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1 . \ _~ PAGE 2 The Tech WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1988 -=II City accepts Simplex plan despite Cambridgeport opposition (Continuedfrom page I) ment period. The amendment ing units was not merely a-prom- MIT. Major Brooks said that dis- feet for residential development. was defeated, 5-4. Compromise ise but a legal commitment. She carding the proposal after so The original proposal had a ceil- David Sullivan proposed a David Sullivan urged the stressed that the various parties much research and negotiation ing of 2 million square feet for more specific allocation of the Council to ask for a "re-filing" of involved will never agree on a would be ludicrous. In the past, non-residential buildings, but the housing units that would have the petition in order to give the perfect plan, and she called the whenever the parties came close council unanimously approved a guaranteed housing for a certain City Council more time to work petition "the best plan we've to an agreement, "someone al- 100,000 square feet reduction. number of families in the poorest out a more favorable plan for produced." ways asked for more and more." 0 A limit on two-way traffic to category eligible for low-income neighborhood residents. "This Under the previous zoning "Let's start building now," he 1700 vehicles per day upon public housing. Without this stip- project is just too big for my classification, the Simplex site is urged. designated "Industry B" and can- completion of the project. ulation, MIT might ignore fam- neighborhood. I think the City 20-year saga In support of the ordinance ilies in the poorest financial Council can do a little better than not be used for residential build- were: Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci situation, he argued. where we are now." ings. Walsh compared the peti- The Simplex property was ac- and'Councillors Thomas W. Graham countered that MIT Wolf specifically criticized the tion to an alternative of having a quired by MIT in 1969 and is one Danehy, Francis H. Duehay, should provide housing for any overwhelming amount of traffic Simplex development with no of the last large sections of Saundra Graham, Sheila T. Rus- families classified as lowincome that would accompany the devel- housing units at all. If MIT de- undeveloped land in the city. sell, Walter J. Sullivan, and Wil- and should not be forced to pro- opment. "The traffic is going to sires, it could withdraw its re- Ronald P. Suduiko, special as- liam H. Walsh. Voting against the vide designated housing to the be very hard on Cambridgeport," zoning petition and refuse to sistant to the MIT president, petition were Councillors Alice neediest in the low income cate- she warned. build any housing at all. called the vote "a culmination of K. Wolf and David E. Sullivan gory. Sullivan's proposal also But MIIT, Forest City, and sev- Citizens criticize plan a lot of work and a long '74. failed by one vote. eral councillors viewed the ap- process." A proposal to further reduce proved plan as an acceptable About 20 Cambridge residents The development is scheduled Several proposed the non-residential square foot- and others addressed the City for completion in ten years. amendments defeated compromise between MIT and age to 1.75 million failed by one the community. Danehy, who vot- Council on the development But Caveilini vowed that Cam- Debate focused on several vote. Drew Leff, a representative ed in favor of the amendments, plan. Most urged the council not bridgeport residents will continue amendments that were proposed of MIT's developer Forest City, ultimately supported the plan. to approve the plan. to oppose the development. The to make the plan more acceptable said that it could not guarantee He declared that he would have Bill Noble, a Cambridge resi- residents are considering the fol- to Cambridgeport residents. that it would build any housing voted against the plan "if I felt dent, declared that the impact of lowing options: filing a new zon- Wolf, David Sullivan, and under such an amendment. that a 'no' vote ion the re- the development on the sur- ing petition; overriding the deci- Duehay proposed numerous A further amendment was pro- zoning] would allow us more rounding community would be sion of the City Council by amendments to the zoning peti- posed that would have explicitly housing." But he did not feel that "catastrophic." Noble feared that circulating a city-wide petition; tion, most of which narrowly linked the granting of Simplex a re-filing of the plan would even- the Cambridgeport neighborhood initiating a recall of some or all failed to achieve majority back- construction permits to a traffic tually result in a new plan with would become a second Kendall of the Council's nine members. ing. All three councillors are count for the area. This amend- more housing that would be Square. Cavellini explained that the members of the Cambridge Civic ment was initially approved but acceptable to MIT and Forest Another resident said the de- "rigid, uncompromising" stand Association, a political organiza- later rescinded when ambiguities City. velopment would not preserve the against meeting neighborhood tion that has opposed MIT's arose as to the timing and Graham pointed out that, a residential character of the sur- needs - shown by MIT, Forest planned development. frequency of traffic counts. few years earlier, MIT had been rounding area. "To say that 400 City, and the City Council - has Wolf proposed an alternative In the end, the Council made willing to build only 110 housing units of housing is better than no unified the Cambridgeport -com- timetable that would have re- two amendments to the petition, units and was now willing to housing is not to say that it is munity He asserted that close to quired MIT to construct the both of which were accepted by build 400 units, including 100 enough." 95 percent of Cambrideport resi- housing units in an earlier phase MIT. One cut the maximum low-income and 50 mid-income Resident Patricia Natick said dents opposed the development of the 10-year plan. The pro- amount of non-residential devel- units. "It's time that we started she was not opposed to MIT's de- plan in its approved form. "Say- posed timetable was not stringent opment from 2 million to 1.9 building," she said. velopment per se, but was op- ing 'no' to this development is enough, Wolf argued, because it million square feet. The second She reminded the Council that posed to the development's something that is crucial to us as did not require MIT to build a forces MIT to begin construction the plan was the strictest in the excessive size. a neighborhood. The unified substantial portion of the hous- at the Brookline St. site within history of the city and that MIT's Only two of the Cambridge- support we have is unpreceden- ing until the end of the develop- the next three years. agreement to build the 400 hous- port residents spoke in favor of ted." -- I r I' - -- ePF------· - -I~-~~- l IsI-Q I 5 l - ~ PQRL-

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They forecast a reduced growth level and a Club of Cleveland, Reagan said "fast-growing economies spill has moved out of the city on the West Virginia-Ohio reduction in world trade. often run deficits in the trade of goods and services."- The border. The slick is headed toward Sisterville, WV. I a recession, saying there will go to Seoul President discounted predicts of Typhoon forces 1200 to evacuate Soviets won't be one unless "doomcriers scare people into one." Olympic About 1200 people were forced into storm shelters as The Soviets are going to Seoul. The Soviet But he admitted that the federal budget deficit is "an Typhoon "Roy" struck Guam and the other islands in the Committee announced Monday it will participate in the embarrassmenlt ."' 1988 Summer Olympic Games - meaning Soviet and northern Marianas with winds of Up to 115 miles an hour. ^ American summer Olympians will meet for the first time NASA head promises politics An official says the storm left the island with only emer- since 1976. gency power and left half the island without drinking The United States boycotted the 1980 Olyrnpics in Mos- will not influence shuttle water. cow in protest of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghani- The administrator of the National Aeronautics and stan. The Soviets countered by boycotting the 1984 Space Administration said Monday that as long as he is summer games in Los Angeles. around, politics will "take a back seat to readiness." James Fletcher repeated today that the first post- Afghan pullout could begin in May Challenger space shuttle launch will take place between The Soviets reportedly could begin pulling troops out mid-July and mid-August. The start of the Republican I I of Afghanistan by the first of May. The Communist Party National Convention is scheduled for August 15, but Turnwing colder - again daily Pravda said- the Kremlin could begin the withdrawal Fletcher said "we will fly when we are ready." If you like relatively mild weather, you should if UN sponsored reconciliation talks next month are have been outside this morning. As you read this successful. Takeshita arrives in Washington forecast, much colder air is invading western and Japanese Prime Minister Takeshita will meet with Presi- central New England. Once the cold front which US extends Libya sanctions dent Reagan in Washington today. He is expected to spend marks the leading edge of this colder airmass passes The Reagan Administration believes the goals of Libyan time on this trip discussing trade issues such as Japanese offshore, the weather here in the Cambridge area leader Moammar Gadhafi have not changed - he still quotas on US agricultural exports. But the falling value will turn markedly colder and rather breezy for the supports international violence. State Department spokes- of the dollar against the yen has eased concern over next couple of days. A few scattered showers will woman Phyllis Oakley said Monday the United States will Japanese exports, which have taken a battering. occur ahead of and behind the front this afternoon extend the two-year-old economic sanctions against Libya and evening. A disturbance may develop on the in order to isolate Gadhafi's government and "to limit his Court rules UFS not liable front tonight and Thursday morning but it should ability to cause harm." for nuclear testing effects be far enough offshore not to give the Cambridge area any snow problems. Weatherwise, the rest of The US Supreme Court has kept the government from Hijacking ends peacefully in Alberta the week should be like the first half - quiet but having to pay damages for the deaths due to illnesses that hijacking of a Canadian airliner with 280 people cold. A low pressure center now in the Pacific The might have been caused by open-air nluclear testing. The ended peacefully at Edmonton International northwest will be watched closely as it poses a on board tests were conducted on a Nevada site in the 1950s and threat to our early weekend weather. Airport. No injuries were reported. early 1960s. About 1200 people who lived near in the area or had relatives there had sued for damnages. .oda.Z ir osti--adovdtb i'' showers - breezy withwlifd -soulthwest, 1&15 Arizona governor struggles on mph, shifting -to northwest i0O7rnph.-ig40- 1 Embattled Arizona Gov. lEvan M~echam (R) delivered 45-° (4-7 -). his state-of-the-state address Monday -but one fellow Tonight: Variably cloudy and breezy -wiht a slight Republican called it an "exercise in irrelevance" and pre- chance of snow-showers~ or squalls-. Winds 15-30 dicted the Governor's days are numbered. Mecham faces mph. Low 12°F -(-II Q. Cambridge man pleads guilty to plot indictments accusing him of failing to report a $350,000 Thursdul Sunny, I-breezy-.and 'cold. High 18 F campaign loan. (400C). Low 5°OF (-45°Q. - to overthrow U.S. government Friday: Sunny early with clouids increasing late in A federal judge in Boston has sentenced Cambridge flying ace dies at 75i the day. 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Had this sparrow braved the practical and the philosophical, Kevin Saeger's charming opin- chance, seen the society itself, Yes, I know that only 200,000 night's snowstorm, leaving its money and passion, relationships ion [-Afghan atrocities echo So- have you? Of course, I do not (one out of every thousand bare nest to search for greater and career. He is afraid to make viet policy," Dec. 81 suggests, in want to force you into an admis- American people) came to the wvarmth, finnally succumbing after any one of them. its use of logic and its truthful- sion of possessing valid knowl- Washington rally, but still, you've a long battle? Or had it simply What makes us human, he says ness of content, that Saeger will edge of Soviet cultures, and thus got surrendered to the bitter cold one to himself, is our free will - our soon come forth as another can- foil a possible defense of to start somewhere. I should like to end by return- morning bright with ice, failing freedom of choice. This is our didate for the Democratic presi- plausible deniability. ing to to the ground like a brittle flight. If I cannot choose, if I dential nomination. I do not in- Now, although I know that it is an old friend, the "greatest abusers branch fafls from the tree? cannot act, then I am no longer tend to dispute his views, nor can unfashionable if not decidedly of human rights that the world has ever known" In the afternoon, drifting to human, he says. Yet there seem I even possibly mention his un-American to let facts obstruct quote. sleep as he watched water drip to be many pressures, especially laughable arrogance; however, his the path of an argument, I think While I myself try to not to from icycles outside his window, as he tries to break from his creative turns of phrase do rather I have a right to question your bruise too easily, I can think of he dreamt he was such a bird. youth, to float through, to let ex- betray a case of logorrhea. accusation of the Soviets as "the several reasons for one to be very But he could not remember, upon ternai circumstances and other To begin with, while I refer the greatest abusers of human rights seriously offended by the remark. waking, the specifics - only the people guide his life, to reader to his scholarly depiction that the world has ever known." In the first place, by ignoring uncanny sensation of how closely relinquish self-government. of the "inside" of the Soviet Even if rephrased in the pre- the problems in other countries connected flight was to the Ostensibly, long ago, the piano Union containing "naught but sent tense, this statement would and simply resorting to defama- human will. teacher had made a conscious pain and loathing," let me at- surely be disputed by the over- tion of this "evil empire" of Once, skirting the crusts of choice In marrying his wife. Yiet vnivre. vn;1t UrPnint-inc rsrlit;e-nl tempt to track down some ot the whelming majority of Russian tuns yu7rs U are p14acing po11t1c snow along the ridge of a hill, he the eventual neglect - the apathy bibliographic references. From scholars. Indeed, the current hu- rhetoric above concern over hu- ran into the daughter of a that marked this fragmentation where does the observation man rights violations by the Sovi- man rights. To those who work middle-aged man who was once of erstwhile union - hardly come? From the current state of et government pale in compari- incessantly to fight barbarous his piano teacher. She was walk- seemed the same as the choice affairs in Afghanistan? Perhaps, scon with those by somne of our cruelties worldwide, you stand as ing the dog that once only her fa- that had brought their lives but events in a country roughly more friendly ther walked. torturers (I refer nothing but an obstacle, and a She made oniv together. the size of France do not directly you small-talk. to the current state of affairs serious one at that. Now, when the young man generalize to events in a country in Central America, the past state In the second place, as one of The boy's mother told him that thinks of winter, and takes his B spanning II time zones. From the of affairs in Indochina, and sad- the many who has ancestors B the man had suffered a nervous walks along the icy river, he unhappy situation of a large per- ly, what looks like the future whose human rights were pretty breakdown, divorcing his wife. thinks of desire frozen and centage of those Soviet Jews who state of affairs as well in South well abused (and who were later have applied for emigration? I do Africa). For further information, terminated) in Nazi Germany, I 4 not yet see how this translates kindly call your attention to the found "that the world has ever into the population at large. article on "Syrian human rights know9" to indicate a grosslv ex- E Let me crave the reader's and abrogations," located approxi- aggerated case of amnesia. I my- the grammarian's indulgence as I mately six inches beneath your self am not one to religiously de- Volume 107, Number 58 Wednesday, January 13, 1988 I pull Saeger out of the third per- own opinion. fer to remembrance of the son, and into the second person. Surely, you expected your Holocaust since I prefer humor E publisher ...... Michael J. Garrison '88 I don't suppose, Mr. Saeger, that brusque "just as we are able to and enjoyment to solemnity and E Editor in Chief ...... Earl C. Yen '88 you have by any chance been in dismiss the plight of Soviet Jews" sadness; however, I hope it is not Business Manager ...... Mark Kantrowitz '89 the USSR recently (my premoni- to provoke remark. Refer, if you soon that I again see this sort of Managing Editor ...... Ben Z. Stanger '88 tion had better be correct, or I please, to page ten of 8 Decem- flippancy, Production Manager ...... Ezra Peisach '89 shall never hear the end of this ber's Tech. Or page one of 7 De- e!). You haven'one!). byYou somesome haven't, cember's New York Times or c~~~~~AltnG. Percus '91 is an arts News Editors ...... - Mathews M. Cherian '88 writerfor Thie Tech, Andrew L. Fish '89 Akbar A. Merchant '89 Night Editors ...... David B. Plass '90 Mark D. Virtue '90 Arts Editors ...... Peter E. Dunn G Jonathan Richmond G Photography Editors ...... David M. Watson '88 Kyle G. Peitonen '89 Advertising Manager ...... ;H . alvard K. Birkeland '89 Contributing Editors ...... V. Michael Bove G Julian West G

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At HE BOSTON CAMERATA gave sever- various times, small groups or soloists al hundred music fans a real sang and played from the rear of the treat: a collection of songs and church, the choir loft, and the pulpit, and T dances from the Mediterranean a few timely blasts of the shofar came basin, all loosely related to the Christmas from a perch high above the altar. The theme. Folk music from the modern-day men's chorus of five made a showy en- Balkans and medieval songs hailing from trance from the rear and proceeded slowly such exotic regions as Corsica, Istria, down the aisle while singing the chant Limoges, and Cyprus, were mixed togeth- Kyrie Rex immense, Pater; several of them er with delicious results. Having just com- were sustaining a single drone note, not pleted more than a week of touring in the easy to do while walking. (Cohen tells a East Coast, Boston's principal early music story about a certain high holiday in ensemble was in top form, delivering a Greece, when men's choruses sing tradi- most impressive concert in the first of four tional chants for the entire day. Some (un- Boston-area performances. lucky) men in the chorus never sing the cantus firmus or the richly ornamented du- The Camerata's performance was twice plum parts, instead droning a single note outstanding: early-music fans and casual for the duration. "How can you possibly listeners alike were delighted by the fine persuade someone to sing the same note singing and playing. The soulful melismas for a whole day?" he asked a choir direc- and subtle dissonances that are the bread tor. "We pay them more than the soloists," and butter of medieval music fans were ex- was the candid response.) ecuted smoothly and precisely. Many of the pieces were literally dripping with the To make doubly sure that the audience appropriate emotion, whether they were left with smiles on their faces, Cohen in- songs of lament or of joy. Even the most formed them that the last piece was to be austere and largely monophonic selections a sing-along; he invited the audience to were rendered with energy and musicality. sing the (English) strophes to the Proven- gal carol Correts, bregadas. Music was, of for excellent performances (and record- Joel Cohen's group is a joy to hear; if the Music Director Cohen's baton remained course, printed in the program. ings, too), especially around holiday time, past is any guide, the remaining programs The Boston Camerata has a reputation and they have lived up to their reputation. of the season are definitely worth seeing. invisible throughout the program, yet its absence was no loss; the evening's performance was so well-rehearsed that a few sly Departupre& return - two themes of Leaving Home nods of the head while strumming his lute (Continuedfrom page 7) While many of the episodes in Leaving gave the ensemble all the directions they penter to his employer's wife comes back countryside often conceals a darker side; Home involve Wobegonians leaving their to town 40 years later and-finds a home in needed. Like finely tuned clockwork, the the bucolic macabre is here represented by hometown - a woman runs away to the historical society's files; the nervous players clicked from one piece to another black comedies about a rampaging head- Washington with the man her husband has with nary a moment's hesitation, pausing parents return early from their trip to find less chicken and a character right out of hired to remodel their house; a couple fi- the girls throwing'a party. Rumor has it just long enough for the audience to catch Psycho. But mostly this book shows nally feels confident enough in their their collective breaths. 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POP MUSIC 117, The Neats and The Bristols perform at **** In Axis , 13 Lansdowne Street, just across WIN_ ae O A*** the street from the entrance to the POPULAR MUSIC FILM & VIDEO Comnpiled by Peter lunn **** bleachers at Fernway Park. Telephone: 262-2437. Skin. Tribe, Classic Ruins, and Circle Sky perform at the Channel, 25 Necco ***CRITIC'S CHOICE * The Brattle Theatre begins its Mon- Street, near South Station in downtown day series of FilmN^oir with Charles Boston. Tickets: 53.50. Tel: 451-1905. Transit, Luca, We Don't Know Yet, Blue Vtidor's Gilds (1946). starring Rita Rhino, and Social Animals perform a;z Hayworth and Glenn Ford, at 4:00 the Channel, 25 Nlecco Street, near South The Zultxs, The Cavedogs, and Drum- 7:50 and Fritz Lang's The Big Heat Station in downtown Boston. Tickets: ( 1953),starring Glenn Ford, Gloria $3. Telephone: 451-1905. ming On Glass perform at T.T. the Bear's, 10 Brookline Street, Cambridge. Graharr~e, and the infamous pot of 'Telephone: 492-0082. coffee, at 6:05 &9:55. Located at 40 Wrattle Street, Cambridge in Harvard The Rain, Things That Aren't, Food, Square. Admission: $4.75 (good for and Sally's Dream perform at T.T. the Bear's, :0 Brookline Street, Cambridge. Outlets, Buzz and the Gang, Well Telephone: 492-0082. Babies, and Vindicators perform at the Rat, 528 Commonwealth Avenue in Ken- LECTURES THEATER more Square. Telephone: 536-9438. An Evening with August Wilson, featuring this year's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Water Engine, David Marnet's story CLASSICAL MUSIC of what happens when a brilliant but na- playwright reading favorite selections ive inventor tries to patent an engine that Flute virtuoso Michael Faust performs from his poetry and plays, is presented in runs on. distilled water, opens today at works by Poulenc, Bach, Schubert, Joli- Studio 210, 264 Huntington Avenue, the Alley Theatre, 1253 Cambridge vet, and Franck at 8 pm in Josdan Hall, Boston. Tickets: $50 (including dininer Street, Inman Square, Cambridge. Con- 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston. Tick- and cocktails). Telephone: 353-3320. tinues through February 27 with perfor- etss. $5 and $7.50. Telephone: 536-2412. mances Thurs-Sun at 8 pm. Tickets: $12 general, S10 seniors and students. Tele- phone: 491-8166. Eric Bartlett, cellist, and Wu Han, pia- ro nist, perform works by Beethoven, FILM & VIDEO Brahms, Schumann, and Larry Bell at POPULA R MUSIC The Somerville Theatre presents John 8 pm in the Edward Pickman Concert Newv Orleans pianist Harry Connick, Jr., Sayles' Retura of the Secaucus 7 (1978) Hall, Longy School of Music, Garden waith special guests Delfeayo Marsalis at 6:00 & 10:00 and Louis M9alle's My and Follen Streets, Cambridge. Tickets: Quintet, performs at beginning at 9 pm Dinner With Andre (198i) at 8-00. Also $6 general, $3 seniors and students. Tele- at Nightstage, 823 Main Street, Cam- presented January 15. Located at 55 Da- phone: 262-1775. bridge. Tickets: 58. Telephone: 497-8200. vis Square in Somerville, just by the Da- Alain Resnais' mesmerizing L'Annee derniere a Marienbad (Last Year at vis Square T-stop on the red line. Tele- CLASSICAL MUSIC Marienbad) at the French Library in Boston, January 15 to January 17. phone: 625-1081- Pianist Hung-Xuanl Chen performs A Concert by the Library Staff &Friends works by Mozart, Brahms, Lurosiwasky, is presented as part of the MLIT 1AP Mu- Rachmaninoff, and Debussy in a Boston Tribal Traditions of Kenya, a multimedia lic Library Series at 2 pm in Killian Hall, The Harvard-Epworth Church presents University Faculty Recital at 8 pm in the Building 14. No0 admission charge. Tele- exhibit highlighting the infinite cultural BU Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth variety of this East African country, con- It's Always Fair Weather (1955, Gene phone: 253-2906. tinues through February 28 at the Muse- Kelly and Stanley Donen3 at 8 pm. Lo- Avenue, Boston. No admission charge. Telephone: 353-3345. Contemporary Inssnity, a collection of ON CAMPUS um of Science Stearns Gallery, Science cated at 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, satirica) songs and sketches portraying a Park, Boston. Telephone: 589-0250 or Cambridge just north of Harvard FILM & VIDEO Diane Pettipaw. violin, Joan Esch, cello, sophisticated and offbeat look at modern 1986 Wildlife Photogtraphy Exibiton, 58" 253. Square. Admission: $3 contribution. and Gray Urban, piano, perform works life, Conlin'ues a: the Boston Baked Trhe- S0 prize-winning photographs from in- Telephone: 354-0837. The Somerville Theatre presents Hlofly- by Brahms and Beethoven in a Longy t- atre, 255 Elm Street, Davis Square in ternational competition, continues wood Shuffle (1987) at 3:15, 6:30, & Faculty Artists Seres concert at 8 pm in through January 30 at the MIT Museum, Somerville. Performances are Thurs at Massachusetts Masters: Alfro-Ametrican 10:00 and Swimmsing to Cambodia the Edward Pickman Concert Hall, 8 pm, and Fri-Sat at 8 pm and 10:30 pm. 265 Massachusetts Avenue (NS52-2nd Artists, with the works of 25 contemnpo- l1986) at 4:30 &8:00. Located at 55 Da- floor). Gallery hours are Tue~s-Fri 945, Longy School of Music, Follen and G;ar- Tickets: 58 Thurs, $9.50 Fri-Sat. Tcie- rary black artists on view in the F'oster vis Square in Somerville, just by the Da- den Streets, Cambridge. No admission Satt-Sun 12-4. No admission charge. Tele- phone: 628-9575. Gallery, continues through March 6 at -POPULAR MUSIC vis Square T-stop on the red line. Telle- charge. Telephone: 876-0956. phone:-253-4444. phone: 625-1081. r, the Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Hunting- Eiddie 'Cleanhead" Vinson, blues-jaz? ton Averrue, Boston. Tel: 267-9300. alto sax player/singer/composer, and A Gals Chamber Music Festival is pre- rai Forbidden Broadway 1987, the musical Puzzles O~ld and New, the largest and guest playMcShann, perform at 8:30 and A comedy revue with parodies of various mrost diverse collection of puzzles ever I1:00 at Nhightstage, 823 Mrain Street, sented at 8 pm at the New England Con- Dutch Landscape on Paper: Rembrandt servatory, Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough famous personalities, continues indefi- assembled for public exhibition, contin- Cambyidge. Also presented January 16. m nlitely at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel ues through February 21 at the M1wl Mu- to Mondrian, tracing changing concep- Tickets: S10. Telephone: 497-8200. Street, Boston. NEC Extension Division tions and continuities in the Dutch vision POPULA R MUSIC Opera Scenes are also presented at 8 pm w Terrace Room, Park Square. Perfor- seum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue. Gal- t mances are Tues-Fri at 8 pm, Sat at 7 of landscape from around 1600 to the Urban Blight, with guests The Same, in Brown H~all, 290 Huntington Avenue, lery hours are Tues-Fri 9-5, Sat-Sun 12-4. early twentieth century, continues and 10 pm, Sun at 3 and 6 pm. Tickets: Admission: 52requested donation. Tele- Marshall Crenshaw and Dr. Black's performs at 8:00 and 11l:00 at Night- Boston. Opera scenes are also presented through mid-April at the Museum of January 20. No admission charge for ei- $16 to S22.50. Telephone: 357-8384. phone: 253 4444. Comxbo perform. at the Paradise, 967 stage, 823 Miain Street, Cambridge. Tick- E Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Bos- Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. Tele- ets: $7. Telephone: 497-8200. ther concert. Telephone: 262-1120. ton. Telephone: 257-9300. phonle: 254-2052. FILM & VIDEO Ellsworth Kelly: Small Sculpture1958-87 Gillette, Wiliiam Hauptman's play about continues through March 27 at the MIT lbrahima's World aBeat, with guests New The Somerville Theatre presents Monty the adventures of two drifters who arrive List Visual Arts Center, Weisner Build- Big Dipper, with Blood Oranges and The Generation Hand and Plate 0 Shrimp, Python's Life of Brian (1979) at 8:00 and in the modern-dy boom town of Giil- ing, 20 Ames Street. Gallry hours are Natives, perform at T.T. the Bear's, 10 perform at the Channel, 25 Necco Street, Repo Man (1984) at 6:15 & 9:45. Also lette, continues through )anuary 22 at weekdays 12-6, weekends 1-5. No admnis- Dissonant Landscapes, a 90 minute sur- Brookline Street, Cambridge. Telephone: near South Station in downtown Boston. presented January 20. Located at 55 Da- the American Repertory Theatre, Loeb sion charge. Telephone: 253-4400. vey screenng of several short videotapes 492 0082. Tickews 55.50 advance/$6.50 at the vis Square in Somerville, just by the D~a- Drama Center, 64 Braille Street, Cam- by various video artists, and Damnation door. Telephone: 451-1905. vis Square T-stop on the red line. Tele- of Faust, Dara Birbaum's video trilogy bridge. Perfornmances are Tues-Fri at CLASSICAL MUSIC phone: 625-1081. 8 pm, Sat at 2 pm and 8 pml, and Sun at which reviews Faustian themes of betray- The Zapp Bond, with guests Starbound 2 pm and 7 pm. Tickets: $13 to $26. LvAHot and Cool: The Eighties, drawing al, passion, and delusion, continues and Pureheart, perform at the Channel, The Brookline Symphony Orchestra per- Telephone: _547-8300. together pairting, sculpture, photogra- through January 17 at the Institute of 25 Necco Street, near South Station in fornms. works by Barber, C~orelli, and Si- The Brattle Theatre presents The Trou- phy. and installations by 23 ot LAN most Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston Street, downtown Boston. Tickets: S8.50 ad- beliu~s at 2:30 pm in the Robert Dubbs ble With Love (1984, Helke Sanders) at provocative young artists, continues Boston. Gallery hours are Wed-Sun 11-5 vance/S9.50 at the door. Tel: 451-1905. Auditorium, Brookline H~igh School, 115 7.30 and Invisible Adversaries (1977, through Feb-raryl at the MIT LUsvVi- and Thurs-Fri until 8 pmn. Admission: Greenough Street. 'rickets: $7 general, $3 Valie Export) at 4:30 &9:45. Located at Hlard Times, Charles Dickens' tale re- sual Arts Center,'Wc'isncr Building. 210 S3.50 general, $2 students, 51 seniors seniors and students. Tel: 232-5971. 40 Brattle Street, Camnbridge in Harvard crating the teeming world of Victorian Ames Street. Gallery hoursare weekdays and children, free on Fridays after 5 pm. Nervous Esters, Idle Htands, and Point Square. Admission: $4.75 (good for the industrial England, conainues through 12-6. weekends 1-5. Nos admission Temephone: 266 5152. Counterpoint performn at the Rat, 528 double bill). Telephone: 876-6837. February 7 at the New Repertory The- charge. Telephone: 253-4400. Commonwealth Avenue in Kenmore The Springifield Symphony Orchestra atre, 61 Washington Park, Newtorville. Square. Telephone: 536-943F. and pianist Be~la Davidovich perform Performan,,es are Friday 8 pm, Saturday works by Copland, Saint-Saens, and 5 pmnand 9 pm, and Sunday 2 pin. Tick- OFF CAMPUS CLASSICAL MUSIC Rachmaninoff at 3 pm in Durgin Hall, ets: 3i9and S12, S2 discount for seniors LA Hot and Cool: Pioneers, presented in University of Lowell Center for the Per- and students. Telephone: 332-1646. POPULAR MUSIC - conjunction with the exhibit at the MIT forming and Visual Arts, Pawtucket and POPULAR MUSIC List Vistial Arts Center, and featuring T~he Juilliard String Qusrtet performs Wilder Streets, Lowell. Tickets: $13, Sl5, * * * CRITICS CHOICE sr * * three string quartets by Brahms at ROYBuchanan, soulful master of the classic work byII artists first active in Stanley Jordan, revolutionary guitar and S17. Telephone: 459-0350. LA during the 1960s and 7&s, continues 8 pin in Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsbor- electric guitar, with special guests Driving player, performns at 8:00 and 10:30 at ough Street, Boston. Tel: 497-1118. Sideways, performs at 8:00 and 10:30 at * * * CRtITIIC'S CHOICE*r * * through January 15 at the Bank of Bos- Nightstage, 823 Main Street, Can>- Les Misirables, the Tony-award win- ton Art Gallery, 36thFloor, 100 Federal E~llse Jacktendoff, piano, and Bay Jack- Nightstage, 823 Main Street, Cambridge. bridge. Also presented January 14. 'rickets: S10. Telephone: 497-8200. ning musical adaptation of Victor Street, Boston. Gallery hours are week- Tickets: S15.Telephone: 497-8200. endoff, clarinet, perform works by Stan- Hugo's classic, continues through days 9-11, 2-5. No admission charge. Maria Stuards, by Donizetti, is presented ford, Muczynski, Toch, and Prokofiev in April 23 a! the Shubert Theatre, 265 Telephone: 253 4400. by the Boston iLyricOpera Company at a Longy Faculty Artists Series concert at 3 pm in the Edward Pickman Concert The Pixies and Rash of Stabbings per- Tremont Street, Boston. Perfor- 8 pm in Alumni Auditorium, Northeast- form at Axis, 13 Lansdowne Street, just mance are Mon-Sat at 8 pm, Wed & N12112IM Hall, Longy School of Music, Follen and Uncle Fester. Dogma, and The ern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, across the street from the entrance to the Sat matinees at 2 pmn.Tickets: S27.50 Approaches to Paper. works by Kay Pedros perform at T.T. the Bear's, 30 Boston. Also presented January 17. Garden Streets. Cambridge. No admis- Brown and Mary Tinker Hatch, contin- sion charge. 'Telephone: 876 0956. bleachers at Fenway Park. Telephone: to $4s, S16 special student tickets for Brookiine Street, Cambridge. Telephone: Tickets: $5to 11t.50. Tel: 267-1512. 262-2437. some performances. Tel: 426 4520. ues through January 26at the Cam- 492 0082. bridge Art Association, 25 R Lowell FILM & VIDEO Street, Camnbridge. Gallery hours are THEATER The Oberlin College Choir performs Tues-Sat 11-5. Telephone: 876-0246, ***CRITIC'SCHOICE *** Exodus and M.O.D. perform in an 18 + ***CRfTIC'S CHOICE * r wvorks-by Viadana, Ingegneri, Bruckner, The Brattle Theatre begins its Sunday ages Heavy Metal show at the Paradise, Msurder at the Rutherford House, 'a The Piano Lesson, by Pulitzer Prize- Schuman, Durufle, Moe, and Mozart at series Vintage Hollywood with an 967 Commonwcalt1h Avenue, Boston. mystery inFi%,e courses."continues winning playwright August Wilson, 8 pm in Boston's Trinity Church, Copley Ernst Bubitsch double bill,'Trouble in Telephone: 254-2052. through January 27 at Club Cabaret, 209 EdgarHleap of Birds, pastel drawings of opens today a. the Huntington The- Square. Telephone: (216) 775-8474. Paradise (1932), starring Miriam Hop- Columbus Avenue, Boston. Pcrfor- words executed in attexpressive mannerT atre, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston. kins and Herbert Marshall, at 4:25 a CLASSICAL MUSIC mances are Tues-Wed at 7:30 and Sun at and several abstract paintings, continues Continues throughJanuary 31. Tick- 8:00 and The Shop Aroundthe Cor- A Concert by the Math Deparlmerxl & 1:(10. Tickets:$45 Tues-Wed, 2- S2Sun through January 17 at the Institute of ets:$12 to $2'7. Telephone: 266-3913. The Handel anld H2ydn Society, joined ner (1940), starring Jimmy Stewart Friends is presented as part of the MIT (includes mealso, sotax. and gratuities). Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston Street, by pianist Keith Jarrett, performs works and Margaret Sullavan. at 2:30, 6:10, 1AP Music Library Series at 2 pm in Kil. Telephone: 5300466. Boston. Also continuing through Janu- FILM & VIDEO by Mozart, Haydn, and Prokofiev at 8&9:40. Located at 40 Brattle Street, lian Hall, Building 14. Nlo admission asy 17, Cindy Shermtan, a photography 8 pm in Symnphony SHall,corner of Hun- Cambridge in Harvard Square. Ad- charge. Telephone: 253-290. The Braille Theatre presents The Broth- tington andMa ssachusettsAvenu es, Bos- exhibit exploring the issues of image and ers Qusay: New Animation at 4:45, 6:15, mission:$4.75 (good for the double personality and how a viewer perceives ton. Also presented at 3 pm on Janu- bill).Telephone: 876-6837. 7:50, & 9:30. Also presented January 14. *2ry 17. Tickets: S12-S32. Tel: 266-3605. Nina, It's Different, Michel Vinaver's each. Gallery hours are Wed-Sun 1-5I Located at 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge Carol Lewis, viola da gamba, and Fran. avant-garde French play, continues and Thukrs-Fri until 8 pm. Admission: in Harvard Square. Admissiom: $4.75. PERFORMANCE ART ces Conover Fitch, harpsichord, perform through January 23 al Theatre S., St. $3 .50 general, S2students, S Iseniors Telephone: 87fF6837. works by de Visiee; Couperin, Maiais, Peter's Church, 838 Massachusetts Ave- and children, free on Fridays after 5 pm. The Song of the Statues, Paul McMa- The Somerville Theatre presents The and Bach in a New England Conserva- nue, Central Square, Cambridge. Perfor- Telephone: 266s5152. hon'soperatic performance using opera King of Hearts (1966),-starring Alan tory Faculty Recital at 8 pm in Jordan mances are Friday at 8 pmnand Saturday singers, musicians, slides, props, and Bates andGenevieve Bujokdl at A:00 & Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, The Somerville Theatre presentsa ! Ydeo, is presented at 8pm, at the Insti- 8:00 and Withnail and (1;987,I Bruce at 8 pm & 10 pm. Tickets: $10 general, Woody Allen double bill with Bananas No admission charge. Tel: 262-1120. $6 50 students, S5Saturday late shows. tute of Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston RobinsonA)at 5:50 &9:45. Also presented Nsewv Works, an exhibition of recent (1971) at 6:00 &.9:30 and Manhatana Street, Boston. Also presented Janu- January 18. Located at 55 Davis Square Telephone:625-6087. (1979) at 7:45. Located at 55 Davis FILM & VIDEO paintings by Cambridge artist Elizabeth ary 16. Tickets: S8 general, $6 ICA in Somerville, just by the Davis Square The Brattle Theatre begins its Wednesday Marran Hull, continues through Janu- Square in Somerville, just by the Davis ;members, seniors, and students. Telc- T-stop on the red line, Tel: 625-1081. Square T-stop on the red line. Tele- phone: 2W5152. series Films bya the Score with Hitch- Right You Are (If You Think You Are), ary 29 at the Cambridge Arts Council, cock's North by- Northwest (1959), star- 57 Inman Street, Cambridge. Exhibition phone: 625-1081. Luigi Pirande~lo's satire exploring the ring Cary Grant and Ev~aMarie Saint, at hours are 9 am to 8 pm. Tel: 498-9033. DANCE The Harvard-Epworth Chruch presents difficulty and undesirability of probing 2:45 &7:40 and Journey to the Center of into other peoples' lives, continues Strange Stuff. Real Stuff, Raw Stuff is Vittorio De~ica's The Children Are presented by Dance Collective and Dance Watching Us (1942-44) at 8 pmn.Located the E4rtb (1959, Henry Levin) at 5:10 & through January 31 at the American MOO0.Located at 40 Brattle Street, Cam- Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, IUmbrella at8 pm at the E. Paul Rob- at 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, Camn- Responses and The Human Wall, instal- sham Jr. Theater of Boston College, 28 bridge just north of Harvard Square. bridge in Harvard Square. Admission: 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge. Perfor- CLASSICAL MUSIC $4.75 (good for the double bill). Tele- mances are Tues-Fri at 8 pin, Sat at 2 pmn lations by minimalist artist Jo Sandman Commnonvwealth Avenue, Newton. Also Admi~ssion:$3 contribution.'Telephone: and figurative sculptor Heidi Tobler, con- The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Kurt presented January 16. Tickets: Slo gen- 354-0837. phone: 876-6837. and 8 pin, and Sun at 2 pm and 7 pin. Sanderling conducting, with guest pianist Tickets: 513to $26. Tel: 547-8300. tnue through January 30 at Mobius,154 eral,$8.50 seniors, students, and Dance Congress Street, Boston. Gallery hours Mitsuko Uchida, performs works by Mo- Umbrella members. Tel: 492-7578. are Wed-Sat 12-5. Telephone: 542-7416. zart and Shostakovich at 8 pm in Sym- phony Hall, corner of Huntington and FILM & VIDEO Shear Madness, thelong-running comic Massachusetts Avenues. Also presented murder mystery, continues indefinitely at * *CRITiC'S CHOIC:E ** the Charles Playbouse,74 Warrenton Tuscany Series, expressionist paintings January 15 at 2 pm and January 16 & 19 The French Library in Boston contin- by Leslie Abrahamns Barhlam, continues at 8 pm. Tickets:$15.50 to 541.Tele- ues Its series of Filmns of A lain Resnais Street, Boston. Performances are Tues- through January 30 at the a~ka. Skylight phone: 266-1200. Fri at 8 pm, Sat at 6:30 and 9:30 pm, with L'anne dernierei Marienbad Gallery, 43 Charles Street,Broston. Gal- Sun at 3 and 7:30 pm.Ticskets: $16 and (Last Year atAfarienbad, 1961) at lery hours are Mon-Sat 10-6. Telephone: 8 pm. Also presented January 16 $19. Telephone: 426-6912. 120-2855. The Boston Museu m Trio with guests Frank Kelley. tenor; Sanford Sylvan, and 17. Located at 53 Marlborough Street in Boston, near the Arlington baritone;,and Carol Lieberman, baroque T-stop on the green line. Admission: or**CRITIC'S CHOICE *** E11sworth IKellY:Works on Paper and violin perform works by Monteverdi and What theButler Saw, Joe Orton's Schutz at 8 pmnat the Museum of Fine $3.50 general,$2.50 Library memn- EllsworthKl~lig Seven Paintings, pre- ber. elphone: 266-4351. wild comic melee of disappearances, sented in conjunction with the exhibit at Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston. disguises, and discoveries in a lunatic the MIT List Visual Arts Center. contin- Tickets:$12 general, SIQMF.A members, asylum, continues through Febru- ue through January 31 at the Museum of seniors, and students. Telephone:267- ary14 at theL yric Stage, 54 Charles Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Bos- 9300 ext. 306. The Cambridge Center for Adult Educa- Street, Boston. Performances are ton.Telephone: 267-9300. tion begins its seriesrhe Wages of Sin Wed-Fri at 8:00, Sat at 5:00 & 8:30. with The Devil and Daniel Webster and Sun at 3:00. Tickets: 510to S13. Pianist Liss Calikiwinner of the Clara (1941, WilliamDieterle) at 7 pm and Telephone: 742-8703. Italian Renaissance Maicilca from the Weilispiano competition, performs works 9 pm. Located at 56 Brattle Street, Cam- William A. Clark Collection continues by Bach, Beethoven, and Chopin at bridge in Harvard Square. Admission: through February 6 at the Museum Of 8 pm at the Cambridge Center for Adult S3.50.Telephone: 547-6789, Education. 56 Brattle Street in Harvard Yes To Everything!, an improvisational Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Bos- ton. Telephone: 267-9300. Square. Admission:$3.50. Telephone: EXHIBITS movemecnt-theater piece with actress/ 547-789. dancer Daena Giardella, continues The iaoomand the Bust, graphic visions of Anuerican life in the 1920s and 1930s. through January 24 at theNe~w Ehrlich Marsha Hewvitt: Reent Sculpture contlin- Theatre,539 Tremont Street, Boston. opens today at the Boston University Art ues through February 8 at the Cambridge Contralto Mary Davenpo>rt performs in a Gallery, 855 Commonwealth, Avenue, Performances are Thurs-Sat at 8 pm and Boston University Faculty Recital at Sun at 2 pm. Tickets:$10 general,$5 Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second hoston. Continues through February 21 Stanley Jordan, revolutionary guitar player, at Street, East Cambridge. Gallery hours 8 pm in the BU Concer Hall, 855 Com- with gallery hours Man-Fri10-4, Frieve- seniors and student rush.' Telephone: 577-14()0. Nightstage for four shows on January 13 & 14. 4422636316 areMson-Fri 12A. Telephone: monwealth Avenue, Boston- No admis- ning 7-9, and Sat-Suri1-5. 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MM PAGE 12 The Tech WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1988 - M Pulitzer Prize winner praises Arias plan, criticizes US nmedia By Seth Gordon military base for insurgents. mediator between the other sig- press would be partly responsi- The coverage of Nicaragua, ac- 'The war in Nicaragua is an It also orders each country to natories - El Salvador, Hondu- ble, because it has not accurately cording to Ryan, is analogous to "artificial war that would not ex- form committees for internal rec- ras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua described the forces working describing all the illness and des- ist, were. it not for the policies of onciliation, grant amnesty and - in drafting the plan, and was against the plan. titution in Afghanistan without this country" asserted Pulitzer dialogue with all opponents will- awarded the 1987 Nobel Peace The press has by and large ig- mentioning that Afghanistan is Prize-winner Randolph Ryan, a ing to lay down their arms, and Prize for his work. nored that the Reagan Adminis- occupied by the Soviet Union. Boston Globe editorial writer and protect the civil rights of Central Ryan warned that this week is tration is not cooperating with He called this alleged press be- columnist. He accused the Americans. "critical" to the Arias plan. He the plan, according to Ryan. The havior "a failure of my country American media of underplaying The peace plan is named after feared that if the plan did fail, media has also joined the admin- and a failure of my profession. It the role of the US government in Costa Rican President Oscar not only would it be a tragedy istration in belittling the Arias bothers me that in some cases, the conflict. Arias SAnchez. Arias acted as for Central America, but the US plan, he charged. (Please turn to page 13) Ryan, speaking Monday night at MIT, also accused the Reagan Administration of trying to de- MIT to elinminate Course XX over next 18 months Lees did not understand the ra- and stroy the Arias Central American (Continued from page 1) substantially involved in the will leave for other positions, peace plan, which Ryan thought Redlstributing the human and decision-making process, accord- tionale behind the adnministration that vacancies - including a cur- could 'stop the war overnight." other resources of the department ing to one of his assistants. move. rent total of four - won't be The war between the Nicara- seemed like a better fit, Brown Most of the faculty first That MIT's expertise and repu- filled. guan army'and the US-backed said. The topics of biotechnology learned that their department tation in the field will be hurt is Why the faculty was left out of contra rebels is "created by US reside very much in the biology would no longer exist at the Jan. "my greatest concern," Lees said. such a major decision regarding strategists and US taxpayers and and chemical engineering disci- 6 meeting. They were provided The move could "potentially do a their department is not entirely US congressmen," he said. The plines, he said. He noted that with few details. lot of harm." clear. Wogan declined to answer US government has used the molecular biology expertise for "I was shocked," said Associ- MIT should move very cau- any questions about the matter news media to bolster its strategy genetic engineering "exists in ate Professor Chokyun Rha '62. tiously in deali.jg with one of its since he had not been part of the in the region, Ryan said. Report- spades in the biology She did not understand why the success stories, he Naid. process. ers have been given access to the department." administration had decided to The department members seem Perhaps the department faculty insurgents "to establish that the When asked how the decision phase out a department that had to be taking a wait-and-see ap- were not consulted because "peo- contras are a more serious force would affect research in applied been so successful. "Our depart- proach to the recent develop- ple in the department have a per- than in the past," Ryan wrote in biology at the Institute, Brown ment is so unique ... fit has] ments, primarily because they sonal interest," Lees suggested. an editorial last Saturday. said he thought it would actually such a high-standing program." have been told so little about They may not be able to respond As a condition of this access, "support our efforts." Her assessment of the depart- what is happening. Professor in an objective way if asked the government keeps its "exten- ment's success was shared by Robert S. Langer ScD '74 ex- about an action that could Surprise to faculty members sive role," including its service as Professor Robert S. Lees. The pressed faith in the judgement of potentially endanger their jobs. the contras' press agent, off the The decision to disband the de- applied biology department had the administration, but wanted to The two men directly responsi- record, Ryan charged. partment came with almost no generated a tremendous amount know precisely what would ble for the decision are not mem- The peace plan forbids military prior consultation of faculty of outside funding for its re- happen. bers of the applied biology de- attacks by one signatory against members, several of whom ex- -search activities, he said, indicat- The faculty size will be re- partment. Brown is a biologist another, aid to armed rebels- pressed complete surprise at the ing that government and industry duced, according to Brown. In and Deutch is a professor in the including the contras - and the move. Even Wogan, the depart- have considerable respect for part this is attributable to the department of chemistry. use of one signatory's land as a ment- chairman, had not been ----MIT's program Lin biotechnology.-- fact that many faculty members --- L -1- classified advertising 1

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------p-- o· -· · ,·· JANUARY 13, 1988 The Tech PAGE 13 _% Nl i-ll MY= I Hill= WEDNESDAY,_ I .- - Globe columnist praises Arias plan Flush lile baby government thought their (Continuedfrom page 12) contras would receive no more country didn't need it. dorn' you cry. friends of mine . . . who I really US aid. The Salvadoran government If someone doesn't respect... seem to me to be part After the Arias treaty was has given amnesty to guerrillas of of the failure. All I can say is signed, Nicaraguan President both the left and the right. But do soi~lhin81 that I'm bothered. I don't have Daniel Ortega flew-to Cuba. Ac- Ryan believed that was a mistake. ycu5ll 1ju st the answers." cording to Ryan, Cuban leader He felt the amnesty's purpose "The US government," Ryan Fidel Castro afterwards agreed to should be to bring the leftist Be a Peace Corps Pace an intense some Cuban advisers charged, "is making withdraw guerrillas back into the political volunteer or t the Arias The opposition effort now to defeat from Nicaragua. process. This space donated by The Tech plan: to torpedo it, to violate it, newspaper La Prensa was al- given its army Guatemala had - - I to minimize it, to trivialize it, lowed to re-open and a Reconcili- amnesty months before the treaty ------it, to the politi- and above all to redefine ation Commission for was signed. Translations into your native language change the meaning of the plan." cal process was appointed, with The Reagan administration is are needed for industrial literature. You Archbishop Obando y Bravo, a Congress for $270 million to prepare these Nicaragua complying asking will be well paid strong critic of the government, aid this year. This translations on an occasional basis. with the plan in contra foreign as chairman. would clearly impede the Arias Assignments are made according to knowledge. Ryan believed that the press is The Reagan Administration plan, Ryan said. language your area of technical for: falsely blaming the failure of the has repeatedly accused Nicaragua The contras, Ryan charged, ability We are currently seeking translators Nicaraguan in El Salvador - beyond 0 Arabic 0 Chieose lDaanish 0 Dtech Arias plan on the of aiding rebels have made requests "far Greek the treaty - 9 Farsi 0 Frech * Germ;an government, "when in fact which would violate the their military clout and far be- Is 0 Itallan * Japanese 0 KoDrean Nicaraguan government, above but Ryan did not believe they had yond their right" under the Arias 0 Nownegiano Polish 0 Portuguese all others, has been complying been doing that since 1981. plan: negotiations with the gov- valuable! e RBso nian 0 Spanish 0 Swedish perfectly with the plan." By comparison, Ryan com- ernment without laying down and others. It is in Nicaragua's interest to mented, Honduras initially re- arms, and elections before the Into-English translations from German comply with the plan, Ryan said, fused to set up a Reconciliation ones scheduled by the and French. Many other languages also -3 because under its provisions the Commission, since the Honduran Nicaraguan constitution. available. - - Foreign language typists also needed. All this viork can be done in yPor LET'S WORK TOGETHER TO PROTECT home! & \THE UNBORN AND THE Linguistic Systems, Inc. is New I England's largest translation agency, A,NEWBORN located a block north of the Central Sq. _ fot~r Ax,, /, subway station. For appliceation and test transl$ation call Ms. Unguistic Systems, 1 n1c.¢ Heinemtann 116 Bishop Allen Drive Cambridge, MA 02139 8B64-3900f - -I * * . I! _ ----- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1

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:i:r: -·· -.zvr, , g _ PAGE 14 The Tech WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1988 . Mledical Director Weinberg describes improved AIDS test By Marcia Smith tors to confirm cases of AIDS cide to begin a pregnancy, he Changing the habits of intrave- and visiting high-risk areas of the A new blood screening test will within three weeks of contrac- said. Sonic rays are used to kill nous drug users has proven more world are the most likely causes allow substantially earlier detec- tion, compared to three months the AIDS virus but not the clot- difficult than changing the habits of exposure among these cases, tion of the Acquired Immune De- before. The new test will also re- ting factors in blood factors to be of homosexuals, though, Wein- Weinberg said. Studies have ficiency Syndrone virus, accord- duce the number of HIV-1 posi- given to hemophiliacs, Weinberg berg said. In an effort to curb the shown that, of the many reported ing to MIT Medical Director tive blood donations that pass said. spread of AIDS among drug ad- cases of contact with contamnirnat- Arnold N. Weinberg, who gave a through screening from "almost The majority of the confirmed dicts, governments in the Nether- ed blood, only a few people were lecture yesterday on recent infinitesimal to almost zero," cases of AIDS in the United lands, France, and the Uinited converted to HIV-1 positive, ac- advances in AIDS prevention. Weinberg said. States occur in homosexual Kingdom provide clean needles to cording to Weinberg. The likeli- About 45,000 cases of AIDS The contraction of AIDS by males, followed by intravenous known addicts in addition to re- hood of contracting AIDS from have been confirmed in the Unit- hemophiliacs, or by infants born drug users, according to Wein- habilitation, he said. Massachu- a dentist or barber is slim be- ed States since 1981, Weinberg to mothers who have contracted berg. Next were people who had setts will soon follow this path. cause they clean their instruments said, and-experts predict that by the antigen, and by patients un- blood tranfusions before 1985, Weinberg listed five lesser pos- in solutions that kill the virus, he 1991 there will be two million dergoing blood transfusions has hemophiliacs, and infants of sibilities for exposure to the said. Mosquitoes do not seem to cases in the United States and 10 almost been eliminated, Weinberg HIV-I positive mothers. virus: transmit the disease since they do million cases worldwide. said..The number of these cases Lifestyle changes · having contact with not actually contract it. By detecting the HIV-1 antigen has been reduced by the screen- curb AIDS spread prostitutes, The HIV-1 -virus generally be- instead of the antibody, the new ing of donated blood and by By changing their lifestyles, · visiting high-risk areas of haves like any other virus, Wein- blood screening test allows doc- screening women before they de- male homosexuals have greatly the world, berg said. The only differences reduced the chance of spreading · working in a high-risk envi- are that it is sexually transmitted Eco-nomists debate US the AIDS virus, according to ronment such as a laboratory or and that it targets the body's de- studies done in Denmark, Swe- a hospital, fense cells. The most important I den, France, and San Francisco, · going to a dentist, or cells infected are the skin defense military expenditures Weinberg said. But he noted that · being in an environment cells. Destroying them, Weinberg k (Continued from page Ij) Melman's contention that the US the spread of AIDS in the Boston with mosquitoes and other said, "opens Pandora's box" to t raising the American standard of economy is second-rate and area has not dropped as much as sucking arthropods. pathogenic and non-pathogenic IE F living. deteriorating further. in: other places. Having contact with prostitutes diseases in the open world." I, it "Nobody can live in a nuclear Excepting countries like Ku- F submarine, or eat it, or use it wait "that only have oil and no k "TentCity" protesters go on trial s [for clothing]," Melman said. people," Samuelson judged the t- Michael Wheeler, visiting profes- In order to revive its belea- US standard of living to be the who is recovering from a heart lice arrested nine people for tres- sor in urban studies and planning attack, did not testify in court. guered industries, the United highest in the world. pass and one for disorderly con- States must divert its resources At the end of World War II, at MIT, told The Tech that, tradi- duct when the protesters refused tionally, courts Glavin said she had begun to from the military to civilian the United States - with only six have been reluc- to leave the strip of land at the tant to grant any "property rights warn the protesters at about 7 am 6 purposes, Melman said. percent of the population - pos- corner of Blanche and Green that if they did not leave, they sessed half of the world's income. through inferences based on Streets two months ago. The conduct." would be arrested. Sometime Summers rebutted Melman's In the four decades since, the homeless and their supporters soon after that, Ryder trucks arguments by pointing out that American share of world income had occupied the land since mid- Police testimony revealed that drove up to the site, and workers the defense budget is only 6 per- has dropped to 25 percent. But October, protesting the condi- the arrests came after - but did offered the protesters plastic bags cent of US gross national prod- this drop is not necessarily a bad tions of the homeless in not necessarily result from - a in which to gather their belong- uct. The ratio of military spend- thing, Samuelson argued. Cambridge. breakdown in police plans and ings. Her final warnings came ing to the whole of US spending C"Economics is not a zero-sum To get more information about some improvisation on the part over a bullhorn at about is a more appropriate indicator game," he said. That the US administration discussion that led of former Campus Police Chief 7:20 am, she said. of military share of world income has James Olivieri and Chief Anne P. influence in the up to the arrests, the defense Patrolman Joseph Fratto said economy, Summers dropped indicates the rest of the Glavin, who was captain at the argued. team had last week subpoenaed that the two were soon "engaged Using this measure, Summers world has gotten better off, not time. President Paul E. Gray '54, Sen- in pushing and shoving, and calculated that if the whole of the that the United States is ior Vice President William R. Olivieri and Glavin had met Penn appeared out of control." A defense budget been allocated to deteriorating. Dickson '56, Assistant to the with Cambridge Police Chief An- Campus Police report obtained civilian uses, US growth would The low rate of growth of the Chairman of the MIT Corpora- thony Paolillo on the by The Tech claimed that Penn have only been sped up by three US economy - which all partici- day before tion Walter L. Milne, and Special the had resisted arrest by "throwing years. "We would have reached pants acknowledged - is due to arrests took place, Glavin Assistant for Governmental Rela- himself to the ground and 1987 in 1984.... Three years is the low American savings rate, told the court. They formulated a pulling tions and Community Affairs away a lot - but it is not the differ- Summers said. Rather than in- plan in which Paolillo would from officers." He made Ronald P. Suduiko to testify at show up at Tent City at 6:30 am "several attempts to bite arresting ence between being a first-rate vesting enough money in research the trial. economy and a second-rate and capital formation, Ameri- the next day to try to convince officers." Jeffrey Swope, an attorney re- the protesters to leave the site. economy." cans have been consuming too presenting MITr, tried to quash The arrests did not come off as much. Moreover, "the level of defense The United States should the subpoenas last Friday, but planned. A document titled spending depends on the need for reduce the federal deficit in order Penn, in an interview, said that "Tent City Procedures" - writ- only Gray's subpoena fell, as the Paolillo had met with the protest- defense," Summers argued. It is to lower interest rates and-spur defense could not show how sig- ten by Glavin about a week be- irresponsible to conclude investment, Summers ers twice on Nov. 19 to tell them that argued. nificant a part Gray played in dis- fore the arrests as a set of guide- military spending should be cut Samuelson agreed with this that he "didn't want to arrest lines for cussions about the eviction of the the eviction - stated by simply looking at the costs, analysis. people or have any violence," but he Tent City residents. Ostensibly, that students on the site would be said. Perhaps the United States Although -the discussion was that he would oversee the eviction the defense will call the other asked for student identification. allots so much for defense be- actually entitled "After if MIT asked him to. Moreover, the three officials to the stand next The students would then be cause he told the protesters that the it needs that much military Crash: The State of the US Econ- Friday. warned that they would be re- funding to protect itself, he omy," the participants spent rela- residents would have at least an ferred to Judge Wendy Gershengorn will the Office of the Dean suggested. tively little time talking about the hour's warning before the for Student face at least two tasks at that Affairs for discipline. Without passing crash. eviction, Penn said. judgment on The stock market does not time: establishing the facts of the The procedures also indicated the efficacy of US defense represent an independent spend- force in case when testimony conflicts, But on Nov. 20, Paolillrs did that students would be the last to ing, Summers concluded that the the economy, Samuelson said. and determining whether or not not come to Tent City until 7 am, be removed from the site. military budget was not the cause As a result, a half-hour "Black Monday" the "license" argument applies to late, according to Yet police testimony indicated of America's low rate of itself will have relatively little im- the Tent City case. Glavin. By that time, Olivieri and that Fernandez and Penn were economic growth. pact on the economy, Samuelson Commenting on the case with Suduiko had spoken to groups of among the first to be arrested. Samuelson avoided the said. But debate it may be an indicator the qualification that he was not protesters about their options- Penn told The Tech that he had over the influence of defense that the large federal and trade acquainted with any of the defen- involving temporary shelters, mo- not been asked for his student spending, but he did dispute deficits are a cause for concern. tel rooms, or arrest. Paolillo, identification card. --- - se's case citations on "license," F M

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4gL. ~~~a w~~~~~ll·8e~~~~~~~~~l~~~ar;~~~~~~~8l~~~~~s~~~~~ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1988 The Tech PAGE 15 _ sports IT l ~~~~~~~~~~~~~Ai aM- IbT defeats Dagrtmouth By Tim Holt a full twist and Nash's versatility After a long preseason filled of flexibility. with great promise for the up- Pommel horse was the second coming season, the MIT men's event of competition. Tim Holt gymnastics team began its season '90 tried this event for his first in- with a strong performance, beat- tercollegiate meet. This event ing Dartmouth this past Saturday proved difficult for both teams, by a score of 184.15 to 175.55. but Reifschneider pulled off a Although the team is some- routine that was the highest on what young, several members re- the event, a 6.45. [.41~Pa~s$ aturned from last year. Co- Finishing off the first half of ~~h ~ ~ ~~~captains Eric Reifschneider '89 the meet with rings, several of and Norman Chen '88 were re- MIT's gymnasts had exciting rou- turning with hopes for higher tines. Kipnis had an excellent .a:~~~~~~ ~scores for all-around competi- routine, with moves such as a tion. back uprise handstand. MIT's cr~~ Two other all-around competi- strength showed through when p:i.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~tors also represented MIT: Alan Reifschneider, Malonson, and Nash '89 and Mark Malonson Chen held iron crosses for i;~ . , '89. The last veteran from last strength moves on this event. ~ ~:..~ year was Jason Kipnis G, who Vaulting started off the second competed on every event except half of competition. All of MIT's "~ ~ ~ ~; ' vaulting. Due to the vacancy of vaulting resulted in high scores. !, ' ". - .... several spots, many newer mem- MIT picked up the momentum ,zg~~ w 9 A-of He.the ffilteam Whad w ~~~~~~~~~~bersa chance to going into parallel bars. The MIT compete for firstthe t imefor gymnasts dominated on this

'4 the event by over S ~~~'~~ , Si MIT. event, winning / i; -- Adt < The competi-firstthein event 5.7 points, a rather large differ- zion was floor exercise. Joe ence in this sport. Malonson's Fugaro '91, the newest member planch press to a handstand was b9"5m~~~~~~~~~~~~~'~~~~~of the team, had his first chance one of many of the great moves Alice P. Lei/The Tech for intercollegiate competition on performed on parallel bars. Diane Dimassa '88 takes a shot in Monday's basketball game vs. Coast Guard. this event. Some exciting high- (Editor'sNote: Tim Holt '90 is lights of this event were Malon- a member of she ,IT men's son's back-handspring-back with gymnastics team.) ,- X - .- - ~ ~~~~~---

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BARRY UNGER, COURSE DIRECTOR | BARBARA A. PLANTHOLT AND PAUL M. KELLEY, CO-DIRECTORS

A series of seminars featuring individuals experienced in starting and managing high- technology companies. These sessions will cover business planning and practical strategy, marketing and sales, finance, the management team and other aspects of the technology- based business. 'War stories" and a live case analysis of a new company's business proposal will be used to illustrate points about the entrepreneurial process. • Dr. Unger '69 is Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Datacube, Inc., a digital signal processing systems company. He is also co-founder and vice-chairman of the M.I.T. Enterprise Forum and has been a founderofficer of several technology-based companies. • Mis. Plantholt GM '71 is a Senior Investment Analyst at Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation. l Mr. Kelley is Managing Partner of Zero Stage Capital Equity Fund of Cambridge.

Monday, January 11 Room 9-150 STARTING AND RUNNING A COMPAY THE INSIDER'S VIEW 1:00pm -C. Wayne Griffith, Chairman, College Counsel, Inc., and former President of Xylogics Corp. 2:30pm -Frank Manning '70, President and Founder, Zoom Telephonics, Inc. Tuesday,, January 12 Room 9-150 PLANNING AND FINANCING THE BUSINESS 1:00 m Venture Capital and Other FinancingAlternatives for the StartuRp Company -Michaei E. A. O'Malley, Investment Analyst, Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation and Paul M. Kelley 2:30pm Creatingthe Business Plan -Barbara A. Plantholt

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