SUNDAY DAILY See Editorial Page A Cfri$9au :43 til49 WHEEE High-32 Low-20 Partly sunny, fair and colder Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, February 27, 1972 Ten Cents Eight Pages omen, minority commissions: Few results on sex bias iM; Slow progress? The University is presently considering the elimination ;of its women and minority commis- sions in o;der to comply with a government directive on an affirmative action hiring plan. The commissions - which coordinate the University's programs to end job discrimination -may be replaced by a single administrator. While a top federal official has said the Uni- versity, as a public institution, is subject to the "spirit" not the "letter" of the directive, both commissions are presently being reviewed. In these two articles, the Daily takes an analytical look at these commissions. By MARY KRAMER "It's very trying to be an in-house revolutionary," commented Commission for Women chairwoman Virginia Davis Nordin recently. Although intended partially in jest, the remark goes far in reflecting the degree of frustration the majority of Commission members have reached. Established by President Robben Fleming in January, 1970, the Commis- sion was given a year's charge of locat- ing and making recommendations to eliminate sexist University hiring and employment practices. In trying to fulfill its charges, the Commission has met with both success and resistance, according to some mem- bers. "The attitude of the people at the top makes the difference," says ex-of- ficio member Zena Zumeta. Afd in this case, the Commission fees it lacks the support of several University officers. Their uncertainty has increased since the University has been weighing the advantages of appointing a single officer to implement affirmative action programs for both women and minori- ty groups. Fleming has prydicted that during the next month a decision will be reach- ed on whether or not such an appoint- ment will be made. Such an officer is recommended by the Department of Labor's Revised Or- der No. 4, which demands that private federal contractors re-write their af- firmative action programs by April 4 to comply with the order. However, John Hodgdon, head of the Chicago office of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), See 'U', Page 8 Minority grouj By REBECCA WARNER Little known by University staff and administrators, t h e Commission on Minority Groups-formed in September to review the University's affirmative action program for minority groups- has accomplished little in its five months of existence. Unlike its investigative partner, the Commission for Women, the minority commission has yet to recommend any specific action or reform. Administration spokesmen have mild praise for the commission nonetheless. President Robben Fleming remarks that the women's and minority commissions have contributed to the University by "making everyone conscious of the cor- rective action that needs to be taken." Vice President for Academic Affairs Allan Smith praises the commissions for p lags behind "continuous attention focused on the need to modify policies and procedures to achieve equity." The minority commission's effective- ness as an implementor of the affirma- tive action program is now under review as the University's executive office de- cides whether to replace the two com- missions by a single administrator, as suggested by a recently revised govern- ment directive. Minority commission members agree that replacement or supplementation of the group by an officer with administra- tive as well as advisory authority would be a step forward for minority employ- ment progress. Aubert Lavastida, assistant director of the audio-visual education center and a commission member, calls the com- mision a "primitive" instrument for See 'U' MINORITY, Page 8 COMMISSION FOR WOMEN members discuss ways to increase their effectiveness. .;Two hurt as arson continues By ZACHARY SCHILLER Two persons were injured yesterday in a fire at the Public Health Bldg., as four cases of suspected arson on campus brought to 49 the number of incidents occurring since late last month. Lawrence Mastor and Allen Rocwke were treated at University Hospital for minor facial burns and then released. An official at the hospital called the injuries "nothing serious." Besides two fires at the Public Health Bldg., firemen answered calls at the C. C. Little Bldg., the Natural Science Bldg., as well as false alarms at University Hos- pital, and South Quad. At the Public Health Bldg., there was an explosion in a Xerox machine and the third floor filled with smoke before fire- men arrived on the scene. Laboratory coats kept in a storage room caught fire sepa- rately in another part of the building. The fires at the C.C. Little and Natural Science Bldgs. were apparently set from boxes of cardboard. No outside materials appeared to have been used to ignite them, the Fire Department reported. Police officials refused to comment on whether they suspected arson in any of yesterday's incidents. However, the Fire De- partment is investigating. There has also been at least' one recent case of arson involving automobiles. On Thursday night, a car was virtually destroyed a block from campus in a fire ig- nited from maps and papers in the vehicle. The owner of the car said Fire Depart- ment officials told her it was definitely a case of arson, but Fire Department spokes- men declined to comment on the case yes- terday. The false alarm at South Quad followed a phone call threatening that there would be a fire within 15 minutes. When a resident smelled gas, firemen. were called but no fire was found. The odor of gas apparently came from a sewer in the basement of the building, according to a student security guard. At University Hospital an employe re- portedly saw smoke in a hospital room, but no fire could be located when firemen arrived. Fire Department officials said they could not distinguish the incident as an arson at- tempt, saying it may have merely been a cigar or cigarette that caused a burned smell. Nixon to end China visit; cites accord in talks with Chou -Associated Press -Associated Press Crossing another bridge A group of Chinese children (left) watches at Hangchow yesterday, as President Nixon (right), hands in pockets, strolls across a bridge in a typical Chinese setting. Earlier in the tour, President Nixon, Chinese Premier Chou En-lai and Pat Nixon fed goldfish in a Hangchow park. U.S. INTELLIGENCE WRONG? Predicted Communist offensive By The Associated Press President Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai, having forged some areas of agreement in five days of talks, arrived in Shanghai this morning in cloudy weather for the Presi- dent's last day in China. A joint communique, later in the day is expected to give details but Nixon seemed to caution newsmen not to expect a great deal. "Note that I said some areas," he told them in explaining that an agreement of some form had been reached. He also asserted that it had been necessary to keep details of the negotiations secret in order not to jeopardize the new relationship with mainland China. The flight to Shanghai was Nixon's last stop on the mainland. Even with the talk of fewer walls, many basic differences remain between Washing- ton and Peking. Still, both sides conceded much; consider- ing the background. Chou found the Nixon move toward China "positive." He spoke publicly of a possibility of "normalization" of relations. He announced that gates were opened. He let the Chinese people in on the story by permitting the Chinese media to publicize it amply. This was going a long way. On his part, Nixon suggested that it was unnecessary for China and the United States to be enemies-thus implying, without spe- cifically saying so, that U.S. policy had been mistaken. This was a bold approach, all the more startling because an earlier Nixon was firm about a Chinese threat. If the China week suggested a diplomacy conducted by Nixon as a one-man show, it probably was because Dr. Henry Kissinger, the adviser Nixon listens to most, feels that the State Department tends to get policy into bureaucratically burrowed ruts. The China threat idea dominated State Department thinking so long that career men may have tended to react automatically to any given Asian situation. As far back as the Truman administration, the department saw Chinese domination of Southeast Asia as a critically serious long-term threat to U.S. security. in South X From Wire Service Reports U.S. officials are shaking their heads, wondering whatever happened to the offen- sive they predicted North Vietnam would launch during President Nixon's China visit. Earlier, Army sources had predicted that the Communists would mount major attacks during Tet, the lunar new year. When those attacks failed to materialize, the China visit predictions were offered. If anything, however, the winter offen- sive was conducted by Americans and not by Communists. With a hastily augmented air armada- including 30 B52s from Guam, a Phantom fighter-bomber squadron from the Philip- ietnam fails to appear PRESIDENT NIXON makes a pointed comment at the final dinner of his Peking visit. Use the power: Register to vote With the deadline for registering to vote in the April city elections less than a week away, local groups are stepping up last- minute attempts to round up the city's newly enfranchised voters. As part of what they call "Voter Regis-. tration Week," the group are sponsoring a rock and roll benefit in the Union ballroom tonight. Proceeds will go to the Student Government Council voter registration com- mittee; and deputy registrars will be on hand to process any participants who haven't already registered. Those qualified to register include anyone who will be 18 by April 3, who has been liv- ing in Michigan since September, and who has not voted in any other state since Oct. 3, 1971. The benefit tonight will feature the Up, Guardian Angel Thundercloud, and Orenda. Cast will be 75 cents and the show will start at 8 p.m. pines and an attack carrier from the United States - American airmen launched one of the most intensive bombing campaigns of the war. After more than 1,000 air strikes in little more than one week, the campaign paused 24 hours for the Tet truce, then quickly resumed with 125 sorties against targets in North Vietnam. Apparently, the massive air assault was meant to discourage Hanoi from repeating the major Tet action it launched in 1968. As Secretary of State William Rogers told a news conference Feb. 3, "All the indica- tions are that the enemy is building for a major offensive, particularly in the Central ONE MORE TERM Wearied Chisholm may retire Highlands, and probably in military region one, South Vietnam's northernmost re- gion ... "Now the purpose would be to have a spectacle-to get a lot of attention focused on the successes on the part of the North Vietnamese and particularly, in view of the President's trip to Peking, to make it diffi- cult for us for obvious reasons." Professional U.S. intelligence specialists claim they still have unchallengeable evi- dence of a North Vietnamese buildup in north and central South Vietnam. But skeptics among the Washington and Saigon press corps saw other possible mo- tives for the raids. One guess is that the U.S. Tet predictions simply provided the United States with an excuse to mount a substantial increase in the force of the air war, as the American ground war is being phased out. One positive indication of this theory tame a week ago when an Army spokesman declared that the reinforced air strength would continue "As long as we assess the threat to be as great as it is today." Additional evidence to suggest that U.S. air operations may be further augmented, came last week when the Navy confirmed that the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk would leave San Diego to join three other carriers that were sent to the Gulf of Tonkin ear- lier this month. The administration explanation of its in- correct warnings of Communist action this WASHINGTON (/P) - Demo- cratic presidential c a n d i d a t e Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.), the only black woman ever to serve in Congress, says she will bow out of politics after one more term in the House. "I am tired," she said in an interview in Miami Thursday. "I am tired of fighting, fighting, fighting all the time. I just bought, a fabulous home in the Virgin Islands. I just want to sit in a rocking chair and look "She gets the applause from the students on the campuses but it's the big boys who are hitting her on the head," he said. "She is out here by herself and she has no one to lean on. She's virtually doing it by her- self." Gotlieb said that Chisholm is very energetic and has a high range of emotions which enable her to cope with the rigors of campaigning. She said she probably would accept a federal appointment if offered one, and acknowledged she would like to head the De- partment of Health, Education and Welfare. Chisholm said her remarks on her future plans were strictly off the record but even as she talked more reporters began to gather around and quizzed each other as to what was going on. During that night and Friday her staff received many inquir- I _ _ . 1 _... .