. The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 20, 1988- Page 3 I Exchange- student ,,says he was assaulted BY NATHAN SMITH A University exchange student told police he was beaten and robbed by members of a group near the cor- ner of Liberty and Maynard streets early Saturday morning. The attack occurred shortly after another University student was assaulted by the same group, ' 'police said yesterday. Hubert Ladstaetter, an exchange student from Vi- enna, Austria, reported that he was walking through a crowd of about 30 men in their late teens and early 20s when he was pushed to the ground and knocked uncon- scious, said Ann Arbor Police Lt. Dale Heath. Heath said Ladstaetter refused medical treatment in the 1:19 a.m. assault. Ladstaetter, a graduate in the School of Business Administration, said his wallet containing credit cards and about $20 was stolen during the attack. About 10 minutes before Ladstaetter was attacked, medical student Bruce Goetting and a female University graduate student were walking through the same group of men when Goetting was shoved twice, punched, thrown to the ground and kicked numerous times in the head, according to Det. Jerry Reynard. Goetting was treated at the University's Medical Center for injuries to the head, and he was later re- leased, a hospital spokesperson said. The female student was not injured in the incident, Reynard said. No arrests have been made in connection with the assaults, police said, and an investigation is continu- ing. City allocates funds to ebb drug abuse BY DAVID SCHWARTZ The Ann Arbor City Council approved a resolution last night which appropriates $20,000 to be used for substance abuse prevention. The money will be used to target-low-income Ann Arbor residents, specifically those who live in federally-subsidized housing. The resolution allocates money to three city programs - S.O.S. Community Crisis Center, the Domestic Violence Project, and the Community Action Network - which will use the funds in substance abuse prevention efforts. Much of the council's debate centered on whether the city's funding should go toward substance abuse prevention or for treatment. "We'd like to get some (substance abuse) prevention work done so people don't have to go through the expensive treatment programs which now exist," said Councilmember Ann Marie Coleman (D-First Ward). But drug abuse is not limited to the poor, said Councilmember Terry Martin (R-Second Ward) who questioned whether funds should go exclusively to low- income people. "As much as I approve of the idea of trying to address these problems... it is not a problem that is limited to federally-assisted housing," she said. There will be as many as 500 beneficiaries of the resolution, said Councilmember Kathy Edgren (D-Fifth Ward). DAVID LUBLiNER/Daily U.S. Rep. Carl Pursell urges students to help Republicans in the fall campaigns last night at the Michigan Union. "To me, the Republican party is the hope of the future for the young people," he said. ush supporters have Government resigns in Poland; past performance defended WARSAW, Poland (AP) - The government of Prime Minister Zbigniew Messner resigned yesterday after strong criticism of its management of the econ- omy. A lawmaker later asked Parliament to legalize the banned Solidarity labor movement. Messner, prime minister since 1985, announced in a speech to parliament that he and all 19 ministers were resigning. He defended his government's performance but conceded "mishaps" in not standing up to inflationary wage demands. It was the first time in Poland's postwar history that the entire government stepped down. Messner said the mass resignation would make it easier for parliament to make "proper decisions" about the future government. The Sejm, or parliament, approved the resignations near the end of a 12-hour session yesterday by a vote of 359-1, with 17 abstentions. A new government was expected to be named by the Sejm this month. Messner or some of his ministers could be reap- pointed. The issue of Solidarity and the name of Lech Walesa, founder and former head of the outlawed inde- pendent labor federation, came up repeatedly in the free- wheeling discussion of the economy and government that followed the resignations. Inflation caused a wave of labor strikes in April. A second wave of strikes in August ended when authori- ties and Walesa agreed to hold broad-based talks, now scheduled for next month, that may include the issue of legalizing Solidarity. Solidarity "should regain its proper place in the trade union movement," Ryszard Bender, an independet parliament member from Lublin, told parliament ye terday. "Apart from associations, apart from Solidai ity,... there is also a need to have new political par- ties. It was the first call in parliament for legalizing the union movement since Solidarity was suppressed in December 1981 with the imposition of martial law. Turning to address Polish leader Gen. Wojciecb Jaruzelski, Bender urged that Jaruzelski and Wales, "the first Nobel Peace laureate in Polish history," met and make a joint statement concerning Poland's "most vital interests." Jaruzelski smiled slightly but showed no other reac- tion to the remarks. Later Sejm deputy Aleksander Legatowicz, an economist, said the government failed because "it closed itself off from criticism." "There are people allergic to the word 'socialism' and others allergic to the word 'Solidarity,"' he said. Solidarity, the first free trade union movement in the Soviet bloc, emerged from a tumultuous summer of labor unrest in 1980. Under Poland's system, the Communist Party led by the Politburo is the actual seat of power and ap- points the government through its majority in parlia? ment. As first secretary of the Politburo, Jaruzelski is the country's leader. The government is responsible for executing the party's goals. grandc BY MICHAEL LUSTIG Ann Arbor may be more conservative than you think. At least, that's what any of the 400 people who attended the Students for Bush-Quayle '88 mass meeting last night would want you to believe. Student leaders have ambitious plans for the University. Campus campaign leader Navid Mahmoodzagedan said he wants to build a "highly organized machine" to help run voter registration drives, leafletting, and telephoning. The best-organized campus team in the state, he said, will "win" a visit to their school by either George Bush or Dan Quayle. He also promised the campaign would receive publicity, but, "we're not going to stage mock funerals or develop the Diag." Following that, he criticized The Daily's overall coverage of the campaign, as did U.S. Rep. Carl Pursell (R- Plymouth). Larry Jazinski, president of the Iesigns ( College Republicans, was impressed by the size of the crowd. "The leftists on campus would just soak their drawers if they saw this many people welcome the FBI or CIA to campus." Raucous applause greeted the close of Pursell's speech. Pursell, a six-term representative, attacked the challenger for his congressional seat, State Sen. Lana Pollack, saying she has not made any major accomplishments in her six years in the Michigan Senate. Pursell, who served in the Michigan Senate for six years before he went to Washington, said he introduced six major pieces of legislation, including one for which he won an award from the Environmental Protection Agency. Pursell highlighted his position on Congress' Appropriations Committee, and said in that spot, he has been working to increase the flow of federal funds to the University -- while money coming from Lansing has been decreasing. "I'll tell you, when I was a state senator," he said, "This never happened" While Pursell charged Pollack with being only "rhetoric," he used some of it himself; he used the adjective "liberal" five times in his stump speech. Todd Koeze, the Michigan special groups co-ordinator for the Bush campaign, kept the rhetoric pumping, but only sideswiped issues. Koeze assailed the Democratic presidential nominee, Michael Dukakis, on "peace" and "prosperity," saying the United States is now held in greater respect by the world than it was in 1980, and that George Bush will continue economic growth and expansion. If Dukakis is elected, Koeze said, bad times will come. "The day Michael Dukakis is elected," he said, "I predict... (Soviet leader) Mikhail Gorbachev will gather all his cronies in a room and say, 'What a weenie, the world is ours."' Crowded Language La get & - - - BY ELIZABETH ROBBOY Crowds, closed carrels, and long lines have disappeared as the Language Lab began operating at full capacity last week after renovation in which outdated audio machines were replaced with modern, higher quality machines. In the lab, located in the Modern Languages Building, foreign language students listen to audio cassettes to practice oral comprehension and pronunciation skills. Until last Friday, more than half of the lab's 75 carrels were closed for renovations, resulting in lines and difficulties in finding open carrels. "It's a problem to find a machine that's open. And when I finally find one that's open, it doesn't work," said Hilary Miller, a first-year LSA student who uses the lab. But on Friday, the new audio equipment replacements were completed and the 45 renovated carrels now contain high quality, audio equipment, said Language Lab Director Trisha Dvorak. This fall's stricter foreign language requirements for first-year LSA students has caused the 13 to 14 percent increase in, students taking foreign language classes, said, Dvorak. Increased use of the lab is compounded by, the fact that language professors are requiring students to use lab more often. More than 1000 students use the lab daily, she said. Dvorak said this first phase of the renovation cost about $400,000. The proposals for renovations, which were introduced in 1987, include: -Expanding the lab to include a classrooi, -Creating video studios with small forniat videos for faculty to make productions, -Installing multi-faceted, audio-video equipment, computer, and interactive video in each carrel, and -Increasing the number of multi-purpose carrels to 95. Councilmember Liz Brater (D-Third Ward) said of -ac e the $20,000 which will go towards substance abuse prevention, "It's a measly amount of money we are spending. It's pathetic we don't have more to spread around." lift THE LIST Strike resolved at WSU, MSU striking continues What's happening in Ann Arbor today Meetings Career Planning and Placement - Introduction to CP&P, 3:30-4:00 p.m., CP&P; Job Search Lecture, 4:10-5:30 p.m., 2011 MLB. Call Sheri Bowers for info: 764-7460. German Club - Mass meeting, 6:15 p.m., Third Floor Commons, MLB. Coalition ,for Democracy in Latin America - Mass meeting, 8:00 p.m., Wolverine Room, Michigan Union. Contact Roberto Javier Frisancho at 668- 0348 or 996-0953 for more information. Society of Minority Engineers - First General Body meeting, 6:30-8:00 p.m., EECS Room 1500. Rainforest Action Move- ment (RAM) - Mass (extinc- tion) meeting, 7:00 p.m., 1520 Dana (Natural Resources bldg.). Fui rthe rmo re SPARK - Revolutionary History Series: "The Human Nature Lie." 7:00 p.m., B116 MLB. Speakers "The Punctuated Equili- brium of the Television Networks in the U.S.: Evolution or Revolution?" - Gloria Gibson, Sociology Ph.D. candidate, 12:00-1:30 p.m., CEW (second floor of Comerica Bank at North University and South Thayer Streets). Call 763- 7080 for more information. "American Perceptions of Africa" - Dr. Mutombo Mpanya, from Notre Dame University. At the International Center, 603 E. Madison, at Noon. Buffet lunch available, $1.00 for students, $1.50 all others. For more information call 662-5529. "Individualism vs. Col- lectivism: The Right and WraT.gv ?Cn4-innc M fnA nart-. By The Associated Press Clerical and technical employees at Wayne State University reached a tentative agreement yesterday to end a month-old strike, while walkouts continued in two Michigan districts and at Michigan State University. Wayne State spokesperson Robert Wartner said the university would lengthen its fall semester by one week for students who lost more than two weeks of instruction because of the strike. Elsewhere, about 2,300 clerical and technical workers at Michigan State University remained on strike Monday while students began registering for classes. University spokesperson Cherryl Jensen said classes slated to begin Thursday shouldn't be delayed because of the strike. Finally, two-week-old teacher strikes continued in the Pontiac and Ovid-Elsie districts, idling 19,219 students and 1,091 teachers. CORRECTION Last Friday Weekend Magazine incorrectly identified Ann Arbor detective Douglas Barbour as University Public Safety Officer Robert Pifer. Weekend apologizes for any inconvenience. SZE-CHUAN WEST Specializing in Sze-chuan, Hunan, and Mandarine cuisine DINING - COCKTAILS - CARRY-OUT Stop by and see a Jostens representative, Monday, Sept. 19-thru Friday, Sept. 23, 44-- - .A - -.