THE CONTINUING SST QUESTION See Editorial Page j[j:,l rr S ir rigau D1adF UNSEASONAL High-36 Low-27 Windy, colder, chance of flurries Vol. LXXXI, No. 137 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, March 20, 1971 Ten Cents Eight Pages STUDENTS OVERRULED: Regents pass $101 Laotian invasion near end dorm rate increase By MARK DILLEN - I n The Regents approved a =.. $101 hike in residence hall rates for the coming year yes- terday, $25 below that recom- mended by the Office of Stu- dent Services Housing Rates Committee. The decrease from the original $126 increase came unexpectedly as representatives of the student- comprised board argued a $126 hike was needed to sustain -lcrmi- tories at a "minimum" level. The Regents, however, were anx- ious to keep the rate hike at a minimum, expectant of a substan- tial increase in tuition for the com- ing year. They felt the $25 included in the request for long-range '.-habilita- tion" of dormitories could be cut without immediate damage to dor- mitory functions. Gerald Lindeirer (R-Stockbridge) was the only Re- gent to. oppose the action. In contrast to the past, inuch of the reluctance to approve the higher figure came from adminis- trators, while students on the rate committee were niost adamantr that a $126 increase was necessary. However, after being given two minutes to state the rate commit- tee's position before the Regent's final vote, committee member m Wallace Steve Rosswurm said a $101 hike Pierpont was "not realistic at all. n to a President Fleming summed up the Regents reticence to raiSe dorm 's open fees substantially when a large tui- tion hike is also expected. 1 "I'm extremely reluctant from a parent's standpoint to support )S t this. A raise in tuition and dorm rates represents a :>izeable jolt for parents, but I know there is a great need here." Fleming said. The increase brings the average 7 n rate for a residence hall "double" up to $1236 from $1135 this year. In addition, students will be charg ising for ed extra if they choose two '"op- posal to tional" services included in last rosached year's rates: linen Service andI proached regular breakfasts. on their In addition, the Regents consid- ered a proposal introduced by Vice- nt Hous- President for Student Servwces Robert Knauss asking parental per- for low- mission requirements for certain. in to the types of housing be lessened. ng units The proposal would have lifted: d Urban the current parental permission requirements for sophomore, junior and theirand senior women desiring- non- d for resi- University housing and .nst-ad sident for simply sent notification to parents t Knauss of the student's decision. In addi- as mainly tion, requirements for living on ment-style dormitory co-ed corridors wouldl have been reduced. niversity's The Regents deferred action on he Ad Hoc the proposal until next month, cal.- ll be able ing it "too confusing." as S. Viets begin pullout I" Incursion stopping1 week early; losses high From Wire Service Reports The six-week old invasion of Laos was reported to be near an end yesterday, as South Vietnamese officials confirm ed that between 2,000 and 3,000 troops have already been pulled out of the beleaguered country. Intense attacks from communist troops over the past five days appear to have forced the South Vietnamese to end the invasion a week earlier than they had predicted last Satur- day. As the South Vietnamese troops continued their with- drawal, communist gunners intensified their shelling attacks on U.S. positions at Khe Sanh, which has served as the base of operations during the invasion. -Dally-Ji: VICE PRESIDENT and Chief Financial Officer WilburF (left) and Regents Gerald Dunn and Paul Brown liste comment by President Robben Fleming during yesterday Regents meeting. *Discuss low-c( 'U' housingpli The group of students seeking low-cost hou .students and University workers presented their pr the Regents yesterday, six months after they first apl them. And, though no action was taken yesterday proposal, regental support is apparently growing. The Ad Hoc Committee on Additional Apartmer ing, a group started last year to find federal funds cost housing through the University, presented a pla 3Regents yesterday for the creation of 1000 housii totally financed by the Department of Housing an Development (HUD). C TU1E5"l1University workersib families would be eligibl dence, though Vice Pre: Student ServicesRober approved described the projecta "s i n g 1 e student aparti housing." By JONATHAN MILLER Supported by the U The Regents unanimously ap- Housing Policy Board, t. proved a plan yesterday for an group is confident it wi educational radio station under to get enough funds fr the operational control of stu- College Housing to fir dents, to begin broadcasting to the "self liquidating" projec Ann Arbor area. The main opposition The action came alter a two ministrators and Regen month delay while Regents ex- day centered on whethe: amined the chain of authority of:iject would be a financi the station in case, as one Regent on the University, eve SOUTH VIETNAMESE SOLDIERS carry wounded members of their Laos invasion force t helicopter near Khe Sanh, South Vietnam. Khe Sanh is the destination of the 18.000 Saigo who have begun a withdrawal from Laos under h eavy pressure from North Vietnamese for BLACK PANTHERS: Testimony continuaes Seale, Huggins trial The Associated Press reported that American helicopters w e r e forced to abandon the combat base during certain periods of the at- tacks. The early, forced withdrawal portrayed the apparent inability of the South Vietnamese troops to accomplish their objectives in Laos. When the troops invaded the country in early February, with full U.S. air and artillery support, officials said the invasion was in- tended to seal off the Ho Chi Minh trail, the route used by North Vietnamese to transport troops- and supplies into Laos and o a U.S. Cambodia. n troops While the invasion force ad- ces. vanced as far west as Sepone, a major transhipment point on the trail, heavy resistance from com- munist troops forced them to stop,j and ultimately, to pull back. By the third week of the inva- sion, U.S. officials said the objec- tives of the invasion were no long- eto seal off the Ho Chi Minh trail, but merely to destroy sup- plies placed by North Vietnamese along the trail. The success of this effort re- mains unclear, however, since the South Vietnamese t r o o p s began thers War- i their early pullout two days ago. e Sams es- U.S. B52's have attempted to mant Rack- provide cover for the withdraw- quarters in ing forces, an unusual step used t, in May, only when the troops are par- ticularly in danger. Huggins' At Han Nghi, a forward com- of Hudgins' mand post of the South Vietna- from the mese 1st Corps and 1st Infantry be excused Division near the Laotian border, Brig. Gen. Pham Van Phu, divi- sion commander, said the entire' that dur- 1st Regiment of his outfit had she plead- been pulled out of the operation arge of ag- and returned to Vietnam. re was an The regiment had suffered more would not than 300 casualties in a week's against the heavy fighting with North Viet- luent trials. namese forces. Another 200 troops motion and in the regiment were unaccounted itinued his for. ;. Phu also said his men had called By ALAN LENHOFF Special To The Daily NEW HAVEN, Conn.- The trialI of Black Panther party leaders Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins drew into its second day yesterday as prosecution witness Margaret Hudgins continued her testimony concerning Panther activities dur- ing the week of the murder of Pan- ther Alex Rackley. Seale, party chairman, and Hug- gins, a local party leader, are charged with murder, kidnaping, I and conspiracy in connection with the May 17, 1969 slaying of Rack- ley. Hudgins, one of 14 Panthers in-I dicted in connection with Rackley's death, was ordered Thursday by Judge Harold Mulvey to testify or face possible contempt of court charges. He further offered Hud- gins immunity from further pro- secution on the basis of her testi- mony. Under examination by State At- torney Arnold Markle, Hudgins tes- t; r c li I 1 a t" r f: i e ,g { om HUD's nance the t. from ad- ts yester- r the pro- al burden n if the 'Fleming describes hike in tuition as inevitable'; amount unclear ' 1 E , tified that she saw Pan ren Kimbro and Georg cort alleged police infori ley out of Panther Head New Haven at gunpoin 1969. Catharine Roraback, attorney asked that allc testimoney be stricken record and that she t from further testimony. Roraback maintained ing Hudgins' trial, when ed guilty to a lesser chf gravated assault, "then understanding" that she be required to testify other Panthers in subseq Mulvey denied the n the state attorney con examination of Hudgins During the testimon lawyer, Charles Garry ly objected that Markle ing the witness" and th timony was largely he therefore inadmissible. The jury was excuse attorneys argued whethE testimony should be ad evidence on the major murder and kidnaping< defendants. Mulvey ruled that m testimoney was hear made it admissible only See TRIAL, Pag Charges attackied' b/owry By JOHN MITCHELL Model Cities Policy Board Chair- man Ezra Rowry yesterday called accusations against him of fraudu- lently receiving extra wages an "attempt to throw stop gaps in the path of progress of the Model Cities Program." In the statement to fellow Policy Board members, Rowry said that, he was offering only a "partial ex- planation" to accusations made in a March 8 story of the Ann Arbor News, a full report to be issued at the termination of his own invest gation. The story to which Rowry re- ferred indicated that since becom- ing chairman of the local pro- gram, Rowry has been paid $922 in "lost wages". He apparently never lost his pay from his employer, the University, while being reimbursed by the program, the story. con- tinued. "I have not knowingly committed any offense," Rowry explained in the statement, adding that his "per- sistent efforts to make the pro- gram a success" will not be dis- continued because of the alleged "malicious and libelous nature of the article." Rowry explained that in the time period in question, he had been seeing many doctors in an effort to rid himself of a physical dis- ability, and, when his time card was completed several months later, it was difficult to specifically designate times he was sick. The Ann Arbor News article also said records show that on seven days Rowry called in sick at the University while attending Model Cities conferences for which he was reimbursed "lost wages". Rowry said that the money was made dur- ing his vacation time, against which the University has no policy. No official government body has yet pressed charges against Rowry as a result of the Ann Arbor News story. Model Cities director William Stewart later revealed to the Policy Board that he had been asked by several city councilmen to report See ROWRY, Page 8 warned, "it was taken over" by radicals. Yesterday however, after the presentation of a "flow of power" chart to the Regents, they ap- proved the plan without discus- sion. The station will be under the operational control of a student board of directors elected by the *staff of WCBN-FM. However ulti- mate control of the station will See WCBN-FM, Page 8 complex itself requires no Univer- sity assistance. Administrators, es- pecially President Fleming, ex- pressed fears that transportation from the proposed North Campus site to Central Campus would create strains on the University's bus system. "If you build on North Campus and don't provide for the trans- portation costs, then, you throw that cost back on the University," Fleming said. See REGENTS, Page 8 President Robben Fleming said: yesterday that a tuition like this I year is "inevitable" because of the University's current fiscal dilern- ma. Responding to a proposal for in- creased low-cost student housing at yesterday's Regents' meeting, Fleming said, "We simply cannot take additional obligations when we're desperately struggling to bal- ance our budget." "Already a tuition hike is inevit-i able - every time a new project is brought to us we're going to have to look at it and say 'can we do it?' " Fleming added. Currently state appropriations for the University for the coming year are under consideration by the state legislature. With nearly two per cent trimmed from the state's contribution to the University this year and only $2.8 million increase proposed for fiscal 1971-72, Tiniver- CITY COUNCIL RACE 3 seek seat from student area sity administrators are bracing for 1 an austerity budget.i Although the actual amount oft tuition increase has not been de- cided, estimates range between $50 and $200.a Vice-president for academic af-t fairs Allen Smith has already beene estimating the amount. In a closed I briefing to the Regents Thursday, , Smith briefed Regents on the tui' tion question. In announcing his proposed bud- get for fiscal 1971-72 last month, Gov. Milliken assumed a seven per cent increase in tuition, the fourth hike in five years, would, raise an additional $2 million to help the Universityeaccount for faculty salary increases and other inflationary rises. If followed to the letter, this would amount to about a $4) in- crease in tuition for undergraduate in-state students while cut-of-state undergraduate tuition would rise about $126 to $1926 per gear. However, administrators w e r e quick to point out the net effect of the governor's proposal was to reduce the services offered by: three per cent. With tuition in- creases one of the few options the University has for bolstering its general fund, a higher increase will be necessary if administrators hope to avoid drastic cuts in aca- demic programs. U' likely to end negotiations for North Campus Conductron site iy, Seale's continuous- was "lead- hat the tes- earsay and d while the er Hudgins' missible as charges of against the uch of the say which y as it per- ge 8 in B52 bombers strikes within 300 yards of their positions to try to destroy massive concentrations of North Vietnamese t r o op s. The B52's are normally used only for strategic bombing missions and not for close tactical air support. U.S. sources in Saigon - said 300 yards is below the safety margin for B52 strikes, but acknowledged that this is sometimes stretched in tight situations. In C a mb o d i a, the fighting moved to the northeastern front near Kompong Cham, that coun- try's third largest city where the high command reported clashes. EDITOR'S NOTE: With a city- wide election slated for April 5, Ann Arbor voters will be electing five of City Council's ten members. The following article is the first of a three-part series examining the council races. By W. E. SCHROCK Democratic City Councilman Robert Faber faces significant opposition from both the right and the left in his effort to re- 4 tain his council seat in the hea- vily student-populated Sacond Ward. Challenging Faber are Don- ald Robinson, a moderate Re- bership of the Democratic City Councii which passed the C i t y Housing Code and says he fav- ors the recent position by the city Planning Commission stat- ing that it will now approve only projects that specify ten per- cent of their proposed construc- tion as low and moderate income housing. Basically, De Grieck believes the current administration has not addressed itself to the basic issues of rent control. In addi- tion Da Grieck thinks such things as the appeal board pro- vided for in the city housing By ROBERT SCHREINER Vice President and Chief Fi- nancial Officer Wilbur Pierpont has revealed that the University will probably not continue nego- tiations for acquisition of the Conductron property site adjoin- . ing North Campus-the proposed site for the relocation of Willow Run Laboratories. Most of the University's classi- fied military research is pei- formed at the present Willow Run site. VPP At yesterday's Regent's onen continuation of the negotiations at a meeting Jan. 22. Fleming said debate and action over ,the question of maintaining classified research on campus, which has intensified among stu- dents and faculty members over the past few weeks, had nothing to do with the decision. "The owners of the property have never indicated whether they were willing to accept the lease on our terms," Fleming, said. "But despite that," he De Grieck Faber Robinson provide "democratic representa- tion" for the Second Ward and plans to hold weekly ward meet- store, Faber says he also repre- sents the wealthier elements of his ward, but is not "part of 'erpont