4 Polling places close at 8 p.m. tonight Ninety-One Years of Editorial Freedom C, te Sir 43UU EItiIQ COO L Showers and cloudy skies clearing up' early today. Highs in the mid 50's. Vol. XCI, No. 53 Copyright 1980, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, November 4, 1980 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Eon'd com ethCREFUL pELIBEEAPS 1T$ CARTER. E lectio n d aOF THE.CANDPATES, TAL, I'5 REAGA TE AIW5S ISSUES, AND By LORENZO BENET a leading country; we should act like a leading 0STEN& 1 "E PEXES and STEVE HOOK country." E RNALLN coy.T0AA a E Oud e tsLi wKenda Hicks, CNctu510N ON JUST Election Day is finally upon us. After seemingly junior, LSA HOW mP SEr E15 endless' months of campaigning, the presidential "Anderson is pro-choice, pro-ERA, and pro- SIN candidates can only sit back with us and wait and see environment, and he's the only candidate that has who will lead thecountryuntil1984. t he ca n i d ate s directly addressed the issues. I really don't care Around campus, there hasn't been a whole lot of that the polls say Anderson has little chance of win- commotion over this election-none of the can- ning. I'm not voting for someone the polls say will didates have drawn much visible support or wrath of me. At least Jimmy Carter has some ideals." win; I'm voting for someone I believe in. from the student body. Yet, everybody seems to Dave Perez, Edrie Irvine have an opinion concerning the direction our coun- junior, LSA junior, LSA try should go. "I'm voting for Barry Commoner. I think both "My concerns center around protecting the en- What follows is a brief sampling of various Reagan and Carter are basically liars, and under vironment, avoiding war, and eliminating nuclear student presidential preferences. Their views are their leadership this country can go nowhere but power plants. I'm going to be creative when I vote not intended to reflect overall student sentiment, down." today; I think I'm going to write in Dick Gregory to however, they do seem representative of opinions Tim Carlson, demonstrate that I'm not satisfied with the expressed nationwide. junior, Engineering system." Have a nice Election Day, and many happy retur- "I'm for Ronald Reagan. This country has to get Mark Kamsler, ns. back on its feet. We need to strengthen our defense former University student \ "John Anderson is nothing but a rehashed and not let other countries push us around. We are a Republican and Ronald Reagan scares the hell out leading country and we should have the strength of See UNIVERSITY, Page 3 Carter campaigns at airport rall in J Detroit By DAVID MEYER Special to the Daily DETROIT-President Carter ap- peared briefly at a campaign rally at Detroit Metropolitan Airport yester- day, making a final grab for Michigan voters and "a special appeal" to sup- porters of Independent candidate John Anderson to shift their votes behind the president. Carter, flying in from a rushed, last minute campaign tour 'of the nation, appealed to the enthusiastic, solidly Democratic crowd to push hard in the final hours before the election to get out the Democratic vote. A recent Lou Harris poll indicates that a high voter~ turnout would favor the president. CARTER cancelled a scheduled campaign stop in Burbank, Calif. to at- tend the Detroit rally. Some political analysts believe this move indicates the Carter forces are giving up California and concentrating on picking up the lost electoral votes in the industrial mid- See CARTER, Page 9 NHfitan",ts to. hand .: I hostages over to .4 Iranian Off! From UPI and AP Iranian militants agreed yesterday to surrender control of the American hostages to the Iranian government, and Iran named Algeria to act as in- termediary in releasing the 52 captives to the United States. The U.S. government welcomed both moves but warned the release process would take time. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie said, "There has been progress; however, much remains to be done." MUSKIE SAID the reports from Iran have been encouraging but warned "they should be viewed as initial steps in a process which will require time, patience and diplomacy." Algerian ambassador Redha Malek met for 45 minutes with Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher to discuss Algeria's role in the hostage crisis but a spokesman refused to discuss details of the session. In the ab- sence of diplomatic relations, Algeria represents Iraniah interests in the United States. Meanwhile, West Germany's am- bassador to Iran said yesterday after meeting with Iranian, Algerian, and Swiss officials in Tehran on the fate of the American hostages that arrangements for their release could take at least 10 days, the Berlin newspaper Der Abend reported. "UP TO NOW there is no kind of sign when the Iranian government actually will turn over the hostages." Am- bassador Gerhard Ritzel was quoted as telling the newspaper in a telephone in- terview., The Iranian news agency Pars said Ritzel and the Swiss ambassador were present at the meeting in which it was agreed that Algeria would "take care" of the 52 hostages. icials Par said the Swiss ambassador sub, mitted a letter to Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Rajai from President Carter at the 30-minute mneeting. "THERE IS ALSO nothing known about where they are staying," Ritzet was quoted by the newspaper as saying. After the failure of a U.S. rescue at- tempt last April, the militant students who seized the Americans and U.S. Embassy in Tehran said they had scat- tered their prisoners throughout Iran. There has been no firm confirmation. Ritzel said he was convinced the hostages would not be released before the U.S. elections today, the newspaper reported. "The students are being sent to ser- vice on the front," in the Iraq-Iran bor- der war, the ambassador was quoted as saying. APrho PRESIDlENT JIMMY CARTER waves and blows a kiss to the crowd that greeted him in Granite City, Illinois yesterday. Carter also attended a brief political rally at Detroit Metropolitan airport. See MILITANTS, Page 12 CAMPUS AC TIVISM MINIMAL: Students support By BARRY WITT Proposal B-which would lower the state's legal drinking age to 19-will not pass today, according to the latest poll by the Booth Newspapers group. And although surveys have shown such a result to be imminent for months, college students, the group which will be affected most by the proposal's passage, have not rallied in active support of Proposal B. The Booth poll shows that younger voters are strongly in favor of lowering the drinking age, but University students have not campaigned for Proposal B in great numbers. ONE OF the main reasons for this lack of interest from college students is that underage drinkers have little trouble obtaining alcohol, according to many students, bar owners, and other Proposal B supporters. Rep. Richard Fitzpatrick (D-Battle Creek), chairman of the committee pushing for Proposal B, said in a debate last week at Markley dormitory that "the legal drinking age has not stopped one young person from drinking in Michigan." Bar owners find it hard to prevent 18- to 20-year- olds-who legally are allowed to enter bars-from drinking. Second Chance manager John Carver said that although an effort is made to keep underage customers from drinking alcohol, it is virtually im- possible to "keep an eye on them all without hiring 200 employees a night." IN VIEW of this fact, Carver noted, "nothing has perceivably changed" for 18- to 20-year-olds since the drinking, age was raised in January 1979. Mark Weingarten, an 18-year-old LSA freshman who plans to vote "yes" on the proposal, said, "anyone who wants to drink, can drink." For that reason, Weingarten has not actively supported the proposal, and said he feels the proposal will not pass. Even those who oppose Proposal B acknowledge roposal B that underage people who wish to drink are able to obtain alcohol. "Nineteen is Fair"-the pro- Proposal B group-uses this premise as one of its arguments in favor of lowering the drinking age. They claim that an unenforceable law should not be kept on the books. WHEN voters approved raising the drinking age to 21 in 1978, opponents of the proposal (those in favor of maintaining age 19) directed the campaign toward students. But that strategy failed dismally as the "21" proposal easily passed. This year, though, the campaign is concentrating on convin- cing older voters that "19 is fair." Randy Rayburn, the Lansing coordinator for the "19 is fair" committee, said, "We're not appealing to the campus alone. We're appealing to the com- munity in general (to recognize) that if young people are old enough to vote, be drafted, and own a home, then they're old enough to have a drink with their parents." See MINIMAL, Page 12 By KEVIN TOTTIS As the 1980 campaigns drew to a close yesterday, neither side in the Tisch tax cut battle stepped up its local lobbying efforts. The controversial amen- dment-Proposal D-has been the focus of/heated debates over the last several months. ROBERT TISCH, the Shiawassee County drain commissioner who in- troduced the plan, spoke to the Detroit Press Club yesterday and said ''nothing in particular" was going on for a last minute yes vote drive, according to Lorraine Hart, secretary for the coalition to pass Proposal D. The plan would reduce property taxes by 50 percent and cut state revenues by about $2 billion. Following the months of cam- paigning, Hart said she feels the" vote to pass the tax cut amendment "will be close.'' "WE'RE GETTING different polls, some one way, some another," she said. But University administrators were more positive when predicting the election day outcome. r "I'm optimistic," Malcolm Baroway, University director of state and community relations, said. "Within about (the last) 30 days the polls have made a very strong shift. "ABOUT A month ago there were a number of undecided voters which (could lead to a) potential majority See TISCH, Page 2 Tisch, opponents plan no last minute drives :.1 TODAY Election night rounds G ET A BEER to cry in, or celebrate with- depending on who is winning the election tonight. Some Ann Arbor watering holes will be helping concerned voters keep tabs on the returns. At the Star Bar, drink specials will be announced on the spur of the moment "depending on how the election is going," a spokesperson at the Main Street Bar said. Rick's American Cafe on Church Street plans to tune several television sets ; retain his 1979 title as World Hot Dog Eating Champion. Holtan, who stands five feet, seven inches and weighs 145 pounds, took on a crowd of 300-pounders to win the $1,000 first prize in the fifth annual World Championship Hot Dog Eating Contest, held in Millbrook, Ala. Thomas Saffo of Prattville, who is six feet, three inches and weighs 300 pounds, came in at a close second, eating 30 hotdogs and matching Holtan's 1979 record. Of the 25 participants in the contest sponsored by a local hot dog house, only four lasted the full two hour time limit of the competition. Holtan's vic- tory was predictable; earlier this year he won a Polish the two scientists, Roy Mackel of the University of Chicago and James Powell, a herpetologist living in Texas, have collected evidence indicating that the creature resembles a brontosaur-a dinosaur believed to have died out 70 million years ago. The two have not seen the creature-but natives in the largely unexplored area report that the animals (they've seen more than one) have smooth, brownish-gray skin, a long flexible neck, a long tail, and three-clawed feet the size of frying pans. The magazine said the creatures feed on the Nut-like fruit of a riverbank plant, and live near deep pools and submerged caves in the area. The two scien- areas, officials found that smokers and spitters don't mix. Evidently, chewers don't like breathing smoke, andt smokers don't like to see spitting. School officials blame their problem on television commercials featuring famous athletes who chew tobacco. On. tiw minsidpr i I I I I