GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS See editorial page 1 4Jt ,.4& :43 att COOLER High-40 Low-20 See Today for details Eighty-Four Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXIV, No. 126 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, March 1, 1974 Ten Cents Eight Pages , &IF' MU SEE ESHAiE ALL ONL Register to vote! Today is almost the last day you can register to vote for the April 1 city elections. Registrars await your ar- rival in the Union between 12 and 4 p.m. today, and at City Hall and the Public Library. Latecomers can strag- gle to City Hall until 9 p.m. or between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday, or 8 to 8 on Monday. Meanwhile, the voter registration suit brought against the city by the Democrats, Students Government Council, and the Hu- man Rights Party will be heard in U. S District Judge Damon Keith's courthouse in Detroit today. The plain- tiffs are seeking two extra weeks of registration, allow- ance of door-to-door registrars, three fixed enrollment sites in the currently site-less Second Ward, and an overturning of the city's ban on campaign sound trucks. AFSCME contract terms Several of the contract terms in the agreement reached yesterday between the University and the union repre- senting its 2,400 service and maintenance employes were disclosed yesterday by union officials. The terms of the tentative three-year contract between the University and Local 1583 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employes (AFSCME) are said to include a 15 cent per hour pay raise this year, plus additional 15 cent raises in the two succeeding years, as well as cost of living benefits based on the Consumer Price Index. The union and University bargaining teams have been bumping heads over the contract since last October. Union members will vote on the pact later this month.r City loans disputed Jamie Kenworthy, the Democrats' candidate for the Fourth Ward City Council seat in April's city election, has charged that the city has loaned more than $1 mil- lion in park development funds to other city depart- ments. Kenworthy says the loans, made to such areas as highway improvement and the parking system, have 'uncertain" chances of ever getting paid back to the park fund. City Administrator Sylvester Murray acknow- ledged the existence of the loans but disagreed with Renworthy's "uncertainty" on repayment of the money, and noted that interdepartmental loaning is a fairly common city practice. Library finds a lot The city school board last night inked approval for a branch library site at Plymouth Mall. Approval is one thing and creation is another, though. The board says there are no plans to build on the 4,000-square foot site in the shopping center in the near future, and no money is available even if there were some plans. And if that's not bad enough, library director Homer Chance says the site isn't big enough. But there is obsolutely no ques- tion that the site has been approved. EMU, Cleary to mesh The Eastern Michigan University Board of Regents have approved a merger of EMU and Cleary College, a 600-student business school in Ypsilanti. The coupling is apparently an offer that Cleary couldn't refuse: the smaller college owed EMU a large debt and is paying it off through the merger, which requires state approval before becoming final. See ya later It's been about a month since the new Daily editors took over, and quite frankly, we are already tired. So is our staff. It is with some sorrow but much joy that we say good-bye, and have a good spring break. Look forward to the indictment of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and other hoods later today, and our return to publication on Tuesday, March 12. These two events are not related. 662 and 835 . . . are this week's winning lottery numbers. The second chance numbers are 088 and 616. Happenings . . today are political. The Farm Workers Support Committee will collect people who want to picket Wrig- ley's at the north door of the Union, 3:15 p.m. . . . New World presents The Long Chain, a study of imperialism's effect in India, along with Raga, a film about Ravi Shankar, at E. Quad Aud., 8 p.m. . . . Hour of the Fur- naces, Part I, a film about the revolutionary struggle in Argertina, will be shown at the UGLI Multi-Purpose room at 8 p.m. Masterpiece defaced A self-styled artist carrying an Iranian passport spray- painted huge red letters across Picasso's masterpiece "Guernica" in New York's Museum of Modern Art yes- terday. The letters read, "Kill all lies," but museum officials said the monumental painting has a thick var- nish coat and was undamaged by the spray paint, which washed off easily. The alleged vandal told po- lice, "I'm an artist and I want to tell the truth." On the inside .*.. . . . The Arts Page features a review of last night's Netherlands Wind Ensemble concert by Tony Cecere ... fan mail and good advice from our readers pack the Editorial Page ..- and Marc Feldman and Roger Ros- siter preview basketball and hockey action coming up over the break on the Snorts Page. O Rehnquist scheduled for visit to campus By ANDREA LILLY Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist is scheduled to came to Ann Arbor ... . again. The ulti- mate question this year is, will he really come? Rehnquist is scheduled to par- ticipate in the Law School's annual Campbell Competition, where skill- ed law students present arguments for hypothetical cases. Extending an invitation to a Supreme Court Justice is part of the tradition. THE VISIT, so far, is strikingly similar to his Mlanned visit last year, also for the Campbell Com- petition. Rehnquist, however, was appar- ently not the choice of many stu- dents last year. His record includes backing such measures as the Huston plan (wiretapping), the re- cent arrest-and-search decision, and numerous other actions viewed by many as an assault on the Bill of Rights. A mass protest was consequently organized by the Lawyers' Guild and the Black Students Organiza- tion for the day that Rehnquist was to appear. THE DAY arrived, and so did the pickets, the leaflets, and the protesters. Everyone, in fact, ex- cept Rehnquist, who was fogged in at an airport en route to Detroit. March 12, Rehnquist is going to try it again, and the script appears to be the same. John Minock, ,a law student and member of the Lawyers' Guild, is organizing this year's protest and is hoping that-this time-Rehnquist will really appear to be greeted by the masses. AL KAUFMAN, last year's or ganizer and an active--worker in this year's protest as well, said that a random poll of law students taken Tuesday showed that prob- ably s0 to 70 per cent of the law students disagree with Rehnquist's political philosophy. As a result of this information, Kaufman estimates a rather large turnout from the Law School as well as from other factions in the University. The protest this year will be run in much the same manner as last year's-with picketing, leafleting, and protesters. Perhaps the chief difference- and one that will be important to the success of the protest-is that this year's competition occurs while school is still in session. Last year's event took place-dur- ing spring break. Laborites inch toward victory 0 in British vote LONDON (Reuter) - Britain's opposition Labor Party appeared headed for a narrow win in the British general election today - but without enough strength to take a secure hold on government. With results in from more than two thirds of the 635 electoral dis- tricts computers predicted that La- bor would take about 308 seats with 297 going to the conserva- tives. AND IT seemed that the balance of power would be held by a slight- ly enlarged Liberal Party plus a, handful of nationalists in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. As the voting pattern became clear, Labor Party leader Harold Wilson reiterated his refusal to engage in any coalition with the Liberals. The possibility remained that La- bor could form a minority govern- ment with tacit Liberal support. But differences between the two parties made it unlikely that such an administration could long sur- vive the stresses of Parliament - which raised the prospect of yet another general election later this year. WHAT was certain was that Prime Minister Edward Heath suf- fered a severe rebuff in his gam- ble of calling an election 17 months before it was required in an effort to secure a mandate for firm ac- tion against labor unrest and in- flation. As the results poured in, Heath looked grim. He abandoned plans to attend a champagne party at Conservative headquarters and in- stead returned to his office. Labor leader Harold Wilson also took a cautious attitude. But one of his top lieutenants, former De- fense Minister Denis Healey, con- fidently predicted that Labor would recapture the power it lost in the last general election of 1970. THE LIBERALS appeared to be gaining significant numbers of votes at the expense of the other two parties, but only barely were the Liberal gains enough to snatch seats away from the Tories or La- bor. Although Labor appeared to be emerging as the biggest party in Parliament, although short of a majority, Wilson stuck to his often- repeated refusal to entertain the idea of a Labor-Liberal coalition. There was no clear nationwide pattern to the voting. Labor did well in the heavily industrialized north; the Conservatives fared bet- ter in the South. As Labor and the Tories battled for control of the next Parliament, it appeared the eventual outcome might depend on the small Lib- eral party, making a strong come- back after a half century of roam- ing the political wilderness. Wilson Daily Photo by STUART HOLLANDER Kung Fit! The Chinese Kung Fu and Okinawan Shorinryu group give a demonstration of their art last night at the I-M Bldg. Under the tutelage of black belt expert Herb Wong, the more advanced students learned to use traditional weapons, such as the short "Sai" sword shown here. SPYING CASE: Rosenberg sons strive for parenr1-ts vindicationt SGC faces heavy debt' of $3200 By PAUL TERWILLIGER Student Government C o u n c il (SGC) President Carl Sandberg announced last night that SGC is effectively $3200 in debt. The an- nouncement followed s e v e r a 1 weeks of investigation into SGC's financial affairs. With approximately $5,000 still in SGC back accounts but witla over $9,000 in outstanding charges, Sandberg declared a "temporary freeze" on SGC allocations to con- tinue indefinitely. All allocations made from January 1 to the pres- ent will not be paid. SANDBERG then struck all mo- tions involving allocations from last night's agenda. Announcing that "at this time we cannot afford to run an election in the style we are accustomed", Sandberg reviewed the pro's and con's of holdingthe next SGC election in the fall rather than this spring as is currently planned. No action was taken on the sugges- tion. ' In further action last night, Da- vid Faye, (Campus Coalition Par- ty) who fathered the proposal to overhaul the Minority Affairs Com- mittee two weeks ago, accused Matt Hoffman (Screw SGC) of "de- emphasizing the racial aspect of the new Minority Affairs Commit- tee. Hoffman had introduced mo- tions to create assistant director- ships for Atheist affairs, Jewish affairs, WASP affairs, and Chicano affairs under various directorships in the Minority Affairs Committee of SGC. All motions except the one concerning the Chicano assist- ant directorship failed. THE COMMITTEE, which now has four directors for ethnic, re See SGC, Page 3 By ERIC SCHOCH Former University student Rob- ert Meeropol knows his parents were not spies. Now, after 20 years, he and his brother Michael are taking the first steps toward the vindication of their parents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. On June 19, 1953, after President Eisenhower refused to grant a last-minute reprieve, the Rosen- bergs were electrocuted in Sing Sing Federal Penitentiary. THEY WERE executed for al- legedly having given the secret of Dems vote no support for city rent control By STEPHEN SELBST The city Democratic Party last night rejected a proposal presented by the Tenants Union, and will not go on record in favor of the rent control charter amendment on the April ballot. Instead, the Democrats substi- planning meetings scheduled By JOAN WEISS "Roles of Women: What Script for Family Planning?", a confer- ence concerned with population control and other aspects of wo- tuted a motion by Second Ward Chairman Tom Wieder which in effect would not "bind all City Council candidates to a single po- sition on the amendment," and urged "each City Council candi- date to make his or her position on this amendment clearly known." Wieder described the motion, which passed, as "an effort to make a policy of a de facto prac- tice." LAST NIGHT'S effort was an at- tempt on the part of the Tenants Union to gain the endorsement of the Democratic party on the rent control issue. Last month the Democrats took a stand on the general subject of housing for its 1974 party platform, but did not specifically mention rent control. Party chairman La ird Harris was uncertain whether the Demo- crats should take a solid stand on the issnie. "We did the only thing we could honestly do, although maybe its not the best thing we could do politizally. We ar2 divided and the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. In the anti-Communist hys- teria of the times, the FBI called it the "Crime of the Century." The Rosenbergs left two sons. behind them. Robert was six years old when his parents were exe- cuted, his brother Michael ten. After their parents' death, the two were adopted by a New York couple named Meeropol. After a few unfriendly incidents, Robby and Michael learned to con- ceal the identity of their true parents. They have used the name Meeropol since their adoption. Un- til recently, only a few close friends and associates knew their background. Robby Meeropol transferred to the University of Michigan in 1967 after his sophomore year at Earl- ham College in Richmond, Ind. As the product of foster parents with radical politics and a New York environment, Meeropol found the heartland of Middle America too quiet. IN ANN ARBOR, Meeropol quick- ly joined the anti-war movement and soon found his way into Stu- dents for a Democratic Society (SDS). He graduated from the Univer- sity in August, 1969 with high hon- ors in anthropology and received his Masters degree 16 months later. After spending a semester here as a Ph.D. candidate he moved to Springfield, Mass., to teach anthropology at Western New England College. His brother Mi- chael presently teaches economics at the same college. There, the Meeropols were living quietly until Louis Nizer's book on the Rosenberg case, The Implosion Conspiracy, became a best-stiller. The Meeropols, horrified by what they considered the gross misrep- resentations and distortions in the book, filed a $3 million suit against the a'4hor for invasion of privacy and copyright infringements. To day so, they had to reveal "The thing that makes a lot of difference is Watergate," he notes. "People look and see what govern- ment officials are doing now, and wonder if they were doing it back then." "People are more willing to question now, and the Watergate atmosphere has a lot to do with it," he adds. Meeropol sees the possibility of opening up the Rosenberg case files as serving a greater purpose than just clearing his parents' name. "IT IS IMPORTANT to demon-. strate to people where my par- ents' trial fits into American my- thology-we must attack the notion that abuse of government power is justified to protect national se- curity. "Their case was one of the foun- See BROTHERS, Page 3 Baseball{ : nostalgita hits U, By BILL HEENAN '{ '{:;:< Pon'derouslv chewing error- moaul w~ads of buibblegum, the;.,:: rrs}: :v:." g'gcrouched in a tight circle . ::} :::><: wt maor league baseball r:: {:"{,.. .: team s at their fingertips. .......... .".,::r:.: : :::::":.::" :v :":" ,:." r.. :.r.:Y} "Trade ya Yogi Berra for Frank Howard," a dusty urchin cried,. TIlltS comnmonnlace childhood r. scene is about to be repeated en masse by older folks. Clutching . ...." ~:: s: .. , { their beloved shoeboxes, doz- ens of DiMaggio devotees are to descend upon Ann Arbor to . * trade and sell their baseball fa- vorites. "There are quite a ife~w col- :. .I