IS ROCKY QUALIFIED? See Editorial Page Y Eighty-Four Years of Editorial Freedom Da itj; COOLER High-r2 Laow-3? See Today for details Vol. LXXXV, No, 65 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, November 19, 1974 Ten Cents Eight Pages I ML-} Student Regent? Hopes that a student will eventually sit on the University's exalted Board of Regents are looking up. The Senate is scheduled to vote today on a bill that would "declare there to be no conflict of in- terest" involved in a student Regent. Doug Smith, legislative aid to the measure's sponsor, Senator Gilbert Bursley (R-Ann Arbor), says the chances for passage are "at least 50-50." Smith explains that even if the bill fails this month, it will be re- introduced in January, when the newly elected senators will be seated. A similar measure passed the state House in July. 'U' to close University officials announced today that the 'U' will be closed for business between Dec. 21 and Jan. 5 in an effort to cool off and save on energy during the icy holiday season. Most buildings will be shut down and almost all personnel off duty in an effort to reduce energy consumption. To fur- ther the "closing" of the University, staff mem- bers will be authorized to take a maximum of sev- en vacation days - even if they need to borrow on vacation time not yet earned, says Personnel Director Russell Reister. 0 Local couple shot An Ann Arbor couple was shot and robbed over the weekend while en route to their Arizona win- ter home. Two men, apparently on a cross-country crime spree, are being held for attempted murder and aggravated robbery in El Paso, Tex., where the crime occurred Sunday. Ramsey and Chloe Wardrop of Overlook Ct. were led out of their motor home at gunpoint after being robbed of an undetermined amount of money and shot in the head. Both are in critical condition at Eastwood Hospital in El Paso. The suspects were later picked up by police - one in a car and the other in the Wardrop's motor home - with bonds to- ,taling $210,000. Happenings... . . . are varied today. The Ann Arbor Health Care Collective will meet to discuss women and health, at 7:30 p.m. at 1330 Geddes . .. at noon on the Diag, a Victory to the Miner's Strike demon- stration will be held . . . the Concerned Clericals for Action will have a steering committee meeting at 7 p.m., 711 North University (above Moe's Sports Shop) . . . Joan Claybrook, of Ralph Na- der's "Congress Watch," will kick off a petition drive for the Consumer Protection Act of 1974 with a discussion, at 1817 Cambridge, 8 p.m. . . . at 7:30 p.m., UAC presents Winnie-the-Pooh in the musi- cal "100 Aker Wood" at Schorling Aud. That's a buck for kids, $1.50 for adults. D.C.'s bombshell Stripper Fanne Fox will have a new career - and fortune - thanks to her recent escapade with Arkansas Rep. Wilbur Mills. Fox, known in private life as Annabella Battistella, premiered last night in Boston's Pilgrim Theatre with a new salary of $3,500 a week. The former "Argentine Firecrack- er" is now billed as the "Washington Tidal Basin Bombshell." The new life, however, is not entire- ly a bed of roses. The 38-year-old "bombshell" said that her theatrical career has at least tem- porarily eclipsed her other ambition - to begin pre-med studies at the University of Maryland. Coffee up First they raised the price of sugar and cream, and now they're raising costs on the coffee you put it in. Seven Latin American countries agreed yesterday to form a multinational company with the sole purpose of raising costs on the world mar- ket. The new company, Cafe Suaves Centrales, S.A. de C.V., will begin operations in January, with headquarters in Mexico City, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua will participate in the venture. Booze down Or, instead, you might turn your tastes to some- thing a little more pungent. For every black cloud there's a silver lining, and with the announce- ment of kicked-up prices for coffee comes an announcement of plummeting prices for wine. At the annual Hospices de Beaume sales in Dijon, France, prices dropped 25 per cent for Burgundy wine. The benefit sale traditionally sets the trend for Burgundy prices. Prices are usually about double what they will be on the open market. On the inside .. . . . . Jay Hirschman and Steve Gold analyze the World Food Conference on the Editorial Page .. . on the Arts Page, Joan Borus interviews "Spider" John Koerner and Andy Cohen at the Ark . . . and Roger Rossiter breaks bread with Bo Schembech- ler - and tells us about it - on the Sports Page. 0 On the outside... Not as nice as yesterday. As a major fall storm develops over the central plains, skies will be Faculty to pres adds pluses, ant letter grad mrnuses le system Gives students more options in pass, fail By SARA RIMER In a three hour meeting slowed by tedious debate the Literary College (LSA) Faculty voted last night to add the distinction of pluses and minuses to the present let- ter grade system. In other action stemming from consideration of the Graduation Requirements Commission Report (GRC), the faculty gave greater flexibility to the pass/fail sys- tem. Providing students with the option of electing a quarter of their total credits (or 43 hours) pass/fail, they also supported a proposal allowing students to take dis- tribution requirement courses on a pass/fail basis. In a surprise move at the meetings end, the faculty Dalv Photo by STEVE KAGAN The Parthenon? A student takes advantage of surprising sunny skies and balmy temperatures yesterday to cram in some outdoor studying on the steps of Angell Hall. MAJOR PLANT CLOSINGS: nprrowly passed a proposal that a student can request a tran- script listing "no courses," or listing courses but no grades, or translating' all grades into "P" or "F", or listing all coairses as originally chosen, pass fail or graded. GRC chair- man History Prof. Raymond Grew introduced the proposal to the 60 remaining members of the debate-wearynfaculty conceding, "I don't think this hbs a ghost of a chance." Fac- ltv members supported his as- sertion that the proposal rep- resented a "slight step in the proner direction of separating evaluation from certification," and nassed it. GREW emohasized that pres- sire exists to raise grades in order to present positive "cer- "ication to the outside world." LSA Acting Dean Billy Frye Joked at the proposal's pas- sage, "Professor Grew, you've just seen a ghost." ACCORDING to History Pro- fessor Sidney Fine, the new nass fail proposal "would not limit the pass fail option to the present one course per term. A student could do it all in one year if desired." The faculty's move to add pluses and minuses to the grad- ing system came in support of a GRC proposal that any "let- ter grade submitted with pluses and minuses be recorded with these distinctions counted in the grade point average." A recommendation that cour- ses in concentration areas also be included in the pass/fail op- See LSA, Page 2 Chrysler promises no Gunman holds diplomat hiostage WASHINGTON VP)-Philippine Ambassador Eduardo Romual- dez was held hostage in his of- fice yesterday and an aide was reported shot by a gunman de- manding that his 24-year-old son be allowed to emigrate from the Philippines. Philippine diplomat Jose Nal- do identified the gunman as Napoleon Gechoco, a Filipino about 40, of suburban Oxon Hill, Md., who was demanding that his son still in the Philippines be allowed to join his family here. AN FBI spokesman indicated late last night that the seige at the embassy chancery could last for some time, although negotiations w e r e continuing and Philippine authorities had agreed to release the son if the hostages were released. Naldo identified Lechoco as head of the Filipino Political Action Committee in Washing- ton. But neighbors also identi- See DIPLOMAT, Page 2 Nixon total DETROIT AP)--Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lynn Townsend .said yesterday the firm plans "sub- stantial plan closing" in Decem- ber because of poor car sales, but added that there will be no "company wide shutdown." Townsend declined to be spe- cific about the plant closings, saying production schedules for the rest of this year would be released soon. Townsend said there would be many additional layoffs in the coming two months, as the company shutdown firm trims 50,000 cars from its fourth-quarter production sched- ule. SOME 26,600 Chrysler workers were on layoffs this week, from a blue-collar workforce num- bering about 100,000. "We have been producing more cars than we received dealer orders for," Townsend said at a press conference fol- lowing a conference he held with United Auto Worker lead- ers and Detroit Mayor Coleman Young. FBI spy operations released in report He announced that Chrysler would not be closing its huge Jefferson Avenue assembly plant in Detroit during the cur- rent model year, but said its product mix might be changed. The plant currently makes full-size and luxury Chrysler cars. The Chrysler schedule orig- inally called for assembly of 300,000 cars during the current quarter. TOWNSEND neither confirm- ed nor specifically denied re- ports that the firm would close almost all its plants during the entire month of December to trim its huge, four-monthbstock- pile of new cars. "The company will be in business and we will be selling cars," said Townsend. UAW President Leonard Woodcock said cars are selling at an annual rate of 5.4 million currently, only 300,000 units above the levels recorded dur- ing the 1958 recession. "THE PRESENT situation in the auto industry will drag the country not only through reces- sion, but down through recession into the reaches of depression. Chrysler's auto sales in early November were off 34 per cent from a year ago and 1974 calen- dar year sales are down 19 per T Jurors listen to cent. "It's obvious we're going to be making some cutbacks," said Chrysler President John Riccardo. M A J O R layoffs could idle almost 30,000 assemblers immediately, and subsequent shutdowns in parts plants could affect another 50,000, sources said. See CHRYSLER, Page 2' tapes on Mitchell, Hunt WASHINGTON (UP) - Atty. Gen. William Saxbe said yes- terday "we certainly are not closing the door" to bringing criminal chargesragainst FBI officials who carried out coun- terintelligence o p er a t i o n s against 16 domestic and right and left wing organizations un- til 1971. But Saxbe said that Asst. Atty. Gen. Henry Petersen, head ofthe Justice Depart- ment's criminal division, "does not believe there were prose- cutable offenses committed" in the FBI campaign to disrupt those groups. T H E counterintelligence pro- Report calls dope (hi n 1"tgserous WASHINGTON (P) )--Labora- tory studies suggest that mari- jiana smoking may interfere with reproduction, disease re- sistance and basic biological processes, according to a new government report released yes- terday. "R! it t he ,'anjrt "?MA' ., ,, n gram included leaking deroga- tory information about members of the target groups, contact- ing their employers and busi- ness associates, and "using in- formants to disrupt the activi- ties of various groups by sow- ing dissension and exploiting disputes." He told a news conference that the matter has been re- ferred to the Civil Rights Di- vision to determine whether FBI officials committeed crim- inal violations of individual rights. Saxbe, Petersen and FBI Di- rector Clarence Kelley fielded questions about the program as they released a department report condemning some of the counterintelligence operations as "abhorrent in a free soci- ety. THEIR comments illustrated a split between Saxbe, who said the whole operation raised ques- tions of propriety, and Kelley, who defended it as a necessary response to the radical politics of the right and the left. Organizations investigated by the FBI fit into three categor- ies, "black extremists," "The New Left," and "white hate groups." The department for the first time disclosed names of these radical forganizatiorns. inclitdine WASHINGTON (Reuter)-For- mer President Nixon said in March, 1973, that Attorney Gen- eral John Mitchell would cover up Watergate "till hell freezes over," according to a new White House tape recording played yesterday at the trial of five Nixon aides accused of trying to conceal the break-in. Government prosecutors re- leased three new subpoenaed tapes showing the former Pres- ident and his top aides discuss- ing strategy to bail themselves out of Watergate before Nixon has ever conceded knowing what was going on. IN A VIVID March 20, 1973, conversation played to the jury yesterday, Nixon is heard re- jecting a suggestion by his for- mer top aide, H. R. "Bob" Haldeman, that Mitchell might go to jail for either perjury or complicity in the Watergate scandal "No, no, no, I've balanced that up too. But you see what they're really after, he'll take cover-up till hell freezes over" Nixon said in the privacy of his White House oval office. On another tape, Nixon en- Charles Colson that Hunt had ency to Watergate burglar Ho- ward Hunt-on the very day the original Watergate trial started on Jan. 8, 1973-when told by then special counsel dorsed the granting of Clem- evidence "very incriminating to us." See JURY, Page 2 BULLETIN TEL AVIV, Israel 1P)-Arab terrorists invaded an Israeli town on the Jordanian border before dawn today, seized an apartment building and took an unknown number of hos- tages. Army and police units rush- ed to the scene and sealed off the entire area. Shooting a n d explosions were heard inside the four- story apartment building in Beit Shean, a town of 20,000 on the Jordan River 15 miles south of the Sea of Galilee. lm* i: : i . -f-s- :,: :i: ,:::::. *.* '*.' .,..*'--.