Page 2-Thursday, June 15, 1978-The Michigan Daily Haldemanbo be WASHINGTON (AP) - H.R. Haldeman, whose storied loyalty to Richard M. Nixon shattered in the backlash of Watergate, will be paroled from prison on Dec. 20 after serving 18 months of a four-year sentence for ob- struction of justice and perjury. The U.S. Parole Commission set the release date yesterday, acting on the recommendation of examiners who in- terviewed Haldeman at the Lompoc, Calif., minimum security prison last month. The commission had the option of paroling the former White House chief of staff aniy time after June 20. There was no explanation why it did not release him after he had served the minimum time since by all reports he has been a model prisoner. HALDEMAN entered Lompoc on June 21 last year after the Supreme Court refused to accept the appeal of his Watergate conviction. In a petition later, he said imprisonment made him "useless to the world, a burden on society . . . living a totally wasted life at this time." As chief of staff to Nixon in his first term, and the President's closest con- fidant, Haldeman wielded enormous power. But their friendship turned sour when Nixon refused to pardon Haldeman as a final presidential act and when he later alluded to Haldeman's guilt. In his book, "The Ends of Power," Haldeman made the final break with the former President, characterizing Nixon as being behind the Watergate cover-up "from Day One." Nixon ignored the charge in his own memoirs. Haldeman, now 51, was convicted af- ter a three-month trial of conspiring to obstruct justice, obstructing justice and three counts of perjury. His co- defendants, John Erlichman and John Mitchell, were convicted of similar charges. ALL WERE sentenced by U.S.+Y District Judge John Sirica to serve 21 to 8 years in prison. After hearing taped statements of contrition, Sirica cut the terms to one-to-four. "I am sorry for what I've done and for what I've been responsible for, for Only 2 Major Sports at Michigan & we have them both teU at the UNION what's been the result and the damage it's caused to many, many people and to our own governmental system," Haldeman told Sirica. Ehrlichman, the former Nixon domestic counselor who was convicted both in the Watergate cover-up and Ellsberg break-in cases, was released from the federal prison camp at Saf- ford, Ariz., on April 27 after also ser- ving 18 months. Mitchell began his imprisonment at the Maxwell, Ala., Air'Force Base a day after Haldeman surrendered at Lompoc. But the former attorney general missed his preliminary parole interview because he was free at the time on a medical furlough that kept him out of prison for five months. The interview is scheduled for early July. paroled IN PRISON, Haldeman has worked seven-hour days, seven days a week as a lab chemist in the sewage processing plant. "He is making no contribution to society or to himself," his lawyers said in a petition. "He is just trying to exist and stay out of trouble.. . he has ex- perienced the indignity, shame, horror, fear, disgust and all the other over- whelming emotion that assail a thinking man who is required to enter prison. "He has been punished. Society has had its retribution." Haldeman's book, completed while he was at Lompoc, made the best seller lists. An industry source said he earned at least a half million dollars in royalties. Dec. 20 Haldeman Franjieh ZACHARTA, Lebanon (AP) - Ex- President Suleiman Franjieh, backed by 20,000 mourners, buried his slain son yesterday in this northern town after vowing "revenge in our traditional style and at the proper time" against rival Christians. Syrian troops blanketed the north to head off a ven- detta, About 20,000 Franjieh followers mar- ched in the mass funeral for Tony Fran- jieh, his wife, daughter, and 42 other supporters. They died Tuesday when troops of the rival Phalangist Party at- tacked the nearby town of Ehden in the worst clash of Christian clans since Syrian forces crushed the 18-month Lebanese civil war November 1976. THE ELDER Franjieh, silver-haired leader of his own private rightist militia, walked grim-faced at the head of the two-mile-long procession. Beside him was Ealim el Hoss, Lebanon's Moslem premier. In Beirut, meanwhile, the crisis- plagued government of President Elis Sarkis faced possible problems on its southern flank, where Israeli troops ended a 91-day occupation Tuesday and turned the border region over to rightist Christian forces instead of U.N. peacekeeping forces. The government, fearing a confron- tation threatened by Palestinian THE MICHIGAN DAILY Volume LXXXVIII, No. 31-S ThuesdayJune I,5 1978 is edited and managed by students at the University' of Michigan. News phone 764-052. Second class postage is paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. Published daily Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year at 420 Maynard street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. Subscription rates: $12 September through April (2 semesters); $13 by mail outsideAnn Arbor. Summer session published through Saturday mor- sing.Subscriptinnrates: $.s5inAnnArbor; '7.50 by mail outside Ann Arbor. vows to take revenge guerrilla radicals in the south, ordered The march at Zagharta was the Christians to turn over their ominously quiet, without chants or positions to U.N. forces and confine other emotional outbursts that mark themselves to barracks. mourning in the Arab world. IN NEW YORK, U.N. Secretary- VASEUP Dwihlusekr General Kurt Waldheim criticized hVANS EQUIPPED with loudspeakers Israel for its reluctance to turn over the had toured Zagharta and neighboring border positions to U.N. troops. villages before the funeral, blaring or- Waldheim's criticism came in a letter ders from Franjieh for his followers to to Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe maintain strict discipline, but Dayan, who wrote Waldheim Tuesday promising vengeance. complaining that "hundreds of As the funeral got underway, Syrian Palestinian terrorists" have filtered troops stormed the village of Deir el through U.N. lines into southern Amman. Phalangists sources in Beirut Lebanon and are secretly moving arms said the Syrians rounded up 15 ibnto the area militiamen suspected of taking part in Waldheim said he was "surprised by Tuesday's massacre at Enden, 15%2 Dayan's allegatins." However, in a miles to the northwest. report to the Security Council on the Police said the Syrians fired on the Israeli withdrawal, he acknowledged town, killing a Lebanese corporal and U.N. troops were allowing delivery of wounding six militiamen, after residen- "food, water and medicine to limited ts refused orders to surrender the Palestinian groups." Il.may voteagi SPE propo (ERA house day f say w By. margi pull from before LAS short ERA. voted their, ship s their d Illin the ra northe ratifie have on ERA next week INGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The bying for its passage. sed Equal Rights Amendment ERA opponents spent nearly an hour ) - turned down in the Illinois yesterday maneuvering to keep the last week - was revived yester- ERA resolution from being discussed or or another vote that supporters voted upon. But House Speaker William ill probablycome next week. Redmond ruled each anti-ERA tactic a vote of 89 to 77 - exactly the out of order. n required - the House voted to an ERA ratification resolution "THE EYES OF the nation are upon a House committee and put it the 'Land of Lincoln,'" hollered Rep. the fullHouse. Corneal Davis, who said time is ng iT WEEK'S vote fell six votes out for nationwide ERA ratification and of the 107 required to approve the Illinois House should consider it an But five black lawmakers who emergency measure. against the ERA to demonstrate The ERA, which would outlaw anger over an unrelated leader- discrimination based on sex, has been quabble reportedly have settled approved by 35 states and must be differences. ratified by three more by March 22, ois is considered a key state in 1979, to become part of the Constitution. itification process. It is the only Four of the 35 states which have ratified trn industrialstate that has not the measure have since rescinded ap- .d the amendment, and feminists proval, but the validity of that move snent an estimated $150.000 loh- still is in question. 1.,x14114 Mil 4u4i1iiM 44 i 4411 ,VVV awi MINI COURSE 420 1 credit The Prehistory & Early History of Romania June 15-July 11 3-4:30 p.m 2009 Museum Tues.-Fri. Visiting lecturer: Dr. Lucian Rosu (Fulbright Exchange Scholar), Professor of Archaeology and Early History at the Academy of Economic Studies, Bucarest, Romania. This course will deal with the fundamental problems in the archaeological and textual analysis of the prehistoric and early historic periods of Romanian history. For)Information: Contact Anthropology Dept., 231 Angell Hall, 764- 727'