Page 2-Friday, June 11 1982-The Michigan Daily 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. To submit items for the Happenings Column, send them in cart of Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI. 48109. 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- Vol. XCII, No. 27-S Friday, June 11, 1982 The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The Univer- sity of Michigan. 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RICHARD CAMPBELL Sports Edtrs ..............JORN KERR RON POLLACK Staff Librarian ... ..BONNIE HAWKINS NEWS STAFF: George Adams, Greg Brusstr,. Lou Fintor, Amy Gojdo, Bill Spindle, Scott Stuckol, Charles Thomson, Fannie Weinstein. Business. Manager ..............JOSEPH SRODA Display/ClssiidEane. . ANN SACHAR Sales Coordinatr,,.....E. ANDREW PETERSEN BUSINESS STAFF nd are Dsonc iM Gittle. SPORTS STAFF: Joe Chapelle, Richard Demak, Jim Dworman, Robin Kopilnick. Larry Mishkin, Dan Newman, Jim Thompson, Karl Wheatley. PHOTO STAFF: Jackie Bell. Deborah Lewis ARTS STAFF Sarah Basser gJill Bsngrer Fleming, Michael Huget, Elliot Jackson. Ellen Rieser. White ... expedition member vey the area along the ancient river bed. The area was described as a for- bidding and roadless desert of vast eroded terraces and layers of volcanic ash. It was first discovered by a French geologist in the 1960s but was then closed to exploration until the American team was admitted last summer. Piles of burned clay as old as five million years indicated that "as soon as our ancestors became fully bipedal they made use of fire," White said.