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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-22-1986 The BG News April 22, 1986 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News April 22, 1986" (1986). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4520. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4520 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Ruggers gain national final four, page 9 THE BG NEWS Vol. 68 Issue 113 Bowling Green, Ohio Monday, April 22,1986 SLS attorney states Soviets ready for intent to resign post summit by Patricia Ritter versity's Board of Trustees. (Scott's) part," Shaffer said. Gorbachev willing staff reporter Shaffer said Scott was hired However, Scott said she sent the by the trustees. Therefore, she informal letter to the board "out if 'atmosphere' The Student Legal Services, must address her resignation to of courtesy for the students." Inc.. board will likely be search- them rather than to the SLS Scott said her reason for re- is appropriate ing for its third attorney in three board, although the SLS board signing "has to do with career years as Sandra Scott, SLS at- must recommend a course of advancement." She said the in- torney, stated her intent to re- action to the trustees. tent to resign didn't stem from BERLIN (AP) - Soviet leader sign in 30 days through a letter Shaffer said yesterday he ex- any reported inter-office friction Mikhail Gorbachev stepped up to the board Sunday night. pected to have Scott's formal between her and the SLS staff or his courtship of Western Europe However, the board could not resignation by late last night. from her concerns with the SLS yesterday by saying he would accept Scott's apparent "resig- board. support disbanding the Warsaw nation" because it was hand- IN HER original letter to the However, she said at the last Pact and NATO alliances. written, undated and addressed board, Scott wrote, "I am giving SLS meeting April 9 that she was At the same time, Gorbachev to the student board, when it the board 30 day's notice of my concerned about the lack of voiced readiness to meet again should have been addressed to intent to terminate my contract communication with the board, with President Reagan if "the the University Board of Trust- ... I've determined my last a lack of goals for the SLS pro- appropriate international atmo- ees. She also didn't mention a scheduled day to be June 13, gram and a lack of an attorney sphere is created." reason for her intent to termi- 1986." evaluation. The Soviet leader, on a visit to nate her contract, which was up Shaffer said Scott will be able East Germany, also charged for renewal in August. to finish her pending court IN AN interview last week that the United States had ig- After the executive session of cases, adding "she will not leave regarding office relationships nored the opinion of its West the SliJ meeting, Jim Shaffer, any student hanging." Scott said with the SLS staff, Scott said, r'I European allies by sending war- chairman of the board, said the yesterday her last scheduled will not use the media to air my planes to bomb Libya last week. board cannot act on Scott's "res- court date is June 9. grievances" and refused to com- In a speech to workers in East ment further. Berlin, the Soviet Communist ignation" until it is type-written, The incomplete "resignation" Party general secretary said dated and addressed to the Uni- was "an honest mistake on her D See Legal, page 5. Moscow was ready for "a simul- taneous disbanding of the War- saw Pact and NATO, or, for a start, their military organiza- 'All-out' attack on Libya tions." The Soviets have previously said they were prepared to scrap the Warsaw Pact if the recommended by G.S. allies West dissolved the NATO mili- WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi- advice. But the Washington by U.S. Air Force planes partici- tary alliance. The offers have dent Reagan said yesterday that Times, in a report published pating in the attack. been viewed with skepticism in after he decided to launch a yesterday, quoted a senior ad- "WE FOUND that some of the West. limited military strike against ministration official as saying them were suggesting that - not Libya, some U.S. allies sug- French President Francois Mit- that the answer be nothing of ON THE possibility of a super- gested a coordinated, "all-ouf' terrand told U.S. envoy Vernon that kind - but that we look se- power summit this year, Gorba- attack to force a change in Walters he would support the riously at, together, real major chev said, "We are ready for a Moammar Khadafy's policy of mission only if it were strong action against Libya," Reagan Soviet-American meeting so exporting terrorism. enough to be aimed at over- said. '.'Some of them suggested long as the appropriate interna- throwing Khadafy. that,... if we were going to tional atmosphere is created, and real disarmament steps are resort to force, that then per- possible." In an interview with The Asso- Walters made a whirlwind haps it should be a wider-based His remarks were reported by ciated Press and other news tour of European capitals in the and a more all-out effort to _ . BG News/Dave Keilmeyer Geronimo! East German television. The agencies, the president said the days just before the April 14 air- change the Libyan policy." state-run network filmed Gorba- suggestions were "that we look raid to inform the allies of U.S. Walters consulted with lead- Larry McGirr, freshman sports management major, rappells chev's speech in a machine tool seriously together at real major intentions and seek their sup- ers in Great Britain, West Ger- down Memorial Hall. Students did the wall crawling exercise last factory in a suburb of East Ber- action" against Libya. Krt. Only Britain publicly many, France, Italy and Spain week as part of a military science class in rappelling taught by lin and translated his Russian He did not name the nations or eked Reagan's action and per- between April 11-15. The Master Sgt. Charles Homan. words into German. the leaders who offered that mitted use of British air bases Q See Libya, page 6. Western diplomatic sources said Gorbachev's repetition of the proposal dove-tailed with appeals he has made to Western Europe from East Berlin in the Bellard expects lean year for city past few days. "It looks like this, too, is mainly with the general fund revenues, collected in 1985 were not lower," he said. costs. But operating costs increased from aimed across the (Berlin) Wall by Zora Johnson at the West Europeans," said staff reporter he said. "But in 1984 and 1985, all of the income 19 percent of the general fund in 1984 to "I'd like to emphasize that the current tax money was transferred into the gen- 22.5 percent of the fund in 1985. one Western diplomat, who In presenting his annual report to City problem is with the general fund and to a eral fund so there was nothing to transfer "It's the difference between personnel spoke on the condition that he Council last night, Mayor Bruce Bellard lesser degree with the street funds." he into the general fund of the 1986 budget." costs which are going down and operat- not be identified. painted a bleak picture of the city's said. "Because you cannot transfer funds ing expenses which are going up " he Yesterday, in his speech to the current financial situation but predicted from the special fund to the general fund, OTHER CONTRIBUTING factors to said. workers, he repeated the propo- an upturn in 1987. it must stand on its own." the decrease in the general fund were sal on conventional arms and "In 1985. expenses exceeded revenues In 1984 there was $4.5 million in general caused by rises in operating costs and "The city is not going out of business, said he also favored "all-Euro- so 1966 will have to be a year of retrench- fund receipts while in 1985 there was only expenses that are beyond the city's con- but I am convinced that we will have to pean cooperation on economic, ment," Bellard said. "But we hope that $4.2 million in receipts. trol, he said. cut costs as much as possible and then ecological and other issues." by 1987 things will have stabilized and we The receipts that were lower in 1985 are seek additional sources of revenue," Bel- will have a concrete idea of where we state shared taxes, licenses, permits, Personnel costs were 80 percent of the lard said. "But the financial aspect is the "IT IS finally time to grasp are." fees and income taxes, Bellard said. general fund in 1984 while they only downbeat thing, the rest of the report is the simple thought that the bar- The city's financial problems lie "The actual income taxes that were accounted for 75.5 percent of the 1985 really upbeat. D See Mikhail, page 5. (JSG assigns 6 assembly seats by Caroline Langer organizational position at the voting privileges.