Wednesday, January 1", 1977 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Wednesday, January 1% 1977 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three India relaxes politfical rule NEW DELHI, India (AP)-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, declaring her "unshakable faith in the power of the people," announced yesterday that parliamentary elections would take place in March as part of a major relaxation of her 19-month- old emergency rule. "Let us go to the polls with the resolve to reaffirm the power of the people and to uphold the fair name of India as a land committed to the path of reconciliation, peace and progress," Gandhi said in an eight-minute national broadcast. THE ELECTIONS WILL BE THE FIRST since Gandhi proclaimed a state of emergency June 26, 1975 following her conviction on election fraud charges. She suspended civil lib- erties, jailed opposition leaders and imposed press censorship, and said the measures were needed to quell a "threat to internal stability." The governmept previously had won parliament's approval to postpone elections until March 1978. They were originally set for last March at the end of the regular five-year term of the lower house of parliament. Gandhi's surprise announcement came three hours after the government freed her arch political foe, former Deputy Prime Minister Morarji Desai, and L. K. Advani, leader of the right-wing Hindui Nationalist Jana Sangh party. About a dozen parliamentarians are still in jail, including Socialist leader Raj Narain, sources said. THE 80-YEAR-OLD DESAI, considered the most prominent opposition politician in the country, had been imprisoned since the emergency began. He said after Gandhi's broadcast that the relatively short time left until the election "puts a hard- ship on the opposition." "But I am sure this sudden declaration of an election will benefit not the prime minister but the nation, which is the only important thing," Desai said.. "It is a test for the people. I hope it will be a fair election." In her speech, given first in Hindi and then in English, Gandhi pledged that the emergency would be relaxed "to permit all legitimate activity necessary for recognized parties to put forth their points of view before the people." THE PRIME MINISTER SAID there already had been a "gradual easing" of emergency restrictions. She cited the re- laxation of densorship on the domestic press and the release of opposition leaders and members. ,t the same time, the 59-year-old prime minister warned that she would not tolerate any disruption. "May I remind you that the emergency was proclaimed because the nation was far from normal," she said. "Now that it is being nursed to health, we must ensure that there is no relapse." THE PRIME MINISTER'S BROADCAST served, in effect, as her first campaign speech on behalf of the ruling Con- gress party. Gandhi boasted of an improved economy, containment of rampaging inflation, increased industrial production, record food grain stocks, and new social programs to eliminate dowries and control population, all of which she linked to her emergency rule. "In spite of criticism, there is a new respect for our country abroad," she said. OPPOSITION SOURCES SAID THEY WOULD attack not only Gandhi's decision to impose the emergency but measures adopted by parliament since then, including a constitutional amendment increasing executive branch powers and a press censorship bill. Gandhi proclaimed the emergency two weeks after she was found guilty of misusing the services of government officials in her own parliamentary election campaign in 1971. Major opposition parties demanded her resignation, but the supreme court overturned her conviction in November 1975 after the laws under which she was found guilty were rewritten retro- actively. Asoka Mehta, president of an opposition Congress party, said the election announcement would spur a merger, now set for early March, of major non-Communist opposition parties into a single party. In past elections, the Congress won most of its seats through pluralities while opposition parties split the majority of votes in nearly all districts. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN ' "a. ''?{0f 6i :4 .R+ .fi"' ."iM'''{, ^'" o:n!+a+',:{ , E t+'k;:.esa y'{" ;':v "Y, '':_iis : Rockefeller bids farewell WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Nelson Rockefeller bade farewell to the Senate yes- terday, saying he never wanted his job but took it to help out' during the Watergate turmoil. "I came to'this post, to which I had never -aspired and had, indeed foresworn,' because of the constitutional crisis facing the country," he said. "AS I LEAVE this office, I share with you and a grateful nation the profound satisfaction that ourtcountry has returned secure to its regular elective procedures of representative, government." Rockefeller, 68, who succeed-I ed Gerald Ford as vice presi- dent when Richard Nixon re- signed as president, declared that "the ship of state is on course again and well prepared for the new captain and crew." Sitting in the presiding offi- cer's chair, Rockefeller told an attentive Senate audience: "For me, these past twoaunusual years, in all candor, cannot be said to have sorely tried either my talents or my stamina." HE DREW LAUGHTER when he said, "I bequeath to ny suc- cessor two helpful mottos of this office of higfi calling. First, 'They also serve who merely sit and wait; and second, 'Wait and want not.' ", Although Rockefeller's consti- ttional role as vice president is to preside over' the Senate, he cannot speak to the Senate unless invited to do so. Suchl an invitation was extended by the Senate by an unanimous vote. Rockefeller has said he now plans to withdraw from active involvement in the Republican party. A HALF-FILLED SENATE, with mostly Republicans pre- sent, gave the vice president a one-minute standing ovation, and then senators lauded his record. Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd said Rockefeller gave "genuine stability to the country when stability was des- perately needed." Senate Republican Leader 1 Howard Baker said "few of our nation's leaders have had the difficulty of coming to office at such trying times." SEN. JACOB JAVITS, (R-N.Y.) called the four-term New York governor a "spirited man" who has a productive life ahead of him. "We are by no means laying him to rest today," he said. Sen. Charles Percy, (R-Ill.) said Rockefeller "spoke out for what he believed in" and "gave of himself to help us all." When Percy spoke beyond his five-minute limit, Rockefeller performed one of his last duties by firmly interrupting him, tell- ing he had exceeded his time. AP Photo A new slant The leaning tower has nothing on these tilting mailboxes in Allegan, Michigan. Officials speculate that a snowplow shifted the slant of the mailboxes. FUEL SHORTAGE ACUTE: Dayton shuts don Grad Coffee, Break for Grad Students and Professional Staff WEDNESDAYS 4:00--6: 00 p.m. Wesley-,Lounge of Wesley Foundation 602 E. Huron at State (across from Campus Inn) 668-6881 PIRGIM thanks those who have supported its public interest work. For those who wish not to fund, PIRGIM announms a Pirgim Fee Cancellation I DAYTON, Ohio UP) - Winter either natural gas or electric- said Donald Speyer, director at its worst has nearly trans- ity, to keep businesses warm of community relations for formed this city of 241,000 into and their ovens and furnaces DP&L. "We had many calls a ghost town. Its residents, going and at the same time from customers who were stung by the lowest tempera- leave enough to heat homes. afraid that the town would be! tures in the city's history, also With Monday's record low blacked out and without heat." have had to cope with elec- temperature, Dayton Power & At the same time demand tricity and natural gas short- Light Co. - already faced with for electricity has been climb- ages. a natural gas shortage - de- ing, DP&L has been unable The center of town was near- clared its second emergency in to obtain fresh deliveries of ly deserted Monday and Tues- two days. coal for its generators because, day since businesses and indus- d ice on the Ohio River has tr htdw ytesoe On Sunday, DP&L had realiz- try shut down by the score it had a gas crisis because blocked coal barges, forcing to conserve critically short e hda ak the utility to dip into its stock- electricity .and natural gas. of the high demani and asked-piles. its 21,000 commercial and ,n- "IT'S KIND OF eerie real-! dustrial customers to close on - "sidyearoFd tie-Monday so the limited gas sup- ly," said 18-year-old Matt Mine- ply could be used for homes. hart as he looked around a + nearly empty shopping mall. MANY CLOSED voluntarily "It feels like you're the only on Monday and some remained0 one left in town or something closed Tuesday. But DP&L . . . But in a way it's kind of said Tuesday it would cut gas neat. You don't have to fight deliveries to businesses and in-; Join us WEDNE the crowd." distry to 50 per cent of their when the U-M J In addition, since the cold 1972 allocations, used by gas snap began, the crime rate has companies as a base level when brings you anoth dropped. "Crimes of violence they began restricting deliver-! are way down," said police ies in 1973. Earlier in the win- officer J. P. Moore. "It's kind ter, they were cut to 65 per tend to noncriminal services." On Monday, an electricity; Popular Mix Moore said police have been emergency was declared be- Cheese and surprised that being snow- cause of the demand for heat bound with the wife,i husband and customers were urged to Everyone i and kids has not led to more conserve energy. Within a 4:30 domestic quarrels. short time, consumption drop- 1429 H IL "USUALLY ON any three ped by 8 per cent . and the days that the family is together, utility was able to meet needs there are bound to be more do- without using more drastic - mestic problems," Moore said. measures. "That hasn't been the case in "People were very concern- this cold weather situation." ed about the possibility thatS S"I guess with trying to keep we would have to begin alter- S I warm and to start the car, peo- nate shutting off of distribut- ple have got other things to ing lines for short periods," 'es! Any Interested Stu worry about besides getting into - ~-~~--sit on the following com mischief." nn iu nmu 1101 AU 1 STUD NT RELA If you are interest- or writing feature stories a b o u t the drama. dance.film . arts: Cotact Art Michigan Dally. 1.. 2. Your tuition bill shows the $1.50 PIRGIM fee. 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For more information, phone 764-9270. Wednesday, January 19, 1977 DAY CALENDAR Psychiatry: Michael Goldstein, U of Calif., "Studies of Adolescents and Their Families at Risk for Schizophrenia and Other Forms of Early Adult Psychopathology," CPH Aud., 9:30 a.m. ISMRRD: William M. Cruickshank, "Structure: Program and Teaching Materials I," 130 S. First, 3-5 p.m. Ind./Op. Eng.: J. M. Moore, Exxon Corp., "Data Reconciliation - An Essential Element for Improving Chemical Plant Operational Perform- ance," 229 W.E., 4:00 p.m. Statistics: Prof. Robert Berk, Rut- gers U., An Asymptotically Optimal Sequential Test, 3227 Angell Hall, 4:00 p.m. Physics/Astronomy: V. W. Hughes, Yale U., "Parity Experiment with e-p Scattering at SLAC," P and A. 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