C Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 21, 1989 Election Continued from Page 1 would be a defeat for U.S. policy. The United States has supported El Salvador with $3.5 billion in aid this decade, and some congressmen have said the results leave much to be desired. Cristiani, a 41-year-old coffee grower and businessman, said late Sunday he "would be the president of all 5 million Salvadorans. We are going to unify this people in order to pull ourselves out of this pro- found crisis." Arena was linked in the early 1980s to extreme-rightist death squads blamed for the murders of tens of thousands of suspected left- ists. Cristiani contends the party has changed significantly and that the candidacy of a so-called moderate like himself is evidence of that. But fanatical rightists remain prominent in the party, including party founder Roberto D'Aubuisson, who was once called a "pathological killer" by a U.S. ambassador and has frequently denied links to death squads. D'Aubuisson has been linked to the 1980 assassination of Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero. D'Aubuisson, a former army ma- jor who was cashiered in 1980 for allegedly plotting a coup, is an Arena legislator. Although he holds no formal party post, he was the party's top drawing card at election rallies, where he was introduced as "maximum leader." The election marked the first time Salvadoran voters had a chance to replace an incumbent civilian gov- ernment with a distinctly different government. Jorge Diaz, member of the Cen- tral Elections Council, said Arena received just under 55 percent of the first 131,832 votes tabulated. Diaz represents Arena on the council. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports ELLEN LEVY/Daily Greek Week LSA sophomore Steve Damm represents the reigning Greek Week champion Alpha Tau Omega in this year's Mr. Greek Week. U - LASC Continued from Page 1 The protesters aimed their criti- cism specifically at the Ann Arbor News, describing the paper's cover- age as "particularly repellant," and criticizing inaccuracies in editorials. LASC member Phillis Engelbert said mainstream media, including the information sources used by the Ann Arbor News, manipulates public perception in support of the U.S. backed Salvadoran government, to the point of printing lies. One of these lies is calling El Salvador a democracy, she said. Citizens were required to vote in Sunday's elections - which were not by secret ballot - under the threat of being killed by the Salvadoran military. She added that this "democratic" government has killed 70,000 civilians in the past 10 ARENA party candidate who won the election, is repeatedly labelled as "moderate," "when in reality he was handpicked by d'Aubisson, the president for life of the Arena party" who has been indicted in El Salvadoran courts for death squad ac- tivities. The protest was addressed to the. people of Ann Arbor, Engelbert added, to raise an awareness about U.S. financial aid in an illegal war continuing in El Salvador. Hunter VanValkenbergh, a mem- ber of LASC, said the Ann Arbor News "hasn't conspired deliberately, (but) they conspired de facto by blacking out news from El Sal- vador." Engelbert suggested that the News use alternative sources such as the Pacifica News Service and the El Salvador Information service. But Ann Arbor News Editor Ed Petykiewicz said the paper sub- scribes to the Associated Press, The New York Times, and the LA Times wire services, adding "no one can object to the quality of coverage they provide." The protest began in the parking lot of Kline's, the site of Ann Arbor city council's proposed parking structure. The site is symbolic be- cause funds and space should be used to build low-income housing, said HAC member Earl Uomoto. Hospital detainees escape in S. Africa JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA-Four black detainees on a hunger strike escaped yesterday from a Johannesburg hospital, fled 38 miles to Pretoria -and sought refuge at the West German embassy there officials said. The four men, who have been held without charges for between 10 and 23 months, demanded the South African government guarantee they andt all political detainees will be freed. West Germany's Foreign Ministry said the four are in 'administrative custody.' The embassy in Pretoria said no decision has been made about them. The men said through the Detainees Aid Center that they belong to organizations affiliated with the banned United Democratic Front, the country's largest anti-apartheid coalition. Some 30,000 people have been held without charges for varying lengths since a state of emergency was imposed 33 months ago. Detroit JOA opponents petition Supreme Court to hear appeal WASHINGTON- Opponents of the partial merger of Detroit's two major newspapers will ask the Supreme Court to hear their appeal, despite the court's refusal yesterday to further delay consumption of the business deal. The court with only two justices dissenting, lifted without comment a postponement granted March fourth by Justice William Brennan. The order cleared the way for The Detroit News owned by Gannett Co. Inc. and Detroit free press, owned by Knight Rider to merge their businesses and production operations under an anti-trust exemption allowed by the 1970 Newspaper Preservation Act. The Justice Department's approval of the partial merger was challenged by a coalition of newspaper readers and advertisers, .Michigan Citizens for an Independent Press, and Public Citizen, a Washington-based advocacy group. Gap between rich and poor widens WASHINGTON-The gap between the rich and the poor is widening in almost every State, a private research group said yesterday in a report that also found the Great Plains and Mountain West lagging other parts of the Nation in general economic climate. Northeastern States earned two grades in the annual 50-state report card compiled by the Corporation for Enterprise Development, a research and consulting organization whose study was financed by corporations, labor unions and private foundations. The states that did best were those that were willing to invest in basics such as education, technology and capital markets . Despite the strides taken in many states, a growing disparity between rich and poor people was evident throughout the country, with the income gap widening in all states except North Dakota, Hawaii and Alaska. ACLU tries to revoke abortion ruling DETROIT - Attorneys filed an appeal yesterday seeking to overturn a ruling that denied state funds to a 15-year old rape victim for an abortion that was performed over the weekend. The teenagers abortion was paid for with anonymous contributions said William Goodman, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed the lawsuit on the girls behalf. On Friday Circuit judge John Hausner ruled the girl wasn't constitutionally entitled to a state-paid abortion. An appeal was filed with the state court of appeals yesterday Goodman said. The lawsuit is the first challenge to the state's Medicaid-funded abortion ban, which took effect Dec.12 after voters approved it in the Nov. 9 general election. 0 6 q 0 II years. Engelbert said that Christiani, the m - i EXTRAS America's craze for Diet things may soon overcome pizza market UNION LAKE,'Mich. - Pizza hunger tempered by health concerns has people lining up for a low-calories version of the traditional circular cheesy dish at a Union Lake restaurant, owner Mark O'Brien said yester- day. O'Brien also has a frozen version of his Calorie Counter Pizza on sale in more than 200 grocery stores in four states, and he said he hopes to market it nationally by the end of the year. O'Brien's diet version of a 12-inch pizza has 835 calories, compared with 2,000 calories in similar-sized regular pizzas, he said. Describing himself as a daily pizza eater on the job, he credited the dish with his own 95-pound weight loss. "I think we've got ourselves a winner," O'Brien said. 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