Page 2-Thursday, July 17, 1980-The Michigan Daily ACLU fails in first attempt to block draft registration WASHINGTON (UPI) - The American Civil Liberties Union yester- day lost the first battle in its federal- court drive to block next week's resum- ption of draft registration in the United States. With some four million 19- and 2q- year-old men due to start registering for the draft Monday, U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell heard civil liber- ties lawyers argue that Selective Ser- vice forms illegally require registrants to provide their Social Security num- bers. THE ACLU asked Gesell to block registration until new forms are printed or to make the government post signs in America's 34,500 post offices telling registrants they need not give their Social Security numbers. But Gesell rejected the group's requests at the close of a 45-minute hearing, concluding, "It is in the public interest to proceed with the registration plan which is now in the eleventh hour." The judge noted Director Bernard Rostker of the Selective Service System has said he will not recommend prosecution of those~who fail to provide their numbers. AT THE SAME time, however, Gesell called . vement's position "bizarre' esie onithe one hand registrant are told they must provide, their Social Security numbers, ard on the other, a key official promises not to recommend prosecution of those who donot Justice Department lawyer Charles Eliot, in opposing the temporary restraining offer sought by the ACLU, said the registration plan is one of a series of necessary steps "to convince the Soviet Union that their actions in Afghanistan were ill-advised." ACLU lawyer Charles Sims, "disappointed" by Gesell's ruling, pledged the civil liberties group will continue efforts to block use of Social Security numbers, hoping eventually to eliminate all numbers from any registration forms. The Privacy Act suit brought by the ACLU is only one of three legal efforts the group has mounted to block registration. The other two, including one pending before Gesell, charge that the draft and draft registration illegally discriminate against men because they exclude women from registering. Don't smash-those snakes A 39-year-old Pingree, Idaho man has learned the hard way that rattlesnacks don't hold their liquor very well. Paul Gallegos is nursing a blackened finger after he was bitten by a pet rattlesnack he and his friends were trying to get drunk with beer, his wife, Joyce, told the Blackfoot (Idaho) News. "Sometimes I think he's 13," Joyce Gallegos said. "This was just too much. I hope he's learned his lesson." Gallegos, a mechanic, and his friends were taunting the snake in the back of a pickup truck on West Bridge in clkfoot early Saturday, Joyce Gallegos said. After the snake struck, Ga Was rushed to Bingham Memorial Hospital, where he was kept overnght for observation:Maybe they should have tried malt liquor. Q On the outside After yesterday's early morning storm, today's mostly sunny skies are a welcome sight. The high temperature should reach the mid-80s. 0, Happenings FILMS Cinema Guild-You and Me, 8 p.m., Old Arch. Aud. AAFC-Day for Night, 7,9 p.m., Angell Aud. A. Cinema II-Our Man in Havana, 7:30 p.m., The Fallen Idol, 9:30 p.m., MLB 4. Michigan Media Summer Film Showcase-Writing on the Wall, Place to Live, Walls Come Tumbling Down, Power to Change, 7:30 p.m., MLB 3. ,Rudolf Steiner House-Waldorf Education in North America, 8 pm., 1923 Geddes. PERFORMANCES RC/Brecht Co.-"The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui," 8 p.m., Residential College Aud. Michigan Repertory '80-"A Midsummer Night's Dream," 8 p.m., Power Center. MISCELLANEOUS Turner Geriatric Clinic-"A Day in the Park," third annual Turner Picnic, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Riverside Park. School of Metaphysics-new class in applied metaphysics, 7:30 p.m., 219 N. Main. Veterans Administration-50th anniversary ceremony, 7:30 p.m., Ann Arbor VA Medical Center, 2215 Fuller Rd. Michigan League-American Heritage Night featuring Western Missions cuisine, 57 p m, League.El The Michigan Daily (USPS 344-90e) Volume XC, No. 4-S Thursday, July 17,ise The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday mornings during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109. Subscription rates: $12 September through April (2 semesters); $13 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Summer session published Tuesday through Saturday mornings. Subscription rates: $6.50 in Ann Arbor; $7 by mail outside Ann Arbor. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to THE MICHIGAN DAILY, 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. 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