1 i'YIOU SE NEWS HAPPEN CALD)A(Y Forever in debt to stay in line with ever-increasing automobile prices, The National Bank & Trust Co. of Ann Arbor announced Friday a long-term solution to help ease the car purchasing pinch - five-year car loans. The move, one of the first of its kind in the cpunrty, comes at a time when lending institutions are moving away from the traditional three-year car loan. Bank officials believe the 60-month loans will make car buying easier because car prices have made monthly payments on shorter term loans too expensive. Even though the 60-month loans mean lower mon- thly payments, there's one little catch - consumers will have to pay higher interest rates. It just goes to show - it's always something. Happy landing Things have a way of falling into Dan Scott's life. Take last Thur- sday, for example. Scott was watching television in his home near Jackson when a neighbor informed him that a large object has just fallen out of the sky and smashed Scott's fence. The 64-year-old Scott went out into his yard and found a three-foot square steel aircraft door on top of his crushed picket fence. The door belonged to a Lockheed aircraft owned by Fleming International Airlines, a cargo service based at Willow Run Airport near Ypsilanti. According to reports, the aircraft was climbing to its cruising altitude when the door popped off. The plane made it safely back to Willow Run and after Scott notified police, the door was soon in a taxi cab heading back to the airport. Of- ficiols said it was fortunate that only Scott's fence was damaged. If the door landed three miles west, it would have landed plunged in down- town Jackson . . . or 35 miles east - downtown Ann Arbor. Take ten On Feb. 4, 1969, plans were announced to make Phi Epsilon Pi the first co-ed fraternity on campus. Michael Jacobson, then president of the frat, said he was inspired by a similar experiment at Stanford University. "In the co-ed dormitories a close relationship, not necessarily a dating situation, develops between men and women," Jacobsomi said. He said his frat would serve as a logical extension of that relationship which is spawned in the dorms. Happenings Sunday FILMS Vegetarian Society - Hunger, The Hunter, 6 p.m., 1423 S. University. Christ Fellowship - Bongoeffer: A Life of Challenge, 6:30 p.m., University Reformed Church. Cinema II - Word is Out, 7,9 p.m., Aud. A, Angell Hall. Cinema Guild - The Last Picture Show, 7, 9:15, Old Architecture Aud. PERFORMANCES School of Music - Trombone Choir, 2 p.m., Recital Hall. PTP - "Side by Sondheim", 2, 8 p.m., Power Center. Homegrown Women's Music Series - Joyce Schon and Kathy Moore, folk, originals and jazz, 7 p.m., Canterbury Loft, 332 S. State. LECTURES Sawan Kirpal Ruhani Mission - Sant Darshan Singh, "The Mystery of Life and Death",video tapes, 10 a.m., 4304 Union. Rebecca Miller, gallery talk on new exhibit, "Carthage Then and Now", 2 p.m., Kelsey Museum. MEETINGS Ann Arbor Church of Christ - Gospel Meeting, 9:30, 10:30 a.m., 6 p.m., 530 W. Stadium. Sunday Gay Discussion - Topic: Gay Community, 3:30 p.m., Feminist Federal Credit Union Building. SPORTS Men's Gymnastics - Michigan vs. Ohio State, 2 p.m., Crisler Arena. Women's Gymnastics - Michigan, Illinois State, Eastern Michigan, 2 p.m., Crisler Arena. MISCELLANEOUS TV Center - "House Botanist, Geraniums on my Sill," 6:30 a.m., WJBK. Wesley Foundation - Coffee Hour in Pine Room, 10:30 a.m., Com- munity Singing, 5 p.m., 602 E. Huron. Ann Arbor Vegetarian Society - Vegetarian pot-luck dinner, 6 p.m., 1423 S. University. WRCN-WCBN - Logo Contest for Job Find, information at Tem- porary Employment Office, 763-4545. Monday FFILMS- Women's Studies - Cross Cultural Films, 7 p.m., Aud. 3, MLB. Cinema Guild - documentaries American Shoeshine, Men of Bron- ze, 7, 9:05 p.m., Old Architecture Aud. Ann Arbor Film Co-op - Bluebeard, 9:30, Murder is My Beat, 10:45 p.m., Aud. A, Angell. PERFORMANCES School of Music - Flute Students Recital, 5:30 p.m., Tuba Students Recital, 8 p.m., Recital Hall, Piano Students Recital, 7:30 p.m., Stear- ns. LECTURES Center for Near Eastern, North African Studies - Nancy Adams, "Visual Images of North Africa: A Slide Show Through Morocco, Tunesia, and Egypt," noon, Commons Room, Lane Hall. Department of Applies Mechanics, Engineering Science - Dr. Vadim Komkov, "Applications of Noether's Theorem to Continum Mechanics", 4 p.m., 229 West Engineering. Center for Russian, Eastern European Studies - Emil Draitser, "Contemporary Soviet Humor and Satire, Official and Underground," 4 p.m., Lecture Room 2, MLB. Thomas M. Cooley Lectures - Series on "The Burger Court and Free Expression", Lecture I: Robert H. Bork, "The Individual, the State, and the First Amendment", 4 p.m., 120 Hutchins Hall. The Ann Arbor Cactus and Succulent Society - Dr. Kenneth Jones, "Etzada Clover", 7 p.m., University Botanical Gardens, Dixboro Road. Music School - Joyce Conley, "A Psychological Approach to Musical Perception", 8 p.m., Rackham Assembly Hall. MEETINGS LS&A - Faculty Meeting, 4:10 p.in., Aud. A, Angell. MISCELLANEOUS Ypsilanti Needs Famous Artists - Exhibition of Ypsilanti artists, 7:30 p.m., Eastern Michigan University Intermedia Gallery. Canterbury Loft - Open auditions for "The Anita Bryant Follies" 7:30 p.m., Canterbury Loft, 332 S. State St. The Michigan Daily-Sunday, February 4, 1979-Page 3 NO TAX SUPPOR T Panel OKs test tube fertilization WASHINGTON (AP) - A gover- nment panel agreed informally yester- day it has no ethical objections to the technique aimed at helping infertile couples have a baby, but failed to decide whether taxpayers' money should be used to help fund test tube baby research. A 13-member HEW Ethics Advisory Panel stumbled in efforts to define whether the government ought to play a role in financing such research, par- ticularly when human eggs fertilized in a laboratory are discarded instead of being implanted in a mother's womb. THE PANEL had planned to make its final recommendation to Health; Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano Jr. Instead, its staff was ordered to redraft a resolution on the ethics of the research question. It will try once more to decide the issue at a meeting scheduled here March 16. None of the members of the panel seemed to object to the lab fertilization of an egg taken from a mother, fer- tilized with male sperm in vitro, Latin for "in a glass dish," and transferred back to her womb several days later. That is how two British doctors, Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards, have achieved two live births since July. A third live birth by a different test tube technique was achieved in India. But two other test tube babies died during pregnancy, one with a chromosome abnormality. Some panel members expresed concern about put- ting the government in a position of en- dorsing clinical trials with infertile couples without knowing all the risks. THE ADVISORY panel includes doc- tors, a lawyer, a businessman and a priest. The Rev. Richard McCormick, a leading Catholic moral theologian, said "some measure of experimentation" with embryos in a lab is acceptable in order' to perfect the still uncertain technique of .transferring them to a mother's womb, and to resolve safety questions. But the Georgetown University professor said he objects "to bringing embryos into existence just to look at them to find new cancel cures or methods of contraception." "WE'RE DEALING with a very fragile concept of respect for life," he added. But other panel members em- phasized that the research will go on with or without federal funds or ap- proval because there are more than a half-million couples desperate to have a baby, but unable to, becausedthe woman's fallopian tubes are blocked. James Gaither, a San Francisco at- torney who presides over the panel's proceedings, said it was inevitable that obstetricians would try to use the test tube technique. He said "significant clinics appear to be on the horizon." DANIEL TOSTESON, dean of the Harvard Medical School, warned, "if we declare that work ethically out of bounds now, we will drive infertile couples to the situation where they will be exploited." Since 1974, HEW has had a de facto moratorium on funding test tube baby research. Contrary to what it called a general impression, the panel's staff said there was actually no current prohibition against an institution con- ducting the research without federal funds, even if it gets government money for other purposes. Gaither told reporters he thought most panel members do not object to funding in vitro research with strict limits. Tosteson, who prodded fellow panel members to reach a compromise position, said he was not disappointed with the.one-month delay. "A remarkable degree of consensus has been arrived at. . . it's a group genuinely grappling with one of the profound issues of our time." Mistrial declared in Rep. Flood case . nrTrn nr i+r w er un _ _-_ P'ETIER I3OGDANOVICH S WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge declared a mistrial in the bribery and perjury trial of Rep. Daniel Flood after a jury declared yesterday it could not reach agreement on any of 11 counts against the veteran Pennslyvania Democrat. It is unclear whether the Justice Department will seek a new trial. U.S. District Judge Oliver Gasch repeatedly pressed the jury of eight men and four women to try to reach at least a partial verdict on guilt or in- nocence. But after nearly three days of deliberations, jury foreman Daniel Robinson told the judge at mid- afternoon that it was virtually "im- possible" for the panel to reach a ver- dict on any of the counts. Within moments, Gasch reluctantly declared a mistrial. F -0 s), THE 76-year-old actor-tur- ned-congressman, had been standing trial for nearly three weeks on charges that he engaged in a six year scheme in which he traded his vast political in- fluence on Capitol Hill for at least $50,000 in cash and 100 shares of bank stock. Flood, showing very little emotion, never took the witness stand in his own defense. The case went to the jury nearly three days earlier. The jurors were sum- moned back into the courtroom shortly after 3 p.m., EST yesterday and were asked by the judge whether it appeared likely that they could reach a verdict. "Your honor," Robinson replied, "I am sorry to say at this time it is im- possible to reach a verdict." GASCII INQUIRED WHETHER "there might be a different climate if we recess at this time and resume on Monday." The jurors again returned to their room but soon sent a note advising the judge that further deliberation would be futile. Gasch brought them back and asked anew whethey they has reached a ver- dict, one way or another. "We have not," the foreman an- swered. 1971 At this point, the judge said. "I am' reluctantly declaring a mistrial." EARLIER, GASCH asked the deadlocked jurors to change their opinion "if convinced it is erroneous" and reminded them that they "are not partisans but . . judges of the fact." Gasch said their decision must be based solely on the evidence. "do not surrender your honest con- victions . . . because of the opinion of your fellow jurors, or for the mere pur- pose of returning a verdict." Gasch admonished the panel at midday. "Each of you must decide the case for yourself, but do so only after an impar- tial consideration of the evidence with your fellow jurors," Gasch said. "In the course of your deliberations, do not hesitate to re-examine your own views and change your opinion if convinced it is erronious." Flood,who has represented a coal rich district in northeastern Pen- nsylvania for 3 years, is charged with one count of conspiracy, seven counts of bribery and three of perjury in an alleged six year scheme to sell his in- fluence. Specifically, Flood is accused of accepting bribes between 1970-76 of more than $5,000 in cash and 100 shares of bank stock. Flood showed no emotion as his lawyers protested the judge's instruc- tions to the jury. On three occasions, Gasch had brought the jurors back into the court room and directed them to try to reach "a partial verdict, on any one count, either way, guilty or not guilty. Volume I.XXIX. No. 103 Sundal February 1, 1979 is edited and managed by students at the Uni'versity of Michigan .News phone 764-0562, Second class postage is paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday morning during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor,-Michigan 48109. 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