Ninety-One Years Of Editorial Freedom . 'gun ~IuiIQ WET SNOW Expect rain mixed with snow this moining, with skies clearing later in the day. Highs in the mid-4s with lows in the mid-20s. - DVol. XCI, No. 62 Copyright 1980, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, November 14, 1980 . Ten Cents Twelve Pages Viewpoint done, head says; UAC, chief not certain By DAVID SPAK After a less-than-needed turnout at Wednesday night's Abbie Hoffman speech, Viewpoint Lecture Series Chairwoman Michele Carter said yesterday the program has met its demise. At the same time, however, University Activities Center President Neale Attenborough said it may yet have a breath of life. The program has been plagued with financial woes because of declining at- tendance this year, and Viewpoint of- ficials warned that a large turnout was needed at Hoffman's Michigan Theatre appearance to offset many of the losses incurred since-September. Less than 550 people showed up at the speech, resulting in a loss of about $1,500, Carter said. Earlier, she had said that a near sellout (about 1,700 spectators) was necessary for the lec- ture series to remain feasible. THE SERIES "is no longer (taking place this year) because it is not reasonable to continue," Carter said. She added, however, that one last speaker is tentatively scheduled for March. But Attenborough said Viewpoint is "by no means written off." He ex- plained that Viewpoint needed to draw only 900 spectators to be successful Wednesday night. He said he is waiting for today's meeting of the UAC Board of Directors to examine the financial status of the lecture series. Viewpoint Lectures is a program subsidized by UAC,. "We will be looking at the financial status of all of UAC. It is possible that money from other committees will be used to offset losses incurred by Viewpoint, Attenborough said. Both Carter and Attenborough said that a lecture by journalist Ed Bradlee has been canceled. It had been planned for sometime during the winter term. VIEWPOINT has been working with the Hillel Foundation to bring Elie Wiesel, a Jewish author, to campus sometime in March, and Hillel is guaranteeing a large audience, Atten- borough said. Carter, who claims the series is wor- se off than Attenborough believes, said Viewpoint will be conducting surveys of students over the next few months to determine what kind of lecture series, if any, they would attend. Viewpoint's losses have amounted to Desert crash mars first test of deployment From AP and UPI CAIRO, Egypt - The fatal crash of a U.S. military transport plane marred yesterday's start of operation Bright Star, the first test of America's rapid deployment force to defend Western oil supplies in the Middle East. The 11 men and two women aboard the C-141 were killed, military authorities said. A U.S. Embassy spokesman said the plane, one of several involved in the 1,400-man military exercises, was on its final approach to an Egyptian military airport when it crashed into the desert dunes "in a fireball that lit up the night sky." The plane crashed two to five miles short of the runway at Cairo West Air Base during a banking turn under clear night skies just before midnight Wed- nesday, according to Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Jerry Curry in Washington. DEFENSE MINISTRY spokesman Maj. Gen. Mohsen Hamdi said the crash was due to "completely technical reasons.. . a mistake maybe" but he declined to elaborate pending the out- come of an investigation. Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Ah- med Badawi later blamed the crash on a "mechanical malfunction in the plane itself" although officials said they could not be sure of the cause until the in- vestigation had been completed. The bodies were flown to the U.S. Air Force Base at Ramstein, West Ger- many, then to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, military authorities said. THE PLANE was attached to the 62nd Airlift Wing based at McChord Air Force Base, near Tacoma, Wash. The joint exercises of about 1,400 Army troops and airmen include units from the 101st Airborne Division of Fort Campbell, Ky. An Egyptian Defense Ministry spokesman said Bright Star would con- tinue. Pentagon officials have stressed that the joint Egyptian-American operation was planned well before the outbreak of the Persian Gulf war between Iran and Iraq. They say the two-week exercise is to give the Americans the desert prac- tice they need to live up to the U.S. commitment to defend the West's oil supplies from Mideast oil fields. THE WAR has cut off oil production in Iran and Iraq and the fighting threatens the Strait of Hormuz, through which sail tankers bearing much of the world's oil. The charred debris of the giant tran- sport plane, which was capable of carrying 154 people, was spread over more than a half square mile northeast of the base. A spokesman from McChord said, "It was carrying supplies for the rapid deployment exercise, and that's why there were so few on board." MILITARY POLICE surrounding the site told reporters and photographers they had orders to shoot anyone ap- proaching the area. In Washington, a Pentagon spokesman said the plane, attached to the 62nd Military Airlift Wing at Mc- Chord Air Force Base in Washington, was also carrying a refueling truck, a six-passenger panel vehicle, and un- specified cargo. There were reports ammunition and oxygen tubes were among the cargo. An embassy spokesman here said the explosion may have been caused by the fuel, but discounted the possibility it could have been caused by weapons on board. American military officials, in- cluding the operation's commander, Marine Lt. Gen. Paul Kelly, were on the site investigating the debris for clues the guards said. Daily Photo by PAUL ENGSTROM Scholarly sculpture Art student Chris Ramsay poses next to his term project yesterday outside Auditorium D in Angell Hall. The project, designed in the styiy of contem- porary sculptor George Segal, is part of History of Art Professor Diane Kirkpatrick's class, Art of the 60s. Begin calls for patience in Mideast talks Prime minister outlines policy By PATTY HAGEN and PAM KRAMER special to the Daily DETROIT-Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin emphasized the importance of patience in continuing the peace process between Israel and Egypt in a speech to Jewish leaders here last night. Addressing 2,500 delegates to the 49th general assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations, the prime minister said, "We hope the peace process will continue," now that relations have been established with Egypt through the 1978 Camp David agreement. THE PRIME minister, who arrived in New York Sunday, is on a 10-day U.S. trip that in- cluded a visit with President Carter yesterday morning. He will return to New York today. Begin, who has been prime minister since 1977, outlined the major tenets of Israeli policy. Despite murmurs by European officials that the Camp David agreement should be scrapped, he said, "We do not believe in international cynicism which contends . . . that the peace treaty or the international agreement is a piece of paper than can be torn. We believe in the san- ctity of international agreements . . . Israel will stand by the Camp David agreement. "WE MUST be patient," he added. The- Israeli-Egyptian talks on Palestinian autonomy (in the West Bank) are currently deadlocked. Begin and Egyptian President An- war Sadat are scheduled to meet with President Carter at Camp David early next year. While the prime minister said Israel desires to live in peace with Arab and Palestinian neigh- bors, "We shall reserve security. "IT IS INDEED a prerequisite to keep the peace in the mid-east. Our neighbor should have autonomy," Begin said. He stressed that Israel does not ask anyone to fight its battles. "I will not contend that Israel's army is the best, but neither is it the worst in the world." He spoke of security calling for "peace, real peace for Jew and Arab alike." He also made an appeal to American Jews to "let the voice of the Jewish community in the U.S. raise its mighty voice again ... to make an appeal to the Soviet authorities; let our people go." Begin ... outlines Israeli policy ...... . ..... I ...... . .. . .. ... .......... - ------------ Stencilling of city was protest of local harassment LECTURE OUTLINED METHOD, NOT RESULTS: Shapiro lecture ad miSl By MAUREEN FLEMING The 70 women who painted "A woman was raped here" at 180 sites around the city early yesterday mor- ning took their stencils in hand to call attention to the number of attempted rapes in the area, according to a spokeswoman for the group. The spokeswoman said the painters hope citizens become more aware and angry about constant harassment facing women in the city. NOT ALL of the stenciled areas mark locations of physical sexual abuse. The Michigan Criminal Sexual Conduct Code divides rape into four degrees, en- compassing acts such as a person hanging out a car window shouting ob- scenities at another, passing up at a football game, and forceful sexual in- tercourse. Group members said per- petrators of such actions may be prosecuted. "We have all been raped at some time or another, and we are saying, 'No, I refuse,' " said the group's representative. The rape sites were obtained from newspaper clippings and verbal repor- ts, the spokeswoman said. Of the 180 sites, 30 to 40 are on central campus, while 15 to 20 are on North Campus. THE PAINTERS travelled in groups of four or five between 12:30 and 2 a.m. yesterday, the spokeswoman said. She added that more than half of the pain- ters said they saw someone from Cam- See STENCILS, Page 3 Bcy JOYCE FRIEDEN Audience members who came to the Paton Accounting Center yesterday af- ternoon expecting to hear Economics Prof. Saul Hymans and University President Harold Shapiro give a lecture entitled "Economic Outlook" encoun- tered several surprises. Although both Shapiro and Hymans lectured, the event was moved from the Michigan Room to nearby Hale Auditorium because of the crowd of ap- proximately 125 people which filled the room to overflowing. SHAPIRO, who spoke first, explained that posters announcing the event "did not exactly demonstrate truth in adver- tising." "We are here to lecture not on the 'economic outlook,' but more on the development and use of econometric models for econometric forecasting," he said. Shapiro and Hymans are the co- directors of Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics, an organization specializing in econometric forecasting. Together, they have developed an econometric model with which they have developed a prediction for the 1981 fiscal year. They plan to present their prediction at the economic conference to be held in the Rackham Building Nov.21 and 22. Econometric models help people in both the public and private sectors of society make decisions for the coming year, according to Shapiro. "Econometric models can help the government, in particular, make better decisions about what economic policy they want to select," he said. HYMANS WENT into more detail about the specific data going into the model, giving examples of government spending, taxation, investment, and money supply as factors figuring into the equations used in the model. Shapiro added that although the forecasts may contain errors, they provide useful information about the general direction in which the economy may go in the coming year. Hymans gave an example. "We predicted that the real GNP would decrease .3 percent in 1980, but it ac- tually went down .7 percent," he ex- plained. "So we were wrong by 50 per- cent. But in 1979, GNP had gone up by 2.3 percent, so we were saying, 'Hey, it's not going to be like it was in 1979.' I'd say that was useful information." Audience members interviewed after eading the lecture expressed surprise at the actual content of the lecture. "I expec- ted to hear a lecture on the economic outlook," said Richard Pytel, a junior in the School of Business Ad- ministration. "However, the second half of the lecture was interesting to me, since we will be discussing econometric models in my Finance class." "I was misled by the advertising," said LSA senior Bill Poulos. ' I was hoping to hear about the economic outlook, but instead got a good lecture on building econometric models." Jeff Goodman, a member of the Michigan Economics Society which sponsored the lecture said he had no comment on why posters and adver- tisements announcing the lecture men- tioned an " economic outlook." TODAY- Why worry? ARE YOU STILL an old-fashioned, do-it-yourself worrier? Do you wring your hands while explaining to professors why you need an extension on that 50-page term paper you haven't found the time to start yet? Do you bite your nails before petrated in 1936 at the Nashville Tennessean. He said he, and Morrison resurrected the idea for these difficult times. "Of course, we can't do anything about (members' worries), but they will be rid of them, saving them precious' time and energy to do something constructive about what's bothering them," Morrison said. He added that the service might even start a worry bank, "a repository of rancor," from which the curious might draw an inkling of what's bugging Americans. Finding out how to scrape up enough cash to meet the next tuition payment is sure to be near the top of that list.s t .simply forgot the weapon in the stall, and when he went back to retrieve the gun, it was missing. "Yeah, it hap- pened," he reluctantly admitted yesterday. "It's something I'm terribly embarassed about." The police chief, however, said he wasn't going to issue any new rules on the apparen- tly neglected problem faced by officers when nature calls. 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