POLITICAL JUNGLE See Editorial Page .i[1:4 C , i i 1[Yi 4)atly CLEARING High -72 Low - 48 See Today for details Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVI, No. 23 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, September 30, 1975 Ten Cents Eight Pages plus Supplements S urder attempt alleged at V Hospital IF SEE NMSHAPP~tCA LL-EDly Grade point blues If your professor fails to respond to your pleas for a higher grade and your G.P.A. is suffering from anemia, you can always take your case to a higher authority. And that's exactly what Wayne State University student Donald Scholar of War- ren is doing. He is scheduled to appear in Wayne County Circuit Court Monday to try and get an undergraduate calculus grade changed so he can attend pharmacy school this fall. Sholar contends that 10 per cent of the time promised for the final exam last year was eliminated and his exam grade suffered as a result. Because his final grade was less than the required C, the College of Phar- macy has rescinded his admission to the fall class. Friedan speaks Betty Friedan will kick off a series of speeches in honor of International Women's Year tonight in Hill Auditorium. Tickets for the 8 p.m. address - "The Women's Movement in America. Where Are We? Where are we going?" - are available at the UAC Box Office in the lobby of the Michigan Union or at the door. There will also be a cocktail party at 10 p.m. for friends of the National Or- ganization of Women; and proceeds from the ticket sales will go to the Washtenaw County Wife As- sault Project, which will be discussed at the party. Happenings . .. . .. are scant today. John Vandermeer speaks on "Ecological Determinism" at 3 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre . . . Murray Bookchin dis- cusses "The Domination of Nature: Its Social Origins," also at the Rackham Amphitheatre at 7:30 p.m. . . . and the local chapter of Overeaters Anonymous is meeting at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 2145 Independence Ave., at 7:30 p.m. Deadly weapon? Munitions manufacturers take note: two West- land youths may have stumbled on the greatest in- vention since Sam Colt created the gun that won the West. Todd Sexton and his brother were re- turning from a hunting trip Sunday when they de- cided to experiment with their 12-guage shotgun. The brother carefully removed the shot from a shell and replaced it with a piece of hotdog. Lack- ing suitable test facilities, Todd served as a tar- get. Doctors at Cheboygan hospital removed the hotdog fragments from Todd's leg and sent him home. Authorities have no plans to charge the brother with assault with a deadly hotdog. Security slp-up A simple misunderstanding was responsible for maintaining Daniel Ellsberg's top-security clear- ance in the Pentagon even after he leaked classi- fied documents to the late Senator Robert Ken- nedy, according to syndicated columnist Jack An- derson. Ellsberg, who became the focus of na- tional attention after divulging the secret "penta- gon Papers" to the New York Times in 1971, sup- posedly leaked secret papers on the Vietnam war three years earlier to Kennedy, a critic of the Pentagon's war policies. After Kennedy released some of the secret information to the New York Times, Defense Department investigators quickly identified Ellsberg as the source of the leak. But when then Defense Secretary Clark Clifford or- dered the investigation aaginst the Times reporter dropped, an official misinterpreted his statement as an order to drop the matter entirely. Conse- quently, Ellsberg continued his top-secret work. Love-starved Live will find a way, even in the Kremlin - but it took four days of starvation to prove it. Johanna Steindl ended a four-day hunger strike yesterday when her Russian fiancee, Alexander Sokolov, was granted a one-month visa to Vienna so they could be married. Apparently it took a letter to Brezhnev himself from Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, citing humanitarian provisions in the Helsinki Sum- mit conference, to get the 31-year-old writer out of the country and into the arms of his love. Soviet officials reportedly said "There was no need to make such a great noise " On the inside .. . . . . the Arts Page s highlighted by Stephen Hersh's and Rbert Gordon's review of the Chick Corea concert . . . Lee Berry analyzes the current state of the Human Rights Party on the Editorial By JO MARCOTTY The FBI is investigating an apparent murder attempt at the Veteran's Administration Hospital which occurred Sunday night when a therapist found a patient's breathing equipment discon- nected. Hospital sources deny that the latest incident is connected to the series of Pavulon poisonings which resulted in at least 15 respiratory attacks and one death. Two non-hospital staff people have been apprehended in con- nection with the apparent murder attempt. VA administrators, who are investigating the incident, main- tain that the attempt was intentional, but have made no accusa- tions thus far. According to one source, they are presently considering it an "error." The murder attempt was discovered in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) about five p.m. Sunday night by a hospital therapist. THE VICTIM, Jesse Brower, an elderly man who had been in the unit for nearly a month, was saved when a therapist chanced to discover the disconnected equipment almost immedi- ately after it had been tampered with. The respirator alarm also had been disconnected. According to hospital sources, the patient would have died if the incident had not been discovered within three minutes. THE SUSPECTS were caught in the ICU when the therapist rushed to Brower's aid. A new security system instituted shortly after the FBI probe began Aug. 15 was designed to prevent anyone besides hospital Not linked to previous inci d ent.s staff and patient's families from entering the ICU. BUT ACCO11DING to one source, it is possible to enter the unit undetected. "You just have to walk in with a group of people and shout out a couplt of names," said the source. Brower remains in critical condition. The respiratory equipment was designed to do Brower's breathing for him. ACCORDING to one source, two people were seen next to Brower's bedside seconds before the breathing apparatus was dis- connected. The nurses turned away momentarily and when they returned, Brower's respirator had been disconnected. Two people ran out of the unit, where they were immediately apprehended by the staff people. The FBI, which has been present in the building around the clock during the last month, took the two in for questioning. THE HOSPITAL has so far not leveled any charges against the suspects, but are still investigating. FBI agents have been unavailable for comment. The mood at the hospital was grim and most staffers did not discuss the incident even among themselves. A floor supervisor who normally does brief, routine visits in the ICU spent most of Monday in meeting with top hospital staff. Sources claim the meetings were connected with the apparent attempted murder. THE ICU has been under strict surveillance since the myster- ious series of respiratory arrests started occurring. Many of the breathing attacks occurred in the unit. A hospital source confirmed that the incident was not an accident. Mark Gullickson, assistant administrator at the hospital, said that "the staff did an excellent job" in preventing Brower's death. "The FBI commended us for the speed with which the therapist and nurses acted," he said. The FBI has spent the last month interviewing VA staffers in connection with the Pavulon poisonings. A number of people were administered polygraph tests. ACCORDING to a hospital source, the FBI has narrowed down the list of suspects. One nurse, says the source, has been the focus of the FBI probe. However, according to another source, the FBI is trying force an admission of guilt. The nurse has supposedly hired lawyer and contends she has been unduly harrassed. to a Clericals to elect a bylaws Panel By ELAINE FLETCHER Clericals for a Democratic Union (CDU) scored a victory against their former bargain- ing team Sunday, as union members voted to elect a com- mittee to write bylaws rather than consider the negotiating team's already written draft. But a two-week postponement of the election - to allow a one week advance noting of the voting date - elicited angry reactions from CDU members. THE NEW clerical local, UAW 2001, which only last month ratified its first con- tract with the University, has been torn by controversy over attempts by the old bargain- ing team to write the bylaws without membership authoriza- tion. Although the former bargain- ing team members last week announced plans to present their bylaws proposal to the membership Sunday, protests from members led by CDU forced a vote to change the agenda at that meeting. "They held on, the member- ship handled themselves beau- tifully," commented Jane tifully, c o m m e n t e d Jane Gould, the only bargain- ing team member to side with CDU in their objections to the already written draft. Magrazine sa ys Heai offered fi SAN FRANCISCO P - Patricia Hearst was an ardent radical who asked to join ci the Symbionese Liberation A r m y, then t refused an offer to return to her parents, an fe Rolling Stone magazine reported yesterday. f ag While the article pictured Hearst as a willing revolutionary who refused to go ' home, attorneys for the heiress described fr her as still "spaced out" and a former un- he derground comrade said she had been w brainwashed by her parents, rather than so the Symbionese Liberation Army. a "SHE'S BEEN more spaced out. It's harder to fa get her to talk," attorney Terence Hallinan told re a news conference. "She becomes overwhelmed so by tears much faster. She cannot even begin to get into these areas that her mind has closed on." in The copyright article by Howard Kohn and Da- in vid Weir said Hearst drove cross-country alone ru with activist sports writer JackhScott.At the be- ginning of the trip Scott told her he was willing to take her home, the magazine said, but she tr refused. lii "I want you to know that I'm willing to take w( you anywhere you want to go," Rolling Stone he quoted Scott as telling her. "You don't have to ta go to Pennsylvania. I'll take you anywhere." he SHE SHRANK from him and "was ready to bolt t if he turned the car toward Hillsborough," her C family's home, they said. "I want to go where my friends are," she was quoted as saying. Scott, in an interview yesterday with the San te Francisco Examiner, said the information was h developed from the writers' association with Mi- chael Kennedy, Scott's formersattorney in grand tr jury proceedings investigating the SLA fugitives' di stay at a Pennsylvania farmhouse. report st was r reedom He called the story "a gross violation of lawyer- lient relations," and a "crass, sensationalist at- empt to capitalize on our close relationship and to attempt to discredit Patty Hearst and her de- ense." He said he was considering legal action gainst the authors. WEIR AND Kohn denied the information came om Kennedy, as did Kennedy himself. They said e was "a friend" but denied they had ever orked with him. They would not identify their ources, except to discount Miss Hearst herself rd Kennedy. Hearst's lawyer, F. Lee Bailey, said he was not amiliar with the article, but added, "I've never eally considered Rolling Stone an authoritative ource on anything." Hearst claims in an affidavit that she unwill- ngly joined the SLA after being driven nearly nsane by her captors, who kidnapped her in Feb- uary 1974. LATER, in a private conference with U.S. Dis- ict Court Judge Oliver Carter and U.S. Attor- ey James Browning Jr., the Hearst defense team on a promise that Patty's jailhouse talks with er parents and attorneys would no longer be aped. The judge also postponed a scheduled Tuesday earing in the case for one week after he was old that psychiatrists' reports on Hearst's mental *mpetency are not ready. Hallinan said Hearst's mental condition is de- eriorating rapidly in jail and that psychiatrists ad expressed "some concern" that she might ry to commit suicide. He called for her imme- iate transfer from her San Mateo County Jail See STORY, Page 2 "IT WAS the first meeting I've seen where union business was handled by the locals, and Ma with that kind of behavior we'vye got a good go on a democratic Ed Damm sh union." she added. Jean Jones, head of the for- Damm plays See CLERICALS, Page 8 novices. GOPm Launch drive against preferential voting By DAVID WEINBERG City Republicans yesterday launched a cam- paign to repeal the city's preferential voting (PV) system used in last April's election. The petition .drive will attempt to put the issue of PV on next April's election ballot. In order to secure a place for PV on the ballot, Republicans must gather about 4000 signatures; in addition those names must be turned into the city clerk by early December. MAYOR Albert Wheeler said last night that he felt the PV petition drive was "a political 'ying." He added, "Look, they're trying all kiids of Daily Photo by E. SUSAN SHEINER akin g mountain music shows one of his hand-made mountain dulcimers. the instrument and also gives free lessons to ounts political offeTsive Attempt to recall $5 pot law fails By ANN MARIE LIPINSKI The GOP lost its bid to place Ann Arbor's $5 marijuana ordinance back on the ballot, at City Council last night, despite the absence of Demo- crats, who failed to appear in council chambers out of protest. The Republican's five votes fell two short of effectively returning the question of the city's controversial pot law to the electorate in April's general election. COUNCILMAN Ronald Trowbridge (R-Fourth Ward) said after the vote that the Republicans had not yet determined whether or not they will nmv h'in n . tiin drive in hones of iultimately