ANN ARBOR VOTERS: TIMES ARE CHANGING See editorial page YI rL Lw 4I at PARTLY CLOUDY lgh-43 Low--41 Possible showers or thundershowers Seventy-Six Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVII, No. 158 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 1967 SEVEN CENTS EIGHT PAGES REK Says Viet Protestors Have Impact on LII By MARK R. KILLNGSWORTH Editor, 1966-67 Special To The Daily Copyright, 1967, The Michigan Daily WASHINGTON - Senator Rob- ert F. Kennedy (D-NY) says that Vietnam war protests have made the Administration conduct the war more cautiously - but adds that he doesn't think "doves" can do very much to further their own views. Kennedy gave his views in anj interview Thursday in his office here. Asked if Vietnam demonstra- tions and protests have had an impact on the country, Kennedy declared: "Yes, they have. People (who support the war) are much more conscious now of what our na- tional policy is. They've had to RAMPARPT E TDIT answer a vocal segment speaking in behalf of a different viewpoint." And, Kennedy added, "If it (the Vietnam protest) hadn't occurred, and if the dissent didn't exist, we'd be doing things in Vietnam we aren't doing." He did not elaborate. Does he think the Administra- tion has been paying more atten- tion to students and young people, since the protests began? "I think everybody has," Kennedy replied. Although he suggested that demonstrations have made the Administration exercise restraint; in waging the war, Kennedy de- clared that such protest could not actually change Administration policy. Critics of Administration policy are a minority, he explained, and so their demonstrations cannot have much positive influence on policy. Asked what students and pri- vate citizens could do to support his own stand on Vietnam and to promote negotiations in view of this fact. Kennedy said, "I don't know. I doubt if there's very much that can be done." "I suppose if a majority of the people thought we should change our policy, demonstrations might have some effect. and those who want our policy changed might be successful," Kennedy said. ' "But they are a minority. My own viewpoint is in the minority -the position that the bombing should be stopped-and many Ad- ministration critics consider that's 'too moderate.' "If you go from me to those who favor more extreme positions you still have a minority of the people. not be necessary." And This group, even if it acted to- added, "I doubt it will' gether,'can't turn the rest of the tive." country to their view," Kennedy continued. "It can have an effect-basically by making people more aware of its doubts on the war and by mak- ing people who support it try to answer them," he added. "But the people who want an end to the bombing are outnum- bered by those who want more targets bombed by about two to one. Those who generally disap- prove of the war are outnumbered by those who generally approve by four or five to one." The recent assertion Kenneth Galbraith, the n man of Americans for Df Actioni that the Vietni aster" could mean "the d burial of the Democrat is "a little extreme," added. While a number of co tors, including The Nat azine, have said that th istration may decide to 1 invasion of North VietnE nedy said he sees "no si, this will happen. Kennedy by large segments of the colleg- be effec- iate press, Kennedy replied quick- ly: "Definitely the latter." of John t "A majority of students aren't ew chair- actively involved in anything," he emocratic explained 'The energetic, vocal, am "dis- articulate, active minority is alie- leath and nated from society, but from that ic Party" group will come some of society's Kennedy I leaders. "That is unfortunate," Keninedy )mmenta- declared, "because this alienated ion mag- group is only a minority." e Admin- Although he was pessimistic on aunch an the positive - as opposed to re- am. Ken- straining-influence upon demon- gns" that strations can have on policies like Vietnam which enjoy. majority problem support, Kennedy stressed stu- ng peopl dents can have a political impact as sug- if they organize. ss media, suggested See KENNEDY, Page 8 Kennedy added that he hopes Asked if the greatest the campaign of "massive civil facing students and your disobedience which the Rev. Mar- is too much radicalism, tin Luther King, Jr., says he will gested by some of the ma start if the war intensifies "will or too much apathy, ass J Si. Grsi Attacks $Milon Ford Grant -Associated Press SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY (D-NY} said in a Daily inter- view last Thursday that Vietnam protests have made the public much more aware of what our national policy is and the Admin- istration now conducts the war "more cautiously." QUDRNE__NWSWIRE QUADRANGLE RESIDENTS who have not cancelled un- wanted subscriptions to Life Magazine they are receiving as the result of a recent student prank must either pay their bill of $1.97 or sent a cancellation notice before the end of the semester, if they wish to avoid receiving a "bad" rating with a national credit rating service. Life has over 300 unpaid subscriptions from West Quadrangle. The company does not wish to cancel all the orders because it feels there are a number of legitimate buyers in the group, A UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR student committee set up to help Michigan students who want to avoid the U.S. military draft reports it has received 40 "legitimate" inquiries from students in California, Nevada and Ohio, who heard about the plan, the As- sociated Press reported. The group, called "Information 67," said it will advertise in Michigan college papers next month to recruit draft-lodging immigrants for Canada. - STUDENTS at the Bernard M. Baruch School of Business and Public Administration at City College of New York picketed the school Tuesday in an almost complete boycott of their classes. They were protesting recommendation made by a committee of the Board of Higher Education that would convert the school into an upper-division institution offering only business courses and eliminating freshman and sophomore programs. UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL has just opened a three-bed Coronary Care Unit, said to be able to cut the death rate from heart attacks by 33 per cent. Each bed is the focal point for some $5,500 worth of monitor- ing and treatment apparatus This includes individual oscillo- scopes for displaying continuous electrocardiograms, with printers and memory loops, an automatic alarm system, and a standby defibrilator. Four registered nurses, specially trained to recognize complications and give emergency treatment, are permanently assigned to the unit and a physician is -constantly on call. U.S. Imperialism By CYNTHIA MILLS gious Affairs, and the Society ofI Former New York Times man Friends. James Gerassi blasted the Amer- "Convinced that the State De- ican liberal yesterday in a general partment makes foreign policy, the attack on the direction of U.S. for- liberal works with and through eign and domestic policy. that system," he said. Gerassi, presently reporting for "The American middle-class Ramparts, called the liberal, "the must realize that the United States enemy of the country." He chargedI policy of imperialism is no acci- that the liberal has betrayed every dent," he said. "It is a consistent hope placed in him. policy in our attempt to dominate Gerassi spoke before an audi- the world, and we have to be able kence of 60 yesterday as part of a to confront it." panel discussion sponsored by the Gerassi said there is only one Newman Society, Office of Reli- honest position for the American to take: he must be a revolution- ary-"not by being against the T i7d1tkI !war in Vietnam but by being for Awarded to - - .~- ---, U' Grads .LAU LVJ'I:ULL ' May Provoke Class Halt the Vietnamese; not by beingj against the Venezuelan guerrillas, but by being for them." Our Battle "The rest of the countries of the world are really fighting ourI battle." he said. "We must fight against imperialism. We have to Classes may be suspended Tues- go after the total system." He ex- day at Long Island University plained, "This must be done by (Brooklyn Center) if a week-old consciousness of the middle class student boycott of classes there to this situation of American dom- continues. The students are pro- ination." testing the dismissal of Dr. Wil- Liberal dissent, by becoming an liam M. Birenbaum as the center's official structure of society, has provost by the university's chan- become "meaningless," Gerassi cellor, Dr. R. Gordon Hoxie. claimed. William Zeckendorf, chairman He advocated revolutionary ac- of the University Board of Trus- tions - "draft board burning, tees, charged that students had rather than draft card burning, reneged on an earlier agreement is a real confrontation of the es- to submit the matter to binding I tablishment." -Daily-Anita Kessler CONRAD GOES ARMY arbitration. "If the strike isn't over by Mon- day," he said, "I will recommend to the board that night that all classes be officially suspended." Birenbaum, the popular 43- year-old former provost was dis- missed by Hoxie on March 27, The two men had frequently differed on policies affecting the opera- tion and development of the 7,000 student center. When students returned from spring vacation on April 3 they began a highly effective boycott of classes and insisted that the trust e e s reinstate Birenbaum. They also asked that Hoxie re- sign. At a meeting on Thursday the full-time faculty of the center also demanded that the chancellor resign. Tentacles Reach Out "The tentacles of American im- perialism keep reaching out," he said, claiming that United States' economic involvement in Latin America and elsewhere on the world scene may force the devel- opment of many Vietnams. He said financial enterprisesI make up our foreign policy. "To- day American corporations control 80 per cent of Latin American raw { resources, 50 per cent in Africa, and 20 per cent in Asia." From this financial involvement comes control by the %United States, in its conscious attempt to expand. According to Gerossi, former New Bork Times Latin-American correspondent, the only way Latin See GERESSI, Page 8 Yesterday the Ann Arbor Tutorial Project presented their production of Bye Bye Birdie at the First Baptist Church in Ypsilanti. The cast was composed of Junior High School students from the Wil- low Run Branch of the Tutorial Project. In this scene Conrad Birdie, played by Keith Johnson, sings farewell to Sweet Apple, Ohio, before departing for the Army. (See review on page 2). Chemical Warfare Said Vital To U.S. Defense Efforts To P rovide Support for Future PhD's By NEAL BRUSS The Ford Foundation has grant- ed $4 million to aid University doctoral students in the social sciences and humanities, it was announced today. The University's share Is part of $41.5 million the Ford Foun- dation has divided approximately equally between 10 American schools. Grants from these funds for current University students will be made beginning July 1. The first grants to new doctoral students will be made for the 1968-69 aca- demic year. The funds will help doctoral students complete their programs without having to pause, slow down, or drop out to support them- selves, according to Stephen H. Spurr, dean of the graduate school. Not To Increase Program The money will not be used to increase the number of doctoral students, Spurr said. Some of the money will be used to compensate for aid provided by Woodrow Wilson fellowships if the Wilson grants are curtailed after the next academic year, Spurr said. The Wilson grants have not been reduced for the next academic year, 1967-68. The foundation funds will be made available on a competitive basis to doctoral students in the social studies and humanities. Most of the funds will support students in the last stages of their doctoral work, although some doc- toral students in earlier stages will be aided. The size of the grants will be set at levels cor- responding to those of other fi- nancial aid programs, according to Spurr, who will direct the project. Nine Other Schools The nine other schools were awarded similar grants out of the total $41.5 million ae the Uni- versity of California at Berkeley, Chicago, Cornell, Harvard, Penn- sylvania, Princeton, Stanford, Wis- consin and Yale. The 10 current- ly award about a third of all PhD's in the humanities and so- cial sciences. The basic aim of the program is to reduce the "stretchout" rate of doctoral students, to enable them to complete their work in four years, Spurr said. Currently, students in the four- year social science doctoral pro- grams complete their studies in an average of six years and students in four and a half year human- ties doctoral, programs complete their studies in an average of eight years, according to Spurr. Current Weakness "The major current weakness in doctoral education is its prolif- igate wastage of the nation's fin- est talent," Spurr and the deans of the other nine grant winning schools said in a joint statement. By SEYMOUR M. HERSH WASHINGTON ()-The De- fense Department is spending $230 million this year on a chemical and biological warfare program it describes as a vital deterrent to attack as well as a standby weapons system, Government-sponsored research and development projects to pro- duce and protect against germ and gas warfare agents are under- way on at least 52 college and uni- versity campuses, with the em- conceivably more complex prob-, lem than offense," one Pentagon scientist said. "Simply being able to dectect a biological attack is very difficult. The problems here. just haven't been solved yet. "It doesn't make much sense to plan to use a weapon unless you feel you can defend against it." The government's concern is re- flected in the CBW budget. More than half of this year's estimated $100 million research and develop- ment budget is being spent for de- during any all-out CBW attack, sources said. The Pentagon boosted CBW spending from around $100 million to a high of nearly $300 million in 1964, but reliable sources report the program has leveled off in re- cent years to the current level. The Pentagon, asked why a major CBW effort is being made, said U.S. military planners "can- not overlook the possibility of a surprise attack which could be ImnhA dwith lec Pffnrt_ ad less q SPRING MOBILIZA TION: Anti-War Rally: Prelude to New Yorki By R.,M. LANDSMAN very well, here." She said that As a prelude to next weekend's sales were over 100 fares as of anti-war marches in New York Saturday noon. The group is hop- and San Francisco, over 200 peo- 'ing for total ticket sales of over ple gathered at the Ann Arbor 200. City Hall yesterday noon. Unsuccessful Democratic candi- The large, diverse crowd com- date for mayor of Ann Arbqr, Dr. posed of University faculty, stu- Edward Pierce, highlighted the ac- dents and other Ann Arbor resi- tivities. He suggested three possi- dents loudly applauded as a long ble ways to strengthen the posi- string of speakers castigated Unit- tion of the anti-war movement: ed States policy in Vietnam. Anti- -Nominate anti-war delegates war signs spotted the rally, with to the conventions of both par- one demonstrator sporting a Unit- ties in 1968. ed Nations flag. -Elect anti-war congressmen Promote Mobilization in the next election. The rally was sponsored by the -Hold a city-wide city refer- Jinterfaith Committee on Religion endum on the war. and Peace to promote the Spring Altar of Power Mobilization to End the War in Prof. Anatol Rapoport of the Vietnam. Mental Health Research Institute I -a - Nus - .- .,ala - - - - - - - ov .O aulI~li.%le wlI .less e., o r bL.'4., OUa es phasis on protection. fensive purposes, such as devel- expenditure, and with greater ac- Scores of private firms, ranging oping vaccines, antibiotics and curacy than the attack on Pearl from industrial giants to small chemical and electrical warning Harbor' engineerng c pani, ao are systems capable of alerting the Research headquarters for the' involved, nation to any surprise CBW at- Six military bases serve as cen- tack. Another $130 million is ear- U.S. CBW program is Ft. Detrick, ters for the research, testing and tcAohr$3 ilo ser a 3,100-acre Army center near marked for actual procurement ofF e, M . Ithas a 1967 bud storing of chemical and biological CBW munitions:.FrdrcM.Ihaa197bd it Cont.get estimated at $38 million. Much of the government's work Some of the research funds in Each Detrick laboratory is out- , is top-secret but Pentagon officials recent years have been used for fited with a system of air locks, now are convinced the nation has developing germ-proof field tents and ultra-violet rays in an at- assured means of delivering bio- and especially air-conditioned and tempt to prevent accidental in- logical and chemical munitions to air-filtered trailers that could I enemyol.n Harmless grmus tand I operate as combat headquarters See CHEMICAL, Page 3 enemy soil. Harmless germs and gases have been successfully test- delivered by guided missiles, I bombs, artillery shells, hand gren- Princeton Study Shows i ades and aerosol sprays. Military1 I planners say the aerosol sprays le. are most effective. Large Sums Large sums have been spent in the chemical and biological PRINCETON, N.J. (AY) - The The club, an undergraduate or- ' warfare-CBW-program to de- Princeton University Press Club ganization which supplies student I velop an array of silent killers, said yesterday some 15 per cent of correspondents to news services I known to include sarin and tabun. the university's 3,200 undergrad- and newspapers, said-its survey I'Tflc anrmnr lpmcc rnr vare i nates-rn ahnut A8 Af them-have shnv1 that a maiorit o f the 10 _. . : _. .. :: _.