Vol. LXXXI, No. 39-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, July 3, 1971 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Food co-ops: Feeding the counter culture By CHRIS PARKS The growth of two food cooperatives estab- lished this year has testified to a heightening desire by students and the community to have an alternative to paying high prices for food felt to be unhealthy. The two groups, one of which specializes in organically grown foods, the other produce; both claim as their major attraction lower prices and an alternative to supermarket processed, pack- aged and preprepared foods. The organic food cooperative was formed in the spring as an outgrowth of a commercial organic food store. When the owner of the store left town, coop organizers say, a group of people interested in organic foods joined together to form a cooper- ative organization to maintain a source of or- ganic food in the city. The produce coop operated by the Rainbow People's Party, on the other hand, has since its inception this winter, been a community service organization. In both cases, however, the structure of the groups is similar. Coop members volunteer their services to the group "at cost". Decisions on buying and general coop policy are made by regular membership meetings. In the case of the Rainbow People, coop mem- bers go on weekly shopping expeditions to the large farmer's market in Detroit to fill their orders. Customers pay four dollars a week and re- ceive in return two grocery bags of fresh pro- duce selected by coop members. The organic coop operates on the more tra- ditional store front basis in which an inventory is kept in stock. See FOOD, Page 10 -Daily--Jim Judis My beautiful, my beautiful balloon... It was a fine day in, over and around Ann Arbor yesterday, and what better way to spend such a day than gently wafting over the countryside in the basket of a balloon? ANTI-WAR PROBE: 'U-' student may testify to HISC investigation Viet war study tells of faulty U.S. planning NEW YORK (M - The New York Times summary of the Pentagon Papers reported yesterday that Gen. William C. Westmoreland's estimates of the troops he needed in Vietnam more than tripled between June 1965 and June 1966 because the enemy's ability was "consistently under- rated." In the sixth of its articles on the massive Pentagon study of American participation in the war until 1968, The Times said U.S. military commanders in 1965-66 were confident of victory and Westmoreland, commander of all U.S. forces in Vietnam, predicted he could defeat the Com- munists "by the end of 1967' Pentagon study, the LBJ noli Times reported, said that, "The ,/ documents from the period around July 1965 seem to in- dicate (General Westmoreland) had not given much thought to what he was going to do in the year or years after 1965." [e oantR usk Weatmoreland's troop re- quests increased steadily, from ny The Asscited Press a ttal of 175,000 men in June Former Secretary of S t a 1965, to 275,000 that July, to Dean Rusk said today that con- 443,eee in December and then trary to what the once secret to 542,000m the fllowing June. Pentagon papers say, President The newspaper*said"neither Lyndon B. Johnson had "no Westmoreland's troop requests plans to bomb North Vietnam nor President's Johnson's during the 1964 presidential speedy approval, of all but the campaign." last were made public. The secretary of state under On Feb. 26, 1966, a month Johnson, now a professor of law after the general asked Wash- at the University of Georgia, ington to increase troop said that people "ought to read strength from 235,000 to 459,- all that he (Johnson) said dur- 000, Johnson told a news con- ing the campaign. He had no ference: "We do not have on plans to bomb North Vietnam my desk at the moment any during the campaign, although unfilled requests from Ge n. there were people on the staff Westmoreland." who were working out all sorts "Meanwhile, the Johnson ad- of contingencies, but these were ministration's continual expan- not President Johnson's plans. sion of the air war against Rusk said in the interview North Vietnam was based on a that he was surprised at the "colossal misjudgement" about length of the Vietnam conflict. the bombing's effect of Hanoi's "I personally underestimated will and capabilities," The the tenacity of the North Viet- Times summary said. namese," Rusk said. It reported that the Penta- As to whether he believes pub- gon Papers showed the John- lication of the reports might son administration decided in cause harm to the American 1966 to bomb Hanoi's oil stor- people, Rusk said, "Actually 99 age facilities despite warnings per cent of the story has been from the Central Intelligence public all along." Agency that the raids would not In current Vietnam develop- "cripple Communist military ments, the Pentagon has ad- operations." vised President Nixon to speed Instead, the Pentagon an- up the withdrawal of U.S. forces alysts wrote, Washington ap- from South Vietnam, the Los parently accepted the mili- Angeles Times said Friday. tary's estimate that the bomb- The Joint Chiefs of Staff feel ing would "bring the enemy to the troops are not needed mili- the conference table or cause tarily there and want them home the insurgency to wither from so the Army can begin in earn- lack of support." est to restore discipline' and See PENTAGON, Page 10 See PAPERS, Page 10 By ANITA CRONE Student Government Council (SGC) member Brad Taylor said last night he may be sub- poenaed to testify before the House Internal Security Com- mittee regarding national peace groups involved in anti-war ac- tivities in Washington, D.C. last May. Taylor, a member of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) has already voluntarily given preliminary testimony to staff, members of Republican mem- bers of the committee, formerly known as the House Un-Ameri- can Activities committee. On the inside... Photos: A trip to the museum ......... P. 2 Editorials .............. P. 4 Classified Ads P........P. 8 Sports ..........P. 11, 12 Ta y lo r ' s preliminary testi- mony appears to have centered around the activities of the Peo- ple's Peace Treaty Conference held in Ann Arbor the last week of February. RISC is currently investigat- ing the National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC) and the Peo- ple's Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ) - two of the gro ups which organized the Mayday activities and the Apn Arbor conference. Taylor told The Daily in an interview that he covered the People's Peace Treaty confer- ence for the Campus News Ser- vice, a national news service or- ganized by the Republican Na- tional-Committee. During preliminary hearings, according to Taylor, he told the minority committee staff mem- bers his impressions of the con- ference, He declined to elaborate fur- ther on his discussion except to say that they did not discuss the Capitol bombings-in con- nection with which dozens of radicals have recently been sub- poenaed to testify before grand juries in five cities. Taylor's testimony before the full committee was postponed due to committee adjournment. It is uncertain when the com- mittee will reconvene, "If I am subpoenaed," Taylor said, "I will testify. You won't find me burning the subpoena on the courthouse steps." A HISC official refused this week to supply any information about the reasons for the ad- journment or the possibility of Ta y 1 or testifying, when con- tacted by a member of The Daily's Washington staff. The staff member said she "did not know" when the hear- ings by the committee would resume.