wednesday September 20, 1972 I HE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Wednesday, September 20, 1972 WE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven CITE RACISM, ISOLATION Held Over! Special additional engagement of A rthur Penn s LITTLE "A HIP EPIC!" BIG MAN Paulne Kael, NEW YORKER Magazine "A RAMBUNCTIOUS TRIUMPH! THE '70s FIRST GREAT EPIC! 'Little Big Man' is the new western to begin all westerns!" -Stefan Kanfer, TIME Magazine r "Dustin Hoffman is the 121-year-old sole survivor of Custer's Last Stand. Director Arthur Penn tells his tallest of tall tales beautifully. A raucous, sprawling, extraordinarily rich work that is the -best I American movie of the year . . . Dedicated to the theory that 'a two-legged creature will believe any- thing'." --INDEPENDENT FILM JOURNAL TONIGHT!-Sept. 20th-7& 9:30 p.m-35mm Panavision-Technicolor COMING THURSDAY-Francois Truffaut's brilliant THE 400 BLOWS TUESDAY, Sept. 26th-Michelangelo Antonioni's stunning BLOW-UP' WEDNESDAY, Sept. 27th-SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE . . . (First Run!) all showings in AUDITORIUM "A" ANGELL HALL-$1 tickets On saie for all of each evenings performances at 6 p.m. outside the auditorium WE HAVE RAISED OUR ADMISSION PRICE TO $1 The Ann Arbor Film Cooperative is established to promOte and support filmmaking in the community. Any profits earn-ed a our film showings are invested in the cooperative's editing and production equip- ment. our film school. Dran's to community filmmakers, our 8 mm festival and other projects. It is to increase the effectiveness of the cooperative that- prifces have been raised. Anyone interested in the co- operative or its activities is always encouraged to seek membership and to patronize our showings. Black airmen LAREDO, Tex. 03) - Black air- Their complaints, as expressed men held control of a mess hall on by telephone, centered on the Laredo Air Force Base for eight length of time they were required hours yesterday but surrendered to serve in Laredo which they said it after the base commander agreed they consider "a remote post," and to discuss their grievances. the lack of social opportunities for The men, said officially to num- blacks in the area. ber about 30, seized the airmen's "There's nothing down here for dining hall when first breakfasts the black airman's social life," said were served about 4 a.m. They one spokesman, who would identify locked the doors and said t he y himself only as Steve. He added: would stay there until their de- "We feel racism among Mexican- mands were met. Americans in the Air Force and in After the wing commander, Col. the town." Blacks are outnumber- L. W. Svendsen Jr., failed to per-.ed 99 to 1 on the base, he claim- suade the men to return to duty, ed. two black negotiators were sum- Other complaints were that civil- moned from Air Training Command ian clothes sold on the base were headquarters at Randolph AFB "unsuitable for bl cks," and that near San Antonio. black airmen were demoted in rank seize I of the Congressional Black Caucus to discuss their complaints. Chisholm said she did not 'nn to come to Laredo; but she promi- sed there would be some move on the situation immediately. She al- so said: "We don't want to do any- thing to make the situation wors2 .' An aide to Rep. Louis Stokes (D- Ohio), chairman of Congress' Black Caucus, later said the Defense De- partment had been contacted on the airmen's complaints and the caucus planned to make a state- ment today. While the men held their sit in at the gray barracks-like budiid;, it was business as usual on the rest of the base, which has axioat 3,000 military and civilian persot- nel, including some foreign s t ii- dents training #s pilots. Trafic was kept out of the mass hall area and a few Air Forc~ po- lice stood around. Svendsen paed up and down while the talks went on inside. Occasionally one of te men peeped out from a windo; When the men finally left the dining hall at 12:30 p.m. sorie eight hours after taking it over, a base spokesman said they did so on the promise that Svendsen wood dis.us their grievances with repre- sentatives in his office. The spokesman said no daniage had been done to the building. R1e also said an investigation was in- der way "to determine the facts and circumstances surrounding the incident." Airman 1.C. Billy Williams of Abilene, Tex., said: "The b I a ;k s' aren't getting along-'here in Laredo with the people in the town or on' thebase. It's an all-around thing." Another of the men said t ni e y wanted shorter assignments to duty there. Some men might be as long as four year in Laredo, he said. Police reports do not reflect any abnormal number of incidents m- volving blacks in Laredo. One re - dent suggested that the trouble might. partly stem from the fact that 85 per cent of the people liv- ing in Laredo are Mexican-Ameri- cans and Spanish-speaking. Blacks in the local population numbier about one-fourth of one per cent. "Whether or not, real or imag- ied, they (the black airmen) feeJ1 they have a problem in that Laredo is isolated as far as blacks a r e tall in protest concerned," Svendsen told news- men. "They are almost base-bound when it comes to being among their own people." Asked if he thought the fact that President Nixon was due at the Laredo base on a Texas tour Fri- day might have something to do with the demonstration, Svendsen said: "It's tied in with the Presi- dent's visit, I suppose, and t n a t sparked their activity." The colonel said he had prom- ised themen therewould be no punitive actionsagainst them if the. nmess hall" was undamaged. No. effort had been made to take their names, he said, although "we know them." He added that he though a court- martial might be "counterproduc- tive to what we are trying to a- chieve." Svendsen said he had not known until they took public action that the blacks objected to the length (if their tour of duty in Laredo, which he said might be up to four years. They are seeking 12 to 18 months instead. The men appointed four dele- gates to meet with the colonel, who said there would be a series of talks, perhaps lasting several days, "until we have a handle on the whole thing." . . I I '. One was Sgt. Thomas Barnes, or punished over regulations su:h described as an advisor to t h e as haircuts while white were only commanding general and key en- reprimanded. listed man in the command. The Demands were made that word of other was Sgt. Duke Ali Shariff- the airmen's situation be passed to Bey, a member of the command's Sen. Barbara Jordan, a b 1 a i k social actions office. Texas legislator, 'and to U.S. Rep. While negotiations dragged on, Shirley Chisholm, (D-N.Y.). the men in the dinnig hall g o t In Washington Chisholm said she some telephone calls through to the had talked with representatives of outside world. the men and asked for a meegtig DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN .The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the Univer- sity of Michigan. Notices should be sent in TYFWRITTEN FORM to 409 E. Jefferson, before 2 p.m. of the day preceding publication and by 2 p.m. Friday for Saturday and Sunday. Items appear once only. Student organization notices are not accepteI for publication. For more information, phone 764-9270. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 DAY CALENDAR Botany Seminar: R. J. Pankhurst, Univ. of Cambridge, England, "Auto- matic Identification of Biological Specimens," 1139 Nat. Sci. Bldg., 4 pm. Physics Colloquium: D. I. Meyer, "Symmetries and Other Regularities in Strong Interactions," P&A Colloq. Rm., 4 pm. Psychology 171 Film: "J o h n 17 Months: Nine Days in a Residential Nursery," UGLI Multipurpose Rm, 4 pm. Computing Center: "Use of the Tele- 'type in MTS," Seminar.Rm, Comp. Ctr., 4, 4:45, 7. 7:45, 8:30 pm. CAREER PLANNING & PLACEMENT 3200 SAB Mademoiselle Competitions: 1) Fic- tion & Poetry Competition: for under- grad men & women; winners receive cash prizes & publication of, their work. 2) Mademoiselle College Board/ Guest Editor Competition-: 1972-73 bro- chure now available; check this office for complete details. ORGANIZATIONAL MEETINGS United Farm Workers Boycott Com- mittee meeting, Sept. 22, 8:00 PM, Friends Meeting House, 1416 Hill St. Seek volunteers and assign worm' pro- jects. U of M volleyball Club organization- al meeting, Sept. 21, 7:30 PM, Faculty Lounge, Michigan Union. All old mem- bers and new interested' ones welcome. Undergraduate Political Set. Assoc.. General Meeting Sept. 25 7:30 PM, 429 Mason Hall. .. Michigan Union Bowling LEAGUES NOW FORMING LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP OPEN 11 a.m. Mon.-Sat.; 1 p.m. Sun. i I nte rested 0 I in GRAD SCHOOL LAW SCHOOL DENT SCHOOL 2 Join UNION-LEAGUE I It'11look GREAT on your Application Mass Meeting TONIGHT 7:00 n.m. -:..::.!......., l m .d... ........... . hhP. "i: n1axn limii&fo ne a,. itm"-and o~1r fmiw,. ..E I