I Page 2-Tuesday, October 28, 1980-The Michigan Doily OCT. 29th Wednesday-8:40 pm The IRISH AMERICAN CLUB of Ann Arbor presents: IRISH NiGHTithe MICH IGA N Irish traditional music by PAT'S PEOPLE Ray McGuire, Frank Kennedy, Wallace Hood With guest artists: Al Purcell & Tim O'Hare ui lean pipes Irish Dance Champion Master of ceremonies: DESMOND RYAN Admission:$5 at the MICHIGAN THEATER, 603 E. Liberty 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 budget update. Wilderness Experience High Country DAY PACK 20% Off nickels arcade CO..LUMGI1A UNIIVERSIT7Y SCHOOL OF INTERNATiONAL AFFAIRS FOR CAREERS IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS, FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT, INTERNATIONAL BANKING AND BUSINESS, THE UNITED NATIONS, PRIVATE VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS, AND THE MEDIA For information or an application, write to: SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS 1420K INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BLDG. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10027 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 0 P, . WMA ti.... * ~: :};:;: T A1 11 0o r:v:;. U - 71- Om 9X. WASHINGTON-American businesses generally increased their pro- 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. I * amortization " compound interest/annuities " factorial " standard deviation " linear regression, linear estimates * correlation coefficient oJble ficbigmrn auig Volume XCI, No. 47 Tuesday, October 28, 1980 The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday mornings during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109. Subscription rates: $12 September through April (2 semesters); $13 by mail outside Ann Arbor. 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