Page 2-The Michigan Daily -Thursday, January 11, 1990 Ceausescu threatened underlings with death BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - At his final Politburo meeting, a furious Nicolae Ceausescu threatened his underlings with the firing squad for ignoring his order that troops shoot demonstrators demanding an end to his tyrannical rule. According to the minutes of the Dec. 17 meeting, Ceausescu berated his armed commanders for shooting blanks at the crowds in the western city of Timisoara, fuming: "That is like a rain shower." Ceausescu's wife, Elena, told the meeting the protesters should be hurled into the basement jails of the Securitate, the secret police, and never again "see the light" of day. A transcript of stenographers' notes from the meeting - what turned out to be the Communist Party Politburo's last meeting - was published yesterday in the daily newspaper, Romania Libera. Ceaus- escu was overthrown Dec. 22 when army troops rebelled against him; he was exegcuted along with his wife Dec. 25. According to the minutes, former Defense Minister Vasile Milea, former Interior Minister Tudor Postelnicu and former chief of the Securitate secret police Iulian Vlad all pledged to implement Ceaus- escu's orders. Milea, originally reported to have committed suicide several days after the meeting, was subsequently found to have been murdered by Ceausescu cronies, while Postelnicu and Vlad are under arrest and awaiting trial, along with hundreds of other Ceaus- escu underlings. Rowing home Residents in Centralia, Washington, use a boat to get down their street yesterday after major flooding of the Skookumchuck River. The rain system that came into the Pacific Northwest Tuesday has been called a "100- year-storm" and left many rivers over their banks. NCAA cracks down on drugs DALLAS (AP) - The NCAA closed its rocky 1990 convention yesterday by approving harsh penal- ties for drug use, especially steroids, and launching year-round testing of athletes. w n, r rsr er ur _---- SC FREE MONEYI ' Every Studen Financial Aid Regan " We have a data bank of o ships, grants, and loans,r funding. " Many scholarships are giver career plans, family heritag . There's money available fo grocery clerks, cheerleader I .Results GUARANTEED. CALL F ' ANYTIME (3 HOLARSHIP INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS WHO NEED FOR COLLEGE t is Eligible for Some Type of dless of Grades or Parental Income. over 200,000 listings of scholarships, fellow- representing over $10 billion in private sector m to students based on their academic interests, e and place of residence. r students who have been newspaper carriers, rs, non-smokers. . .etc. The year-round program will be- gin by testing football players at ev- ery Division I school for steroids and masking agents - an admission, delegates said that colleges don't have drug use in check. "The punishment must be more persuasive than it has been," Pitts- burgh athletic director Ed Bozik said. "This indicates we are no different than society,(only) a reflection of society's problems." NCAA executive director Dick Schultz told the 1,900 delegates ear- lier that the tougher anti-drug pro- gram was needed because "we are only catching the dumb ones." The drug-testing measures were approved overwhelmingly - in sharp contrast to earlier sessions, where delegates fought over reforms designed to enhance academics at the expense of athletics. The convention approved reduc- ing the basketball season by three games to 25, shortening football practice, releasing each school's graduation rate for athletes and relax- ing Proposition 42 to allow athletes who don't meet all the incoming academic requirements to earn regular scholarships based on need. BUDGET Continued from page 1 Williams said. "It's an ingenious plan from the perspective of the administration," Williams said. Vest concurred that in "the long- term, ultimately, the actions of the state government are to respect the feelings of the public. There is not an appropriate emphasis (now on) education," he said. Vest disagreed with Williams that cuts would be made where the most people would be hurt by them. "I will not be party to making cuts in areas for political motivations," he said. As of today, the University ad- ministration has not made any spe- cial recommendations to the deans regarding the possibility of budget cuts in the next fiscal year. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Pipe bombs explode at Oakland University library ROCHESTER, Mich. - A pipe bomb exploded yesterday in a library on the Oakland University campus and two others exploded in a nearby parking lot, a school spokesperson said. No injuries were reported. No threats were received prior to the explosions and no suspects or motives were immediately known, said Jim Llewellyn, spokesperson for the 12,000-student school located about 30 miles north of Detroit. The first explosion occurred about 5:15 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kresge Library, Llewellyn said. Several books were damaged, but there was no fire and several students on the floor escaped injury, he said. About the same time, an explosion in the library parking lot damaged a parked car, Llewellyn said. About 7 p.m., a third bomb exploded in the parking lot but caused no known damage, he said. State police are investigating the incident. Peruvians search for killers LIMA, Peru - Police set up roadblocks around Lima yesterday and detained 15,000 people in a search for the killers of former defense chief Enrique Lopez, the most prominent victim of Peru's decade-long guerrilla war. Flags flew at half-staff and the government declared a national day of mourning in honor of Lopez, who was buried Wednesday at a military cemetery outside Lima. Lopez was gunned down Tuesday as he was parking his car near a shopping center in a Lima suburb. Doctors said he suffered at least 10 bullet wounds, and police blamed Maoist guerrillas of the Shining Path rebel group. Early yesterday, the guerrillas struck again, killing nine people in the town of Tocata, about 540 miles southeast of Lima. Police units assisted by six helicopters sealed off highways leading from the capital and stopped about 8,000 cars in search of suspected rebels, according to an Interior Ministry official. War continues in Cambodia BANGKOK, Thailand - Indonesia's foreign minister met with Cam- bodian guerilla leaders yesterday and said they appeared inflexible in efforts to settle their 11-year-old war against the Vietnamese-installed govern- ment. Sources in Phnom Penh confirmed that explosions had hit the capital and that Khmer Rouge guerillas had attacked neat the second-largest city over the weekend. But they said Khmer Rouge claims of success were exaggerated. Cambodia's Communist premier, Hun Sen, said he feared the Khmer Rouge could return to power and said he would bolster government forces "at all costs." Diplomatic attempts to settle the conflict have intensified since September, when Vietnam said it withdrew all of its troops. The Indonesian official, Ali Alatas, met in Bangkok with Khmer Rouge leaders and those from the U.S.-backed, non-Communist forces of Prince Norodom Sihanouk and the Khmer People's National Liberation Front. Columbia's astronauts close in on space lab for retrieval SPACE CENTER, Houston - The Columbia astronauts put a Navy communications satellite into orbit yesterday and continued to close in on the path of a floating science laboratory they hope to snatch from space. "It was an outstanding morning," flight director Al Pennington said shortly after the release of the 15,200-pound Syncom satellite. "So everything looks real good right now. It's a great ship up there they're flying and it continues to perform beautifully." After the satellite was released, the astronauts turned their attention to the other major task of the mission, tracking down the 21,400-pound Long Duration Exposure Facility so it can be brought down to Earth. Commander Dan Brandenstein and pilot Jim Wetherbee steered the space shuttle through additional maneuvers to help the orbiter catch up to the bus-sized LDEF. If the astronauts fail the satellite is expected to be pulled to its destruction in a fiery dive through Earth's atmosphere on March 9. EXTRAS What will be the 90s' cliches? The 1990s have arrived. For those of you who didn't pay attention to the media during the break, you may have missed the great import of this number change. Not only does the date under Tom Brokaw's head change in the opening sequence of NBC Nightly News, but all the cliches of the 80s have to be rewritten to reflect the new decade. We knew that the 80s was the decade of the yuppies, of Trump's ostentatious shows of wealth, and of the completed merge between entertainment and politics (i.e. Gary Hart, Reagan). The 90s will be the age of boredom, an interlude period in history when Americans will be left without an ideology to hate instinctively. 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