a$. ':, '.is"myo-a 'yam ¢::' AAtVWr . * 9%M ? ' AV V' .SStM Mfl.SV {4.{{{;Y,.}"p S . Y:L"~: ~i:v".;";w}"tr:+":}"5:^~:y. , ,". v ... .. '. " ..{. .. V . .. . yY.5M.^}y Y . ..v...1".YL .'t ... VA W :.^ ./5., i1~e £Ai$ t Ct Eighty-Seven Years of Editorial Freedom 420Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Thursday, October 14, 1976 News Phone: 764-0552 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Watergater's THE WATERGATE convictions of John Mitchell, John Ehrlichman and 4 H. R. (Bob) Haldeman have been up- held in the U.S. Court of Appeals.< A 300-page court opinion said so, and that's great. If we were these three,-we'd try to save ourselves too, but what these conspirators have done certainly deserves the punish- ment, as meager as it may be. The real crook is still on the loose, but Ford's pardon sunk that case six feet t. under. After many long months of legal' wrangling in several courts, it seems certain that Messrs. Mitchell, Ehr- lichman, and Haldeman . will finally be punished for their high. crimes. In desperation, they will probably appeal to the Supreme Court, but ov- erturning their convictions is very unlikely. Thus, another chapter in this sad episode in our nation's his- > tory will close. While it may seem that the .whole f Watergate affair is over and can be forgiven, we must remember that such acts of belligerance and betray- . ing the public's trust can recur, time and time again. Public vigilance is the best guard against this; the out- cry and revulsion of the majority of the nation's citizens in reaction to the almost treasonable shenani- gans of these three hopefully wiser brought the whole despotic charade down in a pile of Tinker-Toy sticks and joints, and brought most of those responsible to justice. n u This vigilance must continue! A look through the pages of history shows us that leaders in high places are continually tempted by corrup- tion and have succumbed to it. This t conviction should remind us that$ things have not changed. A look at some of our candidates this Vaari should make uis wary about the fu- ture as well. Our Constitution provides safe- guards against criminal activities in < our government, but it requires ac- tion by other branches of the govern- inent and by the people; it is not automatic. Furthermore, without public support, those in government fighting corruption cannot succeed. It is clear, then, that we must be continually conscious of the dangers of corruption in our leaders, for this struggle is not, and indeed,is never over. get justice yY {141 n ti!} 1 ti j 1 :'" > r: ::" { ?' : :r. :::"' . : % 1 ti; Daii By PAUL HAMBURGER "Q;O WHAT IS the answer to'Detroit's war on crime?" The eanswer to that question is one that has puzzled politicians and sociologists all over De- troit. This complicated problem, thei figured, must have such a complicated solution, that it would take days, may-I be even weeks, to formulate. This, how- ever, is not the viewpoint of Mr. Keith 1 Richburg, who seems to think that, he knows the solution to the problem of Detroit's gangs. Before evaluating his conclusion, though, it is necessary to examine the nature of the article it-+ self. For, as every writer knows, the nature, or tone, of a proposition has a great bearing on the degree to which the conclusion will be acceptable. Mr. Richburg's article is sprinkled with statements which tend to lower the intellectual level of his proposition. The first such statement implied, pos- sibly in a half-joking manner, that Mayor Coleman Young was/ "enraged" due to the shortening of his vacation, and not due to the crime problem tak- ing effect in Detroit. Perhaps Mayor Young was not enjoying his vacation. Then he would have been happy to have returned, and enraged to find the gang problem in Detroit. But does it really matter? Probably not. Therefore, such a statement does not really belong in such an article. The second irrelevant sentence implied, again with tongue in cheek, that crooks could be locked up in the attics of wealthy businessmen. Not only is that a cheap shot at businessmen, but it leaves Mr. Richburg open to such com- ments as, "Since Keith is now at U. of Paul Hamburger-an LSA freshman who plans to major in history - lives in Oak Park, a suburb of Detroit. s ue M., why not lock up crooks in his va- cant bedroom on Grand River and McGraw?" Nevertheless, the point re- mains that comments such as the Mayor Young comment and the busi- nessmen comment do not reinforce any positions, they merely reduce an artic- le to the level of name calling. A third ludicrous statement referred to the lack of country clubs accessible to inner-city youths. It would, indeed, be a shame to have to denounce the myths of certain people; however, there are several sub-urban youths who do not have access to country clubs. Despite that terrible void in their lives, they have not resorted to gang type violence. Also, where would one place a golf course (a major facility in al- most every country club) in the inner- city? As a result of another poor choice of words, then, Mr. Richburg failed to make this argument credible in his article, and in effect left the credibility of other arguments in doubt. ANOTHER POINT IN the article dis- plays Mr. Richburg's naivete in regard to what is, and what is not newsworthy. He points out that newspapers are willing to put a concert, on the front page if there is robbery and mplest- ing connected with it. Whereas, accord- ing to Mr. Richburg, "When 24,000 young people enjoy two concerts by YES . . . without a hint of violence, that doesn't rate a back page!" Those concerts probably did not make the back page of any major newspaper; however, they probably did rate a re- view in some entertainment sections, where they belong. To put it simply, a normal YES concert enjoyed by 24,000 people it not front page news. It is en- tertainment page news. On the other hand, an Average White Band concert roilt ..:: x : : Rousing rebuttal during which people are robbed and molested, is front page news. This is not to imply that only social evils are front page news. Any major scientific breakthrough, or any other non-violent activity, with great social impact will also make the front page (Martin Lu- ther King, Jr. is a case in point.). Adding up the statements heretofore discussed, as well as a few not dis- cussed, plus the lack of organization in the article, plus several instances in the article which display a lack of logic, the tone of the article is found. Unfortunately, it is found to be a tone which leads the reader to a path of ridicule. Therefore, the conclusion, no matter how valid is likely to be viewed -accordingly. HAVING ESTABLISHED THE na- ture, or tone of the article, it is now possible to evaluate the conclusion. On paper, the solution offered for the gang problem looks great. "Jobs and re- creational facilities are the answer, from the Federal levels and Federal- ly funded." Upon superficial examina- tion one is inclined to marvel at the simplicity of such a solution, and won- der at the failure of politicians and sociologists to discover such a solu- tion. However, upon more thorough examination, one discovers that the solution is too simple. According to Ar- gumentation and Advocacy, "The clearest mark of a biased (or unreli- able) witness is his tendency to over- simplify - to look for one casual fac- tor which explains all." Unfortunately, this is the case with Mr. Richburg. He has oversimplified the problem, and as a result, has over- simplified the solution. The net result is a solution which will not work, by itself. First of all, it would be extreme- ly difficult to encourage anyone, espe- cially the government, to hire a former gang member, let alone a former gang member who cannot spell (Mr. Rich- burg implied this in revealing the gang's misspelling of Erroll Flynn.) Secondly, there are already some re- creational facilities available in De- troit, Palmer Park and Belle Isle are two such examples. These facilities are being frequented by gang members, which is precisely the cause of their deterioration. ANOTHER POINT TO be evaluated is the qualifications of the person who nroposes the solution. In other words,- if a solution to the problem of detente is offered by a High School history stu- dent, it will be viewed in a different light than another solution offered by a chief foreign/ policy advisor. There- fore, one must examine the qualifica- tions of Mr. Richburg. He is an LSA freshman, Daily editorial cartoonist, and lives (during the school "off-sea- son") "in the heart of Detroit's much- publicized East Side." These qualifi- cations indicate that Mr. Richburg is not really such an expert on the sub- iect, and, by the way, does not claim to be. However, if he did exhibit more ex- pertise in that area, his conclusion, al- ready lacking some credibility, might have been viewed as a good possibility. However, since he is not really quali- fied to answer the problem, there is another point of doubt raised for the reader. In conclusion, it should be added that Mr. Richburg does deserve minimal praise for valiantly attempting to pro- pose a viable solution to the problem in Detroit. After all, according to the old adage: "Better to have tried and lost, than never to have tried at all." rakes ri fts m : . a u $'t ak , " ; v ,: v: r,,; ,: { :a: a't ::"':: f 4 . ' ti Yt ^Y. 1' . ~!ay',i' I'v, 1 i ' t Y t{. f;? . :,:,: ' "}+, . ".4 I n';, , :r 1itchell .........4... ..: avn-: - Health Servce Handbook MN- Haldeman By SYLVIA S. HACKER and NANCY S. PALCHIK QUESTION: Is there any harm in taking a couple of peni- cillin or tetracyline tablets be- fore or after sex to prevent one from getting V.D.? ANSWER: There certainly is! We get many inquiries about this practice and it can be very harmful, both to yourself and to others. In fact, many people feel that the development of penicillin - resistant gonorrhea can be directly traced to the indiscriminate use of inadequate doses of antibiotics. If inade- quate doses of antibiotics are taken (with the hope of either preventing infection or curing an established infection), anti- biotic resistant strains of bac- teria are selectively allowed to grow. This is because the least resistant strains are more read- ily killed off leaving the heart- ier ones to flourish and repro- duce (an application of the prin- ciple of "survival of the fit- test"). So if you self-medicate yourself for gonorrhea and use inadequate or inappropriate an- tibiotics, you may partially erad- icate the infection only to de- velop (and risk transmitting) a chronic infection of gonorrhea which is resistant to the usual dosage of the appropriate anti- biotics. Another hazard in self- medication when symptoms are present is that the symptoms may disappear temporarily. This makes accurate diagnosis diffi- cult for the physician and may also make your laboratory test results invalid. By the way, Health Service now has a V.D. clinic where all persons residing in Washte- naw County, regardless of whether they are students or not, can come for the diagnosis and treatment of gonorrhea or syhilis, free of charge. So there is now no reason for you to even be considering treat- ing yourself or "borrowing" medication from friends. QUESTION: Is there any re- lationship between breast size and sexual responsiveness? ANSWER: Only in the respon- siveness of those males who get correctiolt turned on by women with large breasts! Seriously, though, al- though many women are con- cerned that their breasts are either too large or too small, there does not appear to be any inherent relationship between breast size and one's own sex- ual responsiveness. Some per- sons have tried to argue that since breast size is to some de- gree dependent upon estrogen secretion in women, low levels of estrogen might lead to both small breasts and low libido. However, this does not appear to be the case. If any relationship does exist, it is probably indirect, due more to the effect that breast size might have on a woman's self. image and her own (and also her partner's) perception of her sexual attractiveness. It has been said before but merits re- peating, that the most erogene- ous zone is located between the ears. QUESTION: Explain floating ribs and is there any pain? What causes them to float? Could it affect my health in any manner? (I was born with floating' ribs.) ANSWER: We consulted our expert in ribs and other internal organs, Dr. Nancy Newlin, Health Service Radiologist. She explains that the term "float- ing ribs" is a misnomer. All ribs are firmly attached to the spinal column down our backs. In front, however, the ribs be- come cartilaginous before at- taching to the breast bone in our chests. When X-rays are taken, the cartilage portion does- n't show up and so it appears as if the ribs in front are float- ing. This is apparently where the term "floating ribs" orig- inated. What you are asking about may be cervical ribs. Occasion- ally, in devolopment of the fe- tus, a congenital anomaly,.;(a mistake in development) occurs and extra ribs attach to the lowermost vertebrae of the neck. These are known as cervi- cal ribs but may have no effect whatever on the person's well being. Sometimes, however, they may cause compression of nearby nerves and blood ves- sels and lead to numbness, ting- ling and weakness of the hands and upper extremities. If you have such symptoms, you should see a doctor. While we're on the fascinating subject of ribs, Dr. Newlin would like to correct a .com- mon misconception, that be- cause God took one of Adam's ribs to create Eve, men now have one less rib than women. Not true! Cutting out a por- tion of the body does not mean that your offspring will be born with that part missing. If one cuts off the 'tails of rats and breeds them generation after generation, always cutting off the tails before breeding, all the offspring will be born with tails. This is simple Mendelian genet- 'ics. Since Adam was born with 12 ribs, all of his offspring would have 12 as well, no mat- ter that one was removed. This includes you. Send any questions on health- related concerns to: Health Educators U-M Health Service Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Ehrlichman Letters to the Daily parking To The Daily: DUE TO SHEER VOLUME, parking a car in Ann Arbor, especially in a location where one could be within a reasonable distance to University business, is always frustrating, often impossible and usually costly. Regulation of this parking, I can imagine, is a horrible headache. Students, the people without whom, more than any other group, there would be no University, are given less than token con- sideration in the matter of parking. Anyone familiar with Ann Arbor is aware of the acute housing shortage with regard to students. Accompanying this shortage is a high-rent/low-service phenom- enon. Therefore, either because there is not suitable space available, or because of the low value which is an inexorable part of the Ann Arbor rental scene, many students are forced, or choose, to live out- sie of walking distance of the University. They must drive to the University and must park their cars while conducting University business. THERE ARE MANY metered lots on University property in which students would be eligible to park. That is, if they could afford several hundred dollars a year sim- ply to feed the meters. Believe it or not, there are many students here who are not simply enjoying Daddy's fat bank account. With the rise in tuition, book prices, food prices, etc. several hundred dollars for parking meters simply does not find a place in many students' closely balanced budgets: Despite, this, meter rates con- tinue to skyrocket. Employes of the University have to shell out an outrageous $50 of their salary sim- ply to have a hunting license on staff paid parking lots. This is up 100% over last year. Outrageous? Yes! Why should an employe, regardless of salary grade, have to take a $50 per year pay cut simply to come to work? No alternatives exist for the bulk of University employes. Students, who don't have income from full-time jobs, are denied the opportunity to park for the same price as people who are employed full time. They must come up with a couple hundred dollars to park. THE EMPLOYES' situation is outrage- ous, but the students' situation is down- right oppressive. The very few lots that do exist for free parking for students are parked up before 8 a.m. and yet the metered lots are less than half full, on the average, all day long.. Students cannot afford two dollars a day to park. The solution is $to take down the damn meters. Open up those rip-off lots to the people who paid for them many times over with meter money. How to make up the money? Make Rob- ben Fleming buy his own care and live in his own house. Patrick M. Steusloff October 7 The Daily published a letter Tuesday, morning concerning the death of John Oliver, a South Quad resident. As it ap- peared in the issue, Holly Chambers was the sole author of the letter. In actuality, it was co-signed by Diana Slaughter. The Daily Editorial Staff sincerely regrets the omission. NEW EVIDENCE: An Oswald look-alike Contact your reps Sen. Phillip Hart (Dem.), 253 Russell Bldg., Capitol Washington, D.C. 20515. Sen. Robert Griffin (Rep.), 353 Russell Bldg., Capitol Washington, D.C. 20515. Rep. Marvin Esch (Rep.), 2353 Rayburn Bldg., Capitol Washington, D.C. 20515. Sen. Gilbert Bursley (Rep.), Senate, State CapitolI Lansing, MI 48933 Rep. Perry Bullard (Dem.), House of Representatives, Capitol Bldg., Lansing, MI 48933. .. .v "rg; rpsfu y + ...a. : By DICK RUSSELL Pacific News Service TH E E X I S TE N C E of an "identical twin" for Lee Harvey Oswald - living here and arrested and released on a federal gun charge short- ly before the assassination of John F. Kennedy - has been confirmed by a former agent Hill, for the Treasury Department's Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms unit. Hill, With a congressional probe of the JFK assassination in the offing, Frank Ellsworth, now a Regional Public Affairs officer Hill, in that agency's Dallas bureau, broke a 12-year afficial silence to describe "an absolute dead- Bldg., ringer for Oswald" active at that time with the rightwing Minuteman organization. State "I have a vague recollection that this man was questioned about the assassination, but not by me," Ellsworth told PNS. "Possibly nobody paid much at- tention because Oswald was in custody. We weren't looking for a fugitive." WHILE REFUSING .4; r to divulge the individual's name and passing off the inci- dent as probably "sheer coinci- dence," Ellsworth admitted that s1 the look-alike still resides in Dallas. He also said that a number of state, federal and local offic- ials had been aware of the man's existence after the as- Gassintinn Vt nn mention of cashing a check in a grocery store. But while the person they saw gave his name as "Oswald" and apparently matched the de- scription perfectly, the Warren Commission concluded there was overwhelming evidence that the real Oswald was else- where at those times. The wit- nesses were discounted as "con- fused" or "mistaken." For years, the commission's critics have speculated that an. Oswald look-alike may have been used by conspirators to impersonate and possibly help frame Oswald - blazing a trail of misleading evidence to im- placte him as a lone assassin. A Dallas deputy sheriff, for example, gave chase to a man who ran from the Texas School Book Depository and climbed into a Rambler station wagon a few minutes after the assas- sination, later positively iden- tifying him as Oswald. But ac- cording to police sources cited in the Warren Report, Oswald was already far away, riding a bus toward his home. NOW ELLSWORTH confirms that witnesses who believed they saw Oswald target - prac- ticing at a Dallas rifle range-. some of the more incriminat- ing sightings - were actually seeing his "twin." "I do remember two in- stances where Oswald was sup- posed to have been at some- one's house in North Dallas, and I wasbe. to ascertinn at the time that he was 'out shooting with them." The Oswald look-alike first came to Ellsworth's attention 'sometime in the summer of 1963," when the agent began tracking him to try . to deter- mine his connection with local arms smugglers. That fall, Ellsworth arrested him on "one of the gun violations," then re- leased him on bond a short time before the fateful Ken- nedy trip to Dallas. Immediately after the as- sassination, when Ellsworth was called to a police interro- gation room to question Oswald about the rifle found in his sup- posed assassin's nest, the agent first believed that it was the same man. "OSWALD WAS sitting in a chair about 1,0 feet from the doorway when I entered," Ells- worth remembered. "All I could see was headlines that I'd just turned loose the man who killed the President. "When Oswald spoke, I rea- lized they were two different people. But they had identical build, weight, coloring, facial features and hair. They could have passed for each other." Ellsworth refused to specu- late on whether the man he'd arrested might have known or known of Oswald. 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