Subscribe to the Daily! s ISSUES IN STORE See Editorial Page EMAt iE a1 THE HEAT IS ON High-Sos See Today for details Vol. LIX, No. 2 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, September 8, 1978 Free issue Thirty-Six Pages-2 Sections Carter speeds pace of Mideast talks CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) - President Carter stepped up the pace at the Mideast summit yesterday, con- vening two face-to-face sessions within six hours with Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin. Under Carter's guidance, Begin and Sadat discussed the thorniest issues of the 30-year-old Arab-Israeli conflict during the secrecy-shrouded talks at this presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. A RELIABLE source, who asked not to be identified, said the President decided at the conclusion of the first, three-hour session in Aspen Lodge, his forested retreat, to bring Sadat and* Begin back for another round at 5 p.m. EDT. Later, the White House press office confirmed the second session, which followed a meeting of Begin and Carter advisers. For the second day, Vice President Walter Mondale arrived from Washington. He joined Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Defense Secretary Harold Brown and Zbigniew Brzezin- ski, the U.S. national security adviser, at talks in mid-afternoon with Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman. AFTER MEETING with the Israelis, Mondale and Vance conferred for an hour with Egypt's foreign minister, Muhammad Ibrahim Kamil. At nightfall, Carter planned to take a break with the Egyptian president and Israeli prime minister at a display of precision-drilling by U.S. Marines brought to Camp David from Whington. Carter's negotiating strategy is to avoid the easier course of beginning with peripheral and less controversial items. An Egyptian official, asking to remain anonymous, said Carter, Begin and Sadat were discussing central issues. THE U.S. President is trying to per-' suade Sadat and Begin to compromise differences over borders, Jewish set- tlements, a Palestinian homeland and peace terms. There was no word from the Egyp- tians, the Israelis or the Americans about whether Carter was making progress. Carter, Begin and Sadat met for three hours. At his daily briefing as the meeting was drawing to a close, Jody Powell, White House press secretary and summit spokesman, touched on Carter's determination to work out .meaningful compromises toward a set- tlement. POWELL SAID he would "certainly not be surprised" if the discussion dealt with such troublesome topics as the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the Jor- dan River and the Gaza Strip. It was the second three-way meeting in two days. Powell said Carter, Begin and Sadat would take "breaks" over the weekend for religious observances at Camp David - but "there will be no overall break." The spokesman declined to describe the mood at the meeting. "I don't feel that is necessary at this point," Powell said. ". . . Not having been there, I wouldn't want to characterize them with any term that has rever- berations." POWELL ALSO refused to term the talks a resumption of direct negotiations between Egypt and Israel. The negotiations were broken off last January in Jerusalem at the ministerial level. Egyptian sources said they expected the talks to be extended into next week. But Powell made no predictions beyond the weekend. Secretary of Defense Harold Browr was summoned to Camp David. Powell said it was because of his "general rol and expertisejin the area." AATA won't' lose state funds, Daily Photo by ANDY FREEBERG Back in the swing o things Jeff Pearlman is about to drop from a rope swing into a gravel pit swimming hole on Wagner Road. The water provided welcome relief as yesterday's temperatures reached the low 90s. ST A TE INVESTIGA TES LA WYERS IN LIGHT BULB SUIT: Edison case practices probed By DENNIS SABO Attorneys representing the Southfield druggist whose controversial lawsuit put an end to Detroit Edison's free light bulb exchange program are being in- vestigated by a state Supreme Court agency for their "questionable" roles in the multi-million dollar lawsuit, of- ficials said Wednesday. Federal District Court Judge John Feikens, who heard the anti-trust suit, forwarded all material concerning the lawsuit to the Michigan State Bar Grievance Board last week, said Richard Senter, agency investigator. A DAILY investigation in late March showed that the druggist, Lawrence Cantor, was solicited as a client by his Chicago-based attorneys and paid with a free ski vacation to Aspen, Colorado for lending his name to the lawsuit. The practice of soliciting clients and paying them to file suit is against Michigan's, as well as other states', code of legal ethics. Violators of the code can receive a penalty anywhere from a stern warning to disbarment. "The charges are severe from a professional standpoint," said Senter. "This is not the way attorneys are sup- posed to perform. Attorneys don't ap- proach a would-be client, the client has to approach the attorney.' Since the board has no disciplinary power, if the agency's investigation finds evidence of ethics code violations, the material will be sent back to Federal Court for any action so deemed by Feikens, Senter said. Although different aspects of the lawsuit remain cloudy by accounts given by Cantor and his attorneys, both parties agree the origin of the lawsuit began as a friendly chat between Chicago attorney Michael Sklar and Cantor on the ski slopes of Aspen, Colorado in 1972. After several further conversations, Cantor decided to file the lawsuit one year later. SKLAR, ALONG with his associate, Burton Weinstein and Robert Holstein, and Southfield attorney David Nelson took Cantor's grievance to court. Their argument was that Cantor, a small- time druggist, as well as other light bulb retailers, could not-make a profit selling light bulbs because Detroit Edison customers exchanged their burned-out light bulbs for new ones at the utility's service outlets for free. In April, Feikens ruled in favor of Cantor and ordered an end to Edison's 92-year-old bulb exchange program. The Edison lawsuit, however, closely resembles a 1970 suit against Chicago's Commonwealth Edison which main- tained a bulb exchange program similar to Detroit Edison's. IN THAT lawsuit, attorneys Wein- stein and Holstein represented a teacher, Marilyn Gowedy, who claimed customers were improperly charged for the service. Gowedy was a friend of See LAWYERS, Page 13A By LEONARD BERNSTEIN In a dramatic reversal of previous indications, Ann Arbor Transportation Authority (AATA) Board Chairman Edwin Pear announced Wednesday night that AATA was not in danger of losing its state and federal funds. A letter from Frank DeRose, Jr. of the Department of State Highways and Transportation to the AATA board had indicated that board plans to cut back the city's present Dial-A-Ride service had resulted in all state grants being placed "on hold for the time being."' A SIMILAR letter from the federal Urban Mass Transportation Ad- ministration (UMTA) in Chicago ex- plained that federal monies, totaling $3,696,400 had been "cancelled" for the same reason. But at Wednesday's board meeting Pear announced that the state letter had been rescinded and that DeRose had been "publicly and privately reprimanded." Terming the letter "irresponsible", Pear said DeRose "had no authority to send it nor was it authorized." PETER FLETCHER, Chairman of the State Highway Commission, con- firmed the rescission and the " Keith Moon, drummer for The Who, died yesterday in his sleep. See story, Page 9A. " American businessman Francis Crawford, charged with violating Soviet currency laws, was given a five-year suspended sentence yesterday. See story, Page 2A. For happenings, weather and local briefs, see TODAY, page 3. reprimand. "He (DeRose) did not hav the authority to withhold program already approved by the State Highwa; Commission," Fletcher said. DeRose admitted he "placed on hold phrase may have been a "poor choice o words," but explained that his lette was meant as an invitation to discus the matter and may have been inter preted too strongly. Pear also announced that a meetinj with UMTA officials to discuss thE status of the federal funds would tak, place on Monday and would be attende by U.S. Representative Carl Pursell AATA Acting Executive Directo Robert Works and himself. Pear ex pressed confidence that the funds wen secure. UMTA DIVISION of. Transil Assistance head D. J. Mitchell ex plained that his office was awaiting clarification from the AATA board Since the allocated money was a capita grant for the purchase of yans anc buses, the possibility of a change ii service plans forced the cancellation he said. Mitchell said refunding should not bE difficult, however. "Once they (th+ Board) decide what they want to do See AATA, Page 7 A Students fight meal consolidation By R.J. SMITHv A group of University students, with representatives from all University dorrtis, has begun a campaign against the Housing Office's commitment to consolidate food services for dorms located in the Hill area. Dorms affected would include Stockwell, Couzens, Alice Lloyd, and Mosher Jordan. THE ORGANIZATION, called the Student Coalition to Save University Dining Systems (SUDS), has been meeting for two weeks, although informal groups opposing plans for consolidation have been conferring since the University first proposed centralized dining facilities last April. SUDS members say the University has failed to heed in- formation from a report released last April from the Housing Office's Task Force on Meal Consoliation. In part, the report stated that in many areas students did not favor the plan un- der consideration by the University and that parents preferred plans for consolidation on weekends rather than on a full-time basis. "The people doing the survey (food service staff mem- bers) were assured the work they did wouldn't be done in vain," said Jane Aronson, a residence staff member in the Hill area. IN LATE JULY the Housing Office affirmed its plans to consolidate food services by filing a funding request for almost $5 million with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to consolidate Hill food service and conserve energy in other dorms. According to details of the request, an enlarged dining and kitchen facility in Mosher-Jordan would be constructed to provide kitchen services for Stockwell, Couzens and Alice Lloyd. Former dining and kitchen space in those three areas would be converted to approximately 100 additional student Mon See STUDENTS, Page 12A Trial tests 'U' - Native American treaty By RENE BECKER Second in a fopr-part series A trial to decide whether an 1817 treaty obligates the University to provide Michigan Native Americans with education including tuition, housing, clothing, health and 1920 acres, to the University in exchange for education for their progeny. White argued that the plaintiffs' forefathers created an express trust so the children of the tribes could be educated, with the University Regents to serve as trustees, and the was trained as a lawyer, headed the board of the University and that Cass signed the treaty. BEFORE A COURTROOM filled with Native Americans, White said the circumstances surrounding the treaty and CHAPUT'S TESTIMONY was not given directly at ti trial, but was read from a deposition White had taken on Se tember 14, 1977. As a result, Chaput's,testimony was enter into the record of the trial but Daane did not have the o portunity to cross examine him there. White had an act read Chaput's responses to his questions at the trial.