BOLIVIA See editorial page Ninety Years of Editorial Freedom L aiIg DISMAL See Today for details Vol. LXXXX, No. 53 British Embassy seized in Ira n From AP and Reuter Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's followers, already holding scores of hostages in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seized two U.S. consulates and the British Embassy yesterday in an escalating war of nerves against "the Great Satan, America" and its "evil" British ally.{ In another development, Iran an- nounced its intention of cancelling a 20- year-old defense agreement with Washington, the State Department said yesterday. IN WASHINGTON, the U.S. rejected Iranian demands to extradite the deposed Shah and called for the safe release of 60 Americans held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The 5-hour takeover at the British compound began when more than 100 students stormed the builing and herded diplomats and their wives and children, who live in the embassy com- pound, into one building. Armed revolutionary guards then arrived on the scene and occupied the embassy. "ONE OF THE guards told Reuters they had taken over the building to prevent it from being stormed by unauthorized groups. The U.S. Em- bassy has been occupied for the past two days and 60 hostages still were being held. The British Embassy made a strong protest to the Iranian Forieng Ministry earlier last evening and was told the ministry was trying to solve the problem, British diplomats said. The embassy officials had stated that all those held in the compound, believed to number 28 Britons before the oc- cupatioh ended, were well and in good spirits. YESTERDAY WAS the first anniver- sary of an attack on the embassy building in wich it was burned by anti- Shah demonstrators. See BRITISH, Page 3' Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, November 6, 1979 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Salary disclosure irks facult group By ALISON HIRSCHEL University administrators and state legislators hoped that the passage of a law mandating salary disclosure ten days ago would settle an old controvery. But a faculty committee says that debate on their rights to privacy should continue and charges that the University is "insensitive" to those rights. ALTHOUGH THE state law which would force the University to release salary information was signed by Lt. Gov. James Brickley Oct. 26, many faculty members on campus are eager to challenge the decision. In a closed meeting of the Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty (CESF) last Friday, members passed a motion to explore and test all legal means by which the University could circumvent the new law, according to Jesse Gordon, a professor in the Social Work School and a member of the Senate Advisory Committee on Univesity Affairs (SACUA) who sat in on the CESF meeting. The CESF motion, Gordon told members of SACUA yesterday, also included a request that SACUA seek in- dependent legal counsel and ignore University lawyers. "There's not a lot of confidence placed in the University at- torney's judgment that there is absolutely nothing to be done about the law," Gordon said. "WE FELT THE language of the bill requires discussion. It looks very sloppy to us," said Harvey Brazer, chairman of CESF and a professor in the economics department. "What the devil is meant by disclosure?" Brazer asked. "We don't think the administrators understand it any better than we do," he added. "Our only question is: Where were the University lawyers when this bill passed so easily in the state legislature?" Brazer said. "If they're not doing their job, we have to look for someone else,"he said. In addition to dissatisfaction with the University attor- neys, Gordon reported that many faculty members at the CESF meeting felt the "administration was not being pat- ticularly sensitive to faculty needs." THE ADMINISTRATION'S position is that the law is not worth fighting any more, Interim President Allan Smith said yesterday. Smith, as well as many faculty members and University officials, view salary disclosure as inevitable, he said. According to Gordon, the members of CESF were hesitant to bring this issueto the Regents next week. This is true only because some CESF members want there to be careful coni sideration of the privacy issue before the information is released in any form, said Philip Elving, a chemistry professor and member of CESF present at last week's meeting. See SALARY, Page 6 AP Photo SPEAKING IN WASHINGTON, D.C., Ali Agah, Iranian charge d'affairs, details conditions that must be met before hostages will be released from the U.S. embassy in Tehran. MONEY TO BE RAISED THROUGH BOND ISSUE: Council buys Michigan Theater By JOHN GOYER and PATRICIA HAGEN City Council voted last night to pur- chase the historic Michigan Theater for $525,000. The 50-year-old -theater will continue to be used for shows, but will double as a civic center.. The city plans to raise the money through a bond issue. The citizen's group currently running the theater, the Michigan Community Theater Corp., will lease the building from the city and then raise funds through box office revenues and private donations to pay back the bonds over 15 years and purchase the theater. "I THINK IT, (the purchase/lease plan) gives the citizens in the, com- munity time to get the fund-raising rolling," said Ann Arbor Mayor Louis Belcher. The mayor called the theater a "darn super investment for the city" because it would cost about $3.5 million, he estimated, to build a civic theater of comparable size. In April, the Butterfield Theater Corp. did not renew its lease on the 1,800-seat theater. Efforts by the Michigan Community Theater Corp. to purchase the theater over the summer fell through. BELCHER SAID the fund-raisers are planning to accumulate $3 million to finance and renovate the theater over the next 15 years. Council members Lesliie Morris (D- Second Ward), EdWard Hood (R- Fourth Ward), and David Fisher (R- Fourth Ward) questioned the purchase of the theater. Hood said the purchase could "possibly put the city on a hook" if the citizens were unable to raise the necessary funds. BELCHER CONCEDED that there was no guarantee box office receipts- would be enough to purchase the theater. But he voiced confidence that citizens would donate money for the venture. One reason for the purchase, Belcher said, was that he expected civic groups would not be able to use University auditoriums in the future. After the purchase passed Council last night, the audience of about 60 per- sons broke into applause. Over the ap- plause, Belcher proclaimed, "We now own the theater - the citizens do - now let's fix it up." LATE LAST night, Council voted to table until Nov. 13 a resolution by Four- th Ward Council members Hood and Fisher asking the city's planning department to review zoning for all vacant land in the south area of the city. The resolution included a directive to stop all planning action in the area for 60 days until the zoning review is com- pleted. The intent of Hood and Fisher's resolution is to slow down rapid, high density development in the area. COUNCIL ALSO tabled the resolution two weeks ago. Council also was expected to vote on deferring purchase of a solid waste shredder for the city's landfill. Controversy over the actual operating cost of the landfill operation including operation of the shredder and evidence that a city-wide recycling plan would cut the volume of solid waste in the city has led Republican Council members to consider a deferral. Earlier in the evening, Council gave preliminary approval to the re-zoning of 206 acres on the city's northwest side. Critics charge the 206 acres, to be developed into single- and multiple- family residential units, would add to traffic on the north side of town. Council member Earl Greene (D- Second Ward) objected to the re-zoning, saying that the city should develop a comprehensive zoning plan for the nor- thwest side of town. KCIA chief sou ht 7res dc SEOUL, South Korea (AP)-South Korean intelligence chief Kim Jae-kyu assassinated President Park Chung- hee in an attempted coup because "he had the illusion he was best suited for. president," a final investigative report said yesterday. The chief of the Korean Central In- telligence Agency intended to turn the martial law command into a. "revolutionary committee" after the Oct. 26 killing and lead a military revolution, the report said. It added that investigators found no involvement by the military or foreign powers. The report also said eight persons had been arrested-the KCIA chief and five other KCIA men accused of doing the killing, the presidential chief secretary andtanother KCIA man who allegedly destroyed evidence. The eight are to have an open trial before a mar- tial law military tribunal. NRC: Some urban nukes may be closed WASHINGTON (AP) - The chair- man of the Nuclear Regulatory Com- mission (NRC) acknowledged yester- day that certain nuclear plants near populated areas may have to be shut down because of potential problems in evacuating residents in the event of an emergency. Joseph Hendrie, testifying before a House subcommittee, also announced that an NRC freeze on new nuclear plants - imposed shortly after the March 28 accident at Three Mile Island - is being extended at least until spring. HE SAID the added time is needed so the recommendations of the presiden- tial commission on Three Mile Island can be fully examined by policy makers.. The delay.directly affects four plants that had been scheduled to open by the end of this year, and keeps another 88 plants in various stages of construction in a holding pattern. There are now 70 nuclear plants in operation in the United States. Representatives of the nuclear and electric utility industries condemned the NRC decision to continue its freeze, saying the result would mean higher renergy costs to consumers and more reliance on expensive imported oil. REP. TOBY Moffett (D-Conn.), noted that a number of the plants now in operation are older ones, built before the current policy of constructing them away from populated areas. For people who live near the Indian Point nuclear plant near New York City or the Zion plant near Chicago, "There is no evacuation plan that can help you," Moffett said. "If we are really concerned about safety, why don't we shut down some existing plants?" he asked. "IT'S A possibility, Mr. Moffett," Hendrie replied. However, Hendrie was quick to note that he wasn't advocating shutting down either of the plants mentioned by Moffett, saying "we're going to come to a very hard-rock place soon, but we're not up against it yet." Commissioner John Ahearne said that, short of being closed down, some older plants might be . ordered to operate at vastly reduced generating levels to provide an extra margin of safety. Unable to open this year because of the freeze are: Salem II in New Jersey, North Anna II in Virginia, Diablo Canyon in California and Sequoyah I in Tennessee. Three other plants - Zimmer in Ohio, McGuire in North Carolina and LaSalle in Illinois - are due for com- pletion next spring and also could be af- fected. Poli~cy board has MARY EDWARDS, By CHARLES THOMSON Dean Billy Frye, who1 For the first time in more than two meeting in the absenc years, the LSA Joint Faculty-Student manent chairpersons, Policy Committee met yesterday. the committee didn't m Although much of the meeting was interest. spent determining essentially "There did not seem procedural matters, members of both behalf of either the the student and faculty delegations left . the meeting feeling that the gathering , itself accomplished something.r "IN.TERMS of the history of student participation in the college, I think it was very significant," said LSA Student Government (LSA-SG) President Bob Stechuk, who, along withV LSA-SG Vice-President Kathy Fried- man, brought about the rebirth of the. committee. The Joint Faculty-Student Policy Committee was established in 1969 by the Governing Faculty of LSA, the school's highest authority, to "consider and debate any matter within the jurisdiction of the faculty." The com- Stechi mittee reports to the Governing meetings Faculty take precedence over all other"metnv committee reports except those of the faculty to call a mee Executive Committee. This provision, two years," she according to Stechuk, is one of the fac- speculated that stu tors which led him to urge the commit- been using other foru tee to resume operations. concerns. "Technically," said Stechuk, "the Stechuk, however, d committee offers us some sort of access the failure to meet for to the governing faculty's agenda." case of neglect on th first assistant to LSA presided over the ce of elected per- said the reason neet was a lack of to be interest on students or the meeting in two years ministration." IN ADDITION to the committee's relationship to the Governing Faculty's Agenda, Stechuk felt the committee was important because it will get more students involved in dealing with issues, provide another means of raising issues for students, and provide tail. I think the faculty got a sense that we were very interested in doing this. I think it was very valuable in that respect. That's basically all we hoped for." FRIEDM;AN ALSO said, the commit- tee may serve important functions for students. "Students need a place to voice their opinions. They need access to the governing faculty through the. system. They need a way to work vyith the faculty. They need a place to initiate policy rather than react to the administration all the time," Friedman said. During the meeting, Stechuk suggested several possible areas the committee should study, including af- firmative action programs within the college, declining enrollment, the role of teaching assistants, grade grievance procedures, tenure, and faculty evaluations.'The committee decided to begin studying the teaching assistant situation and the tenure issue at their next meeting. Jack Meiland, a faculty member of the committee, said after the meeting that the committee has a lot of poten- tial. "The issues raised by Stechuk are important and impinge greatly on student life," Meiland said. t k valuable ... need to initiate ting during those said. Edwards dents may have ims to voice their disagreed. He said two years was "a he part of the ad- a means of creating dialogue between students and faculty. Stechuk also said he felt the meeting itself was "very important." "Getting something like this started is always the hardest part. The students on the committee were given a good ex- posure to what the committee will en- clothing. The clerk decided agai~Tst a public streak after the I Y popularity seems even stronger considering that a total of only 23 votes were cast for living vice presidential can- didates. Indeed, in an election which drew less than one per cent of the eligible voters, perhaps anarchy is the only an- swer. QI Holding the line Lowly teaching assistants are used to sharing one University phone along with several others, but professors History is in the second year of a voluntary party line program. Professors were asked to give up private lines so that the department could spend the money thus saved on other things, primarily new duplicating equipment. Most professors readily agreed, but those who felt a special need for a private line were not forced to switch. While professors are often heard complaining about the annoyan- ce of having to answer the phone and take messages for ab- sent colleagues, the consensus opinion was expressed by Prof. Michael Geyer: "I'd rather have a two person per line telenhne rithan have nthM'barthings e ut -thiG hurts l1a~et " nF clothing. The clerk decided 'aga lest a public streak after the robber. On the inside A story on how to pretend you are musically talented on the arts page ... 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