The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 18, 1987-- Page 5 State revenue may rise if K-Mart leaves LANSING (AP) - Michigan could actually gain revenue if K Mart Corporation and other com- panies make good on their threats to reincorporate in other states, a Commerce Department official ad- mitted yesterday. Commerce Department Director Doug Ross and Senator Richard Posthumus, (R-Lowell) are pushing legislation that would offer cor- porate directors immunity from certain lawsuits. If more corporations move their legal addresses out of Michigan, the state will suffer a psychological defeat in the battle to improve the business climate, both said. But during testimony yesterday, House Judiciary Committee Chair- rpan Perry Bullard demanded to know how much state revenue could be lost to reincorporation. "If it did pass and they followed through on their threat (to rein- corporate elsewhere), we would gain revenue," said Ann Baker, director of the Commerce Department's Corporation and Securities Bureau. Bullard said he did not expect the committee to vote on the bills for at least two weeks. Official gives care, time to public service (Continued from Page t) means "becoming a good friend" to "He's like a father. Whenever I have are positive steps toward unity, but about it," Williams said, reclining the athletes, being available to a problem, I can call him." Cooper he hopes that people want to deal on his chair. Through the National help, talking about their goals and said he and Williams often go to honestly with the issue. "We can Council on Alcoholism, Williams objectives, and providing a "home lunch or play basketball. He said he never combat racism . without lectures to junior high school 'away from home." has visited Williams' home and his talking about it and pretending it students in the Ann Arbor area "Athletes carry a 'bad rap' on wife and children are "like family." doesn't exist," he said. "It still has about alcohol awareness and decisions about drinking. DURING the past three years, Williams has also participated in the University's athletic mentor program, which pairs faculty with student athletes for additional support and guidance. Williams, who played football in high school, said being a mentor campus, but they are students who have the same concerns or problems as other students," he said. W I L L I A M S guides four football players: Pharmacy sophomore John Willingham, junior Ernie Holloway, sophomore Keith Cooper, and freshman Warde Manuel. "He's a great guy," Cooper said. "He's just somebody I can talk to and relay my feelings to," said Manuel, a New Orleans native. WILLIAMS also works with the Washtenaw County United Way; a volunteer service award from the organization hangs on his office wall. For the last three years, he has sat on a funding allocation panel and has helped coordinate United Way Housing Division. Williams voices concerns about current issues which affect students' present and future lives, but he said, "Before we go out and preach morality to the world, we've got a lot of things to do here." He agreed the campus-wide concern and protests about racism to come out so people can talk about it. It's attitudinal." DR. Martin Luther King Jr.'s tactic for peaceful demonstration is the most effective means of protest, although, "We should get off the dream and begin to act," he said. Williams is concerned about U.S. involvement in Central America because he worries that his nine-year-old son and many young men he knows at the University will be drafted if the situation worsens. On a table next to the couch in his office, Williams displays a collection of family photographs. "All I ask is that they do their best," Williams said, gesturing to the pictures. Death toll may rise in Brazilian train crash Daily Photo by DANA MENDELSSOHN ;David Roland, a third year law student, speaks at a rally held by the November 29th Day Committee for Palestine, protesting the arrest of .nine Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine supporters in Los Angeles. Students protest ,imigration law By CALEB SOUTHWORTH Approximately 30 students tallied on the Diag yesterday at (on to protest what they described as a discriminatory federal law. The rally was sponsored by the UJniversity's chapter of November 29th Day Committee for Palestine. r- It was organized to condemn the Immigration and Naturalization Service's (INS) arrest last week of fight Palestinians and one Kenyan roman in Los Angeles under the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act.- The act, established during an era ef anti-communism by Scii. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis), maintains that it is a deportable offense for any on-citizen to be affiliated with a Communist organization. Four student speakers said the arrests are attacks on civil rights and freedom of expression and members of the committee urged demonstrators to lobby Congress to repeal McCarran-Walter through a letter-writing campaign. David Roland, a third year law student and a speaker at the rally, said the INS can use the law to persecute proponents of any viewpoint the government disagrees with. "It is a device to stifle dissent which could be used against anyone here on a visa," Roland said. Steve Ghannam, president of the committee, said before the rally that "stereotyping of Arabs as terrorists or hostage-takers is prevalent in the media while it is their land which has been taken from them." "The media chooses to focus on terrorist attacks such as Achille Lauro and terms Arabs 'terrorist' in the same way that the U.S. government retaliated against the :American Indians savage defense of their land and called the indians uncivilized savages," said Amr El- Bayoumi, an Arab student. He concluded, "the issue always gets ignored." The INS charged the nine Los Angeles individuals with being affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Marxist wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The seven are being held without bail. McCarran-Walter has been used in the past to exclude writers such as Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and novelists Doris Lessing and Graham Greene from entering the country. (Continued from Page 1) medicine to five nearby hospitals and from transporting critically injured passengers to other loc- ations, the Radio Jornal do Brasil said. The first police officers at the scene commandeered taxis, buses and private cars to transport victims to hospitals, according to the radio. Edith Villas Boas, a spokes- woman for the Federal Railroad System, said the collision occured Think You re Pregnant? Free Pregnancy Te;t Completely Confidential Pregnancy Counseling Center 529 N. Hewitt. Ypsilanti Call: 434-3088 (any time) If Your Hair Isn't Becoming to You - You Should Be Coming to Us. DASCOLA STYLISTS Libertyoff State .....668-9329 Maple Village... .......761-2733 just as one of the trains was switching tracks. She said the crash was not head-on, but that one train smashed diagonally into the other. She said one of the trains derailed Greater Sao Paulo, which includes Itaquera, is South Amer- ica's largest metropolis with 15 million people. 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