.Ninety-;fo ur Years Of Editorial Freedom C I be iau i Iai1 Tripartite Clear, turning cloudy, rain ex- pected. High near 40. ol. XCI V-No. 121 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Sunday, March 4,1984 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages 'M'edges ,Gophers, 51-50 By RANDY BERGER Nobody said it would be easy making it to the NCAA. The Michigan Wolverines found that out yesterday as they narrowly beat Minnesota 51-50 at Crisler Arena in their ourney towards a possible NCAA berth. Right now it looks as though Michigan will get a bid if the team splits on the road against Iowa and North- western next week. Coupled with Ohio State's loss to Pur- due, the Wolverines have clinched at least a tie for fourth place in the Big Ten. "Last year they took five teams and the fourth and fifth place teams had 10-8 records in the league," said Michigan coach Bill Frieder. "If we split we'll go 10-8 in the conference and 18-10 overall and we've played a tougher schedule than the fourth and fifth place teams did last year. " HOWEVER, tournament officials wouldn't even be con- sidering Michigan if it wasn't for clutch free throw shooting down the stretch and tough defense which com- pensated for a sluggish first half. Michigan hit 11 out of 14 free throws including a pair by Dan Pelekoudas with 22 seconds left to put the Blue up 50-46. It was a big day for Pelekoudas who played in his last home game, as he also learned that he had been accepted to Michigan Law school. AFTER JIM Petersen made a jumper for the Golden 1 Gophers with 10 seconds left. Tim McCormick nailed a free throw to put Michigan up by three, 51-48. McCormick missed the second foul shot on purpose, after Frieder had called a timeout. "When we were ahead 51-48, I told McCormick to miss the free throw so the clock could start." Thus, a Gerald Jackson dunk with no time remaining couldn't change the outcome. See CRUCIAL, Page 8 Leaders talk as Lebanon battle eontinues BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI)-Lebanon's army traded mortar fire with Syrian-backed Moslem militiamen in and around Beirut yesterday in the fiercest battles in weeks as President Amin Gemayel held talks with two opposition leaders. Police said exchanges of gunfire and artillery killed 11 people and wounded 43 Friday night and yesterday along the "green line" between Christian east and mostly Moslem west Beirut. PHALANGE RADIO said rebel shells and rockets from Syrian-controlled mountain positions crashed near the presidential palace in Baabda. Duze Radio said the army was shelling three Druze mountain villages. North of Beirut, Gemayel met with former President Suleiman Franjeih, a Christian, and former Premier Rashid Karami, a Sunni Moslem, both of the Syrian-backed National Salvation Front, as other rebel leaders gathered in Damascus to discuss a newly proposed cease- fire. Beirut radio said Gemayel met with Franjeih and Karami'a in the context of efforts to translate the agreements in Damascus to practical developments on the ground." "THE WAY is now open to salvation," Beirut radio quoted Karami as saying after the meeting. Franjeih and Karami later were expected to fly to Damascus for talks with Syrian officials, Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and Shiite Moslem leader Nabih Berri. The leftist newspaper As Safir said opposition leaders were expected to discuss plans for a lasting cease-fire and their conditions for See GEMAYEL, Page 2 French protest education control Doily Photo by CAROL L. FRANCAVILLA Roy Tarpley (42) rolls to the hoop for an easy layup in Michigan's 51-50 win over Minnesota yesterday. Assassin report inconclusive WASHINGTON (AP)-A panel of experts assembled to help the Secret Service identify people who may try to kill the president has concluded there are "no scientifically valid models to predict who will be assassins.". But the committee, headed by Dr. W. Walter Menninger of the Menninger Foun- dation, said the Secret Service could improve its analysis of the information it already collects on potential assassins. It recommen- ded that a training program be developed to give agents a better understanding of mental health terminology and concepts. THE REPORT, released yesterday by the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, said the Secret Service last year investigated about 4,000 individuals who in one way or another came to the agency's at- tention as possible threats to the president. his family, or one of the various dignitaries entitled to Secret Service protection. Of those investigated, about 120 were classified as dangerous and singled out for regular follow-up studies by Secret Service agents. The committee said 95 percent of those on the list of dangerous people, numbering about 350 at any given time, have histories of men- tal disorders or psychiatric treatment. Therefore, it said, agents in the protective in- telligence division could benefit from greater training in how to deal with the mentally ill, how best to elicit accurate information from them and how to protect themselves against potentially violent subjects. BUT THE experts warned that mental health consultants retained by the agency should not try to impose their judgments of dangerousness on Secret Service agents who are ultimately responsible for protecting the president. "Secret Service agents themselves are the most experienced persons in judging the dangerousness of potential assassins," the committee report said. "They can look to mental health and behavioral scientists only to supplement, not to supplant, their own See ASSASSIN; Page 2 PARIS (AP) - The Soviet government's plan to tighten control over France's educational system has brought hundreds of thousands of protesting teachers and parents into the streets in recent weeks. On Sunday, half a million supporters of private schools are to demostrate at Versailles. The reforms would put private school budgets and hiring under public control. About 90 percent of those schools are Roman Catholic schools. OPPONENTS SAY the government wants to tighten its grip on the classroom and family life. The government argues that since private schools are funded largely by the state, it should have some say in how the money is spent. Organizers of the Versailles demonstration say it will be the largest of the weekend protests that began five weeks ago. .An estimated 600,000 teachers, parents, students, and church officials already have par- ticipated in demostrations that began after President Francois Mitterrand's government, brushing aside mounting non-partisan op- position, unveiled the controversial reform on Jan. 13. MITTERRAND promised a "unified, secular school system" during his presidential cam- paign in 1981. the mass protests have been particularly em- barrassing to the Sodialists, since they have long counted teachers as a cornerstone of their rank- and-file supporters. The demonstrations, which have taken place in Bordeaux, Lyon, Lille, and Rennes, were called by the National Committee for Catholic Education and have the support of other non- religious private school advocates: THE GOVERNMENT reform would put private school budgets under the control of regional committees, subject hiring and salary practices to review by public bodies and give teachers civil servant status. About 17- percent of French school children at- tend 10,130 private schools, of which more than 90 percent are Catholic schools. In 1982 the government spent the equivalent of $1.5 billion on private institutions, which have lower teacher-student ratios and tougher academic standards than public schools. Israeli speakers call for pullout By GEOFF JOHNSON Two women speakers from Israeli universities emphatically endorsed the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the occupied West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Lebanon in a lecture sponsored by the Ann Arbor New Jewish Agenda yesterday. The two women also called for the creation of a Palestinian state adjacent to Israel during their presentation to about 100 people who filled a meeting room at the Ann Arbor Public Library. RITA GIACAMAN, a professor at Bir Zeyit University in the West Bank who received her doctorate at San Fran- sisco State University, told the crowd that the creation of a Jewish homeland was accomplished largly at the expense of the Palestinian people. With the creation of a Jewish homeland, Palestinians found them- selves forced out of their homes with their property confiscated, Giacaman said. They were forced to react with in- creasingly stronger measures, she said. "At first they were largely non- violent in their struggle to regain their stolen homeland," she said. But even- tually the displaced people, lacking any significant support from Arab allies; 'Israel is killing itself.' - Tamara Berger, doctoral candidate at Tel Aviv University decided that non-violence was not working. "FOR THESE REASONS, the Palestinians organized and formed the Palestinian Liberation Organization," she said. "The reason the PLO resorts to violence is because the Palestinians are denied the rights of the rest of the Western world." Exacerbating the violence problem is America's efforts to annihilate the PLO in its efforts to solve the problems in the Middle East, she said. She said that the only chance for peace in the region is an amicable com- promise between Israel and the Palestinians. THE EVENING'S OTHER speaker, Tamara Berger, a doctoral candidate at Tel Aviv University, concentrated on Israel's domestic problems. "Israel is killing itself," she said, pointing to a 200 percent inflation rate and rising unemployment in the coun- try. She said that a national budget which pours 70 percent of the country's resources into defense is a large part of the problem. "It's not healthy for Israel to live in a constant war situation," Berger said. The "only moral and practical" solution to the region's strife is the creation of a homeland for Palestinians adjacent to Israel, she said. In an interview prior to their lectures, both said that the United States could be a catalyst in curbing Israel's expan- sionist policies and could aid in the solution of some of the region's problems. They said that America's most effec- tive method of affecting Israeli policy is to withold military and economic aid to the country. AP Photo Ice cream sandwich This small car encounters a mishap as it is wedged between frozen snow and frozen ice cream in Youngstown, Ohio yesterday. TODAY Fryeday FTER TWO years of directing University budget cuts, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Billy Frye will be the one Affairs and Provost Billy Frye will be the one under the ax Friday night. At the event, promised to be University Friars who wrote a special song for Frye. Tickets cost $3 for students and $5 for faculty members and will be sold at the UAC office in the Alumni Center. Deadline D ORMITORY RESIDENTS WHO HAVE BECOME attached to cafeteria chow and keeping their shampoo The Daily almanac On this date in 1970, Seagrams, a Collie who West Quad students kept as a secret pet, feeding her table scraps for a month-and-a-half, was caught wandering in the dorm's cafeteria by the building director and sent to the pound. A group of students in Wenley and Williams Houses formed the Seagrams Seven Ad Hoc Committee to rescue their furry friend, but instead, members of a law school fraternity Delta Theta Phi ,Seagram's original owner, paid the dog's bail. contract talks with the University to negotiate wage in- creases. *1979 - LSA faculty members rejected a move to discon- tinue one of three distribution plans that allow students to work out independent distribution plans with a counselor. Although some instructors said independent plans are a copout, other faculty members said students use the plan to come up with "well-thought out" courses of study. I i I I