0 Page 2 --The Michigan Daily -- Wednesday, November 15, 1989 German e BERLIN (AP) - The opening of East Ger- many's borders has exposed troubling economic hazards for both Germanys. The sight of millions of East Germans visit- ing West Berlin gives a hint of the onslaught that could result if living standards fail to rise to meet the growing expectations of East Germans. East Germany fears being further impover- ished by West Germans using hard-currency clout to buy up property or subsidized goods in an ac- cessible Eastern market. But Deutsche Bank chair Alfred Herrhausen predicts that with market-oriented reforms, "I'm convinced that East Germany can reach our West- ern living standards within the next five to 10 years. Herrhausen's forecast and Bonn's promise of massive aid in the style of the postwar Marshall Plan demonstrate the strength of West German interest in rebuilding the East German economy. But even with the best intentions, the East German problems may be insurmountable. conomy faces hazards East Germans can rarely be reached by phone considerably since the Stalinist controls on travel from the West because the hopelessly insufficient fell Thursday, but Bonn recognizes the risks in- network is subject to breakdowns and equipment volved if reforms should fail. shortages. Consumers wait years to buy smoke-spewing Economics Minister Helmut Hausmann yes- Trabant and Wartburg cars that are the butt of terday offered an aid package for East Germany if jokes in West Germany, where the wheels of the new leadership converts to a market system. preference are the luxury Mercedes and BMW. But a leading East German economist, Karl Mor- Fresh fruit is seldom more than a memory in genstern, said a free-market system is not the winter. Refrigerators, TVs and VCRs can cost goal of his socialist state. several months' salary and break down two weeks Reform-oriented leaders in East Berlin have later. not indicated how or when they will consider the Euphoria over travel freedom could quickly critical step toward conversion to a hard-currency give way to frustration as East Germans discover system. firsthand the vast difference between their Because the state needs to generate enough lifestyles and that of their western neighbors. hard currency to buy priority equipment and And West Germany's constitutionally man- commodities, it is forced to sell goods for export dated practice of granting citizenship to ethnic at only 15 percent of the cost of production, Fi- Germans keeps the door wide open to permanent nance Minister Ernst Hoefner disclosed Monday. settlement in the West. Limited hard currency also puts up an effec- More than 200,000 East Germans have fled to tive ban on travel to the West in the place of the West Germany this year. The deluge has ebbed physical one removed. DEADLINE Continued from Page 1 ability to overcome differences. "For me, this has been the best work I've done in terms of faculty and students," said U-Council member Harry McLaughlin, the Director of Academic Services for the Physical Education Division. McLaughlin has served on the council for more than three years. U-Council member Tom Croxton, a Social Work professor, said the council should disseminate its recently completed protest enforcement guidelines. He said the regents may find it more difficult to abolish the council if its work is widely known. "The edge will be taken off that confrontation by presenting a decent document," Dolgon said of the December meeting. U-Council Co-chair Jens Zorn, a physics professor, said the University needs the council. "(The administrators) need help in running this very difficult organization." Dolgon agreed, saying the recent court ruling striking down the University's anti-discrimatory harassment policy shows the need for the council. Under bylaw 7.02, the University cannot take action on an issue that U-Council is considering. "We've watched what happens when the administration acted too quickly," Dolgon said. He added that the council could give "the kind of care and caution" needed to review policy. AID Continued from Page 1 German party that is allied with the Communists but shows signs of in- dependence, said pro-democracy groups should be invited in "round- table" talks about East German's fu- ture. Discussions this spring between Polish authorities and Solidarity, which were given that name, led to a non-Communist government in Poland. Mayor Walter Momper of West Berlin said the sudden opening of East Germany's borders was creating traffic jams, currency problems and other economic difficulties the two governments must resolve. Economics Minister Helmut Haussmann of West Germany an- nounced a six-point aid plan includ- ing investments, joint ventures and modernizing East Germany's dilapi- dated communications and transport systems. Haussmann did not name a figure for the aid and said East Germany must achieve "thorough change" in its centrally directed economy. Reforms promised so far by Communist Party leader Egon Krenz, who took over last month from hard-liner Erich Honecker, have resulted in more questions than an- swers, Haussmann said in Bonn. He compared his proposal to the Marshall Plan devised by Secretary of State George Marshall, which provided more than $12 billion in American aid in 1948-51 to help Eu- rope recover from the war. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports SWAPO wins majority vote WINDHOEK, Namibia - The Black nationalist movement that fought South African rule for 23 years won a solid majority yesterday in national elections but will have to bargain with rival parties in drafting a new constitution. Namibians voted from Tuesday through Saturday for a 72-member assembly that will draft a constitution and declare independence for Namibia after 74 years of South African rule. The South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) won 57 percent of the 670,830 ballots cast, according to results announced yesterday. The Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, a multiracial coalition that favors a capitalist economy, finished second with 29 percent of the votes. The United Democratic Front won four seats, followed by the conservative, all-white Action Christian National, with three. The Federal Convention of Namibia, National Patriotic Front and the Namibia National Front each won a single seat. Bush salutes European change WASHINGTON - President George Bush declared his confidence yes- terday that "Europe will some day be whole and free," saluting a decision by Czechoslovakia to ease travel restrictions as just one more sign. Bush said he was not concerned about the dizzying pace of change sweeping Eastern Europe. "I don't think it's moving too fast and I don't know of anybody in my administration that feels that it's moving too fast." The White House said the administration was reviewing development in Eastern Europe with an eye toward "changing relationships and new policies and programs." "There are large issues of East-West relations, of the NATO-Warsaw Pact's future, of the status of the Soviet empire as these countries change their relationship with the Soviet Union," White House press secretary Marlon Fitzwater said. State urges schools to begin, early AIDS education plan DETROIT - State educators are taking a different tack to control the spread of AIDS, recommendingthat AIDS education programs begin in kindergarten. The Michigan Department of Education began urging local school dis- tricts last spring to adopt an the optional Michigan Model Comprehensive Health Program, a curriculum developed to teach kindergarten-through- eighth-grade students about a variety of health issues, including acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The program begins with basic lessons on preventing the spread of communicable diseases. Children learn to cover their mouths after they sneeze and wash their hands before eating. "Then we add AIDS, telling them that it, too, is a communicable dis- ease," said Patricia Nichols of the state Department of Education. "But we make sure they know they can't catch it from a door knob or the water fountain." While Michigan only recommends the program, four other states have mandated it. MSU allows $4.8 million in COUNCIL Continued from Page 1 "These folks aren't rowing the canoe alone," he said. MSA, SACUA, and the Provost will nominate the speech board's three members and three alternates to Duderstadt, who will then make the appointments. The policy encourages mediation between event sponsors and protesters both before and after the speaking engagement. s U-Council member Harry McLaughlin, Director of Academic Services of the Physical Education Division, said he thinks the provision for pre-event mediation is crucial for equity for both sides. He said it was "a way of attempting to address the fact that it is known there are opposite views in the com- munity. The event's organizers should allow for that." U-Council Co-chair Corey Dolgon, a Rackham graduate student, stressed that pre-event mediation was encouraged but not required. If post-event mediation fails, the complaint will go to one of two hearing panels. One hearing panel deals with milder sanctions, such as community service, while the other handles more serious sanctions such as expulsion. The latter will handle only extreme or repeated violations. American Civil Liberties Union Vice President Mike Schechter questioned the "whole premise" of a speech policy. "You can't punish someone for free speech. That's unconstitutional." Schechter specifically questioned the ability of three people to determine speech violations. "It's completely ludicrous that you're supposed to have three people decide what's free speech," Schechter said. "Unless they have legal training, I wouldn't trust them." Zorn said he hopes MSA, SACUA and the administration will return suggestions to the council by the end of the month, U-council faces a December deadline to prove its effectiveness to the regents. ! fTT71M AT,,w .... MSA Continued from Page 1 not been present at MSA meetings for nearly a month due to family obligations, and has missed two weeks of school. "We have been expecting it," said Music School Rep. Laura Sankey. "She was a great VP. It will be sad without her." LSA Rep. Susan Langnas said, "It is going to hurt the Assembly. She was a wonderful person. She was always open - always kept a happy tone to things." In other business, MSA approved a resolution supporting a bill in the U.S. Congress which would allow Chinese students to stay in the United States because of the recent events in China. um News in The Daily 764-0552 I - SPRING TERM .IN NEW *HAMPSHIRE 0 ... k bww CINEMA DIRECTDRY m UVI"Lw-a NEW ENGLAND LITERATURE PROGRAM Earn credit as you study Thoreau, Emerson, Frost, Hawthorneein their native habitat. eMASS MEETING & SLIDE SHOW* Thursday, November 16, 8:00 p.m. Aud. C Angell Hall FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CALL 761-9579...BETWEEN 8&10 a.m. TI/EQOFFEELINK LIKE 5 5? 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Stephen Terry, assistant vice president for finance at Michigan State, said the university is tightening up procedures to make sure deans and de- partment officials with responsibility for spending proceeds from the school's 320 endowments report their plans for use of the money. EXTRAS Spanish cook-off draws thousands of veggie fans CRYSTAL CITY, Texas - It's every kid's worst nightmare: a spinach cook-off. The culinary countdown is part of the Crystal City Spinach Festival, an annual event that draws thousands to this South Texas town of about 8,500. They're welcomed by -who else? - Popeye. An 8-foot concrete statue of the spinach-chomping cartoon sailor sits in front of City Hall, symbolizing Crystal City's love affair with the dark green leafy stuff. "We're expecting 50,000," said Bella Delgado, a spokesperson of the Crystal city Spinach Festival Association. "They come from all over the world. I don't know why, they just come." 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