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Ninety-nine years of editorial freedom
Vol. C, No. 48 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, November 10, 1989 &
Deng gives East Germany
up last of
his formal opens borders
party obs for free travel
BEIJING (AP) - Deng " to re t ae
Xiaoping, China's senior leader, ~
passed his last formal leadership post New leader urges democratic
to his chosen successor yesterday and
the Communist Party laid out an
austere economic plan for the next y'ee ions and ot error s
two years. BERLIN (AP) - East German Schabowski did not say when the
Deng, 85, resigned as chair of the leaders said yesterday they would law would be passed and it was not
party's powerful Central Military throw open western borders and al immediately clear when the borders
Commission in favor of party chief low citizens to travel freely any- would be opened.
Jiang Zemin. He still heads the State where for the first time since the The decision, made during a
Military Commission, a virtual mir- Berlin Wall was erected in 1961. Central Committee meeting, means
ror of the party group, but said in a The move would end decades of all East Germans "can travel over all
letter released yesterday he also restrictions for East Germans regard- East German border checkpoints,
would leave that job.z ing their movement between East including through the Berlin Wall,
The move solidifies Jiang's posi-"k and West and could leave the wall as Schabowski told reporters in East
tion and appears at least to suspend a "' a mere monument to the Cold War. Berlin.
reported power struggle between him Since 1961, 191 people are known Those who want to emigrate can
and President Yang Shangkun. to have died while attempting to go to West Germany directly with-
Jiang, 63, had not held a national cross the border to the West. out having to go through a third
post until his elevation to party '"Open the gate! Open the gate!" country, Schabowski said. In the
leader after the pro-democracy JUUE HOLLMAN/DaiIy chanted about 100 East Berliners past few months, East Germans were
movement was crushed in June. Michigan defensive tackles Mike Evans and Chris Hutchinson chased Purdue quaterback Eric Hunter out of the who gathered last night at the leaving through Czechoslovakia,
In Washington, Richard pocket last weekend The tandom will look to do the same thing this Saturday against Illinois QB Jeff George. Brandenburg Gate, the huge monu- Hungary and Poland.
Solomon, the assistant secretary of ment just over the Berlin Wall in Schabowski said those who only
state for East Asian affairs, said the M ich ig a n a n d Ill nfac e r East Berlin. want to visit the West need visas,
United States was not surprised by MhIg a n a n III n o Is a co f New Communist leader Egon which should be issued quickly. He
Deng's move and added, "I suspect Krenz also urged a law ensuring free mentioned no limit on the length of
he will remain an influence." a and democratic elections. stay abroad.
"You could say that the change a gm e1Lh a t snells o f ro se s More than 200,000 East Germans The offices that issue travel visas
wouldn't have occurred if there' a ihave fled west so far this year; more closed for the night by the time
wasn't a certain element of stability by Adam Benson Illinois. He felt it was a great opportunity for me and he than 50,000 have left since Saturday Schabowski made the historic an-
there," Solomon commented. Daily Football Wrifer really felt that if I came back to college football that I alone. Hundreds of thousands of nouncement, and it was not known
Foreign diplomats and Chinese Forget the battle for the Big Ten championship and a could.be successful and that college football might even people have taken to the streets to whether visas would be issued at
sources agree Deng is likely to re-brhi h oeBw ihgnIliossi ebte.Ilsee
main the leading voice in party and berth in the Rose Bowl. Tomorrow's Michigan-Illinois suit me better. I listened quite closely while we talked demand democratic reforms and the border crossing. There were no im-
govnmt affairs, as h be as ben game will be for the bragging rights to Barberton, about that." end of 40 years of one-party rule. mediate reports of East Germans
go vernavment i sth s hehas bn OhioThe coaches share more common qualities than just Guenter Schabowski, a member pouring directly into West Berlin or
siCentral Committee in 1987. Barberton spawned two of America's finest coaches, the same hometov. n. Lach coach developed winning of the ruling Politburo, said East-West Germany.
Although Deng described Jiang as Michigan's Bo Schembechler and Illinois' John teams with suffocating defenses, experienced quarterback Germany's heavily fortified frontier East Germans reacted to the news
the "ucleus'ofthenewleadehisMackovich.leadership and consistently powerful running attacks. with West Germany would be with astonishment and jubilation.
yleader's political "Bo and I have had a great relationship," said the "If you look at us statistically, there are quite a few opened as a provisional step until a "Now I no longer feel locked in
rtne are tied toDeng's physical Illini's second year coach. "He was especially quite similarities," Mackovich said. "We're probably a law is passed to allow East Germans here," said Uwe Landgraf, who hoped
health. instrumental in being positive about my coming to See ILLINI, page 13 greater freedom of travel. to travel to Paris.
L o w \1r P LH V
Anti-discrimination policy opponents face obstacles
by Noah Finkel
Daily Administration Reporter
Daily News Analysis
The Michigan Student Assembly
hosted a forum discussion
Wednesday evening titled: "Do you
want your opinion to count on the
interim discriminatory harassment
policy?"
The student body's answer: a re-
sounding "no."
Only about 80 students attended
the forum, and many of those were
members of MSA or other student
groups represented at the forum.
LSA junior Nick Mavrick, chair
of MSA's Student Rights
Commission, admitted that while
dent input into permanent anti-dis-
crimination rules.
Students who have shown an interest in the
policy cannot speak with anything resembling
a unified voice. Students are of two distinctly
different minds on the issue.
Some students and student orga-
nizations remain opposed to any
anti-discrimination policy. Among
these are the campus branch of the
American Civil Liberties Union and
both the College Democrats and
College Republicans.
These groups are the remnant
vestiges of the old "no code" coali-
tion of student activists, who op-
posed any academic sanctions for
non-academic conduct. They see any
University anti-discrimination rules
as a suppression of free speech.
Third-year law student James
Marsch, a member of the College
Democrats, said at the forum,
"Suppression of expression conceals
the real problems in society... and
are mere band-aids on a pervasive
problem."
Conversely, some students and
student groups have criticized the in-
terim anti-discrimination rules not
because they suppress speech, but
because they are not broad enough.
Included among these are the more
prominent anti-bigotry organizations
on campus, such as the Black
Student Union, the United Coalition
Against Racism, and the Lesbian and
Gay Men's Rights Organizing
Committee.
These organizations see the in-
terim policy as too narrow and
would like to see the permanent pol-
icy include sanctions against those
who issue epithets aimed at groups,
not just for those who attack indi-
viduals.
"We have to understand that there
is such a thing as group discrimina-
tion," said LSA sophomore Devlin
Ponte of the BSU.
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the "panel was fairly representative,
the student turnout was underrepre-
sented" at the forum.
Student apathy is not the only
problem plaguing student leaders,
who are dedicated to increasing stu-
And those students who have
shown an interest in the policy can-
not speak with anything resembling
a unified voice. Students are of two
distinctly different minds on the is-
sue.
Thousands head to D.C.
.rally for abortion rights
by Jennifer Miller agreed to hear this year. in cars, addin
Daily Staff Writer Dotnint fr..rn Ann.. Ar..Lnr.. --I ~ -
to
g up to around 200
A A ( T% A D -..U-
Hundreds of Ann Arbor students
and workers are heading to Washing-
ton, D.C. today and tomorrow to
join tens of thousands of pro-choice
demonstrators gathering for the sec-
ond "Mobilization for Women's
Lives" sponsored by the National
Organization of Women.
The abortion rally, from noon
until 4 p.m. on Sunday, will "try
and send a message out to President
Bush, the Congress, and ourselves
that we will not tolerate the disman-
tling of Roe v. Wade," said Jennifer
Radin, NOW's college campuses or-
ganizer and a graduate of Amherst
College.
Demonstrators will focus on in-
fluencing the Supreme Court and
Participants from Ann Arbor
"will look to take part in great activ-
ities nationally and organize groups
to work together for abortion
rights," said Rebecca Barlow, the
rally organizer from Ann Arbor's
Committee to Defend Abortion
Rights (AACDAR).
Radin said it is hard to tell if
this event will draw more Ann Arbor
residents than the pro-choice demon-
strations in April. "A lot more peo-
ple are driving than taking the NOW
sponsored buses, so it is impossible
to get an accurate count yet," said
Radin.
"At least 1,000 people from
Michigan are going and for every
person in Washington there will be
iw to threea hck home fighting for
people, said AAUAR member
Paul Carmouche.
The Ann Arbor buses and car-
pools are leaving from today until
early tomorrow morning.
NOW is encouraging participa-
tion from college students, since col-
lege-age women have the most abor-
tions. "And they have 35 years of
reproductive life ahead of them that
the Supreme Court and other institu-
tions are trying to mess around
with," Radin added.
"It is our time, our turn, and our
responsibility to get out and protect
our rights. Our parents and grandpar-
ents have been fighting for these
rights for years and now it is up to
us to make sure they are not all
inct " Rndin eid
Vandals
smash
cabinet
in dorm
by Liz Paige
A glass showcase in East Quad-
rangle containing artworks from the
Voices of Women of Color exhibit
was vandalized yesterday morning.
The cabinet, in the hallway out-
side the Residential College Offices
in East Quad, was "smashed by un-
known suspects," according to secu-
rity officers. The artworks them-
selves were not damaged.
The Housing Security officers
who took the report said that the
damage occurred between 5:10 and
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