SUNDAY MAGAZINE See Inside O:YI A& 4H :43 ity LETHARGIC High-48 Low-35 See Today for details Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVI, No. 145 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, March 28, 1976 10 Cents Ten Pages HOOSIERS ROLL OVER UCLA Speedy flue ro s utgers, 86 70 1 f UCSEE NESv HAPPENCALL-,7 Ay Cough, cough Federal prosecutors won permission Friday to take a sworn statement from a dying Indiana man who is a key witness in the investigation of myster- ious breathing failure deaths last summer at the local Veterans Administration Hospital. The unpre- cedented ruling from U. S. District Court Judge Philip Pratt marks the first time a federal court has permitted testimony against suspects not charged with any crime. Pratt said recent revi- sions in federal court rules permitted his ruling. He also said the man's condition was too serious to gamble that he would survive for a later trial. Investigators have determined the breathing fail- ures were caused by injections of a powerful drug based on curare, an exotic poison used by South American Indians on the tips of hunting weapons. 0 The Big Wheel Governor William Milliken has proposed a five- point plan to provide an additional $35 million in the coming fiscal year for financially troubled De- troit, but the city says it's not enough. City offic- ials disclosed Friday that Milliken outlined the plan earlier in the week during a meeting with Mayor Coleman Young, and the mayor told him the plan did not provide enough money. The city, projecting a $100 million budget deficit by July 1977, has begun laying off hundreds of employes. To alleviate the problem, Young proposes a statewide nuisance tax on beer, liquor and cigarettes, but Milliken says such a tax would be "inequitable." Wonder if the good gov will use "No State money to bail out Detroit" as his next campaign theme? ! Happenings ... . ..today are very slim. The "aMaizin' Blues" will perform a singing/dancing act tonight at 7:30 in Rackham . . . the Ann Arbor Art Association will have a student exhibition at 117 W. Liberty . Science for The People will have a general meeting tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in 3056 Nat. Sci.... and informal memorial services for Tim Domzal- ski and Kevin Cullen - the two students who died last week - will be held at Alice Lloyd hall to- night at 9:30. Sticky picket Picket lines in Las Vegas were withdrawn and 15 hotel-casinos that account for up to 40 per cent of Nevada's gaming revenue reopened for business yesterday after 17 days of strike. The stagehands were the last to withdraw pickets early yester- day. Three other unions which had announced ten- tative agreement with the management of the hotel-casinos earlier, withdrew pickets Friday night. "We pulled out picket lines in respect to Las Vegas and also with full assurances that management will bargain in good faith," said at- torney Renny Ashleman, chief negotiator for the Stagehands Union. The Las Vegas Convention Au- thority estimated the loss from the strike at a whopping $98 million in the private sector alone. That did not include multimillion-dollar tax losses u to the state and local governments and did not include the full impact of wages lost by the 11,000 strikers, the 12,000 other hotel employes laid off by the strike, and hundreds of workers laid off by firms dependent on hotel business, such as laun- dries, beauty shops, linen services and meat pack- ers. ! Ding dong, Brittanica calling The Federal Trade Commission ordered Ency- clopedia Brittanica Friday to require its sales- persons to display 3x5 inch cards stating that they are trying to sell encyclopedias. FCC commission- ers unanimously agreed that Brittanica "has used deceptive acts in recruiting sales personnel, in gaining entry to the consumer's home, in selling its encyclopedias." The company issued a state- ment from its Chicago headquarters terming the FTC ruling "discriminatory" and the business card requirement "ridiculius." They will appeal the ruling to the U. S. Court of Appeals. 0 On the inside... Sunday Magazine features an article by Stephen Hersh on the Life and Death Commit- tee at 'U' Hospital, and a story by Jeff Ristine outlining the recombinant DNA controversy . . . and Sports Page has the fine points of yesterday's basketball victory in Philadelphia. Faces Indiana tomorrow night in NCAA finals By RICH LERNER Special To The Daily PHILADELPHIA - T h e lightning - quick Michigan basketball team raced past an outmatched R u t g e r s squad, 86-70, yesterday in Philadelphia's Spectrum to move into an all-Big Ten championship final against conference kingpin Indiana. They came via complete- ly different routes, but the Wolverines and the Hoosiers will meet for third time this year tomorrow night, with Michigan hoping to avenge their two previous losses to the nation's top- ranked team. BIG TEN champion Indiana, ranked number one in the na- tion the entire season and fea- turing two first-team All-Ame- ricans in Scott May and Kent Benson r e a c h e d the finals through physical strength. Yes- terday, the Hoosiers (31-0) used that power to muscle past de- fending champion UCLA, 65-5I, and earn the right to meet Michigan in the final. The Wolverines' quickness left previously undefeated Rutgers lagging behind. Michigan beat the Scarlet Knights with an ex- cellent defensive performance and a whippet-quick offense. Rutgers had recorded 31 straight victories by blazing past its opponents with a dyna- over.? mic fast break. But yesterday, the Wolverines strangled the Scarlet Knight running game, refusing to yield a single basket on the fast break. "I'VE NEVER seen a team get back on defense as well as we did today," said Michigan guard Steve Grote. "I don't think therevareany teamsdthat could have beaten us today, and that's because of our defense." Wayman Britt handcuffed Rut- gers All-American Phil Sellers, limiting him to 11 points. While Michigan was piling up a 17- point lead in the first half, Sel- lers, who averages 20 points per game, only managed three points. Britt's sticky defense frustrated Sellers and affected his shot. The 6-5 forward could only hit on one of seven shots in the first half, three times missing the rim completely. On several occasions Sellers rifled off some heated words in Britt's direcT tion. See SOME, Page 10 Ford designs panel to investigate bribes LA CROSSE, Wis. (UPI) - President Ford announced last night he is creating a cabinet-level commission to investigate all domestic and international implications of bribes paid by U. S. corporations to promote foreign sales. Ford told a campaign audience Commerce Secretary Elliot L. Richardson will head the panel. "America must compete if we are going to sell American products abroad," Ford said, but "we have to compete fairly and within the law." FORD GAVE NO details of the commission's makeup or authority but said it was needed as a result of revelations that dozens of major American corporations gave millions of dollars to officials of other countries to secure foreign contracts. "I have a firm personal conviction that we can't tolerate any businesses from the United States who are violating our own AP Photo Rickey Green (24), Michigan's unanimous All-Big Ten guard, scoots past Rutgers' backcourt ace Ed Jordan (30) in a typical scene from Michigan's fast-paced 86-70 NCAA semifinal win over the previously unbeaten Scarlet Knights. Michigan, 25-6, ran through Rutgers into Monday night's championship clash with arch-rival Big Ten champion Indiana. S:Is the party By RICK SOBLE The political fortunes of the Socialist Human Rights Party (SHRP) have travelled steadily downhill since the 1972 spring elections which gave the leftist party two City Council seats. The party managed to retain one of those seats in the 1974 municipal elections, but now even that position is insecure, since Democrats and Republicans alike will vie for the spot against weak SHRP opposition on April 5. THE SIGNS of the party's decline have become very visible. The SHRP office had to be sacrificed in January for lack of rent money. The party's local mailing list is clown to 90 addresses. Arid SHRP "mass" meetings simply aren't attracting the crowds they drew in years past. "Our mass meetings are quite small now compared to what they used to be," admitted party spokesman Phil Carroll. "We couldn't mobilize as many people to go out on a GEO (Graduate Employes Organization) picket this year as we could last year." Most SHRP members recognize that student activism in particular seems to have subdued lately. But they deny that this phenomenon is part of a national trend toward conservatism or a backlash from the rebellious sixties. ACCORDING TO Carroll, the end of the Vietnam war sig- ts in a name for 'Udormitories By SHARON SAKADA male faculty m e m b e r s has Quick - what comes to your forced the women name selec- mind when you hear these tion criteria to be broadened to names: M ar k l e y, Couzens, include past alumni and out- Stockwell, Lloyd, Bursley, Mo- standing students. , sher and Jordan? To most folks UP ON THE Hill, Mosher around here, this list would con- Jordan Hall is named for the jure up the sight of ivy covered first two Deans of Women: Dr. walls, cinderblock interiors, stu- Eliza Mosher and Mrs. Myra dy lounges, blaring stereos and Jordan. Couzens Hall, a stone's questionable cuisine. throw from the Hospital and a But many don't know that past behomoth for nursing stu- these dormitory names once be- dents, took its name from Mich- longed to some of the more dis- igan Senator James Couzens, a tinguished members in the Uni- strong supporter of the school's versity community. nursing program. AND THE University has been Stockwell and Markley, two very particular in choosing dis- other Hill dorms, are named tinguished names for its dorms. for east students. The Stockwell "Association with the academic student was the first woman program is fundamental to the enrolled at the University, and naming of houses," explained Mary Markley met a tragic Associate Housing Director Pe- death on the Huron River, but ter Ostafin. w-s honored anyway. According to Ostafin, this as- The sprawling, recently built sociation is important to the B',rslev Hall on North Campus education of students, and since tikes its name from Joseph naled problems for the SHRP, since this issue provided the focus for campus radicalism. "The whole trend started in 1974. The Vietnam war ended in 1973, and new people came into town without ever seeing the anti-war movement," Carroll explained. Without an issue as spectacular as the war to unite them, SHRP members began to go their separate ways. "THE GENERAL trend in Ann Arbor in the last two years has been toward a lessening of political activism and the tendency of radicals to gather in smaller groups to discuss single issues," Carroll observed. But Diane Kohn, a candidate for fellow party member Kathy Kozachenko's Second Ward Council seat, blames the SHRP itself for turning off potential supporters. Although claiming to be uninterested in "eulogizing the SHRP," Kohn criticizes some of her compatriots for ignoring the bulwark of the party-student support. "ONE OF THE things that has hurt us is that some of the people most focal in the party have been disdainful of student support," said Kohn. "They are more interested in speaking to the unemployed, because Marx says that revolution will come from the working class and the poor," she added. SHRP regulars have stopped canvassing the dorms and hold- ing dorm raps in order to spend more time at the local Michigan Employment Security Commission (MESC), counseling the jobless. BUT THE party is finding out that "working people are just not into SHRP politics," according to Kohn. The unemployed hear See SHRP, Page 2 laws" or which are failing to "live in which they dobusiness." FORD SAID the commission would investigate the entire problem because "it's got to be solved." Earlier in the day, in Califor- nia, Ford told a Republican fund-raising luncheon he was basing his presidential cam- paign on the issues of rising prosperity, peace, and his White House experience. "I will not lead the American people down the road to need- less danger and senseless de- struction," he said in defense of his policy of "peace through strength." "I HAVE taken affirmative action to insure that America's alliances are strong, or com- mitments are worthwhile and our defenses are without equal in the world," Ford said. "And let me assure you-they are." R o n a 1 d Reagan said yes- terday the networks are refus- ing to sell him time for a nation- wide television address he hopes to deliver in a few days. The former California gov- ernor said he still intends to make the TV address but he will try to put together a "good network of independent stations" to carry the address. A spokesman for CBS said, "CBS did not refuse to sell time I to Ronald Reagan. Any further ; questions should be directed to Mr. Reagan or his committee." up to the laws of the countries EMU str-ke settled By JENNY MILLER The strike between United Auto Workers (UAW) Locals 1975 and 1976 and Eastern Mich- igan University (EMU) ended yesterday after 25 days. The members of the two lo- cals, representing clerical, tech- nical, administrative and pro- fessional workers, will return to work tomorrow following rati- fication of a contract presented by the university on Friday. IN THE two previous meet- ings since the strike began, the state mediator broke off nego- tiations after failure to reach a settlement. Vice President for University Relations Gary Hawks said that no information was yet avail- able on details of the contract which was approved following See EMU, Page 2 .. $. h ..vVo. ".