6 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday July 6, 1984 GET T GB! \b I t A, W Wc ©1@ q New blue mascot If LSA senior Vic Lacca has his way, Willie Wolverine will be the new Michigan mascot. Lacca said he plans to sell T-shirts with the new logo and put up posters before football games to boost school spirit. He is also trying to get permission to create a Willie Wolverine costume for a student to wear on the football field during the games. 'U' English prof dies at 63. Indian plane seized by Sikh hijackers ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Sikh hijackers forced an Indian Airlines plane to Lahore, Pakistan, yesterday and threatened to blow it up with 264 people aboard if their demands were not met, a government spokesman said. The Sikhs, who seized the twin tur- borfan aircraft on a domestic flight from Srinagar, capital of Kashmir, to New Delhi, demanded the immediate release of all Sikhs arrested during recent agitations by that sect in India's Punjab state. Mohammad Sharif, deputy infor- mation officer for the military gover- nment in Pakistan, said the hijackers set a deadline of 2 a.m. today (5 p.m. EDT yesterday) and would not extend it. But a Pakistani source in contact with Lahore airport said negotiations with the hijackers broke down several hours before the deadline, and it passed without incident. The plane remained under heavy guard at Lahore Airport, 180 miles east of Islamabad. Sharif said his gover- nment had no word on the hostages on the plane, and was waiting word from New Delhi on how to proceed. Pakistani officials said there were 158 men, 82 women and 15 children passengers plus a nine-member crew. They could not say if there were any foreigners aboard the plane, despite reports that the flight manifest in New Consumers lays off em LANSING (UPI) - Consumers Power Co. yesterday formally laid off 1,550 Midland nuclear plant workers originally sent home last week, even as plant critics were developing a respon- se to the firm's latest plan to save the project. The layoff notices were given to the workers as they showed up at the plant to pick up their paychecks and learn their job status, said Consumers spokesman Norman Saari. The workers had been told to report back yesterday when the utility began shutting down the plant last week. THERE WERE about 6,000 people employed in the project prior to the layoffs. "The major reason this was done was because there was not work available to be performed today," Saari said. he said the firm will call the workers back as soon as possible if an agreement is reached to save the plant. Meanwhile, Delhi listed 30 non-Indian names, some of whom were believed to be British. State-run Pakistan Television quoted the hijackers as saying, "We are prepared to kill or get killed" when air- port authorities at first refused landing permission at Lahore, in northeast Pakistan close to the Indian border. Sharif said there were four hijackers. Earlier, the United News of India said nine members of the banned All-India Sikh Students Federation had seized the Airbus A-300. The Indian government has accused the federation of plotting secession and setting up guerrilla training camps in Kashmir. The hijackers also demanded that In- dia announce over radio and television the names of all those arrested in the Sikh crackdown; release Harmandar Singh Sandho, general secretary of the All-India Sikh Students Federation, and 29 other prominent members; convert into U.S. dollars the approximately $25 million in money and treasure Sikhs say was looted by Indian troops during the Amritsar operation last month, and send the money on to Pakistan. Last month, Indian army troops at- tacked the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the Sikhs' holiest shrine but one India said was a haven for Sikh terrorists. The official death toll listed 492 Sikhs and 92 government soldiers, but military and police officials put it at more than 1,200. Poue r ployees he said the formal layoffs allow the workers to apply for unemployment . benefits. In another development, Public Ser- vice Commission Chief of Staff Roger Fischer said it is not necessary for a coalition of Midland Plant critics to ac- tually support the company's newest plan to salvage the project. He said if coalition members do not specifically object to the proposal, "then we've got a go." THE COALITION is composed of the PSC staff, the attorney general's office and two groups representing residen- tial and industrial ratepayers. The Michigan State Chamber of Commerce and the Michigan Business Utility Users Committee - a group of large retailers - endorsed the new Consumers proposal. Attorney General Frank Kelley renewed a call for a PSC investigation into Consumers' gas storage practices. i I 0 By ERIC MATTSON University English Prof. Donald Sands died here Sunday at the age of 63. Sands died of a single gunshot wound to the chest, apparently a victim of suicide. SANDS WAS a specialist in etymology who had worked on numerous dictionaries and edited two books. According to Karen Van Raalte, an administrative associate in the English department, Sands "seemed to be a pretty serious scholar." She said speculation on why he took his own life "would be mostly conjecture." Although the Medical Examiner's Of- fice did not have information concer- ning Sands' death, the professor's associates said the death was a suicide. SANDS RECEIVED a Ph.D. in 1953 from Harvard University and came to the University in 1964. He became a full professor in 1967, specializing in* medieval English literature and history of Germanic languages. There will be a memorial service for Sands at 3 p.m. on Monday, July 9 at St. Clare's Episcopal Church, located at 2309 Packard. Burial will be in Reading, Mass. San- ds is survived by four children: Susan- na Sands of Albany, N.Y.; Erica Miner of Winchester, N.H.; Rebecca Sands of of Ann Arbor; and Nathaniel Sands of Ann Arbor. HAPPENINGS Friday Cinema Guild-The Graduate, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., Performance Network-Ann Arbor Dances II, 8 Ultimate Frisbee Club-practice, 5:30 p.m., Fuller Lorch. p.m., 408W. Washington. Park. Cinema II-Missing, 7:30 & 9:45 p.m., MLB 4. AAFC-A Midsummer Night's Dream, 7:30 p.m.; Folk Dance Club-Bulgarian dancing, 8:30 p.m., CFT-Everything You Always Wanted to Know A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, 9:30 p.m., MLB Dentalschool courtyard. About Sex, 7:30 : 10:45 p.m.; Bananas, 9:05 p.m., 3. Ann Arbor Chamber Orchestra-Haydn Festival, Michigan. Cinema Guild-Hair, 7:30 & 9:45 p.m., Lorch. Intrada, noon, Liberty Plaza. Cinema II-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Performance Network-Ann Arbor Dances II, 8 Saturday 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., MLB 4. p.m., 400 W. Washington. Folklore Society-Square and Contra-Dance, 8 CFT-Everything You Always Wanted to Know AAFC-The Road Warrior, 7 & 10:20 p.m.; Mad p.m., Union. About Sex, 7:30 & 10:35 p.m.; Bananas, 9:05 p.m., Max, 8:40 p.m., MLB 3. 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