WHEELER FOR MAYOR See Editorial Page Y 4t igAan A6F 144P :43 a t I#, ICY High-31 Low- 15 See Today for details Eighty-Five Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXV, No. 146 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, April 3, 1975 Ten Cents Ten Pages IFtAJ EE E AP&PEYA CALZty Dopes fooled Good dope and feelings were not the only thing happening on the Diag Tuesday. At about 12:45 an unidentified juvenile about 15 or 16 years old ap- proached two Dearborn high school students threatening to take their cassette tape recorder away. When they told him to get lost he patted his side indicating he had a gun. He then took the tape recorder and disappeared into Mason Hall. About an hour later he was spotted and arrested. Police report the suspect had a pellet gun. He was charged with armed robbery, and arraigned in juvenile court yesterday: Fate By AP and Reuter Conflicting reports from Phnom Penh early this morining left the fate of the Cambodian caiptal in doubt, as some reports indicated that insurgents had entered the city while others claimed no fighting was taking place. Thailand's Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj declared that the rebels had moved into the beseiged city. "The forces of the other side are entering Phnom Penh," he said during a meet- ing of the Thai National Assembly. SIMULTANEOUS reports emanating from Tokyo claimed that the Japa- nese ambassador in the Cambodia capital saw no signs of fighting and that the city "is still in government hands." A Pentagon spokesperson denied the information that Phnom Penh had fallen to the Communist-led forces. But the spokesperson said the military of Phnom Penh unclear situation around the city "was too fluid" to allow a detailed assessment of the relative positions of insurgent and defense troops. REPORTERS IN Phnom Penh con- firmed that the caiptal had not been captured, but released no details on any possible fighting there. The confused dispatches from the city follow by two days the departure of Cambodian leader Lon Nol, who fled to Indonesia as the insurgents swept closer to the embattled city. The U.S. E m b a s s y has begun evacuating 15 per cent of its 200 American staffers in Phnom Penh to Bangkok, Thailand, following the bloody fall of Neak Luong, the gov- ernment's last stronghold on the Me- kong River. THE WITHDRAWAL was announced as the Nationalist Chinese Embassy evacuated its staff. Fierce fighting raged 10 miles south of the capital and five miles to the northeast. The U.S. airlift continued despite shelling that damaged one plane and wounded one American civiilan pilot. Battambang, the country's second largest city 180 miles northwest of Phnom Penh, was also under rebel pressure, with the insurgents reported tightening their stranglehold around the city. The "temporary" withdrawal of 25 to 30 "nonessential" official Ameri- cans phis a yet-to-be-determined num- ber of voluntary agency workers, contract employes and diplomats of other countries is to take about three days, according to. Deputy Chief of Missions Robert Keeley. THE DEPARTURE of the Taiwa- nese, leaving only tie Americans, South Vietnamese and South Koreans with ambassadorial missions in Cam- bodia, was unannounced. A witness at the airport said the Taiwan delega- tion boarded a Nationalist Chinese plane, and diplomatic sources later confirmed the departure. Ten navy gunboats loaded with sur- vivors of a two-month siege against the Neak Luong enclave arrived in Phnom Penh and told of chaos and bloody fighting as the Communist-led Khmer Rouge pushed the 'last de- fenders out of the battered town 32 miles southeast of the caiptal. Survivors said two generals and at least four other high-ranking officers were missing, killed or captured and that many of the 500 wounded in Neak Luong's overloaded hospital were left behind as the 25,000 government sol- diers and civilians moved out. A NUMBER of soldiers, accompan- ied by civilians, were reported trying to fight their way to another govern- ment enclave at Prey Veng 15 miles to the north. Military sources quoted a helicopter crewmember as saying an air force major, on the ground to direct rescue 'missions into Neak Luong, reported he was being overrun and was going to shoot himself before his radio went dead. The loss of Neak Luong virtually rules out any chance for the govern- ment to re-open the Mekong for sup- ply barges when the summer rainy season comes, meaning Phnom Penli would continue dependent on airlifts for as long as the Americans provide them. ERIM coming The fall also frees 6,000 Rouge troops whom analysts to join the threat to Phnom southern perimeter. Khmer expect Penh's The controversial Environmental Research In- stitute of Michigan (ERIM), which obtains many of its contracts from the Pentagon, is coming to the city. Last fall the institute applied to the county for $3 million of low interest bonds to help finance the move but ran into stiff opposition and decided to go elsewhere for the funding. It turns out the state helped finance the move with retirement monies. Surprisingly, all is legal, as the Retire- ment System Act contains a capital loan provi- sion in which the state holds the mortgage. Down but not out? The structure of the Old German restaurant, nearly destroyed by a fire Tuesday, can be re- built, according to inspections by Deputy Fire Marshal Benjamin Zahn Jr. Robert Metzger, who' owns the popular restaurant, could not be reached for comment yesterday but members of a local businessman's organization have indicated they'll support a reconstruction project. The organization, called the Westside Neighborhood Group, said they were willing to help Metzger in appreciation of the help he's given them in the past. Damage in the fire, incidentally, has been estimated at around $200,000. f Numbers racket The Housing Office is currently accepting appli- cations from this year's dorm lottery losers to retain their lottery numbers if they so desire. Ac- cording to Housing Adviser Johanna Duvall, "If they want to keep their numbers they can, but they will be placed only after all incoming peo- ple have been placed." Applicants might have to wait until October to hear the final results. The placement procedure will last through tomorrow. As of yesterday afternoon, 55 people had applied. Happenings.. .. begin with a lecture from Marcia Guttentag on "Changing Sex Roles in Schools" in the East Conference room on the 4th floor of Rackham at 9 a.m. . . . the Democratic party is sponsoring a lunch with Perry Bullard at "Smitty's" downstairs in South Quad. Subject of the discussion will be "Privacy and the State Police." That's at noon ... more culturally at noon there's a photography exhibition and talk by Howard Bond in the Pen- dleton arts room of the Union . . . at 3:30 in the International Center, 603 E. Madison, Peter Gould- ing from the Australian Tourist Ministry will ans- wer questions from students who wish to visit the land down under . . . Poets William Farmer and Stephen Berry will be the featured attractions at a poetry reading at 7:30 at Guild House, 802 Mon- roe . . . and Aging Children will headline a benefit at the Ark for the Free Peoples Clinic at 8:30. April ghoul's joke It was a horrible sight and the woman screamed. A real estate agent was taking the woman and her husband through a vacant apartment in the San Pedro, California area Tuesday when she stepped into the bathroom to look it over. Floating in a tub of murky water was what appeared to be the headless skeleton of a child. She shrieked. The real estate agent called police. Investigators reach- ed into the tub and retrieved the "body" - a realistic looking inflatable rubber "headless corpse" sold in novelty stores. It was apparently planted there as an April Fool's Day joke, but on who remained a mystery, police said. The agent was not amused. The couple said they were not interested in the apartment any more. On the inside ... the Editorial Page has statements from third and fourth ward City Council candidates ... Arts has Joan Ruhela's review of Bob Seeger at Chances Are . . . Sports contains part two of Al Hrapsky's series on high school basketball recruit- ing . . . and Page Three has Thursday's regular 'U' Turns column. s On the outside .. . AP Photo VIETNAMESE orphans wait on the floor of a World Airways DC8 jet while the plane refuels at a Tokyo U.S. Air Base last night en route to the U.S. The children are the first South Vietnamese refugees aboard an American airliner in a dash to freedom from Saigon. Vietna-mese orphans Saig9on ta ke around SAIGON, (Reuter) - Troops beenc took up combat positions in tion fi front of the Presidential palace still op in Saigon yesterday, crouching joining with rifles at the ready facing Thes a park across the street. to red: There was no immediate ex- people planation for the precaution, cholog: which came as masses of gov- few w( ernment troops and refugees this co streamed south from the aban- what n doned central highands before the advancing insurgent forces. THE change A MILITARY spokesperson conced said earier yesterday that hun- jor que dreds of men in government organiz marine uniforms scattered in couldb Saigon streets last night after trucks in which they were rid- ing were challenged by police. When the trucks failed to stop at a checkpoint, the police fired in the air and the men made off into nearby streets and gardens, the spokesperson said. Dozens were arrested. Government sources said PA there were unconfirmed re- to use ports that the men were insur- Secreta gent commandos. ON THE battlefield, govern- and he ment forces in disarray seem desert' to be yielding their remaining Th enclaves on South Vietnam's central coast without a fight. made With the fall of Qui Nhon James to the Communist-led insurgents possibi reported by military sources, power and the apparent abandonment of Nha Trang and the former BO U. S. base of Cam Ranh, Sai- cificall gon is now the only major South Vietnamese city still in govern- Als ment hands. really1 The rapid collapse of govern- South" ment military power in the cen- refugee tre and north of the country was still causing political shock "T waves here. get ou go on i ON THE political scene, a government spokesperson said "T a war cabinet of "great na- from th tional unity" was being formed. in free He gave no details, butin- formed sources said there had consultation with opposi- gures, though there was pposition among them to sources said the need was ress morale and pull the together after the psy- ical damage of the past eeks, and that whether uld be done depended on new leadership emerged. The government spokesper- son today also denied that prime minister Tran Thien Khiem had offered his resignation. Reliable sources told Reu- ters yesterday that Khiem had offered to step down, but de- cided to remain in his post at least until the formation of a new government. The Prime Minister then broadcast a sur- prise address yesterday, calling for calm and unity. He also said he had been in touch with various political groups to try to achieve unity. See INSURGENTS, Page 7 troops )sitions-t palace Y SPOKE es "near the Jed that there estion of how zation and be achieved. of possible top," but was a ma- quickly re- stabilization en roil By PETER ARNETT YOKOTA, Japan (R) - A plane carrying 57 orphaned Vietnamese c h ild r en to new homes in the United States made a dash for freedom from threatened Saigon without of- ficial clearance and reached Japan last night on the first stage of the 8,000-mile flight. It was almost totally dark when we boarded the World Airways DC8 jet because Sai- gon's Tan Son Nhut airport was on full alert. c te toI The children, many of them babies in diapers and most al- ready spoken for by new par- ents, were laid outon the blan- keted cabin floor with a pillow for each. Some of the older ones chattered with excitement in Vietnamese. Others lay back with their eyes wide with won- der. MEANWHILE, the State De- partment's Agency for Interna- tional Development (AID) an- nounced last night that some IRS auctions war protestors property By ROB MEACHUM Special To The Daily FREMONT, Mich.-Paul and Adeline Snyder, who have with- held over $3,000 of Federal "war taxes" in protest of U.S. involve- ment in Indochina since 1971, had their property seized and auctioned by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) here yesterday. The property, valued at nearly $80,000, went to Carol Blizzard, a close friend of the Snyder's, for a mere $8,460. She plans to sell the property back to the Snyder's, who will in turn seek a refund- less the back taxes owed-from the IRS. WHILE THE Snyders and their four children remained in the house during the auction and held an open-house afterwards, con- rr 2,000 Vietnamese orphans will be flown from Saigon to the U. S. in an airlifttscheduled to begin in the next two days. Within a few minutes of the orphans' boarding, a steward- ess called from the rear of the cabin. "Any Pampers? It's dia- per service time already for this one." Ed Daley, the feisty, pistol- packing aerial wildcatter who heads the charter airline, went to lend a hand with the diaper- ing - something he said he had not done in 25 years. AS THE JET prepared to take off for the 25-hour flight to Oakland, Calif., via Tokyo, the airport was closed down be- cause of an anticipated insur- gent attack and all nonmili- tary people were ordered off the base. "Don't take off. Don't take off. You have no clearance," pilot Ken Healy said he was told by Tan Son Nhut airport tower. Healy - who flew refugees out of mainland China in the late 1940's and made the chao- tic last flight out of Da Nang last week - put the plane into the air anyway. "I JUST didn't get the mes- sage in time," he said later with a smile. Healey is from See SAIGON, Page 2 Sair power aid for Vietnam Flord LM SPRINGS, Calif. (P)-President Ford does not plan U.S. air power to help beleaguered South Vietnam, Press ary Ron Nessen said yesterday. he law forbids it, the President's inclination is against it has no plans to do it," Nessen told a news briefing at the White House. "Bombing is not a live issue." e statement was in reply to a question about a remark in Washington earlier yesterday by Defense Secretary Schlesinger. Schlesinger said he could not rule out the lity there might be a recommendation to use American air in South Vietnam, but that the likelihood is quite low. )TH SCHLESINGER and Nessen noted Congress has spe- y forbidden U.S. combat activity in Vietnam. so yesterday, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller said "it is too late to do anything" to stop Communist advances in Vietnam or help hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese es. hey're trapped . . . he said of the refugees. "They couldn't t . . . I guess a lot of them are going to die. For us, we living." HE FACT that almost the entire population tried to get away the Communists is an extraordinary indication of their belief dom, of the fact that they don't want to live under a Com- See FORD, Page 2 - J...::.,..... .....................::::: f.,. "::i ' . Ward 3 favors GOP troversy shrouded the opening of Post Office. The auction was termed "pub- lic" by the IRS, yet the 75 Snyder supporters and reporters gathered at the Post Office were not allowed to witness the open- ing of the bids and the awarding of the property. "How can they (IRS) have a public auction and not allow the public in (the Post Office)," shouted one angry supporter. "It's all a sham," he added. "THIS THING might be in- valid," he concluded. Ms. Sny- der echoed him, saying, "A public sale is a public sale." the sealed bids at the Fremont HOUSING CRISIS: Dorms to expand?9 By ELAINE FLETCHER Dormitory rooms reserved for freshpersons may be con- verted to hold extra students next fall in an effort to accommo- date lottery losers who still want to sign leases. "The conversion of dorm rooms, at this time, looks the most promising of all the alternatives," said Peter Schoch, director of off Campus Housing yesterday. By JIM TOBIN Democrat Mike Broughton and Human Rights Party (HRP) candidate Everett Guy are wag- ing an uphill struggle in the Third Ward's wealthy residen- tial neighborhoods to stem the incumbent candidacy of Repub- lican Robert Henry. -> : . ;:: ;: .:.