The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, March 1, 1988 - Page 3 I Number of jobless increases in state DETROIT (AP) - The January unemployment rise due to auto cut- backs and seasonal losses hit all 12 of Michigan's major labor market, including Ann Arbor, the Michigan Employment Security Commission said yesterday. All also had increases in jobless- ness from the previous January, and all but Ann Arbor had declines in total employment from a year ear- lier, the agency said. Ann Arbor had the state's lowest unemployment rate, 4.9 percent, up from 3.7 percent in December and from 4 percent in January 1987. Seasonal declines in construction, retail trade, local education, and ser- vice jobs contributed statewide, MESC Director Richard Simmons said. Auto plant closings and layoffs made the picture worse in auto-ori- ented areas such as Flint, where the jobless rate jumped to 17.7 percent in January from 13.9 percent in December, Simmons said. January's nearly 2.5 percentage M point statewide seasonally unadjusted jobless rate increase - to 10.7 per- cent from 8.3 percent in December - was reported earlier in February. The breakdown by labor markets showed no area escaped the trend, MESC said Monday. All markets had December-to- January increases in numbers of jobless - people unsuccessfully seeking employment - and de- creases in numbers working. A General Motors Corp. plant closing cost 3,000 jobs in the Flint area. Sandra St. Cyr, MESC area ana- lyst, said other layoffs, plus seasonal losses such as the end of holiday employment and the winter decline in construction work - brought the total decline in area jobs to 9,000, from 172,000 in December to 163,000 in January. 'Idealistic' prof. loses fight with cancer at 60 By ERIC LEMONT Although University History Prof. Arthur Mendel died Sunday at the age of 60 after a year-long bout with lung cancer, his memory will live on in the minds of those who knew him. Many remember the personal qualities he brought with him to the classroom. Mendel's daughter Ruth said "his students loved him," adding that let- ters from past students are constantly coming in saying that he was "the finest professor they have ever had here." "Arthur was an idealist in the best sense of the word," said History Prof. William Rosenberg, a col- league of Mendel's, who first met Mendel when he heard him speak as a visiting lecturer on Soviet History at Harvard University in 1964. Rosenberg said that while Mendel sometimes frustrated his colleagues with what his impatience with the "pettiness of academic administra- tion," he was "never hostile in the ways in which he advanced his views." Mendel, who has taught at the University since 1962, specialized in Western European intellectual his- tory. Mendel's daughter, Joanna, said he focused primarily on Russia and the intellectual foundations of its revolutionary movements. Mendel - who was forced to take sick leave in February of last year when his cancer was diagnosed - is survived by his wife Sara, sister Phyllis, and five children. Services to remember Mendel will be held today at noon at Beth Israel Syna- gogue located on 2000 Washtenaw Avenue. Daily Photo by UWIN LULNAm Iwant myf mlummy 19-month-old Michael Smith and father-associate pharmacology prof. David Smith-look at a 200 year-old mummy at the Kelsey museum's Egyptian mummy display. Violence rocks Soviet republic as ethnic groups riot s MOSCOW (AP) - "Hooligans" went on a rampage in a city in Azerbaidzhan, Tass re- ported yesterday. An Armenian dissident said "thugs" beat and knifed Armenians as the eth- nic hatred kindled by a territorial dispute spread in the Caucasus republics. A Soviet deputy prosecutor general said over the weekend that two people in another region of Azerbaidzhan had been killed in "disorders" sparked by Armenian demands that a part of Azerbaidzhan be reattached to their republic. Street demonstrations, in which some wit- nesses said more than 1 million people participated, took place in the Armenian capi- tal of Yerevan last week to call for the annexation of the Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaidzhan, whose 157,000 inhabitants are mostly Armenian. Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev ap- pealed Friday to the people of Armenia and Azerbaidzhan for "civic maturity," but state- run media reports and accounts reaching dissi- dent circles in Moscow yesterday indicated he had failed to quell the dispute. The official Tass news agency said a "group of hooligans provoked disturbances" Sunday in the industrial city of Sumgait, 1,150 miles south of Moscow on the Caspian Sea. "Rampage and violence followed," it said. The Tass dispatch on the unrest in Sumgait was the first official report of civil distur- bances in the Soviet Union since it reported that 3,000 people rioted in Alma Ata, capital of the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, in December 1986. Two people died and hun- dreds more were injured in those riots. Tass gave no indication that what led to the violence in Sumgait, a chemical and steelmaking center that is Azerbaidzhan's most important industrial city after its capital, Baku. A Moscow-based dissident said the distur- bance was sparked by tensions between Azer- baidzhan's dominant ethnic group, the Azeris, and Armenians. Azeris are predominantly Moslem, while Armenians are predominantly Christian. "Thugs in Sumgait went up to people and asked them if they were Armenian or not," said Sergei Grigoyants, who is of Armenian origin. "They started to beat up people who said they were Armenian. Several people were knifed." Grigoyants, who said he had received in- formation on the unrest from sources in Yere- van, said apparently no one was killed in the Sunday fracas. He said "several dozen" Azeris reportedly were involved in the attacks. Tass indicated that authorities in Sumgait; a city of more than 160,000 people, fear a resurgence of violence. "Measures have been taken to normalize the situation in the city and safeguard disci- pline and public order," Tass said, adding that an investigation was under way. The watch officer at the Ministry of Inter- nal Affairs in Baku reached by telephone yes- terday evening, said he had no information on the disturbances in the city 22 miles to the northwest. An Azerbaidzhan government in Moscow refused comment. Sumgait is 150 miles northeast of the dis- puted region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a region. smaller than the state of Delaware. Toxics threaten Great Lakes WASHINGTON (AP) - Air- borne substances are reaching the Great Lakes from as far away as In- dia, entering the food chain and pos- sibly endangering the health of mil- lions of people, environmental groups said Monday. "It is bad enough to have to breath toxic air pollution without having to eat it, too. We're here to urge (the Environmental Protection Agency) and Congress to clean up our skies so we can breath and eat safely in the Great Lakes region Nurses face drug prob lems at work LANSING (AP) - Michigan's 130,000 nurses are more likely than the general public to develop drug problems because of job stress, low pay and easy access to controlled substances, experts say. The Michigan Nurses Association says the full extent of drug abuse among nurses won't known as long as state regulations follow a strictly punitive approach toward violators. Over the past two years, the majority of discipline cases to com before the Board of Nursing have been drug related, the agency said. SOUP AND SANDWICH COMBO cdcin nIm again," said Jane Elder, Midwest rep- resentative of the Sierra Club, at the start of a week of lobbying on lakes issues. A draft report summarizing recent research, prepared by the Sierra Club and Great Lakes come from the air; and on average 20 percent to 25 per- cent of all toxic substances entering the Great Lakes Basin is airborne. F FOOD BUY-*S SZE-CHUAN WEST Specializing in Sze-chuan, Hunan, and Mandarin Cuisine DINING -COCKTAILS -CARRY-OUT * In 1980. Sze-Chuan West... THE DETROIT NEWS' choice as "the best new Chinese restaurant." 4 Tn 1986 C..f'Oh ym Wo Jt N1 A n , ya ze- ruac ves .. VOTED BEST CHINESE RESTAURANT IN"BEST OFANNARBOR" BYYOU, THE STUDENT. * In 1988. Sze-Chuan West... REMAINS THE FAVORITE CHOICE FOR ORIENTAL DINING. Open 7 days a week Mon.-Thurs. 11 :30-10:00211V.TADUM Friday 11:30-11:00 2161 W. STADIUM Saturday 12:00-11:00 7 5722 Sunday 12:00-10:00 6-5 is Doily Photo by DANIEL STIEBEL Hit the sack Charlie Bauer (right), first year grad. student in the School of Natural Resources, and Rachel Charlip (left), an LSA junior, play hacky-sack. The two were playing the game in the Diag. TH ST What's happening in Ann Arbor today Speakers Michael Iksenberg - "Struc- ture of the China Field," 12 noon, Lane Hall Commons. Linda Brinkley - "Extra-cellu- alar Matrix and the Shape We are In," researchers welcome, 7:30 p.m., Chrysler Center Aud. Don C le w e l - "Plasmids, Furthermore Artificial intellegence se- minar - "Unifying Linguistic Knowledge," 4:30 p.m., 1001 EECS. Tea Tasting - The truth about tea, 3 p.m., Zingerman's Deli, 422 Detroit St. Work in Britain - 4 p.m., In- Regents may accept draft (Continued from Page 2) shut in class."' Vice President for Student Ser- vices Henry Johnson said he has not yet designed methods to implement the proposed policy. Engineering Prof. Harris Mc- Clamroch, chair of the faculty's Senate Advisory Committee for University Affairs, said Fleming's new draft was "a much improved document."