WE *rni One hundred three years of editorial freedom S10601994Daily MSA drops Junding for. tenants' union By RONNIE GLASSBERG DAILY STAFF REPORTER The Michigan Party has fulfilled a campaign promise to change the way the Michigan Student Assembly funds the Ann Arbor Tenants' Union (AATU). But on the way to completing this pledge, the assembly may face a lawsuit for the cuts. At last night's meeting, lame-duck President Craig Greenberg said AATU failed to meet conditions set on half of the $22,000 allocated to the organization, and he said the money would return to the MSA internal budget. An amendment passed in September held $11,000 on the condition that AATU needed to provide the assembly with an internal review of the organization and a track of students' use of it, within 180 days after the passage of the SA budget. Since the imposed deadline passed last Week, the money returned to the MSA internal budget. But AATU Director Pattrice Maurer said an MSA employee told her the report deadline was March 1. After being told about the plan to cut AATU's funding, ISA Rep. Michelle Ferrarese told Maurer of the move yesterday. Maurer then turned in a complete report seven days after the deadline, but two days before she said she believed the deadline was. At last night's meeting Vice President-elect Jacob Stern, chair of the MSA Budget Priorities Committee, *ade a motion to move the funds into his committee, for use by student groups. The motion passed in a 14-13 vote. The day before the assembly's deadline for the report, Maurer said there was a meeting of AATU's board of directors, which Stern serves on. Maurer said Stern should have reminded her of the deadline at this time. Stern said the tenants' union knew of the deadline. "The AATU was there through the budget hearings in September," Stern said. "I don't know where the misun- derstanding is. We have to follow our budget." Public Health Rep. Meg Whittaker, who proposed the See MSA, Page 2 ATTACK OF THE KILLER SNOWFLAKES Mideast talks continue despite recent killing JABALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Occupied Gaza Strip (AP) --- Pales- tinian angry over the shooting deaths of six PLO activists took to the streets in protest yesterday, as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators struggled to move peace talks forward. Soldiers shot and killed a 17-year- old throwing stones and wounded more than 50 protesters in clashes that broke out across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. In a suburb of Tel Aviv, two Pal- estinians attacked an Israeli man with an ax, critically wounding him. Four Israeli soldiers and four ci- vilians were injured in stonings in the West Bank. The West Bank military govern- ment said Arab schools would be closed for two days in an effort to prevent further rioting. Six members of Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Libera- tion Organization were shot and killed Monday by an elite Israeli under- cover unit. Palestinians said the six did not open fire, and witnesses claimed one was killed after being captured and a second as he lay wounded. Fatah supporters vowed to attack Israeli soldiers in reprisal. Before the shootings Monday, Is- rael and the PLO were expected to JONATHAN LU A student on State Street braving the weather yesterday afternoon found himself battling snowflakes as big as quarters. Michigan weather strikes again. S. Africa official says vote won't be delayed agree yesterday on security arrange- ments for Hebron, site of last month's massacre of 30 Muslim worshipers, and then resume talks on implement- ing the September autonomy agree- ment for Gaza and the West Bank town of Jericho. Autonomy talks have been sus- pended since the Feb. 25 massacre by a Jewish settler. Israel argues that the only way to curb violence is to speed the arrival of Palestinian police and self-govern- ment, but they are reluctant to with- draw from Gaza and Jericho without an agreement in hand. The PLO does not want to appear too eager to strike an accelerated deal with Israel. The two sides met yesterday in Cairo to hear Israeli proposals for deploying Palestinian police and post- ing foreign observers in Hebron. In Gaza's Bureij refugee camp, youths attacked soldiers in two jeeps with stones, hitting one soldier in the head, Arab reports said. The soldiers opened fire, fatally wounding Omar Kabani, 17, and wounding four oth- ers, including a 9-year-old, officials at Ahli Arab hospital said. Elsewhere in Gaza, 20 Palestin- ians were wounded, including a 10- year-old boy shot in the head, Pales- tinian reports said. FOTA officer flooded with forms from illegal search By JAMES R. CHO DAILY STAFF REPORTER Lewis Morrissey, the University's chief Freedom of Information Act officer - charged with handling all Freedom of Information requests and obtaining the documents pertaining to the 1988 presidential search - probably knows more about the search process than the regents who were on the search committee. Morrissey, who came to the Uni- versity in January, has had to sift through the thousands of notes, corre- spondences, minutes and resumes per- taining to the 14-month presidential search through which James J. Dud- erstadt became president of the Uni- versity. "This whole thing came as a sur- prise to me," Morrissey said. "I went through all the documents a number of times." On Feb. 11, Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge Patrick J. Conlin ordered the University to hand over 'I am glad to have this behind me. I have had to put a lot of things on hold.' - Lewis Morrissey Chief FOIA officer LOS ANGELES TIMES JOHANNESBURG, South Africa *- Hoping to reassure a traumatized city and a frightened nation, the head of the independent electoral commis- sion calmly insisted yesterday that the blazing gun battles and chaos that swept the central business district here Monday would not derail or delay next month's democratic elections. "Quite frankly, it does not seem to impact directly on the prospects of *bstantially free and fair elections," Judge Johann Kriegler told a news conference. "It may have major po- litical implications ... but I'm pretty certain it will have no effect on the electoral process." But Kriegler added that a hastily formed task force had gone overnight to KwaZulu, the volatile Zulu home- land run by Chief Mangosuthu G. uthelezi, to determine if free and balloting will be possible there given Buthelezi's increasingly stri- dent opposition to the elections and record levels of political violence in the surrounding Natal province. The task force has until April 5 to make its report. All-race elections for a national and nine provincial Parlia- ments and the first post-apartheid government are scheduled for April 26-28. If necessary, Kriegler said, the voting could be postponed in selected parts of KwaZulu until stability is assured. Here in Johannesburg, police said yesterday at least 34 people, includ- ing three police officers, were killed and 173 were wounded by gunfire and marauding mobs downtown on a day that one newspaper here dubbed "Bloody Monday." Another 18 people were killed in related factional vio- lence in and around the Black town- ships of Soweto. On Monday, there had been a con- fusing series of wild shooting sprees AP GRAPHIC between the police, security guards from the African National.Congress, and thousands of anti-election Zulu protesters aligned with Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party. Most of the Zulus marched through the streets armed with traditional weapons like spears and clubs, but many pulled out automatic pistols and assault rifles out when the shooting began. Each group blamed the others for, Township residents flee from teargas fired by police yesterday in Soweto. instigating Monday's violence. But witnesses and participants gave vastly differing accounts as to who had fired the first shots. It was also impossible to prove widely accepted reports that snipers or agents provocateurs had opened fire from high-rise office buildings onto Zulus who had gathered peace- fully in a grassy plaza in front of the main library. The downtown remained tense and filled with rumors yesterday. Spo- radic shooting was reported and uni- dentified gunmen in a speeding mini- van fired at the heavily guarded ANC headquarters. No one was injured and the gunmen escaped. Undergrads relish fruitful research opportunties N By SCOT WOODS DAILY STAFF REPORTER * Like many biologists, Tina Cardon divides her time between reading sci- entific literature and spending long hours in a campus laboratory per- forming exacting experiments. In addition to routine tasks like washing lab equipment and mixing extraction." Cardon is not the only undergradu- ate conducting research with faculty members. Marvin Parnes, assistant to the vice president for research, said through individual arrangements be- tween students and professors, and programs like the Undergraduate Re- search Opportunities Program (i T~flP) _ nit 7_(1(X1 iindero~antpg * ''c..