Wednesday, June 9, 197&, THE AMCH IGAN DA..Y Pocge Three- Recruiters Open season on jocks By JENNIFER MILLER On a clear, crisp day in November, when over 169,000 fans huddle in the stadium to watch the University of Michigan Wolverines play football, few realize just how much time and work.it took to get those 11 behemoths out on the field. Before all the hours of training and weeks of practice ever take place, the players,, in whatever sport, must first be persuaded to enroll in the University. This is the job of the coaches - to bring the players to the campus, to ca- jole them, flatter them, convince them in some way that Ann Arbor is the place for them. THE NAME OF THIS game is recruit- ing, and it is a year-round phenomenon. "You can't believe how much time you spend," says assistant football coach Gary Moeller. "Sometimes it's a real pain because it's so time-consuming." From the moment the coaches first hear about a prospective student-ath- lete, (usually through the student's high school coach during the junior year), they pursue. Using correspondence, the telephone, and personal contacts, they virtually dog the student's trail for most of two years until he graduates from high school and is ready to enter col- lege. For all coaches, in all sports, there are certain aspects of recruiting that are the same. The time involved is great, the competition is tough, and the results range from stupendous to disas- trous. Each must follow NCAA recruit- ing rules as well. BUT WHEN IT comes to the personal style of each coach, there are some ob- vious differences. To carry out their tasks, some coaches focus on their particular sport, others on the athletic program in general. One may stress academic performance more than another, and some simply try ta- sell their own personalities. Assistant basketball coach Bill Frieder tries to sell every aspect of Michigan. athletics. "I SELL THE program, the athletic program in general, and the basketball program," he says. "I tell them about the football program. the crowds we get, See RECRUITERS, Page 7 SYRIANS NEAR BEIRUT: Lebanese claim gains BEIRUT, Lebanon (A') - Left- ist Moslems and their Palestin- ian allies claimed yesterday they had driven back Syrian armored columns in the mountains east of Beirut and at the southern port city of Sidon. Moslem-controlled Beirut radio said the Syrians could not move forward "one inch" in the east and "battles are still continuing on the hills overlooking Sidon where Syrian armored units could not advance following their forced withdrawal under fire from allied forces." WITNESSES reported that a Syrian column with an estimated 200 tanks advanced to the edge of Bhamdoun, 16 miles east of Beirut Monday night, but were driven back four miles to the re- sort town of Saufar during heavy fighting Tuesday morning. Later reports that could not be con- firmed said the Syrians, moving behind barrages of tank and artillery fire, were nearing Bhamdoun again. Western diplomats in Berint said it appeared the Syrians wre trying to use a pincer moxctment on Beirut to force the ftst Moslems and Palestinians ti accept a truce. The prongs the pincer, they said, are the >rces on the Dateascus-Beirut av east of the capital and she tums that could come north on the coastal highway from Salon. The coastal road is still con- trolled, however, by troops of the Lebanese Arab Army formed bh renegade Moslems from Leb- a.!oin's shattered regular army. WHILE THE Syrians battled to advance Palestinian Libera- tion Organization (PLO) Yasir Arafat's guerrillas and Moslen' battled in the streets of Beirut against commandos of the Syrian-based Saiqa Palestinians. Beirut was a city under siege. Electricity was off half the time, telephones worked only sporadically, bread was scarce and the streets deserted except for gangs of armed youths pa- trolling their zones. The Moslem leftists and Pales- tinians had been gaining in their battle to wrest more power from the dominant Christian minority until the Syrians moved in. The new struggle has exploded old alliances and forged strange new partnerships. PALESTINIAN guerrilla lead- er Arafat, in Cairo to enlist Arab aid against the Syrians, said Syrian tanks, jets and rockets were pounding refugee camps in Lebanon "in the blood- iest butchery ever." In Washington, the State De- partment said about 3,000 fresh Syrian troops have crossed into Lebanon in the past few (Jays. The Syrian units began nioving into Lebanon a week ago and the force is estimated by Wash- ington to total about 9,111 sol- diers now. A State Department spokes- man in Washington said tliue is a contingency plan for the evacuation of U.S. Embassy per- sonnel and U.S. citizens but he called this routine in a war situation. There are some 50 Americans with the embassy and about 1,000 private U.S. citizens in Lebanon. ARAB foreign ministers met in an emergency session to dis- cuss Syria's invasion of Leb- anon and savage fighting there between Syrian units and Pales- tinian guerillas. Panel OK's record U.S. defense, budget WASIIINGTON P-)-Citing concern over the Soviets' nuclear missile strength, the Iouse Appropriations Committee approved a record $10 billion defense bill yesterday. The committee rejected Senate efforts to trim expenditures for Trident submarine long-range missiles by $600 million to $2.26 billion anid ito block a $350 mililon advance payment for a nuclear aircraft carrier. THE COMMITTEE also approved ltresident Ford's $1.5 billion request for the B1 bomber. The $106 bililon bill for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 is only $814 million below Ford's request, the smallest cut in a decade. Cuts had ranged near $5 billion in recent years. The full House is to act on the bill next week. THE COMMITTEE chapped $101.4 million off Ford's request for intelligence funds but, as always, refused to say how much money for intelligence agencies is hidden among the defense items in the bill. The committee said that until present reorganization deter- mines the future of U.S. intelligence, Congress should fund only "vital intelligence activities which will not result in major new commitments." On the Bl bomber, the committee rejected 26 to 15 an amend- ment by Rep. Joseph Addabbo (D-N.Y.) to prohibit any production See PANEL, Page 10 Dalv Photo by STEVE KAGAN Feet of fury Putting his best foot forward, Frank Lobbestach of the Academy Tae Kwon Do Karate studio demonstrated yester- day why thugs and hooligans do not hang around his front porch. Lobbestach, owner of a green belt, strikes this grim pose regularly at the Ann Arbor studio. # f m ouse smsss-saic,,cai Quite a stink A Jacksonville, Fla, company which produces such smells as lemon and lime for shampoo, candy and furniture polish gave up a fight Monday against charges that it made the city stink. One resident said the odor coming from the Union Camp Corp. twice in January smelled like rotten cabbage. The company did not explain how such a foul odor could have come from a plant known for sweet smells as it changed its plea from innocent to no contest on two charges of disseminating a pollutant. Mary Hartman Actress Louise Lasser, star of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," was placed in a six-month drug diversion program yesterday after appearing in Municipal Court on a cocaine possession charge. Diversion is a drug education program under which all criminal proceedings are dropped if first offenders success- fully complete the program. What new adventures face our troubled heroine? Happenings... . at noon Congressional candidate Ed Pierce will be on the Diag ... at 7 and 9 p.m. the People Bicentennial Commission presents "The Seduction of Mimi" at the MLB ... and at 8 p.m. in the East Quad auditorium the play "The North Beach gang versus The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco 1914-15." Weather or not If you thought it was hot yesterday it will top that today as highs reach the mid 80's and into the 90's, To- night it will drop into the 60's, but will reach the 90's again on Thursday. Good day for a swiml!