The Michigan Daily-- Saturday, March 10, 1984 -Page 5 U.S. tests missiles in London LONDON (UPI) - The U.S. Air For- e ran its first test in Britain of the ruise missile mobile launcher before dawn yesterday, sending a convoy guarded by scores of police and dogs out of Greenham Common Airbase past angry women protesters. A spokeswoman in London for the Committee for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) said the peace group planned a candlelight vigil at the Marble Arch last night and other demonstrations around Britain to protest the post- idnight exercise. "THE FACT that they had to sneak the missiles out at midnight is in- dicative that the government realizes it doesn't have much popular support for this," she said. A column of 12 vehicles, including a police escort and at least one cruise missile "TEL" - transporter-erector- launcher - rolled out of Greenham Common 50 miles southwest of London at 12:30 a.m. and returned 31/2 hours ater, U.S. Air Force spokesman Capt. Jerry Yaple said. At the gate, 90 policemen with dogs surrounded some 20 supporters of women who -have lived in makeshift camps outside the base for 212 years. 'The fact that they had to sneak the missiles out at midnight is indicative that the gover- nment realizes it doesn't have much popular support for this.' - Spokeswoman Committee for Nuclear Disarmament "THEY TOOK us completely by sur- prise," one of the protesters said. "There was nothing we could do to stop the launcher getting out because the police had us surrounded. It was terrifying." The convoy travelled over roads through the English countryside but of- ficials refused to say exactly where. Yaple said no live missiles were used in the test but would not say whether unarmed missiles were involved. A BRITISH military spokeman pronounced the exercise "a complete success. " The cruise missiles are designed to be transported about the countryside to escape being marked as targets, and experts say the off-base exercises are necessary to make them battle-ready. Over the next five years, NATO plans to deploy 475 U.S.-made cruise and 108 Pershing-2 missiles in Western Europe to counter 98-20 missiles deployed by the Soviet Union. Yaple said the exercise was a "prac- tice dispersal exercise" to train missile crews in taking the missiles to laun- ching positions. The low-flying nuclear-tipped weapons are designed for launching from the huge TELs. The first off-base exercises for deployment of the cruise was carried out outside Italy's Comiso base in Sicily last month. AP Photo Democratic presidential candidate Senator Gary Hart steps into the crowd following an address at an airport rally in Oklahoma City yesterday morning. Officials probe smuggling case Democrats await 'Super Tuesday' BROWNSVILLE, Texas (UPI) - A federal grand jury is investigating allegations that fugitive financier Robert Vesco is. masterminding a scheme to smuggle U.S. technology to Cuba, a U.S. customs agent said yesterday. Ed Allison, acting agent-in-charge of U.S. Customs in Brownsville, said the grand jury is expanding on evidence hich already has linked Vesco with an unsuccessful attempt to smuggle sugar cane processing equipment through the Rio Grande Valley to Cuba. VESCO FLED the United States 11 years ago, after he was named as a defendant in a $224 million inter- national swindle. During a trial in the smuggling case last November, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jack Wolfe of Brownsville said Vesco has taken up residence in a beachhouse near Havana and has been helping Cuban Premier Fidel Castro procure U.S. technology. Such information and materials are denied to Cuba under the U.S. Trading with the Enemy Act. Allison said Customs agents in cities with high technology industry - par- ticularly in California, Florida and Texas - are gathering information for the grand jury. IN BREAKING the smuggling case, Customs agents last July at Valley In- ternational Airport seized 31 crates of machinery worth $729,000 and bound for Cuba via Mexico. Agents later raided a warehouse in Chicago and seized another $610,000 worth' of electrical components. The equipment could make Cuba's sugar milling operation 100 percent fuel efficient by burning bagasse, a byproduct of sugar cane. Family and friends fry Dr. Frye From AP and UPI Walter Mondale and Gary Hart courted voters yesterday in preparation for "Super Tuesday" and a new poll showed Hart could beat President Reagan - the first time a Democrat has outpolled Reagan in the 1984 cam- paign. The Hart campaign believes the Colorado senator will do very well Tuesday, dubbed "Super Tuesday" because 511 delegates are at stake in conventions and caucuses. And Hart is regarded a shoo-in to win today's caucuses in neighboring Wyoming - which will send 15 delegates to the Democratic National Convention. BUT A KEY Hart campaign aide said yesterday the critical showdown with Mondale may come March 20 in the Illinois primary. Hart was also bolstered yesterday as an endorsement from Sen. Ernest Hollings(D-S.C.). Hollings pulled out of the race after poor showings in Iowa and New Ham- pshire. He said throughout his cam- paign that he did not believe Mondale was the candidate who could lead Democrats back into the White House in the November general election. MONDALE also campaigned in the South yesterday, hoping to check Hart's snowballing momentum. Mondale, in an emotional speech at Emory Univer- sity law school in Atlanta, called Hart a "tinsel" candidate and said he will not resort to gimmicks, slogans and "schtick." Mondale said he has been advised to make numerous changes, ranging from repudiating President Carter, his, old boss, to developing a "schtick" to ap- peal to the affluent and to youth. "INSTEAD," he said, "I'm cam- paigning on my record, my values and my vision for the future. I am making promises, Lam saying what I would do as president. A Gallup poll showed Hart with a 9- point lead over the president - 52 per- cent to 43 percent. The poll showed Reagan leading Mondale and Glenn. But the same poll showed Hart trailing Mondale by 3 points among Democrats. Opinion researchers said it is the first independent national poll to show Reagan trailing any Democratic con- tender in the 1984 race. Another national poll, in the national newspaper USA Today showed Reagan leading Hart 46 percent to 40 percent. but it showed Hart with a slight lead over Mondale - 34 percent to 32 percent. INDIVIDUAL THEATRES s,' A.e a't'b1b 761.9700 $2.00 SHOWS BEFORE 6:00 P.M. DAILY 1:00 P.M. SHOWS MON. THRU FRI. 1 1 ACADEMY AWARD NOM. INCL. BEST PICTURE SHIRLEY DEBRA JACK MacLAINE WINGER NICHOLSON (PG) SAT., SUN. 1:00, 3:30, 7:00, 9:25 MON. 1:00, 7:00, 9:25 "HILARIOUS" N.Y. TIMES WOODY ALLEN'S BROADWAY DANNY ROSE (PG) SAT., SUN. 1 20 3 20 5:20, 7:20, 9:35 MON. 1:00, 7:20,9:35 (Continued from Page 1) ented on Frye's title of provost. "One of the definitions of provost is 'jailer' Foreman said. Kennedy. recalled sitting in on a meeting between President Shapiro and Frye when "filly said to Harold, 'I want to be king.' Harold argued, 'I want to be king - you can be provost."' The Vice President's fashion sense was another popular target for the student-faculty dias. The newest member on Frye's team, iara Sudarkasa, assistant vice president for academic affairs, said in her southern drawl, "It's obvious where he got the notion for 'smaller but better' - if it works for ties, it'll work for the University of Michigan." She said all up-and-coming ad- ministrators should sport the "Billy Frye look." Sudarkasa was wearing - you guessed it - a bow tie. Even Frye's family got in on the ac- tion. Daughters Elisa and Alice com- Splained that "we can live with budget cuts and constant reviews, but we draw the line at calling him vice president and provost. We just call him Dr. Frye." Frye's wife Elisa took the oppor- tunity to explain the "secret life of Billy Frye." She said his early years as a biologist were a little ridiculous. He told her that, according to their genetic make-up their children would have a "fifty percent chance of having white eyes and short wings and a fifty percent chance of having red eyes and long wings." Being the wife of an administrator is fine, she said, it's being the wife of an animal lover that takes its toll. Between six crescent desert lizards, a couple of wrens, mice, (black and white - affir- mative action), a few snakes, a guinea pig, and a skunk, she admitted that "the Frye's are a little bit different." She told a story about her husband's kindness to animals - but one time it got in the way of a good meal. "I got a steak from the freezer and started to thaw it out. It was then that I realized that very few steaks have eyes." The guinnea pig died while she was away and Billy put it into a "holding pattern" until the ground became soft enough to bury it. Mrs. Frye didn't finish fixing dinner. The soft-spoken Frye finally came out of the storm after his wife took her seat. "It certainly has been a dull evening," he mumbled. But he even got in on the puns when he said, "I do appreciate tonight's fiasco, however, I do feel a bit more poached than fried - all steamed up and a bit whipped." ANN ARBOR CIVIC THEATRE AUDITIONS FOR "HELLO DOLLY" * March 9 - 7-10 p.m. Singing " March 12 - 7-10 p.m. Men's Movement " March 10 - 2-5 p.m. Singing * March 1 3 - 7-10 p.m. Women's Movement - March 16 - Callbacks At AACT Building, 338 S. Main For Info call 662-7282 Judith Dow will be appearing in the role of Dolly PSN to continue sit-ins against military research (Continued from Page 1) Iattention sit-ins bring to the issue. "We've been really effectively shut out from all of the channels," he said. In the less sanctioned channels, DC] QQ though, Winkelman said, "I don't see any problem with running out of' students who are willing to put them- selves on the line." c. KJO 0 0 wanna see... IMPACT JAZZ DANCE Spring Dance Concert Lydia Mendelossohn Theater March 8th, 9th, & 10th at 8:00p.m. TICKETS are $3.00 in advance at the Michigras I 0 I