Michigan devastates Hawkeyes, 63-7 See stories, Page 9 SUNDAY DAILY See Editorial Page YI e S4i an 4i ARCTIC High-33 Low--2Q Cloudy, colder, chance of snow flurries Vol. LXXXII, No. 51 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, November 7, 1971 Ten Cents Ten Pages U.S. triggers bomb test -Daily-David Margolick ANTIWAR DEMONSTRATIONS drew sizable crowds in many of the nation's cities yesterday. 1200 protesters march down Detroit's Woodward Ave.. (above), to Kennedy Square to hear various speeches (below, right). A disabled Vietnam war veteran, meanwhile, takes part in Cleveland's protest (below, left). Thousands protest against war Speeches in Kennedy Square cap peace march by 1,200 in Detroit By MARCIA ZOSLAW Special To The Daily DETROIT-Over 1,200 anti-war protesters rallied in Detroit yesterday as demonstrators in key regions throughout the nation organized to protest the continuation of the Indochina war. Sponsored nationally by the National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC) and the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ), the protest was set up locally by the Detroit Coalition to End the War Now. The demonstrations capped the fall peace offensive planned by NPAC and PCPJ. This offensive included the national student strike of Nov. 3, the "Evict Nixon" campaign kick-off in late October, during which over 300 people were arrested, and the national mora- torium day of Oct. 13, which generally drew small turn-outs. The Detroit demonstrators, described by Detroit Police Com- missioner John Nichols, as an "orderly crowd," marched from Wayne State University past the Wayne County Jail and on to Kennedy Square, chanting "Peace Now." See ANTI-WAR, Page 7 wit out AMCHITKA ISLAND, Alaska (P) - The United States successfully detonated its most powerful underground nuclear ex- plosion yesterday without indication of earthquake, tidal wave or radiation in the air. Atomic Energy Commission officials de- clared the test-in a hole nearly 6,000 feet beneath remote Amchitka Island--proved that the nuclear warhead would be work- able on Spartan antiballistic missiles. AEC chairman James Schlesinger said the test was a success and would allow the nation "to introduce Spartan into the in- ventory of weapons." The test went off precisely on schedule at 5 p.m. EST, just five hours after envi- ronmentalists' groups lost their last battle -before the U.S. Supreme Court-to stop the blast that they feared might create earthquakes, giant sea waves or damaging radiation leaks. The high court ruled 4-3 about noon that the test could proceed. Schlesinger said shortly after the blast that AEC monitors in the area reported "not a trace" of radiation in the air, and a precautionary tsunami or giant sea wave alert, issued an hour before the test, was lifted 25 minutes after detonation. Seismographs around the Pacific rim recorded the blast as they would an earth- quake; but in Anchorage, Tokyo, Seattle and other centers, there was no report of the blast having been felt bodily. Before the blast, protests were held in a number of U.S. and Canadian cities. In Detroit about 1,000 Americans protested near the Ambassador Bridge, which was closed by police to pedestrian traffic, while 2.500 Canadians demonstrated against the bomb test on the Windsor, Ont., side of the bridge. The AEC says the nuclear device tested here can be lofted above the earth's at- mosphere by a Spartan ABM to produce a curtain of radiation through which enemy ICBMs would have to pass. The radiation would cause atomic structural changes in the missiles' electrical components and render them useless, the AEC says. The AEC had said earlier that the nu- clear explosion, code named Cannikin, was to be "less than five megatons" or five million tons of TNT. The final megaton figure was classified immediately after the blast, but the AEC indicated it might announce the yield within hours. Seismographs at the Palmer Observa- tory near Anchorage recorded a Richter scale reading of 7 for a body shock, or deep-earth shock, and a surface reading of 5.8. The surface shock is the one respon- sible for earthquake damage and tidal waves. No major earth cracks were recorded on Amchitka itself, but a road running the length of the island was cracked in the shaking produced by the explosion. Work- ers were repairing it. The surface of the earth around ground zero was expected to settle into a shallow crater within hours after the blast. AEC officials said there was no immedi- ate radiation seepage from the under- ground chamber created by the blast, and that none was expected. Ninety minutes after the blast Schles- inger and Republican Congressmen Craig Homer of California and Orval Hansen of Idaho toured the blast area in a heli- copter. Maj. Gen. Edward Giller, the AEC's as- See U.S., Page 7 serious -Daily-David Margolick effects Anti-war marches across country draw crowds of several thousand By The Associated Press Antiwar militants, joined by people protesting everything from prison conditions to the Amchitka nuclear test, demonstrat- ed in cities across the nation Saturday, drawing crowds that averaged several thousand each.. The demonstrations, scheduled for 16 cities besides Detroit, were coordinated by the National Peace Action Coalition which favors an immediate and total pullout of U.S. forces from Indo- china. The focus of the events was in Washington where pro- testers gathered on the Ellipse behind the White House for speeches and rock music. The crowd formed on the Ellipse after marches from the Capitol and Arlington National Cemetery. Police estimated the Washington crowd at 6,000 early in the afternoon, but later said only 1,200 attended. The crowd dwindled throughout the afternoon until only some 200 persons were around- at the end. With most of the demonstrators sitting on the ground, a See DEMONSTRATORS, Page 10 Pay SPLIT REMAINS Board settlement collapses PROTESTERS GATHER in Detroit yesterday (above) to voice opposition to the un- derground nuclear blast on Alaska's Amchitka Island. Meanwhile, University students (below) watch the blast recorded on the seismograph in the C.C. Little Science Bldg. Crowd watches seismograph sere to see bomb vibrations WASHINGTON VP)--Despite early indica- tions that a compromise would be soon in coming, basic agreement by a sub-committee of President Nixon's Pay Board late Friday night on post wage freeze pay increases yielded no results in full committee confer- ence yesterday. Thus, with less than a week remaining be- fore Nixon's wage-price freeze expires, no decision has been reached as to whether labor contracts reached before the 90 day freeze took effect will be honored. Yesterday's talks began with indications that agreement might be near on a com- promise settlement of two key issues: wheth- er existing labor contracts will be honored and whether previously promised raises de- nied by the freeze will be paid retroactively. What buoyed hopes was management's re- ported willingness to work out details of a plan, similar to one approved Thursday by the House Banking Committee, to allow pay- ment on all but "grossly disproportionate" increases in contracts reached before Aug. 15, when the freeze was announced. The plan would provide retroactive payment of frozen out raises, too. Management representatives reportedly proposed Friday night to discuss the plan with labor members at a subcommittee meet- ing yesterday morning to try to agree on what would constitute a disallowable raise. If labor and management could agree the plan could be set before the entire tripartite board, including its public members, a source said. But hopes were dashed when the plan was not put forth at the subcommittee meeting, a source said. "They talked all around it," he said. When the Pay Board meets again tomor- row it will have less than a week to work out wage guidelines before the freeze period ends 12:01 a.m. Nov. 14. President Nixon has ordered that present rigid freeze rules remain in effect until the Pay Board or Price Commission alter them. There was no word on progress of the Price Commission. AFL-CIO President George Meany, a mem- ber of the Pay Board, has said he wanted a decision by tomorrow, when he had planned to go to Miami for a series of union con- raises not allowed to go into effect during the freeze. The story leaked to news media despite the board's earlier vote to keep its delibera- tions secret. There were reports that Meany was so angry he was ready to walk out of the board, thereby withdrawing his support of the Pre- ident's Phase 2 post-freeze plans. Meany later denied he had ever implied such a threat. But labor's hand was strengthened when the House Banking Committee voted on Thursday to require that frozen-out raises be paid unless "grossly disproportionate." By SARA FITZGERALD It was 4:30 P.M. E.S.T. and while scien- tists hid on Amchitka Island, over 200 people huddled around a seismograph in the Clar- ence Cook Little Bldg.-to watch California fall into the sea. "With this large a turnout, I hope there's something to see," geology Prof. Henry Pollack said. The minutes ticked by towards 5:10.30- the time when the shock waves from the Aleutians would reach the Diag. Sta te u By ROSE SUE BERNSTEIN and GLORIA JANE SMITH Special To The Daily LANSING - About 250 women from all over the state convened yesterday at Michigan State University for the first meeting of the Michigan Wom- en's Political Caucus (MWPC) -a non-partisan group which aims to increase the participa- tion and influence of women in politics. Yesteprdav 's nora fnme 'omen s commitment and enthusiasm ex- pressed at the gathering. Keynoting the meeting was Anne Wexler, director of the Common Cause Voters Rights Project. Wexler urged those present to work towards an un- derstanding of their local po- litical structures and to insist on "legislative accountability." To this end she advocated the formation of local woman's cau- cuses such as MWPC and "elect- edn.rntoc inn an n nA.r-',rnmn- caucus meets The audience grew restless as Pollack described how "the main event" would regis- ter on the instruments. "Our recording devices are in the Botani- cal Gardens," he explained. "Since it cor- rects for dispersion, it will register the same here as it will everywhere." "Nuclear explosions," he added, "enable the geologist to learn much about the earth's crust." As 5:00 approached, there was a rush to the choice positions on the floor in front of the instrument-as TV cameras flooded the scene with light and filmed history in the making. Then it came. "Right on time," some- body noted, and a little wiggle appeared on the screen. The crowd waited for a big peak to ap- pear - but it never quite made it. "Rotate," someone from the back yelled. "But there's nothing to see," a person craning his neck replied. "If the recording instruments are in the next room," one spectator asked, "how can you. tell the vibrations aren't just someone falling down the stairs?" And there was the spectilation. "You know what will happen?" one mused. "Everything east of the San Andreas fault will fall into { fo w m