msu's LEAD See Editorial Page j L.tr Wan ~aILg RADICAL High-y6ys Low-56° k See Today for details Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 146 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, April 4, 1978 Ten Cents 12 Pages Plus Supplement REPUBLICANS CAPTURE CITY HALL Beleher winner by slim margin I I Housing proposals win by wide margin GOP wins I big in 3 out of 5 It ist apparent that Louis Belcher's long, arduous struggle to be njayor of *.the city of Ann Arbor ended in success last night. At 12:15, with only the absen- tee ballots in the Second Ward still to be counted, Belcher was ahead by over 200 votes. An official in the City Clerk's of- fice said that there were not enough ab- sentee ballots in the ward for Wheeler to make up the difference. In claiming victory last night Belcher said, "This has been the longest cam- paign in the history of the United States." Then turning to his Republican supporters he continued, "This is the group that is going to go out and repair the first 100 potholes tomorrow." DEMOCRAT ALBERT Wheeler was not convinced he had lost, and went to bed without conceding defeat. - The ,election will certainly come un- der very close scrutiny as did last year's election. A recount will probably be requested- If Belcher is declared the winner, last night's election results will give him a seven to four Republican majority on the new City Council. AT 11:30 LAST night, Albert Wheeler left Bacchus Gardens on State Street unsure as to whether he would be mayor of the city for the next year. At 11:15 Louis Belcher had proclaimed a 450 vote victory at the Republican camp in the Holiday Inn on Jackson Road. "I'm going home to go to bed. I've been up for 18 hours," said Wheeler. "I'll find out in the morning." BELCHER CLAIMED to have the vote count from city hall. But the totals from the city clerk's office differed from the totals the Republicans were hearing. At midnight, with only the First and Second Ward absentee totals left to be counted, Belcher had 14,188 votes and Wheeler had 14,079. Although the First and Second Wards are traditionally democratic, officials at the Clerk's of- fice predicted that Wheeler would not win enough of the absentee, votes in. those wards to overcome the 109 vote margin. THIS WAS not the first classicly tight campaign in the city. Last Aprilr. Wheeler defeated Belcher by one vote and the election was' contested in thetg courts for eight months, The contestan- ts struck a compromise and decided to hold an election to finish out the last year of the disputed term. s Belcher, 38, is the former Mayor Pro- Republican caucus. ' He is a management consultant for the First Ann Arbor Corporation and AY teaches at several local institutions on 3. the side. Belcher had gone through great pains a . in the latest campaign to emphasize his ti role as a "moderate" Republican, 4 wearing his hair fashionably long, and, .. at one event, offering students a "brew ;..~., ith Lou" at the Blue Frogge bar early in . . . . . . Belcher came out in favor of repairing Ann Arbor's pock-marked Daily Photo by ANDY FREEBERO streets with great haste and construc- GERALD BELL POINTS out the early election tallies as a pensive Lou Belcher looks on. In an election almost to close to See GOP, Page 9 call Belcher sneaked by his opponent incumbent Al Wheeler. city wards ,. r Park probe implicates 30 By KEITH RICHBURG With victories last night in all their expected bastions, pluswasurprise bonus win in the "swing ward" - the fourth - Republicans broke the par- tisan deadlock of the last three years by winning six votes on Council and the Mayor's seat. For Republicans, the return to power was practically a clean sweep, their only loss being the all-but-expected ousting of Republican Wendell Allen in the First Ward.. And with seven Council votes-six plus the Mayor's-the Republicans now have enough votes to push through any initiatives as well as override any veto. Sixvotes on Council plus the Mayor's seat is a rarity in Ann Arbor, and may mark a blow for the Democratic party that they will be hard-pressed to recover from next year, IN A RACE once deemed too-close- to-call, Democrat Susan Greenberg trounced Republican incumbent Wen- dell Allen by a margin of more than two-to-one. Although Greenberg was considered the favorite in the traditionally Democratic ward, the size of last night's victory was an unexpected vic- tory for the 38-year-old homemaker. On hearing of her victory, Greenberg said, "So I won. So what?" I really didn't think the margin would be so big. I may have to wear a football helmet to protect me from all the shit that's going to fly when (Fourth ward Republican David) Fisher gets on Council." ALLEN, THE BIG loser, disappared as the returns showed he was losing, and was nowhere to be found. Newly elected Fourth Ward Councilman David Fisher said Allen was "unusually quiet" before he left, and "was walking around shrugging his shoulders." With all the votes counted, Greenberg had 3,246 votes to Allen's 1,523. Write-in candidate Bruce Richard, running on the Socialist party platform, got only See BELCHER, Page 9 WASHINGTON (UPI) - South. Korean businessman Tongsun Park yesterday testified in public for the first time before a congressional committee trying to determine if his admitted payments of $750,000 to 30 congressmen were legitimate gifts or bribes. In his opening remarks, the millionaire rice dealer told the House Ethics Committee he was sorry for "certain things that I did" to promote "the national interests of Korea and the United States." BUT HE DENIED he had acted im- properly. Park's appearance came a year and a half after he left Washington in the midst of allegations that the gover- nment in Seoul was trying to buy congressmen to maintain a favorable U.S. policy toward South Korea. Park, who has already testified in private to Justice Department in- vestigators and the House and Senate ethics committees, returned for questions today from the House panel's chief counsel, Leon Jaworski - the former Watergate special prosecutor. PARK SAID he was "embarrassed" by the notoriety that had engulfed him. "I'm sure I made some mistakes," Park said in discussing his past Washington activities. "I have no problem in admitting that." He resented being called "a swin- dler," Park said, and stressed he had done nothing improper. "I WANT to tell you what I have done constitutes an American success story on a small scale," he told the committee. The committee is attempting to see if any congressman "accepted anything of value directly or indirectly" from Korean officials or their inter- mediaries. But there was every expectation that when Park completes three days of testimony, not much new will have been learned. MOST OF what Park is expected to tell the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct - the ethics com- mittee - will be confirmation of what has already been leaked or otherwise reported in the press. Park, given immunity from prosecution for his cooperation with Congress, has admitted giving congressmen $750,000 in "contribu- tions" in the early 1970s, but never publicly said who got the money. Jaworski said Park is "going to be required ... to state specifically what contributions. he made" to congressmen in his years as a wealthy Washington socialite. Following is the list of congressmen to whom South Korean rice dealer Tongsun Park testified yesterday he had made payments. FORMER REP. Ross Adair, R-Ind., $500 in 1970. Former Rep. William Ayres, R-Oh., $500 in 1970. Rep. John Brademas,°D-Ind., a total oif $5,250 including a $500 check in 1970, forgiveness of $1,800 in 1972 for expen- ses for a fund raising event at Park's George Town Club and $2,950 in 1974 in cash.I See PARK, Page 5 $200 OF MARIJUANA APPROVED FOR PRE-HASH BASH: Bursley Board OKd pot party by BRIAN BLANCHARD Last Friday, on the eve of the Hash Bash, Bursley party-goers were treated to free joints rolled from three-quarters of a pound of marijuana worth $200 - money approved for the purpose by the Bursley Board of Governors. Of the six Board members present at a meeting held last Wednesday, four have said they were aware at the time that half of the $400 they approved for a party given on the fourth floor of the Van Hoosen wing would be used to buy pot. The other two members of the student board in attendance, freshper- sons Rolf Pielemeir and Michele Pick- ett, were not available for comment. The money came from Bursley Enter- prises, a student fund supported by, the Bursley Store, pinball machines, and movie fees. "WE TALKED about it beforehand," said sophomore Board member Douglas Steinberg, a Michigan. Student Assembly (MSA) Student General Counsel, and President of the Univer- sity Housing Council. "We looked at it closely at it and did it. We just wanted to have a party." "Everybody on the Board knew about it," said freshperson Sally Eibert, a Board member and a candidate for the dTuesday * President Carter returns from his second major trip abroad after' warning South Literary College (LSA) Student Gover-c nment. "We just wanted to do something a little different." Eibert said that pot smoking was restricted to dorm rooms and "we were told by staff that as long as we kept it in the rooms we were okay." But two of the student-elected Board members, Freshperson Christine Hur- st and Sophomore Jacquelyn Adams, said yesterday that they were not at the meeting and did not approve of the ac- tion. BOARD TREASURER Adams said, "I don't know anything about the in- cident." Adams went on to say that af- ter the meeting, she signed the check not knowing that the money would be used for anything but the usual party fare of beer and food. Hurst said she wasn't in Ann Arbor when the meeting took place and that she disapproved of the vote. One Bursley student, who asked to remain anonymous said a crowd left the Hamilton-Sanford section of the large North Campus dorm at around 10 p.m. in what was called a "buffalo stampede" for the Van Hoosen party, and the joints. "It was a pretty good time," he said. "THERE WERE people from all over the dorm there," said Board member Tim Lambert, an LSA sophomore. "There were a bunch of smiling people, it was a good time." But Lambert added he fears "we might be labeled irresponsible" for the vote. He also said he had reservations about the decision since there might have been the possibility of political gains on the part of the Board with the MSA elections approaching next week. "It was just a party," said Engineering Sophomore Eric ,Nilson. "The idea was to show that there can be See BURSLEY, Page 12 LSA professors overwhelmingly approve new distribution plans By SHELLEY WOLSON After heated discussion and four defeated amendments, LSA faculty members yesterday overwhelmingly voted to approve a proposal for flexible distribution requirements which will affect this fall's incoming freshpersons. Under the new plan, candidates for the Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Science (BS) degrees must choose between one of three distribution pat- terns. These three pattern choices are now revised as follows: * Pattern A - The student must com- plete the equivalent of at least one course (for three or more credits) in out an individual distribution plan that. reflects exposure to a variety of dif- ferent methodologies and approaches to intellectual experience. This plan should include courses in at least five different departments but no more than two courses in a single department. A student who chooses this option must file an individual distribution plan by the end of the sophomore year with the Counseling Office. " Pattern C - The student must com- plete at least three courses carrying at least three credit hours each outside the field of concentration in each of the areas of humanities, social science and The new plan will affect only in- coming freshpersons this fall. Students now enrolled are subject to the old requirements. Many faculty members opposed chemistry professor John Wiseman's two amendments to Pattern A and Pat- tern C. The amendments which eliminated the category of creative ex- pression from Pattern A and required two courses from each of the four remaining areas failed heavily. Dean Knott said he opposed the amendment because by eliminating creative expression, it "strikes the in- tent to preserve the flexibility to Daily.Photo by BRAD BENJAMIN NINETY-ONE-YEAR-OLD Florence Luscomb speaks about her expei4- ences in the early days of the women's movement to a group at Rackham last night. Flo Lusob You've come a long way . 0 . By PAULINE TOOLE Florence Luscomb went to her first women's rights rally when she was five. The year was 1892. Last night, the 91-year-old women's rights activist kept her audience in Rackham Auditorium enthralled as she regaled the audience! with a description of her student days at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Luscomb, one of only twelve women enrolled in the, school with 1,200 men, graduated in 1909 with a degree in architecture.