Vol. XCII, No. 51-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, July 30, 1982 Ten Cents Twelve Poges Med unit shake-up orces layo s By LOU FINTOR merly called the Primary Care-Com- In addition to the staff and name confirm nor deny reports that the unit Several sources at the University's munity Medicine Unit. changes, the unit has switched its office supervisor and research School of Medicine yesterday revealed UNIT CHIEF Dr. Robert Carpenter health care philosophy, with physicians assistant will receive layoff notices that amid a controversial resigned July 16, reportedly after now playing a greater role in the today. He denied, however, that ad- reorganization plan, four staff mem- disagreements with Department of In- processing of patients while decreasing ministrators intend to layoff the unit's bers will be notified today of their in- ternal Medicine Chair Dr. William the responsibility of nurses. And the two remaining nurse clinicians. definite layoff. Kelly over recent and proposed unit's pediatric component transferred In the past, the unit has emphasized a The sources, who asked that their changes in the philosophical direction July 1 to another division of the "team approach" in delivering health names be withheld, said the controver- of the unit, hospital. care. Each patient was seen by a sy surrounding the layoffs stems from a The four positions that reportedly will physician-nurse team who shared in the radical change in philosophy of the be eliminted today are an office super- DR. JEOFFREY Stross, the chief of responsibilities associated with the par- Department of Internal Medicine's visor, a research assistant, and two the internal medicine department's General Medicine Unit, which was for- nurse clinicians. Ambulatory Care Unit, would neither See MED. SCHOOL, Page 2 Arab League urges PLO to leave Beirut From the Associated Press Despite PLO mortar fire and a repor- ted Israeli 'starve and parch" cam- paign against west Beirut, the U.S.- mediated cease-fire held yesterday and presidential envoy Philip Habib offered "postitive new points" toward getting the guerrillas to leave their encircled stronghold. Israel said Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir will leave for Washinhgton on. Sunday for possible talks with President Reagan on Habib's initiative to get the Palestine Liberation Organization out of Beirut. THE ARAB League yesterday urged the PLO to leave Beirut under a six- point program that also sought a with- drawal of Israeli forces, league Secretary-General Chadli Klibi an- nounced. The plan, drafted during a two-day meeting in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, called for an international peacekeeping force to ensure the security of Beirut and its suburbs. Klibi said the league's committee on Lebanon also "affirmed the deter- mination of the Arab states to pursue ac- tion for halting the Zionist Israeli aggression on Lebanon and end the tragedy of the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples." A SPOKESMAN at the PLO infor- mation office in Beirut said the organization had "nothing officially" by way of reaction to Klibi's announ- cement. The Israeli command said PLO gun- ners fired mortar rounds at Israeli ar- mored positions around Beirut's closed airport, but the Israelis held their fire in accordance with "strict orders" to obey the cease-fire Habib worked out Wednesday. PLO spokesman Mahmoud Labadi said there was shooting because the Israelis were trying to "advance and improve their positions." There was no comment from Israel to that charge or another that trucks carrying flour to guerrilla-held west Beirut were turned back by the invaders. uaily rnoto by uuuu McMAMN Open house The walls come tumbling down as Rick Yates (left) and Roger Hall feverishly disassemble this house on Liberty St. next to Great Lakes Savings Bank to make room for a parking lot. House supports funds for civil defense WASHINGTON (AP)- The House turned aside ef- "It just won't work," Markey said. ". . . Civil been a life-saver when natural disasters such as forts yesterday to slash civil defense "crisis defense will only be a Band-Aid over the holocaust." hurricanes, floods and tornadoes struck and that this relocation" funds and halt development of a sub- He called the president's proposed seven-year, $4.2 role would be greatly enhanced by the Reagan marine-launched nuclear missile as it worked toward billion effort to upgrade the civil defense program "a program. passage of a $177.1 billion defense spending stunning example of throwing away money in the To emphasize that point, Rep. William L. Dickinson authorization bill. name of national security." Members also handily defeated a measure calling MARKEY ALSO noted that the Senate earlier this the name of civil defense to "civil disaster." The for the United States to cut its overseas troop year voted for the same cut. strength by half over the next four years. But, in a But civil defense backers, led by Reps. Donald Mit- measure was approved by voice vote. bow to the automobile industry, they placed restric- chell (R-N.Y.) and Ike Skelton (D-MO.), countered tions on the purchase of foreign-made trucks for the that the money was a prudent, humanitarian invest- Afterward, Rep. Thomas Downey (B-N.Y.) tried military. ment and that this nation needs to match the am- but failed, 312-19, to delete nearly $672 million ear- IN ITS SEVENTH and last day of deliberation on bitious population-evacuation plans that the Soviets conversion work related to the Trident II nuclear the measure, the House first defeated, 240-163, Rep. already have in place. missi n adrk llion to develo a neal Edward Markey's attempt to reduce by $108 million "Is a dollar too much to ask for the life of one missile and add million to develop a conventional the $252 million President Reagan has sought to start American. I think not," Skelton said. missile known as Axe that would be used to wipe out a big civil defense buildup. THE ADVOCATES stressed that civil defense has enemy air bases.