CONGRESS AND THE CONSUMER See Editorial Page YI e lJE~fr iba :4Ia itM FOOTBALLISH High-71 Low-45 Cloudy and mild Vol. LXXXII, No. 32 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, October 16, 1971 Ten Cents Eight Pages GOP sues Harris on veto use Ward board also included in suit State funding cutback seen by Regents Mayor Rol PROTESTS PLAN Woman o1 for havin DELAND, Fla. (i--Shirley a 103 year-old state law by h on two .years' probation yesterd Florida and return to relatives "I don't think they had a tion," she said as she left the co "I was told I could stay in don't believe in marriage. I won The housewife said the or year-old~ Robert Wheeler, the ~ Aort ion reform in court By JAN BENEDETTI Special To The Daily DETROIT - Wayne County Cir- cuit Court Judge Charles Kaufman yesterday considered a request for a temporary injunction against the enforcement of Michigan's abor- tion laws. The court, however, made no decision and postponed the case to Oct. 29. at which ,time more testi- mony will be heard. The injunction request is part of By CHRIS PARKS ,.. Republican members of city council have filed suit against Democratic Mayor R o b e r t Harris and the members of the Democratically-controlled Ward Boundary commission, intensifying their battle to gain a controlling influence in city redistricting. The suit, filed in Washtenaw County Circuit Court, seeks a de- claratory judgment on Harris Sept. 20 veto of a Republican backed resolution to add two Re- publicans to the boundary com- mission. Further, the suit challenges the legality of the entire commis- bert Harris sion as presently constituted, charging that commission mem- -- -- __- bers were not duly sworn-in as ED required by the city charter. L .EDThe commission, appointed last January by Harris and unani- mously approved by council, was fl directed to redraw the city's ward S rob atio boundaries based on the 1970 census but has been unable to be- cause census tracts have not yet g abortion been received. a o r io Early in September the Rpbi cans introduced a motion to coun- Wheeler, convicted of violating cil calling for the addition to the Wheeerconvcte of7-man commission of two Repub- aving an abortion, was placed lican councilmen, changing the lay and given one week to leave balance from 4-3 in favor of the in North Carolina. Democrats, to 5-4 for the Repup- ny right to put me on proba- licans. house here. The motion passed by Council 'urthoshe. was subsequently vetoed by the Florida if I got married, but I mayor who charged the Republi- n't do that." cans with trying to pack the der will force her to leave 25- commission. man with whom she has been An attempt to override the veto' last week fell two votes short of living for 31/2 years, and under the necessary eight vote major- whose name she was charged. ity required by the charter. Meanwhile, women's g r o u p s Councilman James Stephenson around the country are planning (R-4th Ward) said last night that demonstrations in s u p p o r t of the suit filed on Thursday is an Wheeler. attempt . to challenge whether According to Kip D a w s o n, Harris has "the legal authority" spokeswoman for the Women's to exercise the veto in such mat- National Abortion Action Coali- ters. tion (WONAAC), marches in pro- Under the charter, Stephenson test of Wheeler's conviction will ' claims. the Mayor is not empow- take place in Detroit, New York, ered to veto resolutions pertain- Cleveland, Denver, Boston, Atlan- ing to boards and commissions. ta, and Philadelphia next Thurs- Harris, contacted last night, de- day. nied Stephenson's contention stat- In addition, it is expected that ing that when a commission is to women's groups from Seattle, be constituted "in the usual way" Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego, (appointment by the mayor and and Albuquerque will participate subject to council approval) the in a march in San Francisco. mayor does have veto power over Wheeler, 23, was convicted last moves made by council. July of having an abortion. She See REPUBLICANS, Page 8 faced a maximum penalty under By CARLA RAPOPORT With expressions of concern, the Regents yesterday re- viewed a mechanism for general fund cutbacks which had been drawn up at the request of the governor's office. According to official sources, the cutbacks-which could amount to two per cent of the general fund budget--will be made half through an across-the-board budget cut in every University department and half through general cutbacks in non-academic areas. The looming imposition of a cut in the University's $78.1 million state appropriation stems from a state law which empowers the governor to cut all appropriations up to three -Daily-Jim Wallace REGENT ROBERT BROWN (R-Grand Rapids), left, reacts to discussion at yesterday's Regents meeting, as President Robben Fleming and Regent Lawrence Lindemer (R-Stockbridge) look on. Proposal for student advocate receives approva y Regents By JOHN MITCHELL After a year of formulation and debate, the Regents yesterday ap- proved a proposal establishing a University ombudsman, despite a lack of budgeting and procedural formulation. The ombudsman position, pro-' posed and to be administered by the Office of Student Services (OSS), entails handling any prob- lems incurred by students in their dealings with faculty members or University administrative offices. "This will, if budgeted, add an essential service to our office," said Vice President for Student Services Robert Knauss. "In a Uni- versity this large many students find it difficult to resolve even the simplest of problems." Knauss stressed that although the Regents approved the provi- sion, action will not be taken until funds become available. A three per cent University-wide budget cut may be ordered by Gov. William Milliken before the end of the year. This would mean post- ponement of the ombudsman plan for- an indefinite amount of time, said Knauss. "This is an example of another fine program which is threatened by Milliken's possible cuts," Re- gent Lawrence Lindemer (R-Stock- ridge) said yesterday after the meeting. "But if the budget cut is not made," Knauss said later, "we hope to have the ombudsman work- ing by the winter term." per cent if he deems it nec- essary to balance the budget. Throughout the 45 minute meet- ing yesterday morning, various Regents expressed their dismay with the impending cutbacks and lauded the administration's at- tempts to conserve funds. Governor W i 11 i a m Milliken's budget bureau requested last week that each state department, in- eluding the University, promptly submit a description of the "im- pact" a cutback would have on their programs. Speaking at the Regents public meeting yesterday, President Rob- ben Fleming said the University has advised the budget bureau that a cutback now in state appro- priations would essentially mean no "new" funds for the school and a virtual, freeze on personnel ap- pointments, remodeling and plant expansion. Fleming, h o w e v e r, confirmed that no faculty salaries or student aid funds will be touched in the event of a cutback. In feverishly planning for the impending cutbacks during the past week, the executive officers last week opened the dgors of their traditionally sequestered b u d g e t meetings to consult heavily with top faculty members. The administration made this move in apparent response to in- creased faculty clamor for input into budgetary decisions which af- fect their departments' future op- erations. Last year, in anticipation of a tight budget situation, University officials ordered all units to make plans for saving three per cent of their salary budget for fiscal year '71-'72 which was then reallocated into the general fund. ''There was a tremendous gnash- ing of teeth over the across-the- board cuts last year," said psy- chology Prof. Warren Norman, chairman of SACUA, the faculty's executive body and a participant in last week's budget meetings. "This year, we have the beginnings of meaningful faculty involvement in budgetary decisions." See FUND, Page 8 Norman talks on research Geoffrey Norman, vice president for research, reported to the Re- gents yesterday that while re- search expenditures at $1.2 million less in fiscal year 1971-72 than the previous year, the "pinch of na- tional cutbacks in research sup- port has not been so painful" at the University as it has been at other institutions. Looking at the University's ex- penditures of its $68.1 million re- search program by broad fields, Norman reported that the life sciences segment continued to grow, and is now almost forty per cent of the total volume of re- search. The physical sciences and engineering segments, on the other hand, continued to decline. In other action, the Regents yesterday approved a resolution encouraging all students to regis- ter to vote and urged the Uni- versity officials to aid city voter registration processes. Sen. Kennedy -Daily-Robert Wargo VICE PRESIDENT Robert Knauss listens to discussion at Regents' meeting yesterday. the1868law00years,thesame as a manslaughter conviction. A AITING APPEAL I a class action- suit filed by over 1,000 Michigan women who seek to have the state abortion laws declared unconstitutional. A group of Detroit women and lawyers filed the suit last summer! against Attorney General Frank Kelley and Wayne County Prosecu- tor William Cahalan. The women argued that the ex- isting laws infringe on a woman's right to privacy and control over her own body. Represented by Barbara Robb and a team of Detroit lawyers, the 1 plaintiffs argued yesterday that the temporary injunction is necessary to protect women who have abor- tions before a final decision is made regarding the constitution- ality of the laws. The suit was organized by the Detroit chapter of the Women's *National Abortion Action Coalition (WONACC) and financed complete- ly through donations. According to her lawyer, Public' Defender James Robers, Wheeler's " probation officer gave her the N ew b ri choice either to get married or to'e iewt eltvsbcuecm live with relatives because com- mon-law marriages are illegal in LANSING (YP)-Leni Sinclair yes-i Florida. terday announced that "several' Wheeler's probation officer also thousand pages" of briefs are be- orohibited her from going into ing filed in an effort to get her bars and staying out all night dur- imprisoned husband, John Sinclair, ina her two-year probation period. out of prison while awaiting appeal. Felony Court Judge Uriel Blount Sinclair said the briefs support said he was confident Wheeler was efforts to get her husband, founder not a danger to society and should of the White Panther Party, out of be placed on probation. The judge prison while the State Supreme denied a defense motion for a new Court studies his appeal of a 9-/2-10 trial. year sentence for possession of two Afterwards, Wheeler said the marijuana cigarettes. court order involved "too many S restrictions" . on her freedom and She made her announcement at would force her to leave her home a press conference, flanked by Rep. in Daytona Beach where she' has Jackie Vaughn (D-Detroit) and lived for 31/ years. Zolton Ferency, former State Dem- "I will have to go back to Mor- ocratic Party chairman and one ganton, N.C., and stay with my of the leaders of the new Mich- brother," she said. "I don't know igan Human Rights Party. See WHEELER, Page 8 Vaughn said he will meet with efs filed for Sinclair I I,(ennedy its NiXn01 court list WASHINGTON (P)-Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) yesterday at- tacked President Nixon's list of six possibilities for the Supremn Court, calling it "one of the great insults to the Supreme Court in its his- tory." Nixon submitted the names of six potential justices to the American Bar Association (ABA) this week. The ABA panel looking into po- tential nominees for the two va- cancies plans to meet next Wed- nesday. Sources indicate that the working list will be expanded and final choice by the White House may be delayed. Both Kennedy and Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) said the President could surely find distinguished nominees from the bench or the bar who would bring credit to the Su- preme Court. "If the President is to give us a laundry list of candidates," Bayh said,. "it should at least be a list of stature, a list of quality." Bayh said he didn't know wheth- er "the trial balloon process" is being used to test the political ac- ceptability of potential nominees or "their apparently shaky legal qual- ifications." But he said that whatever the reason, "the process demeans the court, embarrasses the President, and insults the nation." Qualified sources have confirm- ed that bond lawyer Herschel Fri- day ana Judge Mildred Lillie of Los Angeles are the leading pros- pects for the two high court posi- tions. A sign that Friday and Judge Lillie are' ahead is the fact that they are under more intensive in- vestigation o u t s i d e their home bases than are the four others: Judges Paul Roney and Charles Clark of the Federal Appeals Court in New Orleans, Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) and Judge Sylvia Bacon of the District of Columbia. Gov. William Milliken next week to discuss the Sinclair case and 1 possibly ask for a pardon. Vaughnf also said he wants to ask Milliken] that "all censorship" of prison mail. be stopped. Sinclair had complained that some of her letters to her husband were not getting through or were being returned because they con- tained newspaper clippings about his case. She also said she hoped the briefs may pursuade the court to overrule the conviction by show- ing broad public support of such a move. The Court last September denied Sinclair's release on bond pending a hearing on his appeal. The Court The ombudsnan will be a faculty is scheduled to hear the appeal member, Knauss said. SNov. 2. Knauss also noted that although Sinclair was sentenced in 1969 the position has been approved in and has been in prison since then. principal by the Regents, several Ferency called Sinclair's sen- procedural details concerning the tence "cruel, unusual and improper functioning and election of an punishment" and said Sinclair ombudsman have yet to be worked may be in danger at Southern out. Michigan Prison at Jackson. However, Knauss said a general "With the turmoil and rebellion plan has been formulated. we've seen recently at San Quen- As proposed in an outline pre- tin and Attica, it is evidence that sented to the Regents, tie ombuds- it is not safe in prison for persons man will be selected from tenured out of the mainstream of Ameri-, faculty, and- will have, by virtue ca nlife," Ferency said. of this tenure, the job security to take controversial positions if Ferency said prisoners "with necessary. some notoriety or political feel- "The ombudsman will be a me- ings . . . are convenient targets diator, not a decision maker," for reprisals by prison officials."Knauss explained. "The man will Organizations who submitted the be an important member of the "amicus" briefs include the Mich- faculty and he will have the in- igan American C i v i I Liberties fluence to get the student's wishes Union, the Detroit. chapter of the through." National Lawyers Guild, the Law The ombudsman will provide Center for Constitutional Rights in direction for students in ^earch of University resources, shortcuts for New York, the Subcommittee on SeeADVOCATE, Page 8 -f T-,T%+4-,+ TSee,. F. Lee Bailey lectures at llackham Aud. By GEOFFREY JACQUES Famed criminal lawyer F. Lee Bailey, defender of Sam Sheppard, the Boston Strangler, and Capt. Ernest Medina, yes- terday addressed a packed audience in Rackham Aud. The lecture, titled "The Defense Never Rests." was sponsored by the School of Business Administration, and concerned the art of cross-examination. Bailey drew from some of his cases to illustrate aspects of cross examination. He ,. Drugs of New Detroit, Inc., the! Michigan Americans for Demo- cratic Action, the Penal Reform Institute of Washington, D.C., the 'National Organization to Reform the Marijuana Laws of Washing- ton, the 40,000-member American Ortho-Psychiatric Association of New York, and Center House in Ferndale. Under Michigan law, maximum penalty for possession and use of' marijuana is ten years in prison. Milliken has submitted a pro- FOOTBALL GAME CLEAN-UP Wine bottle collection planned By KATHY INGLEY and MARY KRAMER While some Ecology Center workers and volunteers collect empty bottles of Boone's Farm wine in the stadium today, oth- ers will be selling organic ap- ple cider at the Farmer's Mar- for volunteers to help collect the glass. Volunteers are needed for about an hour following t h e game and on Sunday morning from 8 a.m. until 10 a.m., ac- cording to the Center. The University is financing the