Page 4-Wednesday, June 17, 1981--The Michigan Daily
Fraud charged
in re-election
4
oPres.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Fer-
dinand Marcos was easily re-elected
president of the Philippines yesterday,
giving him another six years in power.
Citizens had to vote or face arrest, and
the opposition, which boycotted the
election, charged widespread fraud.
Marcos told reporters in his northern
Philippine hometown of Batac, where
he voted, that one ofthe first things he
will work on is "to bring about
a... reconciliation" with political op-
ponents.
"YOU HAVE only two alternatives
here," he said. "Either you do it with a
soft hand or you do it with a tough hand.
I intend to do it softly."
Early unofficial returns gave Marcos
at least 88 percent of the vote against a
dozen little-known candidates, in-
cluding an assemblyman who had
promised to make the Philippines the
United States' 51st state.
The more than 25 million eligible
voters were required to vote under
threat of arrest.-But some groups urged
Filipinos to spoil their ballots by
defacing" them with anti-government
slogans to protest the election, the first
in 12 years.
Marcos
THE COMMISSION on Election
claimed a turnout of 80 to 90 percent of
the registered voters indicated the
"collapse" of the boycott. Opposition
spokesmen charged widespread fraud
and said their monitoring networks set
up in random precincts indicated only
50 toS5 percent turnout in metropolitan
Manila.
Former Defense Secretary Alejo San-
tos, one of Marcos' dozen opponents at
the polls, charged "massive" voting
irregularities. A last-minute candidate
of the Nacionalista Party, Santos said
he found several voting boxes stuffed
with ballots marked for Marcos on elec-
tion eve.
In several precincts in Manila's Ton-
do slum quarter, voters were hauled to
polling precincts by Marcos' ward
leaders, opposition leaders said.
Marcos was the only major candidate
because the United Democratic Op-
position, known as Unido, decided not to
field one as a protest. Unido, which has
spearheaded the nationwide boycott in
an effort to tarnish Marcos' mandate,
accused Marcos' party of "acts of
violence, terrorism, harassment, in-
timidation and other violations of elec-
tion laws."
Slow b uilding
rate reflects
area's economy
In Brief
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
Israel asked for reparations
UNITED NATIONS-Israeli Ambassador Yehuda Blum yesterday
dismissed as "bizarre" a French proposal that the Jewish state pay
reparations for destroying an Iraqi nuclear reactor.
"Did the allies pay reparations for the Nazi's atomic plants at
Peenemuende and elsewhere which they destroyed in World War II?" Blum
asked the U.N. Security Council as its debate on the Israeli raid went into its
fourth day. Peenemuende was Nazi Germany's huge research and missile
center on the Baltic Coast.
"Let me assure this council that Israel will pay precisely the same sum as
what those who made this bizarre suggestion paid after World War II and not
one brass farthing more," Blum said in response to the reparations
suggestion French Ambassador Jacques Leprette made to the council Mon-
day. A French technician was killed in the June 7 Israeli attack on the Fren-
ch-built reactor outside Baghdad.
Exercising his right of reply, the Israeli envoy complained, "What has
been going on here proves it is impossible for Israel to expect from this
council and, indeed, from this world organizationa fair hearing."
Navy denies drug charges
WASHINGTON-Navy Secretary John Lehman denied "categorically"
yesterday that drug use had anything to do with the crash of a radar-
jamming plane on the deck of the aircraft carrier Nimitz last month.
Rep. Joseph Addabbo, (D-N.Y.) has claimed that autopsies showed most
of the 14 Navy and Marine men killed in the fiery crash of an EA-6B during a
night landing May 26 had been taking drugs.
"There was no trace whatsoever of any kind of drug in the recovered
remains of the air crew," according to a Navy sttement. The bodies of two
of the three EA-6B Marine crewmen were recovered.
Asked what the autopsies showed so far as the members of the deck crew
who were killed, a Navy spokesman said, "This is still under investigation."
The results of the autopsies were not available to newsmen, but Navy
sources said there probably were some traces of marijuana foun in the
bodies of some of the victims.
Violent weather continues
DALLAS-A blitzkrieg of fire and floods and suffocating heat punished
various sections of the country yesterday as some communities were pat-
ching the wounds of devastating tornadoes.
The onslaught of violent storms that killed at least 22 people since the
weekend built new floods in Indiana and in Texas, where in one place snakes
were reported "floating around the house."
Two dozen fires that "came like a hurricane" in Southern California had
burned 64 homes and consumed 23,000 acres, exhausting hundreds of
firefighters who worked through the night.
Searing heat killed thousands of chickens Monday in Florida at 105
degrees and spread up the Atlantic Coast yesterday to southern New
England. straining nower aenerators and forcing schools to close early.
Convicted murderess cannot
marry without court approval
SAGINAW-Judith Miller has a problem with her love life that even Ann
Landers couldn't solve.
For the next five years, Ms. Miller, 37, can neither get married nor live
with a man without first getting prior court approval.
In effect, she must answer to a "chaperone" in the form of her probation
officer until 1986 when her probationary period for killing her boyfriend en-
ds
Public officials with conflict of
interest can vote on boards
LANSING-Legislation allowing public officials to vote on contracts in
which they have a potential conflict of interest won the approval yesterday
of a House committee.
A former Midland County clerk, Rep. Michael Hayes (R-Midland), said he
introduced the measure in response to a request from that county's com-
mission.
Recently, Attorney General Frank Kelley booted several members off
Midland county's waste disposal site approval board because they had ties
with the Dow Chemical Co., whose wastes would be dumped at the potential
site.
Hayes said he doubted passage of his measure would result in local boards
whose members are "owned" by powerful corporations.
Youths riot in Polish city
WARSAW-Dozens of youths, some of them drunk, rioted in the southern
industrial city of Katowice yesterday, scuffling with police and tearing up
the main train station's waiting room, officials reported.
The incident occurred a month to the day after youths at the same station
attacked passers-by and taxis. Another incident was reported in Otwock, 20
miles south of Warsaw, on May 8, when some 500 youths battled with police
and set fire to a railroad depot.
(Continued from Page 3).
Washtenaw, and Wayne. All counties
registered a decline in new dwelling
permits except St. Clair, which noted a
15 percent rise in issued permits.
Livingston, Macomb, Monroe,
Oakland, and Wayne all registered a
loss of at least 50 percent, with Monroe
declining 68 percent. The City of Detroit
issued 147 more permits in 1980 than in
1979, an increase of 18.8 percent. Of the
928 permits issued for Detroit, multiple
-family permits account for 915 of them.
NET BUILDING PERMITS -
derived by subtracting the number of
demolition permits from the-number of
building permits - reveals further
evidence of building decline in the
region:
A net regional total of 4,697 permits
were recorded for 1980, compared to
15,847 for 1979, a decrease of 70 percent.
Detroit accounted for 75 percent of the
region demolitions.
Donaldson, of the city Building
Department said revenue to the depar-
tment has declined. Revenue normally
comes from permit fees, among other
sources, he said.
On the national level, housing starts
dropped to an annual rate of 1.15
million, the lowest since last May's
938,000 at the bottom of the 1980
recession.
T
Buildin ermits issued in
theC y of Ann Arbor
1980 1979w 1978
single family units............ 62 73 101
multiple family
#permits/# units............3/270 31/143 75/625
commercial ..................20 31 40
Statistics from the city Building Department