CRISP CRUNCHED See Editorial Page Y it i au ii SPRINGY! High-SO Low-30 See Today for details Eighty-Five Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXV, No. 150 Ann Arbor, Michigan--Tuesday, April 8, 1975 Ten Cents Eight Pages Stephenson apparent victo-nM; alor, efeate Jones win ballot proposals 4 y w'sEfE fS HAM M CA yAy Smoking's dangers A discarded cigarette may have started the blaze that destroyed the Old German restaurant last week, according to city fire inspectors. Al- though an exact cause may never be proven, the inspectors have ruled out problems with the elec- trical wiring, which had originally been blamed for the fire. Now it appears a smoldering butt may have ignited clothing kept in the basement of the restaurant. A clarification In Sunday's edition, we may have left the im- pression that experiential courses - such as Pro- ject Outreach -would not be included under the 32 credit hour limitation on independent study being discussed by the LSA Executive Committee. Actually such courses would fall within that limit. Also on Sunday we stated that the Daily did not endorse the door-to-door voter registration ballot proposal in yesterday's election. We in fact fully support the measure. ! Happenings . * . . . are plentiful, beginning with a lecture by Halina Taborska on "Theatre for the Masses: The October Theater and Meyerhold" at noon in the Rackham West Conference Rm . . . at 4 p.m. the Indian Ambassador will address the public in Rm. 1017 Angell Hall as part of a South and Southeast Asia Studies Center program. At 7:30 p.m. he will speak in the Union Ballroom, followed by a 9 p.m. coffee hour at the International Center . . . Rob- ert Morison will present "Biology, Ethics, and Law: Can They Help Each Other?" at 4:16 p.m. in 100 Hutchins Hall . . . the Residential College Lectures sponsors Marvin Felheim speaking on "In Defense of Popular Culture" in the East Quad Green Lounge at 7 p.m. . . . NOW is holding a dis- cussion on wife beating at 8 p.m. in the basement of the Unitarian Church, 1917 Washtenaw . . . the University concert band will perform at Hill Aud. at 8 p.m. . . . Poetry Works presents a reading with Carolyn Gregory at 9:30 p.m. in the East Quad Green Lounge . . . Biff Rose appears at the Ark and provides commentary on the Oscar awards. Photographers eye What's it really like in Vietnam right now? "Re- ally shitty, and you can quote me," says President Ford's personal photographer and friend David Hume Kennerly, whom Ford sent to Indochina to answerthat samequestion. "The NorthVietna- mese are really crummy people," he declared, addding that the refugees are "terrified they are going to get killed". Kennerly, who made many lasting friendships during his years as a Pulitzer Prize-winning combat photographer in Indochina, spoke of officers running out on their troops and Vietnamese begging him to take their children home with him. "All of my friends know they are going to die," he said. "It is the worst thing that has ever happened to me in my life." With God's help Landlords of Ann Arbor take heed, for with a little openmindedness you can avoid all this flack about rent control. Just follow the lead of Robert Miller, the president of a Chicago housing develop- ment firm, who is hiring ministers as apartment managers. Miller calls the move "just plain, good business sense. A minister as a manager adds real credibility. They can communicate, that's their business. Tenant turnover is down. Rents are paid on time. And I don't get nasty letters anymore. Owners of apartment complexes bring their resi- dents swimming pools or golf courses, so I though about what I could do that's different. So I decided to bring them God." In whom, we trust, few char- ter amendments will have a prayer of a chance. On the inside ... the Editorial Page features Debra Hurwitz on "Spare Parts: Anatomical Donations at 'U' Hospital" . . . David Blomquist picks the Oscars and Tony Cecere reviews the Boston Symphony Or. chestra on the Arts Page . . . The Sports Page highlights Andy Glazer's analysis of the National Basketball playoffs in the east. Charter issues beaten soundly On the basis of partial returns early this morning, city voters apparently de- feated all three proposed City Charter amendments which would have allowed door-to-door voter registra- tion, imposed city - wide rent controls, and authoriz- ed municipal funding of day care centers. The voter registration proposal ran the strongest. It was losing by a 5,900 to 5,100 vote margin, with about 40 per cent of the precincts reporting. DAY CARE received about 3,000 "yes" votes compared to 6,000 "no" votes. Rent control also fared badly, losing 5,000 to 4,000. More complete results are not expected until sometime this morning. "Under the door-to-door voter registration charter amendment, the city clerk would have had to appoint up to two per cent of the voters in the past mayoral election - about 600 people - as deputy registrars. THE MEASURE would have allowed the registrars to enroll new voters anywhere in the city. Currently there are only about a dozen approved sites for voter registration. STATE Attorney General F r a n k Kelley declared the amendment illegal because it could be "conducive of election fraud." City Republicans with- held their support of the meas- ure for that reason. Proponents of door-to-door reg- See BALLOT, Page 2 Daily Photo by STEVE KAGAN CAROL JONES, left, just re-elected to City Council, and Council newcomer Elizabeth Taylor smile broadly at the election results. LEADER ESCAPES INJURY*: Doily Photo by KEN FINK MAYOR JAMES STEPHENSON listens intently to late election results which suggest that he will emerge victorious. Final results won't be tabulated until today. Council make-uip remains same Democratic Party mayor- al candidate Albert Wheel- er early this morning all but conceded defeat to in- cumbent Republican James Stephenson in their nip and tuck battle. Stephenson apparently won, although he failed to receive more than 51 per cent of the vote - which means under the new pre- ferential system the second choice ballots of those per- sons voting for Human Rights Party (HRP) candi- date Carol Ernst will be tallied. F R o M current returns, it seems highly unlikely that enough of the second place votes will go to Wheeler to off- set Stephenson's sizeable lead. In the City Council races no seats changed hands. Demo- crats won in the First and Sec- ond Wards and Republicans captured the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Wards. Assuming a Stephenson vic- tory, the balance on council remains intact: Republicans- six seats; Democrats - four; and HRP - one. THROUGHOUT the night, Stephenson flirted with the 50 per cent mark. Unofficial totals gave Stephenson 15,405 votes, Wheeler 12,421,and Ernst 3.148. In order to win, Wheeler would have to pick up the sec- ond choice vote of 2,984 people who cast first place ballots for Ernst-a practical impossibility. "I don't think that I'm going to have enough second place votes to throw me over the top," Wheeler said. "It's going to be a long two years." AT THE Republican victory bash at the local Holiday Inn, Stephenson confidently predicted his re-election to another two- year term. Joining Stephenson in victory was Republican Ronald Trow- bridge who won the pivotal Fourth Ward. Unofficial and in- complete returns gave him 2,655 votes to 2,789 for Democrat William Bronson and 608 for HRP hopeful Judy Gibson. Turnout in the ward, a micro- cosim of the city, appeared low- er than the previous two years' totals. Trowbridge, like his fel- low Republicans opposed all three ballot proposals and ran on a platform of fiscal respon- sibility. IN THE First Ward Democrat Elizabeth Taylor defeated HRP entry David Goodman by a wide margin, as Republican Karen Graf finished a close third. She pulled 1,700 votes to See STEPHENSON, Page 2 By AP and Reuter SAIGON - President Nguyen Van Thieu escaped unhurt yes- terday when one of his own air force jets bombed his palace, reliable sources said. Witnesses said the U.S.-made F5 swooped low over the palace and dropped at least two and possibly four 500-pound bombs. THE PLANE, an F5 fighter- bomber, swooped over the Inde- pendence Palace in the city cen- ter and dropped three bombs. hit CRISP debuts; long lines greet students By JEFF RISTINE The new CRISP computerized registration system, intended to speed up the normally tedious process, kept students waiting impatiently for up to two hours yesterday during its first day of operation. But an official overseeing the processing insisted that the problem causing the delays would be ironed out overnight. CHARLES MORRIS, chairman of the CRISP Inplementation Group, explained that the long waits were caused by an ineffi- cient information withdrawal procedure written into the computer program at the last minute. He said that the process would be correced before today's CRISP sessions. But they all missed the main palace, where Thieu was stay- ing, and hit several outbuildings in the grounds. Sources later said two people were killed and three injured in the early morning bombing raid. The bombs hit a tennis court 50 yards from the main build- ing, a parking lot 100 yards away and the back gate to the palace g r o u n d s, sources re- ported. IN NEIGHBORING Cambodia, pressure increased on the be- sieged capital of Phnom Penh. Rebel gunners hit an ammuni- tion and fuel depot at the Phnom Penh airport and a column of black smoke blotted out the sun over the city. Khmer Rouge in- surgents launched assaults on Phnom Penh's wobbly defenses four miles north of the airport, but field reports said the de- fenders held their positions. In Washington, congressional leaders said there was no chance of a quick vote on sup- plemental military aid to South Vietnam and Cambodia as re- quested by President Fora. Saigon was clamped under a 25-hour curfew after the bomb- ing. Troops took up combat po- sitions in the park in front of the palace and the city's Tan Son Nhut Airport was placed on full alert. THE SOURCES said the pres- ident had telephoned the coun- iieu s try's military chiefs to call for reinforcements to guard the palace. Pressure has mounted on Thieu to quit the presid ency since a month-long insurgent offensive saw the governmen lose three-fourths of the ram try with the military badly de- moralized. In addition to opposition po- litical demands that Thieu step down, there have been repeatec rumors that South Vietnamese military men were consider action. meeting to THERE WAS no immediate indication yesterday whether the attack by the aircraft was an organized move or the work of a lone disgruntled pilot. The fighter bomber made at least three passes over the In- dependence Palace and the flash and shock wave from the bombs came on the second run. See THIEU'S, Page 8 'U' state funds face additional 2% cut By MARGARET YAO and SARA RIMER The University budget, already squeezed by a four per cent slash in state appropriations for next year, will definitely face at least an additional two per cent cut, University officials learned yesterday. University President Robben Fleming announced the news as part of a grim speech on the economic status of the faculty at yesterday's Senate Assembly meeting. Vice-President for State Relations Richard Kennedy later confirmed the cut. "It was indicated in some conversations with the budget office (part of Governor Milliken's cabinet) that the cut will be a somewhat excessive two per cent, between two and two and a half," he said. FLEMING APPEARED surprised by the confirmation of the expected two per cent additional cut, which represents $2-$2.5 million. "What we do about it, I don't know," he commented. See 'U', Page 2_ palace Jones iits HRP chiargre A By STEPHEN HERSH Newly re-elected City Coun- cilwoman Carol Jones (D-Sec- ond Ward) denied last night the charge made in a Human Rights Party leaflet, that she did not sign the petitions which placed rent control and day care charter amendment pro- posals on yesterday's ballot. Jones publicly supported CRISP, an acronym for Com- puter Registration Involving Stu- dent Participation, is the new one - step registration process which replaces the two-step ad- vance classification and early registration procedures. Trained operators t y p e a student's course elections directly into a computer, which tells whether co-rses or sections are closed. Student opinion was divided over whether or not the CRISP system is better than the ad- vance classification and regis- tration process it replaces. "I'M P R E T T Y disgusted," said one woman who missed a ,.lass while writing in line near- ly two hours. "I feel like say- ing, 'Nice try, U, vou did it Another strident said she had to return to the CRISP center Vietnamese kids arrive at A'etro .:.:: By BILL TURQUE Pa l McKay had no profound answer to offer when asked why he and his wife Lucille were becoming foster par- ents for a Vietnamese child. "Because it needs doing," he replied, as if the answer was obvious. The McKays are one of the Flint area -. .. n . <.. .v:;1 L ririi.. - .ar...