The Michigan Daily-Friday, April 4, 1980-Page 7 asksUS. t o clarif P osition (Continued from Page 1) position has been clearly stated. We hope the authorities in Iran will carefully consider that position and the 11 implications of the situation before Making a final decision," Powell told reporters. He declined to elaborate on the prepared statement he read, but his words strongly implied that Carter feels he has gone as far as he can in meeting Iranian demands. BANI-SADR SAID in a speech Tuesday he would seek custody of the hostages if Carter promised to refrain om " propaganda" .or "provocation." e Carter administration responded with a pledge of restraint. However, Ghotbzadeh said, "We have to have some more information on the precise position of the United States concerning the statements which were made by Mr. Bani-Sadr." Asked when the response could come, he said: "I hope within a couple of days." He said the council might for- -mally request custody on Sunday, BEFORE THE council delay, Moslem militants holding 50 Americans inside the U.S. Embassy made am- biguous statements concerning their willingness to relinquish custody of the hostages to the government. The Americans spent their 152nd day as captives yesterday. "We will accept any decision that the Revolutionary Council takes because it the highest body in the country which supported by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini," leader of the revolution, one miltant told Canadian Press in Tehran. Another militant, in a telephone in- terview with The Associated Press from' Nicosia, said: "We have not received any requests. We don't want to deliver the spy nest (U.S. Embassy). When they make a decision, we will act." Bani-Sadr attempted to gain custody the Americans last month, but Khomeini backed the militants in their refusal to give up the hostages. SENATE PANEL VOTES TO END REVENUE-SHARING: Fed budget cuts OK'd i WASHINGTON (AP)-The Senate Budget Committee voted yesterday to eliminate federal revenue sharing for states and cut the federal bureaucracy by 5 per cent across the board as it neared completion of a balanced 1981 budget. The votes continued the committee's pattern of making deep cuts in domestic programs to .cover defense spending increases that exceed President Carter's $150.5 billion request by more than $5 billion. DESPITE THE higher defense outlays, the panel was almost certain to join Carter and the Hquse Budget Committee in proposing a balanced budget for fiscal 1981, which starts Oct. If approved by the full House and Senate, it would be the first balanced federal budget in 12 years. In drafting the Senate committee's guns-over-butter budget, a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats repeatedly overturned the positions of the panel chairman, Sen. Edmund S. Muskie (D-Maine). MUSKIE FAVORED lower defense spending and less severe cuts in domestic programs than the panel approved. Last month, the House Budget Committee proposed a $611.8 billion 1981 budget that also contained less money for defense and more for domestic programs than the Senate committee's version. On Monday, Carter issued a revised, version of his 1981 spending plan, calling for $611.5 billion in spending. He issued a $615.8 billion budget in Janury, which was rewritten in an effort to curb inflation. In its proposed budget, the Senate panel voted to: " Eliminate Saturday mail delivery, saving $600 million, a step also supported by the House committee. Carter's proposed $250 million reduction in the postal subsidy would have avoided an end to Saturday mail. * Phase out 200,000 CETA public service jobs, a cut of $600 million. Carter and the House committee favored reductions of about 50,000 jobs. " Cut the food stamp program by $1 billion, much more than the House and Carter favored. " End $500 million in Social Security benefits, such as burial payment and college student benefits. " Save $100 million by delaying Carter's new youth training program for one year. * Reduce mass transit and rail programs by $400 million below Muskie's recommendation. * Trim student loan programs by $300 million below Muskie's proposal. * Cut $100 million from urban aid grants. " Terminate the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration grant program to save $100 million, a position favored by both Carter and the House committee. NYC trans From AP and UPI NEW YORK - New Yorkers settled in for a long walk yesterday after the two sides in the bus and subway labor dispute met briefly and found them- selves farther apart than when the strike began three days earlier. While the first tentative effort to set- tle the strike by 35,000 transit em- ployees came to naught, the Long Island Rail Road started running from Manhattan out to the Long Island suburbs, but amid threats it might be stopped again next week. Mediators in the bus and subway strike said both sides had hardened their positions, and a union leader said "strike fever" was rife in his ranks. "A STRIKE settlement is not im- minent,'t reported Walter Gellhorn, whose three-man mediating panel brought the leaders of the striking Transport Workers Union (TWU), AFL-CIO, together with Richard Ravit- ch, head of the Metropolitan Transpor- tation Authority (MTA), for an hour- long meeting. "It's going to take at least a week to get this out of their system," said John Lawe, president of the striking TWU local. "They have the strike fever." it strike talks fruitless The first citywide transit strike since 1966 began shortly after midnight Mon- day when the TWU spurned an MTA of- fer of a 12 per cent increase in wages that now average 18,000 a year. The union asked for a 25 per cent boost. A FEW hours later, the LIRI strikers walked off their jobs in a deadlock over a 21 pet cent wage increase demand. The commuter line continued to operate throughout the transit strike 14 years ago. The crisis eased for suburban com- muters when trackmen ended a 31-hour walkout against the Long Island Rail Road, bringing the line back into operation for 200,000 daily riders during yesterday morning's rush hour. But the return'to service of the nation's busiest commuter rail link was little consolation to the 5.4 million daily riders who depend on the city's surface and underground mass transit system. Traffic into and around the city yesterday was reported lighter than on the day before, when there were brief but massive tieups at bridges and tun- nels connecting the city with New Jer- sey and Long Island. State Senate delays' vote on bar hours Shapiro names Frye .p. o academic a airs (continuedfromPage1) "I don't think it's an inevitable not push'. He's done that suc- thing," said Smith, "but they (the cessfullys" Regents) are very comfortable when Regent David Laro (R-Flint) also they know we don't have to re-educate. "There's a strong pressure. 'Well, stressed the importance of Frye's we must be doing things right - let's relationship with the faculty in his wetmsoseobe do kngs htw et's selection. "It's remarkable that such a get someone who knows how we do sletinmbert's f almembers shae them' is the attitude," Smith added. large number of faculty members have Roach and Laro said Frye's personal spokenso highly of him, eare said. qualities would also be an asset in his Both Regents said they were peased new position.. Frye was remaining on campus, ,espite offers to go elsewhere - In the past, Frye has quietly handled mething they said was a sign of several controversial issues. He served dedication to the University. as acting LSA dean for two years Frye recently turned down a com- during a disputed search for a dean bination deanship and vice-presidency before he was selected to fill the post at Emory University in Decatur, permanently. He also mediated several Georgia - his alma mater. Frye said tenure disputes, including that of for- his decision not to take the Emory post mer. Political Science Prof. Joel Samoff "had nothing to do with" being offered - in. the process earning a reputation the University's vice-presidency. for quiet tact. Those involved in the search, in- Approximately i50 people from both cluding Shapiro and the Regents, said inside and outside of the University jrye's familiarity with the way the were considered for the vice- niversity operates was a big plus in presidency, according to Dentistry his selection. Almost all of the past Prof. Richard Corpron, chairman of the vice-presidents for academic affairs, search committee. The selection including Shapiro and Smith, have process took almost seven months to come from within the University. complete. By BETH PERSKY The state Senate yesterday postponed voting on a bill which would extend bar hours until4ha.m. The state Senate will consider the bill upon return from Easter recess April 15. The bill, which would apply to eight Michigan counties affiliated with the Convention and Visitor's Bureau, could extend liquor-serving hours in time for the Republican convention, to be held in Detroit in July. THE HOURS-EXTENSION would be subject to approval by local gover- nments and by citizens living within a 500-foot radius of a liquor-serving establishment. When the Senate Commerce Commit- tee reported the bill to the §enate floor Tuesday, the three Democrats on the Committee voted in favor of the bill and the two Republicans voted against it. The fact that the Republicans voted against the bill is ironic, according to Michigan Association of Convention Bureau Executive Director Michael Wright. He says the vote was "related to a misunderstanding" of the motivation behind extending the liquor hours. The convention is "quoted as being the reason" for the bill, but ac- cording to Wright, many Republicans don't want the GOP convention to be associated with the opening of bars un- til 4 a.m. BUT ACCORDING to Senator Robert Young (R-Saginaw), a member of the commerce committee who voted again- st discharging the bill to the floor of the Senate, the drive to extend liquor licen- sing hours is "phony," and would "create more and more problems in the state." Delegates have both reception rooms in the hotels and the freedom to drink in their rooms, said Young, who added that the delegates have no need to eat after 2 a.m. The problems for the state, said Young, would include a dual system with some bars and restaurants open until 2 a.m. and others open until 4 a.m., making regulation difficult; pressure on local government in implementing the legislation, and problems with in- creased crime and police protection. The bigl, sponsored by Represen- tative Casmer Oganowski (D- Detroit), passed in the state House by a vote of 61 to 39 on March 19. NO TICE If you, or someone you know, witnessed a vio- lent assault at the Second Chance Bar the evening of March 29, 1980, PL EASE CALL DETECTVE PRICE at (313) 994-2850 I NEED YOUR HELP!