ELECTORAL COLLEGE See Editorial Page I r~ta I6 PLAIN JANE High - 390 Low - 26* See Today for details Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVII, No. 137 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, March 24, 1977 Ten Cents Ten Pages FftU SE E NEwS HAN CALUAtY MSA re presentation The presence of school and college student gov- ernment representatives on the Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) was declared unconstitutional last night. The C~ntral Student Judiciary (CSJ) gave MSA until after its Fall, 1977 election to correct the defect. CSJ said this could be done by deleting or replacing the so-called "equal weight of vote" clause of the All-Campus Constitution. Presiding Justice Bob Morton said CSJ agreed to the delay because "immediate implementation would de- stroy the student government." MSA President Scott Kellman termed the finding "very reason- able." He added, "Legally, we were wrong. We are not lawyers." MSA. member Irving Freeman brought the suit on behalf of himself and several other individuals. VA jury selected Following four weeks of interviews, a 16-mem- ber jury for the Veterans Administration Hospital murder trial was seated yesterday. The jury, which includes four alternates, is composed of eight wom- en and eight men. Three of the jurors are blank. Testimony in the trial, in which former VA nurse Leonora Perez and Filipina Narciso are accused of murdering two patients and_ poisoning seven others during the summer of 1975, is slated to begin next Monday. Takin' care of business National d By LAURIE YOUNG She had bee One of the nation's largest, multi-million dollar Dr. off S. Gr( heroin operations was broken up yesterday with added. the arrest of 21 persons across the country, in- t The ring, wl cluding two suspects at the ring's headquarters four pounds) in Ypsilanti, a federal agent announced. iced Michigan Allan Pringle, deputy regional director of the land and Was U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said that "This parti Richard Phillips of Los Angeres, head of the or- nificant becau ganization, and the rest of the gang's members were involved had been apprehended following an 1-month in- compare this vestigation, right up at th PHILLIPS, 33, WAS arrested on Tuesday along ACCORDIN with Roberta Shaw, 26, a key member of the ring, heroin from at her Ypsilanti Township apartment Pringle said. took to (Los Carter -hop4 establish ftr r0 ru ri n living at 2483 Lake-in-the-Woods ove Road for the past two years, he which handled over $50,000 worth (or of Mexican heroin each week, serv- n, Ohio, Illinois, West Virginia, Mary- hington D.C., Pringle said. cular organization was rather sig- use of the volume of activity they d in," Pringle explained. "When you with other organizations, they'd be e top." G TO PRINGLE, the gang smuggled Mexico into California which they Angeles. From there, a courier e sto Diendl etnam I \bustec brought the heroin to the Ypsilanti headquarters, where it was prepared for interstate distribution. The arrest warrants originated in Baltimore, where evidence was collected from a series of telephone .tappings, Pringle said. Local phones were also tapped, but did not yield the pertinent evidence which led to the arrests, he said. Pringle said evidence collected for-the present indictments covers crimes believed to be com- mitted during the period between June and No- vember of last year. They suspect the ring had been operating prior to that time, but have insuffi- cient evidence for an arrest warrant, he said. BOTH PHILLIPS and Shaw were arraigned Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit. Phi lips 0. A.7- in Isi presently is being held in the Federal Correctional Institution at Milan' under $100 000 bond. Shaw was released after she posted $10,000 bond. Both suspects will be tried in Baltimore. Pringle speculated that the dealers used Ypsi- lanti as the center of their -operations because it is centrally located. Pringle would say only that the suspects used "the usual methods" to smuggle heroin over the border. These mehods include using "body carries," automobiles, or flying small p'anes which can be flown low enough to avoid detec- tion by radar, he said. Two other suspects were also picked up in Mich- igan. Marzell-s Wilson, 3., and Elene Johnson, 33, verc arrested in Grand Blanc near F int. ties wit b Vi Officials from the University and the Ameri- can Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes (AFSCME, Local 1583) will meet at 11 this morning to sign their newly agreed-upon two-year contract. Campus service and minte- nance workers struck for 26 days before the two sides reach an agreement. The controversy may not be completely over though. Twenty-two union members are being accused of "serious miscon- duct" in connection -with the walk oit and may lose their jobs altogether if administrators win their case. AFSCME bargaining leader Art Anderson says the University will present its side by the end of the week. The University will also act to- night to offer the Tenants Union a settlement to end the dorm rent strike which developed during the walkout. Students placed thousands of dollars in escrow as a protest to the cutback in services. 0 Happenings... start happening at noon. Music Man previews, 12, Pendleton Arts Information Center ... Coffee hour followed by "Human Mineralogy" lecture, 3:30, 2501 C.C. Little ... Wesley Foundation fem- inist counseling session, 4-6, 602 E. Huron ... "Vis- ions of Jerusalem in Recent Israeli Literature," 4, Lecture Rim. 1, MLB ... performance of "Ri- ders to the Sea," 4:10, Arena Theatre in the Frieze Bldg. ..Wesley Foundation Grad Potluck and Grad Program, 6:30 and 7:30 respectively, 602 E. Huron ... lecture by Director of Housing Informa- tion John Finn, 7-9, Trotter House lounge ... free First Jump Course offered by U of M Skydivers, 7, 1042 E. Engineering ... Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship meeting, 7:30, Michigan League ... "The Contemporary American Family: Changes and Prospects" lecture, 7:30, Ann Arbor Public Li- brary ... poetry reading by Barbara Abels, 7:30, Guild House, 802 Monroe ... "How to Build a La- bor-Science Industrial Alliance for a Fusion-based Economy," 7:30, Rm. 3207 in the Union ... infor- mation session on ICC's minority recruitment pro- gram, 7:30, Afro Lounge, South Quad ... "Political Repression of U.S. Citizens in the U.S.S.R.,' 8-9, 603 E. Madison .:. deadline for student applications to University policy committees is March 30. Ap- plications are in the MSA offices in the Union. e Shrooms Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp has belatedly settled a bet he made last year with Ohio Gov. James Rhodes on the Ohio State-Penn State foot- ball game -- but he's not paying off the Buck- eye with bucks. Shapp has sent the Ohio politician some Pennsylvania mushrooms which he teasing- ly said were only a consolation prize "since we beat you at that new game called 'Volkswagen'," a reference to the German auto manufacturer's decision to locate a plant in the Quaker State in- stead of Ohio. Rumor has it Rhodes is holding out for a side of Wolverine. It'll be a long wait, guv. On the inside... Richard Nixon starts his series of taped inter- views with David Frost. Details in the Page 3 Digest ... Co-editor Jim Tobin premieres his col- umn Swamp Gas today on the Editorial Page.. Art's Page reviewer David Keeps interviews soap star Tony Craig from the Edge of Night, who is appearing in PTP's Absurd Person Singular ... and the Sport's Page features an advance of the Michi- gan vs. Boston University semi-final NCAA hock- ey tourney in Detroit. 0 WASHINGTON (AP) - Presilent Carter announced yesterday that the United States will resume negotia- tions without preconditions or delay to establish friend- ship and normal relations with Hanoi, its enemy in a decade of war. The President made pub- lic a report from his Com- mission on Missing in Ac- tion, which returned from a visit to Hanoi on Tues- day. The report said: "Viet- ,nam is prepared to estab- lish diplomatic relations with us." THE COMMISSION, which Carter credited with establish- ing a bridgehead for the talks, said the Vietnamese declared it would help normal relations if the United States ends its eco- nomic blockade and drops its veto of Hanoi's entry into the United Nations. The commission said Laos, High' court upholds Miranda decision too, is "clearly interested in establishing a new and friend- lier relationship." But there was no indication of any imme- diate diplomatic steps in that direction. Generally, the commission re- ported a softening of Vietna- mese and Laotian attitudes to- ward the United States, saying leaders in both countries "ap- pear to view the present U. S. intentions toward them as more positive than in the past." THE VIETNAMESE continue to expect "a significant-U. S. contribution to their post-war economic reconstruction," the ~commission said, but appear willing to discuss it in himani- tarian and moral terms instead of demanding it under peace accords. However, the commission said Vietnamese "almost certainly have at least some additional . . . information available" about missing Americans and "did not provide it to the com- mission during its visit." "For reasons of terrain, cli- mate, circumstances of loss and passage of time, it is probable that no accounting will ever be nossible for most of the Amer- icans lost in Indochina," the commission report said. THE COMMISSION urged the resumption of talks, said normal relations afford the best prospect for obtaining See U.S., Page 2 Daily Photo by JOHN KNOX YOU DON'T have to go to Hollywood to enj oy all the glamour of show biz - Ann Arbor Inn is near enough. Three local women looke d on last night as Betsy Alber auditioned be- fore Director William Martin for a part in an upcoming film based on the John Norman Co ins murders. If chosen, they will play the parts of coeds who were Collins' victims. Ya ouglhta be in pictures WASHINGTON (AP) - A sharply divided and unusually emotional Supreme Court, ignor- ing prosecutors' attacks on the Miranda rule, vesterday over- turned the murder conviction of an Iow rnmn who had led po- li-e to the body of a young mur- der victim. The j'lstices voted 5-4 that Robert Williams was unfairly co'vict- d bhase police Pffec- tivlV die-i him the right to have an attorney present dur- i9 rr,-t 1ina. THw Is held great interest for l-v e-forcement officials and civil liberty lawyers be- cause Iowa prosecutors had used it to attack one of the Sunreme Cort's most controversial deci- sions, the Miranda ruling. Handed down in 1966 by the liberal-dominated court under former Chief Justice Earl War- ren, the Miranda decision told police that a criminal suspect in custody must be informed of his rights to be represented by an attorney and to remain si- lent. The current court's more con- servative makein under Chief Justice Warren Burger has re-' stricted use of the Miranda doc- trine, and many legal experts believed the court would use Williams' case to scuttle it com- pletely. INDEED, IOWA Atty. Gen. Richard Turner urged the court to do so, arguing that Miranda stands as an kinnecessary ob- struction in what he called the seurch for truth. Turner said a degree of trick- erv and deceit should be per- mitted in police interrogation is long as it's aimed at getting the truth. Twenty-two states filed briefs with the high court in support of Iowa's argument. THE COURT'S decision, how- ever, discussed only fleetingly the Miranda doctrine and fo- cused instead on Williams' con- stitutional right to be represent- ed by an attorney. Williams, 25, was arrested in Davenport, Iowa, for the mur- der of 10-year-old Pamela Pow- ers of Des Moines on Christmas Eve 1968. Williams surrendered to po- lice after becoming a suspect in the young girl's disappear- ance and was advised of his rights. See HIGH, Page 2 By sTU McCONNELL "No, no, no" says the graying, paunchy figure in the chair to the nervous would-be starlet in front of him. "You're moving your head, around, you're anticipating." "What you've gotta do," he says with a grand sweep of his arm, "is take a line the writer's written down and turn it into honest- to-God expression." THE MAN IN THE CHAIR of the Ann Arbor Inn last night, flamboyant producer/direchor William Martin, plans to shoot a film based on the slayings of eight Ann Arbor and Ypsi- lanti women in 1969 and 1970. John Norman Collins is currently serving a term in Jack- son Prison for the murders, but the film is simply "a fictionalized treatment of murders taking place in Washtenaw County," accord- ing to Martin. See PRODUCER, Page 2 rrin e r ww a wn na Dems eye 5Ammth Ward By SHELLEY WOLSON and MICHAEL YELLIN The changing face of the tra- ditionally Republican Fifth Ward has spurred on a confi- dent Democratic hopeful, Judith Hanks, while the Republican in- cumbent Gerald Bell is more cautious about claiming victory than he was two years ago. Bell and Hanks, along with William Minaid of the Libertar- ian Party are vying for the Fifth Ward seat in April 4's city elec- tions. ALTHOUGH Republicans have controlled the ward's City Coun- cil seats for nearly a decade, Democrats George' McGovern and Ed Pierce carried the Fifth in the last two national elec- tions. High voter turnout appar- . . ently has been a plus for the Democrats in the ward. Bounded by Maple Road, Paul- ine Boulevard, and Seventh Street, the ward contains middle and upper income areas, inter-. spersed with clusters of lower income and senior citizen hous- ing. Students in the ward are most- ly confined to precincts in the Old West Side (west of Main Street and north of Pauline) and make up roughly 30 per cent of the population in this neighbor-' hood. HOWEVER, Bell contends that his frequent involvement with Republican caucuses and local groups will keep him in' Council for the next two years. But he admits that he has "not really introduced legislation of any importance or of any speci- fic consequence." Bell says he upset' is relying on his political base built up from his two years of experience, coupled with a po- tent door-to-door campaign in his bid for re-election. Hanks, who ran and last a council race to Mayor Pro- Tem Louis Belcher last year, claims that the loss served to establish herself in the ward. And sloe contends that her chances for victory have increased this yEcar because "nobody in the ward knows who he (Bell) is. Bell's a follower - he doesn't initiate things himself." Libertarian Minaid is aiming his campaign at educating the people, as- this party takes its first step into the ward. He hopes to increase voter aware- ness of his party's idealogy which focuses on freedom through enterprise and an end See DEMOCRATS Page 2 Hetrained 3years but never played- By BARBARA ZAHS Woody Brown stares ahead at the blank walls of the Track and Tennis Building, oblivious to the other football players who. surround him as he intently jumps rope. A whistle sounds; Brown heaves a sigh of relief, then drops the rope and jogs. across the track for another series of drills. But thus far the hours of grueling workouts have all been for naught. In his three years on the football team, Woody Brown has yet to see a single second of playing time in a game. SOME ATHLETES would just hang up the towel after three seasons of benchwarming on Bo Schembechler's prestigious squad. But not Brown. "I can't see quitting anything," the muscular safety says. "The old saying's true - you don't like to be a quitter." That's not to say that the thought of giving it all up has never entered his mind. However, Brown says quitting is "an easy way out," and has resigned himself to countless hours of arduous prac- tice in hope of someday earning an opportunity to demonstrate Tron suit clarges TU coerced tenants By ANNE GERTISER Irony Management Company is reviving a one million dollar lawsuit against the Ann Arbor Tenants Union (TU), charging it witlf coercing Trony tenants into withholding rent and trying to obstruct business. The suit charges TU with inducing, tenants to withhold their rent by means of "moral and social pressure." TRONY INITIATED the suit in March, 1976, but did not take E I I ::4:": i:i . i:L: :": i::