14e £r4igian Dail Eighty-two years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan More useful hints for summer travelers 5 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552I FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1973 - Wrong choice for FBI head THE PROPOSED nomination of L. Pat- GRAY FIRST BROKE precedent w rick Gray III for director of the Fed- he allowed White House Counsel J eral Bureau of Investigation has become Dean to sit in on FBI interviews of WI a messy political issue reaching into the House staffers regarding Watergate. realm of the Watergate affair. We are acceded to White House requests ag convinced that he is not the man for the by providing Dean with Watergate in job. view reports involving those outside Gray's years as a Navy submarine com- White House staff. mander and later as an HEW executive When Martha Mitchell threatened provided him with little law enforce- spill the beans about "those dirty thi ment experience when he was named that go on" in government, FBI age acting director by President Nixon. That investigating Watergate wanted to qu fact itself does not speak well for Gray. tion her. However, interview plans w Gray also flunked his only major spur- halted by Gray after former Attor of-the-moment test. When a Southern General John Mitchell objected. Airways jet was hijacked, he ordered FBI When newspapers reported that DE agents to shoot out its tires, endangering was using the FBI interview reports the lives of the passengers aboard. The coach key Watergate figure Donald jet meanwhile was forced to take off gretti for his rand jur aer grenywfayh. grand jury appearan anyway.Gray protested to Dean. Politics-the Watergate affair in par- ticular-however have become more im- Dean, of course, denied the wh portant than these factors in the Senate thing. Gray then quickly accepted Dea consideration of the nomination. denial, and told the Senate commit Critics of Gray have charged that that he dealt with the White House w he is too loyal to Richard Nixon and that a "presumption of regularity." the FBI with Gray in charge therefore Not a very good presumption to m would become a partisan force under the while investigating the possibility direction of the White House. White House campaign irregularities. Partially due to this criticism most of During the campaign itself, Gray g the Senate Judiciary Committee's ques- a speech in Cleveland after receiving tions to Gray have dealt with his han- White House memo suggesting he m dling of the FBI's investigation of the the speech. The White House said O Watergate incident. was "crucially vital to our hopes in T Gray's answers have only helped con- vember." firm the suspicion that he is too closelyN tied to the White House to be the head NONE OF THESE actions lead us to of the federal police agency. lieve that Gray has the independe of th fede alpoicea ency.necessary for an FBI director. Gray obviously loyal to the Nixon administ Today's staff: tion and his loyalty has swayed his News: Penny Blank, Mike Duweck, Jona- tions as acting director. than Miller, Bob Murray, Christo- One of the first functions of ev pher Parks, Ralph Vartabedian president during the reign of J. Ed Editorial Page: Robert Burakoff, Ted Stein Hoover was to re-appoint Hoover as F Arts Page: Diane Levick chief. If Gray's nomination is confirm Photo Technician: Stuart Hollander and he does direct FBI actions accord to White House wishes, a dangerous p cedent could be set. Director of the FBI could become Editorial Staff political appointment with each Pr dent choosing a political crony as dir CHRISTOPHER PARKS and EUGENE ROBINSON tor. The FBI would soon be little m Co-Editors in Chief than a White House police force, ROBERT BARKIN................Feature Editor frightening possibility to say the least. DIANE LEVICK..................Associate Arts Editor DAVID MARGOLICK .... ...Chief Photographer We do not believe that Patrick G MARTIN PORTER ........ Magazine Editor has demonstrated the necessary law- KATHY RICKE................... Editorial Director ERIC SCHOCH ....................Editorial Director forcement experience or independen GLORIA SMITH........................Arts Editor The message therefore from the judi CHARLES STEIN ........................ City Editor TED STEIN.......................Executive Editor ary committee to the Senate should MARTIN STERN................Editorial Director very clear-the nomination of Patr ED SUROVELLBook.........oos Editor ROLFE TESSEM .....................Picture Editor Gray should be rejected. ,hen ohn hite He gain ter- the to ngs ents ues- tere ney ean to Se- nce, hole an's ttee vith ake of ave g a ake hio No- be- nce is ra- ac- ery gar FBI m'ed ing re- e a ,esi- rec- ore a ray en- nce. ici- be rick Editor'ssnote: This is the third In a five part series on traveling abroad. By JANE ANDERSON and J. P. MILLER PASSPORTS, visas, vaccination certifi- cates, insurance, student identity cards, rail passes, hostel cards, charter flight in- formation!!! The pre-departure paper work required for a successful, personalized trip abroad needn't boggle your mind. Most of it can be handled in Ann Arbor or requested from locations here. Start cutting through travel red tape at the International Center Work/Study/Travel Abroad Office, a central location where a wide range of both necessary and exotic travel information is available. One visit may save you dozens of frus- trating phone calls or fruitless errands and a few unfortunate experiences overseas. You'll discover not only "how-to" informa- tion but also helpful insights from seasoned travelers and a library of guidebooks and firsthand accounts. PASSPORTS To apply for a passport, go either to the City-County Building, corner of Huron and Main Streets, or the Main U.S. Post Of- fice, 2075 W. Stadium Boulevard (769-7100). You'll need to bring along the following items: -Proof of U.S. citizenship - either a pre- viously issued passport, a birth certificate or naturalization papers; -Two passport size (2x2") photos (full face and identical); and -Identification - driver's license with your signature, photo and physical descrip- tion. Passports cost $12. Appiy early since they take from two to three weeks, and occas- sionally longer, to be processed in Wash- ington D.C. VISAS Visas are stamped notations in a pass- port authorizing entry to a foreign coun- try. Since their cost and duration vary, check with embassies for recent informa- tion. A list of fees and addresses of em- bassies and consulates is available at the International Center. Some countries re- quire a photograph before issuing a visa, so buy an extra passport photos. IMMUNIZATION To escape an attack of the Delhi Belly, the Tokyo Trots or the Aztec Two-Step, go to the Immunization Clinic in the basement of Health Service, 207 Fletcher, and find out what shots you need for your trip. The Clinic is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Appointments aren't neces- sary, but if you don't want to wait, come before 10 a.m. Health Service issues the stamped Inter- national Record of Health and Immuniza- tion required as proof of protection. If you catch an exotic disease or merely have a hassle filling a prescription abroad, let Health Service know about your exper- iences. They're anxious to learn about health tips from experienced travelers. TRAVEL INSURANCE Adequate travel insurance is a safeguard against health and baggage problems over- seas. If your regular policies don't cover you while you're traveling abroad, check into the information about low cost travel packages at the International Center. Re- member that low-budget travelers can't af- ford to pay for losses themselves. University Health Insurance provides worldwide coverage against accidents and illness. If you have University Health In- surance which will be in force while you're abroad, take along claim forms available at the International Center or the Student Government Council in order to speed up processing claims in case of loss. INTERNATIONAL STUDENT IDENTITY CARD A good piece of identification to carry, the International Student Identity Card helps you cut costs on meals, accommo- dations, transportation, and theater and museum entrance fees. Fulltime undergrad- uates and graduate students are eligible and can purchase cards at the International Center for two dollars. Bring in one photo and proof of student status such as an official letter from the Registrar's Office. INTERNATIONAL YOUTH HOSTEL PASS Overnight accommodations in Youth Hos- tels in 47 different countries can be arrang- ed if you own an International Youth Hostel Pass. The pass costs $10 and is valid for one year. The International Center issues passes and also carries hostel directories. RAILPASSES Does your European itinerary include more than three or four countries? If yes, consider purchasing a rail pass (still econ- omical even though prices have recently gone up 10 per cent due to the devaluation of the dollar). The Eurailpass provides unlimited first class travel in 13 Western European coun- tries at a cost of approximately $145 for a three week period. (You can also buy a one, two or three month pass). An extra advantage is that the pass is valid on many likes and river steamers, ferry boats and buses. The Student Railpass is available to bona fide students for a two month period at a cost of approximately $150. It provides unlimited second class travel and is also accepted by many water and land trans- portation services. Great Britain has its own train passes and student discount pass, BritRailPass. asses must be obtained prior to leav- ing the U.S. You can apply for rail passes at any local travel agency and need to bring along your passport number and an Inter- national Student Identity Card for student passes. FLIGHT INFORMATION The cheapest way to get abroad is still the charter flight. UAC (second floor of the Michigan Union) has a series of flights to Europe and can book SOFA flights - intra- European student charters which can, cut commercial rates in half. Youth/Excursion 'Fares provide reduced rates on regular scheduled airlines based on student status or a special length of stay. Travel agents and airline offices should be able to give you more details. However, the status of youth fare and travel group charter (TGC) flights is unclear right now. Major airline carriers can't agree about price rates. Decisions expected some time in April should clear the situation. Jane Anderson and J. P. Miller are staff members of the University's International (enter. .1 i 4. - - - .-7F- 1 - - u _ a- i i1 I L L 4I4 ' Ii5 y1 ( l 1. 1 j I I IlI ,. I ' a r 4 I 4 t . < . ; ! . li A E ___ 1 . /, t ; a A grave condition: Healthy as the buck By DICK WEST I WENT INTO the clinic the other day for my biennial medical checkun. When it was oyer, the doctor looked at my chart and said "you are as sound as a dollar." No matter how we try to steel ourselves for the acceptance of bad news, we are never quite pre- pared for a thunderbolt of that sort. Learning that one's health has been devalued 20 per cent in the last 14 months comes as a nasty jolt, regardless of how stoic one might be. I figure that being sound as a dollar means I only have a few more months to live. PSYCHOLOGISTS tell us we go through four emotional states in re- action to unfavorable prognosis. The stages are disbelief, resent- ment, depression and resignation. My disbelief was instantaneous. "But Doc," I protested, "there must be some mistake. I've been as fit as a fiddle since my last checkup. At times I've even been in fine fettle. Now you tell me I'm as sound as a dollar. Are you sure you haven't got the wrong cliche?" He took another look at my chart. "There's no doubt about it," he said. "Your soundness is definitely dollarish." I said, "How can you be certain I'm not as sound as a whistle or as a bell?" "Those similes don't match your tvne of bromide," the doctor re- plied. That brought on resentment. "But I'm too young to be as sound as a dollar," I cried. "And I have a family to support. Why me? Why couldn't this have hap- pened to George Shultz or John Connally?" THE DOCTOR tried to be con- soling. "Don't lose hope," he said. "The International Monetary Fund is constantly experimenting wi th new formulas for currency reform. *"Someday, someone will find a cure for inflation, trade imbalances and other disorders that under- mine and weaken the dollar." "Don't try to kid me, Doc," I said. "We're no closer to stamping out those disorders than we were after the last devaluation. "If I have to rely on Phase III to pull me through, I'll be lucky to last until the next international monetary crisis." Fortunately, however, it . didn't take me long to reach the stage' of resignation. I have even man- aged to become philosophical about my plight. If one must have a terminal pla- titude, being as sound as a dollar is as good as being as dead as a doornail. Maybe better. Dick West is a special feature writer for United Press Inter- national. _l 1 i4 Of fing Meadows' gloomy forecast By JOAN ANDERSON WILL INCREASED growth of industry, population and pollution concurrent with diminishing resources and a fixed food supply mean disaster for the human race in 100 years? According to Profs. Dennis and Donella Meadows, unless we radically change present trends in growth, world devel- opment will end catastrophically by the year 2100. Their conclusions are the result of computer work going on at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which Den- nis Meadows discussed here last Tuesday as part of the Fu- ture World's Lecture Series. In keeping with the Meadows' advice, the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan (PIRGIM) will investigate sev- eral important areas, including land use and energy needs endangered by growth in Michigan. The Meadows have researched the exact relationships between our present levels of population, resources, food supply, industrial output and pollution. But the problem with their doomsday forecasts is that we are asked to turn to the future to find a crisis. WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT one hundred years to find a world in bad shape, we see great inequalities even before we start the time machine rolling. When a computer model tries to extend these factors over time, its results became very uncertain. By assuming present trends to remain con- stant, the readjustment factor that might prevent the crisis gets left out. The realistic world situation is not an end-of-the-world game, but a survival game played every day. The pall- bearer approach neglects the important fact that conditions under stress change the motives of the players throughout the game. A better strategy is available: The emphasis of the Mea- dows' project should shift away from doomsday forecasts of the present trends towards using the model to find poli- cies that change the factors that create these trends. THIS STRATEGY is essentially pursued by PIRGIM. It is very interested in knowing the long run effects of the so- cial change it works for. The best strategy towards guaranteeing a better future is to center on the root of the problems. It requires propos- ing the kinds of solutions that everyone can work towards. Comniter mndels are onlv useful after we break down the Letters: ro The Daily: THIS LETTER is to express our support for the newly incorporated Community Women's Clinic, and to invite all interested community women to an open organizational meeting to be held Sunday, March 18, at 3:00 p.m. at St. Andrews Church basement at 306 N. Divi- sion. The Community Women's Clinic statement of purpose includes pro- viding services "relating to wo- nen's health care, including b u t lot limited to: diagnosis, counsel- ing and treatment of venereal dis- ease; birth control counseling and Dispensing of prescriptions for con- traceptives; termination of preg- 3ancy; counseling services; lab- )ratory; pharmagy or dispensary; educational services and literature relating to women's health prob- lems; presentations of informal :lasses and workshops on women's health . . ." on a sliding scale fee basis. The Community Women's Clinic will be a strictly nonprofit :orporation that will be directed by a wide .representation of com- munity women. In order to ensure the rapid es- tablishment of Community Wo- nen's Clinic, financial support is essential. Monies are currently be- ing sought from city revenue shar- ing and other sources. In addition, .ndividual donations or loans are necessary as "seed money" and as expressions of community sup- port. Community Women's Clinic is currently in the process of apply- ing for tax-exempt status which will be retroactive to March 12, 1973. All donations may be sent to: Community Women's Clinic, P.O. Box 268, Ann Arbor, Mi. 48107. De- benture bonds of a minimum of $25 with no interest may be pur- chaed hy endinir cheks marked Women's clinic boosted port in the form of financial con- tributions and by participation at the Community meeting March 18. Thank you. a -Laurie Levinger Sally Harrison Linda Garnets March 13 Mogdis hit To The Daily: I WAS ACCOSTED recently by a series of posters that the streets around the campus area have sprouted, which advocateathe can- didacy of Franz Mogdis for mayor. These proclaim that if we elect Mogdis, he will open up the gov- ernment to let us change it. This is a generous offer on Mog- dis' part, but like fool's gold, its at- traction is to the unwary. Mogdis might open up City Hall, but he does not offer to open up the eco- nomic system that owns it. For some reason, Mogdis and his Democratic slate see the problems of Ann Arbor as being divorced- from our economic way of life. Such£is the mistake of the fool- hardy. Liberals, like Mogdis, fail to understand that a supermarket that misleads and misweighs is following the same economic in- stinct as the landlord that doesn't make repairs, and that both will be eliminated when both cease to be profitable. Similarly, it is the same system that established dic- tatorship of the bosses on the job that established dictatorship of the wardens inside prisons, and the supremacy of white men with- in our social structure. Joe Hill seemed to have sum- marized Mogdis' argument t h a t political change can come without economic reorganization quite ably over fifty years ago - pie in the sky. Mogdis' open City Hall (which nr-- -ntlr i nP not in: l>>ria nn bosses' pocketbooks. This is the crucial difference, and should be considered first in deciding b e- tween the two. Hippos are ugly and seemingly slothful, but when they decide to move, they clear their own paths. Can the same be said for jackasses? -Everett Ehrlich March 14 Gay acceptance To The Daily: THE RECENT letter to the Daily signed JRB is a perfect example of the suppression gay people feel everyday. Even though JRB found the courage to go to the Scene as a gay person, he still lacks the valor to identify himself by sign- ing his name to the letter he wrote. In the past few months the closet queens of this community have been peeking out their doors and taking a good look at the world outside. We don't like what we see! The recent visits to the Scene by large groups of gay people have been a result of this. The actions and attitudes of the "sexually lib- erated" "hip" students is con- temptable at the very least. (I don't mean to imply by this that any of the straight people at the Scene are sexually liberated be- cause they are not and have made this clear by their utter contempt for their gay sisters and brothers.) It is the height of gypocrisy to listen to the student revolutiona- ries talk about the coming down- fall of the Capitalist system when they themselves are part of it. One of the most efficient methods this society has used to deceive people as to who their real enemies are is through the use of bigotry. With- out a minority to discriminate agailst people start thinking about their own oppression. Tma par atnl laaa ro- n cr- - then you are part of the problem" -Eldridge Cleaver. Up until this point gay people have more or less kept to them- selves at the one bar in this city which society has deemed to allow us. That time has ended as of the first visit to Mackinac Jack's. De- spite the tthreats from bouncers and clientele, despite the jibes and insults we will continue to treat every bar in this city as our own. Segregation is no longer accept- able for any people and especially for us. If you don't feel that you can enjoy yourself in the same bar or discotheque with gay people then feel free to leave because we will not. As Robert Bennett pointed out very well in his letter in Saturday's Daily, the progress of the so-called revolution is not being held up by the Capitalist system but by "revo- lutionaries" who refuse to deal with their own sexism. If you are un- sure of your sexuality then deal with it, don't deal it on me. I know where I am at. -Dan Byrne Feb. 23 Socialist economics To The Daily: DANIEL DeLEON, founder of Socialist Industrial Unionism, once told a group of striking workers that, "what the working class stands in need of, aye, more than bread, is an elementary under- standing of economics." Without this understanding the working class is like a blindfolded boxer striking in all directions without ever hitting the target. Due to this lack of understanding the working. class confine their s t r u g g 1 e s to guerrilla warfare against the effects of the existing system of capitalism instead of concentrating their efforts upon the ahnitin:- of n nit: li: th n n. Sylvia's Si~gn FRIDAY; MARCH 16, 1973 Pisces make excellent veterinarians Pisces. (Feb. 19 - March 20) Avoid busi- ness transactions today. Not much happen- ing in the way of romance this evening. Time is best spent at a sports event with some close friends. Aries. (March 21 - April 19) Your time will be spent listening to another's prob- lems. Be patient. The evening will be best spent on a movie date with a new acquaintance. Taurus. (April 20 - May 20) A successful day if it is spent increasing your cash reserves. Apprehension over prior plans made for evening will disappear as romance becomes more unexpectedly enjoyable. Gemini. (May 21 - June 20) You tend to be highly emotional and explosive today. Refrain from sudden outbursts. Date may be broken but last minute plans prove to be more favorable. Cancer. (June 21 - July 22) Be patient with projects even though they are not proceeding as you have plans. Towards the evening you should become quite giddy promising a humorous night. Leo. (July 23 - Aug. 22) Ignore those who are speaking, unfavor- able things about you. The truth will come to light. A good week- end to spent away from Ann Arbor. Visit old friends and escape. Virgo. (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) The afternoon finds you surprised to learn of a sudden rise in your- popularity. Political candidates of this sign should take special note. Evening will contain more conversation than physical activity. Libra. (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) Make plans and financial agree- ments carefully today and save innumerable steps and aggrava- tion. Make an important long distance call without delay. Un- wind. Scorpio. (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) Study this morning so weekend can be free from worry. You will feel an extra need for romantic reassurance this evening but don't be dismayed if it is not there. k,