HUCKSTERS See Editorial Page I I C 4c A& AI D43a1A (OLD See Today for details Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVII, No. 14 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, September 24, 1976 Ten Cents Twelve Pages . . ,. Jerry nips Jimmy in Philly fracas ~a m ICU SJEE NEWS APPEN CALL75-DALY Senatorial courtesy The Senate yesterday passed a bill to designate the park facility at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore as The Philip A. Hart Visitors' Center, honoring Michigan's senior Democratic senator who is retiring this year. The bill, introduced by Hart's Republican colleague from Michigan, Sen. Robert Griffin, is expected to be approved in the House also. "All of us know of the lasting mark Phil Hart has left on this body and on this na- tion; and as an indication of our affection and respect for him, we have already voted to name in his honor the new Senate office building now under construction," Griffin said. "It is nice, of course, that a building in Washington will bear the name of Phil Hart. But I think it would be even more appropriate if a building in Michigan were named for him." Hart, now stricken with cancer, has been a senator for 18 years. H appenings . ... are sparse today. At noon, Tom Blessing of the Ecology Center talks on the Michigan bottle ban proposition. That's at 'Guild House, 802 Monroe ... an informational meeting on the rules of football, designed particularly for foreign stu- dents, is at 2:30 p.m. in the International Center ... Cosmic Transmitter Tyagi Ji has a gig at 7 p.m. in the Friends Meeting House, 1420 Hill ..Communist Party presidential candidate Gus Hall speaks at 7:30 p.m. in Hill Aud. ... at 8 p.m. Elizabeth Lipski leads a discussion on "Heal- ing with Michigan Plants" at Canterbury House, Catherine and Division ... and a 4-hour gay dance begins at 9 p.m. at First Unitarian Church, 1917 Washtenaw. You can spend the re of the day worrying about Patty Hearst's fate. Capistrano, Illinois It happens every year, on the first day of fall. Crowds gather at dawn along bluffs above the Mississippi River, near Alton, Illinois, as the Piasa bird-a scaly, claw-footed creature with a dragon- like head-fails to emerge from the river and pick a cave for the winter. And Wednesday, just like clockwork, the bird once again did not show up -for the 303rd year in a row-despite Illini Na- tive American legend which has it that the mys- terious Piasa can be glimpsed on the first day of fall. Explorers Louis Joliet and Jacques Mar- quette described seeing a massive painting (since destroyed) of the bird on the bluffs in 1673-but the winged wonder itself has not been spotted since then. A high school class Wednesday similar- ly came up empty-eyed. But they're considering a return trip to Alton on the first day of spring when, if the weird pattern holds, the Piasa will once again not leave its cave to fly back into the Western sky. e On the inside .. . The Editorial Page probes the relationship be- tween the CIA and the University in an article by James Hipps ... The Arts section offers Cinema Weekend ... and Sports takes a look at the wom- en's tennis team in a story by Enid Goldman. On the outside .. . Get out those jackets - the lows tonight will plummet to the uncomfortable upper 20s, The high temperatures will hover around the lower to mid- 60s under increasingly cloudy skies, with winds southeasterly from '10-15 m.p.h. And we'll give you an advance on Saturday's scene: it ain't gon- na be football weather. Highs will be in the mid 50s to upper 40s. Mr. Ford takes the same attitude that the Republicans always take-in the last three months of an election. They always fight for programs they're against the other 3 12 years." -Jimmy Carter I think the real issue in this campaign and that which you must decide on Nov. 2 is whether you should rote for his promises or my performance in the White House. -President Gerald Ford Sound ailsfor 27 minutes By AP and Reuter PHILADELPHIA - Presidential candidates Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter laid their claim to the White House last night in a nationally televised debate interrupted by a technical snag for 27 min- utes just before the end. Spokespersons for both men immediately claimed after the broadcast-beam- ed to an estimated 100 mil- lion Americans - that their candidate won the meeting in which each at- tacked the other in an in- creasingly h e a t e d ex- change. BUT IN the first independent viewer poll - taken imme- diately after the broadcast end- ed - Ford was believed to have held a lead on his oppo- See FORD, Page 6 THE LONG-AWAITED confrontation between P resident Ford and Jimmy Carter came to a grinding halt last night as audio problems for ced a 27-minute delay. Here the two candidates wait for the problem, which is as yet unexplain ed, to be rectified. Smith Mondale meanders throug Michigan By ANN MARIE LIPINSKI Special To The Daily In a whirlwind, five hour sprint through a mid-section of j Michigan, Democratic vice presidential nominee Walter Mondale yesterday met with voters ranging from relatives to retirees, gleaning support for the ticket he shares with front- runner Jimmy Carter. Kicking off his brief but hec- tic campaign romp at the Capi- tal City Airport in Lansing yes- terday morning, Mondale took j his plea for support to the stu- dents of Michigan State Univer- sity, the blue collar families of rural Durand, and then on to "AW members in Flint, spear- ing President Ford for policies he claims have "taken a ter- rible toll right here in his home state." IN WHAT AMOUNTED to a morning of rebutting state- ments made by Ford last week in his Ann Arbor address, Mon- dale systematically pulled the See MONDALE, Page 12 to reveal black rule decision By AP and Reuter SALISBURY, Rhodesia -- Prime Minister Ian Smith will tell his nation today whether his white minority gov- ernment will yield to international pressure and hand over power to Rhodesia's black majority under a plan pushed by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Smith said his ruling all-white Rhodesian Front par- ty decided at a meeting yesterday whether it will accept the proposals for transition to majority rule made by Kissinger in meetings with Smith last week. But he said the decision will not be revealed until his radio and tele- vision address tonight. "IT WILL be a clear and positive and unequivocal state- ment. There will be no doubt in anybody's minds," Smith said after meeting for five hours with the 50 Rhodesian Front members of parliament. A crowd of about 350 people, most of them blacks, had gath- ered outside the parliament building to await the end of the caucus meeting, possibly the most momentous debate since Smith's white minority govern- ment broke away from Britain. There were cheers as Smith, looking tired but quite happy, climbed into his car. GO VER NM E NT sourc- es said earlier that it was South African Prime Minister John Vorster who effectively compelled Smith to accept the Kissinger package, which is al- so reported to include guaran- tees for the rights of the 270,000 whites and compensation for those who choose to leave the country. See SMITH, Page 2 Daly Photo by SCOTT ECCKER Democratic vice-presidential hopeful Walter Mondale slices a peanut-shaped cake yesterday with the help of a young relative in Flint. Hall airs views in student By JIM TOBIN and LAURIE YOUNG While President Gerald Ford and Democratic presidential nominee Jimmy Carter pre- pared to battle it out on na- tional television last night, Com- munist presidential candidate Gus Hall told a small group of students in the Michigan Stu- dent Assembly (MSA) offices, that "We provide a means of protest. We are the angry vote, the disgusted vote." "Ford and Carter have many advantages over me, Hall said. "Technical things, like they're on the ballot and I'm not. No concrete solutions will come out of the debates tonight." NOTING THAT HE has not had equal press coverage, ex- cept for a 30-minute spot on public television coming up next month. Hall said "The presi- dential election is a fixed horse race and the candidates come from the same stable, the sta- ble of big business." As an alternative to big busi- ness Hall proposes that no one who makes less than $25,000 per year should pay taxes. "FOR ONE, this program will put an end to run-away shops where factories close up for ex- tortion purposes. No company will think that they can get aroi'd the tax." "We use the figure $25,000 be- cauuse this seems to be the amount at which people can make ends meet. Four years ago it was $15,000." Nalnln hl eve ta at Local Native Americans rap Michigan's one - 4- rn By MARGARET YAO Governor Milliken's proclamation that today is Michigan Indian Day has drawn anger, resentment, and charges of tokenism from local Native Americans, who are embittered by the state's treatment of their people. The statement, unaccompanied by any scheduled activi- ties, is intended to draw attention to how the Native Ameri- can's existence has "influenced the white man." There are roughly 400 Native Americans in Washtenaw County, and over 3,000 in the entire state. NATIVE AMERICANS here and at the Saginaw Chippewa Reservation (southern Michigan's only one) were mailed notifi- cation of the proclamation just last week, and all said no plans for observance have been made. Margaret Sowmick of the reservation, said skeptically, "What people are wondering here is 'What is he (Milliken) doing, getting recognition for himself or making it a legal holiday?" Locally, Native American community leaders were unen- thused. "BIG DEAL," uttered Victoria Barner, head of Women of the American Native Tribes, Inc. By SUSAN ADES Graduate Employe Organiz- ation (GEO) and University bargainers concluded their third fruitless mediation session yes- terday with the two sides agree- ing only to resume talks again Tuesday when the union will present a drastically revised proposal package featuring "some major cuts on some big issues." In addition to the Tuesday session, the mediator, Tom Ba- doud, from the Michigan Em- ployment Relations Commis- sion, will meet with each side again next Thursday when "he felt his work would be finished," according to ChiefrUniversity Bargainer John Forsyth. productive then Thursday won't be either and if neither of them are productive we'll be very far apart - we'll be at an im- passe," he said. IN THE GEO camp, union bargainer Barbara Weinstein had a more pointed view of the situation. "If they consent to bargain at all (on Tuesday) we're not going to be close to- gether (by Thursday), I would- n't characterize it as close." If, by Thursday, talks have grinded to a disappointing halt, Forsyth said, "I don't think we'll make any progress until some more major changes See MEDIATION, Page 7 TALKS FRUITLESS: GEO to stage retreat Janitor dies in leap from Couzens roof By BARBARA ZAHS A 34-year-old maintenance man plunged six stories to his death yesterday morning from the roof of Couzens Hall. A-- A-1.... ..- eAnnt . ,,.ac. 'rnrnnunr'~A