PLASTIC PROGRESS? See Editorial Page Y , i ' Ct FtYi -A6F 44&F :43 a t I# CHILLING High-43 Low-21 See Today for details Eighty-Five Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXV, No. 154 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, April 12, 1975 Ten Cents Eight Pages I . . evacuates hnom en Collapse A& appears Ak I ~r'cusI r IFT-V USEE 1116 EAPE c_&Ltyy y All-campus wing-ding Always in pursuit of fun and games, the mem- bers of SGC allocated $300 to help fund an all- campus street party scheduled for the last day of classes this term. The organizers of the mammoth wing-ding, the Madison Street Entertainment Com- mittee, have supposedly already secured permis- sion with city police to close off the street, and have contracted three bands to play all day April 22. Although the motion originally recommended a $150 allocation, SGC decided to pull out all the stops in approving a figure twice that size. With the overwhelming support for the event, the staff of the clean-up committee, will have an enormous task. Spiritual highs Ann Arbor's more religious residents will be get- ting down to a little spiritual enjoyment this week end at the Fifth Annual Festival of Life, which will feature every earthly delght from psychic awareness to Hatha Yoga. Undeterred by the some- what chilly weather, the festival coordinators plan to celebrate at the Arb, as had been, scheduled. Today's events include workshops on meditation, spiritual healing and gestalt therapy as well as mu- sical performances. Sunday's program is high- lighted by a sunrise service with individual medi- tation and workshops of Krishna consciousness per- sonalized palmistry. Running into trouble An Ypsilanti Township jogger, will be hopping around for a while after breaking his leg in an un- expected collision with a fire hydrant. While jog- ging in the early evening darkness, the Ypsilanti man apparently failed to see dog's best friend at the edge of the roadside. Firefighters, immediate- ly called to the rescue, reported that the myopic jogger was rushed to Beyer Memorial Hospital. " UA C officers The University Activities Committee has picked its officers for the upcoming year. Heading up the MUSKET production will be Bob Bianco; James Ruskin and Dave Levick will be coordinating Me- diatrics; and Rick Victor will continue in his job as chairman of UAC Domestic Travel while Sherrie Sheinfeld takes over International Travel. Paula Humphries will head Minority Affairs and Ron Wil- son has retained his position as coordinator of Fu- ture Worlds. " Happenings... . . . are as few and far between today. David Pines of theUniversity of Illinois will be speaking on his impressions of China in Rm. 124 E. Quad at 1 p.m. . . . an old - fashioned square dance will get underway at 404 W. Huron, for a mere $1.00, you can hoof around all night long . . . there will be a meeting of the GO Club at 2 p.m. in Rm. 2050 Frieze Bldg. . . . a "One Woman Show" fea- turing print maker Bethia Brehmar will begin to- day at Kerry Town and continue until May 9 .. . and rounding out the day's events will be two lec- tures by Florence Kennedy and Donald Freed on "Nelson Rockefeller: Multinational Delinquent" and "From Dallas to Watergate: A Decade of Con- spiracy" at 7:30 p.m. in the Rackham Aud. Soccer skirmishes Violence in Israel is evidently not confined to the disputed war zone of the Golan Heights these days. A district court judge in Tel Aviv, Shlomo Leven- berg handed down a court order yesterday ban- ning all soccer games in Israel due to mounting violence on the playing field. Asked to explain the violence among team members, a spokesperson for the National Football Association said, "Israel is a new country and we don't have enough tradition in sports." The situation on the playing field, he said, "is a mirror of our life." On the it side... , .. Robert Gordon takes a dim view of the im- pending visit of Henry Kissinger on the Editorial Page . . . the Arts Page features two drama re- views'on a Residential College production and Ann Arbor's new dinner theatre . . . and you can find the results of the Michigan vs. Illinois baseball imminent PHNOM PENH (UPI) - U. S. helicopters completed the evacuation of 270 American and Cambodian civilians from Phnom Penh Saturday, little more than five years after the begin- ning of a massive U. S. ef- fort to maintain a non- Communist government in Phnom Penh. The fall of Phnom Penh to the Communist-led reb- els beseiging the city ap- peared imminent, possibly mere hours but at the most days away. AM ERI C A N officials said in Washington "Not a shot was fired, and there were no injuries," one official said. President Ford issued a statement Saturday saying, "I decided with a heavy heart on the evacuation of American per- sonnel from Cambodia because of my responsibility for the Americans who have served there so valiantly," Ford said. "Despite that evacuation, we will continue to do whatever possible to support an indepen- dent, peaceful, neutral and uni- fied Cambodia." U. S. MARINES landed on the rescue helicopters from the air- AP Photo craft carrier Okinawa and set pty for somefup a defense perimeter to pro- sewhere, the tect the evacuation. In Wash- ington, the State Department said U. S. fighter planes were in the Phnom area and also wod be used to protect the operation if necessary. The last helicopters flying out came under rocket fire from Communist-led Cambodian reb- els, but no Americans were hurt. The decision to evacuate all remaining Americans, number- ing about 50 members of a skel- eton embassy staff and 26 re- porters, reflected an official ad- Ismitting t h e ministration feeling that the sit- to Congress, uation in Cambodia is hopeless. ompanying let- and Senate S 0 M E Cambodian embas- sy employes and their families SED draft bills also were flying to safety, swel- onal military, ling the total number of persons imanitarian as- involved in the airlift to several :h Vietnam and hundred. availabilityof U. S. Ambassador John Dean, availabilitymof who had been working out the of the armed operation codenamed "Eagle ited States for Pull' all night, looked haggard acuation n In- and drawn as armed U. S. Ma- this becme rines shut and bolted the steel doors of the American mission rovisional Rev- to begin the evacuation. rnment (PI=G) Because the airport was con- mned President sidered unsafe because of con- for nearly $1 tinuing rebel shellings which y and humani- See U.S., Page 2 " _________________ THE AMERICAN EMBASSY in the Cambodian c 'pital of Phnom Penh may be em: time as it closed its doors yesterday under orders from the U.S. government. El Marines began to evacuate American citizens from the nation. EVACUA TION POSSIBLE: Ford sends Saigon caidbills to Congre WASHINGTON (P)-President Ford sent to Congress last night three bills containing his re- quests for expanded military and economic aid to South Viet- nam and clarification of his authority to use U.S. troops if "humanitarian evacuation" be- comes necessary. -Ford had voiced the requests in his foreign policy speech Thursday night to a joint ses- sion of Congress. MEANWHILE, Sen. F r a n k Church (D-Idaho) declared in a statement yesterday that Ford should order Americans out of South Vietnam now "while thare is still time to do so without the use of force." "Leaving them in besieged -Saigon exposes them to the im- minent danger of direct attack, possibly from within as well as from without the city," the Idaho Democrat said. Formally tran emergency bills Ford said in acc ters to House leaders: "THE ENCLOS authorize additi economic and hu sistance for Sout also clarify the funds for the us forces of the Un humanitarian eva dochina, should necessary." In Paris the P ol'itionary Gover: delegation conden Insurgents launichi Doily Photo by KEN FINK Girmmefive!' Junior Billi Gordon gives an informal greeting to Mrs. Sally Fleming yesterday during honors reception at the Michigan League as President Fleming looks on approvingly. Fleming and others were on hand to congratulate the University's top scholars following the Honors Convocation held at Hill Audi- torium. See related story, Page 2. " Ford' attack near Saigon billio tariar a gain: SAIGON, South Vietnam (P) - Communist-led forces launched Amer heavy new shelling;attacks yesterday on Xuan Loc, 40 miles east of Mea Saigon, a battleground closely watched for signs of the beginning eign F of a drive on the capital itself. uled day t Xuan Loc, a provincial capital, has been the center of bitter tion a fighting for three days. Military sources said in the latest attacks, reque: Communist-led gunners opened up with barrages of artillery, roc- tional kets and mortars as government airborne reinforcements fought lion f their way into the city to bolster-its defenses. South SEN W.Va. INSURGENT forces also struck hard at a provincial capital tion f and district town on opposite sides of Saigon, and the fighting was autho watched closely to see if it was the start of a drive on the South provir Vietnamese capital. uati or See INSURGENTS, Page 2 See TWO FAMILIES OUSTED s request n in militar naid as "criminai andi st the interests of the ican people." anwhile, the Senate For- Relations Committee sched- a closed-door session Mon- o consider the legal ques- as well as the President's st for $722 million addi- miiltary aid and $250 mil- for humanitarian aid f"'r Vietnam. N. ROBERT Byrd (D- .) was drafting a resolu- or introduction Monday to rize U.S. armed forces to de protection for the evac- of Americans only from e PRESIDENT, Page 2 GOP plans challenge Evict'ion By JIM FINKELSTEIN For most people, the word eviction conjures up visions of a poor little old lady situing mournfully on her suitcase, won- dering what to do next. True enough, eviction is a grim process carried out by ,he County S h e r i f f department, which puts hundreds of families out on the street every year.x TWO FAMILIES were -db- jected to this sad experien:e cn Wednesday, when their land- lords, McKinley Associates, fi- nally caught up to them. blues strike o preft By ROB MEACHUM City Republicans are prepar- ing to challenge the constitu- tionality of Ann Arbor's "pref- erential voting" system in court, a party release said yesterday. In addition, they may also challengecertain "irregulari- ties" in the sealing of 13 ballot boxes by election officials. Ap- parently, seals on some of the boxes were broken and on others the seals were improp- erly recorded. BUT ACCORDING to one Democratic p a r t y official, "They (the Republicans) don't have a case with the ballot poxes." He claims that s nce the boxes never left the custody of the city clerk, there was no possibility of tampering. In a Republican party staze- ment, they claim, "It appears certain aspects of the procedure used in the conduct of the elec- tion violated the provisions of state law with regard to ballot security. We are attempting at this time to determine the effect of these violations of ballat se- curity on the validity and lgal- ity of the election results." cording to one observer. Unofficial totals made public Thursday give Wheeler 14,670 votes to Stephenson's 14,558 votes--adifference of 112 votes. Human Rights Party candidate Carol Ernst was eliminated and her second choice votes redis- tributed among Wheeler and Stephenson. However, until the city Board of Canvassers certifies the elec- tion, Stephenson will remain in office due to a City Council resolution Wednesday allowing him to remainseated until cer- tification by the Board. rential voting Stephenson University library system facing deep financial problems By TRUDY GAYER The University library system, faced with inadequate funding and possible further budget cutbacks, stands on the brink of a des- :.. . :: ::. :.: ... :,: Y wt . .