Page 2- The Michigan Daily --Thursday, January 25, 1990 EDUCATION Continued from page 1 would make education funding 10 Percent of the general fund budget, -which was estimated at about $7.5 'billion, up about 4.6 percent from the current year. According to Senate Republicans, .the proposal would mean $750 mil- .lion in general fund money for kindergarten-through-12th grade ,schools, $233 million for commu- ,nity colleges, and $1.255 billion for -higher education. Republicans said the increase could be funded by nor- mal growth in the general fund. Currently, the $7.3 billion gen- eral fund budget includes about $688 tnillion for school aid, $212.5 mil- ion for community colleges, and $,1.196 billion for higher education. DeGrow said schools would actu- ,a ly get about a 12 percent increase in general fund money under the Se- pate proposal. But because sales tax nd lottery revenues are slumping, and Social Security and retirement costs are up, the net increase would be 5 percent, he said. Keeping fit Jen Corbet, a graduate student in the School of Natural Resources, works out on a rowing ergometer at the CCRB. Police parole man who burned son BUENA PARK, Calif. (AP) - David Rothenburg will never forgive his father for setting him on fire, saying yesterday's release of the man who disfigured him leaves him terri- ,-ficd despite unprecedented measures 'to keep the felon away. "I would like them to keep him in jail for the rest of his life," David. ..3, told reporters 15 hours after Charles Rothenberg, 49, was re- leased from prison. !, "Obviously, he (David) is very concerned and he has every reason to be," State Department of Corrections spokesperson Tipton Kindel said in Sacramento. Said David, whose face bears se- vere scars from the burning as well as from repeated skin graft surgery and whose fingers have been ampu- tated to the first joint, "I want it known nationally that I don't ever want to see my father again. I want to make it clear to him." "I think he's a sick man. I can't see why he did this to his own son," said the boy, who was 6 years old when his father set him on fire in a Buena Park motel room in 1983. David lives in Orange County with his mothet-Marie, and stepfa- ther, Buena Park police Lt. Richard Hafdahl, who helped investigate the fire. Charles Rothenburg is "under the most restrictive parole ever for a California parolee," said Hafdahl. "He will be accompanied by a parole officer 24 hours a day. We want to make sure that he is where he is supposed to be and that he has no opportunity to come into contact with his son." When released, Charles Rothen- burg was wearing an electronic leash to monitor his movements during three years' probation. Rothenburg's parole will cost California taxpayers $18,000 a month. Rothenburg set fire to his son after a telephone argument in which his estranged wife said he would not be able to see David again. Rothenburg had taken the boy on a holiday to Southern California from New York, where the boy was living with his mother. "If I can't have him, nobody else can," Rothenberg said when arrested six days later. Wearing a lapel pin reading "Kids are the nicest people," he told arresting officers he was go- ing to kill himself but was too much of a coward. Rothenberg was convicted of at- tempted murder, arson and other charges and got the maximum penalty, a 13-year prison term. The sentence was cut in half because of good behavior. IN BIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Bush may send Panama $1B WASHINGTON - President Bush is preparing to propose an aid pro- gram for Panama totaling more than $1 billion to help the country re- cover from recent warfare and long years of corrupt military rule, a U.S. official said yesterday night. Congressional leaders were briefed on the program yesterday and a for- mal announcement is expected today, said the official, asking not to be identified. About half the program will be in cash and the remainder in credits, the official said. Aside from development aid, the program will include loan guarantees and programs to encourage investment, he said. The administration hopes that other countries experience in foreign aid, including Japan and Western European countries, will follow the U.S. lead and make contributions of their own. Sen. criticizes Clean Air Act WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sen. Carl Levin (D.-Mich.) campaigned yesterday to change provisions in pending clean-air legislation that he said could add up to $2,000 to new cars' costs while only slightly reducing pollution. As the Senate continued debate on an updated Clean Air Act, Levin lobbied colleagues to delete automobile tailpipe emission limits that ex- ceed those requested by President Bush. In a floor speech, the Detroit democrat also called for deletion of provi- sions to tughen fuel-economy requirements in new cars, saying they would be part of separate legislation dealing with global warming. "We should not require wasteful steps that could cost American con- sumers billions of dollars and seriously weaken an important industry in this country," Levin said. He and Sen. Don Nickles (R-Okla.) are leading the effort to soften the bill's impact on the automobile industry. Dow Jones drops 60 points NEW YORK - Interest rate worries took a further toll on the stock market yesterday, sending prices broadly lower in heavy trading despite bargain hunting and program buying. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 60 points at the opening after traders learned overnight of a sharp decline in the Tokyo stock market - which itself has been unsettled by rising interest rates in Japan. The Dow Jones average recovered ground as the session wore on and bargain hunters and program traders moved into the market. But the index still closed with a deficit of 10.82, ending at 2,604.50 and extending its slide over the last three weeks to more than 205 points. Declining issues swamped advancers in nationwide trading of New York Stock Exchange-listed stocks, with 384 rising, 1,207 falling and 399 unchanged. In the early going, losers held a 16 to 1 advantage over gainers. Family learns fate of WWII gunner 47 years after crash CENTER LINE - The dense mountain jungles of Papua New Guinea have yielded the body of Staff Sgt. Walter Szeliga, 47 years after the bomber carrying him and nine crewmates crashed during World War II. The B-24 Liberator bomber was reported missing Dec. 20, 1942, dur- ing a reconnaissance mission over Japanese-held territory in the South Pacific's Solomon Islands. Szeliga, a turret gunner, and his crewmates were pronounced dead in 1943, although the plane wasn't officially declared lost until 1949. But it wasn't until Monday that the U.S. Army Mortuary Affairs Section telephoned Stella Mazoliec to tell her that pieces of the plane had been found and all 10 crewmen, including her brother, had been identified. "One report said he crashed in the ocean, but we always thought he was alive," said Mrs. Mazoliec, of Center Line. "Our mother Catherine never gave up hope. When she died in 1973, she still believed that Walter would come home some day. It's good to know now that he will," she said. EXTRAS, Pear-shaped people, rejoice; you're healthier than apples BOSTON - It's healthier to be shaped like a pear than an apple, and now experts believe they know why: Cholesterol levels are closely linked with where people carry their fat. Researchers have long noticed that folks with fat posteriors tend td have healther hearts than those with big guts, but the reason for this wa$ unclear. A new study offers a possible explanation. It shows that people with beefy hips and trim waists have higher levels of a protective form of cholesterol called HDL than do those with potbellies and small behinds. "When patients come in, we advise them to lose weight," said Dr, Richard Ostlund. "This paper suggests that more important than that i$ how the fat is distributed." 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The money is go- ing to the feds for them to increase their efforts - to highlight their presence in those areas." The federal anti-drug effort will also target regions surrounding des- ignated cities, the source said. e~ZZ "If we're successful, we would anticipate that these spots will move," the source said. "As the em- phasis increases on the Southwest border, (the drug traffickers) will go toward Louisiana or inland, or to Canada and come down. We'll have to monitor it to see what happens the second time around." The updated strategy also will propose a broadening of federal drug crimes for which the death penalty can be imposed, in line with changes Bush said last year that he wanted to make. Romanians protest provisional government Thursday January 25 7:30 PM Pond Room Michigan Union Mass Meeting BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Hundreds of protesters broke through lines of police and soldiers yesterday and surged toward govern- ment headquarters, demanding the leadership resign and accusing it of being a front for Communist rule. The crowd of about 1,000 people at Victory Square pushed through two lines of unarmed police and tien through a line of armed soldiers, who took no strong action to hold them back. The army moved in tanks very slowly, and the crowd retreated, still chanting "Communists in disguise!" and "Elections without the Front!"- a reference to the National Salvation Front's plans to participate in elec- tions May 20. The Front, which has been gov- erning Romania since dictator Nico- lae Ceausescu was ousted Dec. 22, had said it would not run candidates in the election. On Tuesday, how- ever, it reversed itself. Opponents have accused some Front members who served under Ceausescu of being sympathetic to the Communists, and they fear the Front will put the Communist Party in power again. Hours before the rally, the largest opposition party, the National Peasant Party, called on the Front to resign. "The National Salvation Front must resign today as it can't be both a referee and a player," the party said in a communique read by party leader Corneliu Coposu. Some Peasant Party members left their headquarters after the commu- nique was read and joined a small demonstration under way at a nearby. university. The demonstration picked up supporters as marches wound through Bucharest's icy streets, sapping at the major sites of the revolution and finally coming to Victory Square. The protesters singled out Presi- dent Ion Iliescu, who heads the Front, shouting: "Down with Ili- escu!" "If Iliescu wanted to gain power, he should have gotten signatures on petitions and formed a party," said one protester, engineer Adrian Mi- halcea. The Peasant Party accused the Front of trying to steal victory from the young people and others who fought Communism and Ceausescu. "They are making us believe that they want to put the Communists in . power again, even worse than Ceausescu-ism. Only the words are different," party vice president Ion Puiu said in an interview. Puiu said the communique would be circulated to all the traditional parties - the National Liberation Party, the Social Democratic Party, and the Green Party - for com- ments and additions to demonstrate "anti-communist solidarity." 04 A1 'pp Interested in: " z concert promotion. sound production, graphic arts. publications, booking' meeting jazz crtists, learning about jazz, or just hearing som'e great live music? 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