The price of freedom See Editorial, Page 4 .: 'l Ninety-three Years of Editorial Freedom Iai1Q Snazzy Partly cloudy, breezy, and warmer today, with a high in the 50s. It'll get slightly colder in the evening-as it so often does-with a low around 30. *Vol. XCIll, No. 59 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, November 16, 1982 Ten Cents Ten Pages Belcher retreats: .Ann Arbor will keep $5 pot law By BARBARA MISLE Mayor Louis Belcher has abandoned his controversial plan to repeal Ann Arbor's $5 fine for possession of marijuana after realizing he didn't have the support from his fellow Republican City Councilmembers. Belcher announced his proposal Oct. 14, without consulting councilmembers. According to Edward Hood (R-Fourth Ward), when the Republican caucus met two weeks later, members said they were opposed to taking political action to attack the city's drug abuse problem. "ALL SEVEN (Republican) mem- bers are concerned about the drug abuse and we're not excited about the $5 law, but it is not worth the effort to make a political issue out of it," Hood said. Stiffer laws, he said, would split the community between those who favored the $5 law, and those who were against it. The politics would overshadow the eal issue, which is drug abuse, he ad- ded. "It's not lack of courage that council See BELCHER, Page 6 Chrysler crisis Canadian strikes may force plants to shutdown From AP and UPI DETROIT - Domestic layoffs at Chrysler Corp. mounted to 4,600 Mon- day because of the strike by Canadian autoworkers, and company officials warned they may shut all five U.S. assembly plants before Christmas unless the 11-day walkout ends soon. Closing assembly plants in the next four or five weeks would idle about 43,000 U.S. Chrysler autoworkers, com- pany spokesman Bill Stempien said. Company officials say the first assembly plants to shut down would probably be the two in Michigan - in Warren and Detroit. The other assem- bly plants are in Newark, Del., St. Louis, and Belvidere, Ill. Analysts said such shutdowns would not threaten the company permanently and could even offer advantages for Chrysler. "I don't think this is to their (Chrysler's ) benefit, but this is not a going-out-of business scenario at the moment. In fact, the scenario is developing in Chrysler's favor," said John Hammond, analyst at Data Resources Inc. in Lexington, Mass. Canadian members of the United Auto Workers union walked off the job Nov. 5 after Chrysler officials refused their demand for an immediate, sub- stantial wage increase. Contract talks broke off the day the strike began, and the company says it has no immeidate plans to resume negotiations. U.S. workers have been laid off since then because some products built in U.S. plants are shipped to the Canada operations. All the workers laid off so far have been in component plants, and no plant has been shut down. But the assembly plants will be for- ced to close as supplies of parts from Canada needed for American-built vehicles dwindle, company officials said. The layoffs prompted by the See CHRYSLER, Page 6 U.S. denies aid to Canadian Chrysler Daily Photo by ELIZABETH SCOTT Through the looking glass This vandalized window at the corner of Packard and Hill not only reflects the house across the street but reveals construction worker Charles Mon- tgomery inside the building. By LOU FINTOR The shutdown of Canadian Chrysler plants caused by a worker's strike prompted a visiting U.S. treasury of- ficial yesterday to say the government would not aid the corporation if the money would be used to meet worker's demands. "It's hard to conceive of the U.S. government putting more money into Chrysler to increase wages to Canadian autoworkers," said Deputy Treasury Secretary R. T. McNamar during his visit to the School of Business Ad, ministration. AS THE major Chrysler creditor, the government is carefully watching current negotiations, but the wage deadlock is "a position they're going to have to work out and both sides know the consequences," McNamar said. He made the remarks before delivering a lecture titled "The See TREASURY, Page 6 Draft resister a wifs court Hatter d Bulletin prejudice, cannot ind A federal judge ruled late last night the same c that the Selective Service regulations "This is requiring draft registration were in- judge said valid, saying the government dil not liberties . follow proper procedures when it branches enacted the law. Attorney U.S. District Judge Terry Hatter, philosoph ruling in the case of a 21-year-old document draft resister, said the time and place effort to requirements of the presidential ministrati proclamation, establishing vocal disse registration and a July 18, 1980 Selec- The gov tive Service regulation setting up the District C manner of registration "are invalid" study t because they did not comply with a memos of required time period for notification. where the defied his over to the From AP and UPI Prosecu LOS ANGELES- A federal judge testify, s dismissed charges yesterday against precedent] 21-year-old David Wayte of Pasadena, a executive self-admitted draft resister. U.S. One of District Judge Terry Hatter Jr. made Wayte, M the ruling after the government refused "pleasant to turn over certain documents and and believ evidence sought by the defense and the draft refused to permit White House coun- longer be selor Edwin Meese III to testify. Asked N Defense attorneys had claimed that Rosenbaur *Wayte, charged with resisting the whole draf draft, had been singled out for Hatter s. prosecution because of his outspoken not only b views against the Selective Service refused t system. make ME Justice Department attorneys said because they would appeal the decision, which prelimina could jeopardize the cases against prosecutio several other young men who contend The jud they were singled out for prosecution that Way because they exercised their First prosecutio *Amendment rights and publicly governme proclaimed their opposition to Late la registration. reviewing "It came out better than I expected, Hatter rul because the judge dropped the matter," ties Union Wayte, 21, said after the hearing. "I had a righ think we can win this case on appeal, were no gn also." to testify. fight ismissed the indictment with meaning the government dict Wayte a second time on harges. not an easy matter," the . "It involves one's personal It involves the three major of government." ys for Wayte, a former Yale by student, sought the s and Meese's testimony in an prove the Reagan ad- on illegally prosecuted only enters. vernment agreed to let U.S. ourt Judge Terry Hatter Jr. he documents-including meetings attended by Meese e policy was discussed-but order to turn the documents defense. tors also refused to let Meese aying it would set a bad because he was exempted by privilege. the lawyers who defended ark Rosenbaum, said he was ly stunned" with the decision ves if it is upheld on appeal, registration system may no valid in the United States. what theddecisionemeant, m replied;4 "it means the It is out." said he granted the dismissal because the government had o surrender documents and eese available, but also it had not rebutted his ry finding of illegal selective on. ge tentatively ruled Sept. 30 te was a victim of selective on and said it was up to the nt to prove otherwise. ast month, after privately the government documents, ed that American Civil Liber- attorneys defending Wayte ht to see them and said there rounds for not allowing Meese Downtown MIWco-ops to Bconsolidate . building By LAURIE EAR Doily Photo by ELIZABETH SCOTT' LSA students Kathy Ehelman (left) and Blair Lewis (far right) mark their ballots at the Fishbowl yesterday in the LSA student government elections. Student apathy blamed again for low turnout in LSA election The People's Food Co-op (PFC) today will put the final touches on a plan to consolidate the downtown food co-ops, a spokesman for the group said. The co-op will finalize the $115,000 purchase of two Fourth Ave. buildings which would house the PFC, the Produce Co-op, the Wildflour Community Bakery, and the Herb and Spice Shop, according to Bruce Curtis, president of the PFC's board of directors. They hope to occupy the building in six mon- ths. "THE NEW location will end much of the confusion about what co-ops are," Curtis said. "Customers will be able to find everything under one roof." The co-op coordinators became con- cerned, Curtis said, that the Fourth Ave. corridor between Huron and Kingsley might be developed into an of- fice and business complex. Curtis said the fear of soaring rents caused the coordinators to secure their future by purchasing their own buildings at 216 and 218 N. Fourth Ave. At the new location, the co-ops will form a type of "co-op mall," according to PFC coordinator David Jacobson. Each store, however, will remain separate from the others in an effort to "retain the integrity of independence that has ben enjoyed by each co-op," he said. Although the PFC is covering the down payment and will foot the initial bills, Jacobson explained, the co-ops will be working toward joint ownership of the buildings. See FOUR, Page 2 By DAN GRANTHAM LSA-Student Government failed to at- tract a big turnout yesterday, as only 735 students cast votes on the first day of elections. Polling places were set up at several locations around campus, including the Fishbowl, most Hill area dorms, the Undergraduate Library, and the Michigan Union, but most students stayed politically inactive and walked past the voting boxes. ELECTION Director Bruce Goldman classified the turnout as low, but said first day election result had run con- sistently low in previous years. He blamed the poor showing on the small number of candidates (19) running for the 15 student government positions. He also blamed student apathy. 'I think a lot of people don't care,' he said, but stressed that he wasn't "using apathy as a cop-out." Goldman said usually about twice as many people vote on the second day of elections. Last year, about 1,500 people voted during the two days, but there are about 16,000 students in LSA. THE AREA with the largest number of voters was the Fishbowl, which Goldman said had about four times as many votes as other polling places. He attributed this ot "heavy (student) traf- fic" and "heavy, heavy campaigning." Voting took place at all Hill area dorms exceptrStockwell dormitory, with each dorm bringing in ap- proximately the same amount of votes, Goldman said. Poll workers at Mosher Jordan dor- mitory said about half therstudents who went by the poll voted. LSA senior and poll worker Carol Gremel said students seemed more energetic than in previous elections. There was probably more enthusiasm this year, she said. GREMEL ADDED that some studen- ts didn't want to write their names and identification numbers on the ballots - a procedure required for vote validation. "People think that it's not a secret ballot," she said. See STUDENT, Page 5 TODAY State bites the dust I dT WAS CLOSE all along-the greatest rivalry in the Midwest: Michigan versus Ohio State. Michigan, coming on strong in the finish beat those Buckeyes once again. The donors from Ann Arbor gave 5,599 units of blood to the regional Red Cross while the donors from Columbus only gave 5,259 units-a good showing on the part of those Ohio boys, but not enough. This was the fir- st Michigan-Ohio State blood donation battle, according to t.- .- - .r ---n-nta: ofi the R nro sand Missing subway E VEN SOME longtime residents thought they'd missed a colorful chapter of local history when a magazine reported that Fort Collins, Colo had built a subway system in an unsuccessful bid for the 1904 World's Fair. The article was fiction, but there were readers who pestered city of- ficials for more information. "It hasn't been nuts that believed it," said local historian Charlene Tresner, who checked with old-timers and history books to make sure it was untrue. The story, entitled "Down the Tube, Darkly," appears in the November issue of Poudre magazine, a said, and a plan was hatched to further the bid by stealing Wyoming's state constitution and making Fort Collins the capital of that state. Fort Collins, located about 30 miles south of the Wyoming border, now has a population of some 70,000 but no known plans for a subway. Q The Daily almanac, f)N THIS DATE in 1920, the Student Council voted to month since Student Government Council voted to support the rights of the women to set their own hours. *1978-Representative Perry Bullard of Ann Arbor told students that he would introduce a bill to decriminalize the possession of alcohol for 18-20 year olds, who had recently become minors when the drinking age was raised to 21. [ On the inside ... The Opinion Page looks at having fun with goalposts... Arts talks to Andy Breckman. a writer for the David Let- I i I