Page 2-Wednesday, October 11, 1978-The Michigan Daily X G V (r 1R i E 1 _1 i l I' r pfp :. . fik i e, Univer ex-Mayo dual role the faults weak ma before ap Internati Wheele oxperien mayor'sc time job Oart-time WHEE in April preferen disbande votes ahe Stepheny ,Two ye reelectio when it v had vote judge o Wheeler ambitiou ward co Belcher. He we first ran requests party, he Ond wor was 58J platingr was un 'esearch the cha lepartmi School A psition. CIF Y ou hav id. TI pevoting days to1 emphas heeler Summer did notr ths were mayoral Wheel Wheeler raps city's weak mayor system By JUDY RAKOWSKY present city government system was sity associate professor and that the mayor has little power if he is r Albert Wheeler discussed his not supported by a majority of his party as mayor and professor, and on City Council. He said the City Ad- he has found with the present ministrator, who is appointed by Coun- iyor form of city government cil for an indefinite tern but has no pproximately 20 persons at the vote, wields too much power for an ap- onal Center yesterday. pointed official. er told the group that from his All city department heads such as ce, running the city from the fire and police are "accountable to a chair is without question a full- bureaucrat", not the mayor, and . "Sixty hours a week is not Wheeler said he thinks that power is e," Wheeler said. misplaced. "The mayor ought to be LER WAS first elected Mayor given lots of responsibility and held ac- of 1975 after a controversial countable" because only he can be tial votng system - long since recalled by the people, Wheeler said. - put him a few hundred Wheeler pointed to the arbitrage in- ead of incumbent Mayor James vestment scandal of 1977 in which the rs later, Wheeler survived a city almost lost over a million dollars n bid by a scant one vote,dbu and said that is an example of the need a bidiby sc eat2nesosbu for more mayoral power. When the was discovered that 20 persons scandal was settled, Wheeler said he d illegallyin that election, a called a closed session of council and Irdered a special election. told the members, "He (City Ad- lost that time around, to his ministrator Sylverster Murray) did his is Mayor Pro Tem and fifth job now we must determine if his ouncilman Republican Louis decisions are fair." Wheeler said he nt on to explain that when he was promptly denounced for criticizing non~mayr xattwhpreious Murray's decisions and thus was ac- for mayor, after two previous sdofbngnecsriypital from the local Democratic cused of being unnecessarily political. e had reached a stage in his life Wheeler concluded his remarks by k which made it possible. He pointing to the present city operations years old them and contem- nd said, "It's different now, they (the retirement. At that point, he Republican majority) are free to do willing to enga~e in amao almost anything they think proper in w proe ngie of ins major the city" and Murray must go along 1project in view of his age, and with the majority of Council. irman of the microbiology heeao td haounci ent and the dean of the Medical Wheeler suggested that the Mayor were understanding about his and Council terms be lengthened to four years because, "it takes a year to get OU DO a good job as mayor, used to the tricks folks are pulling." He e to make sacrifices," Wheeler also recommended that there be six to h ke sacrifices he made were seven weeks between the election and SSaturdays, Sundays and Mon- taking office to allow officials to "look thercity, ny aond o ne- at the stuff you've been campaigning the city, in addition to the de- on,"because previous to that time "you is of his University role. get the high points but don't have time said he spent most of this to digest it." He further suggested that Scatching up on his work, and the form of the city's government be really relax until several mon- changed through analysis of the twenty- . between him and the taxing two-year-old city charter, which t job. Wheeler said needs to be updated. er's main complaint about the Whee adnest eudtd Chief S (Continued from Page 1) nke said after the announcement.I At a press conference yesterday af-I ternoon, the president said the resignation came as no surprise. He said Warnke accepted the positionI "with the understanding he could onlyI stay for a limited period of time." Sources said the resignation fit in neatly with administration plans to have Brown, and not Warnke, work on+ winning Senate ratification of SALT II-the second strategic arms limitation treaty nearing completion. + WARNKE'S NOMINATION in 1977 brought strong opposition from conser- vative senators who portrayed him as+ being too soft in dealing with the Russians. "I'm sure there will be those who will ALT negotiator be able to contain their regret" over the which alreadyr resignation, Warnke said wryly of his Sen. Percyt critics. assured the co Sen. Charles Percy (R-Ill.), after at- alleged theft of tending a three-hour briefing on SALT a top-secret U. from Warnke, said: "On balance, I in any way h think there is a feeling that is being ex- verify Sovietc pressed that the fact that he is not the SALT treaty. person who is going to carry the torch Warnke will on this is somewhat helpful, State CyrusI psychologically." strategic arms "I would certainly testify in support and will leave1 of the treaty," he said. "Indeed, I would ter. force myself on the people who were The sources making this decision. I'm going to administration defend it and defend it quite hard." to Warnke ver Warnke said the problems remaining that confirmal to be settled in upcoming talks with the into a prematu Soviets are far less difficult than those agreements. Warnke resigns have been solved. told a reporter Warnke mmittee that the recent I the operating manual of S. spy satellite should not hinder U.S. capacity to compliance with a new accompany Secretary of Vance to Moscow for s talks later this month his post shortly thereaf- said it was unlikely the would name a successor ry soon, out of concern tion hearings might turn ure debate on the SALT "It was entirely for per- sonal reasons. I regret the necessity to do this." -Paul Warn ke, on his resignation as U.S. arms negotiator. Hopeful Greene chases incumbent Pursell (Continued from Page 1) progressive, which suits their needs,j but at the same time I'm not a threat to them in terms of anti-war and anit- what ever you march in the streets about." Greene feels that his opponent, on the other hand, is strongly lacking in the area of "practical, people, problem- solving politics," and has focused a' major part of his campaign on being anti-Pursell.; USING A STRATEGY similar to Democratic senatorial candidate Carl Levin's attack on incumbent Robert Griffin's poor attendance record, Greene is placing primary emphasis on Pursell's "lackluster" record and voting inconsistency. "Pursell's attendance is bad, it was around 80 per cent last year. And for the last twolmonths when he was in the state Senate he didn't even go and drew a paycheck every week-he owes the Michigan taxpayers $20,000," Greene said. "Pursell's got a bad record-he's got a bad record on labor, a bad record on women's issues, a bad record on education," continued Greene. "He's lying to the people about taxes and what he plans to do with the Kemp-Roth proposal." (KEMP-ROTH, a proposal being pushed by the Republican party which would have cut income taxes for everyone by 30 per cent over a three year period, was defeated last week.) "Pursell is a nice guy kind of person but he doesn't have any political philosophy, he doesn't have anything in his guts that he believes in-he'll vote wherever the pressure is." In the area of labor, Pursell voted against minimum wage increases and against a motion to add $3.4 billion to the economic stimulus package which targeted spending into such programs as public works, public service jobs and youth employment. ON WOMEN'S issues Pursell voted against government funding for abor- tion and swung back and forth on ERA extension, but finally voted in favor of the bill after being lobbied by women's groups. Although political scientists say elec- tions are not won by and large on the issus, Greene said they are relevant to his campaign, and he stops short of focusing his entire campaign strategy on criticizing Pursell. On the domestic front Greene feels that some of the main issues in the campaing involve taxes, inflation, energy and environment: t n the are of social security taxes, Greene stresses there is something wrong with a social security stystem that requires very low income people to pay a higher percentage of their income than people who have greater salaries. "I feel that it is appropriate that people with low and moderate incomes have some kind of tax break to offset the bite of the increase in social security," said Greene. " On taxes, Greene is against the Tisch proposal and the Voucher plan, but said, "we can live with Headlee, that's the more responsible of the three tax proposals." Greene added he would support a Headlee-type proposal at the federal level. " On energy, Greene favors the ap- plication of "principles of depletion" to alternative energy sources. "This would give investors the economic ad- vantage of wanting to put their invest- ment capital into .alternative energy -sources." " On the question of whether he would be a "Michigan Congressman" or an ''environmentalist congressman," Greene said he does not see the two as being incompatible, but that he is an environmentalist in very strong terms and would vote for en- vironmental controls on the auto inr dustry. In the area of foreign policy, Greene said the defense budge is an important issue. "I DON'T THINK it's necessary to have a defense department that's bigger and badder than anyone else's, '' said Greene. "I would like to conserve five per cent of the defense budget and reallocate those funds into human ser- vices. We don't need to have mighty armies marching across the land and displaying the red bear like the Russians do, but I think it's important to have a strong defense-I'm very prq- defense, I'm just anti-defense waste."' Greene also sees the role of the U.S. in international human rights as another key foreign policy issue. The man who grew up in Virginia amidsXt "filfthy racism" maintains that there i) no reason why the U.S. should not elx- tend its domestic struggle for human rights throughout the world. Greene favors divestnent from South Africa. "I don't see anything. wrong with trying to force equality-socigl and economic in a country that is as racist as South Africa.kThe issue is a moral one, the buck be damnedI sometimes. There are some things and some principles that we live up to and they extend beyondthe necessity to have a fat bank account." Earl Greene contends he is a serious canididate, with serious stands on the issues, and he rejects the label of sacrificial lamb. 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