PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH See Editorial Page E - Eighty-Nine Years of Editorial Freedom flttiQ HALLELUJAH! High -- 404 Low-130 See Today for Details Vol. LXXXIX, No. 118 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, February 20, 1979 Ten Cents Ten Pages Kenworthy to face Belcher for mayor; Senunas staves off Curry in the 3rd Successfu Ony2,6 oe By ELISA ISAACSON Kenworthywho served b u .from 197478, defeated J After a primary election that tgomery hands down, garn d e b u t . bv-could best be described as dull cent of the votes. The D - only 2,766 voters turned out mayoral candidate sa and the results startled no one statement he will discus fo u nhJaerKnor stituentsyontthe next few w - James Kenworthy won the town development, financ Democratic nomination for struction and street re ByAM ALZMNLouis Belcher in the April 2 and council. By AMY SALTZMAN just "Are these decision b By 12:15 p.m. eight conscientious joust. fairly, openly and intelligen citizens had passed through the polling In his prepared victory statement, broad, disinterested partici place in the Michigan Union. At 1:30 O Kenworthy announced, "It is time to public?" Kenworthy deman p.m. a grand total of ten people had talk substance to the citizens of Ann KENWORTHY SAID he exercised their right to vote at the West Arbor." on 1,000 doors across the cit Quad polling place. With so little ac- Oil IIN THIS NIGHT of victory for the to have knocked on 10,000 tivity in yesterday's primary, election veterans, Republican councilman Louis The candidate said the maj workers could at least be thankful of Senunas defeated primary challenger concern among those voters one thing - the Ann Arbor debut of 4Gerald Curry in the Third Ward, and he has spoken are snow r punch card v'ting went off withoutfa will try for reelection to a second two- roads. hitch. Year term. Kenworthy said he felt m Only 2,766 people turned out to vote in Former three-term Democratic citizens were "skeptical" yesterday's primary despite relatively councilman LeRoy Cappaert officially methods of reform, and ad warm weather ad clear skies. became the Democrats' Fourth War many seemed uninformed "THINGS WENT surprisingly well council nominee, after "beating" his politicsthey askedshrewd for the first time," said city clerk Al ; ' g ra r.\.y primary challenger Mel Grieshaber, Senunas, who spent a , Vollbrecht. "This election provided us e", who withdrew from contention too late working at the Dearborn with a good opportunity to walk through F it th for his name to be erased from the the process - come April we will be a y p ballot.' See KENWORTHYP lot better equipped." Vollbrecht said there were some procedural problems, such as some poll''t put unused ballots. Consequently, some Dml Phtaby LISA UDESON unused ballots ended up in the transfer A JUBILANT James Kenworthy reflects the election results in his grin: He triumphed over primary challenger Jaohn ]11 See PUNCH, Page 10 Montgomery and is now set to oppose Mayor Louis Belcher for his seat in the general city election on Ari 2. l n1 7 f V A4 n! n L A / &-b V1' I on Council John Mon- ering 85 per Democratic id in his s with con- weeks down- ing of con- pairs, thie the citizeis eing made tly after the pation of the ded. has knocked y and hopes by April 2. or issues of with whom emoval and many of the about his dded though about local questions. typical day Ford plant age 10 moommommmonop w I HANOI CLAIMS HEAVY LOSSES FOR CHINESE: China halts invasion of Vietnam BANGKOK (Reuter)-Vietnam said last night its forces had inflicted more heavy losses on Chinese troops who at- tacked its northern provinces and diplomatic reports from Peking and elsewhere suggested that the Chinese were pulling back to their frontier. The Japanese Foreign Ministry said the Chinese had suspended their ad- vance into Vietnam after penetrating about six miles into the country since their Saturday attack. IN PEKING, China's senior vice- premier Teng Hsiao-ping was quoted as saying that Peking's action against Vietnam was a limited one and purely a reaction to provocation on Hanoi's part. Diplomatic sources there said they' believed a Chinese pullback was under way. There was no official confir- mation. Vietnam's official Radio Hanoi, reporting continued fighting, said Viet- namese forces had wiped out 3,500 Chinese troops and 80 tanks in the first two days of the fighting. THE RADIO, monitored in Bangkok, said fighting went on in five border provinces and that one provincial capital had been heavily shelled. But 12 Chinese battalions had been badly mauled, the broadcast added. It did not give any account of Viet- namese losses. Sunday night, Hanoi radio implicity ruled out a negotiated settlement. of the conflict while Chinese forces remained' on Vietnamese soil. Moscow radio reported from Hanoi that the Chinese were "continuing their aggressive frontier war against Viet- nam," which has an alliance with the Soviet Union. MEANWHILE, SOVIET mass media yesterday stepped up their progaganda attacks on China, warning the West to rethink its budding romance with Peking. Writing in the government daily Iz- vestia, commentator Alexander Bovin said the Chinese assault showed the naivety of the argument that closer relations between China and the West would moderate Peking's policies. He noted that the Americans were now saying they tried to dissuade China from launching its assault, and com- mented: "Well, they no doubt did try. See CHINESE, Page 2 pt tutiut By KEITH B. RICHBURG A Daily News Analysis The April election showdown between Republican Mayor Louis Belcher and Democratic nominee James Kenworthy is expected to be a clash of the city's two conflicting ideologies which touch both ends of the political spectrum. Kenworthy, representing the traditional Democratic view, and Belcher, the prototype of the con- servative Republican businessman, will present voters with two distinct philosophies for the future of growth and development in the city-and whether the city's orientation will be towards business or social services. AND THE APRIL 2 election will also determine whether Ann Arbor is essentially a conservative town of middle-income homeowners that happens to contain students, or whether this city is still the liberal stronghold of the late 1960s and early 1970s-the city that spawned a suc- cessful radical third party and in-. troduced the $5 pot fine. Since Mayor Robert Stephenson's1 victory in 1973, and the demise that1 year of the Human Rights Party (HRP), Ann Arbor has flip-flopped between being a Democratic and aY Republican city, following both the liberal social welfare policies of Mayor Al Wheeler and the business- first politics of Belcher, who was then the Republican majority leader on City Council.. Last year, 'Belcher beat Wheeler for the mayorship and the "Republican party captured seven of the eleven council votes. Republicans heralded that GOP' sweep as the consolidation of conservative rule in the city, while Democrats insisted that Ann Arbor is still essentially the liberal city of the 1960s, and that their April 1978 city election '79 election disaster was merely a tem- porary setback. LIBERALS POINT to the Novem- ber election of liberal Democrat Ed Pierce to the State Senate as eviden- ce of liberal vitality in the city. And State Representative Perry Bullard, one of the most left-of-center mem- bers of the State House, continues to., pile up overwhelming majorities in this district. But the April duel between Belcher and Kenworthy will be the true test of whether Ann Arbor is still the liberal-leftist bastion of the old HRP days, or whether liberalism really is dead here. In an interview last week, Belcher himself predicted that his bout with See ISSUES, Page 7 Senate passes salary p By HOWARD WITT Disclosure of faculty and adminis- trative salaries may have moved one step closer to reality when the Senate Assembly yesterday voted to create a proposal for an annual publication of salaries. The Assembly voted 29 to 11 to direct the Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty (CESF) to create by next fall an outline for possible salary disclosure. The approved resolution specifies that the disclosure proposal should not permit the identification of individuals, thereby eliminating some members' fears that disclosure would result in loss of privacy. "THE PROPOSAL gets under way the principle that we should have an annual publication that reveals more than we are presently revealing," said Senate Assembly Chairman Shaw Livermore. The extent to which salaries may be disclosed is left to CESF in the resolution. CESF could recommend that only departmental means and averages be published, or it could roposal outline a full disclosure of individual salaries, excluding names. It is not specified whether ad- ministrative as well as faculty salaries are to be revealed, although the resolution does state that "the proposal should include staff categories beyond members of the University Senate." THE ASSEMBLY also heard from J. Robert Cairns, Dean of Engineering at the University's Dearborn campus, who asked for Assembly support of the petition drive for re-evaluation of Public Act 105. The act, which was passed last year, grants $500 to any Michigan student enrolled in a private college in the state, regardless of finan- cial need. Cairns said he believes that Public Act 105 is "a lousy law. It's a shotgun approach to save a few private colleges." "The basic idea of the law is to save some private colleges in the state, ac- cording to its proponents. But it doesn't seem right that we should use tax- payers' money to support some religious colleges which require that See SENATE, Page 2 U.S. consulate in Iran set on fire; 'bandits' warned From AP and Reuter TEfIRAN, Iran - Unidentified "counter-revolutionary elements" set fire to the U.S. consulate yesterday in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz, the city's state-run radio reported. The one American assigned there had returned to Tehran on Sunday, U.S. of- ficials said. Amid other reports of disorder, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini warned he would crux yv "bandits" causing trouble and heir activities as an uprising agai..Jt his new Islamic republic. TABRIZ RADIO, now in the hands xif the ayatollah's supporters, appealed to local citizens to put out the fire at the consulate. U.S. officials were unable to confirm the report of the fire. They said about'12 Americans remain in the city. MEANWHILE, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said yesterday that- Iranian guerrillas would fight alongside, Palestinian forces against Israel. Arafat, head of the Palestinian. See U.S., Page2 SURPRISE SNOWSTORM Heavy accumulati( By the Associated Press A surprise snowstorm born in one of the bitterest winters on record dumped snow knee deep in Imany areas from Virginia to Connecticut yesterday, muffling the celebration ins bury Northeast there, bore down on the big cities of the East, blocking roads, grounding airplanes, and halting trains. Looting broke out in Baltimore where 20 inches of new snow on ton of sveal inhe aradh, nn thn dhn , Tuesday " An un-candidate is preparing to run for mayor in April. Louise J. Fairperson, a fictitious product of the Coaliton for Better r Housing, is running to attract at- tention to Ann Arbor's housing crisis. See story, Page 10. " A Soviet writer, Igor Yefinov, spoke last night in Rackham. 1. 1 v! .,:<;t,'ir,,..;s doy:,5 ;:1 f ; r r .>. ;fm .r , i ' $ ' /rG* . T'scl'rsrrr i,3% . , s='s r% . l %c:f ? i lr, f r$ r:' > ., ... ,,.,,1 r. ,r,,.., r. T