OPINION 4 ARTS 7 SPORTS Schembechler smiling over big win 9 Dead people are actually alive The Pogues bring Peace and Love to town Ninety-nine years of editorial freedom Vol. C, No. 14 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, September 26, 1989 "001 BBC calls flight 103 inquiry faulty LONDON (AP) - A British television inquiry into the Pan Am Mlight 103 disaster said yesterday that West Germany committed major blunders, including releasing the probable bomb-maker after a raid on Palestinian group last year. However, the chief Scottish in- vestigator into the bombing of the plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, last Dec. 21 said on the program: "We are still on course to being able to put together a case that will reveal who was responsible." The British Broadcasting Corp.'s current affairs program Panorama re- ported that investigators are con- vinced the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine- General Command - long the prime suspect - masterminded the attack. The group's leader has denied involvement. All 259 people aboard Flight 103 from Frankfurt to New York via London were killed along with 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie. Scottish investigator Lord Fraser, speaking on the program titled Lockerbie: An Avoidable Tragedy, said a West German police raid in October 1988 and the discovery in April of three bombs similar to the See FLIGHT, page 2 Bush aims to cut chemical weapons UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Declaring the world "has lived too long in the shadow of chemical war- fare," President George Bush offered yesterday to slash U.S. stocks of such weapons more than 80 percent provided the Soviet Union reduces to an equal level. Bush's proposal, in his first speech to the U.N. General Assembly as president, was designed to spur a 40-nation conference in Geneva to ban chemical weapons en- tirely within 10 years. He also used his appearance to salute "freedom's march" around the world - in Hungary, Poland, Latin America and Africa - and to praise the Soviet Union for removing "a number of obstacles" in the way of treaties to reduce long-range nuclear weapons,'and troops and tanks in Europe. Bush noted progress on those is- sues and agreements on other matters during talks last weekend between Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, as well as a decision to hold a summit meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev by early next summer. "Let us act together - begin- ning today - to rid the earth of this scourge," Bush said in his comments on chemical weapons. Shevardnadze said after the speech that the Soviets had "a positive view" of the plan but that it andl other Bush proposals "will have to be studied additionally." Brent Scowcroft, the president's national security advisor, said the Soviets had been given an outline of the U.S. initiative in advance, and "they really have not responded." He also told reporters at a brief- ing that Bush's proposal did not in- clude biological weapons, which some experts consider as deadly as poison gas. One year ago, during the first presidential candidates' debate, Bush had said, "I want to be the one to banish chemical and biological weapons from the face of the earth." The United States has in the past ac- cused the Soviets of developing bio- logical weapons. To get down to the equal stocks that Bush proposed, the Soviets would have to make deeper cuts since they are thought to have more chemical weapons on hand. Only the two superpowers acknowledge hav- ing poison gas , but Bush said more than 20 nations either possess them or are capable of producing them. USSR plans to cut military spending MOSCOW (AP) -- The Soviet Union said yesterday it will slash military spending by more than 8 percent and cut its deficit in half in a 1990 "crisis" budget made necessary by the nation's poor fiscal health. Finance Minister Valentin Pavlov used that wording as he un- veiled the proposed budget on open- ing day of the Supreme Soviet legis- lature's fall session. The session's sweeping two- month agenda of about 80 bills in- cludes proposals to radically alter some traditional ways of doing things in Soviet politics. Under dire need for more revenues and less expenses, the Kremlin plans to implement a progressive income tax for Soviets earning 700 rubles ($1,076) or more a month - more than three times the average wage- and float a $92 billion bond issue, the nation's first, to help finance new construction, Pavlov told law- makers. See SOVIET, page 2 Chatting about chemicals Students are socializing at the newest campus hot-spot, the atrium in the Dow Chemistry Building. The trees, by the way, are real. "'Less lethal weapons' kill more people, activist says by Vera Songwe Daily Minority Issues Reporter DEARBORN - Contrary to popular belief, plastic bullets are lethal, and the use of these bullets by governments around the world is increasing, speakers said yesterday during a rally to ban the weapons. While the United Nations General Assembly yesterday was debating the reduction of chemical weapons, three civil rights leaders of organizations from Northern Ireland, Palestine and South Africa spoke to a group of Dearborn residents about the dangers of plastic bullets. "Somewhere in this country some worker is making one of these and doesn't know what they are," said Bernadette Delvin McAliskey, an Irish civil rights activist, holding up a plastic bullet. "We are here to inform all that they are deadly weapons and that the manufacturers should be banned." In February, 1973, the British military used plastic bullets in ac- tion against Northern Ireland demon- strators, and the weapons became fully operational in 1975, McAliskey said, adding that they completely replaced rubber bullets. Johnathan Rosenhead, a member of the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science said, plas- tic bullets replaced rubber bullets be- cause of their increased accuracy, but they are also more dangerous. According to the Irish Post, there has been one death for every 4,000 rounds of plastic bullets as compared with one for every 18,000 rubber bullets. More recently, plastic bullets were introduced in Israel in August, 1988. Abddeen Jabara, national pres- ident of the American-Arab Anti- Discrimination Committee, said even though there has not been a surge in mass demonstrations, there has been an increase in casualties be- cause of the bullets. McAliskey said, "When soldiers fired live ammunition under strict discipline there were far less casual- ties then than now when plastic bul- lets are used with total abandon." "I object to the use of any kind of ammunition to suppress people fighting for freedom but if it had to be used," Abdeen said "they should be used according to the prescrip- tions." Plastic bullets have been used in South Africa since 1984, according to Solly Simelane, a representative of the African National Congress. The use of plastic bullets was banned by the European Parliament in 1982 and by Amnesty International, but they are still being used in South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Palestine. H appy Homecoming Sandy Smith and Bill Mitchner, residents of Sullivan Island, S.C., rejoice upon discovering that their home remained unharmed by Hurricane Hugo's devastating sweep through their island. Family-owned Stroh Brewing sold to Coors DETROIT (AP) - The sale of Stroh Brewing Company ends the independence of a 139-year-old, fam- ily-owned pillar of Detroit's business community. Coors Brewing Co.'s $425 million agreement in principle to buy the Stroh's Brewing Co. serves notice to the nation's top two beer makers that the Colorado company is to be taken seriously, company officials said Monday. Stroh said last February it wanted a partner with cash to pay off debts and come closer to matching advertising dollars with the likes of beer-market leader Anheuser- Busch Companies. By the end of August, Chairperson Peter Stroh, great-grandson of the company founder, announced there were no takers, and that Stroh was trimming support of community events and laying off 300 of its 1,500 white-collar workers. . Of those, 200 were in the company's Detroit head- quarters and the rest in its seven U.S. breweries. The company founded in 1850 by German immigrant Bernard Stroh made its last beer in Detroit in 1985. If the transaction is completed, "Stroh Brewing Co. will continue to exist, but the operating company will not," Coors Chief Executive Officer and brewing com- pany President Peter Coors said. See STROH, page 5 'U' asks fraternity council to cleanup leftover rush leaflets by Jennifer Hiri Some Ann Arbor scenes never change. Every fall, squirrels gather acorns. Leaves change colors. Students and faculty traipse back and forth acros- the Diag under the autumn sun. And the remains of taped-down fraternity rush fliers linger all over campus sidewalks, bridges, walls, and posts. This year, though, University officials have taken extra steps to remove the rubbish that many fraternities leave behind. Executive Director of University Relations Walt Harrison said he contacted Interfraternity Council (IFC) leaders last week and encouraged them to Reicin said about two-thirds of the campus fraterni- ties participated in the cleanup. Each fraternity paid a deposit of $65 to ensure that each house had representatives to participate in the cleanup. Fraternities that avoided the project were un- able to collect the deposit money. IFC Vice President David Whitman, an LSA senior, said the money collected from the deposit will be do- nated to the University to pick up campus litter. Harrison praised tIe council for acting immediately, adding that he hopes fraternity leaders will come up with other means of keeping the University clean during rush in the future. "We look for leadership in the IFC," a , am.? :: .axs:..s: ,'. . .:°yS, S5* ~y,.o3 'a a.:«' , :; ?4: y. .. ...:. . , a.. .. ' ....;: ' v.t <. . M, x'+. acea+, ...,