By ICHELE RUEHS
WHEN HE WAS a deputy
sheriff and a graduate student in
the early 1970s, he spoke to a
professor at the University of
Detroit regarding the insanity
plea. A man who had killed six
THATS UP TO th jury to
decid, aid Tom DeLonch, a
communicatio officer in the
Department of Men 1 H alth.
"The jury malt its determina­
tion b ed on expert timony,"
DeLoach aid. "So the prosecu­
tor will pre nt hi witn ,
that may be p ychologists or
psychiatris ,and the defense
p ents its witn es, and as
you know, there' sometim
disagreement. "
DeLoach aid that despite
disagreements between plain-
Lawmakers now tackle school
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financing with Prop A passage
By KYLA KING
I Newi Service
ti tions.
LANSING - Lawmakers will "Tl{E IDEA I to relieve the
soon be working on legislation to burden on school boards at the
contain education costs follow- collective bargaining table to
ing voter's adoption of the Pro- competitively bid for rviees,"
posal A ballot plan. Hillegonds aid.
The proposal, which includes He said the bill was d vel-
a two-cent sales tax . ease,' -oped in ponse to roolUeI��.
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Proposal A is a major part of .
Gov. John Engler and legisla­
tors' education reform package.
The package was created to re­
place a near $7 billion of prop­
erty taxes eliminated last July.
However, House Co-Speaker
Paul Hillegonds, R-Holland,
said there may not be enough
money to cover education costs
in a few years if schools continue
to spend beyond their available
means.
"(The proposal) is one of the
trade-offs for a fairer, more sta­
ble system," Hillegonds said.
BUT JULIUS MADDOX,
MEA president, said the short­
age of revenue is one of the rea­
sons his association took
opposition to the ballot plan.
Lawmakers knew the plan was
under-funded when they started
out, he said.
"The Legislature knew they'd
have to go in and make cuts,"
Maddox said. "Now ther ' only
two ways you make cuts, in s rv­
ices or in p rsonnel."
"This proposal severely limits
the rights of school districts to go
for additional enhanc ment dol­
lars," he said.
. But Hillegonds said the
House Labor Committee is al­
ready working on a cost-contain­
ment bill to address these
problems.
o
gonds said he hopes th e con­
cerns will be addressed in April
but unti then legislators will be
listening to what ople < r a­
ing and taking it into consid ra­
tion.
The proposal also 10 ers th
state income tax from 4
cent to 4.4 pe and
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By AARON M. FONTANA
CI!P't� News Service
See SMOKE, A8
may be hazardous
moke indu try
THE TO ceo INDU TR opposed the
proposal from the beginning, finding the back­
up plan's increase of 15 cents per cigarette pack
more desirable. According to a pre-s release put
out by the Righ Plan for Michigan Committee,
the industry sp nt 4 million in the unsu
ful plan to fight the proposal. .
Doug Campbell, owner of Campbell's Smoke
Shop in East Lansing, said he believes that
consumers will be taking on the whole cigarette
ta themsel . If that happens, a smoker who
consum on pack day stands to pay an extra
182.50 a year. A smoker of two packs a day will
pay 365 more a y r.
Campbell id that he belie the tax may
or may not reduce the number of smokers in
Michigan, however.
He said th new tax, which will be one of the
high t for cigarettes in the nation, will only
result in cotta industries that will bootleg and