The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, August 7, 1984 - Page5 Peres to set up new Israeli gov't From AP and UPI JERUSALEM - Israel's Prime, Minister-designate Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir agreed yesterday to keep trying to work out a- power-sharing formula for a joint government. Officials of the Shamir's Likud bloc indicated that Shamir had not given up. the idea of being prime minister, even though President Chaim Herzog has asked Peres to form a government. HERZOG appealed for a national! unity coalition after neither Peres nor Shamir could gain a parliamentary majority on their own after last month's inconclusive elections. Labor won 44 seats, and Shamir's Likud bloc, 41. But the distribution of the other 35 seats among 13 small par- ties did not give Peres enough firm supporters to establish a 61-seat Japanese, r remember (Continued from Page 1) Air Force Base in Dayton. Military of- ficials took photographs from inside the base while the silent vigil was conduc- ted. ABOUT 50 demonstrators gathered on the concourse of the Pentagon and four were arrested for spilling a red substance they said simulated blood. They were charged with degrading government property, a Pentagon spokesman said. In New York Harbor, four members of Greenpeace, an environmental and nuclear disarmament group, climbed scaffolding surrounding the Statue of Liberty and unfurled a 30-foot banner proclaiming "Give Me Freedom from Nuclear Weapons. Stop Testing." "We want to use the occasion to look forward, not backward, and we are using the Statue because she has . always been a hope for a new begin- ning," said Brian Fitzgerald, a Green- peace spokesman. HE IDENTIFIES the protesters as Sebea Hawkins of Little Rock, Ark., Mike Rappaport and his brother, David, both of Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., and Steve Loper of Chicago. They were arrested by U.S. park rangers and charged with criminal trespass after they ended their five- hour protest. About 40 people turned out for a vigil in Boston sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, and Israeli president calls for power-sharing joint govt ' majority in the Knesset. Two rounds of unity negotiations last week included the rival's top aides and both Likud and Labor officials decided private discussions between the party leaders were essential. SHAMIR AND Peres yesterday held two hours of "friendly and frank" private talks on forming a national unity government, but refused to disclose details or say whether any agreement was reached on who would be prime minister. The Likud officials suggested the least Shamir would settle for was a Americans Hiroshima Mobilization for Survival, an anti-war group. THE PROTESTERS stood quietly in the hot midday sun holding two huge black banners bearing the names of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in large white letters. Taped to a red brick wall nearby were photos of bombing burn victims and reproductions of drawings by Japanese school children. "There's a whole generation of Americans who look at them (the bom- bs) as life savers," said Patricia Wat- son of Arlington, Mass. "The justification for dropping the first bomb was slim. For the second, it was non- existant." IN HIROSHIMA, Japan, a crowd of 50,000 people, some sobbing and holding candles, prayed in a downtown park as Buddhist temple bells solemnly tolled the exact minute a U.S. atomic bomb 'destroyed Hiroshima 39 years ago. Some members of the somber throng fell to the ground and lay still as the Hiroshima Peace Bell rang out at 8:15 a.m., the time the U.S. Army Air Force bomber "Enola Gay" dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of 343,000 on Aug. 6,1945. Hiroshima Mayor Takeshi Araki ad- ded to the roll of victims the names of 4,315 people who died during the year of bomb-related causes, bringing the total number of victims of the Hiroshima bombing on record to 113,271. premiership rotating between Labor and Likud leadership. After yesterday's talks, Peres said he believed Shamir would honor Herzog's decision Sunday to appoint Peres to form a government, but gave no in- dication Shamir had agreed to join a Peres-led government. "I DON'T THINK the Likud will con- tinue" to challenge Herzog's decision, Peres told reporters. "We agreed to continue the discussions to establish a national unity government,"said Shamir in a terse statement. He left the hotel before Peres and declined to answer questions. Earlier, Likud Knesset member Ehud Olmert said Shamir would con- sider participating in a Peres-led ad- ministration, but only if Likud received "major" cabinet posts in return. "MR. SHAMIR will say, 'OK, sir, you have been appointed by the president to form a government - what will you of- fer us?' " Olmert said in an interview. "He doesn't oppose in principle the idea of Peres forming a government." Olmert said if one party controls the prime minister's slot, the other would deserve "major Cabinet posts" - a concession some Labor supporters, in particular the left-wing Mapam faction, may not accept. Peres has 21 days to negotiate and present his new Cabinet for a Knesset vote of confidence. Associated Press Protesters hold a banner in front of the entrance to General Electric Space Center in King of Prussia, Pa., yesterday. The protest marked the 39th anniversary of the nuclear blast at Hiroshima. The ceremonies started a week of ob- servances to mark the atomic bom- bings of Hiroshima and of Nagasaki three days later. About 105,000 people ,were killed and 95,000 were injured in the two attacks. "The spirit of Hiroshima has per- meated the whole world to strengthen Group submits 'nuclear free' proposal Sussman also said many professors ballot but withdrew the petitions (Continued fromn Page 1' would be affected by the law because because they were not notarized as is to have an impact on the University," they work for local companies as well required. The campaign claims they but later said "presumably, it won't as the University. were given misleading information by have any affect." THE PROPOSAL is unique because it the city clerk's office, but Northcross PART OF the confusion stems from would be the first binding resolution of said the campaign members were at the University's self-imposed ban on its kind in a city which actually suppor- fault in the misunderstanding. conducting classified research which ts nuclear weapons research, according Latta said the proposal has a better could harm human life. Latta said that to Latta. chance of passing now, though, because policy covers most of what the nuclear A similar proposal was defeated last "there's more people voting in Novem- free proposal would affect. He said the year in Cambridge, Mass., but op- ber." ban is aimed primarily at local com- ponents of the plan there outspent sup- He also said the extra months have panies the campaign suspects are con- porters by a 15-to-one margin, Latta given proponents of the campaign more ducting nuclear weapons research. said. time to gather more support. Between But Alfred Sussman, the University's So far, however, there has been no now and the election, "we'll be doing a Vice President for Graduate Studies organized opposition to the campaign, lot of canvassing door-to-door," Latta and Research, said the University is Latta said. "We've gotten an extremely said. immune to the proposed law because good response." "I think people are more aware of the "the University is an arm of the state MEMBERS OF the campaign attem- issues and more concerned (about government." pted to place the proposal on the April nuclear war)," Latta said. the groundswell of international public opinion in the cause of peace," said Hiroshima's mayor. A flock of doves were released and filled the sky above the park as the brief annual ceremony ended. The Smart PR EPA RATION FOR: LSAT * GMAT * GRE u For nformtion, KAR|M 662.31 49 SEDUCAT10f. 203 E. Hoover CENTER