The Michigaan Dail Vol. XCII, No. 38-S Ann Arbor, Michigan--Tuesday, July 13E, 1982 Ten Cents. Twelve Pages A key1 will reco the Stud: Related eliminate yesterda3 Vice Pi Billy Fry Budget and a spe pleted th Universit reductior ready to closed. ""V i BPC says close ISMRRD BL I.might be met within budgeti 1y LOU FoNTORScapabilities of potentially contributi University budget committee ir st - t iL a units,"Swainsaid. mmend that the Institute for The BPC subcommittee report "do y of Mental Retardation and comment on some of the values Disabilities (ISMRRD) be Jive-Y earmJ lafl ISMRRD," said Frye, although hea d, administrators confirmed u _ ded that "These objectives aren Y. being adequately achieved and in t resident for Academic Affairs will have two very simple responses," the size of the center come from within bense the reasons don't seem to ye said members of both the said Frye, "one, that the institute be the supporting unit.' sen the nstise to Priorities Committee (BPC) discontinued as reviewed by the sub- "We recommend that it (ISMRRD) compelling" to keep the institute aflo ecial subcommittee have com- committee." be closed," said Mary Ann Swain, BPC ISMRRD's current budget is more th eir review-the first under the The other response, according to chairperson and professor of nursing, $290,000. y's "five-year plan" of budget Frye, will be a "neutral endorsement" adding that continuation of the Center "There's been a great reduction n and reallocation-and are that recommends continuing the in- for Child Development within another staff over there because they lost recommend that ISMRRD be stitute's child development center unit also has been endorsedk major grant last year," Frye sai within a different University unit, "THE SPECIAL needs for knowledge describing the loss of major fundi NDERSTANDING is that they "provided that resources for continuing about and services to this population See BPC, Page 5 ng ng oes of ad- not hat be at. an in a id, ng Britain to return all Argentine e. prisoners LONDON (AP)- Satisfied that Argentina considers hostilities in the South Atlantic at an end, Britain an- nounced yesterday it is returning the. remaining 593 Argentine prisoners who surrendered on the Falkland Islands a month ago. Britain will maintain its air and sea blockade of the Falklands and the Argentine coastline, as well as the economic sanctions it imposed after Argentina invaded the islands April 2. THE FINAL exchange of prisoners, including the release Thursday of the sole British prisoner held by Argentina, Flight Lt. Jeffrey Glover, did nothing to resolve the sovereignty dispute which led to the 74-day undeclared war that saw 255 British and 712 Argentine lives lost. The Argentines claim sovereignty over the islands, which have been British for the past 149 years. The two countries had been negotiating the issue off and on for 17 years until the Argentine invasion. Britain now says it will be a long time before the matter is reopened. The 593 prisoners, including com- manding officer Brig. Gen. Mario Ben- jamin Menendez, will be sent home soon aboard the British passenger ferry St. Edmund, headed for Argentina's Puerto Madryn, the Foreign Office an-' nounced. AFTER IT regained control of the Falklands, Britain sought an "authoritative" statement from Buenos Aires that hostilities were over. It settled for "indications" that all con- See BRITAIN, Page 4 Tunnel troubadors This pair of minstrels sooth passersby in the Engineering Arch yesterday with a plethora of songs in an effort to have some fun and earn a little spending money. CRIM to get $3.4 milion grant By SCOTT STUCKAL research assistants and 20 engineering million from the Air Force Office of The University's Center for Robotics professors will receive research support Scientific Research, was rejected on and Integrated Manufacturing (CRIM) from the funds, and $600,000 will be some projects including one on robot will be awarded a $3.4 million contract used to purchase research equipment, assembly flaws, Atkins said. Those ap- by the Air Force next month to conduct he said. proved include research on control robotics research, according to CRIM's Robotics involves linking mechanical systems for robots, sensor systems that acting director. robot systems with computerized in- will include development of robotic Although the grant is still in the final telligence to accomplish a variety of vision capabilities, and programming stages of negotiation, officials at CRIM tasks. CRIM .will be working closely languages for robots. expect that it will be approved by with the state's Industrial Technology Atkins, however, said the reduced August 1 and begin financing projects Institute, also located in Ann Arbor. grant was "not an indictment" of its by fall, said CRIM director Daniel research, because the original proposal Atkins, an associate dean and professor THE AIR FORCE grant is CRIM's was unsolicited and CRIM officials in the University's School of first major research contract, Atkins were unsure what sort of research 'the Engineering, said, although robotics-related resear- Air Force was interested in. THE AWARI? "definitely demon- ch through the School of Engineering CRIM is working to create a "factory strates our (CRIM's) credibility in the currently receives $18 million in gover- of the future technology" in which robotics field," said Atkins. nment and private grants. "robots are an important component, Twenty-two graduate student CRIM, which originally asked for $7.2 but not an end in itself," Atkins added.