4 Page 2- The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 22, 1988 Soviets riot over border O . diwsputes MOSCOW (AP) - Rioters burned homes and cars as gunfire rang throughout a city at the heart of an annexa- ton battle between the southern Soviet republics of Ar- penia and Azerbaijan, the official Tass news agency re- ported yesterday. . Officials in Azerbaijan's disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh imposed a curfew and banned gatherings to cool ethnic passions after violence broke out Tuesday and yesterday in and around Stepanakert, je territory's largest city. In Yerevan, capital of neighboring Armenia, officials jected a demand by thousands of protesters for a new :meeting of the republic's Supreme Soviet, or parliament, r renew a petition for annexation of Nagorno-Karabakh, 4 mountain enclave. "There are hundreds of thousands of people in front of the Supreme Soviet, and the city is very tense," said ,Arpenay Popoyan, wife of activist and former political prisoner Rafael Popoyan in a telephone interview from Yerevan. .: Her husband said later by telephone that a govern- 'nent announcement was read on Armenian television declaring that such a session by the Supreme Soviet would be illegal and rejecting the demand. "This answer is a violation of the constitution," said :Popoyan. He said by law a session must be held if one- third of the Supreme Soviet deputies request it, and he said more than one-third have signed such a request. t.The gunfire and arson by ethnic rioters in Stepanakert and vicinity followed a gun battle Sunday in the nearby village of Khadzhalkly. One man died and at least 25 W h people were wounded. Activists also said a bomb ex- A pot pOoded Monday at a dormitory for Armenian construc- at the tion workers near Stepanakert. DAVID LUBLINER/Doily at a pitcher ential University women's softball player attempts to make the team at tryouts varsity softball diamond yesterday. I FOOD ,s You Can't Miss THURSDAY at Y A restaurant and pub 16 oz. Long Island Iced Tea Night $2.75 10-close FREE PIZZA 10-11:30 8 oz. NY Strip Dinner $4.95 4:30-10 338 S. State Buses Continued from Page 1 new vans are unavailable. In addition to transportation problems, Vander Beek said the DSS office is plagued by structural problems which make access to the office difficult for disabled people. The office, located in a remote section of the Michigan Union, con- sists of two small rooms with heavy doors, and non-modular furniture - features which prevent even Vander Beek, who is disabled herself, from entering her own office without dif- ficulty. Students in wheelchairs and on crutches block all traffic in the re- ception area, and fights between seeing-eye dogs have broken out in the office due to the lack of space. Vander Beek has been promised completion of a new, larger $40,000 office in Haven Hall - complete with electric doors and modular fur- niture. Yet, as with the vans, DSS must wait for the construction to finish, and the completion date has been pushed back several times al- ready. Vander Beck's allocated budget for 1988 is four times that of 1987, and she hopes to use the extra funds to increase the staff and to extend the office's hours. Currently open from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Vander Beek wants to keep the office open until 2 a.m. Roselle Wilson, assistant to Vice President of Student Services Henry Johnson, attributes the large increase in budget to growth in the program and the previous lack of available funds. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Arms talks to start today WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. officials expect little progress in arms control talks today between Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and President Reagan, primarily because the administration and Congress cannot agree on what strategic weapons to deploy in the future. Arriving yesterday afternoon, Shevardnadze was to meet today with Reagan, Secretary of State George Shultz and Vice President George Bush. The talks will concentrate on the non-arms aspects of the administration's four-point agenda: bilateral relations, human rights, and multilateral issues such as the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan and Cuban troops from Angola. Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev made little progress on arms control at the June summit in Moscow, and movement will probably be slow well into the next administration, according to many observers in the administration and on Capitol Hill. Candidates agree on lecterns. Presidential rivals George Bush and Michael Dukakis plunged into preparations yesterday for their first debate, which will be televised live Sunday starting at 8 p.m. EST. Dukakis took time out to propose a "Healthy Start" program guaranteeing basic prenatal and post-partum care for poor women and children. His aides said it would cost $100 million in the first year, but that the money would be saved within 12 months because of reduced infant illness. The two campaigns also settled their argument over the height of the. lecterns where the two candidates will stand. The 6-foot-1 Bush will stand at a 48-inch high lectern and Dukakis, at 5-foot-8, will stand behind a 41-inch lectern.and use a small riser, a Bush source said. Dukakis officials wanted shorter lecterns for both, which Bush staff members said would force their candidate to stoop. Haitian mutiny continues PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Soldiers who toppled the regime of Lt. Gen. Henri Namphy mutinied against more commanders yesterday, dumping them handcuffed in front of army headquarters as crowds cheered. Lt. Gen. Prosper Avril, who was made president Sunday after a coup led by Namphy's Presidential Guard, tried to quell the revolt Tuesday by naming a new armed forces chief and retiring nine unpopular commanding officers. Coup leaders have demanded that Avril institute democratic reforms, including free elections which Haiti has not had in 31 years. Civilians have engaged in mob killings this week while workers at government companies struck to unseat state-appointed managers, actions apparently aimed at wiping out the remnants of Namphy's rule. Wayne county launches health care plan for the poor DETROIT (AP) - Wayne County hopes an experimental $58: million health maintenance organization will solve the problem of providing health care for the poor. Wayne County's bill for indigent health care has risen from $3 million in 1970 to $33.5 million this year. Last fall, the county, with a $226 million general fund budget, flirted with receivership mainly because of the health care bill. Hospitals that treat the poor absorb much of the cost, but under state law, counties bear final responsibility for indigents' medical bills when no insurer or other source of payment can be found. So, in-about a week, 50,000 of Wayne County's poorest residents will find a light blue card in the envelope with their welfare checkas the county launches its high-stakes experiment. The card means the recipient is signed up for County Care. EXTRAS Initialed box turtle reappears after 40 years ALCOA, Tenn. (AP) - It was well over 40 years since Jewel Endsley; had carved his initials on the shell of a box turtle, so understandably he was startled when the terrapin turned up in his tomato patch. "My brother-in-law's son was picking tomatoes in the garden," Endsley said. "He saw a box turtle and picked it up. He turned it over and saw my initials and the date." 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