'U' students
support
Iranian
protestors
By PAMELA KRAMER
Daily staff writer
Several Iranian students yesterday circulated
pamphlets and petitions on the Diag in support of the
60 Iranians arrested last week in New Jersey on
charges of illegal entry to the United States.
The students- said they have been collecting-
signatures petitioning the release of the imprisoned
Iranians since Monday, and they are sending copies
of the documents to Secretary General Kurt
Waldheim, the Department of Justice, and the Irp-
migration and Naturalization Service.
THEY ALSO ARE collecting donations to help
cover the expenses of the imprisoned-Iranians. Ac-
cording to one University student, the Iranians have
expenses ranging from legal fees to retrieval of cars
that were towed away after their arrest.
The student, who requested anonimity, said similar
supportive activities are going on-primarily in
college towns-across the country. He said they have
had moderate success, but that "not very many
Americans stop to ask questions. They start to read
our signs, and then they come to the word 'Iran' and
walk away."
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Before their arrest, the 60 Iranians were among 290
protestors staging a six-day hunger strike followed
by a march to the United Nations last week, in protest
of the "murderous" rule of Ayatollah Rhuollah
Khomeini in Iran. They are members of the Moslem
Student Society, a group supporting the People's
Mojahedin Organization of Iran in its opposition to
Khomeini's rule.
THE IRANIANS are now in Otisville Federal
Detention Center in New York, an inappropriate
placement according to their lawyer, James Rif.
University students who have been in contact with
friends of the imprisoned Iranians in New York
report thdt several have been hospitalized as a result
of the hunger strike.
The arrested students have refused to release their
names to immigration officials because they say they
fear the - consequences to their families in Iran if
Khomeini discovers their identity.
According to one University student, the names of
ten I anians involved in protests last week in
Washi gton were announced over the radio in Iran.
And, the student said, there have been rumors that
those Iranians have been "sentenced to death in ab-
sence."
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ED PIERCE IS gearing up for the 1982 race for the governor's office. He has criticized Gov. William Milliken's inaction
on various issues, and thinks a fresh face is desired by Michigan's voters. There are six other politicians running for the
office besides the physician from Ann Arbor.
PHYSICIAN SEEKS GOVERNOR'S SEAT:
Pc usp
Council to
begin work
on energy
plan
By JENNIFER MILLER
Daily staff writer
A comprehensive energy plan for Ann
Arbor, which includes the use of solar
energy and insulation of existing
buildings, will receive growing atten-
tion from City Council in coming mon-
ths.
Mayor Louis Belcher said Council
will vote this Monday to establish an
Energy Board that will continue to
work on the plan andmake recommen-
dations for implementing certain por-
tions.
THE PLAN encompasses programs
and recommendations for the use of
hydroelectric power, refuse-derived
fuel, recycling, and other energy-
saving measures.
Theinsulation of existing buildings,
or building retrofit, involves a proposal
that would require landlords to
weatherize rental property.
Engineering Prof. John Clark,
chairman of the steering committee
that developed the plan, said the
building retrofit portion of the plan
"was where we drew most of the input
from citizens-largely from students.
One of the issues the students were
raising was one of comfort." Another
issue was the heating costs for tenants
in poorly-insulated houses, Clark said.
HOWEVER, BELCHER said the
mandatory weatherization program
"won't get past City Council in the form
it's in-that's my honest opinion. Of all
the elements in the plan, that one's
going to have the toughestsledding."
The main drawback to mandatory
building retrofit is that "the cost would
be so enormous, and would probably be
passed on directly to tenants," Belcher
said. The Council would also like to see
how well voluntary retrofitting works,
he said.
The first items in the plan to be con-
sidered by the Board are the hydroelec-
tric dams, recycling, and refuse-
derived fuel,Belcher said. The Council
will work on the energy plan part by
part because of its large scope, he ex-
plained.
CITY COUNCIL will later decide
whether to place a bond issue on the
See COUNCIL, Page 4
By STEVE HOOK
Daily staff writer
Edward Pierce wants to be Michigan's next governor.
Although the election is more than a year away, the Ann
Arbor-based Democratic state senator has already begun
preparation. And to hear him speak, the campaign is hot and
getting hotter.
"The vast majority of'voters are looking for a new can-
didate," he said confidently from his Lansing office earlier
this week. Describing Governor William Milliken's role as
"lackadaisical," Pierce pulled no punches in'lambasting the
current leader: "He just doesn't do anything," Pierce com-
plained.
THE LIST OF declared candidates is getting longer every
day, with yesterday's addition of tough-talking conservative
L. Brooks Patterson extending it to seven. But for Pierce,
competition is nothing new.
He held a seat on the Ann Arbor City Council in 1967, losing
a bid in the city's mayoral election at the same time. In 1974,
Pierce fell short in the Democratic primary for a seat in the
U.S. Congress. Two years later, he was narrowly defeated
- -by 344 votes-by Carl Pursell for the Second District spot in
the state senate. In his 1978 bid for the same position,
however, he was victorious; he still holds that office.
While the times have changed and the issues have
metamorphosized, Pierce today says he retains the same
central objective: to return governmental trust to the voters.
IN 1976, WHEN post-Watergate electorate cynicism'
prevailed throughout the country, Pierce, a physician,
cited this as his foremost goal. "In my own daify life," he told
the Daily, "it's been very unusual for a patient to look at me
and say he doesn't trust me."
His stands won him the Daily's endorsement, both in 1976
and 1978. But the earlier endorsement included a brief reser-
vation, which has become Pierce's traditional shortcoming:
"We would hope that he would find a way to curb an oc-
casionally fiery temper," the endorsement read, noting
several heated exchanges in lqcal debates.
"I have a temper," he acknowledges five years later. "It's
under decent control, but I'm capable of anger. I am not a
perfect person."
AS A ONCE-PRACTICING physician, health care has
always been one of Pierce's pet issues. In 1968-between
political battles-he helped establish the Summit Medical
Center, a non-profit, low-cost medical facility serving
residents of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. He has endorsed
national health care, and his efforts in Lansing have concen-
trated on making good health affordable.
See PIERCE, Page4