pag three ~i~ii~!r ~i~ SPLENDIFEROUS High- 0 Low--45 Sunshine and lollipups; rain by Sunday . _. . .. nrr i Saturday, May 22, 1971 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN News Phone: 764-0551 . - i i i r Power to the I>eo>ple Black Panther Ericka Huggins gives a salute as she is taken back to jail in New Haven, Conn. The jury is still deliberating in her kidnap-murder trial with Bobby Seale. 'MAYDAY' INVESTI(ATIPN: Ban& forced to stop adintg HIC probe Legislature considers 18 year 'majority age By JIM IRWIN Observers and legislators in Lansing are optimistic that a bill to lower the age of legal majority from 21 to 18 will be passed when it comes to the Senate floor in a few weeks. The bill, now in the state Senate Judiciary Committee. was approved by the House on May 4. The bill would allow 18-year- olds all the legal responsibili- ties and privileges now receiv- ed at the age of 21, with the exception of the right ta vote These privileges include pur- chasing alcoholic beverages. cigarettes and certain types of weapons. Further they permit the 18 year old to enter into any legal actions, such as suits, contracts or property owner- ship. The bill's chief issue of con- troversy is the provision lower- ing the drinking age to 18. An alternative bill expressly ex- empting the lowering of the drinking age is also in the com- mittee. Those who are opposed to lowering the drinking age chiefly"fearits effect'on traf- fic safety. The age group of 18 to 21 already has the high- -Assie est record of automobile acci- dents. Resignatlon? The main constituents who have openly opposed the drink- The Pentagon announced yesterday the resignation of Secretary ing clause have been the Pro- the Army Stanley Resor. CBS News, however, reported that Re hibitionists and high s c ho o 1 was "asked" to resign. Resor last week ordered the demotion of administrators who fear having Army general for failure to properly investigate the My to deal with intoxicated stu- massacre. dents. Governor William Milliken announced on April 24 that he MERCENARIES IN LA0S: would submit a series of re- commendations to the legisla- ture for lowering the age of -u-mi Ihues- majority to 18. Last Thursday, Attorney General Frank Kelley announced his support of the bill.paigT a o ic In a statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday Kelley cited the obli- gations of 18-year olds to fight WASHINGTON () -Three members of the Senate Foreign I in wars, their obligation to tions Committee yesterday charged that the State Department pay taxes, and their legal- re- been giving the panel incomplete and inaccurate information of sponsibility for their own ac- support of the Thai mercenaries in Laos. tions-in both civil and criminal Committee Chairman Sen. J. William Fulbright, (D-Ark.), courts. after hearing a secret report by two staff investigators that ther Voting rights cannot be in- now 4,800 Thai troops helping the Laotian government and being cluded in the bill. To lower the with U.S. funds from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). amendment to 18the Micgan Details of the report, the result of a 12-day visit to Laos by Jt Constitution or a federal Lowenstein and Richard Moose late last month, remained s amendment. pending committee efforts to get them declassified by the State y of esor f an Lai WASHINGTON (P) - A fed- eral judge yesterday ordered a Washington bank to stop sup- plying the House Internal Se- curity Committee with banking information concerning the Na- tional Peace Action Coalition (NPAC . Federal Judge William Jones issued a preliminary injunction, directed at the Public National Bank of Washington, shortly after NPAC, an antiwar group which sponsored the April 24 demonstration here, brought suit over subpoened bank re- cords. A committee investigator testified Thursday that the re- cords showed Sydney Staple- ton and Patricia Grogan exer- cised total control o v e r the NPAC check-signing as $121,000 flowed through lhast bank from February through April. Stapleton and Grogan were identified by committee inves- tigator John Stratton as hav- ing run for public office as members of the Socialist Work- ers Party. Committee Chairman Richard Ischord (D-Mo.) has charged that the national coalition is dominated by the Socialist Workers Party, which he says is composed of Troskyite Com- munists and that Communist Party USA members play a major role in lading the peo- ple's coalition. NPAC brought suit against the committee and the bank, charging the congressional pan- el acted illegally in obtaining the bank records and that the bank was involved by providing the information without first telling the depositor and cus- tomer that the committee sub- poena had been issued.' 7s Rela- has U.S. said e are paid sames ecret and St By LYNN WHITNALL A striking feature at City Hall these days is the youthfulness of the staff. There appears to be an unusual degree of energy accompanying the inevitable bustle of the bureaucratic processes. A key factor involved in this new spirit is the large number of students working in Ann Arbor's city government this summer. The recruitment of students as interns is a practice which started several years ago. The students, who now number about 20, continue taking courses at the Univer- sity while working part-time in city govern- ment Most are graduate students at the In- stitute of Public Policy Studies or at the School of Social Work, and their salaries are generally financed by federal funds or by the city itself. The duties of an intern are generally diverse. Charles Phillips, Grad., has worked in areas ranging from bond issues to the Model Cities program, since he joined the staff in October, and is involved in estab- lishing personnel policies concerning non- union city employes. Jane Funk, working at City Hall to ful- fill the field placement required of all social work grad students, is part of a group attempting to find ways to compen- sate for the city's cut in funds for recrea- tion and youth employment. She is helping to compile a list of all public" and private recreational facilities available- in Ann Arbor, which is planned for distribution among city youth while her group also seeks to find jobs for stu- dents. A major intern recruiter for city govern- ment is the Community Renewal Project (CRP), which deals with capital projects such as sewers, streets, parks, and housing funded by the f eder al government. Anne Branston, project leader of CRP's planning process department, says her de- partment seeks to increase public partici- pation in the establishment of housing policies. The group hopes to cut confusing red tape surrounding housing construction through creation of a Land Development Regulation manual. The interns exhibit open enthusiasm for their work, and are optimistic that they will be able to tackle relevant problems. Their comments about the intern ex- perience range from "challenging" and "exciting" to "important" and "realistic." Most have found the staff responsive and eager for innovation. Jim Brooks, another CRP intern, com- mented, "The members of City Hall are open-minded and willing to adjust to change if it is progressive and if it will help the City of Ann Arbor." Defense Departments. But members said they receiv- ed confirmation both of the CIA- backed Thai operations and of expanded B52 bombing opera- tions in northernbLaos. far from the area of the Ho Chi Minh Trail supply route into South Vietnam. Sen. Clifford Case (B-N.J.), said "there is no question" that CIA-supported Thai troops are in Laos but added the State Depart- ment says the fall of the Laotian government would imperil U.S. troops withdrawals and that the aid is justified on those grounds. Case Thursday accused the CIA of violating a t-ngressional ban by secretly financing these mercenary soldiers in Laos. "There are presumably gov- ernment funds being paid, to Thailand," he said. "But Con- gress has never voted a penny to pay Thai troops in Lads," lase said. Congress last year barred the payment of U.S. funds for mer- cenaries in Laos, except where it is directly related to U.S. troop withdrawals or efforts to fee American prisoners.