Wednesday, April 10, 1974

ad Axe prepares
for President's visit
(Continued from Page 1) LE AVING BAD AXE after no
Axe". They also enthusiastically more than half an hour's stop, the
labored over a 12 x 35 foot sign Presidential entourage will motor
made of chicken wire and red, through Cass City, Deford, Snov-
white and blue tissue paper which er and several other communities,
reads "Welcome to Huron Coun- all staunchly Republican and all
ty." jwith populations of less than 2000
The kids just smiled a Fourth- persons.
of-July-type grin - thinking of The route is flexible and can be
parades, bands, and throngs of changed at Nixon's discretion,
people - when asked if they were but after about four hours he will
excited about the President's trp arrive in Sandusky for the return
to town. chopper ride to Tri City Airport.
Those placards and the mas- The motorcade carefully and in-
sive sign will be put in place by tentionally avoids the major papa-
six this morning - by which time lation centers of the Eighth Di-
a number of citizens promise they trion which include Bay City and
will have already staked out the Saginaw. In these areas anti-Nixon
choice seats along the President's Sgnw nteeaesat-io
route. I feelings run particularly high be-
Three hours earlier, the Secret cause of massive unemployment
Service agents planned to cordon resulting from layoffs i the auto
off the entire community - pre- factories there.
venting anyone from entering or Still, although nobody guaran-
leaving until the President ar- tees that Nixon will see only
rives. They will also have driven cheering crowds, one thing is cer-
Nixon's custom made bubble top tain: Bad Axe will remember the
limousine into place at the Bad President a lot longer' than the
Axe Airport. President remembers Bad Axe.
Hearst hits SLA
with verbal ammo

LA PAZ, Mexico (gp) - Ran-
dolph Hearst lashed out at the
Symbionese Liberation Army
(SLA) yesterday, calling them ter-
rorists and "counter-revolutionar-
ies" who "cannot be trusted."
Hearst told reporters his trip to
this seaside resort on the southern
tip of Baja California has no con-
nection with efforts to ransom his
20-year-old daughter, Patricia, kid-
naped by the SLA Feb. 4.
The last SLA communique, re-
ceived April 3, said Ms. Hearst had
joined her kidnapers as a revolu-
tionary fighter. But Hearst said
he does not believe his daughter
has been won over by the SLA.
He said he still hopes to get his
daughter back alive but has very
little faith in negotiations so far
with the SLA.
IN WASHINGTON, U. S. Atty.
Gen. William Saxbe said yesterday
he believes the FBI now has more
freedom to pursue the case.
"Now the family is not thinking
she is going to be returned from
day to day and doesn't think the
ransom will be adequate. This will
give the FBI more freedom to op-
erate," he said.
"Now that the lid is off, I think
we're going to see some results,"
Saxbe said. "We will apprehend
the people involved in this case if
they stay in this country."
"They are just terrorists,"
Hearst said of the SLA during an
impromptu news conference out-
side the luxury hotel where he,
his wife and two of their daugh-
ters are staying.
Hearst, editor and president of
the San Francisco Examiner, said
he came to this tourist area to
"sort things out with my family."
He added that he has been com-
ing to the resort for 20 years. The
Hearsts arrived last Sunday.
THE HEARSTS are staying in
one of the houses at the Las Cruces
Hotel complex, 19 miles southeast

of La Paz but isolated despite its
short distance from the Baja Cali-
fornia city. The only road to the
hotel, built for transporting con-
struction material, was not main-
tained after the hotel was finish-
ed, apparently to make access
more difficult. The hotel is nor-
mally reached by air taxi.
In response to r'ansom demands
by the SLA, Hearst established a
$2 million food giveaway program,
and the Hearst Corp. pledged an
additional $4 million in food if
Miss Hearst is released unharmed
by May 3.
Hearst said that if Patricia is
freed she would have to be seen
by three trustees of the fund be-
fore the $4 million being held for
additional food giveaways would
be released.
The three are Willy Brown, a
California state legislator; Vin-
cent Halliman, a California law-
yer, and Ernesto Galarza, a Mexi-
can - American leader and writer.
MS. HEARST DECLARED in a
taped communique received last
Wednesday that she had renounc-
ed her family, her fiance and her
friends and was joining her SLA
kidnapers as an armed revolution-
ary.
In San Francisco, Charles Bates,
FBI agent in charge of the case,
said his office has been conducting
"an aggressive investigation and
we're still conducting an aggres-
sive investigation, doing every-
thing possible."
Bates said Hearst "is not di-
recting the FBI's investigation and
never has," adding that the FBI
is "still concerned, about her safe-
ty and well-being."
"WE'RE TRYING to solve a kid-
naping case and we're going to
solve it," Bates said. "People will
be arrested and brought to court
for this crime and there's no ques-
tion in my mind about that."
In St. Paul, Minn., American
Indian Movement leader Dennis
Banks said he hoped to hear from
the SLA some time soon. Banks
said he had been asked by Hearst,
to organize minority groups to in-
tercede with the SLA for Patricia
to be allowed to meet with her
family.
"If we don't receive a contact
or a clue that a meeting is pos-
sible then I'm afraid AIM will
have to withdraw," Banks said.
"We can't be involved in some-
thing like this if it is to be drawn
into weeks and months."

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Undergraduate Political Science
Association Election Meeting
Wednesday, April 10th-7:30p.m.
6602 Haven Hall

THE DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND
THEATRE STUDENT LABORATORY THEATRE
presents
The Malaysian folk drama
THE CUCUMBER PRINCESS
AND
From the medieval Chester cycle
NOAH'S FLOOD
WEDNESDAY, April 10 & THURSDAY, April 11
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