Eie 3fr41gan Dai jj Eighty-Seven Years of Editorial Freedom 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Tuesday, March 1, 1977 News Phone! 764-0552 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan CIA payments -t foreign. leaders aren 't'appropriate' (1YRUS VANCE said Sunday that CIA payments to Jordan's King Hus- sein and other world leaders were "appropriate," and added - almost as an afterthought - that "These kinds of things cannot be done in the glare of public publicity." It should be obvious that the subsidiz- ng of another country's intelligence network cannot be done publicly, for what nation likes to admit that its security is underwritten by another? And what American administration likes to admit that its allies are in fact paid flunkies? . It would have been more conveni- ent for Hussein if the bankrolling of his "security forces" - used in re- cent years to suppress Palestinian rebels - by the nation which has his- torically been Israel's strongest back- er could have been kept under wraps. And it would have been earier for the Carter administration to disassociate itself from some of the more repres- sive measures taken by its allies had the payments never come to light. THE FUNNELING of funds through the CIA is "appropriate" only if one accepts the U.S. role as overlord of Western political stability and the CIA as the world's police force. No, these kinds of things cannot be done in the glare of publicity, and we won- der what other dealings the CIA has funded would not bear up under the weight of public opinion. It is disappointing when an ad- ministration voted into office because people trusted it to be candid, pro- duces only a Secretary of State who says CIA payments are "appropriate" and a President who says he "sees' nothing improper" about them. Be- cause routine has been followed; be- cause payments have "been made by the last five Presidents," in Hussein's words; in short just because the gov- ernment has always done so, does not make the action "appropriate." We expected better from an administra- tion which vowed new faces and new policies. Energyc By DAVID ALEXANDER THIS WINTER'S unusually harsh weather, and the resulting natural gas shortage has spur- red increasing interest in energy conservation. However, few members of the University com- munity realize the efforts being made at the University to decrease energy use. The purpose of this report is to describe how the Energy Conservation Task Force (ECTF) is helping to bring about a reduction in energy use at the University. One area of concern for the ECTF is regard- ing the reduction of natural gas and electricity consumption over winter holidays by drastically reducing heating in many University buildings. For example, over the four day Thanksgiving vacation, the heating cutback saved $28,000 over the previous year, and $42,000 over normal op- erations (i.e. no conservation). Thanks to the efforts of the University's Energy Management Engineer Robert Pesko, a $77,500 reduction in total energy consumption was achieved over the Christmas break by requiring occupants to con- tact Pesko to avoid having their heat turned down. However, there were some complications over this break. For example, many University em- ployes were not on vacation the whole period between Christmas and New Year's, so many buildings could not be shut down for the whole4 vacation. Also, there was a problem with frozen pipes bursting in some of the buildings that were shut down. As a result of these problems, the monitoring, maintenance, and repair bill for the program was about $10,000. Since this was a "new mode of operations" for the Plant Departments, some problems were anticipated and will be easier to avoid next year. It should be noted that access to the buildings that were turned down was not restricted, and with. very few exceptions, the' buildings were kept at or above 55° F, so they could be used if the users were willing to bundle up. 'onserva tion at 'U' ture sensitive research that requested not to be turned off and yet were occupied by less than 10% of their normal users. P e s k o said that the $77,500 that was saved is only 53% of the possible savings, due to the unexpectedly high, number of requests for exceptions. The ques- tion being raised at this point is, should the ECTF push more strongly to have these build- ings turned down at the expense of a few peo- ple's comfort? Another area of concern is the present harsh weather and the natural gas shortage in neigh- boring states. At the end of January, it was decided that the boilers at the University's steam generating plant (that'heats most of the central campus), be switched from natural gas' to oil (an emergency-but not conservation-, measure). When further needed supplies of oil did not materialize, the Plant Department was forced to again use natural gas. At the other end of the steam pipe the ECTF, at the, suggestion of President Carter and Governor Milliken, advised that all University- thermostats be lowered to 65"F, and President Fleming wrote a letter to ,the deans and other key administrators urging support of this move. However, support from University employes is needed. Even though the Plant Department has finished a "sweep" through all buildings turn- ing down thermostats, usually, the occupants can turn them back up. Although some older buildings cannot be controlled well enough to turn them down this way, in those that can, the help and support of University personnel is urgently required. Some ongoing projects include the following: * Installation of an automatic, centralized system (called Central Environmental Control System) to monitor and control heating and cooling in all University buildings to avoid wasting energy; * A pilot program to test the effectiveness of incentives in reducing departmentally con- trolled energy use (such as lighting) involving the Chemistry Department and the Institute for Social Research. Also, Director of Physical Properties J a c k Weidenbach and Director of Plant Operations Donald Wendel have met with deans and other unit heads to make them aware of the money their units spend on energy. Weidenbach feels they have succeeded in mak- ing them aware of the fact that they can help conserve energy; * Installation of time clocks on fan systems so that, for example, air conditioners do not run late at night; 0 Urging class scheduling to avoid unneces- sary heating, such as reduction or elimination of Friday afternoon or Saturday classes, and holding all night classes in one or two build- ings, and so on; * Reduction of lighting in many over-illumi- nated rooms and hallways (according to stand- ards set by the Fsederal Governments' General Service Administration and the Illuminating Engineering Society). THE ABOVE INFORMATION should not be taken to mean that the University's rising en- ergy use is under control. All of the conserva- tion so far has been in the area controlled by the plant department and it works out to about 10% or 15% on an uninflated dollar basis. Un- fortunately, this savings is more than offset by the fact that most other energy consuming units of the University are steadily increasing their energy consumption, and a few are even accelerating their energy use. It is clear that the ECTF has its work cut out for it. The Energy Conservation Task Force cannot operate in a vacuum. To be effective, there must be input from students, faculty and staff. For specific comments or questions concerning heat- ing or lighting, contact the o f f i c e of Jack Weidenbach at 764-3402. Also, the ECTF is con- sidering sponsoring workshops, speakers, poster campaigns, etc. Any ideas along these lines or any other general areas of energy conservation that you would like to see the ECTF discuss should be directed to m e m b e r s of the Task, Force. The student representatives are David Alexander (995-4147) and A I an Petro (761- 3127). HOW serious is U' about. bargaining with AFSCME? A QUESTION FACING the do about the many buildings, ECTF is what to without tempera- Letters to the Daily Native American lecture tonight THERE WERE TWO new develop- ments in the ongoing AFSCME strike over the past weekend - the University has agreed to return to the bargaining table today, and sev- eral hundred students have finally told the administration that they are fed up. It goes without saying that we are pleased with the University's decision to resume negotiations. But, just how serious is the administration? Are chief bargainer William Neff and the rest of his crew prepared to make' AFSCME the kind of offer that is can live with,-or are they simply go- ing to continue to cry about their austere budget while proposing that service workers accept a poverty level wage? AFSCME is determined to win a just contract, and it equally de- termined to continue the strike until the University offers that kind of contract. We can only hope that the administration is taking this matter seriously, and intends to bargain in good faith. Because if the University is still trying to play games with this union, then it is just wasting everyone's time. In a related incident, ,over 400 dorm residents have organized a rent strike, to protest inferior service they have received since the strike began. The law says that it is legal to with- hold rent from a landlord who has not provided the services agreed to in the lease. With the University closing certain cafeterias, serving only one entree at dinner, forcing stu- dents to clean their own bathrooms, TODAY'S STAFF News: George Lobsenz Mile Norton, Martha Retallick, Annemarie Schia- vi, Jim Tobin, Barb Zahs Editorial Page: Michael Beckman, Ken Parsigion Arts Page: Lois Josimovich Photo Technician: Brad Benjamin and making other assorted service cutbacks, students are within their legal rights to withhold rent. Wheth- er this strike will have any effect on how the University bargains with AFSCME, no one can say, for sure, but it can't hurt, and we urge all dorm students to participate in the rent strike. THE ADMINISTRATION has never treated any union on this cam- pus fairly, and it won't give AFSCME what it deserves unless it is, forced to. The union walkout has put some pressure on the administration, but if we really want this matter settled, we have to pressure the University ourselves. And the best way to force the administrators to react to our's and AFSCME's demands is to hit them where they- will feel it most- right in the old pocketbook. The Ann Arbor TenantsUnion is holding the rent in escrow for the students participating iP the strike, so if you wish to support AFSCME by withholding your rent, contact the Tenants Union now. Power to the people -- good luck AFSCME! Business Staff O!TnORAH DREYFU1SS ..... Business Manager KArBLEEN MULHERN Ass't. Adv. Coordinator DAVID HARLAN ..............Finance Manager DON.SIMPSON ...............Sales Manager PETE PETERSEN ... Advertising Coordinator CASSIE ST. CLAIR ........ Circulation Manager BETH STRATFORD........Circulation Director Photcgraphy Staff PAuTLINE LUBENS .. ..... Chief Photographer ALAN BILINSKY...............Picture Editor BaAD BENJAMIN .......... star Photographer ANDY FREEBERG .........Staff Photographer CHRTSTINA SCHNEIDER ....Staff Photographer To the Daily: Once a g a i n, D a i1 Chuck Anesi finds it im to look further than3 needs and desires. This blinding ethnocentrism him to self-contradictio a few paragraphs. His article of 2/22 about removing energ controls. He claims tha companies should char the traffic will bear, the couraging conservation. and good-except if you to be among those mi Americans or billions Americans who simply afford to pay more fore Neither Anesi nor my be too sorely stricken if to pay slightly more energy we consume. For many Americans er energy price means between heat and groce the Vietnamese f a rr means never switching primitive, plow to a powered tractor. .(Will upset that we have to world with our resourci It looks like the pro Editorials and cartoon appear on the right the Editorial Page ai opinion of the a u t h artist, and not nece the opinion of the pap A nesi the poor are their own. Anesi has to worry about breaking U.S. "slavish dependence on y writer foreign energy." npossible Mr. Anesi, we can no more his own be "energy independent" in to- time his day's , world than we can be has led economically independent. Or n within morally independent. Your keep- the-money-at-home argument is glories the crudest form of mercantil- y price istic t h e o r y -that money is t energy wealth in itself. ge what The U.S. needs the rest of the reby en- world. Both for trade and sur- All well vival. And that definitely means u happen compromising an overly-selfish illions of "independence." of non- I find it surprising that Anesi's y cannot isolationist thought so closely ergy, parallels that of our nation's self .will founders-for whose Constitution we have he has so much contempt. (See for the his article 2/13). But the most illuminating ex- a high- ample of Anesi's incoherence is choosing his contradictory assumptions. ries. For He praises the fact that natural m e r, it gas price controls have been from his lifted, "and now consumers will gasoline be forced to pay what natural Anesi be gas is worth." It's O.K. when feed the U.S. energy barons charge what- es?) ever they can. But when the blems of Arabs- do precisely the same thing, we must "inflict upon them the humiliation and de- of gradation they so richly de- ,.A fka serve." By ALAN KETTLER TONIGHT, JOHN Trudell, National Chairman of the American I n d i a n Movement, and Selo Black Crow, Lakota spiritual I e a d e r, will be speaking about issues in native American sover- eignty at the Michigan Union Pendleton Room at 8 p.m. The quest for native American sovereignty has grown particularly acute in the last four years for two reasons. First has been the diligent and heavy government repression of Indian activists in South Dakota, beginning with the 71-day siege of Wounded Knee by dozens of FBI and para- military personnel in 1973. Armed with tanks, helicopters and M-16 rifles, these warring forces were prevented from re- enacting the Indian massacres of the past by the. international attention that focused on the con- frontation. Since then, however, in the absence of media coverage of life on the Pine Ridge Reservation, many Indian deaths have occurred amidst the continued presence of armed FBI per- sonnel there. SOMEWHAT AMAZED at the numerous reports of federal misdoings and violence at Pine Ridge, I went to FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., in December 1975 to hear the 'official' line. After being told by an FBI guide that I could talk to someone in their South Dakota field office across the street, I never got past the FBI telephone receptionist inside the front door. There, when I told the FBI receptionist what I wanted, he said I would have to go to South Dakota to talk to somebody. After asking me my name, address, birthdate, and sources of in- formation, he snidely told me that I did not need to know what the FBI was doing in South Dakota, that only the FBI needed to know, and the "FBI doesn't have to tell you anything." A second reason for increasing desire for native sovereignty has been the growing revela- tion of the extent of valuable resources on Indian land, and the desire to maintain Indian control of those resources, such as coal, uranium, and oil. As Trudell said last year, today's "federal war exists because of the resources of the land." WARY OF THE exploitive, capitalistic man- ners of the large energy compames, natives are seeking to develop their resources as they see fit. Thus, because such major corporations as 'Pea- body Coal, Standard, Shell, and Gulf Oil are in- voved in exploiting ndtive resources, the second International Indian Peace Treaty Conference in 1976 decided to apply for membership in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). It was also hoped that OPEC could pro- vide technical and legal advice and assistance. Also, in order to elicit international support for self-determination, the International Indian Treaty Council has been vying for status as a "non-gov- ernmental organization" in the U.N. After two years, this non-voting position in the U.N. was attained last week. Trudell will probably talk about Leonard Pel- tier, the last of four AIM men still charged with the murder of two FBI agent* in Pine Ridge on June 26, 1975. His case raises many issues, such as why the FBI was on Indian territory at all, and why AIM members have been selectively subjeot to harassment and arrest. Leonard is currently in solitary in Sioux Falls Pen.itentiary South Dakota, where he awaits his March 14th trial in Fargo, North Dakota. or or essarily uer. Come on Anesi. make up your mind. -Laurence S. Kahn or- I.' N r/ y T-A OEN O THE UNTSTTN THE GOOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CENTRAL NTELuGENCE AGENCY F 7HaCOW?itTiaW \ i ._ 1 (..U REM INGCO A I A - .,... ( I _ 111Y lt $Gt bW$ .- K*'I-. KM.4.n rN a Mur p.4re *NAu~ - d> fwa on.-., c- K .4 -Un M"" lW.4 #-: Ca.N C- W*N ANN C-.a. CM Ta ..1 po~c.Aio 01PXLfrbNa L- __3 _ii ur muo mlI fw_ T0 h~ATN~ blRT~"LO SC{'. w.Y7[T f....,tOi MAR~MT St ?k Of TAt 71t~t'T dCYMt l1- C " nI, R CMT I?9 ' r.. 91