AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY See Editorial Page YI rL *ir i4au ~aiti HOUNDSTOOTH High-6s Low-38 See Today for details Vol. XXXIII, No. 128 Ahn Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, March 14, 1973 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Govt. narcs IFYOU SEE NEWSS HAPPEN CALL76"DAJLY( grb 25 tons of grass Justice blind? The state's case against Rainbow People's Party members Pun Plamondon and Craig Blazer is apparently something less than airtight. The two are charged with trying to collect by force a $3000 debt in a marijuana transaction. In Monday's hearing in Benzie County Court one of the state's two witnesses completely contradicted the arguments presented in the prosecution's case. Bruce Peterson, who lived with Uvay Wagner, the man allegedly threatened by Plamondon and Blazer, said that the two had no weapons and made no violent threats in dealing with Wagner. He further commented that the articles allegedly stolen by the pair were in reality voluntarily given up as a sort of collateral on the payment. Despite the conflicting testimony, bond was kept at $100,000 for each. Buck Davis, the pair's attorney, said he was "numbed by the judge's decision." An appeal of the high bail is planned. Campus crime Street crime has once again reared its ugly head in the campus area. Late Monday night, Rosie and Andre Hunt, who reside in an apartment on South Division Street, heard a knock at their door. Upon opening the door, Hunt was confronted by a knife-brandishing pair who forced their way into the apartment. After removing items from a jewelry box and seizing five dol- lars, the thieves tied up Hunt with telephone wire. They then forced his wife into the bedroom and sexually assaulted her. City police have two suspects in the crime. One of the pair is also charged with an arson and breaking and entering committed March 10. Bail was set at $50,000. Council briefs While most of their time was taken up with the fight over revenue sharing, City Council last night did manage to take action on severaIl other matters. By a 9-2 vote council gave tenta- tive approval to an ordinance requiring unit pricing in most city stores. Originally proposed by the Human Rights Party, the mea- sure is considered an important step in the fight for consumer protection. A public hearing and final action on the ordinance is scheduled for March 29. On the question of the Eisenhower Park- way, council postponed action for two weeks to provide time for further study of the controversial thoroughfare. Georgetown resi- dents fear the proposed six-lane highway will cause serious prob- lems in their neighborhood. Local POW homeward bound Navy Cmdr. Kenneth Coskey of Ann Arbor is among the group of 108 POWs scheduled to come home this week. Coskey, who has been held prisoner since mid-1968, will join his wife who currently resides in Virginia Beach, Va. His parents, however, still live in Ann Arbor. Happenings.* .. .today are topped by a panel discussion on the freedom of the press and related topics. Sponsored by the University's chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, the panel will include Paul Branz- burg of the Detroit Free Press and journalism Profs Paul Jess and John Stevens. The discussion will begin at 7:00 p.m. at 150 Hutchins Hall . .. the Chinese Students Association is showing "White Hair Girl", a revolutionary film from China tonite in Aud. A, in the P&A building at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. . . . Prof. George Mendenhall will deliver the Henry Russel Lecture this after- noon at 4:00 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre . . . the East Conference Room in Rackham will be the scene of a Grad Cof- fee Hour at 8:00 p.m: . . . and while the week is still young, it is not too early to start thinking about Friday night, when UAC and South Quad will sponsor a dance at 8:30 p.m. in the quad's main dining rooi. BEER IS FREE and admission is a dollar. Two bands, Detroit and The Rockets will provide the entertainment. Crosstown traffic LOS ANGELES-An unidentified man was killed at dawn yesterday on the Hollywood Freeway after being hit by five different cars. Police said the man, while attempting to cross the freeway, was knocked to the pavement by the first car which did not stop. He regained his feet and was hit by a second car which sped off. He got up again and was hit by a third car which sped off. He got up again and was hit by a fourth car which sped off. Then, while sprawled on the ground, he was run over by a fifth car which also continued on. The man was dead at the scene. Police said only one of the five drivers, 57-year-old Mary Lewis of Los Angeles, came back to see what had happened. On the inside .. . the Arts Page features Mike Harper's review of Alice Cooper's latest album . . . the Editorial Page presents "Trying to Make It Real" by Alta Starr . . . the Sports Page retells the gruesome story that was the Big Ten bas. ketball season. The weather picture Those ominous clouds are to continue hanging over us, threatening our existence with a 70 percent- chance of rain. Meanwhile, the temperature is conspiring to reach a high of 65, and beware of gusty winds. 100 pinched in big c WASHINGTON (Reuter) - U. S. The press conference was ap- and Mexican government narcotics parently called to emphasize U.S.- agents have seized 24.5 tons of Mexican cooperation in fighting marijuana in a five week antidrug drug traffic in the wake of recent, drive along the Arizona - Mexican news reports that the "Mexican border, it was announced yester- Connection" was playing an in- day. creasingly significant role in drug The Campaign, called "Opera- smuggling here. tion Cactus," resulted in more than The Mexican Ambassador in 100 arrests on both sides of the Washington, Jose Juan de Olloqui, border. The marijuana was said to told reporters that his country was hive a street value of more than mounting an intensive d r i v e $16 million. against drug traffickers in cooper- More than nine pounds of hero- ation with U. S. authorities. He in, with a resale worth of $2.5 mil- said results had been excellent, lion, was also seized. The two U.S. officials paid tri- Details of Operation Cactus were bute to Mexican cooperation in the disclosed at a Washington press narcotics war and Ingersoll de- conference by Vernon Acree, U. clared that press reports pinpoint- S. commissioner of customs, and ing Mexico as a source of narcotics John Ingersoll, director of thp Bu- were "no help, because it gives reau of Narcotics and Dangerous the country a black eye." Drugs. But he conceded that Mexico was rackdown becoming increasingly attractive as a trans-shipment point for drugs as other traditional routes were closed off. He said most of the heroin from Mexico coming via air traffic prob- ably involved different traffickers than the Mexican and American marijuana smugglers arrested in "Operation Cactus." He described the joint operation as one of* the largest, if not the largest, of recent years during which the United States and Mexi- co have cooperated in the nar- cotics war. Last month's operation in a desolate "No Man's Land" on the border involved helicopters, radio equipped vehicles and dogs. The Mexican part of the opera- See DRUG, Page 12 Daly Photo by TOM GOTTLIEB Daily Photo __ Indian sieg~e coninues as tal s reopen By the Associated Press, UPI and Reuter WOUNDED KNEE, S.D.-Militant Indians met with an assistant U.S. attorney general yesterday as the standoff at Wounded Knee continued with a tightened government cordon around the village. In the first meeting since negotiations collapsed last Saturday, Harlington Wood of the Justice Department met with Indian leaders for two hours. The Indians were told, Wood said, that there would be no attempt by the federal government to take control of Wounded Knee while negotiations were in progress. He also said that the meeting has been held in a friendly, business- ike manner and had been productive. The cordon of men and armor around Wounded Knee was re- established Monday after J'istice Department officials said the Indians had used the opportunity to allow more men and weapons into the hamlet and after several shooting incidents, including one in which an FBI agent was wounded. However, government officials at nearby Pine Ridge said yesterday that only one shot had been fired the next, night and that apparently no one had been hurt. According to Wayne Colburn, chief of U.S. marshalls at the scene, the original group of 200 Indians has now swelled to 300 and is well armed. The government has 15 armored personnel carriers and six road- blocks around Wounded Knee, manned in shifts by almost 300 men. American Indian Movement (AIM) leaders who originally came to Wounded Knee to protest alleged bad conditions on the reservation have' established their own defensive perimeter and system of bunkers. See INDIANS, Page 12 Daily Photo by KEN FINK Double fryer Daily Photographer Ken Fink spotted this bizarre sign contrast while strolling along the streets of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., during spring break. He decided to share this chance meeting of two "fry by night" outfits with our readers. ecture at Hill upset by fracas By AMY HANNERT Thesusually intellectually staid atmosphere of the Future World Lecture Series was shattered yes- terday as Hill Auditorium became the scene of a confrontation be- tween MIT Prof. Dennis Meadows and members of the National Cau- cus of Labor Committees, a so- cialist organization. Meadows, lecturing on "Limits to Growth: Challenges to Future Education," believes growth-eco-' nomic, material and physical- cannot continue at its present rate on our finite planet. He proposed a slow down in growth equilibrium so we can study our objectives, realize our limits and study theirj long range effects. A caucus member called Meadows j "scientifically incompetant" and charged his growth equilibrium theory was "facist by implication." The crowd responded to the state- ments with jeers, hisses and cries' of "get off the mike." The caucus member persisted even though a member of the audience attempted to take the microphone from him. See LECTURE, Page 12 FEDERAL FUNDS CUT City programs threatened By DAVID BURHENN According to Mayor Robert Harris, poor peo- ple in the Ann Arbor area face a "simply ter- rible" fiscal 1974 because of what he terms an "incredible number" of federally funded pro- grams that will be slashed or ended altogether. Harris presented this finding in a report to City Council on a trip he made to a Washing- ton conference of the National League of Cities and the United States Conference of Mayors. While at the conference, Harris and mayors from all over the country were briefed on the effect of Nixon budgetary cuts on programs to aid urban areas. In his report, Harris outlined several specific areas that would suffer as'a result of budgetary slashes. At the present time, about 17 persons are em- ployed by the city with funds provided under the Emergency Employment Act (EEA). According to Harris' report the end of this funding will force the firing of these employes as well as persons employed by the county and other organizations with EEA help. The Summer Youth Program has provided summer employment for young people during the past few years. Harris says that "things look bleak" for its continued funding. Regarding urbanimprovements, the report says "the practical message for Ann Arbor is a vastly reduced level of operations for Model Ci- ties . . . (and there is) no sense in even trying to apply for more public housing, or any other community development program." In addition, Harris learned that the Office of Economic Opportunity Community Action Pro- See HARRIS, Page 12 Daily Photo by SARA KRULWICH Mayor Harris 200-300 BONES REMAIN University returns the Fort Wayne skeleton' to Indians COMPROMISE CRUMBLES Dems, HRP clash over clinic; revenue sharing pact in trouble By SUE STEPHENSON After a month of intense debate, University officials have surrender- ed possession of the controversial "Fort Wayne skeleton"-an ancient Indian skeleton which local Indian groups have long claimed belongs to them. Controversy over the skeleton be- gan last month, when some 30 local Indians disrupted a meeting of the University Regents. They demand- ed that the bones be removed from the University's anthropology mu- seum and that they be buriied ac- cording to Indian custom. "We do not rob graves." -VP Allan Smith James Griffin, director and curatorof the Museum of Anthro- pology said, "It (the Fort Wayne skeleton) is estimated by us to be between 1,000 and 2,500 years old." However, at an early press con- ference last month, the Indiansces- timated the age of the bones to be between 250 to 400 years old. "(The findings of) some of the materials are the result of erosion or construction," Smith said. And according to Griffin, "In no case did the staff of the mu- seum excavate such materials. We have regarded the preservation of this material of a public trust and saved it from destruction or cas- ual disposition." Meanwhile, local Indians prepare for a non-violent march and rally at St. Mary's park this Sunday, in Monroe, Michigan to show support for theIndiansat Wounded Knee, Soith Dakota and to focus atten- tion on the conditions and diffi- By GORDON ATCHESON Funding of a community abortion clinic threat- ens to destroy a tenuous Democratic-Human Rights Party (HRP) compromise federal revenue sharing budget. k At Monday's meeting, City Council deferred ac- agreed upon last weekend. The total budget contains over $1.4 million received from the federal government for an 18 month period beginning in January, 1972. Some 5160,000 of revenue sharing funds have already been spent by council.