4 Page 2-- The Michigan Daily - WednesdayMarch 29, 1989 i Tickets Continued from Page 1 LSA sophomore I. Matthew Miller, who waited several hours for tickets, managed to find a seat on a plane to Seattle, but he has no return reservations. He is currently on five wait-lists. Miller said he is attending the basketball tournament because "it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." Not surprisingly, Michigan's, tournament play has provided a once- in-a-lifetime opportunity for students to make big money. According to students who bought tickets, scalpers were offering as much. as $250 to $450 per ticket. While several students who were unable to attend the games decided to sell their tickets, other students bought tickets, hoping to make a large profit. One student bought six tickets for $330. Later that day, he sold them to a scalper for $1,800. Renfrew, responding to the scalping situation, said ticket sales will be handled differently next time the Wolverines make the Final Four. Students will pay for tickets at the ticket office, he said, but will have to pick them up at the tournament site., Shake it JESSICA GREENE/Daily These children perform the Ludi, a popular dance for festive occasions such as marriage. Taking place in Chrysler Auditorium on North Campus, this was part of a Pakastani culture evening with clothes brought in from all over the country. General.Motors recalls 3.5 mi11ion cars to fix pollution control switches AL - WASHINGTON (AP) .- More than half a million 1984 Oldsmobiles and Buicks were re- called yesterday because of a pollution control switch that has brought at least 3.5 million General Motors Corp. cars and trucks back for repairs. *The Environmental Protection Agency, in re- questing the recall, said the thermal vacuum switch failed to open and close at the proper times, allowing gasoline vapor to escape into the atmosphere. When the vapor combines with other poll.utants and is heated by the sun, smog forms,. the EPA said. GM recalled the 1984 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, Delta 88, Ninety-Eight, Toronado and the 1984 Buick LeSabre, Estate Wagon, Electra, and Riviera. The company estimated the number of cars involved is 672,117. This estimate is 30,000 more than the EPA estimated. "The replacement is goingatosbe a switch to a better design," said Martha Casey, an EPA spokesperson. spAccording to Casey, the problem lies in a design problem within General.Motors. GM said it had voluntarily complied with the EPA's finding that the recall was needed. "The people in Detroit were anxious to stress that we were doing it on our own," said Grey Terry, a GM spokesperson in Washington. He said the malfunctioning switch doesn't af- fect the operation of the vehicles. Although EPA issued no formal recall order under the agency's program, the failure of a maker to recall the cars would result in an order, Casey said. The EPA said the gasoline vapors escaped not only from the exhaust, but also from the carburetors, gas tanks, fuel lines and other parts of the vehicles. The thermal vacuum switch, when working properly, funnels unburned gasoline fumes into a cannister, from where they are rerouted to the en- gine and burned before entering the atmosphere, Casey said. The EPA estimated that 30-40 percent of the cars manufactured each year are recalled to fix emissions. The agency ordered more than 3 mil- lion vehicles recalled last year, the third largest number in the program's history. "This trend is expected to continue as the ve- hicle population grows," said Richard Wilson, director of the EPA's office of mobile sources. "We will continue to work with vehicle manufacturers toward solving these emissions problems." IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Meese testifies in North trial WASHINGTON - Former Attorney General Edwin Meese testified at Oliver North's trial yesterday that the specter of impeachment hung over the White House in the 72 hours after aides discovered a planned diversion of Iran arms sale money to the Nicaraguan Contras. . In two hours of testimony, Meese said he told then-President Reagan about the diversion the day after North confirmed that the plan, outlined in a memo, had become a fact. North lawyer Brendan Sullivan asked Meese about the revelation that two activities in which North was involved being intertwined: the administration's secret sale of weapons to Iran and the fact that money from the arms sales - with the knowledge of U.S. officials secretly was going to the rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government at a time such aid was forbidden by law. Federal appeals court stays Charles Campbell's execution SEATTLE - A federal appeals court in San Francisco yesterday is- sued a stay of execution for Charles Rodman Campbell 33 hours before he was scheduled to die for slaying two women and a little girl. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the stay pending an appeal, and ordered additional briefs submitted by June 21. Campbell had been scheduled to be hanged Thursday morning at Washington State Penitentiriary in Walla Walla. Hanging is Washington's official form of execution, although a pris- oner may opt for lethal injection. Campbell so far has decided to choose injection. Campbell's attorneys filed a notice of appeal with the San Francisco court yesterday morning. Informed of the stay, Gov. Booth Gardner said. "The decision is now in the hands of the courts. We have to wait until the legal system has finished its work." Ayatollah's heir-apparent resigns NICOSIA, Cyprus - Ayatollah Montazeri resigned yesterday as the heir-apparent to Ayatollah Khomeini and said he did so at the bidding of the Ayatollah himself. Montazeri's resignation was the most prominent casualty so far in a fierce drive by Khomeini to return Iran to the roots of its fundamentalist revolution. Montazeri's resignation .came after Khomeini sent him a letter on March 26 asking him to step down, reported Iran's official Tehran radio, monitored in Nicosia. "I see myself compelled to obey your orders because the survival and stability of the Islamic Republic rests on obeying your command," the radio quoted Montazeri as saying. Iran's U.N. ambassador, Mohammad Mahallati, also resigned yester- day, two days after the deputy foreign minister, Mohammad Larijani, handed in his resignation. Iraq to pay for 1987 USS Stark attack WASHINGTON - U.S. officials said yesterday that Iraq's agreement to pay $27.35 million to the families of the 37 sailors killed in the attack on the USS Stark is a satisfactory and fair settlement, but it is unclear when the payments will be made. The agreement, formally announced by the State Department, repre- sents about 92 percent of the $29.6 million the United States had re- quested for the families of those who died in Iraq's unprovoked missile attack on the Stark in 1987. Bush administration officials privately described the agreement as "satisfactory" and a "fair settlement." "The government of Iraq has agreed to pay over $27 million as full compensation for the deaths," said State Department spokesperson Mar- garet Tutwiler yesterday. EXTRAS Trekkies celebrate Captain Kirk's 'minus 239th birthday' in Iowa RIVERSIDE, Iowa - Residents gathered at the VFW hall to celebrate the birthday of an unborn, fictional astronaut - a birthday party that only serious Trekkies could have dreamed up. About 200 people attended Monday night's "minus 239th birthday party" of James T. Kirk, the captain of the Starship Enterprise played by William Shatner in the.movies and popular television series Star Trek. Gene Roddenberry, creator and executive producer of the series, wrote in "The Making of Star Trek" that Kirk was "born in a small town in the state of Iowa." The Riverside City Council picked up on the idea in March 1985, declaring a site behind what used to be the town's barbershop the "future birthplace" of Kirk. Roddenberry sent along a certificate of commendation. 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, MI 48109. PHONE NUMBERS: News (313) 764-0552, Opinion 747-2814, Arts 763-0379, Sports 747-3336, Cir- culation 764-0558, Classified advertising 764-0557, Display advertising 764-0554, Billing 764-0550 Fermi II ranks 5th in U.S. for nuclear defaults WASHINGTON (AP) - The Fermi II nuclear power reactor in Michigan had a high level of nucleary mishaps for a 3-year-old plant, advocacy group Public Citizen said yesterday, but plant operators criti- cized the study's methods. Fermi II, near Monroe'south of Detroit, ranked fifth nationally in the number of mishaps after the figures were adjusted to account for the rela- tive youth of the plant, the Public Citizen study said. The study, covering the decade since the 1979 Three Mile Island disaster, tallied the number of unfiled licensee event reports. These reports recorded events at the nuclear plants that were out of the ordinary. Plant operators must now file these with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission . Fermi II, operated by Detroit Edison Co., filed 216 licensee event reports through 1988, Public Citizen said. The Michigan plant with the highest number of mishaps, unad- justed for age, was the D.C. Cook I reactor at Bridgman in southwestern Michigan, having filed 560 licensee event reports. It ranked 10th nation- ally in the total number of mishaps in the past decade in the study. Public Citizen said the high number of licensee event reports, more that 33,000 nationally over the decade, meant there was a high probability that a partial meltdown, such as the one that occurred in 1979 at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pa., would be repeated. 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