NO RANSOM FOR GOP See Editorial Page 1* fin U RWw ~aitA1 FRIGID T righ-39 Low--24 See Today for details Eighty-Four Years of Editorial Freedomn /ol. LXXXV, No. 60 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, November- 13, 1974 Ten Cents Ten Pages Recession for real A University economist yesterday said the na- tion is in the throes of a deepening economic recession, on top of rising inflation, and urged swift government action to restore public con- fidence. Jay Schmiedeskamp, director of the Sur- vey'Research Center's quarterly consumer studies, told a Dearborn meeting of the American Market- ing Association's local chapter: "The recession in consumer spending may be short if the appropriate government actions are taken ... In particular, an announced policy of substantially lower interest rates is long overdue." It may be more than a coincidence, that the White House yesterday offi- cially used the term "recession" for the first time. Press :Secretary Ron Nessen said new figures will show a slowdown, of productivity and higher un- employment, but did not mention lowered interest rates as a solution. Woody booed And speaking of football, there's at least one person who treated Woody Hayes' most recent tan- ;trum less than humorously. Miles McMillin, editor and publisher of the Madison Capital Times, said maw a column Monday that "Hayes is poisoning Big Ten football just as Nixon poisoned the politics of this nation." McMillin wrote, "I tuned in the Ohio State - Michigan State game Saturday just in time to see Woody Hayes put on another display of the 'sportsmanship' for which he is noted. This time it wasn't a photographer or one of his own players or breaking up the yardmarkers. This I --- time he marked the occasion .of his defeat by slug- ging a young kid who made the mistake of ap- proachin~g his imperial majesty. And if you think that there isn't a revulsion against Hayes as there is against Nixon, you missed all the signs of na- tional exultation over the weekend at the news of Michigan State's historic victory," he added. Dexter uproar A municipal finance scandal has hit the nearby town of Dexter. Harry Peters, the village's clerk for the past 25 years, has resigned with an ad- mission he is "solely responsible" for unaccounted expenditures of Dexter's refuse collection, sewer and water funds. The resignation, which Peters announced in a personally delivered note to Dexter Council members, cam e as the state treasury department was probing apparent irregularities , the town's accounts. Peters said he has accounted for the fund shortages but refused to comment further, saying, "My lawyer's taking care of thist matter iow." State officials would not describe the extent of their investigation or the amounts of city money involved. Pres cearynones adnwfgrswl City Councilwoman Carol Jones (D-Second Ward) yesterday announced she will seek re-election next April. When first elected in 1973, Jones was the youngest council member in the city's history. Now 21, Jones graduated from the University last August with a degree in Urban Studies. "I have enjoyed the opportunity of serving the Second Ward," Jones said. "Unfortunately the Republican majority toas stood in the way of progress " Yesterday we reported that New Yorke film critic Paul Kael is coming to speak here. Well, we didn't mean to suggest that anyone ad a sex change operation. The well-known critic is still Pauline Kael. The mistake was ours. Hahi nin s a m t. feature the opening of Professional Theatre Productions 'The Red Lantern," an adapted Show- case Series version of New China's most widely- acclaimed opera. The shod starts at 8 p.m. in Trueblood Theatre . Th Also at 8 p.m., an intro- ductory lecture on transcendental meditation will be given in the League's Henderson Room . . . Another form of meditation-"Silva Mind Control" -will be explained in Alice Lloyd's Red Carpet Lounge at 3:30 p.m. . . . the Ski Team is holding a mass meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Union's Kuen- zel Room . . . the city's Democrats will meet at 8 p.m. at 1106 S. Forest .- . . the noon luncheon discussion topic at Guild House is "Values in Per- sonal Relationships," with soup and sandwiches for 40 cents . . . The University's Women's Com- mission meets at noon in the Ad. Bldg.'s Regents Room to talk about intercollegiate athletics . . And you can meet the basketball team at 6:30 p.m. in Crisler Arena. The annual "Meet the Wol- verines" night includes autographs and an intra- squad scrimmage. On the inside .. . Beth Nissen writes about passing the moral buck on today's Editorial Page . . . composer Charles Ives, oatmeal cookies and the latest chap- ter in France's "Winegate" drama fill the Arts- Food Page . . . and on the Sports Page, Jeff Liebster interviews swimming coach Gus Stager. On the outside... Winter is in the air. A storm system located STILL NO ACCORD Coal negotiators cite progress Steel, railroad layoffs begin WASHINGTON (P)-Union and industry negotiators pursued an elusive settlement of the day-old miners' strike yesterday as railroad and steel workers faced layoffs and the nation's biggest electrical producer called for emergency cutbacks. Officials of both the United Mine Work- ers (UMW) and the coal operators reported they continued to narrow differences over a new contract, but avoided predictions of when they might come to teems. However, both sides indicated they were intensifying their efforts. DURING A DINNER break, UMW President Arnold Miller said that while the negotiating situation had not improved "all that much," there was now a "feeling of urgency" toward the need for a settlement. With his union now onr strike, he said "every day down is very im- portant." Guy Farmer, the chief industry negotiator, said both sides had finished discussing the issues and were now "at the point where we can start settling issues. It may be getting down to the beginning of the end." Miller has vowed that his 120,000 striking members "will not be bludgeoned" into an un- acceptable contract no matter how great the public oressure for ending the walkout. IN DETROIT, the United Auto Workers' execu- tive board pledged the union's "full support" to the miners even though auto workers face po- tentially more layoffs as a result of the coal strike. The strike is likely to last two to three weeks, assuming a settlement is reached this week and is approved by the rank-and-file miners. The ratification is expected to take about 10 days. Scattered picketing and a report of a minor shooting in Virginia -marked the first day of the strike which has closed mines in 25 states and choked off 70 per cent of the nation's coal supply. Some union mines in the West continued to operate. The Tennessee Valley Authority, with only a 42-day coal supply, urged governors in its seven- state power service area to take emergency action to reduce electrical use "to avoid or post- pone cutoffs which could result from a prolonged coal strike." The strike took its first toll in employment as the Penn Central Railroad laid off 1,500 workers, and the Norfolk & Western up to .350. MOST STEELMAKERS continued operating normally, but U.S. Steel said it is banking nine of its blast furnaces immediately and eight more by Friday, resulting in layoffs of 13,700 em- ployes by week's end. Board Chairman Edgar Speer said the reduction would cut raw steel production by 25 per cent. The federal. government, for the time being, has adopted a hands-off policy to avoid inter- fering in the negotiations. But Labor Secretary Peter Brennan indicated the administration would invoke the Taft-Hartley Act to order the miners back to work if they rejected a tentative settle- ment "and the strike looks like it's going on longer. UNION AND industry negotiators have tenta- tively agreed on a large part of the new three- year contract with the snarl apparently over the final trade-offs between money issues and non- economic' demands. Guy Farmer, the industry's chief bargainer, has said the final package will exceed any in- dustrial settlement negotiated this year, an in- dication that it will top 40 per cent in wages and benefits. With coal demand soaring to meet the nation's energy needs and the companies' profits at record levels, the UMW is demanding perhaps its largest 'contract ever to make up for 20 years of falling behind other unions. U' GEO reach accord, on two contract, points AP Photo RUSSELL KELNER, operations chief of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) sits with a,.38-caliber revolver in front of him during a news conference at JDL headquarters in New York. Kel- ner said Monday night that his organization would not let Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat leave the country alive, threatening, "We are prepared to assassinate Arafat." The FBI reported Kel- ner had been arrested yesterday on charges stemming from the threat. JDL SPOKESMAN ARRESTED: P 00 LO rpresntaive lands By Al and Reuther NEW YORK - Palestinian guerrilla leader Yasir Arafat's top lieutenant arrived in New York yesterday, preceding his chieftain here amidst the tight- est security net in the city's history. The Jewish Defense League (JDL) announced Monday it had already marked Arafat for death, and one of its members was arrested in connection with the threat yesterday. IN A PRESS conference at JDL headquarters here Mon- day night, Russell Kelner, who described himself as the organ- ization's operations officer, said, in 'New "We have trained men who will make sure that Arafat and his lieutenants do not leave New York alive." Asked exactly what he meant, Kelner replied, "We plan to assassinate him." A .38-caliber revolver lay on a table before him. THE FBI later announced that it had arrested Kelner in New York last night on a charge that he "caused an interstate communication containing a threat to injure Yasir Arafat and others." He was ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bail. Farouk Al-Kaddumi, second to Arafat in command of the r York Palestine Liberation Organiza- tion (PLO), arrived at Kennedy airport early yesterday evening. A 20-car motorcade, with eight shotgun-toting police marksmen aboard in bullet-proof vests, battled rush-hour traffic for more than an hour to bring Al- Kaddumi from Kennedy airport to the Waldorf Astoria hotel, where security was also tight. MEANWHILE, Arafat left Cairo in a special plane during the day, en route to the opening of the United Nations Palestine debate today. Arafat's travel plans to New York were not disclosed because See PLO, Page 7 By JEFF DAY University negotiators and the Graduate Employes Organiza- tion (GEO) agreed yesterday to provide teaching fellows with free course-related texts and allow paid time off for jury duty, as the two sides attempt- ed to resolve minor issues be- fore handling the bigger ones. There was only minor dis- cussion of the economic pack- age offered the teaching assist- ants' union last week, most of which was intended to clarify difficult wording, but GEO says it will reply to the University offer at Friday's session. ALTHOUGH DETAILS of the reply are not yet public and in many cases are not even finalized, sources inside the union say that the package will: *Reintroduce a tuition wai- ver demand rejected by the University, but will concede that the waiver apply onlyndur- ing the graduate employe's ap- pointment. The original demand had asked for a one and a half semester waiver for every se- mester taught, allowing a teach- ing fellow who has taught two years to finish his third year free. 4 Reintroduce demands for a cost of living provision that would increase pay as the cost of living rises. This was re- jected by the University as too costly and will be presented in an altered form by GEO, which claims the provision is vital to its members. * Contain *a wage demand somewhat more moderate than the original 25 per cent across the board request but well above the University offer of eight per cent. THE SESSION, which was frequently interrupted as the two sides broke to discuss pro- posals privately, remained gen- erally calm and business-like- until GEO reintroduced a de- mand limiting class size. The issue is likely to be an important one in the negotia- tions. GEO contends that .the demand is both educationally and economically important, and is not likely to back down on' the demand. T h e University maintains that class size should be de- termined by the departmental level - a recurring argument which they are not. likely to abandon. See 'U', Page 7 Vidal: 1sImparting a swb's' w*isdom By CINDY HILL He looked like the stereotyped University professor: his green-striped shirt was somewhat at odds with his patternedy tie; he wore a brown plaid sports coat, and his gray hair was a conciliatory length; just below the ears. The minute he spoke, however, he was. unmistakably author and satirist Gore Vidal-urbane, aristocratic, witty and unexpectedly g e n i a 1 for the man who has been termed "America's most ingratiating snob." THE GENIALITY was needed. 'Thanks to a five dollar. admission charge and a sell-out crowd months in advance,. there was a shortage of blue jeans in yesterday's audience.z InsteaJ, the crowded Mendelssohn Theater was filled with female members of the Waterman Alumni Association, the KalImbach says lie knew contributions went for cover-u WASHINGTON (P) - Ex- President Richard Nixon's for- mer personal attorney Herbert Kalmbach testified yesterday that from the start of a drive to raise money for the Water- gate break-in defendants, he knew secrecy was required to conceal the involvement of Nixon's re-election committee. His voice and hands trembling and his eyes filling with tears, Kalmbach told the Watergate cover-up -trial how he doled out thousands of dollars in cash as paymaster for the defen- dants. AT ONE POINT, Kalmbach broke down crying and U.S. District Judge John Sirica call- ed a brief recess so the witness could regain his composure. Kalmbach, a corporate law- yer before he became Nixon's personal attorney, told how he and a former New York City policeman Anthony Ulasewicz worked together to arrange secret deliveries of cash to the break-in defendants. Kalmbach testified as a prose- - cution witness at the trial of five former Nixon administra- tion and campaign aides. He currently is serving a six-to-18