page three BUSINESSLIKE High 85 Low 52 Sunny and warm " ..F -rrn nrc't Vriday, August 6, 1971 Ann Arbor, Michigan News Phone: /64-U55 Airline denies POW release news report Ground control views star trek Controllers at Mission Control in Houston, Texas, watch yesterday as Apollo 15 command module pilot Alfred Worden walks in space. The spacewalk appears on the large television screen in the background and on smaller screens around the consoles. SEEK COURT RULING: Briarwood target of new construcion opposition STOCKHOLM () Scandinavian Air- lines yesterday denied that U.S. mili- tary officials had asked it to fly 187 Americans held prisoner by North Vietnam to Europe. A statement by Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) said the line was ap- proached in West Germany by a private person in mid-July who wanted to ar- range a charter flight from Laos to Rome for 187 passengers, but the in- dividual called off the arrangements lat- er. "It was never mentioned that the category of passengers was military per- sonnel," SAS added. The Stockholm newspaper Dagens Ny- h(ter first published the report that the flight would carry U.S. prisoners held in North Vietnam, bringing denials from U.S. and North Vietnamese officials. An SAS official in Rome agreed the contact was made in West Germany but added he did not know the name or nationality of the individual requesting the charter flight. Earlier, an SAS spokesman in Stock- holm said U.S. military authorities in West Germany had asked to charter a DC8 to fly the American prisoners fron Laos. SAS said the statement had come "from somebody not sufficiently in- formed who, being pulled out of bed at the break of day, said yes and no in the wrong places." The consensus of Swedish news media was that there was some kind of sub- staince to the reports but that the parties concerned were, lying low. "In matters of this kind," said t h e state radio in a commentary, "those in- volved usually have a preconceived plan of issuing denials if the story breaks too soon. In this instance, denials from the North Vietnamese mission here and from the Paris peace talks delegation came remarkably fast." Communist delegations at the Viet- nam peace talks made it completely clear yesterday that American prisoners of war will be released only if the United States accepts the month-old Commun- ist peace plan. The plan calls for simultaneous with- drawal of American forces and release of prisoners this year. The United States so far has refused to accept the plan and continues to press for further clari- fication of the seven-point proposal. North Vietnam's delegation chief, Xuan Thuy laid new stress on the July 1 peace plan in the wake of reports on the POW release. eae delegate to the Paris peace talks, yesterday discounts reports of a se- cret POW release plan. 4u' prof to assist Nixon s planned journey to China DETROIT (') - A University professor will be helping untangle the mysteries of the Orient for Richard Nixon as the Presi- dent prepares to journey to the People's Republic of China next year. Political science Prof. Richard Solomon will try toatell officials what the Chinese really mean when they say something. His job will be turning innuendo into use- ful information, making sense and detect- ing a trend when Chinese publications begin referring to Russians as "social imperialists" with the same fervor for- merly reserved for American "imperial- ists." "The Chinese press impresses many people as a lot of propaganda. It's Marx- ist-Leninist and Maost jargon and it looks like gibberish . . . In fact, my research has shown it isn't quite that. It's a way they signal to their own people what poli- cies they are currently pushing; they indi- cate their changes in policy through this ideological jargon," Solomon said Wednes- day. Solomon will move into the Executive Office Building quarters of Henry Kis- singer's staff under a fellowship from the Council of Foreign Relations. By CHRIS PARKS Despite approval of the Briarwood pro- ject by the city council earlier this year, the question of whether the gigantic shop- ping center will be built in Ann Arbor is far from settled as far as the Huron Val- ley Sierra Club is concerned. The Briarwood plan calls for construc- tion of a large shopping center complex mat the juncture of I-94 and State Rd. Over strenuous objections from environ- mentalists, an ordinance to change the zoning of the area to permit the construc- tion was approved by the city planning commission and subsequently the council this spring. During council debate on the plan how- ever, Marion Reimold, a resident of the area near the proposed center, lodged a protest against the zoning. Com-mission to choose members The University Women's Commission, a group dedicated to the elimination of sex discrimination on campus. has recent- ly been faced with two resignations among its membership. While currently working to attain salary equity at all levels of University aca- demic and non-academic staff, the Com- mission is seeking prospective members who are interested in the problems of Uni- versity employees. Letters of application for persons to fill 'the vacated posts are now being solicited from University employes. Because of the nature of the Commission's work, it has been stated that members should repre- sent either the University's non-academic staff-clerical or professional/administra- tive, preferably employed by a research pnstitute or academic department-or the academic staff in the area of natural sci- ences or medicine. Further in formation and submission of nominees should be directed to the Com- mission through Zena Zumeta or Carol Van Dyke, 2nd floor Admin. Bldg. before Aug. 10. It is on this protest and legal action which resulted from it, that the Sierra Club has been most active in its legal opposition to Briarwood. Under state law anyone with 24 per cent frontage on an area to be zoned can pro- test the action. To approve a zoning over such a protest requires a three-fourths majority of council. In the case of Briarwood, however, the zoning package was divided into two sep- arate ordinances-one for the parking and commercial areas of the center and an- other for the sort of buffer zone surround- ing the area. - While Reimold's property has the re- quired frontage on the buffer property, she didn't have frontage on the parking and commercial property included in the other ordinance. Following passage by city council of the zoning laws she filed suit in district court charging the city had deliberately split the issue to prevent her protest from endangering the Briarwood project itself. During the first week of July the suit was heard by District Court Judge Alan Miller who ruled in favor of the city. Reimold, however, has decided to ap- peal the ruling to the Michigan State Court of Appeals. . The Sierra club, at any rate, is not limiting itself to the Reimold case in its attempts to block the construction of the multi-million dollar center. According to Fulton, the devulopers' must submit to the city within a few weeks, a site plan for the project in order to obtain a building permit. He said his group will give careful con- sideration to the site plan to determine whether it, in their opinion, provides ade- qate assurances that the area's environ- ment will not be damaged. If the plan submitted fails to meet their standards and is subsequently approved by the city, the group will file suit under Michigan's Environmental Protection Act according to Fulton. Possible targets for the suit, he said, include the city of Ann Arbor, the devel- opment company or "maybe both", Ful-. ton said. Crucifixion for protection Three Hindu boys wear crucifixes at Jalirpar, East Pakistan, where frightened Hindus have beseiged Christian missionaries for conversion in the belief that Pakistani soldiers will not harm them if they wear crucifixes. The Hindus have been targets of military 'operations that began March 25 when West Pakistani troops moved in to quell the East Pakistani secessionist movement.