SUNDAY MAGAZINE See Inside YI [ 5kO 0PA& 469aw :43 a t IVI DESPICABLE High-35-40 Low--19-24 See Today for details Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVI, No. 139 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, March 21, 1976 10 Cents Eight Pages I I F t - IF YOUSEE NEW SHAPPEN CALL~76A-DLY VA case U.S. District Judge Philip Pratt dealt a setback Friday to government prosecutors' attempts to get a sworn statement from a key witness to the alleged murders at Ann Arbor's Veterans' Adminis- >tration Hospital last summer. Assistant U.S. At- torney Richard Delonis had asked for permission to get a sworn statement from a terminal cancer patient, Richard Neely, but Pratt ruled that Neely must undergo a thorough physical examination by a court-appointed physician to show genuine danger of imminent death that would deprive the govern- ment of his testimony. An attorney for the prime suspects in the case,twonurses, argued that the sworn statement violated their constitutional rights because they have not yet been charged with any crime. "They would be held up to accusations and public ridicule without specific charges," he said. Happenings ... are not particularly plentiful either today or tomorrow. Today's events kick off with a program on "Transition to Worker's Control," sponsored by the People for Self-Management at 2 p.m. in the Union's Rm. 3209 . . . The University Reformed Church's month-long arts festival opens at 4 p.m. with a choral performance featuring the works of Mozart . . . Rabbi Joel Poupko will speak on "The Jewish-Christian Encounter at Auschwitz" at 8 p.m. at Canterbury House, corner of Catherine and Division . . . the Southern African Liberation Com- mittee sponsors the film "Last Grave in Dimbaza" at 8 at St. Andrew's Church, 306 N. Division . Monday offers a meeting on "Magazine Writing and Management" with Women in Communications, at 7:30 p.m., 1420 Granger . . . and the Center for Japanese Studies offers Ichikawa's "Odd Obses- sion" at 8 p.m. in MLB Aud. 3. On the inside ... What kind of a -person advertises for a lover in the "Personals" section of a newspaper? Sunday Magazine Editor Cheryl Pilate profiles the covert companions from a series of interviews . . . and our Sports staff analyzes various and sundry facets of Michigan's basketball triumph over. Missouri. On the outside .. . Cold air behind an arctic cold front will cause winter-like weather today. Temperatures will stay in the 30's most of the day and there may even be some light snow or flurries. Highs today will be 35-40, lows tonight will be 19-24. Monday will see considerable sunshine but it will remain on the cold side. Baley surprised at jury's decision SAN FRANCISCO 61P) - Pa- ricia Hearst's defense attorney said yesterday the newspaper heiress had "wondered if she ever had a chance" at acquit- tal. F. Lee Bailey sat puffing on a cigarette as he faced report- ers with fellow defense lawyer Albert J o h n s o n following Hearst's conviction on a federal bank robbery charge. "SHE WAS quite disappoint- ed," Bailey said of Hearst's re- action. "She wondered if she ever had a chance . . . I'm sur- prised at the combination of a quick verdict and a guilty ver- dict." Asked if there was anything he would like to have done dif- ferently, Bailey said, "I can't think of anything offhand." He said Hearst was hurt most by some of the judge's rulings to allow admission of certain documents and testimony about her "missing year," especially the time spent in Sacramento during the last year of her 19 months underground. "I CAN'T think of anything that hurt her more than having to take the 5th Amendment and certain documents including a list of banks and . . . instruc- tions on how to make bombs .. . " he said.. COULD GET UP TO 35 YEARS. By AP and Reuter Patricia Hearst was found guilty yesterday on two counts of bank robbery, ending one of the most dramatic criminal trials of the century. The 22-year-old heiress to the Hearst newspaper fortune could be sentenced to up to 35 years in prison. A SEVEN-WOMAN, five-man jury filed back into court after only 12 hours of deliberation, spread over two days, to deliver the verdict. It showed they had not believed her story of being forced under threat of death to take part in a bank robbery by her Symbionese Liberation Army kidnappers. The heiress listened impassively as the verdict was read in a hushed courtroom. Her sisters wept, but Hearst remained dry- eyed. Until February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst was simply a wealthy college student living with her boyfriend in a Berkeley apart- ment. On that day, however, she became the focus of public attention when the terrorist Symbionese Liberation Army kid- napped her. For more than a year she eluded the police. In what may be the concluding chapter of this drama, the jury found her guilty. Former Daily Photographer David Margolick attended the court proceedings for sveral days. His impressionistic account of the trial appears in the Sunday Magazine on Page 3. "OH, MY GOD," gasped Catherine Hearst, who had begged so often for her daughter's return from the terrorist underground and took the stand to defend her as "a warm and loving girl." F. Lee Bailey, the famed criminal attorney who designed an elaborate and expensive defense for the 22-year-old Hearst, went white with shock as the court clerk read calmly the word "guilty." Bailey told reporters: "We are not too thrilled about it," and said he would appeal the conviction. HEARST TESTIFIED that she was flung in a tiny closet blind- folded by her kidnappers, kept there for 57 days, sexually assaulted See HEARST, Page 2 AP Photo PATTY HEARST is escorted by deputy U.S. Mar shall Janey Jimenez as they arrive at the federal building in San Francisco yesterday morning. AT LEAST 2 KILLED Tornadoes From Wire and Staff Reports Tornadoes, spawned by a line of severe storms sweep- ing the Midwest, tore through southern Michigan yester- day causing widespread d a m a g e and at least two reported deaths. In West Bloomfield, one tornado chewed through residential areas, businesses and two shopping malls. Two persons there were reported to have been killed in their car when the twister struck. Old Orchard Mall and Old Orchard Shopping Center were ex- tensively damaged while early evening shoppers remained trapped inside. EMERGENCY medical treatment was being offered at Dom- browski Field House and at Abbot Middle School. Area hospitals have reported at least 25 injuries. In addition, many looting instances were reported in the area. Black ma ority rule rejected b mt i ravage soui The one tornado which ripped through a section of West Bloom- field cut a four mile swath along Maple Road. ALONG ITS PATH, residential areas lost power and water. Electrical lines were down across major roads, while homes and public buildings suffered extensive damage. "We've got people trapped all over the place, and it's a real mess," a West Bloomfield police spokesperson said. "We've got ambulances helping in at least five directions to at least five hospitals." Hardest hit was the intersection of Maple and Orchard Lake roads, where Old Orchard and Orchard Malls suffered extensive damages. A NEARBY gas station was levelled and a sign was lying across the intersection. One car was wrapped in power lines. At the emergency command center, situated in the Orchard Mall, fire, police, Red Cross, and Salvation Army workers han- dled the transportation of victims to hospitals and the emergency center. Two school bus drivers, Kay Lowen and Priscilla LeClair, were pressed into service. "My husband is a West Bloomfield fireman," said Lowen. "I haven't seen him for hours." One resident, a Michigan State University student named Jeff Marks, was at the Orchard Lake and Maple intersection when the tornado touched down. "WE WERE in the back seat, and then we heard a huge boom," he said. "I held Marty's head down (his girlfriend) and then ducked. "There were windows breaking, the car hood came up over the top, and the Marathon sign crashed into us. The tornado pulled the car 50 or 60 feet and turned it around." Clean-up and rescue efforts were hampered by the downpour, downed power lines, and darkness. FOUR PERSONS in the Marathon station escaped serious injury and one was taken to an emergency treatment center. Tom French, who works at the K.K. Texaco gas station in Orchard Lake, drove a wrecker to the intersection. One car con- tained a fatality and French pulled injured persons out of over- turned cars. Among other buildings destroyed at the intersection were the Bell Tire Co., the Ponderosa Steak House and the Big Boy Res- taurant. Farmer Jack's supermarket also suffered damage. ONE WOMAN near the intersection reported that her car was carried several hundred feet before being slammed to the ground by the funnel. She was not injured, however. No funnel clouds were sighted in Ann Arbor, but all of Wash- tenaw County was placed under a precautionary tornado watch until 9 p.m. last night. A spokesperson for the fire department said that the nearest tornado reported was more than 50 miles away. But tornadoes were confirmed near Marshall, Stevensville and St. Joseph, White Cloud, Lennon, Charlotte and Onadaga. OTHER REPORTS of high wind damage in the southern and central sections of Lower Michigan listed a trailer home destroyed at Goodrich, a plate glass window blown out in Flint and a barn destroyed in Elba Township of Lapeer County. Winds topped 70 miles per hour in Grand Rapids. Numerous other counties were covered by either severe thun- derstorm or tornado watches starting midafternoon yesterday. The National Weather Service said the cause of the violent weather was a cold front that overrode warm, moist air from the (Gulf of Mexico that had held temperatures at near record levels Friday and Saturday. IN KILBOURNE. La., a tornado demolished the general store, SALISBURY, Rhodesia 'P) - Prime Minister Ian Smith vow- ed yesterday to reject black majority rule in Rhodesia but said he would accept a govern- ment with both blacks a n d whites working together. "I don't believe in b l a c k majority rule ever in Rhodesia - not in a thousand years," he said. "I believe in blacks and whites working together. If one day its whites and the next it is blacks I believe we will have failed and I believe it will be a disaster in Rhodesia." HE SPOKE at a news con- ference after Friday's collapse of talks on a new constitution with black nationalist I e a d e r Joshua Nkomo. Smith accused Britain of con- tributing to the failure of the negotiations because of its "one- sided" approach. Britain c o n - siders itself to be the legal ruler of Rhodesia despite Smith's unilateral declaration of inde- pendence for the colony in 1965. one year and charged that Smith's plan would keep pow- er with the 274,000 whites for 10 or 15 years. Smith said his government would bring in blacks and that Rhodesians would have to ex- pect.in the future to be govern- ed by blacks and whites. Smith urged the British gov- ernment "to come in now, of- ficially through the front door, and accept responsibility t h e y claim they have. We see this as the only way to remedv the damage which has been done." The British, he said, "have now put themselves in a posi- tion where it is impossible for them to keep out of the issue." SflTnTTi went so far as to sivy ho wo"+d r-'nomnn-e the dPclara- tion of indenendence "if it is npcessarx- in the interest of Rho- d(sia " SH was asked if he w''ld . tt1nd a British-snonsor- ed constitvtional confnrence ont- side R h o d e s i a and replied, "I am always amenable to rea- snn." -saml m . . x.ar. a: saw, ''