Page 2 -- The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 30,-1989 IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Soviets say they will not interfere in Eastern Europe WASHINGTON - The Kremlin would not object if Hungary chose to leave the Warsaw Pact or East Germany chose to teunite with Wes Germany, Soviet officials said yesterday. A senior Bush administration official expressed surprise at the com- ments, by Soviet party spokesperson Nikolai Shishlin and Foreign Min- istry spokesperson Gennadi Gerasimov. Previously, Soviet and Hungarian officials have stressed that Hungary would stay in the Kremlin-led Warsaw Pact military alliance. The Soviet statements followed a declaration by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev last week his nation had no moral right to interfere with changes underway in the Soviet bloc nations of Eastern Europe. Gorbachev also declared a willingness to dissolve the Warsaw Pact if the West disbands the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a step the Bush administration had reiected as an effort to cut U.S. influence in Europe. U.S. to continue Contra aid. WASHINGTON - Congressional leaders yesterday joined President Bush's denunciation of Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega and vowed to stand by a promise to provide humanitarian aid to the Contra rebels through next February's elections. At the same time, despite the exchange of hostilities between Bush and Ortega in Costa Rica, administration officials indicated it was unlikely they would seek a renewal of military aid for the U.S.-backed rebels at this time. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell said Ortega's threat to call off a 19-month cease-fire between his Sandinista forces and the Contras was "a very unwise move, particularly the timing of it." Mitchell called Ortega's declaration an outgrowth of a rivalry between the Nicaraguan leader and Costa Rican President Oscar Arias. A cease-fire has neverbeen formally agreed between the Sandinistas and the Contras, though Ortega has informally extended it on a monthly basis since March, 1988. Northwest settles 255 lawsuits, DETROIT - Northwest Airlines has reached tentative settlements in nearly all of the lawsuits filed against it in the wake of the August 16, 1987 crash of Flight 255, an Arizona newspaper reported yesterday. Opening arguments in the combined trial of lawsuits accusing North- west and McDonnell Douglas Corp., manufacturer of the MD-80 jet that crashed on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan airport, still are scheduled to begin Tuesday morning in U.S. District Court in Detroit. But the Arizona Republic, citing a statement issued Saturday by the U.S. District Judge Julian Cook Jr., said Northwest has settled or reached tentative settlements in most of the 157 suits originally filed against the airline. Flight 255 was bound for Phoenix when it crashed 14 seconds after takeoff from Metropolitan Airport, killing 154 of 155 people aboard the plane and two on the ground. JENNIFER DUNETZ/Daily Two of the eight student cars which, along with their former garages, were reduced to burnt debris in yesterday morning's blazes. A police investigation begins today. FIRE Continued from Page 1 the street from the Church St. fire, said he thinks he witnessed a crime. "I was walking back from the Zeta Psi (fraternity) party, up East U.," he said. "I looked to my right and from about 40 feet away I saw a guy with long, straight, brown hair, about shoulder length, squirting lighter fluid onto a dumpster fire... I came back about 15 minutes later and the garage was up in flames next to the dumpster." Schecter said the police inter- viewed him shortly after the fire yes- terday. LSA junior Gabe Karp, who Michigan Daily ARTS 763-0379 lives with Schlusser on S. Forest, said, "The fires were timed to a tee... they knew what they were doing. We have the only wood garage in the area, besides the one on Church St." In addition to the garage and six cars destroyed, Schlusser said his house's phone and cable lines were damaged. Several students also reported in- cidents of vandalism in the area. S. Forest resident Danny Klimesh said he saw "eight guys chasing four guys who grabbed metal railing next door and started smashing car win- dows on the street" at 1 a.m. yester- day. Kenneth Cochran, an LSA se- nior, said several people turned over his car near his apartment complex behind South Quad. "There were a ton of witnesses at all of these inci- dents," he said. "Hopefully, some of them will start to come forward and help the police." Congress ,proposes S - wageimeri WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats this week are dusting off a once-vetoed increase in the mini- mum wage to bolster their assault on President Bush's already tarnished "kinder, gentler" if-image. Democratic leaders want to take advantage of a stalemate in the Sen- ate over Bush's insistence upon cut- ting taxes on profits from the sale of stocks and businesses to win the first increase in the $3.35-an-hour wage floor since 1981. With women accounting for nearly two-thirds of the nation's 4 million minimum wage earners, Democrats also believe the time to strike is now, on the heels of Bush's recent vetoes of two bills that would have expanded tax-paid abortions. But they have given Bush until tomorrow to retract his "first, best and only offer" vow last spring to veto any increase in the minimum wage of more then 90 cents that is ease pian not coupled with a new, six-month subminimum scale for newly hired workers. Bush has also demanded that the wage floor not rise to $4.25 before January 1992. Democrats have scaled back their demands from the package that Bush vetoed last June, knocking off a third-year increase to $4.55 once the new wage floor is established at $4.25 in 1991. But they still want a training wage that covers only a first-time worker's first 60 days of employment. Seeking to avoid another veto confrontation, both sides have indi- cated a willingness to compromise further before a vote on the House floor Wednesday. "The issue has been greatly sim- plified, at least for a great many of us," said Sen. Pete Domenici (R- N.M.), referring to the new Demo- cratic package. "It's time to change the minimum wage; $4.25 over the next two years is agreeable to me." Michigan's lawmakers vote t C { I r s w t t d q 4 Y Q M c { t . 1 4 I The Taubman FROM C TO COI Richard Li Mary Ellen Torres Program presents... :LASSROOM RPORATION fsitz, Digital Co. , Booz, Allen & Hamilton , October 31 1- 1:00 PM om, Michigan Union . Refreshments Served rmation call 763-2584 Tuesday, October 31, 1989 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Michigan Union Graduate School and MBA Day Compar ossad coten ofproramcecunty. for hurricane and quake aid WASHINGTON - Michigan's congressional delegation voted overwhelmingly in favor of disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Hugo and the California earthquake, but some members cast negative votes to protest the way it was done. Congress approved $2.85 billion in assistance. The House vote was 321-99, while the Senate took no recorded vote. Opponents said they did not object to helping disaster victims but voted against the aid package because it was attached to a stopgap appropriations bill that will keep the government functioning .until Nov. 15. Such bills are needed when Congress fails to enact a budget by the start of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1.1 "I do not vote for continuing resolutions because I think it's ai irresponsible way to do business," said Rep. Paul Henry (R-Grand Rapids), who voted against the aid. EXTRAS Halloween ban demanded Some parents are sure that Satan lurks behind-the cardboard black cati and witches that hang from classroom walls. Armed with a recent federal ruling strengthening legal restrictions on religion in the schools, they aro demanding that Halloween be banned. Those who view the day as an excuse to dress up and drink up and give children a night to wheedle sweets may be surprised that some people be, lieve it's a religious holiday. Robert Guyer of Alachua County, Fla. gathered the signatures of about 200 parents who think the holiday is a religious celebration of Wicca, a modern witchcraft cult. Halloween apparently sprang from an ancient ceremony honoring the Celtic god of death, but in medieval England it came to be known as All Hallows' Eve, celebrated before the feast day of All Hallows, now All Saints' Day. As is the case with the pagan Christmas tree, few pay atten; tion to its religious origins. 1 Preconference highlights: Tuesday 12 Noor Considering an Advanced Degree: A Look at Where. What & I low -Representatives trom top 5cc1x1\*-Monday, October 30 reveail program flcontent C graduates' 6:00 pm.- 7:30 pm. career paths. 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