4 Page 2-Sunday, February 13, 1983-The Michigan Daily PLO' leaders agree to link with Jordan ALGIERS, Algeria, (AP) - All fac- tions of the Palestine Liberation Organization reached agreement1 yesterday that a future Palestinian state should be confederated with the kingdom of Jordan, the chief PLO spokesman announced. Ahmed Abdel Rahman told a news conference that all the PLO leaders, in- cluding the organization's chairman, Yasser Arafat, and hard-liners George Habash and Nayef Hawatmeh, had ac- cepted the principle of confederation, marking a turning point in the PLO's history. The organization had previously in- Kelly sisted on complete independence and sovereignty for a Palentinian state. Israel and the United States are op- =posed to the creation of such a state, M 1u1S ? and in his peace initiative advanced last September, President Reagan (Continued fror suggested a Palestinian "entity" linked said Cynthia Yao, the with Jordan. or and only full-ti HIGH-LEVEL Palestinian officials Yao, who has a mas with direct access to the secret talks the University in n told reporters earlier that the PLO founded a non-pro leadership was close to agreemento-on several years ago ' giving King Hussein of Jordan tacit money to buy the fir ,authority to open peace talks with the Because the station Israelis under U.S. auspices. and Huron, is a histor Yesterday's developments could be building was eligib regarded as a victory for Arafat, who National Register G has been criticized by the hard-linersg for his consultations with Hussein on group was given the possible peace talks. dition that the group p A senior Palestinian official, who IN ORDER to rai requested anonymity, said, "Arafat has funds, the museumc been mobilizing all his political influen- uneons to donate the 1 ce and guile to produce a consensus needed to fix up the among the guerrilla leaders on dition, local business authorizing Hussein to talk to the discounts on materia Americans and Israelis on behalf of the was unbelievable," Y PLO as well as on behalf of Jordan." Local industries bu Daily Photo by DAVID FRANKEL McGuire blows a giant soap bubble at the city's Hands-on Museum as Erin Sharp looks on. um visitors learn by doing m Page 1) museum's direct- me staffperson. ster's degree from museum practice, fit organization to raise enough e station from the , located on Fifth rical landmark,the le to receive a rant, and Yao's $60,000 on the con- rovide $120,000. ise the necessary committee asked abor and supplies building. In ad- es gave the group s. "The response ao said. uilt the museum's exhibits, which are designed by the Hands-On Program Committee. "I'm a tinkerer," explained Prof. Richard Crane, a committee member and for- mer thairman of the University's physics department. Crane's duties in- clude checking the exhibits daily, devising new ideas, and serving as a liason between the museum and in- dustry.1 The museum is just what Ann Arbor needs, Crane said. "I'm most struck by the museum's guest book that people sign when they leave. Every comment says, just fantastic, great.' And most importantly, we see lots of repeat visitors," he said. EXCEPT FOR Yao and a part-time assistant, the museum's staff is made up of volunteers ranging from high school and Unviersity students to retirees. "I wish more students would go,' said Residential College sophomore Alden Jones, who is earning credit through independent study at the museum. "I think museums in general are really refreshing. It's good to get away and not be inhibited, not be cerebral. The Hands-On museum is really good for that," she said. Jones, who works three days a week explaining exhibits to visitors and designing and preparing natural scien- ce exhibits, said working at the museum is a welcome change from sit- ting in a classroom. "College students sit in lectures, read books, and we're lost to the fact that you can learn from picking things up and listening to them," she said. ANN ARBOR residents Gertrude and Albert Wagner, both retired, work as "explainers" in the museum. The only requirement is enthusiasm and a few spare hours, according to Wagner, who chose to celebrate his 70th birthday by being on duty that day. The museum had more than 7,000 visitors since it opened in the fall but according to Crane, few University faculty and students have come. Yao also said the museum would like to have more volunteers from the University. "Some departments give credit for working here," she said. "St- udents can offer classes in how to ex- plore the exhibits further, help create exhibits, assist with clerical work, and serve as "explainers." Future volun- teers, Yao added, even get a free visit. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Lebanese Christians blamed for Palestinian refugee deaths BEIRUT, Lebanon - Gangs of Lebanese Christians bent on driving Palestinians from their homes are terrorizing the Israeli-occupied south, and 15 mutilated Palestinian corpses have been found in the area, a U.N. agency said yesterday. Statements by U.N. officials in Beirut and Vienna reported that 15 bodies were discovered in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp near the southern city of Sidon during the past two weeks. Many victims were identified as Palestinian refugees and some were shot or burned. Three burned corpses were discovered Thursday near Em el-Hilweh, a camp with 15,000 refugees 26 miles south of Beirut, the statements said. Spokesmen for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency linked the alleged campaign to rightist Christian Phalangist militiamen, blamed by an Israeli judicial commission for the Sept. 16-18 massacre of Palestinians in Beirut's Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps. Representatives of the Phalange Party and its militia were not available in their offices for comment. But Phalange Party spokesman Salim Reaidi last week denied similar accusations of anti-Palestinian intimidation, saying "this is not done by us." He did not elaborate. Israelis debate Sharon's future TEL AVIV, Israel - Despite the government's decision to oust Ariel Sharon as defense minister because of the Beirut massacre, a tough battle loomed yesterday over whether Sharon should hold another Cabinet post. Sharon told reporters after a speech in Tel Aviv on Friday that "there was a reshuffle of portfolios, and that's the end of the problem." He did not elaborate. Another Cabinet minister, Energy Minister Yitzbak Modai, told Israel radio yesterday that Sharon was willing to serve in any Cabinet position. But Prime Minister Menachem Begin's spokesman, Uri Porat, said the government had not yet decided Sharon's political future. He said a decision "probably" would be reached during the Cabinet's regular session today. Opposition Labor Party leader Shimon Peres indicated he would give the government until today to make up its mind on a new post for Sharon before considering whether to join the centrist Shinui Party in a motion of no- confidence which the party plans to raise in the Israeli Parliament early this week Murder suspect arraigned in London; more bones unearthed LONDON - Police searching for corpses of drifters strangled by a mass killer said they unearthed charred human bones in a London backyard yesterday, and a former army chef was arraigned on charges of murdering one of the victims. Dennis Nilsen, 37, a civil servant who once cooked for the queen's royal guard while serving in the Army Catering Corps, was charged with killing Stephen Sinclair, a homeless, unemployed 20-year-old. Sinclair is the only victim identified so far out of the 17 vagrants believed strangled. A plumber found rotting chunks of Sinclair's body and pieces of two other cadavers in the sewer beneath a north London boarding house last Wed- nesday. Searchers later-reported finding other body parts in Nilsen's rooms. Police began going through another north London home and said they ex- pected to find pieces of 13 or 14 more bodies in what is emerging as one of the biggest mass murder cases in British history. Yesterday, the man leading the hunt, Detective Supt. Norman Briers, said a "considerable number" of bones-probably human-had been found at the second house. One appeared to be from a hip and another was part of a'rib, Briers said. },x= Some bones appeared to have been burned before they were buried about a foot deep, he said. He estimated they had been in the ground for a year. U.S. may test missiles in Canada WASHINGTON - The U.S. Air Force went searching for cold weather and sparse snow-covered terrain to test its ne, air-launched cruise missile un- der conditions duplicating those in the western Soviet Union. It found what it was looking for in Canada. Though a cruise missile flight in Canadian skies is at least a year away, Canada and the United States broke the ice with an umbrella agreement that puts the U.S. military on a path toward a largely uninhabited tract of Alberta for the testing of new generation weapons. But the prospect of the Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range, which strad- dles the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, becoming a simulated battleground for nuclear-capable American weapons has provided a focus for protest by Canada's fledgling anti-nuclear movement. Diet pills may cause strokes SAN DIEGO - Some over-the-counter diet pills containing an am- phetamine-like substance can cause serious side effects ranging from irritability to stroke, and Indiana neurologist said yesterday. Dr. Shirley Mueller told physicians gathered in San Diego for a stroke seminar sponsored by the American Heart Association the stimulant phenylpropanolamine (PPA) is similar to amphetamines taken off the market in 1979 by the federal government. The substance is in many diet pills and some nasal decongestants available without a prescription. Dr.'Mueller said she was involved in a research project in which PPA and caffeine taken from commercial diet pills were given to rats. 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