JAIL SUIT: LET THE PUBLIC SEE See Editorial Page , i tt l :43 a it4p GUSTATORY High-30 Low-14 Windy, chance of snow Vol. LXXXII, No. 112 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, February 22, 1972 Ten Cents Eight Pages 4'ity loses income tax TRIP TO PEKING Nixon meets Mao, Chou in primary -Daily-Terry McCarthy A NEW VOTER exercises her right to vote in yesterday's city- wide election. Voters rejected a flat rate income tax proposal and decided on city council candidates. SAID ,LAGGING: School reform, plan improvements seen By JIM O'BRIEN "Humaneness in Education," a project designed to hu- manize the environment in Ann Arbor schools, has completed a disappointing first year but with promises of greater effort toward implementation in the future, according to school officials. Objectives of the year-old program include an increase. ! in the number of black faculty, elimination of "tracking," or division of students by ability and interests, eradication of institutional racism, and an increase in student participation By CHRIS PARKS Ann Arbor voters turned out in small numbers yesterday to nominate three City Council candidates and to reject a pro- posal for a flat .rate income tax. With roughly one quarter of the city's registered voters casting bal- lots, the income tax question-a non-finding "advisory vote"-was defeated 8,012 to 5,627. The tax proposal, had it been approved, would have indicated citizen support for a plan of insti- tuting a flat rate one per cent income tax along with reduction of the property tax from 14.85 mills-$14.85 per thousand dollars of assessed property value-to 7.5 mills. City officials have warned that "substantial" cuts in city services will be necessary if the tax is not instituted. Further, Harris has said that the city would assume $800,000 in debts during the next year without the tax. The tax was opposed by Repub- licans. however, who maintained the city should cut expenditures instead. The Human Rights Party (HRP also opposed the tax arguing that a flat rate tax places an unfair burden on lower income families, and-when coupled with a reduc- tion in the property tax-would constitute a bonanza for landlords and businessmen in the city. Harris and the Democrats first proposed a city income tax in the fall of 1969. At that time Ann Arbor voters turned the question down by a 5-3 margin. As in yesterday's elec- tion, the tax proposal lost in all five wards. Harris was unavailable for com- ment last night. Besides deciding the income tax question, voters cast ballots in two Democratic and one Republican city council' primary, yesterday. In the fourth ward Republican primary conservative Bruce Benner won with 1,200 votes defeating co n s e r v a t I v e Charles "Rusty" Frank who had 771 votes and lib- eral Sara Steingold who garnered only 402 votes. In the fourth ward Democratic primary, liberal Mona Walz de- feated William Everett, who has supported the radical HRP com- paign, by 863 to 566. Walz will face Benner and HRP candidate David Black in the April 3 election for the seat of retiring Councilman James Stephenson (R - Fourth Ward). The fourth ward encompasses the city's lower west side. Democratic voters in the fifth ward named Franz Modgis to face Republican incumbant Lloyd Fair- banks and HRP candidate Nancy Romer Burghardt in the April election. Modgis defeated Augus- tine Lalonde 1,036 to 372. The fifth ward includes the city's upper west side. A spot check of city polling places showed a generally low stu- dent turnout in this second test of the new eighteen year-old vote. In the first test-a county bond- ing proposal last fall-student par- ticipation was also light. In the first and second precincts of the second ward where as many as 2,000 students may be regis- tered, estimates of student turnout ran no higher than 400 or under 20 per cent. Election figures show generally Nixon and Mao meet in Peking President Nixon shakes hands with Mao Tse-tung yesterday in Peking (above). Nixon met with the Chinese leader for an hour- long conference opening his his- toric week-long visit to the Peo- ple's Republic of China. After the conference, the Pres- ident and Ms. Nixon were treat- ed to a sumptuous Chinese-style banquet, and serandaded by a Chinese band playing "Home on the Range." The eight course menu ranged from spongy bam- boo shoots to steamed chicken With coconut. In keeping with the informal nature of the occasion, Ms. Nixon wore a short red vel- vet suit with high neck and long seleves. Even American newsmen are invited to luncheons (at left). From left to right, Theodore White, political writer, Walter Cronkite, CBS TV news anchor- man and William F. Buckley, noted conservative, join in a feast yesterday. The men are. lunching during a stopover in Shanghai held by the Shanghai Revolutionary council. At a banquet held later in his honor in the Great Hall of the People, Nixon said that he was appealing to the Chinese leaders to "start a long march together" with the United States toward' peace. "Not in lock step, but on dif. ferent roads leading to the same goal, a goal of building a world! structure of peace and justice in which all may stand together with equal dignity, in which each nation large or small, has a right to de- termine its own form of govern- ment free of outside interference or domination," he said. "Let us recognize at the outset," he said, "we have had great dif- ferences at times in the past, we have great differences today. Nei- ther of us will compromise our principles. But while we cannot do this, we can try to bridge them so that we may be able to talk to- gether." Chou said that the visit pro- vides an opportunity to seek nor- malization of relations and ex- change of views on questions of concern. "The gates to friendly contact have finally opened," he said. "We hope to gain a clearer insight into the American way of thinking." Chou said, "This is a positive move in conformity with the de- sire of the American and Chinese people and is an eventdunprece- dented in the history of relations between the United States and' China." Chou proposed the establishment of relations on the basis of five principles. These principles include mutual respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of na- tions, mutual nonaggression, nQn- interference in internal affairs, mutual equality and peaceful co- existence. . The President and Ms. Nixon sat with Chou at the banquet, eat- ing with ivory chopsticks as the band played Chinese melodies as well as "Home on the Range", "America the Beautiful" and "Tur- key in the Straw." Yesterday's talks 'began a series of meetings which Nixon said he hoped would launch a new era of peace for the world. No detailed schedule has been announced for Nixon's week-long stay but he is expected to meet daily with Chou. Nixon arrived in Peking's airport late yesterday morning. Though there were no arrival speeches made at the airport, a welcome lelegation of Chinese officials in- cluding Chou met the party. Mao did not appear at the airport. Nixon is scheduled to remain in Peking until Saturday, then fly to Hangchow. He will stay over- night there, then fly to Shanghai to spend Sunday night. He will leave on Monday, Feb. 28 for his return to Washington. PEKING (N-President Nixon met yesterday with Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai, the two leaders of the People's Republic of China. The historic hour-long meeting with Mao took place four hours after Nixon's arrival in Peking. Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said that Nixon and Mao "had a serious and frank discussion" but gave no further details of the conference. Ziegler did not say when the leaders would meet again. The 'meeting with Mao, which was not announced in advance, delayed Nixon's separate meeting with Chou. However, Dr. Henry Kissinger, Nixon's special advisor, and Chou himself were also at the meeting at Mao's home. Wang Hai-yung, deputy director of protocol, and Tang Wen-sheng, an interpreterrattached to theN ixon trip ministry of foreign affairs, also were present.j gets mixed comments By The Associated Press President Nixon's visit to China brought favorable reaction yester- day from U.S. political figures and mixed comments abroad. The most critical reaction came from the Soviet Union, which ac- cused China of ignoring the "crim- inal r escalation of U.S. aggression in Indochina," to preserve the at' mosphere for the visit. An editorial in the government newspaper Izvestia, "the American press openly notes thatthe bombs being dropped on Indochina are, a definite accompaniment to the trip. In Tokyo, however, reaction was favorable. Early papers carried front-page pictures of Nixon greet- ing Chou En-lai, and the Japan Times, said in an editorial that "an opening has been made for a continuing dialogue." Nationalist China, as was expect- ed, blasted the visit and the tai- wan government reiterated its stand that it will not recognize any agreements made between Nixon and the Peking government, anl charging that the trip has "deeply, damaged the Chinese na- tional rights and interests." North Vietnam's official news- paper was one of the few which Today's scheduled television coverage of the President's trip includes: ABC 7:30-8 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. - wrap-ups of material to date plus any new tapings. CBS 7-8 a.m.-Special report 7 p.m.-regular evening news 10:30-11 p.m.-special report NBC 7-9 a.m.-on Today show 7 p.m.-regular evening news 11:30 p.m.-midnight - taped highlights Jet hij aeked; Kennedy son on board NEW DELHI (M)-Three Arabs seized a West German jumbo jet' carrying Joseph P. Kennedy III, 19-year-old son of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy, last night. The hijacked airliner later landed safe- ly at Aden, on the southern end of the Arabian peninsula, a spokes- man for the airline announced. The hijackers commandeered the plane about an hour after it took off from New Delhi for Athens. The number of passengers and crew aboard was reported as 179, in New Delhi and 188 by Lufthansa in Frankfurt, Germany. Bombay air control authorities said they receivedathis message from the plane. "Call is victorio)us. Jidda. If you call us Lufthansa, we won't answerkyou." It was not known what the word Jidda referred to. There isa Jidda, Saudi Arabia, which is the port of entrytforhmillions of Moslems vis- iting the holy city of Mecca. Kennedy had been on vacation in India for the past week after+ accompanying his uncle, Sen. Ed- ward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and+ Ethel Kennedy, his mother. in decisions on disciplinary, actions. R. Bruce McPherson, superin- tendent of Ann Arbor schools, termed the results of the project to date "insignificant." Robert Potts, human relations chairman for the school system and director of the project, says the plan has been "less than suc- cessful." However, according to Potts, there has been progress in the hiring of black faculty. Potts wrote the "Humaneness in' Education" report, the basis of the project. The project was approved by the school board last year with an indefinite time limit set for its implementation. According to Potts, there re- mains a feeling of alienation in the schools which is not limitedt.o black students. Community and educational establishments have "served to pit a white segment against a black segment in com- petition for achievement oppor- tunities which are their due," said Potts. The failure of the program to solve these problems is due to "ineptness and non-commitment to humane objectives" in the school system and the community, accord- ing to Potts. -Associated Press TWO WEEKS OLU: LS t d n -a utstarts work as advisl By KAREN TINKLENBERG When literary college students demanded more decision-making power last year, an advisory committee was not exactly what they had in mind. Last April, however, when the literary college faculty rejected a proposal for a legislative as- sembly of students and faculty members to jointly govern the college, it approved instead a purely advisory student-faculty policy committee. Formed two weeks ago, the committee is composed of ten students and ten faculty mem- bers. It can consider any literary college policy under the faculty's jurisdiction, and it also has power to propose new legisla- tion to the faculty. Committee members have so far discussed such topics as g r a d i n g, counseling improve- ments, new graduation require- ments, open admisisons, promo- tion and hiring procedures and the theory of innovative educa- tion. Both student and faculty mem- bers have varying opinions re- garding the committee's sig- nificance. mixed results. McPherson has authorized sev- Voters in the North Campus eral programs and activities to area, the "Hill" area, central cam- combat the apathy and acceptance pus west of Thompson street and of the status quo which, in his student dominated precincts to the See IMPROVEMENT, Page 8 See TAX, Page 8 'board ory uni "Students should watch the committe's development closely" says Ron Alpern, one of the stu- dent members. "If it's not effec- tive, we might try to go for a governing body again." Both Alpern and Alan Barak, another student member, how- ever are optimistic that changes the committee recommends will obtain faculty acceptance. According to Barak, the com- mittee will discuss each recom- mendation before presentation to the faculty, so that the faculty will not have to be faced with "unworkable" issues. According to the committee's set-up, the faculty must give them priority second only to 'hat given the literary college's ex- ecutive committee of adminis- trators. Students on the student-faculty committee may attend faculty meetings on an equal basis with faculty members, but may not vote. According to at least one fac- ulty member of the committee, the unit is a testing-ground for student government. A small group serves ideally as a means to allow students to prove themselves capable of self - government, according to chemistry Prof. Philip Elving. If the "experiment" is success- ful, Elving says, he believes literary college students may ignored the visit, instead asking North Vietnamese to raise produc- tion and make greater efforts in "the struggle against U.S. aggres- sion."' In South Vietnam, President Nguyen Van Thieu predicted that Nixon's visit will produce no more than a joint communique with Chairman Mao Tse-tung expressing "ordinary courtesies." Meanwhile, in the United States, most comments were favorable. For example, AFL-CIO Presi- dent George Meany, a critic of Nixon's . overtures -to China, said last night he had not changed his opinion that Nixon went'" to China to 'improve his own image, but that if contributions to world peace resulted, "that's all to the good." Caution was advised, however, by Democratic presidential hopeful Hubert Humphrey. "We have to Profs to work out Regents' request By GENE ROBINSON The faculty yesterday reaffirm- ed support for its proposed poli- cies on classified research, which were defeated by the Regents last Friday. Senate Assembly - the faculty representative body-agreed how- ever to enter negotiations with ad- ministrators and the Regents to formulate a research policy ac- ceptable to the board. President Robben Fleming ad- dressed the faculty body yesterday in an nttemnnt toevnlain the P_ The rejection came after over a year of faculty and student ne- gotiations over proposed policies covering both federally - sponsor- ed classified research and indus- trially - contracted proprietary re- search - the results of which are often also kept secret. The Regents also overlooked a weaker proposal by the executive officers - President Robben Fleming and the vice presidents. The Regents instead- voted in favor of the formulation of sim- n1-. nr.fA,,,.~. fn rafnrnn gents. However, Assembly agreed to meet with the administration "to discuss points of disagree- ment and to secure the prompt im- plementation of research policies acceptable to the University com- munity," Assembly directed the Senate Advisory Committee on Univer- sity Affairs (SACUA) to estab- lish a "consultative committee" to reconsider research policies and submit its findings to Assembly at its regular March meeting. 'rho n-nM - a a s f ho - i SNixon first arrived in China at bhanghai, two burs ' eiore ne reached Peking. His plane, the be cautious in terms of expecting "Spirit of '76," landed there to any sudden developments," he take on a Chinese navigator. said. "Our two conutries have had See PEKING, Page 8 :> , '.). :i . ..es :' 4. { '_: .