Friday, August 16, 1974 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Friday, August 1 6~ 1974 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three- More absentee votes found Could affect Congressional race outcome By GORDON ATCHESON While certifying voting results, the Washtenaw County Board of Canvassers yesterday found between 25 and 50 un- counted absentee ballots cast in the August 6 primairy election. If the bord jidges the intabuted ballots to be valid, they could have a significant effect oni the still disputed 2nd U.S. ongrc Sional 1i tict Demo crit IParty primary. IN TIAT CONTEIST, Jlin Reuther apparently dged oWIt I Edw d iie by 69 vote, tbolthugh the total ire not official and I reciint is virtu ill cer- tain. Thc cantissctrs are i currently dtc'cr mining the ex-it ntnhci of unconted ballots Ind of th(se biiw nminy may be legally tabulated, a process which should take until early next week, accotrding to County Clerk Robert Ilarrison. Harrison blamed the mix tip on a complicated absentee ballxt system that confused a numtiber of vtiers. PRIOR TO THE1 e tetion, three ab- sentee ballots one for the partisan elec- tions, another for the nonnartisan races, and a third covering delegates to the county conventions- were otailed to per- sons requesting them. The absentee voters were then sup- posed to return both the partisan and nonpartisan election ballots in a single AP Photo envelope and the delegate ballot in a separate envelope. Many people, however, returned all three together. This created problems on the White election day because the delegate ballots previously were to be counted at various places throughout the city and the other ballots at a central location. ELECTION OFFICIALS were able, to get many of the ballots to the proper locations. But the remaining ballots- those the Board of Canvassers found yesterday-were never recorded in the versily Geti- confusion. varsithC' The votes, all cast by city residents, e saidlst now must be ruled valid by the board gue" almost before they can be counted in the elec- -e answered. tion totals. hat the suit The ballots must be in time-stamped s which are envelopes showing they were delivered case. to poll workers by 1 p.m. election night at least six and have been in custody of election preliminary officials since then to be considered inated and valid, Harrison said. court. HE ADDED that the canvassers will ly has not make a determination of ballot validity Inds to lose on a case by case basis, d to October In the extremely close congressional ch a drastic primary, Pierce carried Ann Arbor by See ABSENTEE, Page 10 Breakfast of champions Sens. Jacob Javits (I-NY), Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn) and Henry Jackson (D-Wash) meet with newsmen at House yesterday after breakfasting with President Ford to discuss free emigration for Soviet Jews. The senatorsI opposed passage of a trade bill with the Soviet Union over the issue of emigration. 'U' it ithsex bias cas By BARBARA CORNELL Three w o m e n research assistants recently filed a class action suit against the University for allegedly not provid- ing female employes with sufficient back pay to compensate for discriminatory hiring and promoting procedures. The suit stems from a 1972 Affirma- tive Action investigation of University personnnel files prompted by pressure from the Department of Health, Educa- tion, and Welfare. The Affirmative Ac- tion program determined that some wo- men were originally over-qualified for the positions into which they were hired and that these women were entitled to compensatory back pay. THE THREE women who filed suit, Jannet Keller, Elizabeth Taylor, and Toby Campbell, all of whom are em- ployes at the Institute for Social Re- search, claim they have not been justly compensated because they received no- lice that the payments are only retro- active back to Feb. 1, 1972 and not October 1968-when the federal govern- ment passed a law prohibiting discrim- ination in public institutions. The case, which was filed last Friday, also contends that the investigation was insufficient since only 500 apparently random files were studied. The plaintiffs claim that employes should have been notified to complain if Affirmation Ac- tion felt they had been underpaid. Attorney Beverly Clark said that al- though the case seems clear-cut, the suit entails many problems and a lot of paper work. SHE EXPLAINED that since the three plaintiffs are all employed at the same place, the University could claim that they are not representative of all the women employes on campus. Clark is now in the process of notify- ing all the University's female employes who may have been discriminated against in an effort to establish as large a base as possible for the case. The attorney added that she is reliant on the University for access to their files and, although she has not experienced any uncooperation as yet, she asserts that "delay is the best defense" and that some stalling is expected. THE UNIVERSITY has up to 20 days to file a response, but Uni- eral Counsel Roderick Daa suit lacks detail and is "va to the point that it cannot b Daane further contends t cites certain legal precedent not applicable in the specific Clark estimates it will be to eight months before the investigations will be tern the case can be brought toc The University apparent computed how much it sta if retroactive pay is granted 1968. Daane claims that sut ruling would be unlikely. 10 committee Republicans issue impeachment report WASHINGTON (417-A draft report by 10 House Judiciary Committee Republi- cans says there was no persuasive im- peachment evidence against former President Richard Nixon until his own disclosure last week. Nixon admitted then that he obstructed justice in the Watergate cover-up, says the draft minority impeachment inquiry report. But it says "for the most part he was not guilty" of other impeach- ment charges voted against him. "WE HOPE THAT it will not hereafter be said by many that Richard Nixon was 'hounded out of office,' for that is not true," says the report under con- sideration yesterday by the GOP com- mittee members,, In strong language that some members said may be toned down in the final report, the draft adds that it was Nixon, "not seasoned Nixon-baiters," who im- peded the initial FBI Watergate investi- gation and later tried to conceal that cover-up act. But it says Nixon's own admission a week ago Monday of those two acts "is the first direct and persuasive evi- dence" that Nixon participated in the cover-up. AND IN CONFLICT with the majority report's conclusion that Nixon directed the Watergate cover-up from the be- ginning, the Republican report says the evidence is that Nixon joined "in an ongoing conspiracy to obstruct justice." The some 100-page minority report is to be published along with a 175-page majority report and individual views as the Judiciary Committee's official sup- porting document for the three impeach- ment articles it voted against Nixon late last month. Committee members received galley proofs Wednesday night of the majority report concluding Nixon directed the cover-up from the start and also "re- peatedly and wilfully" abused his power by misusing federal agencies for political purposes. THE MINORITY REPORT was drafted for the ten Republicans who voted against all three impeachment articles but announced after Nixon's disclosure last week they would vote for impeach- ment. Impeachment proceedings have been halted, however, in the wake of Nixon's resignation, His disclosure was that six days after See REPUBLICANS, Page 10