f HOPE FOR ENVIRONMENT See editorial page C I he £ir A .Im tt1 WHITE & WINDY High-38 Low-upper 20's See Today for details Vol. LXXXIX, No. 72 A -t- - -- l a ! -L ' -- -- -- h - - -- - -- - - ^ - - - -- - - - _ n n's n _ - Ann Arbor, Michigan-sunday, December 3, 19/ 8 Ten Cents Ten Paaes plus Supplement Malaysia rejects Vietnam refugees; boat capsizes By AP and UPI A boat jammed with 290 Vietnamese refugees capsized in a storm yesterday after being pushed back to sea by hostile Malaysian villagers. Officials said they feared 142 refugees may have drowned. Police said 43 persons were known dead, their bodies recovered after the crowded boat sank in heavy seas eight miles south of Besut off the northeast coast of Malaysia. THE MALAYSIAN Foreign Ministry announced, meanwhile, that the refugees still aboard the freighter Hai Hong, anchored off Port Klang west of Besut, will be allowed to leave the ship and settle temporarily in camps because the United States has promised to accept those who cannot find homes elsewhere. Yesterday's was the second case of mass drownings since Malaysia adop- ted its get-tough attitude toiard "boat people" fleeing Vietnam. Villagers said the boat reached land Friday night but angry crowds pushed the unwelcome Vietnamese out to sea again with war- r nings not to return. The freighter Hai Hong sailed into Port Klang Nov. 9 carrying about 2,500 persons, mostly ethnic Chinese, looking Daily Photo by ANDY FREEBERG for asylum. They were turned down by the Malaysians on the grounds that they CHIGAN'S ALAN HARDY (42) makes a face to distract Alabama's Ken Johnson (32), much to the amusement of had bought their way out of Vietnam bama's Eddie Phillips (51). Hardy's act seems to be working, as the ball flies unnoticed past Johnson's head. and thus were not true refugees. chigan beat the Crimson Tide in yesterday's battle, 99-84. See story, Page 10. THEY SWELTERED for days on the A TH TOLL UNCER TAIN: Unrest mars Iran's holy month By AP and UPI tiny, rusty old ship until Western trailed ti nations, including Canada, West Ger- nam Oct many and France, agreed to take some finally st of them. The United States now is ex- MALA pected to end up with more than 1,000 of with mo them. "boat pe Home Affairs Minister Ghazali Shafie broughtr said the Hai Hong refugees would be coast by. permitted to enter refugee camps "for Malay a few weeks" until they could be patrols a processed for the trip to the United refugee 1 States and other destinations, the flow. The exodus from the ship has been Boats gradual. Canada agreed to take 604 allowed refugees, and most have arrived there. repaired ON FRIDAY night, 16 Hai Hong and aske refugees arrived in Edmonton, Alberta, AT LE and told of deplorable conditions on the boats se Hai Hong. Malaysia "Every day we were issued a tiny can past 10 d of drinking water, and we had to save killed No food for the next day because we were estuary' unsure what would happen," said Hue forcedat Tran, 23, through an interpreter. Refug The interpreter said Hue and his could go three brothers bought a small boat and Se he Hai Hong after it left Viet- A. 14, and that the freighter opped and let them on board. YSIA ALREADY is packed ore than 45,000 Vietnamese ople." Their escape boats are naturally to Malaysia's eastern sea currents. sia has increased -its sea nd is turing away seaworthy boats in an attempt to reduce in danger of sinking are to land, but sometimes are by the Malaysian government d to move on. EAST FOUR other refugee eking landing permission in a are known to have sunk in the ays. Nearly 200 were reported ov. 22 in the Kuala Trengganu when police and angry village boat back out to sea. ee officials say the death toll much higher with the coming e VIETNAMESE;Page 2 IMI Ala DE Possible King slaying conspiracy outline WASHINGTON (AP)-Rep. Louis prove or disprove a conspiracy was n Stokes' assessment is that his House from lack of trying. Chief counsel+ assassinations committee found "the Robert Blakey said 31 staffi outlines of a conspiracy" in which vestigators conducted 2,686 interview James Earl Ray killed Dr. Martin heard 168 witnesses and issued 260 su Luther King Jr. for a $50,000bounty. poenas.. But Stokes, the committee's chair Now, Blakey said, there is little ho man, conceded to reporters as the that further evidence will be found. committee concluded its public candor," he said, "the realistic expe hearings Friday that it had not filled in tation of a major breakthrough in tt those outlines with proof. area is small." THE COMMITTEE did not WITH THE KIN hearings finish corrobrate a St. Louis man's story that the committee's two-year, $5.8 milli a prominent St. Louis patent attorney investigation of the assassinations offered $50,000 for King's murder. King and John F. Kennedy is nea It produced no proof for its theory completed. that Ray's brothers may have been in- Earlier hearings found no conspira volved in the conspiracy or that they at in Kennedy'stassassination. The cor least unknowingly helped Ray escape. mittee plans to issue final conclusio And the committee concluded that if on both cases in a report at the end Ray did assassinate King in Memphia the month. on April 4, 1968, for $50,000, he never got The final stage of King inquiry w the payoff. displayed in four weeks of pub The committee's inability to either hearings exploring the possibility of TEHRAN, Iran-Heavy shooting THERE WA erupted across Tehran for the second the American night yesterday as troops battled strators vente thousands of demonstrators who tried shah's major to storm the American embassy as they storm the com surged through streets in defiance of a curfew, chanting the Koran and Army troop shouting "down with the shah." back thou and Angry mobs beat a policeman to Islamic bann death on a Tehran street and army troops badly beat up two reporters for derers! Murde Newsweek magazine and then hauled them off to an indisclosed destination Two Newsw when they emerged from their hotel to Jenkins and B see what was happening on the streets. by troops and HEAVY SHOOTING raged through front of their h the old bazaar district as thousands of tal in downoov anti-shah protesters including women ter, Kenneth C and children spilled into the streets at Telegraph, wa the start of 10-day Moslem mourning rites banned this year by the military WIDESPRE government. predicted for Sporadic shooting continued until mourning. Th after 2 a.m. today (5 p.m. EST) but position to S later the downtown area of the capital Pahavi's rule appeared calmer, giant street de The government said seven persons The military were killed Friday night and two others religious zeal yesterday. But diplomatic sources said whipped into 20 persons died Friday night when nment rioting troops machine-gunned Moslem zealots more than 1,10 as they poured from a mosque after religious proc curfew. Opposition sources put the total and said it wou number of dead at 70. "mercilessly.' The anti-shah protests, the second The exile day of the worst rioting in weeks, broke Khomaii, out in the morning and swelled into a million Shiite mass confrontation with troops after the anti-shah nightfall. a general strik AS also shooting around embassy where demon- d their anger against the foreign ally and tried to pound. s with bayonets drove s of young demonstrators !lenched fists and black ers and shouted, "Mur- rers!" week reporters, Loren arry Came, were beaten dragged away from in hotel, the Inter-Continen- n Tehran. A third repor- ;larke of the London Daily MANY BUSINESSES were closed, either in response to the strike call or in fear of reprisals, and Tehran and a dozen other cities were hit by sporadic power cuts. Many shopowners said they would continue to keep their stores shuttered in loyalty to the ayatullah. Western diplomats believe that the next few weeks will be crucial in the shah's struggle to stay on his throne. "Moharram will be a test of strength between the shah and his opponents and if he can survive it he will be in a much stronger position than he is now," one diplomat stressed. There were no reports of clashes in provincial cities Saturday, but the of- ficial Pars news agency said one person was killed and 12 were wounded by ar- my gunfire in the Persian Gulf port of Bushehr Friday night. In the southern industrial city of Isfahan, reliable sour- ces said protesters clashed with troops Friday night. i not G. in- ws, ub- pe "In ;his ed on of rly cy M- )ns of vas lie f a Victors lacked knowledge, votes s also detaine AD VIOLEN' Moharram, e orthodoxA hah Moham has called for monstrations y governmen during Mohar the kind of that already h 00 lives this y essions during uld crush stre d Ayatullah ritual leader Moslems an movement, ha ke starting yes Speaker says uni important for Afr ~d. 0 n last wee, CE as bnth By ADRIENNE LYONS At least three of the successful can- loslem O- didates in last week's Rackham Student Sstrikes and Government (RSG) election have two things in common - lack of knowledge about the positions and a lack of votes. t, featuring Sociology Ph.D candidate Carol ram will be Yorkievits was the landslide winner anti-gover- with a mandate of 54 votes. The second has claimed through fifth place finishers received ear, banned 16, 15, 9 and 7 votes respectively, and g the holiday also earned government posts. The two et disorders remaining seats will be shared by four students who got one write-in vote each. The biggest winner was apathy since Rohollah only 127 of 7,401 enrolled Rackham of Iran's 32 students bothered to vote. PHYSICS PH.D. candidate Jeff d symbol of Berkowitz did not even know he had ad called for garnered his single write-in vote. sterday. "Someone wrote my name in without -- -- my knowledge," he said. When asked if he would serve on RSG he replied, "I don't know why not." He added, ty -a:n: however, that he did not know what the job entails. "If it (RSG) doesn't do * anything, if it's just a rubber stamp for i a the administration - and I'm not saying it is - I'd resign," Berkowitz individual added. y explained. ACCORDING TO RSG member Bar- ental gover- bara Nutter, someone will contact FAfrica. You Berkowitz and the other write-in win- s, but they ners to inform them of their victories. If continental they are interested in serving, they must first petition enough signatures to e variety of assume their seats. ound of the Yorkievits, Social Sciences Division III winner, said, "Like other people, only homo- s ~ d l an, Islamic, S n experien- * The Michigan Wolverine men's eed a value basketball team rolled past the m all of the Crimson Tide of Alabama yesterday se." at Crisler Arena, 99-84. See story, he political Page 10. system that + The week's major happenings are t these ex- summarized in Week in Review. See t's bound to Page 4. k 's I'm ignorant of what RSG is. It's clear from the lack of votes that no one knows about RSG and what it can do." J ohn Pena, winner of the Division IV, Humanities contest, who also won with a single write-in vote, said he was willing to accept his seat. "I'LL SERVE on the council because no one else was interested." Pena has no plans for the future. "I don't understand what to do yet," he said. "I have to learn more about the students at Rackham." The newly-elected representatives agreed that two of the reasons for the low voter turn-out were problems the winners shared with all other graduate students - a lack of knowledge about the workings of RSG, and a lack of time. "GRADUATE students do not have enough information on RSG's powers and what it does. I don't know much about it," Berkowitz said. "When you're a graduate student, it's different than being an undergraduate. It's a full- time job. Classes and jobs or research take about 70 hours per week." Yorkievits wasn't sure why voter turnout was so low. "It might be that the record of RSG is poor," she said. "There is also a struc- tural problem. Graduate students con- sider the University to be a stepping stone to bigger and better things, and they haven't the time to get involved." "The nature of graduate study' doesn't promote a sense of com- munity," Pena said. "It's easy to not get involved." He added that, as a member of RSG, he doesn't think he can effect much change. "It would be presumptuous of me to assume I could," he said. Rack ham election conspiracy, the evidence against Ray and the conduct of the King in- vestigations. Besides sketching the outlines of a possible conspiracy, the committee: " Produced no new proof that Ray in fact assassinated King, although wit- nessessaid Ray implied to them that he was the assassin. The strongest of those came from a former Scotland Yard inspector, who said Ray boasted after his arrest in London that the murder would make him "a national hero." The former inspector, Alexander An- thony Eist, 'told committee in- vestigators, "There isn't any doubt from the conversation that he was ad- mitting to me that he had done the murder." Ray said Eist's statement was false. * Demolished Ray's alibi that he was blocks away in a service station when King was assassinated. The only living witness to claim he saw Ray at the service station told the committee that the story was invented so it could be sold to filmmakers and book writers. Another person who said See KING, Page 2 Newsman blasts Asian stereotypes By SARA ANSPACH The media too often portrays Asian Americans as - poor immigrants who stutter in broken English and have no marketable skills except : laundry management, according to David Louie, Assistant News Director for WXYZ-TV in Detroit. Louie, one of the highest-ranking Asian American administrative agents in the media today, spoke to ap- proximately 30 members of the local Asian-American awareness group East Wind last night on the problems of stereotypes in the media and en- couraged the audience to provide input By WILLIAM THOMPSON The future of the world depends on Africa, and young Africans throughout the world must work for a united African nation, Professor Francis Boteway said in a speech at Trotter House Friday night. Boteway, a native of Ghana, is the Director of Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Cincinnati. He spoke on "The Legacy of Dr. Nkrumah" as part of African Week at the University. Friday's activities were dedicated to the memory of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the former president of Ghana who sought to unite the nations of Africa: "Nkrumah wanted Africans to think of themselves as Africans and not as "I don't want to see nations abolished," Botewa "There should be a contin nment that speaks for all of can maintain nation-state would be subservient to Africa." Boteway also stressed thi experiences in the backgr African. "The African is theo sapiens with Euro-Christia and homogenized African ces," he asserted. "We ne system with variables fron experiences which we can u "There is no way in t arena that we can impose a doesn't take into accoun periences of the African. I ,. :<:.