LSA-SG ETHICS See Editorial Page Y AOF A6F 4.Ait r t an A6F 44&r :43 a t I# DEPRESSING High-43 Low-23 See Today for details Eighty-Five Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXV, No. 144 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, April 1, 1975 Ten Cents Ten Pages plus Supplement Insurgents close to aiion I l- ,. r IF~rC~t1EE INFS APM CL 5 A y - Break-in The Ann Arbor Tenants Union reported that some- one apparently tried to break into their office last night. Although nothing appeared to be missing, Union spokesman Jim Henle claimed marks of forced entry were visible on the door. "It's kind of serious," he said. "It seems like someone is up to some dirty tricks or they're trying to intimidate us." Henle suspected the break-in was probably the work of someone opposed to rent control who was trying to learn the Union's campaign strategy. " HRP on day care The Human Rights Party (HRP) announced yes- terday it believes that the day care ballot proposal, if passed, would require some $565,000 of city revenues be allocated to child care. This is a change from an earlier position in which only $314,000 would go to day care. Both the City Attorney and the City Administrator agree the day care proposal would involve $565,000 of city funds. " Bunzai! It could be curtains for the Gino burger as the latest in fast food dynasties, Burger King, hits the Ann Arbor scene. Burger King will be holding the pickles and the lettuce at your request on the corner of Liberty and Maynard beginning this week, and all starving and/or lazy Ann Arborites are welcome. Happenings... .. .bare best done intchronological order today ..begin your day with a quick trip to the 4th annual Hash Bash on the Diag . . . from there schlepp yourself to the P&A lawn for the "Great Egg Bust" where students geniuses alike have attempted to construct the most unique "Rube Goldberg" contraption to break an egg ... at 7 p.m. decide whether you want to return to the Hash Bash, go to a Go Club meeting at 2050 Frieze Bldg., or attend the Residential College lecture by Jim Loudon on "Why you can't go faster than light . . . then at 8:30 witness the 1st ward city council debate featuring David Goodman for HRP, Liz Taylor for the Democrats, and Karen Graf for the Republicans at the Ann Arbor Com- munity Center at 625 Main St. . . . then go back to the Hash Bash and have a pleasant evening. Egg poachers Riverside County, Calif. sheriff's deputies Sunday were looking for three thieves who hippity hopped from the scene of their crime with more than 9,000 stolen eggs. Employes of the Persits Egg Ranch discovered the missing 300 flats of eggs just as the culprits were driving off. A chase ensued over six miles of bumpy roads, but the theives got away. The only clue they left behind was a trail of broken eggs. 0 Crunchy pizza The night life in Burley, Idaho was just too much for a New York courier to handle. Perhaps having tied on a few too many hot peppers at the Grizzly Bear Pizza Parlor, the courier, in a slight over- sight, happened to leave behind some $260,000 worth of gems. An unidentified customer found the bag, which contained more than 3,000 diamonds, sap- phires, rubies and emeralds from Thailand and India, and turned it over to the manager of the establishment who notified the police. The gems were then returned to their rightful owner. Pass the salt Farmer Les Coole was real hot at the World Elver-Eating Championship yesterday as he gulped down about 1,300 baby eels in 44 seconds to defend his title for the third time. After the annual Easter contest in Gloucester, England, Coole announced his retirement to let his 13-year-old son Billy par- ticipate in the electrifying experience next year. "He will be 14 then and should have a big enough capacity to carry on the tradition," said the belching Briton. Besides, what do you do for an encore? 0 On the inside... Co-Editor-in-Chief Gordon Atcheson writes about the unethical adventures of Lt. Governor James Damman on the Editorial Page . . . The Maynard Street Journal, a collection of creative writing essays, makes its debut on the Arts Page . . . and Ed Lange reviews the NCAA swimming champion- ships on the Sports Page. On fh tnn id . . . Ten TAs claim bias in hiring practices By JIM TOBIN Ten teaching assistants (TAs) in the G e r m a n department claim they have been discrim- inated against by Department Chairman Valentine Hubbs on the basis of their participation in the Graduate Employes' Or- ganization (GEO) strike which ended three weeks ago. The complaint concerns the appointment of TAs for the sum- mer term. Out of 19 graduate students available for the posi- tions, nine non-strikers were chosen, while the rejected ten were all participants in the walkout. GEORGE SCHOBER, a third- year TA, has sent a letter of complaint to Chairman Hubbs. With this move he becomes the first union member to pursue a settlement through t h e pre- scribed grievance procedure of the fledgling GEO contract. Branding the discrimination c h a r g e s "completely false," Hubbs said the nine TAs chosen are the most qualified in the department, though he added, "that d o e s n' t mean there weren't four or five more who weren't qualified too..A Hubbs explains that a list was See 10, Page 2 South n collapse gay soon By AP and Reuter SAIGON-Communist-led infantry backed by tanks launched a heavy assault on a town 45 miles north of Saigon as the insurgent drive southward continued, the Saigon high command reported yesterday. It said that government defenders, supported by air strikes, held, back the attack Sunday of Chon Thanh, a district town directly north of the capital. MEANWHILE, the Ford administration, in an "it's not our war" mood, has taken a pessimistic view of the future of the present South Vietnamese Government. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger feels it will be some- time before Saigon will be able to stabilize the rapidly deteriorat- ing military situation. Schlesinger said in a television interview Sunday there will be more military withdrawals and major National Liberation Front (NLF) onslaughts on Saigon in the next month or so. AP Photo BICYCLES, PEOPLE, and goods are piled precariously high on a truck which carries refugees from the docks at Cam Ranh Bay to a re-location center. These are some of the last refugees to leave Da Nang, which fell to communist-led troops Saturday. Many had already endured the trek to Da Nang from elsewhere, surviving on limited food and water and traveling on crowded rescue vessels. Lon Nol to flee Cambodia By AP and Reuter PHNOM PENH, President Lon Nol is preparing to leave the besieged capital of Phnom Penh for an overseas tour from which he might not re- turn. Lon Nol, Prime Minister Long Boret and other Cambodian of- ficials are expected to leave by helicopter this morning. The tour would first take the Presi- dent to Indonesia after a stop- off in Bangkok. BUT A widespread specula- tion continued that Lon Nol would either resign or simply stay abroad. The last hours before his de- parture were marked by more insurgent rocket attacks on Po- chentong airport, Phnom Penh's last link with the outside world, and by intensive fight- ing elsewhere in the country. Rebel forces also penetrated Phnom Penh's d e f e n s e perimeter across the Tonle Sap River just 11 miles from the city, and shelled the airport at the second largest city of Bat- tambang, 180 miles northwest of Phnom Penh, for the first time in more than a year, the reports said. THE INSURGENTS were re- ported on the move a mile from the Battambang airport and Prof. claims older s ins are briter By CATHY REUTTER When your older brothers and sisters tell you that they're smarter than you are, they're might be right. Older children from smaller families have higher averages on intelligence tests, according to Psychology Prof. Robert Zajonc. "The intellectual level of an individual's siblings and parents has a strong influence on the individual during the course of his development," Zajonc explains. ACCORDING TO Zajonc, data compiled from broad samples of nationwide SAT scores indicates that older children from small families receive higher scores because children get more atten- tion from parents than do children in larger families. However, Zajonc notes that "age gaps between successive children also play an exceedingly important role in the birth two miles from the heart of the city. Analysts said they did not think Battambang could hold out against an insurgent attack. Cambodian Senate President Saukham Khoy, who will auto- matically become acting presi- dent when Lon Nol leaves the country today, hopes to nego- tiate a peace treaty with the communist-led insurgents be- seiging Phnom Penh. Khoy, speaking to reporters last night, said he did not play a leading role in the overthrow of Prince Norodom Sihanouk led by Lon Nol in 1970 and had no quarrel with him. THE PRINCE, leader of the Royal Government of National Union (Grunk), is titular head of the insurgent forces. Reliable sources said Lon Nol was expected to say be- fore departing that he was leav- ing Cambodia for some time in order to facilitate peace talks -and political sources today said a five-man committee, in- cluding Khoy, will be formed for those talks. Lon Nol, partially paralyzed from a stroke in 1971, flies to Indonesia today and then goes on to Hawaii to seek medical treatment, reliable sources said. They said his departure also is aimed at getting the U. S. Congress to come up with more military aid' for Cambo- dia. FARTHER north, the South Vietnamese central coast city of Qui Nhon was taken by NLF (North Vietnamese and southern insurgent) forces, military sources said. The city, 270 miles north of here, fell in much the same way as the big port city of Da Nang three days ago - communist- led commandos within the city and a shock force thrusting from outside took advantage of the disarray of demoralized government troops, according to the sources. Many of the city's people and the refugees who had flowed in earlier are reported to have fled the city. Qui Nhon's nor- mal population is more than 200,000. THE SOUTH Vietnamese col- lapse appeared to quicken the pace of disintegration along the central coast, after the govern- ment tried to react to a NLF campaign in the central high- lands with a broad withdrawal. But the withdrawal has now clearly led to chaos along the coast - which the government intended to hold. In a week, communist-led forces have taken more major cities than ever before in the decades of the war here-Hue, the former imperial capital, Da Nang, the c o u n t r y' s second biggest city, and now Qui Nhon. THE C E N T R A L highlands cities of Ban Me Thuot, Pleiku and Kontum had been lost in the previous two weeks. Most of the government with- drawals from at least half of the country have come without a battle. This has placed a heavy strain on the morale of government forces and conse- quently on the administration of President Nguyen Van Thieu. In another capitulation by government forces, air force units were yesterday reported to have pulled out of a major airbase at Phu Cat northwest of Qui Nhon, military sources said. IN WASHINGTON, the U.S. Agency for International De- velopment (AID) reported six American ships would begin evacuating as many as 200,000 refugees from three ports on the See INSURGENT, Page 9 Panic caused f fDa Nang By PETER ARNETT SAIGON, South Vietnam (,P)- Da Nang fell to the Communist- led insurgents by itself-a cas- ualty not of battle but of panic and chaos. Accounts of the collapse 'of South Vietnam's second' largest city and onetime major U.S. base have shocked and demoral- ized Saigon, the capital, and its three million people. THE QUESTION asked today in Saigon is "Can it happen here?" For Da Nang shuddered and died in three days of looting, burning and murder inflicted not by avenging insurgent forces but the citizens of Da Nang it- self. The insurgents sat outside and watched. AND WHEN they moved in Saturday afternoon and Sunday, 'there was no resistance from a population exhausted from may- hem and fear. That is the picture of the last days of Da Nang as painted by Americans, Britons and Vietna- imese who were among the esti- mated 100,000 who escaped the 'city. Another 1,000,000 were left behind. A chain reaction of fear in- fected the fleeing soldiers and civilians. They spread it like the plague through the 1owns and cities during their flight from the embattled area. DA NANG was inundated by hordes of refugees and desper- ate soldiers fleeing not only :from Hue but also from the two provinces to the south, Quang Tin and Quang Ngai, which col- lapsed overnight. All escape roads led to Da Nang, and by Wednesday the sprawling port city where the U.S. Marines landed 10 years ago was crammed with refu- See PANIC, Page 9 LON NOL: The Cambodian President is leaving the be- sieged capital of Phnom Penh amid speculation that he would either resign or simply stay abroad. Relia- ble sources claims he is leaving to facilitate peace talks with the insurgents. Stephenson donations unreported By ANN MARIE LIPINSKI Mayor James Stephenson last night admittedsthat he failed to comply with an ordinance gov- erning the release of campaign financing which he introduced before City Council over a year order. Large spacing is bene- ficial to the younger and detri- mental to the older siblings, while small spacing is less detri- mental to the older but more harmful to the younger." Spacing plays a role, in Za- jonc's opinion, because it in- fl'yences whether an older bro- ther or sister can be adteacher to the younger one. The first- born teaches the others how to do long division, shoots baskets and perform innumerable other tasks. THIS 'TEACHER' role played by the older siblings accounts Race hinges on rent issue By TIM SCHICK Most of the residents of the First Ward are tenants-so the controversial rent control proposal is the most important issue in this hard-fought battle for a City Co'encil slot. Both the Democrats and the Human Rights Party (HRP) consider this pie- shaped wedge radiating north from the center of the city to be their natural turf-and it's an all out scrap for the highly-coveted seat.