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Nuclear freeze
rally at U.N.-
expects
NEW YORK (AP) - The rally again-
st nuclear weapons that may bring up to
500,00A people to Central Park
tom, row was planned and or-
chestrated by a fragile and fractious
coalition of activists, many of whom
have toiled for decades in the ban-the-
bomb, civil rights, anti-Vietnam War
and environmental movements.
For a year, representatives of more
than 100 organizations, some new to the
peace movement, many old, have been
working to put together the rally, timed
to coincide with the Second United
Nations Session onDisarmament.
THERE WAS constant squabbling,
some over personal and political dif-
ferences going back decades, much of it
over everything from the color of but-
tons and wording of signs to the role in
the leadership of "Third World people"
- blacks, Hispanics and Asians. That
last dispute produced a brief walkout in
March by a splinter group calling itself
the Third World and Progressive
People's Coalition.
What finally emerged is a coalition
unified at least in the two demands on
which the rally will center: military
disarmament, including a freeze on
nuclear weapons, and reducing
military budgets in favor of social
spending.
It includes old-line peace groups from
the '50s and '60s like SANE, the War
50oo0ooo
Resisters Leage,- the Fellowship of
Reconciliation, the Women's Inter-
national League for Peace and
Freedom, Clergy and Laity Concerned;
environmental groups like Greenpeace
and unions like District 65 of the United
Auto Workers.
AT THE WORKING level are people
like Norma Becker, a New York City
schoolteacher who five years ago
helped found the organization from
which the demonstration sprang;
Leslie Cagan, one of three coordinators
for the Jne 12 rally and a full-time
worker for environmental and anti-war
causes since 1968; the Rev. Homer A.
Jack, a Unitarian-Universalist
minister, a member of a non-
governmental U.N. disarmament
committee, and a spiritual cheerleader
for the cause.
The roots of the rally go back to Aug.
5, 1976, when Ms. Becker, chairwoman
of the pacifist War Resisters League
and an anti-Vietnam War activist, was
patching a television program marking
the 31st anniversary of the droppiong of
the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. A
panelist on the show mentioned that
nuclear stockpiles had grown immen-
sely while public attention was focused
on Vietnam.
"My blood turned to ice," she says.
"I talked to a lot of people and they all
told me to forget it, it ws too far along,
there was nothing we could do."
Today
The weather
Good day sunshine - skies will clear today as temperatures stay in the
refreshing 70s. Q]
Video finger
E VERY SPORT has its injury problems. With tennis players the elbow
can't take the strain, baseball pitchers careers are often cut short by a
faulty arm, and basketball players can be wiped out at any moment with a
errant turn of the knee. According to one study, video games have been ad-
ded to the list of sports whose players are plagued with injuries. Dr. Gary
Myerson of Atlanta's Emory University, who conducted the study, said that
64 percent of the 134 video players he examined complained of some sort of
joint, muscle, or skin problem as a result of video playing.
The most common complaints were blisters, callouses, and discomfort in the
joints. While none of these problems is considered serious now, they could be
a prelude to chronic arthritis conditions, said Myerson. "Since an average
player spends upwards of two hours per week at the controls of the video
game," Myerson said, "we are likely to see chronic problems developing in
the hands, wrists and perhaps even shoulders." Myerson conceded that
video game injuries are not on the same level as other sport injuries. He said
he saw no reason to pull children out of the arcades and put them on the foot-
ball field. Q
Happenings
Films
Alternative Action - Alien, 7:15 & 9:30 p.m., MLB 3.
CFT - Dark Star, 3:30, 6:45 & 10 p.m., THX 1138, 5 & 8:15 p.m., Michigan
Theater.
Cinema Guild - Private Benjamin, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., Lorch.
Cinema Two - Bad Timing/A Sensual Obsession, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., Aud.
A, Angell.
AAFC - Peppermint Soda, 7 & 9 p.m., MLB 4.
Miscellaneous
Astronomy - Charles Cowley, "Cosmochemistry," 8:30 p.m., Aud. B,
Angell.
Office of Major Events - closed circuit showings of Cooney V. Holmes
world heavyweight boxing match, 9 p.m., Hill.
Canterbury Loft - "No Exit," 8 p.m., 332 S. State.
Ark - Connie Huber, 9 p.m., 1421 Hill.
Department of Theatre and Drama - "The Glass Menagerie," 8 p.m.,
Mendelssohn Theatre.
Mr. Flood's Party - Double-Shot Rangers, 5 p.m., 120W. Liberty.
Ann Arbor Chinese Bible Class - meeting, 7:30 p.m., University Refor-
med Church.
International Student Fellowship - Meeting, 7p.m., 4100 Nixon.
University Duplicate Bridge Club - open game, 7:30 p.m., League.
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Michigan Daily
Four million year-old
ancestor of man found
BERKELEY, Calif. (UPI)- The
oldest ancestor of man yet to be found,
a 41/ foot tall "hominid" who walked on
two feet but had a very small brain and
lived four million years ago, has been
discovered in a remote Ethiopian
desert, scientists reported yesterday.
A partial skull and a thigh bone were
found last autumn by a University of
California team. They are 4,000 cen-
turies older than "Lucy," whose bones
were found in 1974 and was-until
now-considered man's oldest relative.
The finding of Lucy revolutionized the
search for humankinds' ancient an-
cestors, shifting the focus of ex-
plorations from Asia to Africa.
THE LATEST discovery was made
along the Middle Awash River in the
"Afar Triangle" region of northern
Ethiopia. The scientific team hailed the
region as the greatest archeological
hunting grounds in the world.
"The ground is littered with fossils.
Elephant jaws are sticking out of the
hillsides. You can't even walk without
stepping on fossils in some places,"
said Tim White, a paleontologist. "It
includes the full range of African fauna
over six million years. There is no other
area like it in the world."
J. Desmond Clark, who was leader of
the expedition, said the site is "the key
to providing some of the answers about
the origin of humanity."
THE SCIENTISTS said the expedition
last autumn was intended only to sur-
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vey the area along the ancient river
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