THE DESOLATE ENVIRONMENT See Editorial Page L 5k iA&a uF &tit j N REGRESSING High-43 Law-311 Windy, cloudy.v Vol. LXXXI, No. 126 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, February 27, 1971 Ten Cents Six Pages City sees delay in 'U' fund loss By GENE ROBINSON Mayor Robert Harris said yes-. terday after returning from a legislative conference in Lansing that he does not expect the city to immediately lose the revenue obtained from the University for police and fire services. However, Harris indicated that the current arrangement under which the University pays the city for campus police and fire protection will probably be forced to phase out during the next few years. , Gov. William Milliken in his bud- get message to the legislature earlier this month proposed that the Uni- versity provide its own services. Har- ris and other city officials are lob- bying to prevent termination of Uni- versity payments. Harris said that the decease in revenue would amount to as much as ten per cent of the city budget. He added that there were other ways of regaining the lost University funds, however, including a pos- sible excise tax on athletic events. Harris said the issue was discus- sed at the state Municipal L e a g u e Annual Legislative Conference in Lansing. The league is composed of mayors and officials from cities around the state. Conference participants also dis- cussed the governor's proposed re- venue sharing plan and urged adop- tion of a plan of its own instead. The league proposed an expansion of state revenue sharing to provide cities with about $100 million, to be raised. by increasing the state in- come tax., Harris said the league's plan for revenue sharing differed from th e governor's proposed plan in the al- location of funds. Under the gover- nor's plan the state would allow more money to cities which have high local taxes. Harris said this method does not take into account the city's overall tax burden of state, federal and lo- cal taxes - the basis for the league's proposal. Harris said that under the gover- nor's plan the city would receive $38,000 less than under existing programs based on population, while the league's plan would increase Ann Arbor's share of state-collected tax- es by $362,000, an increased that would grow progressively larger every subsequent year of the decade. SOB STORY What can you say about an 80- year-old newspaper which stopped publishing for spring break? That its staff is leaving tonight? That it will begin publication again March 8? That it loved re- porting, editing, and debacuhery although not necessarily in that order? But no further apologies. Journalism means never having to say you're sorry. Harris also discussed proposed state marijuana laws now being con- sidered by the legislature which would reduce the penalty for pos- session of marijuana to a misde- He said that he was extremely pessimistic about the possibility of the bills being passed. He reported that another topic at the conference was a discussion of the state compulsory arbitration law, due to expire in 1972. Harris claimed that the law was at best useless, and sometimes harmed possible negotiations. US. may send help ground invasion troops to From Wire Service Reports As South Vietnamese troops in Laos continued to receive heavy losses yesterday at the hands of the North Vietnamese, Nixon administration spokesmen raised the possibility that U.S. ground combat troops would be sent into Laos in large numbers. While the spokesman declared that the number of combat troops would be small and that they would only attempt to rescue stranded American airmen in Laos, the Associated Press reported that larger U.S. g r o u n d units might have to be sent in to aid the smaller forces. It seemed likely, the AP said, that U.S. troops sent into Laos on such missions would have to become in- volved in the fighting between-North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese. The Cooper-Church amendment passed by Congress last year bars President Nixon from introducing ground combat troops or military ad- visers into Cambodia and Laos. How- bver, it does not - and in the ad- ministration view, cannot - deny the President use of resources avail- able to him to save American lives in the Southeast Asian conflict. Since the start of the Laos in- vasion, Feb. 8, the administration has pledged that no ground combat troops would be used in the drive. The invasion was initially aimed at sealing off the Ho Chi Minh trail, the route used by the North Vietnamese to transport troops and supplies into South Vietnam and Cambodia. How- ever, the inability of the South Viet- namese troops to beat back the Com- munist forces appears to have com- pelled the allied forces to reduce their objective. Gen. Creighton Abrams, command- er of U. S. forces in Indochina, said Thursday that the current aim of the invasion is merely to destroy North Vietnamese supply depots along the trail. Throughout the Laos drive, the United States has supplied full air and artillery support, using regular com- bat planes, helicopter gunships and helicopter troop transports. According to the AP, government authorities now forsee a time when U.S. combat elements may have to be introduced, to bolster the South Vietnamese units. -Associated Press A U.S. ARMY HELICOPTER, bearing South Vietnamese troops that were wounded yesterday as the North Vietna- mese continued to block the invading allied forces, comes, in for a landing at Phu Loc, South Vietnam, an allied base near the Laotian border. -Associated Press VERN MILLER, attorney general of Kansas, led the 154 police who carried out drug raids in 22 places near Kansas University in Lawrence yesterday. During the first raid, Miller ushered the suspects to the wall (above) where he searched them (below). Police arrest North Vi'*ets seize allied position in Laotian battle in Kansas U. raid LAWRENCE, Kan. (N - Atty. Gen. Vern Miller, fulfilling an election pledge, personally led a predawn raid on this university town yesterday and booked 30 young people on narcotics charges. Striking simultaneously, more than 150 officers raided 22 loca- tions, including one dormitory on the 17,000-student University of Kansas campus. Three students were arrested for possession and sale of narcotics. Miller said cases against them were based on prior purchases by undercover agents. Officials said no drugs were found in the dorm. In all, 11 students were booked. The other 19 - including three juveniles - were picked up in By The Associated Press North Vietnamese troops overran another South Vietnamese base inside Laos yesterday as the heaviest fight- ing of the war continued to inflict setbacks on the invading Saigon forces. Despite massive attacks by U.S. planes, Hill 31, a South Vietnamese paratrooper base, was overrun by Communist forces after five days of fighting. U.S. officials called the week's fighting for the hill positions in Laos the heaviest of the war, and South Vietnamese losses the most severe since the Tet offensive of 1968. The SouthVietnamese forces, which entered Laos Feb. 8 with massive ramshackle rooming houses near the campus, favorite quarters for street people. "It went even better than I had hoped because we hadn't operated here before and didn't know what to expect," said Miller, who was elected Kansas' first Democratic attorney general in 80 years last fall with a hard line on law and order. He had pledged to "leap into the drug-ridden, hippie communes of Lawrence with both feet," and prom- ised more raids, but not of the mag- itude of this one, on other Kansas communities. Dr. E. Laurence Chalmers, univer- sity chancellor, said he had not been advised the raid was coming. He said he is assessing campus re- action, but it "appears to be one of disbelief; a certain amount of re- sentment considering the hour in- volved, and some anger." See POLICE, Page 2 a --r U.S. Army draftee hijacks airplane to Canada to escape military hitch U.S. air and artillery support, have been effectively blocked by North Vietnamese forces for the past nine days. The large North Vietnamese units which overran Hill 31 were reported to be moving toward the main South Vietnamese force in Laos. Hundreds were killed or wounded during the fighting at the South Viet- namese base. Meanwhile, in Cambodia, fighting of similar proportions continued, as South Vietnamese forces, with U.S. air support, attacked North Vietna- mese troop concentrations in the eastern part of the country. The South Vietnamese command claimed that 371 North Vietnamese troops were killed in the fighting. More than 20,000 South Vietnamese troops are sweeping through eastern Cambodia in efforts to thwart any plans the North Vietnamese might have for launching an offensive in the current dry season. A few days ago, U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird predicted hardfighting is ahead in Cambodia. The U.S. Command announced the loss of two more helicopters in the Laotian campaign. The two light ob- servation helicopters were shot down yesterday afternoon in the lower pan- handle of Laos. Three Americans were reported wounded in the two crashes. The command said the latest losses raised to 20 the total number of heli- copters lost in Laos since the opera- tion began. Two F4 Phantom fighter- bombers also have been downed over Laos. Total U.S. casualties in the 22 losses are 23 killed, 14 missing and 19 wounded. The command also has acknowl- edged the loss of 12 additional heli- copters supporting the operation on the Vietnamese side of the border, with 15 Americans killed, four miss- ing and 14 wounded. Field reports say scores of other helicopters have been shot down but have not been reported by the U.S. Command because they are not con- sidered total losses. ENACT hits pipeline plan The Department of the Interior was advised to consider the possibly seri- ous environmental impact of a pro- posed oil pipeline through Alaska in a recent statement made by ENACT (Environmental Action for Survival). ENACT, a group of University fac- ulty members and students and local citizens, suggested that the 800 mile- long pipeline, which seven major oil companies wish to build from north to south Alaska, might raise problems of oil leaks and mud flows. Also, the group added, the pipeline would cause disturbances to be state's fish and wildlife population and to those Alaskans who depend on them for food. SEATTLE, Wash. (P) - An Army draftee, who tried to get away from U.S. military service by hijacking a commercial jetliner taking him and other recruits to basic training, was in the custody of police in Canada yesterday. Authorities said 19-year-old Chapin Paterson, who told the pilot of the plane he had tried to be a conscien- tious objector, hijacked the San Fran- cisco-Seattle flight Thursday night by threatening to blow it up. He surrend- ered when the Western Airlines jet- liner landed at Vancouver. No wea- pon was found. Paterson, of Shingle Springs, Calif., was being held by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in suburban Rich- mond. Charges of air piracy were filed against Paterson yesterday by Assist- ant U.S. Atty. Charles Pinnell of Seattle. Canadian officials in Ottawa were reported discussing whether to file charges in Canada or turn the youth over to U.S. authorities. A Vancouver lawyer, Don Rosen- bloom, obtained for Paterson through the Vancouver Committee to Aid American War Objectors, said Pater- I I Group plans trip to Paris talks son had applied for landed immigrant status which would permit him to re- main in Canada indefinitely. The 97 persons aboard the hijacked Boeing 737 included 67 Army recruits bound for Ft. Lewis, Wash., 24 civilians and a crew of six. The youth's father, Donald, said in an interview at his home in Shingle Springs he was "shocked. We had no indication that anything like this would ever happen." He said his son had never been in trouble before, adding: "We talked to him on the phone last night after the plane landed. He sounded upset." The jetliner was turned on a Canadian course when the youth entered the cockpit over Medford, Ore., after telling a stewardess he had a bomb. "He said he wants to go to Cuba," said Capt. Bruce DeSpain, pilot of the jetliner. "I told him we didn't have enough fueldto fly to Cuba and then he said he wanted to go to Vancouver." The pilot said he tried briefly to dissuade the youth, "but he said he'd like to go on to Vancouver. He said he had tried the conscientious ob- jector route." The aircraft landed at the Van- couver airport late Thursday. An airport spokesman said "10 minutes later the pilot advised us the pas- By LYNN WEINER Associate Managing Editor A University professor, a former city council- man, and a local peace activist are among 170 Americans who will fly to Paris next Wednesday for a week-long conference with the negotiators at the Vietnam peace talks. "We don't have any illusions about ending the war," says Near Eastern languages and lit- erature Prof. John Bailey. "but we have a hunch that Nixon's assumptions about Indochina are wrong." Bailey, along with former city Councilman John Hathaway and Barbara Fuller, director of But, he adds, he and the other delegates will attend the conference with open minds. "to try to get a clear picture of what is really going on". Fuller believes the trip will allow "people to go who are free of the 'propaganda machine' and have them return with some credibility to talk to community groups on how to end the war." "The people in the peace movement believe you can't give up," she adds. "Nixon must face the fact that he doesn't have the country with him." Negotiators for the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Provisional Revolutionary Govern- ment of South Vietnam, the Republic of Vietnam, ., :.: U.