Laws, By MARTIN HIRSCHMAN Editor While the University has thus far failed to settle federal charges that it discriminates a g a i n s t women in hiring practices, it has c o n t in u e d, over the past two months, to receive a near-normal flow of contracts, grants and re- newals from Washington. "There's nothing we had ex- pected by this date that hasn't come in," says Director of Re- search Administration Robert E. Burroughs. Since Nov. 1, he notes, six research contracts with fed- eral agencies have been signed and three others have reached the stage where they are ready to be signed. Reasons for the continued flow of agreements include limitations on the power of the Department of Health, Education, and Wel- bureacracy weaken fare to penalize the University, as well as general bureaucratic dis- aray in the nation's capital. When HEW investigators filed their report Oct. 6 charging that the University discriminates on the basis of sex, the department's Contract Compliance Division in Washington immediately placed a hold on new contracts and re- newals of contracts with the Uni- versity. Because of the 1968 Executive Orderunder which the anti-dis- crimination action was taken. however, a substantial portion of the approximately $60 million in annual federal funding of the Uni- versity remained unthreatened. According to HEW Contract Compliance Director Owen C. Kie- ly, only those agreements consid- ered "contracts" under federal definition are affected, while those designated as "grants" cannot be withheld because of discrimina- tion. Although "contracts" are gen- erally distinguished as those ar- rangements under which the re- cipient agrees to provide a service or product to the federal govern- ment, the distinction between a "grant" and a "contract"-espec- ially where research is involved- varier widely among the various federal agencies. For example, notes Vice Presi- dent for Research A. Geoffrey Norman, the National Science Foundation awards r e s e a r c h grants, while the National Aero- nautics and Space Administration and the Atomic Energy Commis- sion award research contracts. Most awards from the Defense Department are contracts. But not even all new contracts from the federal government were to be affected by the HEW action. Under standard government pro- cedures, Kiely explains, federal agencies are required to check with HEW Contract Compliance before awarding "sizeable" con- tracts. Federal law, however, defines "sizeable" c o n t r a c t s as those valued at $1 million or more. Most individual University research con- tracts, however, are valued at less than that figure. Furthermore, although federal agencies are allowed to check with HEW Contract Compliance before awarding contracts smaller than $1 million, in practice they rarely do. Norman explains why. "Some of the federal agencies don't think much of this procedure," he notes. HEW "They're realistic-they don't be- lieve the University of Michigan is any more guilty of sex discrim- ination than their own agencies. Furthermore, they've got their missions to complete." Despite these problems in en- forcement of the contract ban, Kiely says he knows of no con- tracts emanating from any HEW division that has been granted to the University since Oct. 6. And one contract, he adds, has defin- itely been withheld. This is a proposed $350,000 grant from the Agency for Inter- national Development, a division of HEW, to researchers at the University's Center for Population Planning, for population work in Nepal. University administrators say. they do not know of any hold on this contract and point out that contract ban negotiations over the terms of he contract have no yet even been completed. But Kiely says his of- fice has notified AID not to ap- prove the final contract until the sex discrimination charges are settled. While the University has gotten off relatively light so far, research administration officials are look- ing toward the next few months with some pessimism and a great deal of confusion. University officials met w i t h HEW representatives in Chicago Nov. 10 and submitted a proposed affirmative action program for hiring and promoting more women -a requirement for termination of the contract ban. But while HEW representatives have since indicated in interviews that the plan was inadequate, they have never filed a formal response, and University administrators say they have found themselves left in the-lurch. Meanwhile, there is a possibility that HEW may escalate its attack. Kiely says that if HEW is unsuc- cessful in securing an acceptable affirmative action program from the University, it will turn the case over to the Labor Depart- ment's Office of Federal Contract Compliance, which is empowered to notify all federal agencies of the contract ban. For the moment at least, the situation is static, with University administrators edgy, but attempt- ing to keep a clear head about the possibility of long delays in fed- eral funding. "I don't minimize the problem," says Norman, "but, on the other hand, I'm not getting panicked or anything." CUTTING THE MILITARY: JUST SOME OF THE FAT C4Sr4i:au See Editorial Page Wtn ti FLURRIES High-40 Low-30 Windy, cold, snow flurries *- Vol. LXXXI, No. 76 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, December 4, 1970 Ten Cents Ten Pages RELEASED TO CUBANS: Cross freed Harris Xw by captors MONTREAL (R)-French-Canadian terrorists surrendered kidnaped British envoy James R. Cross to a Cuban delegation in Montreal yesterday after holding him captive 60 days. In exchange, Canada flew three terrorists and four of their rela- tives to asylum in Havana aboard a military plane. Cross remained in the "technical" custody of the Cuban %~ representatives at the site of the 1967 world's fair that had been used for the final negotiations. The agreement between the government and the terror- ists provided that Cross would be released when Havana re- ported the arrival there of the terrorists. The flight from Montreal to Havana takes nearly six hours. The beginning of the end to North America's first politi- cal kidnaping came late Wednesday when Cross' kidnapers - asked to talk with police who * were surrounding the gang's hideout. Cross, 49, the British trade com- missioner in Montreal, was kid- to study' ROTC role By EUGENE ROBINSON Engineering Council, the repre- sentative body for students in the engineering college, last night voted to investigate' the relation- ship between ROTC and the Uni- versity in order to develop a posi- tion on the issue. The decision to review the status of ROTC was prompted by a policy statement prepared by the executive ,/board of the council. The statement proposed that ROTC be retained as an organi- zation entirely separate from the University. T h e investigative committee plans to review the statement, suggest changes, and prepare a written report for presentation to the council. The council also requested that two engineering students be seated with Student Government Council. These students would have all privileges of SGC membership ex- cept the right to vote. The motion to request repre- sentation was introduced by coun- cil member Chuck Esterl. He said that the council's demand for SGC representation was similar to SGC's request for the seating of students and faculty members on the Board of Regents Esterl added that the council should "call SGC's bluff." naped Oct. 5 by a cell of the Quebec Liberation Front-FLQ- which demands independence for French-speaking Quebec. The terrorists threatened to kill Cross unless the government freed a score of "political prison- ers" and paid a $500,000 ransom. in gold bullion. The government refused, and the terrorists struck again Oct. 10, kidnaping Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte, who was strangled a week later. Police, acting on various tips, moved in on the kidnapers' hide- out house late Wednesday. They 'stood by as Cross and two of his abductors walked out yesterday morning for the drive to the Ca- nadian pavillion at the old world's fair, where the Cuban government delegation was waiting. Quebec's provincial justice min- ister, Jerome Choquette, said Cross had been held in a windowless room during the two months of captivity and although he has high blood pressure he complained most of the lack of sunlight. Otherwise, he was reported in good condition. Cross and at least two of his abductors drove to the rendez-' vous in a 1962 Chrysler driven by one of the kidnapers, and police said the vehicle was rigged with explosives. The car was surrounded by police motorcycles as it sped to the world's fair site. Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau told the House of Com- mons that the government had agreed to the safe passage for sev- en persons in exchange for the Briton's freedom. --Associated Press BitterS weet for the President - President Nixon presents a Young American Medal yesterday to Debra Sweet, 19, of Madison, Wis. at the White House. Sweet told Nixon she questioned his sincerity "until you get us out of Viet- nam." "We're doing the best we can," the president replied. Sweet said she made her comment because she refused to become a symbol against what Nixon calls "the very small minority of young Americans who have lost faith in their country." PROXMIRE AMENDMENT: runi By CARLA RAPOPORT Mayor Robert Harris will not seek a second term in of- fice, The Daily learned yester- day. While Harris declined to com- ment on the report last night, a knowledgeable source said the mayor has been unable to garner the support from-the. Democratic party and the community which he would need to secure re-elec- tion. An upset victory swept Harris and four D mocratic councilmen into office in April, 1969, estab- lishing the first Democratic ma- jority on Ann Arbor's City Coun- cil in 30 years. In last April's elections h o w- ever, the Republicans gained three seats, establishing a five-five split between the councilmen with Har- ris providing the Democrats with a simple majority. Observers say that were Harris to run for relection he would re- ceive little of the support from blacks and students, which w a s the key to his 1968 victory. Jerry De Grieck, executive vice- president of Student Government Council, spoke last night about Harris' loss of student support. "There is no way Harris would ever come close toachieving th e same degree of student support which he received in the last elec- tion," De Grieck said. "Harris simply did not f o I o w through with the changes he promised to institute, changes which would have benefited stu- dents and blacks in the commun- ity," he said. Two blacks active in city gov- ernment, Robert Hunter, assist- ant director of the city's Human Rights Department and Ezra Row- ry, chairman of the Model Cities policies board, have frequently lev- elled strong attacks against the Harris administration in the last few months. Both men charge Harris with "subtle racism," say- ing the Mayor's administration has acted in a discriminatory manner See HARRIS, Page 10 tor as ciI not second mayor Senate grounds SST as vote -Daily-Jay Cassidy Mayor Robert Harris eliminates government subsidy WASHINGTON (P) - The Sen- ate yesterday voted decisively to ground further federal' subsidies for the supersonic transport, a plane President Nixon has person- ally sponsored. The defections of several Repub- licans clinched the 52 to 41 adop- tion of an amendment slicing a $290 million SST. subsidy fund from the Transportation Depart- ment's appropriation bill. The amendment was sponsored by Sen. William Proxmire, (D- Wis.), who was able to muster only 22 votes for a similar amendment last year. The big difference this year, was concern for the environment, a new issue in which the embattled SST has become a major symbol of potential global pollution. As proxmire scored a personal victory, Washington state's two Democratic senators, Warren G. Magnuson and Henry M. Jackson, shared the defeat with Nixon. Their state is the home of the Boeing Aircraft Co., prime con- tractor for SST development. Jackson declared the Senate had "turned its back on 30,000 working men and women currently engaged in this program, and 150,000 who eventually would have been en- gaged." Magnuson termed the vote "a real blow at the future of Amer- ican air superiority in the n e x t generation." Both men, aided by such sena- tors as Barry Goldwater, (R- Ariz.), argued in vain that an American SST is needed is the nation is to retain its supremacy in technology and in the aircraft markets of the world. American government participa- tion in the development of the 300-passenger, 1,800 mile-an-hour superplane was first suggested in the administration of President John F. Kennedy, eight years ago. The arguments for federal aid to the project were almost iden- tical to those current now: U.S. prestige, the necessity to retain a lion's share of the world air- craft market, and the need to bol- ster the economy. And always over the horizon was the argument that the Soviet Un- ion and a French-British team were years ahead and would in- evitable send a fleet of European SST's aloft to break the American hold on the aircraft markets. Yesterday, the late President's brother, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, (D-Mass.), voted to block further SST appropriation under a much- criticized contract calling for the government to pay 90 per cent of the billion-dollar or more develop- ment cost. His reasons were identical to many of those of SST foes: mass- POLITICAL ADDRESS: Huber calls for state. conservative party By MARK DILLEN Conservative state Senator Robert Huber (R-Troy) ad- dressed the New Republican Coalition last night, expressing his views on how government could come to "represent the will of the people," through the start of a conservative politi- cal party in the state. Huber, Republican choice" in unsuccessful Senatorial primary, decried "the candidate in the August lack of a philosophical COMMISSION REPORT C olleges* NEW YORK ()-American colleges and universities, torn between racing costs and jogging incomes, face financial problems "serious enough to be called a depression," the Carnegie Commission on Higher Edu- cation said yesterday. Putting a national focus on a situation that worries many educators more than student rebellion, a commission report gave this estimate derived from a weighted face financial crisis country's wealthiest and most prestigious institutions from its sample - including Stanford and Harvard Universities, Berke- ley and the Universities of Chicago, Mich- igan, Minnesota, Missouri and Oregon. It said the situation was fast becoming worse as cost increases continue to outpace in- come increases. Releasing the report at a news confer- ence, the commission chairman, Clark budgets internally over the past several years, of course, and that's painful," Pier- pont's statement said. Sections of the commission report re- ferring to the University state that "the University is suffering from a critical lack of capital funds, and, simultaneously, is subject to new demands in areas such as ecology. The problem of how to support low-income students is becoming acute, the recent nominations of the major political parties. He cited as an ex- ample the recent state guber- natorial contest. "It was either tweedledum or twee d l e d e e and people resent that," he said. "There is no gov- ernment to protect life, property, and the liberty of the individual." Huber said however, that while such measures as court-authorized wiretapping and "vigilante groups" were regrettable, they might be "necessary." He claimed s u c h - . . groups were already in operation in "many areas of Detroit." At the same time, Huber emph- asized a return to a strict inter- pretation of the State and federal Constitution as necessary to solve social ills.