REPLIES TO KENT JURY See Editorial Page 'YI rL Sir l igan 7IAitj LONDONDERRY AIR High--65 Low-48 Cloudy and warmer, morning fog Vol. LXXXI, No. 47 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, October 27, 1970 Ten Cents Ten Pages ...k. . U' research: Bringing the war By DAVE CHUDWIN First of a four-part series "We have had a very fine relationship with the military," says Thomas Butler, head of the University's Cooley Electronics Laboratory. "They are interested in un- derstanding the problems of universities." And University scientists and engineers are interested in understanding the prob- lems of the military. In fact, one-sixth of the University's total sponsored research effort, over $10 million in 1969-70, is per- formed for the Department of Defense. "I think the country needs a Defense Department, which is the military, and the military fights wars," explains Richard La- gault, associate director of the University's Willow Run Laboratories, a multi-million dollar defense contractor. "Given the fact you're going to fight, you ought to do it intelligently." To help fight more "intelligently," Uni- versity researchers areengaged in projects to map potential battlefields, guide sold- iers to the battlefields, help them com- municate, protect them from counterat- tack by aircraft or missiles, give them in- formation about enemy activity and pin- point the enemy for destruction. Although b o t h Defense Department spending for research and the amount of University military research have dropped in the last few years, the University still receives about five 'per cent of the mili- tary's total research funding for colleges and universities in the country. Only four other schools - Johns Hop- kins, MIT and the Universities of Illinois and California - receive more military research money than the University, a De- fense Department spokesman reports. Over half the military research here is classified with 42 contracts totaling $5.6 million in 1969-70. University researchers do not hide their involvement w i t h the military research machine.."I think it's quite proper to be concerned about the defense of the coun- try," says Vice President for Research A. Geoffrey Norman. "I don't require any elaborate justification for this." "Sixty to seventy per cent of Willow Run's projects are military," adds Wil- liam Brown, director of Willow Run Lab- oratories. "We do it and we're proud of it." Norman and other University officials are quick to claim that the University is not involved in weapon development, just technological research. "We're not into weaponry, we're not into tactical development - this is not our line of business," Norman insists. "Sometimes the outcome is a new instrument, but we don't make it and we don't sell it." But, as James Wilson, director of the University's Institute for Science and Technology points out, "The modern mili- tary is so complicated this question could become semantics." Norman confirms t h a t University re- searchers sometimes evaluate an instru- ment made by defense contractors if the specifications for the device are developed here. Researchers have also occasionally delivered experimental prototypes to the military for further testing. While the military does support some pure research, most of the money spent by the Defense Department is, to improve mil- itary technology and effectiveness. * University researchers are working on a multi-million dollar classified effort ov- er two decades old to use remote sensing of infrared radiation to pinpoint enemy sol- diers and equipment in any kind of weath- er, 24-hours a' day from the ground or air. Infrared sensors make a "heat map" of the environment from which different ob- jects are distinguished by their shapes and the amount of heat they emit. "In prin- home ciple it's possible to detect anything, even a gnat," Legault says. "Infrared is particularly useful in pro- viding data that can be used to locate an enemy's position, to estimate his numbers and to ,detect his movements," explains an article in the University's Research News. U.S. forces in Southeast Asia are known to use infrared techniques to find V i e t Cong from the air in Laos and in South Vietnam. "Remote sensing was born here," says Leonard Porcello, associate director of Wil- low Run Laboratories where the infrared work is being done. Techniques similar to those developed at the University - which is praised by the Army as "the leading free world authority in surveillance technology" - have result- ed in night-vision rifle scopes, enemy in- trusion detectors and Samos spy satellites, according to Business Week magazine. Aviation Week magazine reports that the value of infrared and similar techniques became apparent when their use "for tar- get acquisition, night viewing, surveillance and weapon development began unfolding, particularly in Southeast Asia." See 'U' RESEARCHERS, Page 10 ' I Vice President Norman Cooley Lab's Thomas Butler I DRAFT DECISION: H-s fast drop policy enacted WASHINGTON (R-Curtis Tarr, director of the Selective Service System, yesterday established a policy which would force local draft boards to allow students to drop their defer- ments at any time. Under the new policy, a student could end his II-S defer- ment and enter the I-A manpower pool any time it became apparent his draft lottery number would not be reached. Prior to the ruling, many registrants with high lottery numbers had voiced concern that local boards would delay, consideration of their request for reclassification until after the year ended. Thus, they would be placed in the following year's manpower pool, without knowing whether or not their lottery number would be reached that year. The policy announced yesterday also included occupa- -------{' tional deferments and father- oss onE rebuff s ' ;LF meeting Agnew hints new addition to high court GREENVILLE, S.C. UP) - Vice President Spiro Agnew said yes- terday that President Nixon is still determined to place a "Southern strict constructionist on the Su- preme Court." Despite the Senate's rejections of Clement Haynsworth of South Carolina, and G. Harrold Cars- well of Florida, Agnew said, Nixon would appoint a southerner should a vacancy in the high court mater- ialize while he is in office. Following the rejection of Cars- well, Nixon said he would not nominate another southerner, claiming Congress would oppose any nominee from that region. Subsequently, the President nominated Harry Blackmun of Minnesota, who was confirmed by the Senate. In a campaign speech here yes- terday, Agnew said, "I need not remind you that Richard Nixon remains determined to achieve a better ideological and geographi- See SOUTHERNER, Page 7 hood deferments. Exposure for even pa't of the year counts for the entire year and if a man ends the year in I-A status without being drafted, he is moved into less vulnerable cate- gories in the following years.. Tarr said lottery number 195 probably will be the highest called this year, and he invited men who received higher numbers in the draft lottery held December, 1969 to take advantage of the oppor- tunity to face their maximum ex- posure in a year which, for them, is already safe. "Should a young man hold a number higher than that reached by his local board-and number 195 has been projected as the highest number which any local board can reach-it is to his ad- vantage, and helpful in gaining an accurate picture of the nation's manpower situation for him vol- untarily to give up his deferment for a I-A classification," the Se- lective Service System said Men who received lottery num- bers last July, however, could not use the ruling to their advantage this year. They will be the top- priority group of 1971 and drop- ping a deferment now would only expose them to the draft for that entire year before they know what their chances are. They could use it later in 1971 or in future years. -Daily-Denny Gainer McGovern speaks before 500 at Hill Aud. McGovern speaks at Hl A ., criticiZes NiXOn administration By GERI SPRUNG The Office of Student Serv- ices (OSS) Policy Board last night unanimously called on the University administration not to prevent the Gay Libera- tion Front and Radical Les- bians from holding a Midwest conference on homosexuality at the University. The two groups had been denied permission to hold the conference here by President Robben Fleming with the concurrence of the Re- gents, who said that the groups would have to show that their conference would be educational before they would be granted per- mission to hold it. In its resolution, the policy board recommended that "no or- ganization should be required to submit any information concern- ing the educational value of its proposed activities." The policy board's recommenda- tion was accepted by Vice Presi- dent for Student Services Robert Knauss, who will present it to the Regents. The policy board's recommenda- tion stemmed from a complaint from the GLF and the Radical Lesbians that they were being dis- criminated against by being re- quired to show that their con- ference would be educational. No other student organization h a s been required to present such in- formation. The policy board recommended that the "GLF and Radical Les- bians should be allowed use of Univei'sity facilities to hold local, state, regional and national con- ferences in a similar manner as any other student organization." The controversy began last April, when President Robben Fleming banned the conference on t h e grounds that it would not be "clearly educational in nature and directed primarily towards those people who have professional in- terest in the field." See OSS, Page 7 By SARA FITZGERALD I Sen. George S. McGovern (D- SD), speaking at Hill Aud. Sun- day, charged President Nixon with failing to eliminate the "real ob- scenities of American life." Citing Nixon's recent statements attacking pornography, McGov- ern told an audience of 500 that the President should concentrate instead on ending the Indochinese war, the starvation of millions of Americans, and the growing gap between political rhetoric and ac- tion. McGovern came to Ann Arbor STUDENTS FAIL TO ENROLL U Urban ed may include juniors as part of a ten-day campaign trip on behalf of Democratic candi- dates in twelve states. Throughout his speech, McGov- emn praised Sen. Phillip Hart (D- Mich) who is campaigning for re- election, and Michael R. Still- wagon, Democratic candidate for Congress from the Second District, which includes Ann Arbor. According to McGovern, the real "'*-ence in America is the gov- ernment's inaoility to deal with the pressing problems that face the country. "The greatest and most painful obscenity is the gap that exists between political rhe- toricuand the political reality that is pursued in America," he said. He added that the best way to celebrate the approaching 200th anniversary of the American Re- volution would be to "reaffirm in a meaningful way the ideals that America hasstrayed from." McGovern also criticized what he called "the foolish, cruel, and barbaric slaughter that continues in Southeast Asia." "In spite of all that Nixon should have learned on his trips to Southeast Asia," McGovern continued, "the President has de- scribed U.S. involvement in the war as 'the finest hour in Amer- ican history' when it should have been labeled its worst." In discussing thenIndochinese war, McGovern mentioned the it "tries to be the first on the moon. This, he said is one of the greatest tragedies in America to- day. All Americans, he said, should be ashamed that there are size- able numbers in the U.S. who "will be stunted by the blight of hunger although the U.S. is the most af- fluent country in the world." The senator noted that he and Hart had together introduced the resolution to .begin the Select Committee on Nutrition and Hu- man Needs. McGovern also criticized the See McGOVERN, Page 7 a -Associated Press Chileans mourn Schneider Mourners pass the coffin of Gen. Rene Schneider, the assasinated Chilean army commander-in-chief, in Santiago yesterday. Schneider was shot Thursday in what observers said was part of the dispute over the election of Marxist Salvador Allende to the presidency IR VINE BRANCH: Fire damages Bank of America near UC IRVINE, Calif. 0P-A fire which authorities termed arson badly damaged a Bank of America branch near the Uni- versity of California's Irvine campus early yesterday morning. "Death to Pigs" and other messages which appeared to be written by militants were sprayed with black paint on the bank's outside wall. It was the second major fire at a campus branch of the world's largest bank this year in California. Last February, demonstrators, saying the bank represented the "establish- ment," burned down a branch in Isla Vista adjacent to the University of California at a Santa Barbara. By EDWARD ZIMMERMAN In an attempt to upgrade its urban education program, the education school will begin next term to allow juniors to work in Detroit inner city schools. However, the program, which currently enrolls only seniors, has thus far been able to attract only four juniors, far short of the estimated en- rollment of 20. The closing date for enrolling in the junior program is Nov. 1. And, until a class of 20 juniors is obtained, the program cannot be started, according to its supervisor. neighborhood meetings, and in groups involved with school-neighborhood relation. Juniors who participate in the urban education program will observe classes and then in their senior year take on the responsibilities of student- teaching. The juniors in the program will take also three other courses: Educational Psychology, Educa- tional Sociology, and Teaching Methods. The four junior-year courses are still in the planning stages, but the decisions as to what they will include will be made soon. The school will have to hire four instructors Other Bank of America branch- es have been targets of firebomb- ers and window-breakers. There have been no major stu- dent disturbances reported thus far on the 6,000-student Irvine campus. Fire Marshal Jay Trotter of Orange County called the fire arson and said a preliminary in- vestigation indicated a flammable liquid was used to start the fire. Damage was estimated at $125,000 by officials. Trotter said there was no defi- nite evidence of any explosion, but a bank spokesman said the blaze "was a highly incendiary flash fire, rather than a fire starting - ~....