Ninety-nine years of editorialfreedom h - Vol. IC, No. 6 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, September 15, 1988 Copyright 1988, The Michigan Daily 0 S. African police kill three Another' autumn in an apple orchard More than a thousand visitors are expected to come to Wiard's Orchards ins Ypsilanti each weekend until late October. Taylor resident Carol O'Neal makes a new friend at the petting barn. Ypsilanti resident Ron Hoge climbs an apple tree for hard-to-reach McIntosh apples.. Photos by Karen HandelmanM hij ackers MASERU, Lesotho (AP) --South African police killed three hijackers and arrested the fourth in a shootout last night that ended a hostage drama in which the gunners seized a bus carrying 71 pilgrims headed to see the pope, South African officials said. One of the hostages, a young woman, was killed, and 11 passengers were injured, the officials said. The report of the shootout came from South African police headquarters. Lesotho's military government had requested South Afreican help in handling the hijacking. Police said the shootout occurred when the hijackers tried to drive the bus through the closed gates of the British High Commission in Maseru. The hijackers began shooting, and South African officers returned fire. Police said the casualties among the hostages were "apparently caused by the wild firing of the hijackers." They said no police officeres were injured. The shooting broke out about 20 minutes after Pope John Paul II arrived in Maseru, eight hours behind schedule. The hijackers earlier had demanded to meet with the pope and Lesotho's king, Moshoeshoe II, a government official said. After nightfall, gunfire was heard at the site where th bus was parked, and flares lit up the sky. Reporters were blocked from getting close enough to the scene to determine what was happening but saw ambulances take bloodied victims to a hospital. Police ordered journalists at the scene to disperse and then chased them away with whips. The bus was hijacked Tuesday night en route to Maseru. Earlier yesterday, bad weather forced the pope's plans to land in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he met Foreign Minister Pik Botha at the airport and was briefed about the hijacking. The pope then journeyed overland to Lesotho. Before the shootout, helicopters and armed cars blanketed central Maseru as 100 armed soldiers and police set up roadblocks and kept spectators at least four blocks from the bus, parked outside the British High Commission. One person escaped earlier today from the bus, said Tom Thabane, secretary for Lesotho's six-person military council. Budget shows 'U' direction BY STEVE KNOPPER This year's marked tuition increases will contribute to those areas the University's budget is targeting for the most significant growth - the Engineering and Business schools, and the administration. The University's Board of Regents will vote to give final approval today on the recommended $446 million overall budget for the"Ann Arbor, Flint, and Dearborn campuses. The increases reflect consistent trends of growth from 1984 through this year. The Business and Engineering schools have been facing "significant growth" that is faster than other University budgets, said Richard Kennedy, vice president for government relations and secretary. With a projected $3.8 budget increase for this fiscal year, the Business School's budget is expected to go up 18 percent this year. It has increased 17, 13, and 14 percent in the last three years. Engineering has gone up 12, 14, and 17 percent before facing a 10 percent and $2.3 million increase this year. Since Business and Engineering enrollments are increasing rapidly, the University must adjust the budget to make room for the added students, Kennedy said. Also, he said, next year's budget proposal reflects computer improvements these schools are making. Though the LSA budget will be upped by $10 million, Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs Robert Holbrook said that figure is misleading. In past years, he said, LSA's budget has been enlarged after the official budget was printed. This year, the figure for the entire year is displayed in the budget, he said. Yet while new University President James Duderstadt acknowledged the consistent growth of Business and Engineering, he said LSA and the Medical School are the University's "big winners." Based on budget trends during the last few years, many students and administrators are analyzing the direction the University will take under Duderstadt, who formerly served as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Engineering Dean. The Michigan Student Assembly, for example, has hired a budget researcher to determine where student tuition is going. "We are concerned that some expenditures have not necessarily been in the best interests of faculty and students," said LSA junior Zachary Kittrie, chair of MSA's External Relations Committee. "We think it's worth looking into." Another steadily increasing figure within the University budgets has been "institutional support," money used for management and administrationi. During the last two years, the budget for the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost's Office - Duderstadt's former post - has increased by $24 million. Last year, the request was for $8 million, half as much for the $16 million the year before. See Budget, Page 2 Suspects in shanty attack to be named BY JONATHAN SCOTT Ann Arbor police officials noti- fied the University's Free South Africa Coordinating Committee yesterday that several suspects have been identified in conjunction with a Sept. 4 attack on. the Diag's two anti-apartheid shanties. The official report will be sub- mitted to the city prosecutor's office as soon its dictation is completed, said Ann Arbor Police Det. Douglas Barbour. At that point, the prosecu- tor may issue arrest warrants for those named in the report. According to Barbour, the sus- pects may face trial for the malicious destruction of property under $100 - a misdemeanor in Ann Arbor cour t FSACC member Pam Nadasen, an LSA senior, said she has information indicating that the in- vestigation is narrowing in on two University students. More than 20 attacks have been directed toward the shanties since FSACC erected the first shanty in 1986, and the second in 1987, re- ported Nadasen. Out of the 20 attacks only two individuals have previously been formally charged with "malicious destruction of property," Barbour said. Both are currently awaiting trial. Although Barbour declined to identify the two previously charged, Nadasen said she has information saying they are University students. The latest attack is significant, said Nadasen, because it reflects "the sort of atmosphere on campus that is representative of rising numbers of racially motivated attacks across the country." "There are connections that need to be seen here. This recent attack was not a random attack - as some have suggested," Nadasen said. "There is a Palestinian shanty and an IRA one as well (on the Diag), but it's always the anti-apartheid shanties that get abused." The University's Public Safety Department regularly handles inci- dents involving University property, but if a witness sees a suspect de- stroying private property like the shanties, the case is sent to the Ann Arbor Police to obtain authority for prosecution. "It is up to the committees Federal judge upholds JOA WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge yesterday upheld the partial merger of the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News under a joint operating agreement approved last month by then-Attorney General Edwin Meese. U.S. District Judge George Revercomb rejected contentions by a group of Detroit advertisers and readers that the morning Free Press, owned by Knight-Ridder Inc., was not a failing newspaper entitled to antitrust exemptions under the 1970 Newspaper Preservation Act. The judge said he would allow a month-old court order temporarily blocking the deal to expire at 7:15 p.m. on Saturday - a delay that could give opponents time to appeal the ruling to a federal appeals court here. "It seems to me that we are finally on the home stretch," Free Press Publisher David Lawrence said. "We will (implement) the JOA at the earliest moment we can reasonably and legally do so." The newspapers had planned to hPoin nr..lehin -rnmn .,.u.Ps.A Hispanic Heritage Week KAREN HANDELMAN/Daily Minority Student Services Hispanic Representative Rosa Lopez (left), Cuaron & Gomez, Inc. President Alicia Cuaron, and Student Services Assistant Robbie Dye chat before a workshop yesterday during Hispanic Heritage Week. The workshop was called "Work Force 2000: Women's Roles in a Multicultural, Multilingual Society." See story, Page 3. FBI director suspends three WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI Director William Sessions suspended three FBI employees and censured three others yesterday for negligently operating what he called an "unnecessarily broad" terrorism probe into a group opposing the Reagan administration's Central American policies. All those disciplined were lower- and mid-level em- Sessions became FBI head last November, after Web- ster was named CIA director. Sessions, testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee, vowed to institute changes that would keep top bureau officials fully apprised of sensitive terrorism investigations that might impinge on consti- tutional rights.