DIAL-A- CARTER See Editorial Page Y Sfr&iAu 4)atl' SQUISHY igh -49° Low-30° Latest Deadline in the State See Today for detal is Vol. LXXXVII, No. 128 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, March 4, 1977 Ten Cents Ten Pages i _,. ._._ ~t U SE NLEWS HA.PPCALL .-4Jjj' Au revoir There's a time to reap and a time to sow, a time to work and a time to rest-and then there's a time to go to Florida. In other words, like all mortals at this great institution of learning, we're going to take next week off. Cherish today's Daily for it will be the last issue before the great March mi- gration. Look for us again Tuesday, March 15. In the meantime, eat, drink and be merry. Qops! In our Feb. 22 article on the Ann Arbor Transit Authority's efforts to encourage downtown em- ployes to take, the bus to work, we incorrectly quoted Huron Valley National Bank's personnel assistant Maria Spooner as saying only seven of 78 eligible employes are taking advantage of the bank's bus pass program. The actual figure is,17, and Huron Valley is the best example the city has of a business helping to alleviate the downtown parking shortage. This in no way, however, makes the situation any less desperate: Huron Valley and Jacobson's are the only area businesses cooperat- ing with AATA, and the bus pass program is not being forcefully promoted by the city. 9 Happenings... begin bright and early today with an invita- tion for those who wish to take part in a Seal Day rally that will be held at noon in Kennedy Square in Detroit. Transportation will leave at 10:45 from People's Plaza in front of the Administration Bldg. from 1:30-3:30, there will be a presentation given in the Dean's Conference Room in the School of Education. Large Copeland will speak on "Ob- taining Responses from Typical Non-Respondents" ... the Commission for Women will have a special meeting from 2:30-5 in the President's Conference Room in the Administration Bldg. . . . there will be a demonstration of Chinese Brush Painting by May Hsiu at 3 in the InternationalCenter, 603 E. Madison... chow down for dinner, and then run over to Canterbury House on the corner of Cath- erine and Division and catch Selo Blackcrow's lec- ture on Sioux Traditions of Healing at 8 . . . also at 8, the University Folk Dance Club will meet at Max Kade house in Oxford Housing . . . finally, a reminder that Project Outreach Internship applica- tions are due today. Michigan clinches NCAA bid Trony, TU ready to sign contract By ANNE GERTISER Trony Associates and the Ann Arbor Tenants Union (TU1.) are on the verge of signing an agree- ment, according to union rep- resentative Peter Downs. Trony and TU agreed upon the contract January 26, but word changes have delayed signing of' the pact. Tenants will continue withholding rent until the agree- ment is signed, Downs said. "Trony said they lost the con- tract in the lawyer's office. Not a very plausible excuse," said Downs. According to the contract, the management will provide a rent schedule which does not exceed the maximum rent increase, Downs said. The rent was de- termined by increased taxes, insurance and utility costs. The agreement, which ends a two-month-old strike, also in- cludes management recognition of TU's right to call a strike. The contract will also provide for: * The right for a tenant to move out of the apartment if the management does not cori- ply with an order given by a mediation panel; * fire extinguishers in each unit by September 3, 1977; * if management and tenant disagree about the adequacy of a repair,aanarbiterd shall rule within 24 hours of the complaint. If the ruling is against Trony, See TRONY, Page 10 Defeats Illini 87-72- Green injured early By TOM CAMERON Spedal to The Daily CHAMPAIGN - You can start to send for tickets to the NCAA's in Bloomington for next Sunday. Michigan will be there. A.=second half explosion triggered ichigan to an 87-72 vic- tory over Illinois last night. Michigan clinched a tie for the Big Ten championship and assured itself an NCAA playoff berth. "IT'S OUR SECOND CHAMPIONSHIP in four years," said Michigan Coach Johnny Orr. "That's a good feeling." "They (Michigan) were superb in the second half," Orr con- Dailv Photo by ALAN BILINSKY Rubber Band Men Looking a lot like Gumby's, John Sappington (left) and James Morse of the Humbly Magnificent Champions of the Universe - better known as Ann Arbor's Humblies - practice a little frisbee foreplay yesterday in preparation for next weekend's Frisbee Festival. The fourth annual festival will be held March 12 and 13 tinued. "They always are when the wall." Michigan did have its back against the wall and its hands full of stubborn Illini in the first half. WITH 11 /2 MINUTES remain- ing in the first stanza and Michigan up by one, Illinois out- scored the Wolverines 14-4 in a four-minute span to take a nine- point lead. With the momentum flowing for the orange and black, Rick- ey Green was tripped, injuring his hip, and left the game with 6:17 remaining in the first half. The Wolverines refused to fold though, and fought back to make it a two-point game with 2 minutes still to go in the first half. ILLINOIS kept Michigan at a distance, and with 46 seconds remaining Michigan was down by five and Illinois had the ball. Phil Hubbard then made the key steal of the game and scor- ed on the ensuing dunk. Dave Baxter, in for Green, followed by forcing Illini guard Steve Lanterinto into an offen- sive foul. With two seconds re- maining, Alan Hardy sprang opengunderneath and dunked Michigan to a 40-39 score. "I THINK HUBBARD'S steal was very important," Orr said. "Our push right before the half gave us the impetus we need- ed." "We really needed tlat push to get us psychologically up for the second half," said co-cap- tain Steve Grote. "It (the steal) really helped," said Hubbard. "Alan (Hardy) came in and he was really ready and that really helped $oo." WHEN MICHIGAN came back onto the floor to start the sec- ond half it played like a tourna- ment team should. Michigan scored six points be- fore the Fighting Illini even found the hoop and',then jump- ed to an 11-point lead within six minutes, 57-46. Using the power of hitting on 12 of their first 14 shots, the Wolverines, using man-to-man, See HUB'S, Page 9 Strikers may alter demand's they have their backs against High times pparently, they still do things the old-fashioned way over in Saudi Arabia. The Daily Arab News reported yesterday that two men were beheaded in a village near Jidda last week for sexually as- saulting a young boy. The sentence, handed down by an Islamic court, was rather unusual consider- ing the case. According to the Sharia, the Koran- based Islamic law, sexual offenders are supposed to be executed by being dropped from the highest spot in the surrounding area. Execution by sword is only permissible in areas where there are no sufficiently high mountains or tall buildings. In the recent past, authorities have not taken the word of the Sharia lightly. In Yemen, 'a court once bor- rowed a helicopter from the Egyptian air force to drop an offender to his death. Pity the hedgeog Anybody would agree that the life of the "human hedgehog" is not an easy row to hoe. But at last. the long, painful saga of Tjens Jensen may be com- ing to an end. It all started in April, 1971, when Jensen fell into a heap of thorny branches from a barberry bush that he had been trimming. Jensen tried repeatedly to get up before fainting from the pain. Since that time, doctors say they have pulled 32,131 thorns from "Jensen's body. And that figure, according to Jensen's wife, does not include'the countless inch-long thorns they have pulled out themselves, and that remain to be pulled out. Doc- tors are at a loss to explain how one man could get so many thorns in his body and how they keep emerging after six years. Jensen himself does not want to discuss his plight. At any rate, poetic justice has been done. The day after Jen- sen's accident, his son cut down the whole barberry bush and burned it. On the inside... Take a peek at the Daily Digest on Page 2 and read about the rescue of a trapped miner in Penn- sylvania . . Editorial Page sports a mess of let- ters concerning the AFSCME strike . . . Steven Pickover reviews the Fisher Theatre's production of A Chorus Line . . . and Sports staffers Tom Cameron and Scott Lewis have the lowdown on last night's Illinois basketball game for the Sports Page. By' BOB ROSENBAUM, MICHAEL YELLIN and RICHARD BERKE Striking campus service workers last night told their leaders to go back to the negotiating table with the University and "get all you can get." According to Art Anderson, bargaining leader for the Ameri- can Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes (AFSCME, Local 1583), last night's action means that the union bargaining team is no longer "locked in" to demands made earlier in the week by rank and file AFSCME members. IN AN UNSUCCESSFUL attempt to renew contract talks last Tuesday, the union team was asked by AFSCME members to de- mand a $1.04 per hour wage increase over three years and the removal of a cap on the cost of living allowances from the Uni- versity - essentially the same proposals made when negotiations began last November. "Before, we were given some demands to meet," Anderson said, "but now we are free to go back and get what we can get." With the change in union bargaining posture, contract talks are likely to resume soon. Thomas Badoud, the state-appointed mediator who adjourned Tuesday's negotiations because he felt both sides were too far apart for fruitful discussions, said last night that the move by AFSCME members "was the proper thing to do." The mediator said he had not been contacted by the union, but expected to receive a call to request that a new meeting be set up between the two sides. THE REMOVAL of the rank and file's previous demands, which took place at a well-attended union meeting last night, was con- sidered a reaffirmation of faith in the bargaining team. Both An- derson and Union Local President Joel Block said they were pleased. Block said the union will now consider "any reasonable offer" on the part of the University. He noted that any settlement again accepted by the bargaining team "would still have to be ratified by members." Block called the union meeting "the best thing that's hap- pened to us for the last few days." AFSCME employes walked off their jobs on February 23, after rejecting a tentative contract agreement arrived at by the union bargaining team and the University. The initial settlement, arrived at with the help of a mediator, called for a 55-cent per hour wage raise over two years, with no cost of living allowances. MEANWHILE, outside pressures on the University to settle See BARGAINING, Page 10 Hubbard-A mean 23 points Congress clears way for tax cuts. WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi- dent Carter's program for eco- nomic stimulation passed pre- liminary tests in tie Senate and House yesterday. First the Senate, by voice vote, and then the House, on a 226-173 roll call, agreed to amend the budget for the current year to allow $17.5 billion worth of em- ergency spending and tax cuts. Later {action will be required to approve the specific tax cuts and spending programs. REPUBLICANS in both houses made clear that their vote for the budget amendment did not commit them to support Car- ter's tax-cut plan, but showed only that they see the need for some economic stimulus. Many Republicans favor a permanent tax cut rather than the one-shot $50-per-person re- bate proposed by. Carter. The budget amendment ac- cepted by both houses will raise federal spending in the 'current fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30, to $417.5 billion. That will mean a deficit of $69.8 billion. The House delayed until next Tuesday consideration of Car- ter's modified $13.8-billion plan of tax cuts, including rebates for 200 million Americans and a small permanent tax reduc- tion for 45 million couples and individuals. Plans for increasing federal spending by $3.7 billion over the next seven months are movered in senarate legislation. WHEN THE TAX-CUT bill See CONGRESS, Page 10 Options to DPP cut studied By BRIAN BLANCHARD and PATTY MONTEMURRI Seven alternatives to axing the Department of Population Planning (DPP) have surfaced as review of the imperiled program continues within the School of Public Health (SPH). On Feb. 2, Dean Richard Remington and the SPH Executive Committee recommended to the Regents that the 11-year-old department be scratched in 1978 due to a budgetary crisis and "serious academic weaknesses." -ACCORDING TO Ned Doughtery, assistant to the vice president for academic affairs, his office, which will make an advisory recommendation to the Regents before their final vote on April 15, is "still pretty much in a holding pattern." But some DPP members have been encouraged by the internal review and the general tone of recent proceedings at the school. Members of the Population Planning Reviexf Committee joined the SPH Curriculum Commit- tee to "examine the role of the department in terms of the school's objectives" at.the request of the school's faculty on Feb. 21. They will report the results of their closed meetings to the fac- ulty along with the SPH Executive Committee on March 21. DepartmentChairman Leslie Corsa described the meetings-as "fruitful". He said the executive committee ,and DPP faculty together have made See PUBLIC, Page 10 Wheeler, Beicher clash on housing, environment By JANET KLEIN In their third public bout since the mayoral campaign kickoff, Democratic incumbent Albert Wheeler and his Republican opponent Council- man Louis Belcher (Fifth Ward) argued strate- gies last night on housing, streets and environ- mental problems. Addressing an audience of about 30 at the Ar- supermarket prices are high and doctor's serv- ices are miles away?" The repair of a badly rutted and pot-holed sec- tion of Pontiac Trail drew Belcher's fire. "We asked to fix it but it was vetoed by Mayor Wheel- er." He claimed there was $100,000 of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) money "sit- ting in the bank" that could be used for repair. t r a ;"