Ninety-eight years of editorial freedom Volume XCVIII - No. 18 Ann Arbor, Michigan -Monday, October 5, 1987 Copyright 1987, The Michigan Daily Hart details U.S.problems By HAMPTON DELLINGER Former presidential candidate Gary Hart spoke to a small but lively crowd at the Power Center last night about the problems facing this coun- try and how he thinks he could solve them. The speech could have been used in his now-defunct campaign. He avoided talking about his widely publicized personal life and instead offered his standard analysis of the political world. "This country is a mess. If we don't face that fact, we are choosing to ignore reality," the former two- term senator from Colorado said. Hart singled out the military, foreign relations, and the American educa- It's a bird ! It's a plane Daily Photo by KAREN HANDELMAN Karen Keim and her children, Katie and Jonathan, of Canton, MI, keep their eyes on the Navy's Blue Angels at Willow Run Airport in Yp- silanti yesterday. The Blue Angels-a touring team from the U.S. Navy-participated in an air show that featured stunt flying and wing-walking. Tigers win! tional system as areas that need immediate improvement. He said the United States must move away from its reliance on nuclear weapons. "I support reform- ing our conventional forces as an al- ternative to expanding dependence on nuclear weapons." America must increase its number of military personnel, he said, be- cause "it's people that win wars, not weapons." Hart went on to criticize Amer- ica's recent record in foreign affairs. "We've been floundering around as a nation since Vietnam," he said. He argued against U.S. involvement in. Nicaragua. He said America. should avoid military engagement in the region and "let the countries of Central America keep the peace." But, he said, America faces its toughest challenges at home. Citing declines in American productivity and creativity, Hart said the nation must re-affirm its commitment to edu- cation.. "We need a major long-term investment in our entire school sys- tem, from top to bottom. We have to capture the role as the most inventive nation on earth," Hart said. While acknowledging that excel- lence costs money, Hart said "I think the American people are willing to pay for the best schools in the world." He advocated raising taxes on foreign oil and luxury items and spending the revenue on increased teacher salaries and expanded student loans. Hart's speech at the University was the third of approximately 20 he plans to deliver at colleges and universities around the country this See SENATOR, Page 5 Hart ... speaks to students Student arranges senator's Tantantac, Herndon thwart Jays, 1-0 DETROIT (AP) - The Detroit Tigers took advantage of one of the great collapses in baseball history to win the American League East title' yesterday, beating the Toronto Blue Jays 1-0 behind the six-hit pitching' of Frank Tanana. The Blue Jays lost their last seven games of the season, including three in a row in the season-ending series in Detroit, squandering a lead over the Tigers that was three and one-half games on Sept. 26. The Tigers, who got a home run from Larry Herndon in the clincher, finished the season two games ahead of the Blue Jays and avoided a one- game playoff that would have been held here today if the Blue Jays had won. TANANA, 15-10, pitched his third shutout, walking three and striking out nine. Herndon put the Tigers ahead once and for all in this season of struggle with a one-out, solo homer in the second inning off Toronto's ace, Jimmy Key, 17-8, who allowed only three hits, struck out eight and finished with the American League ERA title at 2.76. At first, it looked like left fielder George Bell was under the ball short of the warning track, but when it came down, it was in the first row of the seats. Tanana, 34-years old, worked in and out of trouble yesterday. The Blue Jays stranded two runners in the first, two more in the third, and an apparent mix up in signals may have ' visit By HAMPTON DELLINGER Former presidential candidate Gary Hart might be shaking voters' hands in Iowa if it wasn't for allega- tions about his private life. And if it wasn't for University student Mich- ael Cohn, the former Colorado sen- ator might. have spoken at another school last night. After revelations about Hart's re- lationship with Miami model Donna Rice forced him out of the presiden- tial race, he decided to giv.e a series of lectures at college campuses this fall. Cohn wanted the University to be one of those campuses. Cohn, a philosophy major and president of the Undergraduate Phi- losophy Club, contacted Hart's agent in late July and suggested the Uni- versity would be a good stop on the senator's lecture tour. Cohn had been following the former presidential candidate ever since he read an article detailing Hart's college career. "I read last May in the New York Times that See STUDENT'S, Page 5 Congress finds illegal actions inStatte Dept. Daily Photo by KAREN HANDELMAN Randy Knutson, a first-year engineering student, Don Siebers, Dave Farrell, Ori Hoffer, and Jordan Fisher, all first-year LSA students, watch the Tigers game yesterday in the Michigan House TV lounge in West Quad. The Tigers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 1-0, advancing to the American League Championship Series. Students postponTge homework to watch Tigers take A.L. East WASHINGTON (AP) - An office within the State Department engaged in an illegal, covert "white propaganda" effort to generate support for the Reagan administration's policies in Central America, according to congressional investigators. Since it was created in 1983, the department's office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean at times arranged news media interviews for leaders of Nicaragua's Contra rebels and generated opinion articles opposing Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government for placement in major outlets, while concealing its own role in the publicity effort, according to investigators for the General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative arm. A March 11, 1985 opinion column in the Wall Street Journal on the offensiveathreat posed by Soviet attack helicopters in Nicaragua was attributed to Rice University's professor John Guilmartin, of the GAO, said Congress. In addition, the six-month GAO investigation turned up documents seen by investigators as relevant to Congress' Iran-Contra probe, but which were not turned over by the White House under a sweeping request for all documents which could have a bearing on the investigation. "It makes me wonder what else is still being hidden from Congress and the American people," said Rep. Dante Fascell, (D-Fla.), chairman of See COVERT, Page 2 INSIDE By JEFF HUGHES The Detroit Tigers conquered TV lounges and dormitories all over campus. And all over campus students drifted into lounges, melted into couches, and roared with the bengals. Devout fans postponed concern about papers and midterms in order to watch the Tigers hang on to a 1-0 victory against the Toronto Blue Jays. John Leece, an LSA senior, junior Michael Hentrel said his hall in South Quad was supposed to go to the game, "but we couldn't get anyone to go early enough." But dormitory viewing proved, for most, to be the next best thing to stadium attendance. The tension and excitement of the "real thing" was contagious in the dorms. "Everyone was kind of nervous ioing into the last inning," Hentrel game. "It was not large by football game standards," he said. And not all fans were rooting for the Tigers. Todd Kahn, a first year LSA student watching in South Quad, said he is a Mets fan; he's placing hopes on them for next year. Now that the Tigers have clinched the American League East crown,] they will face the Minnesota Twins,! A.L. West champions, in a series starting Wednesday. Most fans aren't The University should help the film co-ops in their time of cri- sis. OPINION, Page 4 Ann Arbor's own The Necros will be at the Blind Pig tonight. ARTS, Page 7 i I