CONTINUING OUR MISTAKES See Editorial Page Y *iri i lau flai LIQUIDY High-70 Low-5d See Today for details Vol. LXXXII, No. 159 Ann Arbor, Michigon-Thursday, April 19, 1973 Ten Cents Twelve Pages IF YOU SELE NM'WFAPPEN CALL76.I)AJY Long life found in Sacred Valle' Regents retrn 1 The Regents are back in town today for their monthly series of meetings and a number of rather significant items are slated for discussion. A tentative tuition increase of some five to seven per cent, a request for an additional $9 million in state aid, a report on the Opportunity Program and proposals for a set of new intermural facilities top a heavy file of business. W her e have they gne? Former campus radical and Chicago Seven defendant Rennie Davis has apparently found a new cause to believe in. Davis will appear in Hill auditorium on April 24 to speak on his in- vestigation of the Guru Maharaj Ji. The Guru is the 15 year-old spiritual leader of the Divine Light Mission. According to Jeff Stevens of the Divine Light Information Center, Rennie became involved with Divine Light around the time of the signing of the Vietnam peace accords in Paris. The Guru, it seems, is also involved in seeking a path to world peace. On their information leaflet the mission quotes Davis as saying, "The appearance of the Guru Maharaj Ji on this planet is the most staggering event in the history of the world." 'Lend me your ear Speaking to a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, University prof. Anthony Muraski reported that according to his research, most people are right-eared when it comes to hearing speech sounds presented to both ears. Muraski used 40 test subjects here at the 'U' in conducting his experiments. The news was taken hard by the southpaws of the world, who have been fighting for years to overcome right-handed oppression. The SLF (Southpaw Liberation Front) had no comment on the find- ings. Agala event What is bound to be the most glamorous social event of the season is the first and possibly last annual Arts School Prom to be held Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Union ballroom. Competing for the attention of the massed artiste socialites will be such diverse people and happenings as Radio King and His Court of Rhythm, a Prom Beauty Queen (not sexist, it's open to men) a dance contest, a roller skating demonstration and a lot of decked out Art students. "It'll be a shower of stars," explained drganizer De De Denada, well known Ann Arbor socialite. Tickets are on sale in the A&D Bldg. lobby from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. thru Friday, and at the door. Happenings .. . .. .are led off today by the last Future World's Lecture. Paul Tarnoff, an environmental designer, will speak on the science of creative writing intelligence at 3:00 p.m. in Aud. 3 of the MLB . .. recently elected Democratic Councilwoman Carol Johes (D-Second Ward) will address the Lunch Box Forum today at noon in the International Center. Her topic will be: A Minority of Two, What It Can Do . . . looking ahead to the weekend there will be a final sock hop Friday night at 8:30 in the Union Ballroom. Jimmy and the Javelins and Chasity and the Belts will provide the entertainment. Born loser CHICAGO - Joe Condon is one of those people who doesn't know when to quit. After being acquitted on charges of disorderly conduct, Condon walked into the court's parking lot and dis- covered a set of keys for an expensive limousine. The temptation was simply too great for Joe, and he decided to take the car on a quick joyride. The car, it turned out, belonged to Judge John Reynolds, the man who had just acquitted Condon. When he discovered his vehicle was missing, Reynolds sent police out after Condon who was nabbed at a nearby gas station. Condon is due back in court soon on a charge of auto theft. The judge will of course be none other than John Reynolds. 4. On the inside . . the Arts Page has Richard Glatzer writing on the controversy surrounding the film "State of Seige". . Jean King writes about impending abortion legislation on the Editorial Page . . the details of the Tiger victory ap pear on the Sports Page. A2's weather. No jive, today's going to be limp and liquidy. We'll have scattered showers throughout the day due to storm system "Karen" moving south of us toward the north- east. Expect late spring temperatures with highs of 67-72 and lows tonite of 53-58. By PETER MOSLEY Reuter Science Editor LONDON-An expert on diets who stumbled across two sensational discoveries about man's evolution is heading back to South America and the scene of his still-disputed triumphs. Dr. David Davies, of London's University College, said yesterday his return is a matter of urgency I because of the risk that other teams-amateur or professional-will take over his secret storehouse of anthropological treasure in the .mountains and valleys of northern Ecuador. Davies has so far uncovered two areas of major scientific interest: -A valley called Vilcabamba ("The Sacred Valley") where people live to well over 100 years despite a diet that includes between two and four cups of rum a day and the smoking of 40 to 60 home made cigarettes. -A fossilized skull, which he nicknamed "Fred" which seems to put back the clock on man's advent in the Americas by at least 20,000 years. Davies is due to fly to Quito, Ecuador, today to consolidate his research. r At a news conference yesterday, he admitted that both his finds have been challenged to some extent within the scientific community. But he said the remarkable age of the Spanish- descended inhabitants of Vilcabamba valley was supported by their Roman Catholic. Baptismal Certificates, making them among the few true examples of "age-known specimens." A lifespan of 100 is regarded as unexceptional there and he has met and talked with still-active men of 123 and 140 years of age. And exhaustive scientific tests have dated the skull, found in a limestone strata not too far away, as being at least 28,000 and perhaps 40,000 years old, he said. Studies indicate that "Fred" was an early primitive, part Neanderthal, part Cro-Magnon man, who apparently died when a volcanic erup- tion destroyed the side of the lake that was his center of existence. The skull was found buried amidst the remains of prehistoric animals. "Fred was a very rare animal in South Amer- ica," Davies said yesterday. But he was not alone, and it could well be that man developed there independently and that. this continent, as well as Africa and perhaps Australia, was a "cradle" of mankind. "I'm going back to look for Fred's grandfather," he said. He had already found a skull that appeared to be older than Fred's but had not brought it back with him from Ecuador he said. During his six month expedition he also plans to check out reports that there were -valleys in Ecuador where the Vilcabamba experience was reversed-"where a man of 37 looks like a man of 67, -and people grow old very quickly." "Between the two, I may be able to find some- thing which may be of help to our present way of life in western civilization," Davies said. He planned to question the long-lived people of Vilcabamba very closely about their diets. So far, he had established that it was a low calory diet, about 1,500 to 1,800 calories a day. See OLD, Page 12 AIDES MAY BE INDICTED New Watergate clharges One dead in Harlem holdup try By AP and Reuter NEW YORK - New York police shot and killed one of the FBI's "ten most wanted" men during an abortive hold- up at a Harlem bank yester- day. The dead man's two accomplices surrendered after more than 100 police ringed the bank. ,They held 30 bank employes and customers hostage inside the bank during a tense hour-and-a-half negotiations with police. FBI officials. identified the dead bank robber as Mace Brown, 30, an escaped murderer. None of the hostages was in- jured. "They treated us very nice," one of the hostages said of the two surviving gunmen, Herman Holi- day, 33, of Newark, N. J., and Frederick Kelly, 26, of Manhat- tan. The pair was charged with robbery and attempted homicide. Holiday and. Kelly gave them- selves up to a television, newsman and a policeman, whom they ad- mitted to the bank specifically to negotiate their surrender. "They were trembling, they were scared," a police spokesman said of the bandits. Brown, who escaped from the District of Columbia prison last Oct., was convicted of murdering an important witness in a major narcotics trial. He was placed on the FBI's most wanted list shortly after his es- cape. The mid-morning drama began when two bandits entered the Chase Manhattan Bank branch in central Harlem and announced a stickup. A woman walking past the bank noticed the robbery in progress and alerted.police. As the first squad cars arrived at the scene, Brown, who was ' stationed as a lookout opened fire at the officers and was killed in the shootout. Another man, a bystander, was slightly wounded when struck by a bullet. The other two gunmen barricad- See SHOOT-OUT, Page 12 I *8 aides accused By AP and Reuter WASHINGTON - N e w criminal charges in the bug- ging of Democratic Party headquarters seemed immi- nent y e s te r d a y following President Nixon's abandon- ment of past blanket denials that White House aides were involved. Charges against one or more ma- jor figures in Nixon's entourage could come within a week, govern- ment sources said. Nixon, in a dramatic announce- ment Tuesday, said there had been major developments in the, investi- gation of the scandal, and ordered that no past or present senior member of his administration should be immune from prosecu- tion. A spokesman for the President said Nixon's past statements de- nying any White House involve- AP Pholo Ihtnik holId-uJ) squelced One of the FBI's ten most wanted men lies dead yesterday during an abortive bank hold-up attempt in Harlem as two policemen take cover behind a car. Two armed companions later surrendered after holding 30 persons hostage for more than an hour. BERKELEY MODERATES WIN: BULLETIN A former high-level N i x o n aide has. said that former Atty. General John Mitchell approved and helped plan the Watergate bugging operation, the Wash- ington Post reported early this morning. In a story quoting several White House sources, the Post said Jeb Magruder, f o r m e r deputy chief of the Committee to Re-Elect the President, told federal prosecutors last Satur- day that both Mitchell and White House counsel John Dean engineered the bugging of Dem- ocratic national headquarters and later arranged to buy the silence of the seven men con- victed in the bugging plot. Seale gains spot, in upeom ing Oakland mayoral runoff race OAKLAND, Calif. JP - Black Panther chairman Bobby Seale ran a distant second in his race for mayor of Oakland, but won a run-off with incumbent John Reading, who fell only 84 votes short of a majority in unofficial returns from Tuesday's nine-way race. In nearby Berkeley, a moder- ate - liberal coalition came from behind to edge out radicals for three of four council seats and win control of city government. But Berkeley voters approved several radical - sponsored city statutes, including one designed to halt arrests of marijuana users in the city unless approved by council. Although Seale, 36, ran a dis- tant second to the 55-year-old Reading and received less than half the votes of the incumbent conservative business executive, he topped the field of eight chal- lengers to win a place on a May 15 runoff ballot. Reading was smiling and con- ciliatory to Seale in his post- election statements. He told sup- porters the results "made me re- alize that it is worth it.". Speaking of Seale, Reading said, "When the Panthers were on the 'down with the police bit,' I was very much against them. But now I think they have chang- ed. I intend to talk to Mr. Seale and see if, even though we are worlds apart on many things, we can find a common ground to, work together:." Scale did not make any public statement. Oakland city hall observers said before the election that the best Seale could hope for was to win a runoff with Reading. But Seale had predicted that he would be swept into office with an overwhelming majority. Final, unofficial totals were Reading 55,342, or 49.92 per cent, and Seale 21,314, for 19.26 per cent. Otto Green, a liberal black businessman, ran third with 17,- 460 votes. in his campaign for mayor of Oakland, Seale put aside his beret and leather jacket, donning a neatly pressed business suit, immaculate shirt apd tie to stump for votes in the approved. manner of the establishment. Scale scoffed at those who doubtedhis ability to project the See SEALE, Page 9 ment in the bugging scandal now were "inoperative." Meanwhile Gordon Strachan, a former aide to White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, was seen for the second, straight day in the office of federal prosecutor Earl Silbert. Strachan wouldn't discuss the purpose of his visit. Some accounts have accused him of helping set tip a political espionage ring for the Nixon cam- paign. A federal grand jury also sub- poenaed Frederick LaRue on short notice yesterday. LaRue held a high place in President Nixon's re- election campaign. News reports have quoted inves- tigative sources as saying he helped direct a coverup of the break-in and wiretapping at Demor -. cratic national headquarters last year and handled $70,000 in unre- ported campaign money, the pur- poseofwhich is unknown. See NEW, Page 9 Study shiows declinle II deceptive gas ads By BILL HEENAN A sampling of 119 gas stations statewide by the Public Interest Re- search Group in Michigan (PIRGIM) shows that 85 per cent are com- plying with new state guidelines banning deceptive advertising, PIR- GIM announced yesterday. According to PIRGdM coordinator Roger Telschow, the names of the 15 per cent that still violate the new standards "have been turned over to Atty. Gen. Frank Kelley for legal action." The new guidelines had been established by. Kelley March 22 after PIRGIM presented evidence of widespread deceptive advertising by gas stations throughout the state. rmj,,,foi. rn.nnt,ty l, ,vr.rnrAa rc.cterdv 3inve tand whether A Lmergenicy student aid WASHINGTON oP)-Congress passed an emergency money bill yesterday that would provide $872 million in federal aid to help students attend college this fall. The bill, passed by voice votes in the House and Senate, directs President Nixon to continue the existing student aid progranis instead of putting most of the money into a new :ne, as he had requested. The bill also seeks to free an additional $85 million in aid to school districts affected by federal activities, which the diniistration has impounded. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare an- '7..