Tuesday, October 1, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wage Three Tuesday, October 1, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Poge Three APPROVAL OF REGIME: New. Greek constitution Senate on de to vote halt ate gets near unanimous vote ATHENS ,VP)- - The regime of strongman Premier George Pa- padopoulos rolled up a spectacu- lar 92.2 per cent majority for its new constitution yesterday, amaz- ing Greeks and foreign diplomatsa alike. Approval of the document, cutt-; ing King Constantine's power and establishing a strong executive, had been widely predicted. But even Papadoplos' ministers had not forecast such a lopsided outcome, especially since the new charter suspends most of the vot- ers' basic rights until the govern- ment chooses tprestore them. The vote ap roached a unani- mity comparable to one-ticket elections in Communist lands., Skeptical remarks were heard about the way the voting was run at some polling places. But in general diplomats and responsible Greeks raised no doubts about the fairness of the referendum. The campaign had been one- sided. Government officials, the press and radio joined in a mas- sive effort to persuade Greeks to vote for the constitution. If there was any campaigning at all in op- position it was clandestine. Observers of Greece's often con- fusing politics put forth a variety of reasons for the size of the af- firmative vote. The common de- nominator was that rejection would have served no positive purpose. However, the landslide may be interpreted by the government as a directive to proceed with Ats an- nounced aims without losing riuch time in thought about retumning to a parliamentary system. IFC COMMENTARY 'G8 Debate: DR. TIMOTHY LEARY VS. DR. SIDNEY COHEN Tickets: $1.50 Available in Lobby of S.A. B. H ILL AUDITORI UM-Oct. 6-8:00 P.M. Monday thru Friday 9-4. or at Hill Box Office after 5 on Oct. 6 Papadopulos hailed the result as a vote of confidence in his re- gime and as a mandate to pursue its policies. Papadopoulos and his associates who engineered the April 21, 1967 coup d'etat that brought them to power 17 months ago already are reported to be setting up key.units in the country around which they could build their own political par- ty. When sure enough of themselves they may also permit opposition groups to do the same. But they would almost certainly be safe, conservative groups not likely to rock the regime's position or in- fluence its goals. Meanwhile, the regime can boast of winning the biggest majority of any vote ever held in Greece. Final returns from all of the 8,- 108 polling stations in the coun-' try approved the referendum byj a total of 4,633,602 votes, 92.2 per cent to 390,470 votes against 7.3 percent. Andreas Papandreou, a leader of the opposition in exile, express- ed admiration in Stockholm for Greeks who abstained and he also criticized American support of the Athens administration. "We shall never know, of course, the true number of abstentions and of 'no' votes cast, nor the n u m b e r of invalid; ballots," he said. Papandreou is chairman of the Swedish branch of the Panhellen- ic Liberation Movement, which he said will dedicate all its efforts to resistance until Greece is Free andl democratic.- -Associated Press Nixon meets Romney in Detroit REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Richard M. Nixon conferred yesterday with Michigan Governor George Romney upon his arrival in Detroit. WILSON CABINET REBUKED: Labor convention calls for end olsi w of aws t lmitwae hke to save the nomination of Fortas by ending a filibuster by Repub- lican and southern Democratic senators. Meanwhile, opponents of For- tas, confident they have the nom- ination blocked, have turned their fire on the current chief justice, Earl Warren. Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va), for one, said that "in the way he con- ditioned his retirement" Warren has "acted in a manner unbecom- ing the great office of chief jus- ice." Sen. Gordon Allott (R-Colo), criticized what he called the "cal- culated phraseology" in which Warren submitted his retirement at President Johnson's pleasure, and in which Johnson accepted it upon the confircnation of a suc- cessor. Democratic leader Mike Mans- field of Montana expressed hope for a full attendance when a roll Ball is due to be taken at 1 p.m. on a petition to invoke the Senate's debate-limiting cloture rule. Mansfield has indicated that the question of dropping the fight will turn on the number or votes he is able to round up in favor of cloture. A' two-thirds majority of the senators voting is required to invoke the rule. An Associated Press survey indicated last week that opponents of cloture bav more than enough votes to defeat it. One big unknown quantity on the eve of the test was how many absentees there will be. Already on the sure to-be-absent list are Sens. Allen J. Ellender (D-La), an opponent of any move to limit debate; George A. Smathers (D- Fla), a Fortas supporter, and Mar- garet Chase Smith (R-Maine) whose views are not known. El- lender and Smathers are out of town and Mrs. Smith is in the hospital, Some critics argue that Supreme Court appointments should be left to the new president taking office Jan. 20. Sen. J. W. Fulbright (D-Ark), told newsmen that Johnson had accepted Warren's retirement on a contigency basis-"contingent on ing obscenity convictions involv- ing what he called "slimy" movies and other materials. He said the decisions "swept away virtually all the old stanadrds of the U.S. courts as to decency." For 'ces at' Mexilco U to Pullout MEXICO CITY (.P) - Troops who since Sept. 18 have occupied the University of Mexico's auto- nomous campus began to pull out yesterday. The force, estimated at about 1,300, began to climb into a row of troop trucks parked on the cam- pus near the university stadium, where the Olympic Games will op- en Oct. 12. Before that, 500 women staged a "march of mothers" along Pas- eo de la Reforma Boulevard in the downtown commercial area, pro- testingsgovemiment treatment of students. Their march, from the Monu- ment to Mexican Motherhood at Avenida Insurgents to the Cham- ber of Deputies in the heart of the older part of the city, was the first organized demonstration to take place in three days -- days of relative calm in the wake of stu- dent disturbances as the city pre pares for the 1968 Olympic Games. In the latest outbreak of vio- lence, after the army occupied the University of Mexico Sept. 18, at least 15 persons by unofficial count died between Sept. 20 and Sept. 24. Student demands from the re- gime of President Gustavo Diaz Osdaz include firing of top police officials, disbanding of the riot police, reaffimation of student autonqmy, financial' aid for per- sons injured in the rioting, release of student prisoners taken during the rioting and repeal of antisub- version laws. WASHINGTON (A)--Supporters the Senate doing the will of the of the nomination of Abe Fortas President.". as chief justice of the Supreme Sens. John Stennes (D-Miss), Court held little hope that they and William B. Spong Jr., (D- will be able to muster anywhere Va), also protested the circum- near the votes needed to win a stances of Warren's retirement of- cloture vote in the Senate today. fer, saying it would set a bad Democratic leader Mike Mans- precedent. field of Montana has indicated In a renewed attack on Fortas's that today's vote may be the last court record, Stennis said Fortas chance of administration backers had joined in 22 decisions revers- . .. - . -- iug urnsnnaut44,, uvwun-ri;-c i4-.-- ___ fif _____.____ __ . ______ _._® . _ _ _ j WEDNESDAY, 7:30 P.M., Multipurpose Room, UGLI I i ! (E Lecture, Slides D iscussion about CHINA TODAY: Red Guard Movement and Cultural Revolution tSurvival of Religion in China : i l t i 7' j C + 1 BLACKPOOL, England (A') - The British Labor party rebuked Prime Minister Harold Wilson at its annual convention yesterday by voting almost 5 to 1 to reject his government's attempt to curb wages in a drive toward national solvency. With each delegate casting bal- lots for all members of his organ- ization, the vote was 5,098,000 to 1,124,000 for repeal of legislation limiting wage increases. It came despite strong appeals by two cabinet ministers - Chan- cellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenk- ins and Mrs. Barbara Castle, who is in charge of labor relations - for support of the government. The vote is not binding on Wil- son, who has'stated after similar adverse votes in the past that the government represents all the people of Britain and "the gov- ernment must govern." But it is an indication of the the party convention came on a resolution presented by the Trans-' port and General Workers, Brit- ain's biggest union. It was to a, large extent brought about by a passionate speech from Michael Foot, leader of the party's left- ist faction. Foot charged the government had turned its back on Socialist principles in favor of "orthodox conservative policies of deflation." "We are not prepared to toler- ate the scourge of unemployment at its present level," he said, add- ing that there were some in the government, without mentioning names, who actually favored a policy of high unemployment. Jenkins told the delegates the government's austerity policy was the only way to open up new hor- izons in social policy. He defended the administra- tion's record in social welfare, but said it had been paid for by loans from other countries. This ar- rangement, he said, ,annot con- tinue. "Help us to get out of debt," he pleaded.' I Goldberg to mediate in NYC labor dispute Art and Literature in China China as Model for Third World 'TT'W t ' 7 .K ,(. LP) . ', M w John NEALE and DEIRDRE HUNTER are a young Australian couple who taught in Communist China from 1965-1967 and lived the Cultural Revolution through their students who became Red Guards. From July 1966 when all classes had stopped with the 'students saying that they were "busy" until April 1967 when the Huriters left China they kept up with developments in Shangai, reading the wall posters, attending Red Guard meetings and talking with their students. Well educated in Sino affairs, fluent in the language and so able to move about alone, they traveled to Shansi and Kiangsi provinces and to Huhehot, the capital of Inner Mongolia talking to the people and learning much about China today from them. Neale did three years of graduate work in Chinese and Japanese at Can- berra deferring further doctoral work for a time to travel. Deirdre has done grad- uate work in Indian and Chinese Political Science. Co-author of China Observed with Colin MacKerras (Praeger, '68) Neale is finishing a study for the Center for Chinese Studies at Berkeley The Tiger's Back (U of Cal Press and Praeger, '68). beirdre's Chinese Youth and Education will be published early in '69. Office of Religious Affairs, 2282 SAB, 764-7442 t i M F j{ 17 4 1 I ,i !i deep division within his own party V.Li , tywide eA4U1 and the trade union movemen t V. Lindsay, a citywide teachers over economic policy.behindhim,strovenese The Trade Union Congress, a day to resolve a new municipal powerful influence in the party, crisis - a contract wage deadlock objected to wage controls by 7 to with 50,000 uniformed policemen, 4 at its annual convention at this firemen and sanitation workers. resort city on the Irish Sea ear- The Republican mayor called in lier this month. Arthur J. Goldberg, a Democrat, Most British labor unions are former U.S. labor secretary, Su- affiliated with the Labor party. preme Court justice and U.S'. am- The government's defeat within bassador to the United Nations. - ---- II iii.. I, ,I , _-___ i I* - I ill ,..::;. "WONDERFUL AND BEAUTIFUL!', -NEWSWEEK Albert FInney Charlie Bubbles A M,.,aA (,pV" Nod ,M. A EA ,, R,4dmPeea. Te . k "WHAT'S 'ISNAME" 7:00 ONLY "CHARLIE BUBBLES"-9:00 ONLY swift...funny...Violent...candidly sexy!"N .TMES ORSON WELLES Mcl a ___I_______________ OLIVER REED g CAROL WHITE Film of HARRY ANDREWS- A Scimitar Films Production - A Regional film Release - TECHNICOLOR* ORIGI NAL "FRANKENSTEIN" AND "DRACULA"-FRIDAY A veteran in labor-management? negotiations, Goldberg agreed to serve-as chairman of a mediation panel. Goldberg's intervention in the three-part dispute was condition- ed, however, on an agreement to extend the present contracts of the Policemen's Benevolent Asso- ciation, the Uniformed Firefight- ers Association and the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association. There were indications the un- ions might go along and extend contracts that expire within nine hours of each other beginning at midnight. This would give the me- diators tine to tackle the key issue of wages. The PBA's contract hovering 22,000 policemen had a midnight expiration date, and the union had threatened a "knockout punch" against the city, without spelling out details. The 10,500-member UFA had announced it would continue to. fight fires with the expiration of its contract at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday, but would abandon clerical and all other nonemergency duties. The 10,000 garbagemen were on, record as prepared for a strike at midnight, a duplication of 1 a s t February's nine-day walkout. That strike led to 15 days in jail for USA president, John J. DeLury, and an $80,000 fine against the union, for violation of a state law banning strikes by public employ- es. Wallace arrives in Chicago Sto sat Midwest campaign CHICAGO W)-George C. Wal- lace launched his drive to cap- ture votes in the Midwest and the industrial North yesterday and was greeted with cheers and jeers in a motorcade through downtown Chicago. Wallace rode down eight blocks of State Street during the noon hour a n d an estimated 50,000 turned out to see the former Ala- bama governor seeking the presi- dency under the banner of the American Independent party. Wallace was scheduled to speak later Monday in Cicero, a western suburb of predominantly white residents. He planned to , emain overnight in the Chicago area be- fore enplaning Tuesday for a four- city, one-day trip through Michi- gan. The route taken by the Wallace motor caravan was similar to the one taten by Richard M. Nixon when he opened his Republican presidential campaign in Chicago earlier this month. Some 400,0001 persons lined the sidewalks to ap- plaud Nixon. A group of 300-400 Wallace supporters, including a drum and bugle corps, formed behind the Wallace car and the march began with rousing shouts of "We Want Wallace!" The jeers came -almost immed- iately. A group of Negro youths carrying signs which read, "Wal- lace is a Bigot," fell in with the supporters and marched alongside the open limousine. One of the Wallace supporters was the Rev. William Lewis, a. Negro minister who said, "I want to shake his (Wallace's) hand -nd tell him to keep up the good work." He did. Wallace's victory strategy calls for him to score a victory in one of the key Midwest states. In ad- dition to -Illinois and Michigan, Wallace will visit Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, -New York, New Jersey and Maryland in his sev- en-day swing through the north. ® i I PREMIERE TUESDAY! I Wednesday thru Saturday OCTOBER 2-5 t: A Contemporary Approach to Shakespeare's I P OCTOBER 1-13 Rabb "As Now as a Nehru Jacket!" Directed by Ellis Music by Conrad dSusa M.-IT,.. Ii T ., ssrsnT. sc. 7'ssftefo