Wednesday, September 1 i, '197& THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven SERVING SIX TO TWENTY: Ex-Watergate burglar Liddy HEW predicts decline fights for DANBURY, Conn. (4P -- G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate bur- glar anq onetime counsel to former President Richard Nix- on's re-election committee, is now fighting for inmates' rights in the federal prison here. Sentenced to the federal penitentiary for his role in the Watergate scandal, he works as a clerk in the prison power plant and wages war against prison regulations that he says violate prisoners' rights. LIDDY, who organized the Watergate break-in team for the June 1972 burglary of Demo- cratic national headquarters in Washington, is serving six to 20 years. He Is not eligible for parole consideration until 1981. Last February, he was placed in one; of several small, locked cells reserved for disciplining Danbury Federal Correctional Institution inmates. He was ac-' cused of being insolent to a guard but later was cleared during an administrative hear- ing. On Aug. 19, Liddy represent-' ed himself and other inmates in U. S. District Court in Hartford, where he complained that pris- oners placed in "administra- tive detention" were not given adequateexplanation for the disciplinary action against them. risoner HE ALSO argued that privi- leged mail, which can be open- ed only in the presence of the inmate to whom it is addressed, is being opened outside the in- mate addressee's presence.. U. S. District Court Judge Jon Newman ruled last April that prisoners put in detention must be given written explan- ation. At the same time, New- man designated more categor- ies of mail as "privileged." Liddy's complaints about al- leged violations of those deci- sions are under consideration by Newman, and Danbury Warden George Wilkinson re- fuses to discuss them. HE SAYS, however, that any possible violations are the re- sult of "human errors," not policy decisions. He also notes that Liddy spends "a lot of time at the law library." Liddy has asked Newman to hold Wilkinson in contempt for the alleged violations at Dan- bury and suggested that: -Prisoners whose rights have been violated be compensated by shortened sentences. New- man had originally suggested such a remedy during the hear- ing in April because "time is the principal currency" in a prison. -A Yale University faculty member monitor compliance of ri hts privileged mail and administra- tive detention regulations and issue monthly reports. -The prison's mail room be attended by two clerks rather than one. Newman said testi- mony indicated to him that there was such a volume of mail at the prison that some mistakes were inevitable. Liddy refused, under a grant of immunity, to answer a Wat- ergate grand jury's questions, and he still refuses to be inter- viewed. "MY DECISION, taken four years ago, not to discuss Water- gate matters, is not under re- view," he wrote in response to a request by The Associated Press for an interview. During a tour of the Danbury prison in August, a reporter saw Liddy at his desk in a small office at the power plant, where: he keeps records. He dresses in a white T-shirt and khaki, pants, his broad moustache and hair neatly trimmed. Liddy lives in a dormitory,, where 80 men sleep in bunk' beds. The prison houses about 745 offenders, about half of, them sentenced on drug-related charges. He has not been grant- ed a space in the preferential housing section, a set ofsmall single ceps set aside for the most cooperative prisoners. in fall school enrollment WASHINGTON (/P) - The na- tion's college and school en- rollments this fall are expect- ed to decline slightly from last year's historic high of 60.2 mil- lion students because of the low birth rate, according to the government's annual "Back to School" report released yester- day. The forecast calls for about 100,000 fewerstudents, the first drop since World War II when colleges were drained by young men entering military service and young women taking over their civilian jobs. TOTAL EDUCATION expen- ditures in the 1976-77 school year,however, are expected to top $13 billion, anvincreaseof about $10 billion over the pre- vious year, and the number of classroom teachers and other instructional staff members is expected to rise slightly to al- most 3.2 million persons. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), which prepares the annual re- port, said the enrollment de- cline can be expected to con- tinue for several years. Ele- mentary school enrollments have been dropping slowly but steadily since 1970, secondary school enrollments will peak this year, and college and uni- versity enrollments should be- gin falling around 1983 or 1984, HEW sami The forecasts are somewhat less than precise, however. Last OVER 3/4 MILLION G.I.S W H O GOT LESS-THAN- HONORABLEEDISCHARGES IN THE VIETNAM ERA, THE VAST MAJORITY WITHOUT TRIAL, HAVENA LIF E SENTENCE OF NO VETS' BENEFITS & NO DECENT J O B S WITHOUT }FULL AMNESTY DEMONSTRATE TODAY CRISLER ARENA, 5 P.M. SOUTH ENTRANCE Poi. Adv., Paid for by Veterans for Peace 542 S. Dearborn, Chicago, i11. year, HEW predicted a total nationwide enrollment of 58.9 million studetts but undershot the mark by about 1.3 million because of higher - than - an- ticipated private school figures and a larger number of stu- dents who went to college or graduate schooltduring the tight job market. HEW OFFICIALS noted that the birth rate has been falling for 10 years. It showed its big- gest drop from 1970 to 1975, when it fell from 18.3 to 14.8 for each 1,000 persons in the country. Education will be the primary activity of 63.6 million young- sters and adults this fall, or aboul one out of every 10 Amer- icans, and education expendi- tures will capture about 8 per cent of the GrossuNational Pro- duct -- the value of the na- tion's goods and services. Enrollments are forecast to decline more than 1 per cent, to 34.2 million youngsters, in public and private elementary schools, increase less than 1 per cent to 15.8 million students in high schools, and jump 4 per cent to 10.1 million in col- leges and universities. HEW said high schools will graduate more than 3.1 million seniors next spring, about the same as a year ago. AUDITIONS University Guest Artist Series Production of Oh, What a Lovely War FRI., SEPT. 17, 7:30-11:00, SAT., SEPT. 18, 10-12; 2-5 2518 FRIEZE BUILDING University Showcase Production of the Comedy Man of Mode' FRI., SEPT. 17, 7:30-1 1:00, SAT., SEPT. 18, 10-12; 2-5 2528 FRIEZE BUILDING THE COLLEGE OF LSA ANNOUNCES THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL COURSES FOR THE FALL TERM Res. Coil. 412-A Reconciliation of Man and Nature (2 cr-1 weeks) Sec. 001 (Disc) TTh 11 Room 124 E. Quad Sir E. Ashby '76-'77 Michigan Yearbook MAS.EEI NG THURSDAY NIGHT, Sept. 16th at 7:00 If you are interested in: Sir Eric Ashby, distingushed British botanist and Fellow in the Royal Society and Royal Institute of Chemists, holds the Walgreen Professorship in this College during this F a I I term. His seven-week course, which will deal with political and ethical questions concerning the attitude of man and govern- ments toward the environment is open to all LSA students Univ. CourSe 101-Introduction to the University (4 cr) Sec. 001 Sec. 002 (Disc) (Lec) MTh 4 4007 AH T 2-4 MLB, Aud 4 Prof. Wm. Frankena Prof. E. Abdel-Massih *STUDENT SELECTING SEC. 002 MUST ALSO ELECT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING DISCUSSION SECTIONS: Sec. 003 Sec. 004 Sec. 005 Sec. 006 Disc. WF 1 Disc. MF 10 Disc. MW 3 Disc. 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