SUNDAY MAGAZINE See Inside Y flitta :43aA&tt# NORMAL High-30 Low--13 See Today for details Eighty-Four Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXV, No. 78 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, December 8, 1974 Ten Cents Eight Pages If-TUSEE lEAS APPEN~tCALL ;6-LY New food crop Food lovers of the city's north side rejoice. If you've had problems trucking the distance to the People's Food Coop on Packard, a solution is at hand. A new branch of the coop is scheduled to open at 212 N. Fourth Ave. in January. The coop will relieve the overcrowding at the old coop and provide services for the city's northern dwel- lers. Unfortunately, there's a hangup: the new place is a latterday electrical supply house and, according to one worker, "walking into the base- ment is like entering the twilight zone - nothing has changed since the place was abandoned 20 years ago." Workers are needed to renovate and clean the building. If you'd like to volunteer your services, call the old coop (761-8173) or the new coop (994-9174) or simply attend the meeting scheduled at the new coop at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. SGC who? Another blowyto Student Government Council's cringing dignity: at last week's meeting, student Bob Frank revealed the results of a poll he con- ducted among 200 students. Of the 200, 4.5 per cent voted in the October election, 77 per cent knew about the election but didn't vote, citing lack of knowledge about the candidates, and 18.5 per cent didn't know what SGC was. The official figures put October's student election turnout at 3.5 per cent of the electorate. Happenings ... . .. feature the cultural today. Surrealist direc- tor Fernando Arrabal will hold a discussion follow- ing the showing of his film Viva La Muerte. Talks will be held at 9:30 p.m. and midnight in Angell Hall Aud A . . . Carolyn Gregory will condut a p try reading at David's Books, 3 p.m. . . . contemporary black music will be performed at Trotter House, from 5 to 10 p.m. . . . and the Musical Society will present Handel's "Messiah" at 8 p.m. in Hill And. Tomorrow, events take a turn for the political. The Inmate Project presents a documentary film on mental institutions in the Union's Anderson Room at 7:30 p.m. . . . at 7 p.m., the Ann Arbor Emergency Committee for a Nationalization Against Racism will meet on the fourth floor of the Union in the lounge area ... and John Marks, co-author of CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, will join Winslow Pack and Mar- garet Van Houten, both members of the organizing committee for the Fifth Estate, to speak on "Technofascism and the Intelligence Community", in Rackham Aud. at 8 p.m. Dumb bunny One playboy has gotten into a whole mess of trouble - and he's the biggest playboy of them all, Hugh Hefner. The publisher of Playboy Maga- zine is a prime target of a federal narcotics in- vestigation, the Chicago Tribune said in its Sun- day editions. "The year-long investigations centers on suspected illicit activities inside Hefner's Play- boy mansions in Chicago and Beverly Hills, Caif., plus an apparent attempt by Hefner himself to cover up these activities from federal scrutin," the Tribune said. Cocaine, barbiturates and mari- juana were allegedly distributed to preferred guests at the Hefner's $200 million empire of clubs and hotels. Lee Gottlieb, Playboy PR director, said Hefner was "not familiar" with the probe, and "has nothing to say." At least not yet. . Pie in the eye The Navy is no fun - and perhaps nothing re- affirmed that so much as the Friday conviction of a Seabee who threw a chocolate cream pie at his commanding officer a la. M*A*S*H*. "This is not justice," said Leon Louie, who was slapped with a $400 fine, restricted to the base for two months and demoted from seaman to seaman F-1,, the lowest rank, for his moment of whimsey. The incident occurred Sept. 27 when the Fresno, Calif., sailor stepped out of ranks at morning formation and hit Lt. Timothy Curtin with the pie while fellow officers filmed the event. Louie and ac- complices testified that the move was a reaction to Curtin's martinet-like behaviour - and the news that they were being sent to sweltering, re- mote Diego Garcia Island in the Indian Ocean. The much-publicized trial included testimony from comedian Soupy Sales, Chamber pots A London dealer at a local auction this weeke"d paid $15,640 for a pair of silver King George I chamber pots dated 1722. Auctioneers said the sum may be a British record for chamber pos. Jury spared Nixon 's testimony WASHINGTON (P)-Now the Watergate cover- up jury will not have to decide whether to believe the testimony of a former president of the United States. That day would have come if U.S. District Judge John Sirica had not ruled that Richard Nixon's testimony was neither essential to the case nor worth a delay in winding it up. THE JURY, cut off from news accounts, wasn't aware of the see-sawing that preceded the ruling, or for that matter the ruling itself. The weeks of depositions, appearances and statements by doctors all were done out of the jury's hearing. For the defendant John Ehrlichman, whose lawyer accuses Nixon of keeping his No. 2 aide in the dark "to save his own neck," the decision was a mixed blessing. PROSECUTORS never were eager to summon Nixon, since his appearance would serve to re- mind the jury that the former president was pardoned while his trusted associates are on trial. Ehrlichman's lawyer had subpoenaed Nixon as an "indispensable witness" on at least 30 matters affecting his client. Without that testimony, Ehrlichman claimed, there would be a "failure of justice." Not so, said Sirica. "NOT ONLY are other witnesses available to testify about many of the points . . . but the defendants themselves can testify about those specifics." He said the value of Nixon's testimony might have been overestimated. Had Nixon been called, he would have been treated like such other Watergate principals as Howard Hunt, Charles Colson and William Bitt- man. NEITHER THE prosecution nor the defense would vouch that their testimony would be truth- econ11 4 ful and they were called as court witnesses-- subject to cross examination by all sides. Hunt, Colson and Bittman all are alleged co- conspirators in the case and so is Nixon. In his order dismissing Ehrlichman's subpoena, Sirica noted, "le has been accused, in effect, of being an accomplice of the defendants. Certainly (if he were called) his testimony would be subject to the instruction to the jury that it should be received with caution and scrutinized with care." Even without Nixon, the jury is unlikely to forget his role in the events that finally forced his resignation from office. See SIRICA, Page 12 tdvisers Ford talks with Aides predict Simon Bl ei RliS may resign his post WASHINGTON U1) - President Ford held a lengthy meeting yesterday with his energy and economic advisers and was described afterwards as saying the problem is "complex as the devil." Press Secretary Ron Nessen, who relayed that presi- dential assessment to reporters, said Ford was just get- ting "a broad look at the problem" and possible strategies during the hour and 45-minute session. Meanwhile, close aides to Treasury Secretary William Simon said Simon may resign if President Ford makes a major policy shift from fighting inflation to fighting the nation's deepening re- cession. The aides say Simon is convinced that if the government em- AP Photo Stab from the past Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss introduces Senator George McGovern (D-S.D.) to the second session of the Demo- cratic Mid-Term Conference in Kansas City yesterday. After prolonged negotiations between the governors and woman and minor- ity delegates, the convention reached an agreement to abolish its quota system and approved a party constitution. See related story, Page 2. DEFENDS SETTLEMENT: barks on heavy deficit spend- ing to combat the recession, it could push the nation's free en- terprise system over the brink toward a controlled economy and socialism. "I'd give him two more months to wait, and see what happens," said one aide. No decisions were made at the meeting, Nessen reported, but the session was held among indications Ford may ask Con- gressafor anti-recession legisla- tion after reviewing the wors- ening economic situation. ALAN GREENSPAN, chair- man of the Council of Economic Advisers, told reporters after the meeting that no "gross bludgeoning" approach is to be expected in solving the energy crisis. He said a more cali- brated approach can be expect- ed and the goal still is to cut down on oil imports by one million barrels a day. The President was open mind- ed and asked his advisers to come up with "a total energy policy draft plan with options," Frank Zarb, federal energy ad- ministrator-designategsaid. Zarb said it is too early to assess how effective Ford's call for voluntary conservation has been. He said that the Presi- dent asked his advisers to come up withha candid, clear and honest picture of the size and nature of the problem and exactly what the American pub- lic needs to do to help. GREENSPAN SAID the prob- lems ahead in December and ,January are not expected to be so much ones of supply as of "having to pay a lot of money for the energy that we use." Among the problems Ford must consider, his advisers said, are not only ways to improve domestic sources of oil, but also consumption patterns that are affected by the increased costs. Zarb said that at the moment "there's sufficient petroleum, See FORD, Page 2 Venezuela moves to nati onalize iron, mines By AP and Reuter CARACAS, Venezuela - The government announced yester- day it will nationalize the U.S.- run iron ore mining operations in Venezuela on Jan. 1 for an estimated $101 million in com- pensation. President Carlos Andres Perez announced the nationalization of subsidiaries of U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel in a televised speech to Congress. It had been expected for several . months, and company representatives in Pittsburgh, Pa., expressed no surprise. THE MOVE is not expected to hamper the American steel industry. Government officials said arrangements can be made to assure Venezuelan ore to the two companies over the next year or so. "We will become big steel producers," Perez told thesna- tion. "In the next three years, our current one million ton a year steel capacity will be in- creased to five million tons and within a few years Venezuela will produce 15 million tons yearly." The president said that dur- ing the 24 years the two U.S. corporations had been operating in Venezuela, they had mined 325. million metric tons of iron ore, of which 315 million tons had been processed abroad. HE ADDED that during that period, the state had received only $1.2 billion from the iron industry as opposed to the $23 See GOVT., Page 2 K iss inge r wan critics not tc WASHINGTON (Reuter)-Sec- retary of State Henry Kissinger warned critics of the Vladivos- tok strategic arms agreement yesterday that a divisive de- bate on the accords could sow doubts about detente in the Soviet Union. He declared that the Soviet Union had made major con- cessions in the Vladivostok talks IRlS takes blame for intelligence operation WASHINGTON () - The In- ternal Revenue Service (IRS) says it has discoveredsdocu- ments that help support its con- tention that it set up a secret intelligence gather'g unit on its own, not at White House req'est. IRS officials say it is a dub- ioi>s distinction to have credit for setting up the unit to in- ) OppoS between President Ford and Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev and "gave up its position on a whole range of issues." KISSINGER referred to the lengthy dispute over relaxing U.S.-Soviet trade barriers and asserted that if there were now a divisive debate over the arms agreement, "I think then that the Soviet Union will only be able to conclude that a political detente with us faces domestic diffiplties of an insuperable nat're in the United States." The consequences of rejecting the agreement would be ex- tremely serious on the political level and in terms of the arms race, he said. Kissinger's remarks-made at a rare Saturday press confer- ence-were part of an admin- istration counter-attack against critics who say that the agree- ment continues a costly arms race. ONE LEADING critic, Sena- tor Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) has urged his colleagues to re- ject the accords, which allow the United States and the Soviet Union 2,400 strategic nuclear missiles, of which 1,320 can be vostok were to put a ceiling on missiles and MIRVs and to ex- clude forward-based systems and British and French nuclear missiles from the agreement, he said. AMERICA HAD also sought an agreement that would not give compensation for "any other geographic factors" and freedom to mix the missiles among various delivery sys- arms Ipact ims. "All these objectives were chieved," Kissinger said. Much of the criticism levelled i the agreement has been di- ected to the issue of so-called prow-weight-the amount of nu- ear explosive that a rocket an carry. Soviet rocketsare igger and can deliver more unch. The United States has oncentrated on smaller, more See KISSINGER, Page 2 Avedikian sings of women, their pain, power, potential On the inside... . . . Magazine co-editor Laura Berman about women professors at the University . Jeff Schiller and Al HrapSky will tell you want to know about Michigan's basketball over Tennessee on the Sports Page. writes . and all you victory By ANN MARIE LIPINSKI Sally Avedikian is more than a folk singer-she is a voice in the women's movement. "Women are an oppressed class. Their experience is dif- ferent from men's, and that's what I sing about," says the 20-year-old musician. "Rock doesn't speak to women. It never has. It has always been, 'what you do with your chick.' " AVEDIKIAN'S MUSIC "speaks to what women are feeling -their pain. I want my music to help women solve their prob- lems and give them a sense of purpose," she claims. But her music is not aimed solely at women. "There are casting an affectionate glance at her brother. "It's very im- portant because of the kind of music we do that we have an all women group." And Rick agrees. "It gets to the point where it's embar- rassing for me to do this kind of music-it's like me as a man telling women what they as women feel. That's impossible." Rick says the group is looking for someone to replace him while they are on tour. Avedikian began singing and playing piano at age three, imitating "whatever was on the radio." At 14 she began play- ;ng -n rnfrie hnc,,c nar her hnm in Washinctnn DC. On the outside... If this keeps up, there will be no question about a white Christmas. As the second major winter- lka ztrmof te _Ge..nn mnvesthrnttah the (Treat