4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, April 11, 1989 Associated Press. Smelt watch Along Lake Michigan, Chicago resident Filadelfo Gines braves winter-like weather as he sets his nets from a seawell in front of the Chicago skyline yesterday. Gines is fishing for smelt, a small, silvery salmon-like fish that return each year to spawn along the lakefront. Protest Continued from Page 1 peared on campus, which called the month of April "White Pride Time." "We will not be intimidated," he said. Leaders of the rally blamed the cold weather for limiting the turnout. UCAR member Kim Smith, a first-year medical student, tried to warm everyone up by leading them in an old spiritual song. "We're not going to let anybody turn us around," she sang, encourag- ing others to join her. In successive verses, she substituted "racist fliers," "racism," and "anti-Semitism" in place of "anybody." Smith then led the crowd in a chant: "We're gonna beat back racist attacks." Alfreda Wright, a student in the School of Public Health and a member of Lesbians of Color, said the appearance of the racist fliers have not scared her as much since she and her family were intentionally attacked by dogs in Alabama when she was 10 years old. Business school senior Chris Jones, former president of the Black Student Union, discussed charges that things like the racist fliers and attacks on individuals are isolated incidents. "After a while," he said, "it be- gins to become a long line of iso- lated incidents." The current atmo- sphere at the University allows this attitude to persist, he said. Ransby, the final speaker at the rally, said, "We want this campus to know we are not afraid of them," re- ferring to people who pass out racist fliers and make racist comments. While some people will dismiss the fliers as a joke, racism and political intimidation are not jokes, she said. "Legitimizing racial jokes leads to legitimizing racial ideas leads to legitimizing racial actions," Ransby said, recalling the Holocaust, vio- lence by skinhead youths, and the killing of Vincent Chin, a Detroit man, in 1982. "Attacks are not new," she said. "We are not overreacting." Ransby closed the rally by saying that while recent comments by Uni- versity officials deploring the racist fliers were appreciated, years of inaction, such as not keeping a commitment to increase the repre- sentation of people of color in the student body and in the faculty, were insulting. J.1'r .'.'.Y.'.'r J:::.."f.Yr rr " U NJEB " .J t'! J '.Y S'J"J::S T'::.....'.: t: "" J" ' CLASSIFIED ADS! Call 764-0557 9 IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Eastern sale talks reach standstill NEW YORK - Talks aimed at selling Eastern Airlines bogged down yesterday as its parent Texas Air Corp. balked at accepting tentative agreements reached between Eastern unions and buyers led by Peter Ueberroth, sources close to the situation said. Ueberroth and representatives from Eastern, Texas Air, and it's unions met yesterday with U.S. bankruptcy Judge Burton Lifland. The meeting followed a weekend of secret talks aimed at beating a midnight deadline for setting terms to get Eastern's striking unions back to work. Under Ueberroth's $464 million buyout proposal, Eastern employees would get a 30 percent stake in the airline in exchange for $200 million in contract concessions. Although sources said the Ueberroth group and the unions had reached tentative agreements in their weekend talks, Eastern and Texas Air attor- neys emerging from a day-long meeting indicated there was no overall ac- cord. Soviet navy finds sub, newspaper says MOSCOW - The Soviet navy has found its nuclear submarine at the bottom of the frigid Norwegian Sea and believes electrical problems may have caused a fire and explosions that sank it, a newspaper reported yes- terday. The government newspaper Izvestia said rescuers had found the bodies of 19 of the 42 sailors killed when the sub sank north of Norway on Fri- day. Tass, the official news agency, said the 27 survivors were hospitalized in serious condition at Murmansk, a Soviet Arctic port, and investigators were able to interview them for only minutes at a time. "According to preliminary information, the fire started because of a short circuit," Izvestia said, quoting navy investigators in Murmansk. It said the submarine carried 10 torpedoes, two of them nuclear-tipped. Justice Dept. investigates Blue Cross and Blue Shield billing practices DETROIT - Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan, hit by a $66 million loss in revenues last year, is the first target of a national Justice Department probe into alleged illegal Medicare charges. Big industries that give employees full health-care benefits shrank their employment rolls and dependents of policyholders drew up and left the ranks, contributing to a loss of 200,000 subscribers to the state's largest health insurer in 1988, spokesperson Ru Rude Dirazio said yesterday. The company faces a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department after a national investigation into allegations that medical bills were charged illegally to the Medicaid program. The suit, filed last month, seeks repayment of $2 million. Michigan Blue Cross officials are apparently cooperating in the inquiry. Empire Blue Cross-Blue Shield of New York has also been subpoenaed. Alaskan oil slick starts breaking up VALDEZ, Alaska - The slick of thick crude oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez stalled yesterday in its movement toward the nation's No. 1 fishing port and was breaking up in rough waves and high wind, the Coast Guard said. However, the stormy weather hampered cleanup efforts as small craft advisories and gale warnings were posted along the central Alaskan coast, where 10.1 million gallons of crude oil oozed across Prince William Sound, threatening fisheries and killing thousands of birds and animals. The wind was out of the northeast, which kept oil from washing ashore in untainted inlets and the Kenai Fjords National Park. "It's not pushing it (oil) to the Kenai Peninsula, and that's good. The weather is breaking up the slick, and that's good," said Coast Guard spokesperson Rick Meidt. As of yesterday morning; 18,000 barrels of crude have been recovered, or 8 percent of the 240,000 barrels spilled. EXTRAS Man sues to keep slithery pets against city's wishes STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. - A snake lover is suing the city over a pet law he claims unfairly puts the squeeze on the 16 boa constrictors, anacondas, and pythons that share his apartment. Officials contend Eric Larson is violating an ordinance that prohibits keeping "uncommon pets" within 300 hundred feet on a dwelling. Common pets include cats, dogs, and gerbils. "Our ordinance is quite clear, and he's in violation of it," said Lori Finazzo, an assistant city attorney. She said an anonymous caller tipped officials about the snakes in February. "This is a multi-residential area, and we're not talking about some small garter snakes," she said. "We have some serious pythons here." But Larson says his serpents, the biggest of which is Annie, a 13-foot long green anaconda, never slither away from home. 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