Page 4 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, July 28, 1983
Police clear Union
after bomb threat
By HALLE CZECHOWSKI
Ann Arbor Police evacuated the third
and fourth floors of the Michigan Union
for nearly half an hour Tuesdaymor-
ning, after a group with an office on the
top floor received a bomb threat.
Members of the Spartacus Youth
League (SYL) called the Ann Arbor
Police at 10:48 a.m. Tuesday, saying
that their New York office had received
an anonymous telephone call Sunday
night. The caller warned that a bomb
.was planted in the group's Union office.
POLICE CHECKED out the office
with dogs trained to sniff out bombs,
but found nothing. However, they
evacuated the Union's upper florsa and
warned SYL members to stay away
from the office for a few days.
Emily Tanner, national secretary of
SYL, said the group waited until
Tuesday to call Ann Arbor police
because "we thought it was a crank
call."
But Tanner said they became alar-
med when they found out that the
anonymous caller had also contacted
offices in San Francisco and Los
Angeles.
Tanner said that the man only iden-
tified himself as a member of the
"people's mobilization."
Nude campers bare
all at summer resort
SARANAC (UPI) - "The only dif-
ference between us here and people at
any other camp is we're doing it
without clothes on."
Julie Erlenmeyer was right. She was
nude. So was everyone else lounging
around their Winnebagos, Airstreams
or Pop-up campers.
Big people, small people, thin people,
fat people. None clothed.
They traveled to the Forest Hills Club
in this tiny West Michigan community
from all across the nation's midsection
- Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Ken-
tucky, Tennessee, Ohio and elsewhere
Stats lab may
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ersity, such as the economics depar-
tment and the sociology department,
have their own programs for perfor-
ming statistical research.
BIO-STATISTICS Prof. Richard
Landis, a member of the review panel,
said these smaller labs wouldn't be
eliminated if the recommendation goes
through, but said the new institute
would help centralize the University's
statistics research.
William Ericson, director of the SRL,
said demand for the program's services
has increased 20 percent per year
lately, forcing the unit to request more
money.
Ericson said former Vice-President
for Research Charles Overberger
commissioned the review as "am-
munition for increased funding."
HOWARD Finkbeiner, assistant to
the vice president for research, said a
decision on whether to restructure SRL
and boost its funding would probably be
made in the fall.
Under the panel's recommendations,
the new Institute of Applied Statistics
- to attend the annual convention of the
Midwest Sunbathing Association.
"Basically, we do everything
everyone else does, we just do it without
clothing more often," said Erlenmeyer,
a 36-year-old secretary for a State
Farm Insurance Co. office near
Cleveland.
"For us, sexuality is here and nudity
is here," she said, holding her arms
wide apart to indicate the separation
between the two. "We are not out here
wife swapping. I've been in it for 10
years and I've never been to an orgy
yet. It's a family affair - someplace
where you can bring your kids."
be replaced
would receive $87,500 a year, and the
institute would spend $175,000 on its
computing unit. The cost of new com-
puter and printing equipment would be
a one-time expenditure of $18,000.
The panel also recommended that a
"users group" oversee the computing
unit and the consulting center to
"weigh competing options against
scarce resources, and make reasonable
choices."
THAT PROSPECT angers Daniel
Fox, associate director of SRL "The
creation of an executive committee (in
a unit which has directors) is un-
paralled," he said. "There is no unit at
the Univeristy that has such a commit-
tee.'
"The current arrangement has been
a successful arrangement," Fox added.
Fox is the man largely responsible
for SRL's current structure. He
designed the MIDAS and TEXTEDIT
data analysis and text processing
systems the lab uses.
Ed Rothman, chairman of the
statistics department said the lab "has
been doing a pretty good job generally
and we're looking at a step forward."
IN BRIEF
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press international reports
Senate confirms Voicker
WASHINGTON - The Senate, told that "no one can do a better job," voted
84-16 yesterday to confirm Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve
Board for another four-year term.
First appointed by President Carter in 1979 to combat double-digit in-
flation, Volcker imposed a tight money policy that is credited with slashing
inflation, but is also blamed by some for causing high interest rates and a
recession.
Despite harsh criticism of the Fed chairman by some conservative mem-
bers of Congress, especially Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.), President Reagan
recently nominated Volcker, 55, to a second four-year term in the $69,800-a-
year post.-
Of the 16 senators who voted against the nomination, eight were democrats
and eight were Republicans.
A few liberals, such as Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), and Alan Cran-
ston (D-Calif.), joined conservatives, including Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.),
in opposing him.
Turkish embassy attacked
LISBON, Portugal - Five Armenian suicide terrorists shot their way into
the Turkish ambassador's residence yesterday, then blew up themselves
and a top diplomat's wife ina fiery "sacrifice to the altar of freedom."
A sixth terrorist was killed by security guards when the raiders leaped out
of a car and began their assault with machine pistols on the modern two-
story building in the suburban outskirts of the Portuguese capital.
Interior Minister Eduardo Pereira said the five remaining terrorists blew
themselves up deliberately in an explosion that also killed the wife of the
Turkish charge d'affaires. She was identified as Cahide Mihcioglu.
The charge and his 17-year-old son were slightly wounded by the explosion
and a policeman was shot several times in the legs.
Polish bishops appeal new laws
WARSAW, Poland - Polish bishops formally asked parliament yesterday
to alter tough new legislation slated to be passed this week dealing with law
and order and censorship, a church spokesman said.
The planned provisions include three-year jail terms for foreign reporters
convicted of sending "false information" abroad and three-year terms for
Poles who take part in an outlawed organization or illegal demonstration.
The new censorship law, if passed, will authorize censor offices to inter-
vene in scientific publications, trade union bulletins and exhibitions.
The bishopa submitted their remarks to parliament on the amendments,"
the church spokesman said.
He refused to reveal details of the letter, but said it was filed yesterday
and concerned the proposed amendments to the penal code and the censor-
ship law.
He said the bishops hoped the amendments would be altered before ap-
proval is voted, but did not disclose if the bishops were critical of them. The
letter was the second church intervention with parliament this month.
House debates cutoff of covert
aid to rebels in Nicaragua
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said
yesterday that Congress should cut off secret aid to rebels in Nicaragua
because "it doesn't work, because it doesn't serve the interests of the United
States and because it is illegal."
Some members of the Senate, meanwhile, said Secretary of State George
Shultz and National Security Adviser William Clark had failed in a special
briefing for lawmakers to answer key questions over the administration's
latest moves in Central America - including whether a naval blockade or
quarantine is in the works.
Rep. Edward Boland (D-Mass) opened the House debate on legislation
which would drastically reshape a major element of President Reagan's
Central America policy by barring any support "directly or indirectly, to
military or paramilitary operations in Nicaragua by any nation, group,
organization, movement, or individual."
FCC to raise telephone bills
WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission, seeking to
end the subsidy of local telephone rates by long-distance profits, decided
yesterday to boost monthly bills $2 for residential customers and $6 for
businesses starting Jan. 1.
The ruling, on a 4-0 vote, reaffirmed the FCC's policy that telephone users
should bear more of the costs for local service, whose rates have been kept
artificially low for years by long-distance charges.
But the formula approved yesterday will cost residential users less
initially than they would have paid under the FCC's original plan, voted in
December, which would have required a $2 fee plus a surcharge for each
long-distance call, or else a flat monthly payment of about $4.
The fees for residential and business users will rise in stages over six
years. The residential fee will rise to $3 a month in 1985 and to $4 monthly in
1986. The business fee will remain at $6 a month through 1986, compared with
the $4 monthly fee they originally would have been charged.
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