In Weekend Magazine " Differing values and traditions keep Black and white greeks from coming together - The List Ninety-nine years of editorial freedom Vol. IC, No. 60 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, December 2, 1988 Copyright 1988, The Michigan Daly Bhutto chosen prime minister ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Benazir Bhutto became the first woman to lead a Moslem nation when the president chose her yesterday to be prime minister, the post her father held when he was deposed and hanged decade ago. President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said in a televised address that Ms. Bhutto had "the best qualities of leadership and foresight as a statesman." Thousands of supporters celebrated in streets of the nation's cities after the long-awaited announcement. They danced, beat drums, and chanted, "Long Live Benazir." Ms. Bhutto's party gained 12 more seats in the National Assembly when it voted Wednesday on candidates to fill 20 seats reserved for women. With those seats Bhutto's populist Pakistan People's Party won in the November election, it holds 105 of the chamber's 237 seats, and she is said to have enough support among minor parties and independents for a majority coalition. President Reagan sent a letter of congratulations expressing "his hope that the recently conducted elections will usher in an era of democratic rule in Pakistan," a close ally of the United States, presidential spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater said in Washington. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto founded the Pakistai ,People's "Pitiy- f n 1977, after a landslide victory in the last free Pelection, Gen. Mohammed Zia ul-Haq ousted him in a coup. Bhutto was convicted of complicity in a political murder conspiracy and hanged in 1979. Zia was killed in a plane crash August 17 after the election date had been set. An eighty-party grouping called the Islamic Democratic Alliance, which included Zia loyalists, won only 60 seats in the election and Wednesday's assembly vote. The president said he had received the resignations of the caretaker government effective today. Reagan: No North pardon WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres- ident Ronald Reagan said yesterday he is against a pardon for former aide Oliver North, but "duty requires" his administration to block release of secret documents that may be needed for North's trial on Iran-Contra charges. Reagan commented in response to reporters' questions after his spokes- person, Marlin Fitzwater, said dis- closure of documents sought by North's lawyers for use in his defense would reveal "state secrets of the highest order." "We have indicated there are categories of information included in these documents which cannot be declassified at any point," Fitzwater told reporters. Reagan, questioned at the begin- ning of a meeting on trade issues in the Oval Office, said, "The things we are blocking are the things that duty requires we block." "THESE ARE things that are national security secrets," he said. "This is something that from the very beginning we knew we would have to do." He denied that the move was an attempt to sabotage North's trial and said, "The law must take its course." Asked whether he still believed, as he stated earlier this year, that North and former national security adviser John Poindexter will ultim- ately be found innocent, the president said- "At this stage, I don't think I should comment on guilt or inno- cence or anything of this kind." When asked whether this meant he would not grant pardons for North and Poindexter, he replied, "From the 'The things we are block ing are the things that duty requires we block... These are... national security secrets, -President Reagan very beginning, I said that to con- sider a pardon would leave them under a shadow of guilt for the rest of their lives. I think we have to let the judicial process proceed." LAST JUNE 27, Reagan re sponded to a question on the subject by saying, "I believe in the in- nocence of the two men and I would like to see that established once and for all." Fitzwater said the White House has offered a briefing to U.S. District 'Judge Gerhard Gesell, who is sched- uled to preside over North's trial, but had not received a response. He said it was "up to the judge" to decide whether the classified ma- terial is relevant to North's defense and, if it is, whether the indictments against him should be dismissed or he should be tried. "This information involves sensitive methods and sources and exceedingly sensitive programs which are state secrets of the highest order," Fitzwater said. Tough defense ROBIN LOZNAK/Daily Michigan's Powell (12) top, 85-75. Carol Szczechowski (15) tries looks on. Sekuiski scored 18 See Sports, Page 17. to stop Toledo forward Kim Sekuiski as points off the bench but Michigan came+ Tanya out on LSA closer to racism class requirement 0- BY NOAH FINKEL -The LSA curriculum committee this week voted to require students, beginning in the fall of 1989, to take a course on racism - but not necessarily the mandatory course on racism proposed by students and faculty members earlier this term. The committee accepted a plan drawn up by a sub- committee that would require all students to choose from a menu of courses that meet the same criteria as the mandatory course proposed in October. The United Coalition Against Racism and some faculty members had been pushing for a single re- quired class on racism - University Course 299 - but the committee instead voted on a proposal that would allow students more choice in which course on racism they may take. Under the proposal, course material must include five elements: -The history of racism; -A look at the scientific mythology of race; -A comparative discussion of other types of discrimination, such as sexism; -Cultural works and achievements of people of color; and -Efforts to combat racism. LSA curriculum committee member Jill Ringel, an LSA senior, explained that "this way a student could take any course in history, or sociology, or English that fits (the criteria), or take the University Course 299." UC 299 has been approved as a pilot course for two terms, beginning in the fall of 1989, by the LSA executivecommittee. To become a graduation requirement, the plan must now be accepted by the LSA executive committee and then by a college-wide faculty vote. If approved, all LSA students who enter the University starting in the fall of 1989 will need to take an anti-racism class in See Class, Page 2 Now 'U.S.S.R. reforms INSIDE E ass par MOSCOW (AP) - President Mikhail Gorbachev won nearly unanimous approval yesterday of a more dynamic political structure from pa parliament that voted its iAi:t:n.. A^, -,1 f ... n liament Despite criticism from some of the 15 Soviet republics, that the reforms make Moscow too powerful, only five deputies voted against it. Still, the negative votes were a rarity in the narliament' that for vears has ~Today is the anniversary of the murer of for U.S. churchwomen ,by the U.S.-backed regime in El Salvador See&Opnion, Page 4 Finally, an exhibit that doesn't beat around the bush See Arts, Page 12 JESSICA GREENE /Daily' Both Armenian and non-Armenian students join in protest of current violence in the Soviet's smallest province with a candlelight vigil last night 'U' Armenian Club protests v1olence in Soviet province BY JESSICA STRICK The University's Armenian Club held a candlelight vigil on the Diag deaths in the region, a product of strife between Armenians and Azer- baijanis. Over the past three weeks, 7.000 Azerbaiianis and 20.000 visited Soviet Armenia in the last three months told the crowd of twenty who braved the cold weather that it is a mistake for the Western nress tn re-