THE MICHIGAN DAILY I hursddy, February 26, 1 Y J4 THE MICHIGAN DAILY hursdoy, 1-ebruary Z~S, 19 I~f HOMES BULLDOZED : I Board Exam Tutoring Marshals evict squatters French cabinet steps down; Premier Messmer reinstated Stanley H. Kaplan STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) -th United States marshals yester- of Ed uca ionaICenter day evicted a colony of squat- the ters occupying the site of a fed- C Classes now being formed for the upcoming eral dam project and began to th bulldoze t h e i r abandoned pl homes. th MCAT LSAT "They were there illegally sot so we are removing them," said ula DAT A T GSB IChristopher Rice, a spokesman gr EGfor the U. S. Justice Depart- Th marshals, armed with re- re B EXAMSvolvers, knocked on doors of the the 21 rundown structures the squat- t ters have called home since ar- to] For more information call (313) 354-0085 rival in the late 1960s. The mar- by shals presented letters telling the ha inhabitants they were being ask- wi ed to leave as the result of an be eviction order issued by a feder- al judge. a THE SQUATTERS, estimated we to number about 45, were led out sa and driven to roadblocks on the ha fringe of the lush valley that 1 flanks the Delaware River near th kthis. Pocono Mountain communfim 4 1 - i t y . ttThe determination of the th squatters to remain there has so ' been a continuing headache for ba the government. uk In September 1971, a court or- L der was granted permitting the pi government to move in. U. S. ba marshals bulldozed a dozen th buildings but pulled back when some of the squatters flung gi - t-A Film Journey Ssunseed f**. t 8 mo. lease for Fall and Winter ' furnished opts.; ...an adventure to help opei Free weekly maid service; 2 blocks from campus; Air Conditioned; Laundry and Cleaning facilities in bldg.; 24 hour security; Piano A film Journey with teachers like Room; Recreation Room; Study Lounge; Wall to Wall Carpet; Baba Ram Dass (author of Be G.E. kitchen appliances; garbage disposal. Also short leases for Here Now) Swami Satchidananda, Summer Term. Yogi BhaJan, Roshi Suzuki of TPas- sajara Zen Center, Lama Govinda, tSoopby to see our model opts. today, Sufi Samuel Lewis, Steve Gaskin, Sto by Pir vilayat Khan and many others or call 761-2680 thru the U.S., India, Israel and Nepal with their students and di- UNIVERSITY TOWERS sciples. presented by World Family APR T 1 M~IEN T in cooperation with UAC Mediotrics Cs Office of Ethics and 536 S. FOREST AT S. UNIVERSITY Religious Studies (Ann Arbor) ... ...s- . . .Z emselves on the ground in front the bulldozers and perched on t roofs of houses to be toppled. Generally in their 20s and 30s, t squatters declared a "peo- e's right" to the land, on which ey maintained farms and tilled )me gardens. State police reg- arly confiscated marijuana own on the land. SPORADIC INCIDENTS of vio- nce and vandalism have been ported by both officials and e squatters. Government trucks have been rched, supply buildings owned the Army Corps of Engineers ave been burned down and ndows of corps' cars have en shattered by shotgun blasts. The squatters, in turn, claim barn used to store belongings as burned to the ground. They y they have been shot at and arassed by police. Most of the squatters declare emselves 'dropouts' from a ore conventional society. Some of the squatters sat at e roadblock and sang folk ngs to the accompaniment of a anjo, a couple of guitars and a kelele. ATER, CARS, campers and ckup trucks, some loaded with attered luggage, began leaving e area. Sue Rosario, who said she had ven birth to a child Tuesday night in her squatter home be- cause she had no car to get to a hospital, said she and her hus- band Ralph would go to live with a friend in nearby Bartonsville. Dave Smith, another squatter, said he intended to go back. "This is where I live . . . I feed the birds and I prune the apple trees. That's all the taxes I have to pay." DENISE DRAMM said she did- n't know where she and her three children would go. "I'm waiting for the Lord to tell me," she said. Weapons, ammunition and drugs were uncovered in some of the houses before they were flat- tened. U. S. Attorney John Cottone called the operation a success but added: "We don't plan any arrests for illegal possession, either of drugs or weapons, be- cause we can't really be sure who owns what." THE MULTIMILLION dollar Tocks Island Dam project has been hindered by a lack of mon- ey and by court challenges by environmentalists since its in- ception in the 1960s. The dam would create a 37-mile-long lake extending into New York State. In addition to flood control, it would provide recreation and electricity.' Rice said federal, state and local officials have developed plans to assist those evicted in relocating by offering them transportation, storage for their belongings and temporary care for their animals. Foods and medical care were also avail- able, he said. By AP and Reuter PARIS - Prime Minister Pierre Messmer and his gov- ernment resigned in a surprise move yesterday, but French President Georges Pompidou al- most immediately reappointed the 57-year-old Gaullist to head a new government. The Messmer reappointment was announced last night in a brief statement by a presidential spokesperson which said: "The president has named Pierre Messmer as Prime Minister." THE GOVERNMENT resigna- tion at first stirred speculation that Pompidou would bring in a more popular government chief, but it soon became clear that the objective was to strengthen the cabinet by making it more com- pact and united. Pompidou is known to have tak- en strong exception to critic- ism of the government frequent- ly voiced in private by its own members. Cabinet sources said that Mess- mer, who became Prime Minister in July 1972, wanted to form a team of "loyal men" able to govern, obey and act more ef- ficiently than the old unwieldly team of 38 ministers and secre- taries of state. ACCORDING to the sources, the strategy of mass resignation was preferred by Messmer to that of the more customary shuf- fle. It enables him to make the changes he likes without caus- ing ill-feeling by dropping some ministers and retaining others. Messmer met Pompidou f o r half an hour last night, presum- ably to obtain his approval of a new government list he worked on during the afternoon. The new government is expected to be announced today. Two prominent members of the outgoing government, Fin- ance Minister Valery Destaing and Foreign Minister Michel Jo- bert, were regarded as certain to remain in the new cabinet. YESTERDAY'S political drama was also unlikely to herald any big changes in French policy at home or abroad, since Pompidou is the chief policy-maker and the prime minister acts mostly as his executive. Messmer, a silver-haired, hard- working administrator, w a s brought in by. Pompidou to head the government in July, 1972, when his predecessor, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, was dropped amid a series of scandals that shook the Gaullist ranks. Although he failed to reviva Gaullist morale in that period- the Gaullists and their allies saw their parliamentary majority ser- iously reduced in general elec- tions a year ago - Pompidou praised Messmer yesterday for his stewardship. MESSMER himself has no ap- parent ambitions concerning the presidency, a continual considera- tion in F r e n c h political life since reports that Pompidou could cut his term short because of illness. Pompidou's seven-year man- date runs out in 1976. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Thursday, February 28 Ethics, Religion, UAC: "Sunseed," Day Calendar Mendelssohn Theatre, 7. 9:30 pm. Industrial & Op Engineering: F. Tsui, Women's Studies: "Anything You Ga. Inst. of Tech., "Some Considera- Want to Be;" "Modern Women: The tions of Mixed Mode Tessellation Uneasy Life." Lec. Rm. 1, MLB, 7:30 pm. Structures," 325 W. Engin., 10 am. Computing Ctr.: S. Gerstenberger, Commission for Women: secretaries ,"Advanoed Use of Mag Tapes," Seminar sub-committee, Wolverine Rm., Union, Computing Ctr., 7:30 pm. noon. Chemical Engineering: P. Weisz, Mo- Maternal & Child Hlth. Films: bi1 Res. & Dev., N.J. 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