FORMING A NEW U' JUDICIARY See Editorial Page Y fflwF DaitM STORMY High--81 Low-65 Cloudy, humid, good chance of rain Vol LXXXI, No. 17 Ann Arbor, Michign - Tuesday, September 22, 1970 Ten Cents Ten Pages ARABS TO CONFER: -II Guerrillas claim truce viola tions 'By Th Associa ed Precis Palestinian guerrillas claimed early this morning that they were under attack by Jordanian army troops despite a cease-fire ordered by King Hussein for the capital of Amman. Hussein, the 34-year-old Hashemite ruler of Jordan, ordered his troops to stop firing in the capital at 5:15 p.m.- 11:15 a.m. EDT - to enable the wounded to be treated and because jof Jordai's grave situation. But Yasir Arafat, head of the over-all guerrillas com- mand, said his men were still, under fire nine hours after the cease-fire was to take effect. He said in a statement broadcast over Damascus radio that army troops were shelling guerrilla positions .in Amman and tWo refugee cahps. ent Cit rejects 'U By ;MARK DILLEN SResidents of "Tent City" yesterday voiced their deter- mination to stay on the Diag despite a University order requiring them tp move, anid rejected the University offer. of a North Campus campsite. Shortly after a 1 p.mn. deadline, the approximately 30 campers surrounded by some 80 supporters, declined to leave when requested to do so hy Vice President for Student Services Robert Knauss. Instead, responding to county and University charges that the site is "a health hazard," they called the issue a "matter of politics, not health." They said they would stay on the Diag "until the University recognizes its responsibil ity to the community housing U.s. alerts orces for 'Mideast WASHINGTON (jP)-The United States marshalled land, sea and' air forces ,Friday for possible use in Jordan, but officials insisted that evacuation of Americans is the only assignment being con- sidered now. And even that didn't seem imminent. The Pentagon said yesterday in- fantry and paratroop units at home and in Europe were placed on alert, and jextra 0130 trans- ports were positioned overnight in #r Europe to airlift these troops wherever and whenever needed. Some U.S. medical units in Eur- ope also were alerted, and a third Navy aircraft carrier, the John V. Kennedy; was en route to join the two carriers already, in the Medi- terranean. Pentagon officials said the alerts were for' specific units, not for all services, and do not involve mov- ing any Army troops. There are about 400 Americans in Jordan, mostly in Amman, and 38 of the 54 hijacked airline host- ages still held by Palestinian guer- g rillas are Americans. Warships of the-U.S. 6th Fleet steamed yesterday in the Medi- terranean within 90 miles of the Israeli coast. They were being shadowed by an unidentified fish- ing trawler.r - Two dull-gray ships, a helicop-° ter carrier and an escort destroyer, were; spotted by newsmen-on a flight from Tel Aviv heading south due west of the Israeli sea coast resort of Nahariya. A White House spokesman, press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler, keyed' administration moves saying: "We think we are taking prudent plan- ning measures in the Mideast should there be a situation re- garding the l hostages and, Amer- ican personnel, should their posi- tion become untenable." Ziegler told reporters that "we consider 'the situation there very serious and very complicated." "We are continuing to watch it very closely and we will continue to do that," he said. Asked whether the United States holds open the possibility of mili- tary intervention in Jordan, Zie- gler would say only: . "I just have nothing further to give you on that subject." At the State Department, press officer Robert J. McCloskey said the.United States has spoken pub- licly of possible intervention to bring American citizens out of See U.S., Page 6 As U.N. diplomats conferred yesterday, on the Jordian situation, Lebanese Foreign Minister Nassim Majdalani accused Israel of try- Ing to destroy his country by forcing it into the kind of divil wad now raging in Jordan. Majdalan i made the charge in a policy speech to the 126-nation General Assembly.' A U.S. spokesman said that if Jordan decided it woulld be useful to ask for a meeting of the U.N. SSecurity Council the United States would give its support. But there was no request from- Jordan, and most diplomats look- ed to the Arab summit ponference opening in Cairo^ toiorrow for the next developmentson the ne- gotiating front. Kings and presidents of t h e Arab world began gathering yes- terday for tle conference, but Iraq and Algeria said they would boy- cott the meeting. The priority item is Jordan's charge that Syrian armored col- umns invaded"'northern Jordan on Sunday, threatening to spread the Jordanian fight into an interna- tional conflict. One of the key men, Syrian President Noureddin Atassi of Syria, flew in early for discus- sions with Egypt's President GaMn- al Abdel Nasser. Jordan's King Hussein also is scheduled to attend. He charged that Syria sent two armored col- umns into Jordan in support of Palestinian guerrillas battling Jor- danian army troops. Atassi dfnied the charge. Amman, the capital with half a million people, was described in one dispatch as a city, in ter- ror, with the cries and shouts of trapped wounded victims ringing across the valleys and hills. Dead were reported still lying in the streets from the first days of fighting last week. The 34-year-old Hashemite rulera said he was ordering the shooting stopped in the capital as of 5:15 p.m.-11:15 a.m., EDT -- because of his own conscience and histori- cal responsibilities to jenable the wounded to be treated and be- cause of the grave situation in the country. Hussein had ,called a cease-fire throughout' Jordan on Saturday at the behest of President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt but the king said the guerrillas didn't3 stop shooting. Field Marshal Habis Majali, Jordan's military governor, called a brief bease-fire on Friday to al- low guerrillas to surrender. The guerrillas said the army guns keptI firing. * The army lifted its curfew brief- ly in Amman and women hastened out with shopping baskets in. search of food. The city has been,i isolated since last Thursday when the war began.I -Daily-Denny Gainer ROBERT KNAUSS (left), vice president for student services, addresses the people at Tent-City' yesterday after the performance of a guerrilla theater (right) demonstrating their belief that the University has not faced up to the local housing problem. FEDERALLY FUNDED HOUSING- Cred By MICHAEL SCHNE Four campus credit uni ganizations have joined t the Credit Union Coop Housing Committee, with t of building approximately5 units of low-income hous North Campus. The housing would be pr for married students andx with a certain percentage gle student housing. The committee intends t the new buildings by utiliz National Housing Act, whi vides federal money at lowi rates. The program has n been approved by the feder ernment. The committee, which wa ed last February by fourc itUnion units'-on. CK organizations-the Student Cred- ion or- it Union, the Employees' Credit o form Union, the University Co-op, and perative the Hospital Credit Union - re- he goal ceived in July regental authori- 500-600 zation to use a 24-acre site. ing on "There are a series of hurdles that we have to go through," says imarily committee chairman Dr. Fred Cox. retirees "We feel that we have passed of sin- through one of the most difficult by receiving regental approval." o fund The University has maintained ing the that the high cost of funding has ch pro- prohibited it fr'om constructing nterest low income housing. Under Mich- not yet igan's state constitutiop, develop- al gov- ing housing by mortgaging state property is not permitted, and. s form- therefore the University cannot campus make use of the housing act. ; North( Other universities have set up so called "captive corporations" but according to Dr. Pater Ostaf- in, assistant director o'f the Stu- dent Community Relations Office, "We do not want to do indirectly what we are. not permitted to do directly." Although the committee con- tains members of the off-campus housing bureau, those members. act within the program independ- ently of their office. Present committee plans call for the building of a maximum of three high-rise complexes with 200-300 units, and 300-400 low level units, known as townhouses. With a minimum of one person to a bedroom, this plan would help house over 1200 people. ;0 buld Federal law requires that new tenants meet certain requirements in order for monies to be made available. The tenants must meet specific low income requirements, and must also be a family or a single person older than 62 years. Ten per cent of the- dwellings, however, may be used for single student housing, according to the housing act. "I see this project as serving a wide range of persons in the, com- munity," Cox said. "We hope to be able to include a certain num- ber of poor people who would ordinarily qualify for public hous- ing." The eventual aim of the com- mittee is to turn over the housing to their tenants to form a co- operative ,after the project has beenconstructed. "We hope that this will be only the first in a series of projects that we will' be able to build," Cox said. Regent Robert Brown (R-Kala- mazoo) has suggested that the Tenants Union, in its drive far more low-cost student housing, develop a detailed, outlined hous- ing program similar to the com- mittee plan. "We are interested and willing to work with the Tenants Union in plans they have," ,said Thomas Brown, co-op planning committee! member.. problem." The threat of hepatitis w a s originally cited by Knauss and other University officials.Saturday as the cause for remoVing t h e tents. Since then, after the im- munization of those possibly af- fected, Knauss has referred to a "general health hazard" as t h e reason for removal. Knauss said yesterday, "These tents must be moved, I see no other way." Tent city residents and- sup- porters plan to hold a rally todayI at noon on the Diag to demon- strate their belief that there is no health problem and thatit is only for political reasons that the Uni- versity wants to remove the tents. Some doctors from University Hospital plan to attend the rally to warn the community of the seriousness of hepatitis and to ask them to leave the tent city. ~ Last night, after the earlier con- frontation, over 300 people filled the Diag in a music and rap ses- sion by members of the tent com- munity. It was designed "to show the University these housing prob- lems have ,to be dealt with," ac- cording to one resident. "Tent City", had been g iv e n permission to stay on the Diag by the University early in Septem- ber provided that no "health haz- ard was created and the com- munity did not become "predom- inantly non-student." However, within the past few days, county and University health officials be- gan calling for the tents' removal for health reasons, and question- ing whether the camp's predom- inate non-student population was grounds for revoking permission. See TENT, Page 6 Mark's alive despite taxes "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated," said Mark's Coffeehouse last night. It appears that the spokesmen for Mark's Coffeehouse, on E. Wil- liam St. do not believe the back taxes the state claims Mark's owes are in any way their death- sentence. They say, tinstesad, that they are meeting with people to see how they can get ,the tax dispute cleared up and Mark's open again for business as quickly as possible. Clrcrhes o4 give funds. for welare By HANNAH MORRISON A total of $1,260 was pledged by Congregation Beth Israel and St. Aidan's Episcopal Church last Sunday in response to the de- mands of the Black Economic Development League (BEDL) and the County Welfare Rights Or- ganization (WRO). The Beth Israel Social . Action Fund reacted to the demand by BEDL member Henry Bryant and WRO member Catherine Emerson with a donation of $860. The Bishops Committee of St. Aidan's, a church of 35 families, responded with a donation of $400. Beth 'Israel and St. Aidan's be- came the fourth and fifth local 'congregations to pledge funds to the two groups, which have been holding sit-ins and protests at area congregations since last August. BEDL and WRO hope to raise $80 million from the Ann Arbor community. They plan to distrib- ute the first $200,000 among 3,500 area needy children for clothes. Seventy local churches were in- vited to join a coalition formed last night to "insure participation of the poor in receiving funds, studying their problems, ,and ap- proaching the legislature to pass programs," according to tempor- ary coalition chairman Rev. Rich- ard Price. Bryant ,stressed the necessity of putting pressure on "those ten rich churches which protect them- selves under legal barbed wire." He was referring to, a coalition of churches ;which last week sought an injunction b a r r i n g BEDL-WRO agents from disrupt- ing religious service, and inter- fering with church business. "We have t r i e d for years through legislative means to get honey and programs," Mrs. Emer- son said, "and have been forced to use more aggressive and deter- mined ways to get any response." -- ------ AFSCVLE members walk out at EMU over new contract dispute By JONATHAN MILLER Members of the Eastern MicAi gan University (EMU) local of the, American Federation of State,I County, and Municipal Employees' (AFSCME) walked off their jobs yesterday to protest what they call bad faith in negotiations be- tween the university and the union. EMU then secured a court order ordering officers of the local to appear in circuit court this morn- ing to show cause why an injunc- tion ordering a return to work nott be issued. Members of the local comprise EMU food service, maintenance and janatorial staff. In a statement issued yesterday, the union charged that the uni- versity had attempted to bypass the union in current contract negotiations by communicating with employes by mail, had threatened a lock-out, had stpp- ped the deduction of union dues on paychecks and had terminated the existing contract at the ear- liest possible time. The local also accused the uni- versity of not accepting the vote FAVORS COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP of the local's membership as valid and demanding another vote be taken. "The local has become fed up with this type of activity on the part of the university," the state- ment read. "They simply refuse to be treated as a company-controll- ed organization by an employer who abides by the rules only as long as it suits them, an employer who wants to change the rules when the results are not favorable to them." Local president Floyd Kersey claimed yesterday that the walk- out was university-wide and said that the protest was "peaceful and will remain' that way." "Our members want a two-year, not a three-year contract and the pay scales offered by the univer- sity, w~hile pretty good on the lower level, are not adequate on the higher levels," Kersey said. Kersey added that the cost of living benefits offered by the uni- versity are not adequate. Lewis E. Profit, EMU vice-presi- dent for business and finance, was not available yesterday for com- ment on the walk-out. EMU information service said yesterday only that the walk-out had occurred and that legal steps Tito to retire from presidency By The Associated Press President Tito, ruler of Yugoslavia for a quarter of a century, announced yester- day he will step down in favor of a collective leadership. The 78-year-old maverick, communist, who broke from Moscow's grip in 1948, said reorganization of the government is necessary to secure Yugoslavia's unity. He gave no timetable for the changeover.. Belgrade on Sept. 30 and stay two days. Policy talks are planned with Tito. The Middle East crisis and possible inter- vention of American troops to save the gov- ernment of Jordan's King Hussein could, however, cancel Nixon's trip because of Yugoslavia's close ties with Arab leaders. Tito said he would be replaced by a pre- sidium that would be "a form of collective nresidant rf Viin'a ,ri1 munity from such a crisis - which is de.. sired by many - we have to perform this reorganization," he said. Tito, a partisan leader against the Nazis during World War II, maintained close re- lations 'with the, Soviet Union in the im- mediate postwar years but then resistd the iron control Of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. In 1948, he led Yugoslavia in a break from T~ne~v hofi c Qvi+ httitotoArt e ... .. ...