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Page 14 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, July 13, 1984

REBECCA KNIGHT, Daily,
Body work
Steve Bowers works on his car stereo in the parking lot at Haney's on Huron Street.
British expel Libyan diplomats
LONDON (AP) - The British declared Nigeria's Year's Eve coup.
ambassador unwelcome in Britain yesterday and Howe said Scotland Yard's investigation
expelled two of the West African nation's diplomats "disclosed evidence that appears to implicate the
in retaliation for the bungled kidnapping of a fugitive Nigerian High Commission Embassy," and the
Nigerian politician. Nigerian government refused to allow police to
Britain stopped short of a break in diplomatic ties question embassy staff members.
with Nigeria, its chief African trading partner, or an BECAUSE OF the refusal, Howe said, the Foreign
outright expulsion of its ambassador, Maj. Gen. Office ordered Nigerian Embassy counselor Peter
Haldu Hananiya. Oyedele and attache Okon Edet to leave Britain
THERE WAS no immediate reaction from the within seven days.
Nigerian government. But state-run Nigerian Edet was at the airport when the crate containing
Television in Lagos said relations between Britain Dikko and his captors arrived and was asked to serve
and its former colony had "hit an all-time low." It as the embassy's witness when customs officials
said Britain had shown it was willing to provide opened it, according to police. Oyedele's involvement
"adequate shelter for former politicians wanted in in the case, if any, was not known.
Nigeria." "The Nigerian government has denied respon-
Nigeria has denied involvement in the attempted siblity," Howe told the House of Commons, "but
abduction of former Nigerian Transport Minister without our police authorities being able to question
Umaru Dikko, who was found drugged and members of the high commission embassy, it simply
unconscious July 5 in a crate that was to be loaded has not been possible for us to carry these matters to
onto a Nigerian-bound cargo plane at Stansted a conclusion."
Airport outside London. Dikko heads the list of Howe said Hananiya repeated his government's
former Nigerian officials accused of corruption by denials of involvement after being summoned to the
the military regime that seized power in a New Foreign Office on Wednesday.
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Model ships
teach students,
spark profs'
memories
By DOV COHEN
Two hand-made models of U.S. Navy
ships recently presented to the Univer-
sity- are intended to be displayed on
campus to help teach ROTC and
engineering students about naval
vessels, but they have also evoked
nostalgic memories from several
professors who remember the real
ships.
The models were donated by Maxwell
Hardy of Detroit, a model ship builder
who spent 8,000 hours over a five-year
period constructing the replicas of the
World War II battleship U.S.S. Missouri
and the U.S.S. Enterprise, America's
first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
THE CHIEF architect in designing
the hull of the Enterprise was Emeritus
Prof. Richard Couch, who came to the
University from the Navy's Bureau of
Ships in 1957. He said the engineering
for the ship was similar to that of the
nuclear submarines which already
existed.
Couch credits Admiral Hyman
Rickover with convincing Congress to
build the ship. "He had a lot of influen-
ce," he recalled.
Couch reminisced about the
frustration of working under the con-
troversial Rickover, who would often
wait until the last minute to give
engineers important contruction in-
formation. "We had problems with
Rickover all the time."
- Prof. Michael Parsons, who spent six
years under Rickover and now chairs
the Naval Architecture and Marine
Engineering Department, called the
Enterprise "a very significant ship in
its role in the development of large
navy vessels."
The two model ships will be "very
valuable," Parsons said, because they
will be used to show students "how
flight decks are set up, how planes take
off," and how the ships work.
The Missouri replica is currently on
display at the Navy ROTC office in Nor-
th Hall. It will be used only as a "point
of reference for students" and will not
be open to the public, according to
ROTC Col. Robert Coulter.
The Enterprise model can be seen in
the Naval Architecture and Marine
Engineering Building on North Cam-
pus.
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