.. Page Two I - I 1 11 1,: k . mm-mmpmm THE micHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, December 4, 15721 Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, December 4, 19741 I Mills enters hospital, may, resign over stripper incident Miki named head of Japanese govt. TOKYO (Reuter) - Veteran TANKA had been elected to (Continued from Page 1) one-man show. Monday Democrats took away from Mills' committee, and from him, the important House function of deciding committee assignments f o r Democrats. Mills long has curried favors from other Democrats in this role which has added signifi- cantly to his powers. The largest newspaper in Mills home state, the Arkansas Gazette, yesterday asked Mills in an editorial to either end his public indiscretions with the stripper or resign from office. "If Mr. Mills cannot forgo his1 public indiscretions, and if he prefers the life of show busi- ness to the life on Capitol Hill, then let him select the formerj and resign his seat in Congressj to devote full time to his new line of work," the newspaper' said. One member of the Ways and Means Committee said .here was no way Mills could retain chairmanship of the committee. "You know that he will not come back here if he is not chairman," he said. Mills said Monday that he was feeling very weak, and needed time to regain his strength. He underwent a back operati m last year, and his physical and per- sonal problems have mounted since then. On October 7, his relationship with the stripper, whose off- stage name is Annabelle Bat- tistella, hit the nation's head- lines during an early morning incident in which she leaped from Mills' car, which had been stopped by police, and plunged into the Tidal Basin, a Potamac River backwater. Police had to rescue her and take Mills home after he emerged from the car, his nose bloodied, spectacles shattered, and apparently intoxicated. Mills was scheduled to floor manage a major bill yesterday that would have exempted from taxation interest of up to $500 per person for deposits in banks and other financial institutions. One aide said Mills threw up his hands shortly before the bill was scheduled to be taken up and said he just could not han- dle it. The bill was then taken off the calendar. Mills, until the Tidal Basin incident, had a reputation of never attending social events in Washington, or of taking part in the so-called Washington cocktail circuit. Japanese politician Takeo MikiI was approved today as the new4 President of the ruling Liberal-! Democratic Party (LDP), a po- sition that automatically makes him Prime Minister.i Miki, 67, will formally take up the top government post at the start of a special 17-dayl session of the Diet (parilament) next Monday. HE REPLACES outgoing] Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaya, who announced his resignation on November 26 to take moral! responsibility for the political chaos arising out of questions about his private and public fi- nancial affairs. Miki's confirmation as party president in place of Tanaka came at a meeting today of! LDP members of both houses of the Diet. Under party rules, Miki could retain the government leader-: ship for three years, but an; LDP spokesman has said party presidential elections would be held as originally scheduled, next July. the presidency and premiership at LDP elections in July, 1972. Miki told the meeting of party Diet members he would ser- io'asly tackle the difficult prob- lems of inflation and recession and work for social justice, al- though this might take time to achieve. He also said it was natural that Japan should co-operate in- ternationally in cutting oil con- sumption in the immediate fu- t're and in conversing energy resources for the benefit of all mankind in the years to come. In seeking the co-operation of all party members, Miki said he believed a drastic overhaul of the LDP was necessary to restore public confidence in it. A political idealist who has served continuously in the Diet since he became the youngest member ever to join it at the age of 30 in 1937, Miki said he had his own proposals for over- all revisions of the LDP presi- dential election system, the na- tional election system and ways of raising and using political funds. Company sells term papers (Continued from Page 1) either the local postal inspector or the national office. UNIVERSITY General Coun- sel Roderick Daane said that he plans no action on the matter! until he examines the evidence more thoroughly. But, he added "the University has had quite a lot of concern" over the term paper firms in the past and that "I presume the concern will continue." In 1971, term paper fraud was EUROPE! For information and advice TRAVEL FAIR Union Station-Dec. 4 By: International Center discovered at the University when two English students turn- ed in an identical paper for a class which they received from Write-On, Inc., a local firm -hat! theres thru Classified specialized in the buying and selling of term papers. The University took legal ac- tion against Write-On, and the company was later forced out of business by a court order. NO MICHIGAN law forbids the sale of term papers, but other states, including Wiscon- sin and Pennsylvania, have adopted tough legisaltion bar- ring such action. A decision in August by the Office of the Administrative Law Judges of the Postal S; rv-3 ice ruled that mail order term paper organizations could be found guilty of mail fraud. "Such false representation by, the students to their schools, is, nevertheless, the means by which the c o m p a n y obtains money from students. If stu- dents purchasing the paprersG could not represent the papers falsely as their own work for academic credit, the company would not be able to sell itsk product to student customers," GEO, 'U' reach accord on use of mediator (Continued from Page 1) j THE MOVE signifies that: both sides feel the negotiations are nearingtheafinalbstages wh e re they can be best worked out by the mediator-! an impartial third party an-I nointed by the state to smrnoth out the remaining areas of dis- agreement. In another move expected to; sneed up the talks, the Unirer- sity agreed to work out agre~e- ments in principle at the table, rather than in closed session after theabargaining sessions. The move means that the two sides should be abel :o reach ,j c. t I I. , I i- I I I AP Photo Have a few extra moments during the day? 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