i Subscribe to the Daily! Call 764-0558 DOUBLE-B OTTOM L i:GROGGY TANKERS ArHighP34s Semdtra ag c ona See Today for details Vol. Lxxxviii, No. 80 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, January 7, 1978 Ten Cents. Eight Pages $5 tic By DENISE FOX Supporters of a campaign to lower the penalty for prostitution to a five-dollar fine have failed in their effort to place a referendum on Ann Arbor's April ballot. The Prostitution Education Project (PEP), a local women's organization which spearheaded the drive, needed 4,000 signatures by January 3 to place the proposal on the ballot. According to Sarah Paul, a PEP organizer, the group received about half the needed number. A prostitution conviction is punishable by a $100 fine and often an additional jail sentence. PAUL SAID THE group, composed of feminists, prostitutes, and former prostitutes, is considering a second drive in the spring in hopes of placing the proposal on the November general election ballot. PEP members said they were surprised by many persons' favorable response to the proposal, Paul said. ket or prostituti "We expected t e proposal would be met . ...:.:...... . .:.-:-.:-::-:. . with hostility, ignorance, and resistance, but l it wasn't," Paul said. When I compare how I felt s According to Paul, PEP was organized to when I was waitressing to how i deepen public understanding of the prostitution.j issue after a November police raid on two Ann prostitutes feel about their fob, Arbor massage parlors.dp ON THE EVENING of November 10, city th.y get a better deal. had w police raided the U.S. Health Spa at 212 W. to smile, be nice and let men t Huron Street and the Velvet Touch Lounge at.b 215 S. Fourth Avenue. Eleven female employes put their hands on me. With p charged with accosting and soliciting were setuit's an free on $100 bond pending pre-trial prostitutes, i ps examination. thing.' i On November 19, Washtenaw County w Sheriff's deputies closed down the U.S. Health -PEP organizer l Spa, which was located above The Whiffletree Sarah Paul restaurant. The spa's rent was late by several ............... days. -:-+:.-.-----................ . ................. on? Not here PEP MAINTAINS prostitution is a egitimate form of employment, said Paul. She aid the group believes prostitution is neither mmoral nor any more demeaning than other obs held by women. , "It's not more degrading than waitressing," Paul said. "When I compare how I felt when I was waitressing to how prostitutes feel about heir job, they get a better deal. I had to smile, be nice and let men put their hands on me. With prostitution, it's an up-front thing," she said. Ann Arbor Police Chief Walter Krasny, who aid the raids were the result of a three-month nvestigation into the massage parlors, said he would not evaluate the current prostitution aws. "IT ISN'T UP to us to determine if a law is good or bad," Krasny said. David Lady, one of the attorneys prosecuting the women, said he saw a difference between prostitutes' offenses and those of customers, "The women are offering sex for money," Lady said. "The men are just participating." The former president of the Ann Arbor chap- ter of the National Organization of Women, Mary Pence, said the group's executive board has discussed PEP's proposal but hasn't taken a stance. PENCE SAID SHE believes both clients and prostitutes should be held accountable under the law for their actions. "In the long run I think society's attitude should be changed, but in the short run I am concerned about their effect on (other) businesses," she said. See DRIVE, Page 2 Carter promises defense increase Situation Normal Daily Photo by JOHN KNOX Some things never change and Auditorium D in Angell Hall will always be a fine place to catch up on sleep. Just because yesterday was the first day of class, that didn't stop Evan Witt from grabbing a quick nap during his American History class. Sandburg honored in birthday tribute BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Presi- dent Carter told America's European allies yesterday the U.S. defense com- mitment and the American economy remain strong. Carter arrived aboard Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington last night, ending his 16,000-mile, nine-day journey. A crowd of about 250 persons welcomed the President home in a moderate rain., Carter met with Belgian officials and with leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Common Market, both of which have headquarters here, before departing for Washington. HE TOLD THE NATO officials the upcoming U.S. defense budget "will provide for real increases in U.S. defense spending, more than compen- sating for the effects of inflation." Carter noted in the hour-long session that the United States will add 8,000 troops to its 300,000-strong NATO con- tingent within the .next 18 months, ad- ditions White House officials said had been long planned. The President also reassured alliance officials any U.S.-Soviet strategic arms limitation agreement would take into account Western Europe's security in- terests. IF THEY HAVE any question on American policy - from defense com-. mitments to the strength of the dollar - "contact me personally," Carter told them.' The European press reacts to the gaffes and diplomacy on Carter's seven-nation tour. See article on page three. White House spokesmen said they would have no immediate comment on a New York Times report yesterday that a five-month U.S. study had found the United States and its allies would have difficulty defending against a con- ventional Soviet attack. The study also determined neither the United States nor the Soviets could win a strategic nu- clear war, the report said. In an hour-and-a-half meeting with the 13-member commission that oversees the Common Market, Carter cautioned against protectionism in international trade and discussed the health of the American economy. "PRESIDENT CARTER underlined both the strength and resilience of the 'U'to get increased By DENNIS SABO Michigan, as well as for the other state .he University will enjoy an increase universities," Miller said in a telephone U ry eny e interview. U.S. economy and the relatively good inflation performance of the U.S.," commission' President Roy Jenkins said afterward. The United States generally has had a lower inflation rate than most Western European nations. Jenkins said commission members told Carter they welcomed his admini- stration's decision this week to inter- vene on money markets and buy dollars to halt the decline of the U.S. currency. Some Europeans suspected the United States was allowing the dollar's value to fall to make American exports more T in its state appropriation for the up- coming fiscal year thanks to the healthy state economy, State Budget Director Gerald Miller said yesterday. He added that contrary to recent reports of possible tax cuts, rebates, or special assistance programs being created from the present $68.7 million state budget surplus, the extra money would be held onto by the state to balance any deficits in the present fiscal year. "There will be a substantial increase in appropriations for the University of HOW MUCH THE University ac- tually will receive has not been deter- mined, Miller said. He added Governor William Milliken will announce a figure on January 23, but the exact amount will not be finalized until June after legislative approval. Last year, the University received $121.5 million in state appropriations; that was a $10.8 million increase from the 1975-76 fiscal year amount. The ap- propriations- are used only for the See 'U', Page 8 attractive on the world market. Carter met briefly with King Baudouin and Premier Leo Tindemans in downtown Brussels' elegant royal palace. Belgian officials said later he told them he believes there is still a possibility for a multilateral Mideast solution "supported by several states" in the Middle East, where Egypt and Israel have 'been pursuing bilateral negotiations. EARLIER yesterday, Carter had a See CARTER, Page 8 GALESBURG, Ill. (AP)-Carl Sandburg, the poet, historian and biographer of Abraham Lincoln was remembered yesterday on the 100th anniversary of his birth as a writer whose wbrks "were conceived in fire but .. . delivered straight to his readers cool." That tribute, from poet Gwendolyn Brooks who, like Sandburg, was a Pulitzer Prize-winner, was one of many offered at ceremonies which will continue through the month. "WHO CAN GO into Chicago without thinking 'hog butcher .to the world' and 'city of big shoulders'?" news commentator Howard Smith, the day's keynote speaker, asked, recalling two of Sandburg's well- known references to the Midwestern city. Sandburg was born Jan. 6, 1878, son.of an illiterate Swedish immigrant who worked as a blacksmith in the railroad town of Galesburg. Sandburg's ashes were buried in 1967 near the three- room family home now preserved as a historic shrine.' FOLK SINGER Burl Ives, born a few miles south of Galesburg near Macomb, recalled nights of beer- drinking and singing with Sandburg. He said Sandburg's "individuality and style were all his own. He was a special man and he was fun and he was great fun to be with, and he had a great sense of humor, which was delicious." "He was a salty rascal," agreed Fred Emery, editor of the weekly Galesburg Labor News, where Sandburg as a young man wrote fiery, pro-labor articles under a pseudonym. SMITH, IN THE ceremonies at Knox College, said he "knew him as most Americans, long before he knew me.... I share not his genius but his love of the English language." Smith spoke to an audience of school children, grey- haired retirees, historians and critics from throughout the nation. In addition to phrases like "hog butcher to the world," Sandburg is remembered for such additions to the language as "Voice of America," the name of the See SALUTE, Page 2 ____._. BORDER WAR IN DOUBT: Viet f BANGKOK, Thailand (AP)-Cam- bodian officials claimed yesterday their forces killed or wounded more than 40,000 Vietnamese in four months of border fighting and ,drove back some invading units. But ana- lysts here strongly doubted the claims. Intelligence sources said reports indicate the vastly superior Vietnam- ese armed forces have badly mauled orces maul Cambodians 20 miles into the country and the fighting was continuing at several lo- cations. It said the heaviest strikes were made into the Parrot's Beak, a Cambodian region which juts into southern Vietnam to within about 40 miles of Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon. THAI INTELLIGENCE sources sav the Vietnamese mav have ad-' The Cambodian-Vietnamese bor- der fighting, which began almost three years ago, was first publicly acknowledged by the two Communist neighbors last weekend. It is believed to stem from longstanding rival territorial claims and old hostilities between the two peoples. THE VIETNAMESE have said t h e i r military operation was luinc'hed in retaliation for cross- along Highway 7 near the border, the Cambodians killed or wounded 18,000 Vietnamese while losing only 309 of their own troops. WESTERN ANALYSTS disputed the claims as being far too high, and observers here suggested the seem- ingly unbalanced, figures may indi- cate a sense of desperation in Phnom Penh.