REAGAN IN TROUBLE Eee Editorial Page ici "4r fr19ap :43 a ii SLEAZY digh-65 Low-38 See Today for details Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVI, No. 137 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, March 19, 1976 10 Cents Ten Pages I I h- , Election time For all you budding politicians, the chance to run for elective office is now available. The Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) is currently looking for students who wish to run for the 12 available seats. The deadline for the election, to be held April 6-8, is March 23. In addition to the MSA seats there is a spot on the Student Pub- lications Board also open. Additional information can be obtained at the MSA office, third floor of the Union. A clarification Yesterday's article on the county venereal dis- ease program proposal may have left the impres- sion that no such treatment program currently exists. However, any county resident who would not otherwise be able to afford it is already eligible for free VD screening and treatment. One has a choice of any private doctor, clinic or hospital for the treatment. The new program under consideration, should it be approved by the County Board of Commissioners, would mere- ly make the University Health Service the main center for screening the disease, while in the past the Health Service has only been open to University students for free testing. O Happenings ... ... start at 9 a.m. today with assertion train- ing registration in the Kuenzel Rm. of the Union, this goes on until 4 this afternoon ... at noon Claire Jeannette will speak on "The Woman's Assembly: Learn How to Affect Your Govern- ment" at Guild House, 802 Monroe St. ... at 7 Tyagi Ji, a spiritial leader will hold a meditation class at the Friends Meeting House, 1420 Hill ... also at 7 Don Sioane will give a lecture-demon- stration "T'ai Chi" and "I Ching" at the Yoga Center, 500 Miller ... at 8 the University Dan- cers present the "Rite" concert at the Power Center ... meanwhile at Canterbury House at the corner of Catherine and Division Dick Mann will speak on "The Connection Between a Politi- cal Perspective and a Spiritual Perspective" ... and finally, Don Luce will speak on Vietnam To- day, also at 8 to be held at 921 Church. Setting loose a Hurricane Rubin "Hurricane" Carter will probably be a free man next Wednesday. Carter, who has served 91/2 years for the murder of three per- sons in a New Jersey bar, is scheduled to ap- pear at a bail hearing on that day. The sched- uled hearing follows Wednesday's New Jersey Supreme Court ruling ordering a new trial for Carter and codefendant John Artis. Passaic Coun- ty Prosecutor Burrell Humphreys says he will not oppose the request providing the amount of bail is substantial. Humphreys plans to personally re- try the case, despite the fact the two men who were instrumental in convicting Carter have since recanted their testimony. 0 Middle of the road Barricades have once again been erected in the streets of Berkeley, but now they are the cause of protest instead of the result. The city placed the barricades as well as 20 traffic circles and 321 stop signs in the road to divert traffic off residential streets and onto main arteries. Since then there have been anti-diverter rallies, petition campaigns and physical attacks upon the barriers themselves. The question of keeping the barricades up has even been put on the ballot. One police officer looks at it phlisophicaly. "It's like marijuana, it comes down to enforcing a law that nobody believes in." " Birth defects The Seattle Fire Department appears to have new insights into human reproduction. According to statistics issued by their computer, "aid car" personnel last year delivered six babies, five to women and one to a man. "Either the computer goofed or one delivery made medical history," the department's newsle.tter reported. Playing the field For years many male a t h l e t e s have deprived themselves of loving comfort the night before a game. However, an international sympo- sium on Rugby injuries has been informed sex is not detrimental to the sportsman. Speaking on the influence of tobacco, alcohol and sex on Rugby players, Professor Nick Strydom of Johan- nesburg said: "There is a belief that sex has a profound influence on performance of a rugby player, it is not so." On the inside. . the Editorial Page has a look at the Jimmy Carter campaign by Steve Selbst ... Cinema Week- end is on Arts page ... the details of the Michi- gan-Notre Dame game is on Sports Page. On the outside... Today will be a good day for kite flying. A southerly wind will null un Gulf air, hrinming Church launches late campaign for Dem. nomination From Wire Service Reports IDAHO CITY, Idaho - Sen. Frank Church launch- ed his bid for the Democra- tic presidential nomination yesterday, a c c u s in g the F o r d administration of weak leadership and say- ing other Democratic can- didates are not discussing the real issues. He joined other major Democratic candidates for the nomination, saying: "It's never too late, nor are the odds too great to try." BUT Church has already miss- ed the first five primaries, which narrowed the field of can- didates and left only Jimmy Carter, Henry Jackson, George Wallace and Morris Udall as full-time, active contenders. Church had pledged he would not become a presidential can- didate until the Senate Intelli- gence Committee, which he chaired, completed its inquiry into the CIA. The committee is now in the final stages of draft- ing its report. He said his major campaign Candidatesvifo . Carolina victory By The Associated Press Ronald Reagan and George Wallace, each seeking his first primary victory of the presidential campaign, sought support from North Carolina voters yesterday as Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) joined the seven-man field of major candidates for the Democratic nomination. Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter also was in North Caro- lina, telling voters he could defeat Wallace in every Southern state except Mississippi and Alabama. REPUBLICAN Reagan, whose challenge to President Ford has been hurt by five straight primary defeats, insisted his can- didacy was in better shape than he had anticipated before he launched his campaign. Reagan said he would stay in the race even if he loses to Ford in Tuesday's primary. "I don't see why suddenly this has turned around," Reagan said in Fayetteville, N.C., in an apparent reference to reports See N.C., Page 2 issue will be "restoration of the federal government to legitimacy in the eyes of people." "IT IS leadership of weakness and fear that grants a full par- don to a former president for whatever crimes he committed in the White House, but looks the other way while his subordinates stand trial," Church said. That same weakness, Church said, forces imitation of the Russians "in our treatment of foreign peoples, adopting their methods of bribery, blackmail, abduction and coercion as if they were our own." "These are crimes against freedom, and they won't be cured by the cosmetic changes proposed by President Ford," Church said. "He is clearly most concerned about the exposure of such crimes. I am most con- cerned about their commission." THE 51-year-old Idaho Demo- crat made his announcement in this picturesque, once-booming goldmining town where his grandfather settled. Church pointed to his nearly 20 years in the Senate and his recent experience in heading the Senate committee investigating the FBI as well as the CIA and other government agencies as onalifying him for the prtsi- dency. "As a ranking member of the Senate Fnreign Relations Com- mittee," Church said. "I have hqd a unine oniortamity to de- x'elon an intimate knowledge of A-rican foreign policy." "When it comes to dealing wth foreign governments, or nquntiatinQ with Russia or China in this daneerous world, I sug- st to vonthe nresidencv is no "lace for on-the-job training," he said. AP Photo MICHIGAN GUARD Steve Grote (30) and Notre Dame guard Don Williams (25) scramble for a loose ball in the first half of last night's NCAA tourney in Louisville. The Wol- verines pulled it out in a squeaker, 80-76. o tscraps Blue Irish in 80-=76 Lbhruler PIRGS under attack for funding procedures By ANDY GLAZER Special To The Daily LOUISVILLE--Steve Grote dropped in two free throws with 27 seconds remaining to give Michigan all the' points it needed to upset the fighting Irish of Notre Dame, 80-76, in the NCAA Midwest Regional semi- final here last night. Grote's free throws, which came in a one-and-one sit- uation, enabled the Wol- verines to survive furious Notre Dame pressure t h e rest of the way. WITH 21 seconds left, Notre Dame's Don Williams convert- ed a one-and-one to pull the Irish within two, 78-76. Notre Dame stole the subsequent in-bounds pass, and called time out with 16 seconds to go. But after the Irish inbound- ed, Michigan's Phil Hubbard re- flected the ball and Williams lost it out of bounds. Hubbard in bounded, and after two passes Rickey Green sped out of the back court just be- fore a 10 second violation would have given the ball to the Irish. GREEN drove an open 1 a n e and was fouled by Notre Dame's Jeff Carpenter. The Irish, out of time outs, looked on grimly as G r e e n dropped in both free throws to give the Wolverines their final margin. "That was just great for Grote," exclaimed a jubiliant Michigan coach Johnny 0 r r . "He'd been downed after miss- ing in that same situation at Indiana, and this was just great for him." FOR awhile it appeared that there would be no late heroics for Michigan. A Notre D a m.e burst in .the middle of the first half gave the Irish a 35-24 lead with 3:59 to go. See CLUTCH, Page 10 By MICHAEL BLUMFIELD Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGS) in states such as Minnesota, New York, and Washington have encountered hostile pressures from business groups, state legislatures, a n d university regents recently. The attacks have centered around discussions of the fee assess- ment process of funding - a method similar to PIRGIM's in most cases. Minnesota Public Interest Re- search Group (MPIRG) has been exploring the practices of a number of state businesses and industries in the past few years. Last year they investigated such controversial areas as electric- ity rate assessment, the Re- serve Mining case, nuclear pow- er, and copper nickel mining. "We've been highly visible lae- ly," commented executive di- rector of MPIRG Chuck Leer. "It's been a pretty good year for us - we've been doing a lot." IT HAS BEEN such a g o o d year that one University of Minnesota Regent has received over 500 letters asking for the revocation of MPIRG's conmract with the university. In fact, the Regents have gotten more mail on this issue than any other controversy in their hi 3:ory. Leer said he believed,, h o w- ever, that more mail was favor- able than not. Pressures began to mount last year after MPIRG published re- ports unfavorable to certain bus- inesses during their 1973-75 con- tract with the university, "trans- lating our support into action," See PIRGS, Page 2 Re gents hear MSA structure and plans By BILL TURQUE Officers and members of the Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) outlined their organizational structure and goals to the University Board of Regents yesterday, in the first steps toward what they hope will begin an era of respectability for student government. MSA, approved by student vote last fall, has its .origins in the recommendation of the Commission to Study Student Governance (CSSG), created by the Board nearly two and a half years ago to develop ways of making campus government more effective. COMPLETE with charts detailing their programs and intricate bureaucratic set-up, MSA President Ken Berneis told the Board that their primary objective will be to provide "support and direct services" for students and to "represent and lobby for the interests of students." See MSA, Page 7 Snuff Unbridled blood and violence By CATHERINE REUTTER and JEFF SELBST Special to the Daily DETROIT - Sitting in the Fox Theater, watching with growing revulsion, an audience observed the following scene: a young, lovely actress was held to the floor and systematically dismembered and disemboweled. The scene was the climax of the new "shocker" film Snuff, which has been the subject of a mammoth publicity blitz, each release proclaiming a fresh and more dis- gisting aspect of the picture. But the topper by far was the disclosure that the film contained a real- on-screen murder, or so the publicity had it. ALTHOUGH it is true that the "killing" was both real- istically filmed and explicitly performed, the film appears to rely upon a clever set of stunts and special effects to simulate the death. The audience had just sat through a screening of a gory kung-fu feature, The Punch of Death. Cheering through each smash, kick, and chop, the audience's appetite was whet- ted for the gruesome display of Snuff. But it proved too much for the crowd. WHEN the movie came on the screen, a fairly n o i s y rrimA -.nnn Ai tlrciln nl - thank, , hahr ni inc.nl I IS.