LETTERS See Editorial Page YI r SAfr A6F 4bp :43 atl SLITIHY High -- 55° Low -35* See Today for Details Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVII, No. 45 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, October 30, 1976 Ten Cents Ten Pages * / E e UnSEE NEWS AQI CAiZMDAtY Election picks Will Carter thump Ford? Is West Virginia des- tined, like New York before it, to have a Rocke- feller as governor? What's the future of returnable bottles infMichigan?Your guess is as good as ours; in fact, your guess can win you two free meals at the Blue Frogge. All you have to do is come out on top of The Daily's Election Picks con- test, and choose the candidate you think will win in the races listed below, the fate of Proposal A, and the presidential winner's margin of victory. List your predictions on a sheet of paper with your name, address and phone number and drop them off at The Daily, 420 I\M aynard, by midnight election eve. Only one entry per person. How 'bout it, Mr. Gallup? PRESIDENT Carter (D)-Ford (R) (pick percentage) U. S. SENATE Riegle (D)-Esch (R) Mich. Moynihan (D)-Buckley (R) N. Y. Tunney (D)-Hayakawa (R) Calif. Green (D)-Heinz (R) Penn. Zumwalt ())-Byrd (I) Va. Hartke (D)-Lugar (R) Ind. Muskie (D)-Monks (R) Maine Kennedy (D)-Robertson (R) Mass. Montoya (D)-Schmitt (R) N. Mex. Metzenbaum (D)-Taft (R) Ohio GOVERNOR Howlett (D)-Thompson (R) ill. Tribbitt (D)-duPont (R) Del. Teasdale (D)-Bod (R) Mo. Rockefeller (D)-Underwood (R) W. Va. LOCAL Bullard (D)-Dietrich (R) St. Rep. Postill (D)-Minick (R) Sheriff Pierce (D)-Pursell (R) U. S. Rep. Steeh (D)-Delhey (R) Prosecutor Proposal A-yes-no Time out It's time to cast off the binds of Dalight Saving Time and face the cold facts of winter's Eastern Standard Time. Don't panic - you're setting your clocks and watches back an hour this time. Some- time around 3 a.m. Sunday morning, relax and enjoy an extra hour of free sleep (or partying, for that matter). Happenings ... begin with appeals for help from two groups taking stands on state ballot proposals. Help Abolish Throwaways (HAT), the campus commit- tee pushing for "yes" votes on the bottle ban pro- position, needs people to go to Romulus, Belleville and Wayne to distribute literature. Stop by their offices at 201 E. Huron before noon if you're in- terested . . . The Ann Arbor Education Associa- tion is looking for some 40 persons to distribute 30,000 flyers in opposition to Proposition C - the state spending limit proposal - at the game for a $4 wage. Meet them at Gate 9 at 12:15 . . Speak- ing of which, the Battle for the Little Brown Jug gets underway at 1:30 on Canham's Carpet . - - The University LaCrosse Club plays Notre Dame at 4 p.m., South Ferry Field . . . and the Depart- ment of Recreation is throwing an all-night party beginning at 6 p.m. in the Campus Recreation Bldg. Come an a Halloween costume. " The Malthusian nightmare Starvation, contraception and abortion are re- sulting in an unexpected worldwide decline in the rate of population growth, heading off - at least for the present - fears that world population would double by the year 2000. A report by Worldwatch Research Institute, an environmental study g'roup, shows that the rate of world population growth hit a peak in 1970 - 1.9 per cent - and then be- gan to fall. By 1975, the report said, the rate of increase had dropped to 1.64 per cent. The slowing of population growth was concentrated in Western Europe, East Asia and North America. Sadly, the institute documented at least 2 million deaths by starvation between 1970 and 1972, apparently con- firming Thomas Malthus' grim forecast of the in- evitable solution to overpopulation. 0 Hot tuna, pilfered pate It seems the underworld has gotten a bit more creative these days and has undertaken a new brand of heists - palatable pilfering. In Penang, Malaysia yesterday, seven men boarded the Japa- nese ship Choyu Mariin the Penang harbor, seized six tons of tuna fish and fled to another boat. Meanwhile, in Toulouse, France, more than 2,000 cans cf pate de foie gras and 250 pounds of un- canned pate, valued at $26,000, were stolen from a local factory. 'Rumor has it the Penang burglars claimed Charlie sent them, and as for the pate thieves, well, what's life without a healthy supply of goose liver? 0 On the inside ... What can Jimmy Carter do for Ann Arbor? Dem- ocratic City Councilman James Kenworthy -tells why he's pulling the Georgian's lever in the ballot box for Editorial Page . . . Bill Stieg previews the sqnabble with Minnesota for Snorts . . . and Arts Wrong By JAY LEVIN The Ricky Wayne Wilson held irt Kentucky as the prime suspect ir the slaying of University freshwom- an Jeannine Boukai earlier this month is not the Ricky Wayne Wilson ac- tually wanted in the case, accord- ing to authorities. The bizarre tale of two Wilsons- termed a "coincidence" by l cal in- vestigators - has again sent law enforcement officials scurrying to lo- cate Boukai's alleged assailant. MEANWHILE, the mistaken Ricky Wayne Wilson, who spent nearly two Wilson held inArbi weeks in a Louisville jail, has been cleared of all charges and is back home with his relieved - and an- gry - parents. According to local authorities, the mistaken Wilson was cleared after checks were made on fingerprints and personal identification. "Two (Michigan) homocide' investi- gatdrs went to Kentucky Wednesday and Thursday and were, present when the defendant was discharged (Thurs- day) at the request of local authori- ties," said Washtenaw County Sher- iff's Lt. Harold Owings. BESIDES HAVING the same names, police say both Wilsons were born in Kentucky, have frequented the Ann Arbor area and have similar physical' characteristics. "They're quite similar, right down to almost the date of birth," said Owings. He added that he has not come across a mistaken identity case such as this in recent years. SHERIFF'S SERGEANT Ted Kil- aurn said that the Wilson-at-large has relatives in Kentucky and Ohio, and added that authorities are again pres- sing a southern search for the sus- pect. An arrest warrant cha'rging'in- terstate flight has already been is-. sued. "Ricky Wayne Wilson" was named as a suspect the day after Boukai - a student in the School of Nat- ural Resources - was found shot to death in a remote section of the Arboretum, just yards outside the Ann Arbor city limits. Police thought the victim knew her suspecied as- sailant, and-> robbery was believed to have been a motive, although lo-al aithorities were checking reports that Boukai might have purchased a contract on- her own life. illing The mistaken Wilson surrendered himself to Louisville authorities on Oct. 16. According to Louisville po- !ice and Wilson's mother, Wilson was apparently told that a warrant for his arrest had been issued in Michi- gan, and he wanted to resolve the, matter. ALTHOUGH AN investigation by Louisville officials failed to uncover Boukai's Yamaha motorcycle and handbag, which the suspect was be- lieved to have taken, Wilson was held See TWO, Page io Economic index fall Frat menw .N F - A clash in 4 car bash By STU McCONNELL r If Americans truly have a love affair with the automobile then yesterday's glass-crunch- ing, fender-beating "demolition; derby" between rival teams of fraternity men on East Uni- a versity was a crime of passion. The contest, sponsored by the Evans Scholars as part of Home-' coming, consisted at base of a' bunch of guys with sledgeham- . mers beating the living, chrome out of an unfortunate' Ford Fal- con and a Fury III. k'THE OFFICIALS," announc- ed a smug master of ceremon- ies, "will award points on the j basis of relative and absolute destruction."V1 The carnage was mitigated somewhat by the division of s the contest into 26 "events" , . , - each a separate area of the Daily Photo by PAULINE LUBENS car. The "South" team amassed Jim Shock, of Zeta Psi fraternity, lays one on the hood of this hapless hulk. This carnage a total of 188.2 points on the took place in yesterday's car demnolition derby between the "North and "South" frat See FRATS, Page 2 teams near the Dental building. "South" won by a score of 188.2 to 179.4. is@. . . . . ....t'r :. IS inSept Cartel blasts Ford's handlmig of economy WASHINGTON M - New warning signals df more t rouble for the nation's economy were raised yesterday by a government index that is designed to forecast future economic trends. The index of leading indicators was down in Septem- ber by seven-tenths of one per cent for the second month in/a row. Until August, it had increased steadily in every month, since February of 1975 when the economy was in the depths of a recession. THE LABOR Department, meanwhile, reported that the na- tion's factories laid off workers last month at the highest rate in nearly a year, with 1.5 workers out of every 100 losing their jbbs. The index of leading indicators was the last major economi statistic before Tuesday's election, and Democratic presidential Journalist tells of ordeal By LINDA WILLCOX The year was 1970. The place, the Cambodian border of Viet- nam. Frustrated by widespread guerrilla activity, American and South Vietnamese forces poured into Cambodia in a move to wipe out Communist guerrilla bases. Scarcely one hour be- hind the vanguard, journalist Elizabeth Pond followed. Some five weeks later, Pond left without the story she had risked life and limb to get. Captured by insurgents who de- bated whether or not to kill h'er, she was glad to escape with her life. POND, a reporter on leave from The Christian Science Monitor at the time, is now at the University studying history on a National 'Endowment for the Humanities Fellow grant. Recently, she sat down to tell her unique, often harrowing, tale. Based in Saigon, Pond was following S o u t h Vietnamese troops who were clearing High- way 1 from Saigon to Phnom Penh when she was captured along with Michael Morrow of the Dispatch News Agency and, Richard Dudman, chief of the Washington Bureau of 'the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "We were scared stiff," 'Pond, reminisced, "but we were still operating journalists, thinking, What a fantastic experience- as long'as we live!' " ALTHOUGH she speaks French and Morrow speaks Vietnamese, Pond said the journalists were not always able to communi- cate with their captors. "It was claar "at the beginning that-some were hostile and some were not," Pond said, "judging from their accents - because they never told us - the in- surgents included members of the National Liberation Front, North Vietnamese and Cambo- dians." "There was a debate over whether they would kill us or not," she said. She added that, at the first stopping place, among the stilts beneath a cam- bodian house, "things took a turn for the worst. "THEY became very hostile, and put us in the back of a camflauged truck, with armed guards at the rear," Pond said. The three prisoners were taken from village to village that day, where the insurgents incited hos- tile reactions against the jour- nalists.- "We don't know for sure if you're journalists or spies," one of the guards later told Pond. "If you're journalists, it's okay. If you're spies, you can't expect any mercy.' The three were then blind- folded and marched in front of a gauntlet of villagers. The vil- lagers broke through the line of soldiers and separated the captives from each other. See JOURNALIST, Page 7 candidate Jimmy Carter said it showed President Ford's eco- nomic policies have failed. He said the index is- "new evidence 'that the economic picture'aheadnshows more un- employment and a further de- cline 'in the standard of living for the average worker." BUT FORD saw the statistics differently. "An examination of the leading economic index shows that the recent pause in .our economicrecovery is con- clu ding and the economy will continue its solid growth," said Ron Nessen, Ford's press spokesman. The Indicators index in Sep- tember stood at 107.9 compared to the 1967 base figure of 100. Here is how the index has looked for the past six months: - -April, up 0.4 per cent -May, up 0.7 per cent -June;up 1.1 per cent -July, up 0.3 per cent -August, down 0,7 per cent -September, down 0.7 per cent. W H I L E the two - month decline in the indicators index nointed to a possible continua- tion of the economic slowdown registered in recent months, economists say they can't be sure until it has gone down for three; months in a row. Alan Greenspan, chairman of President Ford's Council of Economic Advisers, said, how- See ECONOMIC, Page 7 Cautious campaig near end By The Associated Press With the 1976 presidential campaign drawing to a close, Jimmy- Carter and President Ford both took, pains yesterday to avoid makini the campaign's last big mistake. There were more of the minor- issue sidelights that have char- acterized the campaign to the last. One was the reported firing of a producer of Ford campaign commercials because he is pro- ducing a hard-core pornographic movie. Another was an apparent attempt by Republicans to pre- vent the delivery of pro-Carter literature through the mail. IN OTHER political develop- ments: -Democratic vice presidential nominee Walter Mondale said Ford had never graspedathe im- plications pf the Watergate scan- dals andthat he has not truly learned the lessons of Water- gate. -Republican vice presidential nominee Bob Dole said Carter's Ponrd See CARTER, Page 10 Old time fun On campus By ANNEMARIE SCHIAVI Way back when in the radi- cal sixties, the era of the clenched fist and the boycotted class, Homecoming and its at- tendant parades, beauty queens and lawn displays were dis- missed by many activist stu- dents as just so much irrele- vant nonsense. But the days of grimly pur- poseful activism are over, ac- cording to Bryan Lee, Universi- ty Activities Center's (UAC) senior chairman of Homecom- ing '76, and thus interest in Homecoming is on the rise. 1U', GEO at impasse as strike vote ends By SUSAN ADES and KEN PARSIGIAN Graduate Employe Organization (GEO) and University bar- gainers met briefly yesterday and the optimism expressed by both sides Thursday was dashed as the Administration swiftly. rejected the union's already atrophied class size demands. And the session ended with no new proposals on the table. "Chief University bargainer John Forsyth's optimism waE based on the belief that we were ready to give in," said GEC President Doug Moran. "My optimism was based on the hope :.. .