Wolverines crunch Minnesota See story, Page 9' SUNDAY DAILY See Editorial Page Sir itgau &113 MAYBE OK High-67 Low-47 Partly cloudy in morning} sunny later on Vol. LXXXI, No. 46 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Sunday, October 25, 1970 Ten Cents Ten Pages Ten Cents Ten Pages A bit By MARK DILLEN Special to The Daily Daily News Analysis KENT, Ohio - While disunity and apathy have dominated the mood here at Kent State University, at- tention is beginning to focus on dis- crepencies which have been uncov- ered, in legal and administrative ac- tion surrounding the indictment of Kent students. The indictments were included in a report issued by a special Portage County grand jury on the disorders last May which resulted in the shoot- ing deaths of four students. The jury was composed of 15 county re- sidents, only two of whom had attended college. The foreman was. of jw a local insurance salesman, Robert Hastings. The jury's report has aroused sub- stantial opposition - its conclus- ions directly contradicted the c o n- clusions reached in two separate in- vestigations by the FBI and by the President's Commission on Campus Unrest. While these two governmental bod- ies found the shooting by the Ohio National Guardsmen to be "unne- cessary", the Portage County grand jury disagreed. They exonerated the Guard and indicted 25 students and faculty members whose names they refused to divulge until their arrest. One high administration official said secret indictments "were a com- mon thing around here." , lice ad In addition, an injunction was is- sued forbidding anyone indicted. or, anyone who had testified before the /jury, from commenting on the report. This left nearly all the administra- tion and faculty unable to say any- thing. And a local judge, Edwin W. Jones, refused to lift the injunction when it was challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union. Thus, the nni- versity news director James Bruss is the only administrator able to com- ment legally. Bruss, who is also a local Repub- lican city councilman, refuses to say anything. Also a prominent Republican is Robert Dix, president of the Kent State Board of Trustees and publish- -.f " Kent er of the Kent-Ravenna Record- Courier, the only local daily news- paper. The paper has editorially sup- ported the indictments and jury re- ports. The 18-page report begins by com- mending the local media, saying it thanked them for "following t h e court's restriction on publicity (which) provided an atmosphere of judicial integrity." The jury report examined the events leading to the May 4 slayings and said they "constituted a riot". "There can never exist any jus- tification for burning an ROTC building," they said. (On May 2, a group of students trashed and burn- ed the ROTC building on the Kent State campus.) The jury said that being college State students "further aggravated the ser- iousness of the offense." Continually referring to the stu- dents as a "mob", the report stated that on May 21 "the protestors sat down in the streets and engaged in their usual obscenities, rock-throw- ing and other disorderly conduct." The report found particularly ob- jectionable the student's language. "The verbal abuse directed at the guardsmen by the students during the period in question represented a level of obscenity and vulgarity which we have never before witnessed! It is hard to accept the fact that the language of the gutter has become the common vernacular of many persons posing as students in search of a higher education." See JUSTICE, Page 10 -Daily-Mark Dillen Kent students at Friday's rally Bomb hits building on Kent campus KENT, Ohio (P) - A bomb explosion yes- terday caused minor damage to an old wood- en building on the Kent State University campus. No one was injured. Campus police said no motive was estab- lished for the bombing, which occurred a few hours after the 14th arrest was made on indictments returned by a special state grand jury investigation campus disorders last May. Don Schwartzmiller, chief of the campus security force, said the type of explosive used was not determined. Pieces of wire and tape found at the scene were taken to- a laboratory. Schwartzmiller said the early morning blast damaged the back door and porchy and broke the windows in the building, which was formerly known at the Ward House. The house is assigned to the Human Re- lations Center and has been used by the Black -United Students. No one was in it when the explosion occurred. The 14th person arrested among the 25 indicted by the grand jury Oct. 16 was Ronald Weissenberger, 25, of Kent, who was apprehended Friday night on a four-count indictment. He pleaded innocent Saturday to charges of first- and second-degree riot, inciting to riot and interference with firemen at the scene of a fire. He was released on $7,000 bond. In other developments, the Akron Beacon Journal reported that Sen. Stephen M. Young, D-Ohio, had quoted an FBI report as saying the guardsmen had fabricated the story that their lives were endangered by students on May 4. The grand jury indicted no guardsmen and said in its report that the troops fired because they felt their lives were in danger. But Young was quoted by the newspaper as saying, "Most of the National Guards- men who did fire their weapons do not specifically claim that they fired because their lives were in danger. "One guardsman admitted that his life was not in danger and that he fired indis- criminately into the crowd. He further stat- ed that the guardsmen had gotten together after the shooting and decided to fabricate the story that they were in danger of serious bodily harm or death from t h e students," Young was quoted as saying. Leary goes to Middle East ALGIERS (P) - Dr. Timothy Leary, the LSD advocate who escaped from a Cali- fornia prison last month, left Algiers by plane yesterday for the Middle East at the invitation of the Al Fatah guerrillas, authoritative sources said. His actual destination in the Middle East was not immediately known. But the in- formants said the invitation to Leary came in the name of the Al Fatah leader, Yasir Arafat. They said Leary left with his wife Rose- Policeman killed in battle with Detroit' Panther group -Daily-Jim Judkis Coach Lo-en--sign him tp! WOLVERINE WINGBACK Glenn Dought y (22) performs a gymnastic back flip as he is upended by Minnesota's Walter Bow ser (11) and Jeff Wright (27) after a 19- yard pass in Michigan's 39-13 victory yes terday. grad student in hiring disputewith1 Neb. regents DETROIT (A') - One black plainclothes policeman was killed and another was wounded last night in an exchange of gun- fire at the headquarters of the National Committee to Combat Fascism, a branch of the Black Panther party. Police barricaded streets surrounding the headquarters, moved up armored equipment and floodlighted the building where one man identifying himself as a Black Panther said 50 members were inside. Police described the situation as stalemated. Police commissioner John Nichols took command at the scene and awaited a search warrant before attempting to enter. Several city officials also were at the scene. Nadine Brown, reporter for a black weekly newspaper, was permitted to enter the head- quarters in an effort to convince the Panth- ers to surrender peacefully. Police identified the dead officer as Pa- trolman Glenn E. Smith, 25, and said Patrol- man Marshall Emerson Jr., 25, suffered a superficial hand wound. Police gave this account of leading to the shootout: A police car, answering a "trouble call" on the near West Side, radioed for assistance in issuing loitering tickets when a street- corner group refused to break up. The scene was two blocks from committee head- quarters. Emerson, driving an unmarked police car, was en route to assist when he suddenly was fired upon and hit in the hand while driving by the headquarters. Emerson reported via radio that he had been shot and Smith drove up within five minutes. They said when Smith stepped out of his car, also unmarked, to ascertain the source of the gunfire, he was struck in the head by a bullet. Rocky Boy Lewis, 35, who identified him- self as a Black Panther member, said there were about 50 Panthers in the two-story building. He said he was outside the head- quarters when he saw four policemen in a car stop a youth selling newspapers and then "begin to beat the boy," who ran into Panther headquarters with policemen in pursuit. It was then, Lewis said, that the shooting began. -Associated Press POLICE GUARD INTERSECTION leading into area where one policeman was killed and another wounded in an exchange of gunfire last night near the Detroit branch of the Black Panther Party. RACIAL VIOLENCE: Illinois state police move into Cairo ter gun battles By STEVE KOPPMAN The denial of an instructorship to a University graduate student for apparently political reasons by the University of Ne- braska Regents has created a major furor at the Lincoln campus. In a letter to Michael Davis, a philosophy doctoral candidate here, the Nebraska Re- gents cited four incidents involving Davis to account for their August veto of an ap- pointment offered to him in May b'y the Nebraska philosophy department. Davis has sent a letter of reply to be dis- tributed at the University of Nebraska, and has been invited by the student union to speak at the campus Nov. 5. Daily Nebras- kan editor Kelly Baker says the Davis case is currently "the leading issue" on the campus. The Nebraska Regents' statement cites statements allegedly made by Davis at a reception following the inauguration of President Robben Fleming in March 1968, a sit-in conducted by Davis in March 1970 in support of changes in regental bylaws, Davis' arrest for participation in the Wash- tenaw County Bldg. welfare sit-in in Sep- tember 1968, and testimony critical of the University administration given by Davis to a state legislature appropriations committee this summer. The statement claims the Regents' evi- dence indicates Davis is "intellectually arro- gant and lacking in tact, objectivity and judgment." An investigation into Davis' activities was apparently launched on the recommenda- In his letter, Davis suggests that character is not the issue and asks, "Could it be .-.. that what the Regents want of new faculty is a history of abstinence from political action, especially where that action con- cerns the governance of a university? That, after all, there is in their action a question of academic freedom and civil liberties?" Davis is a former Student Government Council (SGC) administrative vice presi- dent, a member of the Committee for a Permanent Judiciary, and has been an ad- vocate of a greater student voice in Univer- sity government. See GRAD, Page 10 CAIRO, Ill. O) - State police moved into this racially divided community yesterday afternoon after three separate attacks on the Cairo police headquarters, reportedly by rifle-wielding blacks in Army fatigue uni- forms. The three assaults were reported by the mayor to have taken place Friday night and early yesterday. The troopers and Cairo police - some armed with machine guns - were deployed TEACHING FELLOW AS DADDY A little pay g By DAVID EGNER Second of two parts Living on a teaching fellow's salary isn't always easy. Single persons usually manage on their $1,000-$2,000 each term without much difficulty, but married teaching fel- lows sometimes run into financial hardships. One of theim is Larry Rudnicki. He is married and has a two-year-old son, and his wife, Marianne, is pregnant. Rudnicki earns $4,000 a year. He has no summer income because he goes to school year-round. Marianne Rudnicki doesn't work. How do the Rudnickis manage to live on their income? They don't. Rudnicki takes out a National Defense Edu- cation Act loan for $2,500 every year. He's been doing that since his senior year in college when he and Marianne were )l es a little a Rudnicki explains. She says food costs the family between $17 and $20 a week. What about restaurants? "We go about once every three months" Rudnicki says. Entertainment is almost as rare. "We see a movie once every two months, and take trips around Michigan between semesters," says Rudnicki. And most of the furniture for the house the family rents for $190 a month "was given to us second-hand by our par- ents or friends," Mrs. Rudnicki says. Like everyone else, the Rudnickis have suffered from in- flation. Although Rudnicki is making $350 more this year than he did last year, he says it has brought no increase in buying power. Despite all this, Rudnicki says, "We don't think about money very much, because we're not hung up about collect- around the police station and at other strategic locations as the black United Front massed for its regular weekly rally. Mayor Albert "Pete" Thomas, fearful of fresh outbreaks of the racial violence that has disrupted this community at the ex- treme southern tip of Illinois for two years, called on the state police to help maintain order. At Carbondale, 58 miles north of Cairo, a group called the Black Survival Conference was meeting yesterday and today. There were indications some participants planned to travel to Cairo or take part in the- United Front rally. Cairo, 'economically depressed and with a large unemployment problem, principally among the black population, has been the scene of frequent outbreaks, including snip- ing, arson and other forms of violence. Thomas, after the three attacks on police headquarters Friday night and early yes- terday, said he is convinced "mercenaries and revolutionaries" from outside the com- munity are deeply involved with the town's troubles. He said the situation "has gone beyond the stage of being a civil rights dispute." Two persons were reported injured in the latest outbreak of gunfire involving police and militant blacks. Thomas was inside the police building, the first floor of which is protected by dou- ble shets of steel plate, when the initial i