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State reviews petition signatures
By KEITH RICHBURG Tisch proposal to cut property taxes, one of two prove all local property tax increases.
he State Board of Canvassers will decide today Proposition 13-type tax amendments initiated after
ther three highly-publicized proposals to amend the California "tax revolt" led by Howard Jarvis. Headlee's proposal is by far the most popular. While
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the state constitution have enough valid signatures to
earn a spot on the November ballot.
A proposal to permit state troopers to bargain
collectively, a proposal to change the state's school
financing system to provide tax relief for parents of
parochial school students, and the so-called Tisch
tax-slashing proposal all fell short of the 265,702 valid
signatures needed for certification on first inspec-
tion.
BERNARD APOL, director of the State's elections
division, ordered all three proposals rechecked, with
the final decision due today.,
Today is the last day proposals can be certified for
the November ballot, lending what has been called a
"showdown atmosphere" to today's announcement.
The most politically sensitive of the three is the
THE TISCH PROPOSAL, advanced by Shiawasse
County Drain Commissioner Robert Tisch would cut
property taxes by 50 per cent. Property taxes are
currently assessed at 50 per cent of the estimated
market value.
The Tisch proposal-which may result in increased
income tax-has met with more opposition than has
the milder Headlee tax plan. That proposal, which
has already been certified and will appear on the
November ballot, would limit state taxes and spen-
ding to the present 9.5 per cent of Michigan's com-
bined personal income.
The Headlee proposal, named for its author
Richard Headlee, president of an insurance com-
pany, would also limit revenue from local property
assessment increases to an amount no greater than
the rate of inflation, and voters would have to ap-
the Democratic convention in Lansing last month ad-
journed with nary a mention of either proposal, the
1,300 delegates to the Republican convention in
Detroit voted to endorse the Headlee plan in their
party platform for the fall elections.
As for the possibility that his tax-slashing plan may
not even make it onto the ballot, Tisch said Wed-
nesday "They (the canvassers) seem to be wanting to
subvert the will of 360,000 people."
Tisch said he is confident his tax plan will be cer-
tified in the board's decision today, since as of then
only about 10 per cent of the signatures collected
were found invalid and "we can stand (to lose) about
16.8 per cent."
"I guess you can count on seeing us on the ballot,"
he said. "If we held the election today, we could get
more votes than the California one (Proposition 13)
passed by." That proposal won by a 2-1 margin.
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By R. J. SMITH
A University professor of Law and
Economics has been appointed to head
a committee looking into the appoin-
tment and subsequent dismissal of Ber-
tell Oilman as head of the Political
Science Department at the University
of Maryland.
Peter Steiner will chair an in-
vestigative committee of the American
Association of University Professors
(AAUP), along with Wesleyan Univer-
sity professor Robert Rosenbaum.
OLLMAN, an authority on Marxism
with a reputation for political activism,
is currently teaching at New York
University. He was appointed to the
post of University of Maryland's
political science department head by a
search committee last year, and his
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sity chancellor and provost along with
three other top University officials.
Following a series of public
statements by Acting Maryland Gover-
nor Blair Lee and several top members
of the Maryland legislature which con-
demned the choice of the avowed
Marxist, however, University of
Maryland President John Toll denied
Oilman the department seat, saying
Oilman was unqualified for the post.
Toll was notified August 1 that the in-
cident would be investigated by the
AAUP, after he repeatedly refused to
comply with the AAUP's request to
provide detailed reasons for the denial.
"I WILL stress. . . it would be im-
proper and illegal to base any decision
on a candidate's personal opinions,
political beliefs, or religious convic-
tions," Toll stated several months ago.
"I'must stress as clearly as I can that
appointment decisions at the Univer-
sity of Maryland are not and shall not
be based on political beliefs, but on
qualifications of the candidate, for the
duties of the position involved," Toll
said.
Oliman has received degrees from
the University of Wisconsin and Oxford
University, and has written numerous
books and articles in professional jour-
nals.
THE COMMITTEE headed by
Steiner will examine Ollman's
qualifications for the position and the
reasons Toll cited for his rejection.
Steiner has only recently completed a
two-year term as president of the
AAUP. He will be meeting with Toll,
Oliman and others involved in the case
throughout October, and plans to issue
a report and recommendation on the
incident within a month to six weeks,
following the completion of the in-
vestigation.
Meanwhile, Ollman has filed suit
against the University of Maryland in a
federal court in Baltimore, demanding
they give him the department chair,
full teaching privileges, and $300,000 in
compensatory damages. He charges
Toll and several University of
Maryland regents have "collaborated
and conspired" to not let him have the
post due to his political beliefs.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP)-One of the
nation's most restrictive abortion laws
goes into effect today in Louisiana in
the latest attempt by a state or city
government to counter the U.S.
Supreme Court's decision liberalizing
the availability of abortions.
However, it faces an immediate
challenge. A hearing is scheduled Oct.
18 in U.S. District Court here on a
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second attempt to negate the Supreme
Court's 1973 ruling, which, in effect,'
said governments may not interfere
with a women's right to an abortion so
long as it is performed in the early
stages of pregnancy. A 1976 statute in
tended to make abortion "murder by!
defining a person as a "human being
from the moment of fertilization" was
ruled unconstitutional by a federal
judge.
"The guts of our new law is the con-
cept of 'informed consent,' "said state
Rep. Lane Carson of New Orleans, who
wrote the bill.
Under the "informed consent" doc-
trine, the woman would have to un-
dergo a concentrated period of in-
struciton before receiving permission
for the abortion. During the period, the
woman would be taught, among other
things, that the fetus within her became
a human life the instant the male sperm
fertilized the female egg-the "moment
of conception."
Louisiana's new law-approved by a
vote of 88-0 in the House and 35-1 in the
Senate-closely follows a city ordinan,
ce adopted in Akron, Ohio, a hot spot in
the "Right to Life" campaign. That law
is also under challenge in federal court.
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