PASS/NO ENTRY GRADING See Editorial Page Y 41fr41!tau A& 4br :43 a t t4H RECIDIVOUS High-63 Low-45 Windy, possibility of showers Vol. LXXXII, No. 148 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, April 13, 1972 Ten Cents Ten Pages No decision, *made on SGC fraud charge By DAN BIDDLE After five hours of testimony and cross-examination the Central Student Judiciary (CSJ) could not reach a decision last night on charges of "gross fraud" in last month's all- campus elections. The hearing, which lasted into the early hours of the morning, had been called to examine SGC member Joel Key city may fall, bombing continues Silverstein's allegation of ma Meanwhile Elections Dir named as a possible defends announced that he will file for "slanderous and libelous r The suit will deal with an G;ovt. hits two firms , 0 on profits WASHINGTON (R) - The Price Commission has ordered two firms it found to have excess pro- fit margins to roll back prices within 10 days. Yesterday's action came a day after the government said review of financial reports showed 20 per cent of the nation's biggest businesses appeared to have high- er profit margins than allowed ' under current economic controls. Browning - Ferris Industries, Inc., a waste - management firm based in Houston, and Harvest Markets, Inc., food retailers of Buffalo, N.Y., were ordered to re- duce the selling prices of goods and services. In addition, the Price Com- mission ordered International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. to make refunds to purchasers of brake-shoe products put out by Aimco Industries, Inc., a subsidi- ary: The commission said refunds of the difference between the base price and selling prices must be made for Aimco sales between Jan. 3, and Feb. 23, 1972. Donald Rumsfeld, director of the Cost of Living Council, said Tuesday that 24 of 105 quarter- ly reports studied showed unac- ceptable profit margins. These firms, he said, "run the risk of being found in violation of the stabilization - program regula- tions if they are unable to justify their reports." The statement by Rumsfeld seems to back up at least in part the charges made by critics of Nixon's economic plan, who have said that big business is accum- ulating high profits despite the price control program. However, some, of the critics, including AFL - CIO President George Meany, have said that business was accumulating high profits even while following the regulations prescribed by the Pay Board. All firms with annual sales above $50 million a year are re- quired to make quarterly reports to the commission. The spokes- See PRICE, Page 10 assive ballot-stuffing. ector David Schaper, who is ant in the fraud charge, has a legal suit against Silverstein emarks." earlier statement by Silverstein -accusing Schaper of ballot- stuffing in last November's SGC elections. Silverstein said his charge was based on state- ments made to him by former SGC officer Jay Hack several weeks ago. Silverstein and Schaper have both refused to comment further on the suit. Last night's CSJ hearing began the final series of proceedings in a month-long controversy over the validity of the all-campus elec- tions. The court heard testimony from chemistry Prof. A. A. Gordus, who contended that his analysis of 500 sample ballots "implies conclusive- ly that about 400 of the 5,229 votes were fraudulently cast for GROUP." Gordus said his conclusion was reached on the basis of "highly irregular patterns" in the manner in which certain ballots in his sample had been filled out. In cross-examination SGC mem- bers Marty Scott of GROUP and Curt Steinhauer of the Respon- sible Alternative Party (RAP) cited faults in Gordus' methods. The defense also claimed possible political bias on Gordus' part. Silverstein then called Schaper to the stand and attempted to show possible conflict of interest in his position as Elections Direc- tor. However Schaper denied "any possible connection" between his recent appointment as SGC Treas- urer and his actions as Elections Director. Silverstein then presented what he described as "clincher evi- dence"-the allegation that several of the "questionable" s a m p l e GROUP ballots showed impressions made from ballots on top of them. Silverstein contended that sucht impressions "could not have been made in the normal voting pro- cedure." Scott and Steinhauer attempted to further disprove the validity of1 Gordus' findings by presentingt their own e x p e r t witnesses -1 GROUP member John Koza, who. has written computer programs for the last four SGC elections, nuclear physics Prof. Mark Ross, and as- sistant Prof. Ed Rothman of the statistics department. All three men challenged the accuracy of Gordus' "random sample;" Ross claimed that Gor- dus had drawn a "faulty correla- tion between marking patterns andt voting patterns." ---Daily-Jim Judkis Diag protest About 150 people rally on the Diag yesterday in response to the recent stepping-up of U.S. air power in Indochina. The protest, organized by People Against the Air War (PAAW), was a prelude to a march on the Hoover Ball and Bearing Company today. PAAW alleges that the Hoover company produces steel pellets used by U.S. planes in bombing raids. 200 MARSH: CPHA stri~ke conti~nues From Wire Service Reports - -- - -- - ---- - SAIGON - As American B52s}4a. continued rtheir intense bombing raids on North Vietnam, a column ~ of North Vietnamese tanks and infantrymen drove into the be-> siegedtprovincial capital of An Loc today, 60 miles north of Saigon. Although sources of the Army of South Vietnam (ARVN) reported the town, under siege for a week,> to be holding, at least two tanks have penetrated govenment de- fenses. U.S. and S o u t h Vietnamese bombers attacked what was said to be a column of 40 tanks, which moved southward from the district town of Loc Ninh, taken by Com- munist forces last week. The waves of bombers launched heavy attacks on two sides of An Loc within one and two miles of the city limits. A column of about 20,000 ARVN troops is trying to move northward along the highway stretching from An Loc to Saigon to relieve the siege on the beleaguered provincial capital. Their progress 'thus far however has been slow. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu has ordered An Loc to be held at all costs, as its capture by Communist forces would pose a direct threat to Sai- gon. Meanwhile, Communist forces shelled the Da Nang air base and Phu Bai, biggest U.S. installations in the northern part of South Vietnam, causing at least 17 cas- ualties and damaging ten aircraft. There were also renewed at- tecks on a key northern position Black revolutionary Angela Davis, prepares to head by forces of the Army of! Sot V etnam tARV . Amrain as she leaves the Santa Clara County Cou Rpublican congressional lead Davis is currently being tried for alleged in ers. sfter meeting with President Soledad Brothers shootout, in which a judge w Nixon yesterday, said, "we hon- estly don't know" whether Nixon DEMAND CLASSROOMS: 1il cont.inue withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam after May 1. Field reports said Communist troorm have surrounded Fire Base Rss+oQne.12 pmiles southwest of the imperial capital of Hue and 60 miles south of the demilitarized zone. During the 1968 Tet offen- save. it was a drive through the base that led to the capture of Hue. The siege at Bastogne was so, effective that resupply helicopters By MARTIN STERN the matter. I were unable to land for the third Eighty demonstrators marched noting thata day because of anti-aircraft fire. into the offices of five campus ad- ciate Paul Sp About 100 wounded ARVN troops ministrators yesterday, to protest of finding sp are reported to be stranded await- what they called a misallocation After again inU medical evacuation. of facilities at Couzens Hall. port for the g S U.S. bombers have encountered Tedmntaos l eiet asked to join rpoor weather conditions in the The demonstrators, all residentsasetoji past several days over North Viet of the dorm, staged the protest in tily declined t nas. hamerin dair stre. Ho- opposition to the University's cur- The demon nam, hampering air strikes. How- rent policy of leasing rooms at to the Admini ever, the 130 B52s stationed in Couzens to nurses in the Public Vice Presiden Indochina have continued to fly Health department for offices and fairs Allan S bombing missions, particularly inclassrooms, testers. Smot] the An Loc area, hurryassroe There are now over 700 Amer- The residents say the practice krr t leav ican planes in Indochina or on is depriving them of needed space wor on e I nearby aircraft carriers. As a re- for classes being held at Couzens. er of prese sult of the reinforcements that The key point of the demon- solve a space i have arrived during the current stration was a visit to President utes with 80 offensive, there are close to 150,- Robben Fleming's office. Richard he declared 000 Americans in Southeast Asia Kennedy, Secretary of the Uni- The group t or stationed nearby as part of the versity, told the demonstrators lin's office. Seventh Fleet. Fleming was out of town. overheard th North Vietnamese gunners have He listened to the complaints announced t kept up their heavy shelling at- and invited the group to meetto-manngnc C tacks on government bases in the day with him, and possibly Flem- parties conce central highlands, about 240 miles ing. up for next T north of Saigon. The group's protest began at When ask At Phu Bai, about 100 Amei- the Student Activities Bldg., where takin s Io can GI's refused to move into an they confronted Director of Hous- deknts'reue area under attack before finally ing John Feldkamp. mitted last consenting to do so. They believed In the heated discussion that said that un the situation to be too dangerous, e n s u e d, Feldkamp repeatedly ignorant of th Their battalion commander, Lt. maintained that he was on the "We just r Col. Frederick Mitchell, assailed side of the demonstrators. problem. I Y newsmen who were present when "We're all with you. However, weeks ago, a the incident took place. the critical thing is where we can official notifi "All you press are bastards," find spare room to relocate the ter just las Ihe said. "I blame you for this and nurses," explained Feldkamp ttd you can quote me on it."h d One student noted that the Pub- stated. Two South Vietnamese were lic Health Bldg. had extra space, One studen See N VIETS, Page 10 and urged Feldkamp to check into See CO as picket line expands By SUE STEPHENSON day, to show just who's really that they would "strike until we involved." get it." Entering its seventh week, the G strike against the Commission on Gathering a r o u n d - in-coming Newly elected Councilman Jerry Professional and Hospital Activi- cars, strikers shouted, "Scab! De Grieck (HRP-First Ward) was ties (CPHA) intensified yesterday Scab! Go home, scab!" and chant, an active participant in the picket as picket lines swelled from a, .Union shop no cops, strike break- lines, while councilmen Lloyd Fair- usal dozen protesters to around ing s gotta stop." banks (R-Fifth W a r d), Norris 200. When the shifts changed, the Thomas (D-First Ward), and Nel- ks s gspicketers blocked the driveway exit son Meade (D-Third Ward), and Workers are striking the hos- until uniformed police officers Mayor Robert Harris said they pital information company be- marched through in a double were present mainly as observers. cause of the plant's management's column and split the crowd holding Asked why he was there, and if refusal to grant them a closed them back for strike-breakers to he supported the strikers, Meade union shop. pass by. replied that he wanted to see the Supporting the strikers were: ' The president of the UAW Local situation for himself, and that he CPHA employes, students, UAW .782 Duke Armstrong, expressed his certainly supported the strikers. Local 157, UAW Local 782, UAW , feelings on the situation when he Local 898-itself composed of 4500 saings"Mnathestudoenhe workers all in support of the said, "Management doesn't have CPHAer sllrik ndshpprnfstme a God given right to run a scab TIM E IS CPHA strike-and children, some shop, but we have a goddamni as young as 10 months. right to strike." I -Associated Press enter a drizzling rthouse yesterday. volvement in the as killed. tents- ist Feldkamp protested, administration asso- r'adlin was in charge are spaces. restating his sup- group, Feldkamp was the protest. He has- the offer. stration next moved istration Bldg. where .t for Academic Af- rmith faced the pro- h said he was in a e, but that he would 'equest in the future. iattacked the man- ntation. "I can not problem in ten min- people in my office," hen moved to Sprad- Spradlin, who had e talk with Smith, o the group that a "ouzens Hall of all rned has been set Thursday. d why his office was g to act on the stu- ts, which were sub- December, Spradlin til recently he was he whole affair. eally learned of the heard of it a few nd received my first cation of the mat- t Friday," Spradlin at expressed concern UZENS, Page 10 Mike Sapiro, a spokesman for the strikers, explained that the "women brought their children to- Sapiro would give "when our goal of would be obtained," no predictions a union shop but he added STANFORD UNIT You must register by Ap- ril 14 to be eligible in Michi- gan's May 16 primary. It is possible to register in the Fishbowl from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and at the City Clerk's office until 8 p.m. Friday. Group links DOD research to war By ROBERT BARBER Dispatch News service STANFORD, Calif. - A group of Stan- ford University students has uncovered evidence that every research project fund- ed by the Defense Department has direct military application. According to the Stanford group, no research, however "basic," is funded by the Pentagon unless both military experts and a joint committee of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council agree the project has direct military relevance. The Stanford Workshop on Political and Social Issues (SWOPSI) is the group that made the disclosure. SWOPSI claims it was given documents from the Defense Documentation Center (DDC), a store- house of information on defense projects. SWOPSI matched all Stanford projects to specific military requirements. A Stan- ford project entitled "Fundamental In- vestigations of Amorphous Semiconductors and Transition Metal Oxides" was shown Radicals have claimed that all federal- ly-funded research is war-related; and the SWOPSI findings constitute the first real evidence to support their claims. The first volume of the SWOPSI re- port, published in June, 1971, listed uni- versity and DDC statements for all 111 defense projects at Stanford. Several Stanford professors attacked the validity of the interpretations given their work by the DDC. After publication of the first volume, In those meetings he was given another set of documents of whose existence the group was unaware: research objectives handbooks for each branch of the mili- tary. These handbooks - the Army's "Military Themes for Oriented Research of High Scientific Merit", "The Air Force Research Objectives," and the "Naval Re- search Requirements" - are used by mili- tary contract monitors in dealing with prospective researchers. In response to a workshop questionnaire, Also present to "see for him- self," Fairbanks said he was -not sure that he supported the strik- ers, claiming that he didn't know enough about the situation. Thomas the police I'd rather self." was there "to see behave themselves see it first hand, that and my- Albers says the Pentagon representatives "stressed over and over again that nothing was funded unless military applications were expected. One claimed never to have heard the 'science- for-science s-sake argument." In a discussion with several of the strikers, Thomas voiced his viewpoint that they must "be careful on whom they impose a union ship." Going on, Thomas ex- pressed overall favor of unioniza- tion, but not necessarily union shops, which he felt, from per- sonal experience, did not always represent those people it was in- tended to represent. However when asked if he sup- ported the CPHA strikers, Thomas replied, "I sure do." Approximately 24 uniformed of- ficers, four plain clothes officers- one operating a movie camera during the strike-and one police- COMMUNISM CHARGED Foreign author barred By TED STEIN and REBECCA WARNER A Guatemalan writer on his way to speak at a conference here wassdenied entrance to the United States Tuesday night when he refused to tell immi- gration officials whether he was a communist. A u g u s t o Monterroso was told Monterroso was excluded "on the basis of confidential in- formation." Kennedy said he verbally ex- tended an apology to Monterroso on behalf of the University and that an official apology will probably be extended soon. Monterroso, a professor at Mexico's National University in Stanford Associate Dean of Research William Rambo arranged for the study group to meet with three members of the Pentagon research hierarchy, believing, ac- nn- i r F :r n c ___,mh T~,m l n., 35 per cent of defense researchers at Stan- ford said they would rather do other re- search but are forced to turn to the De- fense Department for money. Workshop U