TENT CITY CONTROVERSY See Editorial Page LY P AJ43AU ~IaitF SPINELESS Hligh--75 Low--58 Showers, ending late today; continuing humid but cooler. /, Vol L: X I, No. 18 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, September 23, 1970 Ten Cents Eight Pages CAMPUS BOMBINGS: Nixon asks Fleming removal calls for expanded FBI WASHINGTON () - President Nixon asked Congress yesterday for 1,000 more FBI agents and authority for instant federal action in cases of bombings or burnings on college campuses. Republican congresional leaders got word of the proposal - and applauded it - at a conference with the President, Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell and FBI -Director J. Edgar Hoover. The admnistration wants legislation that would allow the governmeit to move in, investigte and proseciute bomb- ings. nrAxnn and othr acts of terrorism at any institution of higher learning . receiving lederal funds, House Republican leader Gerald Ford told reporters.' of tents spacet btor v' 00stare By ROSE SUE BERSTEIN The board of directors of the Michigan Unlion agreed yesterday to rent 2300 square feet of space to the student bookstore so the store can begin operation in January.' There was previously some ques- tion whether the board would ap- prove the rental because of fears the space reduction would riter- fere with Union food service. The Union board voted to give the bookstore space in the dining room adjacent to the present Uni- versity store. The bookstore -will be a division of the University store. Food service will continue and the board anticipates that the common access to both facilities will benefit the bookstore, the food service and the students.. At a meeting with the Union board yesterday, pou Hahl, gen- eral manager of the bookstore, and Gary Allen, L'71, presented their spa'ce requirements snd pro- posals. Allen is president of the' Board for the Student Bookstore. The promised space will be available Nov. 15, Allen explained. Book should arrive by early De- cember, and the store wil be ready to open- for tie 'Winter Term, he added. Much remodeling work needs to be done, however, and fixtures must be installed. The space the board has given the bookstore will be the selling area but still to be determined is where bookstore storage areas will be located. Possible sites include a first floor bakery room which is now used for food preparation, a ground floor dishwashing room,, and 'a base- ment hobby shop, which is used for such student productions as Musket and Soph Show. Regardless of which space the board selects, Allen maintains that it will be skimpy. He noted that the 2300 ,feet is a bare mini- mum for operatiig the bookstore. Presently the store uses much makeshift storage space. Allen mentioned that stock is .kept in alleys, closets, part of the dish- washing room, bathrooms, locker rooms, and even in broken refrig- erators. Since so many items are kept in storage, there are employes who do nothing but continually re- stock the shelves. Almost all colleges and,universi-, ties get federal help, Ford said. Nixon recommended that the force of' FBI agents be boosted from 7,000 to 8,000 to deal with the kind of campus violence Ford described as well as to help combat airplane hijackings. Both Ford and Senate Republi- can leader Hugh Scott of Pennsyl- vania predicted Congress will give Nixon 'what he wants by attach- ing the necessary language to. an anticrime bill the Senate h a s passed and the House Judiciary Committee is considering. "I think it will have a bene- ,ficial effect," Ford said. The pro- posal, Scott and Ford told news- men, would let the FBI intervene with or without a request from college officials or local authori- ties. NBC News reported last night that Nixon did not copsult his Commission on Campus Unrest before announcing his proposal. ,Scott said the Nixon program would require about $14 million for the remainder of the 1971 fiscal year and nearly $23 million for a full' fiscal year, 1972. The two congressional leaders attributed the new move against. violence on campuses to a deep concern they said has been grow- ing irk the Justice Department. Mitchell brought this out in the meeting in Nixon's office, Ford said, adding that Ho o v e'r "in- veighted very strongly against a national police force," however. He said Hoover reported also that. Students for a Democratic Society, active on many campuses, was involved in the 1969-70 school year in 247 cases of arsop, 462 of. personal injuries and about 300 other incidents involving destruc- tion of property. i -Daily-Sara Krulwich EMU employes picket campus buildings yesterday Emp b.ye, stri~ke LIEUto close t By JONATHAN MILLER 7 cluding evening classes and grad- Eastern Michigan University will' uate classes will meet Wednesday. close tomorrow as a result of a No classes will meet Thursday or walk-out by the American Feder- until the resolution of current ation of State, County and Muni- labor difficulties." cipal Employees (AFSCME) local Earlier the university had made 1666. contingency plans for the empty- The announcement was made ing of the dorms and arrange- early today after a three-hour ments will be m~nade for students meeting of top EMU administra- who are unable to go home f o r tors and officials. geographical reasons. In a statement, the university Earlier yesterday Circuit Court announced that, "The regular Judge William Ager denied EMU class schedule at Eastern Michigan an injunction to end the walk-out. University will be suspended at the i Instead he ordered the two sides conclusion of the class day Wed- -into mediation in Detroit today nesday, Sept. 23. All classes in- and ordered the two'sides to an- -.", .. ... v .a. v ,-. waves uv wN White Panthers appear in court for bombc ase pretrial hearing pear in court Thursday if no settlement is reached. Robert Grosvenor, president of the state branch of the interna- tional union, said last night that the university "could come to an agreement if it would only bargain seriously for twenty minutes." Grosvenor also claimed that the university had tried to secure its injunction on the basis of a statute1 which it had consistently neglect- ed to recognize while bargaining. He did not elaborate on the nature of the statute. Neither Lewis E. Profit, EMU vice-president for business and fi- nance, or EMU President Harold Sponberg, could be reached for comment on Grosvenor's accusa- tions. Ralph Chapman of the EMU in- formation service could give no information beyond the statement issued last night. \Student reaction to the an- nouncement that the university would close was mixed, although most students were asleep when the statement was issued. One co-ed said she was pleased with the announcement because she had too much studying to do, and didn't have time for classes, anyway. Another student was angry how- ever that he was being deprived of the edu'cation for which he had paid. Reaction from m e m b e r s of AFSCME involved in the walk-out was generally less emotional. "They could have avoided this if they would negotiate seriously," was the comment of one mainten- ance worker. One of the activities not can- celled by EMU is Saturday's foot- ball game, which, the statement said "will proceed on schedule." fro By MARK DILLEN President Robben Flemiig said yesterday that "Tent City" would have to be moved from its present Diag s i t e , rejecting compromise pro- posals to let the collectionr of tents remain. Citing statements by doctors and health officials that "Tent City" is a health hazard, Fleming indi- cated that a final decision on the matter would be made today. He did not say what action he would take, but earlier University officials were discussing the pos- sibility of obtaining a c o u r t in- junction ordering te campers to leave the Diag. Thus far, the campers have re- fused to iove, despite requests from University administrators and an offer of a North Campus campsite. Instead. they have charged that the administration is "using the health question" as an "ex- cuse" to require them to leave. They have stated they will not move until the University "recog- nizes the community housing problem," which their tent-in is designed to dramatize. Fleming, after meeting yester- ~day afternoon with members of University Council, doctors, mem- bers of Student Government Council and supporters of the tent community, }outlined his objec- tions to "Tent City." "First I don't believe we can continue to let this situation exist. These doctors and County health officials say this is a health hazard and I don't believe t h e problem can be solved by making the area into a campsite," he said. Fleming was referring to a pro- posal that' Waterman Gym be opened up to campers to satisfy health regulations pertaining to campsites. Dr. Raymond Kahn and Dr. Paul Gikas, members of the Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County Boards of Health, said such a proposal would not be effective. "You have a large population around there. Anyone involved with public health knows that this wouldn't work;" Kahn said. Be- havior being what it is, you have to have a place where they have to use lavatories." Tenants Union member Nancy Burghardt said that through an educational program, "the Water- man facilities could be used and a health hazard avoided." However, Gikas said the very presence of the tents was a hazard. "This is an ideal spreader of hand-to-mouth diseass There is a great risk of all kinds of in- fectious diseases," Gikas added. "Although this risk is present at any campsite, the risk is much greater in a congesteed area." Steve ,Burghardt, representing the tent community, said there was agreement last Friday when a case of hepititis was discov- ered in a person who had spent two days at the site that they would take their tents down. He said that since then, doctors See FLEMING, Page 8 . By WILLIAM DINNER and DEBRA THAL Special To The Daily - DETROIT - As the audience jumped to its feet with clenched fists raised, White Panthers John Sinclair, Lawrence (Pun) Plamon- don and John (Waterhouse) For- est entered a federal courtroom yesterday to face charges of con- spiring to bomb the Ann Arbor of- fice of the Central -Intelligence Agency. The pretrial examination hear- ing gave, the gallery packed with White 'Panthers its first oppor- tunity to see Forest and Plamon- don since their arrest July 23 and Sinclair since his sentencing for possession of marijuana last year. Plamondon, defense minister of Diag area I the White Panther party, faces the additional charge of actually. bombing the building. Sinclair is chairman of the party and Forest is deputy minister of education. of the group's Detroit chapter. Attorneys Buck Davis and Leon-, ard Weinglass formally announced to Judge Damon Keith at the start of the proceedings that they would represent the defendants. Wein- glass apologized for the absence of William Kunstler, the third de- fense attorney, who was detained because of airline 'difficulties. Kunstler and Weinglass were the chief defense counsels in the Chicago Conspiracy trial last win- ter. After a number of defense mo- tions, Sinclait spoke briefly to re- assure the court that extremely tight security, reminiscent of the Conspiracy trial, would not be necessary. Sinclair said he ex- pected no trouble in the court- room from any of the White Pan- thers of their friends. . "We are, very anxious for the trial to go forward," Sinclair said. "We want all the facts to come' out and we'll be vindicated." "We'll keep among ourselves the order and respect that is due, the court," Sinclair added, "We don't want an atmosphere of fear where people have to worry about what will happen to them when they come to court." Weinglass then asked t h a t security he loosened and some of the police be removed from the courtroom on a trial basis to pro- mote "an open and free atmos- phere." Keith replied that security in- side the court room would be ,eased. Both the defense attorneys and the defendants said they were bothered by the dozen or so agents that silently stood vigil inside the' Weinglass then noted that at the time of the bombing, Sinclair's hair was much longer. Weinglass asked that for identification pur- poses Sinclair's hair be allowed to grow as much. as possible before the Jan. 26 trial date. Davis made a similar plea for Plamondon. 1The judge took both motions, under advisement and added, "I'm inclined to enter such an order, but I want to check out the hygenic rules with the prison authorities first. A final request was made by Davis asking that Sinclair, Pla- mondon and Forest be kept to- gether in the Wayne County Jail for the remainder of the week in order to consult together on their case. Keith took the matter under advisement. -Associated Press A MAP, ABOVE, SHOWS increased activity in the Middle East yesterday as Jordanian troops attacked at Irbid and Ramtha while Israeli troops were reported massing on the Israel-Jordan border. Meanwhile, below, soldiers at Fort Bragg, N.C., prepare supplies for possible use in the Middle East. Troops massing inMiddleEas By The Associated Press Street fighting raged in Amman yesterday and Jordanian tanks battled invaders from Syria near the northern city' of Irbid as diplomats, fearing an international explosion, sought without success to end Jordan's civil war. King Hussein's army sent 100 tanks and much of Jordan's small air force into the mounting battle for Irbid, 50 miles north of Amman. Palestinian guerrillas reinforced by armored columns that entered north Jordan from Syria drove Hus- sein's forces out of the city Monday. Meanwhile, The London Daily Express reported t h a't Israel has mobilized 90,000, of of the turmoil in neighboring 'NO MVORALIZING' ORA of By HESTER PULLING Between January and August this year, 180 women -- half of them University students - turned, to the Office of ReliK- ious Affairs for advice and consultation on abortions. Although staff members in the office have always helped women seeking coun- sel, the formation one and; a, half years ago, of the Michigan Clergy for, Problem Counseling has greatly facilitated the di- rect involvement of the office. } "Our commitment is to provide the kind of consultation - with no moralizing - the person needs,""says ORA Program Director Bob Hauert. "Of course our ad- vice is different for each individual and for each case. ors abortion, counsel able. Once the abortion has been per- formed we also will check them after- wards." According to Michigan law, however, doctors cannot make 'direct referrals for abortions. "The clinic has asked for a legal ruling on what we can and cannot do, but we don't have the ruling at this time," Dr. Rathbun-Kohn added. One student, who had seen Hauert in July and was referred to a clinic in New York found Hauert "just terrific!" Dgscribing her story, she said, "I worried for about two months, losing weight and not eating. Then, on a Thursday I went to the Health Service for a pregnancy test." Afe . km iny ts f :h a 4,ir a the New York City abortion clinic. Calling them up, we arranged for an appointment the next day." "From when I found out I was pregnant until I had the abortion was just one week - but it seemed like three years," she added. The clinic in New York will perform abortions on women pregnant 1- weeks' or less for $200. The clinic uses the suction aspiration method and no overnight hos- pital stay is required. "The whole staff is tremendously sup- portive," the student said, describing her New York experience. "All the-girls assist- ing the doctors have had abortions. They know you're scared because they have been through it themselves."; its 250,000 reservists because Jordan. It said Israel also put its fight- er pilots on alert and moved tanks into position along the west bank of Jordan. The newspaper said it received the information "via dip- lomatic channels," bypassing strict Israeli censorship. Informed sources in Israel said that Israeli armored units w e r e moving toward the Israeli-Jordan- ian border some 10 miles west of Irbid. Israeli commentators in T e 1 Aviv said that Syrian troops in the Gilead Mountains of northern Jordan could provoke a sharp re- action. 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