P iC t t1T SWEATY High-87 Low-73 Warm, humid, chance of thundershowers ,o- MO. re.-%+c Twpfvp Pnnes e Vol. LXXXII, No. 45-S Ann Arbor, Michigan--hursday, July ZU, 1'L i en tsenT i w-l r y~ Art tair opens Tents and outdoor vending .- ?n stands bloomed where cars and .- trucks once rushed about as the annual Art Fair opened in the streets of the city yesterday. Everything from leather goods (left) to "junk art" displays (lower left) and much more awaited the first day crowds which are expected to swell over the weekend. The fair, which is scheduled to run through 5 p.m. Saturday, brings artists, craftsmen, buy- ers and just plain gawkers to- gether in a carnival atmosphere. There is music, food and some- thing for just about everybody. Local merchants too, take ad- vantage of the fair by displaying their wares on the sidewalks- usually at reduced prices. 4'As usual in Ann Arbor, the politicos are out in full force on the corner of East U and South U. As Firsign Theater says "It's a fair for all, and no fair for anybody." (Daily Photos by Jim Wallace) QUANG TRI FIGHT RAGES: Kissinger -meets Hanoi leader in Paris for secret parley AFL-CIO to sit out Nov. contest union boss says WASHINGTON (N-AFL-CIO President George Meany led the big labor federation to the political fence yesterday to sit out this year's White House election race between President Nixon and Democratic nominee George McGovern. "I will not vote for either one of them," said the 77- year-old labor patriarch, backed up by a vote of the AFL- CIO's executive council. "I'm disappointed," McGovern said when he returned from a horseback ride near Custer, S.D., to learn the news. "I frankly don't want to feud with President Meany. I'm confident the leaders of the rank-and-file of many indi- vidual unions will go ahead and endorse us." His vice presidential running mate, Sen. Thomas Eagle- ton of Missouri, voiced simi- lar hopes in Washington. * Leaders of a number of AFL- violene CIO unions already have en- dorsed the South Dakota senator and others indicated they would do so. continues One small maritime union has endorsed Nixon and leaders of several of the more conservative I el n construction unions reportedly lean to Nixon. The decision left the federa- BELFAST, Northern Ireland tion's 117 individual unions and ()-Bombs and gunfire claim- their total of 13.6 million mem- ed four more lives in Northern bers .free to endorse either Mc- Ireland yesterday only hours Govern of Nixon on their own. after new secret efforts were "Let them do as they like" started to restore peace to the 1Meany told a news conference. province. But it made McGovern the first The victims included a 71- Democratic presidential candi- year-old man, gunned down by date in the 17-year history of terrorists in a Belfast bar, and the AFL-CIO to be deprived of a 6-month-old boy, killed in his the direct help of the AFL-CIO's baby carriage by a car-bomb nationwide Committee on Poli- that exploded in the town of tical Education. Strabane. COPE is reportedly worth $10 The blast 100 yards from the million in money and manpower infant's carriage, also seriously in a presidential election race. wounded the baby's mother, two The vote of the AFL-CIO other women and a 15-year-old council was 27-3 with five ab- girl. Authorities were given a sent, and several union presi- 20-minute warning but the dents said it was more a meas- bomb exploded about 10 min- ure of labor leaders' respect for utes later while people still were Meany than opposition to Mc- being evacuated. Govern among many union Also two Belfast men were chiefs. shot and killed by terrorist gun- Meany has assailed Nixon's men yesterday. record on wage-price controls, One was a British soldier labor legislation and -most do- caught at an army post in the mestic issues but supported heavily Roman Catholic Spring- Nixon on Vietnam war policy, field Road area. e was the 100th soldier to die in the three Meany reportedly is disturbed of trmoi Te se at McGovern's views on the war, bullet victim was a factory on some labor issues, welfare watcman reform with redistribution of in- Wacmn come, and liberalizing laws on Authorities reported o t h e r abortion and homosexuality, scattered shooting in Belfast. They said sniper fire Wounded "We don't think he would be a British soldier at an army pa- in the best interests of labor. We trol on the edg of the Catho- don't think this man is good lic New Lodge area. Troops in material," Meany said of Mc- the Andersonstown area also Govern. came under fire but no casual- "I will not endorse, I will not ties were reported. support and I will not vote for The deaths raised to at least Richard Nixon for president of 448 the number of lives lost In the United States. I will not three years of sectarian turmoil, endorse, I will not support and with 240 killed this year alone I will not vote for George Mc- in the worst turbulence in 50 Govern for president of the years. United States," said the ex- The peace moves were re- plumber who rose through the ported by well grounded sources ranks to become the nation's who said the extremist Provi- "Mr. Labor." See VIOLENCE, Page 12 Beat the Heat! ge See Editorial Page'4 By The Associated Press Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger met with Hanoi Polit- buro member Le Duc Tho yes- terday in the 14th round of secret talks Kissinger has held with the North Vietnamese leaders in an effort to end the Vietnam war. Kissinger returned to Washing- ton late last night for secret meetings with the President. According to White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler further meetings between Kissinger and Le Duc Tho "will be announced as they are held." Meanwhile, the South Vietna- mese army claimed to have re-- pulsed Communist infantry at- tacks on Quang Tri, as ARVN paratrooper units continued to advance toward the provincial capital's old walled Citadel.. , By late yesterday afternoon, some airborne units were re- ported within 50 yards of the 19th century fortress, which is filled with North Vietnamese gun emplacements. The secret peace meeting, in Paris, was announced imme- diately in simultaneous com- muniques by both sides. It was preceded by speculation, that blossomed as soon as Kissinger dropped from public view in the United States., No details of the tone or substance of the talks were re- leased, and there was no indi- cation how the discussions might affect the 151st meeting of the semi-public peace con- ference, scheduled for tomor- row. The semi-public conference resumed last Thursday 'after a ten-week break, the longest ever. The United States had refused to attend the sessions until the Communist side start- ed "serious negotiations." There was no sign of any sig- nificant shifts last Thursday in the semi-public sessions, in which texts of the delegation speeches are issued to newsmen. and spokspersons hold briefings afterwards. In Washington, Senate ma- jority leader Mike Mansfield said yesterday that with the secret peace talks underway, he will hold off pushing for a Senate vote on his end-the-war amendment. He said that since Kissinger was meeting in the talks, he was "willing to wait a couple of days to give Mr. Kissinger an- opportunity to work out a sat- isfactory settlement." A negotiated settlement of the war, if possible, "would be the most satisfactory conclusion," Mansfield said. He said Kissinger should be given "all possible flexibility." But Mansfield said that if noth- ing conclusive is forthcoming, he will press ahead with his ef- forts to win approval of his amendment to a foreign aid authorization bill. The bill, as approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee, includes Mansfield's amendment, but action on the measure has been stalled since early last month by senators seeking to delete or modify it. The amendment provides for withdrawal of U.S. ground troops from South Vietnam by August 31, without any condi- tions, and a halt to all U. S. military operations in Indochina once North Vietnam agrees to a cease-fire and the release of American prisoners of, war.