Vietnam vets may start local group By ANITA CRONE Local Vietnam veterans may soon form a united group against the Indochina war.. Veterans Mike Lewis and Dave Balough. after finding over 100 Michigan men among the 1,000 military troops demon- strating against the government in Wash- ington last April, are currently seeking to organize a local chapted of Vietnam Vet- erans against the War (UUAW). Lewis, a photo reconaissance person while in Vietnam, helped to start the VVAW chapter at the University of Texas at Austin last December. Now a BGS student at the University, Lewis wants to get in contact with campus veterans and accomplish the same thing here. "I was really surprised that there wasn't already a chapter on a campus this size," he says. Balough,. a former Green Beret, shares Lewis' contempt for the war. He was in Vietnam for a year and a half, he says, when he realized that he was being "forc- ed or taught to tell people how to run their own country." The goal of a University chapter of the VVAW would be, according to the two men, to unite GI's on campus as well as to provide them with information on what the VVAW considers to be the facts of the war. "Although the VVAW has little influ- ence with the veterans administration in providing jobs and social activities for vets, they have the numbers to show the people of America that the war is wrong, as they themselves have come to believe," says Balough. Both men hope to have the drganiz- tional work done by the end of Septem- ber. Neither has any idea of how many of the 1,000 veterans on campus will join with them, but they say they are shoot- ing for an active 1,000 person member- ship. Following organization, they feel that the first official actions of the new chapter should involve the growing GI drug prob- lem. They also plan to follow the lead of the national VVAW in working to right racial discrimination. Locally, a new chapter of VVAW would be working with Newsreel, a radical film group, in showing films on campus, and setting up a booth on the Diag in order to air their views on the war in South- east Asia. Dave Balough page three - Siti rn Mt HEAT WAVE' High-89 Low-s5 Sunny and warm, cloudy near evening Saturday, August 14, 1971 Ann Arbor, Michigan News Phone: 764-055Z At the ivall Demonstrators on the West Berlin side of the Berlin wall burn East German flags and red Com- munist flags during a rally yesterday in the divided city. Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the building of the wall. ARITIFIIA L PARKS Huron dam proposal opposed Panther party initiates class action law suit BALTIMORE '-The Black Panther Party, in what was described as the first shot in a nationwide legal assault against police and prosecutors, has initiated a $1 million damage suit in U.S. District Court against four Baltimore officials. - The class action suit alleging denial of constitutional rights was filed Thursday by civil rights lawyer William M. Kunstler on behalf of the Panthers and Arthur Turco Jr. Turco, a white lawyer from New York accused of being an accessory to the 1969 murder of a Baltimore Panther suspected of being a police informer. "This is a pioneer project in a counterattack against unjusti- fied prosecution," Kuntle said OVts "This is a precedent suit. I don't know of any like this ever being filed."bp The lawyer said similar ac- tions are being prepared in con- nection with past and present Panther-related prosecutions in SANTIAGO, Chile xpt- A New York, Oakland, New Haven, decision by the U.S. Export-Im- Detroit and New Orleans. port Bank to hold back credits Named as defendants were to Chile unless compensation is nad as eeatsB emore paid to nationalize U.S. copper police commissioner; Milton B. withinsts was criticized yesterday within the government of Pres- Alien, the Baltimore state's at- ident Salvador Allende torney and one of the few elect- ed black prosecutors in the na- The Marxist chief executive tion; Hilary D. Caplan, as as- met with top economic advis- sistant to Allen, and Lt. Col. ers Thursday to discuss the Maurice D. DuBois, head of the Eximbank's decision. Govern- city police criminal investiga- ment spokesmen said an offic- tion division. ial statement would be released Besides damages, the suit ask- later. ed the federal court to prohibit "The Yankees won't give us the officials from further prose- loans because of the nationali- cution of Turco and "infiltrat- zation of copper," said El Siglo, ing, surveilling or otherwise in- the official organ of the Comi- terfering with the activities of munist party in Chile. the Black Panther Party. Foreign Miiister Clodomiro Central figure in the suit is Ameyda warned Thursday Turco, a 28-year-old lawyer night that the Exibank de- who was the only white among cision "does not help to main- 12 persons initially charged in s d n e - connection with the torture and ile aodthrelUited Setwe n shotgun murder of Eugene Le- the cordial and friendly way we roy Adamson, a car painter, in w ,, July, 1969. Chile sought a $21-million Turco is free on $10,000 bond loan from the Eximbank to fi- pending retrial on the accessory nance the purchase of three A three-week trial ended Ju Boeing passenger jets for t h-e national airline. 3 in a mistrial after a jury of Five of the biggest copper seven blacks and five whites mines in Chile were iational- were unable to 'agree on a ver- iced last monlh by Atlende's dit.No hearing date on the ut left-wing coalition government, wasset. gdewhich includes Communists and was set. Socialists. The compensation to be paid The Michigan Daily, edited and man- to the copper companies is to aged by students at the Univesiy it Michign. News phone: 764-055.eeid be determined by Chile's comp- Class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich- troller general within six igan. 420 Maynard Street. Ann Arbor months Michigan 41164. Pubisohed daiy Tes- day throug Sundaemninsgea aier- And three companies hare in- sity year. subscription rates: $10 by sured portions of their invest- carrier, $10 by mail ments in Chile against losses Summer Session published Tuesday from expropriation with t h e through Saturday morning. Subscrip- U.S. government's Overseas Pri- tion rates: $5 by carrier, $5 by mail. vate Investment Corp P- By BETH OBERFELDER Pressure from cramped city dwellers for new recreational fa- cilities has resulted in park plans which various environmental and neighborhood groups have found objectionable. Both the State and Huron-Clin- ton Metropolitan Authority (HC- 'MA) plan to create recreation areas similar to Kensington Park, by impounding the Huron River at Island Lake and Mill Creek, and constructing artificial lakes. Protests stem from the Wash- tenaw Environmental Council IWEC) and the Mill Creek Re- ,search Council, who do not want to see another, what they term, auto-oriented park, or a change in the existing ecology-system. Concerning the development of a 4,000 acre regional park along Mill Creek in Lima and Free- dom Townships, however, HC- IMA received a report Thursday from University hydrologist Prof. Ernest Brater which did not dis- courage the move, "From a hydrological stand- point there seems to be no rea- son why the proposed lake could not be created in a satisfactory 9ianner," he said. Professor Brater was hired by HCMA to study what effects the planned 650-acre impoundment would have on upstream drain- age. WEC has stated that it will lend its support to a park which could be easily accessible by modes of transportation other than automobiles. This would project it from "turning into one big parking lot," members have said. According to WEC spokesman Jerry Fulton, "The park plan- ners are looking at the people's needs, but are not giving the people alternatives. Although they have good intentions, all this damming will create an aquatic super highway just like concrete ones." In Mill Creek's case, WEC's chief concern is not with preserv- ing the ecological stability of the area because, says Fulton, "The farmers have already changed the unique natural environment at Mill'Creek." While agreeing with WEC's plea to direct recreational ener- gies elsewhere, the Mill Creek Research Council (MCRC) is still working to support the far- mers' interests. "This is the best agricultural land in the Huran River Basin, and we must preserve the food supply and greenbelt," empha- sizes Virginia Denham of MC- RC. "If the park is developed it will contribute to the demise of agriculture in the whole region of the country. But if it can't be preserved due to economic rea- sons, I would rather see a park than a subdivision" Denham adds. Bill VanRiper, a farmer on MCRC is "presently expanding his investment," and fears "the park plan will put us out of business." HCMA's spokesman has main- tained that they will go ahead and purchase the land if the park is approved. If a few farm- ers hold out, he stated, "We will begin condemnation cases." Angrily, VanRiper a r g u e s, "business is protected, and so is industry, but agricultural land is like a sitting duck, waiting to be bought and used for some- thing else." "People have been dictating long enough," says VanRiper. "It's time the land started dic- tating," Opponents of the Island Lake dam have gathered less support than has the Mill Creek dam opposition because the pro- posed park there is to be built on government - owned 1 a n d rather than privately owned property. State money has already been appropriated to impound the Huron River, yet WEC advo- cates still' hope to prevent the "unique natural environment" from being destroyed. WEC and MCRC suggest al- ternatives to highway=oriented parks be examined. They would like to see recrea- tion areas developed close to where people live, or on a public transportation route.