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73rd Year No. 96 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, January 7, 198 1 5 Sections 32 Pages - 25 Cents Khomeini endorses Algerian effort to free hostages ByJbhaKlmer NewYorkTSmei TEHRAN, Iran - Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho-meini gave Us approval Tuesday night to Alge-rian assistance in efforts to release the S3 American hostages, raising new hopes for a so- luti- on to the 14- raotith- - oW crisis with the United States. The Ayatollah's endorsement necessary for any major move was announced during the evening by Prime Minister Mohammed Ah Rajai after a meeting with the revolutionary leader. Bat the precise terms of me Algerian role and the state of the negotiations remained un-known, and Ratal's remarks themselves cre-ated further confusion and uncertainty. The confusion stemmed from the Prime Min- iste- rs use of the Persian word " tahod," which can h tratmlatpri jm msnin ojttT "" KfrTtflV- - ing" or " guarantee." In the contest of his re-marks, the difference is critical. Interviewed on Iranian state television, Rajai said: . " We asked the Imam about the hostages and we explained the new viewof the United States government to him. We also explained the Alge-rian proposal winch suggested that it will ( un-dertake, or guarantee Ho solve our problems with the United States and the Imam permitted us to accept these ( undertakings, or guar-antees) and we hope to announce me rest of the points soon." If translated with the word " undertake," the statement would appear to indicate that the Al-gerians would be serving as some sort of go- betwee- ns. If translated as " guarantee," it would appear that the Algerians were offering to stand behind the latest American offer, giving some form of assurances that Iran would be able to recover its assets frozen by the United States. With Iran and the United States seemingly in essential agreement on terms to fulfill the four conditions set for the hostages' release by the Iranian Parliament in November, the question of what " guarantees" Iran would have that it would actually get its money back when the hostages were released has become the crucial stumbling block. The four conditions were: an American pledge of noninterference in Iran's affairs, the unfreezing of assets, the dropping of lawsuits and the return of the late shah's wealth. Thus the important question was whether the Algerian intermediaries, who arrived here last Friday after four days of meetings in Washing-ton, had come up with some arrangement that would enable Iran to accept an American pro-posal. The Algerians have been conferring dai-ly with Iranian officials. Last week, the key Iranian negotiator raised the possibility that some form of " guarantee" other than the $ 24 billion deposit in the Algerian central bank demanded by Teheran in the last round of negotiations might be acceptable. " If there is a kind of guarantee which is ac-cepted by the Algerians, we can accept it too," said Behzad Navabi, the Minister for Executive Affairs. The differing possible interpretations of Ra- jai- ' s remarks were illustrative of the linguistic difficulties that have frequently impeded West-ern understanding of events here and have plagued the hostage negotiations. The Persian language is an elusive and im-precise tongue, and Rajai's statements, in bis brief term in office so far, have often proved re-markably difficult to fathom. " That is it, the Algerians have made guar-antees and the hostages will soon go free," one Iranian, experienced in translating for Western reporters, said after watching Rajai on tele-vision. Another, equally experienced, who watched the same interview, shrugged his shoulders and indicated that Rajai's remarks were inconsequential. A news conference was scheduled for this morning by Nabavi, the Executive Affairs Min-ister, who is serving as the government's spokesman on all matters as well as the key fig ure in the hostage negotiations. In addition, Pars, the news agency, has told foreign report-ers that a briefing would be held this morning but it was expected to deal with the Iraqi- Irania- n war. There were a number of indications here that pointed toward a conclusion that some form of agreement had been worked out beyond an A-lgerian role as messengers in continued talks between Iran and the United States. The strongest indication was that Ayatollah Khomeini had taken a position. Normally, the Ayatollah would be consulted only when his blessing was needed for a decision. The officials involved in the negotiations are believed to be feeling further pressure for a quick solution from two sources: the clamoring from the hard- lin- e fringe of their own party for trials of the hostages, which they fear could lead to new problems; and unease that the in-coming Reagan administration may take a harsher position, possibly involving military action. Fast action averts book catastrophe ByJohBHartmaa Misssortcu stxff writer It could have been worse, but' be-cause of a recently completed plan far dealing with such a disaster, 6,000 steain- soake- d nooks worth more than $ 60,000 from the University's Ellis li-brary have been rescued. Over the weekend, a steam coil in the library's boiler room burst, send-ing water vapor through the ventila-tion system to part of me stacks. The vapor condensed and coated the books with moisture, but library employees knew immediately bow to react to the disaster Monday. A plan for saving damaged books had been finished only days before asincident. " We'll come out of this with only some wrinkled pages and some warped cwers" said Deana Affle, head of the library in rial department. The broken steam pe was- dSsco- vr ered early Mcsiday mcrning by Horary personnel, and -- the shelving staff worked late, laying books on the floor of a large first- flo- or room and setting up fans to dry them, Ms-- Astle said. Ms. Astle and Grey Cole, the librar-y's associate director, bad nothing but praise for physical plant workmen who arrived Monday to repair the steam pipe- - The books, some of which are irre-placeable, Ms. Astle said, could have been lost if a library committee bad not formulated the disaster response plan. Ms. Astle chairsthe group. The committee's report, which is not yet pnhtishert, fnrnishert guidance for dealing with the wet books, Ms. Astle said, and added that the staff would have had to conduct time- consumi- ng research had it not been for the plan. The committee's plan was prompted, Ms. AsQesaid, by recent disasters at other universities. Bom Cornell and Stanford universities have suffered ex-tensive damage from floods in the low-er levels of their libraries, and librari- an- s worry most about water damage, she said. " The big problem when books get wet is mold andfungus," she said. Mold and fungus will spread from book to book and are hard to stop once they take bold, she said. " We were fortunate this time be-cause we caught it early," she said. The library staff hopes to have the books bade on the shelves today. 1IHJ9HKHHMHIb9 " r- MBWiiP-TiH -- , -- ' Jm ftMntfBsssifi? 1 CSssssD'lsBBHEfcL sbbb W E2ml bIE sbbbbbbbbsv v JsBbbbbLbL jSt bBPZ , bBHbWjsHILBHpKB ijfc -- fflDSint iBiBBILBiBHiiliBLIBBlBlBkH tiBbUbbIRhI909BpBk? S -- WW WWIW I I 1 I II, 1IIW III, Deana Astle, bead of Ellis library's soials de-- were damaged by moisture last weekend. A bro- partme- nt, checks one of the 6,000 books that ken steam pipe caused the damage. Titan may be hiding ingredients for life TORONTO ( UPI) Saturn's in-triguing moon Titan may serve as a dees freeze for the remnants of early stages of life development, and Mars appears to have had intermittent breaks in its prolonged ice age, Ameri-can scientists have reported. They also revealed at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that the Soviet Union is planning to launch two Venus landing robots next Decem-ber mat will grab soil samples for on- si- te analysis. hi a report on the latest findings from America's planetary probes, the scientists said they are still scratching their beads about many of the findings of November's reconnaissance of Sa-turn by Voyager 1, particularly the probe's observations of the planet's er-ratic rings. Voyager 1, now enroute to a 1S88 ren-dezvous with Uranus, found that Titan Saturn's biggest moon and the only one in the solar system known to have a thick atmosphere has a surface temperature of' minus 283 degrees F ( minus 175 C). Dr. Tobias C Owen, a project scien-tist from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, said the methane in the nitrogen- ric- h atmosphere of Ti tan is probably frozen into a " methane slush" on the satellite's surface. Be said the extreme cold has halted or-ganic chemistry processes of me type that presumably fed to life en Earth. But Owen said Titan must have been warmer bOMons of years ago. " Some very interesting chemistry could have occurred and the results of that chemistry could be trapped there and available for exploration," be said. " It an depends on bow warm it' got and bow long it stayed warm. " I think it certainly could have got-ten warm enough to have had seas of ammonia. Whether it got warm enough to have liquid water I don't know. That's the real question. You need wa-terforEarth- typ- e life." Asa result of Voyager's Titan dis-coveries, Owen said the National Aero-nautics and Space Admuastratkra is considering sadpnriaylclceihcnertmoafitcthatoel dplsaerunverdcefulaoorcpnseomTriseictnaettnoafioninffdet. hlaeoo1rk9o9bf0oos, t r NASA also Is thinking about sending a second generation lander to Mars to return samples of the marti?, goQ back to Earth for laboratory study. Inside today UAW willing to help Chrysler United Auto Workers Presi-dent Douglas Fraser says the union is willing to make conces-sions to keep the Chrysler Cor-poration solvent, but predicted the automaker " cannot long sur-vive" unless the economy im-proves. Read about Chrysler's continuing problems and related auto industry developments on Page 4a Index ClatsmVd SB- ls- B Omiit's , . ...... j. 2C Opiates. 4A Fnplit B28 Spate CA- Z- A City's budget crunch catches agency head; council wipes out job ByTerriHengel Missoarian staff writer No one has criticized the job Dwight Collins was doing as head of the city's Department of Community Services, but be still received the unkindest cut of all be lost his job. In a closed meeting after the regu-larly scheduled session Monday night, the Columbia City Council decided the best way to reduce its budget would be to cut at least ace job, saving the city " in excess of $ 25,000" annually. City Manager Richard Gray said. That job happened to belong to Collins. la response to me council's desire to reduce city funds allotted to the De-partment of Conmassty Services in - tchoeun1c3il83M1s cpiltayn btuodgacect, omGprlaiyshtothlde trhe- e daction. The council unanimously en-dorsed Gray's plan to eliminate the community services director's pesitisa and merge the cwiinniTiity services and health departments. The dry wfll drop the position Jan. 31 and leave Collins jobless. Collins de-clined to comment on the situation. Gray said the elimination of the posi-tion was a redaction in the work force and " was of no discredit to Mr. Co-llins." Health Department Director Michael Sanford will assume Collins' adminis-trative responsibilities. Two other community services employees, a planner and a secretary, will retain their jobs under the new administra-tion. The consolidated departments will undergo few changes in becoming the Department of Health and Community Services, Sanford said. " There would obviously be an increased workload for us," be said, adding be expects few problems. The Community Services Depart-ment, which has been in existence for six years, primarily distributes funds to mdpnendfnt agencies, said Gray. Roughly 20 agencies are funded by the city through the department including the Anderson- Haye- s Day Care Center, the Job Center Inc. and the Assault, Abuse and Rape Crisis Center. Gray described the service as " a Uwigfai Coffins LctfBg cityjob way of channeling money'" to the agen-cies and a way to " see that certain services would be rendered" for the year the city allocates more than 3OQ, 000 for distribution by the de-partment, and Gray assures that the department consolidation wQl have no effect on the agencies receiving fund-ing. '' Support for the function is still there," as well as the money, said Gray. The move was just administra-tive cost- cuttin- g, he said. Gray explained mat the move was " preceded by council action when it mfliyjatprf a reduction of administra-tive costs. They left to me bow it was to be implemented." In its 1980- 8- 1 city budget, approved in September, the council allocated $ 60,- 17- 4 for the community services depart-ment's total budget, 118,000 lower man the requested base amount of $ 78,174. It was the council's intent for the in-coming city manager to make changes in the department administration to meet this new budgetary goal, said Gray. The changes were merely ac-tions carried out by Gray after the council ' inspired'' them, he said. Ethics courses the rage at time when lessons are often ignored ByFrcdM. rJecMmgcr New York Times NEW YORK Can ethical behavior be taught? Can lessons be devised that will launch children on a path of moral action or frnhne doctors, lawyers and business people with professional ethics? These questions, which have trou-bled mankind for a very long time, have never been satisfactorily an-swered. Religiously instructed men and women turn up among the sinners against fundamental ethics. " There are plenty of people in jail today who passed college ethics courses," says Arjay MUler, dean of Stanford's busi-ness school. The questions are urgently raised to-day because unethical behavior seems to have raised the level of mutual dis-trust in American society higher than ever. Watergate, Abscam, the Korean bribery scandal, illegal acts by Ameri-can business abroad, venal inspectors at the assembly lines, profiteering by tSBcrupulous doctors and lawyers, chesting by college students all these hive led to new demands that teachers attract their charges in ways thatwSmduthembehave ethically. Two documents examining the issue Insight have been published this month: a re-port in the Carnegie Quarterly on a study of applied ethics, particularly in the professions, by the Tmtrtnte of So-ciety, Ethics and the Life Sciences in Hastings- on- Hsdso- n, N. Y. ( the Has-tings Center); and a working paper based on a conference on " Ethics and Moral Education" by the National Hu-manities Center. " Within the past decade," reports the Hatfmgs Center, " almost every medical school in the country has ini-tiated at least some introduction in medical ethics, and over half have very serious courses." Nearly 90 per-cent of aH law schools require courses in " profescicaal responsibility," and business and accounting schools are in-troducing similar comes. Applied ethics is becoming part of the curric-ulum of schools of mining, journalism and engineering. The military acade-mies reojoire their students to analyze the theories of just war and the linms Altogether, the Hsstmgs stady esti-mates, st least UJOBQ cetsms hi ap plied ethics are currently offered at un-dergraduate and professional levels. Daniel Callahan, the Hastings Cen-ter's director, who strongly supports the teaching of ethics, warns of its lim-itations. " Most professions," he says, " daim some moral purpose and lmk themselves with some moral goal law with justice, medicine with pre-serving life, and journalism with truth. But at present few pay explicit atten-tion to what these claims mean." Medi-cal students, the' report says, live in a professional ghetto little affected by wider ethical concerns. Many a lawyer in effect becomes " a hired gun for the highest bidder." A law partner is qucied as te& ktg a young recrmt: " The great thrill is to win when you are wrong." Speaking at the Humanities Center's symposium, William Bennett, its direc-tor, said be generally opposed special moral education courses to school. But be and Edwin Ddattre. presktant of St. John's CcUcge, felt that the schoofc should serve the cause by sgnosnttng " reasonable people of good wuT' who bring moral imagination to their teach-ing, and using literature to probe the question of ethics. He dtsd as examples the Inhssoace ( See ETHICS, Pige 124)
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Item.Transcript | 73rd Year No. 96 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, January 7, 198 1 5 Sections 32 Pages - 25 Cents Khomeini endorses Algerian effort to free hostages ByJbhaKlmer NewYorkTSmei TEHRAN, Iran - Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho-meini gave Us approval Tuesday night to Alge-rian assistance in efforts to release the S3 American hostages, raising new hopes for a so- luti- on to the 14- raotith- - oW crisis with the United States. The Ayatollah's endorsement necessary for any major move was announced during the evening by Prime Minister Mohammed Ah Rajai after a meeting with the revolutionary leader. Bat the precise terms of me Algerian role and the state of the negotiations remained un-known, and Ratal's remarks themselves cre-ated further confusion and uncertainty. The confusion stemmed from the Prime Min- iste- rs use of the Persian word " tahod," which can h tratmlatpri jm msnin ojttT "" KfrTtflV- - ing" or " guarantee." In the contest of his re-marks, the difference is critical. Interviewed on Iranian state television, Rajai said: . " We asked the Imam about the hostages and we explained the new viewof the United States government to him. We also explained the Alge-rian proposal winch suggested that it will ( un-dertake, or guarantee Ho solve our problems with the United States and the Imam permitted us to accept these ( undertakings, or guar-antees) and we hope to announce me rest of the points soon." If translated with the word " undertake," the statement would appear to indicate that the Al-gerians would be serving as some sort of go- betwee- ns. If translated as " guarantee," it would appear that the Algerians were offering to stand behind the latest American offer, giving some form of assurances that Iran would be able to recover its assets frozen by the United States. With Iran and the United States seemingly in essential agreement on terms to fulfill the four conditions set for the hostages' release by the Iranian Parliament in November, the question of what " guarantees" Iran would have that it would actually get its money back when the hostages were released has become the crucial stumbling block. The four conditions were: an American pledge of noninterference in Iran's affairs, the unfreezing of assets, the dropping of lawsuits and the return of the late shah's wealth. Thus the important question was whether the Algerian intermediaries, who arrived here last Friday after four days of meetings in Washing-ton, had come up with some arrangement that would enable Iran to accept an American pro-posal. The Algerians have been conferring dai-ly with Iranian officials. Last week, the key Iranian negotiator raised the possibility that some form of " guarantee" other than the $ 24 billion deposit in the Algerian central bank demanded by Teheran in the last round of negotiations might be acceptable. " If there is a kind of guarantee which is ac-cepted by the Algerians, we can accept it too," said Behzad Navabi, the Minister for Executive Affairs. The differing possible interpretations of Ra- jai- ' s remarks were illustrative of the linguistic difficulties that have frequently impeded West-ern understanding of events here and have plagued the hostage negotiations. The Persian language is an elusive and im-precise tongue, and Rajai's statements, in bis brief term in office so far, have often proved re-markably difficult to fathom. " That is it, the Algerians have made guar-antees and the hostages will soon go free," one Iranian, experienced in translating for Western reporters, said after watching Rajai on tele-vision. Another, equally experienced, who watched the same interview, shrugged his shoulders and indicated that Rajai's remarks were inconsequential. A news conference was scheduled for this morning by Nabavi, the Executive Affairs Min-ister, who is serving as the government's spokesman on all matters as well as the key fig ure in the hostage negotiations. In addition, Pars, the news agency, has told foreign report-ers that a briefing would be held this morning but it was expected to deal with the Iraqi- Irania- n war. There were a number of indications here that pointed toward a conclusion that some form of agreement had been worked out beyond an A-lgerian role as messengers in continued talks between Iran and the United States. The strongest indication was that Ayatollah Khomeini had taken a position. Normally, the Ayatollah would be consulted only when his blessing was needed for a decision. The officials involved in the negotiations are believed to be feeling further pressure for a quick solution from two sources: the clamoring from the hard- lin- e fringe of their own party for trials of the hostages, which they fear could lead to new problems; and unease that the in-coming Reagan administration may take a harsher position, possibly involving military action. Fast action averts book catastrophe ByJohBHartmaa Misssortcu stxff writer It could have been worse, but' be-cause of a recently completed plan far dealing with such a disaster, 6,000 steain- soake- d nooks worth more than $ 60,000 from the University's Ellis li-brary have been rescued. Over the weekend, a steam coil in the library's boiler room burst, send-ing water vapor through the ventila-tion system to part of me stacks. The vapor condensed and coated the books with moisture, but library employees knew immediately bow to react to the disaster Monday. A plan for saving damaged books had been finished only days before asincident. " We'll come out of this with only some wrinkled pages and some warped cwers" said Deana Affle, head of the library in rial department. The broken steam pe was- dSsco- vr ered early Mcsiday mcrning by Horary personnel, and -- the shelving staff worked late, laying books on the floor of a large first- flo- or room and setting up fans to dry them, Ms-- Astle said. Ms. Astle and Grey Cole, the librar-y's associate director, bad nothing but praise for physical plant workmen who arrived Monday to repair the steam pipe- - The books, some of which are irre-placeable, Ms. Astle said, could have been lost if a library committee bad not formulated the disaster response plan. Ms. Astle chairsthe group. The committee's report, which is not yet pnhtishert, fnrnishert guidance for dealing with the wet books, Ms. Astle said, and added that the staff would have had to conduct time- consumi- ng research had it not been for the plan. The committee's plan was prompted, Ms. AsQesaid, by recent disasters at other universities. Bom Cornell and Stanford universities have suffered ex-tensive damage from floods in the low-er levels of their libraries, and librari- an- s worry most about water damage, she said. " The big problem when books get wet is mold andfungus," she said. Mold and fungus will spread from book to book and are hard to stop once they take bold, she said. " We were fortunate this time be-cause we caught it early," she said. The library staff hopes to have the books bade on the shelves today. 1IHJ9HKHHMHIb9 " r- MBWiiP-TiH -- , -- ' Jm ftMntfBsssifi? 1 CSssssD'lsBBHEfcL sbbb W E2ml bIE sbbbbbbbbsv v JsBbbbbLbL jSt bBPZ , bBHbWjsHILBHpKB ijfc -- fflDSint iBiBBILBiBHiiliBLIBBlBlBkH tiBbUbbIRhI909BpBk? S -- WW WWIW I I 1 I II, 1IIW III, Deana Astle, bead of Ellis library's soials de-- were damaged by moisture last weekend. A bro- partme- nt, checks one of the 6,000 books that ken steam pipe caused the damage. Titan may be hiding ingredients for life TORONTO ( UPI) Saturn's in-triguing moon Titan may serve as a dees freeze for the remnants of early stages of life development, and Mars appears to have had intermittent breaks in its prolonged ice age, Ameri-can scientists have reported. They also revealed at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that the Soviet Union is planning to launch two Venus landing robots next Decem-ber mat will grab soil samples for on- si- te analysis. hi a report on the latest findings from America's planetary probes, the scientists said they are still scratching their beads about many of the findings of November's reconnaissance of Sa-turn by Voyager 1, particularly the probe's observations of the planet's er-ratic rings. Voyager 1, now enroute to a 1S88 ren-dezvous with Uranus, found that Titan Saturn's biggest moon and the only one in the solar system known to have a thick atmosphere has a surface temperature of' minus 283 degrees F ( minus 175 C). Dr. Tobias C Owen, a project scien-tist from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, said the methane in the nitrogen- ric- h atmosphere of Ti tan is probably frozen into a " methane slush" on the satellite's surface. Be said the extreme cold has halted or-ganic chemistry processes of me type that presumably fed to life en Earth. But Owen said Titan must have been warmer bOMons of years ago. " Some very interesting chemistry could have occurred and the results of that chemistry could be trapped there and available for exploration," be said. " It an depends on bow warm it' got and bow long it stayed warm. " I think it certainly could have got-ten warm enough to have had seas of ammonia. Whether it got warm enough to have liquid water I don't know. That's the real question. You need wa-terforEarth- typ- e life." Asa result of Voyager's Titan dis-coveries, Owen said the National Aero-nautics and Space Admuastratkra is considering sadpnriaylclceihcnertmoafitcthatoel dplsaerunverdcefulaoorcpnseomTriseictnaettnoafioninffdet. hlaeoo1rk9o9bf0oos, t r NASA also Is thinking about sending a second generation lander to Mars to return samples of the marti?, goQ back to Earth for laboratory study. Inside today UAW willing to help Chrysler United Auto Workers Presi-dent Douglas Fraser says the union is willing to make conces-sions to keep the Chrysler Cor-poration solvent, but predicted the automaker " cannot long sur-vive" unless the economy im-proves. Read about Chrysler's continuing problems and related auto industry developments on Page 4a Index ClatsmVd SB- ls- B Omiit's , . ...... j. 2C Opiates. 4A Fnplit B28 Spate CA- Z- A City's budget crunch catches agency head; council wipes out job ByTerriHengel Missoarian staff writer No one has criticized the job Dwight Collins was doing as head of the city's Department of Community Services, but be still received the unkindest cut of all be lost his job. In a closed meeting after the regu-larly scheduled session Monday night, the Columbia City Council decided the best way to reduce its budget would be to cut at least ace job, saving the city " in excess of $ 25,000" annually. City Manager Richard Gray said. That job happened to belong to Collins. la response to me council's desire to reduce city funds allotted to the De-partment of Conmassty Services in - tchoeun1c3il83M1s cpiltayn btuodgacect, omGprlaiyshtothlde trhe- e daction. The council unanimously en-dorsed Gray's plan to eliminate the community services director's pesitisa and merge the cwiinniTiity services and health departments. The dry wfll drop the position Jan. 31 and leave Collins jobless. Collins de-clined to comment on the situation. Gray said the elimination of the posi-tion was a redaction in the work force and " was of no discredit to Mr. Co-llins." Health Department Director Michael Sanford will assume Collins' adminis-trative responsibilities. Two other community services employees, a planner and a secretary, will retain their jobs under the new administra-tion. The consolidated departments will undergo few changes in becoming the Department of Health and Community Services, Sanford said. " There would obviously be an increased workload for us," be said, adding be expects few problems. The Community Services Depart-ment, which has been in existence for six years, primarily distributes funds to mdpnendfnt agencies, said Gray. Roughly 20 agencies are funded by the city through the department including the Anderson- Haye- s Day Care Center, the Job Center Inc. and the Assault, Abuse and Rape Crisis Center. Gray described the service as " a Uwigfai Coffins LctfBg cityjob way of channeling money'" to the agen-cies and a way to " see that certain services would be rendered" for the year the city allocates more than 3OQ, 000 for distribution by the de-partment, and Gray assures that the department consolidation wQl have no effect on the agencies receiving fund-ing. '' Support for the function is still there," as well as the money, said Gray. The move was just administra-tive cost- cuttin- g, he said. Gray explained mat the move was " preceded by council action when it mfliyjatprf a reduction of administra-tive costs. They left to me bow it was to be implemented." In its 1980- 8- 1 city budget, approved in September, the council allocated $ 60,- 17- 4 for the community services depart-ment's total budget, 118,000 lower man the requested base amount of $ 78,174. It was the council's intent for the in-coming city manager to make changes in the department administration to meet this new budgetary goal, said Gray. The changes were merely ac-tions carried out by Gray after the council ' inspired'' them, he said. Ethics courses the rage at time when lessons are often ignored ByFrcdM. rJecMmgcr New York Times NEW YORK Can ethical behavior be taught? Can lessons be devised that will launch children on a path of moral action or frnhne doctors, lawyers and business people with professional ethics? These questions, which have trou-bled mankind for a very long time, have never been satisfactorily an-swered. Religiously instructed men and women turn up among the sinners against fundamental ethics. " There are plenty of people in jail today who passed college ethics courses," says Arjay MUler, dean of Stanford's busi-ness school. The questions are urgently raised to-day because unethical behavior seems to have raised the level of mutual dis-trust in American society higher than ever. Watergate, Abscam, the Korean bribery scandal, illegal acts by Ameri-can business abroad, venal inspectors at the assembly lines, profiteering by tSBcrupulous doctors and lawyers, chesting by college students all these hive led to new demands that teachers attract their charges in ways thatwSmduthembehave ethically. Two documents examining the issue Insight have been published this month: a re-port in the Carnegie Quarterly on a study of applied ethics, particularly in the professions, by the Tmtrtnte of So-ciety, Ethics and the Life Sciences in Hastings- on- Hsdso- n, N. Y. ( the Has-tings Center); and a working paper based on a conference on " Ethics and Moral Education" by the National Hu-manities Center. " Within the past decade," reports the Hatfmgs Center, " almost every medical school in the country has ini-tiated at least some introduction in medical ethics, and over half have very serious courses." Nearly 90 per-cent of aH law schools require courses in " profescicaal responsibility," and business and accounting schools are in-troducing similar comes. Applied ethics is becoming part of the curric-ulum of schools of mining, journalism and engineering. The military acade-mies reojoire their students to analyze the theories of just war and the linms Altogether, the Hsstmgs stady esti-mates, st least UJOBQ cetsms hi ap plied ethics are currently offered at un-dergraduate and professional levels. Daniel Callahan, the Hastings Cen-ter's director, who strongly supports the teaching of ethics, warns of its lim-itations. " Most professions," he says, " daim some moral purpose and lmk themselves with some moral goal law with justice, medicine with pre-serving life, and journalism with truth. But at present few pay explicit atten-tion to what these claims mean." Medi-cal students, the' report says, live in a professional ghetto little affected by wider ethical concerns. Many a lawyer in effect becomes " a hired gun for the highest bidder." A law partner is qucied as te& ktg a young recrmt: " The great thrill is to win when you are wrong." Speaking at the Humanities Center's symposium, William Bennett, its direc-tor, said be generally opposed special moral education courses to school. But be and Edwin Ddattre. presktant of St. John's CcUcge, felt that the schoofc should serve the cause by sgnosnttng " reasonable people of good wuT' who bring moral imagination to their teach-ing, and using literature to probe the question of ethics. He dtsd as examples the Inhssoace ( See ETHICS, Pige 124) |