INDUSTRY DECLARES LOCKOUT Teamsters strike 75 firms By DAVID ESPO against selective strikes because their Gerald Kasier, president of the 12,000- ing industry is heavily regulated by the Associated Press Writer effect on the economy would be minimal, at member Local 100 in Cincinnati, said, "Not ICC, which sets rates and gives companies WASHINGTON — The trucking industry least initially. Experts say it would be every terminal is striking, just selected permission to haul certain types of cargo on declared a nationwide lockout Sunday easier to obtain a back-to-work order ones. They (union officials in Washington) specified routes. Spokesperson Douglas against 300,000 Teamsters after the union against a wider work stoppage, however. gave us what terminals they wanted us to Baldwin said the commission launched strikes against 75 companies. approved its Government lawyers planned to meet strike." emergency action unanimously on Friday in Contract talks had collapsed late Satur¬ later in the day to discuss what steps, if The Interstate Commerce Commission, the event a strike developed. "We didn't day. any, they would take. seeking to lessen the impact of a strike, said want to get blindsided," he said. The executive committee of Trucking The strikes and walkouts followed a there was an "urgent and immediate need" Negotiators for the union and industry Management Inc., the industry's bargaining breaking off of contract talks late Saturday. for alternate sources of transportation. The agreed to remain in contact with federal arm, said in a statement it "had no The union's old contract expired at mid¬ commission said it would grant temporary mediators, although there was no word on alternative but to instruct its member night Saturday. No further negotiations are permits to "all persons seeking to supply when the talks would resume. associations and authorizing carriers to expected for several days. motor service." Chief federal mediator Wayne I. Horvitz, shut down their operations in defense There were early reports of strikes in a A spokesperson said the effect of the who had kept the two sides bargaining day against the strike." dozen states in all sections of the country. action would be to "let anyone carry and night for much of a week in a drive for In its prepared statement, the industry The full extent of the walkouts was unlikely anything anywhere if they are a qualified final agreement, said the negotiators had referred to its action as a "defensive to be known until the regular work week trucker." come "awfully close" to reaching agree- shutdown," but officials also termed the began on Monday, however. Under normal circumstances, the truck¬ move a lockout. Bernard Henderson, a union spokesper¬ son, said in response to the industry's State News Ira Strickstein Bob Keeshan, alias television's Captain Kangaroo, found a warm wel¬ coming committee at Kellogg Center during his visit to East Lansing action, "We had gone out of our way to make sure this would not be a strike that would affect national health or welfare. The Reactor bubble shrinking slowly Thursday. escalation is not our choice or our doing. It was the industry's doing." By TIM PETTIT If it becomes necessary. Gov. Thornburgh At the White House, Carter administra¬ Associated Press Writer wil ask you to take appropriate action. If he "It's slow but it's safe," said Bob Lengel, 'Captain' emphasizes tion spokesperson Linda Peek said there would be no comment Sunday on the Teamsters situation. TMI said 42 major carriers were HARRISBURG, Pa. — Engineers slowly shrank a potentially explosive gas bubble in the reactor of the crippled Three Mile Island nuclear plant Sunday, as President does, I want the instructions carried out as calmly as they have been in the past few days." Harold Denton, operations chief of the licensing engineer for Metropolitan Edison Co., the plant's operating company. Carter, a former nuclear engineer in the Navy, said that if an evacuation becomes targeted Carter visited the plant and suggestd a Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Car¬ parental responsibility by the union strike. But union sources said necessary "it will indicate a change is being 75 companies were struck. precautionary evacuation may be necessary ters personal representative here, said: made in the cooling system." within a few days. "From the data we've seen, I'm convinced Scientists are concerned about the possi¬ "This will cause a major disruption in Local officials in the area of the plant the size of the bubble is being reduced. trucking transportation, not a limited or bility of hydrogen and oxygen mixing, in By JOY L. HAENLEIN And that philosphy is being violated by selective stoppage," the industry said in a "If we don't succeed in (further) reducing flammable proportions, both in the bubble State News Staff Writer the vast majority of American parents, he the bubble in the next few days, we would in the reactor and outside the reactor, but A group of young children sat impatiently said, who use television as a babysitter when prepared statement. have to go to emergency See related story page 2. core cooling inside the containment building. The employer group also said it learned in the lobby of Kellogg Center Thursday, they do not spend time with children systems to take it to a cold shutdown." The The president, who was accompanied by awaiting a man in a bright red jacket with themselves. Sunday that other companies not on the reactor core temperature remained steady his wife, Rosalynn, said he had come to the union's strike target list were "in fact the plenty of carrots dangling from his pockets. But "no television program in the world readied contingency plans for such an Sunday at 278 degrees Fahrenheit; core area to "assure the people of this region One girl, dressed in a party dress, held a will evertakethe place of a parent," he said. object of picketing or other strike activity." evacuation and said late Sunday that melt-down would occur at 5,000 degrees. that everything possible has been done and Union President Frank Fitzsimmons, at sheet of newsprint paper with a picture Many parents, after a hard day of work, arrangements were nearly complete for The bubble was being slowly depleted by will be done to cope with these problems." odds for weeks with the Carter administra¬ carefully scotch-taped to a corner. She was offer two phrases more than any others to relocating the elderly, invalids and persons letting the gas dissolve in the constantly In Washington, Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., tion over its "voluntary" anti-inflation hoping for an autograph - and a hug if she children who barrage them with stories of in institutions such as hospitals and jails. circulating coolant water and then allowing the chairperson of a Senate subcommittee could get it. the days adventures — "I'm busy" guidelines, said, "interference by high-level "We'd like to have things in shape," it to escape from the water outside the • continued on page 14) A boy in a baseball cap, who admitted he watch TV," he said. government bureaucrats played no small commented Francis Hess, commissioner of still watched Captain Kangaroo "once i Keeshan suggested parents who worry part" in his decision to order the walkouts. Carroll Township, east of the plant. He said while," expected the star to surface from a about what their children watch - Industry's decision to counter with a 1,000 copies of a public notice advising Campaigns mounted shiny black limousine guarded by muscle- importantly, how their family relationship is lockout presumably would make it easier people what to do if an evacuation is bound jeopardized by constant television viewing for the Carter administration to obtain a ordered were distributed Sunday. "I thought he d be driving with a bunch of — should turn off the set and spend back-to-work order under the Taft-Hartley Gov. Dick Thornburgh said in a state¬ people, just like Elvis Presley or some- time with their children. Act. ment Sunday night that schools within five thing," he said. "Take a walk or read book." he said. miles of the plant should remain closed to halt state N-plants a Bob Keeshan alias "Captain Kangaroo," I continued on page 14.) Monday. He said state government offices drove into East Lansing himself after his will be open as usual, but with generous plane touched down in Detroit for a leaves granted for "absentees." late-afternoon press conference and a By SANDY HOLT the public's safety. Although an estimated 50,000 persons lecture on "Children and Television — a Responsibility" Thursday night. Document introduced have fled the Harrisburg area since Wednesday's accident touched off the first State State News Staff Writer legislators and nuclear-safety And Friday, PIRGIM filed an emergency petition to the federal Nuclear Regulatory The talk was sponsored by the College of of a continuing series of low-level radiation groups are mounting campaigns to halt Commission calling for a halt on nuclear Human Ecology and the college's Alumni nuclear power plant construction until power plant construction in Michigan Association. He left his traditional red blazer at home in Miller case urges leaks, Carter said that even if an evacuation is ordered, "this will not indicate the danger is high ... It is purely a precautionary safety issues exposed in the Pennsylvania nuclear accident are resolved. pending investigation of the incident at the Three River Island plant near Harrisburg, with Mr. Moose, Bunny Rabbit, Dancing measure." Rep. H. Lynn Jondahl said Sunday he will introduce a bill calling for a five-year verdict without Bear and Mr. Green Jeans and had chosen "Radiation is being monitored throughout instead to wear a green suit with a plaid vest. And he worried, on this trip as well as body this area and any trends towards increase in radiation will be reported to me," Carter said, after touring the plant control room moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants in Michigan. The moratorium sponsored by the East has test The Three Mile Island nuclear accident spurred nationwide reaction and marches. See page II. pro¬ countless others, that children who poured By PAUL COX teacher, disappeared near her East Lansing "At the present time, the reactor core is Lansing Democrat would set up standards State News Staff Writer home Aug. 14. out of the cities to see the children's indeed stable. However, within the next for environmental and safety factors and television legend would be shocked to see Legal precedent in California and New Miller was indicted in the two cases few days, important decisions will be made would consider the feasibility of phasing out him in street clothes. Jersey court cases show that murder Feb.23 by an Ingham County Grand Jury. on how to bring it to a cold and stable state. nuclear power plants if necessary to ensure As contradictory statements pour across convictions are possible without finding the The document states that the prosecutor the country from the Three Mile Island "I don't want to disillusion young chil¬ dren," he said. "I do look different in real body, an Ingham County Prosecutor's will attempt to prove "that a crime has been plant, nuclear safety groups and govern¬ document states. committed and there is reasonable cause to ment officials are meeting to determine life." The document will be filed today in 54B believe the defendant committed it. what happened and what should be done. "The illusions we create in the show are very important to us," he added. This illusion he speaks of so protectively District Court by Ingham County Prosecu¬ tor Peter Houk prior to Donald G. Miller's "The failure to discover the body of a homicide victim in no way precludes a E.L. man challenges Jondahl met with 100 representatives from 15 state anti-nuclear groups Sunday to started about 25 years ago with a plot he preliminary hearing in the disappearance of finding of death," it states. plan a protest march on Consumer Power's Kristine Rose Stuart. Dorean Koenig, professor of law at Midland nuclear plant April 21. feels could not be sold to a television network today. It consists of a "fellow who walks around The 24-year-old MSU graduate faces second-degree murder charges in the Stuart case and in the disappearance of Cooley Law School in Lansing, said the Miller indictment is similar to a 1959 state's drinking The protest march, one of several springing up across the state as the result and talks to a grandfather clock, a rabbit and California case. In the People vs. Scot, a of the nuclear accident, is partially organ¬ Martha Sue Young. The preliminary hear¬ husband was convicted of murdering his By PAULCOX ized by PIRGIM's Lansing and MSU offices. a moose," he said. But beyond the character of Captain ing in the Young case will be held wife despite the fact that no body was State News Staff Writer PIRGIM has protested a potential pur Kangaroo, Keeshan said the show is laid on Wednesday. recovered and the husband gave no A motion calling the law implementing the state's 21-year-old drinking age chase of part of a nuclear power plant by the foundation that children are intelligent Young, Miller's ex-girlfriend, disap¬ confession. unconstitutional was filed in District Court Friday. Lansing's Board of Water and Light, which human beings with potentially good taste. peared New Year's Day 1977 after a date Zolton Ferency, MSU associate professor Zolton Ferency, MSU associate professor of criminal justice, filed the motion in 54B serves much of the Lansing area. with Miller and Stuart, a Lansing school- of criminal justice, said the lack of bodies in District Court on behalf of a 19-year-old East Lansing man. Other protest marches planned include a the Stuart and Young cases puts a heavier The motion to throw out charges against John M. Griffiths, son of East Lansing Mayor march on Kennedy Square in Detroit April burden on the prosecutor to prove the 6 at noon by the Safe Energy Coalition and George L. Griffiths, points out a number of legal flaws in the state drinking law, Ferency two-day demonstration June 2 and 3 at Iranian voters establish missing person is dead. Such proof requires said. a more convincing evidence to link the The motion states that the law is unconstitutional, contrary to the spirit of Proposal D Fermi II in Monroe by the Arbor Alliance. defendant to the alleged crime. and has been enforced by the wrong branch of state government. At Sunday's meeting, Jondahl said he and Griffiths was stopped by East Lansing Police in January for driving a car with a bad Rep. Mark Clodfelter, D-Flint, and Sen. Ferency said the prosecutor will have to Doug Ross, D-Oak Park, will introduce the new 'government of God' reveal a large part of his case in the preliminary hearing and he suspects much of it will be "circumstantial evidence." muffler. Police found a six-pack of ale in the car. Griffiths was arrested and charged with possession of alcohol. The ale belonged to the senior Griffiths, Ferency added. five-year moratorium legislation in the House and Senate this week. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) The bill would also establish a set of — Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini triumphantly proclaimed Iran an The Ingham County prosecutor's docu¬ A hearing on the motion will be held at 9 a.m. April 16 in District Court, 301 M.A.C. A^e. Islamic republic Sunday, announcing that the "yes" votes of millions of Iranians in a Ferency said the case could become a major challenge to the state's 21-year-old drinking standards regarding safe radiation dosages, ment asserts that circumstantial evidence referendum had created the nation's first "government of God." can be as strong as direct evidence. age. disposal of nuclear wastes and other The 78-year-old Shiite Moslem leader, who led the struggle that toppled Shah And, Ferency said, if District Court Judge Daniel L. Tschirhart agrees with him, the environmental demands, Jondahl said. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's regime in mid-February, said his citizens had voted "to Koenig said the lack of a body and the use Legislature would have to rework the statute. In addition, persons who have been The state Legislature would have to establish a government of righteousness and to overthrow and bury the monarchy in the of circumstantial evidence will be a greater authorize any new nuclear plant construc¬ previously convicted for alcohol offenses could theoretically reverse the judgments and garbage can of history." burden on the prosecutor but "when you have their criminal records expunged, he said. tion after the five-year moratorium if Khomeini's victory statement, read by an announcer over Tehran radio, contrasted with add up this type of evidence, it can be legislative standards are met by the "They (the Legislature) passed the statute rather hurriedly, to satisfy Proposal D," continued concern by the revolutionary authorities over unrest among the nation's conclusive." proposed plant, he said. large Ferency said. ethnic minority groups. The language of Proposal D stated it is illegal for minors to "possess alcohol for personal The measure would also call for a Koenig said in England, defendants have Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, head of the Khomeini-appointed provisional "certificate of reliability"setting up similar been convicted of murder and executed and consumption", although the law the Legislature passed makes simple possession illegal, government, warned rebellious Turkoman tribe members in the northeastern city of later the supposed murder victim shows up Ferency said. • continued on page 14) Gonbad-e-Qabous on Sunday that if the bloody week-old fighting there did not cease he alive. She added that the possibility that a The discrepancy between the law and the proposal makes the current law would send in government troops Tuesday morning to restore order. missing person might be found alive was unconstitutional, Ferency said. A government spokesperson warned, meanwhile, that new trouble was one of the reasons Michigan abolished the Ferency said that Proposal D amended the liquor control section of the Michigan brewing in Arab-populated Khuzestan province. death penalty. Constitution, not the criminal portion. The power to control alcohol and enforce laws in Khomeini said the nationwide referendum Friday and Saturday gave "unanimous" The other U.S. cases of murder convic¬ Michigan rests in the hands of the state Liquor Control Commission, not the judicial branch approval to an Islamic republic. But this apparently was not meant literally, since early tion without a body were a 1976 New of government. raw returns over the weekend indicated a small number of Iranians voted against Ferency said because of his experience as a Liquor Control Commissioner 25 years ago, establishing Jersey case and one of the celebrated an Islamic he is familiar with the scope of the commission's power. republic, which has still not been fully defined. Charles Manson murders in California. In a State radio and television said Sunday preliminary results showed 18 million voted Michigan case in 1916, a murder conviction Some hearing Commissioners hold trial-like proceedings in alcohol-related matters. weather "yes." An estimated 18.7 million has been eligible to vote. Scattered early returns from was obtained though the only portions of In such cases, the state attorney general is the prosecutor and the hearing provincial towns showed 99.7 percent of the voters in favor of an Islamic republic. the body recovered were bone fragments commissioners have the power to suspend liquor licenses and levy fines, Ferency said. Steadily rising temperatures The referendum amounted to a vote of confidence in Khomeini's from a furnace. In the past hearing commissioners have heard only license cases and "there is no way should level off in the low 60s leadership, since the proposed constitution, though draft, is still secret. The next step will be election of a If the prosecutor successfully proves his they could handle the traffic of underage drinking cases," Ferency said. today. Expect to get wet. constituent assembly, which will meet within 30 to 50 days to refine and approve the case. Miller will be bound over for trial in Ferency said if he prevails in this case the Legislature will have to rework or scrap the constitution. current 21 year-old drinking law. Ingham County Circuit Court. age 2 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan Monday April 2. 1979 NAIROBI. Kenya (AP) — Tanzanian jets Anti Amin rebels claimed it was "only a matter bombed Uganda's Entebbe airport Sunday, of time" before a final assault is launched against causing severe damage to the main runway the Ugandan capital. Libya has used to ferry troops and arms to Kampala residents reached by telephone said support Ugandan President Idi Amin. diplomats the Libyans, who have borne the brunt of reported. Kampala's defense since the virtual collapse of The attack the first Tanzanian air strike was Ugandan units, began trading artillery fire with Tanzanian jets into Uganda during the five month war, the diplomats in Nairobi said. The raid appeared to the Tanzanians in the early afternoon. Explo¬ sions were heard for more than an hour, they be in retaliation for Thursday's bombing by said. Libya of Mwanza. a Tanzanian port on the Diplomats in Kampala said the Libyans Arab ambassadors protest treaty, leave Egypt CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Arab ambas- carried out before deciding how to react bomb Uganda's southern shore of Lake Victoria. Diplomats said Tanzania's Soviet made MiG-21 jets left bomb craters in the main runway and apparently had pushed the Tanzanians and their Ugandan rebel allies back to a front about 12 miles southwest of Kampala, out of artillery sadors began an exodus from Cairo to them. may have put the airport temporarily out of range of the city. service. The invaders had shelled the capital for three The ambassadors of Kuwait, Bahrain Sunday in protest o* Egypt's treaty with Israel, but the government of President Anwar Sadat said it would not be Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan were planning to leave before Entebbe airport Tanzanian artillery rounds launched earlier in the week had damaged another runway at the days last week, setting off an exodus of thousands of the city's residents, including airport, located 21 miles south of the Ugandan foreigners. Many casualties were reported in the deterred from peace by the Arab uproar. Menachem Begin arrives here Monday on capital of Kampala, the diplomats said. bombardment. Only hours after an Arab summit in the first state visit by an Israeli prime Witnesses reported that the Tanzanian inva Diplomatic sources, who asked not to be minister to an Arab capital. Baghdad, Iraq, announced Saturday that ders had fought artillery duels southwest of identified, said Amin was still reported to be in 18 nations would punish Sadat by cutting The departure of ambassadors does Kampala with Libyan troops defending the Kampala, despite rumors that the Ugandan all diplomatic and economic ties with not mean we are severing relations capital. president had fled northward. Egypt the ambassadors of Saudi Arabia because the Kuwaiti flag will still be and Tunisia left Cairo. flying and the Baghdad declarations give Egyptian officials said they would wait us one month to leave Kuwait Ambas¬ to see to what extent the sanctions are sador Soliman Maged Shahin said NUCLEAR TECHNICIANS CAUGHT OFF GUARD Soviets lead the world in aleoholism MOSCOW (AP) — On Monday morn¬ ing, 30 to 40 percent of the Soviet workforce will be too drunk or too The late Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev called drunkenness one of the harmful remnants of the past and said he was confident that under communism it would Harrisburg mishap unforeseen Bs STAN BENJAMIN technicians off guard. They had Harrisburg, Pa. hydrogen and oxygen gas. or failing to remove it. hung-over to put in a good day's work and KEVIN McKKAN not anticipated such a bubble, The bubble was thought to Denton estimated it might Bob Lengel, licensing engi¬ soon wither away. No special occasion — just an ordinary Associated Press Writers had not designed the reactor to contain hydrogen gas, which take about 12 days for the neer for Metropolitan Edison Monday morning. In an industry devoted w handle it. and had not planned mixture to become inflam Co.. the plant's operating com¬ Whatever the causes, it may be that can burn or even explode in the This estimate by Soviet factory mana¬ how to deal with it. mable. and perhaps twice as pany, said the bubble might fill the Soviet Union leads the world in tluminous presence of sufficient oxygen. gers published in the official press is contingency plans, "It's a new twist... it is not a long to become explosive. roughly the top three feet of alcoholism. The concentration of oxygen one of a series of startling statistics le dangerous bubble lodged m standard assumption." conced Even if an explosive concern the reactor vessel. That would A le roof of the stricken Three was too low to allow an explo¬ tration were reached, it would leave the fuel still safely sub¬ issued recently as part of this country s study by the Harvard University ed Harold Denton. Nuclear sion. But oxygen was trickling take a spark to set it off and merged under more than 20 seemingly endless campaign against Russian Research Center put per-capita Regulatory Commission reactor into the bubble slowly as the there was no ready source of feet of water. alcoholism. consumption at 6.33 quarts of pure operations chief, in discussing normal radioactivity in the core spark inside the core, he said. But if the high pressure in If is our worst problem,' one Soviet alcohol a year compared with 4.75 the accident with reporters at split molecules of water into But because the bubble can the vessel was reduced, the official told a reporter. quarts in France and the United States not be measured directly and bubble would expand — per¬ But both the reasons for mass alco¬ The Soviet rate was estimated to be rising its presence and composition haps enough to expose the tops holism and its cure remain elusive. 5 percent a year of the fuel rods and make them can only be inferred from other Begin visits Egypt to verify peace promise Budget dispute leaves measurements, lem with urgency. the N'RC and company are treating the prob¬ An explosion in the reactor overheat. Another risk was that the bubble might move into the water circulating system, reach vessel could blow the lid off the CAIRO Egypt (AP) — Menachem Begin former terrorist a devious bargainer U.S. unable to pay bills pump, and create an "air-lock" a a arrives today as the first Israeli prime and a tactless orator vessel. The reactor building that could leave the pump minister to visit an Arab capital. But would still be sealed, thus this gasping for water and the vital Postponing the visit would be a should not cause any release of reactor circulation blocked — a Egyptian dislike of Begin and Arab gesture of good will to Egypt said one WASHINGTON UPU While Congress That the government no kind of mechanical heart attack. - means longer has radioactivity to the air. outrage over the peace treaty will keep Egyptian attuned to Sadat s thinking. debates whether to balance the federal budget, authority to borrow. With the federal But if the force of the That, too. could overheat the govern his welcome a mere shadow of the one the Treasury is running out of money. The day of ment in deficit — it has been in the red for 18 of explosion cracked the four foot fuel rods, so the bubble had to President Anwar Sadat got in Jerusalem Begin hopes the visit will persuade the past 20 years — the government lives by Israeli opponents of the treaty that Egypt reckoning is Monday. thick reactor building walls, the go. 16 months ago. Unless Congress resolves the dispute then, the continual borrowing. It has and Israel indeed are at peace after 30 radioactivity could escape. been going, very Begin says he is coming as a friend to Treasury says the U.S. government will be The effects of the congressional delay already N'RC officials have no estimate slowly, as whiffs of gas were open my heart to every man, woman and years of hot and cold war. unable to meet its financial obligations Tuesday. are being felt: as to the probability of this swept away by the water child in Egypt. Egyptian officials and But As one Treasury spokesperson put it, "We'll be the Treasury announced it would halt sale of happening. Egypt has to contend with Arab • circulating past it. out of business." ' U.S. savings bonds Monday: and Moreover, several methods "It's slow but it's safe." said people in the street, however seem little opposition to the treaty dramatized by The budget balancing dispute has delayed • the delay forced the Treasury last week to for removing the bubble con¬ Lengel of the procedure. "We inclined to return the sentiment. Saturday s Arab ministers decision to cut enactment of a bill to raise the national debt postpone five sales of securities totaling more tain risks of their own, and the are able to maintain reactor The average Egyptian primed by the economic and political ties with Egypt ceiling from $798 billion to $830 billion and than $10 billion. Officials estimated that when possibility of a melt-down — coolant temperature and pres¬ anti-Begin line in the press speaks and shows little sensitivity to Begins extend it through Sept. 30. these sales finally are made, they will cost the with a spread of radioactive sure during the process, and harshly of the Israeli leader labeling him domestic difficulties. As a result, the ceiling reverted to its taxpayers $34 million in higher interest rates. materials over a wide area — that's an important considera¬ permanent level of $400 billion at midnight Another $6 billion sale scheduled for Monday was could conceivably be triggered tion for keeping the bubble at Saturday. postponed. either by removing the bubble. its present size." NATURAL SCIENCE PROGRAM* CARIBBEAN Nuke DECEMBER 1979 plant shutdown costs 8600.000 a dav INFORMATION MEETING TONIGHT HARRISBURG Pa. AP - The shut¬ day — about 40 percent Met Ed s total down of the Three Mile Island nuclear MONDAY, APRIL 1 7PM 8 HOLDEN HALL capability — was lost after the shutdown generatingplant will be paid for by some of its two nuclear units at Three Mile 500,000 utility customers -- many of Island Wednesday morning. The com¬ During the 1979 winter break, a Natural Science expedi¬ whom have left their homes because of pany has been forced to buy power from tion in the Caribbean will again be offered. Now is the radiation leaking from the plant's re¬ the PJM Grid which represents power Jq»z Tonight time to plan! Participants enroll for a total of 8 credits, actor. companies in Pennsylvania New Jersey It s costing the ratepayer according and Maryland taking NS 142A (which can be applied toward the general to Metropolitan Edison Co. spokesperson George Troffer, who estimated the cost Also missing from the company coffers Jay Busch Jazz Band education science requirements) and NS 300. Interested are profits from the sale of 1,300 Coming Tues.- students are invited to learn about this program and also at $600,000 a day. The reason is. the megawatts a day that the utility usually about the summer Natural Science Backpacking Expedi¬ company has to purchase power from sold to others alternate sources. The large dollar value is passed on to That s the way this business works Big Twist and the tion in the Canadian Rockies. Slides will be shown of the sites to be visited in both programs, and Professor Larry the consumer under the fuel adjustment clause, Troffer said. The cost of the fuel to produce the Mellow Fellows Besaw will be on hand to answer questions. Troffer said. energy is passed on to the About 1 700 megawatts of electricity a consumer FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT ct-:. OFFICE OF OVERSEAS STUDY 108 INTERNATIONAL CENTER 353-8920 Wage and Price Council fighting for life WASHINGTON (AP) — The Council on to convince colleagues the council is the Wage "and Price Stability, the federal best hope for avoiding those controls. agency created to fight inflation, is A growing majority of American fighting for its life in Congress. Some conservative senators people favor mandatory price controls are trying to abolish the council — with 39 right now Proxmire said lost week The only way we can forestall that is to employees one of the smallest federal agencies — on grounds extending its life begin to turn inflation around. If we fail, will lead to mandatory wage and price we are going to come closer to controls. They claim the council already mandotory wage and price controls every has exceeded its power by trying to day. ' impose some controls. The Senate will vote early in the week But Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis. on a House-passed bill to extend for one who is leading the battle to extend the Q: WHO AND WHAT IS THE HAIR LOFT? year the council's life, now due to end council and enlarge its budget, is trying next Sept. 30. Al The Hair loft Ltd is an organization of young progressive individuals dedicated to the science and art of beauty Since opening |ust over four I nited Airlines announces 13.300 lavoffs years ogo with two stylists we have grown to a Styling staff of nine and two salons. Upon CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines said tion. entering our organization stylists (both barbers and cosmetologists) are Sunday that it was laying off a total of thoroughly trained by The workers to be laid off included our advanced technicians. 13.300 pilots, attendants and other crew By doing this, we 7,800 flight attendants and a total of believe we are capable of giving our clients members because of the strike that has the service and attention they deserve We 5,500 pilots, copilots and navigators, he grounded all its daily flights. said. require that the staff continually upgrade their United, the nation's largest carrier, education by attending advanced classes Meanwhile, negotiators trying to settle said the layoffs would begin at midnight the strike said Sunday they were having Stylists are ovailable at any time for free con- Sunday and would remain in effect for the trouble getting to Washington for talks sulfations or schedule duration of the machinists strike. The on appointment by because the strike is clogging other •oiling332 8660 strike began at midnight Friday. airlines' flights with extra passengers. Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllll It s standard procedure to Send your lay off We won't be able to meet any earlier questions to - unionized workers if a strike shuts us than Monday night, probably not until down," said airline spokesperson Dave w 220 MAC A"*nu€- OFFER EXPIRES APRIL 6, 1979 Ostwald. He said the workers would be Tuesday," said Ostwald. "The problem is getting everyone to Washington — J iIjLXy"JrM> Univrsity Mall, 2800 E. Grand River rehired when the airline resumes E. Lansing, Mi. 48823 opera¬ there's a strike on, you know " llljflllllll 'Or Phona 332-8660 COUPON I Michigon State News. East Lansing, Michigan Monday, April 2, 1979 3 MSU FIRST TO S. AFRICAN DROP STOCK Divestiture movement spreading By JENNIFER DIXON "The president appointed a committee in "Apartheid is reminiscent of Nazi Ger for when the Africans are in power." said State News Staff Writer November to study the issue," Khapoya many and should be on everyone's con¬ Sitholi, an African historian, ethnomusicol- Since MSU divested its stock with said, adding there will be problems because science," said Jim Wilson-Garrison, a Luth¬ ogist and member of the Zulu nation. He companies that do business in South Africa, the trustees have close ties to companies in eran campus minister at WMU. added he was optimistic that within five colleges across the state have begun the Detroit area. Porter told the group he could not decide years there will be dramatic changes in divestiture movements through educational Bill Pruitt, director of African Studies at whether the economic impact of divesting South Africa. programs. Kalamazoo College, said there has been a would result in positive political change, If Americans want to continue series of lectures and films at Kalamazoo receiving Representatives from Western Michigan since the first people to be deprived of jobs South African diamonds and gold, they University, Oakland University, University College, but the Board of Trustees is will be black South Africans. should aid in the liberation of the black of Michigan. Kalamazoo College and MSU "rock hard opposed" to divestiture. Porter said stopping American exports to people there, Sitholi said. met Saturday at the Wesley Foundation at Tom Newhof, a graduate student in social South Africa would have a greater effect "The war will be against anyone who WMU to discuss their strategies for work at WMU and president of Students than boycotting South African exports. stands in our way," said Ramusi, a former divestiture. against Apartheid said the university does "I don't see that stopping South African South African politician. "MSU is the first college in the history of not have a policy yet, but the group has He urged students and professors in the exports will hurt them, but stopping our the country to pass this resolution, MSU been doing "mostly educational things and imports will hurt them," Porter said. "But audience to "ask their trustees to wash Trustee Aubrey Radcliffe, R East Lansing, some demonstrations and marches on white South Africa will deflect its suffering their hands of South African holdings and said. campus." onto the non-white population." be in the clear." On March 31, 1978, the MSU board Richard Porter. U-M professor of econ¬ Cutting off sales of foreign technology "Tell those who have money not to play resolved to begin a program of prudent omics, said the anti-apartheid group at U-M and machinery would stop South Africa's around in our country," said Ramusi, a divestiture of its holdings in firms doing closed down a regent's meeting two weeks economic and industrial growth, he added. member of the Sotno nation. business in the Republic of South Africa. ago. "This was the first time in 10 years a "This is the best bet for changing South Radcliffe said the MSU stock with Since MSU's resolution, many colleges regents' meeting has been closed down" he Africa," Porter said. "However, sanctions companies doing business in South Africa and universities across the country have said. don't go inside the country. They can't force have been losing money. resolved to divest their South African- U-M has adopted the Sullivan Principles, the country to change its internal policies." Beeman said divestiture is the only viable related stocks as well. a policy statement calling for improvements Collins Ramusi and Elkin Sitholi, both way the University can react to South Among the other institutions that have in South African labor practices. black South Africans, said blacks in their African suppression because corporations divested their holdings are Amherst Col "Black South Africa sees these principles country need American help and Americans support the suppression. as a cruel hoax," said Frank Beeman, MSU lege, Antioch University, Hampshire Col¬ need South African goods. Beeman said divesting encourages other lege, the University of Massachusetts, Ohio director of Intramural Sports and Recrea "If you need South Africa now there is universities and institutions to act, serves University, Smith College, Tufts University tive Services and faculty member of the evidence that you will need it in two years. as a message to the federal government and and Columbia University. MSU committee on divestiture. "The plan The very things that keep you there now makes it clear to South Africa that some Vincent Khapoya, assistant professor of doesn't speak to remove or modify the the are same things that you will come back oppose its system. political science at Oakland University, said system." the MSU experience might have had "We think the Sullivan Principals are a something to do with intensifying the issue sham," said A1 Jacobs, acting chairperson of at Oakland. the African Studies program at WMU. Alcohol policy memo to be sent to dorms If you answer, have a problem you can't solve, or a question write Trouble Shooter, 343 Student Services Bldg.. you can t By DENNIS PETROSKEY MSU, East Lansing, 48824, or call 355-8252, between 10:00 a.m. State News Staff Writer and 1 p.m. Ask for Trouble Shooter, the State News service A written clarification of the administrative ruling which guns down problems, sticks up for your rights and shoots implemented in January for answers. prohibiting public alcohol events in residence halls will be distributed to residents later this week. The clarification was sent to residence hall advisory staffs in the form of a memo I am an exchange student from Pakistan with a J-l visa, my wife is accompanving me from Eldon Nonnamaker, vice president for student affairs. Violations of the in the I nited States with a J-2 visa. While I've been going to MSU over the past two administrative ruling by students during winter term necessitated the need for further years my wife has been working. Wages received by a nonresident alien for services clarification, the memo said. performed in the United States are usually subject to Social Security tax, but according The memo states kegs will not be allowed in University residence halls for any to federal law this tax should not be withheld if the nonresident alien was admitted to purpose and all other common sources of alcohol containers such as trash cans are the U.S. under an "F" or "J"-type visa. During 1977 and 1978, more than $900 was expected to be eliminated. withheld from my wife's wages. We were told by the Internal Revenue Service that we A reminder to residence hall students that private parties in student rooms involving should contact the places where my wife worked to ask that the money be returned, alcohol should be limited to no more than 10 individuals was also included in the memo. but we did and were told the withheld tax was turned over to the government and we'd The clarification also stated student group events involving alcohol may be have to get it back from the feds. Last October, we filed claims with the government, registered in designated areas of residence halls as long as sponsors can ensure all but so far haven't gotten any response. Now we're leaving the country to return to attending the event will be at least 21 years old. Pakistan and are afraid well be kissing the money goodbv. Can vou help? The clarification was issued due to several occasions in which students have N. A. sponsored large group alcohol events in residence hall rooms where underaged Arts and Letters residents were allowed to consume alcohol. Calls from Trouble Shooter to U.S. Rep. Bob Carr's iD-Mich.l office, made expedition During many of these parties, damage, noise and overcrowded corridors have of your problem a congressional request. You told Trouble Shooter situation was created fire hazards, the memo explains. urgent because money was needed for plane fare home and other moving costs. You "It is my opinion that this kind of event is in direct opposition to the original intent of also had problem with immigration office in Detroit, which was holding much-needed the administrative ruling," Nonnamaker said in the clarification. visas sent to be stamped with proof of visa-extention dates. IRS claimed problem He also said in the memo the administrative alcohol ruling has worked out for the stemmed from your failure to sign claim forms filed in October, and said reprocessing of most part and students have cooperated with the staff in its enforcement. forms would take six weeks. But you were leaving U.S. in three weeks' time, so "It was my intention to develop a policy that was reasonable for students and in congressional request allowed IRS to skip channels and walk forms through. Norma compliance with state law," Nonnamaker said in the memo. "However, because of the Threadgill, of Carr's Lansing office, also worked with immigration office in Detroit to violations of the administrative ruling, it is apparent that this ruling needs some get visas returned in time for trip home. It may not have been smoothest exit from the Move to block arena further clarification." The ruling earlier this year allowed persons over 21 years old to consume alcoholic U.S.A., but thanks to much-needed assistance from Carr's office problems were sorted out in time. J""*** beverages inside their rooms. Students were also informed at that time the privacy of their room would also be maintained by advisory staff. Approximately two years ago. I bought a Bowmar calculator from Robert Hall in Lansing delineated The memo also reminds student violations of the ruling "may be adjudicated through the judicial process as outlined in the Academic Freedom Report." Since failure to comply with the ruling would conflict with the terms of the housing Village in Lansing. It went dead on me recently and I think I need a new "something" to fix it. Both Bowmar and Robert Hall V illage have gone out of business since I bought the calculator. Where can I go for service? contract for residence hall students, violations could result in the termination of the J.Y. By M1CHELE McELMl RRY Business contract, the memo stated. State News Staff Writer The calculator can be fixed, but don't expect to walk to the repair shop. Bowmar Zolton Ferency, associate professor of criminal justice, has drafted a resolution opposing the proposed construction of a $25 million sports arena in downtown Lansing. went bankrupt shortly after you bought the calculator and most local dealers can no The resolution states that "the removal from the campus of athletic facilities and events longer service them. John Swain of Rockville Electronics, 11212 Grandview Ave., would diminish or destroy the University environment." Although University officials have not yet made a decision concerning the proposed DPS reports break-ins W'heaton, Md. 20902, did agree to look at it, but if the part needed to fix your machine was unique to Bowmar products, such as a chip or adaptor, you're out of luck. Locally, arena, Ferency will urge Academic Council to oppose the construction of the downtown Lighthart L.E. and Co. in Lansing said they would take a look at the calculator. If they More than $1,000 in equipment was taken from MSU buildings over spring break, the cannot fix it, however, they will also have to send it out for repair. Bowmar came out project. Department of Public Safety reported. with the calculator model that you bought in an effort to stay out of bankruptcy. Swain With the construction of the downtown arena, a proposal has been made that certain There are no suspects following the discovery that $712 in welding equipment was said. It was the company's dying gasp, however, and they folded for good shortly intercollegiate athletic events which MSU teams participate in.^such as basketball, be taken from the Argicultural Engineering Building. Police are investigating the theft afterwards. staged in the Lansing arena. which they believe took place sometime during activities for "Farmers Week," March 19 ED In his resolution, Ferency states "the participation of MSU in suchextra-campusathletic to 24. Last October I sent away for two dresses from a mail order company, Fashion by facilities and programs would tend to subvert the long standing principles which undergird A $350 floor buffing machine was reported missing from the Chemistry Building, police Avon. The $30 check was cashed but I haven't seen the dresses or any explanation why intercollegiate athletics." said. A complete search of the building failed to turn up the machinery. The Academic Council Steering Committee has sent the resolution to the University they weren't delivered. Since placing the order I moved, leaving a forwarding address with the post office and my old residence, but no luck. I nfortunately I've lost Avon's Committee on Academic Environment and the Athletic Council. When the two committees have collected enough information on the proposal, the address. Can Trouble Shooter find mv dresses? B.H. resolution will be sent to Academic Council, Ferency said. Justin Morrill Academic Council will probably discuss the resolution by the end of the month, he added. After the proposal is discussed by Academic Council it will be presented to the MSU 1979 license plates due Dresses or a refund will be on the way as soon as you send a copy of the canceled check to Family Fashions by Avon. Don McMann, customer service spokesperson for Board of Trustees. Motorists who do not have their 1979 license plates on by midnight tonight face the Avon Cosmetic subsidiary, told Trouble Shooter your order wasn't located in a Ferency prepared the resolution after contacting a number of faculty members, who costly fines. computer check, but was willing to send out the dresses or a refund when copy of agreed the issue should be discussed. canceled check shows up at Family Fashions by Avon, Avon Lane, Newport News. Va. To gauge student opinion concerning the arena, ASMSU is considering a survey for late Area police say they will begin ticketing delinquent drivers still sporting the old plates 23660. They regret the inconvenience and told Trouble Shooter they hope you're next week which will represent the opinions of some 2,000 MSU students. starting at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. License plates can be purchased at any of the Michigan satisfied with the outcome. 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A National Orgonixation dedicated to the where the alternatives are twice as 300 Jackson Street extension of lifex to others. nice. 351-S330 Columbus. Ohio 43206 NAME Co-optical (Across from Coral Gables - next to Cut Label) ADDRESS Brookfield Plaza . CITY STATE ZIP Hours: Behind East Lansing State Bank Mon. & Thurs. 11 am-8:30 pm 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. Tues. & Wed. Another product from the makers of the WOODY T SHIRT Tues., Weds.. Fri. 9-5 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Fri. & Sat. ©ptafefi) LASH LARROWE The time for a nationwide nuclear moratorium is now Let's hear it for our The accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsyl¬ vania points out what nuclear 13th university prexy opponents have said for years: I'm parked at the Collingwood entrance remember him as all that great, myself. You nuclear power is dangerous. last week, peddling "WE'RE No. 1!" T-shirts got a frinstance?" We have no doubts that the out of the trunk of my Caddy, this prof stops "For starters," he begins, "I've heard you technology to create safe nuclear hy. passed yourself off as a pacifist when you "I've heard you bitching about your salary were draft power will someday evolve. Smal¬ age, Lash. You must have for years, Larrowe," he says, "but I didn't ler-scale nuclear facilities to power applauded Adams when he led that "Get the realize you think you're so low paid you have U.S. Out of Vietnam" march from the submarines have proved safe, but to moonlight on your off hours to make ends campus down to the Capitol when he was right now business has pushed meet." " prexy." nuclear power on a large scale 'Off hours', hell," I says. "I canceled my "On the contrary," I snarls. "I said at the classes altogether for the rest of the week. If time that if he'd known what Nixon and ahead of the safety factors that I don't unload this merchandise in the next deserve attention. Kissinger knew about what was going on in couple days there won't be any market for Vietnam, he'd have stayed on campus and Officials at the Three Mile Island it." hung Old Glory out his window, the way I facility claimed years ago that an "I remember when your pal President did." accident there Harden took over a year ago," he says, "you was "impossible" or "Surely you cheered when Adams nego¬ "highly unlikely." Now those same predicted in your column we'd be seeing our tiated a peaceful solution when the blacks athletes racking up victories." staged that three-day civil rights sit-in in words are being used by utility "Right," I says. "I've sure had to wait long Wilson cafeteria?" he asks. "Lots of people, officials across the country to say enough to pick up a little bread on the side you remember, wanted him to call the cops, "it couldn't happen here." like this, what with those clowns who bust a few heads." But it could happen here. The preceded Big Ed in Cowles House." "Negative," I snorts. "I'm for civil rights, firm that designed the reactor in "If you're referring to Wharton," he says, same as everybody. I just think they're Walter Adams "I couldn't agree with you more. Cliff just moving too fast, that's all." Pennsylvania is designing two wasn't into sports, was he? But whom else "How about the time the radicals weren't for the rights of non-tenured faculty when he reactors for Consumers Power in are thinking of?" going to let those cops from the West Coast was president." Michigan. Officials say there's no "I never can remember his name," I says. come on campus to hire CJ grads, and "You expect me to call that a plus?" I safety problem with the new "He was prexy for a year there before Adams personally escorted students sneers. "Ever since they stuck me with the reactors. That's what they said Wharton. You always see him at the games, through the mob so they could be inter¬ FGO job, it's been 10 hours makin' a godawful racket up in the stands. a day meeting viewed for jobs?" he asks. "As a civil with overpaid, pea brained administrators about the Pennsylvania reactor. He'll be wearing a green and-white outfit, libertarian, you must've been impressed all around the University. You divide The whole nuciear controversy five-cent stogie stickin' out of his kisser..." my with the way he handled that one." salary by the hours I put in, you'll find I'm to come will be marred by a "How fleeting is fame." he says with a "I may be old-fashioned," I says, "but I say makin' less than the minimum wage." credibility problem. Government costs of enforcing curfews imposed proaching. In addition, the cost of sigh. "You're talking about Walter P. the T" should be a place where you come for "I saved the best for the last," he says. and utility officials simply can't be in Adams, of course, one of the best presidents a liberal education, not a vocational school "You remember Adams set aside a fund so surrounding communities, the closing nuclear plants may be trusted to divulge the truth. costs of repairing the facility, the Michigan State's had in its entire history. that prepares you for a specialized job when profs who were doing an outstanding job of heavily borne by consumers who "By the way," he adds, "did you know- you get out." Conflicting reports left Harrisburg costs of providing electrical ser¬ must pay for both the closing and teaching undergraduate courses could get April 1 is the 10th anniversary of the day he "Here's one I know you'll agree with," he $1,000 added to their salaries. You're always by the hour, and there is still vice to customers while the Three the alternate fuel, which will most was appointed, back in '69? What would you says, looking frustrated. "You're the 'U's saying teaching's important. Lash. That was strong disagreement about the Mile Island plant is shut down, and likely be more expensive than think of starting a petition drive. Lash, to faculty grievance officer, right, Lash? I'm something only a great president would do, make it a University holiday so folks could present problems and the actions the panic and fear created by both nuclear-supplied energy. sure you of all people realize you wouldn't won't you agree?" commemorate Adam's presidency?" have a cushy job running the grievance "I might," I says necessary to correct them. the accident and the conflicting But what is the alternative? The "I'd like the day off," I laughs, "but I don't bitterly, "if any of that office if it hadn't been for Adams's support had When the accident first hap¬ details from official sources. green come my way." dangers of nuclear power are pened, officials said everything When an utility management becoming more unpredictable. was under control. Then they calculates its budget, these costs The safety handbooks don't tell admitted they were wrong and had aren't included. But they are costs how to handle the Three Mile to release radioactive steam into that pop up. no matter how Island's hydrogen bubble because the air. They later admitted the statistically insignificant their they never expected the need to steam wasn't released intentional¬ probability seems. Corporate offi¬ flood the reactor with water, ly. When a hydrogen bubble cials say these are risks the which then broke down into its because Holden's Black Consciousness has appeared, officials said it could be American public has decided to component gases, oxygen and Holden Hall dignity. Also Black Consciousness makes Socialist labor eliminated without trouble. Now take, but is that true? They are hydrogen.Everyone expected the this request because it is in genera! they believe they may have to also risks utilities have decided to emergency cooling supplies to is discriminating council's destiny to be a nondiscriminatory has better idea evacuate as many as a million take because they know all costs keep the reactor core cool. They organization with non- discriminatory be¬ There are three things that compel liefs, ideas, and procedures. people before taking action. It's incurred can be passed on to the never expected this emergency to people to continue working and fighting for Patra Brown confusing, but the official informa¬ ratepayers. happen or to escalate, and they are something. These three things are duty, Member of Holden's Black Consciousness The root of the energy crisis is, in a word, tion available now is misleading at If the Three Mile Island plant is afraid to admit or unable to dignity and destiny. Sometimes people do "profit."Though enormous oil reserves have something because it is their duty, because been identified in the U.S. and elsewhere, best. abandoned later because it proves accurately predict what will hap¬ the energy companies do not foresee a high Corporate officials have a big to be too much a risk, who will pay pen next at Harrisburg or any of their dignity or because it is their Three jeers for enough rate of profit to commit their capital destiny. Whatever your duty is you should investment to protect. They simp¬ it off? Not the officials at Metro¬ other nuclear to the expansion of new reserves. Accord facility. do it with dignity because it is your destiny a crass legislator ly can't afford to abandon nuclear politan Edison, whose incompe¬ The time for a moratorium on as a part of mankind to help others. ingly, regardless of the consequences — power at this time. They would be tence allowed such a risk to be nuclear Recently the General Council of Holden A1 McGuire commented upon the inept which involve not only hardships for energy has come. Reps. H. workers but also severe problems for the left eating billions of dollars worth borne Hall rescinded $100 out of Black Conscious- refereeing perpetrated at the NCAA finals by the consumers. And the Lynn Jondahl and Mark Clodfelter •' already cut budget. The complaint is by saying that the refs were incompetent, capitalist economy as a whole — the energy of radioactive equipment. government, which years ago and Sen. Dough Ross are drafting not that general council took the money but at least they were "consistently capitalists have not seen fit to search out or And right now, the rest of the passed a law limiting the liability legislation imposing a five-year from Black Consciousness' budget, but that incompetent." develop new supplies. country can't afford to keep of an utility from a nuclear disaster moratorium on construction of they only took money from Black Conscious¬ This euphemistic phrase for a job not well Under a genuine socialist economy as nuclear power with its inherent to $560 million, ness' budget, not from any other organiza¬ done should be relegated to Rep. Martin advocated by the Socialist Labor Party, probably won't nuclear facilities in Michigan. In tion. When Buth for his crass comments at the welcome risks. Nuclear power is an efficient stand up to corporate interests to addition, the law would set general council was confronted workers would themselves be free to safety nth the question "Why only Black Con- home ceremonies for the MSU Spartans determine the form of energy best suited to fuel, but the fuel costs are not the end nuclear insanity land kiss its standards for plants after those televised by WKAR-TV March 27, 1979. ciousness?" the answer was unjustifiable. meet society's needs in the years ahead and only costs involved. The added campaign bucks goodbye) unless it five years and require a two-thirds The members of Holden Black Conscious¬ The viewing audience was all too pain to implement policies that best serve their costs of nuclear waste removal knows the people are willing to vote of the Legislature to approve — ness request that the general council return fully aware of the effect Buth's unfeeling interests. The central question facing material which remains radio¬ re-elect the brave and vote out the construction of new nuclear power the $100 to Holden's Black Consciousness' statements had on Earvin Johnson, Grego¬ society regarding energy needs would be active for thousands of years — bribed. budget or distribute the extraction of the ry Kelser, the whole Spartan team, em- reduced to how society's technological plants. $100 among all of the organizations. barrased political dignitaries, fans in the capabilities should be marshalled to satisfy has been the prime argument Ralph Nader said in January A joint committee to study There is an African proverb that says: fieldhouse and those who could not attend the needs and wants of society as a whole. It against nuclear power. Accidents, that the next big movement in nuclear problems would also be "All fingers on a hand work together, but the festivities in person. The gasps of would not be a question of raising profits for which admittedly are improbable, America will be one against established and that committee disbelief will reverberate indefinitely. they do not have the same strength, for a capitalist minority by contriving a new were only a secondary argument nuclear power. The time to start some fingers need to do more than the Hopefully, Buth for his legisla¬ "crisis" at every opportunity. would be able to consider phasing prepares for most opponents. But accidents others." tive duties with more circumspection. Archie Sim has never been better. For the out facilities if it is necessary. are possible and their costs must Holden's Black Consciousness is not Joyce Soule Warren MI first time ever the possible con¬ We think the plan is reasonable. be considered. asking for more, they are asking for an sequences of technology too ra¬ It will allow us time to sort out the equal portion. So far, the outside "social costs" pidly applied has come to light. facts surrounding nuclear power Black Consciousness makes this request of the accident at Harrisburg Solutions are hard to come by at because it is the general councils's duty and and put them in their proper The include displacement of children this time. Nuclear power accounts perspective. When human lives State News and pregnant women, precaution¬ for about 15 percent of America's hinge on the public's decisions, as LETTER POLICY ary measures taken at and near energy supply. Terminating these they do now, it is necessary to the site, the costly attention of Monday, April 2, 1979 sources will cause problems with have a cooling-off period to think The Opinion Page welcomes all letters Editorials are the opinions of the State News Viewpoints, columns federal government officials, the the peak summer months and viewpoints. Readers should follow a ap¬ rationally. few rules to insure that as many letters and letters are personal opinions. The public can let the govern¬ as possible appear in print. Editorial Department ment know what they think of Letters should be 25 lines or less and Editor-in-chief James t Smith photo Editor K othy Kilbury Managing Editc Anne Stuart Entertainment & Book Editor Dove DiMartino may be edited for State Mews style and being corporate pawns in the conciseness to fit as Opinion Editor Kim C Shanahan Sports Editor Joseph F Centers many letters as energy game by helping in the possible on a page. Viewpoints may be no City Editor NumioM Lupo layout Editor Jonei Halfmann numerous marches and rallies that longer than 75 lines and may also be Campus Editor Michelle Chambers Freelance Editor Beth Tuschak Wire Editor Paulo Mohr Chief Copy Editor Kenneth E Parker edited. are sure to spring up. One of these All letters and viewpoints should be Staff will be held April 21 in Midland, Representative Kim Gazello typed on 65-spaced lines and triple- construction site of Consumers spaced. Letters and viewpoints must be signed and include local address, stu¬ Advertising Department Power's nuclear facility. PIRGIM dent. faculty or staff standing and phone Advertising Manager Bob Shaffer Assistant Advertising Manager is organizing efforts for car rides to number. Midland for the march. Similar efforts should be ini¬ tiated on a nationwide basis, DOONESBURY by Garry Trudeau where Congress must be forced to act. The political pressure must its 'profiles on parade-," i ali, as a graduate as a lay member of and today we have wtth student, toutaught come from the "grassroots" level. the islamic tribunal, . us returning alumnus pr a seminar on rev- ^ i personally hap a haw weu, you al- ways were ^fair! 1 only And special attention must be I, pl l mahday/. 7? currently oluttonary theory but ever since, its n the sentencing and a tough flunked given; the Nuclear Regulatory op leave from the iranian been deeds, not worts, ! , executing of 60 enemies grader revolutionary tribunal / Commission cannot be allowed the RJSKTr / of the revolution!' y agents. final say because the NRC is as much a problem as the utilities. The accident at Three Mile Island has been called the worst nuclear accident in history. An ounce of prevention now may thwart more serious disasters in the future. Michigan State News, Eost Lansing, Michigan Monday, April 2, 1979 5 US'SPECTIOiS REQIIREMEM FOR PERMIT Property license rules code standards. may alter By SUSAN TOMPOR The subcommittee recom the job. State News Staff Writer The initial recommendation mended less frequent inspec The commission also gave its East Lansing landlords will of the Licensing and Code tions, but the city staff recom tentative approval to the initia¬ face an inspection of their Enforcement subcommittee to mended a continuation of the tion of reinspection fees. property before being licensed the commission stipulated that annual checkups. Landlords would be required under a recommendation to be the sign be placed on the The subcommittee report outside of the building. to pay for the cost of a second made by the Housing and said a reduced number of inspection if housing code viola¬ Community Development Com- Commission members agreed inspections would allow more tions were not corrected by the that an outside location might thorough inspections and would second inspection. The commission, which met distinguish renters from non enable inspectors to respond to The subcommittee's recom¬ in a special meeting Thursday renters and might encourage complaints more quickly. mendation for steeply gradua¬ to discuss a series of subcom burglaries during university The city staff recommenda¬ ted mittee recommendations, gave vacations. reinspection fees would tion said that less frequent violate municipal code stan¬ its tentative approval to the After a lengthy debate con inspections would provide a dards that states and cities revised licensing procedure and cerning a subcommittee recom minimum level of service under cannot will finalize all policies at its mendation for inspections to be profit on service state legislation. charges, Pryce said. next regular meeting April 19. reduced from once a year to Pryce said that inspectors An inspection would cost the Under the new licensing pro¬ once every two years, the can conduct thorough inspec¬ city the same to conduct the cedure, landlords will be noti¬ commission gave its tentative tions under the annual system third or fourth time as it would fied 60 to 90 days before their approval to annual inspections. because they are familiar with the first, he said. license's expire and will be asked to schedule an appoint ment for an inspection of their property. In the past, landlords re¬ ceived a license without a mm Ob? previous inspection, said Brad Pryce, group manager for the 332-5025 Planning Housing and Com¬ munity Development Depart ment. After inspection, Pryce said, EXCELLENT SERVICE FOR landlords will be given either 30 or 60 days to correct violations. YOUR V.W.-PORCHE-AUDI CAR Spring ... a time for walking arm in arm on long and winding paths. The time period for corrections will depend upon the serious¬ ness of the violations, he said. MEDIA BLAMED FOR DECAY OF FAMILY Landlords who fail to sched ule an inspection with the city, 20% OFF Recognition of child rights urged Pryce said, will be sent an appearance ticket and will be subject to court action. 0SH2HAN ^AITOHCTIVE, MOST OVER THE By THERESA McCLELLAN He explained the Three them," Tice said. increase of young girls becom¬ on Landlords will also be quired to display the inside of the dwelling re¬ a certificate Aainc. COUNTER PARTS State News Staff Writer O'Clock Lobby was proof that "I am convinced," she said, ing pregnant. The importance of a child's stating that the property is "young people can be aware of "that if any progress is to be "It looks like we are going licensed according to housing right to love and to obtain free legislation and are capable of made it will come from a look at back to the tribal system of 235 S. Homer, South off Frandor education and good nutrition running an organization." how solutions can be made." children caring for children," were stressed at the Interna¬ The advocacy organization Tice blamed the media for she said, "except we don't have tional Year of the Child this attempts to disseminate infor¬ changing the nature of the weekend. The conference, held Friday mation on the rights of youths and is currently working on family and where its interests lie. the tribal Tice also supports." explained that par¬ Lansing and Saturday in the Kellogg birth control education, Mag¬ "It is no secret that the ticipants of the conference Center, offered speakers from child-related organizations. nus said. Although his presentation family is changing and is influ¬ enced because the media exem should be concerned about the negligent health care and de¬ to resolve Although all of the speakers emphasized the lack of young plifies the ideal family as 'The mand accountable education. were stressing the importance people's participation, the other Waltons' and 'Little House on of children's rights, Chris Mag¬ nus, public relations director of speakers in the conference con¬ tinuously emphasized the the Prairie' and families are not like that," she said. "We still have 10 million children, or 40 percent, who are land deal 4* Free pregnancy test *on a walk-in basis, confidentialM not immunized against diseases individual care from trained specialists: the Three O'Clock Lobby, a rights of children. Tice also voiced concern over that we know how to prevent," Lansing City Council will •papsmear, breast exam, b.c. pills young people advocacy group, Carol H. Tice, commissioner the content of television and its decide whether to purchase she said. "And the schools are •diaphram fitting, pap, breast pointed out that young people of the International Year of the influence, citing examples of various parcels of land that had not been included in the placing relevance on programs •1LD, pap, breast Child, explained the purpose of violence by children after cer¬ that can be have been offered for sale by conference. the conference was to bring quantified and •pelvic exam—any reason tain programs had been aired. measured. the state of Michigan when it "We need to involve young more awareness to how chil¬ She explained that children meets at 7 tonight on the 10th •pregnancy termination by vacuum aspiration people in this conference and other decision making proces¬ dren are treated in the world. are spending more time in front "This is fine." she said, "but floor of City Hall. •advanced termination thru 20 ueeks will be discussed ] "The Year of the Child urges of television and correlated the let us also look for the meaning¬ The council will also consider at our centers. ses that affect them," Magnus us to look inward at our families ful as well as the measurable, messages children are receiv¬ a resolution honoring the MSI" •counseling no charge said. and children and how we treat ing from this medium with the such as truth and beauty." 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(Now if only some local bar would play wait, that 's the alarm clock - and a mouth that this stuff on the jukebox...) tastes like a doormat on a dairy farm. He tries to Trainable were up first, and in retrospect their sit up, but finds that this is a slow and painful set was the most memorable. Part of this was process. Did someone turn up the gravity as an because they steered clear of "hit" punk rock 4Hair9 on film: April Fool's joke? The alarm is still buzzing away, but a hurled sneaker soon fixes that. Pulling some shorts on, he drags himself to the kitchen and tunes and played re worked oldies and their own imaginative originals. Tunes like "Nuke the Whales (Send Em to Pennsylvania!)" and "I'm a 'Little Nerd 0" were genuinely funny, and they gobbles down a handful of vitamins and aspirin with a mug of orange juice. Then it's back to bed, are closer to the punk spirit than, for example, it still works where he tries to remember what happened the night before while waiting for the throbbing in his head to go away. Then it all comes back to him. re-hashings of Stranglers tunes. Tradable's set was also the most memorable because the beer hadn't taken its toll of brain cells yet. By the time Destroy All Monsters made Bv BILL HOLDSHIP it feels as though you've just The new wave ain't so new anymore, but in the their appearance, my head felt like a marsh- State News Reviewer watched an excellent documen¬ Lansing Ballroom of the Olds Plaza Hotel mallow. There just aren't enough tary when the film concludes Saturday it was like 1977 all over again. That is, The Anglers and Cult Heroes got the audience with a black and-white freeze happened to spend that and dancing, relying heavily on the aforemen¬ superlatives in the English it was like 1977 if you up frame. tioned punk standards. Finally, Destroy All language to describe what a year in New York or London, hanging out at terrific film Hair is. Milos Forman symbolized many CBGB's or the Roxy. Monsters were up, playing a set that didn't seem Forman's perfect screen treat facets in single musical num¬ The occasion was a new wave concert, party, appreciably different from the one they did at ment of the phenomenally pop¬ bers, and several of these are featuring Destroy All Monsters from Ann Arbor, Dooley's with the Ramones. It wasn't appreci¬ ular stage musical is virtually literal show-stoppers. The aud Cult Heroes, The Anglers, and Lansing's own ably better, either, but by then it didn't matter. flawless. It succeeds on every ience applauded throughout the Trainable. About 200 to 300 local punks, The highlights - if they can be called that — single level as pure entertain¬ film at both screenings I would-be punks and curious spectators showed were DAM's renditions of "Bored" and "You're ment, as outrageous comedy, as viewed, and when was the last up for the event, which cost $5 in advance or $6 Gonna Die," which were on their single, and of emotionally compelling drama, time you saw that at a movie? at the door. Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for as cultural history, as a social Treat Williams' exhuberant "I In addition to the music of four bands, the Walkin'." Everything else meshed into a wall of "message" film, and ultimately Got Life," sung at a debutante admission price also entitled one to unlimited noise that prominently featured ex-Stooge Ron as perhaps the greatest movie ball, perfectly conveys the gen amounts of free beer, which went a long way Asheton's guitar whines and Niagara's inimitable musical Hollywood has every eration gap. The famous "Black toward ensuring a successful evening. After all, vocal shriek. produced. Boys White Boys" number, if the music is loud and the beer is free, who cares But who cares? The fact remains that all four With the exception of Gait now sung by a gay draft board, what the bands sound like? To put it another bands were fun to listen to, and that everybody MacDermot's excellent rock hilariously satirizes sexual and way, if you were able to drink $5 worth of got what they came for — music and beer. score, no two stage productions racial stereotypes. "Good Morn¬ alcohol, in effect you got to see the four bands for Besides, the show was more than a concert — it of Hair were ever the same. ing Starshine" celebrates the nothing. was advertised as a party, and on this level it was Writers Gerome Ragni and freedom and glory of rock 'n roll With this in mind, the lines began forming at a great success. Costume parties are always a James Rado once described with its nonsense lyrics. The the bar long before the show started. Taped good time, and enough people showed up in their script as a musical "non- title song, formerly an onstage Hippie (Treat Williams! dances on dinner table, astounds many. music by the Sex Pistols, the Jam and other off-the-wall outfits to make this one qualify. book," and the play revolution celebration, is now sung in ized stage techniques in the '60s prison — a jailhouse rock Annie Golden in the New Wave capable of becoming a Charlie with its free-form outrageous- commentary on bitter things to band. The Shirts.) Hair will Manson in Hair. Forman por come. The film's final moments spontaneity, and improvi¬ trays a group of'60s archetypes THE DIFFERENT ness, assuredly make major stars of sation. Hair was an unstruc¬ achieve the same effect, provi¬ of its without stereotyping whatso¬ most performers, espe¬ tured hodge-podge celebration ding newer meaning to "The cially Treat Williams whose ever Hair is one of the greatest of the '60s counterculture, and Flesh Failures (Let The Sun first name describes his per¬ films of all time, celebrating a it relied primarily on its cast to shine In)" by coupling it with formance in detail. lost innocence that maybe bring it to life. Unfortunately, breathtaking cinematography. never really was, but very when we began to pay for the Enough praise can't be made Although you won't find a easilv should and could have CO LLEG ER INGS "sins" of '60s idealism in this of Twyla Tharp's superb chor flower child even remotely ungodly decade. Hair was one eographv, which — although of the many casualties. A stylized — fully captures the recent New York revival dance rhythms of the '60s when flopped piece. as an outdated time dance was self-expression. still a form of free Unlike most o° ^, Using their own brilliant hindsight. Forman and screen writer Michael Weller have movie musicals, Hair viewer'to totally suspend disbe¬ lief. as the music and dance are allows the COfTlPUTER low you have a choice transformed Hair into much an integral part of the celebra¬ more than a simple work of tion of life, love and joy which LABORATORY nostalgia. In fact. Hair bears a the film expounds. It is directed striking resemblance to For and edited like a rock n roll man's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest in that it is a song or the decade itself, rapid¬ ly, never losing momentum. As o C- 0°nC - vien's diatribe on personal freedom. such, it is the type of film one Forman. a victim of repression can and wants to see again and 0°0C .°°(-> ° o Classic :ontemporary during his formative years in again. Czechoslovakia, seems to thrive With the exception of John on this theme: free thought vs. Savage of The Deer Hunter la ings the System. This was the basic message of the '60s. It is also the message of Hair. Weller has provided a new film Hair coincides with1. Hair s cast is comprised of unknowns, i Forman virtual found SHORT COURSES The Computer Laboratory will offer a series of o lj| structure to Hair, and only the non-credit short courses in computing during 1 W- Blazon music and characters' names remain intact from the original show. Hair is now the story of Monday Spring Term Registration must 6, 197° in the User Information Center. 313 Com¬ puter Center. A 52 tee covering materials is be made by April Claude Bukowski tJohn Sav¬ age), an Oklahoma hayseed Spaghetti charged for each short course. Computer time is not included in the basic fee, but is available for an Vietnam draftee, who two days in New York prior to spends Special additional cost at the student s option. Asterisks i * next to course numbers indicate courses that Sculpture ■ his Army induction. In Central Park, the innocent rube meets a $225 have prerequisites: for more information, call "tribe" of hippies led by George 353-1800 Berger .Treat Williams), who Spaghetti Tree Introduction dynamically seems to be Abbie 220 S. Howard to Computing (100) Hoffman, John Lennon, and Peter Pan all rolled into one. Also in the park, Claude en¬ Sheila now open counters (Beverly Introduction to the MSU 6500 (101 *) — Reflections Jasmine D'Angelo). a high society debu¬ in East Lansing. tante, with whom he falls madly in love. The plot evolves as Free Pregnancy Tesrmg Basic SPSS (155*) Claude's hippie friends conspire to bring him together with his Pregnancy Terminations new lady love. Claude's initiation into the Free V D Tesrmg ■T G Treatment Introduction to Interactive Usage (175*) counterculture serves as a Circlet Introduction 10 the use ot the interactive computing facility at MSI' social history of the '60s. It's all Gynecological Services Sec I May 1 3 8 10 3-5 p.m. here — the be-ins, the LSD trip, Family Planning ^itf Jt:i the new morality, dope- smoking, the anti-war move¬ BASIC 1220') ment, and finally the atrocities of the war itself which Forman uuomancjere Instruction in the BASIC programming language May « 10 7-0 p m conveys not through Vietnam of LansinG Systematic Programming in PASCAL(240*) Discussion of PASCAL a structured programming language Mav 1 3 Sonnet footage but through Claude's 'Unique Main Oinic Eos Laruing Office horrifying experiences in boot 3401 E Saginaw 20 m E Grand fcv« camp. Forman is so precise that Lansing East Lansing Introductory Graphics!2o0* i frank shorter sports. 337-7350 332-1066 FREE SEfTllNARS jfk #f|' A series of free seminars will be offered this Treasure Sunflower Women's -NOW AVAILABLE— At Shorter Sports. Applications for the Spring. No registration is for more information. necessary. Call 353-1800 fashion SPARTAN SPECIAL 10 ICILOMETER ROAD RACE. GRADER II collection co-sponsored by MSU Women's Ath¬ combining scores and assigning grades Aprils 3-5pm 204 SKH Intrigue Intaglio letic Dept., Pro Keds. and Shorter Digitizer Sports paper to Cartesian coordinates April 10 3-5 p m ZOZOH^ See the ArtCarved $ftO-Ke