Wednesday, November 20, 1974 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Dems ask wage, price controls AP P Chrysler workers picket Pickets demonstrate outside Chrysler's World Headquarters in Detroit earlier this week while Mayor Coleman Young meeting with Chrysler officials and union leaders. Young's ef forts were successful as Chrysler decided yesterday to ke Jefferson assembly plant in operation: An estimated group of about 100 picketed the area. HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (NP) - The nation's Democratic governors urged Congress on yesterday to enact a broad eco- nomic program - including wage, price and profit controls - unless the rate of inflation subsides substantially by mid- 1975. They watered down a resolu- tion calling for "immediate ac- tion" on controls because of opposition from most members of a panel of experts. ONLY 14 of the 32 Democratic governors and governors-elect who gathered at Hilton Head for the three-day Democratic Governors' Conference remain- ed for yesterday's final unani- mous voice vote on the econom- ic resolution. The group voted 8-6 against eliminating any reference to controls and then agreed 7-6 to take out the plea for action now. Chairman Wendell Anderson of Minnesota said the resolu- tion had strong support from the governors who left before the vote. THE RESOLUTION declares that "strong, immediate steps are required" by Congress to deal with the economy and the energy situation and urges tax reform, limits on oil imports and authority for gas rationing. It also called for the dismissal of Agriculture Secretary Earl hoto Butz. The action was overshadowed, g was in terms of importance and ep its long-range impact, by continu- ing controversy over Monday's move by the governors to com- promise on a key provision in a proposed party charter and thus avert dispute at next month's Kansas City mini-con- vention. S Three representatives of the AFL-CIO told a group of gover- nors at a breakfast meeting they had reservations about the smolition proposal on grounds it could eck the still permit "implicit quotas" to auster- assure participation of women, curbing blacks and minorities in party France's activities. ayments THE GOVERNORS insisted fable." they also opposed quotas and Iof the said they would work to avoid a . union repetition of 1972, when vir- charg- tual quotas for those groups nt was were acquired in credentials negotia- battles at the party's presi- dential nominating convention. T. Chief Gov. John Gilligan of Ohio, ally led architect of the compromise Parade, which would put into the par- faction" ty's permanent charter the ice and rules he helped to draft for ght con- 1976, said he believed the com- nd there promise will be accepted at s. Kansas City. current Other areas of controversy is cer- remain in connection with the he next first effort to put its proce- postage dures into a written charter, a mini- chiefly whether it will include of 1,700 the representational require- eir fail- ments already adopted for 1976 :through and opposed by labor. Inclusion nion ac- of such provisions in the char- ter mean mainly they will be harder to change after 1976. YESTERDAY'S BUSINESS session included a one-hour analysis of the election; a two- and-one-half-hour discussion of the economy; and approximate- ly 10 minutes of debate on the economic resolution drafted by Govs. Phillip Noel of Rhode Island, Cecil Andrus of Idaho and Patrick Lucey of Wiscon- sin. Gov.-Elect George Busbee of Georgia moved to delete the reference to economic controls, echoing the views of the econ- omists present that "it's not in best interests of the economy and the people" at a time of re- cession and rising unemploy- ment. "It's just a home, mother and God resolution without that in it," complained Gov. Calvin Rampton of Utah. BUSBEE'S MOVE was sup- ported by Govs. Brendan Byrne of New Jersey, Daniel Walker of Illinois, Sherman Tribbitt of Delaware and Wil- liam Waller of Mississippi, and Gov.-elect David Pryor of Ar- kansas. The move to delete the call for immediate action, was pre- sented by Gov. James Exon of Nebraska. Earlier, in response to a question from Byrne, five of the six members of the econom- ic panel said they would oppose wage-price controls. "THEY WOULD do far more damage to the economy than the average citizen perceives," declared Leif Olsen, senior vice Black Magic woman stirs fears of Mass. people UNIONS CHALLENGE GOVT. General strike hits Fran SALEM, Mass. (P) - The "White Witch of Salem" is stir- ring old-time fears of black magic on the North Shore of Massachusetts. But unlike her 17th century sisters who were tried and hanged, Laurie Cabot, 41, is in- voking her First Amendment right to free speech and quot- ing the words of John Kennedy. A SELF - PROCLAIMED witch who teaches a course on her craft as a practical science at Salem State College, she is scheduled to address an adult education class in nearby Georgetown next week. Her coming appearance in Georgetown has met with resist- ance from some of the towns- people. "Witchcraft violates our be- liefs and is against the faith, and it is not anything that anyone should be playing around with," said Rev. Donald Bent- ley, interim pastor of George- town's First Baptist church. MEMBERS OF the church signed a petition reading, "We the undersigned are completely opposed to the public appear- ance of Laurie Cabot, the White Witch of Salem . . . and to the public appearance or practice president of New York's First National City Bank. "It's the surest road to a lower standard of living." Texas Agriculture Commis- sioner John White said the way controls had been administer- ed by Republican administra- tions in the past three years, new controls only would make it the problem worse. Only Stanley Rutenberg, whose consultant firm works for the AFL-CIO, favored con- trols, saying he dislikes them but sees no other way to cut prices. RUTENBERG WARNED that, because of the policies of the Nixon and Ford administra- tions, the nation is in for "the worse recession since 1929." of any witch in the town of Georgetown." "You'd think we were back in the 1600's," says Cabot. "If I'm denied my freedom of speech, I'll take this thing to court." Cabot - she says she's not related to the noted Boston Cabots - lives in Salem, where 20 people were killed for witch- craft in 1692. She insists that witchcraft - then and now - is a science, not a religion. SHE SAYS she is investigat- ing the scientific phenomena of biofeedback, mind energy, ex- trasensory perception and clair- voyancy - not black magic. "It seems like we're reliving sort of the witch trial thing. It's the same kind of psychic hysteria," Cabot said in an interview. "Psychologically it must be a basic fear of self, because de- mons and spirits exist in your own brain. "JACK KENNEDY said it bet- ter than I did. He said, "Surely God's work must be our own." she said. Comparing herself with Joan of Arc, the White Witch of Sa- lem said she intended to con- tinue her activities and to make her talk in Georgetown next week. "It's not a religious matter. It's a matter of civil rights," she said. JOIN THE DAILY STAFF TONIGHT Winnie The Pooh in the Musical 1100 AKER WOOD" 7:30, SCHORLING AUD. SCHOOL OF ED. $1.00 children-$1.50 adults PARIS (Reuter) - France was hit by a nationwide strike yesterday but the massive un- ion challenge to President Val- ery Giscard Destaing's auster- ity program merely slowed down the country rather than bringing it to a halt for the day. Some 200,000 demonstrators marched through Paris in an orderly protest highlighting the surge of union discontent with current government economic policy. BUT GOVERNMENT spokes- man Andre Rossi maintained that the nationwide stoppage, affecting all corners of French life, was only lightly followed in the public sector and even more feebly backed in the pri- vate sector. The strikes, hitting public transport and power supplies particularly hard, marked pre- cisely the end of President De- staing's first six months in of- fice. He devised the austerity program that has plunged France into an economic slow- down. Placards depicting a worker kicking Destaing in the head dominated the tumultuous, ban- Opposition to dope penalti~es mount WASHINGTON (AR)' - Elimination of prison sentences for marijuana smokers was urged yesterday by the present and former White House chief spokespersons on drug abuse. Dr. Robert DuPont, director of the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention, said he opposes jail penalties but would not remove all penalties. HIS PREDECESSOR, Dr. Jerome Jaffe, went a step further. Jaffe said Congress should consider limiting the penalties for simple possession of marijuana to a fine or eliminating the penal- ties altogether. The two men, both appointees of former President Richard Nixon, were leadoff witnesses at a two-day hearing before the Senate subcommittee on alcoholism and narcotics. Jaffe said that removal of all penalties would likely be a sig- nal that "marijuana is o.k." and result in an even higher increase of use than if only fines were retained. "IN THE SHORT RUN, a shift from criminal penalties to civil penalties or to no penalties at all for personal possession will not be free of social cost," said Jaffe, who resigned his gov- ernment post last year to take a position at Columbia University. DuPont did not go as far in recommending lesser penalties for marijuana smoking. He said he was concerned about the findings in a new government report which suggested possibly serious health consequences from smoking marijuana. DuPont said current penalties for marijuana smokers would be justified by medical knowledge of its harmful effects. "CURRENT MEDICAL evidence, while it does not affort a decisive basis for public policy, nevertheless points to several harmful medical consequences which would justify a policy of continued discouragement of marijuana use," he said. He noted about 420,000 persons were arrested for marijuana violations last year, up 30 per cent from the previous year. "They are arrested for possession, and, if convicted, may bear forever the stigma of an arrest record which can effect their employment opportunities and their entire future," DuPont said. "On the other hand the illegality is clearly a deterrent to large numbers of potential users." DUPONT SAID he is concerned about whether marijuana use would increase as penalties are lightened, but he said that is primarily the concern of state and local governments. Elaborating on his public admission Monday that he had tried marijuana, DuPont said he had used the drug between 1960 and 1965 "as a matter of curiosity to learn what people were talking about. "It was not a particularly pleasant experience for me per- sonally," DuPont said. "I HAVE NO intention of using it again," he told the sub- committee. Rckhom Student Government PRESENTS TeNew Grad Happy Hour O e ner - carrying parade that start- ed at the Bastille Square, start- ing point of the French Revolu- tion nearly 200 years ago, and finished more than two miles away. FIRST EFFECTS of the gen- eral strike were felt at dawn when power supplies were cut, leaving non-strikers to dress and eat breakfast in the dark before struggling to get to work, as best they could. Most shops, cafes and banks remained open, serving custo- mers by candlelight before a brilliant fall sun broke through to lighten the gloom. Hospital services were reduced. Some schools were closed. The chief outward signs of profound social unrest were the mountains of garbage that con- tinue to foul the streets of Paris after a week-long gar- bagemen's strike and the total paralysis of the mail system caused by a month-long post- age workers' stoppage. A UNION OFFICIAL, claim- ing to give "very exact fig- ures" on the nationwide strikes, said that only 800,000 out of 17 million wage earners stopped work yesterday in line with the strike call issued by France's two main union groupings, the Communist-led C.G.T. and the left-wing C.F.D.T. Industry was far less affected than public services, but there were stoppages of up to three hours in the car manufacturing, steel and metallurgical indus- tries. The government clearly re- garded the moderate response to the union strike call as a sign both of strike weariness on the part of the population and of sympathy for the Destaing administration's refusal to grant union wage demands. SO THE general strike ap- peared to have deepened the rift between a government bent on maintaining its austerity pro- gramaand powerful unions com- mitteed to boosting workers pur- chasing power and protecting employment. In a national television broad- cast, Prime Minister Jacques Chirac denounced union leaders yesterday as "a de team" seeking to wre economy. He said the ity program geared to inflation and closing F oil-caused balance of pv deficit was "not negoti Georges Seguy, head Communist-led C. G. T movement, reacted by ing that the governme "slamming the door on tions." SEGUY and C. F. D. Edmond Maire person the massive Paris chanting "we want satis and other slogans. Pol union stewards kept ti1 trol of the procession ar were no major incident At the heart of the social upheaval, which tain to continue over t few days at least, is the workers' demand for, mum monthly wage c Francs (357 dollars). Th ure to win a pay break has motivated wider ur tion. GET INVOLVED! STAY INVOLVED! I eoJnrnoti4'# of set llIM*' the ikallcne of. 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