CLASS BOYCOTT See Editorial Page SfrF ~Iait1 DEJA VU + High -68° Low - 47' See Today for details Latest Deadline in the State 4 Vol. LXXXVII, No. 30 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, October 13, 1976 Ten Cents Eight Pages FYOuSEE NEWSAPPE CALWDLY March on Lansing A caravan of students will'be delivering tuition cost protests right to state officials' doorsteps in Lansing today. And because caravans can never be too long, you and your car are invited to join the rest of the concerned gang at People's Plaza near the Administration Bldg. by 10 a.m. for a united departure. The rally in Lansing is scheduled for 1 and representatives from all state supported institutions will be on hand. Shots in the dark Gene Barr, a truck driver for Stroh's Brew- ery in Detroitwas given not one, but two leases on life when a gunman pulled the trigger on a revolver pointed at him during a holdup attempt Monday only to have the gun misfire ... twice. The ale hauler told police he had parked his truck on the city's west side when a man ap- proacbed, stuck a gun through the open passen- ger side window and said, "Open the door or I'll kill you." Instead, Barr slipped out his dri- ver's side door and hit the pavement just as the gun emitted its first feeble "click." Approach- ing Barr a second time with the gun poised in both hands, the robber said, "This time I'm go- ing to kill you." But his gun, again mutinied. The flustered desperado. fled the scene and a grateful Barr now looks forward to living his next seven lives in peace.3 Happenings ... ... take off at high noon today in high places as the Commission for Women meet in the Presi- dent's Conference Room of the Administration Bldg. ... then take advantage of a long after- noon siesta because events don't pick up again 'till 4 when Political Science Prof. Alfred Meyer speaks in the Last Lecture Series in Auditorium A of Angell Hall ... also at 4 graduate students can attend a coffee hour at the Wesley Lounge at 602 E Huron. There'll be free coffee and tea served .. a feminist journal affil d with the Women's Studies Dept. is looking for male mem- bers. Interested? Be at 1058 LSA Bldg. at 5 ... members of the Phi Lambda Theta, Xi chapter invites all its members to a business meeting at 6 in the Michigan League conference room ... at 6:30, the Gay Academic Union wil -convene for its first meeting of the fall- at the Gay Commu- nity Center at 612 S. Forest, Suite B ... and in Wednesday night tradition, the LSA Student Gov- ernment will meet at 7 in 3909 Michigan Union ... in East Quad, Room 126 at 7:30, the Ann Arbor Commission for Human Rights in Latin America will assemble . and' if it's possible to attend two East Quad events at once, go to the Green Lounge at 7:30 where Prof. James Horton of the History and:Afro-American Studies depts. will speak on "Adaptive Mechanisms of Black Mi- grants in Anti-Bellum Massachusetts" ... back at the Union at 7:30 there will be a meeting of those supporting the People's Party/Human Rights Party presidential candidate Margaret Wright ... at 8 the Ermine Cowles Case Memorial Lecture presents University Vice President for Academic Affairs and Prof. of Geology and Minerology, Dr. Frank Rhodes who will speak on "The Evolution of Evolution" at the Rackham Amphitheater .. also at 8, the African Student's Association will be sponsoring a lecture entitled "Recent Deol- opments in Southern Africa" given by Prof. Joel Samoff in 2003 Angell Hall. Does that give you enough to do? On the inside .. . Editorial Page brings you last of a two-part series on Ford's and Carter's stands on environ- mental issues ... Arts Page treats you to Tom Goodell's critical appraisal of last week'stToledo Symphony Concert ... and Sports Page's Henry Englehardt covers Women's Tennis at Central Michigan University. On the outside . . . Mother Nature forgot about Ann Arbor today so you'll have to put up with yesterday's weath- er again. Stay tuned for another pleasant, partly sunny day sprinkled with light breezes with temp- eratures reaching the upper 60's. There's little chance rain will cloud your day, so smile. MSA to support GEO student rally By LANI JORDAN The Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) voted, last night to support the Graduate Employe's Organiza- tion (GEO) in its contract demands by urging stu- dent participation in the Oct. 18 Diag rally. Members vetoed an earlier motion to organize a tuition boycott in support of GEO. Assembly mem- ber Jasper DiGiuseppe, sponsor of the motion, said, "It would be nice to put the screws on the U' for once." UAW na DETROIT (UPI) - The United Auto Workers (UAW) announced late yesterday that '170,000 Ford Motor Co. workers who have been on strike for 28 days have narrowly approved a new $1 billion plus contract and will begin returning to their jobs today. Ford Labor Vice President Sidney McKenna said four of 19 assembly plants would begin operations today and tomorrow for the first time since the strike began at midnight, Sept. 14. He said the start-up at all 102 Ford facili- ties in 22 states would depend on, local con- tract negotiations where only 70 of 99 agree- ments have been completed. THE THREE-YEAR AGREEMENT that gives workers up to 13 more paid days off in the rrowly approves New third year of the contract plus substantial wage increases almost was defeated by skilled trades- persons. McKenna said it would be worth bet- ter -xhan $1 billion to Ford workers over its three-year life. The 25,000 skilled workers held a veto pow- er despite their small numbers and approved the pact.by a slim 489-vote margin out of 17,425 votes cast. Production workers passed the con- tract by a 3-to-2 margin. Just 44 per cent of the striking workers took part in the four-day ratification vote. DETAILS OF THE FINAL ratification came at 9:40 p.m. last night in a five-paragraph statement handed out by UAW public relations spokespersons. In it, UAW President Leonard Woodcock and Vice President Ken Bannon said production work- ers voted 35,192 in favor and 22,026 opposed. Skilled tradespersons voted 8,957 in favor and 8,468 opposed. A majority of each group had to ratify the agreement to gain final approval to end the dispute that goes in the books as a 28-day strike. WOODCOCK AND BANNON said. that work- ers at bargaining units "that have reached agree- ment with Ford on. local bargaining issues will be returning to work as soon as they are called back to work by the company." McKenna said the Wixom, Mich., plant that builds Lincoln Continentals and Continental Mark IVs will reopen on the afternoon shift today. The contract Los Angeles, Chicago and Norfolk, Va., assembly plants will resume operations tomorrow morn- ing. "We are hopeful that negotiations on 4ocal is- sues at the few locations which still haven't re- solved them can be concluded soon so that the strike can be terminated completely at all com- pany locations and all of our employes can re- turn to work," McKenna said. NEITHER Woodcock nor Bannon appeared to talk to reporters about the closeness of the vote to ratify the contract. The now-ratified Ford contract becomes the basic industry agreement that will have to be matched by General Motors, Chrysler and Amer- ican Motors for the 530,000 workers they employ. SUPREME COURT APPEAL EXPECTED Watergate convictions upheld Michigan suspends swine flu pro gram From Wire and Staff Reports Less than two weeks after it began, the nationwide swine flu vaccination program was sus- pended in six states yesterday- including Michigan-after three elderly persons died within hours of taking flu shots in Pennsylvania. A spokesperson for the state Department of Public Health yesterday estimated that the number of Michigan residents involved was "something less than 5,000" but local officials said they had no firm count. THE VACCINE scare began when three elderly persons died in Pittsburgh Mondaysafterdre- ceiving swine flu shots."Officials in Pennsylvania said the three died of heart attacks. State officials said after talks with spokespersons at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga. that they believe persons in Ingham and St. Clair counties received innoculations from the same batch as was given to the Pittsburgh trio." Although stressing that they have no reason to believe at this point there js anything wrong with the vaccine the state has advised the two local health departments to cease dispensing it until they get an official "all clear" from the federal government. See SWINE, Page 8 By AP and Reuter WASHINGTON-- The U. S. Court of Appeals yesterday upheld the Wat- ergate cover-up convictions of three of former Presi- dent Nixon's top aides - John Mitchell, John Ehr- lichman and H. R. (Bob) Haldeman. But the court ordered a new trial for former As- sistant Attorney General Robert Mardian, the fourth person convicted in the three - month trial which ended on January 1, 1975. IN A 300-PAGE opinion, the six judges said the defendants had been properly tried and found guilty of "wide-ranging conspiracy" at the highest lev- els of government. A separate opinion said Mar- dian, should have been tried separately from his co-defen- dants. They are considered certain to appeal yesterday's ruling to the SupremeaCourt, but observ- ers said that the decision is highly unlikely to, be overturn- ed. All have remained free pending their appeals. In most cases, losing- in the appeals court would mean going to jail even if the Court is asked to take the case. A FIFTH defendant, lawyer Kenneth Parkinson, was ac- quitted when the jury return- ed its verdict on New Year's Day, 1975. Mitchell, a former attorney general; Haldeman, the former White House chief of staff; Ehrlichman, Nixon's principal domestic affairs adviser, and Mardian were all found guilty See WATERGATE, Page 8 Mitchell Daily Photo by CHRISTINA SCHNEIDER Two patrons of the Panhellenic Plant Sale leaf through a couple of the green goodies of- fered yesterday in the Union Ballroom. Proceeds from the sale, which runs through Thurs- day, will go to Mott Children's Hospital. Plant paradise proliferates Haldeman By SHELLEY WOLSON The Union Ballroom was transformed into a plant paradise yesterday, allowing students to pluck peperomia instead of the usual poli sci texts from the shelves and tables lining the temporary second floor greenhouse. The third annual Panhellenic Plant sale for charity drew a steady stream of people ranging from serious plant buyers to students "just trying to kill an hour." FRESHMAN HANK TEPPER, curiously leafing through a table of potted greenery, commented, "I'm into plants. My father's an amateur botanist so I get it from him." But when asked if he inherited his father's green thumb he answered with a resounding, "No! I definitely did not. I'm famous for killing plants." Proceeds from the three-day sale will go toward purchasing a new -cardiac monitor for the cardiac unit in Mott Children's hos- pital. Carol Flynn, secretary of the Panhell- enic Society said, "Our goal is set for $1,200 and we're very hopeful of making it." Low prices seemed to be the sales' big- gest drawing card. "There are a lot of good bargains here," observed freshman Carl Pa- risi. "But," he added, "I think most of the plants look sick." A BIG HEART, not bargains, however, is - See PLANT, Page 2 IEhrlichman DOESN'T OFFER CONCRETE PLAN: Riegh By PHILLIP BOKOVOY and JIM TOBIN Democratic U. S. Senate can- didate Donald Riegle said yes- terday that he advocates 'free tuition in the first two yearsrof college for all students, to be paid for by the federal govern- ment. In a late-morning press con- ference at his Fourth Ave. city headquarters, the Flint Con- gressman said, "The first two years of post-high school work should be tuitiontfree. I think it would be a terrific invest- ment for the country to make. We can pay for it if we plan right. I realize its an idealistic goal, but it's the kind of ideal- istic goal we ought to try to set." Riegle could not specify how such a plan world be financed, and said' he had an "open mind" to alternatives. Last night, in a debate with Riegle at the Northfield Hilton in Troy, Republican opponent favor He added that he would sup- port a gradual "transitional program" at the federal level leading to a system of non-re- turnables. Riegle also reaffirmed his support for Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimina- tion at federally funded institu- tions. From his headquarters Riegle hustled over to the Diag for an informal rally that attracted several hundred faculty and stu- dent listeners. Speaking on the steps of therGraduate Library, Riegle offered some lukewarm IS free support for Jimmy Carter and asked for help in his campaign. "I support Jimmy Carter," he said. "That doesn't mean I'm supporting him because he's perfect. I had breakfast with Jerry Ford every Wednesday morning for six years. That's a lot of bacon and eggs with Jerry Ford, and I really know him. And I don't want him to be President for four more years. "Walter Mondale is a special individual," Riegle continued. "I like the process that Carter went through to choose his run- #r tuitilon ning mate, and the fact that he was able to pick Mondale says something about him. I want to help Carter when he's right and I' want to help change his mind when he isn't right." The evening debate was en- livened when the sponsoring group, the Young Presidents Club - a group of corporation presidents under 50 years of age - decided to ban the press from the event. After both Rie- gle and Esch threatened to can- cel out, the media's access,-was restored. See RIEGLE, -Page 2 China conftirmns Hua' as Party ehairman PEKING (Reuter) - Premier Hua Kuo-feng was confirmed last night as the new chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, amid reports that four leading politburo members had been arrested and accused of plotting a coup. After four days of mystery, an official spokesman finally told reporters that Hua was now party chairman. He said the delay in the announcement was because news had to be relayed throughout the country. THE SPOKESMAN, speaking at a banquet for the Prime Minister of Papua-New Guinea, reiterrated there was "no com- ment" on reports that Mao Tse-tung's wife, Chiang Ching, and four other politburo members were under house arrest. Meanwhile Chinese leaders were understood to be meeting in the wake of what appeared to be the biggest political upheaval in China for years. Informed Western sources said a large-scale meeting appeared to be in progress, probably to ratify the dramatic changes ofthe past weeks. RELIABLE SOURCES told reporters that Madame Mao and three other members of the so-called "Shanghai set," Wang Hung- Ford admits to error in debate wen, Chang Chun-chiao and 'Yao Wen-yuan, were under -house 'arrest, accused of hatching a coup. Several foreign embassies here said they were convinced of the report's truth and that Chinese officials were being pri- vately briefed on the arrests. Despite the political, tension, the sunlit streets of the capital appeared relaxed and travellers from the provinces said there By The Associated Press President Ford told a group of American ethnic leaders yesterday he made a mistake in his state- ments about Eastern Europe during his debate DURING THE debate last week, the President said "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe." Yesterday he told the ethnic leaders that East European nations "are, of course, dom- inated by the Soviet Union."