WOMEN'S RIGHTS See Editorial Page hie LIEt iE3 aiQ EPHEMER AL High-70 See Today for details Vol. LIX, No. 15 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, September 23, 1978 Ten Cents Ten Pages Papers reveal spying on political activists By LEONARD BERNSTEIN Members of the Coalition to Stop Government Spying (CSGS) released documents yesterday 'indicating that a national network of police agencies collected and disseminated information on individuals engaged in lawful political activity. CSGS spokeswoman Linda Valentino said the Sacramento-based Law Enfor- cement Intelligence Unit (LEIU) - established in 1956 to improve in- telligence communication between local agencies - was the clearing house for the information. Valentino said 225 to 250 state and local law enforcement agencies nationwide are members of the LEIU and have access to infor- mation collected by other member groups. THE DOCUMENTS were released at a press conference in Detroit at yester- day's opening of the National Organizing Conference to Stop Gover- nment Spying, sponsored by CSGS and Viewpoint Lectures in Ann Arbor. Eight copies of LEIU file cards, dated between 1971 and 1976, were obtained in a police spying lawsuit in Chicago. They show that surveillance has been conducted on individuals with no or limited arrest records. Two of the cards contain no references to arrests or criminal activity. One other subject had been arrested for "wearing a disguise," while a fourth was arrested for "teaching criminal syndicalism," "banding together" and, abandoning an auto. Six of the eight cards contained in- formation on the subject's political ac- tivities and affiliations. The other two cards contained criminal information on American Indian Movement leader Clyde Bellecourt and his brother Ver- non. RICK GUTMAN, the attorney who discovered the cards after he was gran- ted access to files in the Chicago Police- Department Subversive Unit, conceded that only ten per cent of the 250 cards he saw were "clearly political" documen- ts containing information on left and right-wing groups. But conference memnbers were alarmed at the im- plications this had for others in the estimated 3000 subject LEIU file. "This is the first conclusive evidence of the collection and dissemination of political information on activities protected by the First Amendment by the LEIU," Valentino said. "Although they claimed to exchange only infor- mation on organized crime figures, in fact, these documents ... are the first conclusive proof that they actually are disseminating political information," she said. Article Two of the LEIU Constitution specifically limits the organization to processing information only about "organized crime." But, according to coalition spokespersons, the definitior of organized crime was broadened in 1971 to include "potential terrorists." That, they said, is the phrase used to justify the collection of political infor= 'mation. LEIU NATIONAL Chairman Steve Bertucelli denied that the cards con- stituted a political file and claimed that his organization was "not interested in political dossiers." - See ANTI-SPYING, Page 2 Saudi AraiSyria stall Pistons play leapfrog No, he will not be playing for Johnny Orr this season. "Crazy George" visited the Diag Friday to promote the Detroit Pistons' September 24 game against Cleveland at Crisler Arena. Accord reached in EMUlstrike; faculty victory 'tremendous' Vance's-'drive RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - THE SYRIANS said Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's drive ponement resulted from to sell Arab leaders on the Camp David tinuation of a summit meet accords stalled in this desert city line Arabs in Damascu: yesterday as Saudi Arabia withheld its weekend. Observers in support and Syria postponed the speculated that Assad may American's scheduled visit there for 24 ted another day to try to hours. opinion, including Hussein's But Jordan's King Hussein gave the ti-Camp David line. United States one small cause for hope, Khadafy and Arafat n rejecting a personal appeal by Arab unexpected trip to Jor hard-liners Moammar Khadafy of breaking away temporaril3 Libya and Palestinian Yasser Arafat to Damascus summit, where joint the anti-Camp David bloc. tionists" were planning step "THE KING will not respond to any the U.S. peace initiative a appeals or pressures and his moderate isolate Egypt's President Ar stance remains the same," a Jordanian The two hard-line leaders government official said after Hussein hostile to Hussein.since the conferred with his longtime adver- Palestinian guerrillas from, saries Khadafy and Arafat in an bloody crackdown in 1970 unusual meeting at a secluded Jor- danian air base. In two days of talks with Saudi of- ficials, Vance got no commitment from * Daily Managing Edi them to back the new Israeli-Egyptian Parsigian explains the agreements, just as he received none African divestiture issue from Jordan's Hussein in talks earlier Editorial Page. this week. * It may not be bac Vance had been scheduled to go to among the paper tow Syria today to try to persuade frozen foods, but the ba President Hafez Assad to soften his come to the grocery st staunch opposition to the Camp David the latest on this growin plan, but the Damascus government on Page 3. abruptly asked him to delay the visit " They're already until tomorrow. Damascus is the third about having another o and final stop of the Vance trip. year, but you've still got t fo the post- the con- ing of hard- s into the Damascus have wan- rally Arab s, to the an- made their 'dan after y from the the "rejec- s to counter and further nwar Sadat. shave been king drove Jordan in a 0. Friday's rpeace- talks represented the first time Arafat has met with Hussein on Jordanian soil since 1970. MEANWHILE, a White House report that Sadat has declared his willingness to negotiate peace for all the Arabs by himself signaled potentially serious new problems for the U.S. effort to win over broader Arab support for the peace plan. The White House released a letter from Sadat in which he said he would be willing to "assume the Arab role" in bargaining over the West Bank "following consultations with Jordan and representatives of the Palestinian people." Israel seized the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast War. Sadat's statement, While somewhat ambiguous, holds out the possibility See PEACE, Page 10 By ELISA ISAACSON Eastern Michigan faculty members concluded their nine-day, walkout last night when they ratified, r by a 286-5 Svote, a new contract that one professor called a "tremendous victory." The major demand of the striking faculty, about 70 percent of whom are members of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), was for increased instructor input in decisions that directly affect them, such as tenure and promotion. The 'new contract created a faculty council, to be composed of elected members, which will make recommen- dations to the Vice President for Academic Affairs on all curricular matters, according to former AAUP President Ben Palmer, an associate professor of French. "THIS IS ONE of the biggest steps toward the creation, of codetermination at Eastern in curricular affairs," Palmer said. On the financial side the strikers were not quite as effective, receiving a promise of a salary hike of at least 6.1 percent this year instead of the requested 11 percent. But Palmer stressed, "We did not go out on strike over money." Next year each faculty member will receive a $1,250 raise and the year after that salaries will be reopened for negotiations. The agreed-upon "mimimum salary table" will eliminate any "inequities in academic ranks," according to Palmer. "REALLY, WE struck and we won," the language instructor continued. "In economic terms, nobody lost any pay." The contract grants amnesty to all striking faculty and requires that, the professors make up the class time lost to students at some point during the year. The agreement was pushed to a con- clusion by Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge Ross Campbell's declaration that he would issue a back- to-work injunction against the faculty if the strike was not terminated by 8 a.m. Monday. The judge was acting on a lawsuit filed by an EMU student which called for a court order sending the striking professors back to their classrooms. Business College senior Eric Williams claimed in his suit that EMU students were having irreparable damage done to their educations by the walk-out. THE UNIVERSITY had officially cancelled classes starting last Monday, although the strike had been in effect since the Wednesday before. Classes held during the first three days of the walkout were sparsely attended, as a number of faculty were out picketing and many students refused to cross the picket lines. The old contract expired August 31, and university and union bargainers had, in preparation, been negotiating the terms of the new agreement since last June. Also included in the agreement is an agency shop clause, which states every faculty member must either pay dues to the union or be declared a conscien- tious objector and donate his or her money to the EMU scholarship fund. The current grievance procedure has been revamped, and a dental coverage program for faculty will be instituted next year. Strikes have been continuing around the state, at Wayne State University and three community colleges. A bargaining session has been scheduled for today between Wayne State officials and striking staff and faculty members. itor Ken DSouth on the k there els and ank has ore. Get ig trend talking )ne next time left to enjoy this year's Ann Arbor Jazz Festival. See story, Page 5. " Find out what the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame are up against in the Sports section on Page 8. -t ta n For happenings, weather nn t ' and local briefs, ft see TODAY, page 3. Senate cuts Nicaragua aid 'U' actively recruits out-of-state scholars WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate yesterday adopted a $9.2 billion economic foreign aid bill after voting to cut off most U.S. assistance to the regime of Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua. The vote on final passage was 39-20. Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) told the Senate that President Somoza faces "a national mutiny in which almost every sector of the country has united against a dynasty which has plundered the country for nearly half a century." "THE QUESTION is not whether Somoza falls, but when," Church said. "The longer Somoza resists the will of the people and uses his armed guard to quell resistance, the more likely it is that another Castro-type revolutionary government will eventually emerge." He called on the United States to disavow the Somoza regime which has received some $300 million in U.S. aid since World War II and join with other nations in the area to form "a moderate government which respects human rights and free enterprise." "THE LONGER we delay, the greater the chance that the revolution will fall into the hands of extremists," Church said. The Church amendment eliminated $8 million in development aid for Nicaragua. Earlier a $150,000 item for military training for the Central American nation had been cut out. IN OTHER ACTION, the Senate refused to reduce to $500 million the $1.8 billion sought as the U.S. contribution to a special facility intended to help stabilze the international economy by helping poor nations withstand the economic shocks caused by rapidly rising oil prices. The 47-18 roll call vote came in the second day of consideration of the foreign aid appropriations bill. In a letter read on the Senate floor, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumen- thal, warned that any decision by Congress to eliminate or reduce the $1.8 billion U.S. contribution to the so-called Witteveen facility of the International Monetary Fund could have grave inter- national economic consequences. THE MEMBER nations of the Organization of Petroleum Producing Countries (OPEC) have agreed to con- tribute some 41 percent of the total amount of the fund. Saudi Arabia's con- tribution is $2.5 billion. In passing the bill the Senate also: " Refused to ban indirect aid to communist Vietnam and Cuba after being told that conditions on con- tributions to the international financial institutions would lead to many other nations placing any number of restric- tions on their contributions for all man- ner of political motives. " Refused to adopt House language By JOHN SINKEVICS Recruitment has always been big business in the University's sports cir- cles. But now, top athletes aren't the only high school seniors sought after by the University. Concern over the decreasing academic caliber of incoming students has prompted the Admissions Office - for the first time in University history - to begin intensely recruiting academically talented out-of-state high school seniors. SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE Test (SAT) scores for out-of-state students out-of-state students has been dropping steadily." Class rank, which is used with SATs to measure academic talent, has also- declined among out-of-state students. SJOGREN SAID the University's troubles attracting top-notch out-of- stste students is due to high tuition fees at the University which, for non- residents, are comparable to tuition rates at private colleges. "We're now within 10 per cent of the cost of Ivy League schools," he stated, "and we are having a more difficult time competing for and attracting the 1', .