SUNDAY MAGAZINE See Inside Y AOF A6F t r4t an A6V AL SUCCULENT High-so Low-37 See Today for details Eighty-Five Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXV, No. 137 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, March 23, 1975 Ten Cents Eight Pages plus Supplement I SIF1GtJSEE PEWS H CALL DNY Happenings ... the Anthroposophical Student Association is sponsoring a lecture entitled "The Language of Biography as an Aid to Self-development" at 3 p.m. in the Michigan Room on the League's 2nd floor . . . also at 3 p.m. the Music School presents a youth band in Hill Aud . . . an hour later there will be a faculty recital: "An Afternoon of Song" in Rackham Aud . . . Local Motion, a non- partisan coalition of social service groups, will hold a candidate's night featuring those people running in April's City Council elections. It will begin at 6 p.m. at 1910 Hill St. with a potluck dinner . . . Monday through Wednesday recruiters from the Peace Corps and VISTA will be at the Career Planning and Placement office in the Stu- dent Activities Building. Call there for an appoint- ment . . . At EMU Monday, John Olthius, a Can- adian activist, will speak on various topics at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m. . . the Inmate Proiect presents a free showing of Sambizanga - a film about black liberation in Angola - at 7:30 p.m. in Aud. C Angell . . . at 8 p.m. the Audio-Visual Educational Center presents Ballet Adagio and Appalachian Spring in the Pendleton Room, 2nd floor of the Union . . . Michel Benamou will speak on "The Origins of Surrealism" in the Rackham Amphitheater at 8 p.m. . . . the 'U' Square Dance Club will sponsor dancing at Barbour Gym from 8-10 p.m. . . and the Music School presents piano chamber music in the Music School Recital Hall at 8 p.m. 0 Fun 'n games Twenty-five students at the California Institute of Technology have prepared 1.26 million entry forms for a $50,000 contest sponsored by a hamburger chain. The students say that, based on computer estimates, they believe they have better than an even chance to win a large share of the prize money. If one out of every 10 persons in Southern California entered the contest that would be a million entrants, they figure. So they programmed the computer to fill their names in on entry blanks and delivered 40,000 of them Friday to each of more than 25 area McDonald's restaurants. " Con talk Former White House chief of staff and convicted Watergate conspirator H. R. "Bob" Haldeman said yesterday that he advised Richard Nixon not to destroy the White House tapes - a decision he now considers a mistake. "I thought it was a good idea to keep them for the historical value .. . I did not think through the enormous damage that would be done to me and to Richard Nixon and to all other participants," Haldeman explain- ed. The man, once known by the code name "the Brush," added that the entire Watergate scandal has been characterized with "verbal ex- cess." Woodward and Bernstein's perhaps? All's fair . . Richard Diggs, drunk and desperate, grabbed a knife and slashed his girlfriend because he was afraid she was going to leave him. He pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to attempted murder and was committed to the Colorado state mental hospital. Yesterday - a year-and-a-half later -- Diggs married the woman he tried to kill. During the trial, Diggs explains, "we started talking thingss over and she asked me why I did it and I told her it was because I didn't want to lose her. Pretty soon we figured out we had loved each other all along but were both too afraid to say so." Intellectual curiosity One of Sweden's most notorious criminals has absconded from prison during a three-day parole - apparently because he was refused permission to study law at Stockholm University. A prison board representative said Clark Olofsson, 28, a thrice-convicted bank robber, had left a verbal message with a fellow-prisoner stating "No pardon, no retrial, no study - no Clark Olofsson." He had served 18 months of a five-and-a-half year sent- ence. Police have no clue as to his whereabouts. 0 Douglas improves Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas, showing improvement since he suffered a stroke December 31, is reported doggedly determined to remain on the job. Friends of Douglas, who in his 36 years on the court has been a frequent liberal dissenter, say they are optimistic that he will do so. Early last week, Douglas returned to the court chambers for a few hours, but he has not partici- pated in any court decisions following his stroke. 0 On the inside ... . . . The Sunday Magazine features a piece on "Singing the White Collar Blues: Unemployment in Ann Arbor" by Dan Borus . . . on the Sports Page, the staff reviews action in the state high school basketball tournament. 0 Freshfo1k frown cit frivolous fin dings By NATHALIE WALKER Many people don't put much stock in sur- veys or statistical data, and freshpersons at the University seem to be among them, as evidenced by their reactions to a recent study of first-year students here. "Not another one of those things," groan- ed Jeff Roberts, a first-year history major, when asked his opinion of a survey done in January by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program of the American Coun- cil on Education and the University of California at Los Angeles. HE, ALONG with twenty other freshper- sons interviewed at random, viewed the study's results with little regard. "How can this stuff be passed off as important when only 19 per cent of our class filled out the questionnaires?" de- manded Cheryll Damian, a nursing major. The study indicates that 57.8 per cent of all the people completing the forms had an average of A- or better in high school. "BUT," remarked Claudia Kraus, an English major, "the kind of people who had at least an A- average in high school are just the kind of people who love filling out these questionnaires." Remarked Gayle Hadley: "The four-point- phobia types are hardly a representative group." According to the survey, about 92 per cent of the freshpersons at the University cited "academic ability" as their greatest above-average trait. "This, at least, may be accurate, but really I don't know that many people here that I think would be so boast- ful," replied one student. ONLY 15.6 PER CENT consider influenc- ing the political structure to be an essential or very important objective, although 63.4 per cent definitely want to keep up with poihical affairs. "Maybe this is a sign of the times . . people are mellowing out after the 60's," ventured one woman, while another insisted that she knows "too many people active in GEO and everything else to believe that." Approximately 16 per cent believe that "women's activities are best inthe home." "Well of course that figure is low, what kind of a masochist would agree with that," one timid voice commented. THE LEGALIZATION of marijuana was favored by 61.1 per cent. "Give them a few more months of unpenalized use and that figure will soar to 100 per cent," an opti- mistic student said. In terms of political orientation, 3.2 per cent termed themselves "far left," 43.8 per See FRESHFOLK, Page 2 Kissinger calls talks By Al' and UPI JERUSALEM - Secretary of State Henry Kissinger last night broke off his whirlwind shuttle efforts to win a Middle East peace because of "irreconcilable" differences between Egypt and Israel. Kissinger had held two sessions with Israeli nego- tiators before calling it quits after 16 days of in- tense negotiations. STATE Department spokes- man Robert Anderson told a news conference that Kissinger would return to Washington. Other U.S. officials said he in further M ideast C'et la vie Losing is just part of the game, but sometimes it's hard to swallow as these cheerleaders for Mount Pleasant High School's basketball team discovered yesterday. The Mount Pleasant squad was drubbed 69-47 by Lakewood in the state tournament held at Crisler Arena. For more scores see Page 8. REFUGEES CONTINUE TO FLEE: Thieu government loses ninth province SAIGON (A) -Communist-led mese troops using the biggest guns in three their arsenal wrested their of Hue ninth province from South Viet- said nam yesterday, military offic- manne ials said. The fall of Quang troops Duc gave the North Vietnamese Milit and Viet Cong control of a huge Comm chunk of the country from Kon- paring tum in the north to within 50 Hue. 1 miles of Saigon. tants1 Field reports said civil serv- ial sou ants were evacuated from intends Quang Duc before the final as- imperi sault, but Saigon command spokesman Lt. Col. Le Trung THE Hien said the fate of 36,000 ci- said vilians in the province was not after1 known. names mainc LEGIONS of other refugees and th continued their trek toward ial cal coastal havens from other to the fallen provinces in the western east o central highlands. Amo To the north of Quang Duc, agains Viet Cong and North Vietna- builtI to Communist forces planned to leave the Mideast this morning. President Ford "regrets" the dissolution of Kissinger's Middle East peace efforts and promised to keep trying to find peace in the area, the White House said. Anderson made the brief an- nouncement after last-ditch ef- forts by Kissinger to bridge the gap between Israel's demand for a peace pledge by Egypt and Egyptian insistence on an Israeli withdrawal in the Sinai desert. "UNFORTUNATELY, the dif- ferences on a number of key issues have proven irreconcil- able," Anderson said. He added that a reassessment "is needed so that all concerned can con- sider how best to proceed to- ward a just and lasting peace." It marked at least a tem- porary defeat for the American secretary of state after a string of diplomatic triumphs. Egypt called for an immedi- ate reconvening of the full-scale neace conference at Geneva, Switzerland, where the Soviet Union would have a say as co- nhairman of the conference with the United States. Egypt said Israel's demand for a renunciation of the state of war was out of line for a purely "military" agreement and Israel's bringing it up was bargaining "in bad faith." AN ISRAELI spokesperson said, "From the early stages of the negotiations Israel stated its readiness to evacuate the passes and oil fields in return for a renunciation of the state of war by Egypt. Egypt refused to re- nounce the state of war and insisted it continue." The breakdown in the talks came as Israeli troops main- tained a heightened state of alert on the frontiers, in effect ,for the past two weeks. But Israeli Defense Minister Shi- mon Peres told the Israeli people on television: "Israel remains a country with its face turned toward peaceful settle- ment. Kissinger forces closed in from sides on the old capital e. The Saigon command two infantry positions ed by 300 government were overrun. tary sources said the unist-led troops were pre- for a massive drive on Most of its 200,000 inhabi- have fled south and offic- urces say the government s to cede the onetime ial capital to Hanoi. MILITARY command Quang Duc province fell hundreds of North Viet- se soldiers overran the district capital, Kien Duc, hen drove on the provinc- pital Gia Nghia, 10 miles east and 125 miles north- f Saigon. ong the weapons used t Kien Duc were Soviet- 130mm artillery pieces, the biggest in the North Viet- namese arsenal. In other Indochina develop- ments: * S t a t e Department of- ficials in Washington said the United States is considering a declaration that the 1973 cease- fire agreement on South Viet- nam has become inoperative in view of the current Communist offensive. There was no imme- diate comment from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, one of the architects of the accords. * The U. S. airlift of vital supplies to the besieged Cambodian capital Phnom Penh was suspended after an insurgent rocket barrage dam- aged two American cargo planes. An American source said the transports could not be repaired until insurgents were pushed out of rocket range of the airfield. A 1,500-man government drive against the rebel "roc- ket belt" six miles northeast of the airfield was reported stalled and the government helicopter- ed hundreds of reinforcements in hopes of reviving it, field re- ports said. The fall of Quang Duc left the Saigon government in control of only two provinces in the highlands - Lam Dong and Tuyen Duc in the eastern sec- tor - plus five provinces along the central coast. Control of the western high- lands gives the North Vietna- mese access to a network of roads that could be vital in an assault on Saigon. The pro- vinces lost by South Vietnam represent more than a fifth of its territory and, before the exodus began, were populated by over two million people. The country is divided into 44 pro- vinces. Congress moves on tax plan WASHINGTON (I)-Final ef- forts to enact the largest tax cut in the nation's history got under way yesterday with both houses of Congress assigning conferees to work out a com- promise. Key House members predicted the final cut will be closer to the $19.9 billion version they approved than the $33.1 billion approved by the Senate, with extraneous changes in the tax code weeded out. MEANWHILE, President Ford was relaying word to members of the House-Senate conference committee yesterday that he may veto the tax cut bill unless it is stripped of what he con- siders extraneous amendments. White House officials, repeat- ing Ford's goal of a "clean tax cut bill," left open the possi- bility of a veto. "I wouldn't close the door," said one of- ficial. By the time the Senate passed the bill early yesterday it pro- vided, among other things, that most individual taxpayers would get rebates of $120 to $240 on their 1974 taxes, those for which returns now being filed, and a $40 cut in 1975 taxes. AN OPTIONAL tax credit would help families with less than $20,000 income who itemize deductions. A special "work bonus" up to $100 would apply to low-income working families. Each Social Security benefit recipient would get a one-time $100 bonus. The House bill provides a smaller 1974 rebate and a spe- cial tax break for single per- sons and couples too poor to pay income taxes. Staff specialists for the tax cut conferees began analyzing the numerous amendments the Senate made to the House- passed tax-cut bill. The con- ferees themselves go to work tomorrow morning, trying to World Fair invites view of other lands By MARLENE DAVENPORT Cans of such delicacies as Wild Boar Goulash and Gaska- marinated mushrooms-were on sale at the Polish display. Else- where could be found watercolors from Taiwan, Indian dolls, and Turkish glass goblets. Whole families browsed through the clothing, vases, and jewelry from around the world. PEOPLE IN THEIR native dress whirled through the crowds, as the air was spiced with conversations in Filipino, Greek, and Thai. Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves at the World Fair, held in the North Campus Commons all day yesterday. It was a glimpse of other cultures and a way to step into another world without leaving Ann Arbor. 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