Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 1, 1989 , NADA IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports -JESSICA GREENE/Daily Study break Students drink, study, and socialize at the newly-opened Espresso1 Royale on State Street. Continued from Page 1 of Regents earlier this month of MSA's lack of cooperation in meet- ing with SODC. Although the meeting was set up to discuss SODC's general role at the University, assembly members were concerned primarily with the role SODC plays in relation to MSA. LSA sophomore Rob Bell, an MSA representative, cited examples of students who thought SODC was a "CIA of the administration" and North Continued from Page 1 can be impaneled, it should be se- questered immediately to minimize the potential for exposure to immu- nized testimony and to protect Lt. Col. North's constitutional rights." North's attorney, Brendan Sulli- van, also sought to rule out as jurors anyone who recently had seen North's congressional testimony re- played in news reports as the trial start neared. According to Gesell, most of the first batch of prospective jurors re- sponded "yes" to questions asking. them if they had seen, read or lis- tened to any part of North's congressional testimony. asked SODC Director Brad Borland and Organizational Consultant Rosa Lopez what the center's real link to the administration was. "The fact is that the administration is trying to use SODC to limit MSA's autonomy," Bell said. However, Borland disputed the accusations and said the intent of the regents' directive was to let SODC help MSA, not be a "CIA." Lopez said that questions regarding SODC and its role with MSA should be held until tomorrow afternoon's meeting with Vice President for Student Services Henry Johnson, SODC, and MSA members. knocks auto makers NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Au- tomakers are discriminating against the nation's automobile dealers, who must unite to fight the companies and make buying and selling cars a fairer game in the United States, the president of a dealers' group said yesterday. Ron Tonkin, the 1989 president of the National Automobile Dealers Association, said automakers, espe- cially the Big Three, should halt subsidies to companies which buy fleets of cars. "We want our automakers, and we love you, once and for all, to stop fleet subsidies," Tonkin said in his speech to about 20,000 people. "To simply tell us 'We will sell to no one for less than we sell to our fran- chised dealers."' But for General Motors Corp. and Chrysler Corp. the fleet-brokers are franchised dealers, company officials said yesterday, Ford Motor Co. offi- cials had no immediate comment. "Every sale that we make, we make to a franchised dealer, except for the federal government," C. Moore, GM's vice president for cus- tomer sales and service said from his office in Detroit. "These people that Ron Tonkin was talking to today are the people who deliver all these cars to fleet customers." Ford spokesperson Ray Windecker and Chrysler spokesman Tom Houston each said their com- panies' fleet sales are arranged through dealers. Chrysler's cars go- ing to the federal government must go through dealers, Houston said. Ford sells directly to the federal government and the Red Cross. Tonkin said dealers who handle fleet sales frequently handle only the paperwork associated with them, not the vehicles themselves. "While technically what they're saying is correct," Tonkin said, "after you go out beyond the dealer that's doing the paperwork, there are dealers who are damning it." Company officials declined to say how much a subsidy might be worth to a dealer. Around 20 percent of the indus- try's sales are to fleet customers, the companies said. That worked out to about 1.6 million cars last year. Tonkin said in his speech capping the 72nd annual NADA convention that it was time for dealers to stand up for the manufacturers. "We dealers are swivel-necked from turning the other cheek, and it simply has to stop," said Tonkin, a dealer with 10 stores holding 14 au- tomobile franchises in the Portland, Ore., area. "We want automakers to be healthy and profitable, but not by wrecking havoc on the best, most loyal friends they ever had, their dealers," Tonkin added. On other matters, Tonkin: *called on automakers to pay for space in their showrooms like food and beverage makers pay for their shelf space. "While our franchises demand from dealers loyalty and exclusively of facilities and site control into the future, it is time for us dealers to re- alize the true value of our facilities," he said. "Loyalty is a two-way street." 'said he was forming a task force to meet with manufacturers hoping to find a way to make customer sat- isfaction indexes more uniform. Tonkin alleged that the indexes sometimes discriminates against dealers and should be standardized for the industry. Soviet convoy neads nome KABUL, Afghanistan - Convoys of Red Army soldiers and equip- ment moved slowly toward home through the rugged Hindu Kush moun- tain range yesterday, ready to fight their way past Moslem guerrillas if necessary, their commander said. Lt. Gen. Boris Gromov, Soviet commander in Afghanistan, denied U.S. allegations that the Soviets were conducting a "scorched earth" pol- icy as their last units left Afghanistan before the Feb. 15 deadline. Spokespeople in Islamabad for the guerrillas, who began fighting after a communist coup 11 years ago, said four long-range Soviet missiles killed 70 people in villages near the Salang Highway, the main Soviet withdrawal route. The last 11 staff members of the U.S. Embassy left Kabul yesterday. Senate confirms three of Bush's cabinet choices WASHINGTON - The Senate voted unanimous confirmation yester- day of three of President Bush's Cabinet choices, including oilman Robert Mosbacher as Commerce Secretary. The vote was 100-0 to confirm Mosbacher, longtime personal friend of the president and Republican fundraiser, to lead the Commerce Depart- ment. The Senate then voted 100-0 confirmation of confirm Carla Hills as special trade representative and Samuel Skinner to head the Transportation Department. The White House asked for a rare delay in confirmation hearings for Louis Sullivan to be health and human services secretary. Bush intends to nominate Michael Armacost, currently Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, as the new U.S. ambassador to Japan, a U.S. official said yesterday. Shevardnadze arrives in China BEIJING - Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze arrives to day to put the final touches on preparations for the first Sino-Soviet summit since the two communist giants split in bitter rivalry 30 years ago. During his three-day stay, Shevardnadze is to hold two rounds of talks with his Chinese counterpart, Qian Qichen, and will meet with Premier Li Peng. He is also to travel to Shanghai for a meeting Saturday with China's top leader, Deng Xiaoping. Shevardnadze's visit comes after a year of rapid progress in bilateral relations expected to culminate this spring when Mikhail Gorbachev be- comes the first Soviet leader to travel to China since 1959 when Nikita Khrushchev met his ideological foe Mao Tse-tung in Beijing. Normal relations with Moscow, the Beijing Review said in an indirect reference to the United States, "will not affect the development of friendly relations between China and other countries." Tower accused of infidelity WASHINGTON - Conservative activist Paul Weyrich testified yes- terday he has "on a number of occasions" seen Defense Secretary-designate John Tower publicly inebriated and in the company of women other than his wife. But members of the Senate Armed Services Committee said after a closed session with the witness that he has failed to provide specifics to support his allegations. "As an old trial lawyer, I would have to say that most of what I heard has to fall into the hearsay category, even given the high motives of the witness," said Sen. Alan Dixon D-Ill. Other witnesses spoke out against the nominee, questioning Tower's support for the Star Wars defense proposal and his ability to institute Pentagon reforms in light of his past ties to defense contractors. Bush has defended Tower, saying an FBI background check found nothing that would prevent him from serving as defense secretary. When he announced the nomination he dismissed " a lot of rumors that proved to be groundless." EXTRAS An annoyed man named Noid holds up Domino's CHAMBLEE, Ga. - A man named Noid, apparently annoyed by Domino's Pizza's "Avoid the Noid" ads, held two Domino's employees at gunpoint for more than five hours before they escaped and he surrendered, authorities said.. Investigators believe Kenneth Lamar Noid was "having an ongoing feud in his mind with Tom Monaghan, owner of Dominos, about the 'Noid' commercials," said detective Sgt. Marl Bender. "Apparently, he thinks they're aimed at him." Police said Noid entered the suburban Atlanta store shortly before 11 a.m. Monday and made one of the employees call police to tell them he had taken hostages and to stay clear of the area. Noid demanded $100,00, a getaway car and a science fiction book titled "The Widow's Son." He also ordered and ate a pizza. Noid was charged with two counts of kidnapping, two counts of ag- gravated assault and theft by extortion for demanding the $200,000 from Domino's, Perkins said. No bond has been set. The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. 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