C4C mtrl igttrt 3attu .4 Ten Cents Sixteen Wages Vol. LXXXII, No. 4-S Ann Arbor, Michigan--Saturday, May 13, 1972 F Vol. LXXXII, No. 4-S Ann Arbor, Michigon-Soturcloy, Moy 1 3, 1 972 Ten Cents Sixteen Pages -Daily-David Margolick Humphrey opens campaign Hiumnphre tjlackles7 state busing issue By PAUL TRAVIS Special To The Daily DETROIT-Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) arrived in Michigan yesterday for a three day primary blitz and imme- diately became entangled in the state's explosive busing issue. The Democratic presidential candidate, at an early afternoon press conference at Detroit's eastside City Airport, contradicted himself with every other sentence when the topic came up. "I wish to make myself clear," said Humphrey, "I do not support massive school busing to fulfill a quota arrived at by a t- mathematical formula." "If the busing improves the quality of education," Humphrey said a few seconds later, "then I'm for it. "I support the busing of children from poor scools to better schools but I cannot support the busing of children to inferior See HUMPHREY, Page 16 LOCAL REP.: - Groups ask Eschi to support anti-war bi By NANCY ROSENBAUM all U.S. military forces in Viet- Two local groups met yester- nam subject to the release of all day with U.S. Rep. Marvin prisoners and the safe with- Esch (R-Ann Arbor) to urge drawal of U.S, forces from In- Each(H-nn Abor to rge dochina. his support of anti-war legisla- tion currently before Congress. He said he would support the A group of faculty members joint resolution provided an from the physics department amendment to the final version presented Esch with a petition was added to stipulate a spe- requesting he sponsor a bill for cific date for a cut-off of funds the removal of American troops to Indochina. from Vietnam and ending Members of the Interfaith funds for the war 30 days Council who have been leaflet- aft-r passage. ting outside his office all week Members of the Ann Arbor plan to contact Esch again if Interfaith Council for Peace he does not introduce anti-war also conferred with Congress- legislation by the end of next man Esch yesterday urging him week. to back legislation to stop "the continuing and expanding kill- ing by all sides in Indochina." The physics group specific-' ally requested that Esch sup- port a bill proposed by U.S. Rep. Robert Drinan (D-Mass). The bill calls for a cut-off of U.S. funds to Indochina within # ? days of 'to seatment; an end to U.S. air attacks. and a prohibition on bombing of y South Vietnam during the with- drawal of U.S. troops. Esch responded to the facul- ty members by noting the Dri_ nan bill "could allow" the 30 day cutoff date to be extended. Esch alse claimed that the Drinan bill did not have enough support in the House to be passed. Esch instead expressed his support for a bi-partisan 'eso- lution which is now in the ' House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The resolution sets an OVER 250 persons listen to a Oct. 1, 1972 withdrawal date for tion of the Indochina War, 0 By 'ineAssociated Press The provincial capital An Loc was reported under heavy ground attack from the west, northeast and southwest today, as North Vietnamese troops bom- barded the town with ar- tillery fire. U.S. B52s pounded North Vs- etnamese troop concentrations again today, hitting within one to three miles of the city.To day's raids raised to 90 the number of B52 strikes around An Loc in the past two days, the most concentrated air raids of the war. The town, uid'r siegi'since April 7. is reportedly 85 pei cent destroyed. South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu has ordered the town, 60 miles north of Saigon, to be held at all costs. U.S. bombers reportedly knocked out a key railroad bridge and cut Hanoi's north- east rail link with China today.'' Reports said NorthVietnam' entire rail system was beavily SU bombed. SOU The Pentagon yesterday term- cycle ed the blockade of North Viet- nam's ports 100 per cent effec- tive during its first 24 hours. Several merchant ships bound 4 for North Vietnamese ports ap- parently changed course because of American mines planted in Ihose ports, the Pentagon re- ported.p The Pentagon report also said two and possibly three additional foreign merchant vessels left Haiphong h a r b o r before the mines were activated Thursday. Abou This was in addition to five re- for a1 ported earlier to have pulled out City B before the deadline and would protest leave 28 or 29 in Haiphong har- on's e: bor. war co In Paris yesterday, the U.S. The delegation to the Vietnamese rally c peace talks said it is ready to Nation resume, on certain conditions, Vietna the meetings it broke off last city ha week. city po . However, Le Duc Tho, a senior loweri North Vietnamese negotiator de- moved manded the talks resume "with- ladder out conditions." ed att Chief U.S. negotiator William maindE Porter said yesterday that when- The ever the North Vietnamese are speake ready to deal with such issues the Ai as the invasion of South Viet- soring natm, the talks could be resumed. anti-wo See B52s, Page 9 Thet 5 2s A Luc -Associated Press TH VIETNAMESE try to pack their belongings on a motor- as they flee south on Highway I. oca1, nat'I war 1 e :z n s k f t By JIM O'BRIEN it 250 people assembled peaceful anti-war rally at tall yesterday as violent s against President Nix- scalation of the Vietnam intinued across the nation. high point of the local ame when the flag of the al Liberation Front of m was raised in front of all. The crowd cheered as lice tried unsuccessfully to it. When it was finally re- , with a fire department a police guard was post- the flagpole during the re- er of the rally. crowd here listened o rs from People Against: r War (PAAW), the spon- group, and other local ar organizations. theme of the rally was pee- staged sented in the first speech by Marnie Heyn, a PAAW member. Condemning U.S. involvement in sented in the first speech by Southeast Asia, "the largest mil- itary build-up in history," she announced that more demonstra- tions were planned on Armed Forces Day at military bases all over the state. Rick Perloff, '72, and David Haase, a Muskegon resident, chained themselves to the Air Force Recruting Office on East Washington street. They plan to remain there until they "are arrested and forcibly removed, or until the war is over." More militant protests con- tinued yesterday for the third straight day in other cities. In San Francisco 3,000 protesters clashed with police outside a hotel where Governors Ronald Reagan and Nelson Rockefeller were opening Nixon's re-elec- tion campaign in California. Police dispersed the crowd with nightsticks after demonstrators broke windows and sot a police motorcycle afire. In Ithae, N.Y., a crowd of 30t smshed windows and fought oil Polic en the Cornell cam- pie. Two policemen were treated atta h -setalsod property dam- tee rot to several thousand dol- lars. The Citizens for a Free Asia called a rally in Salt Lake City today in support of Nixon's de- cision to mine Haiphong harbor, and to demand that treos from South Korea and Taiwan be al- lowed to invade North Vietnam. In East Lansing, Grand River Avenue was closed off again yesterday, as studen's on bi- cycles and on foot blocked traffic in several locations, according to campus police. --faCy-- teWaace speech in front of City Hail yesterday at a rally protesting the escala-