CLIMBING Ninety-Two Years of Editorial Freedom iaw Iit IaiIQ Aside from a chance of a shower this morning, the weather improves a little today, with climbing tem- peratures and a high in the mid-5os. Vol. XCII, No. 153 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, April 13, 1982 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Falkiand war looms closer, 0 Haig says LONDON (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig said after 111/ hours of talks yesterday with British leaders that ''time is slipping away from us" in averting a South Atlantic war between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands. He said "substantial difficulties" remained between the two sides despite "some progress" and that he was flying back to Buenos Aires for a second round of talks with Argentina's leaders: "THERE IS NO truce or hesitation or pause in any of the military preparations, as I understand them, that are underway," he said. Asked if he was more optimistic after his second trip to London in five days, Haig replied: "Not at all. Not at all." Christopher Snow, first secretary at the U.S. Embassy in London, said Haig "has had a number of telephone con- versatiions this evening with the foreign minister of Argentina. A com- plication has, arisen at that end and we are hopeful it will be clarified' tomorrow." he declined to elaborate. Yesterday, Britain clamped a naval blockade around the South Atlantic islands seized by Argentine forces on April 2 following a 149-year-old sovereignty dispute. Four hunter-killer submarines are at. the Falklands with orders to sink any ships violating the 200- mile war zone. ARGENTINA, apparently at Haig's urging, called its navy back to port before the zone went into effect, at 11 See HAIG, Page 5 Israelis wound Arabs in Jerusalem JERUSALEM (UPI) - Israeli soldiers shot and wounded eight rock- throwing Palestinians yesterday in clashes on the occupied West Bank and thb Gaza Strip which were provoked by a Jewish gunman's Easter attack on the holy Dome of the Rock mosque police said. At least 10 other people were injured in confrontations and 37 Palestinians were reported arrested in East Jerusalem where Israeli police halted a march of Moslem notables to the Tem- ple Mount area where the attack took place Sunday. POLICE USED tear gas to force back stone-throwing Palestinians in another part of Jerusalem's walled Old City, stilled by a West Bank strike called to protest the mosque attack in which two Arabs were killed. Alan Goodman, 30, the American- born Israeli soldier seized inside the mosque, was questioned all day and was scheduled to be arraigned in a civilian court in Jerusalem Tuesday. A news blackout was imposed on the in- vestigation of the mosque attack. His activities over the past year are not known. In his room in Jerusalem, police found pamphlets of the Koch movement, a militant, extremist Jewish organization descended from American Rabbi Meir Kabane's Jewish Defense League. KACH'S Jerusalem branch has denied any contact with Goodman. The sources said he told police he ac- ted not on behalf of any organization, but "for the whole Jewish nation." Two weeks, ago Goodman joined the Israeli army to perform the shortened stint imposed on immigrants who are over the normal draft age. HE GOT A rifle, a uniform and a post with a unit in the occupied West Bank town of Nablus. See ISRAELI, Page 3 Daily Photo by ELIZABETH SCOTT Perhaps the most bizarre form of transportation in town arrived from Florida this week in the form of this piece of art designed, built, and driven by Rosella Esper. Though she has lived in her "spacemobile" (pat. pending) for the past seven years, Rosella says she is presently looking for an apartment in Ann Arbor. Fight brews over ai _ - ...._ By JIM SPARKS A House bill to ease federal auto emissions standards is shaping into a bitter fight between environmentalists and the auto industry. " Detroit automakers have been pushing hard for the bill, arguing that current standards are too strict to begin with and that a relaxation in them would allow U.S. car companies to cut costs and to compete more effectively with foreign companies. BUT THE MOVE has inspired pointed con- demnation from environmentalists, some of whom claim that the auto industry couldn't care less about the ecological effects of such a move and simply want to increase profits at the cot of the environmental quality. Members of Congress have left Washington for Shooting' *suspect judged 1 e O unfit, to stand trial By ROB FRANK Psychologists at the Ypsilanti Regional Psychiatric Hospital say the. Ann Arbor man accused of firing on police last month from his-North First Street Home is incompetent to stand trial for the two charges against him.. William Hackett, 26, is "unable to assist his attorney or understand the charges against him," according to Dr. Harley Stock, a psychologist in the hospital's Forensic Center. These two abilities are requirements for legal competence. HACKETT IS being held on one count of assault with intent to murder and one count of malicious destruction of property valued at more than $100. These charges stem from a March 31 shooting spree in which Hackett is ac- cused of spraying more than 30 rounds from his semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle at police and nearby buildings. Chief Public Defender Lloyd Powell, who will represent Hackett, said yesterdgy he hopes to "get some mileage" out of Stock's determination of incompetence, which was iade. public in a report last week to 15th Chri District Court Judge S. J. Elden. wha Powell said a defense of insanity Sta See EXPERTS, Page 3 Easter recess and the bill will not be discussed on the floor until later in the month. But the recess has not brought much of a lull in the heated debate over the probable effects of relaxing the emissions standards. Earl Werner, manager of federal activities for General Motors, the chief backer of the bill, is firm when it comes to the subject of the proposal. Auto emissions standards are already un- necessarily strict, he insists, and a moderate relaxation would not result in any significant worsening of air quality. AND, WHILE he says the environmental effec- ts would be minimal, he is quick to add that the economic effects for domestic auto makers would be tremendous. If the car companies did not have to meet the stringent codes of the Clean Air Act, W rner said, they could cut the cost of tiuo emissi assembly by $400 for every car rolling off the assemly line. That saving could be passed on to the consumer and Detroit could finally start competing successfully with Japan, he con- cludes. But local environmentalists say it just isn't so. For starters, they claim that air quality is get- ting worse each year - not better, as Werner says - and that relaxing the emissions standar- ds could undermine any hope of fighting pollution. They also dispute Werner's estimates of how much car companies would save by the change. At best, automakers would save only about $100 on every car by easing pollution controls, accor- ding to a spokesman for the Environmental Protection.Agency in Ann Arbor. THE BILL NOW being considered ons bl was originally proposed by California Democrat Henry Waxman and contained the stricter EPA emissions standards. But the bill was amended - with the strong support of the auto industry and Congressmen John Dingell of Detroit and Thomas Luken of Ohio- so that it would actually relax the EPA standards. The environmentalists that had originally pushed for the bill then backed off and now oppose it vehemently. ' The bill would amend the Clean Air Act to roll back emissions standards tothe level they were at in 1980. As called for by the Clean Air Act, these standards were tightened gradually over a period of years up until this year.. Auto industry leaders contend that the 1982- standards are unnecessarily strict and much to : See BATTLE, Page 2 GEO, 'U' to resume contract negotiations By BETH ALLEN A bargaining team from the Graduate Employee's Organization (GEO) met with University officials yesterday to clarify details of the GEO's new proposed contract. According to University bargaining representative John Forsyth, the meeting was a necessary step before the two parties can start actual bargaining sessions. He said both sides have set the next meeting for May 10, and that the University hopes to present GEO with a counter proposal before that time. THE PROPOSED contract was sub- mitted to the University a week ago as part of GEO's efforts to replace the current University contract, which dates from 1976. In the new contract, GEO is asking the University to increase the base graduate salary from $5,962 to $7,820. The proposed contract would raise the salaries for library assistants to the same level as graduate student assistants. GEO is also asking that tuition be free for graduate student assistants and that family members be charged in-state tuition. GEO MEMBERS said yesterday the union has been canvassing graduate student assistants using a survey which asks graduate students to rate the im- portance of potential bargaining issues and to' suggest new issues for discussion. Among the old issues GEO and the University will be discussing is the in- clusion of research assistants in the GEO bargaining unit. T e status of research assistants wit in GEO has been the subject of debate for several years. The Michigan Employment Relations Commission ruled last November that the Univer- sity is not required to extend bargaining rights to graduate research assistants. See GEO, Page 3 'U' prof develops cancer drug By NANCY MALICH A new anti-cancer drug developed by a University researcher has won the aproval of the Food and Drug Ad- ministration. The drug, which medicinal chemistry Prof. Leroy Townsend refined and developed over the past 13 years, is now being tested by patients who volun- teered for the experimental treatment. THE TESTS, which are coordinated by the National Cancer Institute, are being conducted on patients with dif- ferent types of cancer and are designed to determine what sorts of tumors the drug is most effective in fighting, Townsend said. He said the tests will also help to find out whether the new drug, tricyclic nucleoside phosphate, carries any harmful side effects. The drug, which was developed by members of Townsend's lab at the University of Utah in 1968, is clearly very effective against some cancers in animals, Townsend said. But it is not known whether the drug will be useful to human cancer victims, said Town- send, who came to the University of Michigan with his research group three years ago. "THE HUMAN body is very com- plex," he said, and it is impossible to know exactly"how the drug works. One researcher, Assistant Prof. Linda Wetring, has spent four years trying to unravel how tricyclic nucleoside phosphate works. But Townsend said this is not unusual. "Two of the most common an- ti-cancer drugs were developed in the 1950's," he said. "And there's still a raging controversy 30 years later about how they act." Several years after discovering that tricyclic nucleoside phosphate is effec- tive in treating some animal cancers, Townsend's group found that the drug apparently works through mechanisms unlike most other drugs. Daily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER Thne lastof it is Jaksa, the student assistant for the Wolverine baseball team, carts t will likely be the last of winter's remains from center field of Fisher dium yesterday. TODAY Eau d'Ann Arbor? OW MEN CAN tell women boastfully that they smell like Detroit. Or, promise them anything but give them the odor of New York City. "Every city has awful smells, but I try to capture the positive smell, and that's always a nice one, a romantic, sensuwous one" savbJn IBaxter. who makes nd markets Islands Campaign, 1982," buttons were sold near the U.S. Capitol by some enterprising businesspersons. The white buttons, with the message printed in blue ink, cost $1. Not everyone paid for them, however. One person reported her button was snatched right off her sweater. No buttons favoring Argentine were sold. U The Daily almanac * 1976 - About 40 tenants and members of the Ann Arbor Tenants Union demonstrated in front of Reliable Realty's office on Church St. in support of the rent strike initiated against the company earlier that year. * 1978 - The Daily reported that. it had obtained documents which showed that University faculty members were secretly recruiting some of their students for work in the Central Intelligence Agency. CI I I