UNIVERSAL LINKS FOR S-2(X)OVER-TILDE-S-1

There exists a five component link U subset of S-2 X S-1 such that eve ry closed, connected, orientable 3-manifold M with H-1 (M) not equal 0 is a branched covering over S-2 X S-1 With branching set exactly the link U. There exists a five component link U subset of S-2 x S-1 such that every closed, connected, non-orientable 3-manifold M with the Boc kstein of the first Stiefel-Whitney class, beta omega(1)(M) = 0, is a branched covering over S-2 x S-1 branched along the link U.