Friday, September 21, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Strauss urges unity for WASHINGTON (IP) -1D tic National Chairman Strauss appealed yestet compromise between war tions as a party reform sion prepared to map r rewriting controversial 1 gate selection guidelines. Strauss' appeal cam speech to the Women's Democratic Club on the Friday's meeting of th headed by Baltimore woman Barbara Mikulsk ed with drafting change McGovern reform guide The American people, rewriting )emocra- said, "are sick and tired of those Robert on either side of the political rday for spectrum who would create ill- rring fac- will where there is none." commis- He said the changes to be plans for written by the commission should 972 dele- include scrapping of controver- sial "quota" rules, a greater role e in a for elected officials and limits National on the extent to which propor- e eve of tional representation is applied. he panel Strauss also made clear that Council- the national committee itself will i, charg- take charge of monitoring the -s in the way in which the rule changes dines. are carried out between their lines. expected final adoption inhearly Strauss 1974 and the 1976 election. Bombing in London renews old fears rules' Meanwhile, his aides worked behind the scenes to head off an effort by labor-backed members of the Mikulski Commission to get the panel to approve a plan asking Strauss to double its size to give party regulars a greater voice in its deliberations. Strauss said at a breakfast meeting with reporters, that he thinks the move "comes too late in the day and is a mistake." The Mikulski commission, most of whose members were named by former Chairwoman Jean Westwood while supporters of Sen. George McGovern controlled the party apparatus, has until Jan. 1 to report to the national committee on what changes should be made. Most of the guidelines that made the nominating procedures more open and democratic are expected to be kept, but changes are likely to be proposed in those dealing with selection of slates, proxy voting and the role of elected officials. Some members of the commis- sion reportedly claim that the DNC has no power to alter its proposals, but Strauss has re- quested a legal opinion by Chi- cago attorney Newton Minow, the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. It is expected to say that the DNC does have authority to make the final decison on the rules and also that the 1972 rules have ceased to exist so that an en- tirely new set must be enacted. i i Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game This 1939 satire of French social and sexuil mores and the decadent leisure class that held them close to its breast was banned a few day after its release. It has gone on to be one of Renoir's greatest and most popular works-its only competition being his other masterpiece Grand Illusion. SAT. & SUN.: Brando in VIVA ZAPATA AEPI FRATERNITY 1620 CAMBRIDGE KOSHER AND KOED is inviting people interested in meeting us to a small party Sot. Evening, Sept. 22 at 9 p.m. Information: Call 662-9538 LONDON (Reuter) - A bomb rocked the walls of the Duke of York's Barracks in London's fashionable Chelsea district yes- terday. The explosion injured five people and scattered debris around the barracks which is used as a headquarters by a part-time parachute regiment. The bomb was placed in a parked land rover. Experts said it contained about 20 pounds of explosives-which would make it the biggest bomb set off in the current round of attacks on Lon- don. Fears arose that royalty might be one of the next targets. The fearscentered on 23-year- old Princess Anne who in two months time is due to marry army captain Mark Phillips. Security experts decided that the house chosen for the royal newlyweds might be too open to bomb throwers. Military authorities admitted they are now considering whether Anne might be better off starting married life in the confines of nearby Windsor Castle. London tensed itself for other explosions during the day fol- lowing a Scotland Yard warning that more letter bombs might be on the way. The warning produced some 150 alarm calls about suspicious packets. By afternoon all had been proved harmless. A Scot- land Yard spokesman admitted the warning might have been misplaced. In Northern Ireland there was a large explosion which wrecked a hotel in the town of Strabane. An army announcement in Bel- fast said British forces were be- ing equipped with a sonic weapon which, delivered from a helicop- ter or a ground vehicle, could effectively blot out from a dis- tance all sound among a riot mob-thereby making it hard for ringleaders to retain control. The army stressed that the system produced no lasting ill effects. cinema guild ARCHITECTURE AUD. TONIGHT AT 7&9:05 adm. $1 E-- o new morning presentation by friends of newsreel. SOfDEWHERE'I YOUR. NEFRD THERES RA WILD ELEeTRIf DREAMf AP Photo Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox walks past the White House after meeting with presidential lawyers in an effort to reach a compromise in the court battle over access to presidential tapes yesterday. White House counsel, Cox fail to agree on right to secret tapes Mick Jaggec ~XADULTS ONLY .The very best Film ever made" Al Goldstein Come see it in I TONIGHT-Friday and Saturday $1.25 single, $2 double feature in a duplex showing with KLUTE 7:15 MODERN LANGUAGES AUDITORIUMS MAKE UP A PARTY OF "WIDOWS" AND ATTEND THESE BUTTERFIELD THEATRES Michigan-State-Campus-Wayside 9:30 WASHINGTON (Reuter) - The White House and special Water- gate prosecutor Archibald Cox today announced they had failed to reach an out-of-court settle- ment over President Nixon's re- fusal to surrender tapes .of White House conversations on the bug- ging affair. The seven judges of the Court of Appeal, which asked the two sides to try to reach an out of court agreement to avoid a con- stitutional confrontation, will now announce their own decision in the case after what most ob- servers expect will be weeks of deliberation. And, whatever the court de- cides, the affair is certain to come before the Supreme Court, the highest judicial body, for the final decision. President Nixon has refused Cox's request to hand over the tapes-of White House conversa- tions on Watergate matters se- cretly recorded with Nixon's knowledge-on the grounds that to do so would contravene the confidentiality of White House conversations. Cox and also the Senate Water- gate Committee want to hear the tapes in the hope they will sup- port or refute claims by ousted White House counsel John Dean that Nixon knew as long ago as last September of the high-level attempt to cover up the bugging of the Democratic Party Head- quarters in the Watergate office complex here. The appeals court suggested on September 13 that a court de- cision in the case might not be necessary if Cox were permitted to listen to the tapes with Presi- dent Nixon's legal advisers to see whether there was anything in them the prosecutor needed to prepare criminal charges in the Watergate investigation. "I regret to advise the court that these sincere efforts were not fruitful," Charles Wright, representing Mr. Nixon in the controversy, and Cox said in al- mostidentical lettersdthey de- livered to the court today. They said they had met three THE MICHIGAN DAILY Volume LXXXIV, No. 14 Friday, September 21, 1973 is edited and managed by students at the TTniverity of Michigan. News phone1 times this week in an attempt to comply with the court's proposal. The appeals court became in- volved in the affair after U.S. District Judge John Sirica or- dered Nixon to hand over the tapes with the understanding that the judge would audit them pri- vately. The White House asked the appeals court to overturn this ruling Failure today to reach an out- of-court- settlement apparently means Nixon intends to make the matter of surrendering the tapes a constitutional issue. In other Watergate develop- ments: -Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy pleaded innocent Thursday in Los Angelesato state charges of conspiracy and bur- glary in connection with the 1971 break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. A public defender was appoint- ed to represent Liddy after he told the court he had no money to retain a lawyer. Liddy is serv- ing a federal prison term for his part in the June 17, 1972, break- in at Democratic National Com- mittee headquarters. m EMU and WWW Present: I II with KENNY RANKIN This Saturday, Sept. 22 at Bowen Field House OPEN OAIIY 17 NOON-482.3300.31 N WASHINfTON YPSILANTI I! 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