East
Germans
still seek
freedom
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (AP)
- Hundreds of East Germans ig-
nored spreading illness and pouring
rain yesterday as they crowded into
the West German Embassy com-
pound to press their demands to em-
irate.
"I leave here only to the West or
in a coffin," said one woman.
Newcomers scaled the fence of the
embassy garden, and refugees told
reporters that at noon yesterday,
about 1,500 were inside the embassy
compound.
The East German government
Tuesday offered them guaranteed em-
igration with impunity within six
months if they would return home,
but only 177 people accepted the of-
fer.
The situation was expected to
worsen after a soccer match last
night in the Czechoslovakian city of
Ostrava that drew hundreds of East
German fans. Many of them were
expected to head to the embassy,
about 175 miles from Ostrava, rather
than go back across the border.
At midnight September 10,
jungary opened its border to Austria
for the East Germans. Since then,
more than 20,000 have crossed over
en route to West Germany, where
: hey are given automatic citizenship.
West German Foreign Minister
Hans Dietrich Genscher was sched-
uled to meet with his East German
colleague, Oskar Fischer, at the
OUnited Nations in New York yester-
day and the refugee situation was ex-
pected to be on the agenda.
Genscher told the U.N. General
Assembly yesterday that reforms in
East Germany would open new
prospects and encourage people to
stay there.
Several hundred beds were made
available yesterday to accommodate
*the swelling crowd in the Prague
embassy. Conditions were deteriorat-
ing for the East Germans, housed
mainly in Red Cross tents.
The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 28, 1989- Page 3
Soviets open up
launch center to
foreign r
PLESETSK SPACE CENTER,
USSR (AP) - The Soviets ended
decades of secrecy yesterday by open-
ing the world's busiest spaceport to
foreign journalists and revealing one
of the worst disasters of the space
age: the 1980 explosion of a Vostok
rocket during fueling that killed 50
people.
Moscow based correspondents
were invited to this military facility
set among birch forests and lakes
530 miles north of the Soviet capital
to observe back-to-back launches of
a Soviet Molniya television satellite
and an East Bloc research probe de-
signed to reveal secrets of the secrets
of the ionosphere.
The officially sanctioned trip to
the spaceport in northwestern Russia
- whose existence was acknowl-
edged by the Soviets only five years
ago - was further proof of the in-
creased candor in Soviet society as
well as the space establishment's
pursuit of foreign clients and funds.
"This is a time of openness and
we have to make everything known
that was hidden before, like how
space has been mastered and what
scientific results are being obtained,"
said Army Lt. General Ivan I.
Oleinik, the space center's comman-
der. He added, "We need to learn how
to count money."
To help their space program yield
bigger commercial dividends, the
Soviets are hunting for foreign part-
eporters
ners in space. In April, the first
commercial payload was launched at
Plesetsk for the French firm Matra.
Last month, a West German consor-
tium's experiment to grow protein
crystals in orbit was launched.
The growing commercialization
and resulting welcome given for-
eigners at Plesetsk is something new
in the history of the base, founded in
1957 as a top-secret launch site for
Soviet military missiles that would
be relatively near U.S. targets on the
other side of the North Pole.
In his annual report on the Soviet
space program, Nicolas Johnson of
Teledyne Brown Engineering said
that by 1987, the number of
launches into space from Plesetsk
had reached 1,1 59 - more than all
total U.S., European, Japanese and
Chinese space launches combined.
Under the Kremlin's openness
policy, stunning revelations have
been made about failures in the
Soviet space program, including the
1960 explosion of an ICBM that
killed the head of Soviet missile
forces, Field Marshal Mitrofan
Nedelin, and 53 others at the famous
Soviet space center Baikonutr, home
of the country's manned space pro-
gram.
Also, on March 18, 1980, a two-
stage booster rocket exploded while
being fueled on the launch pad.
Forty-five people were burned to
death.
DAVID LUBLINERiDAILY
Singin' and strummin'
Martin Tury performs his own songs for his friend Dianne on State Street.
'U' teachers, Detroi
publish inner-city w
by Michael Paul Fischer
"Who says kids can't write and
learn in the Detroit Public Schools?"
asks Toby Curry.
To prove wrong such defeatist
attitudes toward inner-city education,
the Detroit teacher helped develop an
alternative "whole language" school
in the city's beleaguered Cass
Corridor. The results of its newest
effort, the Dewey Center
Community Writing Project, are to
be celebrated today at a publication
party for a new anthology of stories,
poems and essays.
Titled Corridors: Stories from
Inner-City Detroit, the book will be
presented from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight
in the auditorium of the Dewey
Center, located at 3550 John C.
Lodge near the Jeffries Homes in the
Cass Corridor.
Through the use of desktop
computer systems, the book was
written, edited and published by 30
Detroit fifth- through seventh-grade
students over a three-week period
this summer. Working with seven
teachers from Detroit schools and the
University of Michigan, students
like eighth-grader Julia Pointer
interviewed long-time area residents,
visited local sites, and wrote about
their experiences.
"What I liked about this project,"
Pointer said, "was the way
everything made me feel like a real
knowing my story will be read in a
book that lots of people will read."
Teacher Dave Schaafsma, a
tkids
. "
ritings
University English instructor and
Program Co-Director, has worked
previously at high schools in
Saginaw and rural Rogers City,
Mich., helping students to achieve
this sense of empowerment through
collaborative engagement.
"The writing in Corridors," said
Schaafsma, "demonstrates what
excellent writing kids can do... when
teachers can devote the time to take
their work seriously."
Based on the success of this
summer's program - funded by the
Michigan . Council for the
Humanites, the DeRoy Testamentary
Foundation, and various University
agencies - its resources are expected
to further reach students by
expanding into a second site next
year.
Car hits woman on,
State Street corner
A white 1985 Mercury Topaz hit
a pedestrian at the corner of State and
Washington Streets at approximately
4:00 yesterday afternoon.
According to eye-witness reports,
Rosemary Bathhurst stepped out
from between two cars to cross the
street, and was struck by Ann Arbor
resident Lynn Everett, the driver of
the white Topaz.
"I looked up and there she was
right in front of the car," Everett
said. "I almost swerved into the
parked car at the curb, but it hap-
pened so fast. I just hope that she's
alright."
E.M.S. arrived on the scene al-
most immediately, and after apply-
ing a leg splint, put Bathhurst onto
a stretcher and rushed her to the
University Medical Center.
Aaron Levitt, an eye-witness,
said that Bathhurst appeared to be
coherent and not seriously injured.
correction
A quote was wrongly attributed to the Michigan Student Assembly's
Minority Affairs Committee Chair Delro Harris. The quote should have
been attributed to MSA representative Mike Donovan.
THE
LIST
What's happening in Ann Arbor today
Meetings
Undergraduate Political
Science Association - mass
meeting; 7 p.m. at the Pendleton
Rm. in the Union
Campus Crusade for Christ-
meets from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Kel-
logg Auditorium Rm. 6005, enter
in the Dental School
Palestine Solidarity
Committee - meets at 7:30
p.m. in the Lounge of the
International Center of West Quad
Women of the University
Faculty - Ninfa Springer
(School of Nursing) speaks on
"The Philippines: Pearl of the
Orient"; dinner ($6) will be served
at 5:30; lecture at 7:30; at Glacier
Hills on 1200 Earhart Rd.
Speakers
"What We Found Beneath the
Ceremonial Plaza at Colka,
Belize" - a brown- bag lecture
by Richard Lesure; sponsored by
the Museum of Anthropology;
noon to 1 p.m. in Rm. 2009 of
the Ruthven Museums Bldg.
"Are the Samurai Descended
from the Ainu?" - a brown-
bag lecture with C. Loring Brace
professor of Anthropology); noon
in the Lane Hall Commons Room
"Biology, Economics, &
Politics-Conflicting Variables
in Management Decisions for
the Pollock Fisheries,
America's and the world's
Largest Fishery" - with Mr.
Pierre Dawson; 3 p.m. in Rm.
1046 of the Dana Bldg.
M L iehler and Tnhn Cinl1air__
Students of Objectivism; 8 p.m.
at Angell Hall Aud. A
Steve Osmund plays the
"stick" and electric guitar -
12:15 p.m. in the Pendleton Rm.
Career Planning & Placement
programs -
Intro. to CP&P from 2:10-2:30,
CP&P library; International
brown-bag lunch with Dr. Kari
Lindstrom; sponsored by the
Labor Studies Center; noon to 2
p.m. in Rm. 3026 in the School
of Public Health
Jamaica Kincaid - the author
reads from her work; 5 p.m. in the
Rackham Amphitheater; reception
will follow
"The World's Smallest Light
Source: Optical Microscopy
with Atomic Resolution, In-situ
Gene Sequencing and
Molecular Memories" - with
Prof. R. Kopelman (Chem.
Dept.); 4 p.m. in Rm. 1640 of the
Chem. Bldg.
Furthermore
China Song: a concert of music,
and poetry - the program sup-
ports the Chinese People's
Movement for Democracy; 7:30
p.m. at the First Unitarian Uni-
versalistChurch (1917 Washte-
naw); $5 donation
Proctor & Gamble pre-inter-
view - 6-8 p.m. in 1003 EECS
Wig & Mol Triffid - music at
the Club Heidelberg (215 N.
Main)
"Steps toward De-escalating
the Military Economy"
Wrm.-' Tnn. -atn: Al n i- fr-
Michigan Alumni work here:
The Wall Street Journal
The New York Times
The Washington Post
The Detroit Free Press
The Detroit News
NBC Sports
Because they worked here.
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