Page 2-Tuesday, September 16, 1980-The Michigan Daily Iran asks U.S. apology again (AP)-Iran's Parliament prepared yesterday to open debate on, the American hostages amid renewed calls for a U.S. apology and spy trials. Meanwhile, a major Canadian newspaper said that secret negotiations for release of the 52 Americans have been under way for three months in an effort to solve the crisis before the U.S. presidential elections. President Carter, speaking in Corpus Christi, Texas, said recent statements by Iranian officials, "might very well lead to resolution" of the 10-month-old crisis soon. It was not clear whether Carter had been informed by them of Iran's reiteration yesterday that the United States must apologize for past actions. HOURS AFTER CARTER'S statement, Secretary of State Edmund. Muskie said there was no firm evidence a breakthrough might be at hand. He said there have been half a dozen statements by Iranian authorities over the past month which could have been interpreted as positive but which have not borne fruit. "It would be a mistake to raise expec- tations," he said. Muskie said the United States has been working through a number of channels in recent months to try to open a negotiating process with Iranian authorities. But, he said, he cannot point to any efforts which have taken root as yet. A process to turn catfish waste into a high-protein animal feed has been developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers. At another point, he said that despite the formation of a new government in Iran, the administration has been unable to open direct negotiations with that country. MUSKIE INSISTED, however, that it would be inaccurate to portray Carter's statement as signaling a possible breakthrough. The president, Muskie said, was not suggesting either optimism or pessimism. The Iranian statements Carter was alluding to might led to progress, "but the reverse is also true," he said. Muskie also characterized as "in- correct" a report in a Montreal newspaper yesterday that secret negotiations, based on a document prepared by European intermediaries, have been under way for the past three months. CARTER'S AND MUSKIE'S com- ments followed a statement last Friday by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Knomeini, in which Khomeini appeared to pare down his conditions for releasing the hostages. Omission of an ofter-stated apology demand from the list of conditions had raised hopes in some quarters that the chances of solution to the crisis had im- proved. But Speaker of Parliament Hashemi Rafsanjani and two influential religious leaders said the regime has not dropped its demand that the United States apologize for past policies toward Iran-a demand Carter has rejected in the past. IRAN'S PARLIAMENT, which has authority to decide what becomes of the hostages, is to begin its debate today or tomorrow, according to Iranian news media. Ferency seeks to warn voters about impact of Tiscb proposal IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Vitamin A may enhance interferon, scientist says NEW YORK-A government scientist, exploring the potential of inter- feron, reported yesterday that a synthetic form of vitamin A seems to enhance the anti-cancer effects of the drug. Dr. Michael Sporn said experiments during the past few weeks at the National Cancer Institute show that tiny amounts of the vitamin A derivative combined with small amounts of interferon, retard the proliferation of malignant mouse cells. The findings are very preliminary, Sporn said, and must move to laboratory animals before they could be considered for human use. Garwood's lawyers cite accident as defense: CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.-Marine Pfc. Robert Garwood, who faces : court-martial on charges of collaborating with the enemy, was dropped on his head as an infant in an accident that led to mental illness, his lawyers, said yesterday. Attorney Vaughan Taylor said Garwood, 34, will plead innocent by reason of insanity to charges of desertion and collaboration stemming from his 14 years in Vietnam-first as a war prisoner, then as an alleged turncoat. - Taylor said the defense will proye that Garwood's actions resulted from a mental disease that was rooted in his childhood and triggered by the pressure of captivity. Many arrested in Turkey ANKARA, Turkey-Turkish security forces yesterday arrested hun- dreds of suspected terrorists in an effort to stifle resistance to the country's four-day old coup. The crackdown came amid reports that the country's six-member ruling military junta had selected a new prime minister to replace the deposed Suleiman Demirel. Government sources said Turgut Ozal, undersecretary.. for the office of prime minister and the coordinator of Turkey's economic recovery program, was likely to be tipped for the job. 9 LANSING (UPI)-Activist Zolton Ferency asked yesterday for an official declaration warning voters the Tisch proposal would radically alter key con- stitutional provisions including the legislature's law-making powers. Proposal author Robert Tisch, reached on the campaign trail, said he has no objection to any such disclosure if it is approved by the Michigan Supreme Court. But he hinted rival amendments have implications that ought to be revealed as well. THE MOVE came three days after the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Tisch onto the ballot, rejecting Feren- cy's claim that petitions for the'amen- failed to disclose all portions of the state Constitution it- would alter or abolish. The gadfly attorney now is asking Secretary of State Richard Austin for a declaratory ruling which-if gran- ted-would make official ballot proposal texts posted in polling places and mailed to the media reflect Feren- cy's interpretation of the amendment's effect. Tisch said Ferency is no expert on his 50 per cent property tax cut plan, but he would be "tickled pink" to accept any disclosure mandated by the high court. BUT, HE said he would insist on disclosure that one rival plan could be altered by the legislature while the other would eventually abrogate the Headlee Tax Limitation Amendment. The high court decision overturned an Ingham County Circuit Court order barring Tisch from the ballot. Ferency argues the Tisch amen- dment-by. requiring 60 per cent voter approval of any new or increased state tax-substantially alters the legislative powers of the House and Senate without specifically saying so. HE ALSO CLAIMS the measure would affect provisions governing referendums and the powers of the courts, local government, and state universities to levy or increase fees and dment were defective because they 4,4 t~ - :i ~ ANN ARBOR CIVIC BALIET THE ANN ARBOR CIVIC BALLET begins its twenty- fourth consecutive year of providing exceptional performance opportunities and intensive training to dancers in this area. Auditons: Wed., Sept. 10 &£17, 7:30 p.m. Sylvia Studio, 525 E. Liberty, 668-8066 MEN WELCOME POINTE SHOES REQUIRED FOR AUDITION OPENINGS IN COSTUME AND STAGE DESIGN, LIGHTING AND CHOREOGRAPHY: R - other charges. Election officials, while declining to comment on the specifies of Ferency's request, said it would be highly unusual for Austin to add anything to the ex- planation not included in the petitions themselves. Ferency, who says he personally favors a rival tax reform plan backed by the Michigan Education Association, said he will go to court if Austin does not answer by Friday. Teachers turn down latest offer By JULIE BROWN Ann Arbor's teachers voted over- whelmingly yesterday morning to reject the school board's latest contract offer and negotiations resumed last night in the two-week old dispute in which salary and the school calendar remain the primary areas of disagreement. According to a statement released by the teachers' association, the association's general membership voted 772-to-142 to turn down the board's offer. It was 'rejected, the statement said, because it punishes teachers by not allowing them to make up two paid days. This provision was included, Assistant Superintendent of Schools Robert Moseley said, not , to punish teachers, but rather to avoid rewarding them for not working. According to teachers' association spokesman Dan Burroughs, informal agreement has been reached on the board's proposal to have teachers at- tend five hours of inservice training, approved by the board. An informal agreement has also been reached, Burroughs said, not to require school attendance on the Friday after Thanksgiving or during Christmas vaction, and to extend the student year to June 19, 1981, which is what the teachers' association had sought. The board proposed, however, that the teacher year be extended to June 20, an action the association op- poses because of pay loss. 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State off icials confirm case of encephalitis LANSING-State health officials confirmed yesterday that a 13-year-old St. Joseph County boy is suffering from a rare and deadly form of sleeping sickness that never before has struck humans in this state. The boy, who has not been identified, is in critical condition at a Kalamazoo hospital.~Health officials have ruled out the disease-Eastern Equine Encephalitis-in two of the three cases in which is was originally suspected. Abscam defense rests PHILADLPHIA-The defense in the nation's third Abscam trial abruptly rested its case yesterday after character witnesses testified that two city council members were "honest and law-abiding" citizens. George Schwartz and Jarry Jannotti are accused of taking a total of $40,000 in bribes from undercover agents posing as middlemen for a phony Arab sheik. The two were charged with pledging their political muscle to aid the sheik's plans to build a hotel complex in the city. 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