4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, April 8, 1986 SCIENCE xEarthqi LOS ANGELES (AP) - Southern California should expect a major ear- 'thquake soon, say two local scientists who suggest that the gravitational pull of the sun and moon may have helped trigger great quakes here in the past. Astronomer Steven Kilston and geophysict Leon Knopoff say Southern California has entered a time when the pull of the sun and moon is greatest on the San Andreas Fault, and the most vulnerable time .Appears to be November 1987. ,ake "But we're not pred thquake in Novembe Knopoff emphasized. They said 10 of the1 thquakes in the area in decaded occured near s set, when there is a str of solar gravity. Also,n in nearly 18,6-year i coincide with the n position of the moon. While conceding the conclusions on meag data, they say tidal fo I - ! i d" maynit a icting an ear- moon and sun may provide what er of 1987," Kilston called the "last-straw push" needed for jaring loose an ear- 13 major ear- thquake. the past five "The big ones need everything they unrise of sun- can get. To get them to go takes a lit- rong influence tle more of a kick," Kilston said. most occurred Their findings were published in a ntervals that 1983 article in Nature, a British scien- northernmost ce journal, and have generated several studies since then testing the y base their theory. er historical Kilston, a systems engineer at rces from the Hughes Aircraft Co. in El Segundo, lifornia and Knopoff, who works at UCLA's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, have not won the full backing of their colleagues. "Knopoff is certainly an eminent scienist," said Clarence Allen, an in- ternational leader in seismology at California Institute of Technology. "I know of no one who think's he's all wet." Regardless of the lunar-solar positioning, seismologists long have said a major California earthquake is likely within the next 30 to 50 years. Jazz for Life helps children in poverty By EVE BECKER The Jazz for Life project, designed to aid poor children by raising money through jazz events, kicked off its campus activities yesterday as a quintet of jazz musicians performed :on the Diag. During the performance, students collected contributions -to help children in Washtenaw County. Jazz for Life began 10 months ago when Louis Johnson, a recent law school graduate, and University law student Bob Woodruff saw a need to help the nation's poor children. One- fourth of all children in the United States live in poverty. "JAZZ FOR Life is an organization of people that love kids and love jazz. and we're using that to help kids in the Ann Arbor area," said group member Jan Mueller, an LSA senior. The group of approximately 50 students and non-students has already raised about $8,000 from a benefit dance held for Ann Arbor high school students and a meal fast to be held tomorrow in University residence halls. It is also sponsoring a benefit dance Thursday at the U Club featuring The Urbations, DJ Tom Simonian and the Jazz Quintet, and a benefit concert by jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie at Hill Auditorium Monday. Although all the group's events are free, members encourage donations to help the project provide nutritional, medical, and educational services to children living in poverty in Washtenaw County. Members are using the events on campus as a model for a nationwide effort to help poverty-stricken children next year. "WE'RE NOT in this for one shot, we're in this for the long term," John- son said. "This thing could be a hell of a bonfire. It could go across the coun- try.". Jazz for Life is currently studying the possibility of appearing in an an- nual jazz festival in Kansas City, Mo. this spring. The group is also organizing festivals to be held next spring in 30 to 35 major cities across the country. Each festival would include a concert by a major jazz artist, fundraising, and benefits at nearby college cam- puses. But the success of those plans depends on the outcome of the group's upcoming events at the University, members say. Come to the MEG Open House. Meet the staffs of the Microcomputer Education Center and the MicroGroup and see our... . Newly renovated facility. " Consultation and Microcomputer Resource Rooms. " Evaluation Area featuring University-supported microcomputers and software. * Teaching Laboratory with wide screen projectors and 32 microcomputers. * Demonstrations of popular new application programs. " Selection of IBM PC "clones" on loan for evaluation by MEC and the MicroGroup. Refreshments will be served. 3113 School of Education Building 3:00pm - 7:00pm Wednesday, April 9 MEC and the MicroGroup, both of the UM Computing Center, provide the University community with a wide range of microcomputer support services. I.' Students rebuild destroyed shanty (Continued from Page 1) initiative. THE University permit given to FSACC to keep the shanty on the Diag expired last Friday. But FSACC members announced plans to main- tain it indefinitely at last Friday's rally against anti-apartheid and racism, which capped two weeks of FSACC action. FSACC did not officially inform the University of the plans and failed to obtain another University permit. Barbara Ransby, leader of the com- mittee, defended the decision to leave the shanty, saying that it retained its educational value. "It only interferes with people's ability to ignore some very real problems in the world," Ransby said. University officials responsible for overseeing Diag operations could not be reached for comment last night on whether the University plans to let the shanty stay without another permit. Administrators at the University of California at Berkeley last week ap- proved the destruction of a shan- tytown constructed there, a move which helped lead to a large protest at which too people were arrested and 29 injured. The attacks on the Diag shanty - which included two attempts to burn it down last weekend - follow similar incidents at other campuses during a recent wave of national and anti-apar- theid action. In one incident at Dar- tmouth College, staff members of the Dartmouth Review, a conservative student newspaper, destroyed a shan- ty with bulldozers. Ann Arbor City Council member Larry Hunter (D-First Ward), who helped rebuild the shanty, suggested its destruction might be part of a nationwide effort by right-wing groups opposed to anti-apartheid ac- tivism. "There was no good reason for them to tear it down, other than maliciousness and disregard for the anti-apartheid struggle," Ransby said. Despite the setback, the students who rebuilt the shanty retained their optimism, as they added to the shanty a plaque dedicated to the memory of the late Martin Luther King Jr. "This shanty will not be dismantled until apartheid is finally dismantled," they pledged. Some of the students later showed up at University President Harold Shapiro's office to urge the University to divest the $500,000 it still has in- vested in companies that do businesss with South Africa and to grant an honorary degree to jailed South African activist Nelson Mandella at spring commencement ceremonies. The Mandella degree is currently un- der evaluation by the University's Honorary Degree Committee. Told that Shapiro was out of the of- fice, the students complained to his IN BRIEF- COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS U.S. may strike against Libya WASHINGTON-President Reagan was said yesterday to be studying the possibility of a military strike against Libya as the United States compiled evidence that the renegade Arab republic was involved in the fatal bombing of a West Berlin disco. Ambassador Richard Burt, the U.S. envoy to West Germany, said there were "very clear indications that there was Libyan involvement" in the nightclub bombing that killed an American Army sergeant and a Turkish woman. When asked whether he favored a military move against Khadafy Burt said that Reagan was "studying this issue right now." One U.S. diplomat in the divided city, speaking on condition he not be identified, said: "The Libyan angle is being explored very vigorously. Khadafy is an active suspect." On his return from a California vacation Sunday, Reagan refused to comment when reporters asked him whether he planned to strike at the Libyan leader. He ignored questions yesterday as he left the White House to watch the start of the Baltimore Orioles' season-opening baseball game against the Cleveland Indians. Autopsies show Americans were alive during explosion ATHENS, Greece-Autopsies showed yesterday three Americans were alive when they were sucked through a hole in the fuselage of a bombed TWA jetliner and hurled 15,000 feet to earth while the fourth victim died in the blast. In the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli, a woman suspect offered to meet with Greek investigators to clear her name in the Wednesday bom- bing of TWA Flight 840 en route to Athens from Rome. "I understand the Greek authorities want ot me to go to Athens and testify... I am not willing to meet anyone the Greek police sends to Tripolo to clear my name of this whole thing," said May Elias Mansour, a Lebanese anti-Israeli guerrilla described by Italian authorities as an ex- plosives expert. "I am prepared to meet investigators here to prove that I had nothing to do with the bombing," she told reporters in Tripoli. Mansour is considred by authorities in Greece to be a prime suspect in the bombing. Authorities said she had been on the TWA plance from Cairo to Athens, and that she sat in the seat where the explosive was hidden. Strike drives up oil prices Oil prices shot up by as much as $1 a barrel yesterday as a strike in Norway's North Sea oil fields removed almost 1 million barrels a day from the glutted world market and Vice President George Bush wound up a visit to Saudi Arabia. Analysts said the strike by kitchen workers on Norway's offshore oil rigs that began Sunday would bolster prices-at least temporarily-by shutting down about 900,000 barrels a day of North Sea oil production. But observers were divided over whether the strike represented a backdoor accommodation on the part of the Oslo government with OPEC, which has driven down prices more than 50 percent since December by flooding the market in a campaign targeted at forcing Britain and Nor- way to curb their output. In Dhahran, Bush ended his visit to Saudi Arabia, OPEC's principal producer, by saying the United State would not dictate to the kingdom or other countries "what the price of oil should be." Terrorists suspected in. German disco bombing BERLIN-Police said yesterday they suspected foreign terrorists carried out the disco bombing that killed two people and wounded nearly 200. Some reports said Arabs may have slipped in from East Germany to plant the explosives. Police said they had questioned 145 people and received more than 100 tips but lacked solid leads and had made no arrests. One factor influencing investigators is the conflict between the United States and Libya that resulted in a naval confrontation two weeks ago in the Gulf of Sidra. "Since the attack site (in West Berlin) was frequented by American military personnel, it cannot be ruled out that the attackers came from Arab terrorist circles," said Dieter Piete, head of the 100-member spec- ial police commission investigating Saturday's bombing. Piete would not comment further and said investigators still "have no concrete clues." Philippine's want additional aid WASHINGTON-The Philippine finance minister said yesterday his country needs an additional $100 million in U.S. economic aid, plus $580 million in loans, to avert a financial crisis that could undermine the new government of Corazon Aquino. "We are in an emergency situation," Jaime Ongpin said in a speech at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He said the Aquino government will not have enough money to pat its bills for the rest of the year unless it gets help. "We are in trouble, I can tell you." Congress is already considering $100 million for the Philippines in ad- dition to $214 million previously approved, and is considered likely to ap- propriate the larger amount. But Ongpin said it is equally important for Washington to help persuade the International Monetary Fund and commercial banks to make $580 million in previously approved funds available by the end of June. He also said the United States should put pressure on Japan to give assistance. 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