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Students bus, fly to attend demonstration INBRIEF
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LSA first-year student Beth
Rudner said, "I have a feeling this
will be a very important part of
moderm Jewish history and I want to
be able to say I was a part of it."
"Rudner was one of 37 students
who traveled to Washington on a
Grayhound bus rented by the B'nai
B'rith Hillel Foundation. The
students slept in the bus Saturday
night, participated in the five-and-a-
half hour long march and rally, and
drove back last night.
"By being a part of it, being right
there, I will be able to convey the
feelings of the movement a lot
'The reason why I'm going to this rally is glasnost is
glasnyet for Soviet Jews.'
- Debbie Schlussel, LSA sophomore
better. I want to make a statement
by going, in addition to having an
educational experience," said first-
year LSA student Brian Portney.
Although yesterday's rally was far
away from Ann Arbor, the students
who participated were certain the
campus would feel the march's
power.
"As an individual, I intend to tell
others of this experience and what I
learned from it. I'm hoping I'll feel a
part of something and that I'm
actually helping," said Darren
Findling, a first-year LSA student.
Art school student Pamela Haber
stressed that the march offered a
unique opportunity for students to
speak out on the issue.
' "Even if nothing comes out of
the rally, I did the best that I could
and went and spoke out for these
people who couldn't. I want to do
everything I can to help," she said.
"It's so long - 12 hours on a bus
each way - but it's so worth it."
The rally started at the Ellipse, a
park in front of the White House,
stretched up Constitution Avenue
and ended at the mall between the
Capitol Building and the
Washington Monument. It was held
to press for the free emigration of
almost 400,000 Soviet Jews -
called "refuseniks" - who are not
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They shoved and occasionally
threw punches at refuseniks and
Western journalists trying to
photograph the clash.
It was the clearest indication in
the weeks leading up to the Dec. 8-
10 Washington summit that Soviet
authorities will not tolerate public
expressions of dissent, even under
Mikhail S. Gorbachev's policy of
"glastnost," or openness on certain
topics.
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It appeared that authorities went
to considerable lengths to quell the
refuseniks' protest.
Alexander Feldman, a refusenik
and would-be demonstrator, told The
Associated Press he spent Saturday
night at his sister's apartment in an
attempt to avoid Soviet authorities.
But when he left his sister's
home Sunday morning to go to the
demonstration, Feldman said three
men put him into a waiting black
sedan and drove him to a police
station 40 miles outside Moscow.
He said he was released about 2:30
p.m., two hours after the protest was
over.
About 15 minutes into the
refusenik protest, plainclothes agents
knocked down and struck Arnett, the
Moscow correspondent for Cable
Network News, and then hustled him
into a bus and drove him to a nearby.
office.
Arnett said he was released after
four hours after being presented with
a written accusation that he assaulted
a Soviet citizen by knocking off his
hat with ma microphone.
Compiled from Associated Press reports
Iranian gunboats attack two
tankers, kill Danish sailor
MANAMA, Bahrain - Iran launched unusually devastating gunboat
attacks yesterday on two neutral-flag tankers in the Persian Gulf, killing a
Danish sailor aboard one and igniting the highly volatile naptha cargo of
another.
The abandoned Singapore-flagged ship Norman Atlantic was still
burning more than eight hours after it was attacked in early afternoon in
the Strait of Hormuz, the gulf's only gateway. Flames were visible 30
miles away.
It was not immediately clear if the 85, 129-ton tanker was in danger of
sinking. London-based Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence Unit said the ship
was "drifting and on fire nearly the whole length...and listing."
At dawn, an Iranian gunboat had ambushed the 50,600-ton Danish
tanker Estelle Maersk in the southern gulf off the United Arab Emirates
coast, killing one sailor and wounding a second.
Bush disputes primary process
WASHINGTON - Supporters of Vice President George Bush are
threatening to walk out of Michigan Republican county meetings next
month in a move designed to deprive evangelist Pat Robertson of a clear-
cut victory in the first major contest of the 1988 presidential primary
season.
On Friday a state circuit judge ruled that Robertson backers on the Re-
publican central committee had violated state and party rules when they
excluded GOP candidates from conventions. Most of the 1,200 excluded
were assumed to be Bush supporters.
A similar suit could be filed after the central committee meets to enact
another "anti-Bush" rules change on Dec. 12.
A rules change would trigger a walkout of Bush supporters from up to
25 of the 120 county conventions on Jan. 14 - setting off a credentials
challenge for the Republican nomination.
GOP candidates attack arms
control treaty opponents
PELLA, Iowa - Republican presidential front-runners Vice President
George Bush and Sen. Bob Dole both attacked conservative opponents of
the U.S.-Soviet arms control treaty, with Bush calling the critics "those
noisy people."
During a campaign stop in Iowa, bush said he "couldn't care less what
the conservative activists think about the treaty.
"I don't care what some of those noisy people attacking our president
think. I don't think it's called for, don't have any respect for it and I don't
approve of it," Bush said.
Report reveals welfare fraud
WASHINGTON - Fraud in the federal government's major welfare
program for mothers and children could be costing $1 billion a year ac-
cording to a report by the Department of Health and Human Services' in-
spector general.
The report estimates that federal and state governments could save
$800 million a year just by placing more emphasis on weeding out un-
qualified applicants before they start receiving benefits under the Aid to
families With Dependent Children program.
Other savings could flow from removing people from the rolls whose
changing circumstances render them ineligible for benefits after their ini-
tial qualification.
"The AFDC fraud is a billion dollar problem that is not responding to
traditional approaches to combating fraud," the report said.
EXTRAS
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ANNOUNCING
"SAVE TH E H UMAN R ECOR D"
LIBRARY PRESERVATION AWARENESS WEEK
DECEMBER 7-11, 1987
SPONSORED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LIBRARY
Activities include continuous public showings of the new
"Slow Fires" videotape and a hands-on Preservation exhibit
and demonstrations at the following locations:
Undergraduate Library: Videotape, 9 a.m. - 5p.m. and 7 - 10 p.m.,
and hands-on exhibit, 9 - 11 a.m., Monday, December 7
Music Library: Videotape, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Tuesday, December 8
Taubman Medical Library: Videotape, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.,
and hands-on exhibit, 9 - 11 a.m., Thursday, December 10
Public Health Library: Hands-on exhibit, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.,
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Dummy officer fools no one
DALLAS (AP) - A rookie traffic officer was suspended after only
four days on the job for being a dummy who didn't get the job done,
police said.
Recruited from the Dallas Police Department's corps of first-aid
mannequins, the ersatz officer sat quietly in a parked car as a deterrent
against speeding. Motorists weren't fooled.
"They were slowing down, but as soon as they got past they figured
the danger was over," said Capt. W.R. Patterson of the traffic division.
Motorcycle officers waiting down the street had to issue citations to
91 speeders, he said.
The mannequin did catch motorists' attention. Patterson said.
"One woman circled it three times, " he said. "I expected someone to
call in and complain he wouldn't talk or wave, but that didn't happen."
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