PEACE IN LEBANON See Editorial Page \:LI r 04PAt aii OBSCURE High-34 Low-20 See Today for Details Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVI, No. 104 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, January 31, 1976 10 Cents Eight Page! f ~tcus~EE APP n CALL *NY Freon The state House committee on public health Thursday approved a bill to ban the use of freon, which scientists say may be destroying the earth's ozone layer. The measure, sponsored by State Rep. Perry Bullard (D-Ann Arbor), was approved by an 8-3 margin and will be considered by the House sometime next week. Bullard said action in the state "would hopefully speed consideration by the federal government" of a similar ban. Freon is a propellant used in aerosol cans. The state Chamber of Commerce has opposed the bill because "it has no practical value." Happenings... .. .are few and far between . . . there will be a mountain dance workshop in Barbour Gym at 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 2:30-5 p.m. with a party this evening . . . Students for Don Riegle for U.S. Senate will meet at 11 a.m. in the Union . . . the Women's Conference is holding a meeting at 9 p.m. Superf an! A young soccer fan in Newcastle, England was so frightened by the defeat of his favorite team that he beat his fiancee to death and then killed himself by driving his car into a stone wall at 80 miles per hour. Apparently Alan Dutch, a ship- yard apprentice, was set off when his girlfriend laughed after he told her his team lost 5-0 last Wednesday. Police later described the man as "moody" and a "football fanatic." Yoicks, obvi- ously an example of British understatement. Packing it in The California Assembly has approved and sent to the state Senate a measure outlawing silicone injections to enlarge women's breasts. If approved the bill would subject persons prescribing or ad- ministering such injections to a penalty of up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. One legislator questioned the bill, asking "a woman should have control of her body with the exception of her breasts?" Proponents of the measure countered that the ban was not a question of women's rights but of medical safety. The industry should prove that silicone injections are medically safe, the bill's backers argue. Last verdict Italy's court of final appeal has ruled the movie "Last Tango in Paris" obscene, banned it from public showing, and ordered the destruction of all copies of the film in the country. The Court of Cassation's ruling Thursday upheld a lower court's sentence of $40 fine and two months jail apiece for director Bernardo Bertolucci, producer Alberto Grimaldi and stars Marion Brando and Maria Schneider. The jail sentences were suspended. The verdict ended over a year of litigation. The Italian prosecutors now have a better batting average than Brooks Patterson. For a change Lawyers in the Missouri Senate aren't up on their Latin, but they don't like to admit it. During debate on a bill Wednesday, one legislator asked the sponsoraof the legislation what the Latin phrase "nihil dicit" meant in the proposed law. But the honorable Sen. Paul Bradshaw deferred to his colleague Clifford Jones because he "went to an eastern school." Jones rose and with a straight face said "It came from the second oration of Cicero . . . It means if you don't know what you're talking about, sit down and shut up." And they all did. H Hard times The fear of terrorist infiltration at the govern- ment's Nevada Test Site has prompted federal officials to beef up security precautions at the nuclear testinggrounds, including the additiontof tanks. The new security measures will mean the replacement of at least 10 handicapped guards that work at the site, 6 miles northeast of Las Vegas. The guards, long-time employes there, appealed their terminations Monday to the U. S. Depart- ment of Labor, charging that federal programs assuring equal rights for the handicapped have been violated. A spokesperson for the Energy Re- search and Develorment Administration didn't have much to say about the firings, only that the physical requirements for the guards were being increased. On h einside ... The Editorial Page features an analysis of the Angola situation by the Young Workers Libera- tion League . . . Andrew Zerman reviews "Love Spirit" on the Arts Page . . . Kathy Henneghan previews today's basketball game against Iowa on the Sports Page. Men tell terror story of v beings, UFOs unearthl By DANA BAUMANN "The creatures was over five feet tall and seemed to glide from the craft. They didn't have no neck - the head rested right on the shoulders. Their bodies were covered with gray, wrinkled skin, kinda like an elephant." Sound like a scene from a low-budget science fiction movie? According to Charles Hickson, on October 11, 1973 three creatures fitting that description landed a spacecraft near a destred ship- yard where he and Calvin Parker were fishing and abducted them. HICKSON AND PARKER told the story of their UFC encoun- ter last night to a skeptical audience of about 40 persons at the MLB. Chick Mendez, an associate professor at Oakland Com- munity College and director of the UFO Study Center, presented a slide show and provided background on UFOs to support the men's story. Hickson, a "country boy" from Pascagoula, Mississippi, claims that he and Parker were fishing when he heard a zipping noise. Turning around, he saw a blue pulsating light on a 30-to 40- foot craft hovering several feet above ground. "Suddenly, some type of door-thing appeared in the forward end and the creatures appeared. The sight almost scared me to death . . . Two of them came over and lifted me up - I had no sensation or feeling. Alls I could move was my eyes" said Hickson in his deep Mississippi drawl. HICKSON SAID the beings had features resembling noses, slit-like mouths, long ears and horizontal wrinkles where earth- ling eyes are normally located. "They took me aboard the craft where I was suspended in the middle of a room without any kind of chairs or tables. Then some- See MEN, Page 8 Charles Hickson High Court lifs 1mt on campaign spending foi By AP and Reuter WASHINGTON- Across - the - board limits i m p o s e d .on cam- paign spending to prevent Watergate - type abuses were ruled unconstitution- al yesterday by the Su- preme Court in a decision affecting the Presidential and Congressional elections this November. But the court also ruled that a presidential candi- date who accepts pub- lic campaign money - provided for in the 1974 Federal Election Campaign Act - must abide by a spending ceiling. BY A VOTE of 7 to 1, the court held that spending limits for candidates or for individ- uals or groups supporting can- didates violate the Constitu- tion's guarantee of freedom of exoression. In effect the court opened the way for limitless indirect con- tributions to candidates, saying that if individuals or groups snend money to promote a can- didate it does not have to be considered a contribution and therefore isn't limited by law. Although it struck down the spending limits, the court up- held the act's limitations on the amount that contributors may give directly to candidates. THIS DOUBLE - EDGED action - taking the brakes off spending but declaring legal the tightening up on fund-rais- ing - will unquestionably alter the tactics of major and minor party candidates in the nine months remaining before the 1976 Presidential and Congres- sional elections. The legislation limiting cam- paign spending grew out of the atmosphere created by former President Nixon's $60 million 1972 re-election campaign and the "dirty tricks" it paid for- including the Watergate break- in at Democratic National head- quarters in Washington . The court ruling yesterday upheld a provision of the cam- paign act that enables a candi- date to collect up to $20 mil- lion from public funds to match what he has been able to raise from individual contributors. THE COMPLEX decision also upheld the act's requirement that candidates must file for public inspection the names of ~76 every person who contributes $100 or more. Democratic and Republican party headquarters had no im- mediate comment on the effect of the court's decision. But ob- servers said it would appear to benefit any candidate with a large personal fortune and those such as Governor George Wallace of Alabama whose main source of campaign income de- rives from huge private mailing lists. The expenditure limits struck down yesterday would have al- lowed a candidate seeking his See CAMPAIGN, Page 2 Daily Photo by STEVE KAGAN PROTESTORS HOIST picket signs at yesterday's rent strike demonstration in front of Sun- rise Management headquarters. About 40 protestors withstood the cold weather to protest alleg- edly inadequate maintenance and security measTres. TU protests Sunrise 13 die in Chicago nursing home blaze From Wire Service Reports CHICAGO-Fire yesterday engulfed the top floor and chapel of a nursing home here,, killing 13 elderly persons-some of them confined to wheelchairs-as they attended Mass. At least 30 other patients at the home were injured, as the blaze raced through the four-story brick building. Many of the injured were reported in critical condition. THE FIRE apparently started in a closet but its cause was not immediately known, officials said. According to eyewitnesses, the fire broke out about noon and burned for over an hour before firefighters brought it under control. "When I got there to the fourth floor, I saw a lot of smoke and a lot of people. They just didn't have a chance," one fire- fighter said after the blaze had been put out. "I'VE LOST a lot of patients," one nurse said as tears stream94 down her face. She and two other nurses were taken by the police to identify the bodies. Officials said there were 100 persons-including about 80 resi- dents-in the nursing home at the time the fire was reported. The dead and injured ranged in age from 65 to 82. The flash fire was confined to the immediate area in which it started, but thick smoke quickly filled the entire building, ac- cording to firefighters. Most of the victims were believed to have died of smoke inhalation. The nursing home, located on the city's north side, had been recently approved by the Chicago Building and Health Departments. By JAY LEVIN About 40 chilly protestors spiced the current Sunrisettenant rent strike yesterday with a vocal demonstration in front of the management com- pany's Packard St. headquarters. Acknowledging supportive honks from passing motorists' with clenched fists, the striking tenants chanted for tenant power and landlord recog- nition for their negotiating team, the Ann Arbor Tenants Union (AATU). HOWEVER, THEY were unsuccessful in rous- ing Sunrise's stylish, young owner, Dewey Black, from his office. Black refused comment on the demonstration or progress of the rent strike negotiations. Robert Miller, a member of the AATU steering committee, claimed that management cancelled Thursday's bargaining session, stalling negotia- tions. "WE FEEL THAT the landlords have reneged negotiating in good faith," he said. According to Miller, the tenants are now re- questing a four nonth rent rebate from Sunrise in payment for inconveniences suffered because of allegedly inadequate maintenance and security measures. Meanwhile, the tenants union is calling for a demonstration at next week's Regents meeting to protest the University's supposed lack of con- cern about the campus area housing situation. See RENT, Page 8 Prosecutors, Hoffa's son accusedof ibel DETROIT (UPI) - The attorney for New Jersey Teamster Stephen Andretta, a reluctant grand jury witness in the dis- appearance of former Teamsters boss James Hoffa, filed a $2 million damage suit yesterday against federal prosecutors and Hoffa's son. William Bufalino, who has orchestrated Andretta's jack-in- the box tactics with the federal grand jury, accused Director Rob- ert Ozer and assistant Fred Dana of the U. S. Organized Crime Strike Force of libel, slander and defamation of character. JAMES HOFFA, son of the missing union leader, was also named as a defendant. Bufalino accused the younger Hoffa of slander and conspiring with Ozer to subvert his ability to repre- sent clients in the Hoffa case. Also named in the snit filed in Wayne County Circuit Court were six unnamed labor organizations and 20 unidentified individ- uals. Their role in the alleged defamation was not clear. The suit by the flamboyant attorney came several hours after Henderson:A secret dorm By MICHAEL BLUMFIELD "People tend to think we're either a sort of junior Martha Cook or a home for unwed mothers," says Kristen Holm, a resident of Henderson House, the University's smallest residence hall. Residents of the all-female dorm, located at Hill and Olivia, claim that few people know f its existence-including employes of the Housing Office. Henderson's status has amused some residents and confused guests. THE "UNWED mother" image has led the women to speculate just what would happen if they tried to confirm outsiders' suspicions. They once considered hanging diapers in the bathrooms when some friends of the housing director, full of naive curiosity, came to visit. I .N~y Se ....,. _ _ . _