KISSINGER VS. RIGHTS See Editorial Page Y ~ir i A l 143it WET High--72 LOIV-44 See Today for details Vol. LXXXV, No. 21 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, September 28, 1974 Ten Cents Eight Pages UV. rejects S. African creden tialIs If-OUSE S APPEN c/dA .MLY China events The U.S.-China People's Friendship Association is sponsoring several China-related events today. All events are free and open to the public. And they all take place in the assembly hall of the Union. From noon until 5 p.m. there will be a Chinese art exhibit. At 1:30 p.m. a workshop will begin on "Chinese Factory Life Compared with American Factory Life." The workshop will be led by an American woman worker who has ex- perienced both situations first-hand. At 3 p.m. there will be a workshop on "The Role of Young People in Building New China." And at 8 p.m. a lecture and discussion on "Art in Socialist China" will be conducted by Chung-Lu Tsen. Happenings . .. . . . could begin at 6 a.m. this morning it you feel like spending the morning with the master, Baba Muktananda, at 1432 Golden St., but don't forget your shorts or leotards . . . if you prefer later rising, you could wait until 8:45 a.m. and register for the Ann Arbor Open Chess Tournament which begins today and continues through to- morrow. The first round is at 10:15 a.m. . . . per- haps a professional art fair is more what you're looking for. Eastern's homecoming festivities this year have been expanded to include fine art exhibits and professional musical entertainment. The festivities begin at 10 a.m. in the parking lot of Holy Trinity Chapel and continue until dark .. . the GO club, persons interested in playing the oriental strategic board game, is meeting at 2 p.m. in 2050 Frieze . . . cider and cookie lovers are invited to an open house at the Reuther Campsign Headquarters, at the corner of Hill St. and .Forest Ave., after the football game today. John Reuther will be on hand to meet and talk with you., Betty hospitalized Betty Ford, wife of President Ford, entered Bethesda Naval Hospital last night for surgery to determine whether a small lump on her right breast is cancerous, the White House announced. The First Lady was described as being in good spirits when she entered the hospital for surgery that will remove a small nodule, or lump, from the breast. A biopsy will then be performed to determine if the lump is benign or malignant. t Wallace No. 1? With Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) out of the 1976 presidential race, Alabama Governor George Wallace appears the favorite choice of Democrats for their party's presidential nomina- tion, according to a Gallup poll published yester- day. The Poll was completed a few days before Senator Kennedy announced last Monday that be- cause of family responsibilities he would not seek the 1976 presidential nomination. O Economy lunch? Delegates to President Ford's conference on inflation got a striking example of their problem yesterday when they went to lunch: it cost them $10 each. The lunch, provided by the Washington Hilton Hotel, featured coq au vin with rice and carrots. Dessert was ice cream and the drinks before lunch cost $1.65 each. When asked about the cost of the meal, one conference staff member replied, "Well, that's inflation." 0 Nudist priest A Roman Catholic priest who defied a police order banning nudism on a Brittany beach has been fined $100 on charges of offending public morals. Father Jean Evenon, director of the Saint Joan of Arc school in nearby Pontivy, was the first of 21 diehard nudists due to appear in court here following a summer "beach war" which pitted local inhabitants against vacationing nudists. The campaign by local inhabitants to chase the nudists from nearby Erdeven beach culminated in a free- for-all last summer in which 15 people were in- jured. 0 Bad news, good news The bad news first! Consumers lost ground this week in their battle against inflation and part of the blame for higher prices goes to the weather. Among the latest developments was the report that banana prices will rise five cents a pound or more from the current level of between 19 and 25 cents. That's because of Hurricane Fifi, which destroyed much of the banana crop in Honduras, the source of five per cent of the bananas eaten by Americans las-t year. Now for the good news! Beer drinkers can take heart from an Agriculture Department report which says there's no shortage of hops. Reserves of the beer ingredient are adequate for the coming year, the department says. r On the inside . . Dan Ruben writes about the political situa- tion in Indochina on the Edit Page . . . The Arts Page features an interview with Frederico Fellini UNITED NATIONS (Reuter) -- The S o u t h African delegation's credentials were rejected last night by the United Nations' credentials com- mittee. It was the first time the committee, whose composition changes from year to year, had voted for rejection. Last year, its recommenda- tion to the General Assembly to accept the Sough African credentials was overturned by the furl assembly. AFRICAN SOURCES here last night said that, following the committee's decision, which the assembly was certain to endorse, a move would be made to raise the issue of "South Africa's relationship with the United Nations" in the Security Council. Last year, the General Assembly moved to reject South Africa's credentials, but it was ruled that the white-ruled nation could still be a member of the world body. This year's formula was agreed upon, the sources said, as an alternative to an outright bid for the expulsion of the republic from the world body under Article Six of the U.N. Charter. THIS PROVIDES for the explusion of a state in persistent violation of the charter. But Sengalese Ambassador Medoune Fall, who made the motion to reject South African cre- dentials, pointed out he was objecting only to representation by the present delegation, not to South African membership. Last night's vote was five to three with one abstention in the nine-nation committee. THOSE WHO VOTED, in effect, against South Africa were Senegal, Tanzania, the Soviet Union, China and the Philippines. Backing South Afriza were the U.S., Belgium and Costa Rica. Vene- zuela abstained. Judge Jose Ingles of the Philippines, the com- mittee chairman, cast the decisive vote. There had been speculation that, as presiding officer, he might abstain. Explaining his vote, Ingles said it was based on the assembly's resolution last December, which stated that the South African regime had no right to represent the people of that country. THE ASSEMBLY at that time said the proper delegation should consist of representatives of the liberation movements recognized by the Organization of African Unity. Aware of African preparations for a new chal- lenge in the committee to South Africa's cre- dentials and of a probable bid through the Se- curity Council to expel it, the republic's foreign minister, Dr. Hilgard Muller, last night removed his name from the assembly speakers list. He had been scheduled to address the 138. nation body on Monday morning. HIS DECISION not to take part means that for the first time since 1966 the assembly will not hear a major South African policy address. Coupled with indications of a new flexibility in South African policy in Nambia (Southwest Africa), the development was interpreted in some quarters as a sign of a weakening in the republic's position under unrelenting U.N. and African pressure. Critics slam President's eon p olicies WASHINGTON OP) - Delegates to the economic sum- mit conference bluntly told President Ford yesterday he should find new policies and advisers and make certain the poor don't bear the brunt of the anti-inflation fight. Ford spent most of the day presiding at the confer- ence, brushing aside new calls for wage and price con- trols and listening as past and present policies came un- der sharp criticism from Derr ocratic and labor delegates. No clear-cut consensus emerged in the first of two days of discussion, but there was wide agreement on the need for tax breaks for the poor and a government job programs for those thrown out of work by economic turmoil. FORD INDICATED his agreement, but other than ruling out Daily photo by KAREN KASMAUSKI Baez in concert Wearing a white blouse and red slacks, Joan Baez talks with an a udience of about 5,000 in Crisler Arena last night. Baez got a warm reception from the relatively small audience as she interspersed her songs with comments about political repression in Chile, Argentina, and several other Latin American countries she has recently toured. ACTION NAMES LOCAL FIRM: wage-price controls he gave few hints at the shape of the revamped economic policy he plans to announce soon. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D)- Mass.), keynoted the call for tax breaks for the poor. "Eco- nomics without justice is false. economy," he told Ford, who was seated a dozen feet away. Consumer representative Solo- mon Harge said "every day is a living crisis" for those on low or fixed incomes. "There is no way,Mr. President,that an individual with limited in- come can exist . . . the work- ing poor have suffered enough. It is time for somebody else to bite the bullet," he said. FORD AND other sponsors of the conference fielded criticism from Democrats, labor, youth, women and the poor, and heard representatives of wide rang- ing segments of the economy offer detailed proposals for policy changes. There was even a young man who, at the end of the day's session took the floor to claim that the Arab oil crisis was "a rigged plan part and parcel of a program by Nelson Rocke- feller," Ford's vice presiden- tial nominee. The President let the man speak, then ignored his com- ments and adjourned the confer- ence until 8:30 a.m. today. Ford then planned to make a major economic address after another four hours of discussion. SOMETIMES smiling, some- See SUMMIT, Page 8 Saxhe says pardon for Colson is unliel WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Attorney General William Saxbe strongly hinted yesterday the Justice Department would re- commend that President Ford reject a pardon request by for- mer top Nixon aide Charles Col- son. "This does not fit our regu- lar pattern for pardons," the attorney general said. THE WHITE HOUSE dis- closed Thursday that Colson, serving a one to three year sentence for a Watergate-re- lated offense, mailed a petition for a pardon a few days after President Ford's pardon of for- mer President Nixon for any and all offenses committed while in office. Justice Department officials said they were at a loss to un- derstand why Colson, a former White House Counsel, was ask- ing for a pardon, since this would not achieve his imme- diate goal of getting out of prison. See COLSON, Page 2 Tenants 5 suit chalenges legulity of pre-paidI By DAVID BURHENN Daily News Analysis A civil suit now under con- sideration by Washtenaw Coun- ty Circuit Judge Patrick Conlin appears to raise serious legal questions about several area landlords' policy of requiring early payment of monthly rents. A number of local manage- ment companies require ten- ants to pay rents in advance. For example, the October rent may be due on Sept. 20, the November rent on Oct. 20, and so on. HOWEVER, Michigan Public Act 348, which governs landlord- tenant financial relationships, states that "any pre-payment of rent other than (for) the first full rental period of the lease agreement" must be classified as a "security deposit." Security deposits, according to the law, are not to exceed one and a half months rent, and are subject to certain restric- tions. These restrictions include: M Definite limitations on how the money can be used. Accord- ing to the law, deposits may only be used to cover actual damages to the rental unit ex- cluding normal wear and tear, payment of rent in arrears, pre- mature termination of the lease, or unpaid utility bills. 0 Required deposit of the se- curity money in a bank, where it is not to be used until a sure- ty bond is posted with the Sec- retary of State's office; and 0 A stipulation that the se- curity deposit is the property of the tenant, until the landlord establishes a right to the de- posit, or a portion of it. THE ISSUE HAS been raised in a class action suit filed against Trony Associates, a lo- cal management firm, by Legal Aid Society attorney Roger Chard. Chard is representing a group of tenants who allege that Trony required them to pay rent on the fifteenth of every proceeding month, as well as to put down money for three months of rent before entering their apartment. State law says that the total amount of pre-occupancy charg- es, including the security de- posit and the first month's rent, cannot exceed two and a half months rent. CHARD HAS ASKED for an injunction against the firm, which would bar them from en- forcing these rent policies. In addition, the plaintiffs ask for the amount of interest accumu- lated on the allegedly illegal pre-payments. Attorney Gerard Matuszak, who represents Trony, has mov- ed for dismissal of Chard's re- quest for an injunction, claim- ing that the firm has changed its policies and now complies with the state law. Trony presently collects the first month's rent plus security deposits equal to one and a half months rent before occupancy. 0 State Dept. silent on rebuke of U.S. ambassador to Chile / WAS1INGTON (Re'iter)-The State Depart- ment yesterday refused to discuss a news report that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had rebuked the U.S. ambassador to Chile for bringing uo human rights issues in meetings on military aid with Chilean officials. Questioned about the report yesterday, spokes- man Robert Anderson told a news briefing that he would not discuss classified information. ANDERSON ADDED, "The Secretary considers it a disgrace to the Foreign Service when mem-