UNFORTUNATE DEFEAT See Editorial Page Y dt A6F 4 *bv :43 a t I 'AH DECEPTIVE High-32 Law-16 For details see Today Eighty-Three Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXIV, No. 95 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, January 24, 1974 Ten Cents Eight Pages EIGHT-DAY-OLD STRIKE sc IFYU SEE NEWVS RAM ALL 7 AILY Residency applications due The legal Aid Office reminds us that applications from students seeking in-state residency status for this term must be filed with the Student Certification Office, 1510 LSA Bldg., no later than Monday. In order to help appli- cants strengthen their cases, Legal Aid is hosting two rap sessions at' its headquarters, Room 4310 in the Union, tomorrow at 5 p.m. and Monday at 8 a.m. People who were denied in-state residency last term may reapply this term if they want their cases reconsidered. Impeachment info The Ann Arbor chapter of tpe Committee to Impeach Nixon has set up a table in the Fishbowl to advise students on where to send letters urging Nixon's ouster and to answer related questions. A spokesperson for the new group says that students should write their representatives in Congress as well as members of the House Judiciary Committee, which is currently study- ing the possibility of impeachment. The committee has also opened an office in the Union, Room 4114, to focus the local campaign against the President, which they hope will culminate in a march on Washington this Spring. Happenings .. . . . . include a seminar for all Project Community volunteers in the child-care program at 8 p.m. in the Anderson' Room of the Union . . . the Bach Club will present a program of classical guitar and food at 8 p.m. in Greene Lounge, East Quad . . . representatives from the teaching fellows at the University of Wisconsin will be at the East Conference Room of the Rackham Bldg. at 8 p.m. for a meeting with Ann Arbor OTF representatives and anyone else interested in working with OTF . . . and State Representative Perry Bullard (D-Ann Arbor) will hold a public discussion on oil in- dustry nationalization and tuition cutbacks in the West Lounge of South Quad at 7 p.m. Elite demonstration Trucker By JEFF DAY Truckers will vote today on the ratification of an agreement to end their eight-day-old strike which has halted food deliveries in 650 grocery stores in the Detroit area. The offer, which the supermarket industry described as final, was passed on to the rank and file of Teamsters Local 337 without recommendation. Voting today are workers from three of the five chain stores that have been affected by the strike-Chatham, Great Scott and Wrigleys. EVEN IF THE contract is accepted, the earliest date for the resumption of deliveries will be Saturday, pending the approval'of the other two affected stores (Kroger and Farmer Jack) who vote tomorrow. to vote on fin James Hoffman, chief negotiator and spokeperson for the affected chains said he foresaw no difficulty in getting the new agreement ratified. "Certainly mem- bers should have no difficulty in ratifying it. If all goes well, we should all be back to work on Saturday," he said. The strike, the second in two months, failed to produce the predicted panic buying which observers feared would empty store shelves within days, causing price increases and layoffs. IN THE ANN ARBOR area, most stores are report- ing plenty of stock, although some managers are complaining of a lack of variety. "We've got plenty of products," the manager of one local store said. "We have most of the brand names and plenty of produce-but we're short on variety." "The only area where we're really short is paper products," said another manager who attributed the problem to an overall paper shortage unrelated to the strike. "Looking at the shelves, most of the peo- ple don't even know there's a strike." BUT IT MAY BE knowledge of the strike that is keeping the shelves full. One manager said his busi- ness was down considerably, because people were buying only the goods they needed in an effort to stave off shortages. In spite of widespread optimism, even the casual observer notices some shortages. At one store only ii ffer about one quarter of the produce bin was full. Some stores are having trouble with pet food, and even the best stocked stores are short on noodles. The backrooms, which had been filled to capacity with food stuffs in anticipation of the strike are now emptying, and the only comment on how long they will last is "no comment." "WHAT I HAVE IS pretty much what's on my counter," one manager said. "My back room looks terrific. Clean and empty." Local managers are hopeful that the shelves will refill quickly once the strike is over. "There's no real shortage of products," one manager said. "There is a shortage of shipping. Once the strike is over, supply channels can be filled quickly." Nixon favors lower pollution standard, offshore oil drilling I A small group of demonstrators, which included broadcaster Eric Sevareid, Democratic political operative Frank Mankiewicz, and political analysts Ben Watten- berg and Richard Scammon, picketed the Washington office of the Soviet news agency Tass yesterday in pro- test over the treatment of dissident author Alexander Solzhenitsyn. A written denunciation handed through the Tass office door said in part: "All the grain, all the computers, all the gas and oil, all the vodka, and all the Pepsi Cola traded stands as little compared with the sovereign idea that men must be allowed to speak their mind." The news agency had no comment. Little 'Dr. Henry' A small Henry Kissingerrwas born in Beerseha, Is- rael Tuesday and officially registered by his Bedourin parents. The father told the registrar that he had been very moved by the Middle East peace efforts of Secre- tary of State Henry Kissinger and he wanted his son named after him. "I want to express my gratitude, and so please call the boy Dr. Henry Kissinger Hassan Abar- gad, of the Abargad Bedouin tribe," the proud father said. Little "Dr. Henry" weighed in at just over seven pounds. FTC: Stronger warning Americans smoked an estimated 582 billion cigar- ettes in 1973 - eight per day for every man, women and child in the country. The Federal Trade Commis- sion (FTC) said yesterday the 1973 estimates indicate a record 3.8 per cent rise in cigarette consumption. The agency renewed its appeal for stiffer warnings of the hazards of smoking, urging that each package of cigar- ettes be required to carry the message: "Cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health and may ca'13e death from cancer, coronary heart disease, chronic bronchitis, pulmonary emphysema and other diseases." Sight for the blind Researchers at the University of Utah are working on plans for an artificial eye that some day may give sight to the blind. Writing in an article to be published later this week by Electronics Magazine, researchers for the Institute for Biomedical Engineering say the device so far exists only on paper. In the theoretical design, the artificial eye would be attached to a blind person's eye muscles and would be able to pick up light. The light, in turn, would be transmitted to electrodes resting on the person's brain. Levels of light picked up by the artificial eye would be transmitted to electronic circuits built into the frames of a pair of glasses. Bonehead trophy The Dallas Bonehead Club will present its annual "Bonehead of the Year" trophy tomorrow to the pro football fans of America. "The award is being present- ed to the fans for their quixotic loyalty to the sport," the organization said. "What other group would pur- ,chase over one million tickets to football games in 1973 and then not even show." On the inside . . . Marnie Heyn previews the Women's Film Fes- tival in an article on the Arts Page . . Gordon Atcheson writes about the morbid fear that goes along with a job interview . . . and Dan Borus writes about three ball- players who deserve to be installed in the Hall of Fame nn a the noar ace AP Photo EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT Anwar Sadat speaks at a news conference in Rabat, Morocco, yesterday, where he told reporters that he believes Syria is ready to conclude an agreement with Israel on military disen- gagement in the Golan Heights. Sadat is visiting Arab colleagues in an attempt to explain the new Egyp- tian mideast posture. 1troop dse Sadat returns after touring Arab capitals CAIRO (Reuter)-President Anwar Sadat returned to Cairo last night from Rabat, Morocco, at the end of a whirlwind tour of Arab states to explain the implications of his nation's disengagement of forces agreement with Israel. It was Sadat's most extensive tour of the Arab world since he became president in 1970. HIS FIVE-DAY journey took him to Saudi Arabia, Syria, the Arab gulf states of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Abu Dhabi, and finally to the North Afri- can states of Algeria and Morocco. In Rabat earlier yesterday he told reporters that Syria was ready to discuss with Israel military dis- engagement on the Golan Heights front. Sadat said Tuesday that he would not attend the Middle East peace conference in Geneva unless there were disengagement on the Syrian front. REITERATING HIS position in Rabat yesterday, he declared, "The Geneva conference will not be re- sumed until an agreement is reached between Syria and Israel on disengagement. Damascus is ready to enter into discussions to this end." Sadat tried to convince leaders of all the nations he visited that the disengagement agreement between Egypt and Israel was a test of Israeli intentions and the first phase of complete Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Arab territories. He also stressed that the participation of the Palestinians in the Geneva conference was "an in- disputable-principle." HE EMPHASIZED that the disengagement agree- ment was purely military in nature and was not con- nected with a reopening of the Suez Canal. "The canal reopening issue is for Egypt alone to decide and we shall start the clearance operation in the time we feel appropriate and not before," he told an Algiers press conference Tuesday. He also tried to convince Arab leaders that there was no harm in confronting Israel on the political front after confronting her militarily in the October 0 ea- o gagent I WASHINGTON (P) - Presi- dent Nixon proposed yester- day easing clean-air stand- ards and cutting tax breaks for overseas oil production by U. S. companies, to cope with the energy crisis. Nixon also ordered a ten- fold increase in federal off- shore leasing for petroleum development and a study of possible future oil and gas pipelines from northern Alas- ka. The new measures appeared certain to arouse controversy pro- voking environment groups and oil companies. Nixon also said he would pro- pose that the federal government spend $1.8 billion for energy re- search in his forthcoming budget for fiscal 1975. This would include $426.7 million - 2.6 times as much as in fiscal 1974 - for a coal re- search program expected to total some $2.9 billion over the next five years. NIXON ALSO revived his past proposal for mandatory labelling of automobiles and major appli- ances to show how efficiently they use energy. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Commerce Departinent have launched such labelling programs on a voluntary basis, the EPA publicizes the gaso- line - mileage performance of the new cars it tests under its anti- pollution programs. Nixon also urged Congress to complete fction on legislation pro- posed earlier, including a stripped- down emergencv energy bill to au- thorize rationing and temoorary relaxation of clean-air standards. HE URGED passage of a sepa- rate bill under which windfall pro- fits made by oil companies as a result of the energy crisis, would pay for research aimed at increas- ing energy supplies andtlowering prices. In New York, Exxon Corp., the nation's largest oil company, esti- mated yesterday that its profits in the final three months of 1973 were almost 60 per cent higher than during the same period of 1972. VP Smith: He seldom forgot. Syrian front poses separation problems TEL AVIV (Reuter)--Getting separation of forces on the Syrian front is likely to be much more diffi- cult than along the Suez Canal, informed sources here said yesterday. Suitable and clear-cut defensive lines will be hard to define along the rugged Golan Heights plateau and the area, smaller than the canal region, leaves less room to establish wide buffer zones between the two armies, the sources noted. THE ISRAELI CABINET will not be considering its policy with regard to Syria until Sunday-aftet the first Israeli withdrawals have started in the Suez Canal west bank-and the signs are not hopeful for a quick start on the northern front. Premier Golda Meir again made clear in her policy statement to the Knesset (parliament) Tues- day that Israel would not negotiate with Syria until it hands over lists of names of Israeli war prisoners and allows Red Cross visits to them. Equally,, Israel will not sit with Syria at the Geneva peace conference until this requirement has been fulfilled. BUT EGYPTIAN President Anwar Sadat has said both that he is committed to getting a disengagement on the Syrian front as part of his own deal with Israel and that Syria's participation in the Geneva conference is essential. Meir told parliament Tuesday what everyone al- ready knew, that for all his successful whirlwind diplomacy with Egypt, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had not been able to persuade Syrian Presi- dent Hafez Al-Assad to hand over the prisoner lists. See PROBLEMS, Page 3 U0 S. refuses connment onl Sadat's peace predictions WASHINGTON (Reuter) - The State Department yesterday declined to comment on a report from Rabat, Morocco, quoting Egyptian President Anwar how to say By REBECCA WARNER Board of First of Two Parts ed he wx Soon after Vice President for the begin Academic Affairs Allan Smith an- year an nounced his intention to step down, positioni former. literary college Dean Wil- took on liam Haber finished an eulogy to 1965 after Smith's administration and sum- Smith's marized, "You can't be Santa has exte Claus if you have nothing to give dramatic away, and often he had nothing- Since th he had to fight for everything in sity's tot the budget." get hasg No one would mistake Allan $317,421,9 Smith for Santa Claus. Long, lean risen fro and dour, Smith has gained a whereas reputation, since he took on the Arbor ca academic vice presidency in 1965, ed off as the University's toughest, most growth,i closed, and least easily influenced only 32,55 executive officer. S SIMUL SO WILLING HAS Smith been to ly abund take on the administration's less education ttractive roles that observers tend "One of to characterize him as a lank H.R. that hit Haldeman guarding the academic enrollme gates for the more personable and calls. "I statesmanlike President Robben resource Fleming. and not At October's meeting of the The international refiner also said its profits for all of 1973 also showed an increase of almost 60 per cent. "WE MUST NOT permit private profiteering at the expense of pub- lic sacrifice," Nixon said. "The sacrifices made by the American people must be for the benefit of all the people, not just for the benefit of big business. "In equal measure," he added, "we must not permit the big oil companies or any other major do- mestic energy producers to manip- ulate the public by withholding in- formation on their energy sup- plies." To prevent that, Nixon again proposed legislation requiring the oil companies to report their in- ventories, production, costs and re- serves to the government. THE AMERICAN Petroleum In- stitute reported , yesterday that crude oil imports, refinery opera- tions and crude stockpiles drop- ped last week, although imports of refined products increased. The crude oil imports were at their lowest level since the week See NIXON, Page 2 Regents, Smith announc- vould leave office before nning of the 1974-75 school d return to a. teaching in the law school. Smith the vice presidency in r five years as law dean. tenure as academic chief ended over a period of change at the University. t mid-sixties, the Univer- al Ann Arbor campus bud- grown from $165,114,603 to 950, and in-state tuition has m $348 to $800 or more; enrollment at the Ann ampus has virtually level- after a long period of increasing from 29,194 to 0. TANEOUSLY, the former- dant funding for higher n has rapidly dried up. the earliest documents my desk in 1965 was an nt projection," Smith re- t was at that time that s began to be restricted automatically responsive See VICE, Page 8 'no' s;,IJ : i;..c:$.:.... :x:k:e~xd#;if.._..... i t.9. 'ifr"..ai: b:'J'.'ai:...... ,.. ..,............