THE 'NEW' ELECTION See Editorial Page I I j:jjh Je Sr 43UUa 1 tUiIQ PALATABLE High -28 0 Low -11° See Today for details Vol. LXXXVIII; No. 109 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, February 10, 1978 Ten Cents 12 Pages Whatever happens, Belcher will stick with A 2 By JULIE ROVNER Last of a Three Part series Lou Belcher may be calling it quits after four years on City Council, but Ann Arborites haven't seen the last of him. Not by a long shot. "I'm certainly not done with Ann Arbor politics," he said. "I'm much too young and it's much too fun. And besides, I know too much." A 38-YEAR-OLD Republican from the always-conservative 5th Ward, Belcher doesn't hide the fact that he still wants to be mayor. Belcher agreed Wednesday to place his name on the April 3 ballot along with Mayor Albert Wheeler to settle the 10-month dispute over the city's mayoralty. "If this mayor's thing doesn't work out right and I'm off council, I'll still be around. I'll be a lobbyist if I have to. I might even run again," he said. AN ANN ARBOR resident since 1959, Belcher says his entry into city politics was a "natural evolution" from the work he had done for the Republican party and on various boards and commissions. "I ran because I had been following the process, and was very unhappy with City Council. It was a very volatile council and it didn't seem like it could get anything done," he said. When he was elected in 1974, Belcher was one of an almost overwhelming Republican majority on Council which he says helped him immensely in those first 12 months. "IT WAS a good year for me to learn, he said, "because there wasn't a lot of pressure on me to take a lot of more or less what I call political stands as opposed to good government stands. Now, when I see an issue, I automatically just classify it as either 'political' or 'good government." "A good government issue would be the conditions of the streets. That's one place where I can always depend on getting bipar- tisan support." he added.h ONE OF THE major changes Belcher has seen in his Council tenure is a hostility decrease in the "war" between the parties.. "I think that Council has not been as flamingly partisan as I remember it being in the early 70s and my first year or two," he said. "We've become far less partisan on issues, ex- cept in the month of March (preceeding city elections- in April). That's strictly partisan for the whole month." Another trend Belcher calls disturbing is that of voter apathy. "We have an old saying, and I think it's true, that until Joe Sixpack's property line is violated, he probably couldn't care less about city government," he said. I'm sorry that more people aren't interested. "I THINK the primary responsibility of city government is to provide the taxpayers with the city services they need, not only for health, safety and welfare, but also to insure that they have a quality of life, particularly in their en- vironment," he said. "If someone's garbage doesn't get picked up, I don't care if they're liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican, or HRP; they're mad," Belcher added. "If your street doesn't get plowed or you break a spring on one of the potholes, I don't care if you're a liberal, radical, student, or what; you're mad. You want those things when you want them and you want good services." One of Belcher's main concerns when he en- tered office four years ago, and one which still bothers him, is the state of the city's streets. "I just couldn't believe tht we were paying $1,800 a year in property taxes and we couldn't even get the potholes fixed. It was just incon- ceivable that what was supposedly the Athens of the West, and the symbol of everything great in the Midwest couldn't even fix its potholes," he said. See COUNCILMAN, Page 2 Belcher .. ..;, Committee proposes new rules for CIA: WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senlate committee issued a blueprint for U.S. intelligence gathering yesterday which would legally bar the use of assassination and terrorism and prohibit CIA efforts to overthrow "democratic" governments. The draft proposal, certain to be subjected to months of hearings and debate, was issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee in an at- tempt to place the FBI and CIA under new charters with specific guidelines" and restraints and criminal and civil penalties for violations. BUT ITS authors immediately ac- knowledged disagreements remain and the draft proposal will be criticized both as too restrictive and too permissive. Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), chair- man of the committee, said introduc- tion of the charter legislation means Congress "wants to give our intelli- gence agencies a clear mandate to carry on their essential work under the rules of law." Although the report gave no reason for specifying the illegality of over- throwing "democratic" govern- ments, it was seen as a committee ef- fort to leave a loophole in the plan that could allow future action against See SENATE, Page 9 Coal negotiations suffer new setack Daily Photo by ANDY FREEBERG State Senator Anthony Derezinski, who is seeking the seat of retiring U.S. Senator Robert Griffin. Derezinski ai-ms for Griffins seat By MITCH CANTOR State Senator Anthony Derezinski (D-Muskegon), like so many other Democrats this year, would like very much to be the man to take, retiring Senator Robert Griffin's place in Washington next January. Derezinski says he wants to be part of what he terms a "transitional period, a period of foment" for the U.S. "I enjoy the political process," said the 35-year-old Derezinski." I have tremendous respect and love of the law. We're right on the verge of another major direction, both in terms of our democratic processes and in terms of new technology." DEREZINSKI SAID his major concerns include a changing economy, particularly "the shift in concentrations of wealth," and alterations in the judicial system. He also is interested in changing See DEREZINSKI, Page 7 (AP) - A contract that 'would settle the 66-day-old strike by 160,000 United Mine Workers suffered a vote of no confidence yesterday when it was rejected by the presidents of all 52 locals in an Appalachian district that has 10 per cent of the union's members. The vote came as the union's bargaining council in Washington tentatively scheduled a meeting to- day to consider whether to send the pact reached by negotiators to the rank and file for a vote. MEANWHILE, coal stockpiles around the country continued to dwindle. Indiana and West Virginia already were under "energy emer- gencies." Among the biggest concerns to miners in Appalachia are provisions in the agreement that would penalize' them for taking part in wildcat strikes or refusing to cross the picket lines set up during them. The locals in opposition are in District 6, which includes Ohio and northern West Virginia. Don Nunley, a member of the district executive board, said the local presidents rep- resent 16,000 members. MEETING IN Bellaire, Ohio, they passed a resolution asking the UMW bargaining council to kill the agree- ment and, in Nunley's words, to order UMW President Arnold Miller to "renegotiate the whole damn contract, because it stinks." "He's making a mockery of the UMW," Nunley said of Miller. "In 25 years, I've never seen a contract worse than this - all of it, all but the wages." The proposed three-year contract provides an increase in the current average wage of $7.8 per hour by 95 cents the first year, 75 cents the second year, and 65 cents the third year. It has no cost of living increase, requires miners to pay deductible amounts for health care that was free in the past, permits Sunday work, and denies union representation to new miners until after a 30-day probation period. Slaughter: My name Quarrels continue over. proposed Panama treaty THE AGREEMENT does not in- clude a right to strike over local issues, and if miners take part in wildcat strikes or honor picket lines, it allows them to be charged $210 a day for each day absent from work to a maximum of 10 days. Then they could be suspended. That provision would strike down a right that miners in Appalachia consider basic - the right to never cross a picket line, no matter the reason for the dispute. Nunley said the 52 locals planned an auto caravan to Washington.. where the bargaining council tenta- tively arranged to meet at 10 a.m. today, assuming lawyers would com- plete the final contract language by See LOCAL, Page 7 should be By JULIE ROVNER The unique upcoming mayoral election, tentatively slated for April 3, is already posing a number of in- teresting questions for city officials,° including whether or not the name of Diana Slaughter, last year's Socialist Human Rights Party (SHRP) candi- date will appear on the ballot. In last year's election, Slaughter received 356 votes to incumbent Democrat Albert Wheeler's 10,560 and Republican Fifth Ward Council- man Louis Belcher's 10,559. "I'VE BEEN wondering whether I'd be on the ballot .too," said Slaughter. "I think I should and I intend to, because I was part of the last election and I think I should be part of this one."~ As of now, no one really knows whether or not Slaughter would be in- cluded in the election because, officially at least, there is no election yet. The whole question centers around whether the contest would really be a totally new election or just a run-off of last year's results. The answer will not be clear until visiting judge James Kelley issues his ruling formally legalizing Wednesday's agreement between Wheeler and Belcher which settles Belcher's 10- month-old lawsuit. That ruling is expected by early next week. UNTIL THEN, all attorneys in the case, including city attorney Bruce on ballot Laidlaw, who is representing City Clerk Jerome Weiss, are under a gag order from Kelley and cannot com- ment. "Personally, I'd love to see her run again," said Belcher, "but I'm sure that Kelley's ruling will address that' issue. I think that it's probably going to be some kind of a run-off." Slaughter saidalthough she would like to be on the ballot, she would not Slaughter WASHINGTON (AP)-The pitch of the Panama Canal debate rose markedly yesterday as senators on op- posing sides interrupted each other repeatedly to challenge assertions about the proposed new treaty. Growing exasperated by the tactic, Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), trying to deliver a long speech in favor of ratification, said he no longer would yield for more than one question from any senator. LEADING OFF the second day of a debate that is expected to, last several weeks, Byrd got into a heated exchange with opponents on the question of whether the original 1903 treaty bet- ween the United States and Panama was signed by a Panamanian or a Frenchman. Sen. James Allen (D-Ala.), a leader of the opposition to the treaties, quoted from one reference book to contend that the 1903 document was signed by nine Panamanians. Holding a different reference in hand, Byrd said Allen was mistaken,that the only signature on behalf of Panama on the original treaty was that of Phillipe Bunau-Varilla, a Frenchman who negotiated on behalf of the Central American country. * BYRD WENT on to quote Bunau- Varilla's letter of resignation after Webster confirmed as FBIdirector completion of the negotiations. The senator quoted the negotiator as saying he had completed his mission and that "I have served France." Leaning -toward the opponents, the book still open in his hand, Byrd said, "He had served France. Not Panama, not the United States... "THOSE WERE his words 'I have served'"-then slamming the book shut with a crack that echoed through the chamber-"France," shouted the majority leader. Both Democratic and Republican leaders conceded they aren't likely to make any points with the voters back home, no matter which way they vote. Relinquishing the Panama Canal "is a killer issue politically," said Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker of Ten- nessee. From a political st4ndpoint, Baker said, a senator can stay even or lose, "but you can't profit from it." BYRD AND BAKER, beginning the second day of an emotional, freewheeling debate on the issue, See PANAMA, Page 12 Friday Pauline Toole reports on a number of assaults occurring outside local restaurants. See story, Page 2. mount an active campaign. "After all," she said, "I didn't campaign actively last year. We figured it out and I still got more votes per dollar - spent than either of the other candi- dates. Belcher spend $7.50 for every vote, Wheeler spent about $2, and I. spent only seven cents for every vote I got." WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. Appeals Judge William Webster won Senato confirmation yesterday to a 10-year term as director of the FBI. Webster, confirmed by voice vote, will succeed Clarence Kelley, who is retiring. THE 53-YEAR-OLD Webster has been serving as a judge of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis. Leaning of his confirmation at his St. told the Senate Judiciary Committee. "I accept that 100 per cent." Webster was President Carter's second choice to replace Kelley. The president's first selection, U.S. District Judge Frank Johi son of Alabama, withdrew because of medical problems. WEBSTER'S NEW boss, Attorney General Griffin Bell, has described the judge as a sound person of moderate views and one in whom the American nnnrlPca n havennfidence- ~in~Jwruuua~.