Expert speaks of * oviet {Status by Tim Gammons The Communist Party struggles to stay afloat amidst near revolution- ary social unrest. Gorbachev fights t0 restore national unity to a splin- Otered republic. Nicolai Petrov, a U.S. State De- partment official considered a leading authority on the Soviet nationality problem, spoke yesterday at the Russian and East European Studies' Lane Hall to offer insight on these current events and the changes rock- ing Soviet politics. Petrov, speaking to an audience of about fifty faculty and students, *said the communist party is directly under fire because the Russian peo- ple have lost faith in its ability to represent the society. Not only have institutions like the KGB lost all crediblity, but even the status of the Communist Youth League has dwindled. Since 1986, ten million young people have quit the league. Petrov predicted that the league won't exist in ten years. There are three basic.political fac- tions in the Soviet Union, Petrov said. The "social democrats" have completely abandoned party dogma. They support radical economic and political reform. The "center," of which Gorbachev is a member, real- izes the need to embrace a more global economic policy, but also wants to retain the party's auton- omy. Without autonomy, it would be difficult to implement the diffi- cult reforms that comprise Iperestroika," Petrov said. The third faction, "reactionaries," support a return to the past, with the party ex- ercising full authority. The party has fallen in the eyes of the people, said Petrov. The only reason it still exists is for lack of a better alternative. Petrov said if the 0party were to fall tomorrow, the inevitable result would be civil war. According to Petrov, Gorbachev will be forced to choose between the party and the national reform move- ment. This choice will not, how- ever, unequivocally determine Rus- sia's fate, Petrov said. Powerful forces on all sides of the conflict will contribute to Russia's eventual osition. Petrov predicted Gor- bachev will choose to decrease the power of the party in favor of na- tionalist movements, but not with- Qut dissent. I a h SAMANTHA SANDEF bor gazes in wonder the first step in recycling. These bottles are sorted at the Station on S. Industrial Ave. The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 7, 1990 - Page 3 Speaker to address Arab- Israeli conflict by Gabrielle Durocher Jerome Segal, founder of a Jew- ish lobbying group which promotes a two-state solution to the Pales- tinian-Israeli conflict, will speak tonight at Hillel at 7:30. Segal will focus on his proposal for solving the conflict, said Andy Levin, Rackham graduate student and midwest coordinator of the Jewish Peace Lobby. Levin said Segal will explain the role American Jews can play in a so- lution to the crisis. Levin hopes to start a student chapter of the Jewish Peace Lobby in Ann Arbor as one way students could contribute to the resolution of the struggle. Founder and president of the Jew- ish Peace Lobby, Segal created the organization last May to promote a "two-state solution" to the problem to members of U.S. Congress and Bush's administration. The Jewish Peace Lobby sup- ports a Palestinian right to self-de- termination, including the right to establish an independent state along- side Israel in the West Bank and Gaza. The group calls on both the United States and Israel to negotiate with any representatives of the Palestinian people, including the P.L.O. The principal focus of the group will be on American foreign policy in relation to the conflict. It wants the U.S. government to use its in- fluence to push for direct negotia- tions between the government of Is- rael and the P.L.O. Segal has been praised for his ef- forts in events leading up to the PLO's renunciation of terrorism and its acceptance of Israel's right to ex- ist. Segal was one of the first Amer- ican Jews to open a dialogue with the PLO leadership, meeting with Yasser Arafat in June 1987, and again in August 1988. In his book "Creating the Pales- tinian State-A Strategy for Peace," Segal proposes his plan for the fu- ture of Palestine. Segal received a doctorate in phi- losophy at the University of Michi- gan in 1975 and is presently a re- search scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. The sponsors for this event in- clude the Progressive Zionist Cau- cus, the Union of Students for Israel, the Rackham Student Government, the Office of Ethics and Religion, the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice, and the Jewish Law Students Union. Recycle Ann Ar A curious University student Ecology Center's Recycling E RSDal Pinball Pete's reports break-in' Pinball Pete's reported a coin changing machine and a total of $1,000 in cash missing from their S. University Ave. store last Friday. Police said there was no evidence of false entry and it was possible the thief hid inside the store until the customers and employees had left. In addition to the cash in the ma- chine, the thief took $300 in bills from the business office, police added. Ann Arbor Staff Sergeant Thomas Caldwell refused to com- ment as to whether the larceny might have been committed by one of Pinball Pete's employees but said, "It wouldn't surprise me if an arrest was made (in the near future)." Local woman reports rape A 38-year-old Ann Arbor woman reported she was raped early Sunday morning as she was walking home from a bowling alley, police said. The woman told police she was walking down the 1900 block of S. Industrial Ave. at 12:30 a.m. when a man, whom she could only describe vaguely, grabbed her from behind, threw her to the ground and raped her. The woman declined rape treat- ment from the University hospital, the police reports added. Thief caught asking for directions Scott Johnson, a 27-year-old Ann Arbor resident and Eastern Michigan University student, was released on two counts of breaking and entering into student homes after posting ten percent of his $30,000 bond, Ann Arbor police said. At 4 a.m. Saturday, Johnson al- legedly broke into a 21-year-old University woman's house on Church St., entered the bedroom, and began going through her purse. When the woman awoke, Johnson put his hand over the woman's mouth and subsequently fled, police said. Twenty minutes later, Johnson allegedly broke into another Univer- sity woman's home on Tappan Ave. and looted her purse. Officer Richard Stearn took John- son into custody at S. State and Packard streets shortly after receiving reports of the two incidents. When Johnson approached Stearn to ask him for directions, the officer placed him under arrest. Ann Arbor Police Staff Sergeant Thomas Caldwell said Johnson had also been involved in a similar inci- dent in Ypsilanti last week. Man burgles student house Two Ann Arbor residents were arrested Monday night after one of them broke into a University student's home on South Fourth Ave., police reports said. The 34-year-old suspect entered the house by taking the screen off of one of the windows. The students, in another part of the house, spotted the entry and subsequently locked themselves into one of the rooms, said Ann Arbor Police Staff Sergeant John King. When the suspect heard the students' voices coming from behind the locked door, he grabbed some checks and credit cards and fled the building. He gave his loot to a 28- year-old man who later admitted he was acting as lookout, police said. The lookout, whose presence sparked residents of the area to call the police, was taken into custody by Officer Andrew Zazula after a brief foot race. A short time later, the burglarwas arrested onathe southwest side of town, King added. -by Mike Sobel city scho] LANSING (AP) - Former Uni- versity football coach Bo Schem- bechler urged lawmakers yesterday to set up a scholarship program that would require graduates to teach in inner city schools. Schembechler said while Michi- gan's high school system was solid overall, during his recruiting trips he'd found the inner city high schools - especially Detroit and Flint - weren't very good. The schools were getting enough money, but "we do not have the type of people in there teaching to our young people and administering our schools that we ought to have." The staffs in those schools come from "some place down South or from some godforsaken places and schools that I've not heard of," he said, adding that meant graduates from Michigan universities were ig- noring those jobs. "And I want you to know that is not right." lars1hips Schembechler said the state should set up a scholarship program that would require new teachers to serve five years in inner city schools in exchange for financial help. "Maybe we can get people inter- ested enough in those young people down there that they'll get a bonafide secondary school education, which in my judgement, they're not getting now," he said. Schembechler's comments came as he accepted a resolution honoring him for his 21 years of coaching the Wolverines and the high standards he set there. Later, senators lined up eagerly to meet Schembechler, now president of the Detroit Tigers, and have their picture taken with him. "It makes me feel a little bit uneasy," he said. "I know what I am, a football coach, an ex-football coach, and an athletic administrator I'm nothing special." Bo proposes inner 764-0553 News .763-0379 Arts + 764-0562 News and OpinionI 747-3334 News SV -763-2459 News 747-3336 Sports THE LIST What's happening in Ann Arbor today Health & Fitness Meetings Um Hellenic Students --- organizational meeting 8 p.m. Union Tap Room Bioengineering Society (EMBS) - summer job information meeting 5 p.m. in 3433 EECS Philosophy Club --- meeting 7 p.m. Philosophy Commons Room 2220 Angell Hall; Frithjof Bergman will address the club UM Shorin-Ryu Karate-Do Club--- beginners welcome 8:30- 9:30 p.m. Martial Arts Room of the CCRB UM Taekwondo Club --- beginners welcome 7-8:30 p.m. 2275 CCRB Consider --- mass meeting for weekly forum 7 p.m. Union Pond Room Speakers "Theory and History in Girodet's Sleep of Endymion" -- Tom Crow speaks at 8 p.m. in West Conference Room of Rackham Bldg. "Lanthanides in Organic Synthesis" ---Michael Rozema speaks 4 p.m. in 1640 Chemistry Bldg. "One Ion Source-- Many Solutions..." --- Thomas Covey speaks at 4 p.m. 1650 Chemistry Bldg. "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict-- Strategies for a Just & Durable Peace" --- Jerome Segal speaks 7:30 p.m. at Hillel "Rin-Tin-Tin in Berlin: American Interests in the Weimar Film Industry" --- Jan- Christopher Horak speaks at 4:10 p.m. in the West Conference Room of Rackham; reception at 8 p.m. Max Kade German House, 603 Oxford Rd. "Quality and Productivity in the Research Lab: A Case Study --- Terry Speed will speak at 4 p.m. 451 Mason Hall Furthermore Free tutoring - for all 100/200 level math, science and engineering courses in UGLi 307 from 8-10 p.m. Northwalk - the north campus night-time walking service runs form 8pm-1:30am in Bursley 2333 or call 763-WALK Safewalk - the nighttime safety walking service runs from 8pm- 1:30am in UGLi 102 or call 936- 1000 ECB Peer Writing Tutors - peer writing tutors available for help on papers 7-11 p.m. in the Angell/Haven and 611 Church St. computing centers Volunteer Income Tax A 7n -« . _- - ' ALL INCLUSIVE PACKAGE--INCLUDES THE ROUND TRIP AIR & TRANSFERS 7 NIGHTS HOTEL PARTIES, NIGHT CLUB PASSES & OTHER WHAT'S HAPPENING FOLLOWI NG: DISCOUNTS *BUSING TO AND FROM UNIV. *(LIMITED AREAS) RECREATIONAL SPORTS OUTDOOR RECREATION PROGRAM SPRING BREAK BACKPACKING TRIP TO CUMBERLAND ISLAND MARCH 3 THRU MARCH 10, 1990 COST: $240.00(INCLUDES FOOD(except on the road}, TRANSPORTATION , LEADERSHIP, INSTRUCTION, AND EQUIPMENT PRE-TRIP MEETING: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1990 7:00PM NORTH CAMPUS REC. 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