i w*. STORIES WE'D LIKE TO SEE See editorial page hie Rtrttgan IEtaII TAKE THE SLEIGH High-low 20s Low-18. See Today for details Vol. LXXXIX, No. 77 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, December 9, 1978 Ten Cents Ten Pages Carter slams GOP at Dem convention MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP)-President Carter rejected demands from within his party yesterday to water down his anti-inflation program where it conflic- ts with the Democratic Party's traditional commitment to social welfare programs. Addressing the opening session of the Democratic midterm convention, Car- ter 'mixed partisanship with calls for economic belt-tightening. He resurrec- ted the Watergate issue by lacing his speech with references to "break-ins and buggins and our nation's highest trust betrayed." APPLAUSE WAS frequent, if not deafening, throughout the president's speech. The longest, most enthusiastic burst of applause came when he called for making the Equal Rights Amen- dment "the law of the land." While Carter spoke, there were no signs of the few but vocal critics of his policies, particularly his determination to make the fight against inflation his top priority. That position has come un- der sharp attack by liberals and organized labor. THE PRESIDENT contended his administration has substituted a Democratic partnership among president, Congress, governors, mayors, legislators, and local officials, for Republican "leadership by veto and government by stalemate." It was a gloves-off speech in which Carter's GOP predecessors were ex- coriated. "Republican presidential candidates said they wanted to run government in the worst possible way, and that is exactly what they did," he said. The president pictured his ad- ministration as "cutting red tape, throwing out ridiculous regulations, reorganizing government, and eliminating millions of hours of paper- work." And in an apparent reference to the scandal-scarred General Services Ad- ministration, he pleged to prosecute "to the full extent of the law" all those who "rob from government through theft, fraud, and abuse." IN THE SECTION of his par'tisan ad- dress devoted to drawing a contrast with his political opponents, Carter said: "We are tearing down the barriers between Americans and our gover- nment. We have passed new ethics legislation. The government of the United States today belongs to the people of the United States-not to the power brokers. "We have restricted the use of wiretaps. No law-abiding American should live in fear that our government will open mail, break into a home, or eavesdrop on private conversations. Under this administration, we will honor personal privacy." Carter went on to catalog ad- ministration achievements ranging from the creation of 6.5 million new jobs to near-completion of a Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) with the Soviet Union. Daily Photo by CYRENA CPANG Fruit for finals-frayed frosh Business students prepare fruity care packages at the Business School for today's delivery to lucky freshpersons. Working for AIESEC, the International Association of Students in Economics and Business Management, the packagers successfully raised enough money to send six University delegates to the organization's Seattle convention. WOULD BAR CURRENT 'U'PRACTICES: State anti-bug bill OK'd By ELISA ISAACSON A bugging system employed by the University to monitor phone conversations between the school's information operators and the public may soon become illegal. That will result if Governor William Milliken signs into law legislation which would make eavesdropping on telephone conversations a felony with penalties of up to two years in prison and a $20,00 fine. The bill would also prohibit the manufacture, distribution, and transfer of equipment used for phone bugging. It passed in the Senate Thursday and was earlier approved by the State House of Representatives. ACCORDING TO University Telephone Operations Manager Don Gagnon, the University's monitoring system allows supervisors in his office to keep tabs on the progress of new employees. The legislation would permit' eavesdropping only in cases involving medical, fire, or police-related emergencies. The, Michigan Bell Telephone Company would also be exempt from the law, provided it supply a "beep tone" throughout all conversations where eavesdropping takes place or obtains consent to be monitored from all parties involved. ,Howard Simon of the Michigan Civil Liberties Union said Michigan Bell has distributed monitoring systems to 99 businesses throughout the state - a total of 360 phones. Simon said his group has pushed for legislation prohibiting telephone monitoring ever since last year, when the Public Service Commission approved Michigan Bell's request to sell bugging equipment to several businesses and organizations. State Representative Mark Clodfelter (D-Flint) introduced the House bill shortly thereafter. SIMON CALLED the bill's passage in the Senate "a major victory in our effort to bring privacy rights into the workplace." He predicted that Milliken will sign the legislation. But Michigan Bell issued a statement urging Milliken to veto the bill, charging that its passage would hinder telephone staff training programs. Though measures have been taken to inform citizens that their conversations are being monitored, the system is not fool-proof. The recently-issued Michigan telephone books are supposed. to designate with an asterisk the phone numbers of companies that employ monitoring services. Callers who use local'information or' the University phone directory, however, aren't given any indication that bugging systems are used. ALTHOUGH Michigan Bell said it marks those numbers that may be bugged, that practice isn't followed to the letter. University information is listed in the phone book under two separate headings, but only one heading is accompanied by an asterisk. Another University phone number listed with an asterisk is that of the See LEGISLATURE, Page 7 Cancer claims Israel's Golda Meir TEL AVIV, Israel (AP)-In her time, Golda Meir was one of the most famous women in the world. A bit stout in her later years, deep- voiced, her gray hair drawn into a bun, she was to many "the gran- dmother prime minister"-a nickname she didn't like-but it ad- ded something to the underdog image of the country she directed with a steel will. MEIR DIED yesterday in a Jerusalem hospital where she was being treated for cancer of the lym- ph system. She was 80. The immediate cause of death was not disclosed. A Hadassah Hospital spokeswoman said the former prime minister had suffered for more than a decade from malignant lym- phoma, a cancer of lymph organs that causes overproduction of lym- phocytes, one kind of white blood cell. The illness was a closely guarded secret during her term as head of government, 1969-74, which ended with her resignation in the after- math of the costly Yom Kippur War against the Arabs. "DEEP MOURNING has fallen on all of Israel and on the whole Jewish people," Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan said in Switzerland, echoing PHOTOS SHOW former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, clockwise from top left, in 1947, the year before Israel's independence; in 1956, the year of the Suez Crisis; in 1969, as Israel's prime minister; and in 1977, during a visit to New York. 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