Page 2-The Michigan Daily- Friday, April 19, 1991 Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson Ford enables. students to rD SAI INCE WAP A GMD PLFE I ,AR INFC, AT I REGRET SL~A purchase $200 Met tickets J4 I- a ., U.S. ships remain in Gulf to keep Iraq from getting arms by JoAnne Viviano Daily Staff Reporter University students have the unique opportunity to purchase main floor tickets to the the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra's April 30 performance at Hill Auditorium for a discounted price. "Nothing would be more disap- pointing than to have people ex- cluded, especially the students right on campus," said Michael Kondziolka of the University Musical Society, referring to the $200 cost of main floor tickets. Ford Motor Credit Company has agreed to cover $175 of this cost for 200 University students. These tick- ets will be available at Hill Auditorium Box Office tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Student iden- tification is required to obtain main floor tickets at a price of $25. "We approached Ford and they decided to help," Kondziolka said. "This way everyone would win. Ford gets exposure, the Society gets the benefit price, and students get to attend at the main floor." The April 30 show is the first outside of the Met in New York for the orchestra. The orchestra will also perform at Carnegie Hall and in Columbus, Ohio. The University Musical Society, Carnegie Hall and the Met have been making plans for the performances for over two years, Kondziolka said. He said it was Conductor James Levine's dream to go on the road. "It's been known for decades that one of the most prized orches- tras is at the Met. It's unfortunate that the only place to hear it is in the pit," he said. "Hill Auditorium is quite a prestigious place to play. Levine looked to Ann Arbor on his first time out," he added. Soprano Jessye Norman, a University music school alumna, will accompany the orchestra. "It* was one of the few things thae would make it better," Kondziolka said. "She obviously performs with them often." The performance is a benefit for the University Music Society. "This is the right sort of event to help us out," Kondziolka said. "The Society sponsors a lot of community outreach programs; they're not all interested in making money. This is a good opportunity, because of tho prestige of the Met, to have a benefit." Members of the University Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) did much of the publicity for the Musical Society The students have been putting up posters and passing out flyers on the Diag, Kondziolka said. He said they helped with the New Wold Symphony Orchestia and wished to be involved again. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - As the United States pulls out its combat troops, a naval armada of 45 ships and 150 warplanes remains in the Persian Gulf to enforce a U.N. arms embargo on Iraq and keep Saddam Hussein in line. Some U.S. officers say the U.S. military activity in the Gulf will probably not extend much beyond that because Hussein's forces were seriously weakened by their defeat in the Gulf War. One officer, who spoke on condi- tion of anonymity, summed it up this way: "We've destroyed his ability to pose any threat to his heighbors. The United Nations Peacekeeping force is in place to pre- Vent any problems which might arise and to ensure the security of Kuwait and its people." The 1,440-member U.N. force that will operate in the newly es- tablished demilitarized zone in Iraq and Kuwait is small and lightly armed. Hussein is believed to have sur- vived Operation Desert Storm with more than 2,000 tanks and armored personnel carriers and more than 300 artillery pieces. Sources also say 20 Iraqi divisions were never com- mitted to the war. Nonetheless, Iraq did suffer heavy losses and some observers say the Iraqis are intimidated by America's might. The U.S.-led allies destroyed Iraq's infrastructure with massive air strikes during the war, then launched a ground assault that drove Saddam's forces from Kuwait. U.S. soldiers have been going home since shortly after the fight- ing was halted Feb. 27. U.S. troop strength has been sliced in half from a peak of 540,000 during the height of the war. American troops who had occupied southern Iraq have been withdrawn to the demilitarized zone and are waiting to be replaced by the U.N. force. About 5,000 troops are leaving daily and it is expected that all combat troops will be home in the weeks ahead. Logistics troops could be in the Gulf until the end of the year, cleaning equipment and ship- ping it back to the United States. Naval strength has declined by more than half, from six carrier bat- tle groups to two and from 120 ships to 45. That has reduced the number of troops from 92,000 to about 45,000, The Navy is dismantling its Central Command with the im- minent departure of its flagship, the USS Blue Ridge, and will return to its prewar status as the Middle East Force. Diplomatic and military sources say discussions are under way with Arab nations to back up the Middle East Force with a permanent U.S. command headquarters in the Gulf region, most likely in Bahrain. Iraq, U.S. agree to discuss refugees INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey (AP) - Iraqi and U.S. officials agreed yesterday to hold their first direct talks in northern Iraq, where Saddam Hussein's armies have crushed a Kurdish rebellion and sent hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing. U.S. military teams scouted Iraqi territory yesterday to search for sites for refugee camps, officials in Turkey and at the Pentagon said. The new commander of the U.S. relief effort for Kurdish refugees was to meet today in northern Iraq with an Iraqi military delegation to discuss ways to avoid any accidental conflicts during the operation, a military spokesperson said. The Baghdad government has protested the U.S. plan for the new camps as unnecessary, but yester- day's announcement of the planned talks suggested Iraq was willing to acquiesce. The Iraqi Ambassador to the United Nations said Iraq had given the U.N. a detailed list of its chemi- cal and biological weapons capabili- ties and nuclear facilities. About 800,000 of Iraq's 4 mil- lion Kurds have fled to Turkey and it,; border, according to the latest estimates. Nearly 1.5 million have sought safety in Iran and along its frontier. In addition, nearly 100,000 Shiites have fled either to Iran or to the allied-controlled border zone in southern Iraq. At the crude encampments in the r, art 1.1 "' '= -an Your Summer Job more than just employment L _-.o- 00000 Working with'childrei in the outdoors. n REGENTS Continued from page 1 for Academic Affairs. Minutes before the end of the meeting, Regent Deane Baker (R- Ann Arbor) made an unexpected statement in support of a letter run by four University publications which called for the administration to abandon the current interim stu- dent anti-discrimination code. While Baker openly supported a review, Duderstadt said the interim policy is modeled to allow for mod- MARCH Continued from page 1 growth of fear and anger that is caused by all of those problems in our culture, in addition to sexism." During last year's march, women marched on Sigma Phi Epsilon's lawn and shouted, "No more rape, down with frats" as the fraternity held a barbecue outside. Murray Shykind, third-year Sigma Phi Epsilon member, said that the women acted with no rea- son since no rapes have occurred in his house. "They're trying to give us a bad image of this, but they had abso- lutely no justification," he said. "Having a bunch of women walk down the street doesn't actually ac- complish anything to prevent peo- ple from getting raped. I'm not con- doning rape. I think rape is terrible, but this march is silly. There are rugged terrain along Iraq's borders with Turkey and Iran, up to 1,000 refugees are dying daily of hunger, disease and exposure, aid officials@ have estimated. Officials expect that finding sites and building the new refugee centers will take up to 40 more days, and some say even those esti- mates are too optimistic. Mahmoud Yildirim, the Turkish commander of the huge ramshackle settlement at Isikveren, estimated that many more people would* likely die in that period. Yildirim estimated that up to 20 people are dying each day at the Isikveren camp alone. ifications as they are needed, and thus an overhaul of the policy is not necessary. Duderstadt said he does not fore- see a change in the policy in the near future. As the regents left the meeting,0 some were met by GEO protesters. Philip Power (D-Ann Arbor) said the regents are not directly in- volved with GEO negotiations. "This is a collective bargaining is- sue," he said. "It is a mistake for re- gents to inject themselves into col- lective bargaining while it is going on." other things to do to prevent rape." * However, organizers do not feel there will bed a problem during to- morrow's march "We're going to have monitors for the march and the rally," orga- nizer Alison Quiring said. "We're planning on having 40 to 50 monit tors. We have about 25 so we're hop- ing for a lot more to volunteer." Women who want to monitor can go to City Hall at 6:30 p.m. t6 be given instructions. Julie Steiner, director of SAPAC, said the main problem with marches has been harassment of marchers by men. "The big problem that Take Back the Night has had has been men on the sidelines and harassing people," she said. "Others have actually come up and grabbed women. Hopefully,S that won't happen again. To some people it's threatening to see 2,000 women marching on their own." - Amummim r-l" Counselors *super-isors-administrativ staff and othr leris, adinistrative eleadership positios FINNUMM40 i r I ~ l Interviewing at Hillel: Thursday, Sign up: Call Hillel, 769-150 Questions? Call Lew Hamburger atk April 25 00 6 661-0600 ) Carrie Read Beth Warber Brett Morgan Carolyn Ward Dan Hemmer * Rob Walters Susie Prekel Shannon Burke Christine Demnerino : Tina Cash Michael Barry Amy DeGeus Ainala Henderson_ Steve Soechtig 4 Beth Halvers on Julie Rogan Joe Cyton Anril amsa Tamarack Camps are Jewish resident camps directed by the Fresh Air Society of Detroit. 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