SILENCE _ PRIVATE POWER See editorial page Y Irt 9tU ii SLOPPY High-43 Low-32 See Today for details Eighty-Three Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXIV, No. 119 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, February 21, 1979 Ten Cents Eight Pages --l r/ i ::~ ILfOU SENEWS tEN CAIL' Y Professor dies English Prof. Joe Lee Davis, a University faculty member since 1930, died Tuesday afternoon of a heart attack. Davis, 67, had served as chairperson of the American Culture program and for many years was the English department's ranking staff member in American literature. He is survived by his wife, daughter and granddaughter. A memorial service for friends and stu- dents will be held next week. 0 Third World Conference The Third World People's Solidarity Conference will kick off a weekend of activities tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Power Center. Tonight's speakers will include Pat Sumi, chairwoman of the Third World Women's Confer- ence, and Texas gubernatorial candidate Ramsey Muniz, co-founder of the Raza Unida Party. The eve- ning's activities will also feature the Chicano Theatre, Teatro de los Estudiantes. The events, to continue through the weekend, include speeches by activist An- gela Davis and Clyde Bellacourt, co-founder of the American Indian Movement. Ackley testifies University Economics Prof. Gardner Ackley told Con- gress's Joint Economic Committee yesterday that infla- tionary events of the past two and a half years could not have been counteracted by government action. Ackley, who served as chairperson of President John- son's Council of Economic Advisers, did blame the Nixon administration for some of the inflation's impact, how- ever. "The administration's complete ideological rejec- tion of any government interest in or responsibility for attempting to influence particular wages and prices .. . has surely neither allayed inflationary expectations nor contributed to the success of the subsequent controls," Ackley contended. HPC blasts move The Housing Policy Committee yesterday approved unanimously a motion expressing dissatisfaction with the Regents' recent decision against introduction of male residents to Stockwell Hall. The motion directed housing chief John Feldkamp to advise the Regents, Vice President for Student Services Henry Johnson, and the Office of Student Services Policy Board of the commit- tee's displeasure. The HPC called the Regental move "very detrimental to the committee's efforts to evolve housing policy which is reflective of student interests." In other action, the committee pronounced.that stu- dents have the right to democratically determine dorm bathroom policy on a corridor-by-corridor basis. Happenings .. . .. today are multifarious. The United Farm Work- ers Support Committee will pick up Wrigley's picketers a 3:15 p.m. at the north door of the Union . . . Michi- gan Women in Science sponsors a lecture and discus- sion on-"The Future of the University of Michigan Medi- cal School" featuring Dean John Gronvall in Rack- ham's fourth floor West confesrence Room at 8 p.m. . ..the Hungarian Language Society is holding a meet- ing at the Russian and Eastern European Studies Center in Lane Hall at 9 p.m.. . . Project Community child care volunteers will meet at 8 p.m. in the Project Commun- ity office, 2204 Michigan Union . . . the Ostomy Club of Washtenaw County gathers at the Senior Citizens' Guild, 502 W. Huron, at 7:30 p.m , . the Bach Club presents French horn music at 8 p.m. in E. Qua's Greene Lounge . .and the Substgnce Abuse Co-ordmating Council holds a seminar on drug abuse entitled "Drugs as Re- inforcers" at the Mental Health Research Institute's Main Conference Room at 10:15 a.m. Hearsts wait Law enforcement officials and the family of kidnaped Patricia Hearst yesterday continued their waiting game on the occasion of Patricia's twentieth birthday, despite a claim by the FBI agent in charge of the case that he had "a seat of the pants feeling" the heiress would be released that day. "I don't have any information that we have accumulated that would support this from a factual standpoint," agent Charles Bates told reporters yester- day. "I'd be happy if I did, but I don't." Meanwhile, pub- fisher Randolph Hearst continued preparations for his sweeping $2 million project to feed 100,000 needy people free for a year. Unusual punishment Five pickpockets stole a man's wallet in Paris yester- day, but the wallet blew up, injuring two of them ser- iously, police said. They said a man telephoned the hos- pital where the two were taken and said he placed an explosive device in his wallet "because I'm sick and tired of being hit by pickpockets. Now I'm ready to surrender." But police said he slammed down the phone and never showed up. On the inside ... . ..The Arts Page presents a description of this weekend's Experimental Theatre Festival by Michele Becker . . . Stephen Selbst comments on City Council's McDonald's decision . . . and Bill Steig immortalizes Michigan hockey's star goalie, Robbie Moore, on the Sports Page. "0 Mead tells her view of world By BETH NISSEN "Ladies and gentlemen . . . and others," began anthropologist Mar- garet Mead, addressing an over- flow crowd at Hill Auditorium yes- terday afternoon. Co-sponsored by the F u t u r e Worlds Lecture Series and the Of- fice of Ethics and Religion, Mead lectured on the state of the world from an anthropologist's viewpoint. "EVERYWHERE IN the world there is a new emphasis en di- versity," said Mead: "After Wtld War II the emphasis was on un- iformity, everyone in the world having everything like everyone else had-rather boring, really." Mead described the problems in preserving diversity. "Unless we develop a second language that will be worldwide, most little lan- guages will be wiped out," she pre- dicted. "It is a paradox-the only way to preserve diversity is to have a piece of uniformity." "Young people have developed their own second language," con- tinued Mead. "They can sing their way around the world. Much of the chance to preserve the divers- ity of the past is in the hands of the youth," Mead said. MEAD FIELDED questions from the audience on issues from im- peachment to the future of the family. On Nixon and impeachment, Mead said, "Most Americans don't know what impeachment means. It simply means we're going to give him a trial he has a right to." "Watergate has more or less saved this c o u n t r y," continued Mead, "and in an all-American style. We have to think about Watergate as an American device to deal with a President who ar- rogated powerto himself above the limits of the constitution." QUESTIONED ON the cultural See MEAD, Page 2 Court rules on info obtained WASHINGTON il--The Supreme Court yesterday approved the use of evidence gathered by court-ordered wiretaps against persons not specifically under surveillance. The six to three decision said the Federal Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1970 requires that warrants name specific persons only when the government has probable cause to believe they are acting illegally. Otherwise, a wiretap may lawfully, be placed on a telephone over which it is suspected that unnamed persons are committing an offense, the court said. THE DECISION arose from an attempt to suppress wiretap evidence gathered by the FBI against a suspected bookmaker's wife. The war- rant authorizing the tap named only the suspect and "persons as yet unknown," but not his wife. Writing for the majority in the wiretap case, Justice Potter Stewart rejected the contention that the government should investigate potential targets so that all may be named in warrants for wiretaps. "A requirement that the government fully investigate the possi- bility that any likely user of a telephone was engaging in criminal Daily Photo by PAULINE LUBENS RENOWNED ANTHROPOLOGIST Margaret Mead tells her view of the world before a packed crowd yesterday afternoon at Hill Aud. CHARGES CIVIL LIBERTY VIOLATIONS: HRP files suit against city over present voter registration plan activities before applying for an interception order would greatly subvert the effectiveness of the law enforcement mechanism that Congress constructed," Stewart said. IN DISSENT, Justice William Douglas said the decision appar- ently means that wiretap warrants "need specify but one name and a national dragnet can become op- erative." Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall also dissented. In an identical six to three vote, in a separate case, the court also ruled that it is not necessary for a defendant or suspect himself/ herself to give police permission for a warrantless search of his/ her property or effects. The court said prosecutors are entitled to use evidence gathered in searches if someone else who "possessed c o m m o n authority" over the property permitted the police search. IN ANOTHER action the court held unanimously that either party in a housing discrimination suit filed under the 1968 Civil Rights Act could demand a jury. The law does not specifically authorize trial by jury. Civil rights lawyers ex- pressed fear that juries would be less likely to render fair verdicts in housing discrimination cases and would slow down the process. The justices said trial judges. could counteract both drawbacks. The court also unanimously ex- tended federal general assistance benefits to Indians living near res- ervations and maintaining ties with the Indian community. The Bureau of Indian Affairs wanted the benefits reserved sole- ly for reservation-dwelling Indians.. The court held that Congress in- tended otherwise. The benefits are approximately equivalent to state welfare bene- fits. On Tuesday; the court refused to interfere with the state convic- tion of Arthur Bremer for the May 1972 shooting of Alabama Gov. George Wallace in Laurel, Md., during a stop in Wallace's presi- dential campaign. Bremer's lawyers contended} in his appeal that he was denied a fair trial because of heavy pretrial publicity. Bremer filed an affidavit in sup- port of his appeal declaring, "I was convicted of a political crime at the height of an election year." Israelz JERUSALEM (P-Premier Golda Meir announced last night that she was forming a minority govern- ment, the first in Israel's history. Observers said that despite the weakness of a minority govern- ment, it would probably be able tb handle the Israeli-Arab negotiations with a strong hand because of backing in Parliament en questions of war and peace. Moshe Dayan, who has threaten- ed to resign over criticism of his handling of the October war, was invited to r e m a in as defense minister. THE ANNOUNCEMENT resolved a seven-week Cabinet crisis, but promised major clashes in Israel's Knesset, or parliament. After hours of what were de- scribed as "feverish" last-minute efforts to solve the crisis-and six hours after the deadline-Meir met with President Ephraim Katzir and then announced: "I am prepared to present a government to the Knesset. This is the plan-to pre- sent a government with 58 seats." Her government will be three seats shy of a majority in the 120- member Knesset. She did not name any ministers except Dayan. Katzir said Meir has one week to present the govern- ment to parliament. She said her government would include te Independent Liberals and two Arab groups attached to her Labor Party. The right-wing Likud bloc, which holds 39 seats in the Knesset, was excluded. THE DECISION to form a mi- nority Cabinet meant the govern- ment could be defeated on many key domestic questions facing post- war Israel. But on peace negotia- tions with the Arabs, Meir was See MEIR, Page 8 By DAVID STOLL The Human Rights Party (HRP) is filing suit against the city in Detroit's f e d e r al court today, charging that the voter registra- tion plan adopted by City Council Tuesday night is so inadeqpate it violates the civil liberties bf stu- dent voters. - Pitched to the city election April 1, the plan makes no provision for door to door registration and instead relies only on fixed regis- tration sites. COUNCILMEMBER Nancy Wes- chler (HRP-Second Ward) charged yesterday that approval of the plan by the Republican majority on council had been "purely po- litical." She said the suit will chal- lenge not only the lack of door to door registration but also the fail- ure to provide a registration site for the predominantly student pop- ulated Second Ward. "The Republicans are restricting registration as far as it's political- ly feasible," Councilmember Carol Jones (D-Second Ward) said yes- terday, "in order to cut off all new voters who are unlikely to vote Republican." She added that she would "offer her support" to the suit. BOTH MAYOR James Stephen- son, the author of the plan, and City Clerk Jerome Weiss, the im- plementer of it, declined to com- ment yesterday afternoon. However, councilman William Colburn (R-Third Ward) yesterday placed the responsibility for the ending of door to door registra- tion on the HRP. "THEY JUST can't be trusted," he said of the volunteer registrars from the HRP who carry out a major portion of any door to door effort. GEO to seek legal recognition as union Colburn was referring to a con- troversy which developed during the city's last registration drive, held in January for last Monday's primary election. The controversy started after Jones charged that HRP workers had been politicking while regis- tering door to door. Although the door to door effort was contrary to a directive from the city clerk, HRP spokespersons denied that their workers had been engaged in any partisan activity. Colburn added yesterday that the city had been forced to rely solely on fixed sites because it lacked the funds to pay registrars to go door to door. " We probably would have expanded the registration ef- fort," he claimed yesterday, "if tre HRP hadn'teabused the rules of the game." THE REPUBLICANS are using the Jones charges as a pretext to limit voter registration in student a r e a s," an HRP spokesperson claimed yesterday, however. Responding to the charge that her action had been responsible for the Republican move, Jones said yesterday that "they were tending toward a more restrictive registration plan anyway." Door to door registration, as well as fixed sites around campus, first became standard practice in voter registration drives in the fall of 1971. This was about the time that students became a power in student politics through the HRP. In the largest of these drives, in the fall of 1972, 14,000 new voters were netted, primarily young peo- ple and students. "A blatant move to prevent stu- dents from voting," Weschler call- ed the lack of registration sites in the Second Ward. WITH THE EXCEPTION of the site in the Michigan Union, all the temporary registration sites are located around the periphery of the city-where in previous drives th fn--ae v-- rcNava h armrvc Porno flick draws crowds, profit at campus showings "Once you get involved in litiga- tion, it's better to do your talking in court," Stephenson observed yes- terday. ACCORDING TO Jones, the chief difference between the clerk's and the mayor's plan is the location of the Third Ward site. While Weiss located it in a low-income co- operative h o u s i n g development, Stephenson removed it to the Stone School-in a high income, low den- sity neighborhood. Each of the temporary sites will be open for four hours on four separate dates between Feb. 23 and March 4. March 4 is the last day on which voters will be able to register for the April election. The HRP suit will also challenge a city ordinance which prohibits the use of sound trucks during campaigns, on the grounds that it violates freedom of speech. By GORDON ATCHESON During a lightly - attended mass meeting last night, the Graduate Employes Organization (GEO) de- cided to seek recognition as a for- mal bargaining unit for teaching fellows (TFs), research (RAs) and staff assistants (SAs). The group began plans to hold a recognition election - which could be completed within a month - through the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC). About 70 people attended the session in the"Rackham Amphi- theatre last night. It was the first GEO meeting following the rejec- tion of a GEO-sponsored strike , vote conducted among graduate employes Tuesday. Although the organization's lead- ers underscored the need to con- tinue unionizing efforts, GEO chair- Previously GEO rejected going through a MERC election fearing the administration would bottle-up the process via various legal chal- lenges. However, on the day before the strike vote the University stated that it would "enter into a consent election" and waive all legal ques- tions as long as GEO continues to represent all T~s, RAs, and SAs. GEO has consistently contended this is the group it represents and now has declarations from nearly half of the 2200 graduate employes authorizing the organization to bar- gain collectively for them. That total represents more than enough to gain recognition in a MERC election - if everyone who signed declarations voted. AT LAST NIGHT'S meeting, many naniaca irh0 r -ln~htar the By TONY SCHWARTZ Explicit sex. That's what has been bringing them here from as far away as Flint and Pontiac, some as many as three times, approximately 4,000 in all. Mostly male and predominately students, they came to Natural Science Auditorium last night and two nights last week, to watch a porno-chic film entitled "Behind the Green Door." But more specifically, they came to gaze at Marilyn Chambers, of Ivory Snow flakes fame, perform sexual acrobatics with two dozen writh- ing men and women. Sponsored by the New World film coop, the film has been by far the biggest draw of the year, outdistancing such classics as "King of Hearts" and "Cabaret," while selling out eight of nine performances and turning away an estimated 3,000 other frustrated customers. The film revolves around the formidable Ms. and uses every available organ and limb to have sex with a group of swinging men. More traditional redeeming qualities are diffi- cult to find. The dialogue is flat and boring (Chambers has not a single line); any intended message is obscure; and the plot is thin at best. Nonetheless, a random sample of those waiting in the long lines-and of the questionnaires they were filling out for an interested researcher- revealed that few had come to see only sex. Or more accurately, that few were ready to so admit. "I'm curious," said Steve Ledbetter '77. "I want to see what a really dirty flick is like." "It's cheaper than the Ypsi-Ann," said Cecil Goodman, grad. "I'm looking at it in-terms of whether I should let my 16 year old daughter come to see it," said a woman who asked not to be identified because "I'm known around the University." Standard fare from the preponderance of people