The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 19, 1986 - Page 3 Expert optimistic on Hong Kong By LESLIE ERINGAARD The former U.S. Consul General to Hong Kong said yesterday that the 1984 British-Chinese agreement on Hong Kong is a symbolic reunification of East and West that will succeed as long as China continues to encourage economic growth. Speaking to a crowd of about 30 in Lane Hall, Burt Levin, the U.S. Ambassador-Designate to Rangoon, spoke of the agreements which will give the Chinese sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997 as long as it remains capitalist and is governed by the people of Hong Kong. THERE are still underlying uncertainties, he added - namely, the ups and downs of politics. "What happens after the death of (Chinese leader) Deng Xiaoping?" he asked. Overall, however, Levin said he is "optimistic that the goal of economic development i overall...will take priority over everything else" and safeguard the new system. The Chinese were scarred by the Cultural Revolution, he added, and they won't forget it. "Even during the height of the Cultural Revolution, the most radical phase of Chinese history, the Chinese left Hong Kong untouched," Levin said. "Despite the humiliation of having lost their territories, the Chinese could have snapped them up any time during the past 30 years." LEVIN stressed that there was no way the British could have defended Hong Kong militarily, and added that Hong Kong is valuable to the Chinese economically and for contact and exchange with other countries - even more so now because China is becoming more interested in economic development. Because of the coming expiration date of the lease for the New Territories, the British had pressed for negotiations for years to protect their growing investments in parts of China. In October 1982, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher traveled to the People's Republic of China to begin negotiations under the assumption that the former treaties were valid, but the Chinese government felt that the treaties were invalid because they were forced on the Chinese people. NEGOTIATIONS quickly reached a stalemate. The tension between the countries and a growing recession in the United States prompted an mini-economic crisis in Hong Kong, and many Chinese expressed doubts about the future of Hong Kong. In 1983, the British and Chinese governments resumed negotiations, and in July of that year the stalemate began to break. In July, Thatcher sent the Chinese Government a letter which stated that the British would give up sovereignty over the island if they could continue to administer it. Two months later, the Hong Kong dollar dropped tremendously, and the people of Hong Kong panicked. Britain restated that it would be willing to continue administration of Hong Kong, and the Chinese government assented. IN ADDITION to the new agreement, the British authorities wanted to institute a system of checks and balances in Hong Kong. This political reform was looked on with suspicion by power circles in Hong Kong as they feared that the British would be able to pick who they wanted in office and make sure that person was elected. Levin said that "fat-cat" capitalists - who wanted "untrammeled free enterprise" - and Chinese Communists united in opposition to the proposed political reforms. The reforms were discussed and negotiated in smoke-filled rooms for years. "Now things are okay," said Levin. The population of Hong Kong was receptive to the British propositions, he said, because average workers saw that they are better off now than they were 10 years ago. I Associated Press Peace? Police attempt to move members of the "Peace March" Monday mor- ning. Some members were arrested attempting to lock the entrance to the Energy Department in Washington. tl Official By WENDY SHARP Tom Butts, the University's Washington lobbyist, told the lMichigan Student Assembly last night that it can be an effective lobbying organization to improve financial aid. "There are things going on. They are going to affect you, and there are things you can do about it," Butts said. The proposed 1988 federal budget 0will be discussed in January, and Congress likes to hear a student perspective, he said. BUTTS NAMED two issues doming up in which should have student input: tuition benefits for teaching assistants, which will expire in one year, and a new provision urges MS requiring students to pay taxes on grants that aren't applied to their tuition. "When something is out of line, say something about it. Let it be heard 500 miles away," Butts said. "Students do make an impression." John Gaber, vice chair of MS A's External Relations Committee, said this year's assembly is "organizing and planning our strategy for January." Gaber said MSA may announce its lobbying plans in a joint press release with the University administration and the Michigan Collegiate Coalition, the state student government organization. MSA members hope to testify at the state and federal level about their 4 to lobby in P.C. personal experiences with financial aid, he said. In other business, MSA passed a resolution demanding that the city require the Housing Inspection Bureau to enforce the city's housing code. "THE CITY housing code is necessary to protect the health, safety, and welfare of tenants, as well as the preserve the Ann Arbor City housing stock," the resolution said. The housing bureau has been ineffective in enforcing the housing code, especially in student areas, according to the resolution. MSA will present this resolution at the Ann Arbor City Council meeting on Monday. The assembly also passed a resolution condemning a statement made by U.S. Undersecretary of Defense Donald Hicks. Hicks was quoted in Science magazine a few months ago as saying that the Reagan administration does not have to fund professors who oppose Strategic Defense Initiative research. The assembly demanded Hicks' resignation and urged the Reagan Administration to "cease this policy of academic harassment and censorship." The resolution is relevant because because it affects the University community, said MSA representative Rebecca Felton. THERE'S STILL TIME TO PREPARE CLASSES STARTING . .NOVEMBER & JANUARY 203 E. Hoover 662-3149 CALL DAYS,.EVENINGS &WEEKENDS 3 Qeq MPMN EDlUCATIONhAL CRUM~ LTD. TESTPREPARATION SPECtAUS SSINCE 1938 Special Student /Youth Fares to EUROPE from New York on Scheduled Airlines! 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Interested Juniors should contact Dr. Phyllis Lassner, ECB 1025 Angell Hall 747-4531 HEALTH & FITNESS "It's not going to resign, but it's a lobbying," she said. get him method to of 11 I i I HMOs experience business increase Campus Cinema The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von; Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972),l C2, DBL/7:00 p.m., Nat Sci.; A story of three lesbians - a fashion] designer, her sex slave, and a model.] German with subtitles.] Beware Of The Holy Whorer (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970), C2, DBL/9:15 p.m., Nat Sci.; A movie crew on location start to really] get on each others' nerves in one ofI Fassbinder's most autobiographical1 works.] The Sure Thing (Rob Reiner, 1985),r MTF, 7:00 p.m., Mich.l A wise-cracking slob and an prep girl end up hoofing it to California together during spring break in this above- average, genuinely funny teen romance. Do you think they'll fall in love? Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler, 1969), AAFC, DBL/7:00 p.m., MLB 3. A news cameraman gets increasingly] apathetic as things get increasingly out] of hand while he covers the '68 Democratic Convention in Chicago. A highly acclaimed comment on life in the Sixties. Monterey Pop (D. A. Pennebaker, 1968), AAFC, DBL/9:00 p.m., MLB 3. They're all here- Janis Joplin and Big Brother, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Country Joe And The Fish, Jefferson Airplane, the Animals, the Who, Canned Heat, Simon and Garfunkle, Ravi. Shankar- in the concert film that; peceededWoodstock.' Performances The Swing - Hill Street Players, 8 ,p.m., Hillel Auditorium, 1429 Hill Street. Speakers Colin Clipson - "Participative Design of Workplaces," Inst. of Labor & Industrial Relations, 12:15 p.m., 6050 Inst. for Social Research. Dept. of Biology, 4 p.m., Aud. 2 MLB. Carl Cohen - "Brain Death," noon, South Lecture Hall, Med. Sci. II. Michael Silber - "Acculturation and Social Integration of Jews in Pre-1848 Hungary," Colloquium in Jewish History & Literature, 4 p.m., 3050 Frieze Bldg. Michael Agursky - "The Geopolitical Background of the Bol - shevik Revolution," Cntr. for Russian & Eastern European Studies, noon, Com - mons Rm., Lane Hall. Michael Agursky - "Current Domestic and Foreign Policy Issues in the USSR," Cntr. for Russian & Eastern European Studies, 4 p.m., Commons Rm., Lane Hall. Meetings Aix-En-Provence, France - Inf - ormational meeting, Cntr. for Western European Studies, 7 p.m., 2412 Mason Hall. Furthermore Career Pathways in the Biological Sciences - Dept. of Biology, 4-6 p.m., Aud. 4 MLB. Careers in Health Physics, Radiological Hygiene, & Rad - iation Protection - Sch. of Public Health, 4:30 p.m., Career Planning & Placement. Safewalk - Nightime safety walking service, 8 p.m. - 1:30 a.m., Rm. 102 UGLi. Being Men - "How Men Treat Each Other," 7 p.m., Pond Rm., Michigan Union. Discrimination Issues- Racism- 7:30 p.m., 126 East Quad. Electoral Politics & Grass Roots Organizing - Forum, 7:30 p.m., Michigan Union. Chinese Lion Dance Troupe - 7:30 p.m., Stockwell, Blue Lounge. DETROIT (AP)-Business is booming at the state's 22 health maintenance organizations (HMO), whose 1.3 million members are triple the number of four years ago, and officials predicted yesterday the rapid growth would continue. Behind the boom, they said, is the rapid rise in health care costs, which has sent employers and the general public scrambling for alternatives to traditional health. insurance. "HMOs stress cost containment, and we're in an era of cost containment," said Eugene Farnum, executive director of the Michigan Association of HMOs. THE STATE'S HMOs, which now cover 14 to 15 percent of all those with health insurance, will cover 20 percent by 1990, Farnum predicted. "We believe managed health care systems will continue to grow and may approach 50 percent," said Dr. David Siegel, medical director of the Detroit-based Health Alliance Plan, the state's oldest and largest HMO. HMOs, unlike traditional health insurance plans, provide medical care directly through clinics, hospitals, and individual H ealith Fitness physicians. The providers are paid a fixed amount per patient, rather than for each service they render. Because they remove the financial incentive to treat patients more than necessary, HMOs have significantly lower rates of hospitalization than traditional insurers. In the past 10 years, HMO enrollment in Michigan has increased more than 800 percent. 'Balloon' technique may help DALLAS (AP)-Tiny balloons have been used for the first time to open dangerously narrowed heart valves in a procedure that costs one- third as much as surgery and could, help an estimated 50,000 Americans annually, doctors said Monday. The procedure, which was first tried only last year and has already spread to at least 15 medical centers in the United States, has proven effective in patients who were too old or too sick to undergo valve- thousands Grossman warned, however, that. the procedure is still experimental. "There have been deaths and there will be more," he said. In the procedure, a wire is inserted into a vein in the leg and is threaded into the heart, under the guidance of X-ray images of the blood vessels. A balloon is then threaded along the wire until it is. inside the narrowed valve and inflated with fluid. - - STUDENT NAUTILUS CLUB RATES - PAYMENT PLANS AVAILABLE. Unlimited Use Of: " Nautilus* Pools " Free Weights * Racquetball * Gym 3 blocks from central campus ANN ARBOR "Y" 350 S. FIFTH AVE " 663-0536 Reflections on Beauty Achieving Beauty Through Education JW " Special image and Health programs available for your group or organization. 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