FUNDING FOR DETROIT SCHOOLS See Editorial Page C, r Sir ~igau &zit CHILLING High-13 Low-7 For details, see today Vol. LXXXIII, No. 75 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, December 7, 1972 Ten Cents Eight Pages today. . if you see news happen call 76-DAILY Truman condition critical KANSAS CITY-Former President Harry Truman, hospitalized With lung congestion and bronchitis, was placed on the critical list late last night and a hospital spokesperson said his condition was in "a very delicate and critical balance." The public relations director for Research Hospital and Medical Center where the 88- year-old former chief executive was taken Tuesday night, said Truman had suffered a "temporary relapse" in the evening hours Wednesday, but his condition had since stabilized. Truman's situation was "complicated by infection which thus far has not responded adequately to antibiotics," reports said. Truman was placed on the critical list at 9:17 p.m. EST, with a condition that includes the definition "death may be imminent." Arsonist 'insane,' not guilty Mark Friesen, who admitted starting a fire in his Markley Hall room last March, was found not guilty by reason of insanity yesterday following a two-day trial in Washtenaw County Circuit Court. Friesen, a former freshman, believes he is "Gob," a super- human counterpart of God in contact with powers from the planet Venus, according to a psychiatrist who examined the youth. Friesen will now be placed in a mental facility where he will undergo treatment. Hornstein note Student Government Council Representative David Hornstein has apparently set frivolity aside to get down to the serious business of running a student government. Hornstein, along with Council members Bill Dobbs and Michael Lewis, plan to intro- duce a motion at tonight's meeting to establish a Committee for the Abolition of Laws on Victimless Crimes. The committee, which would receive $1,000 from SGC, would be concerned with advancing "sexual freedom, achievement and expression," and repealing "all laws and penalties relating to an individual's usage and purchasing of drugs." The proposal also calls for a student dope co-op to open when current drug laws have been repealed. Hornstein in an uncharacteristically serious note com- mented that "this is not a cheap publicity stunt, unlike the dope co-op last week." Happenings.* Lawyer, author and University graduate Ann Fagen Ginger will speak informally this morning from 9:30 to 11:30 in the Lawyers Club Lounge at the law school . . . City health care needs is the topic facing the Democrats at their monthly meeting tonight at 8 p.m. in the Public Library. Panelists will discuss ways to improve health care delivery . . . Add spice to your life with a Mexican dinner sponsored by the Ecumenical Campus Center, 912 Church St. Dinner begins at 6:30 . . . and finally, Rive Gauche is having a tree decorating party tonight at 9 p.m. More cabinet appointments CAMP DAVID-President Nixon announced yesterday that Earl Butz will remain in the cabinet as agriculture secretary. Butz made headlines this fall when Democrats accused his department of selling out farmers by causing them to sell grain at low prices before the recent giant Soviet-U.S. deal. The President also said that Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson is leaving the cabinet and is being replaced by Frederick Dent, a textile manu- facturer. Presidential Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler refused to say if Peterson had resigned without pressure-leading to specu- lation that the President had eased him out to make room for Dent. Boggs' fate WASHINGTON-House Democratic leaders have decided that the House should declare vacant the seat of Rep. Hale Boggs (D.-La.) resolving a legal dilemna caused by Bogg's disappear- ance on an airplane flight over Alaska Oct. 16. This action opens the way for a special Louisiana election. Boggs, the House majority leader and Rep. Nick Begich (D-Alaska), who also disappeared on the flight, were both re-elected in November. Court proceedings have already begun in Alaska under that state's presumption-of-death law, to determine the status of Begich's I seat. The proposed House resolution, however, would include a finding that Begich's seat is also vacant, sources said. Prostitute unionization IZMIR, Turkey-Turkey's prostitutes have formed their own trade union-the Personal Service Workers Union-and have announced plans to open branches in all big cities. At the inaugural meeting Health Officer Ruknettin Halulu said Turkey's estimated 17,000 prostitutes provided an important safety valve in society's sexual life. He said the union would fight for the independence, human rights and dignity of its members, many of whom were unjustly treated. On the inside ... Staff writer Kathy Ricke discusses the plight of state mental hospitals on the Editorial Page . . . A review of the Austral String Quartet appears on the Arts Page . . . and sports writer Bob McGinn previews the Big Ten basket- ball race on Page 6. The weather picture Better button up more than your overcoat before leaving home today. A cold wave wafted over the area last night sending temperatures way down. Today's high will creep up to 13, tonight's low will descend to 7. A minute chance of snow flurries and imperceptible winds are forecast. icensiA By ROBERT BURAKOFF and TERRY MARTIN Relations between University film organizations and national film dis- tributors have become so strained that unless steps toward licensing are taken locally, the companies may refuse to deal with campus groups. This situation has prompted the Student Organizations Board (SOB) to draft a proposal requiring all groups showing films in University facilities to obtain a license from Student Gov- ernment Council. The proposal will be considered at tonight's SGC meeting. ngof Dave Schaper, SGC treasurer and member of SOB, said the proposal was necessary because of several in- cidents of film groups "ripping off" distributors. Schaper said that University film groups have acquired a bad reputa- tion and are currently having diffi- culties procuring films. Implicated in recent incidents is a now defunct group called the Uni- versity of Michigan Film Society. The society, active last summer, ran up bills with several distributors. Last week, Maurice Rinkel, auditor ilm grc u s proosed wary of dealing with University film in its place. groups in the future. Newsreel spokesman Glen Allvord for student organizations, received a letter from one such distributing firm, Films Incorporated of Skokie, Ill. The letter asked for Rinkel's help in re- covering $1,024.69 of debts that the Film Society had run up with the firm. Another distributor, New Line Cine- ma of New York has had similar problems with the Society. Michael Harpster, sales manager of the com- pany said yesterday that the Society had not paid a $700 debt incurred over the summer. Both companies said they would be Films, Incorporated identifies a co- operative known as Friends of News- reel as the "former University of Michigan Film Society." According to Peter Wilde, super- vising projectionist for University films, "Newsreel is rather in doubt as an organization." Wilde says that films booked for the fall under the name of the University of Michigan Film Society had that name crossed off and Friends of Newsreel written denies any connection with the Uni- versity of Michigan Film Society. Wilde describes Newsreel's reports to film distributors of ticket money, which is usually the determinant for the rate charged for the film, as "erratic estimates." "I thought Newsreel was starting over with a new name and that they'd make an attempt to get out from un- der suspicion by behaving honestly See FILM, Page 8 Kissinger, Tho negotiate for 512 hour s in Paris By AP and Reuters PARIS-Presidential envoy Henry Kissinger and Hanoi emissary Le Duc Tho held a five and a half hour negotiating session here yesterday as they continued talks on the war in Vietnam. At the end of the meeting, the negotiators and their aides shook hands before parting-the first time they were seen to do so after a bargaining session. The two peace negotiators maintained their agreed news blackout. There was no comment from either side on rumors that agreement might be imminent. The White House announced Kissinger and Tho would meet again this afternoon. Their scheduled Tuesday meeting was canceled without Hospital care group By BETH EGNATER Seventy Was htenaw County citi- zens are working to put public health care in control of the com- munity. They are members of the Washtenaw Community Hospital and Health Care Corporation (WC- HHC), a newly formed nonprofit organization. WCHHC was started "by indi- viduals who came against St. Jo- seph's plan to move to southeast- ern Washtenaw County," Ron Spears, temporary treasurer of the group, said. "We want to make alternative plans. We want to give control of health care to the com- munity instead of St. Joseph's ad- ministration." The group decided upon a five point program at a meeting held Tuesday night at the Ann Arbor Community Center. They hope to find a way to meet the health care needs of all the people of Washte- naw County and establish com- munity controlled health care fa- cilities. In addition, WCHHC plans to lo- cate government funds allocated for community health services and use them to provide better serv- ices. Lastly, the organization plans to inform and involve more citizens in health care matters. Membership is open to all citi- zens of the Washtenaw County area. Although there is no fee,. members are encouraged to sup- port the corporation with volun- tary financial contributions. Daniel Ringler, Chairman of the Corporation's Outreach Committee, (unaffiliated with the university), said hetexpects several thousand citizens to join the corporation. "Right now people aren't fa- See CITY, Page 8 explanation. The negotiators met here Mon- day for five hours at the start of what appears to be the final round of the search for a Vietnam peace. They unexpectedly cancelled Tuesday's scheduled meeting and held intensive negotiations with their governments and allies. Yesterday's talks were at the horse of a Paris Jeweler in the fashionable western suburb of Neuilly. After a brief lunch, Kis- singer and Tho were seen taking a short stroll in the garden before resuming their discussions. Kissinger and Tho, who reached a basic nine-point peace agree- ment here last October, were busy drafting clarification clauses and tidying up loose ends, diplomatic sources said. Three main subjects were un- der discussion in the current talks. One was the question of the with- drawal of North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam, which Saigon insists should be "inscribed one way or another" in the proposed ceasefire agreement. Hanoi will never admit it has troops in South Vietnam,and Nixon is not forcing this issue. But well- informed sources here said the U. S. President might settle for a tacit agreement whereby North Vietnamese forces would regroup in three main areas and begin to return home as South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu de- mobilizes part of his army. Saigon claims there are 300,000 North Vietnamese troops in the South, while American estimates put the figure at 145,000. Nixon is reported to be satis- fied that Thieu, with his one mil- lion-strong armed forces, will be capable of defending his country from any North Vietnamese in- terference pending elections and a lasting peace. Thieu will make no decision on whether to accept or reject the ceasefire until the end of the cur- rent Kissinger-Tho talks here, South Vietnamese officials said. Saigon newspapers predicted a cease-fire agreement by Christ- mas. But in Hanoi, the official newspaper Nhan Dan said there can be no peace until the Saigon government agrees to release its political prisoners. Photo by NASA APOLLO 17 stands on the launch pad as technicians work out problems last night at Cape Kennedy. The mission was delayed for more than two hours before final lift-off. CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (A) - Delayed for more than two hours by a computer problem coming within a breath of a flawless lift- off, Apollo 17 vaulted toward the moon early this morning, pro- pelled by a fiery rocket on what could be man's last voyage to another world. The last flight of the historic Apollo series began at 12:33 a.m. EST as a thundering Saturn 5 rocket thrust Navy Capt. Eugene Cernan, g e o1 o g i s t Harrison "Jack" Schmitt and Navy Cmdr. Ronald Evans away from their home planet on a scientific ex- pedition to fill in missing chap- ters of moon history. Hundreds of thousands of per- sons jammed viewing sites in the Cape Kennedy area to bid fare- well to Apollo and to watch the blazing departure in the first after-dark launching of an Ameri- can manned space flight. They all had to wait two hours 40 minutes beyond the planned liftoff time while experts trouble shot the problem with a com- puter-driven device called an automatic sequencer. 17 lift more than 3,000 rockets have been fired in 22 years. The Saturn 5 flashed to life with the brilliance of the sun and sent a cascade of flame rushing like a waterfall over its launch- ing pedestal. Earlier in the day, the three astronauts slept until noon and underwent a brief physical ex- amination. They had an early evening steak supper, donned their bulky white spacesuits and then boarded a van for the trip to the launch pad, where their o ff after delay 36-story-tall rocket was bathed in floodlights. Schmitt pretended that he was reluctant to , go and, laughing, made a move to leave the van after he entered. Schmitt, a profesisonal geolo- gist, is the first scientist to fly in space, and will add a new dimension to lunar exploration. With his trained eye and Cer- nan's nearly two years of geology training, these two adventurers hope to find rocks that will tell scientists about the early and late history of the moon, filling in missing gaps in lunar evolu- tion. Cernan, the articulate com- mander of Apollo 17, has dedi- cated the mission to awakening the world to the fact that this "is not the end of space flight. It is just the conclusion of the beginning. We're not putting our rockets in the barn and closing the door. We're just beginning to understand and accept the chal- lenge that the universe has for us." HIS HIGHNESS SPEAKS SGC absurdity' warms Emperor Hornstein's soul N , I I 1 I News critic accuses media of blandness, blames govt. coercion By ROBERT BURAKOFF "The perfect addition to Homer Heath Lounge (home of Student Government Council meetings) would be a gigantic sandbox in the middle of the floor. When an SGC member lases isk temner Awhich is 1alvs lmnnenin-g party backing did not however, prevent him from garnering what he calls, "an overwhelm- ing mandate of 500 votes." Since that time Council member/Emperor Hornstein has gained considerable notoriety for his nronnwpd SGC done co-op. The plan By ANGELA BALK Government attacks on journalists and the news media in the last four years have "coerced" them into being "bland and timid." This assessment of the national news scene was oiva x~p,ar vby1Bn naodikian. media critic "Richard Nixon, like all presidents, would like to be Editor-in-Chief of the United States." "Inhibitions on the freedom of the press have resulted from administration hostility to media criticism," he said. He cited the federal court restraining order to the New York Times and s_..,.. ...Ty, ,.-- t o T)an n n an r e n ;: