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Tuesday, March 16, 1971
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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news briefs
By The Asociated Press
ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER Abba Eban yesterday raised the
possibility of an agreement with Egypt to reopen the Suez canal as
a means of moving the stalled Middle East peace talks.
Diplomatic sources in London, where Eban stopped enroute to the
United States, said Israel may also propose leasing the strategic point
of Sharm el Sheik from Egypt instead of annexing it.
Sharm el Sheik controls access to the Straits of Tiran, Israel's only
outlet to the Red Sea.
DRAFT RESISTER David Harris was released yesterday from
La Tuna Federal Correctional Institute in El Paso Texas on orders
from the Board of Parole.
Harris, along with his wife, folksinger Joan Baez, was reported
enroute to San Francisco where he indicated he will make a statement.
Harris was imprisoned for refusing to accept military induction in
August of 1969 and has become a symbol of resistance to the Vietnam
war.
Turk
army
leader
coup--
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Movement by
Julie Arenal
("Hair" "Indians") !
Music-Sound by
John- Duffy
("Playboy Western
World"
Lincoln Center)
Mendelssohn
Theatre
calls
A provocative
new play
by Dennis J. Reardon
Directed by Arthur Storch
(Noted Bdwy. Director: "Owl
& Pussycat", "Typists & Tiger")
Designed by James Tilton
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THE STATE DEPARTMENT lifted yesterday 20-year-old re- x
strictions on the travel of American citizens to the People's Republic
of China.
Secretary of State William Rogers said passports would no longer.. ... ...
carry a stamp stating that they could not be used for travel to the :":::.
Chinese mainland.
State Department officials expect the new action to have little or:r
no effect on actual travel by Americans because the Chinese regime has
allowed very few Americans to enter the country.
HUNDREDS OF MOURNERS paid their last respects to Whit-
ney Young Jr., the 49 year-old civil rights leader who died while Fr e o
swimming off the coast of Africa last week.
Young's coffin was open because, his widow said, "I want the peo- David Harris, his wife Joan Baez and their daugl
ple to see him." the La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution afte
Chief medical examiner Milton Helpern, who examined the body at yesterday. See News Briefs, at left.
the request of the Young family, confirmed an earlier autopsy report--
that Young died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
- - 4-MONTH PROCEEDINGS:
Black Liberation Week
Evening Performanes - Parch 14-21
AMIRI BARAKA (Leroi Jones)
and The Spirit House Movers of Newark, N.J.
-PLUS -
OLATUNJI, His Drums of Passion, and His
African Dance Troupe
HILL AUDITORIUM - Tuesday, March 16-8 p.m.
$4.75, $3.75, $2.75, $1.75
VAL GRAY WARD and Kuumba Workshop,
of Chicago, Illinois, presenting a program of Dance,
Poetry and Music entitled "Destruction or Unity"
UNION BALLROOM - Thursday, March 18-8 p.m. $2.
CONTEMPORARY JAZZ QUINTET
UNION BALLROOM -Friday, March 19-8 p.m. $2.
NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE
of Harlem, N.Y. presents their famous Black Ritual:
"Regain Our Strength and Reclaim Our Power"
UNION BALLROOM - Saturday, March 20-8 p.m. $3.
ALSO SCHEDULED:
BLACK FILM FESTIVAL plus Workshops, Speakers
and Symposia throughout the week
THE CENTER FOR AFRO AMERICAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES
715 Haven Street, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Telephone 764-5513 or 764-5517
Tickets also available at STANGERS, ULRICHS, GRINNELL'S
-Associated Press
iter Gabriel leave
er he was paroled
PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON declared Florida a major dis-
aster area yesterday because of frost and freeze damage to- crops
and announced a $2.5 million grant of disaster money to help un-
employed agricultural workers.
Nixon's action followed demonstrations during the weekend by
hundreds of migrant workers affected by the crop freezes and marks
the first time there has ever been a disaster declaration as a result of
crop freezes.
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SENATE-HOUSE CONFEREES quickly agreed yesterday on
a 10 per cent across-the-board increase in Social Security benefits
for 26 million Americans retroactive to Jan. 1.
Congressional leaders said they hoped to push the compromise
measure to President Nixon today.
The Social Security provisions were tied to a bill urgently sought
by Nixon to raise the national debt limit $35 billion to a record $450
billion.
Govt. concludes case'
in Calley mnurder trial
FT. BENNING, Ga. 0A) - The government called it an undisputed
fact yesterday that Lt. William L. Calley Jr. shot unresisting men,
women, children and babies during the so-called My Lai massacre three
years ago.
The four-month-long trial went into its closing arguments yesterday
as the jury prepared for a possible start to their deliberations today.
leg9al
ANKARA, Turkey M - Pres-
ident Cevdet Sunay said yes-
terday the military ouster of
P r e m i e r Suleyman Demirel
was legally justified and sav-
ed the country from a "dark
crisis."
Speaking on t h e state radio
Sunay called for an end to po-
litical bickering and asked Turks
to support a new nonpartisan "na-
tional coalition government be-
ing formed to replace Demirel's
conservative Justice party admin-
istration.
"We have reached a stage in
which it is no longer possible to
tolerate differences of belief, pol-
icy or behavior among citizens and
organizations whose duty it is to
enforce the constitution," Sunay
sad.
T h e commanders of Turkey's
500,000-man armed forces threat-
ened Frday to seize power if a
'strong and respected" new gov-
ernment wasrnot formed to halt
anarchy and make reforms.
"Our armed forces . . . have
once again carried out their du-
ties according to the constitution
and law No. 211, Sunay said.
The constitution gives the arm-
ed forces commanders the right
to advise the Council of Ministers
on matters of national security.
Lsaw 211, governing military ac-
ivities, gives the armed forces the
duty to protect the nation and
supervise national security.
Sunay accused the Demirel gov-
ernment of not bringing any
planned and successful education-
al reform, which he said was par-
ticularly needed because of the
drift of students into extreme
ideologies and violence.
He said a "strong new Cabinet"
working above party "politics and
rithin democratic principes would
ackle problems with dynamic pol-
ies, and solve the law and order
problem with "speed and cour-
age>"
For these effortsto be success-
ful Sunay asked that all citizens,
political parties,, constitutional in-
titutions, the opposition outside
Parliament, youth and workers
ooperate to support the new gov-
ernment with constructive state-
ments and behavior.
HEW school
spending hit
Senator Walter Mondale (D-
Minn.) accusedthe Department of
Health Education and Welfare
(HEW) today of ignoring congres-
sional guidelines in dispensing
money to desegregate school dis-
tricts.
Mondale said HEW approved the
purchase of a $15,000 mobile zoo
and $30,000 in television equipment
for school systems receiving funds
from a $75 million school-desegre-
gation program.
The senator cited a Government
Accounting Office (GAO) audit
which he said shows_"applications
were approved which contained
proposals having nothing whatso-
ever to do with the problems of
desegregation.
"There is no dispute betweenf
the accused came to an irrigationc
brey Daniel in his final argument,
COOL RECEPTION,
Pakistani chief visits Dacca
DACCA, East Pakistan (") -
President Agha Mohammed Ya-
hya Khan came to this capital
of rebellious East Pakistan yes-
terday and received a cool re-
ception from workers and resi-
dents.
Thousands of East Pakistanis
stood silently behind a cordon
of armed soldiers as Yahya
drove from theairport for a
meeting with Sheik Mujibur
Rahman, East Pakistan's undis-
puted leader who has seized con-
trol of the provincial govern-
ment in a move for greater au-
tonomy from the central gov-
ernment.
A black flag of mourning flew
over the gate of an arms fac-
tory in place of the usual green
flag with crescent of Pakistan..
Workers at a machine tool fac-
tory next door hung an effigy
of Yahya from the gate.
"He is no longer our presi-
dent," said a union spokesman.
Sheik Mujib, as Rahman is
popularly known, eased a gen-
eral strike he called in the pro-
vince but at the same t i m e
tightened his hold on the pro -
vincial government.
Thousands of workers stayed
off the job, however.
East Pakistan is separated
from West Pakistan, where the
central government is located,
n. Able toI
a pain, it'
by 1,000 miles of Indian terri-
tory.
Sheik Mujib, who heads the
Awami League, the dominant
political party in the East, is
trying to force the West Pakis-
tanis to agree to a large meas-
ure of autonomy for the more
populous eastern province.
In the face of demands by lo-
cal businessmen,dSheik Mujib
agreed to order ports to func-
tion; importsand exports to be
moved; foreign mail and tele-
grams transmitted; one hour of
communications daily between
the East and West, primarily to
benefit banks.
He also ordered the reopen-
ing of government-owned fac-
tories and foreign airline offic-
es; payment of wages to govern-
ment employes and employes of
semigovernment agencies and
the payment of pensions.
The sheik also lifted his ban
on payment of most taxes, but
ordered the money be kept from
the central government.
the prosecution and the .defense that
ditch .. ." said Prosecutor Capt. Au-
"and at least a group of Vietnamese
4 were placed in the ditch and -shot
by the accused's platoon and by
the accused himself . ..
The government charged at least
70 My Lai villagers died beneath
American weapons fire into the
ditch March 16, 1968, and that 30
or more others were executed ear-
lier at Calley's direction at a trail
intersection within the village.
Calley is charged with a total of
102 premeditated murders that day
and could be sentenced to death if
convicted.
Daniel made no claim that the
30 shootings at the trail were undis-
puted. They have been denied by
Calley.
Referring to the victims at My
Lai, Daniel saidhinireference to
Calley:
"He participated in, he caused
their death-and they died
Mothers trying to protect their
children, people screaming and
crying, falling on top of each other
as they were shot."
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SCHOOL OF MUSIC and DEPARTMENT OF ART
present KURT WEILL'S OPERA
THE THREE PENNY OPERA
(IN ENGLISH)
Conductor: JOSEF BLATT Stage Director: RALPH HERBERT
MARCH 26, 27, 29 and 30
at 8:00 P.M.
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