"JUST WATCH WHAT WE SAY .. . Y r e *ir i!Ztl &titi; FLAKEY High--27 Low--9 See Today for details See Editorial Page Eighty-Three Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXIV, No. 84 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, January 1 1, 1974 Ten Cents Eight Pages IfUSEE NEM AMPECAL.b-MY 465 and 281. are the winning numbers in this week's Michigan State Lottery. The second chance numbers are 140 and 138. s Soviet scholar coming Dr. Gyorgy Arbatov, perhaps the Soviet Union's lead- ing specialist on the United States, will be at the Uni- versity tomorrow through Jan. 19 as the Arthur H. Vandenburg Lecturer. Dr. Arbatov, director of the In- stitute of the U.S.A. of the Academy of Sciences in the USSR, is known for his work in international relations, and is a foreign policy advisor to Soviet party boss Leo- nid Brezhnev. He will deliver a lecture entitled "The United States in the 1970s - The View from Moscow" at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Assembly Room of Rackham. Joni Mitchell tickets Tickets for the upcoming Joni Mitchell concert will go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m. instead of at 11 a.m. as previously announced. The time change, according to concert organizers, is being made because of the long lines expected at the sales outlet here. Tickets will be sold in the lobby of the Union. Happenings .. . ... are many and varied. Courtesy of the University's astronomy department, everyone will have a chance to see 1974's first new celebrity: Comet Kohoutek. The ob- servatory on the fifth floor of Angell Hall will be open to the general public from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight. Judge for yourself whether Kohoutek is a cosmic cutie or a celes- tial flop ... The Michigan Union Duplicate Bridge Club meets tonight (and every Friday night) at 7:30 in the Union's Assembly Room. It costs $1.50 per player to enter-the price includes refreshments and pizza . . There will be a lecture on Eckankar, the science of total awareness, tonight at 7:30 in the Faculty Club Lounge of the Union . . . And don't forget International Folk danc- ing, every Friday night at 8 p.m. at Barbour Gym. Kissinger in Spain Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will hold brief talks with Spanish Foreign Minister Pedro Cortina in Ma- drid today during a refueling stop on his way to Cairo from Washington, State Department officials said yes- terday. The Spanish parley is expected to concern rela- tions between Spain and the United States, and may also constitute a briefing for Spanish officials on the volatile Mideast situation. Mideast peace still shaky While Kissinger sped towards the Middle East yes- terday, the shaky peace between Arabs and Israelis continued its steady decay. One Israeli soldier was killed and five others wounded on the Egyptian front in what Israeli spokesmen said was building to a war of attri- tion. The soldier - at least the fifteenth to die in border clashes since the October cease-fire - was killed in ex- changes of small arms fire yesterday morning on the west bank of the Suez. The Syrian front was reported quiet. Swearing-in delayed New York Mayor Abraham Beame postponed at the last minute the swearing-in of the city's first black deputy mayor yesterday because of a possible illegal contribution. The appointee, N, Y. State Senator Joseph Galiber, was being investigated for a $2,000 campaign donation which was deposited in a bank account other than his campaign account. Said a Beame spokesperson: "Until Galiber has a fairly clean bill of health, he will not be sworn in." Galiber is the third major Beame ap- pointee who has run into difficulties from campaign and income tax investigators. Julie in Wonderland A children's story about a White House dog written by Julie Nixon Eisenhower is being published this month by the Saturday Evening Post. The story, "Pasha Passes By," was inspired by one of the three Nixon dogs. It is Julie's first published work, and the first duty she has performed as a part-time $10,000-a-year assistant editor for the magazine. 0 'Women and' the Law' According to "Women and the Law," a booklet pub- lished by the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, women cannot be legally forced to change their surnames when they marry. The booklet suggests that women not an- nounce their marriages in newspapers so voter regis- trars won't know about it, that they renew their drivers' licenses in their own names, and that they be persistent in maintaining that they have a right to establish credit and take out insurance in their original names. 0 On the inside *. . Christopher Parks previews the upcoming city elections on the Editorial Page . . . The Arts Page fea- tures Cinema Weekend . . . and Jim Ecker reviews the performance of basketball coach Johnny Orr on the Sports Page. 4 City faces increased financial By GORDON ATCHESON The city may be faced with a sizable deficit in fiscal 1974 - a year for which the city adminis- tration had predicted a balanced budget - thus compounding an al- ready unprecedented financial crisis, The Daily learned yester- day. In an exclusive interview, City Administrator Sylvester Murray said that revenue figures for the fiscal year ending June 30, reveal that municipal income is running about $100,000 behind anticipated levels. MURRAY indicated significant reductions in expenditures there- fore will be recommended, in a re- 'State of City' talky delivered By CHERYL PILATE Amid the friendly jokes and camaraderie of a Chamber of Commerce banquet, City Adminis- trator Sylvester Murray last night delivered the annual State of The City address. "We can be optimistic tonight amid our problem," commented Murray, referring to the city's hefty $1.1 million budget deficit. "Ann Arbor is not the only city that is facing a deficit." THE PRIMARY causes for the city's debt, he explained, are "wage increases for city em- ployes" which have jumped about 35 per cent during the past five years, and the steadily decreasing revenue collected from the Univer- sity for police and fire protection. On the positive side, Murray em- phasized the progress made local- ly in the areas of mass transit, hu- man resource services, and com- mercial development - such as the Briarwood shopping center. In the prepared text of his speech, Murray outlined the plan- ned development of the massive Huron River Park and Recreation- al Complex. The 1500 acre river park stretches from the northwest to the southeast corners of the city and will be open to the public later this year. OTHER PLANNED im- provements for the city include a bike way system providing a "unique link among all the city parks, neighborhoods , shopping areas and recreational areas" and a computer traffic signal system that is scheduled to be operational in this sesquicentennial year. Despite the budgetary problems, Murray pointed out that "the qual- ity of life in the city remains at a relatively high level." He went on to cite several possible solutions to the situation, including a local in- come tax. But Murray did not endorse the income tax, commenting that other cities have not solved their budget woes by such a method. MURRAY ALSO listed other steps which have been taken to reduce the deficit including money- saving modifications in several city programs and administrative economies in all municipal depart- ments. Murray assured his audience that all departments were doing their utmost to guarantee local resi- dents will "receive a dollar's worth of work for a dollar's worth of tax money." $100,000 deficit predicted in munici pal revenues port now being prepared for City Council, as an alternative to fur- ther deficit spending. Although he refused to discuss specific dollar amounts, Murray said the revenue areas lagging be- hind estimates include licenses, permits, and fees, and, federal grant allocations. The city currently has a $1.1 mil- lion deficit accumulated over the past five years. As a result of the debt, the state Municipal Finance Commission ordered the city to adopt a deficit reduction plan. A plan re-allocating $300,000 this year to slash the debt has been tentatively approved by the com- mission, although the agency orig- inally requested a significantly higher figure. MURRAY said the commission has not yet been informed of the latest development and its reac- tion would "not be good." Conceiv- ably, the agency could step in and assume complete control of the city's finances, but such drastic ac- tion seems unlikely. Early last month, commission director James Marling said the city would be given a free hand in solving the financial problems. Nevertheless, he cautioned city of- ficials that the agency would not tolerate any more deficit spend- ing. Murray refused to discuss spe- cific recommendations which will be given to the council concerning reduction of expenditures. Since personnel allocations con- stitute about three-quarters of the municipal budget, that area has received close scrutiny to deter- mine possible cutbacks. AMONG OPTIONS previously brought before council - which might be authorized to reduce spending during the next six months-are: * forcing all city employes to take an extra day a month off without pay (saving $200,000); * arbitrarily ordering each de- partment to cut expenditures by five per cent (saving $400,000); A indefinitely laying off city employes.. woes Previously, the city has shied away from dismissing employes, but that policy might well be dis- carded in light of the increasingly tight financial picture. Regardless of how expenditures are reduced, the net result will be less extensive and less efficient city services. COUNCIL approved the fiscal 1974 budget which was drafted to balance at nearly $16 million last May. Former City Administrator Guy Larcom and former Asst. City Administrator of Finance Kenneth Sheehan authored the document and assured council that the budget See CITY, Page 8 'esigns C0 resienc Cites academic considerat ions Student Government Council President Lee Gill resigned last night bringing to a close seven controversial months in office. Three Gill appointees - Administrative Vice-President David Fowler, Coordinating Vice-President Terry Talbott, and Treasurer Rosemary Mullin-also announced their resigna- tions, only seconds before Gill stunned the crowded weekly SGC meeting with his decision to quit. GILL OFFICIALLY blamed "academic reasons" for his mid-term resignation, unprecedented in SGC history, but hinted that a series of recent attempts by other Council figures to remove him from office played a key role in producing his startling move. SGC Executive Vice President Jeff Schiller immediately became president of Council, and caught his first taste of executive crisis as the meeting erupted into a shouting and shoving match be- tween Gill supporters seeking to continue the session and opponents who moved for an early adjourn- ment. Gill told last night's meeting "I have to go back to being a stu- dent;" and repeatedly emphasized that school pressure was the sole reason for his abrupt exit. "I've been accepted by a couple of law schools," he said, "but I wanted to be accepted by a couple more, and my grade point average has got to rise." IN A LATER interview, Gill again pointed to "personal priori- ties," but hinted that numerous attacks on his administration and his personal actions "discouraged" in him. .'S "It wasn't a matter on where my enemies on SGC were at," he said. "I beat them on every oc- casion. It was my personal pri- orities that mattered." He added, however, "Mudsling- ing and game-playing may be fun, but I no longer have time to fight people or court battles." GILL WON his most recent "battle" -' a trial last week in owi whichthe city charged him with ong assault and battery based on a own complaint from controversial for- and mer SGC Treasurer David Schaper. -for The SGC president acted as his ar- own attorney and won a quick acquittal. row Previously, Gill was the target the of an unsigned leaflet which Scha- will per helped distribute. The leaflet arn- claimed Gill had embezzled some far $8,500 of Council funds and es- to caped prosecution with the aid of to- See GILL, Page 2 Lee Gill: A legacy of tumult By DAN BIDDLE Daily News Analysis The only uncontroversial thing about Lee Gill - the only thing that his outspoken friends and ene- mies would agree on - is the everpresent aura of controversy that, has surrounded him. It is altogether appropriate that Gill closed out his seven - month tenure as Student Government Council president with an exit that promises to trigger as much disa- greement and uproar as anything that happened in those tumultuous seven months. TYPICALLY, Gill's statements last, night left room for a new round of debate about the man who rose with remarkable skill from a conviction and jail term for interstate car theft to become the first black president of a stu- dent body that is 92 per cent white. Gill repeatedly emphasized last night that his resignation stemmed from academic rather than politic- al pressure. "I've got to go back to being a student," he said "I've suffered in a lot of different ways since I got on SGC." But if the lanky, well-dressed ex-Chicagoan felt pressure from his professors, he must have "suffer- ed" at least equally from the seemingly continuous attacks on his administration, his actions, and his personal affairs. FROM THE Campus Coalition party and others came unproven charges that Gill had embezzled some $8500 in Council funds dur- ing a bank transaction shortly aft- er his landslide election to the top SGC post last May. Most of the See GILL, Page 2 Doily Photo by DAVID MARGOLICK LEE GILL, former Student Government Council president, carrying a painting in one hand and booksi the other, stalks out of the SGC offices in the Union after announcing his resignation at last night Council meeting. INTERNATIONAL TALKS: Energy, WASHINGTON (P-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said yester- day thatnext month's meeting of oil-consuming countries would be the first in a conference series aimed at stabilizing the world's energy balance and economy. Kissinger said at a news confer- ence that the Nixon administration was launching a diplomatic effort of unprecedented scope to deal with a global problem of unpre- cedented size. KISSINGER said this effort seeks international agreements or understandings on the sharing of council called energy technology among nations; efforts to determine demand for energy; and measures for conserv- ing energy. One serious problem, he empha- sized was the fate of developing energy-consuming nations all of whose foreign aid would be wiped out by the recent price increase of foreign oil. "Our estimate is that their bill may approach $30 billion, which of course far exceeds any of the aid flows that anyone has ever pro- jected," Kissinger said. HE SAID THE United States is in a strong position, with itso energy resources and a str economy, to take care of itso energy n e e d s independently through bilateral agreements- example, by making separate rangements with Arab nations. However, he said such a nar. approach would not be wise in long run. "It could be that wev be driven to this," Kissinger wa ed, but he said it would be better for the world's nations solve the energy problems gether. Self-centered policies, he s would only weaken the econom of other nations and in time1 world economy would suffera the nations would learn that nation can prosper in isolation.' Kissinger said the United St could achieve self-sufficiency energy, and perhaps even an ergy surplus, within 10 to 15 yea ONCE THAT happens, he sa the United States would consi sharing its energy with others. To develop the long-range,g bal energy policy, Kissinger s a series of meetings was envisi ed, beginning with the Feb. Milliken calls for tax reduction LANSING (UPI)-Addressing the state legislatre in his annual State of the State message, Gov. William Milliken yesterday unveiled a plan that he claims will save Michigan taxpayers some $107 million over the next two years. Milliken said his tax cut program would provide relief to virtually all fect Jan. 1 and will provide rebates to homeowners for two years. The two tax relief programs, for- mulated in the face of an economic slowdown that is seen as a cer- tainty, will cost the state a half- billion dollars in revenues. THE COMPREHENSIVE reduc- aid, hies the and "no ates in en- ars. aid, der glo- aid ion- 11 Ime. :1 ::2:?r."2: ... : Tr..?...x .t.