Page 2-- Tha Michigan Daily - Monday, January 19, 1987 Western media hurt in Chernobyl By MARC ROSSEN The failure of the Ukrainian community to mobilize and a misunderstanding of the Soviet political situation hurt Western media coverage of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, two experts said this weekend. Victor Malarek, a senior reporter for Can- ada's leading daily newspaper The Globe and Mail, said the media in the United States and Canada were starved for a human interest story when the nuclear accident occurred at Cher- nobyl, but were unable to find anyone to speak for the Ukrainians. "We know nothing of the victims of Chernobyl - their history and their suffering," Malarek said. "There was more concern about crops and livestock than people by the Soviet Union." Malarek spoke as part of "The Ukrainian Spectrum," a week-long series of events spon - sored by the Ukrainian Students Association. Malarek said that the Ukrainian commun- ity's response in the media to the Chernobyl accident was "pathetic." Malarek, of Ukrainian descent himself, said Ukrainians should have been at the forefront of the issue, making informed statements to the press. He told the audience that the Ukrainian communities of the United States and Canada need to gain a better understanding of how the media works and how they can use it to represent their interests. David Marples, a specialist on the Ukraine and author of the newly- released book, "Chernobyl & Nuclear Power in the USSR," said Friday that the political fallout following the accident was much less severe than the Western media believed. Although several lesser officials of the Communist Party of Ukraine were purged or reprimanded, the political repercussions were essentially low-level and often ritualistic, Marples said. Party members were often reinstated at a later date, he added. Marples said the Soviets have done nothing that might affect their party program or nuclear energy program. Since the Chernobyl plant opened in December 1983, he said, the plant was never taken off line. Despite the accident, "the Soviets have continued to have confidence in nuclear power," he said. Marples does not think that that the death toll of 32 people reported by the Soviets is unrealistic, but added "the vast majority of victims will be long-term." Pro-choicers march at By SUSANNE SKUBIK Special to the Daily KALAMAZOO - Chanting "Free choice now!" 20 Ann Arbor women joined 350 marchers from three states here Saturday to protest the December bombing of a local Planned Parenthood Clinic. The clinic, which provided a variety of health care services for women, including abortion, was destroyed by an early-morning explosion and fire Dec. 1. While no one was injured, the value of lost supplies and equipment was estimated at $750,000. Local and federal officials confirm the blaze as the work of an arsonist, but they Sho Mic have made no arrests. The Kalamazoo protest started a nation-wide week of demonstrations to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion. Ann Arbor activists plan a march and two rallies to mark the occasion Thursday. Saturday's marchers, heavily dressed for the cold weather and carrying signs reading "Protect women's rights," began their trek near the burnt shell of the clinic and continued through the campus of Western Michigan University. Several times during the three- mile walk, passengers in a compact car covered with photos of aborted fetuses and anti-abortion slogans taunted the group. The marchers, many of whom were wearing purple armbands to symbolize their own WMU abortions, did not respond. Because protest organizers had expected harassment, police officers accompanied marchers. Near the end of the march, protesters were greeted with shouts of "No abortions!" "It's really important to show pro-choice support wherever it's most needed, but especially after an attack like the bombing," said Catherine Fischer, a University employee and volunteer at the Women's Crisis Center. Another Ann Arbor resident, Susan McGee, spoke at a rally following the march. "Gains we have won are being taken away," she told the 400 women, men, and children who gathered at WMU's Methodist Church. "We must stand up and we must not allow those who would take us back to the 14th century triumph." :w how you feel with... chigan Daily Personals 764-0557 Need some variety in your life? Try our DOILY SPECINLS at the LEOGCUE Buffet Monday-Saturday 11:30 am-7:30 pm Sunday 11:30am-2:15 pm Activists vow to march again despite attack IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press reports W. German seized in Beirut 0 BONN, West Germany - A West German businessman was kid- napped in Beirut, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Two newspapers said the kidnappers apparently hope to trade him for a Lebanese jailed as a terrorist in West Germany and wanted in the United States. West German authorities said it was too early to say if Saturday's abduction of Rudolf Cordes .was linked to the arrest Tuesday at Frank - furt airport of Mohammed Ali Hamadi. Hamadi, who was carrying a fluid used to make explosives, was later identified as a suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA airliner to Beirut. In that hijacking, the terrorists killed a U.S. Navy diver and held 39 other Americans hostage for 17 days. Police in Beirut said yesterday they could not confirm that a West German had been kidnapped. The West German Embassy in the Leb- anese capital was unstaffed. Hotel bartender committs suicide before f acing police SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A bartender at the Dupont Plaza Hotel has killed himself by leaping from a building, police said yesterday, and a newspaper reported he faced questioning about the fire there that killed 96 people. Julio Verges Gaetan, jumped from the ninth floor of a building in the Rio Piedras suburb Saturday, police said. El Mundo newspaper quoted his wife, Juanita, as saying he had been despondent since learning Friday that investigators planned to question him this Tuesday. Two men, including a bar busboy, have been charged with arson in the New Year's Eve inferno, and investigators have said there may be additional arrests. Aquino proposes peace talks COTABATO CITY, Philippines - President Corazon Aquino, touring violence-ridden Mindano island yesterday, offered peace talks to a Moslem rebel faction whose attacks last week killed 46 people. In Manilla, troops went on alert to keep Moslem violence from spreading to the capital. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front gave no immediate reply to the offer. The group on Saturday ended five days of attacks on the island which left at least 46 people dead and 89 injured. It said it launched the attacks because it had been shut out of talks between the government and a - rival Moslem faction, the Moro National Liberation Front. AIDS drug nears approval ROCKVILLE, Md. - A government advisory committee re - commended approval Friday of what would be the first drug generally available to doctors for treatment of AIDS. The 10-1 vote by the Food and Drug Administration committee is not binding on the FDA, which will make the final decision, but is expected to carry heavy weight. The panel, acting at the end of a day-long meeting to consider the drug AZT, voted to recommend general availability despite serious con -. cern about a lack of as much clinical data as usually precedes drug ap - provals as well as concern that there would be no iron-clad way to en - sure that it would go to the patients most in need once available for general prescription. The drug manufacturer outlined a procedure for voluntary constraints if the FDA approves AZT and promised to work closely to continue monitoring its effect. - - EXTRAS Household appliances meet the Philadelphia Orchestra PHILADELPHIA - William Smith will use a pistol to conduct his players as they coax music from three vacuum cleaners an a floor polisher in a whimsical concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra. "We've done nothing before, at least not for adults, where we really tried to help the audience cross the footlights and join the orchestra," Smith, the associate conductor, said Friday. The program Jan. 28 at the Academy of Music will begin on a "nice, happy, irreverent note" with Malcolm Arnold's "A Grand Grand Overture for Three Vacuum Cleaners, One Floor Polisher, Organ and Full Orchestra," Smith said. "People will be surprised," he said. "These unusual instruments actually make a very pleasing sound that can be controlled by a switch ... or a pistol shot from the podium." During the second half of the program, illustrator Rae Owings will draw to reflect what she hears in Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain." If you see news happen, call 76-DAILY. 01irbI~gan B t -IV Vol. XCVII- No. 77 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. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and sub - scribes to Pacific News Service and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. 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Civil rights leaders discussed taking part in another march in Forsyth County north of here, whereSaturday's "brotherhood anti-intimidation march" was stopped by Ku Klux Klan members and supporters.' "There's definitely going to be another march in Forsyth County," said Dean Carter, the white resident of nearby Hall County who took over the planning for Saturday's march after it was abandoned by a Forsyth County man who had received death threats. About 75 people, black and white, who marched Saturday became the targets of rocks, bottles and racial jeers from hundreds of Klan members and supporters. Several marchers were hit but no serious injuries were reported. Eight people from the hostile crowd, seven of them Forsyth County residents, were arrested on charges including obstructing officers, terroristic threats, and weapons charges. All were released on bond. Carter, who was hit in the face by a rock, said he would welcome the continued help of Atlanta City Councilman Hosea Williams, who helped organize Saturday's march, or other civil rights leaders. "But with or without anyone else, I'm going back," he said. "I still haven't made my statement. There's a lot of good people in Forsyth County who are being hampered by this kind of threats and intimidation." IBM Emulation on Atari ST and Amiga - *- Editor in Chief..........................ERIC MATTSON Managing Editor..................RACHEL GOTTLIEB City Editor............... CHRISTY RIEDEL News Editor ....................JERRY MARKON Features Editor.....................AMY MINDELL NEWS STAFF: Francie Allen, Elizabeth Atkins, Eve Becker, Melissa Birks, Laura A. Bischoff, Steve Blonder, Rebecca Blumenstein, Brian Bonet, Marc Carrel, Dov Cohen, John Dunning, Rob Earle, Leslie Eringaard, Ellen Fiedelholtz, Martin Frank, Katy Gold, Lisa Green, Stephen Gregory, Steve Knopper, Philip I. 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