Raitt, Bromber nd See more Weekend Magazine , Ninety-five Years Lit4Drifter E i oafreeduyody, and colder with Editorial Freedom pg 9,e gnyA rr highs in the teens. Vol. XCV, No. 95 Copyright 1985, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, January 25, 1985, Fifteen Cents Ten Pages Time found not guilty in Sharon libel case From AP and UPI NEW YORK - Former Israeli def- fense minister Ariel Sharon lost his $50 million libel suit against Time Inc. yesterday when a jury found the magazine acted without malice in publishing a false account of Sharon's role in the 1982 massacre of Palestinians in Beirut s In two earlier verdicts in the case, the jury found that a paragraph in the 1983 Time magazine cover story about the massacre was untrue and defamed Sharon. But .since the jury found no malice, Sharon lost his overall libel case and any chance to collect money from Time in his suit. THE FINAL verdict by the six- member jury brought to an end the two- mopth trial in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. "We were able to prove that Time magazine did lie and that they were negligent and careless," Sharon said. "We hope it will prevent Time Magazine from libeling in the future." Sharon, now Israel's minister of trade and commerce, said he was going back to Isreal, where, he said, "I have plenty of things to do." He has a parallel suit against Time pending in Israel. IN ITS final verdict, the four women and two men found Time employees ac- ted in good faith in reporting and publishing the article, even though it included false information about the controyersial general. Jurors determined Time employees believed the information to be true when they reported, edited, and published it. But in an unusual move, jury foreman Richard Peter Zug read an "amplifying statement" to the packed courtroom. 11- Jurors found that "certain Time em- ployees . . . acted negligently and carelessly" in reporting and verifying the paragraph in Time's Feb. 21, 1983, article, which was entitled, "The Ver- dict is Guilty," the statement said. THE JURY singled out Time Jerusalem correspondent David Halevy for its criticism. Halevy's dispatch - based on his confidential sources - prompted Sharon's lawsuit. To win a libel suit, a public figure such as Sharon must prove not only that a published statement was false and defamed him. He must also prove it was published with malice - meaning the defendants knew it was false or doubted its accuracy. The jury found yesterday that Time did not knowingly or recklessly publish See SHARON, Page 3 Protesters convicted of trespassing By CHARLES SEWELL authority to read the act. Three members of the Progressive KOSTER SAID he may also appeal a Student Network arrested last March decision District Court Judge S.J. for blockading a University Elden handed down in August of last engineering laboratory were convicted year which excluded the use of defenses of trespassing yesterday in the 15th Koster' had planned to present on the District Court. grounds that they did not apply to this After less than an hour of case. deliberation, the six-member jury In April 1984, Koster submitted to the returned its unanimous decision that court a brief description of the defenses the defendants were guilty. he planned to present at the trial. The LINWOOD NOAH, the prosecuting prosecution followed with a motion to attorney, said the guilty verdict did not exclude those defenses, saying they surprise him. were inapplicable in this case. Donald Koster, the defense attorney, After reading briefs prepared by both said he was "disappointed, but not sur- sides and listening to oral arguments as prised" by the jury's verdict and plans to the applicability of the defenses, to appeal the case. Elden granted the prosecution's He said he would appeal on the motion. grounds that engineering Prof. George KOSTER SAID he was not able tc Haddad, whose research the PSN was present the case he wanted to present protesting, read the trespass act to the as a result of this ruling. He said that if demonstrators prior to their arrest the ruling on defenses can be overtur- without the proper authority. The ned, he will be allowed to present trespass act must be read.to all demon- evidence to substantiate his defenses at strators before they can be arrested. a.new trial. Haddad acknowledged during cross- examination yesterday that he had no See PSN, Page 5 Faculty straiUns tighten communication dept. t S e S e s e n Y h s ., s 0 t if tt t ,. "-. Dailv Photo by MATT P Richard Rellford leaps to put up a shot against Michigan State center Ken Johnson who blocked the shot. Rellford an the rest of the Wolverines ultimately had the last word however, rejecting the Spartans, 86-75. ETRIE nd 'M' smashes Spartans, 86-75 By STEVE WISE It was the guards that made the difference in Michigan's 86-75 basketball win over Michigan State last night, but not quite the way you would have expected. You would have expected Scott Skiles to toss in 19 for the Spartans on fast-break layups and pull-up jumpers. YOU WOULD have been only mildly surprised to learn that State's Sam Vincent filled it up and spilled some, finishing with a game high 29 points. But the Wolverine Leslie Rockymore's eight of nine shooting for 16 points caught just about everyone, including Michigan State, off guard. "I don't think you can single out anyone for Michigan because everyone played well, unless it was Rockymore," said Spartan head coach Jud Heathcote, "because everything he threw up went in." "THE KEY to the game for us was not letting their guards take over," said Michigan head coach Bill Frieder. "When the game was on the line early, they didn't do that." Skiles did score 12 in the first half and Vincent 10, but most of those 10 were on free throws late in the period. I In the meantime, Michigan was more or less maintaining the nine-point lead it earned seven minutes into the game and carried into the locker room at halftime. TRAILING 16-10 with 6:20 gone, the Wolverines scored eight straight, were tied once more at 18 and then went on a 14-2 tear that put them up 32-20 about ten minutes later. Roy Tarpley and Rockymore scored on jumpers, Rockymore twice. Gary Grant also had five points during the run, three coming on a three-point play in which Vincent, called for blocking on the play, got to sniff the tops of Grant's Nikes before the freshman layed it in. "I wanted to jam it. . . ," said Grant, "but he kept me off. I thought they were going to call a charge." FRIEDER SAID he feared his team would lose another kind See GRANT, Page 10 By SEAN JACKSON A lack of faculty may force the Department of Communication to eliminate one of its main introductory classes. Interpersonal Communication (Communication 101) may have to be dropped despite the rising enrollment in communication courses, department Chairman John Stevens said in a meeting with doctoral candidates. "WE ARE shifting," Stevens said, "to do other things to save money and reallocate our teaching effort." He ex- plained that the course elimination is necessary because the department has lost an average of five faculty members in its five years of existence. During that same period, the number of students enrolled in communication courses has left the department "bulging at the seams," he said. "We've got twice as many (students) as we can handle," he said. Since 1979, the number of concen- trators has grown 40 percent and the number of students taking classes has ballooned between 40 and 50 percent, according to Helen Uete, an ad- ministrative associate. DESPITE THE growth in enrollment, the department was not allowed to increase the size of its faculty. The LSA Executive Commit- tee, however, let the department replace three outgoing faculty mem- bers. The department's requests for ad- ditional faculty have been denied each year with a decision on this fall's request for a replacement faculty member being postponed, said Uete. "They haven't been very responsive at the college level to our request," said Stevens. "Student demand does not im- See CONSTRAINTS, Page 2 . . . ....... Teaching assistants may demand full tuition exemption* By LILY ENG A full tuition waiver may head the list of demands teaching assistants will present when they begin negotiations with the University next month. Members of the Graduate Employees Organization, the union representing 1,500 TAs and staff assistants, are considering asking for the waiver as part of an improved economic package they hope to win at the bargaining table, according to GEO President Matt Schaefer. NEITHER Schaefer nor Jane Holzka, chief negotiator for GEO, would discuss the details of the full waiver proposal. TAE presently pay 40 percent of the in-state tuition rate. It is "impossible to know how the University will take GEO proposals," said Colleen Dolan- Greene, assistant personnel director for the University. "The University does the bargaining at the table. We will look at the proposals and see what is acceptable and what isn't. Then we will comment on them," she said. Many of GEO's demands will be similar to those the University refused to include in the last contract. Schaefer said the University will be more receptive this year because "we have a more powerful union than before and we represent more people now." THE UNION'S demands will include an im- proved salary and benefits package and new guidelines for tuition waivers. "Our primary concern is to make sure any salary increases aren't offset by tuition in- creases or future problems," Holzka said. "We want to clarify and redefine the contract by getting a better economic package and a working tax waiver." The tax waiver is a federal regulation exem- pting TAs from withholding tax. When it ex- pired last year, the University began withholding tax from the TAs' salaries. The money was returned later in the year when the law was renewed. HOLZKA SAID GEO wants to prevent such a situation from occurring in the future. She said the University did not take the issue seriously. "At best, the University was grossly insen- sitive," she said. "At worst, it was testing us to see how many cuts they could make us take in pay. GEO will probably ask that the tuition waiver be granted to all TAs who do classroom teaching, according to Holzka. Currently only those who spend at least 25 percent of their class time teaching receive the waiver. Holzka said the 25 percent limit is unfair because TAs in some departments are assigned more teaching responsibilities than their counterparts in other departments. GEO will have its prospective proposals examined by a lawyer this week. The current contract expires March 15, and GEO hopes to have a new contract in place by then, although dates for the negotiations have not been set. Dolan-Greene said the University is also preparing for the talks and has yet to select the members of its bargaining team. TODAY SSING McDonal W LL .. . . Carton awareness THE NEXT TIME you pour yourself a glass of milk check the side label on the carton - you could help to locate a missing child. In a program started, in part, by the McDonald Dairy Co. of Flint, the pictures and vital statistics of missing children from around the country will be printed on the company's half-gallon milk cartons. McDonald Dairy, which primarily serves the Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois area, is just one of the dairies participating in the project coordinated by the National Child Safety Council. "If only one child is in suburban Rochester, claiming he was overcharged 34 cents for a dozen and a half assorted doughnuts. Brian Dod- ds, 38, has already spent $6.10 to prosecute the 34 cent case against James Ehmann, but he says it's the principle of the whole thing: "I just felt it was unfair." Ark heard 27 minutes of arguments Wednesday night and announced that he would reserve his decision for later. "I've never seen a case that small," he said beforehand. When Dodds ordered his dozen and a half doughnuts Dec. 13, he said, he expected to pay exactly 1%/2 times the price for a dozen. In- stead, he had to pay the price for a dozen plus the price for half a dozen, which cost him an extra 34 cents. He said he billed fowl delicately marinated in Worcestershire and soy sauce, then lightly grilled. "Actually, it was jolly good," said Dr. Clive Elliott, 39, a British ornithologist. The sam- pling to determine its culinary merits was part of the aim of a Jan. 13-22 conference to explore new uses for the sparrow- sized pest. A million-strong flock of the birds can destroy 10 metric tons of sorghum, wheat, rice or millet in a day. They eat a small part of the grain but the big flocks destroy far more by knocking it down. "The red-billed quelea is reputed to be the most numerous and destructive bird in the world," said Kenyan Agriculture Minister William Omamo. It strikes semi-arid areas of Africa, exacerbating Af._yfA1 - f'-."h'A Af- h " LOUIS MTCELOSHAUN MACKRLEY OWENS I m I i