4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, February 18, 1986 Student joins march for disarmament (Continued from Page 1) parents were reluctant at first to see their daughter march across the country, but gave in when the realized that she was determined to go. "Margie fights for causes that seem helpless and hard to accomplish. She tries to let the public know what's going on. It's frustrating for her because people say 'too bad, you can't change anything,' and that hurts her," her brother said. Winkelman said that although her parents may not agree with the political aims of the march, they support her for being dedicated to a cause. AFTER EARNING her parents' approval, Winkelman set out to earn about $3,200 in pledges, a goal set by march coordinators. Although she didn't reach the goal, friends, professors, and acquaintances con- tributed about $1,500. Failure to meet the pledge goal does not disqualify anyone from marching, Winkelman said. Pledge money will go to a fund to meet living expenses along the jour- ney. She said most people have been surprisingly supportive of the march. "I'll meet someone on the street and tell them what I'm doing, and they'll pull out $20 and give it to me." D Support the March of Dimes BIRTH DEFECTS FOUNDATION The official name of the march is People Reaching Out for Peace, or The Great Peace March. California- based organizers hoped to attract 5,000 marchers, but received commit ments from about 2,500 who will walk 15 miles a day six days a week. MARCHERS will live in tents, and all the tents will form a moveable city, complete with bathrooms, showers, kitchens, a moveable library, a portable classroom and medical equipment. The march is supposed to be peaceful, and participants must agree not to engage in civil disobedience while marching. Marchers must agree to abstain from drugs or alcohol, and make a commitment to march the full nine months. Although the marchers must sleep outdoors and do their own cooking and cleaning, those aspects of the trip appeal to Winkelman almost as much as the political goals. She will see the country, first-hand, and is excited about living in a community of "ob- viously committed people." She said marchers are all ages and come from all over the world. One- third are college students and one- third are senior citizens. The rest are a mix including entire families, some with small children. WINKELMAN explained that mar- chers are demanding that the U.S. gov- ernment "take all nuclear weapons down." She said she is frightened by the threat of nuclear weapons. Winkelman added, however, that she thinks the focus of the march is too narrow. Since she is interested in many issues, she wishes the march targeted more concerns. Although the prospect of the mar- ch excites Winkelman, it will com- pletely interrupt her current lifestyle. Her friends support her decision to join the march, but are sad to lose Winkelman for a year. Daily Photo by JOHN MUNSON' Margie Winkelman will fly into Los Angeles today to join 2,500 other people united in opposition to the nuclear arms race. The RC junior will be part of the nine-month Great Peach March across America. "Few of us make priorities in our lives,saying 'This is important to me and damn it, I'm going to do something about it,"' said LSA senior Charlotte Levy, who is one of Winkelman's roommates. "We're proud of her," she added. John Reiff, a Residential College lecturer, is helping Winkelman set up a program to receive University credit for the march. The project will be an analysis and reflection on the march, he said. Winkelman,khowever, said she won't get back to the classroom at least until next winter term - if at all, she joked. Reiff said he wasn't surprised to see a student get involved in the march. "It is a myth that students are not in- terested in things that concern social responsibility," he said. Many celebrities have endorsed the march, including Madonna, Rosanna Arquette, Casey Kasem, Carole King, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Barbara Streisand and Paul Newman. Winkelman said that if someone told her a few years ago that she would be embarking on a cross- country peace march she might have believed it. Friends too, say they are not surpr- ised she is going on the march. But as Winkelman points out, "There is a big difference between reading about it and doing it." She says that we can not wait for the government to do something about the danger nuclear arms present. That is why she is taking action, step by step. - This Wei " mU u" " " SCIENCE Full moon does not effect human psyche IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS Johnson & Johnson to halt Tylenol capsule production NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Johnson & Johnson today announced that it will no longer sell any capsule products directly to the public because it cannot control tampering blamed for the cyanide-poisoning deaths of one woman this month and seven people in 1982. The announcement was made at a news conference by company chairman Jim Burke, who said Johnson & Johnson has "no plans to re- enter this business for the foreseeable future." He urged users of Tylenol capsules to instead switch to coated oval shaped tablets known as "caplets," and said that Johnson & Johnson would replace free any capsules now in the hands of consumers or stores. "We feel the company can no longer guarantee the safety of these cap- sules," Burke said. The Announcement came as a team of investigators went to Pen- nsylvania to trace the path of the Tylenol capsules taken by a woman who died in suburban New York City on Feb. 8. The 1982 cyanide-poisoning deaths of seven people in Illinois also were blamed on tainted Tylenol capsules. The company has "no plans to re-enter this business for the foreseeable future," Burke said. The decision was made to "protect the public," Burke said. He said the company was confident that consumers would keep Tylenol "the most preferred" brand of painkiller in the country. U.S. envoy Habib confronts two Philippine leaders MANILA, PHILLIPINES - President Reagan's special envoy, Philip Habib, met separately yesterday with President Ferdinand Marcos and with Corazon Aquino, who both are unyielding in their claims to the Philippine presidency. When Reagan sent Habib here, he said the veteran troubleshooter was on a fact-finding mission and would report back to him on the aftermath of the Feb. 7 presidential election here. Mrs. Aquino was still ahead in an independent vote count, although the National Assembly officially proclaimed Marcos the victor Saturday. Habib, who was dispatched by President Reagan to the former American colony and site of two strategic U.S. military bases, also met with Cardinal Jaime Sin, the powerful head of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. Also yesterday, support grew in Congress for a crackdown on Marcos, including suspending military and economic aid to try to force him to resign the office critics charge he won through fraud and violence. Senate Republican leader Robert Dole said he would introduce a resolution today for an expedited study of alternate sites for the strategic U.S. air and naval bases. Workers strike can plants HOLLYWOOD, FLA. - About 13,000 striking steelworkers set up picket lines at 75 can company plants in the United States and Canada yesterday after union negotiators failed to reach a contract agreement. The United Steelworkers of America, unable to arrive at a new pact covering wages, pensions, and other issues, notified company represen- tatives at 3:30 a.m. EST yesterday of the decision to strike, authorized earlier by the rank and file, said USW spokesman Gary Hubbard. The coast-to-coast walkouts affected 75 plants in 21 states and four provinces in Canada owned by National Can Co., American Can Co., Crown, Cork and Seal, Continental Can, U.S. and Continental Can LTD. of Canada, said Leon Lynch, International USW vice president. The union and the companies had been negotiating at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Fla., since Jan. 20. The talks continued past the midnight Sunday deadline for negotiation of a new three-year contract before Union representatives rejected the latest proposal by a a57-38 vote. Libya bombs African airport PARIS-A suspected Libyan plane bombed Nojamena airport in Chad yesterday prompting France to station an air strike force in the capital of the African nation, French military sources said. A Soviet-built Tupolov TU-22 bomber flying at high altitude dropped a bomb on an airport runway causing slight damage and no injuries a day after French Jaguar fighter-bombers destroyed a Libyan-built airstrip at Wadi Doum in rebel-controlled northern Chad. The exchange of bombings followed a wek of intense fighting between President Hisene Habre's government troops and Libyan-backed rebels, who crossed a cease-fire line last Monday to attack government-held towns along two key north-south highways. News reports from Nojamena, quoting military sources, said Chadian rebels do not have any TU-22s but Libya keeps seven of the planes at a base in northern Chad that are capable of making the 1,700-mile return trip without refueling. Five killed in S. African riots JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Daylong riots raged yesterday in a black township that forms a pocket of squalor amidst comfortable white suburbs north of Johannesburg. Five people were killed, including a black police officer, residents said. The rioting was the worst in the three days of bloodshed in Alexandra township that started Saturday after funerals for two anti-apartheid ac- tivists, according to witnesses. Some whites watched it from their green lawns on surrounding hills. Police said three people were killed in Alexandra over the weekend, but did not have complete casualty figures for yesterday. They confirmed that a mob burned the black officer's home, shot him dead and set his body ablaze. 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"The ones that did find a co elation either had glaring errors or t correlations were so minor they were btatistically insignificant." SomeNof these studies, conducted by other researchers over several years, suggested e full moon is responsible for increase 'ncidence of alcoholism, automobile accidents, madness, ar- son, suicide, and homocide, said Kelly. This correlation is widely believed by most people, he said. And it is backed up by police, emergency room workers, and bartenders who swear they are busier when the moon is at its fullest than when it is waxing and waning. "ONCE THE initial belief is there, then perceptions conform to it," ex- plained Kelly. "It's easy to remember the night the emergency room was full and the moon full. But what about the night the moon was full and the emergency room empty?" "No one remembers those night because they don't fit the pattern they believe in," he said. Most who hold by the corre'ation theory argue the gravitational pull of the moon affects humans, who are mostly made of water, just as it affec- ts the tides of the oceans. BUT KELLY argues there is too lit- tle water in the human body for the moon to have much of an impact. "If that gravitational pull reasoning were correct, every puddle of water would be sliding around during the full moon," he said. "Humans are so small the effect of the moon is almost nothing." Kelly said there are much greater gravitational pulls on the human body than that of the moon. For instance, there is a physical tug between humans because the water in their bodies are naturally inclined to merge together. "ALL THESE people who are afraid of the full moon should realize there is a greater physical force exer- ted on their body each time they're at a crowded party," said Kelly. The scientists predict the physical tug of a mother to a child is 12 million V I More Affordable! 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