European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday february 1986 stars and stripes Page 7 1st . Poet laureate won t be like Britain s Washington a the nation s first poet laureate will be named soon but this literary lion or lioness won t be dashing off paeans to the occupants of the White House As the British poet laureate docs forthe Queen. We Don t see that sort of thing As suitable to demo cratic institutions said John Broderick the assistant librarian of Congress. Selecting from a list of a half dozen eminent Ameri can pools librarian of Congress Daniel j. Boorstin will name a National poet laureate later this month to Lake office next oct. I under legislation approved by con Gress last year. The laureate s duties essentially will be the same As those of the consultant in poetry whom the Library of Congress has appointed for the past so years. Literary figures who have held that Post include Robert Penn Warren Robert Lowell Robert Frost Stephen spender and James Dickey. Their Job is to advise the Library of Congress on its literary programs and acquisitions and to preside Over Public literary events. By tradition they open the Library y s literary season in october with a Reading of their poems and close it in May with a lecture. The consultants who usually serve for two years arc paid from private endowment funds. The current Consul Tant Gwendolyn Brooks of Chicago receives $35,000 annually plus $5,000 in travel expenses. No one at the Library of Congress is saying who might be named poet laureate but Broderick says Brooks would be a logical candidate. The legislation establishing a . Poet laureate was sponsored chiefly by sen. Spark m. Matsunaga Dha Waii. Matsunaga an Amateur poet has tried to create such a Post since 1968 to help inspire younger poets and make poetry More visible among the the Law creating the Post of poet laureate consultant in poetry gives the honoree the additional duty of administering a special annual literary event for the National endowment for the arts with an additional $10.000 stipend. The Law encourages Federal agencies to use the serv ices of the poet laureate for ceremonial and other Occa Sions of Celebration with the approval of the librarian of Congress. Broderick said it certainly would be appropriate under this provision to have the poet laureate compose verses celebrating a presidential inauguration or the dedication of a new Federal building. But he said the librarian of Congress will protect the poet laureate from being overwhelmed by commissions from minor government agencies and from political pressures to produce poems lauding the first family. In this respect the new poet laureate will be different from the British poet laureate currently Edward Hughes who is employed by Queen Elizabeth ii to compose poems celebrating such occasions As a Royal birth or marriage. The British poet laureate receives 97 pounds a year or about s136, part of it in lieu of a traditional Grant of a butt of sack or Case of Sherry for his labors. Brandeis students erect shanty town in protest protesting Brandeis students erect a sign at the Edge of their Campus Shantytown. Waltham mass. A Brandeis University Stu dents have erected a Shantytown on Campus and say they will live in it in shifts to protest the College s investments in companies that do business in South Africa. We re going to be living in there basically 24 hours a Day former Brandeis student Dan Wintraub a spokes Man for the protesting students said thursday. About 100 students built the Shantytown with scrap Wood Sheet Metal plastic rope and nails Weintraub said. More than so of them plan to live in the interconnected shacks during four hour shifts. There arc other actions that Are in the works if the University does t divest of its holdings within a certain period of time he added. The overwhelming consensus is that we will up the Brandeis officials plan no action against the students living in the Shantytown said spokesman Mike Mcdowell. I think As Long As it remains a peaceful protest the univer sity won t interfere with Mcdowell said about 2 percent of Brandeis endowment is invested in firms doing business in South Africa. Those must follow the Sullivan principles a set of guidelines for companies doing business in South Africa. In addition he said the University employs a committee of faculty members administrators students and alumni to Aid it in socially responsible investing. Brandeis has reduced its investments in companies that do business in South Africa from $3.8 million last october to about s2.2 million Weintraub said. Mcdowell said $2.2 million is in the Ballpark but that an exact figure was unavailable thursday. A Shantytown on the Hanover n.h., Campus of Dart Mouth College has generated controversy Over the past several weeks especially after a group of students opposed to the anti apartheid protest damaged the shacks. Dartmouth president David Mclaughlin said tuesday that he expects students to remove the Shantytown after this weekend. Lawmaker seeks is who saw Arrow air fire Washington a the chairman of a subcommittee investigating a crash that killed 248 army troops returning from the Mideast said thursday he wants to talk to soldiers who reportedly said the plane landed in Cairo Egypt with one engine afire on its eastward trip. We need a lot More information about Laid rep. Bill Nichols chair Man of the House armed services investigations subcommittee. Nichols panel received a letter from Chris Brady a former congressional aide in which Brady said he was told by sol Diers who were aboard the plane that it had suffered a series of problems on its the soldiers now stationed in the Sinai desert on a peacekeeping Mission were re placement troops for units of the 10st air borne who were rotating Back to the amt the Arrow air dc-8 crashed dec. 12 As it was taking off from Gander Newfoundland on the last leg of its return journey. Nichols said thursday that the subcommittee had decided to ask defense Secre tary Caspar Weinberger to review last week s decision by the Pentagon to renew its contract with Arrow. We want him to take a look at that said Nichols. Some of our members Are troubled by the fact that there had been trouble before with the Arrow plane. I want to get some of those soldiers from the Sinai Back Here eventually and talk to them to investigate this further Nichols said. The dc-8 had also suffered other prob lems As it ferried the army troops to the Mideast according to Brady but army maj. Gen. Edward Honor told Congress on thursday that he had not heard any complaints from troops aboard the plane on its outward leg. Although no cause of the crash has officially been determined witnesses at the hearings said there had been other incidents with the dc-8 which was involved in the crash. Brady is a former aide to rep. Thomas Bliley Rva. He left Bliley s staff last sum Mer and is now travelling in the Mideast. In a Jan. 20 letter to Bliley Brady wrote that he had visited Sharm cd Sheik from dec. 30 to Jan. 3 where he met with some of the peacekeeping troops who had re placed the soldiers from the 101st when those troops had returned on the ill fated flight. The soldiers Brady wrote told Brady that their flight to Cairo was delayed by technical problems before they even boarded. They All described the flight As turbulent but the thing that shocked me was that the plane landed in Cairo with one engine on fire. Despite that the return flight to the states departed apparently within a very Brief period of time. The end result of course was the tragic crash that killed the men of the 101st Brady s letter also said the Young men of the replacement units described in vivid detail How Jerry rigged this aircraft was. Every available bit of space had a scat in it so that the Normal rows were made to fit two or three More men each. The plane was so cramped that some Fellows had their Knees in their chests All the Way Brady wrote. When one Guy described a scene where the entire Side of the plane had to recline their seals if the Man up front did the others soldiers averred that this was True and not a attempts to reach Arrow for comment thursday were unsuccessful. There was no answer to the Telephone in the airline s Miami office
