Ninety-four Years of Editorial Freedom C I , be Lit 4i IE~IIQ Littoral Partly sunny, but windy, with high of 40 degrees. Vol. XCIV-No. 129 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, March 14, 1984 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages Herdsman acquitted by judge' in farm slaverytra By CAROLINE MULLER A federal judge yesterday acquitted a former dairy herdsman charged with holding two mentally retarded workers on a Chelsea area farm as slaves, ad- ding that the defendant was "pretty crude, pretty dumb (and) not a wholly believable individual." U.S. District Judge Charles Joiner gave the verdict after closing statements from attorneys yesterday in Ann Arbor. MICHAEL ASAM, 24, was charged with two counts of holding the far- mhands in involuntary servitude and one count of violating their civil rights. He would have faced up to 20 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. Asam's former employers, Ike and Margarethe Kozminski, who own the farm on 4678 Peckins Rd., were convic- ted Feb. 10 on those same charges. John Kozminski, their son, was con- victed of the civil rights charge but acquitted on two other counts. ASAM'S LAWYER, Thomas Ellis, said he wasn't very surprised by the decision. U.S. Government attorney Virginia Morgan said, "I'm disappointed, I guess, but not surprised. Morgan represented the two far- mhands, Robert Fulmer, 57, and Louis Molitoris, 60. She and U.S. Justice Department attorney Suzanne King prosecuted both this case and the earlier Kozminski trial. JOINER, WHO presided over the three-day, non-jury trial, said that Asam "did not knowingly and willfully enter the party that was a part of the conspiracy." Yesterday's trial also included the video taped deposition of a man who formerly delivered milk to the Kozmin- ski farm. Alvin Kimball, whom the court Hart wins in Mass. From the Associated Press Sen. Gary Hart won presidential 7 ; primaries in Florida, Massachusetts and Rhode Island last night. Walter Mondale countered with his first primary victories of the season in Alabama and Georgia, and said, "I've come back into the race" for the Democratic presidential nomination. Hart said the Super Tuesday outcome was a victory for his candidacy and the American people. He said the voters had declared again, as in the four states he had won before, that, "The politics of the past will not address the problems of the 1980s. "WITH YOUR help, we'll go on to Illinois, on to New York, on to San Francisco and on to the White House," he told cheering supporters at his cam- paign headquarters. hFour states held caucuses, and in Oklahoma - the only state reporting - Hart was ahead. With 19 percent of the precincts counted, he had 42 percent to 34 for Mondale, and CBS predicted he would win. While Mondale won narrowly in the Georgia preference vote, Hart was gaining more- delegates there. And in AP Photo Florida, delegates originally pledged to Former Vice President Walter Mondale shows off a pair of boxing gloves last former Gov. Reubin Askew, now with- night in Washington, D.C. With a victory last night in the Alabama primary, drawn, were a strong majority. Hart Mondale told his supporters, "I've come back into the race.' urged their election, hoping they would move into his camp. and Fla. Super Tuesday at a glance At press time, the results from Super Tuesday were as follows: ALABAMA (52 delegates at stake): Mondale victory with 32 percent, Glenn & Hart 22 percent, Jackson 19 percent. FLORIDA (123 delegates); Hart victory with 40 percent, Mondale 31 percent, Glenn & Jackson 12 percent. GEORGIA (70 delegates): Mondale victory with 31 percent, Hart 28 percent. MASSACHUSETTS (116 delegates): Hart victory with 39 percent, Mondale 27 percent, McGovern 20 percent. OKLAHOMA (53 delegates): Hart victory projected. RHODE ISLAND (22 delegates): Hart victory with 48 percent, Mondale 37 percent. Early caucus reports from Oklahoma,where 43 delegates were at stake, led CBS News to predict that Gary Hart would win there. Caucus results from Nevada (15 delegates),Washington (41 delegates), and American Samoa will be announced today. Americans living abroad endorsed Mondale in their "beauty contest" vote. THE THREE darkhorse candidates - Sen. John Glenn, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and former Sen. George McGovern - looked in vain for a sur- prise to boost them into contention. Glenn was running third in Alabama and Florida, fourth in Georgia and Massachusetts. An aide said it would be today at the earliest before the Ohio senator decided on the future of his debt-ridden cam paign. MCGOVERN, who had said he'd qoit the race unless he finished at least second in Massachusetts, was running See HART, Page 5 ...::. ...::.. . Research panel member resigns By PETE WILLIAMS The student representative on the University's Classified Research Panel resigned Monday, just three days after a higher committee recommen- ded approval of a classified research project which the student said violated University guidelines. Erica Freedman, an LSA junior who had been on the committee since October, would not com- ment on whether the controversial project's ap- proval was the reason for her resignation. IN A RELEASED statement, however, she said that neither the University committees which examine classified research nor the ad- ministration "has the desire nor the ability to en- force the 1972 guidelines for classified research." Last month, Freedman recommended that the University reject Prof. Theodore Birdsall's defen- se department-sponsored research project because it violates the University's 1972 guidelines prohibiting classified research whose "specific purpose . . . is to destroy human life or to in- capacitate human beings." Freedman's rejection of Birdsall's proposal for- ced a review of the project by the Research Policies Committee, the panel which gives a final recommendation to research Dean Alfred Sussman on whether a project should be accepted. The Research Policies Committee ruled Friday that the project does not violate the quidelines and recommended that the University approve it. The final decision now rests with Sussman. ALTHOUGH FREEDMAN declined to comment on Friday's decision specifically, she criticized the University's efforts to enforce its classified research guidelines in a statement released Mon- day. "The majority of the Reasearch Policies Com- mittee and the University administration has neither the desire nor the ability to enforce the 1972 guidlines for classified research," the statement said. "I will no longer act as a member of a -committee which serves to legitimize weapons research . . . on the University of See 'U', Page 5 ........n. .~... ILebanese faction leaders p gee;fr agree on new cease-fire From AP and UPI The leaders of Lebanon's warring factions agreed on a cease-fire in Beirut yesterday and announced that a disengagement of forces would begin immediately in the wartorn country. "The different parties have already contacted Beirut to install the cease- fire this night," Michel Samaha, ad- visor to President Amin Gemayel, told a news conference after 24 hours of negotiation tr .;top the fighting. THE CLASE-FIRE was to take effect at 2 p.m. EST, Samaha said. For the next 30 minutes, rounds of mortar shells and rockets fell on residential areas of Christian east Beirut and shells also landed in parts of Moslem west Beirut. A calm then ap- parently settled over the city. There have been numerous cease fires declared in Lebanon's nine-year civil war, but none has held. BEFORE THE cease-fire announ- cement, fighting raged between rival. Christian and Moslem militiamen. At least 27 people - including 14 children - have been killed and 67 wounded in fighting since the talks opened Monday night. In Lausanne, Samaha said the cease- fire plan "does not need any signatures. it is adopted by all participants in the conference." Agreement had been held up by a controversy over whether Gemayel should sign the pact as head of state or as party to the Lebanese conflict. See LEBANON, Page 3 Panel backs aid to Nicaragua rebels ., From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - President Reagan won a reversal yesterday when a Senate panel backed his request for more aid to CIA-backed Nicaraguan rebels, but obstacles con- tinued to his bid for emergency assistance to El Salvador. The Senate Intelligence Committee, which had been rankled by legislative tactics the White House used last week, yesterday endorsed Reagan's request for $21 million in additional secret aid to armed opponents of the leftist San- danista regime in Nicaragua. THE COMMITTEE recommended that $7 million be ap- propriated now and another $14 million be held for release later with the committee's approval. The committee sent word of its action to the Senate Ap- propriations Committee, which meets today to consider the requested funds along with $93 million in emergency assistance to El Salvador, which is fighting a leftist insurrec- tion. The appropriations would require the approval of the full Senate and then the House. Last Thursday, the Appropriations Committee rejected by a 15-14 margin a motion to add the $21 million for the Nicaraguan rebels to a bill providing emergency assistance to poor people in the United States to buy fuel to heat their homes. Another bill, appropriating emergency funds for starving people in Africa, was put over until this week so that the ad- ministration could attempt to attach the. Salvadoran aid ap- propriation to it. Daily Photo by REBECCA KNIGHT Let's cruise Sarah Croake, Jordan Law-Marron and Emma White enjoy the new-fallen snow at the Law Montessori School on North Division yesterday. -TODAY- Campus Meet the Press EPRESENTATIVES from the Queer Action Committee (QUAC) and Lesbian and Gay Rights on Campus (LaGROC) will answer questions in a panel discussion on gay discrimination at the University and the presidential policy statement on sexual "He's definitely not in the burn unit," said an assistant of Dr. Irving Feller, director of the unit. Although hospital authorities say they don't know how the rumor began, one nurse claimed her "kids told me he was in Detroit for a con- cert and I think everyone just assumed that he'd come here for treatment since he was so close." Some students said they got the scoop from the epitome of information ser- vices, MTV. Joe Owsley, director of Universitv News and Information Services, provided a logical excue: "Jesse Jackson is supposed to come to town this week - they probably just got them mixed up." Well, after all, Jesse is Medical Center, went on the group diet to raise money for the Kankakee County Chapter of the American Cancer Society and expect to bring in $5000. The group traveled snowy roads to a grain elevator to weigh in on the elevators huge scales. St. Mary's workers won-with an average loss of 12 pounds per worker-but the group fell short of its one- ton goal. Nevertheless, after the weigh-in an ambulance pulled up with an "emergency supply of junk food," said Dennis Yohnka, spokesman for St. Mary's. "I think everyone has plans to celebrate tonight," he added. Six nuns from St. Mary's lost a total of nearly 80 pounds, " 1933 - President Roosevelt requested that Congress legalize and tax beer in order to generate much-needed revenue for the U.S. federal government. * 1940 University President Alexander Ruthven an- nounced in his annual report for 1938-39 that five-year programs would replace the four-year course to receive a bachelor's degree in architecture. " 1957 - The University Student Government Council decided to establish a student health insurance program. I j E .I