Page 2- The Michigan Daily --Monday, December 1, 1986 No Deal State Senate may sit on labor cost bill LANSING (AP)-- Michigan's Republican- controlled Senate appears likely to scuttle a business-labor compromise on cost-saving changes to workers' compensation and unemployment insurance by refusing to consider it this year. "It represents a very fleeting window of opportunity to cut some of the costs to the system," said Peter Eckstein, an economist for the state AFL-CIO. Proponents said some of the changes will save companies $169 million over the next four years by phasing in increases in unemployment benefits. Part of the package would also add a temporary surcharge to unemployment taxes paid by employers so increasing jobless benefits won't deplete the fund from which they are drawn. Other elements include a stricter definition of disability under workers' compensation law - a move long sought by business as a way to make Michigan more competitive. The package was adopted during a mid- November meeting of members of the Economic Alliance. With representatives from businesses and labor, the alliance includes the Big Three automakers, K mart Corp., the United Auto Workers, the Michigan Building Trades Council and the state AFL-CIO. It's garnered support from Gov. James Blanchard and from House Speaker Gary Owen (D-Ypsilanti). And Senate Majority Leader John Engler (R- Mount Pleasant) said he's agreed to look at it over the Christmas holidays. But that's too late, said Eckstein and Ken Case, secretary-treasurer of the trades council. The projected savings will be wiped out beginning next year when the unemployment benefit levels set by current law go into effect. So the end of 1986 will also end the compromise, said the labor representatives. "We felt that looking toward the longer term objective of the solvency of the (unemployment) system ... that we could live with a slower level of increase than the law currently schedules," Eckstein said. "We will be unable, once the new benefit levels take effect, to turn them back." On Jan. 1, the maximum weekly jobless benefit will increase from 47 percent of the average wage earned by a worker in Michigan to 53 percent. At the same time, workers will be able to receive 70 percent of their former wage, compared with the 65 percent ceiling now. Under the compromise, the maximum weekly benefit would increase to 51 percent next year and 53 percent in 1988. The next 5 percent increase, currently scheduled to occur in 1989, would be phased in over 1989-91. Workers, meanwhile, would only be able to receive 66 percent of their former salary during 1987 and 1988, 67 percent in 1989 and 1990, then 70 percent in 1991. Case and Eckstein said they don't hold out much hope for lawmakers to act on the accord during the final weeks of the 1985-86 legislative session. 'A $139.00 90" x 70" white 3 bookcases cash & carry 9 I travel with award Student to study, PRISMS 11 I U L Olf arbor mon.-wed. 10-6 322 s. main thurs.-fri. 10-9 . 761-1020 sat. 10-5, sun. 12-5 grand rapids 1-616-451-9734 (Continued from Page 1) Olson, a resident director in South Quad's Taylor House, said he plans on graduating from the Uni- versity "sometime this spring or summer," with a bachelor of science degree. He is concentrating in molecular biology and intends to continue in this field next fall at Cambridge. "I think I'm going to study molecular biology and read some literature," he said. The scholarship, which includes free tuition, room, board, and transportation, also endows the recipient with funding to cover travel expenses around England and Europe. "I'm looking forward to two years of a lot of sights and lots 2j4 HOURS 2 w b ,t The English Composition Board's ACADEMIC WRITING SERIES presents "WRITING AN ESSAY FOR FINAL EXAMINATIONS" Examination period begins December 12. When you sit down to write your bluebook examination, will you be fully prepared? When your professor gives you the take-home examination, will you know how to approach it best? The last Academic Writing Series presentation of the Fall semester examines the intellectual and writerly tasks for "Writing an Essay for Final Examina- tions." ECB Lecturers Francelia Clarknand Michael Marx will analyze how exam questions focus and organize answers and discuss the similarities and dif- ferences between the demands of and strategies for in-class and take-home examinations. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4 4:00 - 5:15 229 ANGELL HALL BUSINESS Words to Kinko's Professional word processing for resumes, reports, correspondence and more. I"O..M I - = kinko's copies 540 E. LIBERTY Across From The Michigan Theater 761-4539 University of Wisconsin Platteville Study in aim Emphases in Liberal Arts International Business Equestrian Studies Courses available in Spanish and in English Fluency in Spanish not required All courses approved by UW-Platteville and validated on an official UW-Platteville transcript $2495 per semester for Wisconsin & Minnesota residents $2795 per semester for non-residents of new experiences," he said. While at Cambridge Olson will work toward a degree which he described as "somewhere between our bachelor and graduate degrees." When he completes his studies Olson said he would return to the states and plans to begin medical school. Eventually he would like to work at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Olson has won recognition for his academic achievements in the past, although none as prestigious as the Power Exchange Scholar- ship. He received an LSA Merit Scholarship and the Otto Graf Award for outstanding performance in the Honors College. POLICE NOTES Sexual assault investigated' An 18-year-old University stu- dent told Ann Arbor police shewas sexually assaulted Wednesday mor- ning by four men, including an acquaintance, according to Detective Sgt. Bill Canada. The assault occur- red between 2:30 and 3:45 a.m. at a "gathering" in a house in the 700 block of South State St. All four suspects are believed to be students, Canada said. No arrests have been made, but the investigation is continuing. -Dov Cohen Reagan faces problems, profs. say (continued from Page 1) control," he said. Kingdon predicted that the Pres- ident will have problems persuading Congress to approve more aid to the Contras. "I don't think he's going to get anymore," he said, "Congress was suspicious of it anyway, and it was like pulling teeth to get even $100 million. But all the time they were trying to get money above board, they were giving money under the table. Members of Congress, I imagine, must feel somewhat let down." Similarly, the controversy will hinder U.S. foreign policy, said Political Science Prof. Harold Jacobson. "Reagan is going to be occupied the rest of his presidency trying to restore his domestic credibility. He won't have the energy or the attention to devote to foreign affairs." The sale of arms to Iran, a country the Reagan administration has accused of promoting terrorism, will undermine U.S. credibility among other nations, Jacobson said. "Governments will take us less seriously because we've been doing what we've been asking everyone else not to do," he said. IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS Reagan toughens spy defenses WASHINGTON-President Reagan is secretly implementing a sweeping overhaul of the nation's defenses against foreign spies that calls for more than 100 security changes from the doors of defense plants to communications satellites in space, White House and congressional officials say. The changes will affect people as well as hardware. Thc 4.2 million Americans with access to secret data will face tougher and more frequent background investigations. New restrictions may be placed on the ability of soviet bloc diplomats to buy computers and telecommunications equipment on the open market in this country. The changes are the product of studies begun by Reagan's National Security Council Staff in 1981, and consultations throughout the government and Congress. Aquino cautions doubters MANILA, Philippines - President Corazon Aquino said yesterday the men who doubt her ability to govern are just big talkers and called her predecessor, Ferdinand Marcos, "not the last to pay" for underestimating her. Aquino told the women's club of the Asian Development Bank, "It has often been said that Marcos was the first male chauvinist to underestimate me. He was not the last to pay for that mistake." A week ago, Aquino demanded resignations from all Cabinet ministers after word that a planned coup by officers close to Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile had been foiled. She immediately replaced Enrile and has accepted other resignations since then. In other developments: -The Communist party said that despite a cease-fire agreement with the government, "revolutionary armed struggle" remains its main goal, and the armed forces chief called on his troops to remain vigilant during the truce. -Police stopped about 3,000 leftists en route to the presidential palace to demand justice in the slaying of their leader, Rolando Olalia. "10,000 Aquino supporters rallied to urge adoption of a proposed constitution. Officials expect record kills Michigan hunters unloaded their last shots of the season yesterday as the two-week firearm deer season came to a close. The state's 800,000 hunters were expected to kill up to 200,000 deer during the season that began Nov. 15 and ended yesterday night, according to earlier estimates. Five deer hunters have died from hunting related accidents this year, authorities said. Veteran Michigan deer hunter Claude Pollington predicted that the 1985 record deer harvest of 186,840 would be broken. "I'm sure it was close to a record year for bucks being taken and quality of buck," Pollington said. Pollington said hunters on his 1,500-acre property near Marion in the northcentral Lower Peninsula bagged 24 bucks this year. "That's more than last year, and there's still more out there," he said. "Eighty percent of our bucks were about two years old. The average antler size was eight points, with probably between an 11- or 12- inch spread." City leaders want urban issuses as forefront of concern SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Leaders of the nation's cities are determined to restore urban issues such as poverty, homelessness, and unemployment in the next presidential campaign, San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros said yesterday. The 1986 elections, with Democrats winning control of the Senate, signal "it's now time for realism on some key problems," Cisneros said as he formally opened the National League of Cities' annual meeting of municipal leaders. "There's no change in the make up of the Senate with respect to urban problems. I don't expect dramatic changes," said Cisneros, nearing the end of his one-year term as president of the league. "I do, however, feel the mood of this meeting will be one of determination - determination to insert urban programs back in the forefront of national concerns, where they belong," he said. Pontiff denounces abortion PERTH, Australia-Pope John Paul II lashed out at abortion as an "unspeakable crime" at his final Mass in Australia yesterday and reiterated the Roman Catholic church's opposition to contraception and sterilization. "As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live," he told 60,000 people during a service in this city on the Indian Ocean. "Can the pope come to Australia and fail to ask Australian couples and families to reflect in their hearts how well they are living their Christian love?" the pope asked. 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