Tiptoe through the oil
Six-year-old Tyler Maroney tiptoes around the sticky gooey globs of oil that washed up on Stewart Beach
Texas yesterday. The oil spill from a ruptured tanker has threatened tourism and fishing industries.
Troubled medieval event reboi
By STACEY SHONK
Ann Arbor's 15th annual Medieval Festival, nearly can-
celled this spring due to a lack of organizers, opened Satur-
day in the city's West Park.
The four-day festival, which features plays, music, dance,
and foolery of the Medieval era, continues this afternoon at
the University's Arboretum and will resume next weekend at
the School of Music.
EARLIER THIS year, according to administrative direc-
tor David Bernstein, there was little hope that there would be
a festival this year because the core group of organizers from
past years had disintegrated and the staff and resources for
the festival were not available.
By April, Bernstein said, the annual event's future "looked
dismal."
But when performers and members of
began inquiring about this year's festival, f
and other organizers were moved to keep tl
by their enthusiasm. "We even had the C
merce call and ask where the festival was
this year," he said.
Using a small amount of money from la
and the proceeds from a fundraiser at Joe's
festival backers formed a committee a
Although they had missed many deadlines
money, the group "already knew the ropes
more help from local businesses this year,"]
The Michigan Daily - Sunday, August 5, 1984 -Page 5
Critics of
U.S. policy
on abortion
include 'U'
prof
MEXICO CITY (AP) - The Reagan
administration's policy on abortions in
countries outside the United States is
drawing fire even before the huge U.S.
International Conference on Populaton
opens here tomorrow.
Under the policy, the United States
would withhold aid from organizations
that actively promote abortion.
PROF. JASON Finkle, director of the
Center for Populaton Planning of the
University of Michigan, called it
Associated Press "amazingly bad logic and amazingly
had economic analysis."
He charged that the Reagan
administration will introduce the policy
in Galveston, at the conference to pay "an important
debt" to anti-abortion groups that have
supported the president politically.
Finkle and others spoke at-a panel
outlining issues for the conferences,
' a which representatives of aobut 140
u nfl (== countries are expected to attend.
IT IS THE first U.N. population
meeting since a 1974 conference in
the community Bucharest, Romania.
Bernstein said he Sheldon Segal, director of populaton
he tradition alive sciences for the Rockefeller Foundation
hamber of Com- in New York City, said in a paper
going to be held prepared for the session that a
nationwide Gallup poll commissioned
st year's festival by his organization shows Americans
Star Lounge, the support family planning overseas.
nd began work. In the survey, 72 percent of the 1,042
and still needed adults interviewed last month said they
and we got a lot believed the United States should give
Bernstein said. family planning assistance in countries
where abortion is legal.
THE NEW U.S. policy was
e," a phrase taken announced in July, in advance of the
ial government conference. It declared abortion as
sued by the state "unnecessary and repugnant" form of
purported spies are population control and said the United
ic protests made. States will not contribute to family
the run, the series planning programs that support
of the most popular abortion.
It was two years in Although population experts said
in Cuba and stars they hope the talks will stick to concrete
Union's top movie population issues, politics can be
expected to play a big role.
's impossible to The conference is of government
r of people about representatives, most of them at the
nations which had level of health minister, rather than of
policies, such as demographers and family planning
ada. experts.
"SOME ISSUES are still taboo
because they are controversial and
could breach a consensus," said Leon
Tabah, a former diretor of the U.S.
talk a= * s
talks Population Division. e said they
include abortion and sterilization, "the
r that the summer- two most widespread ways of
U.S.-Soviet Arms controlling births in the Third World."
has been taught in The conference was called by the
William Potter, 37, world's poorer countries to talk about
executive director how to deal with growing numbers of
International and people, both from migration and
the University of natural increases. In 1974, the
tthe Un r industrialized nations, alarmed by
geles. rising population growth rates, called
the first time the the population meeting.
sve advice to the
iet team. The em- Only six countries, accounting for
to suggest that the less than 1 percent of the world
gree to on-site population, actively restrict access to
any agreement, contraception, said P. Sankar Memon,
-world Moscow has deputy secretary-general of the
conference.
Soviets glued
to TV sets
* for CIA vs.
KGB series
MOSCOW (AP) - Will the tireless
KGB general find the CIA mole and
save a new freedom-loving nation from
reactionary plots? Will the Soviet
freighter escape American mines and
reach the tropic port? Or will a U.S.-
backed coup succeed in toppling the
young government?
It may sound like Soviet allegations
about American policy in Central
America. But it's actually the plot of a
new espionage thriller series on Soviet
television, and it seems all of Moscow is
glued to the tube for each of the 10 one-
hour segments.
The show is called "Tass is
Authorized To Stat
from the offic
pronouncements is:
news agency when I
expelled or diplomat
Half-way through
is shaping up as onec
shows on television.I
the making, filmed
some of the Soviet1
actors.
Officials say it
estimate the numbe
U.S. involvement in
or have pro-Moscow
Nicaragua and Gren
W. German class holds mock arms
BONNWest Germany (AP)- In the
real world, the Soviet Union walked out
of the Geneva nuclear arms talks with
the United States last winter. In the
land of make-believe, the talks
resumed this summer in a Bonn univer-
sity classroom.
Across the street from a park where
thousands of anti-missile protesters'
demonstrated last fall, a class of 15
West German students split into a
"U.S." team and a "Soviet" team in a
scholarly effort to achieve what the
superpowers have not-a comprehen-
sive agreement limiting medium and
long-range nuclear weapons.
IN THE THREE-week course, the
students intensively researched
previous arms agreements and the
weapons arsenals of both superpowers,
then met for negotiations that
sometimes ran into the early hours of
the morning.
And although the United States and
the Soviet Union aren't talking to each
other in Geneva, their embassies in
Bonn advised the West German studen-
ts on how to negotiate.
"They asked for advice, so we gave
it," said a spokesman for the Soviet
Embassy, Timor Lachonin. "We were
glad to share our viewpoint with them."
IT IS the third yea
time course, called
Control Simulation,
Bonn by Professor'
an American who is
of the Center for
Strategic Affairs at
California at Los Anj
But this year was
Soviet Embassy g,
students on the Sov
bassy went so far as
Soviet team ag
verification of
something that real
not done.