The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, August 8, 1979-Page 3 Local officials discuss city power structure By JUDY RAKOWSKY Accountability to citizens is greater with a govern- ment structure centered around the city ad- ministrator than with a strong mayor form, accor- ding to outgoing City Administrator Sylvester Murray. He explained that elected officials can fire the bureaucrat, but an undesirable mayor stays in of- fice until he is voted out. "It's better this way," said Murray, who recently accepted Cincinnati's city manager job. "If the people elect a mayor for four years, during the first year he may not be accountable, but he'll be there for the next three years." ALTHOUGH THE 23-year-old city administrator structure is popular with most past and present Ann Arbor politicians, it is still subject to debate. Former Mayor Albert Wheeler is an advocate of a strong mayor system. "Mayors have to go out and Mideast talks end; major issues still unsettled HAIFA, Israel (AP) - Mideast talks on Palestinian self-rule ended yester- day with a declaration of modest suc- cess, although Israel, Egypt and the United States left fundamental issues unresolved for later negotiations. After three stormy sessions, the talks produced a seven-point agenda for fur- ther negotiations on how Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territories will elect a self-governing council. Agreement on an election procedures agenda, an apparently innocuous issue, proved difficult enough. It involved probing key questions such as whether Jerusalem Arabs should come under the sutonomy's authority, whether Palestinians could organize political parties and whether the franchise could be extended to refugees outside the oc- cupied areas. "WE HAVE not attempted to resolv- e these questions, only to find a list which is acceptable to all of us on the basis of which we can then go forward," said U.S. Ambassador James Leonard. Leonard said the "headings" for the See MIDEAST, Page 6 Ever t account to the people every couple of years and they ought to be able to make decisions," he said. Wheeler, a Democrat, said discussions with other mayors at conventions during his 1975-1977 term lead him to believe "there's a feeling generally among mayors that they ought to have more authority to make decisions and have capable pros to carry out those decisions." Republican Mayor Louis Belcher said, "I have all the power I want and need." IN ANN ARBOR'S weak mayor form, the admin- sitrator makes recommendations to City Council, the majority votes of which set policies for ad- ministrative implementation. However, the mayor has the power to veto that majority vote. "The charter gave the administrator authority, but he can't ignore the chief elected official, and the mayor can't just run over the chief administrative of- ficial," Murray explained. Murray said Friday' the structure provides a "possibility for friction" between the mayor and the city administration which makes necessary cooperation of "personalities between the two for it to really work." He added, however, that "there ought to be cooperation between the bureaucracy and policy-makers." FORMER CITY Administrator Guy Larcom said Friday that Ann Arbor has a relatively weak type of administrator government, in which the mayor's role is larger than the prototype. He said this city's ad- ministrator is constrained more by City Council than those in many other, especially larger, cities. Unlike many cities, Ann Arbor's city administrator does not have complete authority over hiring and firing of department heads. See Az, Page10 Canine lineA ry to round up a dozen Irish Setter puppies for a portrait sitting? Anthony Henry, 13, of Memphis, Tenn., stuffed ps into socks yesterday and hung them from a clotheslines. Mother Molly, pictured center, didn't seem to mind, d the puppy next to her right ear, who promptly fell asleep. to day the put nor did sideration for the presidency of the City of New York's Hunter College. Although she has not yet been officially nominated, Cobb and Dr. Robert Hirschfield, chairman of Hunter College's political science department, have been recommended for the post by a search committee. Cobb currently is the dean of Douglass College at Rutgers University. About four years ago, the University offered Cobb, then dean of Connecticut College, a two-year, no- tenure contract for the LSA deanship. Apparently after some hesitation, Cobb accepted the offer, only to find that the Department of Zoology's decision to reject her tenure application had swayed the University Board of Regents against her. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare questioned the "University's affirmative action policy as a result of the controversy. Eventually Zoology Prof. Billy Frye, who had been acting LSA dean, was named to the post. Mismonickered til next month. "Dear Miss Barbour-Newberry," the card began. Perhaps the postcard should be forwarded to the winner of some future beauty con- test. Happenings,... ... at noon, Ed Parmentier and harpsichordists will perform in the Pendleton Center of the Michigan Union . . . the Students International Meditation Society presents an introductory lec- ture, "Transcendental Meditation and TM Sidhi Programs," at noon and again at 8 p.m., in Room 4315 -of the Michigan Union ... anthropologist Niara Sudarkasa and feminist attorney Sallyanne Payton will debate "Black Macho and The Myth of the Black Superwoman" on WCBN-FM, 88.3, at 6 p.m.... FILMS: Trdlffaut's The Wild Child, 8:40 p.m.; Herzog's Every Man for Himself and God Against All, 7 p.m., 10:20 pni.; both in Aud. A, Angell Hall. Cobb Cobb considered for CUNYpost 'Dr. Jewell' Cobb,'A black edtcator who was of- fered the d ahsri' of LA - n"1975, is under con- A wayward postcard addressed to the Barbour- Newberry Library found its way into the Daily's On the outside stack of mail yesterday. The card was from the cir- culation department of Vogue magazine, and inten- Anothdr hot and humid afternoon, with a high ded to inform the shared library of the two women's. temperature near 15' and partly sunny skies. The dormitories that its subscription could not start urt" will be near Goo.