Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, February 21, 1989 Soviets schedule PLO peace talks CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The Soviet Union on Monday invited Egypt's president to Moscow and scheduled meetings in the Egyptian capital with Israel and the PLO in quest of a Middle East peace confer- ence. But Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Arens told reporters after 90 minutes of talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak that they made no progress on the key obsta- cle blocking a peace conference - Israel's refusal to sit with the PLO. Cairo was the focus of new peace efforts with the arrival Sunday night of Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, who is on a five-na- tion Middle East tour. He gave Mubarak a letter from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, extending an "official and friendly invitation" for the Egyptian leader to visit Moscow. The message included "some im- portant presentation regarding a Middle East settlement," Shevard- nadze said in Russian through an Arabic interpreter. He did not elabo- rate. After chastising Israel earlier for adopting a "stubborn position," Shevardnadze was scheduled to meet with Arens in Cairo on Wednesday. There was a strong possibility he would meet with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat separately on the same day. Israeli officials, speaking on con- dition of anonymity, stressed the Soviet and Israeli positions were not so far apart that they could not be bridged on the subject of an interna- tional peace conference. Shevardnadze proposed in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday that the U.N. Security Council's five permanent members convene a preparatory conference within nine months to arrange for Arab-Israeli negotiations. However, Israel has refused talks with PLO, which it contends is a terrorist organization bent on de- stroying the Jewish state. Egypt's Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel-Meguid called on Israel to consider "with an open mind and open heart" the possibility of talking to the PLO. The Palestinians, he told reporters after the meeting, have shown "a greater deal of flexibility and a great deal of understanding." Associated Press This airview photo shows the damage to part of the 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment barracks at Ternhill, near Shrewsbury, England, following the explosions yesterday morning. Blast Continued from Page 1 One of the 50 soldiers sleeping in the barracks at the time of yesterday's attack was injured slightly by flying glass. Most were I BUSINESS TAX 313-973-1188 " Individual Income Tax preparation. - One day service for most returns. " Convenient hours - Evenings by appointment. " Free parking - Convenient location. ---25CENERRD(ext Fthe Co f )oAN A 2525 CARPENTER RD " (Next to the Comfort Inn) " ANN ARBOR /If HAPPY BICYCLE JIM'S P /I 2' C M-F 3-6 pm HOUR 1301 S. University I Real Estate Analyst Program LET OUR 2-YEAR PROGRAM BE A PRELUDE TO YOUR MBA! Want some rock-solid commercial real estate experience before pursuing your MBA? 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An Equal Opportunity Employer away on weekend leave. The battalion, part of the regiment whose colonel-in-chief is Prince Charles, is to begin a tour of duty this week in Northern Ireland, the domestic press agency Press Association said. The outlawed Irish Republican Army, in a statement issued to Dublin news media, claimed responsibility for the bombing and said other attacks would follow unless the British left the province. "While Britain maintains its colonial grip on the north of Ireland, the I.R.A. will continue to strike at those who oversee and implement British government policy in our country," said the I.R.A. statement. The Irish Republican Army has made British soldiers a prime target in its fight to drive the British out of the predominantly Protestant province and unite it with the mainly Roman Catholic Republic of Ireland. Forum Continued from Page 1 for Minority Affairs Charles Moody was optimistic about the efforts. "This is the first time a recep- tion of this kind has been organized so the turnout could be understand- able," Moody said, adding that "the longest journey always begins with a first step, and it is good the students began it. Next year it probably would be a lot better." Professors said that it would be "in the interest of everyone" if there were more interaction between the faculty and staff. "I do not know why we do not have more of this," said Education Prof. Percy Bates. "There needs to be a mechanism to allow the students to get together." "I think we have a common in- terest that could be served if we spent more time interacting with each other," said biology professor George Jones. "If we cooperate, it is bound to benefit all concerned." Jones said he did not think in- creasing the interaction is simply a faculty responsibility, adding that students should also show interest and initiate interaction. "I think the University is an in- stitution which is suitable and will satisfy the needs of a larger number of minority students than are cur- rently here," said Jones. On the issue of racism at the university, most of the professors agreed that it should be combatted, but said it would be unrealistic to expect racism to be instantly eradi- cated "We have got keep working against racism. It is a life long commitment," Moody said. Some students said there is a greater need for minority student ser- vices but some faculty and staff dis- agreed. "In my observation we are doing as good a job as we could," Bates said. "The help is available if the students are not getting it is a an- other problem, sometimes many students don't know that these ser- vices are available." Moody encouraged Black stu- dents to "keep working hard, trying to excel and achieve your goals," and stressed that "when they did achieve their goals thev hAn11d go reach hck.p IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports European community protests Iranian death threat over book European Common Market governments decided yesterday to withdraw their top diplomats from Iran to protest Ayatollah Ruhollan Khomeini's renewed order for Moslems to kill novelist Salman Rushdie. Britain went further by pulling out its entire embassy staff. Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe said the death threats against Rushdie and the publishers of "The Satanic Verses" for allegedly blas- pheming Islam were "unwarranted interference" in Britain's internal af- fairs. The 12 European Economic Community governments, in a sharp blow to Iran's hopes of improving relations with Western nations, decided to suspend high-level visits to and from Iran. Howe told a news conference that the EEC foreign ministers had sent "a strong, concerted signal to the Iranian leadership that Khomeini's threats are an affront to international standards of behavior and will not be tolerated." North jury will take oaths today WASHINGTON - A jury will be sworn today in the trial of Oliver North, with the prosecution preparing a lineup of witnesses to testify that he tried to cover up the Iran-Contra affair. North, the key figure in the Iran-Contra affair, was indicted 11 months ago. The jury of nine women and three men was selected Feb. 9, but the trial was delayed when the Justice Department protested that North might divulge classified material in the courtroom. After receiving assurances from Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh, the department on Wednes- day dropped efforts to delay the trial. The jurors have one thing in common: they had almost no exposure to North's nationally televised congressional testimony in 1987 in which he admitted, under limited immunity from prosecution, many details touch- ing on the crimes with which he is charged. Michigan gas tax could go up 15 LANSING - Michigan motorists could be paying higher taxes at the gasoline pump because Gov. James Blanchard has privately dropped his opposition to an increase in the motor fuel tax, legislative leaders and lobbyists say. House speaker Lewis Dodak (D-Birch Run) said he has been encour- aged by his talks with Blanchard about increasing the state's 15-cent-a- gallon levy to provide more funds for repairing and building roads. "I'm happy and pleased the the governor is not going to oppose it," said Dodak, who proposed a 2-cent-a-gallon increase last fall. John Engler (R-Mount Pleasant), the Senate majority leader, said last week he is waiting for a clear sign of the governor's willingness to sup- port a higher tax. The state needs to act quickly, he said, because the federal government could decide to increase its tax on gasoline as a way to trim the deficit, making it more difficult for the state to vote its own increase. "We'd have to live with the road system the way it is for the next 10 years, probably," he said. Committee continues Tower probe WASHINGTON - Ranking members of the Senate Armed Services Committee met Monday with a government investigator who once probed the conduct of an arms talks delegation that included John Tower, as the White House delivered to the panel the latest FBI report on the defense secretary-designate. Chairman Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and ranking Republican John Warner of Virginia interviewed Berne Indale, a State Department security officer sent to Geneva in 1986 by the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency to in- vestigate allegations of security breaches, said congressional sources who requested anonymity. Meanwhile, the FBI presented its latest report on allegations into Tower's personal and business affairs to White House counsel C. Boyden Gray, who was delivering the report to Nunn and Warner. EXTRAS Tackett says suicide attempt will not end his fight for a vet holiday Charles Tackett was released from the Ann Arbor Veterans Adminis- tration Medical Center yesterday after being treated for what he said was a suicide attempt. Tackett, a local Vietnam veteran who has been fighting for a Vietnam veterans' holiday in Michigan and the rest of the country, said that the suicide attempt was brought about from working too much. "I've been fighting so long," he said. "I'm tired." In addition, Tackett feels that he was recently criticized unfairly by a local newspaper. He said that he let the criticism get to him. He said that he now regrets the suicide attempt. He is recovering well and intends to pursue with renewed energy his fight for recognition of the hardships faced by veterans of the Vietnam war. First, though, he will obey his doctor's recommendation that he take a vacation from lobbying for the holiday. -Gil Renberg The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscription rates: for fall and winter (2 semesters) $25.00 in-town and $35 out-of-town, for fall only $15.00 in-town and $20.00 out-of-town. .The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and the Student News Service. ADDRESS: The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard, Ann Arbor, M! 48109. 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