a Page 2 The Michigan Daily - Friday, June 1'1984 WCBN may increase broadcast power By MARLA GOLD The banner on the wall reads: Do you have nerve, atyle, taate, knowledge of the arts and a "CBN attitude"? Well, if you do, the proposed power increase for WCBN (88.3 FM), the University's alternative radio station, should make you happy. But no ao faat - the people at WCBN have been pushing for the power in- creaae aince 1979. AT A MEETING last night, General Manager Randy LeVaaaeur and the WCBN disc jockey staff discussed the atation'a problem - that WJIM, a television atation from Eaat Lansing on Channel 6, will be hard to receive in the Ann Arbor area if the campus radio station increases its power from the 10 watts it has now to the 200 watts it wan- ts. Last summer the station had a few test runs at the increased wattage. LeVasseur said that the tests did inter- fere with the television station. But disc jockey Paul Townsend said that WC- BN'a difficulty in getting approval to increase power is not so much a problem with Channel 6 but a "sticky public relations problem with people in Ann Arbor who watch Channel 6, and don't want WCBN transmissions to in- terfere." When people watch television for the first time in any area, some stations do not come in clearly, "but people just think that there is something wrong with their sets when it is actually radio interference," he said. But when people have been getting a particular station and suddenly they don't, they get mad aaid Townaend. LeVASSEUR MET with University broadcasting attorney Dan Touhey last week, who suggested WCBN send a let- ter to Channel 6, to "get their official blessing," and then to write a letter to the Federal Communication Com- mission (FCC) explaining why the station "is not your average ho-hum station," LeVasseur said. "We must show the FCC that we have programs for the community as a whole," Townsend said. Another disc jockey added that the station is "more than a free jukebox for students at the University." Townsend said that .the station "presents music that isn't available elsewhere," citing programs such as the African music show, international music, gospel, Irish folk and 20th Century classical music as examples of music that cannot be found on any other FM stations in the area. He also mentioned public affairs shows, such as the environmental show, which he said is relevant to all of the Ann Arbor community. 4 WJJX, WCBN's AM station, is also increasing its potential audience - in a less than typical manner. The station lost $6,000 a few years ago in "an ad- ministrative mixup," WJJX station director Ruth Reinis said. The money, which was recently found in a Univer- sity account, will be allocated for re- cabling the station's power lines for better reception in the dormitories. Reinis also said that the MUG restaurants in the ground floor of the Michigan Union "is willing to broadcast (WJJX)." House vote keeps Rebel leader's press conference torn by blast SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - A bomb explosion ripped through a news conference at the secret jungle headquarters of Nicaraguan rebel leader Eden Pastora, killing four people and wounding 28. Pastora, the famed "Commander Zero," suffered burns and shrapnel wounds. The Wednesday night blast killed Linda Frazier, a reporter for the English-language Tico Times of San Jose, and Jorge Quiroz, a Costa Rican television cameraman from San Jose. A THIRD victim was identified only as a guerrilla known by her battle name, "Rosita," who was in charge of the rebel camp near La Penca, a Nicaraguan hamlet across the San Juan River from Costa Rica. Police and Red Cross officials said the other person killed was an unidentified rebel. The blast occurred as reporters crowded around Pastora for a question- and-answer session on the second floor of a two-story wood frame house with a tropical-style open front. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. IN MOSCOW, the Soviet news agency Tass accused the CIA of engineering the explosion. The CIA denied "categorically" that it had "anything to do with the bombing of the press con- ference," said agency spokeswoman Patricia Volz in Washington. Pastora is a former Sandinista hero who broke with his former comrades two years ago and accused them of betraying the revolution through their close links with Cuba and the Soviet Union. Pastora's cousin and aide, Orion Pastora, said before the bombing that the rebel leader had planned to announ- ce at the news conference his with- drawal, from the Revolutionary Democratic Alliance (ARDE) in an in- ternal dispute. ORION PASTORA said the ARDE was planning to join forces with another rebel group, the Honduras-based Nicaraguan Democratic Force, known as FDN. The two groups receive training, money, and weapons from the CIA. Pastora has refused to link up with the FDN because its military command is dominated by former followers of the man the Sandinistas overthrew in July 1979, President Anastasio Somoza. In Washington, deputy White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Thur- sday the Reagan administration deplored "the loss of life, the injuries resulting from this incident." Frazier was the 14th foreign jour- nalist killed in Central America since 1979. Sea Grant By CHARLIE SEWELL The House of Representatives yesterday approved a funding-measure for the Commerce Department alloting money for Sea Grant - a nationwide aquatic research program which in- cludes a project co-sponsored by the University. The Sea Grant Program has been a perennial target of the Reagan ad- ministration's proposed budget cuts, but each year it has been saved by Congress. SEA GRANT is made up of 29 state programs which study the nation's coastal waters and the Great Lakes. In Michigan, the program is jointly spon- sored by the University and Michigan State University. It received $1 million from the federal government and $600,000 in state funds last year, according to University Prof. Alfred Beeton, director of the Michigan Sea Grant College Program. The national program was supported in the House Appropriations Subcom- mittee by Rep. Robert Carr (D-Mich.). An aide to Carr said the East Lansing congressman feels that the Great Lakes region deserves a larger share of the federal budget. BEETON SAID Michigan Sea Grant's greatest triumph was the discovery of the "cold water near- drowning syndrome." Researchers learned that a person who drowns in afloat cold water may not die for up to forty minutes because the cold water slows down the body's functions, thereby reducing its need for oxygen. Although a person who has stopped breathing for more than a few minutes can rarely be revived, Beeton said the cold water drowning discovery has led emergency medical personel to suc- cessfully resucitate patients who have been underwater for up to forty minutes. The program is currently studying the effects of toxic substances on the fish of the Great Lakes and ex- periementing with genetic engineering, Beeton said. Sea Grant officials say they have become accustomed to the annual bout with Reagan Administration budget cutters. They feel that Sea Grant has a wide body of support and will again be saved. "Nationally we have bipartisan support", said Beeton. The program is targeted yearly because "it was never intended to be a life-long federal program," said Paul Friday, a budget monitor in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the department which oversees the Sea Grant program. The appropriations bill, which totals $11.6 billion for the Commerce, Justice, and State departments and the judiciary, is scheduled for review by a Senate appropriations subcommittee beginning today. HAPPENINGS Friday Astronomy-Lecture, Freeman Miller, "The An- tartic-Treasure House of Meteorites," 8:30 p.m., Aud. B Angell. Folk Dance Club-Teaching Israeli Dancing, 8:30 p.m., request dancing, 10 p.m., dance studios, State & William. Chinese Students Christian Fellowship-meeting, 8 p.m., Trotter House. HRD-Course, "Overview of University Budgets & Accounting," 8:30a.m., 130 LSA; "Word Processing, Hands On," 8:30 a.m., 1050Ad Serv. TM Center-Intro to TM, noon, 4316 Union. Korean Christian Fellowship-Bible Study, 9 p.m., Campus Chapel. Tae Kwon Do Club-Practice, 5 p.m., CCRB. Performance Network-Play, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 8 p.m., 408 W. Washington. Cinema II-Diva, 7 & 9:15p.m., MLB 3. Cinema Guild-Risky Business, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., Lorch. AAFC-Rebel Without a Cause, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., MLB 4. Alt Act-The Maltese Falcon, 7:30 p.m.; The Caine Mutiny, 9:30 p.m., MLB 4. Ark-Concert, Stepanie Ozer & Cathy Moore, 8 p.m., 1421 Hill. Chemistry-Colloquium, Bernard Hulin, "Aver- fuin: Total Synthesis and Role in the Biosynthesis of Aflatoxin BiL," 3 p.m., 1300 Chem. Saturday Ann Arbor Go Club-Meeting, 2 p.m., 1433 Mason. Tae Kwon Do Club - Practice, 9 a.m., CCRB. Performance Network-Play, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 8 p.m., 408W. Washington. Alt Act-Bringing Up Baby, 7:30 p.m.; The Philadelphia Story, 9:15 p.m., MLB 4. AAFC-Zelig, 7, 8:40, & 10:20 p.m., MLB 3. Cinema II-Monty Python's Meaning of Life, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., Nat. Sci. Cinema Guild-Tender Mercies, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., Lorch. CFT-Play It Again, Sam, 5:40 & 9 p.m.; Casablan- ca, 7:10 & 10:35 p.m., Michigan. Community Skills Exchange-Bake Sale, Garage Sale, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 2606 Grant. " Send announcements to Iappenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109.