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U.S. INTELLIGENCE speculated that the Viet Cong might
be planning a winter-spring offensive.
Choosing the first or second week in November as the probable
starting date for such an action, the officers cited the increase in
arms and ammunition found by U.S. patrols and captured documents
as the bases for their judgment.
In addition, the officers were concerned that there were many
more Viet Cong sighted and encountered in the vicinity of Saigon
than had been the case during the last several months
During the last three years, casualty statistics have also Indi-
cated that November has been one of the bloodiest months of the
war, while October has been one of the quietest.
SEN. GEORGE McGOVERN recommended an overhaul of
government regulations concerning food additives.
McGovern, chairman of the Senate Committee on Nutrition,
called for an immediate and systematic review of clinical testing of
all chemicals, noting that more than 680 everyday food additives are
now on sale which have never been subjected to animal tests for
safety.
Until last week, the artificial sweetner cyclamate was also in-
cluded on the government's list of additives exempt from testing. It
has since been banned.
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SEN. STEPHEN YOUNG, an Ohio Democrat, said he would
not seek re-election. .
A leading Senate dove, the 80-year-old senator cited his age as
the reason for his retirement. Given virtually no chance to win either
election or re-election in earlier years, Young has served in the Senate
since 1958.
In 1964, Young, the oldest man in the Senate, was opposed
by former astronaut John Glenn who was expected to win before
he suffered a fall in his bathtub and withdrew. Glenn is rated as the
top contender to replace Young next year.
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THOMAS JAMES WHITE HAWK, a South Dakotan convicted
of murder, had his sentence commuted from death to life im- BEIRUT, Lebanon (Y-Demon-
prisonment. strations in defiance of a govern-
The case of White Hawk, a 21-year-old orphan who had admitted ;ment curfew erupted into open
the slaying of a South Dakota jeweler two years ago, had drawn street warfare in the northern
national attention because the former prep school athletic star was Lebanese' port of Tripoli yester-
scheduled to be the first man to die in the electric chair in the U.S. I day. At least seven persons were
reported killed in the fighting.
in 22 years. Troops fought running battles
The decision to commute the sentence was made by the governor with armed civilians and Arab
because, he said he felt that life imprisonment was just as severe guerrillas. The boom of heavy
a penalty as death. weapons echoed off building walls
and Lebanese Mirage jet fighters
swept low over the city.
Meanwhile, the government of
South Yemen broke off diplo-
matic relations with the United
States, and ordered all U.S. em-
bassy officials out of the country
within 24 hours.
In making the announcement,
Salem Ali Rabyee, chairman of
the Yemen presidential council,
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University Young Democrats
(YD) are currently mobilizing
students to work for Wayne
County Auditor Richard Aus-
tin's campaign to become the
first black mayor of Detroit.
Club leaders believe their ef-
forts at this time are of the ut-
most importance to the cam-
paign,
"It's a close election where
our efforts could be decisive,"
explained Howard Heideman,
YD vice-president.
Mainly, t h e group plans to
canvass Detroit homes for the
next two week-ends, the last be-
fore the Nov. 4 election. Mem-
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bers believe they can best in-
fluence the outcome of the elec-
tion by talking with individual
voters.
"Simply going up to the door
and talking to people personaby
can affect their voting," s a y s
Heideman.
"Canvassing really does make
a difference because people are
flattered by the attention. Many
people are misinformed and just
talking to them helps, but we
also want to remind people to
get out and vote," says Jerry De
Grieck, another YD officer.
"Canvassing is the most ef-
fective political work, and col-
lege students, being the most
willing and knowledgeable, are
the best ones to do it," De
Grieck adds.
YD became involved in the
campaign last summer when
the state federation of Young
Democrats endorsed Austin.
Austin's chief opponent in the
election is Wayne County Sher-
iff Roman Gribbs, another Dem-
ocrat.
The local group became in-
volved chiefly because its lead-
ers felt students in Ann Arbor
had a special interest in the
election since so many of them
are from Detroit and its sur-
rounding area,
"We felt we should set up a
program to work in these last
critical weeks, especially because
so many of the students here
are from the area and will be
directly effected by the election,"
says De Grieck. x
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But Yp leaders are also con-
cerned that race has been a
major factor in the campaign.
"The only reason many people
are voting for Gribbs is because
he is white," Heideman claims.
As a result, the campaign or-
ganizers plan to have as many
as 500 students canvassing in
predominately white areas dur-
ing the next two weekends.
Furthermore, the leaders be-
lieve the election of a liberal
black mayor is of national im-
portance.
"The whole idea of reversing
the trend toward repression anci
law and order would reaffirm
that Detroit can be a progressrie
city, if we elect Austin," Haide-
man said.
ebanon
blamed the U.S. imperialism for'
recent clashes between guerrillas'
and government troops in Leban-
on.
The announcement of the dip-
lomatic break was made at a
massive rally staged in support of
Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon:
In Tripoli, a city of 150,000
people and a hotbed of Arab na-
tionalism, snipers turned their
guns on Lebanese troops in the
Chateau St. Gilles, a massive
castle overlooking the area. Leba-
nese security forces moved cau-
tiously up the steep street toward'
the castle firing machine-gun
bursts at suspected sniper posi-
tions.
All major cities in the country
were under indefinite curfew, and
most were reported relatively
quiet.
But in Beirut, Palestinians seal-
ed off the Sabra quarter with
sandbag barricades, and Al Fatah
guerrillas were seen handing out
Soviet machine guns to their sup-
porters. Other Palestinians pre-,
pared a store of gasoline bombs.
Mosque preachers in Syria, Iraq
and Jordan accused Lebanese
authorities of oppression and "in-
tolerable heresy" in the dispute
over Palestinian guerrillas who
want to use Lebanon as a base
for attacks against Israel.
In Cairo, the preachers urged
all Moslems to halt the bloodshed
in Lebanon because "Arab arms
and fire should be spared for the
battle of destiny."
Moves to curb
rising exports
BONN P) -- West Germany
raised the value of the mark 8.5
per cent Friday to check an in-
flationary boom. The revaluation
of Europe's strongest currency was
expected to send shock waves
through the international mone-
tary system.
Effective Monday, $1 will buy
3.66 marks. Under the old rate $1
was worth four marks.
Announcing the revaluation af-
ter a Cabinet meeting, Economics
Minister Karl Schiller said it was
"a courageous but not a foolhardy
step." He said it would bring sta-
bility to West German industry.
It was the first significant act
of West Germany's new coalition
government of Social Democrats
and Free Democrats, headed by
Chancellor Willy Brandt. Brandt
had proposed upward revaluation
since last March but his former
coalition partners, the Christian
Democrats, had successfully block-
ed it.
Schiller told a" news conference
yesterday it became obvious last
spring that the country's uncheck
ed boom and rising prices could
not be controlled without raising
the mark's exchange rate.
Yesterday's action, he said,
"cannot remove the results of in-
action then, but it is never too late
for a good policy."
In Washington the U.S. Treas-
ury Department welcomed the
mark's revaluation, saying it
"should resolve in a constructive
manner the principal cause of un-
certainty that has existed in the
exchange markets."
Apprehensive West German in-
dustrialists anticipated sharp cuts
in profits and stiffer competition
abroad. An official of the West
German Industry Federation said:
"The revaluation is being regretted
but accepted by industry."
Besides revaluing the mark from
25 cents to 27.3224 cents, the gov-
ernment announced it had decided
to do away with a 4 per cent ex-
port tax imposed last November in
See WEST GERMANY, Page 8
SMayor honors
UN delegation
Mayor Robert J. Harris has pro-
claimed today United Nations Day
in Ann Arbor. Harris made the
proclv nation in honor of thirty
foreign UN diplomats visiting the
city until Monday.
The visitng d gelation and a
panel of profesors fiom the Uni-
versity a,id Michigan State Uai-
versity will be dicussing a reso-
lution asking the ON to consider
population control lrograms their
-first topic of the 1970's.
The open discu:sion will be held
in the City Counicil chambers at
City Hall from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.
today.
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