Ninety-four years of editorial freedom Vol. XCIV, No. 10-S Tiga oily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, May 25, 1984 Fifteen Cents Sixteen Pages Council compromises on budget By ERIC MATTSON The Ann Arbor City Council last night unanimously passed the 1984-85 general fund budget, and for the first time in years, bipartisan cooperation facilitated significant amendments to the budget. The Democratic and Republican caucuses have been negotiating to reach an agreement over what changes to make in the city administrator's proposed budget. THE REPUBLICANS hold a six to five majority on the Council, but seven votes are needed to make amendments to the proposed budget. If no agreement had been reached, city administrator Godfrey Collins' budget would have been adopted by default. The compromise budget included a half mill rollback in property taxes, which is balanced by an increase in sewage taxes and a water rate in- crease. Councilwoman Doris Preston (D- Fifth Ward) said she, Jeff Epton (D- Third Ward), and Kathy Edgren (D- Fifth Ward) negotiated with Gerald Jernigan (R-Fourth Ward) and James Blow (R-Second Ward) this week to reach the compromise. THE REVISED budget includes two concessions for the Republicans: $25,000 for the Summer Arts Festival and $93,000 for the purchase of snow and leaf pickup equipment. The Democrats, in turn, received funding for a Community Development Corporation, the purpose of which is "to create good jobs for people who need them . . . and goods and services the community needs;" $40,000 for public housing; $52,000 for child care scholar- ships; $37,500 for Recycle Ann Arbor; and $920 for a typewriter. (The Republicans received money for a typewriter last year and the Democrats wanted equal treatment.) PART OF the funding for the new ex- penditure will come from surpluses from other areas such as the city air- See COUNCIL, Page 2 Preston ... encouraged by agreement Jernigan . .. advocated Republican interests " Salvadoran jury convicts guardsmen From AP and UPI Presiding Judge Bernardo SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Af- Murcia has 20 days to hand dow ter a 20-hour trial, a jury convicted five tence, which can be a maximu former national guardsmen yesterday years for aggravated homici of killing four American churchwomen men, who were also convicted whose deaths in 1980 became a rallying ning the missionaries' van and point for opposition to U.S. aid to El a tire, can appeal only the s Salvador. The murders became symbolic of the The Salvadoran governmer country's widespread human rights the identities of the murderer abuses and the U.S. Congress has four American churchwomen withheld its decision on $19 million in days but army officers staged military aid for the government until up that may have involved the after the trial, highest ranking military of: A JURY OF three men and two declassified report showed yest women deliberated just 50 minutes The guardsmen's indictment before issuing the verdict, ending the on Nov. 15, 1982, and only afti trial and dealing with a key source of separate investigations by U U.S. congressional concern on human Salvadoran officials. rights abuses in El Salvador. Congress last fallfroze $19.4 "It was a unanimous decision. We in military aid until a verd were all in agreement on this," said reached in the killings of Ursuli jury secretary Alicia de Buendia after Dorothy Kazel, of Cleveland, O the verdict was announced at dawn. saline Lay worker Jean Don The trial had been delayed three years Stamford, Conn., and Marykni through Jegal maneuverings and ap Clarke of Bell Harbor, N.Y. peals. C f r coe 1LV k"iJSJXT iNe.te Rauda in a sen- um of 30 de. The d of bur- stealing entence. nt knew s of the within a cover- nation's ficer, a erday. ts came er eight .S. and million ict was ne sister hio, Ur- ovan of oll nuns Maura m e morial Associated Press A military honor guard carries the casket bearing the Unknown Soldier of Vietnam yesterday at Alameda Naval Station in California after its arrival from Hawaii. The Unknown will be buried on Memorial Day beside the other Unknown Soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington.- Wednesday's solar eelipse may harm naked eye By LISA POWERS "The partial solar eclipse May 30 will blind people," said Jim Loudon, staff astronomer at the University's Exhibit Museum. "It is much more dangerous than the uneclipsed sun." The solar eclipse next week will be an "annular eclipse". It is different from a total eclipse because a ring of sunlight - an annulus - remains visible as the moon only partly covers the sun, said Loudon. THE NORMAL brightness of daylight will be dimmed during the event and the pupil of the eye will dilate more. This allows hazardous rays to enter the eye if one looks directly at the eclipse, said Loudon. These rays can destroy the tissues in the retina of the eye im- mediately and painlessly. "Rare though it is, it's not worth sacrificing your eyesight for," said Loudon. The eclipse will begin at 11:13 in the morning when the moon will overlap the edge of the sun's rays. The eclipse will last until 2:07 p.m. with the maximum coverage of the sun oc- See WEDNESDAY, Page 7 see SALVADORAN, Page 11 The Daily will not publish during this Memorial Day weekend but will return next Friday. Inside: " The new Indiana Jones movie is worth waiting in line for. See Ar- ts, Page 8. * The Wolverines are in Mt. Pleasant this weekend for the NCAA regional baseball playoffs. See Sports, Page 16. Outside: Partly sunny and windy today with afternoon showers and a high in the 80s.