Page 4 -The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, October 6, 1987 U.S. chopper crashes; ships flee Gulf war u \h a 4Panel urges n therapy for cholesterol victis MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - Iraqi planes struck five tankers, including the world's largest, in raids yesterday in Iranian oil targets at both ends of the Persian Gulf, and Iran fired a missile into Baghdad. The missile was the first to strike the Iraqi capital in nearly eight months. Authorities there said ti killed many people, but did not give figures. Japanese owners ordered their ships out of the perilous Persian Gulf, where Iran and Iraq have been at war since September 1980. Three crewmen of a U. S. Marine helicopter were rescued and a fourth was listed as missing after a crash during a night operation in the central gulf, the Navy said. It reported no "hostile activity" involved in the second helicopter crash since U. S. warships began escort operations 20 months ago. The 564,739-ton Seawise Giant and four other tankers were reported damaged at the makeshift Larek Island oil terminal in the Strait of Hormuz, the gulf's narrow southern entrance. Iraq said its French-built F- 1 Mirages flew 600 miles tyo raid the Larek terminal and another on nearby Lavan Island. Chartered tankers shuttle oil south from Iran's main oil export terminal at Kharg Island in the northern gulf, which comes under air attack almost daily. Tankers of other nations pick up the crude oil and petroleumproducts at Larak and Lavan. Iraq claims its air force has attacked 21 ships in Iranian waters since the end of August, but its planes seldom make the long flight to attack the Hormuz island terminals. In Baghdad, people living near where the missile struck told the Associated Press they heard and felt a strong explosion at 10:07 p.m., which they described as similar to explosions in previous missile attacks. A military spokesperson said on state radio that many people were killed. Ambulances raced into the area and police sealed it off. Officials would not say precisely where the missile landed. Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency filed an urgent dispatch under the headline "Thundering Missile Gives a Rude Awakening to Baathist Regime," a reference to Iraq's ruling Baath Socialist Party. It claimed the missile hit a military training center. WASHINGTON (AP) - Millions of Americans with high cholesterol levels that previously went untreated should get intensive therapy, an expert panel said yesterday, making sweeping recom- mendations to doctors on decreasing ,this major cause of heart disease. The recommendations, immedi- ately endorsed by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the American Heart Association and other health groups, call for doctors to aggressively prescribe diets as the first therapy for high cholesterol levels. If regimented diets that reduce fat and cholesterol intake fail to decrease blood fat levels, the panel said, then cholesterol-lowering drugs should be used. Panel chairman Dr. DeWitt S. Goodman of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City told a news briefing that the n e w recommendations differ from similar guidelines from other groups in that they give doctors a step-by-step program for treating each type of ,patient. "This is the very first time such a specific detailed set of recom- mendations has been developed," Goodman said. "We think medical practice will undergo a major change on the basis of this report and other educational efforts," he said. Daily Photo by DAVID LUBLINER' Cash flow Frustrated students wait in line to withdraw money from their accounts at a State Street automatic teller machine. Early snows elt East; heat fries West By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ski resorts opened early and rising temperatures raised the threat of flooding, as more than 200,000 people remained without electricity yesterday after New England was battered by the earliest snowstorm of the century. Six deaths were blamed on the weekend storm, which piled snow as high as 20 inches in New York's Catskill mountains. Frosty temperatures extended deep into the South, while the West Coast was having a 100-degree heat wave. Snow and fallen trees on roads made thousands of tourists, who had come to see New England's colorful fall foliage, spend an extra night in motels and inns. At Vermont's state Travel Division, officials wondered what impact the storm would have on the foliage season, which attracts one million people to the state between mid-September and mid-October. City council tables firearm By STEVE KNOPPER The Ann Arbor City Council tabled an ordinance last night which could severely restrict the location and expansion of firearm stores in the city. Councilmember Dave DeVarti's motion to postpone voting on the proposal was passed, 7-3. DeVarti (D-Fourth Ward), author of the proposal, said he was "convinced that we won't be able to address all of people's concerns ... we can't address concerns of people who insist that this is gun control." At last week's Council Work Session, 38 people debated the ordinance during the public hearing, and whether or not it was a "backdoor" method of firearm control. DeVarti said 22 of the speakers were "people against gun control," and 16 were in favor of the ordinance. DeVarti said the proposal's purpose was to "keep gun stores out of downtown and campus areas." The tabled ordinance, passed by the council at its first reading on Sept. 8, would have permitted firearm stores only in C3 zoning districts, which included many shopping malls. DeVarti said he and fellow Fourth Ward Councilmember Jerry Schleicher, a Republican, would submit a changed ordinance within regulation ordi the next few weeks. ' Last night, Schleicher, and Republican Councilmembers Terry Martin (Second Ward) and Jeanette Middleton (Third) opposed tabling the proposal. Five of the six speakers at last night's public hearing spoke in protest of the ordinance, including Susan Walsh-Wigton, co-owner of the Ann Arbor Rod and Gun Company. Walsh-Wigton's store was the center of controversy last summer when nearby residents formed a group called Neighbors Against the Gun Store to protest its i nance again expansion to Packard St. near Stadium Blvd. The group picketed thestore several times. Last night, Walsh-Wigton denounced the ordinance's hypocrisy in regulating "the one local sporting goods business that is unable to fight...." She said larger, less-restricted stores like K-Mart and Herman's also sell firearms, reminding council that speakers called the ordinance "a back door way to gun control" at last week's meeting. But last week, the University's Michigan Student Assembly passed a resolution supporting the tabled ordinance. -iIs our nc ' Ii "A IA FAA- r., What do you do with your math skills? Why not predict the future. Keep an eye on $100 billion in assets. Create,' control, dkcrlzh multi..millinn dcllar finnncial inetnmPnts Price cnrnorate n cnisition'-