The Michigan Daily-Saturday, May 30, 1981-Page 11 BI-PAR TISANAPPROACH TO AVOID SUPREME COURT ACTION State to discuss redistricting plan LANSING (UPI)-Members of the state Legislative Apportionment Com- mission begin work Monday to come up with a bi-partisan redistricting plan in order to avoid throwing the issue to a hostile Michigan Supreme Court. Aiding the eight-member group this year is a U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing apportionment commissions to take "partisan political differences" into account when drawing up districts. THIS COULD mean an end to meetings filled with complaints about gerrymandering. "For the first time, we can deal with Detroit-area seats, said his party will it openly and not go through the hang onto its legislative majority. charades," said Republican co- The apportionment commission is chairman Richard Sanderson. composed of four members from each But Sanderson and his Democratic party. It has 180 days from Monday to counterpart, Robert Kleiner, naturally come up with a new map of the 110 disagree on what the new district map House seats and 38 Senate seats based will look like. on 1980 census figures. SANDERSON predicted population EACH PARTY has been busy shifts from the cities to the suburbs and drawing up proposals using rural areas will lead Republicans to sophisticated, computer techniques and control of the House and Senate in next old-fashioned political know-how. The year's elections. panel must then choose between them Kleiner. while conceeding losses of or hash out a compromise. In theory, the plan getting the most votes wins. But in 1971, the group deadlocked along partisan lines, so both parties sent plans to the Michigan Supreme Court. The high court voted 4-3 in favor of a proposal drawn up by Kleiner and Lillian Hatcher, a Detroit Democrat. THIS YEAR, however, com- missioners want to avoid going before the court if at all possible. The reason is that three justices-Republican Chief Justice Mary Coleman, independent Justice Charles Levin and Democratic Justice Thomas Kavanagh-may count themselves out of the process, leaving a potential 2-2 tie among the remaining Republicans and Democrats. High court spokesman Roger Lane would not predict what the court would do in the case of a commission deadlock. But he said opinions during the 1970s written by the three justices indicated they feel Michigan's apportionment law is nullified by the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court decision requiring districts to be drawn up on a "one man-one vote" basis. "PREVIOUS opinions are the most formal expression you can get from a judge," Lane said. In order to avoid tangling with the court, Kleiner said he and Sanderson have agreen to aim for a bipartisan compromise. 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For more znfvrma&onGal' 99f-5625 SYDA Foaundahfto Jzdin' robin Even this mother bird and her offspring will agree that the best way to get around in summer is by bicycle as they stop for a lunch break. MALE MARINES TAKE HAND-TO-HAND COURSE: Combat training revived PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - After a five-year absence, hand-to-hand combat training is back in the basic training course for Marine Corps recruits. The two-hour course in how to kill barehanded is now taught to all male Marines, says Capt. Jasper Rogers, director of the special training division at the Parris Island boot camp. He said it is a supplement to advanced bayonet training. "THIS IS one of the things young men - join the Marine Corps for," Rogers said in a recent interview. "It teaches them self-confidence and motivation." "There will always be physical con- tact with the enemy," added Staff Sgt. Leon H-ardin, one of two instructors resurrecting the training. "We don't teach martial arts," Har- din said. "In martial arts you fight by rules and regulations. In hand-to-hand combat there are no rules and regulations." THE COURSE was imported to Parris Island after a six-day trial at the Corps' boot camp in San Diego. Hardin said drill instructors are lear- ning the techniques along with the recruits. Eventually Rogers hopes to offer such training in drill instructors school. "In two hours you can't really teach a man how to fight," Hardin said. "This is not something where a fellow will be able to leave that afternoon and go clean out the local bar." THE COURSE takes place in the final days of recruit training. Hardin's st4cents learn which blows to the head and neck are lethal. They practice the right way to break a fall while protec- ting neck, ribs, and groin from an op- ponent's blow, three different throws, and "the Marine Corps ripple," a technique developed by Hardin and Bryant. The ripple is a combination of pun- ches to the lower ribs followed by a throw and blows to the arm and groin designed, as Hardin put it, "to destroy the enemy's will to fight." Maj. Fred Peck, a spokesman at the Marine Corps headquarters, said he didn't know why the training was discontinued. A longer hand-to-hand course apparently fell by the wayside when recruit training was cut from 11 weeks to 10 in 1976 by then- Commandant Gen. Louis Wilson, Peck said.