Thursday, August 9; 19_3 THE SUMMER DAILY Page Three Cox beefs up investigation of govt. role in ITT affair New grand jury to open WASHINGTON iE--Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox has beefed Lt his investigation of the International Tele- phone & Telegraph Corp. case which will be among the first items to be considered for the new Watergate grand jury when it convenes on Monday. A stiokesman for the prosecutor's office confirmed yesterday that Richard Davis, head of Cox's investigation of political espionage and dirty tricks in the 1972 campaign, has shifted temporarily to the probe of the administration's handling of the ITT antitrust settlement. HE ALSO CONFIRMED that the White House has not yet responded to Cox's request for an ITTl' file the prosecutor described as important evidence. At a news conference July 27, Cox called the file of the utmost importance and said his request for it had been pending for some time without "a favorable an- swer or a negative." Fi e days later, at the Senate Water- gate committee hearings, chief counsel Samuel Dash released a March 30, 1972, White House memorandum about ITT which Dash said indicated former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell had committed an apparent act of perjury. THE MEMO, written by Charles C'olson, then a White House special counsel to then presidential chief of staff I. f. Haldeman, said Mitchell knew about a $400,000 ITT pledge to help underwrite the 1972 Republican National Convention be- fore three antitrust shits against the coi- pany were settled. Mitchell testified under oath at Senate hearings on the nomination of Richard Kleindienst to be his successor as attorney general that he knew nothing of the $400,000 pledge before the suits were settled. The Colson memo said Mitchell was told aboit the ITT pledge one month be- fore the settlement on July 30, 1971. ATTY. GEN. Elliot Richardson announc- ed on June 8, shortly after Cox became special prosecutor, that he had given Cox the Justice Department files on the ITT and asked him to take over the in- vestigation. See PROSECUTOR, Page 10 A CAMBODIAN FAMILY prays as it listens to the sounds of fighting in its native village, which became a battleground yester- day as Phnom Penh forces moved to retake the area. The villagers were forced to flee towards the capital city, five miles away. First in rape The total number of serious crimes in the United States dropped last year for the first time in 17 years but most violent offenses continued to rise. According to FBI figures, Washtenaw County has the highest crime rate in the state. In addition, we have the dubious honor of being first in the total number of property crimes, and reported forcible rapes. Dunn: Open salaries University Regent Gerald Dunn (D- Livonia) said yesterday he will place a resolution before the entire Board of Regents asking that all University staff salaries be made-public. Dunn's announce- ment comes on the heels of state Atty. Gen. Frank Kelley's ruling that all state employes' salaries are public record and will probably be considered at the next regular board meeting Sept. 20. In July 1972, Dunn was one of two Regents to vote in favor of a Daily request for public salary lists. Balloon note Bob Sparks directed his nine-story red, white and blue balloon toward Europe yesterday in an effort to become the world's first translantic balloonist. Nearly 1,000 spectators in Bar Harbor, Maine, cheered as the helium-filled "Yankee Zephyr" soared into the sky from their local airport. Sparks said he's aiming for France, "but I'd consider anything from Finland to Italy a pinpoint landing." Jules Verne take note. Happenings ... . . . include three films . . . Louisiana Study, Aud 3, MLB, 7 p.m. . . . The Hos- pital Aud. A, Angell, 7:30, 9:30 p.m. . . . and Genesis V, Nat. Sci., Aud. 7, 8:30, 10 p.m.... and a play ... the 'U' Players in The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd, Power, 8 p.m. A2's weather Today's weather will be cloudy with a chance of showers or thunderstorms, high in the mid-80's- The week-end weather will be slightly cooler with thundershowers on Friday or Saturday. Planes hit clos e to Phnom Penh PlNON'i PENN, Cambodia (A) - U. S. warplanes, pushing their attacks to the highest le el in a month, blasted suspect- ed positions of Communist-led insurgents yesterday in an area 112 miles from Phnom Penh airport. The strikes were to cut off the escape of infiltrators who blew up the capital's international radio transmission station Tuesday night, or to smash possible troop buildups around the city. THIRTY INFILTRATORS seized the ra- dio installation near the airport without firing a shot after government guards threw down their weapons and fled, mili- tary sources said. The infiltrators planted explosives in several radio rooms. The charges cut much of the capital's commercial com- munications with the world. At daybreak, Thailand-based F4 Phan- tom jets began attacks 11/ miles from the airport._ Airliners continued to take off and land during the tactical"strikes. PASSENGERS AT the terminal could see black smoke billowing up from the attack area. The daylong bombing jarred Phnom Penh seven miles away. In Washington, the Pentagon said that U. S. bombing is at its highest level in a month because of increased pressure by Communist-led forces. A Pentagon spokesman gave no spe- cific figures, but said the number of sin- gle B52 missions rose from 40 to about 50 per day and that the number of tactical fighter bomber missions was higher than the 200 a day average of recent weeks. MEANWHILE, the government won two rounds in court yesterday in the continu- i g legal battle to stop the Cambodia bombing. A federal appeals panel in New York reversed a district court judges' order to stop the bombing, ruling in a suit brought by Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (D.-N.Y.). The case has already been to the Supreme Court and back, The congresswoman vowed that it wo uld go to the higti court again. AND IN BOSTON, U. S. District Court J ud' Joseph Tauro dismissed a stop-the- I :mining suit brought by four congressmen and an unnamed Massachusetts airman. In Washington, a former Air Force pi- lot charged, and the Pentagon denied, that Vietcong hospitals had been sought out as U. S. bombing targets. Back in Cambodia, newsmen were al- lowed a 30-minute visit to Neak Luong, the Mekong River garrison town leveled Monday in a U. S. bombing error that left at least 137 persons dead and 268 wound- ed. More than half of the town was re- orted destroyed. Alternative school proposal The Ann Arbor Board of Education last night unanimously approved the controver- sial alternate school program which would segregate "disruptive students" from the city regular secondary schools. Despite voting in favor of the plan, sev- eral board members questioned the allo- cation of $176,000 to finance the school. Paul Weinhold pointed out that the figure represents a request based on an alternate school enrollment of over 100 students, but only about 40 persons are expected to be placed in the program during the tip coming academic year. DAVID ABERDEEN, who designed the alternate school, said the haste with which the program was designed left many areas including the specific budget un- resolved. The school may be implemented as soon as Sept. 24. All board members present at the meet- ing expressed strong support for the alter- nate school as a means of curbing the violence which has plagued city schools in the past year. Members Pat Pooley and Henry John- approved son, who previously have spoken against the proposal, were absent. ABOUT A DOZEN Human Fights Party (IIRP) members marched outside 1 a s t night's board meeting, protesting the plan as "classist and racist." The basic concept behind the school is separation of so-called "disruptive stu- dents" from the regular student body. The "problem" cases would be placed in a separate facility designed to facilitate re- entry into the normal school system. "We have an obligation to insure the safety of our children against criminal activity, so we mtst remove undesirabie students from the schools," Weinhald said. BOARD MEMBER Ted Heusel question- ed, however, if the program could be completely successful. "A certain per- centage of people in our system are al- ways going to be criminals regardless of what we do," he added, Primary opposition to the proposed school came from some of the 50 people present, one of whom described the plan as "reflecting a Nazi mentality."