1£ rrrau tz Ninety-eight years of editorialfreedom Vol. XCVIII, No. 130 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, April 12, 1988 Copyright 1988, The Michigan Daily Israelis expel eight Arabs charged with inciting unrest JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel expelled eight Pales- tinians from the occupied lands yesterday, accusing them of inciting the four months of violence there, and it issued deportation orders against 12 others. Hospital officials said soldiers shot a 20-year-old Arab to death in the West Bank. That brought to 142 the number of Palestinians killed since riots began Dec. 8 in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel captured from Jordan and Egypt in the 1967 Middle East war. The eight Arabs were taken to south Lebanon in two helicopters. The United States condemned the de- portations. Six Palestinians from Beita, a West Bank village where an Israeli settler girl and two Arabs were killed in a clash last week, were among the 12 against whom the army issued deportation orders. Palestinian leaders contended the purpose of the ex- pulsions was the appease right-wing politicians and Jewish settlers angered by an army report that said Tirza Porat, 15, was killed by a bullet from another settler's gun. Residents of the territories complied with Palestine Liberation Organization orders to close stores yesterday and stay home from jobs in Israel. Underground leaflets called for a "day of firebombs" on April 21. In Washington, State Department spokesperson Charles Redman said: "We strongly oppose deporta- tions from the occupied territories," which he described as "counterproductive... they only further inflame pas- sions." See Israel, Page 2 Hijackers kill second hostage on Kuwaiti jet LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) - Arab hijackers yesterday killed a second hostage, tossed his bloody body from a Kuwaiti jet and threatened to kill the rest of nearly 50 captives if the plane wasn't refueled. The hijackers said the dead man was a "Kuwaiti officer." He was the second of three Kuwaiti military men aboard the Kuwait Air- ways jet that the hijackers have slain during the weeklong ordeal. THE HIJACKERS have demanded that Kuwait release 17 pro-Iranian terrorists con- victed in 1984 for bombing the U.S. and French embassies in December 1983. Sources close to the negotiations said, however, that the hijackers yesterday demanded freedom only for the three men among the 17 who have been sentenced to death . Kuwait apparently rejected the modified demand. In Kuwait, Foreign Minister Sheik Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah said his country is prepared to lose more hostages rather than give in to terrorism. "WE WILL TRY our utmost to protect our dear ones aboard the plane, but we will not surrender to any blackmail, even if we lose more of them," he told a news confer- ence. There are 52 people aboard the Boeing 747, including three members of the Kuwaiti royal family, as well as the hijackers, who are masked with blue hoods fashioned from airline pillow cases and armed with grenades and handguns. Sabah said there are at least eight hijackers, all of them Arabs, carrying forged passports. Four of the hijackers have Bahraini passports, three have Iraqi passports and one has a Columbian passport, he said. HE SIDESTEPPED a question about whether the jet would.be stormed, saying that was a matter for the Cypriot authorities since the plane was on their territory. The man killed yesterday was pushed from the plane at 3:07 p.m. (8:07 a.m. EDT) after Cypriot officials ignored two deadlines to re- fuel the jet. "We have executed a Kuwaiti officer," a hijacker told the control tower. "We also re- confirm that the craft must be refueled imme- diately, immediately, before we take more dangerous steps." -Associated Press The body of the second hostage slain by the Arab hijackers falls to the tarmac of the airport in Nicosia, Cyprus, where a Kuwaiti jet is still being held. The body, identified by the hijackers as that of a "Kuwaiti officer," is upside down, falling past the wing of the jet. SWomen barred from the battlefield By VICKI BAUER She can fire an M-16 rifle, hide in foxholes, and use a compass to guide herself through unfamiliar terrain. But Brigette Seeger, an LSA se- nior and captain of the rifle team, will have little use for these skills once she graduates as an officer from the University's ROTC program. Like all women in the military, Seeger is excluded from combat. And although the U.S. Congress restricts women from serving combat roles in the Navy and Air Force, the Army's own administrative policy prohibits Part 2 such a role for women. Women are not excluded because of their sex from any aspect of the University's Reserve Officers' Training Corps program. But once these women graduate, they will be excluded from all potential forms of combat - jobs that include driving combat ships in the Navy, flying fighter planes in the Airforce, and driving tanks in the Army. 7 Such exclusion appears to be the only obstacle they face in the mili- tary today, said Assistant Professor of Military O'Rourke, the o in the University' In the past, overlooked for to because of thei experience, O'R trend is changi women in the1 along with their open-minded attit "Most of the Science Alicia tors are realizing that just because nly woman officer women cannot fight does not mean s ROTC program. they are unqualified for high posi- women have been tions," O'Rourke said. "They will p levels of position overlook the female's lack of combat r lack of combat experience if they are qualified for Burke said. But that the position," she said. ing. The rank of "Personally, I prefer to have peo- military is rising ple looked at as people. Whether numbers and more they are qualified for the job or not, udes of men. senior administra- See ROTC, Page 2 1 No input Student voice absent on honorary degree panel By LAWRENCE ROSENBERG Students had no input in selecting the honorary degree recipients for spring com- mencement ceremonies because the Michigan Student Assembly failed to appoint students to the committee responsible for choosing the recipients. The names of this year's degree recipients are scheduled to be released within the next ten days, although Interim President Robben Fleming earlier said they would be named yesterday or today. The Honorary Degree Committee is usu- ally comprised of six to eight faculty mem- bers, four administrators, and two students, said Vice President for Government Relations and committee member Richard Kennedy. But MSA's Campus Governance Commit- tee, responsible for appointing students to the degree committee, did not follow the proper appointment procedure this year, Fleming's secretary said. She said that MSA submitted one student's name, but a slate of twice the number of available committee seats must be submitted in order for any representatives to be approved. "They never submitted the rest. I called him (George Davis, former MSA governance committee chair) several times and he never submitted any (more) names to me," she said. Davis said advertisements sent out asking students to join the committee garnered little interest. "Of the people who were interested in joining (MSA) committees, no one was really interested in the Honorary Degree Commit- tee." Davis said University rules for committee appointment hindered student input on the Honorary Degree Committee. "There was a student representative nomi- nated by MSA; however, he was not recog- nized because we had to submit a slate instead of just nominating who we wanted," Davis said. "I never received a call in which they said 'Where are the student representatives? We are voting this week."' A long, strange piece of cloth Doily Photo by DANIEL Two unidentified entrepreneurs display their wares-tie-dyed shirts and pieces of cloth with peace symbols printed on them-before selling them to fans at last night's Grateful Dead concert at Detroit's Joe~Louis Arena. Yes, it really is 1988. MICHIGAN DUO NABS DOCUMENTARY AWARD: Douglas takes home Oscar for LOS ANGELES (AP) - Michael Douglas won the Oscar for best actor last night for his portrayal of a ruthless inside trader in "Wall Street," while "The Last Emperor," a tragic epic of modern China, picked best actor' Democratic nomination for president. Michigan natives Sue Marx of Detroit and Pamela Conn of Ply- mouth, picked up Oscars in the cate- gory of Best Documentary Short Subject for their work "Young At Indecent exposure: a campus problem By LISA WINER reported at least fifteen incidents of The two women said they were indecent exposure, a crime that car- studying Friday afternoon when a ries a penalty of up to a year in jail man exposed himself to them. He or a $500 fine, said Department of lay on the floor and masturbated Public Safety Assistant Director until the women ran from the stacks, Robert Pifer. they said later. But security officiai seldom an- sm a -- ae i