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City council faces
$1 million deficit
-IN BRIEF
By ELAINE RIDEOUT
The city council received more
budget bad news last night when city
administrators projected a deficit of
more than a million dollars in city
special revenue and enterprise funds
for the first financial quarter.
"Most of the difficulties lie in the
water, sewer, and gas and weight tax
funds," Assistant City Administrator
Patrick Kenney told the council in the
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The city official said all three funds
started the year with surpluses. He said
the surpluses could cover for the
revenue losses, but added, "This is
probably the last year we'll be able to
do this."
LAST WEEK, Kenney told the coun-
cil the city budget is faced with a
$716,000 budget deficit this year.
The recent severe downturn in
Michigan's economy led to cuts in state
allocations to the city, he said.
At that time Kenney said he was not
sure how the city would absorb the
revenue cuts, but he said he expects to
present revised budget recommen-
dations to Council within four to six
weeks.
CITY OFFICIALS say they will con-
sider solutions to city budget problems
after election day because tax
proposals on the ballot may have large
ramifications for the financial status of
the city.
Kenney said last May's budget
projections of state rebates into the gas
and weight tax fund are off by at least
$95,000. He attributed the shortfall to
the continuing decline in the quantity of
gasoline consumed state-wide, and the
switch to lighter cars.
Kenney said that due to the unusually
wet summer weather, the water system
budget is likely to develop a revenue
shortfall of approximately $250,000.
"People didn't have to water their
lawns as much last summer," he ex-
plained.
The sewage disposal fund will be out
an additional $43,000 for the same
reason, he added.
MSA
notes,
Vice-president to resign
David Trott will resign his post as
vice-president for personnel of the
Michigan Student Assembly tonight.
Trott, who will remain an MSA mem-
ber, will be replaced by the Assembly in
its regular weekly meeting tonight.
Trott cited "a heavy academic load"
as the primary reasonefor his
resignation but also noted dissatisfac-
tion with his position as another factor
contributing to his decision. "The job
wasn't what I perceived it to be," Trott
said in an interview yesterday. "No one
seemed to be happy with the appoin-
tments I was making."
In his position as vice-president for
personnel, Trott headed the MSA Per-
manent Interviewing Committee, the
body responsible for making
nominations to fill all MSA committee
positions.
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
Ralph Nader resigns as 4
head of fund-raising group
WASHINGTON-Ralph Nader resigned yesterday as head of Public
Citizen Inc., the fund-raising umbrella group he founded nine years ago to
coordinate some of his activities.
Nader said his move was an attempt to free himself to find some long-
range funding for the organization and to help the group become self-
sustaining. In addition, Nader wants to devote more time to other groups un-
der his direction.
Nader said he would continue to act as an advisor to Public Citizen and
would try to line up an endowment for the group's tenth anniversary next
year.
Presidential candidates gear
up for showdown tonight
President Carter, on his way to Cleveland for tonight's televised
debate with Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, told a rally
in Huntington, West Virginia yesterday that Reagan has "flip-flopped" on the
issues so much that he did not know "which Ronald Reagan I'm going to
face."
Reagan scheduled no campaigning before the debate, but met for lunch
yesterday with former President Gerald Ford, who debated Carter three
times in the 1976 race and warned Reagan to "anticipate a show of Carter
meanness."
The debates will be broadcast at 9:30 p.m. tonight.
Jailed IRA guerrillas go on b
hunger strike 'to the death'
BELFAST-Seven convicted Irish Republican Army guerrillas yes-
terday launched a hunger strike "to the death" in Northern Ireland's Maze
Prison in a bid to force the British government to recognize jailed IRA
members as political prisoners.
The British have declared they will not "surrender to blackmail" and
are prepared to let the hunger strikers die.
The prisoners claim they should have special status because they were
sentenced to prison for, politically motivated crimes by anti-terrorist, non-
jury courts under emergency powers.
Castro frees U.S. prisoners
MIAMI-Thirty American prisoners pardoned by Fidel Castro on
charges that included hijacking and drug-smuggling left Cuba-yesterday
and were flown to the United States where they were greeted by tearful and
jubilant friends and relatives.
Castro's move stemmed from a Cuban government announcement on
Oct. 13 that all U.S. prisoners would be released in response to appeals from
congressmen, social organizations, and relatives of the prisoners.
The prisoners, who had been jailed for terms ranging from a few months
up to 11 years, still face trail in the United States and are scheduled top-
pear before a U.S. magistrate today.
Iran defense continues
as Iraq moves on Abadan
BAGHDAD, Iraq-Iranian defenders fought on in the embattled port
city of Khurramshahr yesterday, while Iraqi forces moved closer toAran's
key oil refining center at Abadan.
In the drawn-out battle for Khurramshahr, which Iran now calls the
"City of Blood," the official Iranian news agency Pars said both sides were
shelling the Karun River bridge within the city, but the latest battle report
"indicates that the resistance of the defenders of the Islamic revolution con
tinues." The agency gave no details.
U.S. businesses register
gain in productivity
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ductivity in the third quarter to register the first gain this year-another
sign the recession probably ended in the late summer, the government
reported-yesterday.
The Labor Department said the 2.6 percent increase in business produc-
tivity, excluding farms, in the third quarter followed a 3.7 percent decline in
the second quarter, and was the largest in three years.
The department's quarterly report shows the major reason for the in-
crease in productivity was a 1.1 percent increase in business output in the
third quarter, compared to a whopping 12.3 percent decline in the second
quarter.
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