P tt g'Ifrl Vol. LXXXI, No. 61-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, August 5, 1971 Ten Cents Eight Pages Pilans forPOW release reported SUPPORTERS of the striking Buhr workers circle two lawyers of General Motors, the company which has purchased the ma- * chinery from the Buhr plant that truck drivers tried to pick up yesterday. Trucks turned back at Bulir. By ZACHARY SCHILLER For the second time in less than a week, trucks directed to pick up machinery at Buhr Machine Tool Co. turned back when confronted with a picket time of striking Buhr workers and their supporters. About 200 workers began striking at Buhr July 19, and sporadic negotiations since that time have proved futile. The strikers are pro- testing alleged racial discrimination in hiring, asking for the right to move with the company should it leave its present location, and demanding there be no subcontracting unless there is full employ- ment at the plant. They have been joined by members of the Radical Independent Party (RIP), the Up Against the Wall Street Journal and others in -- -- - their attempts to keep the trucks kB from picking up machinery manufactured at the plant. Many of the strikers and sup- porters were on the point of firna. reports, leaving for Southfield to picket the international headquarters of Bendix Co., which owns Buhr, when the trucks arrived. Sever- new earnings al picketers have ascribed the truckers' decision not to drive BURBANK (,P) - Lockheed in to the number of people pic- Aircraft Corp., which just won keting the plant. approval of a $250 million fed- Together, strikers and their eral loan on the basis that it supporters yesterday numbered was on the verge of bank- close to 100. ruptey, reported second quar- Two trucks arrived yesterday ter earnings of $3 million yes- afternoon, later joined by both tesday. Ann Arbor police and officers of Bales were listed at $1.09 bit- the Washtenaw County Sheriff's lion up from $658 million .for Department. the same period last year. General Motors Hydromatic, The nation's largest con- thse company which has pur- tractor said these results were cshe eqm pmny twh omhh r- based on the assumption t h a t ased the equipment from Bhr, "we will be successful in mak- has an injunction ordering strik- ing necessary financial arrange- ers to allow trucks to pick up ments", including the loan. ther machinery. Lockheed's long-term d e b t However, the truck-drivers are totaled $634 million as of the not obliged to drive their trucks midyear, and interest on the through toe line if they feel their debt was given as $14.7 million. See DRIVERS, Page 6 By The Associated Press A Swedish newspaper said in this morning's edi- tion that North Vietnam will free 183 American pri- soners of war Aug. 12, but the White House categor- ically denied the report. Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's largest circulation newspaper, re- ported that secrecy surrounding the operation was broken by ne- gotiations for a Scandanavian airliner to fly the men to New York. A Scandanavian Airlines Sys- tem (SAS) spokesman con- firmed that U.S. military au- thorities had asked for a charter plane to fly 187 . "American pilots" from Ventiane Laos to Rome. According to the Dagens Ny- heter story, arrangements for the flight were made by the U.S. Command in Saigon, and the pri- soners were to be taken to New York via Bangkok and Rome. The U.S. Command in Saigon, however, denied knowledge of any charter flight arrangement. SAS said later the request for a plane had come from the U.S. military in West Germany, not Saigon. The newspaper said that many of the prisoners "have been in North Vietnam more than six years. The first one was cap- tured in August, 1964 when American warplanes first at- tacked North Vietnam." The paper also said that it was clear that transportation from Hanoi to Vientiane would be handled by the North'Vietna- mese. Dagens Nyheter said the Swed- ish government has probably been involved in negotiations for the release, but has worked in silence. However, the Swedish Foreign Office said it knew noth- ing of the affair, and emphasized that it was a-matter between the airline and the U.S. government. Presidential press secretary Ronald Ziegler said that "it can be categorically stated that the U.S. government has not been in- formed of any such plan nor has the U.S. participated in negotiat- ing a plan such as described in the report out of Stockholm." Fate of the American prisoners has long been a pivotal point in the Paris peace talks on Viet- nam, but in Paris last night, neither North Vietnamese nor Viet Cong spokesmen could be reached for comment. A SOUTH VIETNAMESE SOLDIER crouches in a rice paddy in Cambodia as fighting continued in the Indochina war yesterday. CAPITOL BOMB PROBE: Govt. asks court to tell wictnesses to talk DETROIT (A) - The Justice Department yesterday asked the courts to order two witness- es to testify before a federal grand jury investigating t h e March 1 bombing of the U.S. capitol, and the Mayday de- monstrations in Washington. Special U.S. Atty. Guy Good- win asked U.S. District Court to order Larry Canada and his ex-wife Kathy Canada to testi- fy before the jury. A hearing on the matter was set for Au- gust 17 before Judge Cornelia Kennedy. Both Canadas appeared be- fore the jury yesterday where they refused to testify, as they have in the past. ANNUAL EVENT CANCELLED Festival fans singheble By ANITA CRONE But last year, the festival ran into trouble. For one thing, Goose Lake Festi- Ann Arbor summers are generally known val was held the same weekend near Jack- for two things - the Street Art Fair, son. The people who would normally held the end of July and the Ann Ar- have attended the Blues Festival hiked in- bor Blues Festival, held the middle of stead to Michigan's first, and possibly August. last, rock festival. The Street Art Fair has come and The people who did come to the Blues gone, with its garish appeal, but this year, Festival were the die-in-the-mud blues> due to a severe deficit in University Ac- fans. With tickets set as low as possible tivities Center (UAC) budget, the Ann and plans for a larger crowd, the festivalk Arbor Blues Festival will not be held, incurred a terrific loss. However, plans are being made for a But the Blues Festival was not the one-night festival to be held during the only losing project for UAC last year, and first week of classes in September, when this year's officers took over, they Since it's inception during the summer were told by the Michigan Union and of 1969, the Blues Festival has attracted League boards that another festival would Blues Festival, 1970 people from all over the country. be an impossibility. They told newsmen they were asked a number of questions about the organization of the Mayday demonstration a n d about a trip Larry Canada had taken to the embassy of the People's Republic of China in Ottawa, Canada. In a previous hearing, Can- ada had been accused of sell- ing secrets to the Chinese government. Both Canada, and his former wife said they refused to an- swer all questions due to their claim that the investigation was based on illegal wiretap in- formation gathered in viola- tion of their Fourth Amendment privacy rights. A motion introduced by Goodwin asks the judge to or- der the witnesses to cease claim- ing Fourth Amendment rights. The motion also asks that if the two continue to refuse to testify they can be required to claim all constitutional rights they plan to use. The move is viewed as a first step by the Justice Depart- ment towards citing the Can- adas for contempt. Ken Kelley, Terry Taube, Co- lin Neilberger and Charles Tola, who were also named in the investigation of the March 1 bombing, were scheduled to ap- pear yesterday but failed to show up. They have all re- fused to answer questions in pastnsessions of the investi- gation, Their attorneys went to court Tuesday to block their appear- ance on the grounds that they were not given proper legal no- tice from the court. U.S. Atty. Ralph Guy h a a agreed not to call the four un- til Judge Kennedy rules on that request.