4 1 . ', 'fi * e#tApl *L , . ivv4 OM * , -, t)k,. "*,. -A"A'4 " j ., .v WAGE-PRICE BATTLE See editorial page Ninety Years of Editorial Freedom ii ail SOLUBLE HighT74o Low-550 See Today for details Vol. LXXXX, No. 20 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, September 28, 1979 Ten Cents Fourteen Pages Funding senior citizen project has city confused By PATRICIA HAGEN The developer of a proposed senior citizens' apartment building on the city's south side still has not given up hope of obtaining a federal rent subsidy for his project, even though the deadline for approval is today, according to Ann Arbor Mayor Louis Belcher. "And as of yesterday, no one - the mayor, spokespersons for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), or members of City Council - seemed to know exactly how to go about obtaining the federal funds. Council can't approve the plans necessary f6r the developer to obtain the federal subsidy by today because no council meeting has been scheduled. But Belcher said the developer told him action by city officials at Monday's Council meeting could save the subsidy. There's only one problem: no one knows what Council action is necessary, or what the next step is. "I don't -know what HUD wants," said Belcher. BELCHER SAID yesterday that the developer, Cranbrook Venture, a Southfield firm, has scaled down plans for the 200-unit senior citizen apartment project in the proposed Cranbrook Village subdivision in hopes of last-minute approval by Council and HUD. The subsidy is available because HUD has leftover funds at the end of its fiscal year - which is today. Cranbrook Venture, however, has already applied for the HUD Money even though special consideration by city planners and Council is necessary to meet the deadline. A SITE PLAN for the Cranbrook Towers apartment building in the proposed Cranbrook Village subdivision was tabled earlier this week by a 7-3 Council vote. Republican council members refused to approve hastily-submitted plans for the 200-unit project, even though a federal subsidy was at stake. They said they tabled the site plan.until a satisfactory design could be submitted. But to add to the confusion, spokespersons for HUD said the project already is slated for "final approval," before the deadlineand even though Council has not approved the site plan. Belcher said he didn't think the federal agen- cy could allocate the funds without Council's approval. Belcher also said he didn't even ex- pect Council to pass the revised-site plan Mon- day because members don't know exactly what the building will look like or what facilities will he provided for senior citizens. "THEY'VE GOT a plan to cut the eleven- story building down to eight," Belcher said, but added, that he can't assure Council will pass plans the developer told him HUD needed. But, yesterday, HUD spokesman Ken Sch- midt, Chief of the Housing Programs Division, said the project was probably going to be ap- proved. As far as he knew, Schmidt said, a vote from Council was not essential to HUD approval of federal funds for the project, which would be located at the corner of Eisenhower and Ann Arbor-Saline Roads. He explained that since HUD was not subsidizing construction of the building - only a subsidy which would pay 75 per cent of the residents' rent - was applied for, Council approval of the site plan wasn't essential If HUD grants approval, the firm is expected to start construction in the near future, Sch- midt said. BELCHER SAID the city already has zoned the are for senior citizen housing, and 'that Council is "committed" to approving plans for construction. Council wants time to consider plans for a senior citizens building they are "comfortable with." Council has already "given every approval except site approval," Belcher said. See HOUSING, Page 5 Jazz fest to honor the music of Mingus By R.J. SMITH "I like Indian music, I like Charlie Parker, I like Beethoven," said the late Charles Mingus. "It's all classical music." Mingus played American classical music. He synthesized the sounds he heard in music and nature, and created a unique body of "swing" music. As a composer, band leader, and bassist, Mingus made a name for himself. As a volatile, outspoken and eccentric per- sonality with an often bizarre sene of humor, Mingus is equally memorable. AND, THERE can be little question why Ann Arbor's student-run Eclipse Jazz, has dedicated its three-day jazz festival, which begins tonight, to Mingus. "We decided to do it because he was sliding into obscurity," explained Eclipse co-directorJim Grant. "He was really an inspiration to the group." Eclipse has been preparing for this year's festival almost since the first Eclipse jazz fest ended a year ago. One of the highlights of this year's celebration will be an appearance by the Mingus Dynasty Band, composed of See JAZZ, Page 2 House gives approval to '80 budget' WASHINGTON (AP) - The House finally approved a 1980 budget yester- day, but apparently not in time to resolve differences with the Senate over defense spending before the start of the new fiscal year next week. By a 212-206 margin, the House passed a $548.2 billion budget, only slightly leaner than the spending package that the lawmakers rejected last week. Republicans unanimously opposed the budget measure. THE SENATE version of the budget calls for $546.3 billion in spending and differs from the House budget by calling for sharply higher outlays for defense and cuts in social programs.' House leaders said House and Senate negotiators will not meet to reconcile their deep-seated differences until after a week-long House recess that starts this weekend. That means the 1980 fiscal year will begin Monday without a firm budget ceiling in place: But the lack of a budget ceiling is not expected to affect the day- to-day operation of government, since Congress can still appropriate money. REP. ROBERT Giaimo (D-Conn.), budget committee chairman, said he is concerned about the public perception of congressional failure to agree on a spending plan, but he added that "enac- ting a budget is not easy." Giaimo also predicted that the House-Senate budget conference would be "extremely dif- ficult." In the House vote, 154 Republicans voted against the budget along with 52 Democrats. No Republicans joined with the 212 Democrats in support of the budget. Last week, the House defeated a $548.6 billion budget, 213-192. HOWEVER, SOME liberal Democrats, who favor higher social spending and opposed the first proposal, reversed their votes to prevent possible approval of an even more stringent spending package. Rep. Parren Mitchell (D-Md.), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said he switched his vote because other budget proposals would be more harmful to minorities. He said that if the House ended up with the Senate budget, "we'll be putting the squeezeonthose that have almost been squeezed to death." Giaimo said the leadership was able to turn around the budget vote because a lot of good Pemocrats realized that this was the best we could get under today's economy." REP. JAMES JONES of Oklahoma, a conservative Democrat, also noted that if the House failed to pass a budget, it would have to return home for the recess with "nothing to talk (to our con- stituents) about except how we raised our salaries." However, Republicans charged that $384 million in spending cuts made in the revised proposal were only "cosmetic" and insufficient to 'move toward a balanced budget in 1981. The House budget calls for a $28.9 billion deficit, while the Senate proposal would put the deficit at $31.6 billion. The current federal deficit is expected to be about $30 billion. The House and Senate spending packages would both boost federal outlays by about 10 per cent over the present fiscal year. Daily Photo by MAUREEN O'MALLEY SUN RA and his Solar Arkestra, seen here at last year's concert, will be making a return performance tonight at Hill Auditorium. The group is part of the three day jazz festival sponsored by Eclipse Jazz. CARTER TO REVIEW BILL: NewEd t n WASHINGTON (AP) - The House gave approval yesterday to a bill creating a new Department of Education and sent the measure to President Carter. The House voted 215-201 to create the 13th Cabinet department. During his 1976 campaign, Carter had promised to place the government's education programs within a single new agency. THE MEASURE, passed by the Senate on Monday, will cut the size of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and will rename the agen- cy the Department of Health and Human Services. As the House vote was announced, a cheer went up outside the chamber where private supporters of the proposal, many of them teachers, had been waiting. The new department is the second created during Carter's term. The Energy Department was established in 1977. UNDER THE legislation, more than 150 federal programs will be tran- sferred to the new agency. The education division in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare will be the heart of the new agency, but programs from the departments of Agriculture, Justice, Housing and Ur- ban Development, Labor, and other Dept. agencies will be added. The new department will have a budget exceeding $14 billion and will have about 18,000 employees. The debate over the Education Department pitted the two largest teacher organizations against one another. The National Education Association, the largest teacher organization, actively supported the pproved idea. But' the rival American Federation of Teachers led the op- position. After the vote, Carter called it "a significant milestone in my effort to make the federal government more ef- ficient." He said the new department would give the American people "a much clearer picture of what the federal government is doing." Soviets cancel 'U' concert By TIMOTHY YAGLE with wire reports A scheduled U.S. tour by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, including an Ann Arbor performance scheduled for Oct. 13, has been canceled, perhaps due to defections of some leading artists and b athletes. . According to University Musical Society (UMS)_ President Gail Rector, tihe one-month tour was canceled for unspecified reasons, but Western diplomats linked the cancellation to recent defections from the Soviet Union of three ballet dancers and two figure skaters. However, Rector said performances of the Moscow Pops and the Glinka Chorus are still scheduled. Rector said UMS is searching for a substitute artist for the open date. If one is found, tickets for the Moscow Symphony will be honored for that per- formance. Refunds will also be available for series ticket holders, Rector said. Goskontsert, the Soviet concert scheduling agency, said the tour could be rescheduled later. BULLETIN WASHINGTON (Reuter) - The White House last night said it did not expect any further discussions with the Soviet Union towards resolving the problem of Russian combat troops in Cuba. "I'm not aware of any plans for further discussions," White House spokesman Jody Powell told reporters. Powell made his comment af- ter a White House meeting in which Secretary of State Cyrus Vance reported to President Car- ter and his top national security advisers on negotiations so far with Soviet Foreign Minister An- drei Gromyko. Powell declined to go into the substance of the meeting, or say when President Carter would deliver his television report to the nation on the Russian troops, By MITCH CANTOR "The attitude is to incapacitate .. to break their resistance, to basically just try to break them mentally," Scott Meyers told the dozen members of his audience last night. Meyers, speaking at a private home in the city, was describing the Control Unit at Marion Federal Prison, one of six maximum security penitentiaries in the country. The special solitary con- finement program, which now includes 54 inmates out of nearly 400 in the prison, originated in 1972 as a special unit to house prisoners "who have had severe difficulty adjusting to life in society and in prison," according to a U.S. Justice Department official. A UNIVERSITY graduate with a degree in history, Meyers is co-director Group wants prison unit closed of the National Committee to Support the Marion Brothers; an organization trying to eliminate the Control Unit, which it claims cruelly punishes its inhabitants. Each inmate in the program lives in a six by eight-foot cell, equipped with a television, according to the Justice Department official, who asked not to be named. The members of the program stay in the cells for 23 hours each day, with an hour break during which they can shower and exercise. The purpose of the committee, Meyers said, is to "rally public support, for the closing of the special program." Along with constant solitary con- finement, Meyers said other aspects of the program are disturbing. The organization leader also criticized "very restricted visiting (no physical contact), which is followed by a total strip search and rectal search" of the inmates. MEYERS ALSO said drug abuse, which is a common problem in many prisons, is "encouraged," through lenient distribution of drugs to those claiming physical diseases. Officials from the penitentiary, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Justice Department refuted several of Meyers', allegations in interviews yesterday. Meyers said Marion's Control Unit has "the highest suicide rate per capita in the federal prison system." He said in an interview yesterday that the See GROUP, Page 9 qP , d ,, . per* d'p d v+y re yee yp r rY n rL " ] absent. He allegedly left Ann Arbor last spring after a run- in with the local police. Various reports concerning his whereabouts began circulating at that time. Some said he had gone to the University of Virginia to set-up another Diag. Others said he was headed for Washington, D.C. to work for Congressman Carl Pursell (R-Plymouth) . Several University students did report seeing the famed doctor on the streets of the Nation's Capitol this summer. One Daily reporter said she last saw him leaning against a garbage can on Pennsylvania Avenue on a hot, muggy A.....tai a Av A--r.intP u rll'- n e ca ertarv PRill Skirting the issu Even though it has long been commonplace for women to wear pants, problems still face the man who wants to wear a skirt. When Mount View High School Senior James Beam became the first man to try out for and make the nr uinilya l ~;il ipl i vC \ ' :: L recognized student groups will be extended until 4 p.m., Fri., Oct. 5. Budget Priorities Coordinator Alan Abrahams said the extension was given because of a decision the. Assembly made Tuesday night that limits allocations to on- ce a month. Abrahams also noted the Assembly earlier this month slashed its allocations budget by nearly half the amont earmarked for the purpose last year. Hewarned that funding will not be as generous as in the past. On the inside To find out what's left of the tradition of Michigamua, that society for campus highflyers, see the editorial i i