E 0 e Tens THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, .July 15, 1970 Wednesday, July 15, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY __ House votes down measure to open committee meetings White House asks Testimony st new march rules n Panther ti VASHINGTON (AP-- T h e i u s e yesterday refused to >pt new procedures t h a t ild open more of its commit- meetings to the public. Heed- the views of its committee tirmen. the House defeated, to 112, a key amendment to congressional reorganization that was backed by a bi- 'tisan group battling secrecy House procedures. ['he vote was taken by count- members but not recording m, another procedure under ack by the reformers. The ef- t to put such votes on the ord will come today or to- irrow. although official record was t. Speaker John W. McCor- .ck of Massachusetts. Repub- lican leader Gerald R. Ford of Michigan and 11 committee chairman could be observed going down the aisle to be count- ed against the amendment. The chairmen took the lead in opposing the amendment. which was offered by Rep. Wil- lam D. Hathaway (D-Maine). It would have required all coin- mittee meetings to be open to the public unless the committee voted publicly each time to close them. At present, committees. voting secretly, can adopt rules at the beginning of a session that close their meetings for the. entire year. The chairmen said Hatha- way's proposal would endanger national, security, make essen- tial legislative compromises im- BARAINB A DAYS Dolls-Lamp Bases-Jewelry COME IN AND BROWSE! INDIA ART SHOP X30 Maynard Near Arcade { Order Your Daily Now - Phone 764-0558 possible, and place a burden on the members by requiring them to be present at each session to vote. Chairman L. Mendel Rivers D-SC), of the Armed Services Committee, said the amendment "would tie up our committee un- til kingdom come. You j u sIt can't do this." Chairman Emanuel Celler (D- NY), of the Judiciary Commit- tee, said that if meeting were open, members would take in- flexiblecpositions dictated by local concerns. "They would speak for back home," he said. "There would be no give and take and if no one yields there is no bill." Chairman George Mahon (D- Tex), of the Appropriations Committee, said if his commit- tee hearings were open lobbyists for the big government contrac- tors would be there "but not the silent majority." "There would be a lobbyist sitting at every member's elbow," added Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D- Ohio), a senior member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Hathaway, defending h Is amendment, said about 40 per cent of all committee sessions in the House now are closed. depriving the public of any knowledge of how a significant amount of legislation is shaped. After losing the Hathaway amendment the reformers scor- ed a victory by winning approval of a proposal that would make the individual votes of members in committee a matter of pub-3 lic record. ________--4, From Wire Service Reports WASHINGTON - T h e Federal Government has announced that it has proposed new regulations to limit the size of demonstrations in front of the White House but to allow un- limited public gatherings on the El- jipse and the grounds of the Wash- ington Monument behind the White House. The proposed regulations, released Monday, could go into effect as soon as 30 days after they have been pub- lished in the Federal Register for public monuments. Officials of the Departments of Justice and the Interior said at a news conference that the proposal to limit demonstrations on the White House sidewalk and Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, was based on providing secur- ity for the President. William D. Ruckelshaus, Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division of the Justice Department, said that the limit of 100 persons on the Penn- sylvania Avenue sidewalk and of 500 persons in Lafayette Park were num- bers recommended by the Secret Service. The government has attempted to set these same numerical limits in administrative regulations established after a demonstration in 1967 of 30,- 000 in Lafayette Park. The Federal courts here suspended these regulations in May, 1969, and replaced them with a requirement that groups give a 15-day advance notice before a planned public gathering, but set no crowd limits. The proposed regulations would establish a permit system for the park areas around the White House. Groups planning to assemble in numbers less than 100 would have to apply for a permit 48 hours in ad- vance; those planning larger demon- strations would have to apply seven days in advance. The only basis for denying permits would be if a "clear and present danger" was shown, a prior permit application had been made, or a de- cision that the gathering would be too large for the area sought. Ruckelshaus and Mitchell Melich, Solicitor of the Interior Department, said that, short of a statement of intent to do violence or "overriding information or evidence" from thi Federal Bureau of Investigation oT Secret Service, there would be no way to invoke the "clear and present danger" clause. -Associated Press ATTY. GEN. JOHN MITCHELL addresses a news conference earlier yesterday. Mitchell asks -tos 0of subversive groups1&A' Van Boven's Bargain Days Street Sale I§ Fine Clothing andl Furnishings at Redluctions of 20% or more i All items chosen for this sale are from our regular stock. They represent excellent values and are reduced for quick clearance.- Store Hours---Monday thru Saturday 9:00 to 5:30 A NN A RB OR D E T RO IT 326 s. STATE 41 ADAMS EAST a-c~l"U"{:'yc '-ic% J 'f!'ir/!;O ~%O '/ 0 {/:.l'".'ri'~''1~s. ?'e 'jl"%~^'.f'%cl'c!"' ' fl;,>§ WASHINGTON (A-The Jus- tice Department put the Sub- versive Activities Control Board back in business yesterday, re- questing that two New York- based groups be declared Com- munist-front organizations. The last such request came in 1966, when the department asked that the board to desig- nate W.E.B. DuBois Clubs a Communist front. In petitions filed with the board, Atty. Gen. John N. Mit- chell sought the designation for the Young Workers League and the Center for Market Educa- tion. Both are located at the same New York City address. STEREO SPECIAL 70 watt Monarch Amp 2-8" 3-way speakers Garrard changer & Pickering diamond magnetic cartridge AN UNBEATABLE VALUEj AT $2590 HEAR IT-BUY IT HI FI STUDIO 121 W. 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VP)-Testimony began yesterday in the trial of one of eight Black Panthers charged in the slaying of another party member, as a crowd of sympathizers demonstrated out- side the courthouse. The defendant, 24-year-old L o n n i e McLucas of New Haven, listened without visible reaction as policemen and fire- men testified about the di'scovery of the victim's body. McLucas is charged with kidnapping resulting in death in the slaying of Alex Rackley of New, York City, who police claim was suspected of being an informer by party members. Others scheduled to stand trial later include Bobby G. Seale, a co-founder and na- tional chairman of the party. The demonstrators - mostly white -- gathered peacefully on the New Haven Green across the street from the court- house, and chanted "free the Panthers" and "power to the people." The demon- stration was not audible in the court- room. McLucas arrived at the courthouse under heavy guard. He has been held at the state correctional center in Litch- field, 40 miles away, since his extradi- tion to Connecticut from Utah last year. Among those who testified wasState Policeman George J. Heg. He told the jury of 12 - nine whites and three blacks - that among the articles author- ities turned over to the FBI after Rack- ley's body was found were "wire that was found around the victim's neck," adhesive tape from both wrists, material from two bullet wounds and fibers re- sembling clothesline from the victim's neck. The body was pulled from a river in rural Middlefield on May 21, 1969. Heg said clothesline rope was found under the body, where it lay partly sub- merged in the Coginchaug River. Further searching seven days later, he added, yielded a spent bullet from the ground under the body and an empty .45-calibre cartridge case nearby Dr. Charles W. Chase, medical exam- iner of Durham, the town adjoining Middlefield, showed the jurors 13 slides he had taken of the body. He described bullet wounds in the head and chest, bruises and burns on the body, and "a coathanger that was wrap- ped around the victim's neck." The victim had been dead between 12 and 24 hours before his body was found, Chase testified. Before testimony began, Theodore Kos- koff, McLucas's lawyer, noted a publish- ed comment by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover "on the eve of this trial" that Panther activities were being funded by wealthy persons. "I believe any juror reading it-if they did read it-would be prejudiced," said omen's Lib, SDS protest Union facility ban Koskoff. Judge H Koskoff's motion grounds. Police have brought to New City, tortured in confess he was bound and taker shot. LOWEST RECORD PRICES ANN ARBOR By BILL ALTERMAN\ Members of Gay Liberation Front (GLF), Women's Liberation and Stu- dents for a Democratic Society (SDS) picketed, leafletted and staged a guer- rilla theater yesterday in front of the Union to protest Union General Manager Stanfield Wells' decision to bar GLF from usirig Union facilities. - The guerrilla theater, "Rape of the Cambodian Women," was the same one which was performed last week and led to the expulsion of GLF from the Un- ion. At that time Wells said he found parts of the performance to be in poor taste, and, claiming to recognize several HoVuse ?to study sc--hol speake r ties WASHINGTON. (M--The chairman of House internal Security Committee said yesterday it is surveying payments to speakers on the nation's campuses on the basis of evidence that "a considerable source of revenue to the radical and vio- lent elements of the country comes from fees for speeches." Rep. Louis Stokes (D-Ohio), a member of the committee, however, accused it of conducting# an "arbitrary fishing expedi- tion" and advised university and college officials to ignore the committee ques- tionniaires. Chairman Richard H. lchord (D-Mo ). confirmed the committee survey and gave the reason for it. Stokes said the committee has asked selected campuses in all 50 states to name their, speakers between September, 1968 and May, 1970. give the speakers' "group identification" and the a mn o u n t and sources of fees paid them. "The very existence of such documents can unquestionably have a chilling effect on the exercise of First Amendment free- doms which should flourish most abun- dantly in the atmosphere of higher learn- ,ing, and give credence to cries of govern- mental repression which can be used to further divide our society,"' Stokes said. members of GLF in the show, barred that organization from using any Union rooms. Yesterday's four midday performances, three at the Union and one in the Fish- bowl, were essentially the same as the earlier performances. President Nixon is portrayed giving a press conference while war atrocities are simulated in the back- ground. The final scene is the rape of a Cambodian woman, and after his speech, Nixon also rapes the woman. Only members of Women's Lib and SDS performed in yesterday's shows, however, GLF members leafletted at the Union from 10 a.m. In the early afternoon, a Union offi- cial informed the protesters that leaf- letting was not permitted on the Union steps. The leafletters then moved down to the sidewalk in front of the Union. GLF has said they would like to meet with the Regents during one of their meetings tomorrow or Friday "to ex- plain ... the nature and purpose of the GLF and its relation to the University." LONNIE McLU into the New l yesterday to b UAW begin nego DETROIT (")- sides of the bar strike as likely, n open today betwe and the United A The UAW will the other Big Th Chrysler-tomorr tively. Current contra 000 workers at al at midnight Sept. for three years sir In the past, ti the-clock bargair gun until a coup tract expiration. spent with both tion papers and each other at ne But this year lenged the union gaining immedial union, which has plants across the ing on the comp~ offer in early ses The companies they don't want both camps claim a strike is likely to the prebargair and the union. The automaker prebargaining sta ment must be no: have complained slackening in pr labor and materia make it difficult petition. The union, on plains its memb "equity" in earn industry, which "fabulous profitat quotes the industi a rosy future. 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