THE Michigan Daily Vol. LXXXIV, No. 66-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, August 20, 1974 Ten Cents Eight Pages Fleming to join Ford cabin et? By CHERYL PILATE President R o b b e n Fleming is being considered for the post of Secretary of Labor in the new Ford cabinet accord- ing to an article q u o t i n g unnamed sources in Sunday's Washington Post. Fleming, who is vacationing with his family in Wisconsin and could not be reached for comment, is a nationally- known .labor arbitrator and served as chairman of the Presidential Board which helped settle the 1962 dockwork- ers' strike on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. ACCORDING to Economics Prof. Wil- liam Haber, one of Fleming's closest ad- visers, the President receives "many offers from many places." "I first heard this cabinet rumor sev- eral days ago from an old friend of mine in Washington," he said. "I haven't talked to President Fleming in a week so I don't know if he has heard anything officially." Richard Kennedy, Secretary of the University and Assistant to the Presi- dent, said that Fleming mentioned the rumors to him before he left for Wis- consin Sunday. "HE TOLD me that he's heard through the newspapers," said Kennedy. "But as far as I know he hasn't been approached officially." Fleming, University president since 1968, has indicated many times that he plans to resign in a few years. "I don't think anyone should be presi- dent of a University for more than ten years," he said during an interview in May. "It's necessary to bring in new people with new ideas to keep this place moving." FLEMING, who was one of the first University presidents in the country to speak out against American involvement in Vietnam, is generally considered to be a liberal Democrat although he rare- ly expresses his political sentiments. If Fleming is offered and accepts a cabinet post, he will be part of a con- servative Republican administration. De- spite the ideological differences between himself and G e r a 1 d Ford, however, Fleming professes a great deal of re- spect for the new President. Ford, who graduated in 1935, is the first University of Michigan alumnus to ascend to the nation's highest post. "It's no secret that I don't always agree with Ford's politics," Fleming said after the then Vice President ad- dressed graduates during the May 1974 commencement exercies. "But I regard him very highly and the University is understandably proud of him." Fleming U.S. ambassador shot in Greek Cypriot riot Demonstrators storm embassy NICOSIA, Cyprus (M - The U.S. ambassador to Cyprus, Rodger Da- vies, was slain yesterday in a cor- ridor outside his office in a hail of bullets fired from nearby buildings as Greek Cypriot rioters stormed the embassy to protest U.S. policy in the Cyprus crisis. Gunmen pumped bullets into the Davies' office as about 300 to 600 demonstrators shouted anti-Ameri- can slogans and smashed through the embassy g a t e s, an American official said. ABOUT 20 bullet holes in the shutters showed the shots were fired from roof- tops or balconies, the official said, and the snipers' target was clearly the am- bassador's second-floor office. But the 53-year-old diplomat, who assumed his post five days before Pres- ident Makarios was overthrown in a coup last month, was hit in the chest by a wild shot that went through his own office, a secretary's office and down a corridor where Davies and 10 other embassy officers huddled for safety. American sources said the embassy might be temporarily closed and one official said unnessential files were be- ing burned "to make the job quicker if we decide to go." The embassy became a vital center of diplomacy after the Turkish invasion July 20. IN OTHER developments: ! In Athens, the commander in chief of the Greek armed forces and other top officers were ousted. 1 In Washington, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said Turkey expressed willingness to negotiate a pullback from part of the 40 per cent of Cyprus it has won in a month of warfare. * The British Foreign Office said it hoped Cyprus peace negotiations would be resumed shortly in Geneva and re- ported a British-U.S. agreement on how to proceed with the talks. * A second U.S. aircraft carrier, the Forrestal, moved into the eastern Medi- terranean joining the Independence, sev- eral amphibious craft and a cruiser. See U.S., Page 5 Ford favors Ilimited Uff amnesty for r See story, Page3 AP Photo ANGRY DEMONSTRATORS rip a U. S. flag from the American Embassy in Cyprus yesterday during a violent attack in which Ambassador Roger Davies and a woman employe were killed and two other persons wounded. Some 600 Cypriot rioters stormed the seven-story building.