ON KENNEDY See editorial page .:J'l Ninety Years of Editorial Freedom 1E aiI HOLY HEAT WAVE! See Today for details Vol. LXXX. .. . .n A -A.. . A L--. A L..:..... T .l d . 1' __ __ _I "n-- X, No. 79 A.'nn A~rbor, Mvicign-Tuesday, December. 11, I19~79 Ten Cents Twelve Pages plus Suolement r-..te a - . F Rider BY MITCH STUART After more than two months of ser- vice, The Ride," the Ann Arbor Tran- sportation Authority's (AATA) new fixed route-based system has proved to be both profitable and popular with city riders, according to AATA officials and riders themselves. Richard Simonetta, AATA Executive' Director, said the increase in ridership resulting from the new fixed route con- cept shows the public's acceptance and support of the system. WITH THE constraints of limited funds and a limited operating fleet in mind, Simonetta said AATA set four goals for ' the October changes: providing service to the maximum number of citizens, making sure s, of iaL changes were consistent with a long- range plan (the "1990 plan"), providing a framework on which the AATA could logically build, and addressing the special needs of the elderly and han- aicapped. Changes in the system, which took ef- fect in October, were: fewer service hours, changes in fixed route and Dial- a-Ride (DAR) service, and a fare hike from 35 cents to 50 cents. A package of twenty tokens, however, can be pur- chased at the old 35 cent rate. But despite these drastic changes, Simonetta said the new system has, so far, been very successful. However, he said he would like to wait longer before making a final evaluation. - Simonetta said for every hour of ser- New A ATA system successful vice last October, the system carried 8.4 people. This October, however, the He attributed these favorable results to the fact that riders' tolerance for t:>:::fi->:::<;::;::::::::s>::;::>::;;:%::<::::<:::><:is;::>::>::ii::z:::i:- '":::i>::: 'All the financial problems essentially gone.' of the, past are -Richard Simonetta, AA TA Executive Director federal level and say we want to add more service. . . the people are much more receptive to our requests. We're really managing within a very logical plan that makes sense to everybody." He said extra money now goes to add more service, while in the past it 'had gone to bail the AATA out of debt. He said "all the financial problems of the past are essentially gone." AATA board member and University Prof. Joel Samoff said he is happy with the results so far. "The initial in- dications are all very positive," Samoff said. HE STRESSED, however, that he feels the ultimate judgement of any public service "depends on the users, not on the managers or board mem- bers." Samoff said he "needs to have a somewhat longer time" to evaluate public reaciton. Pat Minott, of the Transportation Employees Union said the new system "seems like it's working pretty well ... the ridership seems to be up." She added a number of employees like the line bus system because it ser- ves a greater number of people more efficiently without "darting across the city.,, MINOTT ALSO said the union is "pleased that the board adopted the fare policy that they did" because it makes it easier for the drivers to collect See A2, Page 3 ..............................:::...... ::::::. :::::.... r"::::v: ".::::::::" .; ;-:'-:. vitriiiv i :"i:"......:"::: }......{:::::::: "ii::;, ::":. :'i"i:... ... w::. ..::::::::..:.:::::.::...; ....... average was 11.3'people. He said this represents a rise in "ridership produc- tivity" of over 35 per cent. AS FOR revenue, Simonetta said that compared to last year, AATA ha 45 per cent more revenue per hour of service. change is higher than originally thought. Simonetta also said favorable reac- tion to the system has helped the AATA get state and federal money. "When we talk to the people at the state and Hostage: Captives homesick, but OK From AP and Reuter DENVER - A 21-year-old Marine corporal told NBC-TV yesterday that he and 49 other hostages at the U.S. Em- bassy in Iran are being treated well by their student captors. BIlly Gallegos of Pueblo, Colo., was interviewed in Tehran. The tape was relayed via satellite to the !United States where excerpts were televised on the NBC Nightly News." His paren- ts, Dick and Theresa Gallegos, saw the excerpts at KOA-TV studios here. THE COUPLE identified their son from the videotape and from photographs taken at the Tehran taping session earlier in the day. NBC said it was allowed to interview the hostage on the condition that the en- tire interview - and a response from an Iranian student - be telecast. NBC said it would telecast the interview and response in full later Monday night. "The students here have been really good to us," said Billy Gallegos. "It's hard to belie ve, I know, but we haven't been asked ay questions about what really our job was." "NOBODY'S BEEN mistreated. Everything's O.K.," Gallegos said. The hostages are given "everything we need" Gallegos said, including toothbrushes, adding, "the cleanliness is great." "I know everyone here wants to go home," he said. "I don't know what negotiations are toward this.. . I know they keep telling us that they want the shah to return to Iran and we'll be released." THE HOSTAGES have been told, he said, that some of them will be tried for espionage if the shah is not returned. "I don't know what would happen after that," he said. In related developments: In northwest Iran, a peace mission dispatched by Khomeini's Revolutionary Council arrived in the city of Tabriz, where dissident Iranian Turks battled Sunday and yesterday with pro-Khomeini forces in clashes that left a reported nine Turks dead. LEADERS OF the dissidents, who want greater autonomy for their Azer- baijan region, said they would not meet with the Council delegation. The Turks of Azerbaijan, known as Azaris, are followers of Iran's No. 2 Shiite Moslem ayatollah, Mohammad Kazem Shariat-Madari,. who opposes Iran's new Islamic constitution because it makes Khomeini a near-absolute ruler for life and denies Azerbaijan the kind of autonomous rule that it and other ethnic regions wanted. The Azaris rebelled last week, three days after the constitution was ap- proved in a national referendum. They seized the government radio-television station, the governor's mansion and other key facilities in Tabriz. OVER THE weekend, pro- and anti- Khomeini forces captured and recap- tured the various strongpoints in often bloody gun battles. Yesterday, the army was in control of See HOSTAGE, Page 2 INS finds 8 'U' AP Photo HUNDREDS OF AYATOLLAH Khomeini's supporters gained control of the Tabriz, Iran radio station from anti-Khomeini rebels before Iranian troops finally seized the building late yesterday. orld From AP and Reuter WASHINGTON - President Carter said yesterday the United States must embark at once on efforts to help eliminate famine and hunger throughout the world by the end of the century. He endorsed shifting the focus of U.S. foreign aid from supplying arms to reducing world hunger, which he was told could become more serious than the energy crisis. CARTER SAID he was "very excited and pleased" by a commission report which urged a doubling of U.S. aid to help avoid a probable world food crisis. The president told members of the Presidential Commission on World Hunger that "this is an opportunity for our nation .. . to embark upon a long- range, exciting, challenging, principled effort to alleviate the problem of world hunger over the next two decades." One commission member told repor- ters later that "we don't believe we'd have all of our embassies burned" if people overseas felt the United States was helping with food production rather than supplying arms. THE COMMISSION warned that a global food shortage "of even more serious dimensions than the present energy crisis" is likely in the next 20 years unless the United States and other nations act now. Two straight years of bad harvest in any major grain-exporting nation, the report said, would produce not only rising food prices in wealthy nations such as the United States, but " widespread famine and political disorder" in poor nations and would "disrupt a fragile world economy already weakened by energy shortages and rampant inflation." The commission said the earth ap- -nger crisis pears physically capable of feeding its expanding population at least through the year 2,000, provided knotty political and social problems can be overcome. THE PANEL said the hunger problem is getting worse and that one of every eight persons now suffers from a lack of food serious enough to stunt growth or dull mental abilities. It said curing the problem will foreseen require efforts not only to help poor nations grow more of their own food, but to raise overall income levels so the poor can afford to buy food when it is available. The commission recommended that the United States "as rapidly as possible" double its non-military foreign aid spending, from roughly $7 billion to $14 billion a year. Iraniaqns di By BETH PERSKY Eight of the 179 Iranian University students interviewed at the federal building last Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday were found to be depor- table, said Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) Project Coordinator Robert Wagus yesterday. Wagus said the eight were found deportable for several reasons. Three students were not carrying a full course load, two were no longer attending the University, and one remained in the F University Towers has int'l flavor By DAVE GUBBINS While the 19-story edifice appears to ' be like any modern apartment building in Ann Arbor, the University Towers Apartments can claim a unique student a population and reputation. In recent years, the imposing struc- ture nestled next to Orange Julius on S. - Forest has become the home for an unusually large number of foreign students at the University. Dubbed the "United Nations" and "The Olympic Village," the building houses students from all over the world. They comprise about half the apartments' 720 residen- ts. "USUALLY THE third, fourth, and fifth floors smell like curry all the time from the oriental cooking," observed one 'U' Towers employee. While dar- ting in and out of elevators, residents , See 'U', Page 3 efporotab le country beyond the period authorized, Wagus said. THE REMAINING two students, he added, fell into the "other" category, a classification which Wagus said could be "any violation of the immigration law. - The cases of 18 other students, in ad- dition, will require further in- vestigation, according to Wagus. Most of those students were placed in that category because they were missing documents at the time of the interview, a condition which Wagus said may be resolved easily by the presentation of the necessary papers. The investigations come as a result of President Carter's November order that all "F-1" and "J-1" visa non- immigrant students in post-secondary institutions must be interviewedby an INS officer prior to December 14 and prove they are full-time students as required by law or face deportation. F-1 and J-1 visas are visas for educational purposes. THE UNIVERSITY previously told INS that there were 250 Iranian studen- ts registered in the school, Wagus said. Only 179 students, hwever, were inter- viewed in Ann Arbor. Wagus said any See INS, Page 2 Good-Bye Tomeorrowt Imorninugs issueof ihi, lrii he Di tb lii I ri to lpp , re s pibllicostion Jio. /to. Iomorrour- assena hillincude-t ro .'pieciuul por.ts: aiu i-.xcaaxir ". jar elt y "tafar. tuspplemenist itng tie naes and l'airies of f'ill I 1iet-rsit facatlt fned ali i u istratiert staa/J afin d i Dre aede-in-Revicar se ciou. ithich t-ill routedi up ht'lemajor local,.naiotial stud itiernatiout lvrs of the I 970 Daily Photo by CYRENA CHAN IKEI)A NAOTSUGU, walking out of the University Towers apartment building, is one of many foreign students who live in the complex at the corner of South University and South Forest. Nook ,y 1 Y at CRISP ripped roads. For $20, the deluxe model includes your name spray painted over the patched hole, a certificate, and a color picture. For 10 bucks you get just a certificate. But it seems Falls City is running out of potholes. "We really have sold almost all the potholes," claims the city recorder. "Now it's time for some other enterprising small city to take; over." Ann Arbor better try to sell its potholes fast - there's only 14 shopping days 'til Christmas. Take notes mt, I I._ .. ...... .nrr:.... t ,,, I t 1 { On the inside Khomeini's rule strengthened during the hostage crisis, see the editorial page. . . The Who review, and the effer- vescent Ella graces the arts page . . . See sports for a pre vacation report card on the hockey team's performance, page 10. 4.0 On the outside "Holy flashback!" Robin blurted to Batperson this I -I-" I Fried -_ , 'g i