Ninety-four years of editorial freedom Vol. XCIV, No. 18-S Copyright 984 The Mchign Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Sunday, June 17, 1984 Gays march through city By PETE WILLIAMS Ann Arbor's gay and lesbian community is celebrating this week.e t And to commence the 12th annual Lesbian/Gay Pride Week, about 150 members of that community took to the streets of Ann Arbor yesterday, in a Pride Week Parade. The parade started with a series of pep talks and speeches on the steps of the Federal Building and went through campus, across the Diag, and back to its staring point. "WE ARE HERE to celebrate the fact that we are lesbians, that we are gay, and that we are proud of it," Rev. Ted Richmond told the marchers at the Federal Building. "We live in a state where our showing of love is illegal. We have a right to be b, angry with the State of Michigan for refusing us our basic civil rights." Richmond said that his church, the Metro Christian Church, is the only Christian church in Ann Arbor that offers a special ministry to the gay and lesbian community. About half of Richmonds congregation is either gay or lesbian. he said it was Marchers walk up Liberty Street yesterday important for him. as a gay Christian, to be part Pride Week festivities. See GAYS, Page 2 CITY CONSIDERED FOR PROPOSED DEFENSE LAB: Controversy builds DOUG McMAHON/[ 'on the way to Central Campus as part of the Lesbian/Gay over SEI By PETE WILLIAMS Second in a three-part series To many in Ann Arbor, the Software Engineering Institute could be the most The way of the future? exciting thing to happen to the city in years. University administrators, city officals, and private businessmen are falling over one another to get the com- puter center to locate in the Ann Arbor area. But it seems that for all the positive reaction here to SEI, there is as much strong opposition. SEI IS A proposed computer research center funded by the Department of Defense. The defense department con- ceived the center as the place to renovate the computer programming industry. The researchers at SEI will also work on the development of a new universal higher-order computer language. The institute is expected to have a $33 million budget and employ 250 technicians and scientists by its fif- th year of operation. With those goals, SEI has the potential to make the area where it locates the leader in software technology. Ann Arbor and the University are competing against Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh, UCLA, and others for the institute. If Ann Arbor wins, it "will have attracted some of the best sof- tware and engineering minds in the country and located them in one place," said Michigan High Technology Task Force Director Bill Lukens. "Give these people five or 10 years and Ann Arbor will be the software capital of the nation." Gov. William Milliken designed the task force Lukens heads to bring such projects as SEI to the state. When Milliken left office, the task force became a non-profit organization dependent upon the generosity of Michigan corporations. Lukens said the Ann Arbor- based task force soon would be devoting a considerable amount of time to luring SEI to the city. LUKENS ALSO said the institute would have a tremendous impact on the amount of money the state receives from the federal government - an amount many consider far too small. "It will be a major contracting center which will give Michigan firms greater accessibility to federal money." That accessibility likely would include millions of dollars not going directly to SEI. The University also is fighting hard to get SEI. With fellow Big Ten Conferen- ce schools Ohio State University, Pur- due University, and the University of Illinois, it has formed a consortium designed to recruit the institute to Ann Arbor. College of Engineering Dean James Duderstadt said he would relish the idea of having SEI near campus. "Certainly a major fundamental research laboratory, which that will be in software engineering, will have an im- portant impact on us because it will establish Ann Arbor as a center of ex- cellence," Duderstadt said. "It will at- tract a lot of very, very high quality scientists and engineers and will allow ,us to attract some high-level people." DUDERSTADT said the proposed center plans to carry out "fundamental and unclassified research," as opposed to applied weapons research. He said it See CONTROVERSY, Page 7 Inside: " The University's share of the state budget is one of several sticky issues which are the sub- ject of last-minute negotiations;in Lansing. See Page 3. * The most recent call for trade restrictions should be ignored. See Opinion, Page 6. " A Daily sportswriter who thought she had given up idol worship proved herself wrong at Tiger Stadium. See Sports, Page 15. Outside: - Cloudy, warm, and humid with thunderstorms and a high in the 80s. Canada picks new prime minister From AP and UPI Minister John Roberts, Indian Affairs Minister John Munro and Whelan backed Chretien, who waged an emotional cam- OTTAWA - Former Finance Minister John Turner, who paign in defense of Trudeau's policies. quit Pierre Trudeau's Cabinet nine years ago, was chosen THE ALLIANCES developed in view of a national yesterday to succeed Trudeau as prime minister, television audience. the candidates sat for more than six Turner swamped two other candidates on the second ballot hours in the convention hall, surrounded by their supporters at a Liberal Party convention, getting 1,862 of the delegates' with banners and signs. votes to 1,368 for Energy Minister Jean Chretien and 192 for When a candidate decided to make an endorsement, he Economic Development Minister Donald Johnston. stood up - starting the television commentators speculating THE NEW PARTY leader will take over a prime minister about which direction he would go - they marched across once Trudeau makes his resignation official. The date for the the floor to embrace the colleague he had chosen. transition has not been set, but it is expected in about two Turner was edged out of a first-round victory when he weeks. polled 1,593 votes, 126 votes short of what he needed for a one- Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan was dropped from round triumph. the second ballot because he finished last in the first round. THERE HAS been speculation that the Liberals might call Three other candidates withdrew after disappointing an election soon after Trudeau's departure to take advantage showings on the first ballot. Justice Minister Mark MacGuigan threw his support to Turner. Employment See CANADIANS, Page 7