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House Committee passes
draft registration
Court: Bred fish not
included in Indian pact
WASHINGTON (AP)-Renewal of
draft registration for all 18-year-old
men was overwhelmingly approved
yesterday by the House Armed Ser-
vices Committee.
The committee rejected 30-4 an ef-
fort to take the renewed registration
out of a $42 billion weapons
authorization bill. The bill was
cleared for House action by a 35-2
vote.
THE PROVISION WOULD
require all young men who turn 18
after Dec. 31, 1980, to register in case
the draft itself is ever reinstated in a
war or emergency.
The provision specifies men, but it
requires the president to recom-
mend back to Congress details on
how he wants to carry out
registration and whether women
should be included.
President Carter has taken no
position on whether draft
registration should be renewed..
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
Harold Brown has said he still hopes
the present Selective Service
System can be beefed up to meet
war mobilization requirements
without renewing registration.
The amendment to knock draft
registration out of the bill was made
by Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-
Colo.), who said the committee
should wait and decide the entire
issue of how Americans would be
required to fight any future war.
Schroeder is co-sponsoring a bill to
require all young people to serve in
wartime either in the military or
some civilian alternative service.
LANSING (UPI)-A state appeals
court ruling handed down yesterday
contradicts a federal court decision on
the issue of Indian fishing rights and
has Michigan environmentalists
bewildered.
U.S. District Court Judge Noel Fox
ruled Tuesday the Bay Mills and Sault
Ste. Marie Chippewa Indians were
guaranteed unrestricted fishing rights
under two 19th Century treaties. Fox
said the state has no power to regulate
fishing by those tribes.
BUT THE MICHIGAN Court of Ap-
peals said yesterday the Indians have
no treaty right to take fish artificially
planted in the Great Lakes.
Meanwhile, Indian fishermen plan to
resume fishing in Lake Michigan and
Grand Traverse Bay as soon as a tribal
imposed ban on such fishing expires
May 15, a spokesman said yesterday.
Elmer LeBlanc said tribal leaders
who have pledged to continue the ban
beyond next Tuesday are playing
politics.
"I DON'T KNOW why they agreed to
the ban in the first place," LeBlanc
said. "They can't close the bays to
fishing just on their own concerns."
LeBlanc said at least seven Indian
crews are ready to start fishing in
currently banned areas following Fox's
decision.
The only way to overturn unlimited
Indian fishing rights would be through
an act of Congress abrogating portions
of the 1836 and 1855 treaties, Young
said.
Such legislation has been introduced
by two Michigan congressmen, Robert
Davis and Don Albosta.
Milliken considers two prison expansion proposals
Contued from Page9 seeking sites for new prisons often have the state Department of Corrections to their questions and concerns.
Meanwhile, legislation ensuring local been stymied by fierce resistance from follow in picking new prison sites.
residents are heard when the state the communities under consideration. The state would be required to Suits could be filed to halt prison con-
plans to put a new prison in their com- THE BILL, sent to the House floor on establish advisory committees in the struction if the procedures were not
munity has cleared the House Correc- a unanimous committee vote yester- affected communities and hold public followed or if local residents didn't like
tions Committee. day, seeks to avoid these conflicts by hearings at which citizens could the way a completed prison was being
In recent years, state officials establishing an elaborate procedure for demand formal written answers to operated.