Page 6-Saturday, August 12, 1978-The Michigan Daily Kucinich aces recall test Sunday CLEVELAND (AP) - Just nine man- mayor" battling special interests trying Richard Hongisto. ths after he took office, Mayor Dennis to keep him from bringing Cleveland BUT THE MAYOR also had troubles Kucinich is again campaigning honest government and from defending after he referred to city councilmen as furiously, this time before an electorate the poor and the working man. "idiots" and with city finances. Just being asked to decide his political sur- ONE KUCINICH campaign commer- yesterday, a newspaper report said an vival. cial shows several well-heeled men, audit had found he used $17 million in On Sunday, Cleveland voters will representing unidentified special inter- city funds to cover overspending, a mark paper ballots answering a single sts, cutting up a cake shaped like City method used by his Republican question: "For the recall of Dennis Hall. predecessor. Kucinich" of "Against the recall of Den- His opponents - and they include the In his nine months in office, Kucinich nis Kuciich. city's major newspapers, most of the also has purged City Hall of more than KUCINICH, at 31 the youngest mayor City Council, the majority Democratic 200 workers he contended were political this troubled city has ever had, is also Party and some unions - argue that the hacks, directed snow removal in four the first Cleveland mayor to face a brash young mayor has brought major storms, coped with two police recall election. Cleveland to the brink of collapse, that strikes and a wildcat walkout by Prognosticators say the election is too he is unable to govern and that his aides mechanics and set a record with 26 close to call. Pre-election polls give are inexperienced and arrogant. vetoes of legislation adopted by the all- Kuciich from one- to 10-point leads. but Immersed in Cleveland politics since Democratic City Council. also show that 11 per cent to 26 per cent 1967, Kucincih capitalized on confron- Overshadowing all the turmoil is the of the city's 287,000 registered voters are lation and media attention to build his city's financial plight. Twice this sum- undecided. Recall proponents claim career. He took office on Nov. 14, 1977, mer, Moody's Investor Service has they are making last-minute gains. after winning election by a margin of lowered Cleveland's credit rating, and Kucunch, a maverick Democrat who less than two per cent, and almost im- Standard & Poor's has suspended its Kucinich seems to thrive on crises, ran for mayor mediately was beset with troubles. The rating of the city's general-obligation last year against his party's "bosses" recall drive itself began last spring after bonds. and is running against them again now. he fired - on live television - the THE CITY MUST upgrade investor moeyetroubles and this fall must im- He pictures himself as a "people's popular police chief he had selected, confidence in Cleveland or face the K ihas au, p-ni - FOuU RH WEEK Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri. 7:30-9:45 Sat., Sun., Wed. 1:20-3:25-5:30-7:35-9:45 "PG' possibility of default on about $15.5. million in notes scheduled to be refinan- ced later in the year. It could-fail to meet payrolls this fall, and an independent audit - yet to be issued but part of which was published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer yesterday - shows $52 million shifted from city treasury accounts, mostly from capital improvement bond funds. City schools, under control of an in- dependent board, also have serious About 40 per cent of Cleveland's registered voters are black, and there has been divisiveness between the predominantly white west side and mostly black east side. Opponents of Kucinich have accused the mayor of injecting racism in the recall election campaign by prominently mentioning black City Council President George Forbes in ads. Kucinich has ac- cused Forbes of engaging in "racial smear attacks." Carter to Congress: Give ERA ratification more time k 4V ; All li'l I d'1*14, gal Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri. 7:30-9:40 ' Sat., Sun., Wed. 1:25-3:30-5:30-7:35-9:40 "PG' ould Conuerh, - .-P-r WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Carter urged Congress yesterday to vote for extension of the time for ratification of the equal rights amendment (ERA) and to turn down efforts to include the right of retraction by state legislatures that have already approved the amen- dment. Meeting with members of Congress in MARLON BRANDO in 1953 THE WILD ONE The original motorcycle film with Brando and his gang terrorizing a small California town and mixing things up with LEE MARVIN'S rival gang. Sun: Buster Keaton in COLLEGE (FREE at 7:30) September 5, 6, & 7: Free Films to be Announced CINEMA GUILD OLD ARCH AUD TONIGHT a 7:30 & 9:30 $1.50 the Cabinet Room, Carter said that failure to approve the extension "would send a signal to state legislatures that we don't care about women's rights." CARTER SAID that Congress has faced "very difficult, politically ex- plosive decisions in the past, and when it comes to basic principle, it has always acted courageously, and it's courage has been rewarded." He said that even after the Civil War when "tens of thousands were killed, the blacks had to wait another 100 years" for equality. "It's a simple amendment that has been highly distorted by those who op- poseit," he added. "THOSE WHO say that if it does not pass Congress the state legislatures will act on women's rights are wrong," Cartersaid. "I think it's important the extension be granted. It is within the purview of Congress and there is nothing in the Constitution to prevent it. This ought to beapproved." He also reminded the delegation that Congress has always turned down the right of recission. This provision would permit state legislatures to retract their original vote for ratification. NOW SHOWING Mon-Tues-Thurs-Fri 7:30-9:45 Sat, Sun, Wed 1:30-3:30-5:30-7:30-9:40 The Ann Ardor Film Cooperstive presents at MLB 3 Saturday, August 12 ROMEO AND JULIET (Franco Zeffirelli, 1968) 7& 9:15-MLB 3 For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet. and her Romeo." Lush photography, a beautiful soundtrack, wonderful swordfights, and the most believable performers ever to portray Shakespeare's young, "star-cross'd lovers" enhance this production of the Bard's famous tragedy and give it a super-romantic sensuality unobtainable on the stage. "Visualy, Shakespeare has never been better realized-and seldom has he had so sensitive a collaborator."-TIME. Olivia Feey, Leonard Whiting, Michael Yorkst5,oi t, > te s , t