Jrw Ninety-nine years of editorial freedom Vol. IC, No. 40 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, November 2, 1988 Copyright 1988, The Michigan Daily Pollack, Pursell sp, BY MICHAEL LUSTIG Congressional candidates Carl Pursell and Lana Pollack clashed over education and envi- ronment in their second public debate last night. Republican incumbent Pursell accused Pol- lack, a Democrat, of missing 21 votes on educa- tion legislation during her six years in the Michigan Senate and of not introducing any sub- stantive legislation. "Six years in Lansing, and legislation is zero from this senator from Ann Arbor," Pursell told over 100 people gathered in the Ann Arbor City Council Chambers. POLLACK shot back at Pursell's record on the environment. "You have a bad record (on en- vironment)," she said. "Run on something else." Pollack's campaign said she has a 92 percent attendance rating in the state senate since her election in 1982, while Pursell has an 82 percent record in Congress over the same period. The debate, sponsored by the League of Women Voters and WEMU radio station, was the second time Pollack and Pursell have appeared together. Libertarian candidate David Raaflaub also participated. SEVERAL earlier joint appearances were planned, but featured only Pollack as Pursell was still in Washington. Pollack said she has helped balance six Michigan budgets while Pursell has allowed the federal budget deficit to rise from $73 billion in 1980 to the current level of $180 billion. Pursell called Pollack a "tax-and-spend liberal" who is proposing programs without any plan for financing them. On the environment, Pollack said she has in- troduced legislation calling for better enforcement of pollution laws, increasing penalties on pol- luters, and increasing incentives for recycling. P U R S E L L cited his sponsorship of the Michigan Resource Recovery Act in 1974 when he was a state senator. That provided incentives for recycling, and Pursell won the Michigan En- vironmental Protection Agency's legislator-of- the-year award for it. Pursell said the federal government appropri- ated S21 billion for education - "the highest level of support" - to which Pollack responded 0 ar in d( that relative to the needs, federal education levels have dropped. She said that programs such as Head Start, which are directed at less-privileged children, should receive more funding. Pursell also blamed Pollack for letting state appropriations fall to lower than 3 percent annual increases. Pollack said Michigan's major universities are all seeing budget increases under 3 percent, so Pursell is just "splitting hairs." She added that she single-handedly restored $3.3 million to the Research Excellence Fund in 1986, which went directly to the University. Pollack said she favored the A Better Child Care (ABC) program, which would provide $2.5 billion for child care over a tax-credit plan that vice president George Bush favors. She said Bush's tax credit would give $1,000 to people regardless of income, allowing mothers to hire babysitters and go shopping at Bloomingdale's. Pursell, who co-sponsors the tax-credit plan, said the plan offers incentives for mothers to stay home, and helps preserve the integrity of the family. ebate Pursedl ..the Republican incumbent 'U' Regent hopefuls focus on state funds Republican Regent Baker W" 4 C4 C l I N 1 Jr " 4- 1 fa 5., , 1116606 lucal lUr Ulll Y STEVE KNOPPER A forum for University Regent candidates turned partisan yesterday when East Lansing Republican can- didate Clifford Taylor criticized the State Legislature for spending too much money on "social welfare pro- grams," and not enough on educa- tion. "If you wonder why state funding has gone down, it's just plain poli- tics," Taylor said. "It's that simple." Taylor criticized candidate Thomas Lewand, a Birmingham Democrat, who said earlier that his experience as Chief of Staff for Democratic Gov. James Blanchard would help the University's relations with the state. "IT'S DISINGENUOUS to come in here, as Mr. Lewand did, and tell you the Governor is on your side," Taylor said. "Because, folks, 'he isn't." But Taylor would not specify which programs he wanted to see cut in favor of higher education funding. Responding to questions from the audience of 50, he said the state gov- ernment must solve those problems itself. VOTERS & POLLING: Any Israeli citizen over age 18 is eligible to vote; 2.9 million registered voters (including 350,000 Arabs). THE KNESSET The Knesset has 120 members. Any Israeli citizen over the age of 21 is eligible for election. PARTIES Israelis vote for parties, not individual candidates. The number of Knesset seats each party wins depends on its proportion of the vote. Associated Press Taylor was the only Republican candidate at the forum. Incumbent Regent Deane Baker (R-Ann Arbor) said he did not attend because he was campaigning throughout the state during the forum. Baker has sparked protest from student activists in recent years for his conservative stances on gay male and lesbian discrimination and stu- dent protest guidelines. "I UNDERSTAND some of Regent Baker's concerns that he wouldn't be received well," said LSA junior and Michigan Student Assem- bly member Zach Kittrie, one of the forum's organizers. "I wish Deane Baker would have come. (The candi- dates) made a sincere effort to create a better dialogue with students." Five candidates - Taylor, Lewand, incumbent Regent Nellie Varner (D-Detroit), and Libertarians Lewis Hudler and John Salvette - called racial diversity and rising stu- dent tuition the key University is- sues. Varner, a Southfield real estate investment broker and former Uni- See Forum, Page 5 Pollack ...the Democratic challenger Ford plugs Bush in Lansing BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Former President Gerald Ford gave support to Republican presidential candidate George Bush received sup- port from former President Gerald Ford yesterday in Lansing, where he said that Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis wouldn't have sup- ported the steps American presidents took during World War II and the Cuban missile crisis. "I am shocked that Governor Dukakis compares himself to thb great traditions of strength illustrated in the past in defense of America under Presidents Truman, Kennedy, and Roosevelt," he said. Bush campaigned like a president- to-be yesterday, saying he hoped for a meeting with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev soon after-moving into the Oval Office. The polls one week before Election Day showed Bush a solid leader, and the contrast in campaign styles between the front-runner and the underdog could not have been plainer. The vice president struck an above-the-fray pose in a speech at the University of Notre Dame, saying he wanted to meet Gorbachev for a "serious and direct examination" of superpower relations. Dukakis spoke yesterday in Youngstown Ohio, a steel-producing region hardhit by recession, saying his aim was plainly to win the votes of union members. He referred to the "merger mania" on Wall Street and said, "I'm not interested in the share operators: I'm interested in the lathe operators and the machine operators." He said Bush likes to talk about labels, a reference to the way t1- vice president attempts to make hinm seem a liberal out of touch with the mainstream. Dukakis' aides said their private polls pointed to a race that was narrowing. Privately, some Dem- ocrats expressed doubts, while ABC said its survey of California showed Bush a leader by seven points in the nation's biggest state. ALEXANDRA BREZ/Daily, Song and dance Performers give a preview of this weekend's Musket production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" yesterday afternoon on the steps of the Graduate Library. See Story, page 5. Likud likely winners JERUSALEM (AP) - An exit poll last night indicated the right- wing Likud block has the best chance of gaining control after an election fought on the issues of rebellion in the occupied lands and peace with the Arabs. For the deeply divided nation of 4.4 million, whose 40-year history is a calendar of war and violence, yes- terday's election was a crossroads in the future of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel captured from Jordan and Egypt 21 years ago. Throngs of Israelis voted in an atmosphere of violence created by the 11-month-old Palestinian rebel- lion coupled with a sudden outburst of attacks on Jewish civilians. Election week has not been with- out violence as a firebomb attack on a bus last Sunday in the West Bank killed a Jewish woman and her three sons. Yesterday, Palestinians in Arab east Jerusalem hurled flaming bottles of gasoline into a car carrying Likud campaign workers, setting a woman's hair ablaze. Politicians from both left and right said the attacks on civilians in recent days would help Likud, which wants to keep the occupied lands, and hurt Labor, which is willing to return some territory. About 80 percent of the 2.9 mil- lion eligible voters turned out, re- flecting the galvanizing effect of the rebellion, which has cost the lives of 10 Israelis and more than 300 Pales- tinians since it began Dec. 8, 1987. A huge force of 13,000 police and other security personnel protected the 4,800 voting stations. The army scaled off the occupied territories, where the 1.5 million Palestinian residents conducted a general strike. Israel television said its poll was based on interviews with about 20,000 voters at 26 polling stations. It said results indicated Likud, led by Prime Minister Yithak Shamir, r Israel and the center-left Labor Party of Foreign Minister Shimon Peres would win 40 seats each, but Likud would have the edge in forming a coalition with small religious and nationalist parties. In seats, the TV poll predicted the right would have 62 of the 120 in the Knesset, or parliament, and the left would get 58. The interviews were conducted two hours before the polls closed at 10 p.m. (3 p.m. EST). No significant results were ex- pected until today and a vote as close as predicted could mean a wait of days, at least, to learn whether either major party could form a coalition. .'U' officials seek help on TA tax issue UHS to distribute new form of birth control BY LISA POLLAK The University - still baffled by Congressional legislation passed last week - will ask an outside tax at- torney to help determine if Univer- sity graduate student teaching assis- * tants owe taxes on their tuition ition waivers that expired last winter. Without those exemptions, TAs face the possibility of seeing their $560 average take-home pay drop $150 to $200. CONGRESS' solution was not as simple as hoped. The new bill BY VICTORIA BAUER The cervical cap, a contraceptive similar to the di- aphragm, will be available for women at University Health Services later this month, health service officials said. The cap, a thimble-shaped cup made of rubber, fits Sarris, the director of health promotion at University Health Services. "A lot of people have the idea that (the cap) is the new wonder method - it may not have significant ad- vantages over the diaphragm. I hope people will con- sider that carefully before they rush into trying it," Sar-