Eighty-one years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan FIFTH WARD RACE 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individpal opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1972 NIGHT EDITOR: GENE ROBINSON Paul. McCracken and ITT BUSINESS PROF. Paul McCracken's re- fusal to look for a memorandum he may have written, concerning Interna- tional Telephone and Telegraph Corpor- ation (ITT) anti-trust suits, represents another unacceptable obstacle to a com- plete understanding of how top adminis- tration officials were involved in the de- cision. Political scandal has been the name of the game in the ITT controversy, as charges that ITT bribed the Nixon ad- ministration in exchange for a favorable out-of-court settlement, remain unsatis- factorily answered. The Senate Judiciary Committee in- vestigation which began three weeks ago with the publication of ITT lobbyist Dita Beard's memo has raised serious ques- tions about the government's integrity in handling anti-trust action against large corporations such as ITT. 'Endorsements The Daily's endorsements for the campus-wide elcetions are as fol- lows: For SGC President and Execu- tive Vice President - LEE GILL and PAULA KENDRICK. For Board of Student Publica- tions - JAY HIRSCHMAN. .... These endorsements were ex- plained in Friday's Daily. -THE SENIOR EDITORS The unearthing of a memo written by McCracken - former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) - could serve to clarify his part as well as that of other White House officials in the process that led to the justice de- partment decision to drop the three anti- trust suits againstITT. RESPONSE to a Daily request that he ask the CEA to search its general file for the memo, he said a week ago "may exist somewhere in Washington," McCracken said that it would be "highly improper." "The Council files are confidential," he said Monday. "I have no control over them." A spokesman for the CEA had previous- ly denied a request that the existence of a memo be confirmed, saying that a search for the memo would be "beyond the call of duty." According to the 1967 Freedom of In- formation Act, the burden to justify the withholding of information is placed on the government. Only in the case of "na- tional security" can the law be abrogated. Although it might accomplish noth- ing, a memorandum from a former CEA chairman, revealing his input into the top-level discussions, could clarify sone disturbing questions the Senate probe has raised. In fact, if advice from McCracken and other officials on economic aspects of the suits were unfavorable to ITT, it could help to explain why Richard Ramsden, a New York investment specialist was hired by the White House to study the anti- trust cases. It was Ramsden's report that contrib- uted significantly to then anti-trust chief Richard McLaren's decision to settle the cases out-of-court. ANOTHER QUESTION springs from the justice department's delay in filing an anti-trust suit against the merger of ITT and the Grinnel Corp. Last April, admin- istrators justified the delay, saying they needed time to confer formally with gov- ernment officials on the economic via- bility of the ITT suits. But McCracken implied in discussions with The Daily that he and McLaren had already dis- cussed the ITT case and other anti-trust suits in an "ongoing, informal" fashion. Meanwhile, McCracken maintains that his discussions with ITT President Har- old' Geneen were "nothing out of the or- dinary," and that Geneen was among "literally hundreds of people" who came to see him about pending litigation. IN REFUSING to actively dig for his own memo, McCracken says he "rendered no judgement" in the case. It is understand- able that McCracken is reluctant to be- come involved in the whole affair, since he has left his post as CEA chairman. There is no excuse, however, for present CEA officials' refusal to search for all relevant evidence. Unfortunately, though, the dramatic importance of the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee's probe makes McCracken's "non- involvement". inexcusable. BECAUSE OF the severity of syndicated Jack Anderson's charges as well as the disturbing implications of the evidence that the investigation has generated, Mc- Cracken cannot afford the luxury of silence. Even if he was insignificant in deter- mining the final decision to settle, Mc- Cracken must make every effort to elim- inate any doubt about his role in the controversial case. -TED STEIN Council cano Nancy Romer Burghardt-HRP T AM RUNNING for City Council in order to offer a. real alternative for the people in the Fifth Ward. While the Democrats and Repub- licans sound different at election-time, both end up behaving, through inaction, the same year-round. The Human Rights Party (HRP) pro- gram and actions are different. I am a 25-year-old graduate student in eduction and psychology at the University and have been a teacher in Harlem, N.Y., and Willow Run, Mich., a welfare worker and a Peace Corps volunteer. I also have been an organizer for the Tenants Union, Women's Libera- tion Child Care Acti6n Group, and coordinator of the Ann Arbor Human Rights Party. My political and personal development as a woman has made me more sensitive not only to the plight of other women, but also to other groups that have been severely discriminated against - such as blacks, chicanos and youth. I be- lieve in the importance of self- determination for all groups. I am committed to the principle of com- munity control of all public serv- ices, such as free or low-cost health care, child care, schools. housing, drug help programs and police. I strongly support institutions such as the Main St. Community Center and the Free Clinic. It is the city's responsibility to pro- vide, expand and fund these types of services for all citizens but these services must be commun- ity controlled. I WILL WORK toward establish- ing community control of the po- lice force. The police spend too much time and money harassing blacks and young whites and enforcing laws against crimes without victims. They do not adequately protect or patrol the black and student com- munities and do not humanely handle the victims of rape. Commun- ity control boards could drastically increase the number of blacks and women on the police force and improve police policy. The Ann Arbor Transit System does not adequately service either the black; student or elderly communities. Dial-a-ride should immed- iately 'be expanded to the low-income and student areas of town and bus services should be expanded throughout the city. I am committed to helping working people in their fight for de- cent wages and working conditions. I have been active in strike sup- port activities with groups such as the Buhr Co., County Professional Hospital Association, AFSCME, and the Ann Arbor Education Associa- tion. I have been endorsed by the Buhr unit of-the UAW. I will work for a stronger anti-strike-breaking ordinance that will make the use of non-union labor during a strike illegal. THE HUMAN RIGITS Party, with a strong and concrete plat- form, made at open democratic meetings, aims to become a new, revitalizing force in Ann Arbor. As a candidate I do not simply repre- sent my own opinions but the policies of a- party of committed com- munity people with a clear vision of,the way this city should be run. We urge you to b'egin to join the movement for new politics in Ann ' Arbor and in the state. This can be an important step toward in- creased independent political action across the country. ERA: The dese By CARLA RAPOPORT roles of the husband as b THE WOMEN'S liberation movement will the wife as housekeeper. remain a. bastard cause until it is re- "The intrusion of the h cognized by lawmakers and in the courts. to the delicate personalr The approval of a 24-word constitutional husband and wife, and amendment in the Senate this week could to their children . . .w finally legitimize the movement-and pave grief," Celler touchingly the way toward baring institutional sex- At a time when wo ism'"in the courts. toward a rejection of The rejection of the amendment would mother image. Celler'so leave women, once again, on the outside of vailed in Congress. Thu the American legal system and frustrating- women toward equal ri ly powerless to change the laws which rested on the benevolenc affect their lives. ploers, shrewd lawyers The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) ing husbands. has been introduced into every state Con- LAWS DO EXIST, how gress since 1923. It has met with jeers, snickers, and open antipathy right along. To members of the women's liberations movement, the history of the ERA symbol- izes the dogged unwillingness of men to recognize 'women as equals. The amendment, pased by tle House , two years ago, reads: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." FOR TWENTY YEARS, the amendment sat in the House Judiciary Commitee, which is chaired by doddering -Emanuel Cellar (D-N.Y.). Representative Celler, a sterling exam- ple of the antiquarians who pervade Con- gress, once told the House that "the ERA. may require changes in the traditional Rep. CeJ Franz [N THE FIFTH WARD, there Th are at least four issues of ma~ major concern this election - city - planning and growth, public hous- for ing, citizen representation and the - city budget. In all four of these Ho areas the current Fifth Ward Re- - publican councilman has repre- Cit sented neither the views nor the - needs of the Ward's residents. an Rather, he has consistently repre- an sented the vested interests of a - small minority at the expense of str the public good.a Just a few examples of his re-~oo cord over the last 23 months - should suffice to indicate the need [f for new leadership in the Ward. - Mogdis-Demo( e current Republican council- an:I -voted NO on the Miller hi-rise senior citizens -voted No on funding Ozone use -voted NO on funding M o d e1 Mies program -voted No on restricting signs d billboards (city sign ordin- ce) -voted No on ordinance to re- Oct gas station and drive-in res- urant construction -voted NO on resolution sup- rting vote for 18 year olds -voted No on the elimination the city's curfew ordinance 1 -voted NO on establishing the Brat "ity's g -vote( oortation voted iuana o -votec Hills . voted ing -led on the Beakes) ltd tes fight for and Ashley-First by-pass. voted YES (Packird- present views rievance officer program d No on the city's .trns- n tudy. NO on the city's mari- rdinance d YES to destroy Bird YES on Briarwood re-zon- Lloyd Fairbanks-Republican AS AN INCUMBENT, these are some of the issues that I am speak- ing about in this campaign. Joint city-school planing is a must for further residential develop- ment. The 'P' in Planning must stand for people. We cannot stop growth, but it is controllable. Control will successfully avoid ugly urban sprawl. Legalization of drugs is not something Ann Arbor can accomplish. We should work to reduce our rising drug related crime rate by providing support to drug addicts. Top priority should be given to establishing a city-wide recycling system. Other cities are making this program work, and a resolu- tion, which I submitted in behalf of the experimental program which was run by the Ann 'Arbor Ecology Center, should make re- cycling in Ann Arbor a reality. THE STUDENTS in Ann Arbor should take whatever time they can to really get to know the local candidates and local issues. One issue needing open-minded scrut- iny is the First-Ashley bypass. It's unfortunate that this has become . a partisan issue, as a lot of mis- information has been the result. I invite those who intend to vote on this issue to visit City Hall before election day and see the route, and what it means to the entire community of Ann Arbor before voting. THOSE OF YOU who took Sociology 100 probably recall the dis- cussions on the Concentric Ring Theory. If we are to avoid the decay which has been traditional in center cities, we need to attack the problem. With code enforcement grants and low cost loans, to the poor and aged, combined with a vital center city area, we have the, ingredients of the recipe for good health for Ann Arbor. Much else remains to be done, but the roadway improvements will be the corner- stone. I'M RUNNING for council-be- ::ause I feel we need and deserve better representation than this. the choice is clear - .oii all of these issues I would have voted exactly opposite of the current councilman councilman apd I would have and will continue to s u ppo r tthe controlling of commercial strip develop- ment, push for stricter., plan- ning procedures, and guarantees of equal rights for all citizens. It's time we had representa- Aon on council from the Fifth Ward that is concerned about re- presenting the interests of all the people, not just a small minority. I ask for your suport on April 3 to help me bring to council new, responsive leadership for the Fifth Ward and urge you, no matter how you vote in the council race ,o vote NO on the Ashley-F i r s t Packard-Beakes) bonding re- quest. 04 The Daily begins today-a five part series in which the Democratic, Human Rights Party, and Republican City Council candidates briefly summarize their positions. Thg' election is April3 xing of- the bread winner, and and of the law in- relationship of the their relationship Mould bring untold added. men are moving the housemaker- attitude has pre- s, the progress of .glts has largely y of individual em- , and understand- ever, which seem- OSSYP decision to Fleming ingly protect women's rights. 14th amendment and the Civill of 1964 prohibit discrimination or of sex; the former if one intern ple" to mean women as well as the latter specifically prohibitq crimination. As a result, these provisos hav root of much objection to the E lack of legal substance. Yet, in no 14th amendment ca sex discrimination has the Supr held that a law classifying pers basis of sex is unreasonable ant unconstitutional. In the case when the Civill was first applied to women, a judge ruled that "sex just sor its way into the Civil Rights A determined htat amnedment di he ruled against the Delta Air ardess, who was fired for ma though Delta admitted the bE firing policy was the marital women employes. WHILE ONE SET of lawm tinue to argue that women a protected by law, others oppose, ment, saying it would cause ha courts. During House hearings on t ment, a Harvard law professo anything about this proposedi is clear, it is that it would trans provision of law concerning won constitutional issue to be ulti Constitution Both the solved by the court. Rights Act "Every statutory and common law pro- n the basis vision dealing with the inanifoid rela- rets "peo- tions of women in society would be forced men, and to run the gauntlet of attack on con- s sex dis- stitutional grounds," he concluded. Pity the poor judges who would, have e been the to sit through all those tedious cases. Like RA, for its when the first woman seeks to become a commercial pilot despite federal regula- se alleging tions, on a woman seeks her job- back eme Court after a pregnancy. ons on the Or think of the havoc in an Ohio court= d therefore room when a woman decides she'd like tl challenge .state laws and become -an tletc Rights Act trio meter reader, a crossing watchman, or California maybe just shine shoes. t of found In fact, lawmakers should consider that ct." Having without the ERA, the laws governing mar- dn't count, riage and divorce, child support and soc- lines stew- ial security will remain in the w6men's irrying, al- favor and continue to discriminate against asis of its low-income males. status of THE SENATE debate on ERA-which could swing either way at this point- opened yesterday afternoon and . centered akers con- on a proposed rider which would exetipt re already women from the draft. the amend- The rider was subsequently struck avoc in the down, although Sen. Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) urged his colleagues to vote against it he amend- only "if they believe in their hearts that r said, "If women should be drafted and sent into amendment combat where they will be slaughtered form every and maimed by the bayonets, bombs, bul- men into a lets, grenades, napalm and poison gas of mately re- the enemy." PRESIDENT ROBBEN Fleming received yesterday a list of candidates for the post of vice president for the Office of Student Services (OSS). It is now up to Fleming to decide which of the four can- didates he wants for the office. All four appear adequate for the job, interested in representing students and willing to work with the student domin- ated OSS Policy Board. Fleming has indicated that he hopes to announce his decision at the April Re- gents meeting. It is conceivable, however that Fleming will delay or fail to choose any of the names submitted to him by the search committee. It would be unfortunate if the same situation arises that existed before out- going Vice President Robert Knauss was appointed. A list of candidates was pre- sented to Fleming in Feb. 1970, but ac- tion was slow in coming. By the time the appointment was to be made, several people had withdrawn their names while the remaining candidates were found to be unacceptable. After almost two years with an acting vice president Knauss was appointed by Fleming - independent of the search committee action. Such a move by Fleming would defeat the very purpose of having a search com- mittee - students partaking in the selec- tion of University administrators. In addition, failure to act on the list at all in the near future will again leave the office without a permanent director, who gives a sense of direction to the of- fice and helps legitimize the actions of the policy board. THE LIST is a good one and should be seriously considered - and acted upon -without delay. Murray Jackson, a professor in the edu- cation school, has previously held admin- istrative positions at Wayne State Uni- versity, including assistant to the vice president of student affairs. Henry Jackson is associate director of the Program of Educational Opportunity, and a member of the Ann Arbor School Board. Robert Ross, a researcher with the In- stitute of Social Research, has long been active in area radical politics. Elaine Reuben, an assistant English professor at the University of Wisconsin, is a women's rights activist in Madison. THE SEARCH committee has completed its task and the responsibility has passed on to President Fleming to choose a candidate for Regental approval as soon as possible. --JUDY RUSKIN Absentee voters Her C t t : I t i t Letters: Candidate decries vandalism To The Daily: ON BEHALF of the other mem- bers of the GROUP party and myself, I wish to publicly state that the vandalism which defiled the UGLI and the Bus. Ad. Bldg. yesterday was an effort at smear- ing GROUP's name. Neither we, nor any of our supporters have in any way participated in the perpetration of these crimes against the campus. We wish to apologize to the campus for the inconvenience caused them by our political opponents. Unfortunately, today's occur- rence was not an isolated incident. We are confident that the voters will not allow the issues to be clouded, and we urge the votetrs lo read the platforms, speak to the candidates and make rational choices at the polls. - -Bill Jacobs GROUP candidate for SGC President March 21 GROUP issue? To The Daily: THERE SEEMS to be only one issue in this SGC election c a. m- paign: GROUP. Incredible as it to accept a Credentials and Rules Committee (C&R) "stuffed with GROUP moderates." That was not what happened at all. What did happen (and what was admitted by SGC members in front of the Daily reporter) was something far more incredible: The so-called left made a deal be- fore the SGC meeting. The deal was -to vote to appoint a C&R with six, (out of seven) members hostile to GROUP. Rather than see a C&R stack- ed against GROUP, the GROUP members onSGC threatened to walk out (and on March 2 did). Eventually, after six hours of Sneak move' To The Daily: MONDAY, at a "special meet- ing" called at a day's notice, a handful of LSA Student Govern- ment members voted to purge a constitutional amendment fr3m today's ballot and deny students a genuine choice. The amendment would have reformed the govern- ment's lower house, the College Assembly, by enfranchising repre- sentatives of the Residential Col- lege, Pilot Program and other ex- cluded interests. They left the stu- dents but a single choice - to vote dates who did this; Chuck Bar- quist and Susan Mentser (the rest are lame-ducks). -Bob Black Member-at-Large Executive Council LSA Student 'Gvrnuieot TU support To The Daily: RECENTLY certain partisan political groups have been publicly attempting to dissever our candi- dates from the organization thdl represent, The Ann Arbor Ten ants' Union. In particular, Bill Ja- cobs of GROUP has been. using