Ninety-One Years of Editorial Freedom C I te Mittoa l4lalig COOLER Windy showers. 50s. with High scattered in the lower Vol. XCI, No. 151 Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, April 5, 1981 Ten Cents Ten Pages City elections By ELAINE RIDEOUT City government candidates are handing out their last fliers today, taking their last steps door-to-door, nd making their last campaign pitches before Ann Arbor voters tomorrow decide it all. Voters casting ballots in tomorrow's city election will voice their preference for mayor, choose a City Council representative from each of the five war- ds, and assess a ballot proposal. IN THE MAYORAL RACE, Republican Mayor Louis Belcher will be challenged by former Democratic councilman Robert Faber, owner of Faber's Fabrics store. Belcher is staking a win on his record in office, while Faber contends his opponent hasn't followed through his earlier campaign promises. Both can- idates say they don't expect much student support. In the First Ward, which includes South Quad and West Quad dormitories, Democrat Lowell Peterson, who is advocating low-income housing development and rehabilitation, will oppose Republican Stephen Brownell, whose primary concerns ar police protection and the public school sy: INCUMBENT LESLIE MORRIS will b by Republican Toni Burton, who isr second bid for the Second Ward nominal an LSA senior majoring in education, say For a look at how the City candidates stand on the isst Page 7. better position than Morris to represent City Council. But Morris, seeking her thir fice, says she does that already - citing ple her plans to introduce a proposal r dlords to offer students an optional+ lease. The Second Ward includes Bursleya area dormitories. In the Third Ward, Cheryle Brown tomorrow e improving Virginia Johansen are each seeking a City Council stem. seat for the first time. Johansen is primarily concer- e challenged ned with high tax assessments in the mainly residen- making her tial ward, while Griffin has focused her campaign on tion. Burton, human services threatened by Reagan budget cuts. ys she is in a In the Fourth Ward, which includes many .- sororities and fraternities, incumbent Ed Hood, will Council square off against Democrat Mary Burger. Burger ues, see says she is opposed to Hood's stand against high den- sity development in the highly residential ward. WYFC Christian radio manager Lou Velker will make his second bid for City Council representative students on in the Fifth Ward. Velker will be challenged by rd term in of- Democrat Sheila Cumberworth and Libertarian as an exam- Glenn Mensching. equiring lan- Voters will also decide the fate of a general eight-month obligation bonding proposition to pay for construction of the Sister Lakes Drain. and the Hill Polls will be open from 7 a.m.-8 p.m. To find out which precinct you vote in, contact the City Clerk's Griffin and office at 994-2725. 1Ist Ward Glacier Way "inls ley 2nd Ward ta Huron . 0 Vol" 3rd Word campus }! aa Sth Ward SothUnvesiy .a Hoover 4th Ward Gor . - Ward Boundries -- Streets Soviet airlift in Poland From UPI and AP Soviet airli WARSAW, Poland - Amid helicopters heightened Western concern that the long-estab Soviet Union might intervene in "There Poland, Polish Parliament postponed a Soviet for scheduled meeting yesterday because concern,"( Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski was MEANW "temporarily indisposed," and leaders said ther of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact were Soviet P reported considering a summit that would pr could decide whether to intervene. summit m+ There was no way of knowing to coin whether Jaruzelski, a moderate with Czechoslov wide support in the Solidarity labor Congress. movement, had taken ill or was in- tomorrow. disposed for other reasons. "It's sti ALTHOUGH THE situation in Poland summit w itself was calm, speculations about rumors tha Soviet intentions ran towards the alar- a sourc ming in Washington and other capitals. Czechoslov Reagan administration officials said Defense yesterday a Soviet military airlift into NATO has Poland is heightening concern that the on possib Soviet Union may be ready to intervene measures in force to crush Poland's independent Soviet Un] workers movement. added then "It all started with a troop exercise, taking plac but there is activity consistent with a Presiden move to go into Poland," said Secretary Monday's of Defense Caspar Weinberger. "There briefed att is a lot of activity going on that is not of detail" consistent with a maneuver by the Council mi Russian troops that was supposed to Deputy W end last weekend." Larry Spe WARSAW PACT forces have been In the M taking part in the "Soyuz 81" traveling maneuvers for the past 15 days. Alexander In Washington, U.S. officials, asking Polish c not to be identified by name, said the Solidarity usual' INCUMBENT MAYOR LOUIS Belcher calls Ann Arbor DEMOCRATIC MAYORAL CHALLENGER Robert the "Athens of the Midwest;" Faber criticizes his opponent for ignoring human ser- 6 1City- U ies a comm--.on the-me in mayoral race ift is bringing in ammunition, s, and other war supplies to a lished Soviet base in Poland. are unusual movements of ces that are causing great one official said. HILE, EAST Bloc sources e were strong indications resident Leonid Brezhnev eside over the emergency neeting, which was expected cide with the 16th vakian Communist Party The congress opens ll not clear what level the ill be, but no one is denying at Brezhnev is coming," said e with close ties to vakian government. Secretary Weinberger said been working for some time le political and economic that would be taken if the ion intervenes in Poland. He re is much diplomatic activity ice because of Poland. nt Reagan, recovering from assassination attempt, was the hospital "in a fair amount after a National Security neeting on events in Poland, hite House Press Secretary akes told reporters. Mideast, a senior U.S. official with Secretary of State r Haig said the challenge to ommunist leaders by the labor movement may have By DEBI DAVIS It has been a decade since the student voice has been heard in city politics. In those days, Vietnam and Watergate picqued the interest of the newly enfranchised 18- to 20- year-olds, luring them into activism at City Hall. But, in spite of an exciting mayoral campaign this year, the student voice will probably by con- spicuously silent tomorrow, when a mayor and five city council mem- bers will be elected. FOLLOWING A steady decline over the last decade, last year's voter turnout was the lowest in the city's history at 11.6 percent. And with candidates citing property taxes and planning as major issues in this campaign; there appears to be little to attract students to the polls tomorrow. Mayoral candidate Rober Faber, a Democratic councilman during those "tumultous years" of the early 1970s, says he has given up on the student vote-a potentially powerful voting bloc, with nearly 35 percent of the city population. "I don't have the student vote-nobody does," Faber says simply. "And I'm not going to manufacture a student issue like marijuana reform or rent control to buy student votes," he adds. ALTHOUGH student apathy is a fact of political life in Ann Arbor, Mayor Louis Belcher and challenger Faber have made the University- city relationship a prime campaign issue. Belcher, seasoned in city politics through three years as mayor and three years before that as a coun- cil member, says the University and the city have "grown up together." He says under his administration the city and University have numerous formal ties in the areas of planning, transportation, police and security, industry recruitment, and energy research. However, Faber, owner of Faber's Fabrics at Briarwood, says there is "more expertise at the University being wasted than another com- munity could find in a lifetime." FABER, energetic and idealistic after a six-year retirement from politics, proposes to aggressively pursue city-University cooperation. Some of Faber's specific plans in- clude merging of the University and Ann Arbor Transportation Authority bus systems, soliciting the aid of the University's Institute of Geron- tology to develop programs for the elderly, and asking PIRGIM's Women's Safety Task Force and other student groups to be directly involved in city crime prevention. In the tradition of the classic Republican-Democrat polarization, Belcher and Faber often differ markedly on a myriad of other issues as well. THEY SEEM to see the city in dif- ferent lights. Belcher paints a rosy picture when he says other Michigan cities look up to Ann Arbor, and claims others refer to the city as "the Athens of the Midwest." Faber, however, sees a city tinged with grey. "We have a mayor with a record-an inadequate record. There is nothing you can point to with pride," he contends. Belcher, co-owner and vice president of First Ann Arbor Corp., an aeronautical management and consulting firm, brings a heavy dose of corporate attitudes to City Hall. He prides himself on a "lean City Hall organization," which he streamlined by cutting city em- ployees from 1,200 in 1970 to 826 at present. BELCHER SEES the role of city government as one which provides only basic, services such as police and fire protection, sewerage, and sanitation. In each of his three years as mayor, Belcher has rolled back the city millage rate, and he hopes to do so again this year. Faber, on the other hand, has of- ten chastised Belcher for neglecting See MAYORAL, Page 2 Weinberger .says NATO formulating sanctions gone so far that the Soviet Union can no longer tolerate it. However, he told reporters that the Soviets do not appear to be trying to ex- ploit Reagan's injury in connection with the Polish situation. Reagan, other victims continue to improve From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - Doctors for President Reagan, White House press secretary Jim Brady, and the two security officers wounded in last week's assassination attempt reported yester- day all four patients continue to im- prove. Reagan, his temperature back to normal, received detailed briefings yesterday on the Polish crisis and paid tribute to the Secret Service agents who protect him. VISITED BY wounded Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy in the presidential suite, Reagan told the agent that when his children visit him, "You tell them this: Their father put himself between me and that guy. I'm proud there are guys around to take those kinds of jobs." Hearing about progress being made by the others wounded in the assassination attempt, Reagan said, "That's great news, just great, especially about Jim. We'll have to get four bedpans and have a reunion." Brady's doctors are testing his recovery from brain surgery with a volley of questions, and they said yesterday his answers indicate he is making "extraordinary" progress. BRADY, WHO WAS removed from the critical list Friday and taken from intensive care yesterday, was asked by the physicians to explain what his job involved, according to a medical bulletin released by the White House press office. "I answer questions," was his reply. See REAGAN, Page 2 Brady ... makes "extraordinary" progress Briton runs LONDON MOTORIST'S high-speed dash to a men's room recently cost him 30 pounds sterling, according to the London Times. Lawrence White, of King's Norton, West Midlands, drove through a police radar trap at 90 mph in his mad rush to the lavatory. But after telling a magistrate: "I had diarrhea and was anxious to get to the toilet," White was let off with a light fine. In his testimony White said "I should have stayed that mean?" Haig replied, "It means it's not true." It's all that mean?" Haig replied, "It means it's not true:" It's all Greek to us. El The Anaheim Rams? Look out, Los Angeles Rams fans-this National League Football team may have to change its name. A California assembly committee has approved a bill that would bar a professional sports team from using the name of a city or county in which it does not play its home games without permission. The Rams, who moved last year to Orange County, were not specifically named in the legislation. Last year the Rams played their home games at Anaheim ved. Vineland Mayor Patrick Fiorilli claims his town is the "dandelion capital of the world." Vineland farmers sold more than 27,000 crates of home-grown dandelions last year, and dandelion greens are shipped as far west as Chicago, Fiorilli said. OL Outstanding students When DeSoto County deputies responded to the distur- bance call, they had no idea what they'd find. But purple college stuents wearing only fishhead necklaces wasn't a possibility they had considered. "They had some kind of purple stuff all over them," said Sheriff Denver Sowell of Lack Cormorant, Miss. He didn't know what the substance studying to enter the wrong profession. "Maybe we should have been lawyers," he said. 2 Mission from God A lighthouse in the middle of a drained lakefield near San Antonio, Tex. now has a resident preaching the word of peace. Police say they don't care if he stays up there. The man, who identified himself as "John," says he is on a mission from God to preach for three days from the lighthouse tower. "I'm just following God's blueprint," said John. Woodlawn Lake Park Ranger Alan Robinson said the man is not breaking the law by staying in the lighthouse, and he had told his rangers not to disturb him. The only i : I