ANYONE STEERING THE BOAT? See Editorial Page p0 iiitr4tgan AI& 4 AgbP :43 a. t 1. BEAUTIFUL High-69 Low-46 For details, see today Eighty-T hre Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXIV, No. 9 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, September 15, 1973 Ten Cents 8 pa iges plus 20 page tabloid supp. UAW { & I-O SE &S AAMCU76D Handicapped girl attacked City police are investigating the attack Thursday on a 13-year-old handicapped girl by about 20 young thugs. The youths apparently spotted the girl as she left the Clague Middle School, 2616 Nixon Road, and attacked her in a nearby field. They surrounded her, beat her, and apparently kicked her. Flick wins award Robert McKee-a grad student in speech and radio- has been named the winner of the -McGraw-Hill Film Scholarship competition. McKee's flick "Day Off" a film commentary on several aspects of a man's life, was shot in Ann Arbor and features a number of local residents. He produced the film last year as part of an advanced writing course taught by Prof. Frank Beaver of the Speech Department. Ethnic Fair underway The Multi-Ethnic Fair downtown is, under way. The fair participants include some 19 ethnic groups, com- prising among others an Arab belly dancing show, a group of Native American dancers, and an ensemble of Latvian singers. Hours for the fair today are from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Happenings .. . are topped by a Women's. Symposium at Mary Markley Hall today beginning at 9 a.m. One of the main topics will be "Women and their Bodies.". . . and on Sunday, WCBN-FM (89.5 on your dial) will broadcast a tape of a lecture by Anais Nin at 5 p. m.. . . and if those don't interest you, why not visit the Multi-Ethnic Fair, being held downtown. The fair opens at 11 in the morning and closes at 11 at night. Laird vs. Schultz The Consumer Product Safety Commission has warned that 12,000 Zenith 19-inch color television sets pose a potential fire hazard and advised consumers to unplug them immediately. The commission said it learned of the problem from Zenith Radio Corp. following a fire in Milwaukee, Wis. No one was injured in that fire. Zenith charged The White House acknowledged there may be "some misunderstanding" about tax policy between Presidential adviser Melvin Laird and Treasury Secretary George Shultz, but said there is "no great disagreement" be- tween them on the subject. Shultz told reporters in Tokyo that Laird should "keep his cotton-pickin' hands off eco- nomic policy." Laird had said earlier that the admin- istration was considering asking for a refundable anti- inflation tax increase. Banks queried The Nixon administration demanded the nation's larg- est banks justify increasing their prime lending rate to a record high of 10 per cent. The move followed an an- nouncement by New York's First National City Bank that it was following Wells Fargo Bank of San Fran- cisco in raising its prime rate from 9 3/4 to 10 per cent. Kissinger attacked Rep. Donald Fraser (D-Minn.), urged the Senate to withhold confirmation of Henry Kissinger as secretary of state until there is assurance that the Nixon adminis- tration will not engage in military combat without Con- gressional approval. Fraser, chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, spoke before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Ooohl It's Jackie! The U. S. Court of Appeals in New York has reduced the distance free-lance photographer Ronald Galella must keep from Jacqueline Onassis and her two chil- dren. The court redkiced from 150 to 25 feet the distance the nosy photog must keep between himself and Mrs. Onassis, and reduced from 225 to 30 feet the distance he must stay from Mrs. Onassis' children Caroline and John. On the inside..** On today's Editorial Page, Ted Stein takes a look at possible CIA involvement in the recent Chile coup . . The Arts Page features a review of "Day of the Jackal" by Bruce Shlain . .. and Frank Longo gives a pre-game report on today's Michigan-Iowa State football battle on the Sports Page. begins strike at- Chrysler Union calls overtime. safety main issues DETROIT (UPI)--The United Auto Workers (UAW) struck the Chrysler Corp. late last night after failing to reach agreer ment on a new contract for 127,500 U.S. and Canadian auto workers. The strike was announced by union president Leonard Woodcock less than one hour before the 11:59 p.m. expiration of the present three-year contract. It capped three months of bargaining between the nation's second-largest union and the third-largest auto company. The strike also has shattered two years of U.S. labor peace. WOODCOCK SAID there were "significant matters of difference on health and safety issues, voluntary overtime and a broad range of Daily Photo by KAREN KASMAUSKI A satisified customer One festival-goer enjoys the traditional all-American soft drink at Ann Arbor's first Multi-Ethnic Fair which featured food, music, dancing and other events of Polish, Latvian, Estonian, Chinese, Arab, Chicano, Ukranian, Fyench, Lithuanian, German, and native American groups. DEFICIT CITED: Repnort warncty coud fac e By GORDON ATCHESON Because of a massive budgetary deficit, come April the city may not be able to pay municipal em- ployes or meet its other financial obligations, according to a report released by the city administration yesterday. The report by Asst. City Admin- istrator of Finance Kenneth Shee- han termed the present financial picture "extremely serious" and warned the city to "be prepared for payless paydays," DURING THE LAST fiscal year, ending June 30, the city incurred a $308,500 operating deficit, raising the total debt to an unprecedented $1 million.a The grave fiscal condition re- sulted from inaccurate estimates of potential revenue soulces and departmental expenditures made when the city administration origi- nally drew-up the budget in March, 1972. Sheehan last night said the budget had been balanced by con- sidering the maximum conceivable revenue level the -city could antici- pate, a practice he termed "silly." THE REPORT stated that rev- enues from all major sources ex- cept property tax and federal rev-, enue sharing "were substantially below estimates." Further aggrevating the situa- tion, a majority of city depart- iscal crisis ments overspent their allotted funds. The police department, for instance, exceeded its budget by over $150,000. Moreover, a third of those pro- grams which showed no deficits over-expended their original ap- propriations and balanced their budgets thanks to additional fed- eral monies. Because of City Council policy, the various departments "felt they had a mandate" to maintain per- sonnel and service levels "regard- less of budget constraints," the re- port states. SHEEHAN ADDED that by the end of next April "it is a very real possibility" the city simply will not have the money to meet payroll requirements. City Administrator Sylvester Mur- ray claimed he was "not con- vinced" the financial status is as grim as presented in the report. "I do not foresee payless pay- days," he said, but called the situ- ation "serious." Murray, who has held the ad- ministrator's job for less than a month, admitted Sheehan knows* more about the budget condition than he presently does. Murray, however, indicated he will closely question Sheehan at next Monday's City Council meeting when that body officially receives the report. IN SHEEHAN'S mind the city is Marchers trying to provide high caliber mu- nicipal services without the neces- sary funds, or as he puts it, "We are trying to run a champagne operation on a beer budget." "We simply cannot afford to be a first class city," he added. Large scale personnel reductions are the only way to bring the budget into line, according to Sheehan. He pointed to the police, fire, and parks departments as the areas most likely to suffer cut- backs. MURRAY REFUSED to. com- ment on his proposals to reduce the debt until an independent firm now auditing the city's books an- nounces its findings sometime in the next two months. Although the report strongly cri- ticizes' council policies regarding budget matters, Sheehan said the blame lies with "council, the ad- ministration, and the city as a whole." He stressed that the situation has not "developed overnight" as the administration consistently ignored his recommendations for "drastic action." RECENTLY SHEEHAN has come under fire from several council members who have directed as yet unsubstansiated charges of incom- petence and negligence against him. other issues." Though the salaried workers at Chrysler are represented by the UAW, Woodcock said they would remain on the job because, among other things, "they have to get "out the payroll." While Woodcock said he could not estimate how long the auto strike would continue, he said bar- gainers would return to the nego- tiating suite at Chrysler head- quarters at 11 a.m. today "to drive as hard as we can to reach agree- ment. " EVEN BEFORE the strike was announced, Chrysler workers at several Detroit area. plants began leaving their jobs as "strike fever" spread down the assembly lines. The opti'mism that had surround- ed the talks for days lessened in the final hours as negotiations con- tinued under a complete news blackout. At the announcement of the strike, the union's negotiating team marched from the bargaining suite to the 'company newsroom behind UAW Vice-President Douglas Fra- ser. The negotiators sang loudly "Solidarity Forever," the UAW theme song. THE STRIKE against Chrysler marked the third time in the last three contract negotiations that the union has resorted to strike action against one of the "Big Three" automakers. In 1967, Ford was closed for 66 days while General Moors was shut -for 67 days in 1970. The last time Chrysler was closed by a national UAW strike was in 1950. That walkout, lasted 104 days. The key issue that Woodcock said stood in the way of settle- ment was the union's demand for voluntary overtime. THE UAW HAS insisted that workers be given the right to say whether they will or will not work more than 40 hours per week. The. automakers say they would not ber able to plan production adequately if they could not schedule over- time as they wished. Even before contract talks began with the automakers July 16, both sides agreed the overtime issue could put them on a "collision course" to a strike. There was speculation that GM and Ford, much'larger than Chrys- ler, were calling the shots on that issue, but Woodcock said, "We have no reason to believe 'there's been' any intervention by General Motors or Ford." Junta'cites extremists as, cause or coup By AP and Reuter SANTIAGO - Chile's military junta said yesterday that the arm- ed forces overthrew the Marxist-led government because more than 10,000 "extremists" from other countries had invaded Chile. The statement, by the junta's minister of interior, Gen Oscar Bo- nilla, was the junta's first public declaration of its reasons for top-, pling the leftist government in a coup Tuesday that resulted in the death of President Salvador Al- lende, a Marxist. THE ARMED FORCES had to "intervene in order to safeguard the destiny of the country, serious- ly threatened by extremist ele- ments,"'Bonilla said. The extremists included. Mexi- cans, Cubans, Hondurans, Argen- tines and members Uruguay's Tup- amaros guerrillas, Bonilla said. The government earlier announced it had begun deporting scores of extremists from Chile. Meanwhile, a semblance of peace returned to Santiago yes- terday as Chile's new ruling mili- tary junta embarked on its second offensive in four days - to win diplomatic recognition in the face of worldwide condemnation of Tuesday's bloody coup. IN A NOTE circulated to for- eign embassies in Santiago, the junta, headed by Army Comman- der Gen. Augusto Pinochet, said it sidered itself the legitimate gov- considered itself the legitimate government of Chile and expressed its wish to continue diplomatic re- lations. U. S. State, Department spokes- man Paul Hare acknowledged re- ceipt of the note, but said the Nix- on Administration - which has been accused by some countries of complicity in the coup that left Marxist President Salvador Allen- de dead - had not yet taken action on it. However, officials in Washington indicated yesterday that U. S. re- See JUNTA, Page 8 Researchers hit dcliii uency myth By DAN BLUGERMAN Just say the word 'juvenile delinquent' and most people will conjure up images straight out of "West Side Story:" tough, lower class Puerto Ricans or blacks leaning against a lamppost and leering 'at the world as they dream up new crimes to terrorize the neighborhood. But according to a recent study by Bill Haney and Martin Gold of the University's Institute for Social Research this popular image is little more than a myth. AFTER INTERVIEWING over 1,200 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 16, Haney and Gold concluded that middle class boys are just as likely to commit delinquent acts as lower class boys. However, the middle class deliquents are more likely to be over- looked and not prosecuted because their parents can buy them out of trouble. IN AN ARTICLE published in the September issue of Psychology Today, Haney and Gold claim the white authorities tend to be lenient with a white boy, "interpreting his behavior. as a tolerable sowing-his- wild-oats brand of delinquency." But, the authors explain, "they become fearful and hardnosed with the black adolescent who coincides with their image of The Delinquent." The fact that authorities believe in the Hollywood stereotype of the delinquent is a significant danger to society, as Haney and Gold see it, since expensive social programs aimed at the wrong groups will do little to help the delinquency problem. THE PROBLEM is further complicated by the fact that only about three per cent of the crimes committeed by juveniles are 'detected, the authors say. They found that catching a delinquent does little to stop his or her illegal acts. To the contrary, getting caught makes adolescents more likely to commit delinquent acts." GOLD AND HANEY compared a group of apprehended offenders with=a carefully matched group of unapprehended delinquents. They matched 35 pairs on sex, age, race, and number and kind of offens6s. In 20 of the 35 pairs, the apprehended juvenile subsequently committed more offenses than his unapprehended match. Who is most likely to be a delinquent? occupy Esch's 0 o ffice By BILL HEENAN Some 50 persons protesting the overthrow of the Allende regime in Chile,roccupied the local office of U.S. Rep. Marvin Esch for three hours yesterday afternoon, remain- ing there until the Congressman issued a statement on the coup. Esch, who was reached by phone at Mackinac Island, where he is attending a state Republican con- ference, said that he could not condemn the military takeover un- til he had more information. I 1 ;,