Puge 2-The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, February 13, 1990 U.S. rep. denies selling his vote WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Bob Carr said yesterday his feud with airline pilots involves legislative tactics - not contributions from two companies chaired by Frank Lorenzo, who has clashed repeatedly with organized labor. "My vote's not for sale," said Carr, D-East Lansing, a member of the House appropriations subcom- mittee that handles transportations funding. He received a total of $12,650 from Texas Air Corp. and Eastern Airlines from 1987 through 1989. No other House member received as much from the two carriers, Fed- eral Election Commission records show. During the same period, Carr dif- fered with the Airline Pilots Associ- ation several times over the union's effort to attach job-protection provi- sions to transportation budget bills. The Lansing State Journal re- ported Sunday that an AFL-CIO lobbyist in Washington wrote a memorandum last year accusing Carr of "hostile, anti-union activities." "Clearly, a number of us have been concerned about the congress- man's role in all that," said Paul Massaron, executive director of the United Auto Workers' political ac- tion committee in Michigan. But Carr said his relationship with organized labor in general was good and that the pilots' union was behind the criticism of his record. "The pilots, in my judgment, have been irresponsible in their at- tempt to hold appropriations bills hostage to their very narrow interest. I don't really disagree with them on their ultimate goals, but I seriously disagree with them on tactics." Lorenzo is chairman of Houston- based Texas Air, which acquired Eastern in 1986. He has fought bit- terly with organized labor, which has accused him of union-busting tactics at Eastern and another subsidiary, Continental Airlines. Carr was one of three House Democrats who broke with party leaders last November to vote against a bill that would give the U.S. transportation secretary new au- thority to halt airline mergers or leveraged buy-outs similar to Lorenzo's takeover of Eastern. The bill passed 300-113 and is pending in the Senate. Transporta- tion Secretary Samuel Skinner op- poses it and says he will recommend that President Bush veto if Congress approves it. Carr said he sponsored a similar bill that would have given the secre- tary more discretion than the bill the House passed, and thus had a better chance of winning Bush's support. "Instead of legislatively trying to hang Frank Lorenzo in effigy, I wanted a formula that would suc- ceed," he said. In September 1988, Carr joined with House-Senate negotiators in deleting from a transportation budget bill a requirement that the transporta- tion secretary protect jobs endangered by airline mergers. Soviets embrace " private property MOSCOW (AP) - The Com- munist Party embraced the principle of private property Monday in a radi- cal rejection of some fundamentals of Marxism and Soviet socialism. "The Communist Party of the Soviet Union believes the existence of individual property, including ownership of the means of produc- tion, does not contradict the modern stage in the country's economic de- velopment," the party's new plat- form says. The platform was approved Wednesday by the party's policy- making Central Committee but was not published in final form until Monday. It represents Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's boldest break with communist orthodoxy and con- tradicts public statements he made just months ago. * The platform did not make clear i what sense the party still consid- ers itself to be Communist, but pays homage to the creative spirit of Marxism and the philosophy's hu- manistic outlook of opposing reli- gion and emphasizing man's daily existence. It also points with pride to the c oncepts of pensions, free education And medical care - social benefits it says the Soviet system pioneered. In deciding on sweeping changes, however, the platform says the party took into account the new hunger of Soviet citizens for democracy and re- form, as expressed by mass rallies and local political organizing all over the country. The document also says the Communist Party supports: n' "Protection of a citizen's per- sonality and honor, the immunity of his home and property, the secrecy of correspondence." c Citizen "participation in run- ning the affairs of society and the state, freedom of speech, the press, meetings and demonstrations and the formation of public organizations." . "Man's free self-determination in the spiritual sphere, the freedom of conscience and religion." IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Ethnic riots flare in U.S.S.R. MOSCOW - Riots broke out in the capital of Tadzhikistan during protests yesterday against the resettlement of ethnic Armenian refugees in the Soviet Asian republic, official sources said. One report said there were deaths and dozens of injuries. The official Tass news agency said a state of emergency and a night- time curfew had been imposed on the city of Dushanbe to quell "mass disorders and programs, and acts of arson and looting." Musafar Madzhidov, correspondent for official radio and television in Dushanbe, said armored vehicles had been brought into the city center and that it was calm late yesterday. He said an unknown number of people had been killed and more than 70 were injured. Rioting erupted after two rallies in a 24-hour period over rumors that. Armenian refugees from bloody ethnic strife in the Caucasus region were being given preference for new housing, Madzhidov said in a telephone in- terview. Members of the crowd shouted, "Down with the Armenians," he said. The Tadzhikistan Communist Party leader, Kakhar Makkamov, ap-. peared before a crowd that gathered Sunday outside party headquarters in Dushanbe and asked for 24 hours to investigate the rumors, Madzhidov said. Nunn worried over Soviet nuclear weapons control WASHINGTON - The chair of the Senate Armed Services Commit- tee, Sam Nunn, D-Ga., concerned over whose finger stays on the button of the Soviet Union's 30,000 nuclear weapons in a time of internal tumult, is proposing that the Kremlin mount a "fail-safe" review of controls on its nuclear arsenals. With ethnic and political tension straining Soviet unity, many Ameri- can military experts and key congressional figures are fretting about the possibility a nuclear missile could be unleashed on the world without the knowledge or approval of the Kremlin. "My worst case fear for the last several months is that we would wake up one morning and discover that an ethnic liberation front had obtained: control of 100 nuclear weapons," said a military expert on the staff of the" House Armed Services Committee. "It's a concern people are paying attention to, trying to monitor," Bruce Blair of the Brookings Institution said. "I think the Soviets them- selves are so concerned about this problem that they're handling it just fine." Michigan divests $1.4 billion from South Africa in 1989 4. 4. F. .- 4@ r l Security precautions A U.S. military helicopter carrying White House secret service agents and staff takes off from the Navy Cadet base in Cartagena, Colombia, after its passengers met with Colombian officials to discuss Thursday's drug summit. Amidst tight security, Colombian President Barco will host President Bush, Peruvian President Garcia and Bolivian President Paz Zamora. RAPE Continued from page 1 who had been previously harassing the West Quad student. "We're pretty sure that the same person is involved," Ramirez said. Sunday night's incident took place a week and a half after another University student reported she was sexually assaulted in her Hill Dorm restroom. The method of attack was compa- rable in both cases and both women reported similar assaults preceding the incident. According to police reports, on January 31, a man wearing a ski mask and brandishing a knife, as- saulted another University woman in a Hill Dorm restroom at 3:12 a.m. Calling her by name, the man al- legedly demanded the woman per- form a sexual act. Police said the woman escaped after biting her assailant on the arm and ran to her room to call campus security. Police added the woman matched the man's 'scratchy voice' to that of a man whom she said assaulted her a week earlier. In that incident, the man allegedly confronted the woman with a knife as she was walking to her car. He grabbed her by the hair (as she tried to run to her car), forced her to the ground and ripped the back of her clothes with the knife, reports said. Although Ramirez agreed that the West Quad incident resembled the one reported at the Hill Dorm, she declined to speculate on whether the same man was involved in both cases. HIKES Continued from Page 1 ing) to take over the day to day oper- ations such as staffing the clusters. Those funds had come from ITD, but now will be used to upgrade hard- ware," he said. In addition to funding Rescomp, Housing would grant approximately $42,000 to the Residence Hall Repertory Theater and Talk to Us Troupe, an interactive theater group which portrays campus issues. The theater and troupe are now funded by the Office of the Vice President for Student Services. But the programs can no longer be sup- ported by the office, said Henry Johnson, vice president for student services, because there isn't enough money in the student services' gen- eral fund to support them. "I guess they thought it was time for housing to fund the program since it was in the dorms," said Matt Couzens, a first year LSA student and member of the committee which worked to set housing rates. Couzens said the committee didn't mind requesting funding for the pro- grams since it seemed to benefit enough students. Increased family housing rates, if approved, will include more money for trash removal and for support of the Ann Arbor public school sys- tem. Last year's housing rate increase was close to six percent. BILL Continued from page 1 support of the proposed act. The groups complained that the "Rescue" crews not only prevented women from getting abortions but all kinds of health care. "The action of the Operation Rescuers has an ironic outcome. People are restricted from getting contraception and this causes un- wanted pregnancies and more abor- tions," said Bullard. However, Christine Jones, an anti-abortion activist who is a mem- ber of Washtenaw County Rescue, disagreed, "They are obscuring what we're trying to do. We are trying to provide real genuine help to moth- ers. We are not there to keep people from health services." "I doubt very much that this is ever going to pass what-so-ever in this state. This is just a political ploy," Jones added. LANSING - Michigan sold $1.4 billion in investments with ties to South Africa in 1989 and Treasurer Robert Bowman said yesterday such economic sanctions might have aided the release of South African activist" Nelson Mandela. "It is clear that sanctions work," he said at a news conference. But Bowman said Mandela's release on Sunday isn't enough to permit Michi- gan to back away from its year-old law requiring divestiture of companies with South African links. "It is only the first chapter of a long book that must get to the total dismantling of apartheid, civil rights for all citizens, including one per-: son-one vote and the ability to travel," he said. The divestiture law, designed to protest South Africa's policy of racial segregation known as apartheid, requires Michigan to sell off by 1994 its holdings in companies with ties in South Africa. Michigan must divest 40 percent of its holdings by Jan. 1 and Bow- man said the state is ahead of schedule after selling off about 28 percent of its holdings the first year. Soviets defect to Bloomfield BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - A new era in U.S.-Soviet relations has introduced words like glasnost and perstroika, but five Soviet per- formers have shown at least one word remains from the old Cold War lex- icon: defect. The Soviets, four ice skaters and one of their managers, were traveling with the Torvill and Dean ice show when they sought asylum in the United States after the conclusion of the troupe's North American tour last month in New York. Immigration authorities granted them work permits for one year while their asylum requests are reviewed. The five arrived in Bloomfield Hills a few days ago and spoke with reporters yesterday. The five - Ledvitch, 36; and skaters Geogii Sur, 23; Igor Shpilband, 225; Veronika Pershina, 23; and Yelena Krykanova, 22 - came to Michigan at the invitation of the Detroit Skating Club. Before embarking on their four-month, 64-city North American tour, they were affiliated with the Russian All-Stars Ice Theater in Moscow. The five are living with families in suburban Detroit while they strug- gle to become self-sufficient. 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