} DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY See insidew AM (&4 U16 5k iArn liii WINTER lligh-44° Low-22* See Today for Details Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVII, No. 53 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, November 9, 1976 Ten Cents Ten Pages 1 d WWW(xSE *NE'AMCSIlL6MLY Pierce and Pursell Republican State Sen. Carl Pursell still clings to a 347-vote lead over Democratic candidate Edward Pierce in their drum-tight race for the Second Con- gressional District seat. Canvassers in Washtenaw, Wayne, and Moroe County are still in various stages of searching for errprs in ballot tabulation, and the whole shooting match might not be over until next week. When the canvass is complete the election will be certified. But Pierce had al- ready said he'll call for a recount, so at the end of one week - no runs, no hits,and unknown er- rors - it's Pursell, 95,393, Pierce, 95,046. 0 To cherish her daughters as her sons On April 18, 1876, the Ladies Library Association of Ann Arbor held a tea party marking the group's tenth anniversary-hardly an event destined to burn a hole through the pages of history. But the women assembled a booklet recording the gathering ahd had it placed in a University vault with directions that it not be opened until 1976. It was received recently, and revealed a message written by the University's junior women for their 20th century counterparts. We'd like to pass it on: "We the junior girls of 1876 send a greeting down through the century to the junior girls of 1976. We hope that the next centennial year may find in our Oniversity a larger band of girls than we, wiser for all the progress which the world will make in these hundred years to come, but still an enthusiastic and earnest as we are, to whom the admissions of women to collegesis a new thing and for whom it required some heroism to enter upon a University course. 'We have faith that our Alma Mater will ever cherish her daughters as her sons, and that before the year nineteen hudred and seventy-six, the world will know some great or noble -rk done by a woman at the University of Michigan." Where you' cantbitch Are you sick of being a member of mankind- when you know you are not a man? Are you tired of hearing that older, unmarried women are "old maids" while unmarried men are "bachelors?" Are you confused when von continuously receive letters addressed "Dear Sir" when you know' you are not a sir? If so, there is now a place on campus where you can bitch. Oons, sorry. The Commission for Women's new Sex-Biased Language Committee has been organized to handle your complaints. If you hve one, call Gail Reizenstein at 668-8831 or 763-2203. Happenings ... Start on a musical note at noon today in the Pendleton Rm. of the Union with a recital by Music School soprano Jeanne Dannison . . . The lunch discussion this noon at the Ecumenical Cam- pus, Center, 921 Church, features Dr. W. Albert Hiltner, chairman of the Astronomy Dept., speak- ing on "Space Exploration: Do Black Holes Exist?" Lunch' there is 75 cents . . . There's a discussion on "International Careers" at the International Center, 603 E. Madison, from 3:30-5 . '. . This month's Dean's Tea will be in the Astronomy Det.. 5207 Angell Hall at 4:00. All students are welcome to come by and chat with LSA Dean Billy Frye . . . Women in Communications spon- sors a panel discussion with four women journalists on the role of women in communications today, in South pad's West Lounge at 7 . . . The University ski team meets inAnderson Rm. A of the Union at 7 . . . The Lutheran Collegiates meet at 7:30 in Rm. 3205 of the Union ., . . The Spartacus Youth League holds a session on "Party and Class in the Russian Revolution." 7:30 in Rm. 3207 of the Michi- gan Union . . . Nationally ranked badminton players display their skills at the Central Campus Recrea- tion Building this evening, and that's at 7:30.-. Stephen Bailey, vice president of the American Council on Education, speaks on "The Purposes of Higher Education - A Re-evaluation, 7:30 in the Schorling Aud. 'of the School of Education . . . This month's installment of the Astronomical Film Festival features films on the geological properties of ice and speculations on the next Ice Age. Jim Loudon is the lecturer, and it takes place at 8 in Aud. 3 of the MLB . ., Prof. Shomon Shamir of Tel-Aviv University speaks on "Political Align- ments and Pressures in the 'Near East Today," at Hillel, 1429 Hill, at 8 . . . Students for Life, a group. concerned with , pro-life issues, holds an organizational meeting at 8 in the Father Richard Center on Thompson and William. All are welcome. tn the inside . . Staff writer Ron DeKett explores the ins and outs of nuclear power on the Editorial Page Arts Page features Michael Jones' review of this weekend's Young Vic production of "Oedipus Enter the era of Shifts clear in govto structure WASHINGTON (P) - They are the faces of Jimmy Carter, and Walter Mondale, and others the American people have yet to meet, and Thomas P. O'Neill, and Senate leaders still to be chosen. They are the new faces of power in Washington, and they will commandthe government-or try. "LET THE WORD go forth that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans . . ." John Kennedy said as he was inaugurated 16 years ago.. It has been passed again, to a new President, a new vice president, a Cabinet yetto be chosen, a new leader of the Senate's Democratic majority, a new leader of its Republican minority. Some are Washington veterans, some will be new- comers, but in 1977, none of those jobs will be held by the people who held them in 1976. AS IN government, so in politics. Defeated, the Republican party is without an heir- apparent. President Fprd has no political base from which to influence the future of his party. ~ Neither does Sen. Robert Dole, the vice presidential See ENTER, Page 2 Jimmy Carter Mayors plead cause of cities By The Associated Press and United Press International CHICAGO - The deterioration of the nation's troubled ceptral cities can be stopped dead if Jim- my Carter puts the full weight of Washington be- hind a new urban strategy, big city mayors said yesterday. Keys to such an effort, which the mayors sup- port, would be creation of an Urban Development Bank and federal reorganization to reduce the pa- perwork that now ensnarl city halls. And more money. REPRESYNTATIVES of President-elect Jimmy Carter and Vice President-elect Walter Mondale said yesterday the niAyors' shopping list was in line with much of Carter's thinking. The U.S. Conference of Mayors on Monday con- cluded a two-day brainstorming session here on pri- orities to present Congress and Carter. Conference officials said they are seeking a meeting with Car- ter to discuss their urban plan. The five priority areas the mayors listed were: * Creation of jobs in central cities; * Development of a new national urban policy that would consolidate existing grant programs; See MAYORS, Page 10 I The fpres!d v i.- 47cv Oi 011cartel to prices; affect By The Associated Press The oil cartel seems sure to raise oil prices in the new year, a move that probably will mean higher prices at the gas, pump, in heating and electricity bills, at airline ticket counters and many other, places. Ministers of the 13-nation Or- ganization of Petroleum Export- ing Countries meet Dec. 15 in the Persian Gulf sheikdom of Qatar to discuss oil prices, but the most influential members have already said they want increases ranging from 10 per cent to 25 per cent. EVENSAUDI Arabia, the lar- gest oil exporter and the most reluctant in recent years to raise prices, has said it wants a "moderate" increase. That has. been interpreted as about 10 per cent. Iran, the second largest oil exporter, is thought to favor an increase in the area of 25 per cent, while Venezuela, an'other influential OPEC m e m b e r, wants at least 15 per cent. The spokesman at OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Ahmed Zaheri, said last month he be- lieved the price would be "ad- move other justed," which increased. in oil talk means THE PRESENT OPEC prices of $11.51 for a 42-gallon barrel of standard grade crude has been in effect since Oct. 1, 1975. Oil ministers considered raising prices at their meeting in Bali in May, but took no action, largely because of Saudi opposi- tion. Each 10 per cent increase in the price of OPEC oil, if passed along entirely to consumers, would add about a penny a gal- lon to the price of gas in the United States. This takes into consideration the fact that the United States imports 40 per cent of its oil. In countries im- porting all of their oil the impact would be m'ich greater. A price increase would also be felt wherever else oil figures in the economy. KNUT Hammarskjol'd, direc- tor-general of the International Air Transport Association, told the organization's general meet- ing yesterday in Singapore that an increase of 10 to 15 per cent would add $250 million to $375 million to airline operating costs around the world. Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the Saudi oil minister, said in August that some OPEC mem- bers wanted a "very drastic" increase-"somewhat similar to what happened in 1973." Arab oil nations put an embargo on ex- ports during the October 1973 Mideast war, and OPEC follow- ed with the quadrupling of oil prices. YAMANI said his government would resist a large increase this time because of concern for the economic recovery of the West. "We are not going to slaughter the hen that lays the gold eggs," he said. "There is a limit to what we can do. And I think we see that limit a little bit clearer than others." President-elect Jimmy Carter said at his news conference on Thursday that an oil price in- crease would be a "very serious blow" to consuming nations but that all he could do before his inauguration was to express concern through public state- ments. See OIL, Page 10 Daily Photo by BRAD BENJAMIN Whliere can, I find '*I CHAIRMAN OPTIMISTIC: Rhodesia, talks locked GENEVA, Switzerland (P) - British chairman Ivor Richard flew home to London late yes- terday to consult on how to prevent stalemated talks on the future of Rhodesia from collap- sing into a guerrilla war solu- tion. Richard told a reporter at the airport that he was "not at all despondent." But the conference appeared locked in a hardening black-white confrontation 11 days after its formal opening. A SPOKESMAN said Richard would return today to try to set up another working session with black and white delegations. "Obviously, we have reached a stage where there are diffi- culties and it would be absurd to bide them." the spokesman said. On the other hand, he said, "we believe some useful prog- ress has been made." R ichardbmet separately over thp, weekend with leaders of the five delegations. But he failed to win support for a nronosed Xfnr.li 1 0 il7Q0 anr1lin nn The presidents of those five countries met in Dar Es Salaam over the weekend and issued a statement saying the only way for Rhodesian blacks to gain power was through continued guerrilla war. The black Rhodesian national- ist leaders refused to consider Ethe proposed British deadline or to sidestep the issue and go on to other matters. The blacks m a i n t a i n Rhodesia's 278,000 whites must give up power to the 6.4 million blacks in no more than 12 months. The Rho- desian whites have refused to compromise much below a two- year minimum transition period. ASIDE FROM that dispute, the main question-the form of that transitional government-has not been settled. The whites still maintain they will not com- See RHODESIA, Page 7 Majormana: The C urse o the campus By LIZ KAPLAN An epidemic is battering college campuses these days - majormania. The days of going' to college simply "to become- educated" are long gone, and students on this campus and others are asking themselves, "What am I doing here?" UINVRT Y sTT 'tudents 'seem to be hrowine themnselves in a -Daily Photo by BRAD BENJAMIN * a*oodbyekiss? We thought she was asking for directions out side East Quad yesterday. But she knew exact- ly what she wanted all along. -N AN -Ns il te orld banon tefur-bish lousewortfi DICKEY, Maine (IP - For the furbish louse- that 30 little plants could stop a multimillion -ot, ts lif or det.dolrprjc. The discovery of the lousewort, a rare wild "PERSONALLY, I thik it would be ridicu snapdragon, in a remote region of northern loos if there were no other negative factors in Maine could thwart constructiort of a $600 volved," he said. But he expressed reserva million hydroelectric dam project. tions about the need for the power to be pro SOME 30 TO 35 specimens of the lousewort, a flower that was believed to be extinct, were found this summer by botanists surveying the Upper St. John River. They were doing the Cro7S thait 30 lile plants could work for a report on the environmental im- stopr a multimillion dollar prop- pact of the proposed Dickey-Lincoln hydroelec- tric project, one of the largest federally funded ect.