Speaker defends Israel's actions (contiiued from Page 1) The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, January 12, 1988- Page 5 Nuclear plant restarts after shutdown One demonstrator yelled during the speech, "Israel and South Africa are the same, the only difference is the name." Referring to a recent incident in which Israeli troops fired into crowds of rock-throwing Palestinian dem- onstrators, one protester's sign read, "Bullets for stones. Is this Israeli justice?" Many protesters suggested that Israel relinquish control over the occupied territories, thus paving the way for an independent Palestinian state. Brosch responded that Israel cannot allow the creation of a Palestinian state because, he said, such an action would jeopardize the safety of Israeli citizens.. Brosch told the protesters, "I want to tell you that what is happening here tonight is not encouraging any hope that we can sit down together and work out a way to live together..." Demonstrators criticized Israel for committing human rights violations in its treatment of those living in the occupied territories. Brosch defended Israel by saying, "The same territories, occupied previously by Jordan and Syria, were oppressed even more. The young people do not know about what happened before they were born." The protest was sponsored by a coalition of student and community groups, including the Palestine Aid Society, the New Jewish Agenda, the Palestinian Solidarity Com- mittee, the Latin American Solidar- ity Committee and the United Coalition Against Racism. The speech, which was scheduled before the recent uprisings in Israel, was sponsored by the Union of Students for Israel, the Progressive Zionist Caucus, and the American Zionist Youth Foundation. A group of about twenty people staged an impromptu pro-Israel counter-demonstration during the protest. They exchanged chants with -the protesters and sporadic quarrels and shoving broke out between the two groups. "If (the PLO) really wants peace, why do they want to push thepJews to the sea, like the PLO charter says?" asked Debbie Schlussel, an LSA sophomore. MONROE (AP) - Detroit Edison Co. restarted the Fermi II nuclear plant at 5 a.m. Monday after a second shutdown in two weeks and again began to climb toward its 75 percent operating ceiling, officials said. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will see how well the plant operates at 75 percent of capacity before approving higher level testing, said Russ Marabito, NRC spokesperson in Chicago. Marabito said a shutdown Sunday and declaration of a low-level emer- gency, following an earlier shutdown Dec. 31 were not cause for alarm. But an official of an environmen- tal group opposing the plant accused Edison officials of undue haste in putting the plant in commercial op- eration. "It's like the challenger (space shuttle). They are hurrying to get it in and it keeps messing up," said Mary Johnston, assistant director of the Safe Energy Coalition of Michi- gan. The Michigan Public Service Commission requires that the plant operate for 100 hours at 90 percent of capacity before it is considered to be in commercial operation. Until then, Detroit Edison cannot begin charging customers for the $4.575 billion project and must continue paying $75 million a month in financing costs. Johnston said her group will be talking with lawyers this week about possible litigation to delay commer- cial operation, but "I don't think anyone will do anything until there's an accident." Marabito said officials were not hurrying through testing at the plant, noting that it was first li- censed in 1985. Regulators and Edison officials have picked their way through an obstacle course of equipment prob- lems and operating errors since then, and until December the plant was never tested at over 50 percent of ca- pacity. Daily Photo by DAVID LUBUNER Israeli Counsul General Zvi Brosch outlines Israel's policy regarding the Israeli-occupied territories in the West Band and the Gaza Strip. Former White House official faces trial WASHINGTON (AP) - Former White House political director Lyn Nofziger, sporting a Mickey Mouse 'tie that is his trademark, predicted victory as he went to trial yesterday on charges he illegally lobbied former administration colleagues. "I think we're going to win this High Court to examine vacc11e problems WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court said yesterday it will settle a potentially costly battle by deciding whether the government may be forced to pay damages when a vaccine it licenses causes the disease it was intended to prevent. The Reagan administration is arguing that if the government is held legally responsible in such cases it may withdraw entirely from licensing new vaccines. . The justices agreed to hear an appeal by the parents of a Pennsyl- vaia boy who contracted polio after receiving a dose of oral vaccine. In a busy return from a four-week holiday recess, the court also: *Refused to hold the government financially responsible for the deaths and diseases allegedly caused by years of open-air atomic weapon tests in Nevada. *Agreed to decide in a Pennsyl- vania case whether the mother of an illegitimate child may sue the alleged father for support more that six years after the child is born. *Agreed to use a case from a Milwaukee, Wis., suburb to study whether communities violate free speech by banning all picketing of private homes. -Announced it will expand its study of the constitutionality of a federal law aimed at promoting chastity among teen-agers. -Heard arguments in a California case on whether police heed court warrants to search discarded garbage. -Said, in effect, that Georgetown University must start providing two gay rights groups with equal access to campus facilities and services. *Said it will decide whether federal lawyers procedurally botched a contempt-of-court case against the Providence Journal. The Rhode Is- land newspaper says it was justified in defying a judge's order not to publish FBI information about a * Mafia boss. -Refused to reinstate the triple- murder convictions of former boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and co- defendant John Artis. New Jersey prosecutors are uncertain whether they now will seek a third trial in the 22-year-old case. -Let die some, but not all, of the lawsuits filed by Vietnam veterans against seven manufacturers of the t arrio An Ar.na- T -.. rnr thing," Nofziger told reporters outside the U.S. Courthouse as he arrived for the first day of jury selec- tion in the trial which is expected to last three to five weeks. "I know there was no intent to do anything wrong," Nofziger said. _ "I am innocent of anything and so I assume that a jury being a typical fair, American jury will find that to be the case." 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