Wednesday, May 4, 1977 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nineteen Arledge to head ABC news NEW YORK (AP) - The 'appoint- ment of Roone Arledge as president of ABC news and sports precipitated an internal struggle with worried news ex- ecutives who feared his spectacular in- novations in sports coverage might bring a show business element into the news. But the struggle "was completely re- solved in Arledge's favor" by the time the new post was announced Monday, according to informed network sources, and the f5-year-old TV sports wonderman now has total authority over the future shape and style of ABC news. NEWS EXECUTIVES reportedly back- ed an attempt by outgoing news chief William Sheehan to have continuing ac- cess to ABC president Frederick Pierce even if Arledge became overall boss of the division. They thought this might help control any overly theatrical plans by the man who created the "Wide World of Sports" in 1%1 and who introduced the instant replay, stop-action and slow motion camera techniques to sports re- porting. But Arledge was given both the title and the power, with Sheehan his sub- ordinate. When the new appointments were announced an ABC network news editor grumbled to his colleagues, "now the new ABC symbol is going to be a jockstrap." Apprehension over the future shape of the news has not been overcome by Arledge's recent protestations that he doesn't intend to parallel the movie "Net- work" and having dancing girls opening the evening news" to improve ratings. The network news program is reported- ly steadily losing ground despite the ex- pensive addition of newscaster Barbara Walters. ARLEDGE ASSERTED that he would "never tamper with journalistic prin- ciples" to improve the news. But even if it does mean defending journalistic principles against show busi- ness, many ABC news people are de- lighted that at last they have a presi- dent who will wield enormous powers. "Never in the past has an ABC news chief been in such a favored position in the organization," a staffer said. "Ar- ledge is big. He'll have access to money. That means more satellite broadcasts from overseas, more budget. This thing could be a positive step forward. We have never had that kind of clout be- fore." Arledge Woman, 88, cleared of Nazi spy charge PHILADELPHIA t') - For 36 years Margaret Wunderle beg- ged generals, admirals and pres- idents to celar her of charges that she had been a Nazi col- laborator. Now, after a letter to Presi- dent Carter and an investigation by his staff and the Navy, she has been vindicated. AND WHILE the 80-year-old Wunderle admits "this is an awful excitment for me," she says "somebody could have cleared this up" long ago. in mid-1941, Wunderle was tired from her job as a senior teictihone operator at the Phila- detphia Navy Yard after the \ay notified her she was "e- titbly reported" to be a Nazi m tpathizer. fhe firing was based on infor- mation supposedly volunteered by a cos-worker. When she pro- tested her innocence, the Navy nsiercd: YOU HAVE been retiably re- yted to have demonstrated in . >ir actions and your speech an vi terence to and enthusiasm for the existing Nazi adminis- ons of the German govern- "'"t. You have maintained ysai contact with that country by 'event visits there." I was never in Germany in ty life," Wunderle recalled yes- le rday, "and I never belonged to tiny German organization." iUt W'underle's parents were fritmr Germany, and in those date, she said, "the word Nazi became a synonym for Ger- mas." It became almost impos- sible for her to find a job and she has been unemployed most Of time since then. TO PAY LEGAL bills and "lust to keep on living" she remortgaged her house and 'old her sewing machine and the fitistly's piano. She also re- ceires a disability pension earn- ed as a Navy clerk during World War L. Wunderle has written to every tresident since she was acctisod. After the Korean War, she per- sonally asked Gen. iouglas MacArthur for help. "tie said he didn't want any n",re to do with potitics," she satd. During the Nixon ters, henry Kissinger returned her "liE CAI LED we back, hat idat do anything." she said. 'ie was down in the basement si the White House then, right h'rte he got so powerful. This year she wrote to Presi- dent Carter: "For 25 years I have been and still am a pris- oner in these United States of America." Carter's staff asked the Navy to investigate and last week Jo- seph McCullen Jr., an assistant secretary of the Navy, repfied: "Your dismissal with preju- dice was improper . . . I sin- cerely regret that this injustice has remained for so many years." HOT OVEN GRINDERS A New Name and a New Taste. For the First Time in Ann Arbor. Only at BELL'S S. STATE AND PACKARD OPEN 11 A.M. TO 1 A.M. SUN. THRU THURS. 1 1 A.M TO 8 A.M. FRI. AND SAT -995-0232 FREE DELIVERY doyou say Budweiser? E Now. E Later. i All of the above!