SUPREME COURT DUCKS ISSUE See Editorial Page ' Y t t!Ja tit BLUE High-A2 Low--26 See Today for details EightyFour Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXIV, No. 157 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, April 16, 1974 Ten Cents Eight Pages CHARGES FLY AT U.N. SESSION Prof royalties The faculty Senate Assembly yesterday passed a reso- lution stating that there should be no University policy concerning instructors assigning their own textbooks to their classes. They rejected a recommendation that all such royalties be returned to a University fund. One fac- ulty member said that it would be "demeaning to imply that professors would assign textbooks for monetary gain." However, the assembly did recommend that de- partments avoid situations where senior faculty mem- bers have the power to promote use of their own books Lloyd thief Alice Lloyd residents beware: There's been a ripoff at your dorm by someone who may be familiar to you, from last year. The man, who always uses the name "Butch," allegedly made a knifepoint robbery of a bag of dope last Thursday, and is suspected of several rob- beries that occurred last year. Acording to dorm resi- dents, his approach is always the same: he hangs around the dorm, eventually approaches a student or two and be- comes "friends" - then the ripoff. He was caught "in action" Sunday, but eluded attempts by dorm residents to apprehend him. Twisters- U' style Uncounted numbers of Hill area dorm-dwellers and nearby apartment owners huddled in the relative safety of their basement Sunday night in fear of what according to some reports sounded like at least a tornado. Others learned early that it was only the release valve at one of the University's power plants. The noise was heard for several blocks within the area at 9:30 p.m. "There were seven of us together," reported Ann Kahn, "we went down into the basement of Markley just in case. We called the police to find out what was going on, when they told us we felt pretty stupid." $ for engineers "This man needse$20,000,000," reads the ad that will appear in Time, Newsweek, U. S. News, and Business Week. "The man" is Jim Knott, a University Engineer- ing school grad and a vice-president for General Motors. He's also chairman of the University Engin School's newest project - a campaign to raise 20 million bucks to replace outdated engineering buildings and support professorships, lectureships and scholarships. The build- ing projects - using $12 million of the funds - will re- place the old buildings on Central Campus with a North Campus complex. Happenings .. * . are few and far between today, beginning with a lecture by Anita Leslie, authoress of the Marlborough House Set, at 12:10 p. m. in the Ann Arbor Public Li- brary . . . the astro-physical team of Geoffrey and Mar- garet Burbidge, both of them professors at the Uni- versity of California-San Diego, will lecture on quasars and redshifts at 4 p.m. in Aud. E of the Physics and As- tronomy Building . . . Exiled Russian poet Naum Korz- havin will give his first U. S. poetry reading at 7 p.m. in MLB Rm. 1 . . . and for the musically inclined, Uni- versity students' music will be performed by the Con- temporary Directions Ensemble and the University Phil- harmonia at 8 p.m. in Hill Aud. Court news The Supreme Court had some good news and some bad news yesterday. The Court disposed of what may be the last legal challenge to the Vietnam war yesterday, letting a lower court ruling stand that said President Nixon acted constitutionally in ordering the U. S. bombing of Cambodia in 1972. In a brief opinion, the court refused to hear the appeal from Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (D- N.Y.) and four Air Force officers who claimed Nixon acted illegally. Dubious charity Five thousand Americans have sent President Nixon over $43,650 to help him foot the $467,000 tab he owes Uncle Sam in back taxes. The contributions ranged from a nickel from a 7-year-old schoolboy to $5,000 from a businessman, said the White House. The contributions were unsolicited, according to a White House spokesman, but presidential supporters and other groups have sug- gested campaigns to help Nixon pay the bill. Earlier, the White House confirmed that Nixon had been granted a 60-day extension of Monday's filing deadline for his 1973 tax return, but it won't apparently be paid with his fan mail. The spokesman also reported that Nixon felt he could not accept the contributions and would return them to the donors. Busing foes Irene McCabe, sleep well tonight: Of the 34 states needed to call a constitutional convention, 13 have al- ready done so - to consider an anti-busing amendment to the Constitution, including Michigan. Similar measures are pending in four other' states. Two states - Nebras- ka and Virginia - have asked Congress to pass the amendment without specifically calling for a convention. Ohio is calling working on a similar resolution. On the inside . .. . Marnie Heyn reviews Saturday's performance by the Early Music Consort of London on the Arts Page . . Kirk Wilcox discusses the University and its em- ployes on the Editorial Page . . . and Leba Hertz reports on the Michigan-Michigan State tennis match on the gyp, Key jai group to withdraw support By TONY SCHWARTZ Three staff members of a re- ligious group which has provided the most outside financial aid- over $2000 to the Washtenaw County Jail Inmate Rehabilitation Pro- gram, have withdrawn their sup- port to protest the firing of three staff employes by Sheriff Fred Postill. In- a letter to Postill made public yesterday, chaplains of the St. Mary's Student Chapel, which pro- vided -money for the jail's study release program and for folllow-up counseling with inmates, strongly criticized the firings. IN ADDITION, Sister Constance Smedinghoff said that she expects the full membership of the St. Mary's Chapel Council to vote within two weeks to cancel any further financial support. "We seriously question y o u r right to interfere so drastically in a grant program which has re- quired the approval of the county commissioners," the letter to Pos- till said. The staff members said they were taking the action because "We are convinced that the arbi- trary and immediate dismissal of these key staff people will be fatal to the effectiveness of the program. We sincerelyregret that a program that has had such promise. should have to fall victim of politi- cal ambition." REACHED AT home last night, Postill repeated his assertion that ultimate authority lies with his de- partment. "Certainly the Commis- sioners have the right to allocate funds, but hiring and firing em- ployes is clearly the right of the Sheriff," he said. Postill also claimed that the pro- gram, which has hired new staff since the firings, is operating well. "It is moving on.a much more so- phisticated level now. The people running the program now have the academic background and the abil- ity to organize it and make it run smoothly." THE ACTION was one of a ser- ies of events which has surrounded the Postill administration with controversy since therrehabilita- tion staff firings and the resigna- tion of Jail Administrator Paul Wasson 10 days ago. Postill's hiring and firing author- ity. in the program has recently come under scrutiny bythe County Commissioners, who administer the Law Enforcement Assistance Ad- ministration grants. These grants fund the rehabilitation program. At a sub-committee meeting last Wednesday, Commissioners on the county ways and means committee twice voted to reject Undersheriff James Spickard as project direc- See JAIL, Page 10 warns Israelis to halt attacks Lebanon seeks economic action against 'aggressor' UNITED NATIONS (Reuter) .- Egyptian Foreign Minis ter Ismail Fahmy warned Israel last night that its military operations against Lebanon and Syria could have far-reaching consequences for Middle East peace efforts. "Israel, before anyone else, must choose between war and peace," Fahmy said in a statement to the Security Council. Fahmy intervened before the 15-nation body as it debated Lebanon's charge that Israel committed aggression in its weekend reprisal attack on six Lebanese villages, following an Arab guerrilla raid on an Israeli settlement that left 18 civilians dead. If Israel wanted peace it must stop forthwith all "irresponsible actions," Fahmy said. Daily Photo by DAVID MARGOLICK ROBERT MEEOPOL, son of the late Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, explains to some 100 students at East Quad Auditorium last night his contention that his parents were framed by the U.S. govern- ment. Rosentberg sont seeks re openingof spy case By PAUL TERWILLIGER "I believe my parents are innocent as strongly as I believe that two and two are four," the son of the late Julius and Ethel Rosenberg declared yes- terday. Speaking before about 100 people in East Quad's auditorium, Robert Meeropol-the younger of the Rosenbergs' two sons and a University graduate.-. explained why he trying to reopen the govern- ment's case against his parents. THE ROSENBERGS were tried and found guilty of giving secret information to the Soviet Union in 1945 and thus helping the Russians to develop the atomic bomb. The couple was electrocuted in 1953. Meeropol is convinced the c a s e against his parents was simply a government conspiracy. In addition to clearing the Rosenbergs, he wants "to make it more difficult for a similar conspiracy trial to take place in the future." Contending that "too often people take the at- titude that you can't fight city hall," Meeropol said "my success will show that something can be done." IN AN EFFORT to raise funds for a possible retrial, Meeropol has been giving speeches accom- See SON, Page 2 BUT FAHMY did not repeat to to reporters in the delegates' lounge - that Egypt would "not stand by and let them (the Israe- lis) strike at Lebanon and Syria." In his address he accused Israel of following a policy of "state ter- rorism" against the Palestinians, adding that it was up to the Israe- lis to decide - "wisely, I hope"- on their future course. The responsibility for escalating military operations remained with Israel, as did the prospects for a peaceful settlement of the Middle East problem, he contended. FAHMY DECLARED the persis- tence of Israeli aggression against Lebanon would have direct, ad- verse consequences on the chances for peace in the area. Further- more," Fahmy said, "Egypt holds Israel responsible for the escala- tion of its military operations on the Syrian front." Answering Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah's expressed hope for a new era, the -Egyptian Minister said that if Israel did not desist from its present policy the pros- pects for a settlement within the framework of the Geneva talks would be "nil." IN HIS REPLY, Ambassador Yo- sef Tekoah expressed "shock" that Fahmy had come "all the way from Cairo, in order to explain away and to defend those who com- mitted the barbaric massacre at Kiryat Shmoneh." "It was regrettable that the rep- resentative of a country with which Israel had only recently signed the first agreement since the October War, should have chosen to make such a pronounce- ment," he said. "The foreign minister of Egypt found it appropriate to say here that Israel should choose between war and peace." EARLIER IN the special ses- sion, Lebanese Foreign Minister Fouad Naffah charged Israel with aggression and called on the coun- cil to fulfill previous resolutions carrying the threat of economic sanctions. the Council remarks he made earlier Patricia Hearst linked to. robbery SAN FRANCISCO (A) - News- paper heiress Patricia Hearst was named as a material witness yes- terday in the robbery of a San Francisco bank. Three persons previously associated with the ter- rorist Symbionese Liberation Ar- my (SLA) were charged with bank robbery. An affidavit filed with the U.S. magistrate says photographs tak- en during the robbery yesterday morning ofttherHiberna Bank in San Francisco show a person who "appears to be Patricia Hearst." THE AFFIDAVIT quotes an un- named person who says he does not know if Hearst was a willing par, ticipant in the robbery, which re- sulted in two persons being serious- ly wounded. The FBI said in a separate statement that it was en- tirely possible Hearst was not a willing participant. U.S. Atty. James Browning, in describing the photographs, said, "I think this is the first time in the annals of legal history that a kidnap victim has showed up in the middle of a bank robbery. If she was involved and investigation shows that, we're going to charge her as a bank robber. It's clear from the photographs she may have been acting under duress." HEARST, the 20-year-old heir to a newspaper fortune, was dragged screaming from her Berkeley apartment on Feb. 4. The photographs mentioned by authorities were taken by automa- tic cameras located inside the bank which was robbed of $10,690, City Council defers action on proposed hike in property tax By STEPHEN SELBST City Council last night deferred action on two proposed tax hikes which may go before the voters in the near future as a partial solution to the city's severe budget problems. The hikes-a 2.5 mill property tax increase and enactment of a local income tax-must be approved by council--before they are put before the electorate. COUNCIL WILL hold a special session this Friday to give further consideration to the proposals. C i t y Administrator Sylvester Murray has recommended the in- creased property tax as an alter- native to continued municipal worker lay-offs. Nearly 200 city employes are currently laid-off in an effort torcut expenditures. In the upcoming fiscal year- which begins July 1-the city will have to reduce its present $1.2 mil- lion deficit by some $600,000. That is about twice the amount cut dur- ing the present economic year. .... . r rJr. J t:' :J::.J.... ":t.":"... ....r.. . ... ... .. . . r /f Taxpayers tt agre: He's By DIANE TREMBLAY Area taxpayers migrated in droves to the U. S. Post Office on Stadium last night to mail their 1973 tax returns before the mid- night, April 15, deadline. "Goodbye vacation!" one man said before kissing his tax return and depositing it in the mailbags conveniently positioned in the Post Office driveway. AS THEY approached the Post Office, several citizens were asked their opinion of the 60-day exten- sion of the April 15 filing date ob- tained by President Nixon, and the """announcement by the Internal Re- venue Service (IRS) that Nixon owes about half a million dollars in back taxes from 1969-72. "He's an amazing person," Lou Klisowski said of the President. df"Anyone who can lie that well - f ' ,.,a nd .nA nd e1hn n c nnr- IN A SURPRISE move last night, Mayor James Stephenson proposed that a city-wide income tax should be placed on the June school board election ballot along with the prop- erty tax measure. "A number of people believe an income tax is the solution tothe city's long-range financial prob- lems. I'm personally opposed to a city income tax, but I believe the residents should decide on matters such as these," he said. Councilwoman Carol Jones (D- Second Ward) opposedputting both tax questions on the same ballot, contending "both will consequent- ly go down to defeat." SHE INDICATED that might in fact be Stephenson's intention, but added "if you're concerned about getting mote revenue, that defi- nitely is not the route to go." In presenting an historical over- view of the budget, Murray indi- cated that without any tax hike the city should not expect a dra- matic increase in revenue. Twice before the voters have overwhelmingly defeated proposed city income taxes. COUNCIL MEMBERS closely questioned Murray about where cuts would be made in the budget, if both of the proposed taxes were defeated at the polls.."This will be a major policy decision and I would rather have you give direc- tion to me," Murray told the coun- cil. Colleen McGee (D-First Ward) asked Murray about the city's at- tempts to secure state and federal grants to help finance municipal operations. Murray responded that he be- lieved the city is making a" con- certed effort to find grants" but he added that "we just don't have t t 1 t M Naffah told the Council: "In at- the FBI said. tacking six Lebanese villages Is- IN RESPONSE to questions, rael has committed an armed and Charles Bates, FBI agent in charge obvious act of aggression." of the kidnaping case said, "Yes, I He denied Israeli charges that believe the photographs show she the Arab commandos who carried (Patricia Hearst) had a gun. There out the Kiryat Shmoneh raid came was a gun held by another per- from Lebanon, and said that Israel son on her. We are not ruling out should have complained to the Se- the possibility that she was a will- curity Council if it felt it had a ing participant. On the other hand, legitimate case. there is evidence she was not." Voters to ,decide 8th District race today SAGINAW (P) - Stirred by an unprecedented presidential visit and a high-voltage political scrap, voters were expected to turn out in un- usually high numbers for today's special congressional election. Voter turnout for such elections is generally below 25 per cent, but county officials in the Republican stronghold of the 8th Congressional District predicted a turnout of almost 50 per cent of the district's 213,- 000 voters. President Nixon, who is being made the issue of the election by Democrat Robert Traxler, put his prestige on the line last Wednesday by coming here to campaign for James Sparling, the Republican can- didate. A GOP DEFEAT in this district-where a Democrat has not won in 42 years-could have an affect on some Republicans' view of Nixon and his Watergate problems, some observers say. And they say it could be indicative of what may happen in this fall's elections. The election is to replace former Rep. James Harvey, a Republican, who resigned last February to accept a federal judgeship. Harvey held the seat for 13 years and won with more than 59 per cent of the vote