THE AD HOC COMMITTEE'S TASK See editorial page Y Sir 74lat, WET High-84 Low--6Q Seattered showers and thundershowers Vol. LXXVIfI, No. 54-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, July 27, 1968 Ten Cents Four Pages Chicago, Cleveland stay quiet Strengthen police forces; curfews remain in effect By The Associated Press A tense calm settled over Chi-I cago and Cleveland yesterday as both cities took precautions to avoid a recurrence of the violence that shook the two areas earlier this week. In Cleveland, a raiding party of police and National Guardsmen searched two hotels and a house on Cleveland's east side yesterday for hidden weapons of black na- tionalists. They found none. A few jeeps and police car pa- trols continued in areas where a gun battle that killed three white police andseven Negroes Tuesday night touched off arson and, loot- ing which a nighttime curfew - brought in check Thursday. Mayor Carl B. Stokes said he would decide today whether to continue a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. cur- few. "Today we will be trying to get everything back to normal., he said. Kennedy refuses VP consideration BOSTON (f'-Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, took himself out of any consideration for the Democratic vice presidential nomination yesterday saying "for me, this year, it is im- possible." Kennedy announced in a prepared statement that his decision "is final, firm and not subect to further considera- tion." Kennedy said he is removing himself from considera- tion because of family responsibilities resulting from'the assassination of his brother, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The Massachusetts senator, said, however, he will speak out on "foreign and domestic policies our party must pursue if it is to be successful in the coming election. He said he appreciated the confidence of Democrats who -Associated Press Czechs read "Literarni Listy" Czech paper demands leaders reject Soviets -Associated Press Stokes visits Cleveland ghetto QUIET REVOLUTIONS: ..NA obtains grant for campus reform O falR TGRy PRAGUE (P) - Liberals urged, Czechoslovak Communist leaders in an editorial open letter yester- day to defend to the death the country's reformist program against attacks by the Soviet Un- ion and its orthodox allies. Alexander Dubcek's regime was warned by editors of "Literarni Listy," a writers' weekly and mouthpiece of the liberal elite, that "the fate of our nation" is 6 at stake in an impending show- down conference with the Soviet tory of Czechoslovakia. Write it Communist party's Politburo. with care, but above all with dar- "That for which we are striving ing. To lose this unique chance' can be summed up in the words: would be our disaster and your Socialism, alliance, sovereignty, shame. We believe in you." STRENGTHEN In Chicago and suburban May- By ALISON SYMROSKI wood authorities strengthened The National Student Association has received a $313,- available police forces to quellI quickly any possible repetition of 000 grant from the Ford Foundation to launch "student- violence that occurred Thursday initiated reform movements."' freedom," the newspaper said in an extra edition of some 300,000 copies. "Negotiate, explain, but unitedly defend the road on which we have started and which we will not leave alive . . . You are writing for us a fateful page in the his- CAMPAIGN ROUNDUP: Rocky denounces further escalation t i s E' z Is 9 Ej 3 1 Various other Czechoslovak newspapers announced they would reprint the letter. That meant ex- panded circulation in this nation of 14 million, which has turned from hard-liners after two dec- ades of Communist rule. Dubcek declared the Czechoslo- vak party presidium is preparing for the talks with the Russians with unanimity. "We think there is no reason for fear or mistrust," the reform- ist leader told a delegation of Prague workers. "On the contrary a certain dose of optimism, strong faith in our good cause and con- fidence that the correctness of our new policy will be proved is needed to help allay at last the fears of our friends." Foreign Trade Minister Vaclav Vales returned from commercial talks with Premier Alexei N. Ko- sygni and other Soviet authorities in Moscow with a report of some agreements, some snags. Vales said Kosygin had assured him the Soviet Union would not try to apply economic pressure to this country at the coming meet- ing. The Soviet premier was quoted as saying: "We will not come with{ night. More than 200 members of a special police task force were on stand-by in a North Side Chicago neighborhood where some 300 Ne- gro youths looted a store and beat up nine persons, including several who were dragged from a Chicago Transit Authority bus. In Maywood, a community of 30,000 population west of Chicago, the town's police department was augmented by deputy sheriffs, states troopers and police from sur- rounding communities. ROCK-THROWING A crowd of Negroes estimated at 250^ to 300 went on a rock- throwing spree in the suburb Thursday night after being denied. admittance to a village board meeting. About' a dozen persons, were injured, none seriously. Calm prevailed in both areas Friday. An 8 p.m.-6 p.m. curfew was in effect in Maywood. In Cleveland, police used a 35- man search squad to raid a house near Lakeview and Auburndale where Tuesday night's shooting started, and two hotels some 20 blocks away at one of the most restive corners. "We were told about six mili- tants, including' three wounded According to NSA President Ed Schwartz, "the grant is to be used in charting out new territory for student inno- vation in the area of academics. "In the past administrators have worked. along patterns of curricula formation and teaching techniques that we think - --are wrong. Students can build PROVIDENCE, R.I. (iP) - Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller told a cheering crowd yesterday that if ' the United ,States further esca- lates the Vietnam war China and the Soviet Union "will take it right up to nuclear war." "The enemy is plenty sophisti- cated. They can't win. We can't win. We're at a stalemate," the New York Republican said, re- A peating his call for a negotiated peace. Police estimated that 7,500 per- sons - many of them young peo- ple - attended the rally. Rockefeller, whose visit followed by one day that of former Ala- bara Gov. George C. Wallace, 4 drew cheers when he said "it is easy for Gov. Wallace to appeal to hate, fear and racism and fur- ther divide this country." Wallace had told a rally Thurs- day night it had taken only about .five minutes to get the 500 signa- tures necessary to have his name put on the Rhode Island ballot in November as an independent can- didate. Rockefeller told the noon rally that the Vietnam war, inflation and the nation's crime rate are the "tragedies of our generation." "We've got to look back of the crime to the causes," Rockefeller said, and state and local govern- ment must be "spearheads to re- move the c uses." Rockefeller was accompanied by Gov. John H. Chafee, one of his principal supporters in the state. State Republican leaders say most of Rhode Island's 14 dele- gates to the Republican national convention in Miami Beach are favorable to Rockefeller. Gov. Wllaee gets br~iefinlg WASHINGTON (P) - President Johnson briefed independent pres- idential candidate George C. Wal- lace yesterday on foreign affairs, 4 including the Paris peace talks and the Vietnam situation, the White House announced. Johnson has offered to brief all presidential candidates re- questing such information. Wal- lace, campaigning on the Amner- ican Independent party ticket, was Ai hviefed earlier yesterday at the Wallace had departed when the White House announced the meet- ing. At the State Department Wal- lace received a one-hour foreign, affairs briefing by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and other high } officers. Wallace, last of the presidential aspirants to receive such a brief-1 ing, was then accompanied by Rusk to the White House . Wallace, who arrived 18 min- utes late for the session in Rusk's office, emerged with personala praise for Rusk He declined to discuss what hea had been told, however, saying "it1 was a confidential briefing." * *' * - Connall as ORY S a S'1 LBJ may run AUSTIN, Tex. WP) - Gov. John Connally, close personal and po- litical friend of President John-I son, said yesterday he cannot rule, out completely the possibility that3 the President will seek anothert term. Connally said yesterday he hads joined five other southern gover- nors earlier this week in privatelyi urging Humphrey to choose a running mate "more moderate1 than you are." Connally said Humphrey agreed w with the governors' suggestion but' "no personalities" were involved in the talk. Life Magazine recently broachedI the possibility that Johnson might emerge from the Democratic Na-! tional Convention as the party's nominee despite his March state- ment he does not intend to run. In the article, Connally was Pic- tured in a fictional scenario asj the leader of a demonstration for Johnson at the convention. The governor smiled when the article was mentioned. "I don't think he wants to. I think he meant precisely what he said - that he would neither seek nor accept the nomination . . . I don't think he'll change his mind," Connally told reporters at a news conference. But "I would not rule out any; possibility in politics. I would not have proposed him for the na- tional ticket and "under nor- mal circumstances such a pos- sibility would be a high honor and a challenge to further public service." Kennedy added, "My reasons are purely personal. They arise from the change in my personal situation and responsibilities as a result of the events of last month. I know that the members of the Democratic Party will understand these reasons without further ela- boration. "I have informed the Demo- cratic candidates for the presi- dency and the chairman of the convention that I will not be able to accept the vice presidential nomination if offered and that my decision is final, firm and not subject to further consideration." The Massachusetts senator has been at his Hyannis Port home since last Monday confering with his family and close advisers. The statement was issued through his Boston office. A spokesman said there would be no further comment on it. Kennedy's statement reflected the tremendous pressure he ap- parently had been under to accept the second spot on the Democra- tic November election ballot. Thursday, Chicago Mayor Rich- ard Daley said he had talked with the Massachusetts senator and that Kennedy had said "maybe." About the same time, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont) was advising the 36- year-old Bay State legislator to reject the overtures. Kennedy's action intensified ,onsideration of other possibilities for the nomination and put added pressure on the presidential cam- paign of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. Although Humphrey has said consistently that he intends to any initiative for changes in the men, were holed up somewhere in character of existing commercial the area," police said. "So far we relations. We will adapt ourselves failed to find any weapons U.S. base In Thai attacked SAIGON (A)-An air base used by the U.S. Air Force in Thailand to launch strikes in North Viet- nam came under attack by a small band of terrorists last night and one American plane was damaged, a U.S. report said. Four Americana and a Thai were reported wounded in the as- sault on the base at Udorn in northern Thailand, a sprawling area which the Bangkok govern- ment says is infiltrated by North j Vietnamese-backed guerrillas. The report of the attack came from a U.S. Embassy spokesman in Bangkok, the Thai capital. It was made available here. It is be- lieved to be the first time the Udorn base-or any other U.S. base in Thailand-has come un- det' attack. The brief announcement de- scribed the attackers as "a small group of intruders." The Bangkok embassy report said: "Tonight at approximately 11:30 p.m., a small group of in- truders fired on a small group of personnel and planes at Udorn Air Base. One aircraft was dam- aged and possible one That and four Americans were wounded." The Udorn Air Base, one of five major American bases in Thai- land, is about 300 miles north of Bangkok. The airfield has. a 10,000-foot concrete runway. Udorn was the site of a Thai air force base when the U.S. air installation was set up there. It is located at the edge of a small Thai city of that name and is about 100 miles almost di- rectly south of Vientiane, Laos. The attack came after U.S. planes damaged roads and bridges so badly in . North Vietnam's southern panhandle that the ene- my is stepping up attempts to move war supplies south by boat, U.S. sources In Saigon reported. models to demonstrate differ- ent, more effective ways of doing these things," he said. "Always before student power has aimed at putting students on curricula committees," Schwartz explained. "Our object is o dem- onstrate what should be done once they're on the committee." Schwartz sees the program as a form of, student activism essen- tially different from usual cam- paigns against social regulations or demonstrations against Dow recruiters. "In this program stu- dents will be involved In empirical, classroom questions," he said. ; COMPLETE 'NETWORK The NSA program will consist of a national office coordinating the workof a network of state or regional offices. Although the' Ford grant provides only enough capital for one region, eventuallyj NSA plans to organize a complete national network. . The program planned for thisj fall will have 3-4 staff members in the midwest organizing projects at local universities and perhaps, setting up experimental colleges. The function of the national office will be to collect and an- alyze information from the vari- ous regional experiments. It will in turn prepare written materials on the most successful for dis- semination to other campuses. 'FIRST STEP' "The Ford grant is only the first step," Schwartz says. NSA hopes to receive more grants, and is cur- rently in touch with the Carnegie Institute, he said. NSA, which once provoked deep controversy by receiving money from the CIA, does not foresee any similar complaints in its con- nection with private enterprise. "There are strings attached to the Ford grant only in the sense that we agreed with Ford on the purpose the money is to be used for and what needs to be done." In a statement Thursday the Foundation explained that the ob- ject of the grant is "to generate quiet revolutions instead of ugly ones" on campuses. New, fight rages over Fortas WASHINGTON (A)-Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark's criticism of sen- ators opposing confirmation of Abe Fortas as chief justice drew; angry response yesterday. But Fortas came under fresh attack on the Senate floor for his rulings in obscenity cases, coupled with a demnd that his nomina- tion be withdrawn. Three senators who have not previously Joined'in the opposi tiona to the promotion of Justice Fortas sharply challenged Clark's assertion that this opposition is dominated by political partisan- ship and "opposition to civil rights. legislation. Sen. Edward W. Brooke, Mas- sachusetts Republican and only Negro in the Senate, said Clark's views were given "improperly and without justification" in a Thurs- day press interview. And he de- manded that the Cabinet meiber apologize for what Brooke called an attack on the integrity and voting records of Republicans op- posing Fortas. Sens. James B. Pearson (R- Kan), and John Sherman Cooper (R-Ky), p r om p tly associated themselves with Brooke's indict- ment ofLClark:-W Pearson called Clark's remarks "unfair and unworthy . .. press relations blackmail, an attack on the integrity of the Senate." Similarly, Cooper d e s c r b e d Clark's assessment at "wholly un- fair . . . almost reprehensible method of attack." Fortas. Sen. Jack Miller (R-Iowa) told the Senate Fortas has joined in court decisions on obscenity which he said are destructive of moral standards. And he called on Presi- dent Johnson to withdraw his nomination of .Frtas to succeed; Chief Justice Earl Warren.u r One 'of"the decisions Miller cit- ed overturned a lower court ruling that three strip-tease films were hard-core pornography. Clark said "quite clearly there is dominant in the opposition a highly partisan strain that's un- fortunate." He added "those who oppose securing equal rights and civil rights are opposing the nom- $nation." And he called this the true basis for the fight against Fortas. Clark didn't mention any names in his interview, but Brooke, Pearson and Cooper protested what they saw as an intimation that GOP colleagues who have joined in a statement pledging to vote, against confirmation are op- ponents of civil rights. Brooke said the signers of the statement are -senators who have, in the main, voted for civil rights legislation for a long time. He added that had it not been for the support of "some of the very- senators .., indicated by the attorney general," the civil rights- open housing bill passed earlier this year could not have been en- acted. to our demands." Uof sUOpeL. The developments came amid DEMOLITI rumors that the ruling body of Three m the Czechoslovak Communist par- hotel room ty, the 11-man presidium, was raiders whc split on how to react to Russian visions, rac pressure at the meeting with the diamond ri Soviet Politburo, which is expect- loot from tl ed to begin next week, ins. There was talk of a divided vote Demolitic on the decision Thursday to re- down fire- move Lt. Gen. Vaclav Prchlik the six-sql from a key position in the party about 75,00 Central Committee, where he was groes, aret a target of Soviet attacks, and Fred Ahr return him to army service. His nationalist department, which controlled the lice at th army, security police and judici- shootings, ary, was abolished, with three In Moscow, the Soviet Commun- murder in ist party newspaper Pravda at- slayings of tacked Czechoslovakia yesterday Col. Joe for allowing "democratic social- National G ism" to get a foothold and in- remain in t sisted on a return to Soviet-style no plans to rule. "We are There was no indication of a ation," Mc willingness on the part of Moscow things were to compromise with Prague, day night." Citypolice By NADINE COHODAS "won't i Before resuming use of the Krasny chemical weapon MACE, the Inforn Ann Arbor Police Department ered "f is studying how other agencies cities," in the state have fared with the had mo chemical, Police Chief Walter since ME Krasny said yesterday. group is The study centers on the born, I safety and practicality of the Warren. weapon and also on the type of The st police training needed to use it at least ON en were arrested in a on East 106th St. by o said they found tele- dios, adding machines, ngs and other possible, he burnings and break- Dn crews began pulling damaged buildings in uare-mile area where 0 residents, mostly Ne- crowded. med Evans, 37, a black who surrendered to po- e scene of Tuesday's was charged yesterday counts of first-degree connection with the the three policemen. McCann of the Ohio uard said 3,000 troops he area and there were reduce that force.' still assessing the situ- Cann said. "Certainly e nice and quiet Thurs- Sen. Edward Kennedy make no commitments in advance of his own possible nomination, many of his supporters have felt that a Kennedy name on the ticket would help the Democrats win in September. Kennedy's assertion that his de- cision is "final, firm and not sub- ject to further consideration" was combined with reference to the family responsibilities that de- volved on him with the assassina- tion of his brother, Sen.. Robert, F. Kennedy. Because of the personal element he cited, few politicians seemed likely to go ahead with any ef- fort to draft him. W v _ __ . _ , _ . _,_ __ _ ___ ____ _ _ _ SURVEY OTHER DEPARTMENTS begin new' study of chemical M'ACE put it back out there," said. nation is being gath- rom a circle of large which have "obviously re experience with it arch," Krasny said. The ncludes Detroit, Dear- Lansing, and possibly Ludy is expected to take another month to six groups protested use of the weapon in a street disorder. After the City Council was unable to reach a decision on using the spray, Krasny with- drew the weapon from the de- partment's use. Six weeks ago, a study head- ed by Dr. Maurice Seevers, chairman of the University pharmacology department said MACE was a comparatively Dr. P. K. Basu of opthalmol- ogy department at Toronto says if tests prove conclusive, the researchers will issue a report at the end of August. The City Council has re- mained silent on the MACE ban since its inception last March. However, if Krasny requests the ban be lifted, the council will be required to act on the pro- posal. : :{>