Wednesday, May 18, 1977 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Pollsters predict loss for Israeli Labor Party TEL AVIV, Israel UP) - State television forecast stun- ning setbacks in yesterday's na- tional elections for the Labor, party, which has been the main force in all Israeli governments since independence in 1948. It said' the right-wing Liked opposition was making strong gains against the Labor party, stained by corruption scandals and hurt by a troubled econo- my. INITIAL VOTE counts from farm settlements showed a trend away from Labor. Elec- tion officials said Labor candi- dates won an average of 55 per cent of the vote in those villages in the last election in 1973, but only 43 per cent this time. According to the television prediction, based on samplings from 25 of the 3,879 polling places, Labor would get only 32 seats in the 120-seat parlia- rnent. The broadcast predicted Likud would go from 39 seats to 44. IT STRESSED that its fore. casts were based on projec- tions and that no official vote count was yet available. There were 22 parties in the campaign and the television sampling gave the new Demo- cratic Movement for Change (DMC) 16 seats in the Knesset parliament. It said the National Religious party (NRP) would win 11 seats. IF THE projections are cor- rect, Likud as well as Labor would be in a position to form a ruling coalition with smaller parties. Hanoch Smith, Israel's most noted pollster, said final results may differ slightly from the television forecast, "but this is Daily Photo by CHRISTINA SCHNEIDER Fun in the sun What kid can resist the feel of the wind from passing cars on a 90* summer day? Not too many. Clearly taking advan tage of the situation this child leaned outside of his car win- dow on downtown A2 and smiled-for the camera. Life ends for Waterman definitely the trend Brilliattt suishine with tent- perattres itt the li0 8ls helped swlt the large voter turnout. Electiotn dty is a public holi- day ai there was a carnival atmosphere as thottatids head- ed for beaches and picnic grounds after voting. EARlIEIR polls indicated the Labor party, headed by acting lPrine Minister Shitnon Peres, and Menahem Begin's Likud bloc would rttn neck-and-neck. Complete returns front the country's 2.2 million voters were not expected until some time Wednesday. Peres voted early near his suburban Tel Aviv home. He said he was confident of vic- tory but added, "the prol~em is, how big a victory. That I really can't tell.' A LABOR victory would mean continuation of U.S.-spon" sored efforts to settle the Mid- dle East conflict by trading Israeli - held Arab land fa Arab signauires tintpeace trea ties. Likud, on the other hand, is committed to withdraw only in exchange for a full peace and the outright Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River - the trick- iest chunk of real estate at stake. If neither party can witi de. cisively, much would depend on two smaller factions, the NRIt and the DMC. THE NRP'S fiery leader, Zvut- in Iiammer, favors joitiing L ikud because he also wants the West Bank to become part of Israel. The DMC, headed by archeologist Yigael Yadit, would be more likely to joit Labor, Altogether, 22 parties are running for election, ranging from feminist movements and ethnic groups to pro-Moscow Communists and right-wing ex tremist Meir Kahane, the American - born rabbi whO founded the Jewish Defenso lieague (JDLI. See ISRAEL, Page 7 By MICHAEL YELLIN The final chapter in the book of contro- versy surrounding the demolition of Bar- bour/Waterman gyms was written yesterday as Art Dore and his wreckers began de- molishing the buildings. To the many onlookers the razing of the buildings came as a surprise, after so much controversy, nobody thought it would go so fast. Dore's trailers, trucks and cranes ap- peared yesterday morning and the demoli- tion was underway. THE REGENTS had vote4 to raze the gyms in July of this year ahd yesterday's move brought out such comments from stu- dents as, "Something's fishy about this," and, "I guess they wanted to rid themselves of the trouble once and for all." Dore said he had received orders from George Selim of the Physical Properties De- partment of the University stating the build- ings should be torn down by the time the Art Fair arrives in town in mid-July. Dore indicated he did know of the con- troversy surrounding the builidngs and added, "They probably just wanted to take it down before somebody stopped them." PHYSICAL PROPERTIES Director Joseph Weidenbach said last night the Regents never set any date for the buildings to come down but merely indicated the job should be done by the end of the summer. Weiden- bach continued, "The contractor elected to tmove in today, there's no significance to it at all." Several groups of government bodies had come out against the razing of the gyms and wheels were set in motion on the local, state, and national levels to try to have the buildings declared national landmarks and immune to destruction. Barbour/Waterman gyms were built in 1694 at a cost of less money than what it is now cOsting the University to tear them down. BARBOUR GYM was originally used for the offices of the Dean of Women and the Dept. of Physical Education for Women. Women's groups on campus had stated to the Regents their desire to see the build- ings left standing and used for some good reason as a result of the history the build- ings represens/d. lore indicated yesterday it would take more than a month to raze the buildings before he filled in the empty hole with sand. Dore was also impressed with the construc- tion and brick of Barbour/Waterman, "This is the best brick I've ever seen," Dore said, "and I've been out here doing this for 20 years." Dore will sell the brick after he has torn it down. The University Regents have said they would like to use the land the gyms were were on for a future Chemistry building. The fact that the University has no money for such a project did not detour them from this decision. TODAY Fifth Ave., ahoy! When the U.S. Navy Department moves into its new office location in the Ann Arbor Federal Building, it'ss almost be like the sea. The Navy "crew" will view the world from six authentic porthole-style windows located on the first floor of the new building on East Liberty. But any sea- sick maties had best beware - these portholes don't open. An architectural representative reveal- ed the original building concept called for totally tir conditioned rooms without open windows. Though the final structural design necessitated sliding glass on the fourth level, the portholes will remain with closed hatches. Happenings... ,.. today is the last day of a three-day syfmposi- um on land, "The Face of America: This Land in the year 2000," in Rackham Auditorium ... and it's also the first day of the seventh annual Conference on Anomolous Absorption of Intense High-Frequency Waves, a topic which will understandably take three days to get to the bottom of. Registration is at the Extension Service, beginning at 7 am. ,.. Morton Reiser of the Yale School of Medicine will speak on "Changing Theoretical Approaches to Psychosomat- ic Medicine," at 9:30 a.m. in the CPH Auditorium. ... the Recreational Sports Department will host a jogging clinic at 7 p.m. in the central campus rec building. A user pass or valid fall ID is required ... and introductory meetings of the Students Inter- national Meditation Society will be held at noon and 8 p.m. at 1207 Packard. 0 Fire A small fire in Hill Auditorium was quickly extinguished yesterday afternoon by city firefighters. Kay Shelemay, University Musical Society employe, allerted fire officials when she smelled smoke com- ing from a second floor organ practice room on the northeast corner of the auditorium. Apparently, the blaze began in a box containing wooden organ parts. University Safety Director Fredrick Davis had no immediate estimate of the fire's total damage, but he did say that a broken window and damage caused by smoke and water would total about $1,000. An investigation into the fire's cause is currently under- way. Door thieves Even among thieves there are trade secrets. Burglars who took $112,500 from a Skokie, Ill. bank Monday also took the 250-pound steel door to pre- vent authorities from discovering how they did it. Police believe the thieves used metal tabs to neu- tralize the alarm system's controls, which detect body heat. "They were extremely familiar with alarms, safes and baiks," comuiented Eru taKra mer, president of the bank. Or maybe they just needed a replacement door for the upstairs bed- roomi Progress Who says science isn't making proigress? Nine members of a. "think tank" in Cambridge, Mass. have discovered that lead balloons can he made to fly. The problem with lead balloons, aside from the obvious, is that the metal has to be made thin enough to make the balloon without being so fragile that it tears. The secret, for all you Popular Me- chanics turn-that-unused-lead-into-a-useful-balloon en- thusiasts, is to use lead foil over a wooden super- structure. The lead balloon cliche is not the first to fall victim to the aroused wit of Arthur D. Little, Inc.'s scientists, however. In 1921, the founder him- self pounded a sow's ear into filament to make a silk purse. On the outside The heat wave will continue to burn your heart, though possibly not your skin, because it'll turn cloudy today. Look for warm, muggy weather and scattered afternoon thundershowers, with a high of 86. Tonight the mercury will dip to 65, but by tonmorrow we should be back to more of summer in the city - sunny, with a high of 84.