0 Page 4 - The Michigan Daily- Tuesday, July 10, 1984 Groups call for change in registration system IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports FLINT (UPI) - Eleven groups engaged in voter registration activites yesterday asked the federal court to or- der an overhaul of the present system, charging it creates unconstitutional barriers against the right to vote. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Flint by attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union and National Lawyers Guild. "MICHIGAN permits each of the ap- proximately 1,500 local election of- ficials to create their own voter registration programs," Beverly McAninch, president of the League of Women Voters of Michigan said in a Detroit news conference. "While the rules on voting are uniform, the rules on registration are not," she said. "In Michigan, it is easier to vote than it is to register to vote." The attorneys asked the court to declare unconstitutional the delegation of discretionary authority by the state to local election clerks. It also asks an injunction barring the state from allowing local election officials to apply "arbitrary, capricious and localized criteria" in devising deputy registrar programs. The organizations charged the state can not constitutionally allow localities to refuse to deputize any voter as a registrar, to impose arbitrary numerical limits on the number of deputies appointed, or to refuse to deputize particular individuals or members of particular policies of local clerks by which the number of voters who may be registered by deputy registrars is limited. Besides the League of Women Voters, organizations represented in the suit are the Arab-American Voter Registration Project; Gray Panthers; Metro-North; Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit-Voter Registration Project; Michigan Center for a barrier-Free Environment Inc.; Michigan Citizens Lobby; Michigan Human SERVE (Service Employees Registration, Voting and Education) Campaign; Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service for Developmentally Disabled Citizens, Inc., Lapeer-Flint Area Branch Office; NAACP of Flint; and Public Interest Research Group in Michigan Inc. OPEC urged to cut production VIENNA, Austria - An OPEC ad- visory group urged yesterday that the 13-nation cartel fight off a predicted oil price drop by reining in production. The oil ministers agreed 16 mon- ths ago to hold their production to 17.5 million barrels a day to stave off a price collapse. At the same time, they staged a tactical retreat, decreeing the first price cut the organization's 4-year history, from $34 to $29 a barrel. The current meeting takes place during a worldwide oil glut and the continuing war between OPEC members Iran and Iraq - two fac- tors straining the cartel's unity. State ballot to include tax cut option LANSING - The Voter's Choice tax cut group filed for a spot on the fall ballot yesterday, becoming the only organization to do so this year. Unless the Legislature approves some proposals of its own, Michigan will have only one statewide ballot issue for the first time since 1966. The proposed constitutional amendment, if . adopted this fall, would roll back all state and local taxes to their 1981 level. Voter approval would be required for any new increases. Raising fees would require a four-fifths vote of the Legislature. Fugitive lawyer surrenders SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyer Stephen Bingham, who went un- derground 13 years age after San Quentin prison's bloodiest breakout attempt, surfaced yesterday to face murder charges and denied he had smuggled a gun to prison revolutionary George Jackson.r I can only say that I nevef smuggled a gun nor anything else in- to San Quentin and I intend to testify under oath to that effect," he told reporters before heading north to Marn County, where San Quentin is located and where he intended to surrender late yesterday. Jackson, two other inmates and three guards died in a storm of gun- fire during an escape attempt in August 1971. Bingham faces five counts of murder and one count of conspiracy for his alleged part in the attempt. Greece accuses U.S. of interference ATHENS, Greece - The Socialist government claimed yesterday that the United States was trying to inter- fere in Greece's internal affairs, hin- ting operations might have to be cur- tailed at American military bases here. The statement was one of the strongest attacks on the United States by Premier Andreas Papan- dreou's 33-month-old government. In the statement, Maroudas said the United States was granting too much military aid to Turkey, "thus boosting the threat against Greece and Cyprus." The statement was issued a day after the U.S. Embassy confirmed plans had been dropped for Greece to buy some two dozen American- made F-5 jet fighters from Norway. Recall attempt starts against Kelley LANSING - A worker at Con- sumers Power Co.'s Midland nuclear plant yesterday officially won the right to circulate recall petitions against Attorney General Frank Kelley - a frequent critic of the project. The campaign againsf Kelley, who has won seven consecutive terms in office, needs 760,000 signatures within 90 days to force an ouster election. There has never been a successful recall of a statewide elected official. In other developments related to the project, a General Motors Corp. official said thencompany has not decided its response to Consumers' latest proposal to save the plant. And, Gov. James Blanchard said he believes the future of the project will be decided this week. 18 executed in China PEKING - Eighteen people have been executed in the Chinese capital for crimes ranging from rape to murder, according to posters plastered outside Peking's municipal court yesterday. The death posters have been a common sight in China's cities since the Communist government began a major crackdown last August, aimed at smashing what it called a wave of violent crime. 0 0 0 0 0 Prostitutes set guidelines at San Fran. convention SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Next week political arena, she said, "befo it's the Democrats. This week a group prostitutes can work safely in this cou of prostitutes is holding a secret try." "Hookers Convention" to hammer out a For more than 15 years, St. Jam "code of ethics and bill of rights" and has sparked her movement on t call for legitimizing the oldest ground that the prostitute deserves profession. . higher status in society because "s "It's secret because of security," performs a service" that society war said Margo St. James, founder of and needs. COYOTE - Call Off Your Old Tired She said results of the four-day co Ethics - and leader of the "National vention that opened yesterday will1 Task Force on Prostitution." announced at a Friday news conferen "We don't want to be bothered by at a combination theater and pas cops," she said, adding, "a lot of restaurant. women aren't 'out' and want to remain The gathering comes just a we anonymous." before the Democratic Party holdsi "We'll be developing a code of ethics, presidential nominating convention a bill of rights, presenting position San Francisco. But St. James said h papers on juvenile prostitution, por- group will not endorse anybody f nography, violence against women and president or put up a candidate ofi organizing a national network for a own, even though "we want a wom more strenuous campaign for these president." issues," St. James said. St. James, who said she was Changes must come about in the prositute for a brief period some tin re un- es he a he nts on- be ce sta ek its in her or its an a me ago, said she expected as many as 100 hookers and probably some plain- clothes policewomen to come to her convention. "For that reason, I'm going to start the convention by making a disclaimer," she said. "We are a criminal class, so I'm going to say our meeting is only for political purposes. We don't know everybody that's going to register. There could be some women cops in the audience." She said the convention includes hookers from San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., New York, Oakland, Seattle, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Calgary, Canada. She said there would by only one man present, a video cameraman who will record the proceedings. She said there will also be some female reporters of "the advocate press." 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