The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 4, 1988 -Page 3 Students Write to aid ,prisoners IY TARA GRUZEN It began at noon yesterday, and when noon comes . pfround today, students will still be sitting in the lobby of Bursley Hall, writing letters. The letters will be sent to governments around the world urging them to release their political prisoners, and in some cases, demanding to know the whereabout if certain prisoners. One of the prisoners is Velisa Mhlawuli, a 35-year }old woman with two children. A journalist for a newspaper critical of government policies, she had also helped make a film exposing the torture of children }detained by the South African government. She was !arrested October 5, and remains jailed. t She is one of a number of people called prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International, because they are detained for opposing unjust government policies }nonviolently. The Write-A-Thon was organized by the Committee "for International Volunteers, one of the community volunteering programs in Bursley hall, as a way to ,teach people that they can learn through volunteering, 'said Susan Freeman, an R.A. in Bursley and committee co-coordinator. "You don't have to be caught in the Ann Arbor bubble," she said. "Everyone has the right to their basic human rights. % This has got to stop," said Cathy Markle, a first-year LSA student, who was writing a letter to the president of Burma. Markle said that she wrote to a woman, now in her 30s, who was detained when she was one-year-old. The .woman was arrested with her mother and was supposed to, be held for one night but the government forgot tabout her, said Markle. Stacy Heisler, a sophomore who lives in Bursley hall, wrote a letter to the South Korean government. "I don't know too much about the situation in South Korea but I figure if I can help someone, I'll do it," said Heisler. The committee is affiliated with the campus chapter of Amnesty International. The letters, Freeman said, are not written for prisoners who have engaged in any sort of violence. Amnesty International investigates all of the prisoners the group is trying to get released so they know that none of them have used any violence, Freeman said. '92 voters get closed primaries BY SCOTT LAHDE will feel their vote has a BY SCoTTtheApHrtys nominee. Voters will be able to do more n he primies. than cast ballots on Tuesday. It will In open primaries, it also be the first day to declare party for voters to skew the no affiliation for the 1992 closed pri- the opposite party by vo primary. The Democrats manes. pbiasto dat Voters will be required to declare publicans took advantag their party preference in advance and primaries in 1972 by su to participate only in their party's nomination of Democ primary. Forms for declaring party Wallace. affiliation will be passed out at The main reasons D polling sites on Tuesday. opposed to caucuses is b This procedure does away with the is no provision for abs state's caucuses of 1980 and 1984 and "there-were too m and the open primary of this year, crossing over," said Suz and of 1972 and 1976. "It lets the chair of the W.ashten voters back into the process," said Democratic Party. "Th Chris Thomas, Director of Elections maries will cause morel for the Secretary of State. and will provide a mu When Michigan used open pri- base." maries in 1972 and 1976, over a The Republicans "w million people - about 30 percent elimination of the cau - turned out in each. In recent elec- Lou Belker, chair of the tions voter participation has dropped County Republican Pa significantly. scribes caucuses as "cu The closed primary will not only containing too many lool direct effect t is possible mination for oting in their feel the Re- e of the opep pporting the crat George emocrats are ecause there sentee votes nany people zanne Shaw, aw County e open pri- participation uch broader welcome the cuses," said Washtenaw rty. He de- mbersome... pholes." d the alleged s during the 1972. i primary to aw is sched- 992. Voters preference by Associated Press Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir (left) greets former. Major General Rehavam Zeevi, leader of the right-wing Meledet "Homeland" party, which advocates the voluntary transfer of Arabs living in the occupied territories to other Arab lands. The meeting was part of coalition talks in Jerusalem yesterday. i re demands JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir refused de-mands by possible coalition partners, yesterday to annex the oc- cupied lands and expel Palestinians from them, but he supports more Jewish settle- ments, an aide said. The United States considers such settle- ments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip an obstacle to peace between Israel and its Arab neigh-bors. Israeli soldiers blew up four houses yester- day and nine Pal-estinians were reported wounded by army gunfire as violence contin- ued in the occupied territories. More than 300 Palestinians and 10 Israelis have been killed in the rebellion since its start Dec. 8, 1987. Sources in the Labor Party said Foreign Minister Shimon Peres might be dumped as better represent each party's interest but may improve voter participation, Thomas said. "The 1992 voter turnout certainly will be higher than what the Democrats and Republicans can gar- ner through their own ways," he said. Turnout may increase because people Belker acknowledged illegal political dealing open primary in l The next presidentia be held under this new h uled for March 17, 1C must declare their party p February 17, 1992. to annex leader after the center-left party's poor show- ing in Tuesday's general election. Critics say the Labor campaign focused too closely on the leader's personality and his support for an international conference on Middle East peace, an Arab demand that stirs controversy in Israel. Shamir's right-wing Likud bloc, which has been in a tenuous "na-tional unity" coalition with Labor since indecisive 1984 elections, opposes a conference and wants to retain all the lands captured in the 1967 war, Peres has expressed willingness to trade some land for peace. Likud won 39 seats in the 120-member parliament, one more than Labor, and seeks a coalition with small religious and rightist parties. Pressure? Stress?. Get it checked out J' protesters to face' Y DAVID SCHWARTZ Three of four University students who were Arrested at a protest during the Oct. 6 inaugura- 2ipn of University President James Duderstadt Appeared in 15th District Court yesterday for a pre-trial examination. A jury trial was set for Jan. 5. - LSA senior Rollie Hudson and Rackham raduate student Sandra Steingraber have each een charged with disturbing the peace and with ssault and battery of an Ann Arbor police offi- er. LSA senior Cale Southworth was charged with assault and battery. All three maintained their position of standing mnute before Judge Pieter Thomassen. Standing nute results in a not guilty plea. Rackham graduate student Michael Fischer, ;the fourth defendant in the case, was delivering a lcture in St. Louis and will face his pre-trial P rotests result in b illboard Pt fremovals Grand Rapids - Billboards advertising Colt 45 malt liquor, featuring a bikini-clad woman and the slogan: "It works Every Time," aren't working here, say residents vho won their battle yesterday to Pave the suggestive ads removed. Gannett Outdoor Advertising, which owns the five billboards, re- )noved the ads yesterday after receiv- iig about 15 complaints from area residents, said Kelly Duff, market manager for Gannett. The combination of the copy and the graphic was a little rough," Duff said. It was the first time an ad the 4company handled had generated such hrated protests, he said. Many of the protesters agreed the It Works Every Time" message was ore offensive than the photograph iself. "It says. 'Give her Colt 45 and ou'll be sure to get her into bed."' said Patsy Clark, a local business- ,woman who objected to the ad. "It inplies that you can trick her and she xrally won't know what's going on." When a group of local busi- pesswomen called Gannett Wednes- hearing in December. All four defendants are also Daily staffers. - At the protest, Hudson was arrested after try- ing to break through a line of Ann Arbor police officers who were preventing entry to Hill Audi- torium. Hudson was placed in an unmarked po- lice car, which other protesters prohibited from leaving by blocking its path. As police were trying to move the protesters, Steingraber was allegedly flipped onto her head. She was then taken to University Hospital for observation. "All the evidence that the police have brought to bear has been bogus," Southworth said. "The key point is that when they decided to file charges, they didn't interview any witnesses at the scene except the police. "I think it's very clear that the police, the city, and the University administration have or- jury trial ganized this to discourage student protest," he said. Student Legal Services attorney Gary Roth- berger, who is representing all four defendants, called the inauguration "a University-sponsored circus." Rothberger said of the University administra- tion, "They do what government has traditionally done - they use the criminal justice system and harassment to prevent people from being heard." Rackham Student Government has offered a $1,000 reward to any police or campus security officer who provides information leading to the conviction of a co-officer. Steingraber defended the protest of Duderstadt. "President Duderstadt should be put on trial for crimes against humanity for opening the doors of the University to military research," she said. BY SCOTT LAHDE Have midterms stressed you out the past two weeks? When was the last time you had your blood pressure checked? If you think you may be at risk for heart disease, you might want to have it checked today. The School of Nursing is provid- ing free blood pressure screening to- day, along with infdrmation about heart disease and diet. The check is painless and takes only a few inin- utes. Yet it could help detect heart problems early, and possibly save your life. "High blood pressure is a silent thing, it can be a real serious prob- lem," said Sandy Willis, School of Nursing counselor. High blood pres- sure can lead to stroke and a host of other diseases, she said. Students are generally at low risk for heart disease, yet college tends to be stressful, and "those with family histories of cardiovascular problems may want to have their blood pres- sure checked for familial tendencies," said nursing student Thomas Cheva- lier. Those found with high blood pressure, or at high risk, will be ad- vised to seek additional tests in order to detect possible problems early. 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