2- The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, December 3, 1996 NATION/WORiLD FBI helped Marshall wthCommunists _. *:' Y:..;". Yti . ti~ WASHINGTON (AP) - Civil rights leader Thurgood Marshall was so worried in the 1950s about Communist Party efforts to infiltrate and influence the -NAACP that he turned to the FBI for advice, newly released agency files indicate. "The matter which is worrying him more than any- thing else right at the moment is the Communist Party's effort to get into the NAACP and forge out to the forefront," said a 1952 memo by Louis Nichols, assistant to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Marshall, at times a forceful critic of the FBI in those years, had traveled to Washington from New York City for a meeting with Nichols after asking unsuccessfully to meet with Hoover. Marshall, who was to become the first black Supreme Court justice in 1967, was general counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at the time. He died in 1993, two years after poor health forced him to retire from the nation's highest court. A longtime crusader for racial justice, Marshall was linked in FBI reports of the 1940s and early 1950s to organizations such as the National Lawyers Guild, then considered a Communist front. The allegations had a long life. When Marshall was nominated by President Johnson to the Supreme Court, Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) wrote to Hoover to ask whether reports linking Marshall to Communist groups were true. The 1,200 pages of FBI files on Marshall include episodes in which he attacked the agency's diligence in investigating crimes against black victims, and instances in which he sought its guidance. In a 1946 letter to then-Attorney General Tom Clark, Marshall questioned the FBI's performance in probing race riots in Columbia, Tenn.; lynchings in Minden, La., and the beating of a black man in Batesburg, S.C. "Such a record demonstrates the uneven adminis- tration of federal criminal statutes, which should not be tolerated," Marshall told Clark. The letter was passed on to Hoover, who wrote this response: "Marshall should be informed in no uncer- tain terms that all investigations conducted by the bureau are conducted impartially and without regard to race or color of any persons involved.' A 1968 memo tells of Marshall's calling an FBI agent to report that he was the target of a Black Panther demonstration at the University of Wisconsin and asking whether the agency knew whether similar action was planned when he attended a University of Georgia event. Although he generally voted for broad free-press rights, Marshall was never particularly fond of the news media. In a 1959 contact with the FBI, he told an agent about an encounter with a New York Post reporter. The agent later wrote that Marshall, who sometimes criti- cized the FBI publicly, "gained the impression that the Post people were looking for something, fishing - that they appeared to be trying to find out what makes Mr. Hoover tick." In 1982, Justice Marshall apparently was outraged by a magazine article, called "How to Write Dirty," which purported that he was its author. The article contained many coarse and crude sexual comments. Marshall sent a copy from an unidentified publica- tion to then-FBI Director William Webster along with a "Private and Confidential" note asking for "some suggestions as to what can be done about it." The FBI discovered that the article was a spoof pub- lished in the National Lampoon. "No FBI jurisdiction is apparent," an agent told Webster. Information from the files was first published in USA Today yesterday. Dow Corning offers new settlement NEW YORK - Emboldened by new studies that failed to prove a link between breast implants and disease, Dow Corning Corp. yesterday raised new obstaclesto women seeking damages from the company. Dow Corning, once the largest implant maker, made a new $2 billion settlement offer, but said it would only pay $600 million unless a court rules that the implahts make people sick. Dow Corning proposed paying $2 billion two years ago as part of an unsuc- cessful attempt to settle all implant claims around the world. The stringent terms of the new offer partly reflect an accumulation of evidence that breast implants may not cause the litany of ills claimed by thousands of women, the company said. Those claims helped push Dow Coming into bankrupt- cy reorganization in May 1995. "The evidence disproving a link between implants and disease has been over- whelming,' said Dow Corning spokesperson Michael Jackson. Dow Coming's new offer is contained in a reorganization plan aimed at getting the company out of bankruptcy court. Leaders of anti-breast implant groups condemned the plan as woefully inad- quate, pointing out that when the settlement collapsed two years ago it was beca thousands more women filed claims than expected. i « lecture Notes *Course Packets * Resunie°Svices * Copy &1Bincery *Fax ervces R ESU ME S Fast ' Resume Package $29.99 Includes: t-page resume typeset, 25 laserprinted copies, 25 matching blank sheets, 25 envelopes All resumes are kept on disk for future updates. Proofs are available next-day. $2.00 OFF Complete resume package with this ad. One per customer. Grade A Notes at Ulrich's Bookstore Second Floor- 549 E. University - 741-9669 Parents push for use of new AIDS drug Nobody prepares you like (:K APLAN Kaplan has the most complete arsenal of test prep tools available. 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Since none of the three new and potent medicines revolutionizing AIDS care is yet approved for child use, pedi- atricians and parents have begun strug- gling on their own to determine safe doses - fearing that otherwise the children will die waiting as drug com- panies study the question. "I looked over to my daughter and thought, 'How could I sit here and try to save my life and not my daughter's?"' Johnson, of Baltimore, angrily told government AIDS experts last week. "We are not going to let our children die without a fight.' Under a pediatrician's care, Johnson's 9-year-old now is one of just a handful of children nationwide taking one of the new drugs. So far, she is doing well. "I want other children to have this chance," Johnson said. Drug makers say they're working hard to get the new drugs, called pro- tease inhibitors, to children. They have studies planned for early 1997 on everything from liquid formulas to drug "sprinkles" that parents would mix into applesauce. The drug companies say children spit out earlier liquid formulas because they were too bitter. And the companies had problems getting the right drug absorp- tion. Still, "in hindsight, perhaps we should have moved forward to get some experi- mental data" sooner, said Dr. Miklos Salgo of Hoffman LaRoche, maker of the first protease inhibitor, saquinavir. The issue doesn't just touch AIDS. Eighty percent of prescription drugs are sold with no information on how safe or effective they might be for children. A little more than 10,000 of the nation's half a million AIDS cases have been in children and teen-agers. Some 3,156 children under 13 and 1,452 teens are still alive and in need of med- icine compared with tens of thousands of adults. Doctors say it's unethical to ignore children just because there are fewer victims. "AIDS kills children just like it kills adults," said Dr. Nancy Hutton of Johns Hopkins University's Children's Center. NASA plans for space emergencies CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA scrambled yesterday to come up with a plan for Columbia's astronauts to safely open and close a jammed hatch in the remote chance an emergency spacewalk is needed. In 15 years of space shuttle flight, astronauts have never had to perform an emergency spacewalk before returning to Earth. But they've also never encountered a stuck hatch before, so Mission Control is considering some nightmare scenarios -just in case. Flight controllers are considering all sorts of options - some of them "pret- ty far-out" - in case Tamara Jernigan and Thomas Jones have to go out to, say, shut Columbia's cargo-bay doors. It's doubtful Columbia and its five astronauts could survive the fiery plunge through the atmosphere if the cargo-bay doors were open. The crew typically closes these doors from inside, but what if the automatic system didn't work? And what if Jernigan and Jones managed to pry open the hatch and shut the cargo-bay doors, but the hatch behind them didn't seal? Without a decent seal on the hatch, Jernigan and Jones would be unable to enter the pressurized crew cabin, arid would have to ride back to Earth in e airlock - the cramped chamb between the cabin and the cargo bay Navy training plane crashes, kills 2 MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A Navy T- 34 training plane crashed yesterday while the pilot practiced takeoffs and landings, and a witness said it may have had engine trouble. Both crew members were killed. The single-engine, turboprop T-34 went down about 300 yards from a run- way at Maxwell Air Force Base during clear weather, base officials said. The pilot had been practicing touch- and-go maneuvers, in which a plane makes a landing approach and touches down, then immediately takes off again, said Capt. Robert Gonzalez, a Maxwell spokesperson. 6- DRUGS Continued from Page i purposes. Since California approved the propo- sition Nov. 5, state and federal law enforcement officials - fearing soar- ing drug use as a result - have been trying to figure out how to circumvent Proposition 215 and use federal drug laws that prohibit the possession and sale of marijuana. Washington's pace in responding to- the new law came under attack at the hearing. "The election was a month ago and the administration doesn't have a plan," complained John Walters, a for- mer deputy director at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy under President Bush. In particular, he scoffed at a repeated assertion by McCaffey that the adminis- tration intends to collect data on the harm it predicts will come as a result of Proposition 215. 'One thing they want to do is watch the body count in California," said Walters. "Why don't they prevent the body count in California?" SPRING Continued from Page I "Prices tend to be a bit higher on those particular spring break weeks," Stamos said. Students who would rather improve communities than work on their tans signed up for Alternative Spring Break, an event sponsored by Project Serve. Students travel to sights nationwide and volunteer in the area of their choice. Many students said they would pre- fer to go home and avoid exorbitant hotel and airplane costs. "I'll probably go home, depending on how my winter break goes," said Engineering sophomore Anthony Martinez. There are still students who have not worried about their plans for a vacation that is more than three months away. "I haven't even thought about it," said LSA first-year student Shannon Beattie. "Its too far away." MINI-COURSE Continued from Page 1 "There will be new advertise- ments in January before registration begins," Antonini said. "Hopefully students who want to take these courses will be able to find the sign- up without any difficulty at the Union." "We're also planning to bring popular courses from the past such as bartending, CPR, and add some new nne that we thinkr th e tudentR tumor removed from Czech pres. PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Doctors removed a malignant tumor and half of President Vaclav Havel's right lung yesterday and gave the chain- smoking former dissident good chances for recovery. Havel regained consciousness soon after the operation and was in intensive care, doctors said. Chief surgeon Dr. Pavel Pafko told reporters a malignant tumor of about half an inch in diameter was taken out during the 3 1/2-hour surgery, which he described as "very radical." Pafko said Havel probably would remain hospitalized for at least a week and should recover fully in about six weeks. He did not specify what treat- ment Havel would undergo after surgery. Presidential spokesperson Ladislav Spacek told the state-run CTK news agency that the president's condition after the operation "corresponds with the surgery he underwent." Premier Vaclav Klaus, in Lisbon, Portugal, for a summit, also told reporters the prognosis was "positive" and that Havel likely would be back at work within weeks. Havel stopped smoking in front 0 television cameras years ago but has kept up the habit in private despite, a history of respiratory problems. U.N. strives to protect copyrghts GENEVA - People surfing the World Wide Web, downloading sor and novels, could cost the music 'and publishing industries billions of dollars, say officials meeting here to see that doesn't occur. The U.N. body that oversees.the lucrative world of copyright and patent protection opened a three-week con- ference yesterday, hoping to catclhr up with the sweeping changes caused 'by computers and the Internet. - Compiledfrom Daily wire repo. -7 The Michigan Daily (iSSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. 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