The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, August 5, 1980-Page 9
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Films ruined
A fireman hoses down piles of precious original movie reels destroyed in a fire of unspecified origin at a warehouse in a
Paris suburb Sunday. A spokesman for the World Union of Film Museum, considered one of the great film museums, said
many originals of famous films were lost forever.
Student Libertarians
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no laws for or against prostitution,
because what two consenting adults do
with their bodies is their own business."
"All existing laws regarding
prostitution should be repealed," she
added.
THE FIRST plenary session of the
group began Saturday morning and
featured a keynote address by Roy
Childs, one of the founders of Liber-
tarian Party and an editor of the party
magazine, Libertarian Review.
Childs criticized the ideology of both
the left- and right-wings of * the
American political spectrum.
"What was wrong with the Left-Right
dichotomy that dominated the 60s?" he
asked the crowd filling half of
Auditorium C in Angell Hall. "The right.
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Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz, a
film document of The Band's final con-
cert with all your favorite sixties rock
icons (Clapton, Dylan, Ringo, et al)
trotted out at various intervals. Some
erstwhile critics have labelled this "the
finest rock film ever made," but unless
you can't remember these performers
in their not-so-distant prime, The Last
Waltz is a pale shadow of what these
performers were once capable of. The
Band does have its moments, though
and Neil Young turns in a splendidly
drunken bit of revelry.
For those who prefer something a bit.
more up-to-date in rock and roll, and
have accessible transportation, Detroit
is definitely the place to be on Tuesday.
The infamous Bookies Club at 870 W.
McNichols, is presenting the Members,
an intriguing new wave band from
England. The Members toss every
available influence (reggae, R and B,
rockabilly) in to a punky stew that is
also flavored by a cheeky sense of
humor. If they are half as vivacious live
as they are on record, it should be an.
exciting show.
wing wanted to get rid of government
controls in areas like taxation, and in-
crease government control over foreign.
policy. The left wing asked for peace,
but their prescription for the country's
economic woes called for something.
that was not a free market economy."
After Childs' speech, the members
began trying to decide what the group's
platform would be. Although the Liber-
tarian Party has its own platform, the
student organization does not.
MEMBERS WERE given copies of
two proposed platforms, one developed
by the SLS National Office and another
drafted by the SLS Radical Caucus. Af-
ter discussing the merits of each
document, the group voted to use the
National Committee platform as a
basis, adding amendments where
necessary.
"I'm pleased with the way it turned
out," said SLS National Director Milton
Mueller. "Lots of dynamic energy
flowed during the session. We are the
only student political group defining
politics in a new way - not honoring the
New Left or the New Right."
On Sunday night, the conference
sponsored a debate between Liber-
tarian Party Presidential candidate Ed
Clark and Citizens Party candidate
Barry Commoner. A capacity crowd,
including many Citizens' Party mem-
bers as well as SLS members and the
general public, filled the auditorium in
the Modern Languages Building to wit-
ness the event.
THE DEBATE got off to a rather
rocky start. Due to problems with the
sound system, it began one-half hour
late, and Naomi Gottlieb of the League
of Women Voters mistakenly in-
troduced Ed Clark as the candidate of
the Citizens' Party.
Clark expressed apprehension about
the debate. "I debated Commoner once
before, in Chicago, and it was a very
unfortunate event," the California
lawyer explained before the event
began. "I got up and spoke out against
the draft, and Commoner really at-
tacked me for it - he said it was the
class war I should be worried about."
Commoner criticized the Libertarian
platform. "They. are supporting cor-
porate power under the 'guise of in-
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dividual freedom, while the Citizens
Party recognizes that freedom belongs
only to the people who control the
economy," said Commoner, a professor
at Washington University in St. Louis.
THE IDEOLOGICAL differences
between the parties became more ap-
parent as the debate progressed.
"Those who say they can reform a
nation's system of government are
ridiculous," said Clark in his opening
statement, lumping Nixon, Hitler,
Stalin, and Kissinger into the "Mary
Poppins School of Government."
Commoner, in his opening statement,
decried the power of the nation's large
corporations to regulate individual
citizens' lives, a theme that ran through
his responses during the debate.
"The power that governs our lives in
this country rests in the hands of the
large corporations," Commoner said.
"For example, the reason we are
threatened with war in the Mideast is
the result of the operation of 'Liber-
tarian principle' of individual freedom
in the hands of the oil companies."
BOTH CANDIDATES were heckled
throughout the debate from members
of the opposition party. One of the
panelists asking questions during the
debate, a correspondent from Business
Week magazine, drew a smile from
Commoner when he asked, "What
makes you any different from a Ted
Kennedy who can think?"
"I'll tell you what makes me different
from ,Jennedy and all the other can-
didates," Commoner replied. "They
are all in favor of the free enterprise
system, and I'm against it." He added
reducing the military budget and
making more jobs available to
minorities were other ideas he had that
weren't shared by major party can-
didates.
Both candidates conceded they have
little chance of winning the election.
Iran
threatens
hostage
trials
From UPI and AP
Iran's Parliament decided yesterday
to postpone debate on the American
hostages but the speaker of the house,
protesting the jailing of Iranian demon-
strators in the United States, said the
hostages should be put on trial to show
"we are not scared."
Speaker Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsan-
jani said Parliament had asked the
Supreme Islamic Council to make
preparations for trials of the 52
Americans since nearly 200 Iranians
were jailed last week during a
Washington demonstration.
MEANWHILE, in Otisville, N.Y., 40
of the 172 Iranians being held at the
federal prison are being force-fed
because their prolonged hunger strike
has left them in a "life-threatened
situation," a prison spokeswoman said
yesterday.
Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghot-
bzadeh asked for a U.N. commission to
investigate the conditions of the
Iranians who face possible deportation
to Iran. The State Department said it
would welcome such a probe, although
a U.N. spokesman said no such request
had been received from Tehran.
In Cairo, Egypt, President' Anwar
Sadat, who buried his old friend the
Shah of Iran last week, has taken over
the late monarch's role as chief defen-
der of Western interests in the Middle
East.
UNLIKE IRAN, Egypt lacks vast
reserves of oil to meet the growing
demands of its vastly poor 42 million
people who have a per capita income of
only about $350a year.
But like the late King of Kings, Sadat
has most of the political power concen-
trated in his hands, has launched a
modernization program heavily depen-
dent on Western imports and faces his
main opposition from Islamic fun-
damentalists.
Perhaps the most significant
similarity is that Egypt, like Iran under
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, is
helping Washington to develop the
capability to project military power in-
to the Persian Gulfawhere most of the
industrialized world's oil comes from.
SOME DIPLOMATIC observers
worry privately about what one called
the "Iranization of Egypt," fearing the
United States will make the same
mistakes that contributed to the ouster
of the shah by Islamic revolutionaries
in January, 1979.
A major irritant in Iran was the per-
vasive presence of Americans, who
numbered more than 50,000 at the peak.
Many lived with all the comforts of
home in isolated "Little Americas" cut
off from Iranian society.
The seeds of such a community are
found in the Cairo suburb of Maadi,
where U.S. diplomats, oilmen, and
educators have settled with their
families.
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