SGC: CORRUPTION AT THE TOP? See Editorial Page Y Sfri i6a E4aii PROTEAN High-63 Low-44 Sunny and mild, evening showers Vol. LXXXII, No. 149 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, April 14, 1972 Ten Cents Ten Pages HOUSE TO ACT: .* . 'M Senate limits war power WASHINGTON -'- The Senate yesterday approved, 68- 16, a bill to limit the President's power to commit U.S. armed forces in undeclaredI wars. During 11 days of Senate debate, the bill was described by its sponsors as an effort to restore the constitutional au- thority of Congress to participate in war-making decisions. Although the bill exempts hostilities in which U.S. troops now are engaged, sponsors said it is intended to prevent U.S. involvement in another Viet-. nam. ds nanbOpposedby the Nixon Admnin- istration,the bill now goes to the House to an uncertain fate. The House passed, without debate last August a weaker resolution reaf- firming the right of Congress to declare war and recognizing the authority of the President to move on oarwithout prior consent of Congress i emergency situations. The Senate bill would allow the By DAN BIDDLE President to use the armed forces, without approval of Congress, only Central Student Judiciary CSJ), for 30 days and only to repel at- ruled last night to "leave vacant" tack on U.S. territory or armed a contested seat on the Board for forces, forestall the imminent Student Publications and invali- threat of attack, or rescue Amer-. date the election of Ron Landsman icans endangered on foreign soil ('74L) or ships at sea. The decision came in response Continued use of the armed to ex-Student Government Coun- forces in hostilities, beyond 30 cil member Brad Taylor's charge days, would be permitted without that Landsman could not legally approval of Congress only if Con- be given the position. Taylor based gress was physically unable to his argument on a Regents' by-law meet or the President certified it which states that the seat has to was necessary to protect disengag- be filled by an undergraduate. ing troops. The court, however, made its de- Sen. John Stennis (D-Miss.) cision on the grounds that Elec- chairman of the Senate Armed tions Director Dave Schaper vio- Services Committee, said the Unit- lated the SGC Bill of Rights in ed States is already involved in allowing Landsman's candidacy. Vietnam and should "tough it out." But he said, the nation CSJ stated that Schaper "in- should never again become en- fringed on the right to be subject gaged in war without assurance of only to such rules and regulations the moral support of the people as as have been fully and clearly pub- expressed through their elected lished and generally made known representatives in Congress. to everyone concerned," The bill was viewed by its op- In effect, the court ruled that ponents as an unconstitutional at- Schaper did not have the authority tempt to interfere with the Presi- to allow Landsman to run in viola- dent's power as commander-in- tion of the regental law without chief of the armed forces and his a mandate from SGC. constitutional duty to defend the United States. The bill came to the Senate STRIKE'S OUT! floor from its Foreign Relations See Page 9 Committee by unanimous vote aft- er hearings extending over a year. Taylor, who ran second behind The Senate voted down propos- Landsman in the voting for the als to send it to the Judiciary publications board seat, expressed Committee for constitutional stu- satisfaction with the ruling. dy, or to appoint a national com- mission to review the war roles of Co-plaintiff Bill Krebaum, also Congress and the President. an SGC member, said he was Before the final vote, the Senate "glad to see CSJ finally rocking turned down 55 to 27 an amend-1 the'oat a little on these charges." ment by Sen. James Buckley (R- Landsman commented that the Con-N.Y.) to require similar ap-f court "fudged the issue and took proval by Congress for assignment a very narrow view of he facts," of U.S troops to "peacekeeping but added that the decision to forces" under control of the United1 vacate the seat was "not an un- Nations Security Council.f reasonable one." Sponsors of the bill said the U.N.E Prof. L. Hart Wright, the chair- participation act of 1945 already man of the Board of Publications, requires congressional approval of commented that the board would any agreements under which the "have to examine the problem of President may commit troops to -f" cthe United Nations. N. iets seize half Provincial capital on the verge of collapse despite air support From Wire Service Reports SAIGON-Communist forces yesterday captured at least half of provincial capitol An Loc, climaxing the third week of their spring offensive drive --Daily-David Margolick Spring, sprang, sprung Students bask in the midday sun yesterday on People's Plaza, as a local rock band blared. Some fell asleep, some studied for impending exams, dogs barked, but the Happy Daze band played on. OUTLOOK BLEAK: of An Loc Cuts in budget likely An Loc, 60 miles north of Sai- gon, has been the scene of fierce fighting recently. President Ngu- yen Van Thieu has ordered the city "held at all costs." since its downfall could render Saigon's capture imminent. The Communists are said to be in control of An Loc's airport and the entire northern end of the city. with the Fifth Division of the South Vietnamese army- holding the rest. Although U.S. officials allege that- American airstrikes have knocked out half the Com- munist's 60 tanks. it is doubtful that the South Vietnamese can maintain their tenuous ground. A relief column of 20.000 troops remained stalled fifteen miles to the south of An Loc. The force has been in the same position for three days, and cannot advance because of heavy Communist re- sistance. For the North Vietnamese the capture of the provincial capital would mark the high point of the current fifteen day offensive. An Loc controls strategic Highway 13. which is the area's only link with Saigon. More than that, however, the loss of the city would have a tre- mendous impact upon the troops and civilians loyal to the Thieu government. The United States has responded to the crisis by sending in a fleet of B52 bombers which hammered the city with 500 pound bombs for most of the day. No U.S. ground troops have been committed to the struggle and there are no indications that Washington plans to take such action. Some 100 miles west of Saigon, another potential serious trouble spot for the allies continued to fester. A combined South Vietna- mese and Cambodian task force at last reports had counterattacked and pushed Communist troops back very slightly from the center of Kampong Trach, a southern Cam- bodian border town. The Communists h a v e been launching assaults in the area for two weeks, apparently trying to open a long-time invasion route from Cambodia into the Mekong Delta. A North Vietnamese Divi- sion has its base camp some 50 miles inside Cambodia in the area. The Mekong Delta region was seriously weakened militarily when two regiments of South Vietnam's best troops plus armored units were pushed north to help relieve An Loc. TIME'S UP Today is the last day you may register to vote in the May 16 presidential primary. To register, you must have lived in the city 30 days and in the state six months; you cannot have voted or registered in another state within six months. Regis- ter at City Hall, Fifth and Huron. The recent Communist offensive clearly had an effect on the war casualty figures released yester- day. The weekly summary said 12 Americans were killed in combat last week, 32 were wounded and 19 were missing in action. All the See COMMUNISTS, Page 10 -Daily-David Margolick Protest parade Picketers yesterday parade to protest Hoover Ball and Bearing Co.'s alleged involvement with the Indochina war. The parade was organized by People Against the Air War, a group aiming to educate the public about the continuing air war in Southeast Asia. See story below. GULF, GM: Forum on 'U' stock holdings set today By ROBERT BARKIN Should the University, with its almost $3 million worth of Gulf and General Motors stock, vote in favor of a resolu- tion which would force disclosure of information about those corporations' activities in Southern Africa? That is the issue to be discussed at a forum set today in the Union at 2:00. Representatives of the corporations and the insurgent stockholders will debate a proposal which would force the corporations to divulge previously secret informa- for city departments By CHARLES STEIN Several city departments face budget and employe cuts for theI next fiscal year, according to a1 report released this week on the: proposed city budget. According to the report released by the city administrator's office, funds for some of the city's larg- est departments are slated to be cut, and in severaledepartments, including police, fire and public' works, employes may have to be laid off, However, some observers cite tilling the e im p t y seat very thoroughly." Meanwhile, five members of SGC boycotted last night's SGC meet- ing, preventing a two - thirds quorum. The members say they will con- tinue their boycott "until all elec- tions charges are resolved." CSJ is presently considering charges of "gross fraud" in last month's all-campus elections. After five hours of testimony and cross-examination the CSJ could not reach a decision on charges of "gross fraud" in last month's all-campus elections Wed- nesday. The hearing had been called to examine SGC member Joel Silver- stein's allegation of massive bal- lot-stuffing. Chinese table tenniS spar off tomorrow a possible additional income sources ing to Assistant City Administra- - including an eventual settle- tor Kenneth Sheehan. ment between the city and the The city's refuse collection may University, and the possibility of be the hardest hit by the belt- new monies from increased local tightening according to city ad- taxes and federal revenue-sharing ministrators. plans - which may help ease the Included in the new budget is a city's fiscal situation. plan to shift to a system of curb- The proposed budget for 1972- side refuse pickup. This system 73, totaling just over $13 million would allow each collection crew dollars, represents approximately to reduce its number from four to a two per cent increase over this three. This will mean a reduction year's budget, but with the pres- from fifty-four to thirty-five em- eastbetbufltithathncrese.ployes on a city-wide basis, said ent rate of inflation, that increase Bud Greenlick, a Public Works will be completely erased, accord- Department official. Those em- ---_ -~ ployes will have priority in get- ting jobs in other departments, he said. But with the present finan- Splay e cial situation, it is unlikely that a great many positions will be avail- able. ! The police department, the a Trisler city's largest department, is faced with the prospect of laying off ten officers, from their 144-man staff, Eckstein is chairman of the Sheehan said. This decision, how- National Committee on U.S.- ever, rests on the outcome of the China Relations, a' non-political negotiations between the city and group founded in 1966 by aca- the university over police protec- demices interested in improv- tion for the campus. ing public understanding of Until last year, the University mainland China, paid 18 per cent of the city's po- The National Committee was lice budget, which came to over approached by the U.S. Table half a million dollars. Those pay- Tennis Association after its ments were ordered stopped by visit to China last year to help Governor Milliken, however, when bring the Chinese here, and was it was learned that Ann Arbor was responsible for raising funds the only city in the state that ex- and making the necessary ar- acted such payments from a 10- See CHINESE, Page 7 See CITY, Page 10 Picketers protest at local plant By. MERYL GORDON Seventy demonstrators picketed the Hoover Ball and Bearing Com- pany yesterday, passing out leaf- lets to protest the company's in- volvement with government war contracts. The demonstration, sponsored by People Against the Air War (PAAW) was designed to "make the workers more aware of what they're producing." Upon arrival at the plant, dem- onstrators learned that the com- pany no longer produces war ma- terial. The company has engaged in the production of such mater- ial in the recent past, however. PAAW claims that Hoover made steel pellets that were used in anti-personnel cluster bombs in Vietnam. PAAW spokeswoman Ar- lene Griffin said, "They told us that the only reason they don't See PICKETERS, Page 10 tion about their operations in South Africa and Angola. Last year, in a related case, the Project for Corporate Responsibil- ity asked the University to vote against GM's management on the South Africa issue. At that time, the Regents refused that sugges- tion and voted with the manage- ment. The Senate Assembly Advisory Committee on University Affairs, the faculty executive body is spon- soring the forum. If the committee decides to vote in favor of the disclosures, they will present a recommendation to that effect to Wilbur Pierpont, vice-president for financial affairs. If the Regents do not accept the recommendation, the commit- tee can still attach a letter to the Regent's decision expressing their concern about the issue to the corporations. At issue is the involvement of these corporations in Africa. Gulf has operations in Angola, one of the last colonial areas in Africa. The charges are that Gulf sup- ports the Portuguese government, which owns the colony, by subsi- dizing its armed forces. The charge against GM is that its operations in the Union of South Africa support apartheid by paying black workers at lower rates than whites for comparable jobs. By SUSAN BROWN International relations arrive at the University tomorrow in the form of the People's Re- public of China world champion table tennis team. The University is the only campus scheduled to be toured during the team's two-week stay in the United States. But it will be a whirlwind tour with prob- ably more American reporters and security people than Chi- nese seeing the sights. The 28-person Chinese en- tourage will include 14 table tennis players headed by Chu- ang Tse-tung, three times men's singles world champion, two members of the All - China Sports Federation, four inter- preters and eight reporters. They will be accompanied by the U.S. table tennis team, four American interpreters - one of whom, Vee-ling Edwards, is from the University's Center for Chinese studies-several Amer- ican journalists, an unknown number of security guards from the State Department and con- tingents of Ann Arbor police and University security men. Representatives of the State Department yesterday met with Ann Arbor Police Chief Walter Krasny and University Director of Safety Director Frederick Davids about laying out security precautions. Krasny had no comment except that "it's all in their (the State Dept.'s) hands." Daivds later commented that the precautions "aren't elabor- ate" and there will be more people to handle traffic than security. He acknewledged that there will bP security agents in the crowd but said he doesn't WRONG NUMBER? Beware of friendly notes from Ma Bell By GENE ROBINSON If you are a local telephone owner, you have probably receiv- ed a polite notice cheerfully ask- ing you if you want your tele- phone service disconnected for the summer. Read the notice care- fully: The money you save may be your own. c Eonb 1uer1EkE in the company's offices to instal- lation of as many phones as de- sired. Persons planning to live in the same residence in the fall are the most likely to be hurt by the new policy as they ma-y unknowingly have their phones disconnected for the summer. In actuality, it is just as cheap to leave them in- stalled. phones placed on "suspension," under which no calls can be, made but the actual telephone lines remain connected. Suspension costs half the 'mon- thly rate - for most people only $2.50 per month - and carries with it no charge for renewal of phone service. Even students planning to be away for the entire summer would i