Page 2-- The.Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 10, 1989 Charges Continued from Page 1 The victims were first approached around 2 a.m. at the corner of North University and State streets by four men who were yelling. obscenities and threats of a sexual nature, said one of the victims. When the vic - tims arrived in the Diag. the men allegedly positioned their car in front of the two students to block their path and continued to yell obscenities, the victims said. When the students approached Stop & Go on East University, where they intended to call police, they reported that the vehicle was in front of the store and the men followed them in. After exiting the store, the victims hailed a police car, which was driving down the street. One of the victims had recorded the license plate number and gave it to police officer Mark. Purcell who was unavailable for comment. The suspects were then stopped and identified, said Parin, who declined to release their names. O'Connor noted that most players oh the team were not aware of the "incident. Five other players contacted last night expressed shock and bewilderment upon -learning the '1ews. ' "This is news to me," team *'member Warren Sharples said when told of the incident. "It's not something the whole team is familiar with and if somebody on the team did something which was illegal, certainly it doesn't reflect in any way, the attitudes anid the behavior of the team as a whole." Berenson did not know if drinking occurred in the car and could not elaborate on what happened before. Team rules prohibit all players from going to bars. No disciplinary action has been taken on those involved. Berenson has spoken with Ann Arbor police, and was told of the situation by the players involved. He was unaware if there were University athletic guidelines which handle incidents involving varsity team members. Director of Sports Information Bruce Madej said the issue was a team matter to be resolved by Berenson. "It would fall under team discipline," Madej said. "If the players were found guilty, something would happen. The old innocent until proven guilty still stands." Berenson added: "You. don't say 'Don't drive across the Diag.' You don't have a rule for that. We have our team rules, but we don't have our rules for this. We'll see what they did. I've.been through these kind of things before and we're not going to wash our laundry in the newspaper like the (Detroit) Red Wings do. We're going to wait until we've got all the facts on this thing." Junior Rob Brown said: "This really hurts the team. It's just too bad. We are a team that's on it's way up, and this could really hurt our chances." -Staff writer Steve Blonder contributed to this story. India's tribes seek own state FROM THE PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE RANCHI, Bihar - Beneath the quiet surface of this lakeside town, a revolt is brewing, led by India's forgotten "tribals" - an ancient. people even more excluded from Indian society than the untouchables. Called "adivasis" (the Sanskrit word for aborigines), India's 50 million tribals inhabited India .long before the Aryan invasions of 3000 years ago that were the foundation of India's great civilizations. Shunning the cities of the Aryan and the later Muslim rulers, the tribals remained in the forests, surviving as hunter- gatherers and worshipping .their own gods. In six remote northeastern states near the Burmese border, tribals are a majority and have, through a com- bination of political activism and bloody insurgencies, won control over local government. But the adivasis in the rest of India are widely scattered, econom- ically deprived, and looked down on by the majority population. Since the 1930s, tribal activists have sought a new state, Jharkhand ("Forest State"), to be created out of 21 districts in south Bihar and three adjoining states. So far the Indian government has refused to accede to the demands for Jharkhand and has tried to repress the issue. Leaders of the Jharkhand com- mon front, formed from splinter groups in 1986, now say they will block major roads in Bihar for a week in February if the government doesn't agree to negotiate. They also threaten to lead a boycott of the next Parliamentary elections, likely to be held in December 1989. The dangers of ignoring legitimate tribal demands for too long are great. Naxalites - Indian Maoist revolu- tionaries who have been a thorn in the side of Indian authorities since the late 1960s - are very active in Bihar. Although at present they focus on caste conflicts within the Hindu community, many think it is only a matter of time before they try to capitalize on disaffected tribals. . In the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, tribals form the core of revolutionary groups.'The Maoist People's War Group, composed mainly of tribals, has been waging a virtual guerilla war against police since the early 1980s. The Jharkhand front's leader Bindeshwari Keshari, a Hindu non- tribal, is adamant that under his leadership the movement will use only non-violent methods. But he is equally firm in rejecting anything short of a new state. IU n1iNr~nn Budget Continued from Page 1 would total $27.2 million if STARTYOUROWNFRATER TYCongress were to approve the Rea- gan budget.' Congress, however, throughout Leadership the Reagan years* has set its own spending priorities, in most areas Networkingwidely different from those set by the White House. Experience, This year, in particular, members of Congress were placing little stock Friendship' in the Reagan budget, and instead were waiting to see what proposals would be made by George Bush after he assumes the presidency Jan. 20. Meetng ""With Reagan leaving, it is the January 2 1989Bush budget plan that counts," said Sen. Donald Riegle, D-Mich. Kuenzel Room, Michigan Un n"Hopefully, it will shift priorities. We don't need higher military - I spending. We need more emphasis on fighting drugs, and on education, health care and the environment," he said. Members of the president's own party agreed. The Reagan budget is "'simply a starting point o1' discus- sion, no more, no less," said Rep. 'Bill Schuette, R-Mich. and member of the House Budget Comn tce. The Pentagon proposed ordering 603 M-1 A-1 tanks costing in 1990 and 516 in 1991, at a cost of about S1.8 million in each year. The Reagan budget also proposed deep cuts inifarm price-support pro- grams that would have an'impact on Michigan farmers. Diversity Continued from Page 1 Francis Matthews, Minority At - fairs Committee Delegate and LSA senior, said he will feel more com- fortable attending events sponsored by the Comemoration of A Dream Committee because his peers orga- . nized its events. "It's a difference when you see your peers do something that will affect you in a positive way," he 'said. Matthews, who is also a member of the Black Student Union, stressed that student-peer input on such events are aimed at the student body and therefore should include more student participation in the event's organizations. .. . -I - IN BRIEF. Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Immigration policy blocked BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A new government immigration policy blamed for forcing hundreds of homeless Central Americans in south Texas to live in primitive camps and condemned buildings was blocked yesterday by U.S. District Judge Filemon Vela. -The temporary restraining order allows asylum-seekers in south Texas to travel to other U.S. destinations after checking in with the Immigra- tion and Naturalization Service. Hundreds of asylum-seekers have camped out in Cameron County since the INS adopted a policy Dec. 16 that all but prevented them from leaving the area while their applications for political asylum were pro- cessed. The temporary restraining order will be in effect until Thursday when the judge scheduled a hearing to decide whether to issue and indefinite preliminary injunction against the new INS procedure. Engine failure is probable cause of crash, officials say KEGWOR I, England - Officials said yesterday that both engines on a new Boeing 737 apparently failed, causing the plane to crash beside Britain's main north-south highway and kill 46 people. Sabotage was not suspected in the Sunday crash of the British Midland Airways jet, the second major air disaster in Britain in less than three weeks; said Transport Minister Paul Channon. "So far the evidence, although by no means conclusive, is consistent with the right engine having stopped before impact, and there are also signs of fire in the left engine," Channon said. However, William Tench, retired head of Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Board, said the odds against both engines failing on a Boe- ing 737 were about 10 million to one. The jet, en route from London to Belfast, crashed as the pilot struggled to make an emergency landing about 100 miles north of London. Americans support more aid for homeless, poll says NEW YORK - Six in 10 Americans say homelessness afflicts their own communities, and a majority would pay higher federal-taxes to help ease the problem, a Media General-Associated Press poll has found. The telephone survey, conducted among 1,084 randomly selected adults Nov. 10-20, found wide agreement that homelessness is a serious and worsening problem and general dissatisfaction with the level of the federal government's response. Sixty percent of the respondents favored more federal spending for the homeless, with nearly all in that group saying they would pay higher taxes for that purpose. Sixty-five percent especially supported subsidized housing. Only 27 percent said the federal government does enough to prevent people from becoming homeless, and 58 percent said it does not. Fifteen percent had no answer. Bankers study ATM crimes Detroit - Occasionally, bank customers withdraw money from auto- matic teller machines only to have robbers take the cash from them, and bankers are studying how to keep such crimes from becoming more fre- quent. .uLast month a man was critically wounded when he tried to escape after being abducted and forced to withdraw money from and automatic teller in . Troy. The problem has prompted industry officials in recent years to study ATM crime. One study found that 95 percent of the crimes involve a lone customer confronted by an assailant while using or leaving the machine. Some cautions for automatic teller customers are to avoid using the machines between 7p.m. and midnight; go with someone if possible. Have slips filled out beforehand; count money only after leaving the area, and put off the transaction if someone suspicious is in the area. EXTRAS WOW! UGLi gets new chairs All right, you got us. When the Daily heard that the Undergraduate Library had replaced all the soft vinyl chairs in the basement and on the second floor with wooden ones, we sent a reporter over right away. The administration's found yet another way to subvert and restrict students, we figured, and we're going to get to the bottom of it. Boy, were we wrong. The few diligent students who were studying in the UGLi last night were of one mind about the new seating. Ron Lumaque, LSA Junior, said that they were "better for studying - they give you more support, and they don't let you slouch." "They keep you awake," agreed LSA Junior Rick Weiermiller. And of their predecessors, Jerome Abramson, yet another LSA Junior, said, "they were absolutely filthy and disgusting to sit on." A circulation desk worker, who asked not to be identified, perhaps said it best. 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