PARTY See Editorial page V' AtE t ill t1 TEPID See Today for details NinethyYears of EditAorial Freedom FortenPae XC, No. 140 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, March 28-1980 Ten Cents Fourteen Pages Vance :0 Foreign olicy on 'right road' WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Cyrus Vance insisted yesterday that American foreign policy is "on the right road, even if it is a long and dif- Sult one.".' Wance defended the Carter ad- ministration's record as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opened a broad inquiry into the American position in the world. "I THINK it is fair to say that there has been persistent criticism, both from within the country and from our allies, that the administration has failed to' develop a coherent foreign licy strategy," said Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho), the committee chairman. "What the American people want to know is where we are going in world af- fairs and how we intend to get there." Vance responded with a 60-page statement from which he read for slightly mre than an hour in the huge Senate Caucus Room. The hearing was broadcast nationally by the public television network. THE STATEMENT broke new ground on only one specific issue. He said the United States offer of aid to Pakistan was dependent "both on See VANCE, Page 3 Congress approves windfall tax Celebrating peace Daily Photo Students celebrate the first anniversary of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty last night in the Michigan Union. The music and dancing followed an Israeli Film Festival. Suspect unable to stand trial in profs m-urder From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - Nearly a year af- ter President Carter asked for it, the Senate yesterday gave overwhelming final congressional approval to the $227.7 billion oil windfall profits tax. The 66-31 final vote sent the measure, to Carter for his signature, 11 months after he proposed it as a cornerstone of his energy policy. The tax is only about 80 per cent as tough as the president wanted, but Carter was enthusiastic about its approval. "THIS IS good news for the country and I think good newssfor the whole world," the president said after the Senate vote. The president predicted the tax will generate "almost a quarter of a trillion dollars" in revenue over the next 10 years. He said the measure also will help combat inflation and ease U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Seventeen Republicans joined 49 Democrats in approving the com- promise measure; only eight Democrats opposed it. Some oil-state senators fought the measure to the end, saying it would drain off money that the oil industry needs to increase exploration and development. "There is no justification for a windfall-profitstax except our greed to grab some more tax dollars," said Sen. Henry Bellmon (R-Okla.). BIG RAPIDS (UPI) - A Ferris State College student accused in the classroom killing of an accounting professor who had flunked him on an examination was declared incompetent yesterday to stand trial in the slaying. Thomas Kakonis, 20, son of an associate dean at the college, was arraigned in his hospital bed on an open murder charge in Wednesday's killing of Robert Brauer, 34, an associate professor of accountancy. Kakonis, accused of shooting Brauer as a horrified class of 30 students looked on, then was found by Mecosta County Circuit Judge Lawrence Root incom- petent to stand trial. "His father was attempting to com- municate with him. He was not respon- ding," Root said. "I find him incom- petent to stand trial at this time." Kakonis, taken from the Mecosta County Jail to Mecosta County General Hospital about four hours after the shooting, was to be transferred to a Grand Rapids psychiatric hospital, authorities said. The student, restrained and held un- der police guard, would remain at the psychiatric facility until he is deemed competent to stand trial or for 15 mon- ths, prosecutors said. Kakonis was described by doctors as being in a "near catatonic state." "I don't know that he's walked," assistant prosecutor George Van Kula said. "I don't know that he's physically capable. . . I'm not aware that he's said even one word since this has hap- pened." VAN KULA said doctors took blood and urine samples from Kakonis to determine if he had taken any drugs. "You have to assume that possibility in something as bizarre as this. We're checking everything," he said. Van Kula said Brauer was shot from a six-to-eight-foot range with a 9- millimeter automatic handgun that belonged to Kakonis' father. He said Kakonis had no previous history of violence or known mental disorders. WEDNESDAY'S shooting stunned a class of 30 students in Brauer's Accoun- ting 323 class. One of the students, Tim Hans, said Kakonis walked into the classroom in the Business Education Building at 3:30 p.m. and fired four shots froln an automatic pistol at Brauer as the professor stood by the blackboard. Brauer died 15 minutes later of gun- shot wounds to the chest at Mecosta General Hospital. "WHEN HE (Brauer) turned around, he just looked up and the guy was stan- ding there with the gun already," Hans said. After the shots were fired, Hans said Brauer "bent over and said 'Oh, my God!' and tried to fall out of the way See SUSPECT, page 7 But Sen. Russell Long (D-La.), manager of the bill and the oil in- dustry's chanpion defender in Congress, said, "Those who will pay the tax can afford to.. . You're'not going to see anybody go on welfare." The tax will be paid by about 12,000 oil producers and the estimated two million royalty-owners who lease their lands for oil production. The money will come out of the estimated $1 trillion that consumers are expected to pay in the 1980s because of Carter's decision to end federal controls on the price of U.S. crude oil. O fficials' deny report of Knight job interest By DREW SHARP Despite official denials that In- diana basketball coach Bobby Knight applied for the Michigan head coaching position, an informed source maintained yesterday that Knight had expressed interest in the job before being eliminated from consideration. An aide to Knight told UPI yester- day that Knight had indeed con- ferred with Michigan officials about the vacant position, but only to make recommendations on a possible replacement for Johnny Orr. Orr accepted the head coaching position at Iowa State Tuesday. But another Indiana official later told the Daily that Knight had not contacted Michigan officials for any reason concerning the coaching vacancy. "DON CANHAM knows exactly who he's going to pick for the coaching job," said a Michigan spor- ts information official. "He's one of the most respected administrators in college athletics. I'm sure that he See OFFICIALS, Page 8 Hostages likely to remain captive for 2 From the Associated Press The U.S. Embassy hostages will probably languish in their Tehran im- prisonment for at least two more mon- ths, possibly into the summer, a mem- ber of the U.N. investigatory com- mission on Iran was quoted as saying yesterday. In Washington, the State Department indicated new measures were being prepared to win release of the hostages. And presidential candidate Ronald Reagan called for "extreme pressure" more .months on the Iranians that could "touch on a threat of force." THE MAN at the center of almost five months of crisis, the exiled shah, was examined by celebrated surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey in Egypt, mean- while, preliminary to expected surgery for cancer of the spleen. It was the 145th day in confinement for the 50 Americans captive at the Tehran embassy and three U.S. diplomats at the Iranian Foreign See TEHRAN. Pagae 7 Van(c ..U.S. "on the right road" . _ . . . ..... ..,....V.)....n N . '.. . .......ya.. . "., . .. .. . J .: 0n eY.........nnxM~g:W .,. ..' i~R eagan's chances are enhanced by gro wing bipartisan coaltio By KEITH RICHBURG A Daily News Analysis MILWAUKEE - Ronald Reagan has begun building a coalition of Republicans, independents, and traditional Democrats that he hopes will propel him to victory in later primaries and against the Democratic nominee in Novem- ber. Reagan's bipartisan coalition has been steadily building since his landslide victory last month in New Hampshire over a crowded GOP field. In Illinois, the first northern industrial state to hold a primary, Reagan won 40 per cent of the "cross-over" vote - the vote from people who are not nominally Republicans. AND IN CONNECTICUT last Tuesday, Reagan beat his chief rival George Bush two-to-one in the working class city of Bridgeport, even while losing the rest of the state. In Wisconsin, a state with an open primary election, Reagan has borrowed a page from John Anderson's book and has been openly appealing to independents and Democrats to ignore party lines and vote for him. In Milwaukee Wednesday night, for example, Reagan took his campaign to the city's south side, the blue-collar ethnic enclave that has traditionally been a Democratic bastion. "This is an election that calls for us to break party lines," Reagan told the crowd. "I want independents and Democrats to cross over and vote for me." THE POPULAR thinking among political writers and at the White House is that Reagan is too right wing to win in the general election. The sentiment is that Reagan appeals only to a very narrow constituency on the Republican Party's right fringe. But such a simplistic analysis ignores the scope of Reagan's appeal, which crosses party lines and includes many Catholics, voters of eastern European ethnic descent, and blue collar workers who have never before voted Republican. IN EFFECT, Reagan appears to be picking up the sup- port from those Democrats. who have supported former Alabama Gov. George Wallace since 1964, and who now seem disenchanted and disaffected by the perceived leftward swing of the Democratic party after 1960. Reagan, himself a former New Deal Democrat, is more in line with their views against abortion and high taxes, and in favor of a strong military and the traditional American values like school prayer and a solid family life. See REAGAN, Page 7 AP Photo REPUBLICAN presidential candidate Ronald Reagan campaigns in Waupaca, Wis. while touring the state seeking support in next week's Wisconsin primary. wv. SA} ,~ .......' 'i