Assemby in this" m onth's elections. CurrentMSA representative Kurt Meunchow, a senior in the School of Natural Resources, will run for president under the Meadow party ticket. Meunchow's running mate is LSA junior Darrell Thompson, also an assembly representative. MEUNCHOW, who describes his party as "moderate," has chaired the assembly's Budget Priorities Com- mittee for the past two years. Running for president under the Student Rights party ticket is LSA junior Jen Faigel, former chairman of the MSA Women's Issues Committee. Her vice presidential prospect is graduate student Mark Weisbrot, a member of Rackham Student Gover- nment. Faigel, who has worked at MSA for two years as an appointed represen- tative and an employee, said her par- ty wants to educate students more thoroughly about MSA and the issues it addresses. ON THE slate of the Indispensable party are first-year law students Mark Soble for president and Marc Strecker for vice president. Soble, who spent two years working on the Stanford University student government during his un- dergraduate years, said he wants to guide MSA away from "partisan politicking," which he said can weaken MSA's support from students and hurt credibility in lobbying and administration. Independent candidates Kirt Var- nHagen, an LSA freshman, and Steve Savoy, an Engineering senior, are also running for president and vice president, rspectively. VarnHagen said he is interested in getting more students involved with MSA and gaining more student respect for the assembly. Current MSA President Paul Josephson and Vice President Phil Cole are running as representatives from LSA. Though both candidates signed up to run under the Meadow party, they said they still may not en- dorse the party. chers either failed to submit their ap- plications by last Saturday, when the march began, or turned in incomplete health and medical records. Both prompt and thorough applications were required to be considered an "accepted marcher," he added. In addition, twelve marchers volun- tarily went home because of poor shower facilities and sanitation. "One woman left because she couldn't get her make-up on properly,"Blevins sasid. "Yes, a few dropped ut and we ex- 'One woman left because she couldn't get her make-up on properly.' - Jim Blevins, Pro-Peace member pect quite a few others to drop out also," said Bob Alei, communications coordinator for the march. "People are beginning to recognize what the physical needs are." "IT'S GOING as well as you can ex- Doctors rank 'U' Hospital 12th From staff and wire reports The University Medical Center is rated the 12th best hospital in the United States and the third best in the Midwest by two doctors in a book excerpted in the March issue of Ladies' Home Journal. "With seven hospitals offering programs in every medical specialty, this is one of the largest and most versatile medical centers in the United States," the magazine said of the Medical Cen- ter which just completed expan- ding to a new hospital facility.. "WE ARE extremely pleased," said John Forsyth, executive director of University hospitals. He called the ranking "a source of pride for the entire state." No other Michigan hospitals are among the magazine's top 25 facilities. First on the list is the Mayo Medical Center in Rochester, Minn. The magazine's list is based on the forthcoming book, "The Best in Medicine: Where to Get the Finest. Health Care for You and Your Family," by Dr. Herbert Dietrich and Virginia Biddle. Dietrich, who practices in Georgia, said that over 500 doctors nation-wide returned question- naires listing the 10 top hospitals they would attend to be treated for one of 27 areas of medical care. Dietrich cites cardiology, organ transplants, and neurosurgery as three of these areas. He and his colleague then selec- ted the hospitals that appeared eight or more times for the final ranking, and arranged them ac- cording to the greatest number of citations. pect it to go. You can't get 1,000 people together and not have complaints," Alei added. Another problem the march coor- dinators face is liability insurance, which has remained in the negotiation stage since last April. The marchers continued lack of insurance presented a problem when they needed a play to stay in Claremont, California, the fir- st town they stopped in. Instead of sleeping in a local high school, the marchers were housed in 10 churches and private homes. Had any marcher been injured while in the school, the school could have been liable. Claremont citizens held a rally to support the marchers, who pointed to this and their general dedication to the peace movement to show that the march will ultimately succeed. THE RALLY represented an "out- pouring of welcome of 3,000 com- munity people," said Charlene Mar- tin, a member of the town committee that welcomed Pro Peace. Speakers included actor Robert Blake, Claremont College President Jim McGuire, students, and other town- speople. "The marchers I talked to seemed deeply determined to finish even with their frustrations," Martin added. "Certainly in this community there was a great human support and caring," said Susan Keith, director of media relations at Claremont Graduate School. "If the march is going to succeed it will need that kind of support." Marcher Alei agreed that "the feeling was stronger than ever. People were on their porches cheering for us. Each day there are highs and. lows, but this rally was powerful and positive." Alei and his co-marchers strongly believe that the nine-month trek will make a difference. "Personally, it's not going to make a statement to government, but it will make a statement to people," he said. The marchers camped last night at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. and will camp tonight at Glen Helen Park, near San Bernardino. Thursday, they begin a stretch across the Mojave Desert. They expressed fears about the desert but Alei relates this to the concept of problem solving. "We're all scared. It's like getting rid of nuclear weapons. It's a problem that has to be solved," he said. Daily staff writer Stephen Gregory filed a report for this story. TODAY- Why wait? T'S DAY Four of National Procrastination Week, and already the men and women of the Procrastinators' Club of America have fallen behind on their first item of business: weeding out active members. "We're getting rid of people who INSIDE- year's Christmas cards, and making New Year's reolutions...for 1985. The Procrastinators' Club, headquartered in Philadelphia "because the East Coast is always later than the West Coast," currently has about 4,900 members, although, as Waas put it, there are "about a half-million members who haven't gotten around to joining yet." He said the club is made up of professional people who have deadlines to meet and realize the only way to meet a deadline is to Joan Gordon Burrell has flourished since 1940. They finally will meet this May, when Mrs. Harty's 11-day European tour takes her for a visit to Mrs. Burrell's home in Erskine, Scotland, about 10 miles from Glasgow. "Even though we've never met, I think we will be comfortable with each other," said Mrs. Harty, 58. "I'm really anxious to see her children, their children, and their home." Jean Bethke was a seventh- ASSASSINATION: Opinion looks at the significance of two recent assassinations. See Page 4. FAR OUT: Arts reviews regional theatre. See i r