Wolverines crush Hawkeyes, 55-0' See story, page 11 THE SUNDAY DAILY See Editorial Page YI rL Si tr q au IxitM SLUSHY High--33 Low-22 1-3 inches of snow by noon, windy Vol. LXXXI, No. 64 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Sunday, November 15. 1970 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Army By SEYMOCUR M. HERSH Dispatch News Service FORT BENNING, Ga. - T h e Army calls it Correctional Custody, its phrase for the small, barren en- closure _that serves as a detention center for GIs in the 197th Infantry Brigade here who step out of line. The troops have their own name for the area: Concentration Camp. It consists of three drab barracks surrounded by guards, two or three acres of carefully raked brown soil, and a high barbed-wire fence. it's located a few dozen yards off a main road at Fort Benning, and has held between five and 40 inmates at any given time, since it was opened in March 1970. The camp is the centerpiece of a new and extremely harsh form of disc ipline: Correctional custody dicipline that's getting a try in the mostly of GIs who, having completed 197th, a boisterous unit composed their obligatory one-year tour of duty in South Vietnam, find it dif- ficult to conform to barracks life. A dozen interviews with personnel from the 197th established beyond doubt that the typical work day at the correctional facility begins at 4:30 a.m. and often ends at 11 p.m. or midnight even in the worst wea- ther. GIs are worked seven days a week at hard labor, and they are allowed only four cigarettes a day; and that privilege is one of the first to be taken away as a disciplinary measure. GIs have told of repeated beatings by the guards, all specially h a n d- picked by the headquarters staff of the 197th. Mail is restricted, no tele- phone calls are permitted except in extreme emergencies, visitors are not permitted, and often inmates are - as a punishment - forbidden to speak to anyone else in the camp. None of the senior officers of the 197th denied in interviews that con- ditions are rough at the camp, but they insist the work and require- ments there are completely within army regulations. The GIs are all sentenced there for infraction of Army rules - such as being absent without leave (AWOL) or talking back to a superior - under a mili- tary punishment known as field- grade Article 15. In most other Army units, punish- ment for an article 15 consists of being restricted to barracks or extra duty. The punishment is usually given out by a company commander (a Captain or Lieutenant) and lasts up to 7 days. For more serious infrac- tions which still do not require a court-martial, a field-grade Article 15 may be given in which a higher rank- ing officer (Major or above) can pre- scribe up to 30 days of penalty. Some units, as a deterrent, will place all of the GIs serving Article 15 pun- ishments in a separate barracks, al- though that is rarely done. Pvt. Patrick Healy, 20, completed a 30-day sentence at the camp in early October for disobeying an or- der. "They claim it's not a prison, but it's really bad. We work all day," he said. There's a lot of people that don't know what's doing on in there," Healy said. "We get up at 4:30 and start working - raking and digging a lot of ditches. One night I worked until 2 in the morning. The regular duty lasts until 9:30, but then most guys get two hours extra duty. Then you got to shine your shoes and clean up." He complained that there were no breaks during the day and said the guards "were not like ordinary NCOs. They were obsessed by orders acid power - worse than any drill in- structors in basic." Another GI who - like most inter- viewed - did not want his name used - said: "It's really horrible in there. You really work from 4:30 in the morning until 11 every night, or 12 if you get extra duty. I've seen people work until 2 in the morning, which means 21/2 hours sleep. And the work is hard. The shower facilities are just cold showers out in the open - you fill up a jerry can with water, lift it over your head and take your showers. The latrines are portable and they change them every week . . ." Some of the GI complaints in mid- summer led officials of the 197th to improve the sanitary conditions at the camp, although they are still crude. "Nobody really wants to say much about it," one GI explained af- ter spending 30 days in the camp. "You say something and the people just look at you like you were crazy or say they don't exist. But I wasn't sleeping, I didn't dream it up." All of the GIs are presented with a 10-page mimeographed list of harsh rules and regulations when they enter rr 19r Gis the camp. The GIs are told, for example, that they cannot be witt- ing 10 feet of the barbed-wire fence surrounding the facility. Other regulations include: -"Action and movement of cor- rectees are controlled continuously by a non-commissioned officer." -"Correctees will work seven days a week." -"Correctees will not talk with anyone other than (official) escorts. Idle talk is prohibited." A final section notes that mutiny is punishable by death and warns: "Military authorities are authorized to use the most extreme measures to suppress the riots of mutiny, when necessary. Do not be a fall guy and take part in any riot or mutiny." See GEORGIA, Page 2 J.E. Hoover . cleaner' to face trial By ANITA CRONE David Gasowski, an August '70 graduate of the School of Architecture and Design faces sentencing Nov. 19 in Grand Rapids on a charge of desecrating the American flag. The charge stems from an exhibit "J. Edgar Hoover All American Crime Cleaner" that Gasowski entered in the 4th Michigan Biennial Arts and Craftsman show held in Grand Rapids. The exhibit consisted of a vacuum cleaner with a bag made out of material which appeared to be an Ameri- can flag. The engine covering of the clean- er was molded to form the head of a pink pig. An anonymous patron of the show report- ed the exhibit to the Grand Rapids police, who sent uniformed officers to confiscate the work after it was observed by a plain- clothes detective. Gasowski was arrested Oct. 25 in Ann Ar- bor, transferred to Grand Rapids the same night and stood trial the next morning. The artist was prosecuted under a Mich- igan law which reads, "Any person who shall publicly mutilate, deface, defile, defy, trample upon or by word or act cast con- tempt upon any such flag, standard, color, ensign, coat-of-arms or shield is guilty of a misdemeanor. Gasowski was convicted of the misde- meanor after pleading guilty to the charge. However, he hopes to have his plea changed to not guilty at the sentencing. According to Paul Williams, defense at- torney for Gasowski, the change in plea at- tempt will be based on the difference be- tween legal and moral guilt. While Gasow- ski may have treated the flag unconven- tionally as judged by traditional American standards, his lawyer claims he was not guilty of the crime because he did not intentionally deface, defile, trample .upon or cast contempt upon the flag. "The main thing," Gasowski said about his exhibit, "is that the piece was an aes- thetic approach using pure color and design -by rearranging the flag I more or less use it as that - not as the American flag it- self but as red, white ,and blue, which best signify the U.S. The U.S. Supreme Court now has before it two New York appeals cases and is ex- pected to decide soon whether state laws prohibiting flag desecreation violate the First Amendment's free speech guarantee. In a recent Pennsylvania case, a defend- ant charged with desecrating the flag was found not guilty after the defense noted the recent use of the American flag in the movie "Myra Breckenridge." : s... ...,.-., i+.*.r A :: i...: ..t iF.:: .::. +Nh:}:. .i... ....::: Ui{.'>.:}. . ' t::v..Xt'?:~~~~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ yf;'.{n j 'y}j"fyyCl Burger eyes end to jury in U.S. civil suits PHILADELPHIA (P)-Chief Justice War- ren E. Burger 1 a s t night suggested the elimination of jury trials in most civil cases as one way of streamlining the nation's court system. He said the change would save time and millions of dollars, would free lawyers for other uses, and might prevent chaos caused by a fast-growing population. Burger called the idea an "agenda item" without proposing it directly. He carefully emphasized that he believes jury trials should be retained in criminal cases. The chief justice said judges and lawyers must consider with-an open mind possible innovations in a stytem that has not changed anything basic since the Constitution was drafted in 1787. He said the seventh amendment guarantee of a jury trial in all federal civil cases in- volving $20 or more is a dubious provision. By contrast, Burger called wise the constitu- tional provision specifying that admiralty disputes between states be settled by federal judges without juries. The chief justice spoke in the city where the Constitution and the first 10 amend- ments were drafted 183 years ago. He sug- gested the jury trial provision was given little consideration in the heat and dust of that summer, and hailed the congressional decision to raise the $20 minimum to $10,000. Honored at the dinner was John C. Bell Jr., 78, who has served as chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, governor of the state and president of the state senate. In 1966 and 1968, Bell sharply cri- ticized decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court that protected the rights of defendants. The jury-trial guarantee is one of the few Bill of Rights provisions that is binding only on federal courts. In recent years the Supreme Court has imposed the sixth amendment right to a jury trial in crim- inal cases, and most other Bill of Rights guarantees, on the states. Burger spoke specifically of the federal court system, but said, "if these points of inquiry are appropriate for state courts as well, so be it." See BURGER, Page 8 I -Associated Press Save the air--Ride a bike! Cyclists mass in Copenhagen yesterday to protest air pollution and the risks bicycle riders take pedaling in traffic. The cyclists, intent on dramatizing the need to save the air and their lives, blocked traffic in the King's Market area where 25 buses were subsequently stopped. Senate passage doubtful for Nixon welfare program -Daily-Randy Edmonds He's off and running Halfback Billy Taylor (42) picks his way through the hapless Iowa defense on his way to the goal line. Taylor scored two touchdowns in the Wolverines' 55-0 trouncing of the Hawkeyes and picked up 189 yards for the day. Michigan will face Ohio State next week with a perfect 9-0 record. See story, Page 11. 450 PUBLICATIONS Author says five million buy undergrouqnd papers" WASHINGTON (A) - Prospects for Pres- ident Nixon's top priority domestic recom- mendation to Congress - his welfare reform plan - now appear only fair in the lame- duck session opening tomorrow. Backers of the Family Assistance Plan have b e e n reasonably confident through most of the 1970 session that the proposal eventually would be enacted despite lengthy delays encountered in the Senate Finance Committee. The supporters have generally gone along with predictions of administration officials which say they will have 60 votes on the Senate floor, an ample margin. But, confronted with a bob-tailed session coming right after an emotional election campaign in which the President himself led\the fight against Democrats, supporters of the legislation now are not so sure it can get through the Senate. They note that all along it has been as- sumed 35 to 40 of the needed votes would come from Democrats. Foes of the welfare plan, led by Sen. John J. Williams (R-Del.), now profess to see a good chance of blocking it. Most of the opposition centers on the pro- vision to provide $1,600 a year for an urban family of four. "I just do not see how it makes any sense to try to write on the Senate floor a new welfare program that carries as many com- plications as this one does, the Delaware Republican told a reporter. r"We will have only about four full weeks. in thic ,',,nl geOflf nnAnnrl w ha ,,amnn ters as extension of the excise taxes on au- tos and telephone service which expire Dec. 31. These will produce more than $1 billion in the next year for a budget already far more out of balance than Nixon has con- ceded, the Senator said, and yet neither the House nor Senate has acted on the exten- sion. The initial battleground for the welfare legislation in the lame-duck session still will be the Finance Committee even though that panel voted tentatively in October to reject it. See PASSAGE, Page 8 INDIANAPOLIS (/P) - A researcher says the nation's underground press, written "by the alienated for the alienated," has achiev- ed a circulation approaching five million. Robert J. Glessing, professor of journal- ism at Canada College, Redwood C i t y , Calif., reports in a book, "The U n d e r- ground Press in America," that there are more than 450 such publications. He says underground circles estimate the readership at up to 30 million. Glessing attributes the proliferation of such newspapers to a youth revolt against 15 vie for seven SGC seats war, racial injustice, politics and a loss of individuality, coupled with advances in printing technology which make the publica- tions cheap to produce. Who reads them? The author quotes one underground press worker in California as saying his readers are "fresh-smelling hippies and dewy-eyed runaways, pot smokers and pill poppers, university students and regents, Socialists, Communists, anarchists and Yippies, Hell's Angels, police chiefs, city councilmen, the Pentagon and the Bank of America." Glessing points out that some of the pap- ers are not so underground any longer. The profit-making Village Voice in New York City, for example, has a certified cir- culation of 130,000. "Many of the underground papers of the past decade died suddenly after one or two issues, while others like the V i11 a g e Voice, the Los Angeles Free Press and the East Village Other seem to flourish as the youth movement continues," contends the writer. "The new journalism in America was not started directly or indirectly by the Village Voice, by the Students for a Democratic Society or by a new breed of children raised by permissive parents. "The underground press in America is one of the results of the prevailing conditions in America." Establishment newspapers cover such By ROSE SUE BERSTEIN This week's Student Government Council elections will determine whether council maintains its status as a suppor- tive organization, moves to a new activist position or veers back to the more conservative group it once was. In a brief, uncolorful campaign of one week, 'the issues which have interested the candidates most are: corporate re- cruiting, military r'esearch, ROTC, sexism, minority admissions, student living problems such as low-cost housing and Univer- sity regulation of non-academic offenses.J The 15 candidates for seven vacant council seats include incumbent Al Ackerman, '72L, Henry Clay, '72, Andre Hunt, '74, and current administrative vice-president Paul Teich. All the incumbents seeking reelection are appointed rather than elected members of SGC. Ideological stances of the candidates vary with the issues. All of those interviewed were united in their distaste for pres- ent SGC policies and procedures. But the agreement ends there. The Teich, Heyn, Lenzer and Spears coalition believes SGC should innitiate and sustain change in the University and the community. They foresee a working alliance of students and workers within the community. Their priorities for action in- clude implementing the Black Action Movement (BAM) de- mands agreed upon last spring by the Regents, opening the University to "all oppressed sectors of American society,' and restructuring to eliminate institutional racism, sexism, and elitism. Separately, the coalition members have varying reasons for running. Heyn thinks it is "illegitimate to turn SGC's at- tention only to radical causes." She favors spreading the Unversity's resources throughout all sectors of the community.