Page 2-The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 23, 1990 1st Lady I' ' p L;\L comes to Ypsilanti YPSILANTI (AP) - Longtime literacy advocate Barbara Bush en- couraged adult education classes yes- terday at Ford Motor Co. to press on with training and set examples for their children. "You ought to be very proud of yourself," Bush told a group of stu- dents gathered around her at the Ford Ypsilanti Plant. "You can't legislate family... you can certainly set an ex- ample for them." Bush, accompanied by Ford Chairman Donald Petersen, sat in through the UAW-Ford Skills En- hancement Program. The program started in 1982 and offers United Auto Workers union members at Ford classes in reading, writing, math and computers and other basic skills. Many seek high school equivalency diplomas. Last June, Ford opened the program to spouses of employees. "I haven't seen anything quite like this," Bush said. " I suspect people are going to copy them all around the country. It does make for happier long-term workers." Bush, who has crusaded for adult literacy and advanced education since before her husband became president, left for Cleveland after the Ford visit to attend the 15th Anniversary Cele- bration Dinner for Project Learn Adult Literacy Center. The Ypsilanti plant, 30 miles west of Detroit, is one of 50 Ford plants across the country that offers learning centers. More than 17,400 people have participated, with nearly 1,000 earning high school credit, 60 of which earned high school diplo- mas and 320 high school equiva- lency diplomas, Ford officials said. Ihirty-five angry men W'r~~ About 35 people demonstrated outside the Berrien County Courthouse in St. Joseph, Michigan, yesterday morning as part of a protest against a prosecutor's ruling that the shooting of a Benton Harbor resident by a city police lieutenant on January 18 was justified. Benton Harbor City Manager Steve Manning on Tuesday fired Lt. Marvin Fiedler after investigating the shooting death of Norris Maben, who Fiedler apparently believed was a murder suspect. Some community members believe Fiedler should be prosecuted. BAKER Continued from page 1 "The government of the United States must be satisfied that there will continue to be open political space in Nicaragua. Then we can consider beginning to look at how we might normalize" relations, in- cluding lifting the trade sanctions. The Nicaraguan government, in denying visas to congressional ob- servers appointed by President Bush, argued that the observers could not be objective because the United States is providing money to the Chamorro campaign. REAGAN Continued from page 1 Reagan testified, "It was my im- pression" that National Security Council aide Oliver North's assis- tance to the Contras was limited to "communicating back and forth... had any inkling that we were guiding their strategy in any way," Reagan testified under questioning by Webb. Asked what he thought North was doing, Reagan said that "you have to have people that can be available to make contact with the leaders of the Contras ... sometimes closer than just writing a letter." "It was my understanding because his name would crop up in memos and so forth that that's what he was doing," the former president added. Iran-Contra prosecutors used cross-examination of Reagan to in- troduce evidence that Poindexter lied to Reagan about the secret aid opera- tion after a C-123 cargo plane was shot down over Nicaragua during a supply flight on October 5, 1986. S. AFRICA Continued from page 1 of David Webster, a Johannesburg human rights activist, and Anton Lubowski, a civil rights lawyer and pro-independence activist in Namibia. De Klerk last month ordered a judicial inquiry into charges that mil- itary and police squads murdered government opponents. The com- mission is expected to investigate the unsolved killings of at least 60 activists in the past decade. Three former policemen have confessed to serving on death squads. Several active police officers are under investigation. The activists"allegedly killed by the death squads include members and supporters of the ANC. Although it was legalized Feb. 2 as part of de Klerk's peace initiative, the ANC says its guerrilla remains one of its tactics in trying to pressure the government to end white-minor- ity domination. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Engler proposes to cut taxes LANSING - Senate Majority Leader John Engler, searching for alter- natives to Gov. James Blanchard's programs, proposed yesterday to cut property taxes in Michigan by almost a billion dollars over three years. The key part of the plan would reduce property tax assessments for school operations by 20 percent over three years. Senior citizens would pay no property tax for schools. Engler unveiled his tax-cut plan as a Senate GOP proposal. But it was also seen as another partisan weapon in his campaign for the governor's office. Engler acknowledged the tax plan highlighted a difference with Blan- chard, but said it was consistent with GOP efforts to cut taxes. "Michigan's excessive property tax burden is stifling our state's growth and development," he said. "It's not enough to talk about just capping property taxes or limiting increases." E. German Gov't proposes reductions in armed forces EAST BERLIN - The two Germanys should reduce their combined military by two-thirds when they unite, and some U.S. and Soviet soldiers should remain during the unification process, the East German de- fense minister said yesterday. Adm. Theodor Hoffman said the armed forces should be purely defen- sive and both states should remain in their respective alliances until they are reunited under a new European security system. Hoffman said a joint German military should be reduced to about 300,000 men initially, and later to 150,000-200,000. All three services - army, navy and air force - should be retained be- cause all are essential to defense, he told a news conference. Until a new European system suppliants NATO and the Warsaw Pact, 9 Hoffman said, U.S. and Soviet soldiers should remain on German territory "even if this becomes symbolic at a certain time." Rocket explodes after launch KOUROU, French Guiana - An Ariane 44-L Rocket with two Japanese telecommunications satellite aboard exploded Thursday shortly after blasting off from the launch pad at the Ariane space center. Arianespace President Frederic d'Allest said the four-engine rocket blew apart because of what appeared to be a problem with its propulsion sys- tem. "The launch was a failure," said d'Allest. "The launch vehicle ex- ploded just a bit more than two minutes after the firing following an fire in the propulsion." Witnesses who watched the flight on TV monitors at the center said as fire appeared to break out before the rocket was due to detach 2 minutes, 30 seconds into flight. The rocket lifted off at 8:17 PM and roared upward over the Atlantic Ocean, lifted by four strap-on liquid propulsion boosters. "We are going to analyze the failures to explain to explain the catas- trophe of this flight as rapidly as possible," d'Allest said. Bush opposes new sanctions WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration opposes placing more economic sanctions on South Africa because, "When someone is starting to do the right thing, you don't kick them," an official said yes- terday. Herman Cohen, the assistant secretary of state for African affairs, pre- dicted South Africa's white-ruled government might be able to satisfy conditions that could lead to the removal of U.S. economic sanctions "in the next three months." Cohen said the Bush administration objects to a House resolution that would tighten the sanctions by preventing U.S. banks from rescheduling South African debt. Cohen's comments came as a bipartisan congressional group pledged to keep sanctions in force until South Africa's President F.W. de Klerk meets all conditions for the lifting of sanctions. State Court creates legal aid fund of $3.5 million for poor LANSING - The Michigan Supreme Court has moved to create a fund of $3.5 million a year to pay for legal services for the poor, but the split of that money got a mixed reaction yesterday. The program, known as Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts, would funnel the interest from hundreds of accounts across the state into one fund, bringing in $3 million to $3.5 million a year, said Thomas , a spokesman for the State Bar of Michigan. The program will go into effect on Oct. 1 and all lawyers will be required to participate in it, Oren said. Michigan has about 27,000 lawyers. 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