Y nVol. LXXXIX, No. 15-S Tuesday, May 22, 1979 Sixteen Pages Ann Arbor, Michigan Ten Cents TEHRAN, Ira nment has reas criticism of its short yesterday blown crisis. Foreign Mini ference that Ir Thursday's Sen executions and Iran. That realizat Iranian Foreign United States to Tehran, signal U.S. criticism triggers Iranian anger an (AP) - Iran's revolutionary gover- criticism. ship with the deposed shah. cted swiftly and angrily to American THE STATE Department was conciliatory yester- THE SENATE RESOLUTION Islamic justice system, but it stopped day as spokesman Kenneth Brown appealed for Iran to Jacob Javits, (R-N.Y.), hit in of letting the conflict become a full- accept the new ambassador and said, "We believe we Splashed by newspapers, it-drew should put the past behind us. from revolutionary militants fo ster Ibrahim Yazdi told a news con- "We support the revolution's objectives of freedom, executions after years of allegedE an recognized a difference between justice and democratic institutions for the Iranian executions under the shah. ate resolution that condemned Iranian people. They will not be easy to achieve but we wish the Javits was also attacked pers the overall U.S. government policy on new government well." Israel and for public relations w President Carter announced on April 24 that he plan- for the state Iranian airline, Iran. tion, however, did not prevent the ned to send Walter Cutler, former ambassador to In Washington, Senate lea Ministry on Sunday from asking the Zaire, to Tehran as a replacement for Ambassador resolution. Majority Leader Rob delay sending its new ambassador to William Sullivan, who was called home April 4 for ing a formal protest of the Senate "consultations." Sullivan had a close working relation- See U.S., Pag , introduced by Sen. Iran like a bomb. immediate criticism r spotlighting recent Senate indifference to onally for his ties to ork his wife once did Air. ders defended the ert Byrd of West Vir- e 2 ommom" Oil execs say gas squeeze caused by crude oil shortage WASHINGTON (AP) - Oil company executives denied withholding gasoline from the market to await higher prices yesterday, and blamed the nation's gasoline squeeze on a lack of crude oil. Meanwhile, administration spokesmen testifying before the same congressional committee blamed tight crude oil supplies on unrest in the Mideast. White House press secretary Jody Powell said Congress was primarily responsible for the nation's current gasoline problems and that President Carter was getting too much of the blame. DEPUTY ENERGY Secretary John O'Leary told a Senate hearing that shortages may be eased somewhat if Iran increases its oil production. He said there is a chance Iran might export an additional 200,000 to 300,000 barrels a day to the United States. But such an increase, O'Leary added, would only make the country "more comfortable" in a time of continuing shortage. O'Leary and executives of Daily Photo by LA UDELSUN Guest mayor Port Huron Mayor Timothy Lozen took Ann Arbor Mayor Louis Belcher's place as part of Mayor Exchange Day. Lozen opened the City Council meeting last night. Earlier in the day, he received the key to the city, had lunch with the Kiwanis Club and toured Ann Arbor. Lozen was presented with a sketch of Ann Arbor's train station at the City Council meeting. See the City Council story, Page 3. FORMER CITY SUPER VISE R FOUND MENTALLY ILL: San Francisco jury convicts White five major oil companies testified before a Senate Energy subcommittee studying the present shortages. Senators told the officials that they, like exasperated motorists in gasoline station lines, wanted an answer to the question of whether gasoline is being held back to bid up the price. See EXECUTIVES, Page 2 House panel says A-pla nt accidents likely WASHINGTON (AP) - The chair- man of a House inquiry into the Three Mile Island nuclear accident said yesterday the same type mishap "is likely at any time" at another nuclear power plant. Rep. James Weaver, (D-Ore.), made the assertion in presenting a report by his panel suggesting that equipment and instrument failure played a much greater role in the March 28 accident than operator error. Meanwhile, the House approved and sent to the White House a measure giving broad powers to the special commission named by President Car- ter to investigate the nuclear accident. THE MEASURE, passed unanimously, gives the commission the power to subpoena and put witnesses under oath and to inspect certain records. Commission members last week suspended hearings into the accident until it had obtained the power. The Senate passed the bill on Friday. "Such an accident not only could happen again but it is likely to at any time," Weaver told members of a House Interior subcommittee. "Three Mile Island has proved the extreme vulnerability of nuclear power." See HOUSE, Pages SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Dan White, the one-time city supervisor, police officer and fire fighter who ad- mitted the City Hall slayings of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Har- vey Milk, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in their deaths yester- day. The two verdicts from the seven- woman, five-man jury were a major victory for the defense, which had con- ceded that White killed the mayor and Milk, but claimed White was mentally ill at the time. White, who could have been senten- ced to death if convicted of murder, now faces a prison term ranging from just under five years to slightly less than eight years. THE JURY deliberated for six days, returning often to re-hear evidence, beforereturning its verdicts. White bowed his head when the first verdict - that in Milk's death - was read, and there was a collective gasp from the packed, 92-seat courtroom. Then the 32-year-old White looked at his wife, Mary Ann, who was weeping in the front row of the spectator section. At least three jurors wiped tears from their eyes. NO DATE WAS set for sentencing, but Superior Court Judge Walter Calcagno set a June 19 deadline for a pre-sentencing report. White had been charged with murder in the November 1978 shootings of the 49-year-old Moscone and the 48-year-old Milk. Earlier yesterday, the jury returned to the courtroom for two hours to rehear the testimony of Dr. Roland Levy, the only psychiatrist to testify for the prosecution. LEVY SAID White had the mental capacity to premeditate the killings and harbor malice - requirements for a murder conviction. Four other psychiatrists testified for the defense, saying White was depressed and had a diminished mental capacity. It was the sixth time the jurors retur- ned to the courtroom since receiving the case last Wednesday. They asked to rehear testimony four times and twice asked to rehear the legal distinctions between murder and manslaughter. White was considered the strongest advocate of law and order on the 11- member Board of Supervisors. He was elected from a largely blue-collar neighborhood in November 1977, and quit his job as a San Francisco fire fighter. His $9,600 salary as supervisor was half of his fire fighter's pay. SeeSAN FRANCISCO, Page 12