The Michigan Daily Vol. LXXXVII, No. 3-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, May 6, 1977 Ten Cents Sixteen Pages VA nurses will take stand in own defense Locals chide, praise and pity Tricky Dick Daily reporter Lani Jordan roamed the streets of Ann Arbor soliciting public reaction to Wednesday night's Frost-Nixon inter- view. Below we present some of the responses. By KEITH RICHBURG The two Veterans Administra- tion (VA) nurses accused of poisoning nine patients will take the witness stand in their own defense, their attorneys confirm- ed yesterday. The attorneys were arguing a defense motion before Judge Philip Pratt to exclude the nurses' grand jury statements and statements to FBI agents from being admitted into evi- dence when defense lawyer Mi- chael Moran remarked that the prosecution couldn't use the statements until the defendants took the witness stand. "Miss Narciso has every intention of testifying," he added: MORAN REVEALED that de- fense attorneys had "made an offer" to the government that the defendants would testify. "The government won't be de- prived of its day in court," Moran told Judge Pratt during his oral argument. "They can use every one of these state- ments (to the grand jury and FBI) on cross-examination. volved in allowing such earlier The statements in question statements into evidence is that were made by Filipina Narciso they can only be used against and Leonora Perez during the the person who made them. investigation of the breathing "USING PEREZ'S statement failures at the Ann Arbor VA to show that she was somewhere hospital.- else and that she can account The legal technicalities in- See VA, Page 9 "I think Frost really knew what he was talking about. Nix- on really stuck his foot in his mouth. He kept going ott on a tangent and giving a rounda- points," Andy Hart, Pharmacy point." Andy Hart, Pharmacy sophomore. Fate o mayor s -race "I was interested to see what By GREGG KRUPA he (Nixon) had to say. I really In the continuing saga of Ann Arbor's contested April 4 mayor's feel sorry for the man despite race, Monroe County Circuit Court Judge James Kelley yesterday the case against him. He clings refused to grant a motion made by defeated Republican mayoral to the belief that he didn't have candidate Louis Belcherathat, ineffectedenied the validity of Al- anything to do with the cover- bert Wheeler's position as mayor of the city.up. He's always had a flawed character and that showed Judge Kelley rnled that Belcher and his attorney Robert Henry through. He had a misguided should first seek relief from the state Attorney General's office. sense of loyalty to those peo- Judge Kelley did not deny the motion, but merely refused to grant ple like Ehrlichman and Halde- the request until the Attorney General has had a chance to clear man." Mike McGee, LSA jun- -up the matter. This leaves open the possibility of the case return- ior. ing to court. LATE YESTERDAY, Henry received word from the Attor- See NEXT, Page 12 "I thought it was very im- pressive, evil Richard Nixon came out looking like a human being. To some extent he was railroaded (about the Water- gate issue). The part where Nix- on did confess his culpability seemed sincere to me. He won't seem so to Nixon - haters and I think he knows it." John Wilhelm, Economist. "I wasn't surprised at what Nixon said. ie didn't deny anything morally, just in the legalistic sense, using his law- yer's tactics. I think he feels worse about the fact that he cheated himself out of two more years in the history books." Claire Obringer Business School senior. A BICYCLIST PAUSES to make a refreshing purchase from the portable fruitmarket which has been travelling campus perimeters since the warm weather began. Fruit cart owners Hal Davis and Bruce Dondero constructed their store-on-wheels from odds and ends of wood they found on their farm. Fruit vendors cart their wares By RON DeKETT about a month ago," Dondero said. The cart with its dangling bananas, bright red A trombone bellows off-key in the distance and cover, bicycle wheels, slightly tarnished trom- all fresh fruit lovers eagerly search for the bone and barn-wood frame draws curious onlook- source-a gaudy cart making its daily rounds ers like flies. laden with delectable apples, juicy pears and "We put it together just from old wood scraps scrumptious bananas. , we found around the farm that we live on, so the Street vending, a dying tradition in Ann Arbor, cost wasn't much ($1.30 for nails and axle)," is kept alive by the fruit wagon and its two un- Davis said. employed musician owners, Hal Davis and Bruce "WE PUT IT together in two evenings with a Dondero, bottle of whiskey and no ruler. Just sawed every- "I WAS SURVIVING as a musician for a long thing and nailed it together and we were on the time, but over the past three months there wasn't street three days later," he added. any work. So Hal suggested doing a fruit cart See MOBILE, Page 9 "I thought it was a farce. Ite still continues to say he's inno- cent. He insists that his fallacy has to do with his heart. It's a travesty of justice that he's to be paid $600,000 to present his criminal act to public. I don't think there should have been any interview at all. His worst crime wasn't Watergate, it was the illegal murder (bombings) in Cambodia. That was his big lie." Wilbert Gurley, Education graduate student. "I thought it was obvious that Nixon was criminally guilty. I thought, he was pulling a big political trick on the American people. Like he was running for office, he came off more like a politician than a human- being. A play on the public's emotions. He's a pathetic man; a sick person." David Bornstein, English gra'duate student.