Michigan primary: Everybody satisfied? By ARTHUR LERNER said a few weeks ago he might roll up phrey backer, said there will be a "large Humphrey entered the state primary Co-Editor 1a 60 Pei cent majority. Later whe sentiment to vote for Wallace." field when analysts labelled the state a If the results of today's state presi- dential primary coincide with predic- tions made before yesterday's shooting of Gov. George Wallace, backers of Wal- lace, Sen. George McGovern, and Sen. Hubert Humphrey will all claim satisfac- tion with the outcome. Pre-election week surveys, led prog- nosticators to predict a three way split in the vote, giving Wallace about 35 per cent and McGovern 25 per cent, with Humphrey trailing slightly behind. Wallace has been hoping to capitalize on the busing issue and general dis- satisfaction with politicians. His backers McGovern was apparently cutting into his lead, Wallaceites stressed that what they wanted most was a victory-no matter how big the margin. It is unclear what effect the shooting will have on today's election; many lukewarm Wallace supporters may vote today, who would have stayed home. Neither McGovern or Humphrey would discuss the influence, if any, the assassi- nation attempt would have here or in Maryland, where there is also a primary today. Tom Turner, president of the Metro- politan Detroit AFL-CIO and a Hum- McGovern has been counting on a strong second place finish to reinforce his frontrunner position in the race for the nomination, ahead of Humphrey. On Sunday, he even hinted at a victory over Wallace, telling newsmen that it was "just conceivable we can pull an upset." McGovern's tally will be affected by voter response to the candidacy of Rep. Shirley Chisholm of New York. She has been campaigning actively in the state and has received endorse- ments from two of the most influen- tial black politicians in the state - U.S. Rep. John Conyers and State Sen. Coleman Young, both of Detroit. two way battle between the Minnesota senator and Wallace. But as McGovern picked up strength Humphrey let it be known that he would be satisfied with a fourth of the Democratic vote, also giv- ing him a quarter of the state's 132 convention delegates. Both McGovern and Humphrey can afford to value non-first place finishes in today's voting because of the state's proportional system of delegate selec- tion. Unlike the winner-take-all Cali- fornia primary, the state's delegates to the national convention will' be se- lected in proportion to the candidates' statewide vote. VOTEWORTHY page threeHigh-70 pae:hee UJl I tjti Low-43 Clearing~ Tuesday, May 16, 1972 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN News Phone: 764-0552 EDUCATION CASE: Supreme Court . iets recapture A - p~ upholds Amish WASHINGTON U -The Supreme Court yesterday barred the states from forcing the Amish to educate their children beyond the eighth grade. The 7-0 decision held Wisconsin's interest in compulsory schooling must give way to the right of Amish people to practice their religion. Forcing a high-school education on "the plain people" would gravely endanger if not destroy the free exercise of their religious beliefs, Chief Justice Warren Burger said for the court. The ruling was a victory for the Amish and the Old Order Mennonites who have been subjected to criminal prosecu- tion in nine states for refusing to send their children to high school. O ff " Speaking for the, unanimous ice ( court in the Amish case Burger O e osaid Wisconsin's compulsory education law "carries with it precisely the kind of objective . tOr danesr to the free exercise of religion which the First Amend- ment was designed to prevent." He extolled "the independence and successful social function- ing" of Amish communities for more than 200 years in the Royal Oak, Mich. 0") - The United States and noted that office of Rep. William Boom- into this century most states did field (R-Royal Oak) was damag- not require education beyond ed extensively yesterday by a the eighth grade. firebomb tossed through a plate The ruling affirmed a 1971 glass front window, police re- judgment by the Wisconsin Su- preme Court, first in the coun- ported. try to protest the Amish from Fire Chief Clayton Nichols school-attendance laws. said there was extensive dam- The case involved three New age to the front of the office and Glarus fathers who were fined $5 for refusing to enroll their smoke damage to the rear. adolescent children in the public Nichols said the fire appar- high hool. ently was caused by an explos- They were backed by the Na- ive device - probably a Molo- See COURT, Page 12 tov cocktail. Broomfield was in Washington LO when he learned of the fire- bombing, and he theorized it T might be linked to the Indo- a w e a china war and his post on the House Foreign Affairs Commit- By JIM O'BRIEN tee. Although the presidential pri- Broomfield, who said he ad- mary will capture most of the vacates withdrawal of U.S. national attention focused on Michigan today, state voters will troops from Vietnam "as soon as also decide on two proposed possible," sid several anti-war changes in the state constitution. slogans had been painted on the The only local issue on the building housing his Royal Oak ballot is a, proposal to increase office and that members of his property tax by 2.5 mills for a one-year period. office staff had received several If the measure is not approved, telephone calls from antiwar pro- City Administrator Guy Larcom testers. - predicts that garbage collection Broomfield estimated damage and transportation services will have to be curtailed. Revenue from the firebombing coal l run from the plan which would as high as $50,00-. amount to $1,312,000, would also He said he has asked t h e go for salary increases for city Federal Bureau of Investigation employes and improvement of recreational facilities. to condmit a full-scale probe of O n e proposed constitutional the incident, amendment concerns legaliza- base south of H ue --Associated Press TWO WOMEN REFUGEES carry their belongings toward a helicopter pad in Kontum, South Vietnam. Fighting continued around the central highland's city yesterday, as a concentrated airlift of 15,000 Montagnard refugees got under way. About 1,000 Montagnards were evacuated by the afternoon. Officials said mountain tribesmen agreed to stay and help defend Kontum if their families could be flown out. CAL MILLAGE ISSUE r ges o ballot today BvT.he sodiated Press South Vietnamese infan- trymen recaptured an im- portant fire base southwest of Hue yesterday in the sec- ond phase of an effort to pre-empt expected North Vietnamese plans to attack the former imperial capital. The reconquest of Fire Base Bastogne, which had been aban- doned ethie tinde'in-Conmnmunist attaek 18 days ago. came as re- newnd fighting was reported in the rentral highlands. The 6-week siege of An Loc continued as Communist forces hurled another 2,506 rounds of artillery. rocket and mortar fire into the ravaged provincial cap- ital 60 miles north of Saigon. The U.S. Command disclosed the lois of three more planes in raids over North Vietnam with all six crewmen listed as miss- ing. This raised to 142 Americans reported killed or missing in In- dochina air losses since Hanoi's general offensive began March : 0. At Bastogne, field reports said, a platoon of volunteers ridin, six South Vietnamese helicopters as- saulted the base in midafter- noon. They secured it for ground forces which drove westward along Route 547 behind a shield of U.S. air strikes. Marches, sitdowns and silent vigils were held at a handful of campuses and cities around the nation yesterday, the start of the second week of ;protests against increased U.S. activity in Vietnam. Most of the demonstrations were peaceful and without inci- dent, but more than 50 persons were arrested at Princeton Uni- versity and Lebanon, N.H. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union told the Security Council yester- day the U.S. claim that it mined North Vietnamese harbors in the right of self-defense is groundless. U.S. Ambassador George Bush informed the council last week that the mining was done under the "inherent right of self-de- fense" provided by the U.N. Charter. Malik also accused the Nixon Administration of violating the principle of freedom of naviga- tion embodied in the 1958 Ge- neva conventions on the law of the sea, which the United Stater signed. tion of government supervised gambling. If approved, the amendment would give the state legislature power to prescribe the form of legal lotteries. The second proposed constitii- tional amendment would permit members of the legislature to resign and accept another office to which they have been elected or appointed. "This amendment would per- mit members of the legislature to be elected or appointed to a- other civil office during the term for which they were elected. Before accepting that office they would be required to resign from their legislative office," accord- ing to the wording of the pro- posal. One of the main difficulties expected in local voting, accord- ing to Deputy City Clerk Burt Fleming, concerns voting in the correct precinct. "Even if they are suletting for the summer in a different precinct, everyone should vote in the precinct they are regis- tered in," he said. As far as getting to the poils. Students for McGovern aye run- ning shuttle services to Burns Park School for voters in pre- cinct 3-1 and 3-2, and Jines School covering precincts i-2 and 1-3. The service will run continuously d u r i n g polling hours, leaving from the front of the Union. Rides to other polling places can be arranged by calling Mc- Govern headquarters at C65-9101l Primary voting in the city be- gins at 7 am. and ends at 8 p.m.