$w ' OF AM'$ 4N T iieMAIN * .? -VRCt 5A 4'P Wanna Buy Some Napalm? , 1 j ' >.. - : i ° ' ?, . ,, I By HOWARD DRATCH PSSST, BUDDY - wanna buy a tank? Latest model - maybe a cruiser or a bomber? These items may not be on your shop- ping list, but foreign governments are in the market for them most of the time. And, to penetrate the labyrinth of the complex military industry, they read the Consumer Reports of the war busi- ness - publications of an obscure in- telligence outfit called DMS. DMS stands for Defense Marketing System. For 16 years it has been profit- ably occupied' in telling one part of the huge defense establishment what the other parts are up to. Each day, thousands of reports, clip- pings, business tips and news articles pour into the DMS neadquarters in Greenwich, Connecticut. There about 70 highly paid staff people - ex-profes- sors, retired military grass, weapons analysts - train their keen eyes on the enormous file. After all- the raw data has been sifted and compare:i, DMS is- sues its unique products to an eager, if exclusive, audience. THE DMS series of insiders' reports on every aspect of the military industry is not exactly low priced. At the top of the line is "World Aircraft Forecast 1974- 1983," yours for $3,000. The three vol- ume study analyzes the present and fu- ture inventories of 128 military services in 122 countries. Bargain hunters might be more interested in "World Warship Forecast (1974)" - originally $1,600, now marked down to anly $950. This item forecasts the world naval requirements for 43 countries, discussing "missile, ord- nance, propulsion and electronics require- ments" through 1982. Another special report, on sale at 5350, covers the "Laser Market 19741984." Twelve other reports cover "Missiles/ Spacecraft," "Electronic Systems," Aero- space Research and Development, ' "Ships/Vehicles,/Ordnance," and other areas. DMS is not hurting for customers. Out- fits like Boeing and McDonnell Douglass buy the entire DMS line, but most cus- tomers are smaller - subcontractors to the huge corporations who must know the long range defense planning to sur- vive. Most smaller firms buy one to three specialized DMS reports at $350 a year apiece. it easier for one person or company to sell aerospace or military equipment to the government by giving them informa- tion, production time forecasts, and a detailed look at future needs in areas like aircraft systems, ammo, rockets, ordnance and electronics." While this information is precious to U.S. weapons builders, DMS covers the whole planet. Many Japanese companies subscribe to the service, which has scores of European clients as well. DMS is the international eyes and ears of a skyrocketing arms trade which will totol about $18 billion this fiscal year alone, DMS is in the middle of the whole scam. "What we're trying to do," a company spokesman explained, "is to make it easier for one person or company to sell aero- space or military equipment to the government by giving them information, production times forecasts, and a de- tailed look at future needs in areas like aircraft systems, ammo, rockets, ordnance and electronics." O}yus 'L: .L" . J 4L":: "::h . .V".::~{.:"?4":?":ti{{"mm a s a m am mt""t:"1"::,r.:"?: "r :"": ?:Y?' :": :::?1"?'" ?" report will make the military brass nerv- ous once in a while. "We don't sell any classified informa- tion, but in the 'World Warship Fore- cast' the data we assembled was so close" to Navy secrets, explains Trem- per, that it "was more than the Navy wanted us to say." The same held true for the recent DMS comparison of the submarine fleets, with a complete break- down of the number of missiles, var- ious strengths and weaknesses, of the U.S., U.S.S.R., and China. YET THE NAVY could have classified this super-sensitive stuff. One reason it did not may be that DMS aids the Penta- gon in its big arms sales program by spreading the woird on all the latest aerospace and military gadgetry. Ano- ther reason is that DMS reports do not reveal how anything works technically. Instead, its forecasts tell what is going to be used and in what quantity. Actually DMS is quite chummy with the Pentagon. "We have a nice rapport with the federal government," s a y s Themner. "We set up symposiums every year in New York where Lt. General Coffin, Admiral Sim Moore and others ran confer eveball to eyeball with de- fense contractors." DMS is rnst nro'id of its accuracy in predicting future trends in world mili- tarv strategv. Among its best guesses to date, according to Tremper: "DMS 'call- ed' the Yom Kipour War" before its out- bre'k in October 1973. While DMS exoerts have nat yet fore- cast the exact date for the first thermo- nuclear war, you can bet they're working on it. IHoward Dratch monitors military af- fairs for the Pacific News Service. "NO ONE ISN'T a client," enthusiastic DMS salesman Dick Tremper told Pa- cific News Services. "Our average re- newal rate of 94 per cent is better than Playboy magazine." These renewals wouldn't come, Tremper continued, if DMS weren't accurate and useful. In a world of closely guarded corporate secrets and classified information, "we have the guts to say how many air- craft are going to be produced, whe- ther or not the B-1 bomber is going to GO, the whole scam, man!" DMS is in the middle of the whole scam. "What we're trying to do," a com- pany spokesman explained, "is to make In the last 10 years, the U.S. has sup- plied billions in major weapons systems, to 74 countries, and DMS has been rid- ing the crest of this wave. IRAN ALONE HAS purchased $4 bil- lion worth of weapons, including F-4 fighter-bomber destroyers And the Navy's newest swing-wing F-14 fighter. To make sure his new fleet is in tip- top condition, the Shah of Iran is, na- turally, a big customer of DMS. The only organization which compares in scope with DMS is the Pentagon's own super-secret Defense Intelligence Agency, the D.I.A. In fact, a TYMS Eighty-four years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Wednesday, January 15, 1975 News Phone: 764-0552 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mi. 48104 Ring around the tax cut A TAX CUT AT THIS time is long overdue. For months people have been talking recession while the President talked inflation. While see- ing the light, President Ford has not come up'with any better ideas. The tax cut is definitely needed to get the little man on his feet and Sports Staff MARC FELDMAN Sports Editor GEORGE HASTINGS Executive Sports Editor ROGER ROSSITER ... Managing Sports Editor JOHN KAHLER........ Associate Sports Editor Business Staff MARC SANCRAINTE Business Manager Sue Viesmet..................Finaniee Manager Amy Kanengiser..........Advertising Manager Jack Mazzara ....................Sales Manager Linda Ross...................Operations Manager DEPT. MGRS. Laurie Gross, Ellen Jones, Lisa Kannengiser, Steve LeMire, Debby Novess, Cassie St. Clair ASSOC. MGRS. Rob Cerra, Kathy Keller ASST. MORS. Dave Schwartz STAFF John Atiman, Dan Brinza, Peter Caplan, Nina Edwards, Debbie Gerridh, Amy Hart- man, Jayne Higo, Karl Jennings, Carolyn Kathstein, Jackie Krammer, Sue Lessinto, Becky Meyers, Dave Piontkowsky, Amy Quirk, Ann Rizzo, Susan Shultz, Judith Ungar, Au- drey Weill, Ruth Wolman. SALES PEOPLE Mike Bingen, Cher Bledsoe, Syl- via Calhoun, Rich Flaherty, Beth Friedman, Linda Jefferson, Ellen Melchinger, Amy Piper, Steve Wright, Dalva Yarrington able to purchase those things which inflation has put out of his reach. However, the rich will only get richer under Ford's plan. What is needed to go along with Fords plan is the elimination of tax loopholes for the rich. The rich have not. been hurt by the double digit inflation which has so drastily cut the buying power of the middle and low income Americans. Another thing to keep in mind is that it is not the rich who are in danger of being laid off .. . just the lower income work- ing man. IT WAS ONLY BACK in October that Ford proposed a five per cent surtax to bring the economy under control. It is amazing that so drastic a change has come in so short a time (and Congress didn't even do any- thing about the tax hike). Maybe if the President had seen what was go- ing on in October, thousands of work- ers would not have been laid off in December. -TIM SCHICK All Rhod By VINCENT BADIA "Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio" THE TRUTH about Kent State has been hidden from the American people in the now patented My Lai- Attica fashion. The Guardsmen who murdered the four students and wounded the other nine were armed with "Shoot to kill" orders from Governor James Rhodes. It is he who must be held accountable. The buck stops there. "Gotta get down to it Soldiers are gunning us down Should've been done long ago What if you knew her and Found her dead on the ground? How can you run when you know?" ("Ohio"-Neil Young-copyright 1970) James Rhodes never concealed his hatred for the protesting students, calling them "worse than Nazi brownshirts". He also publicly stated that if the situa- tion arose again, he would handle it the exact same I way. Such displays of savagery and fascism do not+ go unrewarded in America. Last November, the state of Ohio publicly apologized for unseating Rhodes in 1970 by electing him again. His inauguration was Mon-+ day, January 13th, in Columbus. Fifteen people from Ann Arbor travelled there to protest the Keot State + whitewash. The demonstration was organized by the + lead to May 4th Coalition. We arrived just as the marchers had reached the inauguration stand. These are notes taken during the protest: PEOPLE'S CHANTS being drowned out by the in- augural band playing sloppy renditions of "God Bless America" and "When the Saints Come Marching In" - two hundred fifty demonstrators march from there to a building that looks like Angell Hall -- everyone stands on the steps facing the street and the TV cameras, chanting "Kent State, Jackson State, it's right to rebel", and "The people united will Onever be defeated". Cops, about a dozen, come from inside the building, try to move down the steps, don't get far - a sea of angry fists and middle fingers stops them - many more cops, a hundred at least, file from the building and push the protesters down the steps and over to a monument on the front lawn. Peacefully - one hundred and twenty-five ceps make a semicircle around the people's monument - de- monstrators, black and white, make ,peeches, sing songs, chant anti-imperialist slogans. I GO 'AROUND the cops, back to the steps - a fifty- five year old white man stops me and asks "Who are these kids? Left wing liberal Communist sympathiz- ers?" I explain that they are left wing, but they are not liberals, and they do sympathize with the communist movements, primarily in the underdeveloped countries. He says, "I fought in Korea to keep America free, and now we got kids like these! Did you get an excuse from your college to be absent today?" What can I say? repress ion It's very amusing to watch the members of the straight press come up to the cops and shake hands with them. They must be old war buddies. The semi- circle of cops has thinned to about fifty. The other seventh-five are telephoning their wives to tell them how they singlehandedly beat back the Commies. I GO INSIDE the building. A woman in a mink stole says to her friend, "See you at the reception Thursday". A liberal says "As l ng as the demon- stration is peaceful, those, kids can say avything they want". The protesters march several blocks to the Federal Court Building, chanting "For his crimes and for his class, kick Rhodes on his ass". An effigy of Rhodes is leaned against the courthouse wall and set aflame. The demonstrators displayed tremendous solidarity. Although the inaugural was scheiuled to begin at noon, Rhodes had sworn on the Bible to uphold justice, made a speech, and was whisked away in his limou- sine before the demonstration started. Perhaps he avoided the wrath of the people this time, but James Rhodes remains a criminal at large. He is only one of many. The ruling class in the United States regularly makes fasci°;t attacks against its own people. wearing law and order masks, and wages imperialist wars against foreign people wearing anti-communist masks. Such reactioanat'y violence is always met and ultimatelyudestroyed by the revolution- ary violence of the people. It is only z matter of time. Vincent Badia is the token freshman on the Edi- torial Staff. TODAY'S STAFF: News: Dan Biddle, Dan Blugerma Cindy Hill, Judy Ruskin, Steph Selbst, Jim Tobin Editorial Page: Vincent Badia, Tony Duenas, Sue Wilhelm Arts Page: David Blomquist Photo Technician: Sue Sheiner an, en To The Daily: TWO WEEKS AGO a Court sentenced Jewishp ian, Dr. Mikhad Shtern, eight years in a labor Why? The trial was b about because two of S sons applied to go to Israe conviction came despite all of the witnesses in th tical trial failed to back th secution and ended eith tirely clearing the defend producing evidence which ed to absolve him of any The verdict came on New Eve in the belief that w Western world preoccupie New Year's celebrations news of the sentence woul less public attention an cry. This show trial, in the tion of those of the Stalini shows that the Soviets h intention of following the son amendment to the tra Indeed, they have no in of granting human rights their territory. Their con truely a threat to the wo peace and of freedom we sire. Letters trial and cold fronts. As a reward, nuclear genie has been elevated from Destruction First Class, to Soviet the rank of General Discharge physic- and Effluent Distribution. 56, to camp. NUCLEAR power plants pro- rought duce dangerous materials known htern's as "effluent discharge." Efflu- el. The ent discharge side-effects exist nearly in the form of fission products is poli- like strontium-90 and cesium-137 he pro- having radiation emitting half- er en- lives of about 30 years. They lant or occur in such quantity, that af- 1 tend- ter 30 years, when their speci- guilt. fic activity is reduced to one- Year's half, or even after 100 years, ith the when it will be down to one- d with tenth of its original valae, they , t h e still will be so radioactive that d draw disposal or isolation is, to date, d out- a dilemma of unsolvable propor- tions. tradi- As the effluents circulate in st era, the earth's biosphere, they con- ave no taminate and destroy life Stron- Jack- ium-90 collects in bone marrow de bill. where it can cause cancer. Peta tention and Gamma radiation emitted inside from cesium-137 can cause crit- duct is ical hematopoietic system dam- orld of age from whole-body irradiation. to The tion of stopping the genie s pro- liferation, examining the issue in more thorough detail, and if it should prove necessary, shu'- ting down the whole nuclear in- dustry. Armed with this know- ledge, I am prepared to begin fighting in support of this scho- arly recapitulation by any means ie to a more inert domain. JOIN IN PEOPLE. Join in on an issue too hot to ignore any more. Nobel Laureates Dr. Jam- es Watson, Dr. H. Alfvea, Dr. George Wald, Dr. Harold Urey and other 'famous" scien ists have led the fight to stop Nuc- dale, Schweiker, Gavel and oth- er Congressmen have joined the battle. So have Barry Common- er, Ralph Nader and the Udion of Concerned Scientists. Why not be the next recruit in this is- sue tf life - and death - to halt Nuclear Genie's reign. Da~ly n ecesary to return Nuclear Gen- lear Genie. Senators Hart, Mon- -Joseph A. Harper OW pD YO U LKE OUR FR12WN f E WE-L C H ONOR VIE AT EFRN - . t ' PAYZ &MDRE AD A PROCLAMATION- 1 all de- -Sanford Levin January 13 nuclear power To The Daily: NUCLEAR POWER is sweep- ing across America and t h e World like a magical nightmare. The genie has popped its cork and sprung from the weaponry hnI. 'ain rvn A nve di,-Bzfikps FORMERLY, the agency charged with control and regu- lation of nuclear power plants and their impact on the en- vironment was the Atomic En- ergy Commission. The commis- sion set standards of effluent emissions according to limits of known radiation poison dam- age to humans. These controls, considered negligent and irsuf- AINV I LA 6 * *. A M kIMIM I P,6 ' Vi-,