Democrats
pleased by
victories
*of Blacks
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Democratic Party establishment on
Capitol Hill stood beaming
Thursday with L. Douglas Wilder
and David Dinkins, clearly pleased to
have mainstream elected officials
moving into a spotlight once held
exclusively by Jesse Jackson.
"Americans are prepared to accept
candidates on the basis of their indi-
vidual talent," said Senate Majority
leader George Mitchell (D-Maine).
Wilder and Dinkins needed strong
support from white voters and they
got it by concentrating on running
campaigns that stressed mainstream
positions on issues. Both cam-
paigned as fiscal conservatives who
were tough on law and order ques-
Stions.
And both kept Jesse Jackson at
arms length.
Never totally comfortable with
Jackson, establishment Democrats
dive for cover when he becomes in-
volved with left-wing leaders around
the world. Only a week before the
1989 elections, President Daniel
Ortega of Nicaragua called Jackson
to ask him to intervene with
President Bush to obtain support for
disbanding the Contra forces.
Democratic Party leaders can rest
easy, aware that neither Wilder nor
Dinkins is likely to get any phone
calls from Ortega.
a Other 1989 election winners were
present, like House members who
won contests throughout the year to
fill vacancies, but most of the atten-
tion was on Wilder and Dinkins,
,/ho scored racial breakthroughs on
Tuesday.
While his Republican opponent
had yet to concede and a recount was
likely, Wilder was claiming victory
ih the race for governor of Virginia,
a triumph that would make him the
first black elected governor of any
state.
Dinkins is the first black elected
mrayor of New York City.
In both cases, the margin of vic-
tory was smaller than many polls
had predicted, a result that prompted
speculation that race remains a po-
tent issue in American politics.
Democratic Party chair Ronald
Brown, the first black to head a ma-
jor party, dismissed the speculation
as ridiculous.
Brown said, "The fact is that we
Whave elected a Democratic mayor of
the city of New York, who happens
to be Black, and we've elected a
Democratic governor of the state of
Virginia, who happens to be Black."
Even as Wilder and Dinkins cele-
brated their triumphs, talk turned to
what impact their emergence would
have on Jackson, the two-time presi-
dential candidate who has been
*largely unchallenged as the most
prominent Black in politics.
"If we're members of the same
team, does it matter who scored the
touchdown?" Jackson said. "If we're
members of the same team, if we
win the championship, all of us get

the ring."

The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 10, 1989 - Page 3
Religions have differing
views on abortion issue

by Vera Songwe
Daily Minority Issues Reporter
Even though the abortion issue is
at the forefront of political debate,
many area clergy consider it a moral
and legal question, rather than a po-
litical one.
"It is not a political question.
According to Jewish law it is a
moral and legal issue," said Rabbi
Rod Glogower. "But different
movements within Judaism have dif-
ferent views on the issue," he added.
"It is a very complicated view; if
the mother's life is in danger then
Jewish law teaches that the mother's
life comes first," said Glogower.
His views state that "the fetus,
although a potential human being, is
not a person until birth and so the,
issue of having an abortion becomes
a little different."
"Abortion is not murder because
the fetus is not altogether a potential
human being until time of birth,"
Glogower said. "But on the other
hand, the feminist claim that it has
to do with a woman solely is prob-
lematic because potential life cannot
be snuffed away unless you can.
establish very good reasons for it,"
he said.
But while Judaism does not cate-
goricallyassert that a fetus is "life,"
other religions have set notions
about when life begins, making the
issue of abortion even more contro-
versial.
"We (the Catholic Church) be-
lieve that life begins at the moment
of conception," said Father William
Stevenson of the St. Mary's Student
Chapel. "Anytime you do violence

to human life we consider it to be
gravely wrong," he added.
"When you have a Catholic who
is really pro-choice I think that their
Catholicism is flawed," said Father
Stevenson. "I think their conscience
is in error."
Carl Geider, a minister of admin-
istration at the First Presbyterian
Church objects to the Catholic view.
"If you honor the theologians in
the early church you would reach a
different conclusion," he said, ex-
plaining the Presbyterian belief that
life begins at birth.
Geider said women ought to have
the opportunity of an abortion
whether or not it was life threaten-
ing.
"A woman can choose either to
keep the fetus or to have an abor-
tion," he said. "The woman ought to
have that right."
"In the Presbyterian church it is
an open issue within the church and
we recognize the right for people to
disagree," he said. The essence of the
Presbyterian doctrine is giving peo-
ple the right to decide for them-
selves, Geider said. "You can be
Presbyterian and have differing views
on abortion."
The Islamic religion mirrors
closely the Catholic church's percep-
tion of abortion.
"In Islam we do not believe in
complete freedom. We are bound by
what God has dictated in the Ko-
ran.We might look into the reasons
why it is forbidden but we cannot
choose whether we like it or not and
still be Moslem," said Umar Al-
Qadi, an executive at the Islamic

Center in Ann Arbor. "You can't be
a complete Moslem if you belong to
pro-choice. The same will be the
case if you believed the fetus' life is
paramount to the mothers."
Because of the differing views on
abortion, the religions have different
opinions as to whether the state
should or should not legislate it.
The Catholic Church believes
abortion should be outlawed
outright, while the Episcopal and
Presbyterian churches think it should
not.
'in Islam we do not
believe in complete
freedom. We are
bound by what God
has dictated in the
Koran.
Islamic Center executive
Umar Al-Qadi
The general convention of Epis-
copal ministers adopted a resolution
on abortion in 1976 stating, "The
Episcopal church does not agree with
state intervention in the woman's
right to have an abortion."
"It is the total responsibility of
the woman," said Harvey Guthrie,
rector of St. Andrews Episcopal
Church.
Likewise, Presbyterian minister
Gieder said, "The issue is a moral
one and state should not interfere."
Moslem belief according to Al-
Qadi in the Koran dictates that the
state should not interfere with moral
matters; that it should be a religious
rather than legal decision.

JULIE HOLLMAN/Daily
The Iceman Cometh
Larry Henderson delivers ice cream to Baskin Robbins on South
University. It is a little known fact that ice cream comes in boxes packed
in those weird, static styrofoam things which hamsters like to nest in.
House passes defense
bill after much debate

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -
The House on Thursday approved a
$305 billion defense bill that would
cut President Bush's request for Star
Wars by $1.1 billion, the first bud-
get reduction in the program in six
years.
"I'm very unhappy with the final
product. We made too severe a cut in
the SDI budge line," said Rep.
William Dickinson of Alabama,
ranking Republican on the House
Armed Services Committee, about
the Strategic Defense Initiative pop-
ularly known as Star Wars.
"We cut in the wrong places. We
played politics with this bill," said
Dickinson, who nevertheless voted
in favor of it.
By a vote of 236-172, the
Democratic-controlled House adopted
legislation to provide many of the
funds Bush sought for the MX and
Midgetman nuclear missiles and the
B-2 stealth bomber. Money was also
restored to four of the ten conven-
tional programs the president tried to
kill.
Among the provisions is the
$4.3 billion for the B-2, $430 mil-
lion less than the administration re-
quested for the fiscal year that began
October 1.
The bat-winged aircraft has come
under attack on Capitol Hill for its
expensive pricetag of about $530
million a copy. The bill provides
money for two bombers in fiscal
1990, one less than the administra-
tion sought. However, the legisla-

tion accepts Bush's proposal for
components for five bombers in fis-
cal 1991.
The bill provides $3.8 billion for
Star Wars, about $279 million less
than was spent in fiscal 1989 and the
first decrease since President Reagan
proposed the anti-missile shield six
years ago. Bush had sought $4.9 bil-
lion for the program.
Approximately $1.1 billion is
included for two land-based nuclear
missiles: the multiple warhead, rail-
garrison MX and the single-warhead,
truck-based Midgetman. The bill
trims about $150 million from the
administration's request for the two
weapons and adds House language
imposing a 50-missile cap on the
MX.
Both proponents and opponents
found fault with the bill, but grudg-
ingly accepted the result of nearly
two months of contentious negotia-
tions between the House and Senate
on widely divergent defense
blueprints approved this summer.
"This is the last deficit-driven de-
fense budget. What we're likely to
face next year is the first in a series
of Gorbachev-driven defense bud-
gets," said Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wis.),
chair of the House Armed Services
Committee.

Pentagon accuses Soviets of using
lasers to damage eyesight of aviators

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S.
officials suspect the Soviets of
shooting lasers at American planes
in the Pacific recently, damaging the
eyesight of an Air Force crewman in
one of four incidents, Pentagon offi-
cials said yesterday.
An agreement signed last summer
by top U.S. and Soviet military of-
ficials is designed to avoid such mil-
itary encounters, but it does not go
into effect until January. Pentagon
officials said privately they were
dismayed that such incidents could
be continuing in the meantime.
At a Pentagon briefing, spokes-
person Pete Williams said two
Soviet vessels "may have" aimed
lasers at U.S. aircraft on October
17th, October 28th, and in two
separate incidents on November 1st
over waters off Hawaii.
Asked whether the matter affected
U.S.-Soviet ties, the spokesperson
said, "I will not characterize the inci-
dent beyond describing it."
The afflicted U.S. crewman, a

loadmaster aboard an HC-130 air-
craft, suffered disruption of his color
vision, headaches, and other visual
problems and is under medical evalu-
ation, the Pentagon sources said.
The crewman had been wearing
"laser eye protection" gear at the

time, and U.S. officials are also in-
vestigating why the damage could
occur despite that equipment, the
sources said.
Lasers are sometimes used as
rangefinders to target enemy aircraft.
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First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor Presents
Alessandro Scarlatti's
St. Cecilia Mass of 1720
Chancel Choir and Orchestra
Donald Bryant, conductor Marilyn van der Velde, organist
Carol Janssen, harpsichordist
Soloists
Julia Broxholm, soprano Steven Kronour, tenor
Laura Lamport, soprano Philip Pierson, bass
Sally Carpenter, contralto

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