MARKLEY MONEY See Editorial Page YI rL frita~ tii DISMAL High-37 Low-27 See Today for details Eighty-Five Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXV, No. 140 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, March 27, 1975 Ten Cents Eight Pages r r ~ f IftTV E fOS NAMPO'CAi XrAYv Fat Cat 'U' There is still some gold in the University's rap- idly emptying treasure chest. While budget cuts rip through the University, it raked in a record $28,341,837 in gifts last year. It ranked seventh among all colleges and universities in the nation in the amount of gifts received, according to a national survey. The only public institution pulling in more private funds was the nine-campus Univer- sity of California. Harvard University hit the top of the big-time money winners list with $56,826,486 received. 0 Unemployment scores Washtenaw County set a gloomy record yester- day as its unemployment rate jumped past the state rate and the Detroit area's seven-county rate for the first time. Rates in these areas have been inching out the national average for some time. The 16.9'per cent February rate, which translates into 20,100 persons out of work, was a new monthly high and represented a record increase from last month. Unemployment in the auto industry and the electrical machinery industry sparked the giant leap, according to a Michigan Employment Secur- ity Commission economic analyst. New Bynoe date A legal hearing in a discrimination case against the University has been postponed in deference to a federal judge's schedule. Patrick Bynoe, a black man, filed the lawsuit last fall, claiming he was the victim of racial discrimination when he was repeatedly denied jobs in the business school. The hearing, originally planned for March and re- scheduled for April has been postponed until May 19. " Joanne Little benefit Tomorrow the Theatre Company of Ann Arbor, Inc., presents Mad Madonnas, an original produc- tion celebrating women's progress at 8 p.m. in the Halfway Inn, East Quad. The $2 donations will benefit the defense of Joanne Little, a 20 year old black woman charged with first degree murder in North Carolina. Little was charged with the crime when she allegedly killed a male jail guard who shesaid sexually assaulted her while she was in a North Carolina jail appealing a conviction of break- ing and entering. Happenings ,,, are breaking along with the spring storm today . . . brown bag' it at noon with Dr. David Angus who will speak on "Values Clarification: The Professionalization of Life Planning" in 2219 School of Education . .. also at noon the Pendle- ton Rm., Michigan Union holds an open hearth ars musica and baroque dance ensemble . . . Robert Kaiser, former Washington Post Moscow corres- pondent, lectures on "News, Literature and Dis- sidence in the Capitol of the USSR" at 4 p.m. in Lecture Rm. 2, MLB . .. persons interested in or- ganizing an undergraduate social science journal should meet downstairs at Domino's at 7 p... . Ivory Wright reads poetry at 7:30 p.m. in the Guild House, 802 Monroe . . . at 8 p.m. the Ann Arbor Chapter of Science for the People sponsors a panel discussion in 3082 Nat. Sci. . .. and Sec- ond Ward City Council candidates debate at 9 p.m. in Mosher Jordan. Dog days An elderly dog lover has lost a court battle to keep 34 dogs in his one-room Manhattan studio apartment - no spacious palace for a canine harem. Frank Brewer, 72, had charged that the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) violated his rights by taking the pets from his 11-by-13 foot West Side Cubicle. Police had asked the SPCA to round up the pets following complaints from neighbors. The Manhattan Su- preme Court took the dogs off Brewer's leash yes- terday, ruling they were not receiving proper food or exercise. Brewer was consoled by 10 members of his animal family the court allowed him to keep. On the inside. ... Karen Paul reviews the Michigan Arts Chor- ale on the Arts Page . . . HRP Mayoral candidate Carol Ernst and First Ward city council IIRP can- didate Dave Goodman write about the day care proposal on the Edit Page . . . and the Sports Page features Ed Lange's report on Michigan's contin- gent in the NCAA Swimming and Diving Champion- ships. l In k h m1. o--0 Coup fails in ai o SAIGON, South Vietnam (P)-President Nguyen Van Thieu yesterday announced the Saigon gov- ernment had thwarted an attempted coup and* arrested several persons. Thieu In a separate move, Thieu vowed a "fight to the death if necessary" for Da Nang and ap- pealed to the United States for help. Meanwhile, boats and chartered American planes began a massive evacuation of an esti- mated 500,000 refugees who fled to Da Nang from the advancing Communist-led troops. The insurgents said their forces had hoisted the Pro- visional Revolutionary Government (PRG) flag over the old imperial capital of Hue, 50 miles to the north. THE GOVERNMENT'S story of a plot against Thieu followed a closed-door meeting yesterday held by former Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and about 30 other Thieu opponents to discuss creation of a "National Salvation Front" to take over political and military power. Government sources said at least seven persons affiliated with Ky were arrested, including three former senators, a professor, and three local newsmen. No action was reported against Ky himself, however. A statement from the Interior Ministry yeser- day said: "A number of short-sighted elements have taken advantage of the serious situation to plot an overthrow of the legally constituted gov- ernment." Other political opponents of Thieu said the arrests were obviously a reaction to the meeting held by Ky yesterday. ON THE MILITARY front, the Saigon com- mand said North Vietnamese and PRG forces opened a heavy series of attacks today along the central coastal plain in Binh Dinh Province, pos- sibly overrunning a district capital. At least four government positions were at- tacked, including two district capitals, the com- mand said. The North Vietnamese and PRG already have seized the central highlands and now could be opening a new front on the central coastal Binh Dinh plain where they always have been strong. Much of the northern coast, except for isolated Da Nang, also is in North Vietnamese hands. A COMMUNIQUE from the Saigon command said North Vietnamese forces launched repeated assaults against Tam Quan district capital, mid- way between Quang Ngai to the north and Qui Nhon, a major coastal port to the south. Quang Ngai fell two days ago. The fall of Tam Quan would extend the North Vietnamese control along the coastal strip. The command said government defenders of Tam Quan, backed by air and artillery strikes, drove back several North Vietnamese and PRG attacks before radio contact was lost. With half his country lost to the three-week North Vietnamese drive, Thieu declared in two nationwide radio broadcasts he would cede no more territory to the Communists and his army would fight to hold Da Nang, the country's sec- ond largest city and onetime American air base. HE APPEALED to the U. S. to take "immedi- ate and strong reaction and rapidly provide suf- ficient support for our troops to fight. In other major Indochina developments, Presi- dent Ford dispatched Army Chief of Staff Gen. Frederick Weyand, the last American commander in Vietnam, to Saigon to assess the military situ- ation. ConUltgress OK's $24.8 billion AP Photo Members of the royal family of Saudi Arabia, in cluding Defense Minister Prince Sultan ben Abdul Aziz, carry the casket containing assassinated King Faisal's body through weeping crowds toward his unmarked resting place. Thlousands mourn a Faslbried inRiydh WV A S HI I N G T 0 N uP - Congress passed late last night a $24.8 billion anti- recession tax-cut package that includes rebate checks and tax reductions for vir- tually all Americans. But after talking to Pres- ident F o r d, Republican House Leader John Rhodes predicted Ford will veto the measure. Ford had proposed considerably smaller tax cuts totalling $16.2 billion. However, Sen. Russell Long, (1D-La. ), floor manager of the legislation, said a presidential veto would be "a very bad mis- take." "THE PRESIDENT will not be able to write his own ticket and have it all, his way with Congress," Long said after pointing out that the final bill was cut sharply from the mea- sure originally passed by the Senate. The Senate passed the bill on a 45-16 vote, shortly after the measurevcleared the House 287 to 185. Both the Senate and IHouse then adjourned until Ap- ril 7 for an Easter recess." Following the House vote, Rhodes predicted a veto, say- ing: "I imagine the President is reconsidering . . . the whole idea of a tax cut in this frame of the economy," Rhodes said. BEFORE PASSING the legis- lation, the House rejected a Re- p'ublican motion to send the package back to conference, which would have provided an opportunity to argue for elimi- nating sections which Ford con- siders objectionable. Republican leaders said be- forehand that the vote on this recommit motion was import- ant because it could determine whether the bill would be vetoed by the President. The motion failed, 197 to 214, but the mar- gin was far short of the two- act thirds needed to override a veto. The compromise legislation, approved earlier in the day by a Senate- House conference committee, is designed to stim- ulate the economy by putting extra money into the pockets of most Americans within weeks. A MAstR provision of the bill provides for rebates of 1974 ip- come taxes averaging ten per cent of taxes paid, up to a max- imum rebate of $200. The bill also calls for a $30 tax credit on 1975 income for every taxpayer and for each member of his family. These reductions would mean a reduction of at least $22( in 1974 and 1975 taxes for every family of four in the U. S. Earlier, GOP congressional leaders who met with Ford shortly after the conferees fin- See TAX, Page 2 By AP and Reuter RIYADH, Saudi Arabia-King Faisal was buried in an un- marked grave yesterday rfter thousands of mourners wailed and wept and passed the coffn of the assassinated monarch from shoulder to shoulder. "Where goes o u r knight? Where goes our p r t ec t or against confusion and poverty?" shrieked the crowds as the cof- fin was brought out of El Eid mosque. "FAISAL IS with us. He is not leaving us," a weeping broadcaster responded. "You will see him in King Khaled, in Prince Fahd, in every fainoful son of Islam." An emotion-choked radio an- nouncer said crowds of mo irn- ers fought to touch the coffin before it was turned over to the Ulema, the Moslem holy men, for private burial at ;inset without fanfare or a tombstone. The new king, Faisal's 62- year-old brother Khaled, wept as he prayed over the body. He, was flanked by 16 other kings, presidents and premiers and by Crown Prince Fahd and other members of the Saudi joyal family. THERE WAS speculation Fai- sal, the world's richest monarch, would rest beside his father, King Ihn Saud, who :s butied somewhere on thedoutskirts of Riyadh. Most Saudis are mnem- bers of the puritanical Wannabi sect of Islam. The follovers do not mark graves because they believe veneration of :he dead detracts from worship of ;lah. Meanwhile, the Egyptian news- paper, Al-Akhbar claimed that Faisal was shot to death in H-is office, in the presence of the Kuwaiti and Saudi ministers of See ARABIANS, Page 8 CULS calls lottery unfair to minorities HRP 'BOMBSHELL' Rentstd By DAVID WHITING The Human Rights Party (HRP) vows a "rent control bombshell" will be dropped on th,, Ann Arbor Board of Vealtors early this morning by the party's Second Ward council hopeful Frank 5hoichet in defense of the rent control April1 ballot issue. Shoichet is expected to discuss a study com- missioned by the Massachusetts Joint Legislative Committee on Local Affairs that investigated the effectiveness of rent control in that state. The report recommends the continuation of the Massachusetts Rent and Eviction Control Law.- THE STUDY conducted by Harbridge House, Inc., an independent international consulting firm, compared communities with rent control to released non-controlled areas and found that in rent con- trolled communities: -Property tax rates rose slower; -Rent increases were almost 50 per cent less; -Significantly more multi-family units were built; -Tenants were protected from being evicted without just cause; and -The condition of housing units appeared to have improved. The report concluded: "None of the available data demonstrates that rent control'harms more people than it helps, or that it significantly im- pairs the supply of rental housing." See RENT, Page 2 By GLEN ALLERHAND The Coalition for the Use of Learning Skills (CULS), an academic unit that provides counseling for minority stu- dents, has charged that the Housing Office's dormitory lot- tery was unfair to minorities and asked that special prOvi- sions be made to house CULS students. In a complaint registered w th Housing Director John Feld- kamp, CULS Director Raymond Snowden explained his objec- tions to the lottery. Snowden argues that the lottery, which left some 1,200 students without dorm housing next year, will cut down on minority enrollmznt at the University and c uld leave as many as 100 minrity students without their own res- idence hall accommodations. SNOWDEN SAYS, "I'm in a position to point out the short- comings of the lottery system they've made. If we look at the attrition rate for minorities, this is certainly not going to be conducive to reducing that rate." He added, "60 per cent graduate over a four-year per- iod of time." Citing another problem with the lottery, Snowden remarked, "The students are not going to be able to take advantage cif special programs" since the residence halls provide CULS counseling and advising centerst In a letter to Acting Literary College (LSA) Dean Billy Frye and Associate 'Vice - President Richard English, Snowden con- tended that provisions should be made to house CULS members. FRYE, IN A letter to Vice- President for Academic Affairs See CULS, Page 2 Kelhey terms HUP ballot Switch illegal By STEPHEN HERSH State Attorney General Frank Kelley has issued a formal oniiion terming ille-2l the local ordinance passed this month which allows Frank Shoichet's name to appear on the upcoming election ballot. Shoichet is the Human Rights Party (HRP) Second Ward City Council candidate. The opinion states that the ordinance violates a provision of state law which specifies, "a proposed candidate (for city council) . . . shall not be permitted to withdraw unless a written notice of withdrawal is served on the city clerk not later than -" Laserium features wild ight By JAMES FIEBIG and ROB MEACHUM If you think you've ever gone to a concert and ended up pretty freaked out at the end, well,, you ain't seen nothin' yet until you've experienced Laser- ium.