EAT LESS OR STARVE See Editorial Page Y L A&igan :4aiat tj WHITE T figh-33 Loxv-20 See Today for details Eighty-Four Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXV, No. 61 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, November 14, 1974 Ten Cents Six Pages !.tea. i r-- EMU strike? Eastern Michigan University (EMU) faculty members have voted to go out on strike if current talks with the EMU administration remain dead- locked. The faculty, which is represented by the American Association of University Professors, has been involved in contract talks for four months. The principle issues separating the two sides are the tenure quota, faculty governance, grievances, and salaries. A strike, which appears likely at this time, could come soon after Thanksgiving. Regental rendezvous It's that time of month again: the University's eight Regents will be converging here today from all corners of the state, this time to discuss faculty salaries and student records. Action is expected tomorrow after the Regents review the administra- tion's 13 per cent, faculty wage hike request, and the projected effects of new federal legislation on student access to academic and counseling records. Button madness Make room on your lapel for another- button next to the WIN badge. The Ford Administraion is currently using the WIN button to tell the public to "Whip Inflation Now," but Gov. William Milliken has some more explicit advice for con- sumers - "Buy A Car" - and his aides are kicking around the idea of a BAC button. The governor indicated yesterday that he might buy the idea. Milliken's press secretary George'Weeks sketched the button at the appropriate moment - during a meeting between Milliken and United Auto Workers officials on the auto industry slump. Arms and the woman It's time for women to stop their awful manipu- lation of men, says French author Esther Vilar, and that's not all: women should be drafted as a means of ending wars. Vilar, whose best-selling books are titled The Manipulated Man and The Polygamous Sex-Man's Right to Two Women, says women would raise such a stink over being drafted that-wars would soon become impractical. Female soldiers, she adds, would "counteract any he-man images of militarism"-hence making war less attractive to machismo-minded males. " Happenings.... . are blossoming today. Grad student Kerry Thomas will read and perform his own poetry, Zombie Haiku, at noon in the Pendleton Library . the Human Rights Party is holding a mass meeting at 7:30 p.m. on the 5th floor of the Union to discuss new directions . . . the Women's Studies Program features Prof. Natalie Davis lecturing on "Sexual Inversion in Early Modern Europe" at 8 p.m. in Rackham Assembly Hall ... Advance ticket sales begin today at Mendelssohn Theatre for the UAC soph show, Damn Yankees, which runs tonight thru Saturday . . . the Uni- versity Theatre Program's presentation of The Red Lantern goes into its secod showing tonight at 8 p.m. in Trueblood Theatre . . . and Student Government Council holds its weekly shenanigans at 7:30 p.m. in Room 3X of the Union. Sexism lives! College fraternities and sororities and Girl Scout groups will probably be allowed to continue slam- ming their doors on the opposite sex, according to a key government official. Director of the U.S. Office for Civil Rights Peter Holmes predicted yesterday that Congress will let the groups retain their single-sexed ranks, exempting them from the law against sex discrimination. The law pre- sently calls for frats, sororities, and various youth organizations receiving substantial aid from a federally supported institution to open their doors to both sexes. He said the law's final version won't be out until early next year, to take effect in the fall of 1975. Be mrore explicit The London distributors of a mail-order movie called Love Positions were fined Tuesday - for not showing enough positions. A customer who sent for the film and another titled The Best'of June Palmer was disappointed with their length and complained to his local consumer protection office. The office found that the movies fell short of their advertised length of 200 feet and brought summonses under the Trades Descriptions Act. After being fined 115 dollars at Reading court, a director of the film company said: "Love posi- tions was short, probably because it was difficult to sustain interest in a series of stationary poses." On the inside .. . The Editorial Arts Page features a review of the Cleveland Quartet by David Burhenn, and Wayne Johnson discusses the infamous Texas chain saw murders . . . and on the Sports Page, John Kohler writes about the Gordon Bell nobody knows. Coal mm tena Ve ers, co contr mpames reach act agreement Strike may end early WA SH IN G TO N T - President Arnold Miller of the striking United Mine Workers (UMW) announc- ed last night that his union has r e a c h e d tentative agreement with coal oper- ators on a "very good con- tract" which he said could end the nationwide coal strike by Nov. 25. Emerging from a day- long bargaining session, Miller said he thought he would have no trouble sell- ing the proposed agree- ment to the 120,000 rank- and - file union members, who must vote their ap- proval before the mines can be reopened. "THE BENEFIT package will allow us to go back and eradi- cate some of the gross inequi- ties that have existed for years," Miller told reporters. The total cost of the contract was not disclosed, but indica- tions were that it could prove to be the heftiest major labor settlement this year. Coal industry sources Usti- mated the total increase in pay and benefits for miners would amount to 46 per cent over tae ' life of the three-year pact, wile union sources put the over-:all increase at closer to 40 per cent. The contract, if approved, would provide wage increases of nine per cent the first year and three per cent in each of the next two years. THE MINERS would also re- ceive, for the first time, cost-of- living increases pegged to in- creases in the government's consumer price index. The union chief immediately summoned his 38-member bar- gaining council from the coal fields to a meeting lhere to- day to consider the tentative offer. The council must first ap- prove any contract before it is submitted to the rank-and-file for ratification - a process Miller has said would take at least 10 days. THE COAL industry's chief negotiator, Guy Farmer, call- ed the union negotiators "very hard bargainers - and I think they've bargained themselves into a very fine contract." He declined to discuss the specifics of the contract. Farmer told reporters that during the nine weeks of nego- tiations they had one meeting with President Ford and had been in constant touch with W J. Usery, head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Serv- ice. In a statement after an- nouncement of the accord, Us- ery said he commended both the UMW and the coal industry "for the good-faith negotiations which made their new agree- ment possible." HE ADDED: "I sincerely hope that this tentative agree- ment will provide the basis of sound labor - management rela- See COAL, Page 2 AP Photo ARNOLD MILLER, president of the United Mine Workers, speaks with reporters last night after union and coal com- pany negotiators tentatively reached what Miller called "a very good contract." He said he expected his membership to ratify the pact. R o k' e n iFC-swith h e l d fa c,-ts . on book deal WASHINGTON (1P--Bristling at comparisons with the Water- gate scandal, Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller denied yesterday that he tried to cover up his role in publication of a book critical of a campaign opponent. Rockefeller blamed his poor memory for his earlier statement that he 'had -no connection with the campaign book. But he apologized for h-is, faulty recollections and said he accepted full responsibility for the incident. AS THE Senate Rules Committee opened a second round of hearings on his nomination, Rockefeller also defended his large AP Photo PALESTINIAN LEADER YASIR ARAFAT waves in response to the loud ovation he received yesterday at the United Nations General Assembly. Arafat told the U.N. to expect more Middle East conflict unless a new Arab state is created. URGES REJECTION OF ISRAEL: Arafa t asks Uy1. to create new state gifts and loans to friends associates as humanitarian noncorrupting. He said family's immense wealth influence should not bar from being vice president. and and his and him UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP) - Guerrilla leader Yasir Ara- fat carried his cause to the United Nations yesterday, of- fering the world a choice of continued violence or peace based on the creation of a Pal- estinian state on Israeli-occu- pied land. In an unprecedented appear- ance before the General Assem- bly, the head of the Palestine Common Cause leadert keeplj l By GORDON ATCHESON Regional Common Cause offi- cer John Hathaway will remain in his post until January despite charges by the organization's national directors that he violat- ed the group's non-partisan guidelines orior to the Novem- ber 5 election. E-rlier this week, the local (',mnmon Cause membership deJTidd that "in the best in- terests of the organization" 116thn-vay shold contirue as co-nrri.-'-Pto, d'sTni.ehis con- Liberation Organization (PLO) urged Americans and Jews ev- erywhere to turn their backs on Israel. In less than ten years, Ara- fat has blasted his way from desert outposts to the inter- national spotlight. See story, Page 3. ISRAELI Prime M i n i s t e r Yitzhak Rabin said in Jerusa- lem that Arafat based his speech on principles that threa- ten Israel's existence but that the Israeli government must not abandon the search for peace. Arafat said the United Na- tions, swelled by the addition in recent years of newly indepen- dent Third World countries, "more clearly reflects the will of the international community" than it did when Israel was cre- ated in Palestine. SHAKING his finger as he ended his speech, Arafat spid, "I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand." A holster and what appeared to be the butt of a pistol pro- truded from Arafat's right hip pocket when he clasped his hands over his head before and after he spoke. One of his bodyguards told a reporter it was agun and said, "It's not only real, it's loaded." ISRAEL'S U. N. ambassador, Yosef Tekoah, rebutted Arafat's 1 3/4-hour address in an after- noon speech to the 133-nation assembly. Tekoah called the PLO "murderers who have See ARAFAT, Page 2 As a national radio and tele- vision audience listened, Rocke- feller asked the committee: "Am I the kind of man who would use his wealth improperly in public office? . "Would my family background somehow limit and blind me, so that I would not be able to see and serve the general good of Americans? I think the answer is no. I would not behave im- properly. And I would not be limited or blinded," he replied. ROCKEFELLER was forced to dwell at length on the book by Victor Lasky about Arthur. Goldberg, who ran against Rockefeller for governor of New York in 1970. Rockefeller, followed by Gold- See ROCKY, Page 2 GEO sets' contract" deadline By JIM TOBIN In a packed mass meeting at the Union last night, the Grad- uate Employes' Organization (GEO) voted approval of Feb. 6 strike deadilne if a contract agreement with the University is not reached by that date. In high spirits the union also agreed on a contract settle- ment of Jan. 30, and planned a strike vote for Jan. 31 through Feb. 5. "THE WRITING is on the wall," chief GEO negotiator Michele Hoyman declared to nearly 400 members gathered. "We're not going to get a ,good economic package unless it's clear we're going to strike." Union spokesman Dave Gor- don agreed, but added: "We would rather reach an agree- ment." GEO made plans last night to begin "informational" picket- ihg at public places-including Regents' meetings. The picket- ing, which will not illegally block buildings, will continue until the contract deadline on Jan. 30. GORDON placed the blame for the impending strike on the University bargaining t e a m, Cavanagh hi1t with lawsu'-it byStaebler By STEPHEN HERSH Democratic National Committee member Neil Staebler has filed a $20 million slander suit against former Detroit mayor Jerome Cavanagh in Washtenaw Circuit Court. The suit follows by four months a $15 million libel lawsuit filed by Cavanagh against Staebler and Lansing attorney Louis Rome. Staebler's action represents a delayed response to Cava- nagh's charges of libel, slander, and a conspiracy to defame Cavanagh last summer. Staebler had initially dismissed Cava- nagh's charges as "ludicrous."