4e igun 1aitj Vol. LXXXII, No. 67-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, August 19, 1972 Ten Cents Eight Pages I~IRP lans begint fo the allelections By TAMMY JACOBS After watching while the Democrats and Republicans fought h their primary races in"August, the Human Rights Party (HRP) is now actively preparing for the November elections when it will at- tempt to capture its first county and state-wide posts. - The party, which ran a successful city council race in April -' is meeting today and tomorrow in preparation for its county con- vention next week. According to law, HRP as a "minor party" of the state must choose its candidates by convention, rather than by a formal pri- mary ballot. If the party gleans a certain percentage of the vote - this fall, it could graduate to "major party" status next year. Also by law, the HRP count convention has been set for Thurs day, Aug. 24. However, the party will he preparing their platform and interviewing their candidates throughout this weekend.'- Members expect the acceptance of the platform will he a sim-I ple formality on Thursday when the nomination of candidates will he the major husiness.- Among the nominations to be filled are those for county com- missioner seats, drain commis- sioner, state representative from the 53rd district, and sheriff, al- though it is not clear whether the party will nominate candi- dates for all the open positions. The party's nomination for representative to Congress from the second congressional dis- trict, for senator, or any other state office will be made at the the f1flulhitafn state-wide HRP convention Aug. 26 and 27. gh sParty One possible nominee for Uk~i~EUS ai ~ Congress, according to a.- party source, may he Nancy Burg- hardt, who ran unsuccessfully C oziientiu for a Fifth Ward council seat this spring. The first business of the coun- ty convention, which opens at 10 a.m. today at the HRP offices on Thayer Street, will be for hopefuls for the various offices to announce their candidacy. Party sources suggest that people considering running for the state representative seat include Gretchen Wilson, a PhD candidate in organizational psychology, who ran as an HRP candidate for school board; Eric Chester, a graduate student in economics and a long-time campus activist; and Bob Alexander, the present coordinator of the party. The winner of the nomination will face Democrat Perry Bullard and Republican Michael Renner, winners of the August primaries. Although the party's nominees will not be chosen until Aug. 24, there will be preliminary interviews of the candidates Sunday, according to steering committee member Tom Copi. However, HRP member Kathy Kozachenko says that candi- dates who wish to announce themselves between Sunday and Thurs- day will be allowed to do so. I One change from past HRP conventions is that any person who wishes to vote at a county convention session must register by signing a statement, to the effect that the signer is a member of HRP and lives in Washtenaw County. A BLINDFOLDED NORTH Vietnamese prisoner of war (left) sits in a truck which was to bring him to' Hue yesterday while an elderly South Vietnamese woman (right) weeps for the loss of her son, killed by rocket fire southeast of Hue recently. N. Viets launch rocket attacks against Da Nang SAIGON (3) - North Vietna- mese rockets rained down on the Da Nang airbase yesterday in the heaviest shelling of the year on that northern military- civilian complex. A barrage of 43 rockets hit Da Nang and 24 more hit Chu Lai, 50 miles to the south, caus- ing 94 casualties. They included one U. S. serviceman killed and 21 wounded at Da Nang, allied spokespersons reported. Rockets exploding in residen- tial areas killed 28 civilians and wounded 37. South Vietnamese military casualties in the two attacks were put at ten killed and six wounded. Sixteen allied aircraft were destroyed or dam- aged. Among them were two U. S. aircraft destroyed and two badly damaged, the U. S. Command said. The shelling came as Henry Kissinger, President Nixon's ad- viser, wound up two days of talks in Saigon. Kissinger departed for Tokyo, revealing nothing of what took place in six hours of meetings between him and President Nguyen Van Thieu. The length of the conferences during Kis- singer's stay suggested that the exchanges were of unusual im- portance. Over North Vietnam, U. S. jets flew more than 340 strikes Thursday, the U. S. Command said, making a total of 1,000 sorties against the north in three STUDENT CONSERVATIVE Taylor runs for Regent days. The command said significant targets included a bridge on Hanoi's northeast rail line, 45 miles from China, that had been knocked out before and recent- ly repaired. U. S. Air Force pi- lots said their laser - guided bombs again put the bridge out of commission. The command reported a Navy F4 Phantom was downed by a missile Thursday in the Hai- phong area and both crewmen were missing. It was the 77th reported plane loss in the 4i/- months of the renewed bombing campaign with 84 U. S. fliers listed as missing. On South Vietnam's northern battlefront, government artil- lerymen and jet pilots claimed they knocked out five North Vietnameseetanks yesterday in an airborne troop clash with an armor - supported enemy force five miles southwest of Quang Tri. That made nine tanks report- ed destroyed in two days on the northern front, where despite U. S. air attacks the North Viet- namese appear to have plenty of arms and ammunition to resist South Vietnam's counteroffen- sive. U. S. B52 bombers, keeping up efforts to stem the southward flow of supplies, dropped 900 tons of bombs in a sixth conse- cutive days of raids in and on both sides of the demilitarized zone dividing the Vietnams. today Sweather Partly sunny and warm. Highs in the mid-80's. Ten per cent chance. of rain. Forecast for Sunday and Monday: variable cloudiness with chance of show- ers or thunderstorms daily. Highs mainly 80's, lows in the upper 50's. By DAN BIDDLE Former Student Government Council mem- ber Brad Taylor, '74 announced his candidacy for one of two open Regents' seats yesterday by blasting the present board's "refusal to take action on abuses of the taxpayers' dollars." Taylor, who is seeking the Republican nomination for the November state ballot, said those "abuses" include removal of the University's ban on cohabitation in dormi- tories, "admission of students by quotas, not qualifications," the paying of salaries "to persons whose job it is to advocate homo- sexuality and lesbianism," and "destruction of public property at April's ROTC building demonstration, During the summer of his 1971-72 SGC term. Taylor, then a member of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), provoked a storm of controversy when he testified vol- untarily before the House Internal Securities Committee (HISC) about alleged actions of various individuals at the February 1971 People's Peace Treaty Conference in Ann Arbor. His testimony angered many radicals here who made an unsuccessful attempt to recall Taylor in last November's SGC election. Taylor, a junior, says a state ruling ban- ning students from state institution governing boards probably won't affect him because he will be a part-time student in the fall. In his statement yesterday, Taylor said that "The taxpayers can count on me if elected because I will be a full-time regent, not one who comes to Ann Arbor once a month and receives all his information from a Democrat-oriented administration." The GOP nominations for the open regent seats will be made at the party's September 1-2 state convention in Detroit, where Taylor will contest incumbent Lawrence Lindemer and at least two other candidates. tory.