UNDERMINING ABORTION REFORM 0014 poiRW wt igaun D~A1 UNIMAGINATIVE Ifigh--47, Low--20 See Today for details* See Editorial Page Eighty-Three Years of Editorial Freedom Vof. LXXX V, No. 101 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, January 31, 1974 Ten Cents Eight Pages Nixon asks for r MUSEE NWSHA ALL X-M Johnson hints Henry Johnson, the University's vice president for student services, yesterday suggested to the 'Commission for the Study of Student Governance that it consider a resolution cancelling Student Government Council's spring elections. The suggestion, which Johnson said originated on the lips of two Regents, brought sharp response from the commission. Student representative Kathy Kolar called the Regental hint "an attempt to usurp SGC's constitutionally granted powers." Boycott continues United Farmworkers (UFW) supporters are current- ly targeting the Wrigley's chain in the state, with 75 of the company's 88 Michigan stores being picketed for sale of non-union lettuce and grapes. Local organizers have asked UFW supporters to join the picketlines at Wrigley's tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday. Carloads of picketers will leave the North door of the Union at 4 p.m. tomorrow and Friday, and at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m. on Saturday. Happenings.. .. begin with the Mental Health Research In- stitute Seminar series lecturer Monica Blumenthal on "More about violence" at 3:45 at 1057 MHRI . . . State Representative Perry Bullard will hold a public discus- sion on impeachment and rent control at 7:30 p.m. in the Chicago House Lounge of West Quad ... these two happenings may precipitate a need for an introductory lecture on transcendental meditation which is at 8 p.m. in the Faculty Club Lounge of the Michigan Union .. also at 8 p.m. is a meeting of the Undergraduate Politi- cal Science Association in 6602 Haven . . . and if these two 8 pm. choices don't appeal to you, for only 50c the Bach club presents Bach's Sonata No. 2 D maj. and Mozart's Flute Concerto in G maj. along with refresh- ments in the Green Lounge of E. Quad ... and finally, Rudi Kishazy, world champion hang-glider who set a record when he descended Mt. Blanc in a low-perform- ance glider, is showing films of his feats at 8:30 p.m. in 200 Lane Hall. Nixon adviser dies Murray Chotiner, who in 1950 managed Richard Nix- on's successful campaign for U.S. Senate and has been a trusted friend and adviser to Nixon for a quarter cen- tury, died yesterday. Chotiner, 64, suffered a broken leg and a concussion one week ago when his auto collided with a truck in suburban McLean, Va. Chotiner was a campaign theorist whose major tool, according to Garry Wills, author of Nixon Agonistes, was the "denigrativ method." "If you were one of Murray's candidates," Wills says, "you let the public know as little as pos- 'sible about the whole range of your own opinions . This leaves you free to focus on the part of your oppon- ent's life or record ' that people are most disposed to resent." Under this strategy, Nixon gained his Senate seat by dubbing his opponent Helen Gahagen Douglas "The Pink Lady." Gug Glug eats snakes The district attorney's office in Forth Worth, Texas, is going to investigate a midway sideshow where the main attraction, "Glug Glug, the Swamp Creature," supposedly eats live snakes. Barry Hickinson, 19, is "Glug Glug" and says he has been performing for three years because "I just want to do it. It's kind of fun, especially watching the people." The Humane Society complained to the district attorney's office the act vio- lates the state's new law against. the torture of ani- mals. Hickinson says the snakes cost him about $400 a week but says his show grossed about $1,500 Monday at 50 cents per admission. "Glug Glug" splits the snakes' skin with his teeth, peels away the skin and eats the snakes live as the reptiles writhe about his head. ! Rumors are true All those rumors were true. There is a seven-foot alligator in the basement of Wayne State University's Old Main. His name is Charlie and the 110-pound rep- tile shares a small apartment with a four-foot cayman, a cousin from South America. Their pad is complete with heat lamp and swimming pool: Charlie's owner, a university employe and 32-year-old reptile fancier who insists on remaining anonymous, said he put Charlie and his cousin in the basement of Old Main in 1970 after inheriting both from a friend who moved to Australia. He said he chose the campus landmark building because there just aren't many places in Detroit to keep a gator. endi rules to Watergate investigations, out quitting President introduces economic package in message to Congress WASHINGTON (A--President Nixon vowed last night that he will never resign, called for an end to the Watergate inves- tigations, and urged a Democratic Congress to join him in making 1974 "a year of unprecedented progress." To hasten an end to investigations of the scandals, he pro- mised to cooperate with the House impeachment inquiry-to the extent "I consider consistent with my responsibilities for the office of the presidency." "One year of Watergate is enough," he told Congress, government leaders and the nation in his State of the Union address. IT WAS a dramatic finale to his 44-minute, nationally broadcast address. In the course of that speech, Nixon announced that Arab leaders are to meet soon to consider lifting the oil embargo that has deepened the energy crisis. At ,the same time, he called for action to "break the back of the energy crisis" and make the United States self-sufficient now and into the next century. He proposed action to safeguard personal privacy, create a new system of health insurance, reform the welfare program. He promised a comprehensive set of campaign reform proposals. HE DISCLOSED that the new federal budget, to be presented to Congress next Monday, will total $304.4 billion. He said it will include Doily Photo by KAREN KASMAUSKI MaIster ofSiin s Duke Ellington and his orchestra play their own polished brand of "swing era" for an overflow crowvd last night at Power Center in a UAC-Daystar presentation. BOOZE IN THE BASEMENT: Future of student bar in Union looks By BILL HEENAN After buying your books during next fall's mad rush, you'll need a drink-and get it too, right there in the Union. The University Activities Com- mittee's (UAC) year-long drive to establish a student bar culminated with the Union Board's approval of UAC's plan last week. The board is now renovating the Uni- versity Club basement game room to make way for the bar, which is to be modelled after a German rathskeller, a pub found in the city hall basements of Europe. Mark Thomas; coordinating vice president of UAC, praised the board's decision: "Now we can re- turn the Union to its proper role as a hub of student life, not just a place to buy books." Union Manager Stan Wells term- ed the bar a "logical extension of our function" since other big 10 schools, including Ohio State, serve beer in their unions. Union board member Edward Hucke suggested that U Club mem- bership be opened up to students, setting up two types of member- ships, one for the bar and one for the U-Club. UAC HAS proposed that stu- dents hire a professional manager and elect a board of directors. Ad- ministrative assistant Ed Rutz, who is coordinating UAC with University activities, claims that U Club control would bring in the profit motive. "We could have started a 'U-Bell' instead 'of a brigh t place where students wouldn't be ripped off." Other questions to be discussed include student membership in the rathskeller. Currently the University Club charges a $10 membership fee. Thomas suggests a nominal bar membership fee of one or two dollars for all stu- dents over 18 and faculty. Accord- ing to Thomasathis fee will "help the bar pay for itself." BECAUSE of licensing restric- tions imposed by the University, completion of "the pub" is delayed until next year. Last November student services Vice President Henry Johnson told UAC and the Union that "the student rathskeller should only operate under an ex- tension of the existing University Club license" in the union. His ra- tionale was that the state would be reluctant to grant a separate license to a student group. For the bar to obtain-a separate liquor license, the city liquor com- mission would have to approve the new. application. Since the com- mission can only grant five li- censes a year, chances would be poor for the student pub. Accord- ing to Wells, "it could take years before the rathskeller could begin operations," with a separate li- cense. THE JOINT license raises the question of who is to control the bar. Currently UAC and the U Club rathskeller subcommittees are studying possible solutions. U Club members claim that too much student control threatens their club's unique interests and increases the chance of the state revoking their license. PROF. JAMES Taylor's grad -Arat;"t ..nei.a-h rac a substantial increase for defense require increased taxes. His address was interrupted by applause some 20 times. On some points the ovations were general, on others it was centered to his left - on the Republican side of the House chamber. That was the case when he spoke of an end to Watergate and vowed to serve out his term. Nixon and his spokesmen have said repeatedly he will not resign. But the President had not pre- viously discussed in public the im- peachment inquiry being conduct- ed by the House Judiciary Com- mittee. ". . .I want to indicate on this occasion that I will cooperate with the Judiciary Committee in its in- vestigation," Nixon said. "I will cooperate so it can conclude its in- vestigation, make its decision, and I will cooperate in any way that I consider consistent with my re- sponsibilities for the office of the presidency . . ." He said he would follow prece- dent, and will never do anything that weakens the office or impairs the ability of future presidents to exercise their powers. When he spoke of that limit on his cooperation there were scat- tered hisses and boos, audible in the congressional galleries but not to the television audience. NIXON CONCLUDED that if this is a time of problems, it is a time of opportunity as well. "This I believe, he said, "with the help of God . . . with the co- operation of Congress and with the support of the American people we can and will make the year 1974 a year of unprecedented progress." His talk of the scandals shadow- ing the administration came al- most as a footnote-some in the audience already had left their seats and prepared to leave the House chamber. But Nixon had more to say-a personal word. The applause quiet- ed, the audience hushed. HE SAID HE wanted to speak of an issue of great concern to all Americans. "I refer, of course, to the investigations of the so-called Watergate affair." Nixon said it is time to end See NIXON, Page 8 spending, but will not he claimed, hite House says Nixon 'will refuse Cal. court subpoena WASHINGTON (4P) - President Nixon will refuse to testify person- ally in the California trial of his former aide, John Ehrlichman, despite a court order won by the defense, the White House said yesterday. A Nixon spokesman left open the possibility that the President might answer written questions in the state court trial. EARLY YESTERDAY, Atty. Gen. William Saxbe criticized the court order as unrealistic "because the President of the United States can't appear in every justice of the peace court all over this country at the Nixon whim of that justice of the peace." Nixon's refusal to appear could, in the long run, benefit Ehrlich- man's case by giving him a basis for arguing that testimony vital to his defense was being withheld. MEANWHILE the House Judic- iary Committee intendsto seeks unqualified subpoena power, based on constitutional grounds, for use in its impeachment inquiry. A resolution, in which changes are still possible, includes language authorizing the Judiciary Commit- tee to conduct a full and complete investigation to determine whether grounds exist for impeaching Pres- ident Nixon. Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott said he expects Nixon to "respond to all relevant inquiries" in the impeachment probe. A draft of the resolution request- ing the subpoena power has been tentatively approved by a major- ity of the panel members of both parties. Formal action is sched- uled at a committee session today. THE ONLY apparent controver- sy left for the committee to settle is whether to include in the reso- lution an April 30 cut-off date for the investigation, which is being backed by the Republican mem- bers. Dems la HRP on vote drive By GORDON ATCHESON The Human Rights Party's (HRP) admission of engaging in allegedly illegal door-to-door voter registration has drawn a critical response from local Democrats and indications that the registration system will be altered. In a statement released yester- day, Democratic Party spokesman Thomas Wieder blasted HRP for conducting "intensely partisan" door-to-door registration solely to enroll HRP supporters. City Clerk Jerome Weiss said that registration procedures will be "better controlled" to prevent ad- ditional violations of city regula- tions which now exclude door-to- door registration. Weiss, however, added that his See DEMOCRATS, Page 2 Kresge accused of sex-biased practices rrv * x". ". .................}:.:rJ.d{.:.;.}}}Y......................................................F-iY.. . . U'treated to Clio ad awards r: On the inside .. . By DELLA DIPIETRO The Michigan Civil Rights Com- mission has ruled that the S. S. Kresge Company of Troy must halt all "past discriminatory prac- tices" and open all of its manage- ment positions to female appli- cants. The ruling, which is expected to be appealed by Kresge, originated from a 1968 complaint filed by Nelda High of Flint charging that a Flint K-Mart official had denied her an application to theamanage- ment training program. At that time none of the 269 persons in that program were women, accord- ing to Edward Chastang, deputy director of compliance for the civil estimated the figure to be near 50 per cent. Chastang was more conservative, explaining that the commission's stand is usually formulated around "the number of minorities in the surrounding area's work force." He added, "If men and women are given the same consideration, we feel that Kresge will get a sig- nificant number of women ac- cepted." THE RULING, the commission's first based on sex discrimination, calls for a halt to discriminating against women and enrollment of a "representative number of wo- men in the management pro- By BARBARA CORNELL It's fourth quarter on a soggy football field, and a harried coach is screaming at his faltering team. The coach frantically calls a player off the bench, commenting that he is about to make the most important play in his life. The player dashes to the locker room where he quickly Xeroxes -the crucial plan. Back into the coach's hand in mere seconds, the copies are given to the team. The pattern is run in the down- pour, the pass is completed . . . touchdown! And all thanks to Xerox. THIS IS ONLY one of the amusing and unusual ways that ad men showed the unbounded imagina- tion that wnn them 1973 Clin Television Advertising tude of country twangers as well as presenting sev- eral ads from places like Japan, Germany and France. THE THEME of this year's presentation is "In- ternationalism". The best of world advertising is meant to show the harmony of international coop- eration and creativity. Mrkati Cl"b President Mark Sebell remarked t"^t tl e clnh shows the Clio Awards "so that peo- nl' get an idea of what's going on in television -prtising." Of thQ estimnted 36,000 television commercials -r1n'i-a ->nnalIv in the United States, 1307 were P.-t-red in the comnetition last year. About one .- to n these entries are voted recognition, and ? '?:., a M x _ the Sports page features a column by Bob Heuer about UCLA, the nation's number one college basketball team . . and the Editorial page hosts an article by Joan Weiss about the exploitation of University secretaries . . . and the Arts page features Rick Nelson. I _'