The Michigan Daly Vol. LXXXVII, No. 4-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, May 7, 1977 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Carter faces summit today Daily Photo by CHRISTINA SCHNEIDER summer at Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. her excavated artifacts are on exhibit this ANCIENT SELEUCIAN pottery along with of reasUres with ancient roots LONDON 1) -- After being cheered, patted and befriended by thousands in a campaign-style swing through England's north country, President Carter returned to London yesterday to get down to the tough business of the seven-way economic summit. Carter and the leaders of Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan were expected to make decisions that could affect employment, consumer prices and other aspects of daily life in much of the industrialized world. ONE OF THE most pressing issues facing the weekend sum- mit was Carter's stand against the increasing spread of nuclear technology in the world. The leaders of France and West Ger- many, among others, see the world nuclear trade as an economic boon for their countries. The issue of nuclear technology sales was the most likely area for serious dispute among the participants in the economic sum- mit. In an apparent attempt to defuse the issue, the French an- nounced yesterday at a nuclear conference in Salzburg, Austria, that they are developing a new process for enriching uranium that makes the material suitable for power plants but not for making weapons. CARTER is seeking to restrict international trade in uraniune- enrichment and other sensitive nuclear technology that non-nuclear nations could use to manufacture atomic weaponry. The French and West Germans hope nuclear power will be- come a major export industry for them. They and other oil-short industrialized countries, including Japan, want to push ahead with nuclear power plants called fast-breeders that actually produce more ulutonium than they use. Plutonium is the material usually used in nuclear weapons. As for the West's economic problems, the summit participants will be trying to find ways to create jobs without promoting in- flation, CARTER WOULD still like to see West Germany and Japan stimulate their economies, which in turn would help their more economically troubled world trade partners. But the Germans and Japanese, fearing higher prices, can point out that Carter abandoned his own $50 tax rebate plan he proposed for stimulat- ing business. The President's first contact with most of the summit leaders was at dinner last night at 10 Downing St., official residence of British Prime Minister James Callaghan. In his one-day visit to Britain's northern industrial heartland, Carter turned the-pilgrimage into a personal triumph, receiving acclaim he had not seen since his victorious presidential cam- paign. WHEN HE LANNDED at the northern coal and shipbuilding city of Newcastle aboard Air Force One, about 5,000 people were there to welcome him. Carter stopped several times to shake hands with well-wishers who shouted greetings, patted and grabbed him. At one point someone threw a rose at him. It missed and hit- a Secret Service man. The President, accompanied by Callaghan and the prime min- ister's wife, Audrey, was made an honorary Geordie at a civic ceremony, visited a brarch of the U.S.-owned Corning Glass Co. and toured the told town of Washington, home of George Wash- ington's ancestors. By LORI CARRUTHERS Seleucia wasn't quite the art capital of the ancient world, but it tried. Abstract art, wheel thrown pottery and fine gold thread to braid in their hair, they had it all. TO VIEW these timeless objects visit "Seleu- cia on the Tigris" which opens today at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and will, re- main there throughout the summer until Sep- tember 15. These artifacts date from 319 B.C. to 215 A.D. Among the nearly 200 items on display are ancient gbld jewelry, seals, carved stucco, deli- cate figurines and silver coins. In the late 1920's and early '30's the Univer- sity was part of an archaeological dig search- ing for the buried Biblical city of Opis, south of Bagdad in Iraq. Instead, Seleucia was un- expectedly discovered. This discovery is view- ed as important because it illustrates the mer- ger of eastern and western art styles. The transition from Greek to Parthianistic art style is most visibly noticed in the delicate ceramic figurines. Early pieces illustrate the Greek influence, resembling the classic Greek fine structure. These pieces are more literal than the later pieces which show the Asian in- fluence of the Parthians. The linear, stylied form of the Parthians gradually invade the Seleucian figurines, finally becoming dominant, Near Eastern Studies graduate student Eliz- abeth Savage organized this display of arti- facts. "Seleucia" was conceived to honor the memory of the late Prof. Clark Hopkins. Hop- kins, a former University Classical Art and Archaeology professor, directed the Univer- sity's final season of excavation at Seleucia in 1936-37. A remarkable feature of these surviving ob- jects is in their delicateness and craftsman- ship. Petite fine-textured ceramics have sur- vived centuries to leave us remnants of the Seleucia culture. Sparkling gold foil and beau- tiful ornamental buttons exemplify the wealth of this once important trade center. U.S. unemployment down sharply WASHINGTON (1}- - The economy produced a half million jobs in April for the second straight month and the na- tion's unemployment rate fell to seven per cent, its lowest level in 29 months. The Labor Department said yesterday that the drop in the jobless rate, down from 7.3 per cent in March and the growth in employment was "very defi- nitely" a sign of strong expansion in the economy following the weather-caused winter slowdown. AN APRIL spurt of 548,000 in employ- ment pushed the gain for the last two months to more than one million, and raised the total number of Americans with jobs to a new milestone of 90 mil- lion, the government said. Employment has been increasing at an average rate of 38,000 persons a month. Despite the improvement, Julius Shis- kin, commissioner of labor statistics, told the Congressional Joint Economic Com- mittee that unemployment "remains at an unprecedented high level for this stage of economic expansion." NEVERTHELESS, the nation's bright- ening job picture was welcome news for the Carter administration following Thursday's gloomy inflation report of wholesale prices rising at more than a 13 per cent annual rate. An announce- ment by Republic Steel Corp. Friday that it is raising prices as much as 8.8 per cent on some major product lines used in consumer items is certain to add in- flationary pressures. The unemployment rate for adults dropped to 5 per cent last month from 5.4 per cent. The jobless rate among women fell to 7 per cent from 7.2 per cent, while the rate for persons heading families declined to 4.4 oer cent from 4.6 per cent. However, joblessness among teen-ag- ers remained high, even though it de- clined in April to 17.8 per cent from 18.8 per cent in March. THE UNEMPLOYMENT rate for whites improved from 6.6 to 6.3 per cent while the rate for blacks and other mi- norities dropped from 12.7 to 12.3 per cent. President Carter's chief economic ad- viser, Charles Schultze, sgid the sustain- ed, large increases in employment, out- put and income during recent months "clearly portends, certainly, a very good second quarter." Both Schultze and Maynard Comiez, the Commerce Department's deputy chief economist, indicated further im- provement in the jobless rate would pro- bably be gradual. The administration hopes to bring unemployment below 7 per cent by year end. COMIEZ NOTED the unemployment rate had dropped by a full percentage point in the last five months and said, "I don't think growth in the economy' has been that rapid to support such a con- tinuing sharp decline." Joblessness hit 9 per cent in May of 1975 before beginning to drop. The biggest growth in jobs last month occurred in nonagricultural payrolls, led by manufacturing and construction. The jobless rate for construction work- ers dropped by more than two percent- age points to 12 per cent in April, its low- est level in 29 months. Economists re- gard the pick-up in construction as a sign the economy is growing. Most of the decline in unemployment last month occurred as persons who lost their last job found new work. The civil- ian labor force totaled 96.7 million in April, an increase of 220,000.