CIA RECRUITMENT See Editorial Page £AIIIE :43IaiIP FROG'S PARADISE High-71 Low-mid 50's Vol. IIX, No. 6 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, September 13, 1978 Ten Cents Twelve Pages U' students uninformed on Fleming retirement By PAULA LASHINSKY Despite heavy publicity about President Robben . Fleming's retirement intentions few students on the campus yesterday were aware that the University's chief executive for the past 11 years will soon step down from is post. Some students did not even know who Fleming was. MANY EXPRESSED total surprise when told of the president's retirement plans. "I guess I'm what you call uninformed,"' said Residential College sophomore Frank Demske. Literary College (LSA) freshwoman Kim Cherry summed up the reactions of many students when she said, "I didn't even know there was a President Fleming." Many students said Fleming was nothing more than a figurehead. Others felt their own ignorance excluded them from passing judgment. THERE WERE, however, some students who had heard of the 61-year- old president's intentions and felt a sense of loss. "I think that it's a shame that he is leaving. He seems very nice, but then, I really have no one to compare him to," Business Administration junior Kathy' Solomonson said. Fleming developed many close ties in his ten-year stay at Michigan and many student organizations are sorry to see him go. "I'M VERY disappointed that he is leaving," Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) president Eric Arnson said. "He has always been very open with us. He has been readily accessible to students and has always listened to student input. I think it will be hard to find someone as good or better to replace him," Arnson said., Hope for a successor who will promote better labor relations is shared by representatives from both the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO). "In the past years we have been able to develop a working relationship with* President Fleming," AFSCME representative Dwight Newman said. "Hopefully, labor relations will improve, but while we haven't always agreed, Fleming has been responsive to our needs," Newman said. GEO REPRESENTATIVE Mike Clark blames Fleming for much of the adversity between factions on campus. "I think he has truly hurt the collegi- ality of relationships at the University," Clark said. "While I hope for a new president who will improve alrlabor relations I have a lot of respect for Fleming as an individual and I hate to see him go," he said. Most University officials reserved comment pending the "official" resignation announcement which is expected later this week. Both Leonard Goodall, chancellor at the Dearborn campus and Harold Shapiro, Vice-president for academic affairs had only good things to say about Fleming. "President Fleming has always bee very supportive of both the Flint and Dearborn campus. We have been very lucky in that respect and can only hope that his successor will have as good an understanding of the multi-campus university," Goodall said. "Fleming's resignation will bea tremendous loss to the University,'' said Shapiro. "He made a number .o contributions throughout a very difficult and challenging time. Th nature of his leadership will make it hard to find someone capable of filling his shoes," he said. Judge d city's budg et By KEVIN ROSE BOROUGH eclares )78-79 void Street fighting- A Nicaraguan National Guard troops move carefully through the streets of Masaya Monday, as they attempt to root out leftist guerrillas. The guerrillas are fighting to overthrow the government of President Anastasio Somoza. 'U' EMPLOYEE KILLED: MDrder suspect sought With wire service reports A visiting Circuit Court judge yesterday declared the city's 1978-79 budget void in the first test of Michigan Attorney General Frank Kelley's May 2 interpretation of the state's Open Meetings Act. Oakland County District Court Judge Gene Schnelz rescinded amendments totalling $328,000 and ordered a preliminary budget prepared by City Administrator Sylvester Murray to be the city's official budget until Council can adopt a new one. IN HIS eight-page ruling in favor of the three Democratic City, Council members who initiated the suit, Schnelz found that the seven-member Republican Caucus violated the 1976 act when they discussed the budget changes at a closed meeting on May 23. Republicans hold a 7-4 majority on Council. Kelley ruled in May that the Open Meetings Act covered meetings of majority caucuses of local governmen- ts, even though the act specifically exempted the State Legislature from. that prohibition. SCHNELZ, HOWEVER, cited that section of the act as unconstitutional and included the legislature in the act's ban on closed caucuses. "The alleged need for secrecy necessary for political caucuses on a state level is to..t. hide political and public policy decision-making processes from the opposing political party and the public at large. These are the very types of actions that the act was designed to bring to public light," Schnelz ruled. "Clearly the Republican Caucus held on May 23, 1978 was in violation of the (Open Meetings) Act," continued the judge. "The public was deprived of the decision making process behind the establishment of the 1978-79 budget." THE JUDGE therefore invalidated the approved budget and ruled that the City Administrator's original should be instituted, in accordance with the City Charter. Schnelz did, however, order the immediate commencement of for- mal procedures to adopt a new budget. As it stands, and until the council proceeds to renegotiate the new budget, the $328,000 from the General Fund that the Republicans voted to reappropriate will technically be reverted to the categories that they were listed under See CITY, Page 5 Carter fails to gain Israeli concessions By RICHARD BERKE By late last night, a man sought by city police in connection with yester- day's shooting death of a custodial supervisor at the University's School of Music was still at large. Police issued a warrant early yester- day aftern'oon for the arrest of city resident John Maddox on an open charge of murder. Maddox, 40, is described by police as armed and dangerous. SOURCES SAY Maddox's former wife was a University employee who worked for the victim and that the suspect committed the murder in a fit of jealousy. But Police Lt. Eddie Owens said he has "nothing to substantiate that ... it's just a theory." William Van Johnson, 48, was shot by the alleged assailant shortly before 12:36 a.m. yesterday and died of multiple wounds at University Hospital less than one hour later, according to Police Lt. Richard Hill. Rockey Mayne, another janitor who was hit in the shoulder by a stray bullet, was hospitalized and is listed in good con- dition at University Hospital. Witnesses told police that Van John- son had driven a University van to the loading dock behind the School of Music to collect waiting workers' keys when a man pulled up in a car behind him, got out, and started shouting. "VAN JOHNSON evidently knew the guy," Mayne, 28, said from his hospital bed. "(Van Johnson) turned around and did his best to ignore him." Then, according to accounts told to the police by five or six bystanders, Van Johnson invited the man inside the building and began climbing onto the loading dock. The assailant pulled out a handgun and fired at Van Johnson, but lMayne, who said he was "trying to jump out of the way," was hit by one of the first shots. WITNESSES SAID the alleged killer chased Van Johnson behind the loading dock and shot him once in the right arm and once in the chest. / "Van Johnson ran towards his of- fice," Mayne said. "He had at least one bullet hole in his back, where the heart is ... He was running around in shock." The assailant then fled by car from the scene and police found the victim in a corridor behind the loading dock. VAN JOHNSON, an Ann Arbor resident, had worked as a custodial shift supervisor for the University since February 1977. His duties included overnight checks to make sure doors and windows of University buildings were locked. Police said suspect Maddox, who has no police record, is black, 40 years old, six foot one, and weighs 225 pounds. Mayne, however, said although he 'can't remember what (the alleged murderer) looks like, he is a black man in his mid-to-late twenties." Maddox and his wife were divorced in 1970. An autopsy was performed on Van Johnson yesterday, and police said results of it wil be released sometime today. Two detectives are working full- time attempting to apprehend the suspect. Police said yesterday's murder has no relation to an incident two months ago in which the Acting Director of the University Neuro-Psychiatric Insitute was shot to death by a co-worker. A suspect is in custody in that shooting. Wedn esday CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) - Despite a "gigantic effort," President Carter has been unable to gain major concessions from Israel at the Mideast summit, diplomatic sources said yesterday. "Getting Israel to move was the problem all along, even before the summit began," said an official who asked not to be identified. ABOUT THE outcome of the summit, however, the official said, "It's too early to make a judgment either way." Carter met for a second consecutive day with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat after a scheduled meeting Monday night between Egyptian and U.S. ministers was called off, without explanation. THE MINISTERIAL meeting subsequently was held yesterday afternoon. As the summit rounded out a week, Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin remained apart. They have not met face-to- ceiathe negotiating table since last Thursday. It was understood that Carter was soliciting new ideas from Sadat as well as inviting the Egyptian leader to respond to Israeli thinking. Carter has followed a similar procedure during meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Jody Powell, White House press secretary and summit spokesman, cautioned reporters not to draw any conclusions from the suspension of three-way meetings. "THERE HASN'T been any need for See CARTER, Page 9 MSA joins meal plan fight By MARK PARRENT Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) members last night lent their support to a group of dormitory residents fighting plans to consolidate dorm dining facilities in the Hill area. In their first meeting of the term, MSA members gathered on the Union's third floor to authorize by consent the formation of an ad hoc committee to compose a resolution to be presented at the Regents' meeting tomorrow on behalf of MSA. The resolution will declare MSA's opposition to the consolidation plan and request that the Regents delay their decision on the project for one month in order that more student opinion be gathered. MSA IS the official student CLASSES MAY CONTINUE: EMU profs strike By MITCH CANTOR Professors at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) went on strike at midnight last night after negotiations between union and university bargainers broke down early yesterday morning. About 80 per cent of the school's 630 professors are expected to participate Sin the strike on the Ypsilanti campus, according to Sally McCracken, chief bargainer for the EMU chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). ALTHOUGH both sides had previously said they were willing to bargain up until noon yesterday, codetermination in certain areas which directly affect them such as tenure and promotion. EMU VICE-PRESIDENT for Univer- sity Relations Gary Hawks claims the union is using the issue of governance to hinder the negotiations. _ "I think that (the governance is'sue) is the smokescreen the faculty is throwing up at this point. The Michigan Constitution says the Board of Regents has final control (over decision- making). I think it would be very foolish for me to take a contract to the Regents which completely strips them of a responsibility given to them in the Mehia nConstitution."H wks said expanded provisions for female athletes, the score is still not even. See story page 2. " City Administrator Sylvester Murray has selected his recommen- dation for a new City Clerk, which now awaits Council action. See story page 5. " Three aides of guerrilla leader Joshua Nkomo were arrested in Rhndeia vesterdav .Se - .x ; :r n :