SCHOOL FUNDING See Editorial Page 4 A& AOF .Aitr4t g an ail CLOUDY High--67 Low-35 See Today for details Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVI, No. 131 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, March 3, 1976 10 Cents Eight Pages I. 1/ frr F YOU SEE NEWS HAPPEN CALL75rDAJLY Dig it In case you've been wondering what the gaping hole in front of the UGLI is all about, the Univer- sity is replacing the building's air-conditioning, or "Steam Absorption Unit." Energy Management Engineer Robert Pesko says that the old unit was worn out and corroded, producing a number of leaks and other malfunctions. A hole had to be dug through the basement because the existing en- trances were not big enough to accommodate the unit. Pesko says the project should be completed by summer. Happenings . . . start at noon today with a Women's Com- mission meeting on "Affirmative Action in Engi- neering," to be held at 214 W. Engineering . . te Student Counseling Office is offering 15 cent peanut butter and jelly sandwiches today and any other Wednesday, at 1018 Angell Hall . . . the Rack- ham Minority Coalition will stage a protest at the Rackham Board meeting at 3:00 today in the Rackham Conference room, protesting the school's minority funding guidelines . . . the International Center is sponsoring a series of bi-monthly pro- grams providing tips for Europe-bound students this summer, from 3-5 pm. . . . Prof. Ellen John- son of Oberlin College will lecture on "The Bur- den of Freedom: Jackson Pollock's Revolutionary Role in Modern Art" 4:00 in Angell Hall Aud. A . . . a meeting for prospective Near Eastern Stu- dies concentrators will be held at 4:00, 443 Mason Hall . . . Daniel Donigan will speak on "Fifty Years of Campaigning for Diabetes," at 7:30 in Community room A of the Briarwood Mall - - - MSA will meet at 7:30 this evening in 342 Michigan Union . . . and Prof. Joel Samoff will talk on the "Conflict in Angola: The Larber Contexts," at 7:30 in Lecture room 1 of the MLB. CLIPS FRONTRUNNERCARTER Jackson takes 1Vlass. primary i Judge preside murder picked over, to VA he aring By DAVID WHITING In the wake of Monday's naming of two nurses as prime suspects in the local Veterans Hospital murder case, Federal District Court Judge Phillip Pratt was named yesterday to decide when legal testimony relat- ing to last summer's rash of mysterious deaths is to begin. y Pratt, who refused all com- ment on the matter saying he was unprepared to discuss the issue, was picked to determine the need for a deposition - a pre-trial legal statement made under oath and later used as evidence - from a crucial pro- secution witness now dying of cancer. DURING AN intensive FBI investigation into some 50 un- explained breathing failures and six suspicious deaths, terminal cancer patient Richard Neely, 61, identified a suspect he claims was present when he was injected with Pavulon - a potentially lethal muscle re- laxing -drug normally used dur- Something for a rainy day They say you can't take it with you, but the fed- eral government is trying anyway. The Federal Reserve Board is spending nearly $2 million a year to maintain and guard $4 billion in new currency inside a Virginia mountain as a hedge against any nuclear attack that would wipe out the nation's money, supply. The facility, known as the "Cul- peper Switch," is located about 80 miles southeast of Washington. Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) thinks the whole thing is a waste of money. He says that the $4 billion kept there equals less than five per cent of the nation's money supply, "hardly adequate to restore a destroyed money supply even if the distribution problem could be solved." Prox- mire added that at least $650,000 is spent each year to maintain an elaborate telecommunications sys- tem at Culpeper to keep the facility in daily touch with the nation's biggest banks. So, rest assured that if we all evaporate i nam ushroom cloud, our legacy will be preserved by a cadre of very rich, and highly radioactive bankers. No idle threat Editors of the Dallas Times Herald say they had no choice but to publish a story naming a former petroleum engineer as a Soviet spy, despite the man's threats to kill himself if the report was printed. Norman Rees, 69, was found shot to death in his Southbury, Conn. home this weekend soon af- ter the Times Herald ran a copyrighted story say- ing that the former Mobil engineer admitted sell- ing information to Soviet intelligence agents from 1942 to 1971. In 1971, according to the story, the FBI convinced Rees to become a double agent. The Times Herald said the story was developed over a three-month period during which Rees flew to Dallas twice for interviews. "If in our judge- ment," said Executive Editor Ken Johnson, "a story is newsworthy and supported by the facts, it is our policy to publish. In this instance, it was decided that the story could not be suppressed, even in the face of Mr. Rees' threat." 0! A star is born It was probably only a matter of time, but Patty Hearst has emerged as the central character in a play nearing the end of its premiere run at An- tioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Its pro- ducers think they might have a hot property on their hands, and they hope to take it on the road. The play, entitled "Hearst," is a three-hour syn- thesis of fact. and fiction in which the audience sits on mattresses and carpets "inside" an SLA hideout, with members of the cast walking among them. On the inside... Editorial page features a Pacific News Service story on Japanese reatcion to the Lockheed scan- dal . . . Arts page has Mitch Dunitz's review of "Sherlock Holmes," a play currently in Detroit and starring Leonard Nimoy . . . And on Sports page Henry Engelhardt profiles cager star Lydia Sims. On the outside.. Will it get warm todav? A strrm rrWin iist Colson claims new life in Christ; talks of Watergate scandal By JEFFREY SELBST Charles Colson, once special counsel to former President Richard Nixon and a convicted felon in the Watergate trials, has found Jesus Christ. Speaking last night before a crowd of 400-500 people in the Union Ballroom, Colson dealt mainly with his religious con- version, touching briefly on Wat- ergate and the last days of the Nixon administration. HE OPENED with a warning to those in the audience with tape recorders to takencare be- cause "I wouldn't want there to be any gaps in the tape." This provoked instant applause, and Colson rode the crest of ap- proval with several other jokes about his past life. Growing serious, Colson told the story of his final departure from Washington in 1972. He spoke of being "immenselytir- ed," but in retrospect discover- ed a feeling a "spiritual empti- ness." Colson said that a friend of his, Tom Philips, had recently undergone a religious conver- sion and had become more self- ing surgery. Neely named then-hospital Re- gistered Nurse Leonara Perez as responsible for the injection amidst speculation that a psy- chotic killer had been methodi- cally murdering intensive care patients in the hospital. His accusation against Perez became official Monday when the brief requesting the deposi- tion was filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit by Richard De- lonis, who is chief of the crim- inal division in the Federal pro- secutor's office. DELONIS said yesterday that he (Neely) picked her (Perez) ot from a stack of photographs. We also had a line-up which Perez and Narcisco were in and picked out." The deposition, if approved by Judge Pratt, was described yes- terday by the suspects' attorn- ey, Thomas O'Brian. as a "mini- trial" involving Neely's testi- mony, a presiding judge, the prosecution and cross-examina- tion by the defense. The event would be video-taped for j u r y viewing should a trial e v e r take place. Delonis defended the deposi- tion request - a highly unusual prosecution move - yesterday saying, "Neely's got something to say and we're just looking to preserve his testimony. He is ill. He could conceivably be out of the picture . . . dead or in- firmed . . . by the time a trial takes place." NEELY, who has left the hos- pital's intensive care unit to re- side with relatives in Oceola, Ind., could not be reached for comment yesterday, and VA of- ficials declined to comment on his present state of health. O'Brien stated yesterday that his two major arguments against the deposition will cen- ter around Neely's credibility as a witness and the uniqueness of the request. Narciso's and Perez's attorn- ey pointed out that "until a few months ago only the defense could ask for a deposition. Even when they ruled that the prose- cution could make such a re- quest, the whole ruling o n I y talked about formal charges be- ing made" against the defend- ents. See JUDGE, Page 8 -NASA TWO SPACE COLONIES orbit between earth and the moon in this artist's rendering of one of Princeton Prof. Gerard O'Neill's models. The rotating cylinders could accommodate populations over 200,000 living in an Earth- like setting. The rings around the cylinder are agricultural stations, and the long panels jutting out are mirrors, reflecting sunlight to the colony inside. FUITRE WO L S LEC T t RE. _M k Utorria to to outer flwe. By JEFF RISTINE Judging from its name alone, L- does not sound like a terribly exciting place to live. But if Princeton Prof. Gerard O'Neill has his say, that's where nations, or perhaps private industry, will construct huge, utopian colonies-240,000 miles from earth. SPEAKING TO a Future Worlds audience of some 1,000 persons yesterday afternoon, O'Neill outlined his two-year-old proposal for the space communities which he says could drastically defray problems of overpopulation, energy short- ages and pollution. The space colonies, he said, also offer "the opening of new human options," both in body and spirit. Using present technology, the space shuttle system of the 1980's and minerals from the moon, the first colony could be ready in See PROF, Page 8 Ford trounces Reagan Carter wins 'in Vermont' From Wire Service Reports BOSTON -- Sen. Henry Jackson won the Massachu- setts presidential primary election last night, beating a crowded Democratic field' and clipping the frontrun- ners' wings from Georgia's Jimmy Carter. Carter won over two oth- er entries in the snowbound Vermont primary, where Jackson was not entered. But he was fourth, far back, in the Massachusetts main event. PRESIDENT FORD Won eas- ily in Vermont-, where Republi- can challenger Ronald Reagan was not on the ballot, and in Massachusetts, where he was. But center stage belonged to the Democrats after a stormy, snowy, election night. And Jackson's victory in Massacbusetts, where he was polling 23 per cent of the vote, pointed to a wide open Demo- cratic scramble in the presiden- tial primaries to come. ALABAMA Gov. George Wal- lace was running second in Mas- sachusetts and said he consid- ered that a victory in alien ter- ritory. Rep. Morris Udall of Arizona was in third place and said he considered it a win, too, posi- See JACKSON, Page 2 B U L LE T I IN BOSTON UP) -- Here are tht, vote totals for the major candi- dates as of 1:50 a.m. this morn- ing in the Massachusetts Demo- cratic presidential preference primary with 1,512, or 71 per cent, of the state's 2,187 pre- cincts reporting: Colso n Jackson Wallace Udall Carter Shriver Harris Bayh McCormack Shapp 109,680,23 per cent 81,755-18 per cent 80,185-17 per cent 68,018-15 per cent 35,807-- 8 per cent 34,689-- 7 per cent 21,802- 5 per cent 15,622- 3 per cent 13,721- 3 per cent assured. After much internal de- bate, he added, he finally real- ized the 'truth' in what Philips had to say, and began his pro- cess of conversion. See FORMER, Page 2 No Preference 6,269 1 per cent BUILDING 'GRASS-ROOTS' SUPPORT: Peddling Wallace 0 n Ypos By MIKE NORTON Campaign workers for presidential hopeful George Wallace have learned from their mistakes and are concentrating on building up a firm grass-roots foundation for their candidate in Washtenaw County. Some supporters of the Alabama governor are working out of a tiny storefront in Ypsilanti, hustling Democrat Party member- ships to potential Wallace backers in order to pack more punch at this year's Democratic Caucus. They still have painful memories of 1972-the year Wallace delegates to the National Convention cast their votes for George McGovern. "WE JUST didn't do our work in the precincts," said the county officer for the Wallace campaign, Stan Carter. "This year it's a different story." Carter, a minister who has worked for Wallace's candidacy since 1968, is confident about Michigan's May primary. "We're doing well in Washtenaw and Monroe, and Wayne County's pretty well organized," he said. Carter considers Wallace a strong candidate because of what he called his "widespread popular appeal on the main issues." These are, contends the Yysilanti Township minister, "forced busing, the killing of unborn children" and "the so-called Equal Rights Amendment." And Wallace, he adds, "alone out of all the Democrats," has come out strongly against all three. CARTER THINKS Wallace's biggest challenges will come from former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter and Washington Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson. "But Michigan has never been a good place for strong liberals," he added. Carter also sees a formidable obstacle in the violent opposition of organized labor to Wallace's candidacy. "The union bosses don't like Governor Wallace, but luckily the n >::>. 211AN OKA W. Ty ix Millis