In W eekend Ig " l !*HowtAIDSahasaffected the 'U'community In ~V ekenM agazine. . A look at Laughing Hyenas " The List " 'Frantic' Ninety-eight years of editorial freedom Vol. XCVIII, No. 103 Ann Arbor, Michigan- Friday, March 4, 1988 Copyright 1988, The Michigan Daily Home ios sweet to Michigan wrestlers By RICHARD EISEN When the whistle blows and one of his sons hits the mats, h e watches with such great intensity. He stands still, he paces, some- times he can't even watch, but you know he's there to root on his sons. If the referee makes a bad call, he will protest with such vigor that you can't help but notice him. "He gets pretty excited," one son confirmed. He is Nazem Amine, father of Michigan wrestlers Mike and Sam. He represents something extremely important to the Michigan wrestling team - home. THEY say home is where the heart is. But for the Michigan wrestlers, this year, home is where the Big Ten Championships are. This weekend the championships will be held at Crisler Arena, which is a huge advantage for the Wolver- ines. "I think we really have a chance to win it here (Crisler)," said Michigan's 177-pound entry, Justin Spewock. "Everybody feels so comfortable (wrestling) here. I mean its like Dorothy, there really is no place like home." If that's true, Michigan better start clicking its ruby shoes to- gether, for they nimust get past the Wicked Wrestlers of the West, the } Iowa Hawkeyes. It will be tough. Iowa has won 13 straight Big Ten championships and its head coach of 11 years, Dan Gable, has a lifetime Big Ten record of 78-0. UNFORTUNATELY, the wrestling team can't dump Auntie Em's house on the Hawkeyes, but they might be able to substitute Crisler Arena for it. 1"I think that if we have a chance to knock Iowa off, and it's gonna be a battle, they haven't lost it in 13 years, the difference just might be the home mat advantage," said Michigan coach Dale Bahr. "Sleeping.at home, just being home helps," Bahr added. "The dif- See CRISLER, Page 10 UCAR leader S receives death.,treat Cutting edge to glory? Daily Photo by ELLEN LEVY Michigan hockey players sport their new hairstyles in preparation for this weekend's playoff series against Western Michigan. Pictured from the left are: Joe Lockwood, Todd Copeland, Rob Brown, Brad Turner, Kent Brothers, Myles O'Connor, and Don Stone. See stories, page 10. Legislators recount fact- finding tour of Middle East By JIM PONIEWOZIK A member of the United Coali- tion Against Racism steering com- mittee filed a report with Ann Arbor police that she received a telephone call from a man threatening to rape and kill her Tuesday night. The UCAR member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said she discovered the threat on her an- swering machine upon returning home at about 10 p.m. Tuesday. The recording contained a male voice saying, "I'm gonna kill you. I'm gonna kill you. You said that stuff in The Daily. We're going to fuck your shit up. Bomb threat, bomb threat, bomb threat. I'm going to fuck you up your anus." THE UCAR member said she believed the call was "an attempt to scare me, because I have been in- volved in the anti-racist struggle, but this attempt will not deter me, or any other member of UCAR, from pursuing our anti-racist agenda mili- tantly and aggressively." The threat was "another step in the pattern of increased racial ha- rassment on campus. Viewed in per- spective of what's been happening on campus recently, it's very scary," said the steering committee member. Interim University President Robben Fleming said he was noti- fied of the incident yesterday evening and would look into the possibility of conducting an inquiry into the in- cident today. He said the investiga- tion would probably involve campus security. "This is something that has to be looked into very thoroughly," said Fleming. VIRGINIA N O R D B Y, director of the University's Affirmative Action Office, said she had not previously been told of the incident, which she called "really very horrible;" until last night. She said she was not aware whether a harassment complaint had been filed with the office in connection with the incident. No report of the incident was filed with campus security, said Leo Heatley, director of the University Office of Public Safety and Security. He said that security is not currently investigating the incident. The UCAR:member who reported the death threat said other members of the group have also been harassed in the past. One member was mailed a racist cartoon last summer and several members have received abu- sive phone calls, she said. By ANDREW MILLS State Rep. Perry Bullard (D-Ann Arbor) and City Councilmember Jeff Epton (D-Third Ward) told a group of about 50 people last night about their recent visit to Israel, calling for a separate Palestinian state and a change in U.S. policy toward both Israel and the Palestinians. Speaking before an overwhelm- ingly pro-Palestinian audience in Hutchins Hall, Bullard and Epton condemned the "hard line" stance taken by the Israeli administration against peace talks with the Pales- tinians and urged the United States - which sends more than $3 billion annually to Israel - to use its eco- nomic clout to effect some change in the troubled region. "Israel is internally a democracy, but it is also a garrison state (with) an economy dependent on U.S. aid and private contributions," Bullard said. "The problem. for all people in the U.S. is to somehow figure out how to undo our policy," he said. BULLARD and Epton were members of a 16-person delegation from Michigan, Ohio, and Maine who visited the region from Feb. 1 to Feb. 14. The delegation met with Christians, Moslems, Jews, as well as. Palestinians. Epton said he was most im- pressed with the unanimity of opin- ion among the Palestinian people. "The consensus among the Palestinian people is so broad as to be almost complete. Everybody seems to ascribe to a virtually com- plete political agenda," he said. The Palestinians Epton met with agreed thatethe Palestine Liberation Organization should be accepted as the representative voice of the peo- ple, that Jordan is not Palestine - as many people have maintained in the past, and that there is a need for a separate Palestinian state. EPTQN stressed that the group was not led on an "engineered" trip designed to let them observe only one side of the issue. On the Israeli side, the two said they heard calls for peace but that the dominant voice was the "hard-line" stand of the current Israeli adminis- tration not to engage in talks aimed at creating a separate Palestinian state. "There is a strong peace move- ment, but I think a minority peace movement," Bullard said. He added that the Israeli administration is "quite intent on preventing any Palestinian national state." CHANGE in the Israeli admin- istration and removal from power of the current Likud "hard-liners" led by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir is key to any progress in the peace movement, they said. W. German hostage released in Syria Students hold iag "~ " anti -apartheid By LISA WINER versity divest i Forty people protested apartheid in South Africa in a candlelight vigil sponsored by "The struggl The Free South Africa Coordinating must continue Committee on the Diag last night. sophomore Liz FSACC held the vigil in response to The Univer the recent outlawing of 17 anti- currently invest apartheid organizations by the South companies, is m African government. ings as a "token Students showed their support for alive that conte those struggling against apartheid, state law requ mourned those who have died in the universities to d struggle, and called for an end to University R Western economic and political sup- (D-Ann Arbor) port. They demanded that the Uni- See STUD f i h financial holdings ts . le (against apartheid) here," said LSA Paige of FSACC. sity, with $500,000 ted in South African maintaining the hold- W" to keep a lawsuit sts a 1982-Michigan iring all Michigan ivest these holdings. Regent Philip Power said yesterday, "the ENTS, Page 5 DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Pro- Iranian kidnappers freed West German hostage Ralph Schray in West Beirut yesterday after holding him for five weeks, and he was turned over to the West German Embassy in Damascus. The West German Charge D'affaires, Klaus Auchenbach, re- fused to make any comments to re- porters as he shuttled between the embassy and the Foreign Ministry, about a mile apart in the Syrian capital. HE SAID it was "not worth- while" for them to wait around, indi- cating that Schray would not appear in public. This raised speculation the former captive may not be as well as Bonn portrayed him to be after his ordeal. The Bonn Foreign Ministry had said earlier that Schray, 30, was in "good physical condition." Friedholm Ost, the West German government's chief spokesman in Bonn, said only that the Syrian gov- ernment had handed Schray over to embassy officials. SCHRAY, a Lebanese-born industrial engineer, was freed before dawn. A Syrian military source in the Lebanese capital said he was driven the 55 miles to Damascus under heavy Syrian escort. On Wednesday, the Holy War- riors for Freedom claimed responsi- bility for Schray's abduction and said he would be freed within hours as a result of Syrian meditation. The official Syrian Arab News Agency said Foreign Minister Farouk and four French. The hostage held longest is American Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press. He was seized March 16, 1985. Schray's release brought to seven the number of foreign hostages that have been released by kidnappers since September: two Frenchmen, two West Germans, a South Korean, a Norwegian and a Swede. WEST GERMAN officials say the Germans have been kidnapped ini an effort to pressure Bonn to release two Lebanese Shiite brothers. One of the brothers, Abbas Hamadi, has since been put on trial in Duesseldorf on charges of kidnap- ping Schmidt and Cordes to press"for the release of his brother, Mo- hammed Ali. Mohammed Ali is being held in Frankfurt on charges of involvement in the 1985 hijacking of an American TWA jetliner to Beirut and the mur- der of a U.S. Navy diver on board. Faculty, students praise rights bill By LAWRENCE ROSENBERG Campus leaders and faculty Although President Ronald Rea- gan promised he would veto the bill