LETTUCE BOVCOTT See Editorial Page YI rL I6fr i6a &titii HOTSY TOTSY High--27 Low-17° See Today for details Latest Deadline in the State 1 Vol. LXXXVI I, No. 85 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, January 14, 1977 Ten Cents T en Pages FCUSEE SNE S EJCA4 -6DNLY Wayward bus A University bus driver had visions of flight yesterday afternoon, but he just couldn't get his bus off the ground. He gave it a hell of a try, though. Careening down Division St. toward the Broadway Bridge about 3 p.m., he lost control on the snowy road, smacked into the curb of the median strip, and bounced to the other side of the road and up on the concrete wall of the bridge. After knocking down a couple of protec- tion rails and some fencing, the bus hung its front wheels out over the railroad tracks for over an hour, offering a bird's eye view of the Gandy Dancer restaurant. Only the driver was in -the bus, and he escaped with only a slightly bruised ego. A couple of tow trucks yanked the bus off the wall, but only after the accident tied up traf- fic on Division, Broadway, and Detroit St. until Mr. Oksenberg goes to Washington? Political Science Prof. and China-watcher Michel Oksenberg refused to deny rumors making the rounds yesterday that he has been offered a post with the National Security Council. One highly knowledgeable University souree told The Daily it is almost a sure bet, but Oksenberg main- tains that it's "just a rumor." If such an ap- pointment does come to pass, it will not come as a great surprise. Oksenberg was one of President-elect Jimmy Carter's advisers on China affairs during the election campaign. Prof essor Ford, con t'd. President Ford's post-White House plans con- tinue to be revealed in bits and pieces. It was announced yesterday that Ford had accepted elect- ion as a "Visiting Chubb Fellow" at Yale Univer- sity and will spend three days on the New Haven, Conn. campus in February. Previous fellows in- clude President Harry Truman and former Sc- retary of State Dean Acheson. A visit to the University by Professor Ford this winter is still t good possibility. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said yesterday that the President is "difi- nitely planning to do something" at his aira mater, and that such a visit is "very high on his personal priority list." Happenings... commence at noon with a luncheon at Guild House, 802 Monroe, where you can get acquainted with "Tapestry," a feminist counseling collective. Yes, it's really happening today. Yesterday's an- nouncement of the luncheon was incorrect ... You can donate blood today, anytime between 1-7, at the Washtenaw County chapter of the RedCrass, 2729 Packard ... Paul Raabe lectures on German expressionism at 4 in Rackham's East Confer- ence Rm. ... Jim Loudon offers another lecture and film program on the Viking mission to Mars for the Astronomical Film Festival, at 8 in MLB Aud. 3 ... Today and tomorrow at 8 the Ann Ar- bor Theatre Company presents a benefit perform- ance for the VA nurses Narciso and Perez. They'll be performing selections from "The Mad Madon- nas" and "Bitch, You Crazy," at the Trueblood Theatre in the Frieze Bldg. ... Bob Jacobs leads a workshop on Herbs and Other. Remedies in Natural Healing," at 8 in Canterbury House, on :he 'corner of Catherine and Division ... There's jazz tonight and tomorrow night from the Roots ['rio at the University Club from 9:30-1. Admis- sion is free ... Crosscountry Skiing Clinic sched- uled for tomorrow has been cancelled. It-will be rescheduled. Assault on Methuselah For the second time in two weeks, Methuselah, he 20-year-old alligator at the Los Angeles Zoo, .has been hit in the eye with a metal pipe. The shock of the attacks, plus the seriousness of his latest injury, may cost the old alligator his life. According to zoo officials, Methuselah was just lying in a pool of water Wednesday when a teen- age visitor decided to get some kicks. A young :man reportedly fetched a five-foot metal pipe used to turn on water valves and jabbed Methuselah in the left eye. He then threw the pipe at the alligator, hitting him again, whereupon a repulsed )ystander made a citizen's arrest. Methuselah, 11-feet long, has been tranquilized and is still lying n his pool. Zoo Dr. Warren Thomas said Methuse- lah may lose his eye, maybe even his life. On the inside.*. Editorial Page features a Pacific News Ser- vice story on weather trends ... On Arts Page, Cindy Hill writes about the 1977 Hopwood Awards . And on Sports Page, John Niemeyer previews Michigan's weekend hockey series against Michi- Gov. c By DAVID GOODMAN With Wire and Staff Reports Governor William Milliken appealed for the power to appoint the members of the University of Michigan Board of Regents, as well as the Wayne State and Michigan State University Boards in his State of the State Address yes- terday. In his speech before a joint session of the state House and Senate, Milliken said he believes a constitutional amend- ment should be considered allowing the governor to appoint members of these boards, rather than fillingthem by state- wide election as is now done. HOWEVER, SEVERAL state higher education board members last night Wilson, ills for voiced opposition to Milliken's proposal and gave it little chance of receiving enough support in the Democratically- controlled legislature to be placed on the state ballot. Milliken justified the proposed change by saying the appointive system "has worked well in the selection of board members of the other ten state colleges and universities." "I think it's irresponsible of the gov- ernor," said University Regent Paul Brown, (D-Petoskey). "THE QUALITY of our three univer- sities and the work that the boards do at those three universitiesis an indi- cation of how good the election process is," he continued. Regent Robert Nederlander (D-Detroit) concurred, saying, "I don't see any rea- pleads 0 appointed Regents son to change the existing system. It has worked well in this state." In the past, state Republicans have generally favored filling state higher edu- cation posts by appointment, while Dem- ocrats have backed the direct election of the board members. "TO HAVE PEOPLE who are under the governor's control - whether Dem- ocratic or Republican - is bad," ac- cording to Wayne State Board meniber Dauris Jackson (D-Detroit). "Elected people are more independent," she add- ed. Jackson suggested that non-partisan elections might by better than the cur- rent partisan system for selecting high- er education board members. University President Robben Fleming said he didn't have strong feelings one way or the other how Regents are chos- en: "I never thought myself that it was a crucial point whether they were ap- pointed or elected." FLEMING SERVED on a commission several years ago that looked into the, question of how regents should be chos- en. The commission considered both the appointment and election 'methods; and came down "somewhere in the middle," Fleming said. Other highlights of Milliken's State of the State Address included: * Taxes: No tax hikes will be pro- posed for 1977, but the legislature will be asked to correct inequities4 in the Single Business Tax, and to provide tax credits to encourage businesses to ex- See GOV., Page 2 Milliken guilty to Arb in turder "She (o a)kept By JAY LEVIN Ricky Wayne Wilson, the 21- year-old drifter accused of slay- ing University freshwoman Jeannine Boukai last fall, plead- ed guilty yesterday to a charge of second degree murder. Later, he told a hushed courtroom of the events leading to his shoot- ing of the, 17-year-old student in the University Arboretum Sept. 30. "She (Boukai) kept talking 'shoot me, shoot me'," Wilson recalled during his testimony. "I turned around, said 'the hell with it,' and fired .. WILSON, who is being held in Washtenaw County Jail with- out bond, faces , a maximum term of life imprisonment when he steps before Circuit Court Judge Patrick Conlin for sen- tencing on Feb. 10. Through the terms of a plea agreement reached between the defense and prosecution, a count of open murder was dismissed once Wilson'' pleaded guilty to the less serious charge. It was believed that Wilson would bargain with prosecutors and plead to a lesser charge after he stood mute at an ar- raignment hearing shortly be- fore Christmas. ASKED IF WILSON in fact did plea bargain to face the lesser charge. Assistant Pub- lic Defender Ron Carlson re- plied, "We're .trying to achieve justice in terms of the charge and justice in terms of the sen- tence." Michigan state law, according to Carison, guarantees a mini- mum eighteen-month jail term for second-degree murder. The, most dramatic portion of the hearing, however, was Wil- son's description of his ac- q'iaintence with Boukai, in which he sketched a troubled, despondent woman whose previ- ous attempt at suicide had fail- ed for lack of "guts." BOUKAI'S troubles; according to Wilson, stemmed from heavy drug use and a lesbian affair which "went down the drain." Wilson testified that he first talk in~g 'shoot me, shoot me'," Wilson re. called during his testi- lnony. "I turned around, said 'the hell with it, and fired. ." Cold? Where? Neither snow nor wind nor cold can deter Gary Gormezano from class as he strolls through the cold with little more than a grimace on his face and a hat on his head. Gary tells us he's from Iowa City, where the men must grow as hardy as the corn. -- - SENATE HEARS BELL TESTIMONY: See WILSON, Page 3 Carter call world. heads; plans summit WASHINGTON (AP)- In a pre-inaugural flurry of telephone summitry, President-elect Carter talked to foreign leaders long distance yesterday to set up an economic summit meeting of major non-Communist industrialized nations, probably in April. The telephone calls, to President Valery Giscard d'Estaing of France, Prime Minister Helmut Schmidt of Germany, Prime Min- ister James Callaghan of Great Britain and Prime Minister Ta- keo Fukuda of Japan, interrupted a day of briefing for the Presi- dent-elect and his top national security advisers by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. CARTER'S SECRETARY of state-designate, Cyrus Vance, said the President-elect's calls also dealt with Vice President- elect Walter Mondale's upcoming visit to those heads of govern- ment and with "ways to improve the consultation process between our countries." Press Secretary Jody Powell said Carter invited the foreign leaders to this country and said the briefings included "discussion of possible trips . . . during the first half of this year." He de- clined to be more specific. Vance said he hopes the United States and the Soviet Union can reach a new Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) agree- ment, but added that the briefings "really didn't go into the So- viet military threat." "MY FEELING is there's rough parity between the forces," Vance said. Asked whether the briefings contained any sobering sur- See CARTER, Page 2 Brow, By AP and Reuter President-elect Jimmy Car- ter's choice for defense secre- tary yesterday became the sec- ond of 11 Cabinet nominees to be approved by a Senate commit- tee. The Senate Armed Services Committee voted unanimously to recommend confirmation of former Air Force Secretary Har- old Brown as head of the Pen- tagon. MEANWHILE, Carter's, em- battled nominee for the post of Attorney General, Griffin Bell, received a warm endorsement from former Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. In remarks before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jaworski nears approval cited Bell's handling of a con- tempt case against former Mis- sissippi Governor Rose Barnett. Barne t had been attempting to block the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi and Bell was the federal judge in the 1962 case. "He had the courage of his convictions and went down the line in support of the rule of law." said Jaworski, who was at the time a special assistant attorney general. BUT REP. Parren Mitchell (D-Md.) chairman of the con- gressional Black Caucus, and his brother, NAACP official Clarence Mitchell, urged rejec- tion of the nomination. They said that as a Georgia state-of- ficial, Bell bowed to the de- mands of- segregationists in a school desegregation fight 20 years ago. Jaworski also told the com- mittee that in 1961 he investi- gater Bell's qualifications to be an appeals court judge and found him well-qualified - an unusually high rating for a per- son who had not previously served on the bench. Meanwhile, Southern black. leaders split with their North- ern colleaguestohendorseBell's nomination. "IT HURTS me to have to come here and say anything contrary to the NAACP. But I can't sit there and let them de- grade Judge Bell," declared James McKinney, a black Geor- gia state representative who said he owes his political suc- cess to the NAACP's decades of struggle' for black rights. McKinney joined the president of the Atlanta NAACP, another longtime black leader in Atlan- ta and the black mayor of Pri- chard, Ala., in supporting Bell. Later, in an appearance be- fore the Sena:e Labor Commit- tee, labor secretary-designate Ray Marshall became Carter's first cabinet nominee to openly disagree with him on policy matters. THE LABOR secretary-desig- nate told the panel he wished there were more money in Car- ter's economic program to cre- ate jobs through public works See BROWN, Page 2 DAOUD PROCLAIMS INNOCENCE: -French reject U.S. criticism Traver Knoll, tenants join TU arent strike By STU McCONNELL As the Ann Arbor Tenants Union (TU) rent strike against Reliable Realty grinds into its fourteenth month, the union is adding other landlords to its, list of undesirables. Nearly half the tenants at the Traver Knoll apartment com- plex on Barton Road have joined a TU-organized strike protesting shoddy building conditions. And Trony Associates, the first land- lord to sign a co'lective bargaining agreement with TU in April, 1976. has once again been hit with a strike. A CITY INSPECTION of the Traver Knoll units led to the re- voking of their certificate of occupancy. "Most of us are professional people -- we don't complain too much." said Nelson Galante an nrnizer n fthe Traer TnnI PARIS (k') - The French gov- ernment formally protested yes- terday against U.S. criticism of its release of Palestinian leader Abu Daoud, accused of master- minding the attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Daoud, in a telephone inter- view with the Toronto Star from Al Fatah headquarters in Al- giers, claimed he played no part in the Munich massacre. He said he expects Israeli agents will try to assassinate him and he is ready "to die for my cause." THE PALESTINIAN revolu- tionary also claimed in the in- terview that an officer who ar- rested him last Friday was,an Israeli secret agent. In Detroit, a bomb threat was telephoned to the French Con- sulate Wednesday, apparently in protest over Daoud's release, Consul-General Yves Coffin said yesterday. Police searched the consulate offices but no bomb was found. IN TEL AVIV, 11 French Jewish youths visiting from France burned their French identity cards outside the French consulate in protest over "French prostitution to terrorism." The youths, wear- ing track suits and carrying placards with the names of the 11 Israelis killed at Munich, told reporters: "We are ashamed to be French." The French Foreign Ministry summoned U.S. Charge d'Af- faires Samuel Gammon in Paris to tell him that the criticism voiced by a State Department snokesman "constituted inad- rnissable comment on the acts of French courts." The French statement made no reference to President-elect gan Tech. - m nm~u x ~ m u ~ n -w n~ ~ zw