0 Page 4-Wednesday, August 12, 1981-The Michigan Daly Demonstrators stage sit-ins against bomb THE HAGUE, Netherlands by a U.S. atomic bomb at the end, (AP)-Three hundred demonstrators World War II. staged sit-ins yesterday at six em- Other bands of youths held peacef bassies, including the American and sit-ins in the lobbies of the West Ge Soviet missions, proclaiming "a man and Spanish embassies and ou renewal of the European movement side the Soviet, Italian, and Fren against the neutron bomb." missions. They delivered letterst At the request of U.S. Charge d'Af- diplomats calling for each nation to e, fairs Thomas Dunnigan, police carried its role in the nuclear arms race. about 50 young protesters from the THE SIT-INS were organized by tI front steps of the American Embassy Sixth International Peace Marc in the Dutch diplomatic capital and holding its annual gathering in tt moved them behind a nearby police Netherlands this year. Organizer Her barricade. Geist said about 900 members are car MARINE GUARDS sealed the em- ped near Beilen close to the West Ge bassy for an hour and a half during the man border, conducting protes protest against the Reagan ad- around the country. ministration's decision to build the "This is one of the first signs of neutron weapon-a nuclear warhead renewal in the European moveme designed for use on howitzer shells and against the neutron bomb, and a sign missiles that would kill people with high a more intense opposition against tt radiation while doing minimal damage NATO cruise missiles as well," he sa to buildings. in an interview. The fewsdiplomats who entered the He scoffed at U.S. assurances that tf building had to step through an open neutron weapon will be produced b coffin in the narrow pathway through a not deployed in Europe, saying: "% crowd of protesters from 12 nations, don't believe that because it's a tactic who carried placards saying "We want weapon, you have to use it on ba to live-disarmament now!" and "1984, tlefields. And the battlefield will I a new Euroshima"-a play on the word Europe." Hiroshima, the Japanese city destroyed. of ul er- ut- ch to ,nd :he :h, he ink m- er- ts a nt of he id :he ut Ne alt at- be Soviets seek ban on outer. space weapons, MOSCOW (AP)- The Soviet Union said yesterday it will seek a United Nations ban on all weapons in outer space, including any that could be carried aloft by the U.S. space shuttle Columbia. A letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim from Foreign Minister' Andrei Gromyko asked that the General Assembly consider the proposal at its 36th session this fall, the official news agency Tass said. GROMYKO'S letter said that although existing international agreements on the peaceful use of outer space forbid weapons of "mass an- nihilation there they do not cover all weapons. As a result of this, the risk of militarization of outer space has been maintained and recently increased." "The Soviet Union believes this can- not be tolerated. It is in favor of keeping outeraspace clean and free of any weapons for all time ... A Tass commentary on the letter said the treaty would outlaw all types of weapons in outer space, "including also on manned spaceships of multiple use of the existing type and of the types that might appear in the future"-a clear reference to the reuseable U.S. shuttle, which made its inaugural flight last April. In Brief Compiled from Associated Press and - United Press International reports Iran leader blasts Mitterrand BEIRUT, Lebanon- Iran's new president, angered by a congratulatory telegram from Francois Mitterrand yesterday, called the French president a liar and accused him of turning France into a "center of hell." In a lengthy, vitriolic telegram broadcast over Tehran Radio, President Mohammand Ali Rajai denounced France for harboring Iranian ex- President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr and for selling fighter jets to Iraq. His scorching response to Mitterrand's message of election congratulations said France had become "a second America" by granting asylum to Rajai's arch-foe and deposed predecessor Bani-Sadr on July 29. Kania will 'muster forces' to stop street protests WARSAW, Poland- Communist leaders, warning of the "largest national tragedy;" said yesterday they would take stiff steps to stop street protests for more food and economic reforms. The Solidarity union asked Roman Catholic Archbishop Jozef Glemp to mediate between the union and gover- nment. "We must muster all forces to bring to a halt as soon as possible the process of deterioration in the situation, to counteract the acute difficulties felt by each and every Polish family," Communist Party Chief Stanislaw Kania told a Central Committee emergency session, Solidarity officials said unionists in Lublin went on strike alert yesterday. Four other regions are already on strike alert, but the union has asked restraint from more protests pending outcome of the Gdansk meeting. Air Force prepares to transfer deadly nerve gas DENVER- Two Air Force C-141 transport planes were parked yesterday on a remote runway here as the Army prepared to transfer 888 deadly nerve gas bombs from Colorado to permanent storage in the Utah desert. The controversial and twice-delayed transfer of the Weteye bombs was scheduled to begin this week, the Army said. But officials declined for what they said were security and safety reasons to make public the dates and times of the flights. Each of the bombs contains 346 pounds of GB nerve agent, a colorless, odorless liquid that kills by blocking nerve paths in the body. A drop of the liquid on the skin or inhalation of vaporized GB agent can be fatal within minutes. Air controller says co-workers plotted collision course ST. LOUIS- An'attorney for the air traffic controllers union said yester- day the group will appeal an $815,000 verdict awarded to a controller who said other controllers put two planes on a collision course to harass him. Senior U.S. District Judge Roy Harper Monday ordered the union to pay $165,000 in compensatory damages and $650,000 in punitive damages to Taso Anthan, a former controller at Lambert Field in St. Louis. Harper ruled in June 1980 that the union, the Professional Air Traffic Con- trollers Organization, was guilty of "outrageous conduct and intentionally or recklessly causing severe emotionalidistress" to Anthan. Anthan, 41, alleged the union and some of its former officers in St. Louis harassed him because he disagreed with their attitudes toward the Federal Aviation Administration, which employs the controllers. As part of the harassment, Anthan charged that another controller, who was a union official, deliberately directed a Frontier Airlines plane toward the airspace above Lambert Field occupied by a Trans World Airlines plane Anthan was directing. Navy ship threatened by 'wild men' in India NEW DELHI, India- An Indian navy ship stood guard yesterday over 31 sailors aboard a grounded freighter in the stormy Bay of Bengal threatened by "wild men" brandishing spears and bows and arrows. The Taiwanese captain and crewmembers of the Panamanian-registered Primrose had been marooned since Aug. 2 when the 16,000-ton ship struck a coral reef and went aground off North Sentinel Island in the Andamans group. The islands, located about 600 miles southeast of Calcutta, are inhabited by aborigines and former convicts of a penal colony. Capt. Liu Chunglong radioed an SOS to the shipping company in Hong Kong Monday saying his ship was threatened by angry "wild island people carrying spears and arrows" and asked for help or an airdrop of weapons so the crew could defend themselves, Hospital project cost hike rejected by health agency (Continuedfrom Page 1) Blue Cross-Blue Shield also objects to the cost increase because, the statement said, "The economic im- plications of the amendment exceed those of the original proposal, when the annualized increase in statewide hospital operating expenses was expec- ted to be almost one percent because of the University Hospital replacement." University Chief Financial Officer James Brinkerhoff said, "We do not believe that the hospital has that high an impact" on hospital operating costs because part of the funding for the hospital will come from Michigan tax- payers, and not entirely from the health care system. The Blue Cross-Blue Shield figure does not take into account the state's share 'of the cost, Brinkerhoff said. ANOTHER member, Cynthia John- son, objected to the increase because if the University is not able to cover the cost witht e, 1402 il iton~in state-issued bonds, "the burden falls back on the taxpayer," she said. Dr. William Mays blasted the proposed need for an ambulatory care center. "Let's bury the myth that am- bulatory care cuts hospital costs-it's a marketing technique to keep hospital beds full. The cost is far in excess of what could be done in a physician's of- fice. THE $210 MILLION ceiling includes a 15 percent allowance for inflation costs, but CHPC-SEM supporters of the cost increase, University officials, and other supporters who spoke at the meeting at- tributed part of the need for the in- crease to inflation. The rest of the money that would come from the proposed increase will go to renovations, the new ambulatory care facility, and related construction costs. The state Department of Public Health recommended that the Univer- sity seek the increase because it believes these portions of the project are essential, according to Bremer.