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WSU pres. calls for
university-industry tie
By DAN GRANTHAM company supporting only those resear-
SpecialtotheDaily ch projects that will directly benefit
them, Frosch said, urging companies to
DETROIT - Universities in urban support research for the sake of the
areas will develop a stronger link to knowledge that can be gained.
businesses in the future to implement "(Industry should) support basic
results of professor's research, said research because we're interested in
Wayne State University president the area, rather than support of a
David Adamany at a major national project because we're interested in the
scientific convention last week. results," he said.
Adamany gave the keynote address FROSCH ADDED that more cor-
which kicked off the 149th annual porate support of research shouldn't
meeting of the American Association mean a complete end to public support.
for the Advancement of Science, at the "No one should think of it as a 100 per-
Rennaissance Center last weekend, cent shift from public to private fun-
MORE THAN 7,000 scientists and ding," he said, since industry could not
researchers attended the five-day afford to fund all research.
event, which featured more than 150
discussions on 20 different scientific In a discussion Saturday, University'
dscussriosoPresident Harold Shapiro joined other
Adamany focused on the future role researchers and government officials
of urban universities in the research to debate another pressing research
world. issue - how much information should
"It is inevitable that universities - be kept secret to prevent other coun-
where most of the theoretical and pure tries from stealing our technology.
scientific work has long been done in Shapiro represented a National
America - will be deeply entangled in Academy of Sciences committee that
the applied uses of ideas, and then in has studied the problem of technology
the production and marketing of those transfer through scientific journals to
u , Asee if it is a threat to national security.
SINCE MOST urban universities HE SAID the panel found little
haven't been involved in research for evidence that open literature had
very long, many don't have the same allowed the Soviets and others to close
funds available to private universities, the technology gap with the United
Adamany said, adding that he believes States, calling it "a very minor
urban universities will have a problem."
"dramatically and perhaps shockingly "The open scientific literature con-
different" relationship with businesses tributed little of any military benefit to
and private industry. the Soviet Union," Shapiro said.
This change will include university But Louis Montulli, a member of the
researchers working in business National Security Council task force on
laboratories. "(Businesses) have the the problem of technology transfer,
capacity to invest in modern said the open technological literature
laboratories and equipment, which are gives the Soviet Uniona chance to catch
difficult for urban universities to af- up.
ford," Adamany said. "It is (open communication), that we
In turn, the cooperation between are so free to do...that the Soviet Union
universities and industry will furnish uses to sap our research," Montulli
businesses with awell-prepared staff to said.
take positions in the corporation.
"THE BEST of (the students) will
become prime candidates for em-
ployment in companies where their
universities have provided educational
sites," he said.
In addition to laboratories, Adamany
said, businesses will help to provide
equipment, sponsorship for academic"
programs, and even scientists to teach
and perform research at the university.
Other speakers at the conference
criticized the change. Robert Frosch,
vice president for research at General
Motors Corp. warned against ignoring
the realities of the relationship between
universities and private industry.
BOTH THE university and the in-
dustry must "realize that they are not
entering into this because they are good
buddies," he said, adding that the best
terms for a mutual relationship is for 764-0558
both sides to acknowledge they want to
gain from the deal.
But this attitude must not lead to a
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Salvadoran guerillas threaten
to kill all U.S. advisers
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - El Salvador's largest leftist guerrillas group
the Popular Liberation Forces, vowed yesterday it would keep killing U.S.
advisers until they are all forced to leave the country.
The FPL, as it is known by its acronym in Spanish, claimed responsibility
for the May 25 murder of Lt. Cmdr. Albert Schaufelberger III, deputy com-
mander of the American military advisory group. He was the first U.S. ad-
viser killed in El Salvador.
"All the military advisers sent here will return to the United States in cof-
fins," the FPL said in a communique, copies of which were sent to local
radio stations in the capital.
The FPL leaflets said Schaufelberger's murder was a warning against
"the bellicose Reagan administration so that it does not continue its
aggression against our people."
Israel vows not to attack Syria
In a surprise address to fsrael's parliament yesterday, Prime Minister
Menachem Begin said Israel had no intention of attacking Syria and vowed
to "bring the boys home" from Lebanon.
"Yes, we will bring the boys home," Begin told the Knesset or parliament
in Jerusalem. "The Syrians (and) the PLO will also leave," he said referring
to the 40,000 Syrian and 10,000 Palestine Liberation Organization troops also
occupying Lebanon.
The prime minister said it "has not even occurred to us to attack the
Syrian forces (and) we hope that now, after the Syrian military maneuvers,
they will not attack us."
Job program attracts thousands
LANSING - Thousands of jobless young people streamed into Michigan Em-
ployment Security Commission offices across the state yesterday to sign up
for the Michigan Youth Corps.
Kelly Rossman, a youth corps spokeswoman in Lansing, said officials
believed at least 10,000 or more forms were processed on the first day of the
10-day application period.
No major problems were reported and lines, where they existed at all,
were short, largely due to the brevity and simplicity of the 12-question ap-
plication form.
The youth corps, approved by the legislature only last week, is expected to
provide 25,000 jobs directly. Another 35,000 are being created through the
federal CETA program, raising the total to 60,000
Rossman said one Detroit MESC office processed 500 in two hours. An of-
fice in Lansing processed 300 in the same period.
U.S. asks help of NATO allies
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger asked the
European allies yesterday to increase their efforts to help the United States
deal with crises in Afghanistan, Iran and other trouble spots.
Weinberger made the request at a meeting of 14 Western alliance defense
ministers - asking them to "make sure we will not be caught unprepared"
- a senior U.S. official said.
The official said Weinberger also "argued strongly" for the highest
possible defense spending by allied governments.
The United States also pledged to make available for European defense
"super" weapons developed under President Reagan's program to build a
defensive missile.
Since the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and the revolution in Iran, the
United States has been pressuring the allies to come up with sound con-
tingency plants to fill gaps in European defense if the United States is forced
to divert troops to Southwest Asia.
U.S. envoy to begin
Central American tour
WASHINGTON - Declaring that "Nothing is more blessed than the act of
making peace," former Sen. Richard Stone was sworn in as a special envoy
to Central America yesterday, the eve of an exploratory mission to El
Salvador, Nicaragua and eight other nations in the troubled region.
Secretary of State George Shultz praised the Florida Democrat as a man
of "great skill, capacity, and energy" and described his chore as "most impor-
tant and most difficult." Most of the Latin America diplomatic corps looked
on at the ceremony.
State Department deputy spokesman Alan Romberg described the
mission as a fact-finding trip aimed at getting the views of regional officials
on U.S. aspects of the situation in Central America, Mexico, Venezuela,
Colombia and Panama have been leading an effort to determine whether
there is a basis for achieving a peaceful settlement to the various ideological
conflicts in the area.
Officials have said one of Stone's primary responsibilities will be to at-
tempt to persuade moderate leftists to participate in the Salvadoran
presidential elections this fall.
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