page three 14Si 4irp&1 RtUSINESS PMONE: 764-0554 Wednesday, August 23, 1972 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN News Phone: 764-0552 HRP s By CHRIS PARKS As the Human Rights Party (HRP) prepares to nominate candidates tomorrow, attention is focusing on who will get HRP's nod to face Democrat P e r r y Bullard and Republican Michael Renner in the 53rd District State Representative race. This attention has arisen part- ly because the contest is HRP's first attempt at a state office, but also because this is the most hotly contested nomination battle in the party's short history. As many as five persons have at one time or another been un- der consideration for the posi- tion. The field has been sharp- ly narrowed over the last week, however, and now only two per- sons - Steve Burghardt and Eric Chester - remain in serious con- tention. dit on, As recently as one week ago, psychology instructor Gretchen Wilson was expected to get the nod. But she has since dropped out of the race. The human Ii '#si Party Conwe ntionu An unsuccessful school b o a r d candidate under the HRP ban- ner two months ago, Wilson en- joyed the initial support of such party luminaries as City Coun- cil member Jerry De Grieck, April campaign ' co-ordinator Steve Nissen and Burghardt. The recent return of Chester from Europe changed the pic- state rep nomination ture dramatically, however. "left caucus" held last Friday Monday, Burghardt - who had Chester, a founder of the party night before the opening of the been wavering between Chester proclaimed Wilson to be unac- convention's weekend sessions. and Wilson - announced that he ceptable. Wilson, he argued, lack- In the caucus and the conven- would seek the nomination him- ed leadership experienced with- tion sessions following it, it be- self. Shortly thereafter, Wilson - in the party and a "well-formu- came apparent the Chester-Wil- dropped out of the race. tated" ideology. son battle was becoming a major Although there is general His objections were based on polarizing factor within t h e agreement within the party that the conception - generally ac- party. his announcement was ill-timed, cepted among party regulars - The Chester faction charged some see Burghardt as an ideal that an HRP state representative that Wilson's candidacy was an compromise. - must be capable of accepting ti- "opportunist" attempt to w a o While being ideologically cons- tular ideological leadership of liberal voters with whom she patable with the Chester faction, - the state party. maintains good contacts. Such a Burghardt is not generally per- As the highest elected official campaign, Chester argued, would ceived as vulnerable to t h e - of the party, they reason, the be inconsistent with the party's charges of intolerance and sec- state representative will be very tough ideological stance. tarianism which have been lev- much in the public eye. He or The pro-Wilson forces, on the eled at Chester. she, therefore, must be able to other hand, chharged that Ches- As things stand now, t h e r e make quick and independent de- ter was trying to make it seem will be three choices facing par- cisions consistent with basic par- that anyone who didn't share his ty roembers when the vote on ty ideology, hard line and history of street the state representative race r These points, among others, activism was somehow unfit to comes up tomorrow - Chester, were brought out at a special represent the party. See HRP, Page 9 l t l P . . AP Photo AMcUoske jovli s Protstors~ Rep. Paul IcCloskey (R-Calif.) stands amid prot esters in Miami Beach yesterd-ay. McCloskey re- ceived the only vote not pledged to Nixon in last night's nomination poceedings. When asked to withdraw his name to preserve party unity, McCloskey answered, "Not while those bombs keep dropping." IRA HITS HARD: Belfast guerrillas, Six others lown up in bomb explosion Chile cools off following protest by anti-Marxists SANTIAGO, Chile '--Troops and police returned to their barracks yesterday after anti-Marxists mounted a day and night of violent protests against food shortages. President Salvador Allende placed the provinces of Santiago and Magallanes under a state of emergency and appointed military commanders to keep order until tempers cooled. . The protests climaxed a one-day strike on Monday by the country's 150,000 shopkeepers and retail merchants. Allende, whose socialist policies are blamed for the acute food shortage, tried without success to break the strike. He threatened government takeover of their establishments. But shopkeepers replied that they would strike indefinitely, and he gave up thoughts of retaliation.IN The protests began last week XOH w ar in Magallanes, in the far south, and spread over the weekend to Santiago, the capital. soltion' Three people were injured when a firebomb was tossed atis r v a e a trolleybus in Santiago on Mon day. Dozens more were bruised in running clashes between pro- MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (i - testers and police. About 160 Daniel Ellsberg said yesterday deionstrators were acreted. All that President Nixon had a plan were idenstified as anti-Mtarxist to end the war four years ago- youths. using frogmen in Haiphong Several hundred youths threw harbor and marines in Laos to up barricades of burning logs show North Vietnam he would and automobile tires along 15 escalate the war if necessary. blocks of Providencia Avenue, Ellsberg told a news confer- a swank shopping and residential ence that the moves were kept thoroughfare. Other youths roam- from the public, but were clear ed the downtown area, stoning to the North Vietnamese. police and putting tip barricades. le said they also were clear Hlousewives leaned out of their to the Soviet Union and that windows and banged kitchen pots Nixon and Henry Kissinger, his and skillets for 30 minutes. Mo- foreign relations adviser, be- torists accompanied them with lieved the Russians could be three short blasts of the horn. pressured into convincing the The automobile of Labor Min- North Vietnamese into ending ister Mireya Baltra, a Commun- the war. ist, was smashed by angry neigh- Ellsberg, a former Rand Corp. analyst being tried by the gov- hors as she returned home late ernment over public release of at night. Police had to fire four the Pentagon Papers, said that shots in the air to disperse the sometime between Nixon's fifth crowd. and tenth week in office in 1969 the President: The state of emergency bans publc metigs nd uspnds -Sent Navy fi-ogmen into public neetings and suspends Iaiphong harbor ostensibly to some constitutional guarantees, chart it for future mining; permitting police to arrest people without warrants and military t aos- comandrs-o mpoe ss commanders to Impose press -Ordered B52 bombing in then censorship. neutral Cambodia. The Chamber of Commerce and Ellsberg said he learned of two other business associations the policy by mid 1969 through called the strike. They complain- dealings with Kissinger's office ed that inflation, the scarcity of on a Vietnam war options paper goo p icaonlsand other Ellsberg was in charge of pre- goods, price controls ad paring for consideration by the restrictions were squeezing re- President and the National Se- tailers out of business. curity Council. BELFAST, Northern Ireland W) Two guerrilla bombers killed themselves and six other persons yesterday when they blew up a customs post in the border town of Newry in a raid that went wrong. The body of a man, hooded and boind, was found in South Bel- fast later to make it nine dead and Northern Ireland's bloodiest day since British troops stormed barricaded guerrilla strongholds three weeks ago in a bid to crush the Irish Republican Army - IRA. The province's three-year death toll rose to 527 as the IRA struck after warnings that it planned to intensify its terror blitz, stalled by the army's invasion of their base areas in Roman Catholic ghettoes. Eight mangled bodies were dragged from the rubble of the customs clearing house in New- ry, a predominantly Catholic town 30 miles south of Belfast. Police said the blast "just about demolished' the red brick build- ing, repaired two weeks ago af- ter it was ripped by a carload of terrorist exposives. Among the bodies were the two terrorists who forced their way into the building at gunpoint to dump their 60-pound bomb in a cardboard carton. They died before they could plant the bomb, which security sources speculated was made of a highly sensitive and volatile chemical the IRA has been forced to use since troops seized m o r e than five tons of their caches of gelignite and other explos- ives. - The two guerrillas forced their way into the post where f o u r customs officers were working. At least two truck drivers were there waiting for clearance for their loads brought over t h e frontier from the Irish Republic. One officer rang the alarm. As the terrorists dropped their bomb, everyone stampeded for the door. But the bomb explod- ed. Chris Daly, the 26-year-old post manager, said: "Some p e o p 1 e ran into the explosion. Another five seconds and everyone would have been clear. There was a lot of panic." At least six persons were w'ounded, three of them serious- ly. Police at first thought t h e bombers' getaway driver, wait- ing outside in a car, was among the casualties, but he got away. The guerrillas' weapons, a Thompson submachine gun and a pistol, were found in the debris. It was the fourth IRA bomb mistake in two weeks. T h o s e mistakes have now killed at least five guerrilla bombers, including a 17-year-old girl terrorist in Bel- fast 10 days ago. Security sourc- es blamed the unpredictable ex- plosive the IRA now uses and about which the bombers appar- ently know little.