The Michigan Daily Vol XCI No .4-S' Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, June 9, 1981 Ten Cents Sixteen Pages Israeli jets attack fraqi reactor UNIVERSITY VICE-PRESIDENT for Academic Affairs Bill Frye and President Harold Shapiro listen to students and. faculty members who criticized the Executive Committee's recommendation to discontinue the Department of Geography at a public hearing yesterday. Frye will announce his recommendation on the issue next week, he said yesterday. O pen hearing debates fate of ge ography From AP and UPI TEL AVIV, Israel - Israeli war- planes streaking 600 miles into hostile territory, destroyed an almost- completed Iraqi nuclear reactor out- side Baghdad, a facility Israel claimed would have made atomic bombs for use against the Jewish state. The attack, made Sunday but not disclosed until yesterday, was one of Israel's most stunning military blows in years. THE IRAQI leadership, apparently thrown off balance, waited until after the Israeli announcement-yesterday to acknowledge the raid, which it said was carried out by nine jets. The Reagan administration reacted angrily to the attack, and is preparing to tell Congress that U.S. planes may have been used illegally in the attack. State Department spokesman Dean Fischer said that available evidence suggests a possible violation of con- ditions which restricted Israel's use of American weapons primarily to self- defense. IN NEW YORK, Iraq asked for a prompt meeting of the 15-member U.N. Security Council. A message to the United Nations from Iraqi Foreign Minister Saadoun Hammadi said the air raid had "far-reaching consequen- ces for international peace and security." Iraq vowed that its nuclear technology would recover and accused the "Zionist enemy" of collusion with Iran in its border war with Iraq. At Iraq's request, the Arab League scheduled an emergency meeting to discuss what League Secretary- General Chedli Klibi called the "arrogant challenge" from Israel. He said the meeting would take place in Baghdad in the next three days. ISRAEL SAID in announcing the raid that the French-built reactor posed a "mortal danger to the people of Israel." U.S. sources said the facility might have been operational within two weeks. Prime Minister Menachem Begin said the attack was planned months ago and approved by the Cabinet Sunday. Israel itself has been described as a nuclear power, but the government has never admitted that Israel has nuclear weapons. BEGIN WENT ON nationwide radio last night and declared, "We are not afraid of any reaction by the world." He said he was sending President Reagan a written explanation. The United States disagrees with Israel's claim that the reactor posed a A new cease fire was declared in Beirut yesterday between embattled Christian and Syrian forces. See story, Page 9. potential security threat. Fischer noted that Iraq has signed the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty and has under- taken to accept the safeguard standar- ds of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Although military analysts said separately yesterday that weapons- grade nuclear materials could be made by the reactor, Fischer declared that "We have had no evidence that Iraq has violated its commitments under the treaty." PRESIDENT ANWAR Sadat of Egypt, which has a peace treaty with Israel, called the raid an "unlawful . . . provocative" act and See ISRAELIS, Page 10 By ANDREW CHAPMAN Daily faculty reporter Once again, the pros and cons of discontinuing the University's geography department were hashed over yesterday, this time in an open review session scheduled by University Vice-president for Academic Affairs Bill Frye. Frye announced that he would make a recommendation on the Geography department's discontinuance to the University's executive officers next Monday. If the recommendation is then approved by the officers it would be presented to the Regents at their June 18 meeting for further action. LSA DEAN John Knott opened yesterday's hearing with a statement justifying the administration's discon- tinuance proposal. "We would not do so drastic a measure if we did not believe the academic situation of the college called for such extraordinary measures," Knott said to Frye and University President Harold Shapiro. Eliminating the geography depar- tment would save the University $200,000 over the next few years, Knott said, citing what he called the geography department's declining quality as a fundamental reason for discontinuance. "The department's present condition is greatly weakened," the LSA Dean said. John Nystuen, geography depar- tment chairman, then spoke in defense of his curriculum and faculty. "Discon- tinuing the geography department. would be a mistake and would take decades to rectify," Nystuen said. "THE PROCEEDINGS to discon- tinue geography were clumsy and un- necessarily adversarial," continued Nystuen. "The discontinuance proceedings were an arbitrary and capricious action ... damaging to both faculty and students." The hearing was then opened to con- tributions from the general public. Fourteen speakers, both related and unrelated to the University, gave their views on the proposed geography department elimination. All the speakers-most of them students and faculty members-defended the depar- tment's quality. See PUBLIC, Page 11 Study examines eroding 'U' research conditions A recent report on the research environment at the University lists the problems and misconceptions some faculty members have regarding their "creative and scholarly activities." See story, Page 3.