;,4 4- iT4C sid tgan :Bathj Eighty-three years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mi. 48104 News Phone: 764-0552 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1973 KDissinger: Dubious candidate "pEACE IS AT HAND," said Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger Oct. 26, 1972. Two months later, tons of bombs rained down on North Vietnam while a peace agreement remained unsigned. Kissinger is now President Nixon's nominee for the position of secretary of state, and his role as negotiator and mys- tery man in consultations with China and the Soviet Union have earned him a repu- tation as the most outstanding institu- tion of the Nixon Administration. The presidential adviser's whereabouts. and personal activities since his secret trip to China two summers ago have be- come stndard press fare. His dates with Liv Ullman and other movie stars are heralded on society pages, as was the reception held earlier this summer in honor of his 50th birthday.. ALL IN ALL, he appears to be the star candidate to buck up the Adminis- tration's sagging reputation. Press reports soon after the announcefnent of his nom- ination told of the ease with which he would be confirmed by the Senate. State Department optimism over the nomination has been matched by Kissing- er's own solicitation of advice from the architects of American foreign policy since the Kennedy Administration. He has arranged interviews with Mc- George Bundy, national security adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and now head of the Ford Poundation; David Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase Man- Editorial Staff CHRISTOPHER PARKS and EUGENE ROBINSON Co-Editors in Chief ROBERT BARKIN ....................Feature Editor DIANE LEVICK ......Associate Arts Editor DAVID MARGOLICK...... ..Chief Photographer MARTIN PORTER........ ...... Magazine Editor ERIC SCHOCH .........EditorialnDirector GLORIA SMITH .... ....Arts Editor CHARLES STEIN ...... ....... City Edtor TED STEIN.............Executive Editor ED SUROVELL.Books Editor ROLFE TESSEM . .. Piture Editor Business Staff BILL BLACKFORD Business Manager RAY CATALINO Operations Manager DAVE LAWSON................Advertising Manager SANDY FIENBERG................Finance Manager SHERRY KASTE .........Circulation Director JIM DYKEMA .... Sales & Promotions Manager DEPT. MGRS.-Caryn Miller, Elliot Legow, Patti Wil- kinson ASSOC. MGRS.-Joan Ades, Linda Coleman, Linda Cycowski, Steve LeMire, Sandy Wronski ASST. MGRS.-Chantal Bancilhon, Roland Binker, Linda Ross, Mark Sancrainte, Ned Steig, Debbie Weglarz STAFF-Ross Shugan, Martha Walker 5ALESPEOPLE-Deva Burleson, Mike Treblin, BFb Fisher, Debbie. Whiting, Alexandra Paul, Eric Phillips, Diane Carnevale Photography Staff DAVID MARGOLICK............. Chief Photographer ROLFE TESSEM ......................Picture Editor KEN FINK ...:........ ............ Staff Photographer THOMAS GOTTLIEB............Staff Photographer STUART HOLLANDER ............Staff Photographer STEVE KAGAN .................. Staff Photographer KAREN KASMAUSKIS..........taff Photographer JOHN UPTON............ . Staff Photographer Sports Staff DAN BORUS Sports Editor FRANK LONGO Managing Sports Editor BOB McGINN ................Executive Sports Editor CHUCK BLOOM................Associate Sports Editor hattan Bank; Robert D. Murphy, a for- mer diplomat and an executive of Corning Glass International, and John McCloy, former High Commissioner for Germany, among others. SUCH A LIST hardly dispels the notion that Kissinger, despite his enterpris- ing voyages to China and the U.S.S.R, will continue in the vein of his predeces- sors by generally tailoring American for- eign policy to interests other than those of the people as a whole. Kissinger himsel'f supported this con- tention in his news conference after the nomination, in which he cited Dean Acheson and John Foster Dulles, greatest proponents of the Cold War, for their unison in approach to U. S. foreign policy. There are several grounds for challeng- ing Kissinger's nomination. There was, for instance, his agreement to the wire- tapping of his own aides in the National Security Council As serious as the wiretapping was Kis- singer's acquiescence in the secret bomb- ing of Cambodia beginning almost at the start of his tenure as a Presidential ad- viser. A SUBSTANTIAL portion of the Ameri- can Political Science Association, meeting this week in New Orleans, sup- ported two resolutions censuring Kissin- ger's conduct in both the wiretapping and his being "an accomplice in the terror bombing of Hanoi." Nearly a third of the political scientists convened agreed that the Presidential adviser "issued deliberately misleading 'peace is at hand' statements on the eve of the 1972 Presidential election." Kissinger, it cannot be denied, is an able man. But to portray him as the savior of U.S. diplomacy - an image .frequently found in the press-is naive. In memoriar THE DAILY mourns the passing Thurs- day of Leonard A. Greenbaum, a for- mer Daily editor who joined the Univer- sity staff 20 years ago. Greenbaum, assistant director and edi- tor in the Michigan Memorial-Phoenix Project, graduated from the University in 1952 and had taken an active part in the community since. His activity as a member of the Board for Student Publications and the numer- ous other groups he belonged to will be sorely missed. TODAY'S STAFF News: Laura Berman, Jack Krost, Chris Parks, Steve Selbst, Charlie Stein, Sue Stephenson Editorial Page: 'Zachary Schiller, E r i c Schoch Arts Page: Diane Levick Photo Technician: Tom Gottlieb, Steve Kagan Daily Photo by TOM GOTTLIEB Ant Arbor, "where socializing is done intihe inrrowcon fines of home or interestgroup ,. ." TheCmisye Movement heavies see rough times By DAVID ANDERSON WASHINGTON - The end of summer was not a good time for movement "heavies" - those who, either through theatrics or their past daring, have become darlings of the media and identified in the public mind as the personification of the movement. First, Elizabeth McCalister Berrigan, wife of former priest-activist Philip Berri- gan and one of the defendants in the Harrisburg kidnaping plot trial, was arrest- ed for shoplifting in suburban Maryland. Then, Abbie Hoffman, a founder of the Yippies and a defendant in the Chicago con- spiracy trial that grew out of 1968 conven- "Their biggest problem is not government repression or even lack, of money, but political factionalism and ideological feuding." tion demonstrations, was arrested for al- leged possession of a half million dollars worth of cocaine. AND RENNIE DAVIS, a founder of Stu- dents for a Democratic Society and one- time epitome of the radical movement lead- er and organizer, reappeared - promising peace through submission to a touring teen- aged Indian guru. But as the heavies fall aside, the rem- nants of what once was called the New Left - the no-longer-so-young people who were radicalized by the civil rights and antiwar movements - are struggling to pick up the pieces and keep alive their vision. Their biggest problem is not government repression or even lack of money, but political factionalism and ideological feud- ing. They have a hard time trying to be civil with one another, much less working to- gether. BUT RECENTLY some tentative steps have been toward a more co-ordinated if not unified left. David McReynolds, an influential former leader of the Socialist Party and now on the staff of the War Resisters League, an- nounced that he was making the "sym- bolic but not quixotic" gesture of apply- ing for membership in four radical groups - the So'cialist Party, USA; the People's Party, the New American Movement and the Democratic Socialist Organizing Com- mittee. Perhaps more important is the tentative talk of merger of some groups on the "democratic left" - specifically the New American Movement (NAM) and the Peo- ple's Party. NAM WAS ORGANIZED in 1971 out of the shattered SDS when the latter organi- zation was taken over by the militant Weather People. The People's Party is a loose coalition of radical independent part- ies which ran Dr. Benjamin Spock for President in 1972. At its recent convention in DeKalb, Ill., NAM adopted a 'resolution affirming a "tentative but interested" approach to the ''merger question." The People's Party, at its national con- ference in Denver, also endorsed closer contacts between the two groups. Local chapters of the two groups now will begin to talk politically on the local level. If they do achieve a "working" political framework, native American radicalism could be re-energized in a way the left has not seen since the early days of Stu- dents for a Democratic Society. David Anderson is a writer for the Unit ed Press International. I .1 y I By MARCIA ZOSLAW LABOR DAY, nothing to do, the stores closed, school closed, the Diag dead, so I relax in the sweet cool of air-condi- tioned Ginos, preparing to meet the inevit- able questions regarding life in Cambridge this summer. How does it compare to Ann Arbor, etc.? Having lined up no specific job the sum- mer of '73 that would advance my "ca- reer" I decided to take the four months more loosely and head out to Boston. It was, as they tend to say these days, either Boston or San Francisco. Having entered a city flooded with my types I had to be con- sidered lucky to have found even the waitress job I did. So I worked .in central Boston on the Freedom Trail, right across the street from the Old Burying Ground, lived in Cambridge, and from that brief summer the first impressions of which I speak. Much as the Ginos chains, the Howard Johnsons, the Sears Roebuck stores can be comforting, familiar sights, almost homey to the traveller, so too, the college net- work that extends between the "twin cities" of Cambridge and Berkley consists of, essentially similar markets which leads to a similar array of shops: clothing bouti- ques for twenty-year old figures, bicycle shops, book stores galore, natural f o o d stores, etc. as well as the expected librar- ies and college greens. WHEREAS ANN ARBOR, "hip" center of the Midwest is, perhaps along with East Lansing, a more or less isolated pheno- menon in Michigan, the Cambride culture merges into the larger context of the Boston area, giving the "scene" a more cosmopolitan, even continental aspect. People dress up there more than they do here, for example: not that they all do or even most students do, but the over- all dress level conveys a sense of "going out," more places to go, more to do. In Ann Arbor, I believe, one often gets the sense of futility, that other than the campus here, there isn't much. In Cambridge, the lowest key goings-out, relaxing in cafes, still serve the need to get out, see other things. The number of cafes: French, Arabian, open air, etc. combined .with the discotheques and pubs in the area facilitate socializing to an extent Ann Ar- bor would do well to imitate. HOW ODD BUT unfortunate that the Arab, Greek and other ethnic groups of the Detroit area have not seen fit to establish old country style cafes in Ann Arbor rather than the glorified American hamburger joints the Greeks run here. This is not intended to be a 'paean to Cambridge but rather an answer to all those people who have complained of the im- personality of the town, where socializing is done in the narrow confines of home or interest group if one has energy for the latter. On that note, an end to the "'eats" comparison and a brief countering to my attack on Ann Arbor to say that Cam- bridge has nothing to compare with our bagel factory, so far as I could tell. As far as the two cities' character goes, hard to judge from the summer but, in general, Cambridge appears far more Es- tablishment. The historic core of the Har- Shop" attesting to that. They bring, per- haps, the fine clothes, the continental tastes and the ability to pay for high culture. More than the past, however, is the fu- ture, Cambridge as the grooming ground of America's future elite: The self-perpet- uating elite as well as the up and coming about to be conferred with the prestige o? a Harvard degree. Cambridge, where grad- uate students emerged from stately man- sion dormitories in well-coifed Afros, Cam- bridge, where I played softball on luxurious verdent Harvard fields, where in the Wid- ener Library I observed the elegant em- minently serious student studying for her finals. America's golden boys and golden girls. "Maybe the fact that I went to Har- vard and the fact that I call myself a hippy are mutually exclusive," one grad- uate there mused to me. THE PREPONDERANCE of Boston-Ca.- bridge's "drifter" population, the "und - cideds" is even more "establishment" than those nonstudents that drift here. Many have college degrees already and have come ao Boston perhaps to marry, more often. to enjoy the setting and the "stimulating company" for a few years until the future resolves among graduate schools, a job or further travel. The larger business con- text of the Boston area permits these per- sons to maintain themselves with iobs that would be unavailable for so many per- sons in Ann Arbor. They work for tem- porary employment agencies, or as secre- taries, carpenters, mental hospital attend- ants, cabbies, waitresses, and so forth. Many then decide to stay more permanent- ly in Cambridge, once the right job connec- tion comes along. A charming area to spend one's undecided years. UNLIKE THE CURRENT situation in Ann Arbor, the Cambridge streetpeople seem to be on the wane, or, at any rate, to have moved up into Boston proper. I made some inquiry -as to what became of the Cambridge streetpeople, the subject of much ado in journals all over the coun- try a few years ago. I was told that the group split between those who became dis- gruntled with the "viciousness" of t h e street and who have "reformed" to being more bourgeois citizens, dishwashers and such. The other half has disappeared un- derground. Their counterparts in Ann Arbor are much more visible, the first obvious subjects when one speaks of the "drifters" here. I was jolted upon returning to be so repeat- edly beset by panhandlers when I crossed the Diag: "Sister, can you please spare a dime," and so forth, "It's not for me, it's for my dog." I commented on this to someone who told me very simply that "the, whole world's going to hell." IN CAMBRIDGE a more optimistic tone seems to prevail, perhaps because there's more to- life there, perhaps due to the abundance of free fun activities, perhaps also because it is easy to get out of Cambridge and yet go someplace interest- ing. Ending notes? It seems it rains as much there as it does in Ann Arbor. If I am to get nostalgic about the summer of '73: memories of the word "mellow" as the . popular cliche of the period, the Jamaican reggae music film that "The Harder They Come" which played at the Orson Welles all summer and its theme song which dom- inated many a background airwave "You Can Get It If You Really Want," all the cafes on Boylston Street, the hottest Boston summer in 103 years . . . Coming back to Ann Arbor, flatter in tone, perhaps, but then again gentler, and who's to say what will come, once the campus stirs itself out of summer sleep? Marcia Zoslaw is a staff writer for The, Kaily. 1 t OK. I DID BREAK AND ENTER TO ROB THE SAFE. BUT I COULDN'T OPEN IT SO I DIDN'T SUCCEED. 1 FOREIGN NEWS COMMENTARY- Oil talks may raise gas prices By PHIL NEWSOM WESTERN OIL companies are bracing for still more petroleum price hikes and more nationalizations by oil producing countries. They predict this will be the result of new talks expected soon with pro- ducing countries. Following Libya's recent takeover moves, the companies see growing pressure in Persian gulf states to renegotiate existing agreement terms, which, in any case, would give them majority control over their oil by 1982. Europe will cost $1.25 a gallon at the pump within the next five years. . SOME FALLOUT from the current con- troversy over Soviet dissidents is likely next month when a group of American psychia- trists goes to Moscow for a meeting with their Soviet counterparts. 'Some of the Americans are expected to ask the Rus- sians about the role of psychiatrists there in certifying some dissidents as mentally deranged. The Soviets are extremely sensi- tive on the subject and have issued several denials recently that anyone has been con- Syria, let alone such militants as Colonel Khadafy of Libya. The experts predict tought going all around that could climax in some new explosive crisis. But nobody anticipates war. BRITISH GOVERNMENT officials or e deeply pessimistic about chances of agree- ment with the labor unions on voluntary curbs on wages in Phase III next November of its Nixon-style anti-inflation program. The Trades Union Congress (TUC), which represents 10 million British workers, voted at its annual convention at Blackpool last week to continue the talks. It did so despite strong left wing opposition, large- ly because union leaders do not want-to be accused by public opinion of breaking off the talks. But the TUC set what most government officials and union leaders say are "impossibly high" conditions - no curbs on free wage bargaining but con- tinued stiff restraints on prices, rents and local government taxes, plus costly f o o d THEREFORE YOU CAN ADOPT NIXON'S "ELLSBERG" DOCTRINE .SINCE I DIDN'T SUCCEED YOU SHOULDN'T FEEL YOU HAVE TO TURN ME IN! "'Even concessions which Israel might make are not likely to satisfy Egypt or Syria, let alone such militants as Colonel Khadafy of Libya." Y