Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Sunday, April 7, 1985 Artist: Without discipline, you'don't make it' ' A6 N BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and (Continued from Page 1) intended to provide companionship for the lonely, daydreaming doll. "There is no gallery in Ann Arbor for outrageous art, says Musselman, who has sold some of his work to the progressive Neither Nor Video Art Gallery in New York's Greenwich Village. H OUGH FRUSTRATED about rejections from local galleries, Musselman is undaunted. He says that any "artist has to be judged. And it's a hard thing on anyone." Some artists "don't make it," he ad- ds, because they lack the disciplinie to keep at their work despite such rejec- tions and the necessity of, finding paying jobs in the meantime. With deep-set eyes, a thick moustache, and a receding hairline, Mussleman looks like an unlikely artist. He speaks in a gentle and thoughtful manner, though exhaustion is evident in his tired voice. When a reporter phones at 11 p.m., he apologizes for sounding incoherent, explaining that he had just come home from one job to rest before going to another. In addition to spending 20 hours a week in his studio, Musselman cooks at the State Street Deli one day a week and cleans Joe's Star Lounge, and the Ann Arbor Art Association. And though his works might not be hot sellers, he also finds time to'turn his artistic talents into a profit-making venture. One way he manages the com- bination is by picking up items at flea markets and antique shows for re-sale' as well as for use in his projects. "When an artist sees a pile of gar- bage," he says, "he sees the different colors while others see just an ugly pile of trash." " oHe also makes and sells seasonal items such as fabric Christmas wreaths, black Santa Claus Christmas tree decorations, ear muffs with sewn- on faces, and hand-stitched fabric heart pins. Modeling for portrait and figure drawing classes and working as an art instructor supplement his income as well. This past week he conducted a three- day workshop in Japanese kite-making to six and 12-year-olds. He says he doesn't mind these art- related jobs, because through them he learns about problems people face which become themes he can incor- porate into his work. In 1982, for example, Musselman volunteered to teach a series of courses on different crafts such as stained glass painting and sand art to emotionally depressed patients at University Hospitals. "It had a therapeutic effect on the patients because they discovered that ,they could accomplish something and that made them and myself feel good," he says, adding that the most valuable lesson he acquired from the experience was that despite mental or physical handicaps, "we're all the same." "He is genuinely involved and en- thusiastic about art and has a very free and creative approach which works beautifully with people-especially kids," says Seid, who hired Musselman to teach kite-making to youngsters. M USSELMAN'S own interest in art began with a doll-making class he had in elementary school, though un- doubtably acquired some of his talent from a family of extraordinarily ar- tistic people. With a father and an uncle who are able carpenters, an aunt who paints, a cousin who is a basket weaver, a brother who is a wood carver, and another uncle who is a taxidermist, Musselman admits that he is certainly inspired by their work, although none of his relatives sell their artwork for a living. Musselman decided to break with the family tradition by attempting to make artwork his primary livelihood, even though he lacked formal education. "People can make it without a degree, but it's a hard way to go," he says. "With little money," he says of his move to Ann Arbor, "I was selling my blood twice a week for six months and livingout of my car for eight months." Now Musselman can afford a comfor- table home, largely because of odd jobs and because he has learned to com- promise his "outrageous work" for mass-produced consumer gift items. Though Ann Arbor hasn't been very receptive to his art, Musselman intends to continue to work here because he en- joys the suburban atmosphere. But Musselman says he hopes to sell some of his work in Chicago soon, and in 1987 he would like to open his own ar- ts and crafts store here in Ann Arbor. He plans to eliminate some of the jobs not related to art so that he has time to participate in at least two art fairs this year. "I'm at a turning point in my art because I now have enough original designs to embark on a small-score mass production of my gift items to put out on the market," he says. "I'm shooting for 1987 because that's when I'll be turning 30 and that will be my goal," he adds. Are sleeping out of a car and working long, exhaustive hours as a cook and custodian in the meantime worth the reward? "I'll go crazy unless I release the ar- tistic part of me," he says. United Press International reports d Naked man ... stripping away from materialism Fabric designs ... clashing the new and the old Sect alliances in Lebanon shifted continually (Continued from Page 1) have died in violence in a country that measures 130 at its longest point and 67 miles at its widest. Alliances have shifted so many times that even some Lebanese forget what was behind one battle or another. Syians have sent troops, Israel has in- vaded, United States and European peacekeepers have come and gone, and the war has persisted. Lebaiese fondly remember their country as "the Switzerland of the Mid- die East." Israeli Deputy Prime Minister David Levy recently described it as "a country gripped by madness where bloodletting is a daily occurence.". HOW AND when did one become the other? Any among the dozens of an- swers offered is partly true, partly a contradiction. Take the view of Antoine Dagher, manager of the Printania Palace Hotel in the the Christian mountain village of Brummana east of Beirut. When asked who was responsible for the unending conflict, he shot back: "The Syrians, the Israelis, the Soviets, the Americans., the K.G.B., the C.I.A. We don't know. Somebody, not us." The counter explanation to Dagher's is that the war is only an outgrowth of an ancient conflict between Christians and Moslems. But in the last 10 years, Moslems have killed Moslems and Christians have killed Christians. NOT THAT violence is something new in Lebanon. The Old Testament book of Habakkuk, 2:17, warned the Israelites, "for the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee." Lebanon's strategic position on the Mediterranean between Africa and Asia allowed the ancient Phoenicians to found a shipping empire and send their cedars to build the temples of Egypt. But this also meant the country was a welcome prize to many armies. It has been conquered over the cen- turies by Egypt's Ramses II, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Alexander the Great of Greece, the Crusader Baldwin, the Moslem warrior Saladin, the British Army under Gen. Edmund Allenby, and the Israeli Army under Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. Among others, that is. THE STRUGGLE between Maronite Christians and Druse over who would control Mount Lebanon is at the center of Lebanon's internal troubles. The Maronites, followers of the Syrian hermit monk St. Maroun, came to Lebanon to escape persecution in the 7th century. The Druse, a schism of Shiite Islam, arrived in the 11th century for the same reason. A war in 1860 between the Maronites and the Druse was ended through inter- vention of outside powers, including the French who've had ties to the Maronites since the crusades, and the English traditional allies of the Druse. SHIITE Moslems, scattered throughout the country, now are the larget religious community. The Greek Orthodox and Sunni Moslems NOT ENOUGH ROOM IN YOUR TRUNK? s 1 'j Advertise in U1ti ttwn 1tuig CLASSIFIEDS have traditionally inhabited the coastal cities. Then there are Greek Catholics, Armenian Orthodox and Armenian Catholics, Syrian Catholics, Roman Catholics, Syrian Jacobites, Nestorians, and the occasional Presbyterian or Episcopalian. This was the mix to be dealt with in 1943, when Lebanon was struggling for independence from France, which had taken over rule of the region when- World War I ended 400 years of Turkish reign. At the time, many Moslems wanted union with Moslem Syria and some Christians wanted to maintain ties to Catholic France for fear of being swallowed up in the larger world of Islam. LEBANESE nationalists, a rare breed, prevailed. An unwritten - national covenant" evolved. It decreed that a Maronite would always be president, a Sunni prime minister and a Shiite parliament speaker. Christians would hold a majority in parliament. But the national covenant per- petuated differences even as it held the country together, and all the while the equation was changing. The Palestinians arrived in waves af- ter the founding of Israel in 1948, after the loss of Jordan's West Bank in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, and after the 1970 "Black September" war in which Jordan's King Hussein expelled the Palestine Liberation Organization. THE CHRISTIANS, the Moslems and the Druse were building militias to protect themselves. Tangled up in this was outside Arab backing for Palestinians using Lebanon as their base to attack Israel, increasing Israeli reprisal in South Lebanon, and the flight of . Shiite southerners to shan- tytown suburbs around Beirut. This was the situation on April 13, 1975 when Pierre Gemayel, a bodyguard, and two others were killed at the opening of a church. In revenge, fighters of Gemayel's Phalange Party attacked a bus returning from a rally and 28 were killed, most of them Palestinians. The fighting raged for 19 months. It ended when the Arab League called for an Arab "peacekeeping force" to take over Beirut. Syrians had come in on the side of the Christians, but they now painted their helmets green - the Arab League color - and made up the major part of the force that entered Beirut on Nov. 14, 1976. ALLIANCES kept shifting. The Syrians wound up on the Moslem side. Gemayel's Phalange Party made friends with Israel, which invaded in 1978 and again in 1982, virtually invited by the Christians the second time around. The PLO was driven back from Israel's border and out of Beirut. The United States and its European allies sent "peacekeepers," and a U.S.- mediated troop withdrawal pact was reached with Israel on May 17, 1983. Then came another of what the T hanese cal "rnnds" of the civil Police crack auto theft ring ; NEW YORK-Law enforcers arrested 21 people and cracked a multi million-dollar auto theft ring that stretched through the southern United States and Puerto Rico, authorities said yesterday. Among those arrested were Anthony Perranti, of the Bronx, the alleged mastermind of the ring-which authorities said specialized in stealing late- model American-made automobiles in every New York City borough except' Staten Island. The ring stole an average of three cars a day, took them to a "chop shop" garage where mechanics dismantled them, then shipped parts forrbc redistribution, law enforcers said. Bronx District Attorney Harid Merola said the operation brought millions of dollars to ring members. Authorities used wiretaps and television cameras to monitor the ring for' the past 60 days, leading to the discovery that leaders-tipped tha authorities were closing in on them-planned to relocate the operation during the Easter and Passover holidays. Iraq bombs three Iranian cities'., BAGHDAD, Iraq-Iraq stepped up the "war of the cities" yesterday, 4 raiding Tehran by air and firing missiles at three Iranian cities in attacks which Iran said left scores dead and injured. In Tehran, Iran's capital, the Iranian armed forces said in a statement that their plans raided the northeastern border town of Ranya, inflicting "heavy losses," and that Iranian guns shelled Basra, Mandali and eight other towns along the warfront. There was no confirmation from Iraq. An Iraqi military spokesman said Iraqi jets raided Tehran before dawn yesterday in retaliation for an explosion the previous day in Baghdad. Iran claimed Friday's blast was caused by one of its missiles. The attacks on residential areas began March 5 after a nine-month, U.N.-brokered moratorium on such raids. Baghdad residents call the newest phase in the 4 year-old war the "war of the cities." The Iraqi spokesman reported troops fired surface-to-surface missiles at the Iranian border cities of Dezful, Nahawand and Ram Hormuz as part of a campaign to force the Iranians to the conference table. Iran confirmed the Iraqi strikes. .Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency said in dispatches monitored in Nicosia, Cyprus, that at least 40 people were killed or injured in Dezful, 24 killed or wounded in Ram Hormuz, and 10 killed and an undetermined number wounded in Nahawand. Reagan defends Nicaraguan aid SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - President Reagan said yesterday the U.S. gover- nment spends $14 million dollars in very short periods of time and that he's only asking Congress for "a few minutes worth of help" for the Nicaraguan rebels. In his regular Saturday radio address, delivered from his mountaintop ranch near Santa Barbara, the president said he had received "encouraging reaction" to his Nicaraguan peace proposals unveiled last Thursday. They called for church-assisted negotiations between Nicaragua's leftist gover- nment and the Contra rebels. They also provide that a requested $14 million in aid to be channeled through the CIA to the rebels be used only-for humanitarian purposes for 60 days as long as there was progress in the negotiations. Medicaid investigates claims state agency reprimanded him', LANSING, Mich. - A Department of Social Service employee said his superiors have retaliated against him for his role in an investigation of the $1.5-million Medicaid program. Mike Skuter, an official in the Liability Claims Processing Divison of the DSS Office of Quality Assurance, said he sent a nine-page letter Friday con- taining the charges to House Speaker Gary Owen (D-Yspilanti). Skuter said the reprimands were made clear to him in at least one "fist- pounding" session and in writing from three officials, including Harold Gazan, director of DSS special services and a member of Director Agnes Mansour's administrative council, The Detroit News reported. Skuter said two other officials also requested in messages relayed by Gazan that Skuter stop givinginformation to the committee. "All of these acts against me have occurred only since it became common knowledge that I was providing informaton to the legislative investigating committee," Skuter wrote to Owen. Gravediggers strike continues SAN FRANCISCO - An 11-day strike by gravediggers has closed 18 cemeteries in the San Francisco Bay area with no new negotiations in sight, causing scores of bodies to accumulate in mortuaries day by day. All signs suggest the strike could be a long one. In 1971 a similar walkout lasted four months and created a backlog of 1,800 bodies. The bodies are embalmed and enclosed in caskets that are kept in-mor- tuary basments and other cool places. Virginia Daphne of Daphne Funeral Services said 70 bodies were stored in her mortuary in the 1971 strike. Beginning in the 1920s, San Francisco moved all civilian cemeteries out of the city because of the increasing value of city land. They were moved to the 3 suburb of Colma, which has Wyatt Earp among notables buried there. Colma now has 13 cemeteries, and 30 or 40 funeral motorcades usually cruise through the city daily. l Vol.XVC-No.149 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Tuesday through Sunday during the Fall and Winter terms and Tuesday through Saturday during the Spring and Summer terms by students at the University of Michigan. Sub- scription rates: through April - $4.00 in Ann Arbor; $7.00 outside the city. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and subscribes to United Press International, Pacific News Service, Los Angeles Times Syndi- cate, and College Press Service. 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