page three iigan E4ii BULSINESS PHONE~: . .. ---_ _. .._ ... . . n nrr'l I Saturday, August 12, 1972 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN News Phone: 764-0552 IRA terrorists aceidently blow themselves apart BELFAST (tY -- A teenage boy and girl blew them- selves up in an accidental bomb explosion yesterday hours before Britain called Roman Catholic and Protestant lead- ers in Northern Ireland to a peace conference. The main Catholic-based party immediately rejected the bid for talks. The pair killed in Belfast, a 19-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl, died when a 30-pound charge hidden in the girl's shopping bag exploded as they drove along North Howard Street, the dividing line between the Pro- testant Shankili and Catholic Falls Roads sectors. The Provisional wing of the illegal Irish Republican Army announced the two were members of its Lower Falls Road.Battalion. uoy rnor Dy JM-,L -t What are you toying wifit By DIANE LEVICK many students. "I got hit with it at a football Meat-cutters give money to McGovern MIAMI BEACH, Fla. ()-The Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union, which split with the AFL-CIO to endorse Sen. George McGovern for president, de- cided yesterday to withhold its usual $50,000 contribution to the AFL-CIO's election year warchest. A spokesman for the Meat Cutters, which belongs to the AFL-CIO, said the union would instead give the money to "Mc- Govern and candidates for the Bouse and Senate" The 550,000-member union voted on Tuesday to give the Democratic, presidential nomi- nee $21,000 for his campaign The 1,800 delegates to the meeting adopted a resolution yesterday noting disagreement with the AFL-CIO on national political activity. In the past, said the union, it- has contributed half of its col- lected funds to the AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Educa- tion (COPE). The British administrator of Ulster, William Whitelaw, held his third secret meeting of the week with leaders of the Social Democratic and Labor party, the province's main Catholic- backed opposition party. Then lte calledrallsNorthern Ireland parties, Protestant and Catho- lic, to a peace conference Sept. 25-27. Whitelaw also announced 18 prisoners, interned without trial as suspected guerrillas, were be- ing released in addition to the 47 announced earlier this week. But the opposition party said it will send no delegates to a peace conference until all the remaining 265 internees are re- leased. Whitelaw received a helping hand from the neighbor Irish Republic. where troops and po- lice raided drugstores a n d warehouses to seize chemicals that could be used to make guerrilla bombs for the battle in Ulster. In Lonodonderry, the bomb- butted sechnd city of Northern Ireland, explosions wrecked two grocery stores. The violence in- creased tension on the eve of a planned march there by the Apprentice Boys, an influential Protestant order, in defiance of authorities and their own lead- ers. Kids are growing up faster these days, but once they attain college-age, they revert to childhood-at least when they hit neighbor- hood toy stores. Frisbees are still the best selling "toy" among University students according to Alice Platner. co-manager of Campus Bike and Toy. But roller skates and kites are popular in the spring, and water guns sell in large numbers -a handy weapon against an obnoxious friend or boring professor. In addition to the bubble-blowing sets and Monopoly games which college students have treasured since childhood, a few new items have hit the toy market and captured their interest. Several toy store workers agree that Silly String, a liquid in an aerosol can which turns into plastic string on air contact, appeals to game once," says Anne Lankowsky, an em- ploye at Kiddie Land. Apparently even adults have been hooked on "Squishies," colorful pliable plastic faces with soft wax centers. Students can now sit in lec- ture halls, squeezing the faces into any form they desire, releasing all their hostilities. Like Squishies, many of the toys that infat- uate college students are small, inexpensive items which keep the hands or mind busy. To-yes and Soma puzzles. for instance, still please. "One girl came in and bought seven puzzle games." says Nick Watson of Campus Bike and Toy. "She had come in to buy just one." Such toy sprees are not uncommon. "Cou- ples come in all the time and spend hours looking around," says Stacy Hicks at Kiddie See TOYS, Page 7 PYRAMID SALES SCHEME: 'Dare To Be Great' wasn't so great, local lawsuit charges A $3 million lawsuit was filed Thursday against tycoon. Glenn Turner's "Dare To Be Great, Inc.," a program which alleged- ly promises a future of wealth and leadership in return for large sums of money. In what is believed to be the first Michigan class action suit against the group, plaintiffs Keven Caskey of Whitmore Lake and Terry Williams of Woodhaven charged that they were misled and pressured into buying $4,000 worth. of sale plans and self - motivation According to the two plain- tiffs. "coercion and psychologi- cal pressure" were used on them, they were given "false' and misleading" claims of wealth to be derived from sell- ing the program to others, and they were told that they could "rise (to leadership positions) in other Turner Enterprises" if they succeeded in Dare To Be Great, Inc. The group, which currently faces litigation pending against them in 30 states, is operaitg locally out of the downtown Ra- mada Inn. The plaintiffs, according to representing attorney David Goldstein.. represent an esti- mated 500 state residents who each paid approximately $2,000 to representatives of Dare To Be Great, Inc., described in pre- vious indictments as a high- pressure sales and promotion program which used a pyra- mid-referral plan in violation of Michigan anti-lottery laws. Turner, who has headquar- ters in Orlando, Fla., has said charges against him and his employes are meaningless, and that they are not violating any Michigan law because Dare To Be Great, Inc.. is not a pyra- mid sales referral plan. In the event that Caskey and Williams win their suit, the money will be distributed among the 500 represented. Goldstein said the "500 figure is a guess- estimate" based on state attor- ney general findings in that of- fice's investigations of Turner's alleged illegal business practices in the state. Goldstein said a complete list of purchasers will be demanded of Turner Enterprises when suit papers are served next week. Albert Isaac, chief investi- gator for the Consumer Fraud Division of the state Attorney General's Office, said the class action suit "at this time" is un- related to state action which in- volves collection of data to show that Dare to Be Great, Inc., is continuing operation despite an injunction issued two months ago. claims which Turner agents deny. Senate to consider Sovietarms pledpge WASHINGTON 14) - Senate Majority Leader Mike Mans- field (D-Mont.), asked the Sen- ate yesterday to endorse a U.S.- Soviet pledge of mutual re- straint as a prelude to approval of the SALT agreement on nu- clear arms limitation. Mansfield introduced his amendmenta t the start of Senate debate on the five-year interim agreement "to give the Senate a choice." Sen. Henry Jackson (D- Wash.r,, continued to press for his amendment committing the United States to seek in future negotiations an agreement that will not leave the United States in a position inferior to the Russians in levels of intercon- tinental strategic weapons. The interim agreement, Jack- son said, is vague and depen- dentt ni unilateral interpreta- tions by the United States, He said it gives the Soviets "au- thority to retain or deploy a number of weapons based on land and at sea that exceeds our own in every category, and by a 50 per cent margin." Mansfield lifted the language of his amendment from the Declaration of Basic Principles of Mutual Relatiotis sigised 1ast May by President Nixon and Soviet Chairman Leonid Brezh- nev in Moscow. fIt pledged both cotntries to exercise restraint," try to "a v o i d military confronta- tions," and conduct negotiations "in a spirit of reciprocity, mu- tual accommodation and tu- tual benefit." Mansfield told the Senate ie introduced his amtendment to bring the issue to a head in the interest 01 se king a final so e early ntext seek in tesponse to President Nixon's request for prompt action. Unsuccessful in achieving an agreement on a time to vote on the Jackson amendment, Mans- field called off a previously scheduled Saturday session. AP Photo McGovern in New York Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern (left) poses with former New York City mayor Robert Wagner at a news con- ference in New York yesterday afternoon. Wagner recently assumed the position of chairman of McGovern's New York state campaign committee.