Join the .;zS C' A. v :. .. , ti SI1 LIE CRISP MSA ELECTIONSL 1V11 High-68 See editorial p ageW Low-mid 40s t Ninety Years of Editorial Freedom 46 Vol. LXXXX, No. 12 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, September 19, 1979 Ten Cents Ten Pages I MSA to Regents. 'Hands off' By TOM MIRGA For the first time last night, the Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) of- ficially chided the University ad- ministration for intervening in its elec- tions last spring. MSA called upon the administration to adopt "a hands-off policy towards the assembly while recognizing its basic right to govern autonomously." The proposal, drafted by member Marc Breakstone, pointed out the Assembly's ability to represent the needs of students "was seriously in- jpred by the administration's interven- tion and veritable takeover of MSA" by certifying the elections after the Cen-' tral -Student Judiciary (CSJ) deemed them invalid. THE STATEMENT also rebuked the administration for holding back MSA's progress by "usurpation of MSA's funding capacity." In other action, the assembly voted to change the makeup of the group's Budget Priorities Committee (BPC) while postponing discussion on revisions to MSA's financial and alloacation procedures. Underthe new provision, member- ship in the BPC-which reviews student organization requests for funds and may initiate investigations of violations and the freezing of funds-will now in- clude four non-MSA members appoin- ted by the assembly's Permanent In- terviewing Committee (PIC). THE ASSEMBLY voted to halt discussion of the proposed revisions to their allocation and funding procedures on a motion by member Mervat Hatem, who contended a final decision should not be made until each assembly mem- ber is provided with a copy of the current compiled code to review the changes. The revisions to the code would in- troduce an appeals procedure for student organizations dissatisfied with allocations and provisions for the in- vestigation of violations or irregularities in the budget or expen- ditures of funded groups. The assembly also approved a ten- tative budget for the upcoming year that would cut external allocations to student organizations to nearly half the amount given to those groups last year. Allocations w1ould total approximately See MSA, Page 7 Afghanistan ex-president 7; rumored shot From AP and Reuter ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Conflic- ting rumors swept Kabul yesterday over the fate of Afghanistan's former President Nur Mohammed Taraki, some saying he was dead of gunshot wounds and others listing him as still alive but seriously wounded. There has been no official word of Taraki's whereabouts since Prime Minister Hafizullah Amin seized power over the weekend. SINCE, TARAKI'S 'announced resignation on Sunday, diplomats in the Afghan capitaldhave expressed skep- ticism over the official version that he stepped down for health reasons. In the latest reports reaching Pakistan, the diplomats said they were unable to confirm widespread rumors that Taraki had died in a military hospital after a gun battle at his presidential palace last Friday. One diplomatic report portrayed him as clinging to life but suffering from brain damage. THE KABUL diplomats said many senior government officials were in the presidential palace when Friday's gun battles broke out in the wake of a cabinet purge and power struggle within the ruling Khalq (Masses) party. The Radio Pakistan account said as many as 60 persons were mortally wounded in the shooting incident, and that a meeting of the Revolutionary Council was under way at Taraki's residence when firing erupted. The official version by Kabul Radio said only four persons were killed and See AFGHANISTAN, Page 2 Bids received THIS TWO-STORY frame house is an example of the architecture that characterizes the special flavor of the old West Side. West Siders have formed an association to preserve houses like this. GERMAN FESTIVAL FEATURED: Old' West Side celebrated By AMY DIAMOND Winding their way down Jefferson St. past the Reorganized Church of the Lat- ter Day Saints, Friar Tuck and Dixie, their wispy manes blowing in the Indian summer breeze, carted the old red wagon full of passengers through the streets of the Old West Side. Towering trees shade the streets lined with well manicured lawns and small two-story frame houses. The houses are as rich in tradition as the people who inhabit them., Friends, neighbors and visiting town- folk got a taste of that tradition last Sunday at the Seventh Annual West Side Homes Tour. It was the first time in the history of the tour that a German festival was included in the festivities, properly adding to the display of the neighborhood's heritage. IT WAS LIKE a scene from the turn of the century, as craftspeople displayed their wares and demon- strated their talents true to German tradition. Two such craftspeople are Jerry and Helen Canter. While Jerry feeds white clumps of wool into his antique spinner -changing the wool into fine strands of yarn with the methodical tap of his foot on the pedal - his wife Helen is hooking the completed yarn into rugs. "Helen's the happy hooker. I make a lot of fun at that," said Jerry. But Helen prefers the term "rug crafter" to describe her hobby. WHILE QUILTERS, weavers, lacemakers and china painters prac- ticed their art, a French horn quartet provided the entertainment. . An historian has found a journal kept by Dwight Eisen- hower during the early years of World War II and preserved despite his order that it be destroyed. Page 2. s Former Michigan basektball star Phil Hubbard, signed, this year by the Detroit Pistons, is in good shape: both his knee and his attitude are healthy. Page 9. Throughout the day, an expected 1,000 people toured the six historic homes which were open to the public on. this year's tour. Each house built before World War I contained a' myriad of objects and knick-knacks ranging from old fashioned bathtubs to family portraits. Visitors marveled at the an- tique artifacts and Chinese treasures. "One of the outstanding qualities of the neighborhood is the graceful sim- plicity of the detail and the highly fun- ctional design of the homes," said David Evans in a press release. Evans is an Ann Arbor architect and three- year resident of the Old West Side, and is the current president of the Old West Side Association which sponsors the annual Homes Tour. See WEST, Page 2 for. top c By PATRICIA HAGEN While former city administrator Sylvester Murray settles into his new job as city manager of Cincinnati, Ohio, initial steps in the search process for his replacement are well underway. Korn-Ferry International, -the California-based personnel firm hired to conduct the search for Ann Arbor's new head administrator, already has received applications for the position. Murray left Ann Arbor Sept. 6 after six years in the city's top administrative post. KORN-FERRY began the search process in August, and "We have received a number of applications so far," said Norman Robert, a spokesman for the firm. The ap- plication deadline is October 12. Preliminary plans are also underway in a search for a new police chief to replace Chief Walter Krasny, accor- ding to acting city administrator God- frey Collins. After 32 years on the city's itypost police force, Krasny announced his resignation last week. Mayor Louis Belcher said he hopes the Pity Council will reach a final decision on a new administrator in mid- November. Whomever Council appoin- ts is expected to take office January 1. KORN-FERRY International, which is being paid $11,000 for its services, is "acting on behalf of the .mayor and Council," Robert explained. Staff members from the firm first met with Council in August to discuss a "recruitment profile" describing the position. Using the profile as a guide, the per- sonnel firm will handle the initial screening of applicants. And, after con- sidering recommendations made by a citizens' committee; Council will make the final appointment decision, Robert said. The city administrator, who repdrts directly to the mayor and Council, See SEARCH, Page 7 Plant closed after H 'U' officials plan for possible possible uranium loss Regents mneeting ERWIN, Tenn. (AP)-The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) or- dered an immediate shutdown yester- day of an atomic fuel fabrication plant after the plant reported the apparent loss of weapons-grade uranium. Frank Gillespie of the NRC's regional office in Atlanta said the material missing from Nuclear Fuel Services Inc.'s plant at Erwin "could possibly be turned into a weapon with appropriate knowledge." FRANK INGRAM, a spokesman for European gold prices rise $20 an ounce From The Associated Press The price of gold in Europe soared by a record $20 an ounce yesterday to a new world high of $373 - a mark that quickly fell when it closed at $376 an. ounce hours later in New York. "It's very hectic today," said George Perola, manager of the numismatic the NRC in Washington, said the firm reported losing at least 19.8 pounds of "high-enriched" uranium. He confir- med, however, that officials have not ruled out theft and are studying the possibility of an accounting error at the plant in this remote mountain town near the Tennessee-North Carolina border. William Dircks, director of the NRC's nuclear materials safeguards office, said the plant will likely be shut down for at least 45 days while an inventory is taken under NRC supervision. Lonnie Tolley, president of the 270- member Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union local at the plant, said he thinks the loss is a paper error only "because it's happened before-three or four more times before this."' THE PLAN'S primary job is fabricating uranium to fuel the Navy's nuclear subrbarines. It does not handle material intended for nuclear weapons, the NRC officials said. Gillespie, regional chief of the NRC's materials control and accounting bran- ch, said the missing material has low radiation and poses no health threat to the public. "If it was under your bed you wouldn't have to worry about it," he said. "Our concern is for the material fromra safeguards point-of- view, rather than a radiological one." He refused to specify the amount of material missing, saying the exact amnu ilass(12ifiedda~Tta for at least six y. r Y .. f " h C, _ ' ° _ ft's !, { f 7. q By JULIE ENGEBRECHT In addition to their usual schedule of conferences about daily problems, University administrators this week have been planning ways to deal with a possible disruption of this Friday's Regents meeting. THE WASHTENAW County Coalition Against Apartheid (WCCAA), which advocated University divestment from hodlings in South Africa, demonstrated at last March's Regents meeting until the Regents obtained a court order. allowing them tq meet behi doors with only the press an individuals allowed to attend. Although a court appeal is ding on the Regents' request t protesters by moving, the lawyers for both the WCCAY University say a change of place will probably be consic protest occurs. "You can assume there tingencies being discusse University General .Counsel disruptions nd closed Daane. Daane said that because d selected Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge Ross Campbell ruled in favor of the still pen Regents, that decision still holds while to exclude the case is appealed. meeting, "The court order is the law until it's A and the changed, and Judge Campbell has f meeting authorized for them to do so (move the dered if a meeting)," WCCAA attorney Thomas O'Brien said. are con- Interim University President Allan d," said Smith refused to discuss the moves Rdlerick open to the Regents. P.o I * od Q~ ~Pa~ I nVUCi it;x 'Californian editors- discuss gov t-rnjunction By STEVE HOOK The last two weeks have been hectic ones for Tom Abate and the staff of the Daily Californian, the student newspaper of the University of California at Berkeley. Although they didn't go looking for it, Editor-in-Chief Abate and the Californian's staff found themselves embroiled in an historic freedom of the press struggle with the federal government. "We didn't ask for this," Abate said with a sigh yesterday from the paper's newsroom on Berkeley's campus in Palo Alto, California. "We just got this letter and looked into it. We thought it was significant." possibility of placing a restraining order preven- ting its publication. On the premise that the published information would endanger national security, the department imposed a restraining order on the Daily Californian early Saturday night. For approximately 12 hours the Justice Depar- tment succeeded in blocking publication of the Hansen letter. But on Sunday morning, the government's efforts became futile when the same letter appeared in Madison Wisconsin's Press Connection. On Monday, the government dropped its restraining order against the Californian.