Vol. LXXXIl, No. 63-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, August 15, 1972 Ten Cents Eight Pages MONEY, SUPPORT PLEDGED Unions join McGovern campaign Sen. George McGovern chats with one-time presidential hopeful Sen. Eugene McCarthy yesterday at capitol hill. McGovern leaves today to tour the midwest as his vice-pr esidential candidate R. Sargent Shriver campaigns hard on the West Coast. Shriver was mobbed by newsmen as he arrived at Los Angeles International airport yesterday. ABUSE PROGRAM FAULTED: WASI sional tensive drug ab GIs frc easily such a The (GAO), terday s 72 U.S. world, question the cr More GIs switching HINGTON () - Congres- than partially successful except they got the same investigators say the in- on marijuana. nawa: military crackdown on "Several drug abusers stated "Several low-rank use may be driving some that the crackdown on mariju- who used drugs felt om marijuana to more ana was effective because mari- creased use of her concealed hard drugs juana was bulky and had a dis- from the crackdow s heroin. tinctive odor when smoked," the Juana.' General Account Office report noted, "They believed The report quoted in a report released yes- th-t the crackdown's effective- ing some GIs might on drug-abuse control in ness had induced many mari- to hard drugs notc military units around the juana smokers to turn to hero- marijuana is hard tc said most enlisted men .,,because the drive a ned in Vietnam believed in. reduced its availabi ackdown was no more The GAO investigators said The report said ti to heroin story in Oki- against marijuana cannot be re- laxed - but it suggested the :ing marines military should conduct surprise that the in- urinalysis tests in military units ain resulted to deter hard-drug use by in- 'n on mar- creasing the risk of getting caught. GIs as say- But while urinalysis tests have turned have been highly successful in only because identifying heroin, barbiturate conceal but and amphetemine users, the re- gainst it had port said, three U.S. commer-. lity. cial laboratories contracted by he campaign the Army to analyze samples were averaging only 50 to 65 per cent accuracy late last year. The GAO said the Army is working with the unnamed lab- oratories to try to reach the con- tract requirement of 98 per cent accuracy. The congressional investiga- tors said also the program had been h'irt by distrust of GIs who "felt that the exemption pro- ugramwas more punitive than they believed it should be or had belie-ed it would be." Altholgh drug users who vol- inteer for treatment are exempt from courts-martial under the progr-'m, the report said, they are sibject to removal from sen- sitive positions, identification as dreg abasers in their official re- cords and loss of regular pay and credit for service time while undergoing treatment. At the same time, the report quoted disgruntled officers as saying they believe too many GIs subvert the program to try to get out of the military early under it. todays eahr -AP Photo The early morning hours will be cloudy with temperatures in the ed at the mid sixties. During the day it will rators to be partly cloudy with tempera- mised the tures ranging up into the mid sev- n at the enties. This evening there will be increasing cloudiness and sore seri- a chance of rain with the temper- ature dropping into the lower 60s. WASHIN GTON(U- Dem ocratic presiden- tial nominee George Mc- Govern and his running mate Sargent 'Shriver re- ceived much needed sup- port from organized labor as a group of approximately 25 AFL-CIO labor unions announced yesterday the formation of a "National Labor Committee" to sup- port the Democratic ticket. Joseph Keenan, secretary of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, said there were initial financial pledges to- taling $125,000 from five of the unions for McGovern's cam- paign fund. - The group noted at a news conference that the AFL - CIO executive council had adopted a position of neutrality in the presidential race and had said that each of the labor federa- tion's 116 unions should make its own decision on the matter. -The McGovern labor commit- tee said it will function nation- wide -td urged creation of state and local labor committees for MaGavern-Shriver. "The committee was organiz- ed because American workers - union and non-union - have suffered severe inequities under the Nixon administration, and because Sen. McGovern's voting record and position on issues clearly demonstrate he is in sympathy with the needs of the American people," the group said in a statement. The McGovern - Shriver tic- ket is expected to receive addi- tional sipport from organized labor as Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers, predicted yesterday a "substantial McGovern victory" among its locals throughout the nation in an endorsement vote on this year's presidential ticket. He made the prediction at a regional mieeting in Columbus, Ohio at which some 716 dele- gates cast their votes on behalf of 225,000 UAW members in Ohio, West Virginia, and the western quarter of Pennsyl- vania. The union's executive board endorsed the Democratic ticket earlier. At the 11 regional meetings, See SOME, Page 8 Pay Board continues wage limit WASHINGTON t) - The fed- eral Pay Board said yesterday that it will make no change in its general standard limiting wage increases to 5.5 per cent a year. "The Pay Board has complet- ed a comprehensive review of the general wage and salary standard to determine whether any revision is indicated," it said in a statement. 'The board has concluded that it will make no change in t h e standard at this time. It will be reviewed again as additional data becomes available in t h e year," the statement said. Although the general wage de- cline is 5.5 per cent, the board said that it has granted w a g e hikes averaging only 5 per cent over-all since it went into busi- ness last Nov. 14. "These wage trends are clear- ly helping to slow inflation," the board said. YIPPIES get campsite Despite objections from some Miami Beach residents such as the one picture left the Miami Beach City Council voted 4 to 3 yesterday to allow demonst camp at Flamingo Park during the Republican Convention. The YIPPIES proi city fathers that there would be less skinny-dipping and dope smoking tha Democratic Convention because the mood of the demonstrations would be m ous during the Republican gathering.