Saturdoy, June 8, 1974 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Israeli, Syrian troops start separation By The Associaited Press Israel announced yesterday that the long-awaited separation of Syrian and Israeli troops in the Golan Heights had begun, and returning war prisoners from both sides traded charges of maltreat- ment, including beatings with rubber hoses, stints in solitary and inadequate food and medical care. Israeli tanks, heavy equipment and even houses were being withdrawn from Syrian territory captured in last Octo- ber's Middle East war and from some of the land held since the 1967 conflict IN JERISAILEM, Premier Yitzhak Rabin said Israel would launch initiatives for a nonbelligerency pact with FEypt as the next step to a lasting Middle East 1e ace The 52-yer-old Israeli leader, who took office Mondtv, said the next step would have to be taken with Egypt because "Egypt is the main country in the Middle East. Without it, no war has been started against Israel and without it, no war against Israel has ended. The rumble of explosions continued along the front as the departing Israelis blew up installations and fortification of potentiali military use. Sources said the withdrawal would probably be comnleted ahead of schedule and noted that the Golan area is more compact than the Suez front, which took weeks to evaciate after last Jan- uarv's trc' there. CORRESPONT)ENTS on the Golan Heights renorted an Israeli nolback as early as Wednesdav. Bit the statement by an Israeli command spokesman said° the disengnftement process was under- AN ARAB HOLY M way was the first officiol confirmation war. In the foregrou that the onerational plan signed .in change took place at Geneva two days ago was being put into effect on the battleground. Israeli orisoners who returned home from Syria on Th'irsdav told of abose diring their cintivity. They reported beatings with rubber hoses diring inter- rogation, inadeqiate food and medical care, and being kept for days with sacks over their heads and their hands bound. However, prisoner Gideon Arnhalt said in Haifa, "I wouldn't say we were tor- tired. I was able to stand up to the physical punishment. Maybe they tor- tured other prisoners. I don't know." By DAVIDV Pilot Benjamin Kiryati said in a radio About 25 demonstrat interview lie was wounded, captured and United Farm Worker given poor medical care. He was beaten the Village Corner ye painfully on his feet, interrogated while the store'spolicy of si still ill and kept isolated for the entire Hoping to discourt eight months, he said. tomers, the group is ANOTHER RETURNEE said his hands boycott to protest Ga had been tied and his head covered with picked by non-unionm a sack for t0 days without a break. In Syria, a military doctor, Col. Is- THE GALLO corpor kandr Nabra Yazagi, declared that Is- producer of wine ma raeli POWs were treated with "every grapes in the country possible care," but that Israel inflicted bers of the AFL-CIO torture- on its prisoners through wrong cotting Gallo for over or insufficient treatment. the company's refusal See MIDEAST, Page 10 contract. at Golan Heights AP Photo AN, left, leads a procession of Israeli troops bearing the coffins of Syrian soldiers killed in the October nd lie the flag-draped coffins of Israeli soldiers who fell behind Syrian lines during the war. The ex- t the village of Es-Shams near Sasaa in the Golan Heights area. bycott upporters WHITING tors supporting the s (UFW) picketed sterdoy to protest elling Gallo wine. age potential cus- part of a national lto's use of grapes workers. ation is the largest de from non-union . The UFW, mem- , have been boy- r a year following d to renew a UFW Persuasions play benefit concert tonight at Pioneer t Village John Farley, a coordinator of the local Farm Workers Support Committee, said the group chose to picket the Village Corner over other wine-sellers because the store sold "a lot of Gallo wine.' Farley called the store's management particularly unco-operative with the boy- cottgrs. He said the store's location at S. Forest and S. University made it a convenient meeting place from which to organize rides to Wrigley's supermarket, which the group is also picketing. EMPLOYES INSIDE the s t o r e ob- served "no drop in sales" during the picketing and added that Galla wines were among their least popular. No Galls wine was seen being sold during the protest. One employe who asked not to be identified said the store wanted to "leave it to consumer discretion" as t what wines were bought. Another employe, however, claimed the workers dis- couraged shoppers from buying Gallo. The person in charge of ordering wines was not present during the picketing. A CUSTOMER in the store looking over the wines said "I haven't bought it (Gallo) all along." "If I don't buy the wine they are picketing then shopping here is okay," he continued. Robert Alexander, H u m a n Rights Party hopeful for state representative, supported this idea, saying the demon- stration was not against the store itself, only the selling of Gallo wine. However, Phil Carroll, HRP candidate for Con- gress, said, "I would like to convince people not to buy anything from the store," State Rep. Perry Bullard (D-Ann Ar- bor) remarked, "The farm workers are still fighting the struggle most vorkers won in the 1930's-4he right to unionize." CornerI A FACT SHEET distributed by the demonstrators outlined the conditions under which farm workers live and claimed the average migrant worker family has an income of $3,170 and lives in two-room lodgings located in "labor camps." 'U'air cooling systems cool ilt tsave power By STEPHEN HERSH In an effort to cut down on the University's consutmption and electrical costs, the Plant Department has begun a policy of economizing on air condi- tioning in University buildings. "We can cut down on a lot of wasted use of air conditioners and fans without inconveniencing people," said Zed Kan- aan, a Plant Department official. "By making sure that air conditioning is shut off in buildings when they are unoccup- ied, and by cutting down on hot air coming into buildings, we can decrease power consumption drastically." AIR CONDITIONING power use will be further diminished by cooling build- ings down only to 75 to 78 degrees in- stead of to the usual 70 degrees. Ac- cording to Kanaan, "Keeping tempera- tures below 75 isn't necessary to keep people comfortable." President Nixon has asked the nation not to cool its conditioned air to below 78 degrees. See AIR, Page 10 By ANDREA LILLY Tonight at Pioneer High School Audi- torium, the Persuasions and a bunch of local kids will give city residents a chance to hear some good old a cappela and help out a needy group at the same time. The Persuasions will appear at Pioneer at 8 p.m. in a benefit for Operation Education, a program which has taken children from the city's public housing projects on trips to Mammoth Cave, Washington, D.C.,, New York City, and Ottawa, in past years, THIS YEAR, the group plans a bus trip to the Grand Canyon, with side excursions to St. Louis, Tulsa, the Petri- fied Forest National Monument, Mesa Verde National Park, and the Air Force Academy. Hit hard by rising gas prices, Opera- tion Education has sunk the money rais- ed all year by sponsoring events in a down payment to the Persuasions. They need to raise $7,500 to charter a bus for their trip. Rumor has it that a major soul group who the Persuasions have been traveling with are in town and might make a surprise appearanceaat the concert, AS WELL AS music, the concert will feature a celebrity auction, in which personal belongings of big name per- formers will be put up for sale. Operation Education is forced to charge $5 per ticket to cover their expenses, but according to University Activities Center spokeswoman Sue Young, this may be negotiable in cases of short funds. Tickets will be available at the door.