DUMPING KISSINGER See Editorial Page pY~r A& 4br 4fit r4t A an ~~IAit FLAKY High-32 Low--18 Latest Deadline in the State ....,.. ..i Vol. LXXXVI, No. 79 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, December 9, 1975 10 Cents Ten Page Up, up and away? The nation's trend towards Zero Population Growth may be slowing somewhat, as the U.S. reported an increase in the birth rate in 1974. "For the first time in several years, the steady drop in the birth rate may have halted," says University Public Health Prof. Myron Wegme. He also reported that the infant mortality rate de- clined substantially from 1973 figures to 16.5 per 1,000 live births. In addition, Wegman said the country's overall death rate declined by two per sent last year. All of these factors add up to a more rapidly increasing U.S. population if present trends continue, according to Wegmen Big 'U' boasts Congratulations are in order for our fine aca- demic institution- According to the "University Record," the University's hiring rate for the female segment of the human race is among the highest in the nation.. The Chronicle of Higher Education last week reported that there are 3,293 fulltime individuals at the University employed in engi- neering, the physical sciences, life sciences, etc. sciences, mathematical sciences, life sciences, etc. And, get this, an amazing 744 of those are Women! True, the remaining 2,519 individuals are either male or of some gender not yet known even in academia, but imagine how much courage and downright kindness it took the University to take on that many members of the "weaker" sex. Big 'U,' we salute you. Tenants' rights bill Two new tenants' rights bills that would prohibit extra-legal evictions and invasions of tenant privacy by landlords, have been reported out to the full state House. The two measures, sponsored by state representative Perry Bullard (D-Ann Arbor), have also been recommended for passage by the Urban Affairs Committee. One bill provides a $200 penalty for landlords if they remove or destroy the pert sonal property of the tenant, change the lock or lock the tenant out, board up the apartment or terminate heat, electrical or other essential services to the tenant. Bullard says the measure is aimed at thwarting landlords "who decide to take the law into their hands. These are not cases of legal evictions following due process.' Happenings .. . ... are ample today . .. a "Bilingual-Bicultural Education Conference Program" begins at noon at the Campus Inn . . . at 3 p.m. Prof. Robert Bort of the Law School speaks on "Euthanasia and the Law" in And. B, Angell Hall . . . Howard Norman rends poetry from his translations of the Cree Indian language at4:10 p.m. in' the Pendleton Rm. of the Michigan Union . . . ski bums can attend the Third Annual Cross -Country Ski Pro- gram at Fuller Park between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.; call 994-2575 to register . . . the "Fred Harris for President" campaign committee meets at 7:30 p.m. in the Ann Arbor Public Library . . . the Spartacus Youth League will debate the Young Socialist Alliance on "The Struggle to Implement Busing and Fight Racist Attacks" at 7:30 p.m. in the base- ment of the Michigan Union . . . at 8 p.m., a meet- ing on the controversial Title IX measure will be held at 1917 Washtenaw St. . . . and voting con- tinues in the LSA Student Government election. Dope note Remember sweet little Timmy, Lassie's master, who followed his faithful collie through the jungles of life in a crusade for Goodness and Justice? Well innocent little Timmy may not be quite so inno- cent. At least that's what federal narcotics agents say who arrested actor Tommy Rettig, 38, in his home in Morro Bay, Calif., last April.on charges of smuggling cocaine into the United States from Peru. Rettig, however, pleaded innocent Monday to charges that he brought liquid cocaine in a liquor bottle on a commercial airline flight into the coun- try. Rettig, now free on bail, was ordered to stand Hospital money The state legislature's joint capital outlay com- mittee has approved a bill calling for a $140,- 000,000 bond issue to build new facilities at Uni- versity Hospital. The measure must- now be con- sidered by the House appropriations committee. During October hearings before the capital outlay committee, University officials said they had been forced to spend about 2.5 million every year on renovations at the hospital because of structural deficiencies in the main building. Replacement of the hospital's 500 bed main unit would be the primary project funded under the bond issue. 0 On the inside .. . . . .Editorial Page features an article by Tom Stevens on Washington Star cartoonist Pat Oliphant ... Arts Page includes a profile of Bob Ufer, the voice of he Michigan Wolverine, by David Wein- berg . . . and on Sports Page, Paul Campbell has a column on the Michigan hockey team. On the outside ... AA TA aproves By TIM SCHICK The quality of work committee, the first of its kind ever established through collective bar- The Ann A r b o r Transportation Authority gaining, "will deal with issues related to job (AATA) board last night unanimously approved satisfaction and productivity," according to an a new two year contract negotiated with the AATA statement. Transportation Employes Union (TEU), which represents the city's 150 bus drivers. Mike Berla, AATA chairman, explained, "The The contract gives the bus drivers a 7.7 per committee will not handle grievances," but "will cent wage increase-raising pay from $4.78 per look into problem areas within the system to find hour to $5.15 per hour. During the second year, solutions to improve the productivity of the wages will be raised again to $5.40 per hour. system." In addition, the agreement calls for cost of IT WILL BE composed of eight members, four living benefits up to a maximum of ten cents an from each the AATA and TEU, plus consultants. hour as well as a unique "quality of work com- mittee." Employes, other than bus drivers, will receive THE AGREEMENT had previously been ap- wage increases in the range of 13 to 17 per cent, proved by the TEU membership in a meeting in addition to the other benefits. early Sunday morning. At 2:15 a.m. the union Steve McCargar, a TEU spokesman, said the voted 89-17 in favor of the new contract, less than hardest issues to reach an agreement on were five hours before the old pact expired, averting "wage parity for clericals, a longevity proposal a threatened strike. and the management rights clause." bus drive UNDER THE NEW contract, clericals will be paid 90 cents les sthan bus drivers. Longevity payments are now available to em- ployes two years sooner. Beginning in an em- ploye's third year of work, they will receive a 2.5 per cent longevity payment. This goes up to five per cent in the fifth year. The old contract provided for five per cent payments starting in the fitfh year of employment. The old pact, which expired at 7 a.m. last Sun- day, was extended indefinitely on June 30, with a provision that either side could cancel it on five days notice. LAST THURSDAY, the TEU announced the con- tract would expire Sunday, starting a week of hectic negotiations. The AATA presented the union with a contract offer Thursday, which was promptly rejected contempit rs pact by a 95-5 vote. TEU officials charged that th offer was no different from what had been unde discussion for a month. Talks lasted into the eary morning hours Sal urday, but concluded with "both sides . . . a con siderable distance apart," according to the union AS THE DEADLINE drew close, maratho bargaining sessions were held and a news blacl out was imposed. However, things were compl cated when the AATA distributed a letter pron ising employes who reported to work in the even of a strike the benefits which had been propose in the Thursday contract offer plus retroactiv pay back to July 1. The union warned that the letter could be " major stumbling block to reaching a settlement.' However, "in the final analysis it didn't," adde McCargar. Morton charge droppe WASHINGTON iN) - Re- jecting a compromise offer from President Ford, Intel- ligence Committee Chair- man Otis Pike filed a con- tempt action in the House yesterday against Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The New York Democrat said he will ask for a House contempt vote "in a couple of days" unless his commit- tee decides at a meeting to- day that he should not. REP. LES ASPIN (D-Wis.) said later he plans to try to head off the showdown vote, al- though he conceded he has not decided how and does not know if the committee will go along. "I think we're close enough to work something out," Aspin said. "... If we (the full House) vote, that's blown it. Then we can't negotiate." Meanwhile, Commerce Secre- tary Rogers Morton announced yesterday that he had reached an agreement which would re- move any threat of a contempt citation against him over infor- mation relating to the Arab boy- cott of Israel. MORTON released an ex- chanee of letters showing that the chairman of a House sub- committee which had voted to cite Morton for contempt has -now decided that the terms un- der which Morton has agreed to provide information to the sub- committee are adequate. The letter from Rep. John Moss (D-Calif.) accepted Mor- ton's requirement that informa- tion telling which American firms have received boycott re- quests remain confidential. "The materials will be re- ceived in executive session and the committee's handling of the materials will be in consonance with their asserted confidential- See PIKE, Page 7 Daily Photo by PAULINE LUBENS Exercising his duty as a citizen Larry Cooperman casts a vote in the Fishbowl yesterday during the LSA student government elec- tions. The elections wind up today. may join AF Kissinger Pike High Court refuses. to reverse Nebrasko trial1 news blackout WASHINGTON (A)-The Supreme Court yesterday refused fo the time being to block enforcement of a state court order restrict ing news coverage of a Nebraska murder trial. Justices William Brennan, Potter Stewart, and Thurgood Mar shall objected to the decision and said they would have grante news organizations' petition for a stay. THE MAJORITY, however, simply postponed final action of that and other -aspects of the case which has revived the long standing debate over the constitutional guarantees of a free pres: and a fair trial. The court said it was deferring a final decision on the applica tion for a stay of the Nebraska Supreme Court order pending fur ther developments in the case. The justices also said they will decide whether to grant a ful hearing on the matter after receiving legal briefs due from th state attorney general and other state officials today. THE DISPUTE involves the murder trial of Erwin Simants charged with slaying six members of a Sutherland, Neb., family The trial judge, Hugh Stuart of North Platte, issued a so-calle gag order prohibiting the publication of confessions, the circum stances of Simants' arrest and many details of the crime. See COURT, Page 2 By JAMES NICOLL The Graduate Employes Organization (GEO) has voted to begin negotiations with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) about possible affiliation. In a two-week election completed yesterday, GEO members chose the AFT over the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Em- ployes (AFSCME) or no affiliation at all. THE DECISION does not mean that GEO will affiliate with AFT, it merely authorizes the be- ginning of negotiations over possible affiliation. GEO will now try to to bargain with the AFT to get the best of possible terms. Another election must be held before the GEO formally commits itself to the AFT. Also at issue in the election were seven pro- posed ametndments to the GEO constitution. The proposals-all of which failed-dealt primarily with procedural matters regarding the election of officers, the process of affiliation, grievance pro- cedures, the calling of strikes, etc. A PREFERENTIAL voting system was used on the affiliation question, with each voter given two choices. The first count gave "no affiliation" 37 See GEO, Page 7 MOSLEMS LAUNCH MASSIVE ATTACK Beirut strife claims By AP and Reuter BEIRUT - Moslem forces launched their biggest assault of Lebanon's eight-month-old fight- ing yesterday, engaging Chris- tian street fighters in hand-to- hand combat under a hail of mortars and rockets in the heart of this Arab capital. Official sources said 100 people were killed in what Premier Rashid Karami described for the first time as Lebanon's civil war. At least 4,000 people have died this year in the sectarien conflict. THE MOSLEMS aulled back from captured territory in the Jewish and Christian areas of the city after nightfall when Lebanese army commandos in- tervened in a rare attempt to reassert government control around the House of Parliament nine days ago was wreAked by a weekend welter of violence. PRESIDENT Suleiman Fran- jieh called for an emergency meeting of all the warring fac- tions tomorrow to seek a way out of the political and sec- tarian conflict. Karami would not declare a state of emergency yeaterday because such a step must be ap- proved by all parties. Fighting raged Sunday night near Beirut's commercial cen- ter, which has not been able to function normally since tnd- September. THE LATEST outbreak of fighting followed a massacre Saturday in which more than 100 people were killed. Many of them were dragged from their cars or their offices and summarily executed be- cause they were of a different religion from their captors. Saturday's wave of- cold- blooded killings was sparked off by the discovery of the bodies of four Falangists. THE RIGHTWING party said today it had taken extraordinary measures to punish crimes com- mitted in what it called "arbi- 100 trary - reaction" to the fou men's deaths. Savage fighting raged4 else where in the capital as the Mos lems attempted to push Chri sians out of their smaller en claves into the Falangists' las strongholds at Ashrafiyeh anc Ein Rumanneh. President Suleiman Franjiel called the Moslem assault "Th blackest day in Lebanese his tory." ONE MOSLEM contingent re inforced by Kurdish mercen aries swept through the Wad See FIGHTING, Page 7 Reinecke convicton reversed WASHINGTON (A*) - The conviction of former Cnifr-:n - v~r. rVA Reineara efor Mn in toa by phone. Ms. Reinecke said, "I was praying for a veanrand a half I'm an thrilled. I'm so hannv.