IF YU SEE NtY S HAPPEICALL WDA~tY Kneedy University surgeon Thomas Peterson says knee-level blocking in football should be outlawed, and he ought to know. Peterson, a one- time Wolverine fullback who played on the 1947 Rose Bowl team, has found that despite recent rule changes which have safened up the rather unsafe sport, Namath knees are on the rise. Peterson found 259 knocked-up knees in 1970 alone. The 1971 rejection of crackback blocking (clipping) and the 1974 outlawing of blocking below the waist on kick-offs and punts went a long way in protecting the gridiron gorillas, but the still permissable cross-body blocking at or below the knees is comparable to thrusting a railroad tie against the unsuppor- ted joint, said Peterson. "The cutting down or upending the player by a blind-side cross-body block may be dramatic and exciting to the football fan, but the risk of permanent injury is hardly a fair price for such transient thrills," he said. "Our objective should be to eliminate unnecessary hazards to players . . ." Yeah, like the Huskies. , 4r Happenings ... are singular today ... the Exhibit Museum of Natural History will sponsor a 20-minute star show featuring the constellations and planets visible in the Ann Arbor sky tomorrow morning. The showings are scheduled for 10, 10:30, 11 and 11:30 a.m. and will become a regular Saturday morning feature. Tickets are two bits. Buckeye blooper Just in case you've been wondering what those politicos south of the border have been up to, we're here to tell you it ain't been much. Angered by recent sloppy pledge performances, Ohio state senator Harry Meshel is circulating a fiesty five-paragraph memo to legis- lative leaders claiming our allegiance needs aligning. "Historically, and almost unanimously, the Pledge of Allegiance has been recited in a monotone without proper inflection, and all too frequently with inap- propriate cadence and improper grouping or phrasing of thought," complained Meshel. The senator reminded his colleagues that the pledge is "a one-sentence proposition with only two commas," which he said belong after the words "stands" and "indivisible." However, a copy of the pledge provided by Meshel's office included a period after " stands," a misplaced comma after "God" and three dots after "in- divisible," What do you want? Good grammer or good rhetoric? Name that tune We've always heard that those folks in Sweden really know how to boogie, but we didn't know Walt Disney knew-it too. Copies of Disney's "Jungle Book" tape and book packages, purchased for Swedish kid- dies over the good cheer season, turned out to hold a different version of the beddie-bye story than the one we were rocked to sleep with. Because of a goof at Polydor record factory, a pornographic recording called "Bordello Mama's Songs" appeared in place of the animal tale. The Polydor people apologized and said they would replace the con- fused cassettes, but we fear it's too late. A whole generation of Swedish darlings will grow up thinking the grandfather of children's lore was really a dirty old man. Read all about it The Michigan Daily-Saturday, January 7, 1978-Page 3 Carter gets low marks from European BONN, West Germany- cy of th (AP) - President Carter's theater's foreign tour, plagued by translation heardA blunders in Warsaw and unguarded through. remarks in New Delhi, drew low marks comment in some Western European London newspapers. Other papers, however, "How co praised his Middle East peace efforts. in Polan Some editorial critics of the seven- makes an nation swing said the patch-quilt itinerary and well publicized gaffes confirmed suspicions of White House amateurism. IN ONE OF THE sharpest press attacks on the President, Conrad Ahlers, editor of the Hamburg Morgenpost and a member of West Germany's Parliament, called Carter "the worst political failure of the past year" and said his nine-day tour, ended Friday, "is simply a continuation of this malaise." Such a blistering shot at a top American government figure is rare in West Germany, which proclaims itself the strongest U.S. ally in Europe. Whatever Carter "has touched-be it the human rights issue, disarmament negotiations, the Middle East, the worldwide recession or the rate of the dollar-he has smashed valuable china," wrote Ahlers, a member of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic Party. LONDON 'S Daily Express said Car- ter's "incredible blunders, boobs, and ham-fisted comments .had left Americans wondering: Just what will he do wrong next? Some editorial writers were less har- sh on the president, claiming his talks with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and King Hussein of Jordan improved chances for a Middle East peace. But others said Carter's diverse itinerary, which took him to Poland, Iran, India, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, France and Belgium looked more like that of a political candidate than a world statesman. "Carter's trip was a typical example of how the master in the White House should not conduct foreign policy," the liberal West German weekly Die Zeit said in an editorial. "Carter again has succumbed to the temptation of being present at all fields at the same time and of missing virtually no opportunity for committing a blunder." EDITORIAL writers pounced on 'Ca rusty translation problems in Warsaw and Carter's remark to Secretary of hou State Cyrus Vance in New Delhi, which became public through a recording, sho showing rifts with the Indians on nuclear policy. sue Carter's Secret Service guards had a snafu of their own during the Paris leg p of the President's trip. Only a pre-show p check by theater technicians prevented a the president's guards from broad- casting their operations live to the or audience of a Parisian music hall. A J theater spokesperson said the technicians changed the radio frequen- press. he microphone used by the star performer when they A merican voices coming The Secret Service declined I on the incident. n's Sunday Express asked: uld the president find himself nd with an interpreter who n utter mockery of his words after travels and who reduces the mighty United States to a belly laugh?" "THERE ARE six million Polish Americans. Isn't there one of them who speaks Polish?" In the Netherlands, the left-leaning Amsterdam daily De Volkskrant said Carter's tour was characterized by "clumsiness and, what is more, serious, failures." "The prestige of the president has suffered from the fact that no tangible results were established in the capitals which Carter visited," the paper said. On the positive side, some papers praised Carter's handling of the delicate Middle East situation in talks Wednesday with Sadat in the Upper Nile city of Aswan. Carter told interviewers before he left Washington that he opposed creation of a Palestinian state, a key Egyptian peace term. IN TALKS with the Egyptian leader, Carter and Sadat worked out a broad, delicately worded formula for a possible Middle East settlement. It left the complex details of the Mideast problems to be worked out in negotiations. "The president seems indeed to have been as skillful and persuasive as he was tireless," London's conservative Daily Telegraph said of Carter's per- formance in Egypt. "President Carter will return to Washington with hope that his trip has paved the way for new successful negotiations," wrote the- left-leaning Frankfurter Rundschau. According to some newspapers the Carter trip did little to restore American prestige in the eyes of Western Europeans. The French daily Le Monde said a year after Carter's inauguration, the world still wonders whether he is "A new apostle of peace and virtue or a provincial uneasy in responsibilities too complex for his good intentions." The liberal British daily the Guardian said, "a cold, blunt assessment of Car- ter at this stage might add that his early strategy with Congress proved inept; that he has concentrated too much rhetoric on foreign affairs; that a man who hymns human rights in February should probably not be em- bracing the Shah of Iran the following December." PROFESSIONAL THEATRE PROGRAM If you liked Hustler, you'll love the Plains, Ga. Monitor. Although lovely Larry Flynt has said he's through with cheesecake, the former porn king hasn't given up publish- ing, so when asked for a help- ing hand by the financially cramped publisher of The Monitor Flynt said you-bet- cha and bought up the small weekly for an undisclosed amount of money. Former Monitor publisher Sam Simp- son didn't say why he thought to contact the Flynt organi- zation when he needed money to revive the paper which was founded last February, but it probably has something to do with the fact that Flynt keeps singing the praises of Plains native Ruth Carter ,Stapleton, Jimmy 's sister, whom he claims' sho wed him the pro- verbial way. We think the sale was a good one. Who but Flynt could give better cov- erage of Carter next time he drops by Plains and admits to lusting in his heart? rter's trip was a typical example of w the master in the White House uld not conduct foreign policy. He cum bed to the temptation of being sent at all fields at the same time d of missing virtually no opportunity committing a blunder.' -West German weekly "y MENDELSSOHN * THEATRE JI- ) Sun., Jan. 15 2pm &8pm T icke a ila b ogt,,dgtl, stores Tickets also available through Hudson's stores Daily Official Bulletin Flynt " It can't happen here News that a London doctor has arranged for lesbian couples to have babies by artificial insemination upset tea time for a whole host of folks across the water. A founder of the lesbian organization Sappho claims she knows of at least six lesbians who have been inseminated at a Dr. Sopher's private clinic in the fashionable Belgravia section. The London Evening News, which broke the story, says the good doctor has arranged for several more lesbians to become mamas. A Con- servative woman member of the House of Commons voiced "extreme disquiet" over the report and said she would bring up the matter in the House. Director of the National Children's Bureau said children born to lesbian mothers. by artificial insemination will suffer abnormal stress. But perhaps Raymond Booth of the Royal College of Obste- tricians and Gynecologists was the most insightful: "This strikes me as a pretty bizarre situation," he said. On the outside... Expect a high of 340 today, which by this time of year is good news around here. The bad news, however, is that it will be a foggy, groggy day'with a chance of rain or snow showers. The evening low will dip to 26°. More of the same for Sunday. SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1978 GENERAL NOTICES: To Members of the University Faculty: During the Winter Term, the Michigan-Phoenix Project will award grants to support research in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. This will include work in the social sciences as well as the physical and biological sciences and engineering. Ap- proximately 60 per cent of the applicants in the fall term received support. To continue to support as many research projects as possible with limited monedy, requests for $3,000 or less will be considered appropriate. Grants may cover equipment, supplies, research assistance, and field trips, salary of the principal investigator, nor publication expenses, cannot be paid. Only those projects that are rated "excellent" or "very good" by the Divisional Review Boards are likely to be considered for funding. Priority for awards will be given to: 1) new faculty, particularly to those who need funding in order to THiE MICHIlGAN Dll VolumeI.XXXVIll. No.8o Sa turda,Januar y7 ,1978 is edited and managed by students at the University 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. Subscription rates: $12 September through April (2 semesters); $13 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Summer session published Tuesday through Satur- day morning. Subscription rates: $6.50 in Ann Arbor; $7.50 by mail outside Ann Arbor. seek research support from outside agencies, 2) established faculty who need assistance in opening a new area of research. Applications from faculty who have previously received extensive Phoenix support will be given low priority. Applications for grants should be returned to the Phoenix Project by Mon- day, January 30, 1978. Grants will be made by April 1, 1978. Appleation materials may be obtained from the office of the Phoenix Project at the Phoenix Memorial Laboratory on North Campus or by calling 764-6213. SUMMER PLACEMENT 3200 SAB - 763-4117 Yale University, Dept. Engr. and Applied Scien- ces: Announces their '78 Summer Research Program for College Juniors, engr. sciences, chemical, computer modeling, biomechanics, etc. Further details available. Apps. deadline Feb. 13. Nat. Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.: Announces '78 Internship Program. Positions are at the Civil Service, GS-5 level. Appointments effective June 19 to Sept. 1. Deadline for apps. Apr. 15. Brookhaven Nat. Labs., Long Island, New York: Summer Student Program, June 5 to Aug. 18. Must have completed Junior year, graduating seniors-biology, chemistry, engr., math., medicine, etc. Details available. Deadline for acceptance of appts. Jan. 31. National Park Service: Isle Royal Nat. Park will accept apps. for various maintenance-related jobs during the period Jan. 1 through Feb. 15. Details available, contact by phone. City -of Phoenix, Arizona: Announces its Management Intern Program for Graduate students. Apps. will be accepted until Mar. 1. Details available. the 0nn arbor film co-operative TONIGHTI-Saturday, January 7 I LOVE YOU, ALICE TOKLAS (Hy Averback, 1968) 7TONLY MLB3 PETER SELLERS stars as an ex-bourgeoise Los Angeles lawyer who drops out of a shallow, middle-class life into a shallow counter-culture one. A sly,' off-the-wall script by Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker, wonderful character actors, and a highpoint in Seller's recent performances. "Giddy ... charming, inbentive"-Pauline Kael. Plus Short: THE RUNNING, JUMPING STANDING STILL FILM 1974 JACK NICHOLSON in TUF L AST DETAIL E I