Page 2- The Michigan Daily - Monday, December 8, 1986 City to send Juigalpa garbage truck By KERY MURAKAMI Members of Ann Arbor's Sister City Task Force will try raising $35,000 to send a new garbage truck to Juigalpa, Nicaragua. But high costs may delay granting the gift for at least a year. Task force members decided on the truck Thursday because Juigalpan officials said it was their greatest need during a recent trip there by Ann Arbor delegates. Gregory Fox, a delegate and task force member, felt funding an orphanage would better illustrate the brutality of the war in Nicaragua. "But (the truck is) what the Juigalpans said they needed most, and we felt that was more important," he said. Juigalpa currently owns two garbage trucks, said delegate Jack Eckroad, but because both are often broken, garbage is sometimes left in the streets for up to a week. The problem is exacerbated by the absence of a sewage system in Juigalpa, resulting in some human excrement mingling with the garbage. According to Eckroad, a local health and nutrition expert, the garbage attracts flies which in turn spread diarrhea. Diarrhea coupled with malnourishment is the leading cause of death among Juigalpan children, he said. It has not yet been determined how the task force will raise the funds for the truck and its delivery, Fox said. Owing to high costs, he said, the task force will probably solicit money through mailings, bucket drives, and raffle sales. The task force has so far collected about $4,000, in addition to about $2,000 in city matching funds, said task force member Jim Burchell. The city has pledged to contribute $1 for every $2 collected. Task force members are also seeking alternatives to buying the truck in Nicaragua. Trucks are more expensive in Nicaragua than in such nearby countries as Panama, Eckroad said, because Nicaragua imports all of its heavy machinery. "Some of the delegates have been joking about driving the truck there from here, but that's not really practical," Fox said. U-Cellar's future ATTENTION The Michigan Daily will stop publishing on Wed., Dec. 10 and resume on Wed., Jan 7, 1987. depends o (Continued from Page 1) are negotiating with. The low-cost, non-profit book- store was startedin 1970 by stu- dents concerned with what they considered the high price of books and school supplies in Ann Arbor. According to Self, the store's financial problems began when the Citizen's Trust Bank refused to extend its credit last month. In Jan - uary 1985 the University Cellar opened a line of credit with the bank, allowing it to borrow $700,000 at the beginning of a book rush and then repay it a few weeks later. The store could then borrow more money before the next rush. Citizen's Trust Vice President Jim Hitchinson refused to say why the credit was discontinued, but Self said bank officials were concerned about the store's $1,000 loss last year, and its unorthodox manage- n banks ment structure. Seven University students currently serve on the store's governing board. Upon learning that the store's credit was cut off, employees took an 18 percent pay cut, saving the store $1,000, but loan requests were again rejected by several banks. The store also suspended buying back books and began a 10 to 50 percent discount sale last week. Self said the store is currently negotiating with another Ann Arbor bookstore to open a book-buying stand in the University Cellar so that students coming to sell books do not have to "lug their books back across campus again." She wouldn't say whether the store is negotiating with the Michigan Union Bookstore or with Ulrich's, but said an announcement would be made early this week. 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Honduran President Jose Azcona Hoyo said on a national radio broadcast that he had asked for and received approval to use U.S. aircraft to ferry Honduran reinforcements to the battle. Officials praise Reagan's speech, want clarification WASHINGTON - Lawmakers from both parties welcomed yesterday President Reagan's concession that mistakes were made in carrying out his policy of arms sales to Iran, but they urged him to move further and faster in disclosing details of the transactions. "The right strategy is, No. 1, to come up front," said Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.). "The president is moving in that direction. He said yesterday that he thought some mistakes had been made. That's quite a concession." Other prominent Democratic lawmakers, as well as members of th president's own party, echoed the sentiments voiced by Hollings, who has been one of Reagan's harshest critics in the weeks since the series of transactions, including up to $30 million in clandestine payments td Nicaraguan rebels, began to come to light. Israeli troops shoot youth BETHLEHEM, Occupied West Bank - Israeli troops shot and wounded a Palestinian youth yesterday as protesters pelted soldiers with rocks in a dozen towns and refugee camps, military and Palestinian sources said. Israeli sodiers have killed three Palestinian youths since Thursday. Violence spread yesterday to four Israeli university campuses, where hundreds of Jewish and Arab students protested in solidarity with Palestinians of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The largest protest was at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, where soldiers used tear gas to quell the demonstration. Five Israeli buses were stoned in Jerusalem and the West Bank, with four Israeli passengers injured, the army said. Palestinian teen-agers blocked main roads with burning tires, threw stones, and waved PLO flags in demonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, home for 1.4 million Palestinians and more than 50,000 Jewish settlers. Cancer death rate decreases WASHINGTON - The death rate from cancer is decreasing for Americans under age 55 despite a slow increase in the incidence of the disease in this age group, reports the National Cancer Institute. The agency, in its annual statisticsreview to be issued today, attributes much of the 7 percent decline in the death rate for the group from 1975 to 1984 to advances in cancer treatment. Dr. Vincent DeVita, director of the institute, said the death rate drop from 38.2 percent per 100,000 population to 3527 per 100,000 is evident for every age group under 55. About 24 percent of all newly diagnosed cancers occur in these age groups. "People under 55 have a higher overall five-year relative survival rate for cancer than older patients, indicating that we're being particularly successful in treating these patients," DeVita said. The relative five-year survival rate- the percentage of patients surviving five years after their cancer is diagnosed- for those under age 55 is 59 percent. Perot risks criticizing GM DETROIT - Computer magnate H. Ross Perot, risking slightly more than 1 percent of the $700 million he received for his General Motors Corp. stock, publicly labeled GM again yesterday as stagnant and uncompetitive. "I just don't want to be a part of an organization that's closing plants, laying people off," Perot said during an interview on the ABC- TV program "Today's Business." "I want to be part of an organization that's growing, dynamic, and creating jobs," Perot said in the interview, taped last week for broadcast yesterday. "Only one way to do it- make the best cars in the world, sell them at a competitive price." Perot granted the TV interview despite a clause in his buyout agreement with GM that contained a $7.5 million penalty if he further criticized the No.1 automaker. Perot alluded to the no-criticism clause, saying a fund drive was being created to cover the penalty if imposed. i 14 Tally Hall condo proposal dropped 0 H -- (Continued from Yage i) David Reilly, Tally Hall manager, would not answer ques- tions yesterday. In addition, three other local condominium complexes - Power and Sloan plazas, and Number One Main Street - "take a lot of the demand away" for more condomin- iums, Collins said. Collins estimates it will be a year or two before other developers approach the city with a proposal to purchase the "air rights" to build on top of Tally Hall. Dennis Dahlmann, a Tally Hall developer who worked on acquiring the building site and gathering financial backing, recently sold his share in the building to four remaining developers for some- where in the "six-figure range," said Joe Slavik, a Tally Hall developer. Dahlmann could not be reached for comment. Slavik, along with Ron Slavik, Mel Rosenhaus and David Robin- son, are the remaining developers and investors in the mall. According to store merchants, Tally Hall has overcome some of the problems that plagued it since its opening in July. Early in the fall, Reilly said advertising had been "overlooked" and that there were some delays in completing promotional cam- paigns. i BUSINESS EM IVIEW-INrRODUCTOK TU LNI wSC© JUOCmpirEnERT. EDUCATIOAL CENTER LT. -lt24eMi Medical students raise money for children (Continued from Page 1) The society was formed in 1914 as an honorary society but has evolved into a service organization with 170 members. The organiza- tion is named after Clarissimus Galens, who lived from 130 to 200 A.D. Galens' discoveries and theo - ries dominated medical thought for more than 1,500 years. Tag Days began in 1927 to raise money to aid the children in Uni- versity Hospital. Volunteers shivered in the cold throughout the drive, trying to get passersby to contribute money. s of IN 149 203 E. HOOVER 662-3 J Albert's COMPUTER RENTER CENTER $3/HaIf Hour $5/Hour "People try and avoid you, or are really receptive to you," said Alan Mishra, who was canvassing by the West Engineering Arch. Darius Mehregan, a third-year medical student collecting by the bus stop at C.C. Little revealed his collection tactics, saying, "Some of them still give if you corner them." Students' feelings about the drive are mixed, but most are positive. "It's hard to get money out of people, but it's a good cause," said engineering senior Mary McAuliffe. "It's a really sorry day when they have to harass everybody until they give money... it doesn't say a lot for the people around here." Some students donated, but weren't sure what the drive was for. "I didn't know what they were about, but everyone else had a tag, so I figured it must be worthwhile," said Gerry Padnos, an engineering sophomore. By Saturday, it seemed almost everyone sported a tag on their jackets. The volunteers feel strongly about their cause. "You wouldn't believe how much the kids like it. It's not bullshit. Just to see a little kid come in (to the Galens room) in a wheelchair and have something to Vol. XCVii -No.66 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms. Subscription rates: September through April-$18 in Ann Arbor; $35 outside the city. One term-$10 in town; $20 outside the city. 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