The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 23, 1990 - Page 5 East German parties agree to discuss coalition EAST BERLIN (AP) - In a cuss joining a coalition government jority. Monday. many to ensure a clear mandate for operate with the German Social move that could speed formation of with an alliance that won national The Social Democrats favor a "The Christian Democratic Union moves toward unification. Union. East Germanv's first non-Comma- elections. more gradual path toward unification is the largest party in the Alliance. It The Social Democrats ruled out The dailm nmher b f . f t G 4 r nist government, the Social Democrats agreed yesterday to dis- S For close to one hundred years, the Michigan Daily has been consistently rated the top daily campus newspaper in Ann Arbor. Join a winning team. Meetings for News, Arts, Sports, and Opinion staff every Sunday at 1 p.m. Goforit C 1N GARDEN Restaurant SZECHUAN, HUNAN & PEKING CUISINE Good nutrition is our concern. COCKTAILS " CARRY OUT & DELIVERY Sunday Buffet Mon.- Thurs. 11:30- 10:00 Fri 11:30-11:00; Sat. noon-11:00; Sun. noon- 10:00 10S Washtenavw, Ann Arbor 971-090 gold bond cleaners Quality Dry Cleaning and Shirt Service 332 Maynard St. across from Nickels Arcade 668-6335 The left-leaning party, which fin- ished second in Sunday's balloting to the Alliance for Germany, refused to work with a right-wing party in the three-party Alliance. Alliance leaders left the door open to such an arrangement. A two-thirds majority in the new Parliament is needed to approve un- fication with West Germany, and the Alliance needs the votes of the So- cial Democrats to achieve that ma- with West Germany than the Al- liance, and earlier in the week it re- jected an invitation to discuss form- ing a broad coalition. But yesterday, the party said it decided to hold exploratory talks "in view of the serious problems of our country." "The (nation's) governability has to have priority," Richard Schroeder, a Social Democratic member in Par- liament, told a news conference. Party officials said meetings with the Alliance would not begin before L. won 164 seats in the 400-member Parliament. The Social Democrats have 87, and together the two parties would have an absolute majority. East Germany's Communist-led caretaker government formally re- mains in power until the new demo- cratically elected Cabinet is formed. Before that happens, West Germany will not resume talks on unity. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who heavily backs the Chris- tian Democratic Union, is pressing for a broad coalition in East Ger- talks with the German Social Union, the most reactionary member of the Alliance of Germany. That obstacle appeared to wane somewhat after East German Chris- tian Democratic chief Lothar de Maiziere and other Alliance leaders met Kohl late Wednesday in Bonn. The East German leaders said their parties will not form a com- mon bloc of deputies. This was seen as a formula that wouldrallow the Social Democrats to join in a coali- tion without ?ormally having to co- 1Uuuyu eIIIUr UCast er- mans resettling in West Germany has dropped in half in the past week, apparently as a result of national elections, the West German Interior Ministry said yesterday. In recent weeks, the daily number of new arrivals often surpassed 2,000. The exodus marked the fall pro- democracy revolution that ousted the hard-line Communist regime of Erich Honecker and led to the elec- tion, East Germany's first ever free vote. Lansing plans to ensure residents counted in 1990 census LANSING (AP) - Posters in twelve languages and brochures for welfare recipients are two ways Michigan is making sure each of its citizens is counted in the 1990 cen- sus, the co-chair of a state task forces said yesterday. Laurence Rosen, co-chair of the Inter Agency Task Force on the 1990 Census, said the yearlong ef- fort will cost Michigan $85,000 by the time census follow-up work is completed in June. "There's power and there's money" at stake in the census, said Martha Sorensen, the other task force co-chair. Michigan expects to lose as many as two of its 18 congressional seats after the census count is fin- ished due to population shifts to Florida, Texas and California. "Our job is to do a better job of counting who we have left than they do," Sorensen said. Besides congressional clout, the census figures can affect federal aid Michigan receives under 91 pro- grams, including Head Start, crime prevention, economic development and senior citizen assistance, she said. In 1989, that aid amounted to $1.6 billion in Michigan, or $172 a person. costs and it adds up over a 10-year period," Sorensen explained. The census, carried out by the federal government, can also affect the way Michigan distributes more than $1 billion in state funds since many grants to local governments "When we don't count people it are based on census figures, she said. [f _ 'i. :... : :::. .i DANCE ENSE.MBLE March 23,24 8:00 PM. Slauson Junior High School 1019 West Washington Rd. Ann Arbor $3.00 donation at door call 764-1342 for more info. Starved For New Sounds, Hundreds Swarmto Record Town! A state of emergency has been declared at a local university as students are flooding in masses to Record Town. "The campus is like a morgue" said one faculty member, "Even the bars are empty." School officials are citing' "mysterious music" as the THE CHURCH GOLD AFTERNOON FIX ' BONNIE RAITT Nick Of lime blame for this movement and a special task force has been set up to combat the problem. In charge of the task force is head librarian Melvin Lipschitz, who offered this theory: "The music in question is obviously the work of either a satanic cult or some third world terrorist organization whose goal is to PETER MURPHY Deep METROPOLIS *YOU'RE STILL BEAUTIFUL &Jtwm 0 brain-wash our kids into blindly revolting against their parents, the school, the govern- ment, and America." Sophomore Ron Owens replied, "I'm just sick of my old tapes." The music that is causing such controversy is pictured here and Record Town has it on sale for just $5.99 on cassette and just $11.99 on compact disc. The sale is going on until 3/25. After that time officials are hoping things will B I G SAVINGS ON THESE PICTURED TITLES return to normal so they can concentrate their efforts on the vampire sightings that are being reported on campus. $ $ES CASSETTE COMPACT DISC U TANITA TIKARAM The Sweet Keeper 1 - ..~r,"r M u - 7,tv v r-I