. Viet By The Associated Press Increased pressure from communist forces has forced the South Vietnamese troops now in Laos to retreat eastward toward their own border. Allied field officers said Lt. Gen. Hoang Zuan Lam, northern corps com- mander who directs the Laotian opera- tion, had given an order to abandon Lolo, a fire base nine miles southeast of Sepone, and go directly to Landing Zone Brown, five miles east. Saigon had denied a report that the " 1st Regiment of the 1st Infantry Divi- sion had left Lolo, but South Vietnamese and U.S. officers in the north confirmed the walkout reports. North Vietnamese gunners had open- ed up such heavy fire that U.S. heli- copters could not supply Lolo. "It be- force came an untenable position," a U.S. spokesman said. At yesterday's negotiations in Paris, the North Vietnamese delegation dis- tributed a Pathet Lao communication describing South Vietnamese troops in Laos as "in disarray and disorder, in fear of being wiped out and seeking to flee." "The invasion of south Laos under- taken by the United States and the Saigon puppets has resulted in a de- feat," the communication said. South Vietnamese officers said yes- terday the eastward move was the final phase of the Laotian invasion, which began Feb. 8 and cut across the Ho Chi Minh supply trail as far as Sepone, a trail hub on Laos Highway 9. Sepone, 25 miles inside Laos, marked the deepest penetration. retreal An additional problem yesterday be- set the South Vietnamese as bad weath- er continued to hamper U.S. air support. The main American support base at Khe Sanh, socked in by fog, was shelled yesterday for the second consecutive night. The U.S. Command described casualties and damage as light, with no fatalities. At Landing Zone Brown, the 1st Regiment is 14 miles from the border and three miles south of Highway 9, the main route for the incursion into Laos. There the regiment is close to the 2nd and 3rd regiments of the 1st Divi- sion. The latter two are at Fire Support Base Delta 1, which is 12 miles from the border and four miles south of High- way 9. From their present positions the di- from vision is supposed to sweep south to Highway 914, a major east-west road of the Ho Chi Minh trail, before returning to South Vietnam. But communist pres- sure may force a change in plans. U.S. helicopter pilots who flew yes- terday into the area around Lola re- ported "some sharp fighting." There were no reports of casualty but pilots told of p i c k i n g up some dead and wounded. Unfavorable w e a t h e r, particularly early morning fog, hampered air ac- tivity. U.S. helicopters had managed to get in nearly 80 sorties Monday. The number of sorties-one flight by one aircraft-have run as high as 1,200 to 1,300 on some days. Officers in the north said the weather outlook today was for an overcast sky, drizzle and fog. Sepone South Vietnamese officers said last week the major portion of the thrust against the North Vietnamese supply network in Laos was expected to end late this month, when sustained bad weather would sharply curtail air sup- port. They said, however, their forces would remain in border areas, where quick strikes could be made against communist supply movement or buildups. In its latest cummulative summary on the Laos drive, South Vietnamese headquarters said 8,914 communist troops had been killed as of 6 p.m. Mon- day, and 159 had been taken prisoner. Allied losses for the period were listed as 784 men killed, 2,950 wounded and 193 missing. Little ground action was reported in Cambodia, w h e r e South Vietnamese See S. VIET, Page 10 -Associated Press HELICOPTERS airlift S. Vietnamese troops in Laos yesterday. ' " - _ -- RACKHAM STUDENT GOVERNANCE See Editorial Page :Y A& 414 tr t 4:Ia itM VERDANT High-35 Low-22 Fair, not as cold Vol. LXXXI, No. 134 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, March 17, 1971 Ten Cents Ten Pages SETS PRECEDENT: MERC approves Assembly asks expulsion U, interns' union . -Daily-Jim Wallace Baraka speaks at Hill Immamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), poet and playwright, speaks last night at Hill Aud. on the development of a black nationalist ideology. Baraka appeared. as a participant in Black Liberation Week. DEFENSE HITS INDICTMENT: Bomb threats delay ele Angela avis hearing SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (M - Bomb threats forced two evacuations of the Marin Civic Center yesterday, delaying for #everal hours a hearing for black militant Angela Davis. The 27-year-old former UCLA philosophy instructor is charged with murder, kidnaping and conspiracy in the shoot- ings that took four lives at the same site last August 7. County officials said the building would not be cleared Lin in case of future threats. Counsel for Miss Davis yesterday attacked her indictment as "an outrage" that should be set aside. The prosecutor, Deputy Atty. Gen. Albert W. Harris, said, the only question was whether the grand jury transcript and the physical evidence "raise a strong suspicion in the minds minds of reasonable men to * hold Angela Davis, and we say there was." Harris had attendants drag into court a large carton packed with0 papers, from which two long gun barrels protruded. He said the carton contained physical evi- dence. Harris moved to unseal t h e By GENE ROBINSO *hysical evidence and portions of Five black technologists dis the grand jury proceedings which need for black engineers anc had been ordered withheld, in a symposium held yesterda Judge John P. McMurray denied "Technological Needs of the Bla the motion, remarking that addi- The symposium was one of th tional pretrial publicity was un- Bh desirable. Black Liberation Week, a week Ruchell Magee, the San Quentin black arts and culture sponsor 'rison convict who is charged Center for Afro-American an along with Miss Davis, was chain- Studies. ed in an adjoining cell after the Don Coleman, of the Engine judge entered an innocent plea for lege, said that engineering w him and Magee said he did not relevant ftothe needs of the b By SARA FITZGERALD In a precedent-setting deci- sion, the Michigan Employ- ment Relations Commission (MERC) yesterday ruled that University Hospital interns and residents may f o r m a{ union. The doctors will be the first group of publicly-employed interns and residents to unionize in the country, according to MERC offi- cials. In a 20-page decision, MERC said the interns and residents qualify as an appropriate unit for collective bargaining and ordered representation elections to be held to decide which union will repre- sent the group. So far, only the Interns and Residents Association (IRA), which had previously represented the University Hospital's 500 in-I terns and residents, has filed pe- titions for the election, accordingt to IRA attorney Harvey Wax. t If the IRA receives a majority of votes cast in the representation elections, it will be designated asI the union for the interns and resi- dents.£ It was unclear last night wheth- er University officials would ap- peal the MERC decision. William Lemmer, a UniversityE attorney, noted, "There is always1 the possibility of making an ap- peal. However, as we have nott received a copy of the MERC rul-I ing, a decision has not yet been made." University officials had contend-1 ed that the interns were not Uni-' versity employes, but are involvedt instead in a training program with a status similar to students. "Now that we are recognized,", IRA president Dr. Harvey Buc- holtz said last night, "I hope we will be able to achieve our aims." Last month the IRA presented a list of 15 economic and non- economic demands to hospital and medical s c h o o 1 administrators,t threatening a possible withholding of services if their demands were not m et... However, after receiving a re- sponse from Dean of the Medical School John Gronvall, the IRAf postponed any possible job actions.f The IRA's drive for unioniza- tion began nearly a year ago when1 it filed petitions with MERC call- ing for the formation of a union. rule, Secrecy discussion postponed By JONATHAN MILLER Senate Assembly, the faculty representative body, last night postponed consideration of proposals calling for both the continuation of and the end of classified and military re- search at the University. Assembly adjourned just before midnight last night after .hearing 24 speakers present their views on the research issue. History Prof. Gerhard Weinberg, chairman of Assembly, announced the debate would resume next Monday. Nineteen speakers urged Assem- bly to recommend the continua- tion of classified research and five argued that Assembly should urge the Regents to prohibit such re- search at the University.' Last night's meeting came at the end of a week of protest activities by students and faculty members opposed to the presence of mili- tary and classified research at the0 University. An audience of about 450 people, predominately composed of op-. ponents of classified research, overflowed the Rackham Amphi- theatre, where the Assembly meet- ing took place. Prof. Joseph Rowe, chairman of the electrical engineering depart- ment, said such research "allows faculty and graduate students to stay in the forefront of their Sfields" by providing research funds with which to work. He added that the present guidelines for classified research, that the University "will not enter into any contract supporting re- search the specific purpose of which is to destroy human life or' incapacitate h u m a n beings," should be "continuously strength- ened and re-enforced but that the freedom of a faculty member to conduct research into whatever; field he wishes not be abridged." Dave Chudwin, '7t, argued,] See FACULTY, Page 10 f e airs research issue Modified UC code accepted By TAMMY JACOBS Senate Assembly last night completed its review of the proposed Rules of the Univer- sity Community, adding the controversial anction of "ex- pulsion" to those already in the rules. The proposed rules,.as approved and amended by Assembly. the faculty representative body, will now go back to the University Council (UC), the committee of students, faculty and administra- tors who proposed them. UC will then consider the Sen- ate Assembly changes, along with any made by Student Government Council and the Regents, and per- haps revise the rules, according to history Prof. Gerhard Weinberg, chairman of Senate Assembly. UC was established last spring by a Regents bylaw for the ex- *press purpose of proposing a Uni- versity-wide conduct code. T h e tri-partite body is also charged with determining when police should be brought onto campus, but it has not yet acted in this advisory capacity. The rules proposed by UC, aimed at stemming disruptive ac- tions on campus by members of the University community, would be enforced by the University ju- diciary now under consideration by the Regents. They will replace the Interim Disciplinary Rules enacted 1 a s t April by the Regents if agreement is reached between the Regents, SGC, and Senate Assembly. The consideration of the rules took up most of Senate Assembly's Monday session as well as two hours of last night's session. Last See SENATE, Page 10 -Daily-Jim Judkis COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATIONS SCIENCE Prof. Bruce Arden, a member of the Classified Re- search Committee of Senate Assembly, addresses the assembly at last nights meeting concerning classified research. 'KIDNAPING CONSIDERED': Senate unit charges White Panther plots By KENNETH COHN and BILL DINNER A Senate subcommittee yester- day released testimony charging leaders of the White Panther Party with considering kidnaping "promi- nent political figures" to gain the release of imprisoned political leaders. The subcommittee's testimony also alleged that the Panthers used a rock band "to seduce young peo- ple into a communal life-style of drugs and sex." i BLACK LIBERATION WEEK ers discuss black needs The party's avowed aim, accord- ing to two Michigan State Police detectives is to cause a Maoist type revolution in this country. Sgt. Clifford Murray of the Mich- igan State Police testified last fall before the Senate internal security subcommittee about the Panther's alleged kidnap plans. Murray said a "confidential source" had told police that party personnel were considering using the kidnaping tactics, now associat- ed with the Tupemaro guerrillas in Uruguay, to win the release of "political prisoners. "This recommendation included the suggestion that Michigan con- gressman could be traded for John Sinclair. Prominent national fig- ures such as Sen. Robert Griffin (R-Mich.), and Rep. Gerald Ford (R-Mich.) might be good for trad- ing for Black Panther Party lead- ers such as Huey Newton and Bob- by Seale," Murray noted. Murray also stated that Panther co-founder Pun Plamondon once said riots "were no longer useful" but "he noted that during a riot was a good time to 'rip off banks' or to 'snatch Gov. Milliken.' " When the plan was allegedly con- sidered, party co-founder John Sin- clair was jailed in the Marquette State Prison. He is presently serv- ing a 9%-10 year sentence for pos- Sgt. Murray in his testimony also said that the White Panthers have 200 active followers in the Detroit area, along with known chapters in Kent, Cleveland, Berkeley, Mad- ison, and Chicago. He said he also had reports that chapters were be- ing set up in New York, Georgia, Arizona, Texas, Pennsylvania and Washington. Abortion reform bill hits snags' N cussed the d scientists ay on the ack World." he events of devoted to red by the nd African eering Col- as not ir- gineering efforts toward solving the prob- lems of third world nations. "Emerging countries," Kidd said, "offer an opportunity to use our technology, keeping in mind all the mistakes we made in this country." Kidd cited as skills needed now in emerging black countries mining, chemi- cal and industrial engineering, manufact- uring, architecture, design, and construc- tion. He said that these new countries around the world need agricultural research for LANSING (P) - The S t a t e abortion reform bill encountered a setback Monday in its first day in the House. In a series of complex pro- cedural votes Monday night, the House backed speaker Wil- liam Ryan's (D-Detroit) earlier decision to send the bill to the Social Services and Corrections Committee. Ryan announced yesterday that the committee will be ex- panded specifically to study the controversial abortion bill. But Ryan, who opposes the bill, indicated the enlarged com- Allen, (R-Ithaca), who sought to block Ryan's choice of com- mittees and send the bill to a friendlier study unit. Allen and Ryan both estimat- ed sentiment in the social serv- ices committee as 2-1 against the bill. "If the object of the speaker is a quiet death for the bill, my object will be to make it a noisy one," said Allen, who contend- ed the issues at stake involve health. "Abortion is not a social service or a correction," he said. . Passed last week by a 20-17 vote in the Senate after a five :;:::.