The Michigan Daily-Friday, May 21, 1982-Page 3
Comittees pass
$50 million in
state budget cuts
LANSING (UPI)- The House and
Senate appropriations committees
yesterday approved Gov. William
Milliken's $50 million budget-cutting
executive order slashing $14.9 million in
education funds and $10 million from
the Department of Social Services.
Release of the order -was to have
come Wednesday, but opposition to an-
ticipated school aid cuts resulted in
revisions which delayed action.
INCLUDED IN the order were
eliminations of the legislative science
adviser and the Michigan Consumers
Council. Those cuts caused vehement
opposition among Democratic
representatives, some of whom said the
executive order was an uncon-
stitutional "ploy" to eliminate
programs.
It was revealed earlier this month
following adoption of the six-month, one
percentage point income tax hike that
another $50 million would have to be
hacked out of the budget for the fiscal
year ending Sept. 30. In part, the cuts
are necessary because it appears the
legislature is unwilling to adopt new
taxes on computer games and other
forms of entertainment.
The budget cutting order is the third
to be issued during this troubled fiscal
year.
Opposition to the order had
threatened to cause a further delay in
approval. When the document was
released, only the Senate Ap-
propriations Committee had convened.
Democratic House Appropriations
Committee members were still meeting
with many of the Democratic represen-
tatives not on the committee to hear
questions and opposition to the
proposed order.
AP Photo
Cool jazz
Jack McGowan, jazz pianist, sets-the stage for a mountain of music at the
Mount Hood Festival of Jazz, held recently at Timberlane Lodge, Oregon.
Queen o Netherlands to visit campus
By LOU FINTOR
special to the Daily
DETROIT - Diplomatic represen-
tatives of the Dutch government an-
nounced details of next month's official
visit to Ann Arbor of Queen Beatrix of
the Netherlands at a press conference
held yesterday. ,
"The visit of the queen is upon us
shortly," said Netherlands Press and a
Cultural Affairs Diplomatic Attache
Wilhelmina Prins-koeller and "the
visit to Michigan is very important part
of the queen's visit."
DURING THE press conference -
held at the Detroit Art Institute - Dut-
ch diplomatic oficials said the visit will
be part of this year's observance com-
memorating two hundred years of unin-
terrupted commercial and diplomatic
ties between the United States and the
Netherlands. It is the longest diplomtic
relationship the United States has
maintained with any country.
During the presentation, Netherlands
Detroit Diplomatic Consul Paul van den oaily Photo by KIM H
Muysenberg gave a brief history of NETHERLANDS CONSULATE press and cultural affairs attache Wilhelmina Prins-Koeller discusses the upcoming
Netherlands-U.S. relations and outlined visit of Netherlands Queen Beatrix with Detroit Art Institute Public Relations Director Bob Rodgers and Detroit
See ROYAL, Page 9 Diplomatic Consul Paul van den Muysenberg after a press conference yesterday in Dtroit.
By SCOTT STUCKAL The Reagan administration's position that a
) 'One of the most popular buttons on campus this limited nuclear war is possible, plausible, and win-
IJ year says, "The future is in our hands, stop the arms nable, deeply worries the arms freeze movement
race. ".Alexrod said. "We want to have the option to prevent
A conference devoted to exploring the issue will conventional war going into nuclear war," he said.
begin tonight in the Rackham Auditorium. "We want According to Axelrod, the conference this weekend
to discuss both the facts of the arms race and nuclear ill help organize a broad, on-going coalition of
war and the political drive behind them," said students, community members, and religous groups
Univeristy Physics Prof. Daniel Axelrod, a member to fight the nuclear arms race. He added that MAD
" of the Michigan Alliance for Disarmament (MAD), and the religous groups endorsing the conference
1sr m a m e n t which is sponsoring the Nuclear Disarmament Con' hope to build interest in the June 12 disarmament
ference. demonstration in New York City that coincides with
"SIDES WILL be presented that definitely the beginning of the long-awaited United Nations
disagree with the government's side of the issue," nuclear disarmament debate.
e o n fe re n e e said Alexrod, who stressed that the conference was 'RELIGOUS groups have been in the forefront of
organized as an attempt to halt the spread of nuclear the disarmament movement, said Tom Hayes of the
arms rather than to advance any political goal. See ARMS, Page 10