Ninety-One Years of Editorial Freedom Ait iga 143Iai1g DISHEARTENING Look for increasing cloudi- ness with a high in the low 50s and a low in the mid 40s. *w 1Vol. XCI, No. 35 Copyright 1980, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, October 14, 1980 Ten Cents Ten Pages 14 Tisch proposal will harm A2 official says VICTIMS OF ,A boiler- explosion at a day care center in Atlanta are removed yesterday. The blast left six dead, including four children, and 20 wounded. Four children die in blast at Atlanta dycre enter By ELAINE RIDEOUT Ann Arbor stands to lose vital revenues if any of the three property tax reduction proposals on the ballot are approved by voters Nov. 4, Assistant City Administrator Patrick Ken- ney told city council last night. In a memo presented at a council working session, Ken- ney estimated that the Tisch tax cut plan, Proposal D, would cost the city more than $5 million in unreimbursable funds. Likewise, Proposals A and C, the Smith/Bullard and Milliken plans, would mean $300,000 and $500,000 in unreimbursable losses, respectively, in the city's operating budget which is currently $24.8 million. "And these figures are conservative," Kenney remarked. "The figures do not include the loss to the AATA, or an estimate of the additional taxes the city would have to pay if government property is placed on the tax rolls, he said. In addition, Kenney said -his estimates do not include cut- backs in projected state allocations. If any of the tax-cut proposals on the ballot pass, the state would have to rechan- nel funds in order to reimburse localities for losses in local tax revenues, Kenney explained. None of the proposals, if passed, would go into effect until the 1981-82 fiscal year. "The Tisch amendment would definitely be the worst thing that ever happened to this city," Kenney said. He said that although the city has not specified what the loss would mean, it would necessitate cutbacks in programs, staffing, and major reducitons in some of the vital services provided by the city. "It would be hard not to affect police, fire, and refuse collection because these programs make up such a large part of the city budget. UNDER THE PLAN developed by Shiawassee Drain Commissioner Robert Tisch, assessments on property would be rolled back to the 1978 level and cut in half, before taxes were levied. The Tisch proposal provides reimbursement from the state for the revenue lost due to the 50 percent tax cut, but prohibits the legislature from imposing any new "tax" to fund the losses due to the rollback. Kenney attributed the enormous loss of revenues under the Tisch amendment to several factors. "Since assessments would be rolled back to the 1978 levels and since even new construction added since that time must" be valued at 1978 levels, the city would lose $4,245,000 and the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority would lose an additional $851,000 in fiscal 1981-82," he said. BECAUSE THE Tisch plan allows for only a two per- growth in the assessed value of residential and agricul... See TISCH, Page 2 ATLANTA (UPI)-An explosion ravaged a black daycare center in a low income housing, project yesterday, killing four small children and one of their teachers and hurling debris onto rooftops 300 feet away. Authorities said it appeared the school's boiler exploded. They were frantically trying to put down rumors spreading through the housing project that the daycare center had been bom- bed. At least seven people were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, but two were later released. Many of the 95 people, including 83 black children in the school, were treated for minor injuries at the scene. "IT WAS SO quick," said Melinda Cole, a teacher at the center. "All I could think was, 'Get to the door. Get out, children, get. out.' I got all twelve of mine out-safe and accounted for." Mayor Maynard Jackson, hurrying to the Gate City Day Care Center in the predominantly black Bowen Homes housing project on the city's northwest side, tried to assure skeptics in a crowd of about 1,580 people who gathered that there were no indications of foul play. Cubans. to release 33 U.S. prisoners Speaking through a bullhorn amid a scene of mangled pieces of concrete, brick and wood, Jackson said: "The only evidence we have at this time is that this was an accident. We are not certain what caused this, but it looks like it could have been an explosion in the furnace." ONE MAN in the crowd shouted back: "It was the Ku Klux Klan. Jackson said he had ordered other housing project day care centers evacuated while their furnaces were in- spected. He also ordered increased police patrols for housing projects in the city. Atlanta's blacks have been concerned recently about the unsolved deaths of eight black children and the disap- pearance of six others, and by a bomb which exploded in a city Housing Authority warehouse last week. No one was injured in that blast. MAYOR MAYNARD Jackson in- sisted the explosion was an ac- cident-"a tragedy of the worst kind"-and ordered daycare centers at other housing projects evacuated until their natural gas lines and furnaces could be checked. The blast demolished a narrow building housing the daycare center's kitchen and connecting the housing project's auditorium with the daycare center's classrooms. It collapsed one side of the connecting building, blew off its roof and smashed windows in surrounding buildings. Turkish property bombed in N.Y., L.A., and London i. WASHINGTON (AP)-The Cuban government announced yesterday it will pardon all U.S. citizens serving prison terms on the island, including those held for airline hijackings. The State Department welcomed the move as "a positive step," and said 33 Americans are involved. The announcement, through the Czechoslovak embassy here, said Cuba was responding to requests from the prisoners' families and from social organizations and members of Congress. The release appeared to be a gesture to the Carter administration, which reversed 16 years of icy distance from President Fidel Castro's government by agreeing in 1977 to exchange diplomats. A U.S. OFFICIAL, who asked not to be identified, said Cuba evidently is trying not to be "a contentious issue" in the presidential race by taking a num- ber of positive steps. These included the return last month of two hijackers, the suspension of the refugee flow to the United States and a decision not to punish people seeking exit visas who had taken refuge in the old American embassy in Havana. From UP[ and AP Authorities said yesterday they had few leads in the bombings ditected, against Turkish property in New York, Los Angeles, and London. Callers said Armenian nationals claimed respon- sibility for the blasts, which injured at least five people. U.S. officials called for international efforts yesterday to put down terrorism, and police were in- vestigating the little-known organizations that claimed to have detonated bombs in three of the world's major cities. IN THE UNITED States, an anti- Turkish group calling itself "Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide" said it was responsible for Sunday's explosions in front of the Turkish Mission in New York and at a Hollywood travel agency owned by a Turkish immigrant. In Los Angeles, police and FBI in- vestigators searched for clues in the bombing of a Hollywood travel agency,, owned by a Turkish immigrant, that caused $70,000 damage and injured a passing motorist. "The evidence is out there someplace," Los Angeles police Sgt. Michael Butler said. "Right now all we've got is a blown-out building. It's going to take some time to piece this thing together." IN NEW YORK CITY, where a powerful bomb rocked the neigh- borhood of the United Nations, police said detectives and bomb-squad of- ficials had failed to turn up any new in- formation. The New York explosion echoed through a 30-block area, throwing one woman from her bed in a nearby apar- tment building and shattering dishes and glasses. The bomb, planted in a car parked outside the 11-story Turkish Center, heavily damaged the-first two floors of the building and hurled debris in all directions. ANOTHER GROUP, "The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Ar- menia," claimed responsibility for a bomb set off at the Turkish Airlines of- fice in London on Sunday. In a statement issued yesterday from Beirut, the group said it was respon- sible for all three anti-Turkish bom- bings. The U.S. explosions brought a plea from Secretary of State Edmund Muskie for "strong measures, national and international, to enable mankind to overcome the menace of modern terrorism." Muskie said that "all possible measures" will be taken to find out who set off the bombs. . .. . . . . . ,. . . ,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... a d ' . < :. .? ~s a< F T - O. . . ., . . . . . .a : x.....D........ a......,...... . . ..................... . . :o , ;.a .ffiC : a., 0 n. . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..s .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..T,. "i..*. ) . .?:' . *. *.*.*h . *.* .," X .1, .. ............. UNICEF " official kicks off Peace SCorps gala By DAVID SPAK The Third World "is not a place or skin color, but a state of mind" about people con- demned to live in conditions of material deprivation, a top United Nations official said last night during the keynote address marking the beginning of the Peace Corps' 20th anniver- sary celebration at the University. Tarzie Vittachi of Sri Lanka, the deputy director of UNICEF, told an audience of more than 200 persons at the Rackham Amphitheatre that the power elites of both the northern and southern hemispheres "have failed to recogn- zie that we have reached a critical stage in the history of our race. "THE AGE WE are passing into," he said, "calls for a fundamental change in social and political institutions." But Vittachi said the persons with the capacity to bring about those changes "are im- prisoned by the mind-sets and the new gods of the market place they are required to salute if they are to attain and retain their power." The United Nations official said economic measurements "have replaced love and health as the measure of human development. "THE DOCTORS of economics," Vittachi continued, "have become the new witch doc- tors, and the nostrum for the aim of nations is life, liberty, and the pursuit of productivity." The nations of the Third World, Vittachi said, are faced with an extremely perplexing dilemma. "Should we go the way of the imperial powers, buying and selling agricultural produce in the international market system," he asked, "or should we go our own way, retur- ning to our own traditional cultural practices and values which have been covered by two to four hundred years of colonialism?" BUT VITTACHI said that dilemma was not even recognized by the inheritors of new nations formed after the demise of im- perialism. "It has taken 20 to 30 years for the rest of the ex-colonial south to begin to realize they will never become little Englands, Frances, Ger- manies, or Americas," he said. 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O Hello, goodbye Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer had! made plans to divorce his next wife even before they marry, a spokesman for the writer confirmed yesterday. n Mailer, who divorced his they lived together as husband and wife while unable to marry, and to give his daughter parents who, at some point, were married to each other. The couple will then get a divorce, to be followed immediately by Mailer's marriage to Church. "It is a bit disconcerting and upsetting to think what people will say," Church said. "Nonetheless, I am behind Norman's decision, and I understand why he feels he must do this." Mailer, who has been married four times and has eight children, is currently supporting 14 persons with alimony and child support. Q Slip sliding away Too. t. ni ,a f t e, aroin (Cars ad trucks in the Mud on her face Eti De Marco assures her clients that the mud she is smearing all over their faces is not just any old garden variety mud. It is mud from the Dead Sea rich in "curative properties and organic substances," says De Marco. The proprietors of the new Gabriel Skin Care Salon, launched in Manhattan last week, claims to be the only American im- porter of the ancient beauty treatment from Israel. Just like any other Madison Avenue shop De Marco has found a high-powered name to endorse her product. She says, "If the mud wagnad enonuh far Clennatra " F I I I ! I