Seventy-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNTVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS ........r.....} ............ . 4....:15".5.",.,.,....... .,....... .. v, r. . ....... .... . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..'......:..::.......:.....'-.................... . . . POWER T eDispain fLiberal adCriiy Gtitcisnt POETRY by MARK R. KILLINGSWORTH ....... ...... ...... ..................................................:..,... Where Opinions Are Free. 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. Truth Will Prevail NEws P1-oNE: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all rep~rints. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1967 NIGHT EDITOR: MICHAEL HEFFER The Nader-GM Fight: Perjury Enters the Picture SEN. ABRAHAM RIBICOFF (D-Conn) has asked the Justice Department to find out if General Motors President James Roche committed perjury in his testimony before the Senate last spring on alleged harassment of auto safety critic Ralph Nader by GM. During those hearings before Ribicoff's subcommittee investigating auto safety, Roche claimed that GM hired private in- vestigators for the "sole purpose, in all honesty, to find out something about Na- der's interest in the Corvair cases." BUT ACCORDING to the investigator who tailed Nader, Vincent Gillen, GM's instructions were "to get something some- where on this guy ... get him out of their hair . . . shut him up." Gillen's sworn statement was filed Friday in New York Supreme Court as part of Nader's $26 million invasion of privacy suit against GM. Gillen tape-recorded the instructions on how to investigate Nader given him on the phone by Richard G. Danner, a Wash- ington lawyer retained by GM to hire Gil- len. Gillen said he was told to cover "all facets of Nader's life . . . wherever he might be found." He added that GM asked him "to get Ralp Nader's federal tax rec- ords from the Internal Revenue Service." Gillen refused because "this would be il- legal." GM's legal department also raised an "anti-semitic angle" about Nader, who is of Lebanese descent. The idea was "to discredit Ralph Nader in the eyes of Sen. Ribicoff, who is Jewish." GILLEN, who has conducted at least 25 previous investigations for GM be- tween 1959-1966 (including a woman who claimed she had an affair with a GM of- ficial, a group seeking to improve job op- portunities for Harlem Negroes, a famous entertainer, a civil rights worker and a la- bor arbitrator assigned to a case to which GM was a party), also filed a "Dear Dick" letter from GM lawyer Murphy in the court case. The letter voiced disappointment with the investigation of Nader to date. .." . Everyone is going overboard to im- press us with what a great, charming intellectual this human being is," she wrote, "... an Eagle Scout type ... One does not place 396 out of 462 in class and be a hot shot in everything . . . What is his Army record? . . . What type of dis- charge did he receive? Savings account, stock?" "Well friend," the letter closes, "have fun." CLEARLY the world's largest industrial corporation has succeeded only in out- foxing itself. For now Roche's own tenure most likely hangs in the balance. The company may well come out on the short end of Nader's $26 million suit. And the GM mark of excellence looks pretty rusty. Perhaps the next time someone sug- gests GM automobiles are unsafe at any speed the company will have sense enough to investigate the car, not the critic. -ROGER RAPOPORT WASHINGTON - Viet Nam is not only diverting the admin- istration's attention and the coun- try's budget. It is also diverting the attention of the administra- tion's liberal critics. Both condi- tions, but most particularly the latter, make this an odd city, Certainly Washington has more aplomb than the backwoods does. The University's liberal establish- ment erupted in an almost unani- mous explosion to condemn The Daily for publishing a report that Berkeley Chancellor Roger W. Heyns is interested in the Univer- sity presidency. But here nobody even peeped when The Washington Post re- ported that the United States had forfeited the chance for a meet- ing in Warsaw with North Viet Nam to talk peace by bombing close to Hanoi last December (even though, sources add, Secre- tary of State called The Post to complain that its story "wasn't accurate and didn't give the real picture"). BUT IN almost every other area, Viet Nam is proving an obstacle to progress. Take the proposed consular treaty with the Soviet Union. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee spent last Friday morning listening to the Ameri- can Legion's lobbyist tell them that the U.S. shouldn't draw closer to people who are helping the North Vietnamese kill our boys. He added that the "cost" of 10 more Soviet consular employes (the increase expected under the treaty) is too much - apparently )ecause the Legion thinks J. Ed- gar Hoover can't handle them (even though Hooversayshe can). Viet Nam has also had some in- teresting effects in Europe. Bobby Kennedy, who was visiting London and Paris as part of a string of conferences and other appearanc-' es, said (on-the-record) to report- ers after seeing French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville that the U.S. should take every oppor- tunity to enlist French help in arriving at a Viet Nam settlement. Then he gave a background (off-the-record) session with re- porters and told them that de Gaulle probably wasn't seriously interested in helping end the Viet Nam conflict because it ties the U.S. down in Southeast Asia, leav- ing de Gaulle free to make bold moves in Europe. VIET NAM is also draining our energies and efforts at home. Sec- retary of Defense McNamara has been prominently mentioned as a possible successor to President Hatcher. McNamara, according to a close friend, "doesn't think he has the scholarly or academic interests and feels that there are many others who could do the job far better than he could." Education is cer- tainly not running out of prob- lems: but McNamara feels, ac- cording to highly-informed sourc- es, that the crisis in our cities is the supreme challenge and prob- lem of our time. One recent visitor, who suspects McNamara might be interested in running the poverty program, heard the defense secretary talk passionately and at length last month about how Congress show- ers him with billions for manned bombers (which he doesn't want) and then balks at millions for slum clearance and rent supplements (which he thinks are vital). That observer feels McNamara would like to tackle some of these urban problems, but can't - be- cause he's tied down by the war, along with hundreds of other tal- ented and committed invididuals and somew$24hortso billion in the budget which the urban crisis won't get. THE MOST serious problem the war has created, however, is per- haps not the obstacle ithposes to closer relations with the So- viets, to a unified Europe or to a solution to our urban crisis. It is not the diversion it has caused of our government's budget or its energies. For the war has also diverted the attentions of the administra- tion's liberal critics, who-in un- derstandable concern for the ag- ony of Viet Nam-have become so preoccupied with it that they are neglecting to apply their energies elsewhere too. As a result, their ^laims that the war is stifling reform and progress become a self- fulfilling prophecy. The administration's critics are preoccupied with the South Viet- namese constituent assembly. Back at home, however, the Senate has defeated a move to let majority vote impose cloture, and the House abandoned a rule enabling the speaker to call up legislation lan- guishing without action in the Rules Committee for more than 21 days-both with almost no protest from liberals. While the critics are painting their placards for a march on Washington on the war, the civil rights movement is entering a cri- tical phase with waning finances, enthusiasm and organization-the result of a massive loss of liberal interest. AND WHILE the activists talk about "build, not burn" for South- east Asia, the Dixiecrat-Republi- can coalition last week quietly gained control over two key ap- propriations subcommittees con- cerned with labor, health, educa- tion, welfare and housing-leading one to suspect that "burn baby, burn" will be prominent next sum- mer-with nary a cry from the ac- tivists. Of course, one cannot pay enough attention to the war in Viet Nam. One also cannot afford to ignore our other problems, the ones in the rest of the world (Eu- rope particularly) and at home. Yet that is what many people, particularly young people, are do- ing. One student editor asked Min- nesota Senator Walter Mondale Sunday at a college editors' con- ference why the Johnson admin- istration, unlike the Kennedy ad- ministration, has been so "devoid of new ideas and new programs." THE QUESTION betrays the ex- tent to which the war in Viet Nam has obscured our struggles else- where. The landmark demonstra- tion cities and rent supplement programs, the consular and outer space treaties, the crucial fight to get a U.S.- Soviet agreement not to start a race to set up an anti- missile system are all at crucial stages. They all are in danger of end- ing very unhappily even though all of them are bold new ideas of the Johnson administration. NO WONDER Secretary McNa- mara might like to leave the Pen- tagon for the poverty program. It is the tragedy of our time that he can't. And it is the irony of our time that he would probably find little help waiting if he did. .4 Letters:,'Abortion Ignores Respect for Life The Best Reasons To Vote THE APPARENT reluctance of Univer- sity students to participate in munici- pal politics is hardly a new phenomenon. As early as 1922 it was noted that out of 4000 student voters at the University, only 12 applied for absentee ballots. Perhaps part of the reason for this is to be found in the traditional character of the American university, the old stereo- type of the cloistered ivy-grown environ- ment of study closed off from the world, with which the college associates only for study. Or maybe students are too pre- occupied with schooling to worry about the affairs of the city outside. THSE REASONS no longer apply. This The Daily is a member of the Associated Press and Collegiate Press Service. Subscription rate: $4.50 semester by carrier ($5 by mail; $8 yearly by carrier ($9 by mail). Published at 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich., 48104.. Owner-Board in Control of Student Publications, Bond or Stockholders-None. Average press run-8100. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor. Michigan, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Michigan. 48104. Business Staff SUSAN PERLSTADT. Business Manager JEFFREY LEEDS ........ Associate Business Mana-er HARRY BLOCH . ..............Advertising Manager STEVEN LOEWENTHAL ........ 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DAY EDITORS-Robert Bendelow, Neal Bruss, wallace Immen, David Knoke, Mark Levin, Patricia O'Dono- generation of students seems to have found reasons to vote. One of the causes that seem to have erupted out of nowhere is that of "stu- dent power," and someone seems to have extended that to include power in the city government as well as the University. Why should people seek after power? Like money, the stuff is only good for what you can get it for, for what you can accomplish with it. Are students present- ing some vast problem, proposing a solu- tion, and then making a drive for the power to effect that solution? No, on the surface, at least, the whole thing seems like a search for power for power's sake, not only in the University but in the city. BUT STUDENTS have never been short of common problems, nor have they been slow to ask for other people's solu- tions (witness the typical student dem- onstration). If students involved in city politics act with integrity and discretion, they could find and effect solutions to more than a few prevalent student problems (e.g., housing). It could take these problems out of the hands of University adminis- trators, who don't really have to solve them, and into the hands of those who have an interest in them. THIS MIGHT WELL become a worth- while part of the idea of "student pow- er." But it really should have started out that way, -DAVID HOORNSTRA thne Bare Essentials GOV. GEORGE ROMNEY said Thursday in his budget message that either the people of the state must pay more taxes or "slash education and other essential state services." He allocated a $17.6 million increase for higher. education, but slashed the University's budget request by $12.4 mil- lion. And with a Legislature which is split To the Editor: AS A DEFENDER of the lan- guage I am opposed to euphem- ism, which is nowhere more prev- alent than in the arguments of those who attempt to justify abor- tion. In the interest of clarity, three common variations of the theme need close examination. FIRST, criteria are submitted to prove that the unborn organ- ism of human parentage is not it- self "human." I suppose all would agree that it is a fetus. Since there are many different kinds of fetus, what kind of fetus is it that normally develops in the hu- man uterus? (The mother, I as- sume, is considered human.) Is it a giraffe fetus? Or a grape- fruit fetus? Or an automobile fe- tus? Close scientific study would probably result in its classification as a human fetus, based on cri- teria of parentage, genetic makeup and expectations concerning the normal pattern of its development. The human fetus is a stage of human life, as are human infancy, human adolescence, human adult- hood and human senescence. If it Isn't a stage of human life, then what kind of life is it a stage of? SECONDLY, it is argued that the fetus may be disposed of be- cause its normal development will result in hardship for others, its mother, its family, society, or who- ever. Let those who make this argu- ment recognize its implications, namely, that human life may prop- erly be eliminated when it causes us inconvenience, as in the case of political enmity, criminality, in- sanity, sickness, or temperamental incompatibility - hence, respect- ively: war, extended capital pun- ishment, extended euthanasia, and the killing of wives, husbands, parents, children, and other ma.- jor irritants. THE THIRD argument is that if the fetus continues to develop normally its life will be so miser- able that it is better off dead. This view is presented in the case of partially abnormal fetuses, such as those due to thalidomide, and sometimes in the case of extreme poverty. The question comes to the mat- ter of who decides, and it seems to me that the person best equip- ped to determine whether or not his life is worth living is-the per- son who is living the life in ques- tion. Let the wretched at least decide for themselves, and choose suicide if they will. Misery must not be underesti- mated, but neither must the will to live. People who are going to kill other people for their own good are not always so obviously in the right-sometimes they want to kill Vietnamese because Viet- namese are better off dead than Red. ACTUALLY, the second argu- ment is the real one. Human be- ings often find other human be- ings unpleasant to have around. For this reason, and in order to be able simultaneously to main- tain moral pretenses, it is im- perative to prevent them from liv- ing long enough to indicate a choice. We all know what their choice would be; they would choose life. People in concentration camps, starving people, deformed people, illegitimate people, Communist-op- pressed people, all notoriously pre- fer to keep on living. As long as they live, they disturb us, they have wills, they pose questions, they look us in the eye. Therefore, we must kill the fe- tus, before we can see it, before I fJ -. ! .k' 1 r, it has a face and a name, and especially before it can demon- strate the choice it is likely to make, to live, to bother the rest of us. -Martha MacNeal Zweig, '64 Dear Landlord To the Editor: Apartments Limited 610 S. Forest Ann Arbor, Michigan Dear Sirs: ON FEBRUARY 18, 1966 we signed a contract to lease our apartment. Evidently only two desks are normally included in a, four-man apartment. We decided that three desks was a bare mini- mum for the four us us. After considerable bargaining we suc- ceeded in extracting a promise that three desks would be made avail- able to us beginning August 25, 1966 (the first day of our lease). When we arrived we found, to our dismay, that there were only two desks. After numerousrphone calls and personal visits to your office we managed to get the desk -the first week of November. We wish to thank you for your speedy ind courteous attention. OTHER PROBLEMS, however, still exist which we now feel the need to formally call to your at- tention. When we moved in we were told that an inspection of the carpet and furniture would be made in the near future to deter- mine replacement needs. Shortly thereafter we gave you an inven- tory report pointing out the dire condition of the rug and sofa- the rug had a multitude of stains and the sofa covering is so bad that we actually sit on the stuff- ing. In late September tne rug was "cleaned" so that now only the larger spots are noticeable. After several phone calls to your office you came and looked at our couch -about the first of December- and decided that we did indeed need a new couch. No mention was made of the rug. As we reach the halfway point in our lease, we still do not have a decent sofa. We would appreciate your mak- ing every effort to get the couch so that we may enjoy it some- time during our stay. We would also like to suggest that in the fu- ture you anticipate your furniture needs and order early, so that these problems do not arise. WE WOULD ALSO like to take this opportunity to thank you for putting light bulbs in the outside sockets last week. After four months of darkness we looked for- ward to being able to see the stairs as we climbed them at night, Unfortunately, during the past week the lights have been on only during the day. We still find it very difficult to climb the stairs by moonlight alone. We should also thank the weath- erman for clearing off our side- walk last week after a month of snow and ice. But he turned against us last Friday.hWewon- dered if it would be possible for you to clean the walks this time, or is this another of the many services which you do not provide to your tenants. WE WOULD appreciate any advice that you could give us on how to avoid these problems next year. -William R. Benham -Richard D. Dryer --Dennis R. Webster Student Voters To the Editor: ALTHOUGH the lead editorial of February 1 was sincere in its presentation, it communicated neither the urgency nor the nec- essity of the election of Gerald Dupont to the City Council from the Second Ward. Furthermore, the editorial contained a serious misconception concerning the vot- er registration process. STUDENT grievances never can be rectified effectively if -they are heard only by the administration and the Regents. The University power structure is an agent of the public, not of the students. It is the voters, as well as the administration and the Regents, that the students must convince that their grievances and desires are legitimate. By registering and voting for Gerald Dupont, the students may not only air their grievances but force them to be considered by the city government, the public and the University power structure. If Gerald Dupont is not elected, the students never may receive an- other opportunity to influence sig- nificantly the conduct of Univer- sity affairs. The voter registration process is not nearly as difficult and frus- trating as the editorial states. If the student qualifies as a resident, registration is simply a matter of going down to City Hall. And if the clerks refuse to register a resident student,sall heneed do is go upstairs to the office of the city attorney who will affirm to the clerks that the student is eli- gible to register. THE SMALL EFFORT of the qualified student to register may reap great rewards for the whole student body. Gerald Dupont can win in the Second Ward, but only if he receives student support. I hope that The Daily and the stu- dents will give him the publicity and the votes he so urgently needs and deserves. -Howard M. Katz, '70 LETTERS All letters must be typed, double-spaced and should beno longer than 300 words. All let- ters are subject to editing; those over 300 words will gen- erally be shortened. 41 '. 7 r y' 4 ypyi r .. _ _ft, . ! --./.. ~ r 1J ti ETRO4. *.AS OVR IT5LOJUYDR )~u.TEAKDUK$OTDM R64TOUT 4 4 I1 I1 I There 's No One in Here but Us Machines By LARRY FINLEY Collegiate Press Service SEVENTY-FIVE DROPPED a small coin into the slot and waited for the tall glass and steel machine to clink and whirr into action. A small plastic cube drop- ped out of a slot-a hard boiled egg. 75 fingered through a large handful of coins for a penny and dropped it into the slot. A tiny package of salt followed the egg into the slot. 75 turned to his friend 68. (75's real name wasn't 75, of course, and his friend's name wasn't really 68. The. former's ~full rname was 756~4- fastened by a long beaded chain to the desk. "How much can I make this out for?" 68 asked his friend. "I don't know. Ask the mach- ine." He pulled the microphone over towards him and asked the ma- chine the question. A small mechanical voice ans- wered back through a small speaker in the desk: "CHECK LI- MIT TEN DOLLARS." "Thanks." The machine said nothing. 'Go tell the Complaint Machine. It'll take care of it," 75 offered helpfully. 68 moved down the counter to the machine marked "Information, Stamps, Complaints, and Maps to the Campus." He picked up its microphone. "The check machine didn't cash my check. I want my money or my check back," 68 complained. "PLEASE INSERT YOUR IDEN- TIFICATION CARD IN THE SLOT BELOW BEFORE ASKING FOR SERVICE. THANK YOU." 'But it took my IID, too." "SORRY, SIR. NO STUDENT Machine of Men: I'll take it to the Machine of Students!" "No, you know what I'll do, 75? I'll take this to the humans here. Right to the people in the Admin- istration Building. To hell with the machines." 75 was amused with 68. No one went to the humans anymore. This was a perfectly automated, state- owned University. No one bothered with the humans. Why should they? The machines took perfect care of them. The TVs taught them. The Flunkavac graded their papers. The Automats fed them their food. Everything was mech- can't wait," 68 said, in a particu- larly bad choice of words. Without his Card, 68 had to climb over the turnstile into the Administration Building. Down the long hall he ran, 75 close at his heels. "Here it is." Office of the President. 68 knocked, then pushed his shoulder against the door until the lock snapped open. Several steps behind him 75 did not see what was making 68 scream. Then he too looked into the room and sud- denly knew the awful truth.