4M'GO CANHAM? See Editorial Page LIEt i Ia1 'M' G O BLAH High--55 Low--35 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, October 7, 1978 Ten Cents Ten Pages Senate grants extension for ERA WASHINGTON (AP) - Jubilant backers of the Equal Rights Amen- dment (ERA) were given three more years to win ratification of the ERA yesterday and immediately predicted a new momentum that could carry them to victory. The vote marked the first time Congress has extended the deadline for ratification of a constitutional amen- dment since it began setting seven-year time limits in 1917. BUT DISAPPOINTED opponents of the amendment said the extension will be challenged in the courts, adding that they are confident the states that have refused to ratify the proposal will stand firm until the ERA dies. Phyllis Schlafly, national chairman of Stop ERA, an organization formed to ratification Campaigning Carl Daily Photo by ANDY FREEBERG Competing with an evangelist for attention on the Diag during yesterday afternoon's drizzle, four Democrats railed away t their opponents for about half-an-hour. Perry Bullard trying to keep his State House seat, Ed Pierce seeking one in the State enate, Earl Greene running for the U.S. House, and Carl Levin seeking to unseat U.S. Senator Robert Griffin, all spoke efore 200 spectators. Here, Levin answers a question put to him by a student after his five minute oration. kEPORTER MAY BE IMPRISONED: fight the amendment, said the exten- sion "is a fraud and will have no legal effect when tested in the courts." At a news conference shortly before - the vote, Schlafly said: "Regardless of what the Senate purposts to do today, ERA will expire on March 22, 1979, if it does not receive the ratifications of'38 states.', THE EXTENSION resolution-sets a deadline of June 30, 1982. Thirty-five state legislatures have ratified the ERA, but four of these have voted to rescind their action. The validity of the votes to rescind has not been determined. Schlafly predicted that more states will vote to rescind and "the 15 states that have rejected it will continue to do so." She said federal court lawsuits challenging the extension would be filed by states which have ratified, states which have not and states which have rescinded their action. ERA OPPONENTS argue that the ex- tension is illegal, partly because it was not approved by the two-thirds majority required for congressional passage of constitutional amendments. Supporters argued that only a simple majority was needed becaused the time period was not part of the constitutional amendment itself. As parliamentary questions remained over whether the extension requires President Carter's signature. But since Carter lobbied personally for the measure, the question is merely procedural." Carter said yesterday he was delighted by the extension, adding, "I hope states which have not yet ratified the amendment will now take speedy advantage of this additional oppor- tunity to do so." THE SENATE margin was larger than expected, only four votes short of the two-thirds majority that opponents of the extension had argued was necessary for its passage. Democrats voted for the extension by nearly a 3-1 margin, 44 favoring it and 15 voting against it. Republicans were more evenly divided, 16 voting for and 21 voting against. The House approved the extension 233-189 in August. In a closing statement on the Senate floor just before the vote, Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), chief Senate sponsor of the extension,,said: "It has been clear in every court decision and in every ac- tion of the U.S. Congress that Congress has the authority to determine what is a reasonable time for ratification of a constitutional amendment." "WE ARE ASKING the Senate to join the House in declaring that 10years is a reasonable time for the ERA," Bayh said. "This is no ordinary constitutional amendment. We are dealing with the rights of over half the people in this country."~ The ERA, outlawing discrimination on grounds of sex, has already been ratified by 35 state legislatures. It must be ratified by 38 to become part of the Constitution. States that have not ratified the ERA are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia. Idaho, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia have voted to rescind their ratifications, although the vote in Kentucky was vetoed. The Justice Department has said the validity of such votes is a question for Congress to decide. High c o WASHINGTON (AP) - New York imes reporter Myron Farber may be eturned to jail immediately if he does ot surrender his confidential files in a ew Jersey murder case, the Supreme .ourt ruled yesterday. The high court, by an apparent 7-1 ote, set aside an order that had ap- ared to spare Farber from more time a Hackensack, New Jersey jail cell her'e he had already spent 27 days. YESTERDAY'S action appeared to ave it to the New Jersey courts to im- ose a new deadfline for Farber's han- 'ng over his files or being jailed. In a one-sentence order for the court, hief Justice Warren Burger wrote: The motion to vacate the stay is gran- d and it is ordered that the order.of WIr. Justice Potter Steward dated Sep- emhber 26, 1978 is hereby vacated." Justice Thurgood Marshall filed a issenting opinion, and Justice William rennan Jr. did not participate in the natter for unannounced reasons. "UNDER THE circumstances, I lieve that both the criminal and civil ontempt penalties should be stayed eld in abeyance) until this court isposes of the formal appeal submitted y Farber and the Times," Marshall aid. urtrules Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Times publisher, issued the following statement after learning of the court's action: "The News that Myron Farber must return to jail is sad indeed - not only for him but for the freedom of the American press. We regret this action by the Supreme Court since we main- tain that neither Mr. Farber nor the Times have ever been- granted a hearing. We hope that the Supreme Court will grant us such a hearing with dispatch." againstl Farber was not available for com- ment. FRIDAY'S ACTION did not involve the formal appeal filed by Farber and the Times contesting their contempt convictions. That 53-page document is still pending before the high court, but might not be acted on for several weeks or longer. The court had been asked by Dr. Mario Jascalevich to set aside Stewart's order pending its con- sideration of the appeal "so that a seven-month-old trial can be completed Farber with fairness." The trial was recessed last week to await the high court's response. Farber already has served 27 days of an indeterminate jail sentence, and the Times has paid $135,000 in daily $5,000 fines. JUDGE WILLIAM Arnold, presiding over Jascalevich's trial, ordered Far- ber and the Times in July to hand over all files compiled in Farber's in- vestigation of a series of patient deaths in the mid-1960s at an Oradell, New Jer- sey hospital. Fitz de'fends hi~s PBB ad By RICHARD BERKE A battle of letters continued yester- day between Governor William Milliken and Democratic challenger William Fitzgerald, who said the governor's angry reaction to his recent PBB-related radio advertisement is un- justified and announced the commer- cial will not be removed. The candidates' exchange - one of the sharpest to surface in the campaign - was triggered Thursday by Milliken, nited Nations moves for ease-fire in Lebanon BEIRUT, Lebanon(AP) Syrian and have fled. 'hristian forces locked in a life-or- Lebanese President Elias Sarkis left eath struggle in Beirut launched for Damascus for talks with Syrian loody but futile attacks against each President Hafez Assad. Assad wound ther's positions yesterday and mortar up a visit yesterday to Moscow, where hells struck just yards from the U.S. he reportedly received a note from Car- 'mbassy, wounding as many as 13 per- ter on the Lebanese situation. ons. Western diplomats in Moscow said a Meanwhile at the United Nations in joint Syrian-Soviet communique's 'ew York, the 15-member security reference to "relevant decisions" on ouncil unanimously called for a cease- strengthening Syria's "defense poten- ire aimed at "internal peace and tial" indicated Moscow had granted at' aational reconciliation." least part of Assad's substantial CHRISTIAN East Beirut was militaryaidrequests. lanketed with black smoke from A U.S. SPOKESMAN at the United cores of fires. More than 400,000 of Nations said President Carter had con- ast Beirut's estimated 600,000 tacted Soviet President Leonid Christian residents were believed to See U.N., Page 7 who addressed and publicized a letter to Fitzgerald, attacking his use of the PBB advertisement. Milliken said the advertisement, which lists the sym- ptoms of PBB poisoning, brought the state senator's campaign to "a new low in Michigan politics." IN A WRITTEN reply to Milliken's Saturday- " Doc Losh, a former University Astronomy professor who used to make traditional ap- pearances on the gridiron before football games, died yesterday. See the story on Page 2. " The Senate passed a tuition tax credit proposal and Senator Edward Ken- nedy's tax cut proposal yesterday. * For happenings, weather and local briefs, see TODAY, page 3. letter, Fitzgerald said yesterday he reviewed the radio spots and found them legitimate. "If you had dealt openly, honestly, and decisively with the accidental mixing of feed and PBB when it first occurred, there would be no issue," he said. "But instead, you've consistently downplayed the magnitude of this tragedy, even when your obligation to inform the public should have dictated otherwise. Now, you're doing it again," Fitzgerald stated in the public letter. VOICES IN THE ad list the signs of PBB-induced 'illness as "loss of hair, memory loss, blindness, liver cancer, birth defects, the brain developing out- side the head, (and) genetic mutations." Milliken said the adver- tisement addressed the PBB problem in a "reckless, irresponsible manner-." But Charles Guggenheim, a Washington, D.C. film producer who made the radio spot, called it "fair and accurate." He said the only complaint he has received about the radio spot was from the governor. On Thursday, Milliken's 'office released a statement from Dr. Louis Heideman, president of the Michigan State Medical Society, who said effects of PBB contamination cited in the ad- vertisement were observed in animals "and never have been confirmed in human beings in Michigan or elsewhere." See FITZGERALD, Page 7 Daily Photo by CYRENA CHAN Microbiology Prof. David Jackson, who worked with the researchers who succeed in isolating a human gene and reproducing it in a bacterium, said the technique could give valuable insights on how heredity works. 'U' profs succeed in G Booze vote ma By ELISA ISAACSON Should state voters decide to raise the drinking age ext month, University students under 21 will join eers in twelve other states - including California, ennsylvnia, Missouri, and Washington - where arge segments of university and college populations re kept out of bars. Not all students enjoy the same privileges those in Ann Arbor do now. When Hoosiers drive up to the University for a football game, for instance, they are egally permitted to have a few drinks to celebrate or ament the results of a game. But back in Indiana ;hey must abstain until they reach the magic age of 2i. k OTHER BIG TEN teams might have to alter their imbibing practices when they play the Wolverines, as ryput others u, from neighboring states with 19-year-old drinking cut-offs would drive into Iowa to pick up their booze. Raising the Iowa age to 21, however, would in turn cause residents of that state to seek alcohol from other states. "I have heard no discussion in Iowa about raising the drinking age to 21," Anderson added. ider influence "I feel if they are succeed-, ing here they will in other states... Students have these rights and now they're going to watch them go down the raise the drinking age to 21,'indicated he would not favor a "take-out restriction" law such as Illinois' here. "Drinking in bars has not been safer than other kinds of drinking," Rice said. In Illinois, as in most states, the question of' whether to raise the drinking age to a flat 21 has been posed in the state legislature from time to time. "I don't think they'll make it," said Dee Fagan of the Illinois Liquor Commission. "I think there are enough kids to vote against it." Wisconsin's drinking age is 18, lowered from 21 in 1971, and a spokesman for Alcoholic Beverage Licensing has predicted no change in the Badger law. Minnesota's drinking age is 19, and in Ohio 18-year- olds are allowed to purchase 3.2 beer, which is considered "non-intoxicating." gene reproduction By DAVID GOODMAN worked with Schmickel and Wil, University researchers reported said news accounts in recent day Thursday at a conference in Van- their work are good examples ofl couver, British Columbia, that they media frequently garble account had succeeded-for the first time in scientific discoveries. history-in isolating and "IT'S INCORRECT -tsay reproducing a natural human gene. several papers reported)-that Roy Schmickel and Golder Wilson, have cloned the gene professors in the Pediatrics Depar- mongolism," he explained. "TI tment of the Medical School, made is no gene for mongolism." the breakthrough using new, and Actually, Schmickel's still controversial, techniques of Wilson's work should provid recombinant DNA research, useful tool for understanding- DNA -or d eoxy r ib onu cleic hopefully preventing-mongo] acid-is the material in plant and and other human genetic disea animl cels hichcontinsJackson said. animal cells which contains Mongolism, technically knows hereditary information. DNA is Down's Syndrome, is a com made up of segments called genetic disease, affecting one of genes-individual units of 600 infants. It's victims suffer f heredity-linked together to form mental retardation and asso a,. n nn ci, . an lnall,. 1,a 92 ..n son, ys of how isof (as we for here and e a .and lism ases, n as mon at of rom rted