4 Page 2-Wednesday, November 12, 1980-The Michigan Paily DEMS DOWNFALL WAS IMMINENT Election year in review WASHINGTON (AP)-As Ameri- cans approached Labor Day 1979, the signs of discontent that would devastate the Demociats in 1980 already were clear. The price of gasoline seemed to jump another nickel a gallon every time the family car needed another fill-up. Mon- ths of chaos in once-friendly Iran raised the spectre of even higher prices and possibly a return to gasoline lines. President Carter took an August vacation trip down the Mississippi River on the Delta Queen. During the first 48 hours the river boat made 11 Racism WILTLIAMSTOWN, Mass.. (AP)- ourteen hundred students from prestigious Williams College yesterday jammed into a campus meeting called in hopes of cooling racial tensions brought about by a Halloween weekend cross-burning and a series of racial threats. "This is the first time there has been a concerted effort to get some sort of black-white discussion going," said Darrell McWhorter of Cincinnati, a black who is student government president. "IT (THE cross-burning) had a silver stops and the president told cheering crowds-at 3 a.m. on one oc- casion-that it was time to end the nation's dependence on foreign oil and to tax the profits oil companies would reap from the lifting of federal price controls. THE PRESIDENT was in political trou- ble and he knew it.Polls were bad and they were going to get worse. Carter tended to agree with aide Hamilton Jordan that Edward Kennedy, despite his denial, would seek the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination. Carter was certain the polls would change. All that was needed-were a few victories; especially on Capitol Hill, and a big one looked certain for the early fall when the Senate would ap- prove the SALT II treaty. The op- position to the arms control agreement was on the run. Congress went on vacation for the month of August. It was a good time for Kennedy to get away from Washington and evaluate the risks of challenging the incumbent president. IN A WAY, there seemed little to evaluate. Carter was a political cripple. Liberal Democrats in Congress openly feared that if Carter ran for re-election in 1980, he would drag scores of other party candidates down to defeat. Ken- nedy was their only hope. The Massachusetts senator was in- clined to agree. But challenging an in- cumbent president was bound to be a bitter fight that could split the party and let the Republicans walk into the White House in 1981. Kennedy talked to his family and some of his closest advisers. Unless some compelling reason came up for RAFN-- ALwn grips ti lining," said Geoff Mamlet, a sophomore from Santa Barbara, Calif. "I'm sorry it took such a shocking thing to get this discussion started, but the discussion was very positive." And Ellen Chandler, a white sophomore from Laconia, N.H. said some "white students had neveP really talked with black students." The college has increased its black enrollment from 30 to 130 within a decade. WILLIAMS, WHICH dominates life in this predominantly white town of 4,300 in the Berkshire Hills of northwestern r Siviass. Massachusetts, counts among its alumni New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, Boston Mayor Kevin White and Arthur Levitt, chair- man of the American Stock Exchange. The school once opened its doors only to men, but now admits women. A black student, John Coleman of New York City, said recent racial in- cidents have filled blacks with "anger and concern." "The discussion may help people realize that blacks have been treated with some insensitivity," said Coleman.' co lege The talk ranged from criticism of the college's investments in compaipies doing business in South Africa to threatening phone calls and letters received by some black students and college President John Chandler. Acting Dean Chris Roosenraad said the FBI was called in Saturday after Chandler and Rev. Muhammed Kenyatta, a black senior and Philadelphia minister, received "very offensive and racist" letters post- marked from Cleveland and signed "KKK." BURRITOS and TACOSat BICYCL E 'S JIM'S RESTAURANTr Come in and build your own from our MEXICAN MAXIMUM BUFFET HAPPY HOURS Mon.-Thurs. Spm-close Senate budget may be cut 10%, WASHINGTON (AP)-Senate Republican leaders pledged themselves yesterday to cut the annual cost of run- ning the Senate by 10 percent when they take control in 1981. Sen. Howard Baker of Tennessee, who will by the majority leader next year, said that nothing would be automaticaly exempt from the reduc- tion, including the salaries of the senators. sa ys Baker "WE EXCLUDE nothing," he told reporters in the hallway outside his of- fice facing the Senate chamber. He said the GOP leaders intended "to set an example' for trimming spending "by starting at home." A 10 percent cut would be "a good beginning," he said, The cost of running Congress each year is approximately $1 billion. Any cost-cutting measure adopted in the Senate would not cover House payrolls as well. THE SPECIFICS of the spending cut will be decided in January when Republicans take command of the Senate for the first time since 1954, Baker said. Democrats control the 'outgoing Senate, 59-41. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Conservative group targets liberals for 1982 defeats WASUINGTON - Just one week after the election, a conservative political action group yesterday announced plans to target a new group of liberal senators for defeat in 1982. The National Conservative Political Action Committee listed 20 liberals - almost all Democrats - as potential targets, and said the list will be narrowed in the next few weeks, possibly to 11 targets. Included on the list is Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), whose defeat "would be a rather dramatic blow to liberalism," said John Dolan, chairman of the committee. Sen. Don Riegle (D-Mich), is also on the list along with Rep. Morris Udall '(D-Ariz.), Rep. Jim Wright (D-Tex.), Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wisc.), Sen. Henry Jackson (D- Wash.), and many others. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), is also expected to be targeted in 1984 Iraq shops for Soviet arms as war continues, BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's vice premier arrived in Moscow yesterday reportedly shopping for Soviet arms. Iran claimed to have pushed Iraqi troops back in one sector of the oil refining center of Aadan and also asked for clarification of a peace proposal made by non-aligned nations. The two oil-rich Persian Gulf nations - whose exports have been halted by the war - reported fighting along much of the 300-mile border front. Iran claimed it killed 80 Iraqis and Iraq said it killed 117 Iranians. Iraqi Vice Premier Tarek Aziz arrived in Moscow on his second visit to the Soviet Union since the war began Sept. 22. Kuwaiti newspapers said he would be seeking ar- ms, ammunition and spare parts under the Iraqi-Soviet friendship treaty. Protests mark conference on detente, human rights MADRID, Spain - An American pastor of Latvian descent jammed plastic needles into his veins yesterday, spilling blood on a Soviet flag "for all the oppressed people of the Soviet Union" before -an astonished crowd of diplomats attending a 35-nation conference on detente and human-rights. The Rev. Maris Kirsons of Philadelphia was seized by police and later released without being charged. Four unidentified Americans, 18 other foreigners and 21 Spaniards were arrested in other demonstrations coin- ciding with the conference to review the 1975 Helsinki agreements on human rights and detente, police said. They were charged with disturbing the peace and staging illegal demonstrations, police said. Forest fires rage in Kentucky, W. Va. About 850 firefighters from nine states yesterday bat- tled a 750-acre blaze in Daniel Boone National Forest and about 75 other fires in mountainous eastern Kentucky, most of them set by arsonists or hunters flushing game. About 10 fires still were burning in West Virginia after a weekend in which 150 forest fires blackened 15,000 acres. In Kentucky, where some 20,000 acres have burned, some 60 fires were burning out of control 'in Letcher and Perry Counties alone, according to Steve Kull, a forester at the state Division of Forestry in Hazard, Ky. Jury still deliberating in KKK-Nazi trial GREENSBORO, N.C. - Jurors, in their third day of deliberating the fate of a group of Klansmen and Nazi ac- cused of killing five communists, yesterday reviewed evidence presented during the 22-week trial. The all-white jury of six men and six women began the day viewing videotapes made by newsmen of the bloody Nov. 3, 1979, anti-Klan rally where the communists were killed. The jurors then asked the judge to schedule an after- noon session for them to review some of the evidence presented in the case. Hurricane stalls in Gulf MIAMI - Jeanne, the first November hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico in 55 years, stalled in its march toward the Louisiana coast yesterday, but oil companies took no chan- ces and evacuated hundreds from offshore oil rigs. At 2 p.m., the National Hurricane Center said the hurricane was nearly stationary near latitude 24.8 north and longitude 87.5 west or about 450 miles south-southeast of New Orleans. le tnr w 1atlg Volume XCI, No.60 Wednesday, November 12, 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. Summer session published Tuesday through Saturday mornings. 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