DEATH ANN ARBOR STYLE See Editorial Page Y Akr D43aitU CHILLING High--23 Low--10 Chance of snow flurries, less windy Vol. LXXXI, No.71 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, November 24, 1970 Ten Cents Eight Pages 'RECOMMENDS FINE: Board rules Dentonguilty' By ARTHUR LERNER The graduate school board of inquiry has ruled Peter Denton guilty of class disruption and recommended that he "make compensation to an appropriate scholarship fund in the amount of $100" as a result of his "disruptive activity" last March 26. Denton had been charged with disrupting a class of Com- puter and Communications Science and Mathematics Prof. * Bernard Galler during last spring's Black Action Movement strike' Law Prof. Paul Carrington, chairman of the board of inquiry, said he "had no idea" when the executive board would act on the final board report, which was submitted Nov. 16. lFleming addresses , faculty By HESTER PULLING President Robben Fleming yes- terday told the Faculty Senate- the University-wide faculty body -that despite the need to tighten up on spending, a decrease in rev- enue "would not result in the re- duction of salaries." In a discussion of budgetary and financial affairs at the University, Fleming explained the two recent- ly announced budget cuts. One of the cuts, he said, in- volves the St a te Legislature'sl $735,048 emergency budget reduc- tion in this year's appropriations to the University. The state's cut- back, he added, is directly related to costs resulting from the eight week General Motors strike. The administration, he said, also 'requested University deans and directors to prepare tentative cuts equivalent to three per cent of this year's salary budget. Denton has not participated in the board's investigation since he and about 40 supporters walked out on its first hearing. Denton left when the board declined to rule immediately on objections he raised. Denton charged that since the board was not formed at the be- ginning of a school term as spe- cified in graduate school rules, it was "illegally constituted" and should "dissolve itself." He also contended that the case was correctly under the jurisdic- tion of the Central Student Ju- diciary. The executive board of the graduate school, however, has af- firmed the board of inquiry's later rejection of both of Denton's ob- jections. "I still have the same contempt that I did for the board," Denton said yesterday. "I personally am not going to pay $100 to anybody. I think that fines are a typical, inequitable way of exacting punishment from people," he said. The board of inquiry's final re- port noted that "such disruptiveI acts are harmful to the rights of students to learn and teachers to teach. They are inconsistent with the goals of the University as a center of learning and inqury." The board rejected recommen- -Associated Press XUAN THUY, chief of the North Vietnamese delegation to the Paris peace talks, announces yester- day that his delegation will boycott tomorrow's scheduled session of the talks (above), while U.S. Army Col. Arthur D. Simons, (below), reports on his leading of a small band of men in North Viet- nam in the attempt last weekend to rescue American prisoners of war. UN TO INVESTIGATE: Fighting ends in Guinea after two-day battle wlt invaders . air U.S. ti raid ir WASHINGTON ()-A small task force of Army and Air Force volunteers s t a g e d a commando-style raid deep in- to Vietnam last Friday in a fruitless effort to free Areri- can prisoners, Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird an- nounced yesterday. Laird told a news conference the rescue team found no prisoners when they landed in helicopters inside a prisoner-of-war camp at Son Tay about 23 miles west of Hanoi in post-midnight darkness. The camp had recently been va- cated, he said. The raid, first ever inside North Vietnam, was approved by Presi- dent Nixon several hours before it was mounted. Many earlier efforts to rescue individual pilots downed in North Vietnam have been made but this was the first camp raid. Laird said he recommended the operation because of "new infor- mation we received this month that some of our men were dying in prisoner-of-war camps." Meanwhile, the United States kept up spy flights over North Vietnam yesterday in the face of mounting protests and a move by the Communists to boycott the Paris peace talks. The reconnaissance flights went out to get photographs of the1 damage inflicted in the bombing strikes even as the controversy, over the raids increased. In Paris, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegations to the peace talks announced they would boycott the next session scheduled for tomorrow, although they said they would return tothe confer- ence table Dec. 3. At the White House, press sec- retary Ronald L. Ziegler issued yesterday whatLamounted to a warning to North Vietnam against taking reprisals against American prisoners because of the unsuccess- ful rescue effort. "I think," he told a questioner, "it is apparent that the prisoners would not have had anything to do with the rescue operation and it is inconceivable that there would be any reprisals taken against the prisoners of war. But if there were reprisals, the United States would hold the leaders of North Vietnam personally respon- sible." The commando raid took place around 2 a.m., North Vietnam time, about the time some 250 U.S. warplanes were hitting at anti- aircraft missile and gun positions in the panhandle further to the south. Laird said those "protective reaction" air strikes were not in- tended as a cover for the attempt- ed prisoner rescue operation. How- ever, they may have served to somewhat confuse the North Viet- namese as to what was happening. Laird said the U.S. Navy under- took a small diversionary air mis- sion, dropping flares over the North Vietnamese coast above the 19th parallel to help carry off the rescue attempt. The defense secretary made his startling disclosure about four hours after a Pentagon spokesman steadfastly refused to say wheth- er U.S. warplanes operated above the 19th parallel during the "pro- tective reaction" strikes which were billed as retaliation for North Vietnamese downing of a U.S. reconnaissance plane more than a week ago. While the controversy over the attack raged, there was fresh See LAIRD, Page 8 roop N. staged Vietnam announces Fleming explained to the Senate dation of suspension or expulsion that because "higher education of Denton. has lost its high priority in the "It is not in the public interest legislature," the administration to terminate a potentially promis- has to find methods for "generate- ing professional career or to -Associated Press . THE PENTAGON yesterday released this map to mark the site near Hanoi where a small band of U.S. troops landed last weekend in an attempt to recapture American prisoners-of-war. Senate war critics hit N. Vietnam_ raids WASHINGTON (R)-Reacting with surprise and skepticism, Senate war critics asked yesterday if the unsuccessful week- end raid to rescue American prisoners in North Vietnam means the Nixon administration has abandoned hopes of winning their freedom through negotiation. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, assistant Democratic leader, spearheaded a late-afternoon debate after Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird released the details of the rescue attempt. Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.) defended the action, saying it was "successful in demonstrating American concern for the prisoners even though it failed to find or free any." "This is the American spirit in the highest tradition," ing funds internally to accommo- date for the decreasing state revenue." Gerhard Weinberg, chairman of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, criticized the state's practice of cutting back " on previously voted funds to ac- commodate for unanticipated rev- enue shortages. According to its, martyr a student for 10 minutes of noisome misconduct," the report stated. The final report was signed by four of the five board of inquiry members. The fifth member filed a dissenting opinion, the contents of which were unavailable last night. By The Associated Press ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast-Fight- ing in the Guinean capital of Conakry b e t w e e n. government forces and a band of invaders ap- peared at an end last night. Radio Conakry called on residents to resume their normal activities but keep their weapons at hand.- Guinea's 5,000-man army had battled for a second day against invaders yesterday and a number of European advisers to President Sekou Toure's Marxist-oriented government have been killed, Radio Conakry reported. It also said the invaders had been trained by Col. Jean Schram- me, a Belgian-born white mer- cenary who fought in the Congo. The broadcast repeated the con- tention of the Guinean govern- constitution, he said, the state1 cannot operate on deficit spend-T ing. israei accu Weinberg asked the attending faculty to give "careful thought to the possibility that Michigan 0 "might be able to do without 3 iiissions (such) a constitutional provision." Athletic Director Dan Canham discussed budgetary aspects of the TEL AVIV WP) - Israel accused athletic department. Egypt yesterday of sending three Several faculty members criti- flights of warplanes over Israeli cized recent raises in staff salaries positions along the Suez Canal, within the department, noting that apparently on reconnaissance mis- the academic community had no sions. such pay increases. A military spokesman, asked af- Canham mentioned unionization ter the third flight was announc- within the past two years and the ed if there had been any firing, large amount of overtime work would only say that army units required in the athletic depart- took action according to standing ment as two factors for the salary orders. increase. He refused to confirm or deny "Our staff salaries were very that any shooting took place. bad." Canham added. "We ranked Following the earlier announc- ninth out of the Big Ten in ed overflights, a spokesman said salary." - ses E gypt of flying over SueZ territory the Egyptian aircraft neither that America is undertaking a bombed nor strafed and the clear and open espionage mission Israelis did not shoot. for Israel's benefit." The charges came as Cairo In the month since Anwar Sadat claimed the United States was has been president of Egypt, there carrying out high-altitude spy I have been indications in Cairo and flights over Egypt and passing on elsewhere that Nasser's successors the findings to the Israelis. were taking a tougher line toward ment that the invaders were mer- cenaries dispatched by Portugal, which has an overseas territory bordering on Guinea on the West African bulge. Portugal denied any role in the fighting and welcomed the U.N. Security Council's plan to send an investigative team to Conakry. Antonio Spinola, governor gen- eral of neighboring Portuguese Guinea, dismissed the Guinean charges with a statement that they were a smokescreen to hide internal problems. With the exception of a U.N. observer's report, no independent information on the fighting was available. After saying the in- vaders were repulsed Sunday night. Radio Conakry reported yesterday morning that the "sec- ond day of the war that Portu- guese imperialism imposed on us" had begun with a new attempt to land troops. In Bonn, the West German For- eign Ministry said it had received word that an employe of a Ger- man firm in Conakry had been killed. Late last night, Nigeria, with black Africa's biggest standing army, offered to send Guinea mili- tary assistance. Unstable since its independence from France in 1958, Guinea has been marked almost yearly with announcements of foiled imperial- ist coups to overthrow Toure. Estimates on the size of the invading force ran from 350-a figure cited by a captive-to 800 -the number given in a speech in Brazzaville by President Marian Ngouabi of the Congo Republic. He said his left-wing government was threatened by "the same mercenaries." An Egyptian Cairo, in denying said the charges spokesman in the overflights, were made to 3 I i eet t[ 6 cover up for the American mis- sions. An Israeli military spokesman said Soviet-made Egyptian Sukhoi SU7 fighter-bombers flew o n c e on Sunday and twice on Monday over the east bank of the canal, where the Israeli lines are located. This activity, he said, was in "grave violation" of the Middle East cease-fire. The Israeli spokesman said two pairs ofsthe Sukhois first flew from Ismailia to Pas el Ayish on Sunday - a distance of 38 miles. On Monday, four Sukhois first flew over 70 miles of Israeli de- fenses from El Qantara to P o r t Suez and later in the day, two Sukhois flew from Ismailia to Pas el Ayish again, he added. Israel lodged three separate complaints with the U.N. ceasefire supervision organization, located in Jerusalem. It was the first time Israel hasj complained of an Egyptian aerial violation since the shooting halt took effect Aug. 7. Military observers said it was possible the Egyptians wanted to take a closer look at Israeli canal- side fortificationswhichthave been reinforced during the re spite.! the United States and Israel than the late Egyptian president Nas- sar took. In Beirut, newspapers of both the right and the left noted a tougher Egyptian stance. In one publication, Sadat was quoted as saying, "The first and foremost thing is that nobody asks us to withdraw a single missile from the front because that is complete- ly unacceptable." Diplomats in Beirut said it may be too early to assess the first acts and statements of the new Egyp- tian leadership and that it could be reacting to internal pressures in taking an initial stance that appears more militant than Nas- ser's. Dole said, adding that "In my opinion it was successful" be- cause U.S. concern was dem- onstrated and all U.S. person- nel got back even though the strike failed to free any pris- oners. "I admire their courage," Ken- nedy said. "I just deplore the policy that permitted them to go." Sen. J. W. Fulbright (D-Ark), who said earlier he fears weekend bombing strikes in the north mean the administration is escalating the war and seeking a military victory, observed "the real ques- tion here is a question of judg- ment." "None of this is consistent with the purpose of a negotiated settle- ment," he said. At times, tempers got short. Senators declined to yield-usual- ly an automatic Senate courtesy. Meanwhile, the Foreign Rela- tions Committee decided to call top administration spokesmen be- fore it in closed session to explain the policy behind the weekend raids. No date was set. Noting that the raids came just a few days after the administra- tion asked Congress for a big new See SENATORS, Page 8 Po 1Cy unit appointed on housing By GERI SPRUNG The newly appointed policy board for the Office of Univer- sity Housing will meet for the first time today to discuss next fall's housing plans and possible budget cuts. The unit was set up last week by the Office of Student Services Policy Board. The new board, composed of seven student and three faculty members, will take over the re- sponsibility formerly handled by the Board of Governors of the Residence Halls and the Student Advisory Committee on Housing. This board will be delegated to set policy of all matters concern- ing University housing and to ex- ecute any OSS policy relevant to housing. The board is currently made up of members who have previously served in other areas of housing including Tenants Union, Inter- House Assembly, Inter-Coopera- tive Council, and Northwood Ter- race Association. Director of University Housing John Feldkamp says he "looks for- ward to the group because of their backgrounds." He added that he would encour- age the board to get feedback on all their policies from the resi- dents they would be affecting. Decisions made by the board are subject to final approval by the OSS policy board. The housing board is the first FEAR OF WIDENING WAR Students condemn US. attack By ROSE SUE BERSTEIN Students here yesterday expressed shock and disbelief at the renewed bombing at- tacks against North Vietnam, but offered no plans for responsive political action. A wide spectrum of students, labeling themselves from "conservative" to "radi- cal", condemned the attacks. or instead the "beginning of a new widen- ing of the war." Most students agreed that there had been an initial shock upon hearing the news. I was very surprised," one literary col- lege senior said. "I didn't think N i x o n would widen the war so blatently." "Even though people seem tired of pro- believe in doing anything political any- more," he continued, "because it never makes any difference. The world just stays the same." "What would perhaps have incited mass action, broad-based demonstrations, and passioned outrage a year ago", one stu- dent said, "now only provokes comments such as, 'What would you expect?'"