SUNDAY MAGAZINE 4 itA6 &titi; BEAUTEOUS High-64 Lowv-39 See Today for details Eighty-Three Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXIV, No. 40 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, October 21, 1973 Ten Cents Eight Pages 'ixon fires OX; Richardson 0 resi ns aS tape deal collapses xrYOUSEE" nv AL- They shoot wolverines - In the tradition of Depression-era contests, the All- Campus Dance Marathon dragged its feet to an ex- hausted conclusion at 5:30 yesterday morning. But unlike the three-week affairs of the 1930's, the winners -Engineering senior Roland Billy and nursing school junior Lauralee Hess-only fasted for 14 hours. It was all for a good cuse: the winning couple and the four runners-up, who all lasted 14 hours, gave their prize money to Sullivan children's school and other organiza- tions aiding mentally retarded children. Ford strike imminent? The United Auto Workers' top negotiator with Ford Motor Co. said yesterday that company chairman Henry Ford II had killed all chances of a settlement by to- morrow's artificial deadline. "What Mr. Ford should be doing is sitting at the bargaining table instead of pop- ping off the way he' is popping off," commented UAW Vice President Ken Bannon. Instead of a settlement, the union will apparently hand the nation's second largest auto maker a letter at noon tomorrow, terminating the existing contract and setting a strike deadline for 10 a.m. Friday for 185,000 Ford workers. Happenings .* .today include Julian Bream, guitar and lute at Hill Aud. 2:30 p.m. . . . an opening reception for an exhibit of recent paintings by Lawrence Philip-a re- cipient of his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Uni- versity last June - at Gallery 7, 8232 W. McNichols, De- troit, 4:30-8:30 p.m. . . . the SDT Sorority spaghetti Din- ner from 5-8 p.m. at 1405 Hill St. with the proceeds go- ing for the Israel Emergency Fund. : . . Cinema II pre- sents Marker's "Le Joli Mai" in Aud. A. Angell Hall at t7 and 9 p.m. . . . and Cinema Guild presents Berto- lucci's "The Spider Strategm," Arch. Aud., at 7 and 9 p.m. War reporters expelled Two western journalists, Chicago Tribune correspon- dent Donald Kirk and Reuter correspondent Fred Bridg- land, were deported from Syria yesterday. The Syrian authorities accused them of contravening wartime se- curity regulations by traveling outside Damascus with- out official authorization. The correspondents said they were not informed of the need for such authorization. They were detained after travelling by car to the south of the Syrian capital in order to report on the situation on the Syrian front of the Middle East war. They were escorted to the Lebanese border yesterday morning and expelled from Syria. " Nixon not funny Americans apparently won't find anything funny about President Nixon anymore, and so James La Roe is out of ajpb. The actor had been earning as much as $50,000 a year, using the name Richard M. Dixon and imperson- ating President Nixon, his lookalike. But since the Wat- ergate revelations, he has been out of a job. "It's been terrible. Nobody thinks anything about Nixon is funny anymore, not even how he looks or talks or behaves," La Roe said. Asked what would happen if the President is impeached, he said, "I guess I would have to turn my comedy act into a tragedy." 0 Pablo Casals worse Pablo Casals, the ailing composer and master cellist, took a serious turn for the worse yesterday. He had spent six\ days in a hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico following a heart seizure. A family spokesperson said the 96-year-old musician was doing "very poorly." " Floods in Spain Flash floods fed by torrential rains swept through parts of southern Spain, claiming as many as 100 dead, officials said yesterday. More than 150 persons are missing and hundreds are stranded in flooded towns. 0 Alaska pipeline bill The Cost of Living Council announced strong opposi- tion yesterday to a provision in the Alaska pipeline bill which it said could immediately increase gasoline and home heating oil bills by $10 billion. The council esti- mated the immediate increases could be as much as seven to eight cents a gallon for gasoline and 10 to 12 cents a gallon for home heating oil. The provision would exempt from price controls most crude oil produced in Ruckelslaus also removed WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Nixon fired special prosecutor Archibald Cox la.s t night and accepted Attorney General Elliot Richardson's protest resignation in a stunning collapse of Nixon's attempt at a political compromise of the Watergate tapes controversy. Nixon also fired Deputy Attorney General William Ruckels- haus for refusing to obey an order to dismiss Cox after Richardson refused to do so. Finally, U.S. Solicitor General Robert Bork fired Cox at Nixon's direction, and Bork became acting attorney general. The President also abolished Cox' former office as special prosecutor, ordering that his duties be returned to ,the Justice Department to be "carried forward with thoroughness and vigor." The dramatic developments came about 24 hours after Nixon announced 'a compromise arrangement for disclosure of the substance of the Watergate tapes and ordered Cox to halt further court action to obtain the tapes and other documentary evidence for the federal grand jury. Cox promptly rejected Nixon's order, and at .an extra- ordinary news conference at midday yesterday announced he would renew his court fight for the tapes through possible contempt proceedings against the President. RICHARDSON, who had promised the Senate during his confirmation hearings last May to give Cox complete independence to direct the Daily Photo by STEVE KAGAN Franklin rambles home for Michigan's third touchdown Wolverines dc Frank lin stars iw in By FRANK LONGO Taking a cue from the 1943 Michigan football squad (Big Ten co-champions, 6-0) which held its 30th reunion as part of the Home- coming festivities at Michigan Stadium yesterday, the 1973 Wol- verines, defending. Big Ten co- champions, extended their record to 6-0 by soundly thrashing Wis- consin 35-6 to remain tied for the conference lead. Five 4different players scored touchdowns for the Wolverines, who rolled up 29 first downs and 523 yards in total offense against the Badgers. The Michigan de- / fense lost a possible fourth con- secutive shutout, however, on a "tainted" 65-yard touchdown pass by Wisconsin quarterback Gregg Bohlig which was deflected by tight end Jack Novak to tailback Bill Marek, accounting for the Badgers' fourth quarter touch- down. "We were a little better of- fensively than we have been," lamented head coach Bo Schem- bechler later, "but w stopped ourselves a couple of times, too." Instead of praising his five runners who gain each rushing and&hi (junior Dennis F passed for 108y touchdown, Bo was out that 1) his int fered yet another guard Dave Metz off the field withN to be just a kne "We've struggl games, but we're s the woods yet," a got a tough one1 Minneapolis. We; get better." a Ba dgers fri amph ed 60 yards It took the Maize and Blue al- is quarterback most ten minutes to score their ranklin) who first touchdown yesterday, but it yards and a was a dandy. A short Badger punt quick to point gave the Wolverines a first down erior line suf- at the Wisconsin 47, and they need- injury when ed but two plays to get on the was helped scoreboard. what is hoped Franklin went back to pass, ee sprain, 2) spied tight end Paul' Seal streak- e d for three ing downfield, hit him behind the till not out of safetyman and on the two yprd nd 3) "We've line. The Michigan co-captain fell next week in into the end zone for the Wolver- still have to ines' first six points. , "The safety j u m p e d him (Seal)," said Schembechler af- terward. "It was a play action fake into the line. Seal just read it and kept going." "Seal kind of broke the pat- tern," added Franklin. "He was supposed to hook to the right, but e he went deep and Ihit him. ii Michigan looked strong on its next possession, vith the first four plays including a Franklin ty to spend 2.2 option run around right end for ms and equip- 15 yards and a 16-yard pass to split end Keith Johnson. Frank- lin's next pass, from midfield, e Saudis called was over Seal's head and picked r - in support off by Wisconsin's Chris Davis. against Israel. Five Wisconsin running plays and one punt later, Michigan took 00OK a hand in over on its own 20 and proceeded of the Arabs, to ram the football down the vas cutting its Badgers' collective throats. of 52 million The 80-yard march took 16 plays and over seven minutes in playing age 2 See BALANCE, Page 8 U. 5.-Soviet talks begin Arabia cuts 'off U.S.. a By Reuter Urgent talks between the United States and the Soviet Union on end- ing the Middle East War opened in the Kremlin last night only two hoursrafter Secretary of State Henry Kissinger flew into Moscow from Washington. As the talks were getting under way, Saudi Arabia announced that it was stopping oil exports to the United States "in view of the in- crease in American support for Is- rael." IN THE FIGHTING - now en- tering its third week - Israel claimed to have beaten off an Egyptian tank counterattack on its forces on the west bank of the Suez Canal and to have widened and deepened its thrust across the waterway. But the Egyptians said they had isolated the force and were engag- ing it fiercely. Israel would not turn down a pro- posal for a standstill ceasefire or one in which both sides would re- turn to their pre-war borders. BUT FOREIGN MINISTER Ab- ba Eban told reporters in Tel Aviv: "I don't see any prospect of a ceasefire at the moment." Saudi Arabia's ban on oil exports to the United States was seen in the Middle East as a direct retaliation for President Nixon's request to congress for authorit billion dollars on ar ment for Israel. And in Riyadh, the for Jihad - holy wa of Egypt and Syria ALGERIA ALSO T using oil in support by announcing it w annual productiont tons by 10 per cent. See U.S., P Watergate investigation, conferred day-long with his closest aides and drove to the White House in early evening to confront the President. In a letter to the President re- leased by the White House, Rich- ardson said he could not obey Nixon's order to dismissnCox be- cause of his previous commitments to the Senate. "In the circum- stances, therefore, I have no choice but to resign," he said. Richardson had earlier let it be known through an aide that he objected to the Nixon compromise announced Friday niglit because of its order for Cox to stop seeking court-sanctioned release of the tapes. WHITE HOUSE press secretary Ronald Ziegler said the President had Cox fired because of his an- nounced intention to defy Nixon's order to halt the court battle for the tapes and related notes and memoranda. During his news conference ear- lier yesterday, Cox said one of the memos he sought was believed -to have been personally dictated by Nixon about the President'sicrucial Sept. 15, 1972, meeting with then White House counsel John Dean. The memo-if it exists-would be in addition to a tape recording of the Nixon-Dean conversation which Dean has told Senate in- vestigators. contained evidence sup- porting his belief that the President knew of the Watergate cover-up by that time. NEITHER COX nor Richardson were available for comment. Cox, who began work in early June and already has produced additional grand jury indictments in the Watergate case, had brought Nixon to the point of a historic Supreme Court confrontation in the battle over the tapes. Richardson's resignation was the third that Nixon has accepted from an Attorney General in less than eight months. John Mitchell quit May 1, 1972, to become Nixon's re-election campaign director, and Richard Kleindienst resigned April 30 at the height of the Watergate disclosures. The loss of Richardson and Ruckelshaus left Nixon without two of his most trusted and respected high officials in the administration. Both had been shifted repeatedly See COX, Page 2 0 WASHINGTON U) - FBI agents moved into the offices of Water- gate special prosecutor Archibald Cox last night and refused to per- FORMER ATTORNEY GEN- ERAL Elliot Richardson, who resigned last night. CoX: The crewcut, crusader By RICHARD E. MEYER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Like a crewcut pillar, Archibald Cox stood square- ly yesterday between the President -of the United States and what the President wanted. It got Cox fired. But firing Archibald .Cox was not easy. It cost the President his attorney general, Elliot Richard- son, one of Cox's former law stu- dents at Harvard, who resigned rather than follow the President's order to discharge Cox as +special Watergate prosecutor. IT ALSO COST the President his deputy attorney general, William Ruckelshaus, whom the President fired as well for refusing, by Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler's account, "to carry out the President's ex- plicit directive to discharge Mr. Cox." Cox received his notice of dis- missal from Solicitor General Rob- ert Bork, whom the President des- ignated acting attorney general ef- fective immediately and ordered to strip Cox of his job. Cox was discharged, Ziegler said, because of his declared inten- Sabbath goes on in foxholes for embattled Israeli troops Syria claimed and set ablaze finery at Haifa, raids on Syrian to have bombed an Israeli oil re- in retaliation for economic targets. By HUGH A. MULLIGAN AP Special Correspondent MANSURAH, Syria-Saturday the rabbi awoke to shell fire. Israeli rounds were impacting in bolts of fire on the top of Mt. Hermon when combat Rabbi Lt. Levi stepped from his tent with a white prayer shawl draped ,over his shoulders to read the sab- bath service to the tank company assembled in a dusty field. Sephardic Jews, with their long curls tucked be- hind their ears to fit under their helmets, faced tnwad rR1m a c thewo mrd. "nfthe Tnrnh were observation post on the mountain top. Except for the steady bombardment of the Syrian bunkers and the occasional contrails of jet fighters streaking through the cloudless sky, Sab- bath calm prevailed over the northern battlefield. In units too far forward to be reached by the combat rabbi before sundown on the night before, when the law prevented him from traveling, a sergeant of religion read the service. SGT. KALMAN, in a yarmulka crocheted by his mother, conducted sabbath prayers for an artillery unit dug in just off the road skirting the hse of te amnntnin. He rend e41etions framin he HOWEVER, an Israeli military spokesperson denied that there had been a raid and residents of Haifa. said they had seen no sign of bomb- ing. In Moscow, a U. S. Embassy :::: a