Pontiac busing comes of age By HOWARD BRICK Special To The Daily PONTIAC, Mich. - "When I was a kid, I went to school with the Negro people and I wouldn't let my kids do it," he told me over the country music blaring from his car radio. "The colored people are going to have to change before I'd let my kids go to school with them. They're going to have to get weaker in the way they get along with other people." I had head that Pontiac"s white population was made up largely of Archie Bunker bigots. The man who picked me up on the road into Pontiac actually lived in neigh- boring Highland, but he fit the stereotype well. A lot of whites in Pontiac feel their children are being bused into unsafe neighborhoods to attend inferior schools. They also don't want blacks bused into their neighborhoods, and in the fall in- coming black students were often greeted with jeers and insults. Racism was apparent throughout the entire affair. Even though things have calm- ed considerably since then, there are still many white parents keep- ing their children home from school rather than have them bused into black neighborhoods. And Irene McCabe, head of NAG (National Action Group) is keep- ing up the fight against busing as she and some followers con- tinue their marathon protest march from Michigan to Wash- ington D.C. I In the midst of all the contro- versy, black and white children are going to school together and, in fact, seem to get- along with each other fairly well in spite of their parents' fears. The children of Pontiac are teaching their parents that peo- ple of different races can live to- gether and learn something from the experience at the same time. As one group of seventh graders from Jefferson Junior High puts it, "We can make it work." Jefferson is on the south side of the city, in the middle of the black neighborhood. Last year, the school was 99 per cent black. Now it is approximately 60 per cent white and 40 per cent black, and has a teaching staff with similar proportions of whites to blacks. To facilitate integration, Jeffer- son has been made into a seventh grade school. All seventh graders in the west side of the city go to Jefferson, all eighth graders in the west side go to Washington Junior High, and all ninth graders go to Lincoln Junior High. Asked what he thought about Jefferson, one white boy said, "It's a good school. I like it. It has lots of trophies and a pretty good teaching staff." And the twenty- minute bus trip that gets him there? "Oh, the bus ride's fun," he said. "My parents didn't want it (busing) at first," the boy told me, "but now they think it's okay." "Our greatest spokesmen are our students," Principal Darryl Lee said. Generally, parental op- position to busing has decreased, he feels, as a result of school chil- dren reporting to their parents about the realities of integrated school life. "Those that were worried about inferior staff and an unsafe neighborhood have had their fears allayed," Lee said. In fact, Lee proudly notes, Jef- ferson has the highest grade point average of all secondary schools in Pontiac. According to students, teachers, and administrators at the school, black and white students are get- ting along very well. Many white and black students told me they have made friends with members of the opposite race and that in- cidents of interracial conflict were almost non-existent. A black teacher said that the school has had "not one fight this year with racial overtones" and one student said that the only fights he has witnessed have been between members of the same race. See BUSING, Page 8 THE NEW .OSS VF See Editorial Page Y Sfri~iari ~~IAit PRECIPITIOUS High-57a Low-40 Cloudy, chance of showers a Vol. LXXXII, No. 151 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, April 16, 1972 Ten Cents .s. B52s pound Haiphong, other Eight Pages cities 0 1in N. Vietnam; ARYN situation worsens * Arrests * * mark air war demonstration By TAMMY JACOBS Special To The Daily WASHINGTON, D.C. - Police arrested some 225 of 800 anti-bombing protestors when they staged a sit-down protest in a park across the street from the White House yesterday, defying a police ban on the dem- onstration. Doctors hit Beard heart attack clai-m WASHINGTON (P) - Two doctors who independently examined International Tele- phone and Telegraph Corp. (ITT) lobbyist, Dita' Beard, before she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee saidyesterday they found no evidence of heart disease. Though not completely ruling out another doctor's diagnosis that Beard had angina pectoris, Drs. Joseph Snyder and Ray Pry- or of Denver said, "There were no positive findings from a physical examination, elec- tro-cardiogram or chest x-rays. In a telegra'm to Senate Judiciary Com- mittee chairman Sen. James Eastland (D- Miss.), the two doctors said the only evi- dence that Beard has a heart condition came from her own descriptions of chest pains. Beard is the alleged author of an ITT memo published by Columnist Jack Ander- son which links ITT's pledge of at least $200,000 to the Republican national conven- tion with the out-of-court settlement of three government antitrust suits against the conglomerate. In early March, she was hospitalized at the Rocky Mountain Osteopathic Hospital in Denver under the care of Dr. Lewis Ra- detsky. She was recently dismissed from the hospital but has remained in Denver. Twelve other protestors were arrested aft- er they staged traffic disruptions near the White House and still others marched to the offices of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, where they picketed the virtually empty building for a half-hour. 1 The day of demonstrations - which were held without a permit after organizers failed to give fifteen days notice of the-event to police - was organized by The People's Co- alition for Peace and Justice, the sponsor of many previous protests across the nation. The 225 arrested in the park were pro- cessed by park police last night, and charged with demonstrating without a permit, a misdemeanor. Collateral was set at $50 - protestors seeking a court hearing were giv- en hearing dates but most opted to simply forfeit the collateral, a park police spokes- man said last night. Yesterday's scenario was a familiar one for veteran anti-war protestors. It began with a gathering in the morning at St. Ste- phens church in Northwest Washington. There, movement leaders spoke' and it was decided that "people should make up their own minds whether they want to get bust- ed" during the actions. At noon, the group left the church for the almost three mile march south to Lafayette Park. The march itself was legal, one metro- politan policeman said, since the demon- strators kept moving on the sidewalks and did not block traffic. Almost two hours later, singing and chanting, "stop the bombing, end the war," and other slogans, the group arrived at La- fayette Park, where about a dozen com- mercial buses manned by park police were waiting, along with several dozen mounted police officers. Police loudspeakers gave half a dozen warnings to clear the park, and after the majority of the demonstrators moved north police began escorting those remaining to the buses. Daily-Bob Wargo Members of the Chinese team chat with students. (For more pictures, see page 3) Chinese table tennis team met by warm welcome, little competition B52s hit port city for first time in war From Wire Service Reports The U.S. Command sent up to 100 B52s and attack-bombers against the North Viet- namese port city of Haiphong before dawn today as Saigon forces battled desperately on three different fronts in South Vietnam. The command said the bombers struck other cities in North Vietnam, but refused to specify them. It was the first tiine in the war B52s have raided as far north as Hai- phong. 275 miles north of the demilitarized zone. Each B52 carries up to 30 tons of bombs. Fighting continued and escalated in three areas of South Vietnam. Saigon Govern- ment troops battled to hold on to defenses west of the imperial capital of Hue, and fled from a base in the Central Highlands. Meanwhile, anti-Saigon forces announced yesterday they have taken the key provin- cial capital of An Loc, although this was strenuously denied by U.S. military sources. It was reported yesterday that journalists seeking to enter An Loc had been denied access by ARVN troops and were not al- lowed to move up Highway 13. Haiphong has been the major receiving point of North Vietnam for military sup- plies. U.S. bombers had blown up what mili- tary sources said were fuel storage tanks and pumping stations in 1966, but bomb- ing in the area slackened the following year and President Johnson halted all bombing in 1968. Yesterday's raids were ordered by Presi- dent Nixon in retaliation to the 18-day old offensive of anti-Saigon forces. A military communique claimed that targets in the raids were "logistical facilities" such ,as fuel dumps, warehauses, and truck parks. The communique made no mention of dock facilities, cranes or any other installa- tions in the immediate harbor. It has been U.S. policy to avoid bombing the immediate harbor because of the danger of damaging Soviet ships, but officials made no com- mentbas todwhether the harbor itself had been bombed. While U.S. spokesmen said they had no plane losses to report over North Vietnam, Radio Hanoi said five U.S. jets were shot down yesterday over the demilitarized zone. The attacks on Haiphong followed a ma- jor buildup in U.S. airpower in Indochina, which hasexpanded to a force of over 700 planes in the past week. Inside today's Daily: Books and Arts Supplement Gabler onn'The Godfather' John Sinclair's 'Prison Notes' Interview with Jorge Luis Borges Angela Davis John Aldridge: A Review SDS Revisited Pat Oleszko's 'Body Art' As the bombingwas extended toeHa- phong, U.S.' air attacks continued in several By SUE BROWN AND DIANE LEVICK Yesterday was a big day in Ann Arbor. Curious on-lookers - both friendly and otherwise - turned out to greet the visit- ing table tennis champions from the Peo- ple's Republic of China and tried to catch a glimpse of them as they swept around campus, played a brief exhibition in Crisler Arena, and then were gone. It all started around 10 a.m. in front of the Union. The banners were there: "Warmest Wel- come Team from the Motherland" and "Long Live Friendship of American & Chi- nese Peoples." And standing beneath them on the front steps of the Union was an ever- increasing crowd, waiting anxiously for the hour-overdue visitors. At 10:25 a.m. they finally came. They en- tered, however, through the side door - the first of many frustrations for onlook- ers trying to touch, talk to, hear or even see the Chinese team. Detroit Democratic Crowd goes wild at Wallace rally By JONATHAN MILLER Special To The Daily DETROIT "Governor George" packed 'em in for two performances at the State Fairgrounds last night drawing ten thou- sand sweaty, screaming, red, white and blue toting self-confessed "and proud of it" members of the "silent majority" to a vir- tuoso performance of political acumen and country music. > hopefuls talk in The Chinese team's bus.was joined by a second bus of American players and officials and a third of press. Once at the Union, they were joined by University officials and mend, bers of the Chinese Studies program and the Chinese Students Association. In addition to all that, there were plain- clothes security men everywhere. The Chi- nese were somewhat lost in the crowd. After some quick refreshments, Regent Gertrude Huebner (R-Bloomfield Hills) and Vice President for Academic Affairs Allan Smith greeted the Chinese via inter- preter. Smith presented them with navy blue Michigan windbreakers, one of which team leader Chuang Tse-tung tried on amid laughter and applause. University President Robben Fleming was unable to be present for the reception. The police-escorted motorcade of buses and limousines took an abbreviated tour of campus, proceeding to North Campus and Bursley where the entourage, despite some confusion, managed to eat a quick lunch with the dorm residents. The group then rushed to Crisler Arena and played table tennis for approximately 45 minutes giving their American competi- tors a sound thrashing. Then they rushed off again for Metro airport, come and gone in a flurry of smiles, waving hands and a cloud of dust. The intense security precautions sur- rounding- the visit frustrated not only the Respectable' Dems talk at Cobo Hall By JIM O'BRIEN Special To The Daily DETROIT - Vietnam was the issue as three of the major contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination ad- dressed top Michigan Democrats at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner at Cobo Hall last night. The $50-a-plate dinner, an annual fund- raising event sponsored by the Democratic .. f" .ra .