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The Red and Black
Athens, Ga. Tuesday, April 13, 1982 Vol.BO, No.88 An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
(UPI) — Argentina airlifted troops
and supplies to the Falkland Islands
Monday to avoid Britain's naval
blockade and Secretary of State
Alexander Haig held his second round
of talks with British officials on
proposals to end the 11-day-old crisis in
the south Atlantic.
Argentine naval forces were with
drawn from the waters around the
Falklands shortly before the blockade
went into effect late Sunday, enforced
by British nuclear submarines
reportedly prowling the area. The bulk
of the British fleet was still about 10
days away from the islands.
U.S.-made C-130 transport planes
took off from the southern Argentine
city of Comodoro Rivadavia every two
hours carrying troops, weapons and
supplies to reinforce the estimated 9,000
Argentine troops dug in on the disputed
islands, residents said.
A well-informed Argentine officer
said there was no sign of British forces
in the area around the islands and there
were no reports of any incidents
"We have nothing to indicate that a
blockade has really started." he said.
In London, Haig met all day with
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,
Foreign Secretary Francis Pym and
other officials on proposals developed
during his talks in Buenos Aires over
the weekend with Argentine leaders.
Haig gave reporters no details on the
proposals he was carrying, He was to
fly back to Argentina Tuesday with
Britain’s reply.
A spokesman for Thatcher said
Parliament would hold a special
session Wednesday on the crisis at the
request of labor opposition leader
Michael Foot
Asked about the withdrawal of the
Argentine navy, an Argentine naval
officer said his warships had "no in
tention of taking on the whole British
battle fleet on the high seas .” The
British blockade included a threat to
sink any Argentine vessel coming
within 200 miles of the islands, seized by
Argentine forces Aprti 2.
■file Argentine officer, who wished to
remain anonymous, refused to com
ment on reports that Argentine oc
cupation forces placed mines around
the islands and in the harbor of the
Falkland capital of Port Stanley.
Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa
Mendez and President Leopoldo
Galtieri reported to the Cabinet on the
talks over the weekend with Haig
Haig reportedly carried to London an
Argentine peace formula that would
declare Argentine sovereignty over the
islands, but allow the participation of
the 1,800 English-speaking residents in
a local governing council.
Hie formula also included the
replacement of Argentine troops on the
islands with a police force in exchange
for the return home of the British fleet
Costa Mendez would not comment on
other reported peace plans, but said
"we are negotiating ”
"We are prepared to repel any at
tack," he added
In Washington, Argentine Am
bassador Estaban Takacs said any
solution must involve both the with
drawal of Argentine troops and the
return of the British fleet.
In Buenos Aires, some residents said
they disagreed with the government’s
reported offer to withdraw its troops
from the island.
“What a bunch of turkeys,” grocery
store clerk Miguel Grondona said of his
own government. “After 150 years we
finally occupy the islands and now
they're talking about withdrawing the
troops.”
"We have to negotiate with the troops
on the islands, like they (the British)
did before."
At the United Nations, Britain
defended its naval blockade of the
Falkland Islands as an act of self-
defense’against armed aggression by
Argentina.
“It is Argentina that first used armed
forces," British Charge d'Affaires
Hamilton Whyte said in a letter to the
Security Council.
A U.N. spokesman said Secretary-
General Javier Perez de Cuellar had
cut short a European tour and flown
back to New York to held mediate the
Falklands crisis.
Raising a black
Grand Dragon wants to establish
University KKK chapter, but Klan
opponents express their contempt
By SUSAN B. DIXON
Red and Black ( onlrlbullng Writer
In his move to make Georgia the
number one Ku Klux Klan state in the
nation, Ed Fields — the Grand
Dragon of the KKK in Georgia — has
chosen the University as the next
target for a Klan chapter.
Fields came to Athens last week to
talk about the Klan's cause on campus
radio station WUOG's Evening Ex
change program.
Fields became interested in the
University as a site for a KKK chapter
when two University students Joined
the group after attending a rally in
Monroe, Ga. Fields said he was
especially interested in the University
because he sees "too much interracial
dating" here. Homosexual organiza
tions on campus also prompted his in
terest in establishing a chapter here,
he said.
Most of the approximately 30
chapters of the Klan in Georgia are in
the northern section of the state
Rome and Cedeartown have the
largest chapters, with the latter
boasting 12S members Fields said the
concentration in north Georgia is a
result of community interest in the
area. However, in an article in the
Atlanta Constitution March 18, Fields
said north Georgia has so many
chapters because "they don’t have a
big black population of voters. The
politicians don’t have to be scared of
alienating (blacks).”
Fields said the Klan would soon
begin a thrust into south Georgia
"We will be moving into Augusta
soon." he said
Fields claimed his movement is
gaining momentum as a result of the
conservative mood of the country.
"People are becoming more conser
vative financially and racially," he
said.
Responding to Fields' claim that the
Klan’s power is on the upswing, Tonya
Allen, president of the Committee for
Black Programs, said blacks could
become stronger and more unified by
working together against the Klan’s
policies.
"I would like to make my people
aware of the sick attitudes of the
KKK," Allen said
Fields' antipathy falls not only upon
blacks, but extends to members of the
Jewish faith. "They are the most
racist people in the world; they
believe only in supporting their own
nation," he said.
Christianity should be declared the
official national religion, Fields said.
"America needs to go back to being a
Christian country ."
“Any intelligent person’s examina
tion of the Jewish-American's role in
supporting this country and con
tributing to this country's culture
would bear out the ignorance of Mr.
Field’s statement,” said Peter
Farber, director of the Jewish Student
Center
Lyn Wells, coordinator of the
Atlanta-based National Anti-Klan
Network, has expressed concern
about the violent nature of the KKK
But in his WUOG talk, Fields denied
that the Klan is a violent organization
He said the Klan used violence only if
it encourtered aggression
Fields said he viewed the Network
as a "bunch of cowards They don't
have the guts to stand up to the Klan,"
and said more than once that "we
won't tolerate anything from them."
A rally to recruit members will take
place sometime this spring, Fields
said, but no date has been set. Fields
is now trying to lease some property a
few miles outside of Athens on
By MARK B. FLEMING
M and Black Attitlanl News Kdltor
Experts should be able to work the
few remaining "bugs" out of the new
fire alarm system in Russell Hall, mak
ing the dorm safer than ever before —
but only if students stop setting off false
alarms, University Housing and fire
safety officials said Monday.
"It’s not a matter of malfunctions of
the system, but of malfunctions of peo
ple living in the building,” said Univer
sity Fire Safety Officer Clint Almond.
The new heat- and smoke-detection
system, which is part of a $390,000
overhaul of the fire safety facilities in
Russell, Brumby and Creswell halls,
has been plagued by a rash of false
alarms since the beginning of spring
quarter, prompting housing officials to
shut the system down several times last
week. According to state and county
fire officials those system shutdowns
were in violation of state fire codes.
ting off fire alarms," he said.
“Granted, there was a time when
there were bugs in the system, but I
think the bugs have been ironed out of
the system. I’d bet my job on that," Al
mond said.
One Russell Hall resident assistant,
who asked not to be identified, said
most of the alarms were from student
abuse, such as sticking "shaving
cream, pens and pencils into the smoke
detectors."
The rash of false alarms has created
a "cry wolf" mentality among the
residents of Russell Hall, Hallenbeek
said. "There is less willingness on the
part of students to believe there is a
fire," he said
University Housing officials cir
culated a memo among Russell Hall
staff last week after resident assistants
had some "violent confrontations"
while attempting to evacuate unwilling
residents from the building when the
alarms sounded The memo stated that
the Russell Hall housing staff would not
force residents to leave the building.
"If you wish to stay in what could be a
burning building, that is your deci
sion," the memo said
Almond and Hallenbeek said they
still believe students should evacuate
the building in the event of a fire alarm.
"I fully, completely recommend
evacuation for every alarm, regardless
of the number of alarms," Almond said.
"The students are making themselves
unsafe by not evacuating. It's a first-
class sytem ”
Regents ’ agenda features
tuition, fees andpay hikes
a 15 percent increase in tuition for next
fall The regents originally expected an
8 percent increase, but rev ised budget
estimates pushed the figure higher A
15 percent increase would raise the $248
tuition for University students to $285
and the $493 additional non-resident fee
to $567.
Gov. George Busbee and the regents
have endorsed the state Study Com
mittee on Public Education’s proposal
that students pay 25 percent of their
education costs, with no annual in
crease of more than 15 percent.
Students now pay about 19.3 percent of
their educational costs. State funds pay
the rest.
Though the regents originally
requested a 10 percent pay raise for
University System faculty, the final
budget passed by the legislature in
cluded a 4 75 percent cost-of-living
increase and a 1.5 percent automatic
increase for a total 6.25 percent pay
raise. The faculty received an 11 per
cent increase for fiscal 1982 and an 11.5
percent increase for fiscal 1981.
After the budget passed the state
House of Representatives in March.
McCoy said the regents wuld not take
money from other areas of the budget
to offset the small faculty pay raises.
Joiner said he expected discussion on
fees for “other student services apart
from matriculation."
University Vice President for Student
Affairs Dwight Douglas said last
Thursday that housing costs should rise
by 12 percent, health fees by $5 a
quarter and activity fees by "less than
20 percent." Douglas said the regents
would not determine the activity fee
until their May meeting.
Housing costs currently ranging from
$223 to $323 a quarter would increase to
$250 and $360, while the health fee would
increase from $35 to $40 a quarter.
Regents’ Vice Chancellor for
Facilities Frank Dunham said last
month the regents probably wouldn't
consider the $16 5 million construction
budget until June because construction
bonds would not be sold until July. The
regents originally requested $60 million
in total construction funds, but the final
legislative budget allocated $13.5
million in construction and $3.5 million
in renovation costs
Joiner said promotions of faculty
would be considered at the meeting as
well as a proposal allowing the
University to institute a joint doctoral
education program with West Georgia
College.
Special reports and committee
meetings will be held today at Georgia
College, with a general meeting at
Middle Georgia College in Cochran on
Wednesday
British subs blockade Falklands as talks continue
Expired?
As an Athens meter maid looms in the background, passersby may have wondered
if this young man would get a citation for snoozing too long on a city bench. As the
number on his chest may indicate, he'd been parked for two hours, Athens' legal
limit. Fortunately for sleeping beauty Jim Cassell, it is not police policy to ticket
stationary pedestrians.
“The shutdown was technically in
violation of the codes,” Almond said.
“But the system was not doing what it
was supposed to anyway.”
Housing officials reported that some
30 alarms had sounded since the new
fire safety system was implemented, a
figure substantially higher than the
number of alarms that were reported to
the Clarke County Fire Department.
"I think we've not reported some we
knew were false," said Housing Direc
tor Dan Hallenbeek.
Housing officials and University
Police investigate all fire alarms before
calling the fire department.
Almond blamed Russell Hall
residents for the false alarms. "It’s not
a majority, but just a few of the
students who get their jollies from set-
By JACK THREADG1I.L
Red and Black Staff Writer
Increases in tuition, student fees and
faculty pay may be set at the Board of
Regents' monthly meeting that begins
today at Georgia College in
Milledgeville.
The regents will consider the general
state appropriation approved last
month by the legislature, said Bob
Joiner, the regents’ vice chancellor for
public relations.
The legislature passed a $548 million
budget, which was $130 million less
than the $678 million the regents
requested in September. The regents'
budget for fiscal 1982 was $528 million
Regents' Vice Chancellor for Fiscal
Affairs Shealy McCoy said he expected
Highway 78 for the event Klan
members will burn crosses at the ral
ly if it is held on private property,
Fields said
The rally will be heavily advertised
on campus in an effort to attract a
large number of University students
Frank Johnson, a member of the Klan
and a former University student, said
he expects a turnout of approximately
300 if the weather is good.
The Klan hopes that at least 12 of
the rally participants will become
members, as a minimum of 12 is re
quired to organize a chapter Once the
chapter is formed the members are
responsible for organizing and financ
ing themselves, Fields said.
Officials: fire-alarm problems
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will stop when abuse does