|... ; OPINION 4 ARTS 7 SPORTS Basketball team seeks revenge against Hoosiers 9 State funds should not pay for Farrakhan Next position, please Ninety-nine years of editorial freedom Vol. C, No. 89 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, February 8, 1990 The Mhao Soviets MOSCOW (AP) -- The Communist Party that for decades swore its red tide would cover the globe bowed to a different revolution yesterday. The party agreed to al- low alternative political parties to compete for control of the Soviet Union. The decision amounts to an acknowledg- ment that new political forces have taken root and that it is no longer possible or de- sirable to crush them with the repressive tac- tics of the past, which ranged from mass murders under dictator Josef Stalin to the agree 1 dissident arrests preferred by Leonid Brezh- nev. The decision by the party's Central Committee to give up the Communists' constitutional monopoly on power was a triumph of political maneuvering by Presi- dent Mikhail Gorbachev. He packed the meeting of the 249-member body with more than 700 other officials, many of them pro- gressives who took the floor to demand radi- cal reform. "Article 6 will no longer be," said Svy- atoslav Fyodorov, a participant at the meet- to multi-party ing, referring to the article in the Soviet Constitution that guarantees the Commu- nists a monopoly on power. "There will be a multi-party system. There will be a normal democracy." "We cannot rule out the emergence of new parties," Politburo member Vitaly Vorotnikov said in remarks reported by the official Tass news agency. "But we Com- munists are not going to surrender our posi- tions. Just as any party in the world, we shall be waging a struggle for our rights." Vorotnikov added that the Communist party will negotiate with any political force that stands for democracy. But he said the Communist party is the "leading and guid- ing" force in Soviet society. Boris Yelstin, a popular party member among the people, favored a more radical program that demanded a virtual apology by the party for decades of totalitarianism. After leading the Central Committee meeting to greet U.S. Sectetary of State James Baker, Foreign Minister Eduard She- vardmadze told reporters the decision by the party's policy-making body "moves us system closer to a humane and democratic society." For three days, Gorbachev's draft plat- form was strongly criticized from both right and left at the Kremlin meeting. Some of the speeches were released by Tass, and partici- pants also described the struggle in inter- views with Western reporters. The Soviets are following the lead set by their comrades in Eastern Europe, where one by one, Communist parties have bowed to democratic pressure and relinquished their le- gal guarantee of political control. Baker responds to Soviet changes MOSCOW (AP) - Secretary of State James Baker set out last night to measure the power of Soviet Pres- ident Mikhail Gorbachev to deal with the United States on world is- sues as the Communist Party under- goes major shifts. * Baker moved swiftly into an opening session with Foreign Min- ister Eduard Shevardnadze, his plans unchanged, a few hours after the Communist Central Committee agreed to abolish the party's guaran- tee of political power. Baker said on his flight here from Czechoslovakia he had not deter- mined what impact the move, taken at Gorbachev's behest, would have *on the Soviet leader's authority. "Why don't you ask me that question after I spend two days with Mr. Gorbachev and Mr. Shevard- nadze, and then I would be doing a lot more than just guessing for you. 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Hearings in both the House and the Senate are set to begin within days. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D- Mass) said approval at the commit- tee level might be possible within three months. The Bush administration has said there is no urgent need for the legis- lation. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh said forecasts of dire problems involving job bias repre- sent an overreaction to the court's rulings. Thornburgh has promised that the Justice Department will monitor the effect of the rulings to determine if legislation is needed. Kennedy said that last year the Supreme Court "issued a series of rulings that mark an abrupt and unfortunate departure from its historic vigilance in protect- ing civil rights." The bill would: Bar harassment or firing of em- ployees based on racial bias. The court invalidated a lawsuit brought by a North Carolina credit union worker, Brenda Patterson, who claimed she had been the victim of racial harassment on the job. The high court said Ms. Patterson could not use an 1866 law to press her claim, ruling the statute barred only hiring discrimination, not harass- ment once a person was on the job. Force employers to show that any practice with proven discrimina- tory impact was prompted by busi- ness necessity. The court ruled that the burden of proof belongs with workers who allege they are the vic- tims of bias. Make clear that it is always ille- gal to use race, ethnicity, gender or religion as a motivating factor in employment decisions. The court ruled that employers have a burden of proving they did not discriminate illegally when there is evidence that bias played a part in personnel deci- sions, but the ruling was vague enough to confuse lower courts. Segal speaks on Middle East conflict by Gabrielle Durocher Last night Jerome Segal, founder of the Jewish Peace Lobby, spoke about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict before an audience of over 100 peo- ple at Hillel. Segal opened his speech by de- scribing the "moral ambiguity" in Israel. He said Israel was composed of "two communities that live on top of each other" and feel they have equally legitimate claims to the same land. "Jewish people had a right to the land, but, none-the-less the Pales- tinians were the victims," Segal said. There is no "one truth" which de- termines who is right in such a con- flict, Segal said. In:tead, the Pales- tinians and the Israelis must recog- nize the extent to which their exis- tence is intertwined and work out a compromise. Segal said "a sharp crossroads now exists," and the way towards a solution to the conflict lays open. He said the possibility for a solution exists "because there has been a ma- jor evolution of thinking accompa- "fully equivalent response" according to Segal. One of the current available options for resolving the conflict, Segal said, would be for the Israelis and Palestinians to move forward with serious negotiations. "With Jewish people had a right to the land, but, none-the-less the Palestinians were the victims., -Jerome Segal founder Second Jewish Lobby good luck and good will this issue could be resolved by the year 2000," Segal said. The other option Segal presented is a continuation of the current situa- tion - eventually resulting in an uncontrollable spiral of violence. Such a situation could only be brought to an end in. the future due to internal pressure from the people of Israel. Segal's organization, the Jew- ish Peace Lobby, believes that the U.S. government can influence the Israelis and Palestinians to choose the best option. The JPL actively supports a U.S. policy which would lower the level of violence and spearhead Palestinian-Israeli negotia- tions. JPL believes American Jews must become involved and commu- nicate directly with U.S. policy- makers. Segal sees his organization as the missing link which will give the American Jewish community a voice in the conflict. During the question and an- swer period following the speech, Segal explained that he no longer saw the conflict as one which pitted Israelis against Palestinians, but rather one in which Palestinian and Israeli moderates opposed extremists from both sides. SegalI nied by an accommodation to reality on the part of the Palestinians." Palestinians have reversed their posi- tion on the core of the conflict by renouncing terrorism and recognizing Israel's right to exist. The Israelis, on the other hand, have made no Red Cross hopes to make up for loss of. donors during week's blood drive by Ian Hoffman Daily Staff Writer It's time to pump up the volume. Because of unexpected Detroit plant closings this week, the Ameri- can Red Cross is short 1000 pints of blood it had expected to collect from weekly Detroit area blood drives. and branch of Manufacturing Bank of Detroit were closed for all of this week," American Red Cross South- eastern Michigan Rep. Neal Fry said. Fry expected the Chrysler plant to donate 700 pints of blood and the Manufacturing Bank branch to do- should be no problem accommodat- ing all students who want to give blood, Rabidoux said. "If enough blood is not donated a lot of elective surgeries, for example liver transplants, will have to be cancelled," Rabidoux said. The first three days of the drive counties, uses about 1,200 pints of blood each day. According to Dr. Harold Ober- man, director of the University's blood bank, one liver transplant can use up to 100 pints of blood. The University's hospitals perform about one liver transplant per week.