The Michigan Daily Vol. LXXXVII, No. 44-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, July 15, 1977 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Regents boost tuition 8.75%4 By GREGG KRUPA The University Board of Regents yesterday adopted an operating budget for the 1977-78 school year and approved a tuition increase averaging 8.75 per cent. Tuition for instate lower classpersons will be $504 per term, an increase of $40. Non - resident lower classpersons w ill p a y $1,610. They currently pay desient upper classpersons will pay $574, an increase of $48. Non-resident upperclass- persons will pay $1,740. They now pay $1,626. THE TUITION RATES for students in graduate - profes- sional programs will be: . Medicine and dentistry - residents $1,040 per term (now $920); non-residents $2,080 (now $1,840). 1 Public Health - residents Mr $860 (now $824); non-residents $1,900 (now $1,824), Law - residents $825 (now $750); non-residents $720 (now $636); non-residents $1,660 (now $1,508). Despite the tuition increase, Vice-President for Academic Affairs Frank Rhodes said BILINSY 1977-78 will be an "unusually Lional Con- difficult year" for the Univer- ts to divest sity Rhodes noted that an en- atdiet forced savings program isn the in Ameri- amount of $1,150,396 must be made during the year to bal- ance the budget. Operating units will, however, be given a one-year leeway in making those cuts, which will be re- flected in the 1978-79 budget. THE TOTAL operating bud- get for the University's Ann Ar- bor campus of $440,907,309 is made up of four budgets. The general fund budget of $188,248,240 - an increase of $25.5 million dollars over last year - covers expenditures in- duced by teaching, research, li- brary services, public services, student aid, and administrative and business operations. Revenues for the General Fun Budget are generated from state appropriations, $109,937,- 490; student revenues, $62,260,- 750; and indirect cost recovery, $13,000,000. THE OTIIER three budgets include; a Designated Fund budget of $10 million which in- cludes gifts and grants with uses restricted by University policies, the Expendable Re- See REGENTS, Page 3 Carter calm despite N. Korean shooting of U.S helicopter WASHINGTON (A ) President Carter said yesterday that the U.' S. helicopter shot down in North Korea had flown over Communist territory by mistake and that "our primary interest is in having the incident not escalate into a confrontation." Three American crewmen were killed and a fourth was cap- tured yesterday in the latest incident marring the uneasy Korean truce. The North Koreans later failed to show up for a meeting sought by the American-led United Nations command and the discussion is set for Saturday (10 p.m. EDT today). PRESS SECRETARY Jody Powell told reporters yesterday afternoon that North Korean members of the armistice commis- sion said the captured man had been wounded and was receiving medical treatment. Powell said he did not know whether U. S. troops in South Korea were placed on alert. But a Pentagon spokesperson said See CARTER, Page 9 Dumi Martz, a representative of the African Nat gress (ANC) of South Africa, encouraged the Regent the University of some $43 million in investments can companies in South Africa. Nurses By KEITH B. RICHBURG After 93 grueling h o u r s of poring over thousands of con- fusing and often conflicting tes- timony, the nine women and tlfree men of the jury convicted nurses Leonora Perez and Fi- lipina Narciso of poisoning pa- tients at the Ann Arbor Vet- eran's Administration (VA) Hos- pital. But because of the com- plex nature of the case, many people are still uncertain of just what crimes the .nurses were found guilty. The following is a description of each incident for which the two were convicted, including the victim's name, the name of the nurse in question, and the details of the crime. * Mark Hogan, 75 - Narciso was convicted of injecting Pavu- lon, a powerful muscle-relaxant, into the retired carpenter's in- travenous medication tube. NARCISO WAS, by 'testimony ' and her own admission, with Hogan in his room about five minutes before his breathing failure, she told the old man ;1$' "Have a nice dinner,. Mr. Ho- gan." A few minutes later Ho- gan stopped breathing. *Charles Gassmire, 87-year- MEMBERS o old retired insurance salesman, low nurses, con See A, Page 12 Detroit yesterd still outon bond By KEITH B. RICHBURG Special To The aily DETROIT-A Federal district judge ruled yesterday thatl Fi- lipina N a r c i s o and Leonora Perez, the two nurses convicted of the 1975 Veteran's Adminis- tration (VA) Hospital poisonings, may remain free on $75,000 bond apiece. Judge Philip Pratt made Iis decision at a bond hearing, '.while outside the Federal Build- ing about 200 supporters of Narciso and Perez picketed in protest of Wednesday's guilty x verdict. THE PEACEFUL protestors, - . mostly members of the Philip- pine Nurses Association (PNA) and most of them still in their white uniforms, carried signs that read: "Miscarriage of Jus- tice isthe crime," and "Justice died in Detroit-Weep for it." "I'm really amazed at the show-up because this was an overnight plan," spokeswoman '/Erlinda Santos said. "Some of / / them (the picketing nurses) just got off the midnight-to-seven shift and came right down." AP Photi Santos said the nurses are ciation (PNA) demonstrate in support of two fel- hoping to get a favorable deci- y a federal jury, outside the U. S. Courthouse in sion on the defense's motion for See NURSES, Page 10 F THE Philippine Nurses Asso wvicted on poisoning charges by day morning.