The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, October 21, 1987-Page 3 Iran vows to retaliate in response to U.S. attack MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - Iran will strike back and "make the U.S. regret" the Navy shelling that destroyed two oil platforms in the Persian Gulf, Iranian leaders said yesterday. Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of the Iranian Parliament and one of Iran's most powerful leaders, said his vow of retaliation was "not a threat, but a reality." Prime Minister Hussein Musavi said "compromise is impossible" and "we will retaliate" for the U.S. attack, Iran's official news agency reported. Musavi was quoted as saying that "after we deal our reprisal blow, we will call it quits." The 12th U.S.-escorted convoy set out yesterday, one day after the artillery attack on the Iranian plat- forms, moving south from Kuwait on the 550-mile voyage out of the gulf. It included two reflagged Kuwaiti tankers - the 80,000-ton Ocean City and the 46,000-ton Gas King - and the guided-missile frigate USS Ford, the Pentagon said. An Iranian shuttle tanker reported sighting a mine in a busy channel 40 miles off Iran's coast, shipping executives said. They did not say if any ac-tion was taken. Sources in Kuwait said eight tol0 artillery rounds exploded at Umm al- Aish, a Kuwaiti oil-drilling camp near the Iraqi border. Kuwait's Defense Ministry confirmed that artillery shells fell in the area but said there were no casualties or damage. The Kuwait news agency quoted a min-istry spokesman as saying the shells ap- parently were fired "during artillery duels between Iran and Iraq," which have been at war seven years. The warfront is about 25 miles away. Gulf shipping executives, speaking on conditions of anonymity, said commercial traffic in the waterway appeared normal after Monday's attack by U.S. Navy destroyers on Iranian oil-rig plat- forms in the south-central gulf. Shells demolished two platforms in the Rostam oilfield in an 85- minute bombardment. The 25-30 Iranians on the platforms were given time to evacuate first. Iran's oil minister said the attack caused about $500 million damage. U.S. military sources said three of the destroyers, brought into the gulf for the attack, had sailed back out through the narrow Strait of Hormuz to rejoin their Navy battle groups in the Arabian Sea. The fourth ship, the missile destroyer Kidd, is part of the Navy force escorting 11 Kuwaiti tankers registered in the United States and flying the American flag. Yesterday, "only mangled metal and charred remains were apparent... and smoke could still be sighted," a shipping source said, quoting a re- port from one of his company's ves- sels that passed near the destroyed rigs. Dolly Photo by ROBIN LOZNAK Washing up University employee Mike Nagal washes one of the lions outside the Natural Science Museum yesterday. CONEY ISLAND? THE LIST What's happening in Ann Arbor today Food vendors please students, irk city By Stainless PAM RUDERMAN steel carts with umbrellas have Campus Cinema DWI (Deadliest Weapons in America), Free, 4:30 p.m., MLB 3 The deadliest weapon happens to be the drunk driver. This documentary is shown as part of National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week. Speakers Leonard , Peikoff - "The Ominous Parallels," 8 p.m., Oct. 21, room B-235, Business school. Melissa Bowerman - "Mapping Thematic Roles Onto Syntactic Functions: Are Children Helped By Innate 'Linking Rules'?," Linguistics Visiting Lecture Series, 4 p.m., Rackham West Conference Room. James Boyd White - "Constructing a Constitution: Original Intent in the Slave Cases," 8 p.m., Rackham West Conference Room. Walter Conner - "Meritocracy and Equality under Gorbachev," Noon, Commons Room, Lane Hall. "Soviet Social Policy in the Gorbachev Era," 4 p.m., room 200 Lane Hall. Norman Myers - "Tropical Rainforests and Mass Extinctions," noon, room 1046, Natural Resource Building. Dr. Michael Schneider - "Danger for Democracy? Social Democracy, Trade Unions and the origins of the New Left in the conflict over the West German Emergency Laws, 1958-68," 4 p.m., East Conference Room, Rackham. Prof. Lawrence Moulton - "Robust and Bootstrap Methods for Repeated Measures o n Generalized Linear Models," 4 p.m., 451 Mason Hall. Prof. Carl Cohen - "The Patient's Right to Die: Update," noon, South Lecture Hall, Med. Sci. II. Dr. Norman Myers - "The U.S. Stake in the Global Environment," 7:30 p.m., 1040 Dana Building. Andrea Russell - "Novel Applications of Microelectrodes," 4 p.m., Room 1200, Department of Chemistry. Meeting Students1For Simon - (Presidential Candidate Paul Simon) 7 p.m., 2235 Angell Hall. The Ecumenical Campus Center - Religion in the Soviet Union: "Moscow: Third Rome - Present & Future," 7:30 p.m, 921 Church Street. Lesbian and Gay Law Students - Womyns Fall Dance ($3). 9 p.m. Oct . 24, Law Quad Lounge. Lesbian / Gay Coalition An lc DE...-'7qn n Furthermore Exploring Opportunities in the Business Sector - Career Planning and Placement, 4:10 to 5 p.m. Guild House Beans and Rice Dinner - 6 to 7 p.m., $2 donation, 802 Monroe. Rally - Sponsored by the Association of Arab-American University Graduates and the November 29th Coalition, noon, on the Diag. Safewalk - night-time safety walking service. 8 p.m to 1:30 a.m. Rm. 102 UGLi or call 936- 1000. Laughtrack - With professional comedian Gary Kern.10 p.m., University Club. "The Face of Hell in Military" - Paintings and Prints by Roger Hayes, Oct 20 - Nov. 13, 111 Art in Ann Arbor. AIDS Video Festival - "Parting Glances," an AIDS drama, noon, Lunchroom School of Public Health-I. Psychology & Religion - Jewish History Jewish Consciousness, Moderated by Hank Greenspan. Call 663-3336 to reserve. Hillel. Women In Judaism Series - Forging a Feminist Future in Judaism, 8 p.m. Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union. Taj Mahal - The Ark, 637-1/2 S. Main, 7:30 and 10 p.m. Open Mic Night - East Quad Halfway Inn, 8 p.m., East Quad. The Aerospace Corp. - pre- interview, sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers, 1 to 4 p.m., Rm. 143 Chrysler. made the University resemble a Coney Island boardwalk, but vendors have found their hot dog and burrito carts are far more popular with students than with Ann Arbor police and local merchants. According to the city peddling permit, vendors are not allowed to stand their carts in one location longer than five minutes. First time violators are fined $30; second time of- fenders must appear in court. Hot dog vendor Tom Dunham, who oper- ates a "Biener's Wieners" stand on the corner of South and East University, said police re- cently threatened to give him a citation for remaining in one place too long. "The police said that the University and local merchants complained about us vendors not moving around," he said. City Attorney Bruce Laidlaw said the law is in effect because of "pressure from local merchants who don't want them blocking store entrances" and "complaints from people concerned with them blocking sidewalk traf- fic." Laidlaw added that a Street Occupancy permit is required for stationary carts, which "the city is very stingy about issuing." The manager of Sully's, Tim Seaver, said he objects to the food vendors because "they don't pay taxes and they don't have the in- vestment in the city like we do." Seaver also sees the vendors as a threat to local merchants. "They take a little bit of business away from everybody," he said. Steve Guttman, manager of Jason's Sand- wich and Ice Cream Shop on State Street, holds a similar view. "I don't like the ven- dors," he said. "They're not responsible for their litter and they take money away from the people who really invest in the county." The carts, which "Eatos Burritos" vendor Joe Devereaux said costs between $1,500 to $2,000, must have smooth stainless steel surfaces and a clean commissary- a clean place where they can store the cart when not selling on the street. Dunham's partner, Barry "Biener" Biniarz, said the Health Department comes out about every three months to inspect the carts. "The Health Board has been cracking down when inspecting the carts," he said, adding that the board will close down a cart if it falls below their standards. Richard Fleece, Chief Food Sanitarian at the Department of Environmental Health, said he only had to shut down one cart. "They weren't returning to their commissary, but we cleared the problem up. Devereaux, who cannot serve high spoilage foods like sour cream, guacamole or tomotoes with his burritos due to Health Dept. regula- tions, said "the main obstacle for aspiring vendors is finding a commissary." Dunham says student response has been favorable. "They say it's just like New York." Dunham and Biniarz sell about 250 of their "Kowality" Polish Kielbasas and stadium hot dogs each day. First-year LSA student Tom Rogat said, "When I'm going off to class I just grab a hot dog. They're top quality and taste great." Doily Photo by ROBIN LOZNAK, Tom Dunham of Biener's Wieners spreads mustard on a hot dog yesterday. Reagan foresees no recession Send announcements of up- coming events to "The List," c/o The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich., 48109. Include all pertinent in- formation and a contact phone number. We must receive an- nouncements for Fri4ay and Sunday events at least two weeks before the event, and announ- cements for weekday events must be received at least two days before the event. (Continued from Page 1) are uncontrollable and the govern- ment is weak. "There is a strong relationship be- tween changes in consumer con- fidence and changes in the real economy," said Richard Curtin, an economist at the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center, which pioneered the concept of con- sumer confidence 40 years ago. Declining stocks outnumbered ad- vancing ones by more than 5 to 2 in panicky trading. Stocks managed to regain $60 billion of the $503 bil- lion they lost in Monday's rout. "There is still a certain amount of sensitivity and nervousness in the market," John Phelan, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, said at a news conference. Investors floundered helplessly between optimism over a big drop in interest rates and pessimism over the chance of a recession, possibly trig- gered by the stock market's plunge itself. Both the Tokyo and London stock exchanges posted, their biggest losses ever. Worldwide, stocks lost well over $1 trillion in a 24-hour period. 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