TENURE FOR SAMOFF See Editorial Page hie 31E 1 Iai1 SHOWERS High-5O Low-low 40s See today for details Vol. LIX, No. 32 Tax slash proponent takes his case here By DENNIS SABO Tax cut activist Robert Tisch an- swered, ducked, and side-stepped questions concerning his ideas from an audience of about 60 persons at the Lawyer's Club Lounge yesterday. Tisch is the author of Proposal J, which will appear on the November ballot. The proposal would chop proper- ty taxes from the present 50.per cent of assessed market value to 25 per cent, and place a 5.6 per cent ceiling on in- come taxes. "SNOT MANY people are bitching about how much they pay for gover- nment, but they are bitching like hell about the kind of services they are get- ting" Tisch claimed. "We are only going to take so much. We should take that candy away from the baby, take the money away so he doesn't eat so much candy." Critics of the Tisch plan say it is too extreme, asserting that an over-the- board revenue cut would seriously im- pair school, fire, and police services. In his appearance yesterday Tisch rejec- ted these claims. "WE'RE GOING to live like we damn well please," he shouted. "We're going See TAX, Page 6 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, October 13, 1978 Ten Cents Sixteen Pages Push for jobs bill OK seen Doily Photo by WAYNE CABLE The piano man Billy Joel enthralled a Crisler Arena crowd last night, leaving the audience dazed and amazed by his performance. His rock IOMI "Vk Pm Ir n' rol show wa nothing short of spectacular. WASHINGTON (AP) - Senators worked in private yesterday to produce a compromise Humphrey-Hawkins "full employment" bill that would in- clude strong anti-inflation language as well as call for a cut in joblessness. But civil rights and labor lobbyists, rejecting one compromise proposal, began trying to round up the 60 votes they need to choke off debate. A vote was set for today. MEANWHILE, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R- Utah) filed about 200 amendments designed to stall a vote in the final days of the congressional session even if a filibuster is broken. Rep. Ausustus Hawkins (D-Calif.) met with the Black Congressional Caucus after sitting in on part of the Senate negotiations. Rep. Parren Mitchell (D-Md.), chairman of the group, said afterwards some of the provisions "are just not ac- ceptable to us." "WE ARE discussing every possibility that we can," Hawkins said after one closed-door session with senators.> "It is our hope that we can work out amendments that are satisfactory to all parties concerned." Hawkins said the discussions were on the question of "an inflation target compatible with full employment." HE SAID A a bill that would permit "a tradeoff" between jobs and inflation would be unacceptable. The measure is named for Hawkins and the late Spn. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.). If the negotiations fail to produce agreement on a compromise, the Senate is scheduled to vote today on a motion to choke off debate. The bill appeared caught in a squeeze between liberal Democrats who were insisting that the problem of unem- ployment retain top priority and Republicans who want to give inflation at least equal emphasis. THE MEASURE calls for reducing joblessness to 4 per cent of the workfor- ce and 3 per cent of adults by 1983, cut contains no requirement mandating jobs programs. One compromise proposal also called for reducing inflation to 3 per cent by 1983 and zero by 1988. But one source, who asked not to be' identified by name, saidsthe two sides differed on "symbols and mirrors"-the symbolic wording of cer- tain provisions-as much as they did on figures. THE FULL Employment Action Council, a coalition of labor, civil rights and church groups created to work for passage of the measure, said the com- promise proposal worked out by a small group of senators was unacceptable. Sources said AFL-CIO President George Meany had reached the same conclusion. "While we want a bill very badly, we can't accept a measure that concedes to an opponent on every key point without a vote," said John Carr, council spokesman. . 'em, SOCK elll FUCK 11 vil n,,vw Woo avuau,5 o, v. v...j - -+ -- - REGENTS RESPOND TO SEARCH PROPOSAL: toard noncommittal to MSA plan By MITCH CANTOR University Regents gave varying, but generally noncomittal, responses yesterday to the Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) request for changes in the process for picking the new University president. MSA passed a resolution Monday night stating that its committee for choosing the students who will par- ticipate in the search for Robben Fleming's replacement will not make its recommendations to the assembly until the Regents alter the present plan for choosing the next University president. ACCORDING TO THE framework adopted by the Regents at their September session, students, faculty, and alumni would each form committees and submit separate lists of candidates to the Regents. The plan makes no provisions for inter-committee communication, nor does it require the Regents to pick someone from one of the committees' lists. MSA's resolution sought a written guarantee from the Regents that: I believe its (the Board of Re- gents') resolution is assurance enough. I don't intend to do any- thing in private. I do not believe there will be any surprises what- soever.' -Regent David Laro " the presidential selection process would allow for a fourth group composed of students, faculty and House backs tuition ta credit despite veto thre alumni, which would narrow down the candidates and send a final list to the Regents; . or, as an alternative, all three groups would be given equal access to the Regents' own list of prospective candidates not on the committees' lists, including biographical information. Thomas Roach (D-Detroit) said he favors both MSA proposals. "I THINK THE principle of allowing the commit- tees to communicte with one another is not a problem. I would suggest that all the names coming from whatever source (including the Regents) be circulated among the committees," Roach said. Paul Brown (D-Petoskey), who spoke with MSA President Eric Arnson two weeks ago about the procedure, gave partial support to the plan. Accor- ding to Arnson, Brown assured the president that See RESPONSE, Page 5 IxFriday " The Carter administration has informed Peking that China may buy a U.S. communications a t satellite. See story, Page 10. and secon- " U.S. Representative Daniel for college Flood (D-Pa.) has been indicted for bribery and conspiracy by a federal grand jury. See story, has said he Page 10. general tax credits at s attached a " Under threat of state action, ax bill. the Ann Arbor school board will form a committee to study 1 that would desegregation. See story, Page to $250, the 16. send the nce with the the elemen- 'isions. The storation of For happenings, weather he separate ~and local briefs, hesearae e e TDYpp 3.~ Gov. Milliken slams voucher tax plan By RICHARD BERKE Special to The Daily LANSING - Governor William Milliken yesterday announced he in- tends to vote against the voucher tax plan which will appear on the Novem- ber 7 election ballot. Milliken, speaking at a press con- ference for college newspapers at his campaign headquarters here, said heV waited until the final weeks of his . WASHINGTON (AP) - Over the objections of Democratic leaders, the House unexpectedly embraced yester- day a Republican-backed effort to slash federal income taxes in 1980 and beyond. The House also restated its support for tuition tax credits, despite President Carter's promise to veto any bill which contained such credits. By a 268-135 vote, the House told its tax bill negotiators it favored the long- term tax cut concept contained in a Senate proposal sponsored by SEn. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and supported by Republicans. THAT PLAN would expand the 1979 tax cut bill to include $164.5 billion in additional reductions in 1980 through 1983. The cuts are conditioned on holding down government spending and balancing the federal budget during that period. Under the Nunn plan, a typical four- member family with a $20,000 annual income would get a total tax cut by 1983 of about $769. Previously the Senate bill provided only a one-year reduction of $316 for next year. Leading Democrats branded the long-term tax cut plan approved by the House yesterday as a phony and "a Rube Goldberg scheme" that would hogtie Congress in its economic actions. THE VOTE WAS not binding on House negotiators and does not guaran- tee that this year's tax cut bill will in- lude the $164.5 billion in future tax cuts. But the vote could make it more difficult for House conferees to reject the long-term reductions. Hoping to avoid a presidential veto if the measure were included in the general tax bill, the House late yester- day reaffirmed its support for tuition tax credits for elementary dary pupils as well as students. PRESIDENT CARTER l will veto any bill, even the bill, that contains tuition either level. The Senate has college tuition credit to the t In action on a separate bil allow college credits up t House voted 207-185 to measure back to a conferer Senate which had delted t tary and sebondary prov House vote pressed for re those credits. There was little chance t measure would be actedi ajournment, but the action could intensify the fight to I credits in the general tax bil reelection campaign to take a stand on the plan because he had mixed feelings about its effect on the state. "I RECOGNIZE in it some elements that I have been supportive of in the past - the idea of a free choice, even with the shift away from property taxes which I have been supportive of for educational funding," Milliken said. But the governor, seeking a third term in office, said the large sums of money that the voucher proposal would cost concerns him. "WE D4AVE a couple of billion dollars involved and the uncertainty as to how that would be worked out in the future. If we have a tax limitation which is ap- proved, then the additional cost would have to be borne within the current Milliken pie," he said. The voucher plan calls for limiting the use of property taxes for schpol fun- ding. The amendment would require the state to establish a general school taxation program for support of schools and provide for the issuance of a voucher that could be applied toward financing a student's education at either a public or private school. Milliken's Democratic challenger, State Senator William Fitzgerald, earlier said he opposes the voucher plan because he is "concerned about the effect of floating' vouchers on the public school system." He said the measure would create "unnecessary disruption" for public schools., upon before apparently keep college I1. AC .IV MI v - I Former 'U' researcher awarded Nobel Prize for genetic study 0h 'Wolve rtnes make bucks or scalpers By C. J. MALESKI Scalping tickets. It's illegal, and it's also big business at the University in the week before an important football game. Despite the fact that scalping can be punished by a $100 fine or 90 days in jail, it is carried on fairly openly on campus and at the ANN ARBOR (UPI) - Dr. Hamilton Smith, one of three men awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine yesterday, received his training in human genetics at the University of Michigan Medical study of a special class of viruses which attack bacteria. THE CAROLINE Institute in Stockholm also awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine to Dr. Werner Arber understanding of the fight against disease and old age. Smith, 47, a biochemist working separately proved Arber's theories, and Nathans, 50, pioneered the ap-