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SHORT: "PRIDE OF PIKEVILLE" with BEN TURPIN 7 & 9 ARCH ITECTURE 662-8871 75c AUDITORIUM THE ETHIOPIAN GOVERNMENT has decided to establish diplomatic relations with Communist China. The Nixon administration expressed concern and regret that the move was made, a State Department spokesman said yesterday. A spokesman for Nationalist China said that there is "no link between Ethiopia's recognition of Peking and Nationalist China's relations with other African countries." * * * AN EGYPTIAN MOTORBOAT on a nighttime intelligence-and- smuggling mission was sunk by an Israeli patrol boat in the northern Suez gulf, the military announced yesterday. The incident -- the first of serious proportions on the Egyptian front since the Middle East cease-fire took effect four months ago - occurred early Saturday, a spokesman said. He stated he was unable to give a reason for the delay in publication. The boat was sunk near the Israeli-held shore of the gulf,. just south of the Suez Canal, and all four Egyptian crewmen were killed, he said. Documents found on one of the three bodies recovered - the fourth went down iwth the raft - proved the men were engaged in intelligence work ,the spokesman said. An investigation showed they also were smuggling hashish, he added. THE SENATE passed yesterday landmark legislation creating a new federal agency to protect and serve the interest of the nation's consumers. The bill also creates a three-member Council of Consumer Advisers within the executive office of the President. Senate passage of the measure followed the defeat by lopsided votes of amendments by Sen. Philip Hart, (D-Mich.), to permit the new agency to bypass the Office of Management and Budget in conducting research and to revise the way in which its leadershipt will be chosen. * * * TEN EUROPEAN ALLIES agreed last night to aim at nearlyj $1 billion in additional spending for defenses to ease the military load of the United States. This agreement emerged after some plain talking between the British and West Germans who are the chief contributors to the over-all program for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It will be presented today to U.S. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird. The significance of the European move was political rather than military, to convince Washington that more is being done to ease the U.S. burden. UAW, TEAMSTERS, AF] -Associated Press PAUL McCRACKEN, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors and former business professor at the Univer- sity, discusses the administration's inflationary alert at the White House yesterday. Union merger being con t 'e - uprescue attempts WASHINGTON (M - Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird said the United States "will make further efforts to free our prisoners" who are held in North Vietnam, and this includes possible military action. "I would not rule out any action," Laird said. "We are going to make every kind of effort to free our prisoners of war." The Pentagon chief made this statement when reporters asked if there might be another commando-type raid like the )nmi cunilhits ln mcco nlationary increases HINGTON (P) - The Nixon administration hit hard yes- new gasoline price boosts, at the proposed rail wage in- .d at the new auto wage-price pattern - which, it said, will imers $2.5 billion a year. g a new tone in its second inflation alert, the White House o "jawboning" - the pressure-by-publicity technique it has eretofore.1 President's Council of Economic Advisers explained t h a t ppears prices are rising less rapidly, "nevertheless, the rate n remains higher than expected." hift to easier money and lower interest rates got a nudge, -_ --- -- meantime, when the interest rate on government-insured h o m e mortgages was cut from 8/2 per cent to 8 per cent by the Federal * Housing Administration and the se reVeteran Administration. I Gasoe prices shot up nearly 16 per cent in the week ended Nov. meeting with the Team- 17, following a wave of crude oil ting president, Frank price boosts, the Council said. ons, t h e first such But the Council, which has op- l conference since the posed any form of voluntary or di- rs were kicked out of rect federal intervention in price- L-CIO on corruption wage decisions, emphasized that it in 1957. \ was not passing judgment on and Fitzsimmons in- whether any specific wage or ey discussed only a dis- price increases were justified. e r jurisdiction among The Council said the three-year kers, which they work- General Motors wage settlement, their mutual satisfac- which ended a 67-day strike by it was a major thaw- the United Auto Workers, "if gen- lations. eralized throughout the economy" ey to whether Meany would force costs and prices up- vite the 2-million-mem- ward. msters back is whether The inflation alert offered no ued JamtsaHsfTeaster-judgment on the three-year rail- eenext July. road wage package recommended has sworn the Team- by er will be taken back board, providing a yearly increase ffa is president. averaging more than 9 per cent. dramatic but fruitless descent The Nixon administration is' concerned about the prisoner of war (POW) issue, Laird said, and he intends to take it up at a meet- ing of North Atlantic Treaty Or- ganization (NATO) defense min- isters in Brussels. Laird talked to newsmen at An- drews Air Force Base before tak- ing off for the three-day NATO meeting. His words were echoed in Paris by Ambassador David K. E. Bruce, chief U.S. envoy to the Vietnam peace talks there. Bruce told a news conference the United States will continue to seek the early re- lease of American prisoners in Vietnam "by all means available to us." "Hanoi and the Viet Cong must understand, in"unmistakable terms," Bruce said, "t h a t their past and existing attitude on the prisoner of war question is intol- erable. We will continue to pursue t h e twin objectives of humane treatment and early release of our men by all means available to us." Bruce said the reaction of the North Vietnamese and National Liberation Front to President Nixon'sOct. 7 proposal for im- mediate and unconditional release of all POWs on both sides "has been totally negative." "They show no concern for their own men and flout our concern for ours," he said. North Vietnam's Premier Pham Van Dong, in an interview pub-' lished in the French newspaper LeMonde, said the POW issue could be resolved o n 1 y after Washington decides to withdraw all of its troops from South Viet- nam. Laird said he intends to impress on the NATO allies the need for strengthening their conventional forces against the threat of the Warsaw Pact nations. He said this is a threat "which must be met," and he repeated that the United States will"'main- tain our force capabilities" in NATO at least through June 1972. Laird said some small numbers of U.S. troops may be withdrawn from Europe, but if this is done it will be offset by "the increase of capabilities of weapons sys- tems." He said he hopes the Brussels talks will lead to a decision by the NATO European members to take on a greater share of the defense of Europe. on Son Tay ten days ago. Corp orations blamed for farm poverty WASHINGTON (R) - A new nonprofit investigative group said yesterday that huge corporations controlling the food industry pro- fit from and actively seek to per- petuate the poverty of farmwork- ers. The Agri-business Accountabil- ity' Project said it intends to ex- pose the links of big business to the farmland and attempt to pin- point how corporate influence de- rails or stalemates federal at- tempts to better the lot of the 2.6 million farmworkers. The migrant and seasonal farm- worker still is excluded from or only partly covered by most fed- eral laws protecting other work- ers - unemployment compensa- tion, child labor laws, fair 1 a b o r standards, equal pay provisions and the National Labor Relations Act. "But his own powerlessness is not the only factor accountable for the farmworker's plight," Pro- ject spokesmen told a news con- ference. "The other side of the coin is the overwhelming political power wielded against him by the giant economic interests of agri- culture. The Project directors said there is a dismal shortage of facts to pierce the complex corporate own- ership structures. "For example, few are aware that the Dow Chemical Corp., through its subsidiary, the D o w Chemical Financial Corp., owns 17,000 acres of agricultural land in California and Arizona, which it purchased from Bud Antle, Inc., a large corporate farmer in these two states," the directors said. The purchase in 1969 cost Dow $5 million and gave it an invest- ment in the second largest lettuce shipper in the world, they said. The Dow-Antle concern also was described as the primary oppon- ent of efforts by Cesar Chavez, the leader of the AFL-CIO United Farm Workers Organizing Com- mittee. T lil WASHINGTON (J)-Inform- ed labor sources are voicing ] strong speculation that the na- tion's two largest unions-the Teamsters and the United Auto ] Workers (tAW) -- will rejoin the AFL-CIO, possibly within a l year.E Such a move would bring vir- tually all major unions under one roof for the first time in nearly 15 years, forming a mas- sive organization of more than ] 17 million workers. Nothing is official, and hitch- es could develop, b u t sources point to a number of major con- 1 siderations. One is the desire for stronger 1 labor unity in the fade of what union leaders view as a basical- ly hostile Republican adminis- tration in the White House - ir despite friendly overtures from President Nixon. Another is the death last May of the UAW's president, Walter Reuther, who pulled out of the AFL-CIO two years ago in a personality clash with its ven- erable president, 76-year-o l d George Meany. Reuther's successor, Leonard Woodcock, is said to have pri- vately opposed the break and has been friendly with Meany since he took over. The 1o s s of the 1.6-million member UAW was a big one in both money and manpower for the AFL-CIO, reducing its to- tal membership to the present 13.6 million workers in 121 un- ions. Another sign viewed as highly significant was Meany's recent Meany sisted th pute ov E farm wor ed out to tion. But ing of re The ke would inv her Tean imprison nally squ president Meany sters nev while Ho WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, December 2nd and 3rd In cooperation with the DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH The Department of Speech STUDENT LABORATORY THEATRE PRESENTS TWO ORIGINAL ONE-ACTS BLACK THEATRE-OPENS TONIGHT! MIME SHOW by GREGORY JARBOE I LADIES ROOM by PATRICIA GRIFFITH ron milner WHO'S GOT HIS OWN Directed by LEONARD SMITH of Wayne State University at 8 P.M.-Wednesday-Saturday, Dec. 2-5 Mendelssohn Theatre-Box Office Opens 12:30 ARENA THEATRE, Frieze Building I 4:10 P.M. or earlier if theatre is filled ADMISSION' FREE IA ti RIGSFR I Zoicsge 4 Ylo odAS I UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PLAYERS "a play of passionate fists and faces"-Walter Kerr r I :.: .. .. ..