The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, December 2, 1987- Page 3 New assembly tables talks on CIA protest * By ANDREW MILLS Y Newly elected members of the Michigan Student Assembly began their terms last * night by dealing with a controversial r , resolution on a recent anti-CIA protest. The new assembly, with 24 recently elected members, convened its first meeting after bidding farewell to longtime - representatives. Leaving the assembly are University Council Chair David Newblatt and LSA representative Ed Kraus. a The CIA held on-campus interviews last Wednesday morning and some violence erupted when protesters who oppose the agency clashed with University security officers. Rackham representative Gus Teschke submitted the resolution that called for condemnation of the CIA for its "infamous .s history of assassination, torture and terror," and the firing of Assistant Director of University Security Robert Patrick. Patrick allegedly kicked Rackham student Harold Daily Photo by SCOTT UTUCHY Marcuse, a protester, in the groin during the protest. Patrick has not been positively identified by Marcuse as his assailant. Christm as tim e The resolution, which promised to spice The first snow of December falls over State Street yesterday, ushering Ann Arbor into the Christmas season. up an otherwise ordinary assembly meeting, was never fully discussed. The assembly tabled the proposal until next week. LSA representative Jennifer Kohn moved to table the resolution because she said she did not know enough about the issues at hand. The motion to table, passed by a slim margin of 16 to 14, was voted on before any substantive discussion on the resolution's content. Most of the newly seated representatives voted in favor of tabling. An earlier motion to table the resolution indefinitely, proposed by Natural Resources representative Laura Ashford, failed by a vote of 16 to 13. Ashford said she agreed with the intent of the resolution, but disagreed with the specifics of Teschke's proposal. "I don't think this is the way to do it," she said, referring to the resolution as proposed by Teschke. "It makes MSA look kind of stupid." The swift tabling infuriated LSA representative and Student Rights Committee Chair Michael Phillips, who compared the action to censorship. After the meeting adjourned, Phillips climbed over the table to talk with the new representatives who favored delaying the proposal. See MSA, Page 5 Students watch as Democrats, Poet, author James Baldwin dies at 63 Republicans By HAMPTON DELLINGER Democ Some offered beer and appetizers. politica Some offered only a small television Univers lounge. But wherever the locale, gatherin politically minded students met last Stat night to cheer on their favorite (D-Ann candidate during the first debate who res involving all 12 applicants for express Ronald Reagan's job. talking About 50 supporters of Michael "I f Dukakis, a Democratic candidate for (Duk a president, gathered in the Union improv ballroom to watch the governor of Bullard. Massachusetts. AN( Fliers for the party advertised "free date ha keg and food" in an effort to entice night, 1 students to pay the $5 cover charge Simon to view the nationally televised informs debate on a wide-screen TV. the bow BUT KEN Cohen, an LSA the Eas senior and treasurer of the Dukakis' perform group, said making money wasn't Stud the only purpose of the party: "We 100 men want people power for when the Iowa to governor comes. We'll be happy to presider break even tonight," he said referring senior, to efforts to bring Dukakis to group campus. finals." Members of Students for Dukakis Dav sent letters to 1,800 Ann Arbor College Mayo ra se CHICAGO (AP) - Thousands of The chanting demonstrators gathered as Ald outside City Hall last night, trying consid to stall the vote on a successor to acting n the late Mayor Harold Washington, Tim EN but the front-running candidate tender, blocked action on a lawsuit that also out the sought to stall the vote. added t debate issues rats and to all history and al science professors at the sity telling them of the Union ng. z Representative Perry Bullard n Arbor) was among those sponded to the invitation. He ed support for Dukakis while to students during the party. eel real positive about him kis). He'd be a real ement for the country," said OTHER Democratic candi- d followers watching him last but the supporters of Paul on campus opted for a more al setting. About 15 fans of N-tied Illinois Senator met in t Quad lounge to watch his ance. ents for Simon, a group with mbers, has already travelled to canvas door-to-door. Group nt Martha Young, an LSA said that after the debate the will basically shut down for id Staels, president of the Republicans, could not be reached for comment about the group's plans for watching the debate. The debate, sponsored and televised by NBC News, brought together the six Republican candi- dates on the same stage for only the second time. Of the 1,553 voters surveyed, 48 percent of the Republicans said they would vote for Bush to 20 percent for Dole. The other four candidates - the Rev. Pat Robertson, Rep. Jack Kemp of N.Y., former Secretary of State Al Haig, and former Gov. Pete du Pont of Del. - continued to attract only slight interest. On the Democratic side, last night's telecast from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. offered an opportunity for the generally unknown six-man field to impress the public. The Times' poll reflected the indecision and dissatisfaction among Democratic voter's about their announced candidates. Undecided, with 42 percent, is still the most popular choice among Democrats. ST. PAUL DE VENCE, France (AP) - Black author James Bald- win, who became an articulate and sometimes angry voice decrying racism in the United States through his novels, plays and poetry, died in the hilltop town on the Mediter- ranean where he took refuge "from the madness of America." Baldwin, 63, died of stomach cancer on Monday night, his pub- lisher said. His best known works included "Go Tell It on the Mountain," his first novel, published in 1953, "Notes of a Native Son," "Evidence of Things Not Seen," and most re- cently, "Harlem Quartet." France was Baldwin's adopted country and he lived here for 40 years - the last 16 in St. Paul de Vence. For the man who once urged Blacks to go out and kill whites, France was "a refuge away from the madness of America." His life here, he once said, "was an ongoing love affair." In Chicago, the Rev. Jesse Jack- son called Baldwin "a great source of inspiration for that generation...a prolific and sensitive writer...a great. advocate of personal and racial free- dom." Funeral services will be held in New York on Friday, said Bernard Hassalle, Baldwin's longtime com- panion and secretary. Baldwin ... dies at63 Hospital robo-carriers work long hours, help employees with chores (continued from Page 1) parch stirs debate council meeting was delayed erperson Eugene Sawyer- ered the front-runner for the mayor post- and Alderperson vans, the other leading con- met in private to try to iron dispute over leadership that o Chicago's tangled political THlE IST What's happening in Ann Arbor today history. Outside City Hall, a crowd of police estimated at 5,000, many of them Evans supporters, had gathered - some yelling, "Remember Harold! No deals!" Many carried signs with messages such as "No More Uncle Toms" and "Don't Sell the Legacy." Earlier that day, the council eulo- gized Washington in an atmosphere thick with political intrigue as members twisted arms and counted votes in the battle to succeed the city's first Black mayor. Both the leading contenders for the acting mayor position are Black, but at least one white alderperson also sought the post. The lawsuit by the Better Gov- ernment Association, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, alleged that City Council members had violated the state's Open Meetings Act by holding several closed-door meetings in the past six days to discuss selecting an acting mayor. from the ceiling." sleeps in a hospital room with his siblings. "And occasionally they'll be Richard's co-workers rave about some software problems," Chappelle him. Tessie dela Fuentea, the Uni- said. "And the robocarriers will just versity Hospital food service man- spin and spin around in circles." ager, said Richard represents "a new "Or run into each other," added and helpful advance in technology Shears. "But that hardly ever hap- for us. Not only are we thrilled pens anymore." about the robots, but the visitors RICHARD AND his siblings are, too. They try to talk with them, complete 1,200 hospital tasks each even ride on them." day, Chappelle said, but the "Of course, I had to alert all my employees to stay out of the way in the beginning," Fuentea added. Like all the robocarriers, Richard It's true, our robots are .was named for a hospital employee not as inspiring as one - Pharmacy Director Richard ma think. but theysuredeLeon. Fuentea remembered when m y' bshe heard first about another robot do a lot of work.' who was named after her. - University Hospital "I heard someone say "Tessie" spokesperson Toni Shears was disloyal... I thought they were talkingabout me - but it was the other Tessie, the robocarrier," Fuentea said. But to most of the materiel man- I PREPARE FOR: I agement employees, Richard D. is merely known as "number three." It makes him sound anonymous and unimportant. And you almost could miss him, in the crowd of other stainless steel "Emily's" and "Tessie's" and "Tom's." 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