July 15, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three GOP predicts gain in House By The Assciated Press Republicans predict they will win back many of the House seats they lost two years ago because of Watergate, but Democrats say Jimmy Carter's coattails will wipe out GOP chances. But the Republicans fear that a bitter presidential nomination fight between president Ford and Ronald Reagan could keep many GOP voters at home on election day, as Watergate did in 1974. THE CONTEST between the Repub- i.can candidates continued yesterday as Reagan tried to whittle away at Ford's ,lsm 33-delegate lead." Reagan was looking for support in a 7member New Jersey delegation which considered Ford's column but is of- ficially uncommitted. In the growing campaign for votes in Nsvember, some Republican congres- ional candidates are trying to use the capitol sex scandals against Democrats. tu the Democrats say the scandals aren't catching on as an issue. THESE ASSESSMENTS came from ngressional campaign officials of both rties. They asked to remain annony- mous vhe Republicans figure they'll win t k at least 10 seats and, most optimis- lam i,.,,T S, slssios Just like TV the police cars pulled up with flash- ug lights. A coroner's blanket covered the body as it was carried out on a stretcher. The body was a police de- tective, and very much alive. Police said yesterday they arrested and charg- ed two persons with conspiracy to com nit murder following the elaborate fake murder. The two persons charged, Cora Vovolis and George Andrews arranged for an ex-convict to kill a woman who married someone they didn't like, and her brother. The ex-convict notified po- lice, who staged the wake murder .W lice. who staged the fake murder to convince Vovolis and Andrews the kill ng had been carried out. When the two appeared with the pay off, police nabbed them. Help the handicapped Elvis Ellis, 15, was a little surprised when a man being pushed down a New Orleans street in a wheelchair whipped out a gun and demanded he hand over al his valuables. Ellis said the man, who had a short right leg, was being wheeled along by another man. The two pused off with Ellis' tape recorder, two ri money and sunglasses. Happenings... begin at noon with an open house a the Pendelton information center, Joe Cvberski will display and talk about his craft as jeweler and silversmith ... at I P.m. Twenty antiquarian book dealers will be participating in the first annual Antiquarian Book Fair, in the Michigan League ... the GEO Stewards Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. in rm. 2050 of the F'reize Bldg. ... also at 7:30 local mem- bers of Eckankar will present a talk on "The Ancient Science of Soul Traveling" in the Public Library. 0 Weather or not It will be partly cloudy as well as warm and humid. There is a chance of occasional thundershowers. The high will be near 90,- tically, as many as 50. They list anoth- er 30 long shots that would give them control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 1955. The Democrats, who control the House with 2911 members to the Republicans' 145, concede they could lose 10 seats, or 12 at most. But they say they could win 20 or 30 other seats on top of their present margin because of extraordin- ary party unity and the pulling power of Carter, the Democrats' presidential choice. THAT MEANS THAT, unless the Re- publicans achieve a near-impossible gain of 80 new seats, the House is unlikely to undergo a sharp philosophical shift be- cause of this year's elections. Demo- crats, in charge now, are likely to stay in charge. The Republicans expect to win biggest in Indiana, Michigan, New York and California. However, the Democrats say the GOP will be lucky to stay even in the latter. The Democrats say a Carter poll shows he will help them win back seats in a dozen southern, border and mid- west states - plus Pennsylvania. There they hope to win biggest: up to five new seats. "THEIR UNITY CAN be a little scary because they greatly outnumber us in voters," worried one Republican con- gressiona campaign official. To overcome the Democratic advan- tage, some Republicans are trying to- use the sex scandals. At their height two. months ago, Chairman Guy Vander Jagt of the House Republican Congressional Campaign Committee called the scan- dals "the Democrats' legislative Water- gate." He said the scandals would be an issue. Meanwhile. Reagan was scheduled to continue his foray today, traveling to Pennsylvania to meet with selected dele- gates and host a reception for the entire delegation. There are 25 uncommitted members of that state's 103-member delegation. U.N. debate over Israel's rescue raid ends stalemated UNITED NATIONS, N .Y. i 'The Security Council's emotional debate over Israel's rescue of hijack hostages from Uganda neared an end in a stalemate yesterday. African demands for con- demnation of Israel and Western ap- peals for U. N. action against terrorism and hijacking both headed for defeat. Rival African - sponsored and U.S.- British resolutions were before the 15 nation council but neither had the nine votes needed for adoption. THE AFRICAN draft condemning "flagrant violation of Uganda's sove- reignty and territorial integrity" by Is- raeli airborne commandos during the July 4 raid was one vote short, dele- gates said. In any case, it faced an Am- erican veto The U.S. - British resolution urging all countries to condemn and punish hi- jacking and similar acts of terrorism commanded the support of less than a majority. African and other Third World coun- tries declared during the debate that they were against hijacking but that was not the main issue. They said they would not vote for a resolution that did not con- demn Israel. THE ISRAELI COMMANDO action See ISRAELI, Page 10 T ryin' his luck University student Jerome Brown enjoys the beautiful summer weather and takes time out to cast a line in the Huron River yesterday, Brawlers get protection By LANI JORDAN Carl Parsell, executive director of the Police Officers Association of Michigan has asked Col. George Halverson, direc- tor of the Michigan State Police, to assign "24 hour 'round the clock pro- tection" to Washtenaw County Sheriff's Deputy Basil Baysinger and his wife Shirley, who participated in a brawl early Sunday morning with Sheriff Fred- erick Postill and County Jail Adminis- trator Frank Donley. The four were guests at a wedding reception at the Chelsea Fairgrounds when a fight erupted between Baysinger and Donley. Baysinger contends that he was attacked after being accused of supporting candidates for county sheriff other than Postill. POSTILL, WHO suffered a dislocated hose and required 14 stitches to cloe a lower lip cut, has stated that he at- tempted to quell the disturbance and was then kicked and punched. The Baysingers have filed a complaint with the state police claiming that Postill grabbed Ms. Baysinger and threw her against a car when she attempted to call for police assistance, and that Don- ley attempted to choke Baysinger with a pair of handcuffs. Postill's attorney, R. Michael Still- wagon, has issued a statement calling the brawl a "political dirty trick" aimed to discredit Postill in the election year. REPORTS FROM witnesses have shown that both Postill and Donley have publicly and privately threatened the lives of the Baysingers during atid since the incident. Postill indefinitely suspended Bay- singer from the department Monday morning following the fight. No indica- tions of when he will be reinstated have been seen. Both sides have asked County Prosecu- tor William Delhey to request an in- vestigation into the occurence by State Attorney General Frank Kelley. With sufficient evidence, the Baysingers could bring charges of assault and battery against Postill and Donley, subjecting the pair to a possible arrest warrant. STILLWAGON HAS stated that be dimes not anticipate charges to be filed against the two, but will request the Attorney General's involvement. Special investigators for both the state police and county prosecutor have been assigned to the case and are currently interviewing witnesses to the fight. The final decision on charges against Postill and Donley will not be made until after Kelley's return from the Democra- tic convention early next week.