CRIMINAL CODE
See editorial page
.:1'I .e
Ninety Years of Editorial Freedom
l t UIQ
SLOGGY
See Today for details
1i..1 vvwewivectr
VOL LAAAA, N'O. 56
Ann Arbor. Michiaan--Fridav. November 9 1979
Ten Cents
T ....1.._ n____
., ... ... .... .... ..... ... ...Tan a we ntt
,ages
Iran vetoes
U.S.-PLO
mediation
THOUSANDS OF WOMEN in traditional attire joined an anti-American protest The students are demanding the return of the former Shah of Iran in e
in Tehran Monday, a day after the student take-over of the American Embassy. for the freedom of American staff hostages.
LSA JUNIOR WANTS SECOND WARD SEAT:
Studet to run for Cty ouncil1
From AP and Reuter
WASHINGTON - President Carter's
special envoy, Ramsey Clark, is
holding talks with the Palestine
Liberation Organization in an effort to
win the freedom of 60 American
hostages in Iran, but a Tehran radio
broadcast indicated PLO mediation
would not be accepted.
State Department officials confirmed
yesterday that Clark had been in con-
tact with the PLO, which some U.S. of-
ficials had seen as the best hope of
negotiating with the Iranians holding
the American hostages.
AP Photq "HE HAS BEEN told by us to hold
exchange whatever conversations he believes are
necessary to facilitate the rapid and
safe release of our embassy people,"
State Department spokesman Hodding
4 Carter said.
But Tehran radio, in a broadcase
monitored in Kuwait, said the students
holding the embassy have rejected
talks with the PLO. The broadcast said
the students "apologized to the PLO
delegation. . . for being unable to ac-
educate cept PLO Mediation aimed at freeing
the American hostages." ,
s 85 per Meanwhile, President Carter post-
mulated poned a two-day trip to Canada late
political yesterday so he could remain in
for a Washington to deal with the continuing
August. crisis in Iran.
provide WHITE HOUSE press secretary Jody
Powell told reporters that Carter
wished to remain in close contact with
his foreign policy advisers.
"The president postponed his trip to
Canada to remain at the White House
and continue to closely monitor events
in Iran," Powell said.
Powell said the postponement is "not
based on any new developments" in
Tehran. He said it would be a "serious
mistake" to interpret the postponement
as a signal that the situation has
changed.
THE DEPOSED SHAH of Iran is
willing to leave the United States in
hopes of freeing Americans being held
hostage in Iran, but his doctors say the
move could kill him, a statement issued
for the shah said yesterday.
The statement was released by
Robert Armao, senior. adviser to the
shah. The former monarch is being
treated for cancer at New York
Hospital.
Attempts to interview the shah were
rejected yesterday as they have been in
the past. "The family at this point wan-
ts to remain in seclusion," said Armao
spokeswoman Chris Godek. She said
,there would be no elaboration on the
statement.
EARLIER THIS week, doctors said
he could face another operation to
See PLO, Page 2
BY AMY DIAMOND
LSA junior Stacy Stephanopoulos, fed
up with the "well-meaning inaction" of
Second Ward Democratic Council
member Earl Greene, announced
yesterday she will challenge the in-
cumbent for his Second Ward Council
seat in the citywide primary in
February.
Speaking at a press conference in the
cramped Democratic Party office on
City Hall's first floor, Stephanopoulos
said her candidacy "was basically
provoked by the high amount of apathy
evident in Second Ward voters."
GREENE, A four-year veteran of
Council, did not face primary op-
position when he ran for the seat in 1975.
Greene has said he intends to run in tihe
February primary but that he still must
develop a platform and set up an of-
ficial campaign committee before
making a formal announcement.
Stephanopoulos worked for Democrat
Jamie Kenworthy in his unsuccessful
campaign for mayor last April and.
Greene's bid. for a Second
Congressional District seat-in Novem-
ber of 1978, which he lost.
Stephanopoulos said she did not think
Greene was a "viable force" in the
community.
"I WORKED ON Kenworthy's cam-
paign in April and I saw the apathy,"
she explained. "You have to give the
voters something to respond to and get
students interested in politics again."
Stephanopoulos pinned apathy on the
Democratic party's failure to
voters.
The Second Ward, which i
cent students, sti
Stephanopoulos to found a
organization, Students
Progressive Government, last
The group's purpose is to
... fed up with apathy
Group to revamp Mich. Theatre
By CAROL KOLETSKY
Over the past year there were many who fought to keep
the doors of the 51-year-old Michigan Theatre open and many
who struggled to preserve the beauty of its traditional ar-
chitecture. The historic theater received a new lease on life
Monday night when the Ann Arbor City Council agreed to a
'plan to finance the theater's purchase.
The Michigan Community Theater Corporation, which
now is leasing the theater from the city, plans to revamp the
theater to make it appear and operate as it once did. "Our
goal is to put it back the way it was," said Henry Aldridge,
corporation board director. "Every year we can have a big
benefit. One year we'll recarpet it, the next we'll paint the
lobby in its original colors.".
RENOVATION, to be completed over several years, is
estimated at over $3 million. Mayor Louis Belcher is certain
that there will be enough funds for the theater to function, but
he is less optinistic that box office recipts will cover all the
plans for renovation.
The non-profit corporation plans to use the theater on
Liberty St. for "revival cinema" as opposed to first-run
shows. "We want to use it for what it was built for," said
theater staff member John Briggs. "We want to revive things
like the good old musicals of previous eras for the purpose of
fundraising, and especially because the theater was here
when those films were made," he added.
THROUGHOUT, ITS half !century of existence, the
theater's function and physical design has been subject to
continual change. It was built in 1928 by architect Angelos
Poulas as a "presentation house." Ad elaborate vaudeville
palace, it boasts ornate decor, a complete stage, dressing
rooms, a green room, projection facilities, and a pipe organ.
See GROUP, Page 9
voters with a student candidate for the
Council seat.
Stephanopoulos and the other
Democratic Party workers who joined
the group have recently been involved
in a voter registration drive. Group
members have been registering voters
at all University dorms and in the Fish-
bowl.
STUDENTS FOR a Progressive
Government are conducting a non-
scientific survey of voter attitudes to
find out what issues interest students.
This has provided Stacy with an in-
dication of major-fssues on which to
base her platform.
"The issues most often addressed are
housing, parking, transportation, and
better police protection in the campus
area," the candidate said. For exam-
ple, she explained, "We find in the area
of housing the fact that student.
households are included in the numbers
when the city determines how many
households are in need of federal
assistance, yet no federal assistance
programs are available for these
student households." The candidate
added that she will distribute weekly
position papers dealing with the issues.
Stephanopoulos is running for one of
See STUDENT, Page 12
Ar Photo
CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR Jerry Brown gestures to a reporter after
announcing he intends to seek the Democratic party nomination for the
presidency in July. Brown made his announcement yesterday at the
National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Brown s in the race,
vows to wake nation,
Experts debate plan
to build new prisons
By MITCH STUART pro
~ Governor William Milliken's recent posy
support of a $404 million state plan to not
build more prisons sparked a public ont
forum on whether there is a need for Dep
more prisons yesterday in Ann Arbor, Coi
"Alternatives have to be the an- E
swer," instead of building more to 1
prisons, said Judith Magid, an attorney mu
for Neighborhood Legal Services. State "as
ARRIS Corrections Ombudsman Leonard tern
is- Esquina also spoke in opposition to the (re
nel governor's proposal. H
nds CHARLES ANDERSON, warden of per
Jackson Prison, supported the
oposal, however, saying that to op-
se it "would indeed be inhumane and
constitutional." Joining Anderson
the affirmative was William Kime,
puty Director of the Department of
rrections.
squina favors several alternatives
building new prisons. He said com-
nity centers and halfway houses are
good as or better than prisons" in
ms of the rate of crime recurrence
cidivism).
le advocates a release of "about 50
cent" of current prisoners to half-
See EXPERTS, Page 12
From AP and Reuter
WASHINGTON-California Gov.
Edmund Brown Jr. formally began hs
quest for the Democratic presidential
nomination yesterday, declaring him-
self he only political leader capable of
awk ening the United States-"the
sleeping giant"-from its malaise.
"The sense is pervasive that
something is wrong, that our nation is
divided when it should be decisive and
acting with clear purpose," Brown said
in his announcement of candidacy.
"I SEE THE problem not so much as
the deficiency of one personality, but
rather the collective failure to grasp the
new age into which we are entering,"
he said.
Senator Edward Kennedy is the first
Democrat this century to challenge an
incumbent Democratic President, and
yesterday California Gov. Jerry Brown
became the second.
The 41-year-old governor was a late
entry into the 1976 presidential race,
winning five of six primaries in which
his name was on the ballot. This time he
is early but Kennedy's presence is sure
to cut into his youthful and liberal sup-
port.
ANNOUNCING HIS candidacy for
the Democratic nomination, Brown
said neither President Carter nor Ken-
nedy has the talent to stir the country
from a national malaise.
"I think the people are ready if the
right leadership wakes them up," he
said.
"I see neither the president nor the
senator from Massachusetts as
adequate spokesmen for the future,"
Brown said in his announcement
ceremonies in the grand ballroom of the
National Press Club.
AFTER HIS appearance in
Washington, Brown took his campaign
to Boston for a rally with 1,500 suppor-
ters in Quincy Market, just 100 yards
from Faneuil Hall where Kennedy had
announced his candidacy 24 hours
earlier.
At that rally, Brown won his greatest
applause for restating his opposition to
See BROWN, Page 2
Daily Photo by DAVID H
WILLIAM KIME, deputy director of the Department of Corrections, d
cusses alternatives to building more prisons in Michigan while other pan
members look on. The meeting was sponsored by the American Frien
Service Committee and three other groups..
.. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .
concocted by publicity people from UAC Musket who were,
advertising an original musical drama, "In the Dark." The
musical comedy was written by three University students
and is the first original show UAC has donein 20 years.
/I
P
Colorful dragons
from its elaborate illustrations, the album features a cen-
terfold board game and a full length story that takes the
reader through such mystical places as the Lake of
Unknown Depths and the Kingdom of Good. The game
begins under the auspices of a Dungeon Master who helps
players create an exotic setting, choose characters and
roles. After the strengths and weaknesses of each character
are determined by a toss of the dice, the players start a
perilous journey replete with menacing half-humans,
beasts, demons and spirits. Players win points for their
heroics and promotion to higher levels of knowledge and
power. Cl
mercialism of our celebrations and lifestyles. Entries will
be required to describe in 200-300 words, a gift actually
received by the contestant. Each entry should explain why
the gift reflected either excessive commercialism, or a
more meaningful and responsible Christmas. Photos of the
gift are optional and names of entries submitting Worst of
Christmas gifts will be kept confidential. Deadline for en-
tries is December 18th and should be'sent to: Best and Wor-
st Christmas Contest, Alternatives, 4274 Oakland Dr.,
Jackson, Ms 39206. n,
Oan the inside
A review of the Chick Corea-Gary Burton duet perfor-
,.
Dungeons and
Dragons, the game of
mystery and suspense ,
that made James Dallas
Egbert III a household
name, has recently ap-
'6
I n, . t ..A rw I
,I
i