F7'OU SEE OM CALZD5 JtYI Birds... Mayor Frank Einsweiler of Galena, Ill, isn't going to mess around with corn laced with booze. He's using strychnine on the city's pesty pigeons. "I want those birds to fall down dead," said hizzoner, "not drunk." It seems that 2,000 of the unruly birds - which is a lot in a city of 4,000 people - have been mussing up the quaint village of Galena where, residents boast, Ulysses S. Grant once lived. Einsweiler tried to halt the pigeon population by feeding it corn treated with a birth control substance but that didn't work. He also tried trapping the pests but they were too cagey to be caught. So this time, despite a flood of letters chastising him for inhumane treatment, the mayor isn't going to pussyfoot with the pigeons - he's going to poison them. "They are disease carriers, and we don't want to take chances of their dried droppings being scattered around town in the wind, let alone the mess their wet droppings make on our fine old buildings and the heads of our people and tourists." ' Help Wanted: One mayor Dennis Schaber will be the mayor of Defiance, Iowa for the next two years,... whether he likes it or not. Although Dennis and his cousin Dan spent the entire campaign before last November's election trying to convince the voters that they did not want to be mayor, both men were the only vote-getters. "I don't want that mayor's job because of all the complaining you have to listen to," said Dennis, who won the election through no fault of his own. But last Saturday the townspeople finally convinced Dennis to take the job. Since Albert Wheeler and Louis Belcher are currently waging a court battle over Ann Arbor's mayorship, maybe the ultimate loser would not mind taking the job in Defiance. However, Al or Lou, if you should decide to go to Defiance you'd better take a snow shovel. Among the chores the mayor of Defiance performs is snow removal. Happenings... Unless you want to attend a discussion on the Packard People's Co- op scheduled for noon today at 722 Packard we really have nothing else to suggest in the way of Happenings. Perhaps we should all just take it easy and store our energy for the start of a new semester. Carter interprets Plagued by hilariously poor interpreting during his recent visit to Poland, President Carter was forced to tpke matters into his own hand I on the flight back from Europe. Carter was being questioned on Air Force One by reporters when Press Secretary Jody Powell cut into the exchange. "Let me. interrupt for a minute," Powell said. "Does anybody need a shooter?" Carter then offered a translation. "Does anybody care for a drink? That's the question." Wien all declined, Powell joked: "Let the record show that six reporters were offered a chance for a drink and they all turneds it down." "That is news!" Car- ter quipped. Well at least the President did not say, "Does anybody fust for a drink?" Vanishing van Police are vexed over a vanishing van that they think might be the most conspicuous getaway vehicle ever used in a robbery. So far they have no trace of the blue van with a picture window on the side and a mural of two semi-nude go-go dancers parachuting from a passing airplane. Police said three persons used the van in a $65 armed rob- bery of a man in Forest Park, Illinois, on December 27. Investigator Michael Thompson said that not finding the van is disturbing. "It's something like not being able to find a bleeding elephant in the snow,'' he said. On the outside.. .. Shakey Jake told me yesterday he hoped the temperatures would drop today, "because when it gets warmer like this I have trouble with women, they keep following me around. I can't get rid of them." Well Shakey may just get his wish because it is going to get colder and it will probably snow. The forecast calls for approximately two inches of the white stuff, with a high of 35 in the morning, and steadily falling temperatures throughout the day reaching a low of 20 degrees. The outlook for Monday calls for variable cloudiness and a high of 19 degrees. Isn't winter wonderful! SOCIALISTS, COMMUNIS TS END ALLIANCE: The Michigan Daily-Sunday, January 8, 1978-Page 3 French leftists split PARIS (AP) - French Communist leader Georges Marchais made it clear yesterday his party's election alliance with the Socialists is dead. Marchais urged a national Commu- nist conference to approve a central committee resolution endorsing a fight for supremacy on the French left. Such a move would bring a formal end to a five-year-old Communist-Socialist union. MARCHAIS CHARGED that the So- cialists, whose leader Francois Mit- terrand had a friendly meeting with President Carter on Friday, have aban- doned the workers' struggle and "lean once again toward the old policy of col- laboration with the high bourgeoisie." Until four months ago a socialist- Communist coalition was expected to win the National Assembly elections scheduled for March. But a split over how much industry a leftist gover- nment should nationalize seriously weakened its electoral challenge. In another slashing attack on the Socialist Party and its leader Francois Mitterrand, Marchais said .that once again, "as has been the case each time the struggle took a decisive turn, Fran- cois Mitterrand surrenders." "AT THE MOMENT shen a choice must really be made, the Socialist Par- ty runs from the battle and leans once again'towards the old policy of collab- oration with the high bourgeoisie," Marchais said. The speech came only 24 hours after President Carter met with Mitterrand, pronounced him "beneficial" to Fran- ce, and expressed concern over some Socialist policies, including the possibility of a new linkup with the Communists. Both the French Communists and hardline Gaullists have charged Carter with "unacceptable interference" in THE MICHIGAN DAILY Volume LXXXVIII. no.81 Sunday, January 8. 1978 is edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan. News phone 764-0562. Second class postage is paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. 'Published daily Tuesday through Sunday morning during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. Subscription rates: $12 September through April (2 semesters); $13 by mail outside Ann Arbor. 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Premier Raymond Barre announced last night the broad outlines of the cen- ter-right government's domestic plat- form, promising not to raise taxes or social security charges for two years and to increase family benefits to en- courage families to have three or more children. He promised gradual im- provements in basic wages and working conditions. THE NATIONAL Assembly is now dominated by a coalition of Chirac's Gaullists and President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's Independent Republicans. On another major national issue, the Socialists have been debating whether to support maintenance of France's in- dependent nuclear force. Marchais told the Communist confer- ence the party could not settle for the 21 per cent of the vote that polls predict it will get and must fight for 25 per cent in the first round of voting March 12. THAT WOULD enable the party "to swing the balance in favor of a real change" in French society, he said. French political commentators agreed Marchais was saying his party would make no deals with the Socialists for the March 19 run-off before the results from the first round of voting are in. In France, if no candidate wins an absolute majority in the first round, the two top candidates normally have a run-off. OTHER CANDIDATES can stay in the runoffs, however, drawing votes from the leaders. The horsetrading, therefore, is over which candidates stay in the race, and where those who withdraw put their support. American officials would say directly only that Carter "expressed his con- cern" over certain unspecified Socialist policies. But Carter's remark to journalists that Mitterrand played" a "beneficial role" in French politics was enough to send the Paris stock exchange down 2.6 per cent, 10 weeks before National Assembly elections. American officials glossed over the remark to some French journalists by saying, "It's in the president's nature to be friendly with people." 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