The Michigan Daily Vol LXXXVI. No. 45-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, July 16, 1977 Ten Cents Twelve Pages r r u . ....... .. ,.... .. Regents grant MSA funding By GREGG KRUPA The University Board of Regents yesterday approved an in- crease of 40 cents in the voluntary assessment for student funding of the Michigan Student Assembly (MSA), the campus student government organization. The 40 cent increment raises the amount pledged voluntarily by individual students to $1.15. Students donate the $1.15 by filing out a form after they register for classes each semester. Last year 72 per cent of the University's enrollment volunteered 75 cents for MSA. TWENTY-FIVE cents of the increase will help to fund MSA's Housing Law Reform Project, so that it can continue into its sec- ond year uninterrupted. Five of the 25 cents will help finance the legal services provided by the Ann Arbor Tenants' Union. The remaining 15 cents will fund the MSA Course Evaluation Program. In the all-campus student elections, which were held on April 4, 5, and 6 of this year, students voted 62 to 38 per cent for ap- proval of a mandatory 25 cent assessment for the housing pro- gram - independent of the 75 cent fee. But fearing the Regents would not approve a self-assessment for both the Housing Law Reform Project and the Course Evaluation Program, MSA offic- ials agreed to the increase in the voluntary fee. In its first year of operation the Housing Law Reform Project published and distributed the first extensively detailed book on tenants' rights and duties in the state, compiled an explanation of all, local and state housing code laws which apply to local hous- ing, and brought litigation asking for an injunction prohibiting the inclusion in leases of unenforceable and illegal contract clauses. AS A PART of the proposal MSA officials agreed not to sue the University over housing matters. Deane Baker was the only Regent who voted against the voluntary funding increases. See REGENTS, Page 10 MSA EXECUTIVE Vice President Chris Bachelder (left) and attorney Jonathan Rose speak be- fore the Regents in support of the MSA Housing Law Reform Project. CIA released reports say drug tests held on unwitting U.S. civihans WASHINGTON (3)-The Cen tral Inelligence Agency (CIA) informed toe Senate yesterday it has uncovered documents shedding new light on secret drug tests carried out on un- suspecting Americans from 1953 to 1964. At the direction of President Carter, CIA Director Stansfield Turner hand delivered a letter in which he told Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), chairman o1 the Senate Intelligence Commit- tee, that he is volunteering to testify on the subject "at te earliest opportunity." ASKED BY reporters how ser- ious he thought the matter was, President Carter said, "I think it is fairly serious." 'U' nurses hit verdt. Twenty yof the 23 nurses at the University Health Ser- vice yesterday released a statement expressing disapproval of Wednesday's verdict in the trial of Veterans' Administra- tion (VA) Hospital nurses Filipina Narciso and Leonora Perez. The health service nurses expressed "shock and con- cern" over Narciso and Perez' conviction on three counts off poisoning and one of conspiracy. "OUR REACTION goes beyond the guilt or innocence of the nurses involved," the statement said, "but is prompt- ed by the possible.impact this will have on the delivery of nursing services. "Another major concern of ours is the obvious lack of responsiveness from the Health Care community including organized nursing services, nursing, medicine and health care administration." A group of Filipino University students has also an-l nounced plans to demonstrate tomorrow afternoon at theA VA hospital. ! . The text of Turner's letter was made public by White House press secretary Jody Powell. It said the newly uncovered docu- ments deal with: # Research on surreptitious methods of administering drugs. * Experimentation on persons who were drug addicts or alco- holics. . Research on a knockout or "K" drug that involved ad- vanced cancer patients. * A possible improper pay- ment to an unnamed private in- stitution. THE LETTER said the docu- ments pointed to "possible ad- - ditional cases af drugs being tested on American citizens without their knowledge," be- yond those documented by the Senate select committee on in- telligence activities that was chaired by Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) in 1975. Drug tests, carried out under the code name "MK-ULTRA," take up a chapter in the final report of the investigation by the Church committee. During the 1975 inquiry, the CIA reported to the committee, which sought documents about the program, that most docu- mentatios ronthe matter had been destroyed. Turner wrote Inouye in the letter delivered See CIA Page 9 Daily Photo by ALAN BILINSKY Bus strike Local sympathizers representing various groups, includ- Ing this younger one, showed their support for the TEU bus workers' strike yesterday at City Hall. See story, Page 3.