ESUPPORT RENT STRIKE See Editorial Page :Yl r e Sir' igau :43atly TINGLY High-33 Low-IS See Today for details Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVI, No. 71 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, November 25, 1975 10 Cents T en Pages //, rr~sEPSlAPX L CRISP scalpers Some people are so desperate for high priority CRISP tickets, they're ready to deal with scalpers. Take engineering freshman Bill Caspar-he pasted up signs yesterday offering to pay $6 for a Decem- ber 1 CRISP card. Caspar, disgusted with his Dec. 12 pre-registration date, lamented, "I don't want to get stuck with all 8 o'clocks." When advised that he could probably add the classes he missed at pre-registration during drop-add, he looked horri- fied and said, "I heard about those drop-add lines this fall ..." It may be a cold wait outside the old Architecture and Design Building this winter. Bonus leaves Ted Bonus, University director of state and com- munity relations, has been named vice president for university relations at Indiana University. The appointment, announced yesterday, becomes effec- tive in January. Bonus, 44, has served as director of state and community relations here since 1970. 0 Happenings... .. point the way to Turkey Day as the Omega Psi Phi fraternity gives away 10 Thanksgiving baskets to the 2nd Baptist Church at Fifth and Beak Streets . . . from 2-5 p.m., there's a colloquim with Sif Geoffrey Vickers on "Organizational Mal- function in a Complex World" in the 6th floor Founder's Room of the Institute for Social Re- search on Thompson St. . .. Dr. Walter Moss of Eastern Michigan will speak on "Aging in Human- istic Perspective" from 3,5 p.m. in Rm. 1309 of the Ed. School Bldg. . . . and the Russian Center sponsors a Soviet Film Festival free from 4 p.m. to midnight at 200 Lane Hall, including such films as "Ivan the Terrible," part two. Pesty parrot A large green parrot has been loose and squawk- ing for help in Spokane, Washington's South Hill neighborhood for a year. The Humane Society has received more than 40 calls from all over the city about the big-mouthed bird. Humane Society employes have been unable to bag the bird because it rests too high in the trees. "It just sits there in the top of a tree somewhere and hollers for help," says Karen Hargraves, Humane Society education director. The Society is puzzled as to how the bird can survive Spokane's cold winter weather. "Perhaps people feed it and there must be a lot of bird feeders on the South Hill," says Hargraves. Take a weed to dinner A lot of people were upset last week to read that N.Y. Times Food Writer Craig Claiborne and a friend had dined in Paris for $4,000. They couldn't complain about the forty guests who paid $3 apiece to dine on such viands as fresh fried fiddle head fern at the second annual weed feast. Other deli- cacies on the buffet this weekend at the Miami event included a tossed salad of marsh cress and field purslane, cattail stalks, boiled polkwood, wild cucumbers, sea purslane and pennyroyal tea. A nutritional chemist told the weed chompers, "There's an untapped resource in south Florida as big as petroleum. There's tons and tons of food here." Below the belt . A rape case defendant was caught with his pants down in a Galveston, Tex. courtroom yesterday. It seems as though the rape vietim'-described her attacker's sex organ as puny in size, so defendant Jesse Ray Owens Sr. dropped his pants for the jury to prove that he could not have been the rapist. One female clerk, when asked whether the victim's description fit Owens, chuckled, "Uh, no. He was rather graciously endowed." Case wraps up this week, but with evidence like that, who knows? Poor Santa Tis the season to be jolly-toss a brick at your nearest Santa Claus. That's just what someone did to the old man during the annual Christmas parade in downtown Wheeling, W. Virginia Sunday. The brick missed but then 40 young boys clambered aboard Santa's float and broke two legs off a wooden reindeer. The boys climbed all over poor Santa for several blocks, until he persuaded them, to get off the float-with threats of no presents, perhaps? "Imagine, someone throwing a brick at Santa Claus!" the red-suited, white-bearded gentle- man exclaimed later. On the inside ... ...Prof. Paul T.K. Lin analyzes the Taiwan situation on the Edit Page . . . on the Arts Page Rusty Green reviews poet Robert Bly's appear- ance at the Pendleton Arts Center last week . . . and on Sports Page carries the results of the NCAA cross country championship. On the outside ... Tenants By SARA RIMER The Ann Arbor Tenants Union (AATU) has or- ganized almost half of Trony Associates tenants to support a December rent strike as the first step in a planned city-wide action, AATU spokes- man Steve Downs said yesterday. The rent strike was officially announced at Saturday's football game when a helicopter circled the stadium trailing a banner proclaiming "Land- lords have bucks-rent strike soon." THE LAST city-wide rent strike, in 1969-71, in- cluded 1,200 households and virtually all received rent reductions. Sixty-five of Trony's 120 units have joined the tenants union and at least 50 of those have agreed to withhold December's rent, according to Downs. He said the AATU has targeted Trony first be- cause of its relatively small size. None of the more than 20 management companies in town are Union j "fair," he said. THE AATU is demanding that Trony officially recognize their union as a bargaining unit and improve what Downs calls "poor" maintenance and "miserable" security. "Trony is easily the most obnoxious landlord in town," Downs added. Dewey Black, Trony's new owner, accused the AATU yesterday of organizing the strike for "their own personal edification." BLACK said he will negotiate with the AATU if it presents him with a list of expected strikers. He said the union has been uncooperative and will not give him a chance to "prove" himself. Black recently bought the company from its owners Tony Hoffman and Ronald Ferguson. "I understood there were problems when I was buying them out that I would have to straighten out," he said yesterday. "Trony has a black eye with students," Black added. clans rent AATU spokesperson Larry Cooperman said yes- terday the union has not turned over a list of pledged strikers in order to avoid harassment of those tenants. BLACK SAID he has initiated a "concentrated repair program" and has hired five new main- tenance people. But Downs said several Trony apartments still have roof leaks. And Lori Alcock, 802 Oakland (Trony), said yesterday her roof leaks water from the shower in the upstairs apartment. She said the company has tried without success to fix the leak and she has joined the December rent strike to force Trony to begin "more ef- ficient maintenance." "We don't have leaky roofs," Black said yes- terday. He complained that the people "yelling and crying the loudest don't need anything." HE DEFENDED Trony's security and said he has installed brand new deadbolts in each of his 120 units. Cooperman said tenants were charged $12.50 apiece for the locks and claimed some units are without the new locks. Michigan state law gives tenants the right to withhold rent if the landlord does not make needed repairs. Downs said the AATU is advising most striking tenants to pay their rent into an escrow fund set up by the union in order to show good faith. DOWNS SAID tenants could not be evicted for striking unless the landlord took them to court and won. "If the rent is not paid on the first, I will take comprehensive action on the second. I have no alternative but to start eviction," Black said. Downs said the 1969-71 rent strike "scared a lot of people" and caused a noticeable improvement in maintenance. strike SGC Vote ok's MSA ceon-eon' By GLEN ALLERHAND Ballot proposals calling for a Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) and a constitutional con- vention plan have won passage in the Student Government Council election. A provision to release Council's Student Legal Advocate Program (SLAP) funds was defeated, 1241-1099. Winning seats on Council were Student Organizing Committee (SOC) candidates Enrique Bar- roso, David Goodman, and Mar- ty Kaufman, in addition to MOVE candidates Glenn Eng- man and Gordon Tuiker, and independent candidate Steve La- Tourette. THE PASSAGE of MSA will mean a restructuring of Coun- cil to include representatives from all school and college gov- ernments and a number of at- large representatives. It now consists mainly of literary col- lege (LSA) members. A- Steering Committee will be established to screen issues coming to the floor of the entire Assembly. MSA will go into effect after the winter term, when an elec- tion will be held to determine the number of MSA delegates. According to the plan, a maxi- mum of 35 representatives will sit on the Assembly. DAVID MITCHELL, Coun- cil's executive vice president, said "On constitutional amend- ments, such as this was, there's a one semester waiting period. MSA won't really take effect until fall of next year." Approval of the constitutional convention ("con-con") plan, according to Council sources, means that a maximum of 75 delegates will meet next term to formulate revisions to the All-Campus Constitution, SGC's operating charter. Council member Jasper Di- See SGC, Page 7 . Council okays first .yearU CDRS plans By ANN MARIE LIPINSKI The final chapter in the organization of Ann Arbor's first year Community Development Revenue Sharing (CDRS) program was written by City Council last night. Council passed, in a 9-1 vote, a program introduced by Democratic Mayor Albert Wheeler calling for the allo- cation of the $2.4 million in CDRS funds to nearly 40 city agencies and various projects for physical community developments. THE PROGRAM - a product of nearly two years of intense political debate -- does not outline specific dollar amounts to be allocated to each agency, but does offer a tentative schedule of Daily Photo by KEN FINK SECRETARY OF STATE Henry Kissinger addresses the Detroit Economic Club last night. Kis- singer touched on many subjects including President Ford's upcoming China trip, the CIA in- vestigations, and Soviet involvement in the Angola conflict. Kissinger condemns USSR's intervention in Angola conflt payments to be contractually negotiated by the city CDRS staff. A provision in Wheeler's pro- posal specifies that "the final amount allocated (to each ag- ency), if any at all" will be of- fered for council's approval fol- lowing contract developments. The Mayor stated the staff will begin negotiation of con- tracts "immediately," and des- ignated Dec. 8 as thettarget date far completion of the first set of contracts. THE PROGRAM approved by council differs from the plan put forth by Wheeler last Mon- day. It carries several amend- ments made by the mayor him- self over the weekend as well as changes instituted by Republi- can council members last night. Wheeler, as a result of nego- tiations with the GOP last Thursday, offered $345,000 in amendments to his original CDRS proposal last night, in- cluding a $75,000 transfer from local option for the purchase of a fire truck, and a $10,000 trans- fer from neighborhood facilities funds to be added to downtown imroverents. According to several GOP Spokesmen, Republican coun- See COUNCIL, Page 2 By STEPHEN HERSH tions by some observers that Special To The Daily Kissinger's attitude toward the DETROIT .- Secretary of U.S.S.R. is less firm than that State Henry Kissinger last night of James Schlesinger, who re- rebuked the Soviet Union for its cently resigned as secretary of "interventionist policy" in the defense under pressure from civil conflict in Angola, and af- Ford.- firmed close ties between the Wearing a blue suit and red United States and the People's tie, and speaking slowly in a Republic of China. deep voice, Kissinger criticized Those remarks were appar- "the substantial Soviet build-up ently intended as a friendly of weapons in Angola which has gesture toward Peking, in antic- introduced great power rivalry ipation of President Ford's trip into Africa for the first time to China scheduled for next in fifteen years." week. He warned that the involve- THE COMMENTS may also ment could strain Soviet-Ameri- have been a reaction to asser- can relations, saying, "continu- STREET FIGHTING INTENSIFIES ation of an interventionist poli- cy must inevitably threaten oth- er relationships." HE ADDED, "The Soviet Un- ion still has an opportunity for a policy of restraint which per- mits Angolan* to resolve their own differences without outside interventions. We would be glad to cooperate in such a course. But time is running out." The Soviets have been lend- ing support to the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, a Marxist group. China has in the past provided aid to See KISSINGER, Page 2 Fleming hints oftuition 0 increase By MARGARET YAO President Robben Fleming told the University Senate yes- terday afternoon that another tuition increase and an exten- sion of next year's Christmas vacation may be necessary to make ends meet in 1976-77. Fleming said the administra- tion learned last month that the University will receive the same number of dollars (in state appropriations) in 1976-77 that we have for this year." The University has asked the state for a $21.8 million increase over this year's $99.8 million budget, including an 11 per cent staff salary hike. See FLEMING, Page 2 Violence grows in BEIRUT (Reuter)-The crisis in Lebanon took a sharp turn for the worse yesterday as street fighting intensified in Beirut and the country's top politicians abandoned a meeting called to find ways of ending the factional strife. A session of the National Di- alogue Committee, made up of 20 top Lebanese political chief- tains from all religious sects, broke up after only half an hour after protests at the absence of interior minister Camille Cham- dun, a powerful Maronite Chris- tian leader. RIGHT wing and left wing gunmen blazed away at each other with rockets, mortars and machineguns only a few hundred yards from the hilltop govern- ment house in central Beirut where the politicians were meet- in. Fnr .p DProniv, A.. n l n mn Junblatt told reporters after the session that the fighting will continue until Christmas Eve because arms dealers want to do a good business. "They can now sell subma- chineguns for 1200 Lebanese pounds (about $500) when they.. only bought them for 500 pounds (about $200). Hand grenades are now selling for 100 pounds (about $40) each." Heavy overnight fighting in the southern and eastern sub- urbs died down as down broke and the center of the violence shifted to the two main squares in the city center. POLICE said at least six bodies were found in the streets in various areas of the capital, but commented that this by no means reflected real casualties which were probably much high- 3eirut er. The death roll in the violence over the past two days is about 40 killed and over 100 wounded- mostly victims of either snipers or kidnappers. The total death toll over the last three weeks is about 240. Beirut radio said today that most roads were unsafe because of exchanges of gunfire, snipers and kidnappings. Tours tie up bowl tickets By LEBA HERTZ Michigan football fans have waited four years to see their team play a game on New Years Day. At long last, this year many stu- dents will be able to enjoy watching the Wol- verines play Oklahoma in sunny Miami at given first priority on individual sales. Both Michigan and Oklahoma have been allotted only 12,500 ticket each. Of those allo- cated to Michigan, 500 must be distributed to the other Big Ten universities. ACCORDING to a Orange Bowl Tour spokes- I I * a : w -.