MINIS'TER RESIGNS See Editorial Page Y t ita ~alL SPLOSHY High--3S0 Low-23* See Today for details Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVII, No. 124 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, February 27, 1977 Ten Cents Eight Pages plus Supplement I f . 'F U SEE NEfSAPPD. CALL ) {MJLY False alarms Residents of Markley Hall have gotten more than their share of exercise lately. Fire scares yesterday afternoon and Friday night sent stu- dents scurrying outside for safety. Turns out the problem Friday night was smoke from an over- heated elevator motor. Spokespersons for the Ann Arbor fire department and the University's utili- ties department said a sudden drop in electrical current throughout the University caused the motor to overheat. The problem has since been correct- ed. Yesterday afternoon, residents got another scare when smoke was reported on the building's fifth and sixth floors. The dormitory was again evacuated, but Ann Arbor fire officials respond- ing to the call found no fire. 0 Uganda report By AP and Reuter S 4ericans sa fe NAIROBI, Kenya - Ugandan President Idi Amin has no intention of holding as hostages the 240 Amer- icans being detained in neighboring Uganda for a meeting with Amin Monday morning, Uganda Radio said yesterday. "This has never crossed his mind," the govern- ment-controlled radio quoted an Amin spokesperson as saying, "He has never thought of making any of them hostages. It is the U. S. imperialists putting words into his mouth." AFTER AMIN ordered his forces Friday not to allow any Americans to legve Uganda, a spokesper- son for President Carter said the United States would do "whatever is necessary" to save American lives. A four-ship U. S. Navy task force led by the nu- clear-powered carrier Enterprise cruised off East Africa yesterday, and military analysts in Washing-. ton said military staff officers doubtlessly were con- sidering possible options in case of an emergency. But U. S. officials played down the possibility of a military mission to rescue the Americans. And Car- ter told reporters he believes the Ugandan situation is "going to be all right." SECRETARY OF State Cyrus Vance said yester- day he believed Americans who have been barred from leaving Uganda will be safe and a crisis over the situation will be averted. At the same time, the White House issued a state- ment saying the United States welcomed Uganda's assurances of safety for the more than 200 Ameri- cans, but said it remained concerned about their welfare. Amin was quoted by Uga-da Radio as saying he is ready to meet any "task forces." This may have *been a reference to his earlier charge, denied by the White House, that 5,000 U. S. Marines were pois- ed to invade Uganda. THE U. S. force in the Indian Ocean is several hundred miles from landlocked Uganda. It is com- posed of the Enterprise, for the cruisers Truxton and Long Beach, the submarine Tautog and 200 Marines. Military officials said the Enterprise does not have enough helicopters to mount an airlift to rescue the U. S. nationals. Gen. George Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday night he believes "reason will prevail." Asked whether the United States could protect its citizens in Uganda, Brown replied, "I think that the United States has adequate forces to respond to any likely contingelcy anywhere in the world." THE AlMET CANS i7 Urnlda include missionaries scattered around the countryside and some civilian See U.S., Page 2 Amin Happenings.--. start off with a day of cross-country skiing sponsored by the Department of Recreational Sports beginning at 9 a.m. For reservations or more information call 764-7415 . then at 9:30join the Adult Forum at the Unitarian Church, 1917 Washtenaw, for a discussion of communal living relax until 3 p.m when the Sunday Gay Dis- cussion group presents a poetry reading at Can- terbury House, Catherine aid Division ... at 3:30 Senator Gilbert Bursley will speak on "The State, the Community, and the Arts" at the Michigan League... Local Motion sponsors a community forum at Corntree Co-op, 1910 Hill, at 4 ... to satiate those early evening munchies, the Uni- versity Club on the main floor of the Union offers discounted buffet meals for dorm residents and fraternity and sorority folks whose houses don't serve Sunday dinner ... for those v/ho prefer a more casual meal Hillel, 1429 Hill, offers a deli at 6 followed by the film "Shalom of Safed" ... at 7 the Women's Health Collective holds an in- troductory meeting at 117 N. First ... Naval Archi- tect and yacht designer Gary Mull lectures at 8 in Room 311, West Engineering ... Leo Kotke and Leon Redbone perform at Hill Auditorium at 8 . or end your day with a recording, of a Cecil Taylor concert on WCBN. Monday kicks off with a meeting of the Support Group for Single Parents at the Center for Continuing Education for Wom- en, 328 Thompson, at 9:30 a.m. ... all is quiet unil 4 p.m. when a seminar on Science, Public Participation, and Design: a Case Study in Inter- action, is presented in 1040 Dana Bldg. ,.. at 7:30 return to the CEW for "Speeded Reading and Study Efficiency," a refresher course in student skills ... the Washtenaw Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind holds its monthly meet- ing in the basement of the Ann Arbor Public library, Fifth and William, at 7:30 ... at 7 see Sam Love's slide show "Remember Tomorrow" part of the Future Worlds lecture series at Rack- ham Auditorium ... finally at 8 Deneice Williamrs at the Dramatics perform at Hill Auditorium. " By any other narrme... Violets - and a host of other flowers, for that matter - were blue Friday when the results of the National Flower Election were announced. The winner, with 125,253 votes, was the rose, and sup- porters of other floral candidates were disgruntled. "How the hell could the r6se be No. 1?" asked a Stillwell, Indiana housewife and outspoken mari- gold booster. "Roses today cost $35 a dozen." "The national flower really should be the thistle," grumbled a voter in Houghton, Michigan. "It's like Congress - blooms every four years and never does anything." Mariquana made a surpris ingly strong write-in showing, placing 30th with 1,306 votes, and Sen. Hubert Humphrey noted that the marijuana vote "finished up on a high." " Failed, you say? It could have been Bailey Dean's last cup of coffee. Dean, a Philadelphia teacher, reprimand- ed a 16-year-old student Thursday for swearing and being disruptive in class. Yesterday, the stu- dent offered him a cup of coffee in what Dean considered a gesture of reconciliation. After a tiny sip, though, he began to feel ill; after re- porting to the school nurse, he was rushed to the hospital. The student, it seems, had liberally laced Dean's coffee with hydrochloric acid - enough to turn his insides 'into soup. Dean was treated and released, the student was arrested and turn- ed over to his parents pending a hearing Mon- day, and school officials are wondering where the hydrochloric acid came from. Let that be a lesson to professors wavering between C-minuses and D-pluses. On tthe inside... ... check the Page 3 News Digest for all the national and international news ... co-editors Ann Marie Lipinski and Jim Tobin and editorial di- rector Ken Parsigian present The Week in Re- view on the Editorial Page ... the Sunday Maga- zine features an interview with Ernie Harburg, son of E. Y. "Yip" Harburg who composed the score of the Wizard of Oz, by Ann Marie Lipin- ski ... get all the details of yesterday's basket- ball game from Don MacLachlin and Tom Cameron on Sports Page. 0 UNION TO REMAIN ON STRIKE By BOB ROSENBAUM The University and striking campus service vorkers have agreed to return to the bargain- ing table - at the request of a state-appointed mediator - but union leaders assert that 'em- ployes will not return to their jobs until a new contract is rat- ified. The meeting, scheduled for next Tuesday at 10 a.m., will be the first negotiating session be- tween the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes (AFSCME, Local 1583) and the University since February 16. "I felt it was\ time we got back back together," Michigan Employment Relations Commis- sion (MERC) mediator Thomas Badoud said in regard to the newly scheduled talks. Badoud 1S~E to 70 1" talk Tuesday. will be present at Tuesday's talks. REPRESENTATIVES for both the University and AFSCME said they were not surprised that the mediator requested the meeting. Since .the walkout began last Wednesday, each side declared a willingness to negotiate, but placed the responsibility of ini- tiating talks on the other. The University acknowledged it was waiting for the union to "cool off" 'before returning to bargaining. AFSCME said it wanted the University to exper- ience some hardships from the walkout before a meeting was arranged. THE PARTIES admit they will have little idea of what to do when they face each other across the long table this week. ~ 9 Ogcuis nEot the onlyV Soviet to visi U' By ROBERT WALT If the only three living people from the Soviet Union you can think of are Lennid Brezhnev, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Olga Korbut, you're not alone. According to the University's two visiting professors from the U.S.S.R., few Americans know what life is re-lly like in the Soviet Union. B-t Sergei G'ibin and Vladislav Luferenko, who have been in the United States since August, say that while there really isn't much difference between the standard of living in the two countries, some facets of American culture have surprised them. THE TWO SOVIETS are doing research at the University until June as part of a U.S.-Soviet professor exchange program. They say one of the most noticeable differences between the universities the two taught at in the Soviet Union and those here is the freedom students have in choosing their own curriculum. "At the college in Dontsky (located in the Southern Ukraine) where I teach," said Luferenko, a 34-year-old mathematician, "Students have their first three years of college standardized. See RUSSIAN, Page 5 The last time they met, a ten- tative contract settlement was agreed upon, the product of al- most four months of negotia- tions. Union membership last week rejected, by an 80 per cent mar- gin, the agreement reached by its bargaining team. "I DON'T know how long (Tuesday's) meeting will last," University attorney William Lemmer said. "It could last for five minutes, five hours or five days." AFSCME bargaining leader Art Anderson said his team in- tends to present a list of union demands to the University at the talks. "The people have made some demands and mandated us to get them." Anderson said. "I presime we won't get a contract until every one of those de- mands are met." THE SETTLEMENT was re- jected because of its wage of- ferings. AFSCME sought nearly a 15 per cent pay raise over three years, but finally ended up with only a five per cenit in- crease over two years. Union Local President Joel Block says the strike will con- tinue as long as the University refuses to recognize the "just demands of this union." Yesterday's fourth day of the walkout was marked by a bi- zarre morning incident at the University laundry facilities, where a member of the AFSCME bargaining team was hit by a truck driven by the leader of the University bar- gaining team. TIM SEGUIN, a colleague of Anderson's on the AFSCME bargaining team, was helping oversee a group of union picket- ers at the University laundry fa- cilities near North Campus, un- ion witnesses say, when a truck they were attempting to slow down suddenly picked up speed See AFSCME, Page 5 Daily Photo by PAULINE LUBENS TIM SEGUIN, a member of AFSCME's bargaining team, is tended to by ambulance work- ers after being knocked down by a laundry truck while picketing yesterday morning. The Uni- versity's chief bargainer, William Neff, was driving the vehicle. Seguin fwasn't seriously in- jured. Blue slip by. MSU, 69-65 By DON MacLACHLAN Michigan scored six unanswered points in the first 2:05 of overtime and held off a determined Michigan State rally to down the Spartans 69-65 yesterday and just about lock up a fourth straight invitation to the NCAA tournament. After the teams, battled to a 57-57 deadlock in regulation time, John Robinson canned a lay-up six seconds into the overtime ses- sion to give the Wolverines the lead for good, 59-57. WITH 3:12'LEFT Phil Hubbard hit on a lay-up and 17 seconds later Green scored on a rebound of a Hubbard miss to give Michi- gan a 63-57 lead. The Spartans refused to fold and managed to pull within two, 67-65, with 12 seconds to play, on a lay-up by forward -Greg Kelser, the game's high scorer with 25 points. However, Green was intentionally fouled by Spartan guard Terry Donnelly on the inbounds pass. The senior All-American, who had converted only two of six free throws in the game, iced the victory for the Wolverines as he swished both charity tosses giving Michigan its third straight win. "WE'RE VERY HAPPY to win that one," said Michigan coach Johnny Orr. "It was a battle to the end.' "We're elated with the win," Orr added. "I think this will clinch our NCAA bid. Now we've got to go on the road for two games and if we win one we'll be tied and if we win both, we'll definitely be the Big Ten chamoion." '".Yb w": :" :" ":":d d : Lam.. "'Al _ ''4':: <' k" t? ..W .:. .:: .," ?i.,,...:. ,.. ...t.,. ., ... ....v'!'.. .'' _.. :? X'd. .'i. S6' . ,a :4C ::". {:::',:: L.... ..... .. ::i';" J ''U ' ..... ........ .... .... .. . JW:tb... .....",..: v..... .