TENURE See editorial page Eighty-Nine Years of Editorial Freedom ttti DRAB High-67 Low-40 See Today for details Vol. LXXXIX, No. 136 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, March 22, 1979 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Mayoral candidates take the ight to the streets BY ELISA ISAACSON with encouraging a "shoddy" repair ci, Kenworthy declared, "if you built are being considered by Council, and a The day after Mayor Louis Belcher's job, and said Belcher has done nothing roads properly, you wouldn't have to bond sale proposal to fix several roads election last spring Ann Arborites were to keep local taxes down while fixing have so many laborers fixing just will appear on the April 2 ballot. already half-seriously scrutinizing the the streets potholes." ACCORDING TO city Streets, Traffic streets, in hopes that their neigh- The mayor said he intended the Pat- Belcher has called his road repair and Parking (STP) Director John Rob g (TP)Dre rJnRb-l - --:.... Dor ood pothoies wouid soon be filed. Potholes were a hot issue in the 1978 race between Belcher and incumbent Democrat Albert Wheeler, and Belcher promised to fix streets that year using existing city revenues. So after -taking office, the mayor in- stituted the 1978 "Patching Program," a plan designed to patch or resurface six city streets - Geddes, Georgetown, Green, Liberty, Platt, and State. POTHOLES HAVE been revived as a campaign issue this year by Belcher's opponent, Democrat James Kenwor- thy. Kenworthy has charged the mayor ching Program as a fix-it-quick plan to satisfy voters who were expecting in- stant results from his campaign promises. While many people are looking at the current condition of the streets to determine whether Belcher kept to his pledge, Kenworthy said, "The debate isn't are roads getting slightly better or slightly worse - it's if money is being spent wisely to insure they will be bet- ter in the future." SAYING THE Patching Program did not meet certain "high design standar- ds" previously accepted by City Coun-, city elections '79 plan - launched with the Patching Program - a "real on-going program," but Kenworthy said the only thing "on-going" about the project is that the shoddy quality of the repairs means that the potholes will continually have to be filled. Street repair programs more com- prehensive than the Patching Program bins, citizens have been filing "more compliments than complaints" this year about the condition of local streets. John Dunkley, also of STP, said that although a couple of. the streets repaired under the program can be ex- pected to break up again within a year, other roads, such as Platt, should be drivable for another four years. Some of the potholes in the designated streets were repaired with cold patch, a material that can be used all year round but which often results in See MAYORAL, Page 5 Kenworthv ...'patching program' poor Belcher ... an ongoing effort 'U'chief search may last until July By LEONARD BERNSTEIN A permanent University president will almost certainly not be chosen by the semester's end, but he or she will probably be selected by "mid-summer or earlier," according to University Regent David Laro. "It's my belief that there will be no selection in the month of April," Laro said in a phone interview Tuesday. "I would anticipate that by no later than July a selection would be made. To predict other months (in which a new president could be chosen) would be pure speculation,"he added. The search process progressed this week when the Regents sent reduced lists of presidential nominees to the student, faculty, and alumni advisory committees for their consideration. REGENTS ROBERT Nederlander (D-Birmingham) and Thomas Roach (D-Grosse Pointe) refused to comment on Laro's prediction that the search for a successor to Robben Fleming could' continue into the summer. Nederlander, who is chairman of the Regents committee in the search, See PRESIDENTIAL, Page 12 Knesset votes approval of peace, treaty JERUSALEM (Reuter) - The Israeli Knesset (parliament) last Might overwhelmingly approved the treaty to end 30 years of war between Israel and Egypt. The vote, after 28 hours of debate, was 95 in favor, 18 against and two ab- stentions. Three members walked out before the vote and two others were ab- sent. THE VOTE cleared the way for Prime Minister Menachem Begin to travel to Washington and sign the treaty with Presidents Carter and An- war Sadat of Egypt. In Washington, President Carter praised the Knesset vote. "The Israeli Knesset spoke with a voice heard around the world today - a voice for peace," Carter said in a statement issued by the White House a few minutes after the vote was announced. Begin began the final session of the debate by giving the Knesset a qualified apology for what he described as minor errors in the text of the treaty documents presented Tuesday. THE KNESSET vote came only nine days after peace negotiations were concluded successfully by Carter on a personal mission to the Middle East. The debate was, in the main, a lackluster occasion, with little of the excitement generated in Knesset deliberations on the Camp David sum- mit accords last September. The treaty was opposed by nationalist hard-liners, such as Geula Cohen, whose strident interjections in the Knesset last week disconcerted President Carter. She called the treaty "a retreat from the principles of Zionism." COMMUNIST members attacked the treaty on grounds that it deprived the Palestinians of their national rights. Most members of the Labor Party, the main opposition group, supported the treaty, although they expressed reservations. The party put up an un- successful rival motion urging among other things that self-rule on the West Bank and in Gaza should be a transition phase leading to partial withdrawal from these areas. Begin again stressed that Israel never would permit a Palestinian state, never withdraw to its pre-1967. borders and never give East Jerusalem back to the Arabs. Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, both of whom bore the brunt of the long- drawn-out negotiations folloring the Camp David Summit, stronglyr suppor- ted the treaty. Fair weather fever Daily Photo by ANDY FREEBERG Students on the diag bask in the warmth of the long-awaited sun and'listen to a couple of impromptu musicians hailing the first official day of spring. Winter coats were left in the closet as hoardes of students came out of hibernation to enjoy the seasonable temperatures. THREE PROPOSALS ON BALLOT: MSAini By JULIE ENGEBRECHT Of three proposals to appear on the Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) election ballot, the most controversial is one which would eliminate a provision in the All-Campus Con- stitution prohibiting MSA officers from receiving salaries. The proposal, as approved by the Assembly Tuesday night, also sub- stitutes that provision with an item which would allow the next Assembly to prepare a program of financial subsidy for MSA officers. THE BALLOT will also include proposals asking students to reaffirm ternal unding support for a mandatory $2.92 per term question is being handled, or the entire fee, and to back student participation in funding plan itself. the tenure process. JOSEPH PELAVA, who introduced The question on student participation the plan, cited a need for more accoun- in the tenure process was referred to committee for further discussion, and a specific proposal to appear on the ballot , in the April 2, 3, and 4 election has not SAc o s 79 yet been drawn up. The first ballot proposal would pave the way for as much as $9,000 of the tability to students and improvement of Assembly budget to be set aside for of- morale among Assembly members as ficer salaries. Most members support reasons for internal funding. The job this measure, and some have been descriptions of officers would probably working on a plan for officer subsidies be expanded if the proposal is ap- for several months. But others are proved. either unhappy with the way the ballot Pelava and other Assembly members Tisputed into MSA's work. In truth, this will create a stronger, more responsive Assembly, they claim. ALTHOUGH MSA President Eric Arnson supports the idea of internal funding, he was opposed to substituting a constitutional item to replace the one removing prohibitions on salaries. The substitute specifically said, "MSA shall devote no more than 3.9 per cent of the total MSA assessment to the support of a program of financial subsidy for various members of the Assembly, the details and procedures of which shall be specified in the Compiled Code." Arnson objected to specification of a percentage amount, saying it would limit options the Assembly could take in the future. He feels the ballot question should have been a simple question, asking whether students do or do not approve of compensation for work on the Assembly. See BALLOT, Page 12 Closed meetings hearing postponed until Friday f Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge George Kent yesterday post- poned a hearing concerning the Washtenaw County Coalition Against Apartheid's (WCCAA) challenge of a restraining order issued last week which allowed the University Regents to meet behind closed doors. He has rescheduled the hearings for 10 a.m. tomorrow in the County Building. Thomas O'Brien, the attorney retained by the WCCAA, said he had hoped to begin the proceedings yesterday, but University attorney Peter Davis requested some more time to review the case. Davis was also scheduled to appear in another case yesterday. AFTER NOISY demonstrators for- ced the Regentsto call for three recesses in two days last week, the University obtained an ex-parte restraining order from visiting Judge Harold Van Domelen allowing the Board to meet before only press representatives and invited guests.. The WCCAA alleges the court order violated the State's 1977 Open Meetings Act. The group is challenging the legality of the move while attempting concurrently to see that the University is barred from taking such an action in the future. GSA head Solomon resigns from post also feel that time constraints on of- ficers, and their lack of ability to put time in because they need a job is one of the key motivations behind the proposal. Assembly members contend that with a funding plan, they would have more time to put creative effort .. WASHINGTON (AP) - Jay Solomon resigned yesterday as administrator of the scandal-marked General Services Administration, effective March 31. PresidentrCarter said he accepted it "with regret." Wh.ite House Press Secretary Jody Powell told reporters the selection of a new GSA chief "is very near" and could come later this week. Solomon, who had talked about quit- ting before mid-year, became a focal Thursday " A bill which would outlaw third party searches was in- point of controversy in January when he learned from a reporter that the White House had begun searching for a successor without his knowledge. At the time, Solomon said he wanted to complete a GSA cleanup effort before quitting. A number of Congress mem- bers from both parties urged that he remain on the job. In announcing that Solomon tendered his resignation at an unannounced meeting with Carter yesterday mor- ning, Powell said a decision on the timing of Solomon's departure was "en- tirely his own." THE LETTER of resignation submit- ted to Carter by the former Chat- tanooga real : estate executive was generally unemotional and straight- forward, concluding, "Best wishes for Student charges use of photo unfair' By JOHN GOYER and JOE VARGO Literary College junior Yvonne Mc- Clenney, a member of the Washtenaw County Coalition Against Apartheid (WCCAA), participated in a protest on the Diag last Friday against University investments in South Africa. The next thing she knew, a photograph of her protesting was prin- ted in leaflets distributed all over cam- pus by the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade (RCYB). McClenney said she didn't give permission to the "I don't appreciate the RCYB using my photograph in one of their pam- phlets," McClenney said. "I don't like being used and then labelled." She said more than 30 people, some who she hardly knows, have approached her since the pamphlet was distributed, ex- pressing surprise that she is associated with the RCYB. WHILE MCCLENNEY said she sup- ported the goals of the rally, she doesn't want to be associated with the RCYB. But McClenney said since "the damage has already been done," she won't take any legal action against the RCYB. - Th!. £11..>. O