The Michigan Daily Vol. LXXXV, No. 11 -S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, May 21, 1975 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Insurgen ts take key Laotian city k SAVANNAKHET, Laos (UPI)-The nakhet I a t e yesterday afternoon Communist Pathet Lao made a tri- aboard two Russian-made PT76 tanks umphal entry into this central Laotian and about 12 trucks. They were met town yesterday aboard a flower-be- by crowds in the streets and garland- decked convoy of Russian tanks and ed with flowers while the students trucks. Twelve Americans held here who seized the town last week accom- under house arrest by students were panied them- in jeeps and snaked in good condition. ahead of their vehicles in a Laotian Savannakhet, a town of about 30,000 style folk dance. Pretty girls giggled persons on the Mekong River, was the on the sidewalks. last remaining major town on the Unlike elsewhere in Indochina, Laos loyalist, or non-Communist side. The has a working peace agreement and Pathet Lao has occupied a number the Laotians are a people who prob- of other towns as they expanded their ably would not have gone to war if control across the country in the past left to themselves. So there were no few weeks. scenes of surrender,.but instead one 4 eOBSERVERS believe the entire of welcome. country will fall to the Pathet Lao, BRIG. GEN. Nouphet Daohuang, which was reported moving into the loyalist commander, met the Pakse, another Mekong River town Pathet Lao convoy outside the town. in southeast Laos. Both Nouphet and the Pathet Lao The Pathet Lao arrived in Savan- See PATHET, Page 5 .Bolivians arrest oi SeXec alege riber LA PAZ, Bolivia (P)-The Bolivian government placed the local repre- sentative of Gulf Oil Corp. under house arrest yesterday, ordered Gulf's American president to appear in court and said the company would be "criminally prosecuted" for mak- ing illegal political contributions to Bolivian officials. A Gulf spokesman in Coral Gables, Fla., said the action was "hardly un- expected" because the Bolivian gov- ernment was under pressure to name the Bolivian officials involved." JOE PAREIRA, the Gulf spokes- man, said Bolivian officials could not afford to wait for a full report from Gulf to the U. S. Securities and Ex- change Commission (SEC) in June. "The whole SEC investigation was due to be reported. This was stated in a letter to the president of Bo- livia," Pareira said. Bolivian District Attorney Rolando Simbron said he had issued a sum- mons for Bob Dorsey, president of the American oil company, to appear in a Bolivian court. He said the com- pany must name the Bolivian offic- ials who received $360,000 Gulf has admitted paying between 1966 and 1969. F A R T H E R north, in Central America, there also were develop- ments in the banana scandal. Costa Rica accused three American fruit companies of establishing- a $5 mil- lion slush fund to oppose increased banana export taxes.'Firms named by Foreign Minister Gonzalo Facio were See BOLIVIANS, Page 9 Daily Photo by PAULINE LUBENS Bird's eye view A RED-BREASTED robin was spotted yesterday high in a central campus treetop. While attempts to capture this rare bird proved unsuccessful, observ- ers remaining on the scene reported that creature had "sat on his limb" until dusk, apparently looking for worms. LSA faculty hits deanship search policy By SUSAN ADES At a special meeting yesterday, the literary college (LSA) faculty unexpectedly blasted the University's Board of Regents for its acceptance, without public discussion, of the recommendations made by the Af- firmative Action Committee with regard to future deanship search policies. The Affirmative Action Committee investigated the widely publicized "Cobb affair" in which a black woman educator was rejected by the University's highest officials to become dean of LSA after being unanimously supported by the Regents. FOLLOWING its investigation, the Affirmative Ac- tion Committee suggested, among other things, that the criteria by which a dean should be selected be established by the president, the vice president for academic affairs, the school or college executive com- mittee, and departmental chairpersons. Referring. to the Administration-headed criteria committee, Chemistry Prof. Thomas Dunn charged "lack of due process" and elaborated, "I don't feel that it (the Afirmative Action Committee) is either right or wrong. I object to the acceptance of its recom- mendations by the Regents without public discussion." "We are being asked to act to elect the members of a committee which is already a fait accomplis (decided)," he said. DUNN WAS referring to the fact that the Regents approved the Affirmative Action Committee's recom- mendation for an Administration-headed criteria com- mittee. The formation of an unspecified ad hoc search committee to determine criteria was rejected by the Regents because the proposed committee "is more intimately acquainted with the college" The faculty meeting was originally called to outline procedures to be followed for the appointment of the new deanship search committee. THE FACULTY was also being asked to augment the Executive Committee's list of nominees for the search committee with additional nominations. However, before the action took place, Dunn ob- jected to undertaking the nominating for the Regent- recommended search committee whose job will be determined by the Administration-headed criteria group. Dunn also appealed to the faculty to stave of the nominations and instead consider a motion which would carry the procedural objections to the executive committee. IN ADDITION, Dunn requested the faculty support several other criticisms, the most crucial one reading: "The formation of the new Deanship Search Committee does not imply acceptance of the charges made by the Cohen Committee." Dean of the Education School and former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Wilbur Cohen was chairman of the Affirmative Action Committee. The Cohen committee's 46-page report described the University's much-maligned negotiations with Cobb See LSA, Page 5