Unioi By SARA FITZGERALD By a close vote, the membership of Local 1583 of the American Federa- tion of State, County, and Municipal Employes (AFSCME) yesterday rati- fied its new contract with the Univer- sity. The vote, 555 for ratification and 504 against, approved a three-year con- tract providing a cost-of-living adjust- ment and an approximately 26 per cent average wage increase over the life of the contract. Union president Charles McCracken said the tally was close because "many people did not understand the wage proposal." However, it appeared that many approves contract in close vote employes voted against the contract because of dissatisfaction with the new wage schedule. One member commented, "I re- ceived bigger wage increases bfore I was a member of the union." Joe King, a union official, ex- plained to one employe, "I know it isn't everything but its the most we could get out of the University at this time." McCracken told the membership be- fore their two-day strike last month that the union would propose a $2.80 average increase over three years of a $2 increase for a two-year contract. Workers in pay grade one, the lowest pay rate, will receive $2.60 an hour retroactive to Jan. 3 for this year, $2.70 the following year, and $2.85 for the third year. Currently, workers at this level make between $2.20 and $2.40 an hour. Wage increases of the remaining 11 pay grades range from 65 cents to $1.05 for the three year period, First year increases vary from a 13 per cent increase for pay grade one to a five per cent increase for the highest pay rate. Earlier in negotiations, President Robben Fleming said the University could only afford to give the workers an eight per cent increase in wages. According to McCracken, nearly half the union members will be re- classified into higher pay grades under the new contract. The new agreement also includes the first cost-of-living adjustment for the union. The cost-of-living factor will be added at the beginning of the third year of the contract. The factor will be figured as an additional one cent for every one-half percent increase in the cost-of-living index between the third quarters of 1971 and 1972. There will be a ten cent per hour ceiling on this provision, however. Under the new contract, the longev- ity, retirement and life insurance plans of the union remain unchanged. The union also withdrew its child care center demand. The union will, however, begin to re- ceive the same Blue Cross-Blue Shield health insurance that other Univer- sity employes receive, with the Uni- versity contributing $26 of the cover- age and picking up any insurance rate increases, but not more than 75 per cent of the total cost. In addition, over the three years of the contract, the three different pay rates within each pay grade will be compressed into one pay rate for each wage level. The new contract will be officially signed by the two negotiating teams at 2 p.m. on Monday. Members of the union were not al- lowed to attend both ratification See AFSCME, Page 8 McCracken speaks with workers SUNDAY DAILY fbee editorial page Si4r i~gan :4Iaiti COOLISH High-25 Low--10 Partly cloudy, light, variable winds Vol. LXXXI, No. 109 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, February 7, 1971 Ten Cents Eight Pages Rioting in N. Ireland continues BELFAST, Northern Ireland (oP) - Brit- ish troops And snipers shqt it out last night in the deserted streets of Belfast. Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark declared his government at war with Irish Republican extremists seeking to unite the two Irelands. Rioting struck several sections of the Ulster capital last night, but the streets cleared when snipers and army troops began f exchanging rifle and automatic weapons fire. The army reported two civilians struck by bullets and police said a 14 year-old boy had his hand blown off when he tried to throw a homemade bomb at soldiers. Rioting also broke out last night in A Londonderry, Northern Ireland's second city, but an army spokesman reported it under control It was the fifth night of conflict in the Northern Ireland capitol where four peo- ple were killed Friday. The British Defense Ministry announced in London that it was dispatching 600 more troops to reinforce the 7,000 British troops already in the British province of Ulster. Many troops have become exhausted by four nights of fighting in Belfast, where four per- sons were killed Friday night. Chichester Clark read a statement from the steps of Stormont Castle, the seat of govern- ment in Belfast, vowing his government would "never surrender to tiny groups of Irish Re- publicans." He told newsmen later the events of the past nights were "plainly a war with the Pro- visionals in Belfast." The Provisionals are an extremist splinter force of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. They are pledged to reunite Protestant domi- nated Northern Ireland with the Roman Catholic republic to the south at all costs. Officials said the army now was concerned with putting down an armed insurrection, with the soldiers to open fire if rioters use gasoline bombs or guns. "We intend to shoot it out," a senior gov- ernment minister said. In Dublin, the Irish Republic's prime minis- ter, Jack Lynch, blamed the Northern Irish government and the British army for the deterioration of the situation in Belfast. Lynch said "political mistakes and tactical errors" were mainly responsible for the new wave of violence. He said that the decision to permit the for- mation of rifle clubs of ex-B Specials-the paramilitary police reserves-was an exam- ple of what he called "insensivity" in dealing with the Roman Catholic minority and the failure to impartially conduct arms searches in Northern Ireland. "I learned with dismay and regret of the tragic events in Belfast on Friday night," Lynch said. "I condemn unreservedly those responsible for recourse to violence." Meeting plans D.C. acts; N. Viets shell U.S. forces -Daily-Terry McCarthy Peace conference participants hold discussion ASTRONAUTS RETURN Apoiio en route to earth after 3 -our lunar visit Demonstrations in May debated By RUSS GARLAND and CHUCK WILBUR Passage of a proposal calling for some type of demonstration in Washington, D.C., this May appears likely today as the national Student and Youth Conference on a People's Peace moves into its third and final day. Conference organizers estimated that 1,800 people have registered for the conference, which yesterday held a series of caucuses with people from various regions and con- stituencies. The People's Peace Treaty was negotiated by representatives from the National Student Association (NSA) who met with representa- tives of the North Vietnamese government, and numerous other groups from all of Viet- nam. The treaty calls for immediate Ameri- can withdrawal from Vietnam. The national conference was called to dis- cuss the treaty and means of implementing it. A demonstration proposed for last night by members of the Boston contingent to protest the Laotian invasion and the Detroit conspir- acy trial of three White Panthers accused of plotting to blow up the CIA office in Ann Arbor failed to materialize. The demonstration, scheduled to be a mass march from the Michigan Union to the Wash- tenaw County Jail, was opposed by numerous caucuses that met throughout the day. Opponents of the demonstration were afraid that the march might result in violence that would be detrimental to the peace treaty and would bring, they said, police repression on the Ann Arbor student community. A special dispatch from Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, head of the Provisional Revolution- ary Government of South Vietnam's delega- tion to the Paris peace talks, was sent to the peace conference late last night. The message, relayed by a member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars in Montreal, read "Alert you Laos invasions by tens of thousands U.S.-Saigon-Thai troops. Action intense U.S. Air Force. Earnestly call you mobilize peace forces your country. Check U.S. dangerous military ventures Indochina." The major item of discussion today will be a proposed national demonstration in Wash- ington during the first days of May. A cau- See MEETING, Page 8 -Daily-Terry McCarthy Delegates to peace conference crowd Union at lunchtime NVietnamese art'1lery hi~ts forces near Lao~s SPACE CENTER, Houston (fP) - The men of Apollo 14 rocketed away from the moon last night and streaked homeward with 108 pounds of precious rock, some of it from a lunar hill the moon walkers tried and failed to conquer. Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa, tired from their adventure, fired the engine of their command ship, Kitty Hawk, to start a two and one-half day trip toward earth and a splashdown Tuesday in the South Pacific. "Okay, we got a good burn," Shepard re- ported after the spacecraft reappeared from the back of the moonufollowing the rocket firing. "We are on our way home!" Hours earlier, Shepard and Mitchell had thundered off the moon after 33 hours on its surface, setting up a science station and collecting rock samples in which scientists may find clues to the moon's origin. Although they could not climb to the top of 400-foot-high Cone Crater, they accomp- lished their other tasks so well scientists called the mission the most successful of man's three moon trips. Kitty Hawk and the lunar lander Antares docked smoothly on the first try - a relief to all because it had taken six attempts to dock the craft after launch last Sunday. Antares, named for a star, was abandoned in lunar orbit and then performed its last duty for science - self-destruction against the moon's surface. The crash, not far from the Apollo 14 landing site, was detected by seisometers and radioed to scientists on earth. "And we say Sayonara (goodbye) to An- tares," Roosa commented as he moved the command ship away. Earlier, Antares had soared straight up and streaked at 4,116 miles an hour into an nrhi f 1 A b 8 ml ever, scientists held out hope that the rocks picked up during the climb may have been just as fruitful as those they hoped to find on the rim. Shepard and Mitchell collected 108 pounds of rocks compared to the 122.5 pounds total collected by the Apollo 11 and 12 missions. The astronauts photographed an area be- fore scooping up a rock and then photo- graphed it again. This will allow geologists to better understand where each rock came from and how it related to surrounding geology. Geologists also were pleased with the ap- parent variety of samples collected and the graphic description of the lunar geology the astronauts radioed to earth. The nuclear powered science station de- ployed Friday continued to radio data to earth recording moonquakes and measuring the minute lunar atmosphere. SAIGON (W) - -North Vietnamese artillery opened up for the first time yesterday against the South Vietnamese and U.S. drive towards Laos, inflicting the first U.S. combat death in the week-old offensive. The action in the northwest corner of South Vietnam is part of a two-pronged action against Communist sanctuaries in Laos and Cambodia. About 20,000 South Vietnamese troops are involved in each part of the drive, with an additional 9,000 American troops in South Vietnam near the Laotian border and several thousand American troops supporting the action in Cambodia. Center holds non-credit classes Official spokesmen in Saigon continued to deny repeated Communist charges that South Vietnamese troops have crossed into southern Laos. The latest claim came from Col. Soth Phe- thrasy, head of the pro-Communist mission in Vientiane, capital of Laos. He told Japanese newsmen Saturday the SouthVietnamese had invaded and had reached Sepone, also known as Tchepone, 20 miles inside the country, Kyodo news service reported. Furthermore, he said, the South Vietna- iese with U.S. support were moving toward Muong Phine, 15 miles southwest of Sepong. The French newspaper Le Monde quoted French sources in Saigon as saying three battalions of South Vietnamese rangers had moved into Laos and were operating between the border and Sepone. Newsmen indthe field have found evidence that only small numbers of South Vietnamese had entered Laos by helicopters. Fog and low clouds continued to hamper air and ground action in the North yesterday. Units of the U.S. Americal Division, oper- ating along Route 9 near Laos, found a Com- munist cache of 135 mortar rounds. It was one of only about half a dozen small muni- tions caches turned up so far. Although advance intelligence had reported large numbers of North Vietnamese deploy- ed in the area, it appeared that they have faded back north across the demilitarized zone or slipped westward into Laos. Western sources in Vientiane, Laos, said that President Nixon would make the final By ART LERNER "Search for the Obscene: Porn- ography, Privacy and the Law" and "Love and Identity: Current Life Styles" are among a number of courses open to University stu- dents beginning tomorrow at the University Center for Adult Edu- cation. Last term, over 700 persons rep- resenting all segments of the Ann Arbor community were enrolled at the center, located in the Univer- sity Extension Services Building, 412 Maynard St. The Ann Arbor center is one hnrnho to ltrifaen nr- rollment fees of $15 to $25, en- compass a variety of disciplines and are taught by University fac- ulty and other specialists. Questions of public morality, community standards a n d com- mercial exploitation in relation to constitutional freedoms will be discussed in "Search for the Ob- scene," taught by journalism Prof. John Stevens. New concepts in life styles, so- cial planning, and the ecology will be analyzed in philosophy Prof. Terence Tice's "Love and Iden- tity" course. C" v Mietr an an onooavn .* ti,.. .. ., r .. ..