The Michigan Daily - Friday, May 18 1984-- Page 3
SECOND FRONT PAGE
Proposed defense lab
draws publie criticism
By GEORGEA KOVANIS
and PETE WILLIAMS
The possibility of a Department of
Defense software institute being built in
Ann Arbor drew criticism from mem-
bers of the community, faculty and
student body yesterday at the monthly
meeting of the University regents.
At the public comments session at the
end of the meeting, speakers voiced
their disapproval of the University
playing an active role in a weapons-
computer center.
THE establishment they objected to
is the Software Engineering Institute,
an independent laboratory funded by
the Department of Defense to develop
advanced technological , software
research.
The University has formed a consor-
tium along with Ohio State, Purdue and
the University of Illionis in an attempt
to attract the institute to Ann Arbor.
Several other colleges, including Car-
negie-Mellon in Pittsburgh and UCLA,
are also attempting to lure theinstitute.
At the meeting, seven speakers
Frye predicts
By GEORGEA'KOVANIS
This year's tuition increase will be
"well below" 10 percent, University
Vice President Billy Frye told the
Board of Regents at their mon-
thly meeting yesterday.
A bill passed by the state senate
yesterday would increase the Univer-
sity's state funding, but officials said
that tuition will still have to be raised.
shared the five minute time slot
allocated for Eric Goldstein, a former
University student.
"I'D LIKE TO voice my opposition to
the proposed Department of Defense
(software institute)," said Goldstein.
Others echoed Goldstein's opinion.
"I hope someday not to support a
University that promotes war," said
another speaker.
JEFF DITZT, describing himself as a
"displaced autoworker," said the
University's desire to participate in
such a project is an "exportation of
death," much like the state's export of
cars.
University professor David
Huntington also spoke out against the
proposed institute.
"The action envisioned by the
consortium would, it seems to me,
compromise the University's true
purpose, the disinterested study of man
and nature, and in effect diminish the
University's role as independent
interpreter and critic of the status quo
See PROPOSED, Page 7
tuition hike
Last year it was hiked 9.5 percent.
"ON THE Ann Arbor campus, we
need $20 million just to stand still,"
University President Harold Shapiro
told the regents.
The University received about $163
million from the state last year, and the
Senate bill calls for a $182.1 million
payment this year.
See TUITION, Page 7
Toasted trashD
A dumpster at the Talley Hall construction site bursts into flames Wed-
nesday, causing enough smoke to delay the Laurie Anderson concert at the
Michigan Theatre. Firefighters extinguished the fire, the cause of which was
unknown.
U.S. pledges assistance to Gulf nations
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The United States would
send jet fighters to the Persian Gulf to protect oil
shipments if Arab states made a request and agreed
to base the aircraft on their territory, State Depar-
tment officials said yesterday.
There has been no such request from any Arab
state in the gulf for help nor any specific offer from
the United States, the officials said.
A STATEMENT by Gulf foreign ministers con-
demned Iran at an urgent meeting of the Gulf
Cooperation Council in Saudi Arabia. It came -in
response to air attacks this week on a Saudi oil tanker
and two Kuwaiti tankers, which have been blamed on
Iran.
In the latest attack of the 3% year Iran-Iraq war,
U.S. officials said a U.S.-made Iranian F-4 Phantom
fighter fired missiles at the Saudi tanker Yanbu
Pride, setting it ablaze off the Saudi coast.
Officials said Richard Murphy, assistant secretary
of state, made clear when he visited the region in
March that any offer of U.S. aerial protection would
require the planes to be based on shore. That would
rule out the use of the Navy's carrier-based aircraft.
THE OFFICIALS said if that condition were met,
the United States would be prepared to provide air
cover on request.
Murphy told the gulf governments that aircraft
icarriers would not supply a continuous air cover. The
U.S. carrier battle group led by the Kitty Hawk is in
the northern Arabian Sea, outside the Gulf.
Arab governments would have political problems if
they allowed American fighters to be based on their
territory because the United States has such close
' relations with Israel.
SINICE MURPHY'S visit, two tankers - one
Kuwaiti, the other Saudi - have been attacked by
planes that have been identified as Iranian by U.S.
AWACS planes.
State Department officials said the problem would
have to become much worse than it is now before the
American offer of air cover is made specific.
White House spokesman Larry Speakes said
diplomatic consultations are under way in the region
and with European allies. He declined to reveal what
contingency plans the United States as for the
situation or what would trigger a military response.
Iran has not directly acknowledged that its planes
were responsible for the attacks on the Saudi and
Kuwaiti oil tankers.
Iraq has been attacking Iranian oil-loading docks
as a means of cutting off Iranian oil revenue, and of-
ficials said the Iranian attacks were a response to the
Iraqi action.
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3 U-Hospital employees charged in silver theft
By MARLA GOLD was stolen in 1978 and 1979 because it the ago, Leopp said. have been charged with four felony
vestigation into the theft of at contained high amounts of silver, which The 10 arrested this week, including counts each, including embezzlement
500,000 worth of silver from was extremely valuable in the late '70s. former University Hospital employees and offering illegal payoffs to hospital
David Griewski, Matthew LaRosa, and employees.
area hospitals and newspapers E & M MEDICAL Systems, Inc., of Terrence Weston, were charged with Some of the employees were still
e arrest this week of 10 people, Livonia, "billled hospitals for x-ray embezzlement of less than $100 and at- working at the hospitals when they
ng three former University material never delivered and paid tempting to accept bribes. Each could were arrested this week, Leopp said,
1 employees, bribes from $50 to $250 to hospital em- face up to one year in jail and a $1;000 but all were dismissed after the arrests.
ployees" to steal barrels of used film, fine. Two more Detroit-area hospital "We don't expect to turn up much
yeopp, a spokesman for the state Leopp said. Each barrel was worth employees will be arraigned next week more," Leopp said, but "the books
$1,000. on the same charges. aren't closed yet."
hotographic paper from 35 The investigation began when the at- "It was a grand old scheme," he ad-
s and two Detroit newspapers torney general's office got a tip 18 mon- In addition, three owners of E & M ded.