All the Other Big Ten Schools Have a Bookstore. WHY NOT MICHIGAN? Strikers, landlords brace for long s By STEVE KOPPMAN As the Ann Arbor rent strike enters its eighth month, both strikers and landlords are pre- paring for what promises to be a prolonged struggle. The strike which began last February and passed through a summer slowdown should pick up full f o r c e again soon as strikers begin withholding their October rent payments-as the Tenants Union has urged. Now, the ardous task of or- ganizing - talking to tenants, explaining the goals of the Ten- ants' Union, and convincing them to join the strike - must begin again. After three nights of organizers' workshops last week, the union now has over 100 organizers, its planned min- imum quota. Tenants Union leaders say the next few months w ill be crucial in determining the fu- ture course of the strike. They expect landlords to pressure strikers to quit the strike by of- fering rent reductions and oth- er improvements, which strike leaders maintain, would only be temporary, in the absence of a strong Tenants Union. What strikers are demanding, basically, is recognition of the Tenants Union as bargaining agent for all future leases sign- ed in this town. With this pow- er, union leaders hope the or- ganization could eventually in- fluence other tenant-consumer affairs - such as pressure the city and University to build low- cost housing. If substantial numbers of strikers continue withholding rents despite landlord pressure, strike leaders feel the landlords will suffer severe financial loss- es and consequently, recognize the union and enter into nego- tiations. "We don't know exactly what number of people we need to break the landlords," says Ten- ants Union spokesman Stuart Katz, "but they're not going to do anything until they have to. If they're hurting, they'll rec- ognize the union. If not, they won't. "Everyone should see the strike as a long battle." adds Katz. So far, strike leaders expect the strike will attract substan- tially more support than last year's core of 1200 strikers - now that it has gained nation- wide recognition in magazines and newspapers, sparked strike efforts in college towns through- out the country, a n d demon- strated in the local courts that strikers will not be evicted. "Things are running m u c h more smoothly than they did last year," s a y s Katz. "We're probably going to get more strikers than before. "But we're realists, a n d we just can't predict." he says. "A month from now we'll be able to make a significant assessment of the way things are going." The landlords show no signs of relaxing their opposition to the Union's goal of recognition. Some landlords have told steer- ing committee members in in- formal conversations that they might agree to recognize the union if it first returns all rent payments owed them. Strike leaders dismiss this as a ruse, and say that none of the escrow fund should be released until a satisfactory agreement / ruggle with the landlords is reached. Summit Associates has held informal discussions with steer- ing committee members on such matters as damage deposits, but the committee argues that no agreements can be reached un- til the company recognizes the union. Jay Gampbell, a Summit manager, explains that h i s company wants to rzach agree- ments on some matters before it recognizes the union and enters formal negotiations. In addi- tion, says Gampbell, some of the union's goals - like rent reductions -- are "not feasible." Other landlords have been less See TENANTS, Page 8 Gilbert & Sullivan Society's Special 50th A.A. Production "H.M.S. 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AIR-CONDITIONED DANIEL QUIRK AUDITORIUM BONUS PRODUCTION A PROPOSAL for direct popular election of the president survived a crucial House of Representatives test yesterday. Supporters of the proposed constitutional amendment defeated a substitute plan that would have awarded Electoral College votes on the basis of popular vote in congressional districts. The direct election proposal would abolish the Electoral College. The vote was 192-159, indicating a close vote when the amend- ment comes up for 'final approval today. A two-thirds majority is required for approval and only 145 negative votes would defeat the proposal. THE SENATE voted yesterday to bar use of American coni- bat troops in Laos and Thailand except where protection of U.S. personnel is involved. The 86-0 vote came on an amendment offered by Sen. John Sherman Cooper IR-Ky.) to a $20 billion military authorization bill.' The Senate also approved an amendment requiring a reduction in the numerical strength of the armed forces to match the number, of troops withdrawn from Vietnam. K JUDGE CLEMENT F. IIAYNSWORTH urged the Senate to reject his nomination to the Supreme Court if it concludest he acted improperly in a controversial case. Haynsworth referred to suggestions that he should not have ruled in a 1963 decision involving a textile combine which had con- tracts with a vending machine company partly owned by Haynsworth. Haynsworth said he received clearance to participate in the case from his fellow judges on the U.S. Circuit Court and from the late Robert F. Kennedy, then attorney general. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy claimed his brother had rejected only charges of bribery and had not ruled on the ethical question involved. SOUTHERN GOVERNORS yesterday approved a resolution favoring nondiscriminatory education but urging restraint in busing children. The unprecendented action came at the annual Southern Gov- ernors in Williamsburg, Va. The vote was 9-3, the bare three-fourths majority required by conference rules for passage. The compromise resolution was approved by the governors after a statement condemning busing was narrowly defeated. Tuesday night Vice President Agnew told the conference the Nixon administration opposed busing just to achieve integration.l RALPH T. SMITH was named by Illinois Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie yesterday to fill the U.S. Senate seat of the late Sen. t Everett M. Dirksen. The speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, Smith will serve at least until January, 1970, the remainder of Dirksen's term. Smith, a conservative Republican, will probably get his party's nomination to run for a full term in the 1970 election. THE WHITE HOUSE made public a task force report urg- ing a space program featuring shuttle rockets, a space station. and a manned Mars landing. Vice President Spiro Agnew recommended adoption of a plan tot send Americans to Mars about 1986.1 Laird announces draft plans WASHINGTON (R - Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird hinted yesterday that draft calls late this year will be sharply cut as a result of troop withdrawals from South Vietnam. "The Vietnamization program will have a very significant effect on programmed draft calls for the months immediately ahead," the defense chief told a news conference. Without saying so specifically, he thus implied that Ithe previously set October draft of 29,000 men may be scaled down and later quotas kept low. Laird said he expected to advise the Selective Service system of "changes in draft calls"" WORKERS STRIKE: MSU delays classes tomorrow. He also signaledl the start of a Nixon administration campaign to prod Congress into acting on proposed reforms in the draft such as instituting a lottery system and switching the order of induc- tions from older age groups to the 19-year category. He said he will testify on the "urgent need" for draft changes this week. Spokesmen said Laird was re- ferring to an appearance he will make before the House Appropri- ations Committee. Laird's comments on the draft came as he detailed the adminis- tration's second troop cutback of 35,000 men - technically 40,500 military spaces - in Vietnam. All four services will share in the withdrawal, with the Marines cutting 18.457 spaces with t h e pullback of the remainder of its 3rd Division. The Army loses 14.-' 263, the Navy 5.239, and the Air Force 2.541. Only one Marine division will be left in the provinces immediately below the demilitarized zone and Laird said the gap will be filled by South Vietnam's 1st Division. The latest reduction also will mean another 20,000-man drop in over-all U.S. military strength, dropping the American force' worldwide to about 3.39 million by next July. Combined reductions in' armed strength this year now to- tal 150.000. As for the over-all war situa- tion. Laird said the United States "has not made substantial pro- gress" in the Paris peace talks but1 has progressed in the Vietnamiza- tion program, the effort to make South Vietnam more capable of defending itself. Laird disclosed that the Joint Chiefs of Staff wanted to proceed, more cautiously than other top administration officials, but also! sought to discourage the idea that any major arguing was involved in last week's White House de- liberations involving the chiefs asI well as Gen. Creighton W. Ab- rams of the command in Vietnam.' "I can assure you it was not a|E contentious affair in any way," Laird said. Oim r- DIAL 8-6416 Tonight at 7 and 9 P.M. FOR ALL YOUNG LOVERS WHEREVER YOU ARE EAST LANSING 01 1- Michi- gan State University, has post- poned fall registration for its 40,- 000 students in the face of an on- going strike that has closed dormi- tories and dining halls. Some 1,400 maintenance work- ers, who have stayed off jobs in residence halls and research cent- ers for more than six days, yestkr- day rejected a contract that called for a one-year salary increase averaging 23 cents an hour. Negotiations between the uni- versity and the union began late in May and union members con- tinned to work without a con- tract. The motion picture to be seen again and again- AIM AN Ad WOMAN ACADEMY AWARDS WINNER. State labor mediators were call- ed into the dispute several times, but no efforts to seek an injunc- tion or binding arbitration w e r e planned immediately, the univer- sity said. Dr. Walter Adams, acting uni- versity president, said next Mon- day's scheduled registration was postponed because "we do not con- sider it responsible administration to open the university without a ratified contract." Adams said he took the step, af- ter conferring with top univer- sity officials, in order to protect the "health, safety and morale" of students. The Michigan Daily, edited and man- ag'd by students at the University of Michigan. News phone: 764-0552. Second ('lass postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich- igan. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. Published daily Tues- da' through Sunday morning Univer- sit' year. Subscription rates. SIO by carrier, $10 by mail. Summer Session published Tiesday through Saturday morning. Subscrip- tion rates: $3-00 by carrier, $300 by mail, Deny motion to inspect murder site By ROBERT KRAFTOWITZ County Circuit Court Judge John W. Conlin yesterday declined to issue an order allowing attom'- neys for accused murderer John Collins to inspect the alleged scene of the crime. Collins is charged with the pre- meditated murder of Eastern Michigan University coed Karen Beineman. Miss Beineman was the sixth coed murdered in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area since March. At a pre-trial hearing yesterday afternoon, Richard Ryan, cour't- appointed defense attorney, claim- ed he had not been allowed to in- spect the home of State Police Sgt. David Leik, Collins' uncle. The prosecution has attempted to prove the murder was commit- ted in Leik's basement. Conlin said he was legally bar- red from ordering the inspection of a private home without the consent of the owner. However, Ryan later indicated he still might secure permission from Leik to make an inspection. At yesterday's hearing. Conlin postponed until Oct. 1 considera- tion of a motion by the defense for suppression of certain evi- dence introduced by the prosecu- tion, including fingerprint com- parisons of the defendant which link him to the victim. Ryan contended the evidence was obtained illegally through the use of faulty search warrants. In response to a third motion by the defense-that they be fur- nished certain evidence obtained by the prosecution-the judge or- dered the two sides to attempt to agree privately on release of the evidence, which includes: -Statements the prosecution has obtained from any witnesses; -Scientific reports on samples of blood and hair taken from the scene of the alleged murder. The prosecution is not required by law to provide the defense with evidence it has obtained, and ob- servers felt it was unlikely they would. However, Conlin said he would make "a final ruling on any items the two sides cannot agree on." Ramsey Clark former Atty. General Ad , THOUSANDS PAPERBACKS Kicked Nixon... out by .speaks Thursday Hill Aud. in our newly remodled and expande paperback book department on the Mezzanine. More Titles 0 More Space More to Read than ever before! 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