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Big East feacf: Providence, Syracuse are first to reach NCAA Final Four IE Pistons lose lead: Mavericks bump Detroit into second place 1E sunny High 56Jow 35 Partly cloudy Monday dtwit Jfee Sunday March 22, 1987 Metro final 75; For home delivery call 222-6500. 1987, Detroit Free Press, Inc. ON GUARD FOR 155 YEARS Volume 156, Number 322 3 HosCy U-M president feels heat of racism protest EDS planning to cut at least 200 GM jobs By KAREN SCHNEIDER Free Press Staff Writer ANN ARBOR When Harold Shapiro became president of the University of Michigan in 1980, 1,791 black students attended U-M. This year, 117 fewer do. There were 71 black professors when Shapiro took office.

Today, there are 64. Shapiro's record on recruiting black students and faculty has come under fire in recent weeks as students staged New breed of protesters focuses on U-M racism. 1B. Regent confronted by movement he founded. 5B.

rallies and sit-ins calling for an end to racism and fof greater numbers of blacks on campus. Shapiro has denounced several rac-See U-M, Page 18A ing" its employment at the No. 1 U.S. automaker, said spokesman Bill Wright. EDS said the cut followed the completion of some GM programs and the deletion or reduction of others.

For example, the scaling back of GM's Saturn Corp. small-car project has affected EDS, said an EDS official who asked not to be named. Also, factory automation projects for plants in New Jersey and Delaware that produce new GM models have been completed and need fewer EDS workers to maintain them, Wright said. THE 200 TO 300 EDS workers whose jobs have been eliminated are seeking reassignment to jobs in EDS that mostly are available outside the GM account, Wright said. Workers who do not accept jobs offered at other See EDS, Page 18A By JOHN SPELICH Free Press Automotive Wriler General Motors Electronic Data Systems subsidiary is trimming more than 200 jobs at the automaker the first such cuts since the automaker bought the computer-information processing company in 1984.

EDS, which more than tripled its number of employes in the past two years to cope with the GM business it inherited in the purchase, is "stabiliz PAULINE LUBE NS Detroit Free Press U-M President Harold Shapiro said he doesn't believe in setting quotas or imposing penalties for failing to increase the number of black students or faculty Poindexter, North may blame bosses vfv MANNY CRISOSTOMODetrolt Free Press People bound for St. Paul, wait to check in for boarding passes at Gate 5 on Northwest Airlines' Concourse at Detroit Metro. i 1 V- ORTHWEST; iQRIENT r. In nrp nn By SUSAN F. RASKY New York Times WASHINGTON Two of the principal figures facing possible indictment in the Iran-contra affair are preparing defense strategies asserting that they were carrying out President Reagan's policies, according to their friends and associates.

The two Lt. Col. Oliver North and Rear Adm. John Poindexter have spent the last five months in a legal limbo as a White House panel and congressional and Justice Department investigators try to unravel the story of the Iran arms deals. Exercising their constitutional right against self-incrimination, the two men and Richard Secord, a retired Air Force general, have refused to tell congressional investigating committees what they know about the sale of arms to Iran or the private network to aid the Nicaraguan contras.

See ARMS DEAL, Page 8A Money for humanitarian aid was used to send arms to contras. 5A. U.S. paid Miami pilot, charged with smuggling drugs, for contra runs. 5A.

Robertson shuns TV evangelist tag By REMER TYSON Free Press Polllics Wriler The ghost of television evangelism has risen to haunt presidential aspirant Pat Robertson as he strives to shed that politically negative image. Robertson's staff cut short a news conference Saturday in Warren when the former host of Christian Broadcasting Network's 700 Club was asked by reporters disclosures about television evangelist Jim Bakker would affect his presidential support. Robertson ducked the question, saying: "I think the Lord is cleaning house a little bit, and I don't think that hurts any of us. I'm glad to see it happen." In response to other questions, Robertson acknowl-edged he knew Bakker, a former associate, but said: "I haven't seen much of him in 16 or 17 years. Maybe three -1 or four times over that period of time." Bakker said last week that he had engaged in an extramarital sexual encounter seven years ago and paid blackmail to try to cover it up.

He said he and his wife, Tammy, had resigned the leadership of the PTL (Praise See ROBERTSON, Page 19A i NORTHWEST 1 a MORTHWFST ORIt Part Airline has more delays, longer waits than other carriers A baggage handler loads luggage onto a Northwest plane at Metro Airport. By DAVID EVERETT and RODDY RAY Free Press Staff Writers Imost six months after the chaot- Ff 1 1 corporate merger mui un ui mill I ed ttl0Usands of its passengers, 1 Northwest Airlines is still airline departures at Metro were within 15 minutes of schedule about 71 percent of the time. The study indicates that Metro's largest airline, traditionally known for efficiency, profitability and good management, is still fumbling In its attempts to rise to one of the travel industry's most basic challenges: meeting a schedule. Officials for Northwest, the nation's fifth-largest airline, acknowledged they See NORTHWEST, Page 17A Republic Airlines, the Free Press study of five days' of flights during a peak evening period in Detroit found that Northwest passengers can still expect a delay of 30 minutes or more on a third of the airline's arrivals and departures. Northwest's planes were late leaving their gates during the study period twice as often as other airlines' planes at Metro.

In fact, only 40 percent of Northwest's departures from Metro were within 15 minutes of schedule the standard for on-time performance in the airline industry. Other plagued by worse flight delays than other airlines flying into and Northwest and its competitors at Metro may be contributing to flight delays by scheduling more planes than the airport can handle. 16 A. Metro was unprepared for merger. 17A.

Robertson woos right with tough antl-communlst talk. 4B. out of Metro Airport, a Free Press study shows. Although Northwest's operations have improved since its Oct. 1 acquisition of Florida man donates final $1.3 million to evangelist Oral Roberts.

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