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The Michigan Daily - Thursday, August 11, 1983-- Page 3
Mich. Bell moves up deadlinet

By MICHAEL WESTON
A recent decision by Michigan Bell to
publish phonebooks one month early
this year will exclude many University
students from the directories.
Moving- the deadline for phone
listings from mid-September to August
22, will bring Michigan Bell more
Yellow Pages advertising, said David
Smith, a district manager for Bell. But
students who don't have phones in-
stalled until September will miss the
cutoff date, he added.
LOCAL BUSINESSES which target
students at the University and Eastern
Michigan University complained that
NYC,
blackout
disrupts
retail
business
NEW YORK (AP) - A subterranean
fire ignited by flooding from a broken
water main blacked out 20 blocks in
midtown Manhattan yesterday, closing
stores such as Macy's and Gimbels and
disrupting business in the teeming
garment district.
Officials at Consolidated Edison
warned it may be next week before
electricity is restored to all of the
Herald Square area, which is one of the
city's busiest centers of retail trade.
TRAFFIC LIGHTS were knocked out
and traffic was snarled. Police, fearing
looting and other crimes after dark,
assigned 500 to 600 extra officers'to the
area. Emergency generators were set
up to light the neighborhood all night.
Subways have their own power source
and were not affected. Neither was
nearby Penn Station.
The blackout hit the garment district
in the middle of market week, when out-
of-town buyers come to the garment
district to purchase new fashions.
Thousands of people stood in the af-
ternoon sun outside Macy's and Gim-
bels department stores, some pounding
angrily on the locked doors.
"THEY SAID they might have lights
in three hours - or it might be three
days," said Robert Wright, a guest at
the powerless New York Statler Hotel.
"What are we thinking? We're thinking
about going back to Detroit."
The disruption began shortly after
1:30 a.m., when a 12-inch main - 68
years old, and weakened by stress and
vibration - brok'e underneath the
street.
Water flooded a Con Ed power sub-
station 40 feet underneath the streets,
setting off electrical short fires in a.
transformer vault and knocking out
power for the area bordered by 30th and
42th streets and Sixth and Seventh
avenues.
Officials said 50,000 gallons of
mineral oil used as a coolant, along
with wiring and insulation, caught fire.
Fire Commissioner Joseph Spinnato
said the blaze was so intense that it
went up an airshaft and ignited a fire on
the roof of a 25-store building.

Locaiphone books will cut
many off-campus students
"the life of the directory was too short," months into the school year, Smith said.
to reach the maximum number of Although Smith wouldn't estimate the
students, Smith said . number of students who would be shut
In past years, many businesses were out of the book by the change, he said
hesitant to advertise in the Yellow the loss wouldn't be significant.
Pages because phonebooks didn't come
out until early December which is three Most students don't use the
C ST P

phonebook, Smith said, because student
listings are often inaccurate. He
said students rarely stay at the same
address for more than a few months,
and it is impossible to update the
phonebook during the year.
Students will still be able to use direc-
tory assistance, the University's
student directory, or student locator,
Smith added. But after 20 calls to direc-
tory assistance each month, users must
pay 22 cents a call for the service.
Students living in dormitories won't
be affected by the deadline change
because their phones are on the Univer-
sity's Centrex system and not listed
through Bell, Smith said.

Daily Photo by DOUG McMAHON
Progressive Student Network members Tom'Marx, far left, and David Miklethun, far right, join two other demon-
strators in a Diag peace vigil ending yesterday morning. The 24-hour vigil marked the anniversary of the bombing of
Nagasaki in 1945.
Protesters end Diag peace vigil

By GEORGEA KOVANIS
WITH WIRE REPORTS
A handful of protesters ended a 24-hour peace vigil on the
Diag yesterday morning, which marked the 38th anniver-
sary of the bombing of Nagasaki.
Members of the Progressive Student Network (PSN)
began their demonstration against the nuclear arms race
and military research on campus at 8 a.m. Tuesday, and
took turns manning their post on the Diag's "M" until 8
a.m. yesterday.
FEW demonstrators turned out for the event - the
protesters never numbered more than a dozen at any
given time - but vigil participants said they were pleased.
with the response to their small rally.
"This is not a numbers event, this is a message," said
Tom Marx, a PSN member and co-organizer of the vigil.
Marx estimated that as of late Tuesday, demonstrators
had passed out 650 leaflets to passersby and said he
thought students moving through the Diag seemed in-
terested in the quiet band of protesters.
"A LOT OF people who weren't entirely sympathetic to
us and to our cause seemed to be showing a lot of respect
to us," said David Miklethun, another organizer of the
protest.
Members of the group said they plan to fight against
controversial research projects on campus this fall with
shorter daily vigils, until the University tightens its
guidelines on military research.
In June, University Regents failed to approve a set of
guidelines for non-classified research by a vote of 7-1.
WE'RE NOT just going to let (the issue) die," said PSN
member Mike O'Neil, who was on the Diag in the late af-
ternoon.

The PSN members were not alone in their observance of
the anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. Other
groups around the state and throughout the country
marked the event with protests resulting in more than 60
arrests nationwide.
In the Detroit suburb of Walled Lake, four people were
arrested Tuesday during a protest at Williams Inter-
national, a company that makes engines for the cruise
missile program.
OAKLAND County sheriff's deputies refused to identify
the four pending arraignment on trespassing charges.
Authorities said the four - despite warnings from
deputies - scaled the fence in front of the building, tossed
red dye in a nearby pool and knelt in prayer before they
were taken into custody.
IN THE UPPER Peninsula, four protesters were
arrested after trespassing on government property at K.I.,
Sawyer Air Base near Marquette.
Base officials said Jim Smit, Gary Miron, and Mariah
Offer of Marquette, and Mary Girard of Lansing crossed a
barbed wire fence carrying pictures of atomic bomb vic-
tims and plants symbolizing life.
The four went to a nuclear weapons storage facility and
knelt to pray before being apprehended by base security
officers.
Nine demonstrators were arrested in the nation's
capitol yesterday for pouring a red liquid on the steps of
the Pentagon, where about 35 people were demonstrating,
officials said. Seventeen were booked after staging
protests in the Pittsburgh area, 14 were arrested by
military police at Seneca Army Depot in NeW York state
and several others were taken into custody at demon-
strations in California.

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