ST. JOE'S See Editorial Page it A :43, iii FICKLE High - 38* Low -- 25° Latest Deadline in the State See Today for details Vol. LXXXVI I, No. 126 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, March 2, 1977 Ten Cents E fr i -r r rx r r rT!"\T r' W Tl- a T TT. MW f CAi 'm Vr r A -T WT TT. --rTr---.w1iT ~ . 1 r ' ight Pages .~ ~C :F YOUSEE ,NFWS fHtAPPE NCALL -5DALt Future Worlds If you're planning to be back from spring break a day early and you're wondering how you're going to cope with this near-deserted town, be sure not to miss the Future World's lecture at Hill Audi- torium Sunday night, March 13 at 7 p.m. Yes, we know Future Worlds always has its lectures on Monday nights; but this one promises to be espe- cially good. E. F. Schumaker, the author of Small is Beautiful; Economics as if People Mattered, will be speaking. Admission, as usual, is free. Project Outreach Friday is the absolute and final deadline for anybody wishing to participate in the Project Out- reach Spring Internship Program, "Adolescents in Stress Situations." No applications will be ac- cepted afterwards. Call 764-9279 for more informa- tion. Happenings... are scarce as hen's teeth today, folks. At noon, you can take your tuna sandwich over to the Brown Bag Lunch Series at the International Center, 603 E. Madison, where you can find out about "Planning a Summer Abroad" . . . at '7:30 p.m. you might shuffle over to the Angela Davis Lounge at Markeley Hall, where the Inter-Cooper- ative Council affirmative action committee holds an information session on its minority recruitment program. Refreshments will be served . . . On the other hand, you could tkot over to Trotter House around the same time to see the film "From These Roots" Raid on Wichita It was perfectly timed. The Rev. Ron Adrian was addressing his audience, telling him about his fight against the forces of smut and filth. "I'm fighting for the rights of my wife and my children, your wives and your children," he said. Sudden- ly, a pair of buck-naked men scampered across the stage in front of the 2,500 Wichita residents who'd gathered to plan their attack on the por- nographers. The unclothed commandoes, who wore sneakers to protect their feet, ran past District Attorney Vern Miller, Police Chief Richord La- munyon and- six other local legal bigwigs. Some crowd members pursued the pair and tackled one streaker; the other man, however, escaped. His identity is still unknown, and police have been un- able to pry any information out of his captured comrade. Thus ends, another daring raid deep into the enemy's territory. Vinceremos! Ray Charles attacked it's hard to imagine anybody hating soul singer Ray Charles enough to want to kill him. But some- one tried to do just that Monday night. Charles was performing at a benefit concert in Los A, geles' Music Center when a man came onstage, wrapped a microphone cord around his neck and began tugging on it. Others came to Ray's aid, though, and pulled the assailant away. Police, who arrived after the incident, said the man was not identified and no complaint has been filed. The benefit concert was for a group called "Project Heavy" which works through youth gangs in the L. A. area, and the assailant is said to have been a member of the group. The matter, police say, will be handled through the organization. ! Food for thought For those of you who are forever in quest of the "different" course, consider Prof. Bert Gor- don's class at Mills College entitled "A Taste of History." Yes folks, those lucky tuition-paying students at the Oakland, Calif. institution can go back through the ages via the menus of the times. And according to Gordon, the history of food is a meatier subject than one might think. For instance, what you eat provides a clue to where you see yourself in the social scheme of things, says Gordon. In modern America, for example, the boom in wine sales indicates a desire for upward mobility among its drinkers. "It's more chic to drink wine," Gordon claims, "beer is thought to be sort of lower middle class and Archie Bunkeresque." Gordon also offers some more philosophical thoughts. "People don't eat with their stomachs," observes Gordon," they eat with their eyes and minds. If we just ate what was good for us, we'd be eating seaweed and plankton." Let's hope food service doesn't get wind of this. Ott the ftnside.. , Amin lets the Americans go and New York is going down the tubes again. Read about it in the Daily news digest on Page 2 . . . Marnie Heyn talks about Russian jokes in her column on the Edit Page . . . Arts Page features Michael Broidy's review of "Twilight's Last Gleaming" . . . and Sports Page contains Henry Engelhardt's psy- chological portrait of basketballer Steve Grote . . Mayor s By PHILLIP BOKOVOY Incumbent Democratic Mayor Albert Wheeler is facing a strong, well-financed and highly or- ganized challenge from Republican Fifth Ward Councilman Louis Belcher on April 4 in what promises to be a near repeat of the 1975 may- oral election. Human Rights Party (HRP) candidate Diana Slaughter, meanwhile, is nounting a challenge from the left -- attacking Wheeler where he can least afford to lose. WHEELER WON A NARROW 112-vote vic- tory the last time around with the help of the controversial preferential voting (PV) system. The PV system, engineered by the HRP to counter cries of 'a vote for HRP is a vote for the Republicans' by city Dems, allowed the voter to indicate a second choice on his ballot. If no candidate received 51 per cent of the vote, the one with the lowest total was thrown out of HrUSIIG AND MASS TRANSIT KEY ISSUES race: ust .,as. close gas eves the race and his or her second choice votes were tallied. City voters repealed PV in last April's elections. Since there is no PV this year, Slaughter poses a serious threat to Wheeler's chances in a close election. If she siphons off enough radical support, Wheeler could be in trouble. On the other hand, if he actively flirts with city radi- cals, the mayor stands to alienate Arin Arbor's increasingly middle-of-the-road electorate. BELCHER HAS MADE highly visible efforts to broaden his political base - proposing an energy recovery waste disposal system and prom- ising students help in their fight against a seri- ous housing shortage and generally poor rental opportunities. But Slaughter says she's not a spoiler. She is "running mostly for educational purposes . I think it's important for me, as HRP has done See MAYORAL, Page 3 Slaughter Wheeler Belcher Mediator halts new Daily Photo by CHRISTJNA SCHNEIDER JOHN TRUDELL, Chairman of the American Indian Movement addressed a large audience last night. Tru- dell spoke as part of a Forum on Native Americans. American values blasted by Indians By PAULINE TOOLE In June, 1975, three men were killed during a gun battle at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Two were FBI agents. The other was an Indian man. Charges were brought against four; Indians for the murder of the FBI agents. No action was taken about the death of the Indian. Charges were dropped against two of the men, one was ac- quitted, and the fourth, Leonard Peltier, will go to trial on March 14. Last night, John Trudell and Selo Black Crow spoke to a large crowd in the Michigan Union Pendleton Room about Peltier, and the Indian movement, in general, as part of a See TRUDELL, Page 3 By BOB ROSENBAUM Renewed contract talks be- tween the University and strik- ing campus service workers broke down yesterday, ending hopes that a quick end to the walkout was in sight. Less than two hours after ne- gotiations started, state-appoint- ed mediator Thomas Badoud ad- journed the session and wouldn't schedule a future meeting be- tween the University and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes (AFSCME, Local 1583). "HE ASCERTAINED that we were such a great distance apart that no fruitful negotia- tions could take place at this time," Chief University bargain- er William Neff said of the mediator. AFSCME offered essentially the same wage proposals at yesterday's session as it offered when talks fist began" last No- vember. - The union is demanding a $1.04 per hour wage hike over a three-year period - nearly a 15 per cent increase - along with the removal of a cap on cost of living allowances. UNIVERSITY bargainers yes- terday offered a 22-cent per hour wage raise over me year, with a provision for a wage AFSCME of 5S cenms per hour, adjustment over a second year. The University's proposal is considerably less than the ear- lier tentative settlement with or five per cent ,increase over two years which was arrived AFSCM-.D-E at with the help of a mediator. However, it is an improvement over the University's final of- fer of 20 cents over one year, given before the mediator step- ped in. Union Local President Joel Block called yesterday's Univer- sity offer a "slap in the face to the union as well as to the community at large." "TWENTY-TWO CENTS is a sad joke," Block added. AFSCME bargaining leader Art Anderson said he was "dis- appointed, but not at all sur- prised" that the University in- creased its offer by only two cents. Badoud met with each side separately yesterday and decided that both versity and the union ready to negotiate. morning the Uni- were not "I WILL CONTINUE to keep in' contact with either side and when I feel there has been some movement one way or the oth- er, I will call another meet- ing," Badoud said. Yesterday was the first time the two teams met at the table since February 16, when an in- itial settlement was reached: However, AFSCME members overwhelmingly rejected the settlement and walked off their jobs last Wednesday. "The parties are really far apart," the mediator said. "A nickel or, a couple of pennies movement either way won't mat- ter very much." "TIME WILL HAVE some ef- fect on what happens," he add- ed. Although both sides said they are willing to meet again, neith- er have any intention of initiat- ing another round of talks them- selves. The mediator will be left with the responsibility, they said. With yesterday's fruitless ses- sion, University and AFSCME officials have admittedly lost their hopes for a "short" strike. NEFF SAID he sees "an ex- See MEDIATOR, Page 3 talks Jury selection begins in VA trial of two. Filipino nurses By Renter and UPI DETROIT - Painstaking questioning by a fed- eral judge produced six tentative jury members yesterday as dthe trial opened for two Filipino nurses charged with poisoning patients at Ann Ar- bor's Veteran's Administration (VA) hospital. Despite the apparent progress, attorneys for both sides estimated it would take two weeks to empanel 12 jurors and four alternates in the con- troversial case. AFTER THE JURY is tentatively filled, defense and government lawyers can challenge individuals and force other selections. U.S. District Judge Philip Pratt spent the day carefully questioning jury candidates, warning them that international publicity and the complex issues in the case required unusual procedures: As he questioned each prospect, Filipina Nar- ciso, 30, rand Leonora Perez, 32, sat calmly be- side their four defense attorneys with rows o1 seats behind them filled by relatives and friends. THE NURSES ARE named in a 10-count grand jury indictment alleging they injected Pavulon, a powerful muscle relaxant, into nine intensive care patients at the VA hospital in July and August of 1975. The nurses, who have lived in the United States for about six years. are charged with two counts of murder, seven counts .of poisoning, and one count of conspiracy to harm patients. The defendants were originally indicted last June after an 18-month investigation by the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation. The original charges were five counts of murder, 10 counts of poisoning and one count of conspiracy. The charges were later dropped and the nurses were indicted again last month. THE CASE HAS stirred great interest in the See JURY, Page 3 SURPRISE INSPECTION BY MAYOR: Wh views housing By STU McCONNELL City building inspectors checking out a ramshackle boarding house on Oakland St. yesterday were surprised when a car pulled up containing not just another inspector, but Ann Arbor Mayor Albert Wheeler. "I've been meaning to do this for some time," chirped Wheel-, er to the inspectors. "Somebody on my campaign staff said 'dammit, if you're going to talk about housing, go see it!"' 'INSPECTORS ARVIL PAT- TON and Pete Peterson were pleased to have the mayor along on the tour of the dilapi- / dated structure at 1030 Oakland, but didn't quite know what to do with him besides answer his questions about housing code violations. "What aboutathat gutter up there,, Pete?" he asked, point- ing to a damaged metal rain gutter on the third floor of the house. "Well. there's two things they can do," Peterson replied duti- f'ily. "Either they can repair it, or they can just take 'em o t. Code says if thev're there, get in his car and takes off," December weren't paying rent said Peterson. anyway. Wheeler was a fount of ques- "We never had a complaint tions. "When was the' building on this building from the ten- last occupied?" . . . "What do ants, even when the heat was we do about that (pointing to a shut off," he said. "The com- pile of mattresses in the boiler plaint we got was from the po- room)?" lice department, about people moving in and out on the week- "Y'KNOW, IT'S an interest- end." ing thing," mused Wheeler as he surveyed several empty A C C O M P A N Y I N G rooms. "The tenants all had to the inspectors were two repre- move out, but where did they sentatives of a Southfield in- go? I haven't seen any tents or yestor who hopes. to make the anything." house liveable and then rent it Patton theorized that the peo- out. "Half of the houses in Ann ple in the building until last See WHEELER, Page 3 GEO may vote, on strkeref eretidum By BARBARA ZAHS Faced:with a lengthy legal battle before a new contract can be approved, members of the Graduate Employes Organization (GEO) steward's council decided Monday to issue a proposal to the union's general membership to authorize a strike vote. Members will decide at a general meeting March 17 whether 1 -E Y .