VIEWING SEX BIAS FROM WITHIN See Editorial Page L I I 7 0fr it jzrn 43 a t 149 MELTING High-39 Low-25 Partly cloudy; mild temperatures Vol. LXXXII, No. 1U4 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, February 12, 1972 Ten Cents Ten Panes Ten Cents I Y 1 P A!: . CATHOLICS DISSENT: Irish Protestants launch pro-British campaigns ...:: M.. ..., .... _ _ -- Sign of the times A sign in Capitol Square, Richmond, Va., takes on another meaning as, in the background, demonstrators march in opposi- tion to the Richmond-area school consolidation order and the busing of 78,060 pupils. REFERENDA APPRO VED: Rackhlam elects new members to council By LINDA ROSENTHAL Following several weeks of delay and debate, the results of the Rackham Student Government (RSG) elections have been tabulated. Chosen to fill out the remaining seats on the RSG Ex- ecutive Council are Christopher Unger (166. votes), Robert Edgeworth (147), John Tolan (134), Barry Bowman (133), Rodolfo Arevalo (129), and Robert Johnson (124). Winning seats as write-in candidates were Dick Lecure (21), Robert Kessler (19), Wal- b ter R e l y e a (18), and Tom Slaughter- (9). A suit filed by Slaughter last S,-- imln 1-g i n month, claiming that the election viol a t e d Student Government Council rules, was dismissed earli- er this week by Central Student S taie i Ru e Judiciary (CSJ). In addition, three referenda were LANSING OP)-A bill setting up approved in the balloting. a May 16 presidential primary One question, which asked voters election for the state bogged whether RSG should have auton- down again in the House yester- omy from Student Government day as new quarrels erupted with- Council and CSJ in matters of in and across party lines. representation, taxation and gov- The delay and subsequent frus- ernance of graduate students, was tration prompted speculation that approved 499 to 225. the proposal might eventually be The matt G shether RSG thwarted. rather than SGC should represent Such a move is considered bene- ficial to Democratic Sen. Edmund tes has betudents on suchde ate Muskie of Maine, who has strong for some time. support from the United Auto frsm ie Workers union, a chief political A s e c o n d referendum asked force in the state. voters whether the recently- But Speaker William A. Ryan, formed G r a d u a t e Federation an influential UAW member andshould have the authority once Muskie supporter, said the bill held ke graduate Assembly to would be put up for a vote again early next wgeek, possibly on Mon- ments to University committees. eary neht. wThe referendum was approved by day night. a vote of 533 to 181. Ryan said he opposed further . postponement of the May 16 date, A further referendum calling but predicted "a long, long line for the appropriation of 50 cents of new amendments." of each Rackham student's Uni- According to reports, a bill pro- versity fees was also passed, 593 posed by Ryan could prevent can- to 233. didates such as Alabama Gov. The election marked the first George Wallace from winning any time RSG used a mail-in ballot. state delegates to the Democratic, national convention. Some 6,654 ballots were mailed The proposal would deny any out and 835 returned, represent- See PRIMARY, Page 7 ing 12.5 per cent of the electorate. BELFAST (A') - Leaders of Northern Ireland's Protestant majority yesterday ordered a propaganda c a m p a i g n to voice their case for keep- ing the embattled province British. Meanwhile, leaders of the Ro- man Catholic minority also an- nounced a third demonstration tomorrow in as many weeks to protest the Northern Ireland government's policy of interning IRA suspects without trial. The government also has banned all parades in the province. The anti-internment parade, in defiance of government ban, was set to place at Enniskillen by the Northern Resistance Movement, an offshoot of the Civil Rights As- sociation. Thirteen persons were killed in Londonderry Jan. 30 when troops and civil rights demonstrators protesting internment clashed.. Thousands of Catholics paraded again against internment at Newry, a strongly Catholic border town, last Sunday, without vio- lence. Prime Minister Brian Faulkner appealed for funds from the Pro- testant community to finance the propaganda campaign as three terrorists bombs rocked Belfast yesterday, destroying a furniture store and a finance company's of- fices and badly damaging a fac- tory. Responsibility for the blasts was! laid to the Irish Republican Army. Faulkner, leader of the Pro- testant - based Unionist party, said the publicity campaign would "counter vicious propa-. ganda being poured out against us ... We must actively publicize our determination to remain Bri- tish." "It is not enough for the gov- ernment's voice to be heard. . . It is also vital that the voice of the ordinary people of Ulster comes across loud and clear." The bombs planted in Belfast yesterday were all laid by gunmen who gave staff members only min- utes to get clear. There were no casualties. An earlier explosion, at a fire station in Dungiven in County Londonderryy, caused s e r i o u s damage and wrecked a fire en- gine. Troops patrolling the border be- tween Northern Ireland and Ire- land yesterday found eight three- pound mines and five antiperson- nel devices connected to wires leading south across the frontier. Meanwhile, in London, leaders of the Northern Ireland Alliance party - which has Protestant and Catholic members - appeal- ed to Prime Minister Edward Heath to end internment, -Associated Press What me worry? President Richard Nixon strikes a nonchalant pose at a speech Thursday night (above) while the leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Edmund Muskie, frantically goes after the votes of senior citizens in New Hampshire. PRIORITIES QUESTIONED: City police: Losing their grip on serious cri-me? By CHARLES STEIN Ann Arbor officials of all po- litical persuasions agree there's never a policeman'around when you need one, but they don't al- ways agree why. Some cite lack of funding and a manpower shortage, while others point to current police priorities as reasons for what is seen as inadequate police pro- tection in the city. Ann Arbor Police Chief Wal- ter Krasny places therblame on a lack of funding for the de- partment. Operating with a staff of 143, only 100 of whom are actually on the streets, the de- partment cannot, in Krasny's opinion, adequately cover a city the size of Ann Arbor. 'World peace forum assails U.S.diplomats. VERSAILLES, France (R--An international anti-war con- ference opened here yesterday with sharp protests of the U.S. move to interrupt the Paris peace talks. Delegates also charged that President Nixon is under- taking a major escalation of the war. Nixon announced Thursday that there "will be no further concessions" at the peace talks, until Hanoi, in his view, agrees to negotiate seriously. The United States has, in the meantime, stepped up air attacks over Inlochina and moved large num- bers of aircraft carriers into the Gulf or Tonkin. The 800 delegates to the "World Assembly of Paris for Peace and Independence of the Indochinese Peoples" ap- plauded when the secretary-general of the French peace Chief Krasny State Senate reconsiders revised version of billboard legislation Krasny documents this assess- ment with statistics showing a dramatic increase in Ann Arbor's crime rate over the last three years, particularly in the areas of burglary, larceny and nar- cotics. To meet this problem, Krasny estimates that the department needs approximately 20 more men. Last year he requested an additional 22 men, but with the city hard-pressed for funds, no new personnel was added. Mike Morris, Democratic can- didate for City Council in the Second Ward, agrees that the department is understaffed, but he places part of the blame on a poor system of police priorities. Morris, a University chemistry professor, chaired a Democratic party committee whose final re- port criticized the department for its over-emphasis on vic- timless crimes, especially those relating to marijuana and other soft drugs. Morris-who personaally favors the legislation of marijuana- says the department should get out of the area of soft drugs completely. If this were done, Morris says, police could spend more time on the serious crimes which affect the safety of all members of the community. An even more critical appraisal of the police is given by Jerry DeGrieck, the Human Rights Party candidate in the First Ward. "I am opposed to the expan- sion of, the police force," De- Grieck says, "because the money we spend on police, doesn't go towards ending the crime prob- lem." See CITY, Page 7 movement proposed an ener- getic protest of the action taken Thursday by William Porter, head of the U.S. dele- gation to the Paris talks. Porter called off the talks be- cause of the Versailles convention, which he claimed was ruining the "neutral" atmosphere of the talks. Porter said the assembly con- sisted of a "horde of Communist controlled agitators." In addition a U.S. spokesman described the assembly as a "North Vietnamese- organized show." Ly Van Sau of the Vietcong del- egation to the talks said Porter "has lost all notions of courtesy and all reason." Sau added that Porter's "rude language is unworthy of the rep- resentative of a country like the United States.'' In response to Porter's remarks the American delegation yesterday released a statement which ex- pressed itsi outrage at his actions. It claimed that the move to suspend the peace talks was only part of "an American decision .. . which consists of obstructing" the conference. A spokesman also ac- cused Porter of slandering not only the U.S. delegation to the conference, but the American peo- ple as well. Sidney Peck, head of the Peo- ;le's Coalition for Pace and Jus- tice, charged that Nixon's newly disclosed eight-point peace plan "is only a prelude to acts of despera- tion by tht American military" in Vietnam. Al Hubbard, president of Viet- nam Veterans Against the War, charged that the United States has introduced a "new form of war in Vietnam-one in which machines do most of the destruction." Included in the 130-member U.S. delegation are Student Gov- ernment Council member Arlene Griffin, actress Jane Fonda, Nobel Prize winner George Wald and his- torian Howard Zinn. Both the U.S. delegation and conference members voted to send groups to the U.S. Embassy in Paris to speak with Porter. The State Department had pro- Itested the holding of the confer- ence in France, but the protest was rejected by the French govern- ment. Registration scheduled Voter registration will be con- ducted at tonight's Gordon Light- foot concert at Hill Aud., at 7:30 p.m. Deputy registrars will be on hand to register those who are 18, U.S. citizens, and have been residents of Michigan for six months. Changes of address can also be processed at that time. Out-of-state freshmen are now eligible to register locally, having been state residents since the fall. The deadline for registering to vote in the April city elections is March 3. U.S., Viets accelerate, air attacks By The Associated Press In response to attacks across South Vietnam yesterday, U.S. planes launched over 400 strikes against suspected North Vietna- mese positions, while South Viet- namese planes were also out in force. South Vietnamese helicopters flew out casualties and survivors at an outpost in coastal Binh Dinh province. Government infantrymen sought out the enemy force that ~had besieged the post for 24 hours. The Communist commands' lat- est attacks in the central high- lands, coastal lowlands and north- ern provinces-now in their, fourth day-have been accompanied by a massive increase in allied air raids over South Vietnam, Cam- bodia and Laos. Informants said U.S. tactical fighter-bombers and B52 heavy bombers combined to make up to 400 strikes in the 24-hour period ending at dawnhyesterday. South Vietnamese planes-- flew 101 sor- ties in support of ground troops. Half the American air strikes were in, South Vietnam, aimed at suspected enemy troops concentra- tions and infiltration routes below the demilitarized zone and in the central provinces. The rest were over North Vietnamese infiltration corridors and staging areas in Laos and Cambodia, Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird said ships were on standby in the Pacific to join naval forces already massed in the Gulf of Tonkin. Initial reports indicated the 30- man regional force platoon guard- ing the outpost near An Bao ham- let suffered nearly 50 per cent casualties. Informants said the helicopters brought back two dead, 12 wounded and 16 able-bodied men. The outpost was surrounded by an estimated 500 enemy troops Thursday morning. Most of the civilian residents of ~An Bao fled when a 50-round mortar barrage pounded the camp. The hamlet was deserted by the time enemy in- fantrymen launched a ground at- tack against the military outpost Thursday afternoon. Some of the Communist-lead forces tried to breach the base perimeter. Meanwhile, President Nguyen Van Thieu was reported to have visited commanders and troops in the northern and central provinces yesterday. He told them not to worry about the stepped-up North Vietnamese attacks because, ac- cording to Thieu, the Communist command has never achieved any substantial victories since the Tet offensive of 1968. By ROBERT BARKIN The State House of Representa- tives sent a proposed highway bill- board bill back to State Senate Thursday for further considera- tion. Although the Senate has already approved billboard legislation, the House version-passed Thursday- includes amendments which set tougher restrictions on outdoor advertising on federally funded highways than the already passed Senate version. The bill is expected to go to a joint Senate-House conference com- mittee, which will hammer out a final compromise. The bill must conform to stand- ards set by the national beautifi- cation act-or "Lady Bird Law"- which calls for minimum compli- ance with federal regulations on billboards. If minimum compliance is not met, the state faces a loss of between $16 to $20 million in federal funding for state high- ways. Although the state has passed a federally imposed deadline for drawing up new billboard legisla- tion, it is still receiving federal aid for highways through an extension. granted by federal agencies. Legislators are considering ques- tions of distances between signs, DRAMATIZING HANDICAPPED PROBLEMS location, size and type in formu- lating billboard regulations, Each side in the controversy supports varying degrees of control on the outdoor advertising. Environmentalists want a law that will restrict billboards to only those that serve the "public in- terest." Clan Crawford, a local at- torney and environmentalist, de- fines this as informing tourists where "goods and services" such as food, gas and lodging are lo- cated. Crawford says signs should be located only near highway exits and be of a limited size. Rep. Raymond Smit (R-Ann Ar- bor), a leading advocate of the environmentalists position, believes both the Senate and House bills are inadequate. "These bills will mean a lot more billboards because they per- mit signs wherever there is a commercial zone." Onthe other side of the con- troversy State Sen. James Flem- ing (R-Jackson) is leading the fight for the Senate's original leg- islation. According to Fleming Democrats in the Legislature may "use the controversy as a political issue" in the November race for the state's U.S. Senate seat. If the Legislature is unable to, draw up legislation-which would result in the loss of federal funds- U' officials in wheelchairs? By MARCIA ZOSLAW What's life like in a wheelchair? Several University administrators may find out when they spend Feb. 17 in a wheelchair as part of a Student Govern- ment Council project to sensitize people to the -problems of handicapped students. According to Yvonne Duffy, a member of the SGC Committee for the Physically Handicannned .rhitecture Prof T.o nPa - Several organizations have criticized the University for foot-dragging in improving conditions for handicapped students, cit- ing inaccessible buildings and lack of trans- portation as major problems. In an Office of Student Services (OSS) memo of Nov. 1, Vice President for Student Services Robert Knauss spoke of a "hesi- tancy to encourage handicapped students Food co-ops: New chance to get -a more groceries or ess mone By JOHN GLANCY Local residents find nothing p new about the high cost of Ann t AA Arbor living. But with the es- tablishment of four local food s co-operatives in the past 14 months, there appears some . hope that the cost of eating . A can be reduced.. :<; The four non-profit co-ops- .A UrA ' 3... -IPA