Tuesday, September 12, 1989- The Michigan Daily - Page 3 Housing official B lanchard to a awaits by Noelle Vance Daily Staff Writer Leroy Williams, the Unit director of Housing Infor continues to await a hearin will determine if he must st on charges involving posses; distribution of heroin. Williams was charged l after a police raid on a Detroi The charges were subseque rhissed by 36th District (l C (ourt Judge Rufus Griffin, decision was appealed and ,now awaits reexaminati Gdriffin. The case has not)y placed on the dockest The University sus Williams without pay af ,charges were filed. After fir tits own disciplinary heari lPebruary that there were "no substantiate that he was in sion with intent to deliv 'University restored William position. "I'm back to work and d hearing job," was Williams' only comment on the situation. versity's Though Williams may now have mation, to stand trial, the University has de- g which cided riot to renew his suspension. and trial "We are allowing the due process sion and system to take its course," said Archie Andrews, associate director of Student Housing and Williams' di- last fall rect supervisor. it house. Andrews said he did not know ntly dis- what action the University would Detroit) take if Williams was found guilty but his after a reexamination of the case. "I the case don't have that crystal ball that I can ion by look ahead... and predict with any et been degree of certainty as to what could arise," he said. pended If Williams were to be found ter the guilty, he could face up to 20 years nding in in prison. ing last Williams' duties as a director of facts to University Housing include: oversee- posses- ing residence hall assignments and er," the the Off-Campus Living at Michigan s to his program, making recommendations on housing policies, and reviewing oing my the existing housing programs. try to relax abortion rules Governor's announcement irks state anti-abortion activists SOUTHFIELD (AP) - Governor James Blanchard said yes- terday that he will try to loosen re- strictions on Medicaid-funded abor- tions, irking anti-abortion groups who say state voters have settled the issue. Blanchard said he will meet with pro-choice lawmakers during the next 10 days to discuss legislation that would prevent the state from in- terfering with any abortions. "It's a very difficult issue of per- sonal freedom," said Blanchard at a news conference. "It's a tough issue. When you advocate personal freedom of choice, some people think you're advocating abortion." Barbara Listing, president of an anti-abortion group Right to Life, said she wasn't surprised by the gov- ernors pro-choice statements. Listing said the debate over Medicaid abortions should be closed since voters in November 1988 ap- proved a ban on state-funded proce- dures. "We figure that after all these years it was decided on by the peo- ple," Listing said. Listing said her group will con- tinue to work with anti-abortion leg- islators before they return to session Sept. 20. State Representative Maxine Berman, D-Southfield, a pro-choice advocate, said several bills are in the works that coincide with Blanchard's views. "I think he was simply reinforc- ing the views," Berman said. "Abortionvis going to be a very dominating issue." Judith Frey, president of Michigan Republicans for Choice, said she was encouraged by the Governor's announcement. 'It's a tough issue. When you advocate personal freedom of choice, some people think you're advocating abortion' -Governor James Blanchard "I think it was an extreme posi- tion to eliminate rape and incest vic- tims," said Frey. "These things should be an exception." Drexel to pay $650 .;million as penalty NEW YORK (AP) - Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. closed a chap- ter in the Wall Street corruption Crackdown yesterday, pleading guilty to six felonies and beginning the payment of more than $650 million ;as punishment for unprecedented vio- lations of securities laws. The plea followed months of le- gal wrangling over charged based largely on information- from Ivan Boesky, the imprisoned speculator whose revelations about systematic lawbreaking has stunned the finan- cial world since his arrest nearly three years ago. "This terminates our investiga- tion of Drexel as an entity," Manhatan U.S. Attorney Benito Romano said. "Obviously their co- operation will lead us in other direc- :t ons. Wherever those leads take us, we will go." A lawyer for the New York in- vestment firm, which grew from a secondary brokerage to a major fi- nancial powerhouse in the 1980s, entered the guilty plea before the U.S. District Judge Kimba M. Wood. The plea had been expected since Drexel and the government reached an agreement on the charges in January but had been delayed by challenges brought by Drexel's in- dicted bond trader Michael Milken. Drexel pleaded guilty to four counts of securities fraud and two of mail fraud and agreed to pay a record total of $650 million plus interest and civil insider trading fines to re- solve charges dating to 1984. The total penalties against Drexel amount to $673,237,260.28 More than $500 million of the amount was paid yesterday to various gov- ernment agencies. Drexel admitted to illegal stock transactions involving the firm, Milken, Boesky, and the defunct investment firm Princeton- Newport Partners LP. Monkey business Milford resident Sunday Harvie carries a picket yesterday outside the Ann Arbor Federal Building. About 30 people were urging that several monkeys not be transferred from the Delta Regional Primate Research Center in New Orleans. The demonstrators were concerned that the so- called Silver Spring Monkeys would be turned over to another facility which would perform painful experiments on the monkeys. U' develops robots to test radioactivity by Scott Roush Daily Contributor If you've ever had thoughts about becoming a technician in a nuclear power plant, but the thought of ac- tually exposing yourself to harmful radioactive chemicals scared you, there's good news from the re- searchers in the University's Nuclear Engineering Department. University researchers are cur- rently working on a gamma radiation camera which will be able to probe through nuclear power plants and other radioactive waste areas, thus eliminating the need for technicians to enter the plant in dangerous situa- tions. The cameras will be attached to robots that will be capable of explor- ing power plants and nuclear waste dumps in order to locate radioactive leaks and spills. The program recently received a financial boost from a three-year, $491,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. University Asst. Professor of Nuclear Engineering David Wehe said the camera will display radiation it detects on a television screen out- side the reactor. The technicians will be able to pick out the radioactive isotopes from the different colors displayed on the screen. Since gamma rays penetrate most metals, the cameras will be able to detect radiation without technicians having to remove pipes or open storage containers. The cameras will never come into direct contact with the radioactive materials, so workers can handle the camera without the danger of nuclear contamination. "The camera will save money be- cause in order to send a technician in, the reactor must be shut down and that can cost half million to a million dollars a day," said Glenn Knoll, chair of the University's Department of Nuclear Engineering. Knoll did not know the exact cost of the camera, but did say it should be fully operational in three years. "A slow-moving prototype has been successful with slightly ra- dioactive materials," he said. Wehe said the camera is designed to withstand high amounts of radia- tion as well as the high temperatures and humidity found at nuclear power plants. FAA to order aging jets to make changes WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration will order that aging McDonnell Douglas jetliners undergo modifications to continue flying after a set number of landings, government and industry *officials announced yesterday. None of the work is urgent and the airliners remain safe to fly, said Clyde Kizer of the Air Transport i4ssociation, which represents air- lines and sets up a task force which recommended the modifications. He said no fare increases or service dis- 'ruptions were expected because of the orders, with many airlines al- ready completing the work. Robert Aaronson, ATA president, said the orders are not a result of the July 19 crash of a United DC-10 in Sioux City, Iowa, which killed 112 people. A separate industry-govern- ment inquiry is being conducted into the design of larger airliners, partly as a result of that crash. The aging airliner task force was set up after an Aloha Airlines' 737 with nearly 90,000 flights lost an 18-foot section of fuselage in an April 1988 flight over Hawaii. A flight attendant was killed in the in- cident. A Federal Aviation Administration official said the agency will order various modifica- tions to the fuselage, landing gear and doors of 1,153 DC-10, DC-9, DC-8, and MD80 jetliners used by U.S. airlines as they age over the next four years. Most foreign air- lines, flying another 750 McDonnell Douglas planes also are expected to comply. "Let me emphasize that the safety record of commercial aircraft contin- ues to be excellent," said Kizer at a joint government-industry news con- ference. He described the order as a precautionary action to ensure that the planes can continue to fly safely. The recommendations, effective in May, mark a major change in the government's approach to aging air- liners. Previously, the FAA required periodic inspections with replace- ment required only when corrosion, cracking or other signs of metal fa- tigue were found. The FAA order will cover only U.S. planes over the next four years, with work required as each airliner logs a set number of landings, and would total $53 million, said Ray Ramakis, assistant FAA director for maintenance programs and flying s t a gda r d s .7 Hi-Tec MINI MICRO SYSTEM, INC. IBM COMPATABLES 'Backto scfwof AT starts at $789 SALE XT starts at $440 North Campus Plaza Phone: (313) 665-3787 1683 Plymouth Suite F FAX: (313) 665-3507 WE ALWAYS NEED LEADERS Correction The 1989-90 fiscal year budget for the University's Office of Minority Affairs is $1,752,933. 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