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.