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. An in least $5 Detroit- led to th includin Hospita Dan L attorne and ph hospital 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.