Indiana, UNC in NCAA showdown e Ninety-One Years of Editorial Freedom : '1 Lit igau Iai1Q MOIST Today will be cloudy with rain likely. High in the mid 60s. Vof. XCI, No. 145 Copyright 1981, TheMichigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, March 29, 1981 Ten Cents Ten Pages Plus Supplement Polish labor crisis nears settlement Ready for take off A Poto' Four University of Detroit School of Architecture students attempt to get their rather unconventional airplane aloft Friday as part of the school's annual Charlie Brown kite-flying festival. The crew, dubbed "The Birdmen," were unsuccess- ful, as they were a few years ago when they tried flying in a shopping cart. From AP and UPI WARSAW, Poland - Solidarity and the government adjourned talks yesterday without a breakthrough on averting a general strike planned by the big independent union. The strike that Western analysts fear could finally bring Russian troops mar- ching into Poland still was set for Tuesday. Although government and union. leaders made progress in preventing the threatened strike, the fate of Poland awaits today's special Communist Cen- tral Committee meeting - when a power struggle between moderates and hardliners is expected to come to a head. SOLIDARITY LEADER Lech Walesa was quoted by Polish newspapers as saying there was now "an 80 percent chance" the strike would be postponed. Solidarity sources said an agreement was now very close on a demand that the government fire officials respon- sible for the beating of labor activists in the northwestern city of Bydgoszcz March 19. So far only a minor fun- ctionary has been dismissed, and the union paralyzed Poland with a four- hour walkout Friday in the first stage of its plan to pressure the regime into meeting its demands. Three committees were set up to "study" other Solidarity demands stemming from the Bydgoszcz incident. CONFLICTING assessments and another stern warning from Moscow contributed to a feeling that the Polish crisis could still tip either way. Accusing Solidarity of acting like "a political party," the Soviet news agen- cy Tass said its demands were "unac- ceptable" and "hostile" to the state. It said Friday's four-hour nationwide warning strike cost the nation $83.3 million. It called warnings by Reagan ad- ministration officials "crude inter- ference" in Polish affairs. SOLIDARITY, meanwhile, appealed to its 10 million members to keep calm and avoid any action that could be seen as a "provocatihn" to the state. "Probably the Soviets are pressing the Poles for the forcible imposition of order," a senior diplomat in Washington said. "They could use several tactics - martial law, arrests of activist leaders . . . direct interven- tion." The Soviets already have troops in Poland on Warsaw Pact maneuvers that were extended on the eve of Friday's four-hour warning strike by nearly 13 million workers. Earlier yesterday, in a message sent to Polish Cardinal Wyszynski and broadast by the Vatican radio, Polish- born Pope John Paul appealed to his countrymen to find a way to avert the strike. The pppe also said Poland has "an inalienable right" to resolve its problems by itself without foreign in- tervention - a clear reference to Soviet-led Warsaw Pact forces curren- tly on maneuvers in Poland and surrounding East Bloc countries. Plish air space also was reported closed to foreign aircraft for five hours ending at 5:30 a.m. today for "technical reasons," possibly related to the maneuvers. A State Department spokesperson in Washington said it was "not unusual" for foreign air traffic to be banned during such exercises. ,Hijackers surrender in Panama PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) - A comman- deered Honduran jetliner landed here last night from Nicaragua and the five hijackers surrendered to Panamanian authorities, freeing some 50 hostages including several U.S. citizens, officials reported. The New Orleans-bound Boeing 727 of the TAN- SAHSA airline had been seized Friday morning after leaving Honduras by the hijackers who were deman- ding that Honduras free 16 jailed Salvadoran leftists. They ordered the pilot to land in Managua, Nicaragua, where they freed 34 passengers and then waited in vain for the Honduran government to open negotiations with them. They had threatened to blow the plane up if a Hon- duran delegation didn't arrive and begin negotiations by 2 p.m. EST. When the Hondurans didn't show up, the hijackers - four men and a woman armed with pistols and submachine guns - then ordered the pilot to fly to Panama. NICARAGUA'S GOVERNMENT station, Radio Sandino, had reported the plane left Managua's San- dino airport ;at 5:40 p.m. (6:40 p.m. EST) with its cargo of captives. It landed here about two hours later. Radio Sandino said the hijackers would ask Panama for political asylum. Honduran officials say the captives include eight U.S. citizens, but U.S. officials in Washington said they believe only two Americans are on board. It was not known if Panama has been negotiating with the four men and one woman hijackers and had agreed to give them asylum. It also was not clear whether the hijackers were demanding they be given asylum in exchange for the release of the captives. m The jetliner had parked on the Managua airport runway throughout the day as Honduras and Nicaragua bickered over who should negotiate with the hijackers. Leftist Nicaragua and Honduras, ruled by a right- wing military government, each claimed the other was responsible for resolving the crisis. 'U' freshman David Halperin takes his cases to the courts M. By STEVE SCHAUMBERGER Dave Halperin's hobby is keeping tabs on the United States Constitution. But unlike most campus idealists, this LSA freshman is pretty sure his voice will be heard. HALPERIN IS currently a plaintiff in three cases pending in the United States court system. Two concern draft registration, and a third questions the immunity of the president and the con- stitutionality of wiretapping. All three could someday have major effects on the lives of United States citizens. Halperin comes by his interest in the way the government works naturally: His father is Morton Halpertin, a for- mer National Security Council staff member under the Nixon ad- ministration. THE HALPERIN family phone was tapped by the government for a period of 21 months from 1969 to 1971 during the time that Halperin's father first joined the Nixon administration. Under a federal statute, according to Halperin, his family should be awarded $100 per day for each day that their rights were violated. The family filed suit in 1974 claiming that their fourth amendment rights, concerning searches and seizures, were violated. Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, H.R. Haldeman, and John Mit- chell were among those government of- ficials named as defendants. The case is currently before the Supreme Court. Oral arguments were heard last December and the court should be announcing its verdict any day now. AFTER FILING this lawsuit, Halperin, then a young teen-ager, became interested in the affairs of the American Civil Liberties Union. When the ACLU asked early last year if he was interested in being a plaintiff in forthcoming cases against then- P'resident Carter's draft registration plan, Halperin was quick to respond. One case Halperin is involved with contends that registration is uncon- stitutional because it discriminates against women. Another says the plan unjustifiably uses the registrant's Social Security number. Halperin says he is vehemently op- posed to the draft, but he registered iri January, although he didn't include his Social Security number. "I REGISTERED for my mom, so she wouldn't worry," he said. "I've done everything legally possible, I think, to help stop registration. I decided that I might as well not risk the consequences of not registering See 'U', Page 2 Halperin ... believes constitutional rights critical Daily Photo by TRACY CRAWFORD Pretty as a picture Artist Rae Sills draws her latest model, Adam Walker, at yesterday's Art Fair. The event is being held at the Track andI Field House on Fifth and Hill Streets and ends today. TODAY :1 Shortcake EST QUAD'S famous "Leon Eat Our Shorts" weekend kicked off Friday when several members of the dorm's Allen Rumsey House wore their undershorts to dinner. Rumsey House, which puts on the annual event in honor of West Quad Building Director Leon West, strung a banner outside house windows facing the courtyard of West Quad. The <,. :l Q C a . _ , , .: , v rA e .y - i Bored prof Dr. Evan Rutherford of Lonsdale College, England, said yesterday he will resign because he is overpaid for teaching boring courses. Rutherford, a Cambridge University graduate who teaches general studies at the college, said most of his students are bored by his courses which include "How to Buy a House," and "How Trade Unions Work." "I can't say I blame them," Rutherford said, "It bores me to have to teach it." Rutherford, who was refused permission to restructure his course, added, "I am ridiculously over- naid and teh hanthelv nothin." The disillusioned Pittsburgh zoo experts informed them the ploy probably wouldn't work. Even if the deer were frightened, they said, they doubted the zoo's lions would be up to the task of sup- plying enough dung for the airport. So instead, the airport officials approved a $172,940 plan to construct five miles of nine-foot wire mesh fence around the airport's perimeter.L i * - a,°-. s t js n s- c : s- i