THE MICHIGAN DAIL't Page Eleven 'SLOW' DAY AT OLYMPICS Montreal cabbies angry By The Associated Press M O N T R E A L - A cab driver's demonstration, partly to protest the loss of business 's to official Olympic limousines, caused massive traffic jams in downtown Montreal yesterday while the track and field athlet- es took a day off and everyone waited for the gold-medal bas- ketball showdown between the United States and Yugoslavia. The Russian basketball team, beaten Monday by Yugoslavia. F 2in the semifinals, won the bronze yesterday with a 100-72 victory over Canada. Cab drivers, hundreds strong, mounted "Operation Turtle," a slow moving, sometimes non-moving, cav- alcade through the city's bus- iest streets just at the eve- ning rush hour. Horn - tooting traffic snarls, four cars abreast, stretched for miles in rain that further slow- ed the cars' movement. Some - , , zV major thoroughfares were com- pletely blocked, with traffic at F f a standstill. The effect, if any, on the Olympics was negligible, how- ever. The day's schedule was one of the lightest of the Games with much of the activity cen- tered in Kingston, Ont., some 100 miles away, where the yachting finals were held. AP Photo The traffic tie-up, another in U.S. ARCHER BARRELL PACE works off pre-competition a continuing string of labor jitters by throwing a frisbee. Pace, a 19-year-old Air Force tech- problems that have plagued the nician from Cincinnati, competes in the 90-meter event. Games, and talk of a new and Electric pain-killer gives athletes effective alternati*ve todrugs apparently legal drug were the chief topics of conversation yesterday. The new drug is a "perform- ance stabilizing" i n j e c t i o n shvhich a West German team doctor acknowledged Tuesday he would continue to administer to his team's athletes. A West German rower, Peter Michael Kolbe, charged that he col- lapsed in the Olympic single sculls rowing final because of a pre-race shot. He said it cost him a medal. Dr. Josef Noecker insisted that the drug was harmless and brushed off Kolbe's charge. "It's impossible that Kolbe could have lost a race because of this," the doctor said. "There has never been an ab- normal reaction and I give the substance in my hospital in Leverkusen. I'll continue to giver it." The drug, cocaboxylase thioctacid, is not on the Olym- pics' list of banned drugs, but a French doctor said his team does not use it be- cause there is an individual shock factor involved and the drug is unpredictable. The U.S. crew of John Kolius of LaPorte, Tex., and Walter Glasgow and Richard Hoearner of Houston won the silver med- al in the Soling class of Olym- pic yachting on Lake Ontario. Denmark won the gold and East Germany the bronze. The Americans earned the silver by winning yesterday's seventh and final race after completing the competition with the same point total as the East Germans. The boat cap- tained by Kolius had a chance for a gold medal until the Dan- ish boat moved up from sev- enth to fifth place in the last leg of the final race. The U'ite-l States came up with a bronve medal in Tem- pest Clas, yachting when the team of De'nis Conner of San Diego and Conn Findlay of Relmont. "alif., rowed home behind Se-den and Russia in the first finals in the sailing events. Track and field canpetitors got ready for fine final events today. America's fast 400- meter threesome of Maxie Parks, Fred Newhouse and H e r a a n Frazier swore to thwart the bid of Cuba's Al- berto Tuantorena for an un- precedented Olympic double. Moreover, they'll shut him out. "We can beat him and we plan to go 1-2-3," said Parks of UCLA. Newhouse, from Baton Rouge, La. American track and field athletes have collected ten medals, second only to East G e r m a n y 's 11, half- way through the competition. Dr. Leroy Walker, the Amer- ican head coach, said he did not think any big nation would dominate the sport any longer. Walker said he thought Americans would make the fi- nals in seven of the nine re- maining events. The best chances are in the men's hur- dles and the women's 200. The hurdlers are Willie Davenport, Charles Foster and James Owens, but they will have to overcome Guy Drut of France. In the women's 200, the re- maining hoes are Chandra Cheese-borough a n d Deborah Armstrong after ace Brenda Moorehead was injured. In soccer semi - finals yester- day, East Germany beat the Soviet Union, 2-1, and Poland downed Brazil, 2-4. By The Associated Press MONTREAL - In a dope- conscious setting, an electric nerve stimulator that fits in a pocket is being used for the first time at the Olympics to relieve the pains of athletes who are wary of drugs. "It's not a curative treatment, but something to control the muscular pain that is not asso- ciaed with a serious injury. It's really a nice, big help," says Ir. Jean Paul Bedard, medical chief at the polyclinic in the Olympic Village. "It's useful when drugs are not in order," said Bedard, adding that one application can stop pain for a few min- utes to hours. In a way that is little under stood, it apparently sends the brain a stronger impulse that counteracts the pain. Twenty-five or 30 of the FDA- approved units, called Neuro- mods, were given to the Olym- pic organizing committee by the manufacturer, Medtronics Inc., of Minneapolis, Minn., a major manufacturer of heart pacemakers. About 10 are being used at the polyclinic and about 20 patients a day are using them, says Claude Brandeau, technical con- sultant for Medtronics of Can- ada. Dr. Bedard would only say that the tiny machines, which resemble pocket calculators with electrodes, are being used but he was uncertain which teans are using them. The U.S. team is not, accord- ing to a spokesman. The nerve stimulators can be used for muscular pains suf- fered by participants in basket- ball, soccer, field hockey, swim- ming, track, weightlifting and other sports, according to Bed- ard. Bob Williams, coordinator of basketball therapy, says he has TONIGHT IN POWEF given five treatments each to two Mexican basketball players. He says, "It's been effective in taking away the pain, especially chronic pain of Achilles ten- dinitis and chronic hip pointers." "It takes away pain without medication, and that's a very big thing in international sport- ing at this level," because of the strict rules outlawing the use of drugs, he said. AT 8 P.M. R CENTER EVERYONE'S READING DAILY CLASSIFIEDS ARE YOU ? NEW Student Ticket Rate $2.00 FOR JOHANN STRAUSS' COMIC OPERETTA, presented t 'u1 1 tirsity if Michigan"scixil oi,)f 8:00 p m. 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