he Mtcht n D 11.Vol. LXXXIX, No 58-S Yordy, August 3, 1979 K he 1~ricigatni Dail Sixteen Pages Ann Arbor, Michigan Ten Cents Munson dies in jet crash AKRON, Ohio (AP)-New York catcher Thurman Mun- son was killed yesterday af- ternoon in a fiery plane crash near an airport runway, a federal official said. The crash of the Cessna Citation jet occurred at 4:02 p.m. about 1,000 feet short of the runway at the Akron- Canton Airport, said William Nantz, a Federal Aviation Administration duty officer in New York. THE CRASH occurred as the jet made touch-and-go practice landings and take- offs. One of the three men aboard was a flight instructor. See MUNSON, Page 15 Congress halts rationing bill Munson 'U'prof will remain a Carter China analyst WASHINGTON (AP)- Congress abandoned yesterday the attempt to send President Carter a standby gasoline-rationing bill before the congressional August recess. Instead, a House-Senate conference committee was named to work out a compromise. Leaders said they hoped it could go to the president's desk in September. THE CONFERENCE was named af- ter the Senate formally rejected, by voice vote, a rationing bill approved by the House on Wednesday. The legislation would give the president authority to ration gasoline and take other fuel-saving steps during major shortages. But the House sad- dled it with a number of weakening amendments. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd said the House had "emasculated" the bill. He claimed there was no way House and Senate differences could be resolved without sending the bill to con- ference. AND SEN. Bennett Johnston (D-La.), who will be one of the Senate negotiators on the bill, said, "we had to weigh symbolism against prac- ticality." He indicated practicality prevailed. At the White House, presidential spokesman Jody Powell also called the House-passed bill unacceptable. He ex- pressed hope that the objectionable parts could be smoothed out in con- ference. What exactly does the administration object to in the bill? "I don't have time to list them all," Powell said. Generalizing, he said it had many "ill-advised, unenforceable amendments." THE WHITE House would especially like to see eliminated from the bill a Republican-backed amendment weakening the president's 78-degree thermostat program and restrictions on when Carter could impose gasoline rationing. "The one that's brought over from the House has been riddled with loopholes," said the Senate Energy Committee chairman, Henry Jackson (D-Wash.), of the House-passed bill. "It See RATIONING, Page11 Johnston By JUDY RAKOWSKY After more than two and a half years as chief China analyst on President Carter's National Security Council (NSC), University Political Science Prof. Michael Ocksenberg still is not ready to end his interlude from academics. Ockensberg is listed in the Fall term time schedule to teach Political Science 656, a course on Chinese government and politics. But since his April request to extend the leave he took when Carter was inauguarated in January 1977 was granted, the time schedule has been wrong. "I WAS PLANNING originally on returning in September, but I post- poned that return," he said yesterday in a telephone interview. Ocksenberg, 40, said he will remain in Washington because "I felt I wanted to observe not only normalization, but the institutionalization of our new relations with China." See 'U', Page 9 Campus pickets continue as bargaininj By PATRICIA HAGEN No progress was made yesterday in negotiations between the striking cam- pus skilled trades union and the University, despite the presence of a mediator, a union spokesman said. Negotiators probably will not meet with the mediator again until next week, said Jim Murphy, president of the union representing more than 300 skilled tradesworkers. He said union members will continue to picket around campus and the University Hospital. MURPHY CALLED the meeting in Detroit with the University bargaining team and a Michigan Employment Relations Commission mediator "a waste of time." Supervisory personnel will provide emergency services and repairs during the strike, University officials said Wednesday. The 318-member union went on strike when its two-year contract with the University expired at midnight Tuesday. THE TRADES council includes elec- tricians, painters, plumbers, carpen- ters, masons, heavy equipment operators, and construction, roofing, sheet metal, and machine workers on TRADES COUNCIL picketers block the path of a delivery truck outside University Hospital. Al strikers, the trucks were allowed to proceed to the unloading docks. A hospital spokesperson sail SeSTRIKING,.Page2 tered its second day yesterday, has not affected hospital activity.