KISSINGER'S COMPLAITNT See Editorial Page Ink iga D~ait CORDIAL High--59 LOW-37 See Today for details Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVI, No. 116 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, February 14, 1976 10 Cents Eight Pages IrMsEE W66 APPaICEML,6 E Choked A man who survived an attack in which 11 fel- low patients were meticulously killed during a six- week period last summer at the local Veteran's Hospital, witnessed a police line-up Wednesday night of 17 women dressed in nurses uniforms as part of a federal grand jury investigation. The line-up was also viewed by seven other persons, including other patients, hospital visitors and staff- ers, and, as a result, new leads in the case have developed, according to police. Between July 1 and August 15, over 50 respiratory attacks occur- red, resulting in 11 deaths. Federal officials con- cluded that Pavulon, a powerful nero-muscular relaxant normally'used during surgery, was ad- ministered to the patients through their intra- venous tubes. To date, however, no one has been apprehended in the case - contrary to a publish- ed report in another local newspaper. 0 Happenings... .. . are slim today. Beginning today and run- ning through Feb. 20, the Student Bar Association and the Environmental Law Group of the Univer- sity of Detroit will be sponsoring a symposium on environmental law. Speakers will include such no- tables as Sen. Edmund Muskie (D-Maine) and Michigan Attorney General Frank Kelley; tickets for the series will cost $2 and it will be held in Detroit. For more information, call (313) 342-1000. " Your inooey or your eye Los Angeles police are looking for a man who allegedly stole his girlfriend's glass eye and is holding it for $300 ransom. Felicia Williams com- plained that her boyfriend came to her hotel room demanding money. When she refused, he hit her, grabbed $6 from the dresser and plucked her artificial eye from her left socket. The ransom is equal to the cost of a new glass eye. " Delight in delay The Procrastinator's Club of America has de- cided to give an award to the Betsy Ross Bridge between Philadelphia and Pennsauken, N.J. Ap- parently the bridge has been completed for a year, and because of a budget error it still is not open for passage. So, in true dilettante tradition, the club plans a "minibanquet" tomorrow on the bridge at which they will christen it the "Bridge Over the River Why." They haven't yet decided what the award will be, however. "We haven't got- ten around to it, naturally," said the club's presi- dent, Les Waas, adding, "and we won't until Sun- day. We don't do these things until the last min- ute." Waas says 'the club is also planning to cir- culate a petition to have the sructure more accur- ately renamed "The Betsy Elizabeth Griscom Ash- burn Claypoole Bridge," since Betsy was married twice more after her first husband died in a mu- nitions explosion. Of course, if the name change goes through, the opening of the bridge would have to be further delayed. Mineo murdered Police yesterday searched for a young blond 'man wearing dark clothes wanted in connection with the stabbing death of actor Sal Mineo. The 37-year-old Mineo, who played young toughs with leather jackets and switchblades, was murdered Thursday night in an alley behind his apartment building near Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Police said Mineo, who won an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of a misunderstood juvenile de- linquet in "Rebel Without . a Cause," was at- tacked in the alley near the parking lot of his apartment. He also played the title role in "The Gene Krupa Story" and more recently appeared as an ape in "Escape from the Planet of the Apes." The baby-faced Mineo also won an Acad- emy award nomination for his performance as 'a youthful Israeli guerrilla in "Exodus." 4 On the inside... the Editorial Page will highlight an article by former Daily editor Gordon Atcheson on comic book character Sgt. Rock and how he relates to life at the big 'U' . . . weekly Happenings will be on page 3 . . . the week's television listings will appear on page 5 . . . and Sports Page will have the results of last night's events. On the (outs(i .... Warmer weather is on the way. Two warm Cobb not. amonl By ANN MARIE LIPINSKI and KEN PARSIGIAN Jewel Cobb, the black woman dean of Connecticut College-who last year was the unanimous choice of the University Board of Regents to fill the vacant position of LSA dean-was again a candidate for that post this year, The Daily has learned. Cobb, however, failed to make the deanship search committee's list of ten finalists. IT WAS ALSO learned that former acting LSA Dean Billy Frye, the man who Vice President for Academic Affairs Frank Rhodes announced Thursday was the Regents unanimous choice for the deanship this year, was supplied with information concerning the position which the other candidates were not given. Frye, Rhodes confirmed last night, knew the names of the other two candidates which the search com- mittee offered to the Regents, along with Frye's name, as their list of three finalists for the deanship. Cobb, who last year applied for the position of LSA dean, said yesterday that she was nominated for the position this year by an unknown source. REGENTS David Laro (R-Flint) and Paul Brown (D-Petosky) confirmed yesterday that Cobb did not make the list of ten finalists-the only candidates for the deanship who were actually interviewed by the search committee. "It seems rather logical now (that Frye was chosen as dean)," said Cobb. "He's been working in that posi- tion for over a year and his expelience was an im- portant aspect in the eyes of the search committee." When asked if she knew of any reason why she was not selected as a finalist this year, in light of last year's unanimous regental approval she, replied: "No. I have no thoughts one way or the other." LAST YEAR'S controversial selection process was libeled by many student, Uni-ersity and government soirces as both sexist and racist. Cobb, after being chosen by the Regents from'a list fin-alists of three finalists which included Frye, was offered only a two-year contract with no tenure by the Uni- versity. The standard procedure has been to offer the Regent's deanship choice a five-year contract with tenure. Cobb originally declined this offer but later informed University President Robben'Fleming that she would accept the terms of the contract. Fleming, however, then told Cobb that the offer no longer stood. FLEMING THEN appointed Frye to the position of acting dean in July, 1974-a position which he held until Thursday. "It is interesting," Laro said last night, "that she (Cobb) didn't make the final, list this year. But, that didn't effect the choice of Frye. He was very well qualified." Concerning thefreport that Frye had prior knowledge of the finalists before his appointment, Laro said, "fHe may have known who the finalists were, but that See COBB, Page 7 Cobb A morons shoppers swarm to stores By ANDREA LILLY "From your Valentine" has been a popular way to sign romantic notes ever since an ancient Roman priest spent a stretch in the local clink fan- tasizing about the jailer's daugh- ter. The letters Valentine sent to the only woman he could see from his prison were the an- cestors of contemporary hearts, flowers, cards, gifts and heart- studded men's briefs. CLOSET romantics emerged en masse yesterday to celebrate Valentine's precedent, crowding the city's flower, card and gift shops. Women, many appearing rath- er embarrassed, left Wild's Men's Shop with Valentine em- blazoned pajamas, underwear and bath kilts. Salesman Bill Hoffman reports that at least 50tpairs of Valen- tine boxer shorts were sold in gift sets which include a wind- up vibrating heart that reads, "My Heart Beats for You." The underwear declares: "I want the lion's share of your love." See LOCAL, Page 2 Rebel coup suppressed in Nigeria Daily Photo by PAULINE LUBENS One of Ann Arbor's Valentine buyers window-shops while deciding what to send a special .friend. Local merchants report brisk sales of gifts, flowers and heart-printed boxer shorts. PREFERENTIAL VOTING RECONSIDERED Voters to face three city issues By AP and Reuter LAGOS, Nigeria - Nige- ria's seven-month-old mili- tary government headed by Gen. Murtala Muhammed crushed an attempted coup yesterday by self-proclaim- ed "young revolutionaries," Lagos radio announced. There were early reports that Muhammed and sev- eral other p e r s o n s were killed, but radio broadcasts made after loyal troops had recaptured the state radio from the rebels m a d e no mention of any deaths. A LATE communique broad- cast by the government said the situation had returned to nor- mal inLagos, the Nigerian cap- ital, but the airport remained closed. It called on Nigerians to remain calm. The announcement said a cur- few remained in force in the interests of national security. The ruling National Supreme Military Council was meeting and f u r t h e r announcements could' be expected, it said. Military rebels seized the La- gos radio station this morning claiming to have replaced the government and promised to stamp out all opposition ruth- lessly. THEY WERE led by Lt. Col. Dimka, once head of the army's physical training p r o g r a m. Dimka's broadcast said the gov- ernment had been dissolved, travel was forbiddenand a 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew would be enforced. The rebel announcement gave no reason for the attempted coup, but said all of the -19 military governors in the coun- try would be dismissed. Sources quoting eyewitness accounts said the head of state, General Muhammed, was shot and killed by the rebels as he drove the half mile from his home to his headquarters in Dodan barracks. THEY SAID a man in civilian clothes approached the Gen- eral's black Mercedes as it was halted in a traffic jam and pumped a whole magazine of bullets into it. The gunman then returned to his own car, fitted a new maga- zine, walked backed to the Mer- cedes and once more sprayed it with bullets. The revolt Game on the heels of a major anticorruption cam- paign by Muhammed and a sharp move to the left in foreign policy. See ATTEMPTED, Page 2 Hearst tellstale of SLA kidnap SAN FRANCISCO W - Pa- tricia Hearst, weeping and straining for breath, .recalled for jurors yesterday the night- mare scenes of her captivity - a tale of violent abduction, tor- ture and fear that her terror- ist kidnapers intended to bury her alive. Testifying in her own de- fense at her bank robbery trial, the pale and slender defendant told for the first time in pub- lic how she was blindfolded, dragged from her apartment and knocked unconscious, then dumped into the trunk of a car as she heard gunshots and screams behind her. HEARST SPENT nearly two hours on the witness stand af- ter the prosecution rested its case against her. See PATTY, Page 2 By RICK SOBLE City voters will ponder three ballot proposals when they visit the polls on April 5, including an amendment that would repeal the controversial preferential voting system in mayoral elections. City Council placed a second proposal on the ballot, asking whether the city should keep its system of door-to-door registration. The third ballot item proposes an annual tax of one mill earmarked for street repairs and maintenance. THE PROPOSAL to eliminate preferential voting was placed on the ballot by a petition raised by local Republicans. Preferential voting allows each voter to choose more than one candidate for an office, in order of preference. If no candidate receives a majority of the first preference votes, the one with the fewest votes is elimiinated. The secondary choices of voters for that candidate are then apportioned among the remaining candi- dates. Republicans claim that the system is unconstitutional because it doesn't conform with the American ideal of "one man, one vote." "WHEN ONE PERSON gets his vote counted twice and I don't, it isn't a legitimate election," said Councilman Roger Bertoia (R-Third Ward). Preferential voting debuted here during last year's mayoral election. Incumbent Republican mayor Jim Stephenson, who led the balloting after the first preference votes were counted, lost to Democrat Albert Wheeler after the second preference votes were tallied. "Jim Stephenson won that mayoral election by a greater mar- gin than anyone else ever has," commented Bertoia. ACCORDING TO Councilwoman Carol Jones (D-Second Ward), Republicans often capture the mayoral seat in municipal elections although most city voters choose a Democrat ticket in national and state elections. "This is because the Democrats here have an HRP (Human Rights Party) option," she explaiined. The non-Republican vote is split by Democrats and HRP, allowing the Republican candidate to win with less than half the votes. But with preferential voting, if one liberal candidate is elim- inated after the first preference votes are counted, all the See VOTERS, Page 7 Court rulings favor Tenants Union in Sunrise rent strike By JAY LEVIN Eight separate default judgments were granted to the Ann Arbor Tenants Union (AATU) against Sunrise Management Co. yes- terday in 15th District Court. AATU Steering Committee Member Robert Miller claimed Sunrise failed to reply in time to counterclaims filed by striking tenants in the current Sunrise rent strike. UNION ORGANIZER Steve Downes termed the judgments a "moral uplift" for TU, but GERARD MATUSZAK, attorney for Sunrise, dismissed the judgments, however, as incon- sequential. "It's a very technical, perfunctory and min- or thing," said Matuszak. He added, however, that the judgment "has nothing to do" with Dewey Black, Sunrise's owner. Matuszak expressed annoyance toward Don Koster, a TU counsel, for initiating the default judgment. "HE'S TELLING ME I didn't answer within fifteen days with the counterclaim," said Ma- i Feldkamp praises this year's lottery By CATHERINE REUTTER The drawing for reapplication to the dorms "went smoothly," University Housing Director John Feldkamp said yesterday. Hous- ing staff members drew 4,378 names in the lottery for 3,259 spaces. Last March's lottery contained an element of surprise for the participants, but this year's earlier date and better-prepared staff helped the second drawing run more efficiently, Feldkamp said. HE ADVISED students who lost their reapplication bids: "Don't panic, stay close to your building director." Many lottery losers will not be positive of their final status until all fall con- tracts are signed. The number of students reapplying jumped 209 from last year's ..