…The Michigan Daily Vol. XC, No. 20-S Ann Arbor, Michigan--Thursday, June 5, 1980 Ten Cents Sixteen Pages Condenmied killer Potts ~ our stay ATLANTA (AP) - Convicted killer Jack Howard Potts, who was to have been executed- in Georgia's electric chair today, won a reprieve last night when a federal judge issued a stay blocking the execution. Potts had fired his attorneys and dropped all appeal efforts last fall, but he changed his mind las...…
…Page 2-Thsday June 5, 190-i Michigan Doily Flint representative introduces legislation to outlaw hiring cult deprogrammers 4 LANSING (UPI) - A Flint lawmaker yesterday introduced legislation to outlaw payments to so-called "thugs" hired by parents to "deprogram" their children of cult influences. Democratic Rep. Thomas Scott said the measure is the first of its kind in the nation. THE MEASURE makes ita felony to hire a deprogrammer or receiv...…
…The Michigan Daily-Thursday, June 5 1980-Page 3 . Local Scene i8mi RENOVATION PLAN DUE WITHIN THE MONTH Union plan further defined By BONNIE JURAN An informal committee currently "hammering out" concrete suggestions on proposed renovations to the Michigan Union will most likely issue its final report within the month, according to Interim Union Director Suzanne Young. The group's recommendations will be reviewed by the University's executive ...…
…Page 4-Thursday, June 5, 1980-The Michigan Daily NASA endangered by' budget cutting fervor D1gs deserves no extra favors F ORMER CONGRESSMAN Charles Diggs (D Detroit) resigned from his 25-year congressional career Tuesday after the Supreme Court refused to consider his appeal to have his 1978 payroll-padding conviction overturned. It is especially unfortunate that blacks will lose their senior U.S. representative, but now the seat is open fo...…
…The Michigan Doaily-Thursday, June 5, 1980-Page 5 CARTER DECLARES COUNTY FEDERAL DISASTER AREA Nebraska twisters kill 4 From AP and UPI GRAND ISLAND, Neb. - A temporary morgue was set up at a shopping center yesterday as rescue workers searched for more bodies in the wreckage of more than 600 homes and businesses destroyed by tornadoes in Nebraska's third largest city. The confirmed death toll in the Tuesday night storm that leveled much of t...…
…Page 6-Thursday, June 5, 1980-The Michigan Daily : r.{;y;:; 4>}} f"A rts.} ; :: ":x:r r %i:- 4 VAN HALEN About' bassistG was bre megabuc rock ban a fledgli few year Hard rock that won't go By TIMOTHY YAGLE Van Halen II did not exactly pour audiences' brains out both on vinyl and the only productive thing Kiss more gasoline on the already red-hot in concert. Such a feat is not that dif- Gene Simmons has ever done Van Halen fire, "'Somebody ...…
…SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY (left), along with his wife Joan, speaks to a group necessary for a first-ballot victory. Carter, after learning of his primr of campaign workers Tuesday night at his headquarters in Washington. Kennedy tories, makes a fist in a victory salute as he leaves a Tuesday night r: told his supporters he will remain in the race for the Democratic presidential by his campaign workers in Washington. nomination although President Jim...…
…Page 8-Thursday, June 5, 1980--The Michigan Daily S - House, Senate ignore threat of veto, kill Carter gas tax plan 0 WASHINGTON (AP)-By over- whelming margins, both the House and the Senate ignored a veto promise yesterday and voted to kill President Carter's dime-a-gallon gasoline fee. Both chambers disapproved the fee by well over the two-thirds vote that would be needed to override the threatened veto. HOWEVER, DIFFERENCES bet- ween H...…
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…Page 10-Thursday, June 5, 1980-The Michigan Daily Afghanistan government launches draft drive to replenish army ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The met in Tehran yesterday, and they hope ted centers," it said. A former Afghan official now living in Soviet-backed government in to meet in the coming days with Soviet "IF ANY person does not comply exile said he had been told of Kabul Afghanistan has launched a conscrip- and Afghan officials in Moscow ...…
…The Michigan Daily-Thursday, June 5, 1980-Page 11 Californians reject another Jarvis tax slashing proposition in 61-39% landslide SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Califor- nia's defeat of Howard Jarvis' income tax-slashing scheme looked more like truce than surrender yesterday in the tax revolt that began two years ago with Proposition 13. State and local government officials and educators breathed a little easier when Proposition 9 was buried by voters...…
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…The Michigan Daily-Thurday, June 5, 1980-Page 13 Pilot flies plane into girlfriend's house in possible murder-suicide NEPTUNE TOWNSHIP, N.J. AP)- A pilot possibly distraught over a broken romance buzzed a suburban neighborhood early yesterday and then sent his twin-engine airplace crashing into the house where his girlfriend was staying, authorities said. William Fischer, 31, a former flight attendant for Eastern Airlines, was killed on impac...…
…Page 14--Thursday, June 5, 1980-The Michigan Daily Clark agrees to look into U.S. crimes in Iran 4 From UPI andAP TEHRAN, Iran - Former U.S. At- torney Genetal Ramsey Clark said yesterday he has agreed to President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr's request to form a commission to investigate and expose American involvement in Iran during the deposed shah's regime. . Clark, heading a 10-member U.S. delegati6n to Iran's anti-American con- ference, met Ba...…
…The Michigan Daily-Thursday, June 5, 1980-Page 15 SPOR TS OF T HE DAILY 'M' sends 7 tracksters to NCAA's BY JON MORELAND Coach Jack Harvey and seven mem- bers of the Michigan men's track team begin competition today in the NCAA outdoor track -championships held on the campus of the University of Texas through Saturday. The Big Ten champion Michigan trackers are represented by long jum- pers James Ross and James Henry, high jumper Mike Lattany...…
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