Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, February 9, 1987 4 Task force to talk with Riegle By CARRIE LORANGER The Ann Arbor Sister City Task Force is scheduled to meet with U.S. Senator Don Riegle (D-Mich.) this Friday to protest federal funding of the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. According to Isaac-Jacobein Campbell, a task force member, they hope Riegle will raise the issue of funding to Nicaragua in the Senate. Gregory Fox, another member, said they would like to see the senator take a more aggressive stand against U.S. funding to the Contras. Fox feels that even though Riegle is not on foreign affairs committees, he can still work on the issue. The meeting will be held in the conference room of the fire station and will begin at 2 p.m. Because the meeting will last for an hour, only members of the task force and the delegation will speak to the senator. The task force is also trying to schedule meetings with Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Congress- man Carl Pursell (R-Ann Arbor), and Gov. James Blanchard. Levin has expressed an interest in meeting with the task force but has not yet set a date, Fox said. According to Kim Groome, a task force subcommittee member, Pursell does not want to hold a public meeting with the group. Members say that they do not want to hold a private meeting because their goal is to increase public awareness of the issue, Groom said. Fox said Pursell does not want to-come talk about Central America because he fears public opposition. "If he can't stand the heat, he should get out of the house," Fox said. .The task force was formed by the city last spring to open comm- unications with Juigalpa, Nicaragua and push for peaceful relations with the people of Central America. At the group's Thursday meeting, Groome proposed that the group meet with local- protesters and try to work towards a peaceful way of expressing their discontent with U.S. policies and not just "shout at the local police." Task force members also heard an update on the planned March visit from a Nicaraguan delegation. Task force funds will be used to bring four Juigalpa citizens to Ann Arbor. So far, the Juigalpa mayor and one doctor have expressed an interest in coming here. At the beginning of the meeting Jim Burchell, the task force treasurer, reported that the group has raised $18,941. No further action was taken on the planning of the protests that the group wants to sponsor. Law ma (Continued from Page 1) MANDATORY retirement "is discrimination in the most profound way," said Political Science Professor A.F.K. Organski. "People are first rate and irreplacable and they are let go," he said. Organski said "the same bodies that make the decisions (to hire) professors should be the same ones who decide to let someone go- > Not all professors support banning mandatory retirement. Professor Emeritus George Piranian taught his last math class in 1983. Piranian said although his students felt he was a capable teacher, he "taught a two hour class and then. went home and took a nap.- Piranian said incapable professors ly' allow UM News in The Daily 764-0552 profs may be "inflicted" on students if forced retirement is banned. The state bill is similar to national legislation that became effective Jan. 1. Although the state bill may differ from the national bill, the state bill is binding on the University, according to Kennedy. The federal law eliminates mandatory retirement but has a seven-year exemption period for professors, because legislators were concerned about its effect on universities' tenure systems. During the exemption period, committees of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association of University Professors will study the effects of forced retirement on universities, according to Tom Butts, the University's Washington lobbyist. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press reports Kidnappers issue ultimatum BEIRUT, Lebanon - An American hostage said in a videotape dropped off by his kidnappers yesterday that he and three other men, including two Americans, will be killed if Israel fails to release 400 Arab prisoners within 24 hours. A videotape showing American Alann Steen was delivered to a Western news agency in the name of the Islamic Jihad for the Lib- eration of Palestine, which kidnapped Steen and three others Jan. 24. Israel indicated yesterday it was willing to discuss the swap of an Israeli airman missing in Lebanon for the release of the 400 Arab prisoners, a proposal advanced Saturday by Nabih Berni, head of the main Shiite Amal militia and Lebanon's justice minister. However, Israeli officials said in Jerusalem they would not respond to an ultimatum and would not conduct such talks in public. Filipino rebel truce expires MANILA, Philippines - A 60-day truce with Communist rebels formally expired yesterday without hope of extension, and the gov- ernment said it would step up military patrols while pursuing peace I talks on a regional level. A rebel umbrella group urged its members to "wage militant and, unremitting struggles on all fronts." Some groups have said they op-; posed regional talks. The head of the committee that monitored compliance with thy, cease-fire urged President Corazon Aquino to intervene to prevent an civil war. The truce had paved the way for peace talks in January, but the neg otiations were suspended indefinitely Jan. 30 after the rebels accused the government of acting in bad faith. Weinberger says first phase of SDI could be ready in '93 WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger yesterday continued to press for phased deployment of the "Star Wars" anti- missile shield starting as soon as possible. Weinberger, in an interview broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corp., said the United States is not yet ready to make a final decision, but he added that he has always backed the idea of a phased deployment. During congressional hearings last week, he said the Pentagon was. "close to being able to recommend deployment decisions" to Presidentb Reagan. He told the BBC that, following the presidential decision, the first phase of Star Wars, formally known as the Strategic Defense Initiative, could be deployed "somewhere in the 1993-1994 range." Memo contradicts Reagan WASHINGTON - An Israeli official told Vice President George Bush last July that deals for the sale of U.S. arms were being sought with Iranian radicals, a secret memo says, contradicting claims by President Reagan that the administration dealt only with so-called moderates. "We are dealing with the most radical elements'" the Israeli told Bush according to the memorandum, first reported in yesterday's ed - itions of The Washington Post. "They can deliver...that's for sure...we've learned they can deliver and the moderates can't." 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