THE Michigan Daily Vol. LXXXIV, No. 16-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, May 30, 1974 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Israel, Syria reach Golan Heights accord JERUSALEM (N - In a dramatic diplomatic triumph for Secretary of - State Henry Kissinger, Israel and Syria agreed yesterday to sep- arate their hostile armies on the Golan Heights front. The accord raised hopes for a more durable peace in the Middle East. But even as the agreement was announced, Israeli planes bombed and strafed "terrorist targets" orr the western slopes of Mt. Hermon, and Syrian and Israeli tanks and artillery blazed away at each other on the Golan front for the 79th straight day, communiques said. The pact, negotiated by Kissinger in 32 days of intense diplomatic effort, will be signed in Geneva tomorrow. It fol- lowed by five months a similar accord he worked out between Israel and Egypt on the Suez front. President Nixon said "a major road- block to any permanent settlement has now been removed," adding that pros- pects for a Middle East peace now are "better than they have been at any time over the past 25 years." A senior official in Jerusalem said the Geneva Middle East peace conference, which met briefly in December, would reconvene in July. The parley had ad- journed while Kissinger arranged the Israeli - Egyptian agreement on the Suez front. T H E SYRIAN - ISRAELI pact was much more difficult to achieve, and a senior U. S. official said the negotiations that led up to it were the toughest the secretary ever faced. He said every is- sue was contested with unparalleled te- nacity. The Israeli government expressed "its hope this agreement will be another step toward pacifying the Middle East and diverting the national energy of all the nations in the area to the benefit of their peoples, and their economic, social and political advancement. In Syria the agreement was greeted by a terse summation of President Nix- on's speech on the end of hostilities, with officials apparently awaiting the formal signing tomorrow. THE AGREEMENT came after Kis- singer gained a major Israeli concession on Palestinian guerrilla attacks, and two days after it appeared he had fallen short of completing the pact despite marathon talks with Syrian President Hafez Assad. The break-though came with Israel's agreement not to press for a written Syrian commitment to restrict its bor- der against Palestinian infiltrators, whose incursions have left scores of Israelis dead. Israeli sources said the government would accept a letter from the United States saying that any Israeli retaliation for terrorist attacks would be "under- stood" in Washington. Council ponders possibility of budget cutback By GORDON ATCHESON During a special session last night, City Coun:it received and discussed a report outlining extensive budget cuts that will be necessory if a property tax increase going before the voters next month is defeated. The report, compiled by City Adminis- trvtor Sylvester Murray, states that un- less a 1.7 mill tax hike appearing on the June 10 school board election ballot is passed, the loss in municipal revenues will "be devastating." Asumming the millage-a one time levy-is defeated, the city will be forced to cut about $1 million from its $18 mil- lion budget for fiscal year 1975. The budget includes anticipated funds the additional property tax would generate. COUNCIL. DISAGREED little with cut- backs recommended by Murray which entail: * no salary increases for city em- ployes and the demotion of some to lower payroll classifications 'saving $445,550); *laying off 30 full-time employes (saving $360,000); " reducing the number of city ve- hicles available to perform city services (saving $100,000); and 0 cutting the activities of the Com- munity Outreach p r o g r a m s (saving $95,000). - These reductions will all "severely affect nomat city operations," according to Murray, and in the case of lay-offs and salary cuts may lead to lawsuits and strikes on the part of unionized municipal workers. THE COUNCIL members -last night discussed a possible "campaign" to in- form voters about the "facts" relating to the millage and the consequences of its defeat. See COUNCIL, Page 10 Protestant leaders called an end to the 15-day-old strike which paralyzed the city. The strike forced the British government to suspend home rule when the moderate Catholic Protestant coalition government collapsed. British govt. suspends North Ireland assembly BELFAST ") - The British govern- ment suspended the Northern Ireland assembly yesterday after Protestant ex- tremists lifted' the 15-day-old strike that had paralyzed Northern Ireland's econ- omy and brought down the provincial government. The British move was announced after a meeting between Prime Minister Har- old Wilson and key ministers and was made apparently to gain time to work out a solution for the troubled province's future. The Irish government, a coalition of moderate Protestant and Roman Catho- lic politicians under Chief Executive Brian Faulkner, resigned Tuesday as the s t r i k e brought economic life in Northern Ireland to a standstill. BY SUSPENDING the assembly, the British in effect resumed direct rule of Northern Ireland under Merlyn Rees, the British Cabinet minister responsible for the province. The move will give Rees time as a caretaker to try and work out another attempt at power sharing between the province's warring Protestant majority and Catholic mi- nority. One probable outcome of any conces- sions for the Protestants would be a: renewed upsurge in violence by the Ro- man Catholic-based I r i s h Republican Army (IRA). The IRA wants to drive the British out of the province and re- unite the north with the predominantly Irish republic in the south. Rees announced he would meet sepa- rately today with political leaders from Northern Ireland, including the Rev. Ian Paisley, Harry West and William Craig, who represent hardline Protestant groups. REES REFUSED to see them earlier because of their backing for the strikers. Despite their tough talk, the strikers, too, had backed down. As recently as Tuesday night they had vowed to con- tittue the shutdown until new elections were called. But thousands of Protestants thought the fall of the moderate government was enough for now. Workers defected in droves, threatening to return to their jobs no matter what the Ulster Workers' Council decided.