McGovern, Wallace stump for May 16 McGovern campaigns Wallace backers rally By LINDSAY CHANEY Special to the Daily FLINT -- Sen. George McGovern kicked off his Michigan primary campaign yesterday with a speech to the Buick Retirees Chapter of UAW Local 599. 599. The senator emphasized the need for more aid to disadvantaged citizens, including the aged. He called for a 20 per cent across-the-board in- crease in social security payments, plus minimum monthly payments of $150. "There are seven million people who have in- vested their lives in this country and are living on social security payments of less than $100 'a month," McGovern said. "Certainly, a country as rich and powerful as ours can do better' than this." See McGOVERN, Page 3 By ROBERT BARKIN and JAN BENEDETTI Special to the Daily DEARBORN - TheGeorge Wallace political rally has arrived in Michigan, complete with country music, enthusiastic crowds and fried chicken baskets filled to overflowing with campaign contributions. Michigan's May 16 Democratic presidential pri- mary will almost certainly go to the Alabama governor. Banking heavily on the strength of anti- 'busing sentiments to carry the state for him, Wallace supporters predict that he will win 60 per cent of the vote. The essence of the Wallace campaign is his rallies. He does not indulge in the whirlwind campaigning of his two chief rivals, Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D- Minn.) and Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.). Wallace See WALLACE, Page 7 -Daily-David Margotick tP t 1T ]4)FtttH Vol. LXXXII, No. 3-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, May 12, 1972 Ten Cents Twelve Pages END SAYS KEY VILLAGE VIRTUALLY DESTRO0YED SAIGON (OB-The United states today pounded the provincial capital of An Loc with the war's biggest con- centration of B52, bombers, in an effort to break the five-week-old North Viet- namese siege of the city 60 miles north of Saigon. The city. already 85 per cent destroyed, has been ordered by South Vietnam President Ngu- yen Van Thieu to be held at all costs. Nearly 70 B52s dropped over 1.700 tons of explosives on North Vietnamese troop concentrations along a line west-northwest of An Loc to east-northeast of the city straddling Highway 13. M e a n w h i i e, American-laid mines armed themselves last night in harbors of North Viet- nam, bringing into force the latest efforts to choke off the supply of war goods to North Vietnam. Up to nightfall, hours after the mines activatgd at the en- trances to seven port cities, there were no reports of inci- dents involving shipping The Pentagon announced that five ships, including four flying the Soviet flag, left Haiphong harbor before activation, leav- ing 31 foreign vessels. According to a report from a Canadian official last night, a major evacuation of Hanoi resi- dents has taken place. The of- ficial also said that foreign mis- sions in Hanoi had been advised to be prepared to evacuate. On the northern front be- tween Quang Tri and the old imperial capital of Hue, the mil- itary situation was termed "rela- tively quiet." However, there were reports of North Vietnamese trucks and tracked vehicles moving north and south across the demili- tarized zone dividing the war- ring Vietnam's. BLOCKADEI RUSSIA B52s HIT 1 SOUTH VIETNAMESE SOLDIERS and their children flee Da Nang with their belongings earlier this week. Over 750,000 refugees have been left homeless during the current fighting. NEW TRIAL ORDERED: Cour reveses C icag LOC U.S. MINES OFF COAST ACTIVATED 'rom Wire Service Reports Russia yesterday demand- ed that the United States "cancel without delay" its naval blockade of North Vietnam. This was the first response from the Soviet Union since President Nixon announced Monday night that mines had been sunk in the northern harbors to halt the flow of war ma- terials. The official statement warned that the U.S. action endangers international peace and security, and rledged continued military help to North Vietnam. It added, too, that if the United States wants recce in Vietnam, it should return to the Paris peace talks. Shortly before the statement was issued, the U.S. mines ac- tivated. There were no reports of ships hitting mines, but a num- hot of merchsnt ships, including t least one Russian freighter, reported by U.S. sources, left Haiphong prior to the mines' ac- tivaticn. Meanwhile, the U.S. 7th Fleet assembled the largest naval force since World War II in the Gulf of Tonkin to enforce the first U.S. naval blockade since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. The exact whereabouts of the fleet was not reported, however. Both China and North Vietnam protested the minings in broad- casts minitored in Honk Kong. Breaking its silence on the Nixon move, China declared the order to mine harbors "a flag- rant provocation." China told the United Nations that the blockade was imper- missible and must be condemned. But it also said that the Viet- nam question did not belong in the U.N. Hanoi called the blockade a "crazy act of war escalation" See SOVIETS, Page 7 CHICAGO ') - A federal appeals court yesterday reversed -but did not dismiss-the con- tempt sentences which Judge Julius Hoffman had summarily imposed upon all eight defend- ants and their two attorneys in the Chicago conspiracy trial. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the charges returned to the U.S. District Court for trial. The court cited a 1971 Supreme Court decision which held that a trial judge should disqualify himself from contempt proceedings if the ci- tations are not made until the end of the trial. Judge Julius Hoffman sen- tenced Bobby Seale, chairman of the Black Panther Party, to four years on 16 charges of con- tempt after he severed Seale's case and declared a mistrial six weeks after the trial began in September 1969. But Hoffman waited until F°b. 14, 1970, the day the jury adjourned to consider a verdict, before he cited the other seven defendants and two lawyers for contempt. Five defendants were con- victed Feb. 18, 1970 of crossing state lines to incite a riot at the time of the 1968 Democratic Na- tional Convention in Chicago al- though they were acquitted of conspiracy to do so. Two other defendants were acquitted of all charges and the government did not retry S, ale on the con- spiracy charges. The appeal of the riot convictions still is pend- ing before the 7th Circuit Court. Defense attorney William Kunstler, one of those charged with contempt, called the deci- sion a "victory" but said he was "disappointed the appeals court did not dismiss the contempt charges." "I feel now as I have always felt that the Chicago conspir- acy trial was a total and delib- erate perversion of justice by a government that has proved in so many tragic ways since the trial ended that it will stop at nothing to destroy the rights and liberties of its citizens." Leonard Weinglass of Newark, N.J., the other defense lawyer cited for contempt, said he also was disappointed that the court had not dismissed the sentences. A spokesman for the Justice Department said in Washington it was not decided whether the government would try the 10 men on the contempt charges. Hoffman, whom the defend- ants called a racist, Fascist pig, declined comment on the ruling, saying he had not seen the opin- ion.