CHICAGO FESTIVAL JUNE 29 People's Bicentennial: A reawakening i Editorial Staff JEFF SORENSEN Editor PAUL HASKINS Editorial Director DAVID BLOMQUIST .......... ...............Night Editor JEFF RISTINE-.-.-...-........... Night Editor TIM SCHICK ... .... ..Night Editor DAVID WHITING.. ......... Night Editor BILL TURQUE ..............................Night Editor BETH RISES......... Editorial Page Aot. ANN MARIE LIINSKI ....... .......As't. Night Editor SUE ADES . . .. ...... . ................. . Asst. Night Editor ELAINE FLETCHER ..............Ao't. Night Editor CATHERINE REUTTER.. .... .. At. Night Editor ROB MEACHUM, JO MARCOTTY ..................... Supplement Sports Editors: Bill Crane Al Hrapsky Night Editors: Jon Chavez Contributing Editors: John Kahler Carke Cogsdin Business Staff DEBORAH NOVESS Business Manager PETER CAPLAN ......................... ........ Classiied Manager BETH FRIEDMAN .. ....... ................ ..... d Sarsn Manager DAVE PIONTKOWSKY. . . . Adverting Manager CASSIE ST. CLAIR ..... ........... ................ ... Circulation Manager STAFF: Nina Edwards, Anna Kwok SALES: Colby Bennett, Cher Bledsoe, Dan Blugerman, Sylvia Calhoun, Jel Milgrom The Michigan Daily Edited and managed by Students at the University of Michigan Wednesday, June 18, 1975 News Phone: 764-0552 House probe imperative IN AN UNUSUAL show of support and agreement, the House voted 290-64 yesterday to reject the resigna- tion of Lucien Nedzi (D-Detroit) as Chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence Activities. The committee was created to investigate charges of illegal domestic and foreign intelligence activities. Nedzi was criticized by fellow committee members after it was revealed that he had received briefings on CIA involvement in possible assassination plots and illegal domestic activities; Nedzi had not informed the committee of the briefings, and his impartiality as a member and leader of the committee was vigorously challenged by other liberal Democratic committee mem- bers. Supporters of Nedzi charged that one of Nedzi's most vocal opponents, Rep. James V. Stanton (D-Ohio) sought to gain control of the committee to use the investigation to publicize his campaign for a Senate seat. Nedzi claimed the inter-committee dissension had undermined his effectiveness on the committee and threatened the committee's elimination in purpose and function. A resolution has already been introduced in the House to abolish the committee and its investiga- tion. Internal committee bickering should not be allowed to cancel an autonomous investigation of intelligence activities by the House. The House of Representatives provides more accountable representation of American people than any other government body. It is true that the actions of our intelligence agen- cies have already been the subject of investigations by the Senate select committee and the Rockefeller Com- mission. Nedzi himself defeatedly stated that "to send investigators out to plow the same ground that has al- ready been plowed is of quesionable wisdom." If it is questionable, the question must be answered in the af- firmative. Perhaps repeated plowing is necessary to un- earth what is buried.- If the people's interests are to be served, the House must be encouraged to retreat from in-fighting and publicity-seeking, and regroup a committee that is more concerned with thorough investigation of the murky area of intelligence-gathering than with dubiously mo- tivated back-stabbing in the committee room. By MARY NASH THE CRIMES of the CIA are beginning to get some exposure, but it would be a big mis- take for the people to rely on the criticisms of the CIA made by the press and Congress, or to expect them to come up with solutions. The growing danger of an embryonic police state can be seen in the drive for the can- didacy of George Wallace, "Mister Police State' himself. Not only does he get a friendly day-to- day public relations buildup in the media; he also gets de-facto support from liberals who prefer to fret over the competition he represents rather than to oppose his racist and anti-labor stand. This danger can only be met by united people's action. This is what the ruling class fears nmost, as the Watergate revelations have shown. Such action is the only way we can preserve and ex- pand the limited democracy we have and pre- vent renewed U.S. aggression against other peo- ples. Democracy from below. In their pious pro- nouncements about the American revolution and the Bicentennial, Shell Oil, Ford, Rockefeller and Co. would like to have the Establishment get credit for what are really the fruits of people's struggle, usually against the will of the rich. The Bill of Rights, the abolition of slavery, the right to organize into unions, social security, civil rights laws, even independence itself, started as demands by the oppressed poor and working people. Even the middle class and the well-to-do lib- erals who joined in these battles took them up only after the people at the grass rots had stir- red into action. "The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated." The main obstacles to a real people's bicenten- nial, to defeating Wallace and to eliminating the CIA are racism and anti-communism which divide us and substitute scapegoats for the real enemy. We must not allow these reactionary ideas to divert us from our struggle for basic social change, for a people's way out of the present crisis. ~ Come to Chicago. On Sunday, June 29, a bus will be leaving Ann Arbor to attend a massive People's Bicentennial Festival in the 5000-seat International Amphitheater in Chicago, scene of the infamous 1968 Democratic Party Convention. The People's Bicentennial Festival will highlight the conclusion of the 21st Convention of the Com- munist Party, U.S.A. and will focus on the peo- pie's demands for peace, democracy and equal- .ty The Festival will be a big blow to those who would divide the people's movements. In addi- tion to leading communists such as Henry Win- ston, Gus Hall and Angela Davis, speakers' in- clude: David Martinez of the United Farmwork- ers: Kathy Kelly, President of the National Stu- dent Association, Bert Corona, a California Chi- cano leader, Anne Braden, a southern white civil rights leader, A. A. Rayner, a black former alderman from Chicago. Entertainment includes the George Freeman Jazz Band (Freeman, a jazz guitarist, has play- ed with Charlie Parker and has out two albums: Birth Sign and New Improved Funk; Brazilian singer Valucha; satirical comedian Bob Mc- Donald, seen in this week's Jet Magazine; Anita Satisfield and the Common People, a multiracial folksinging group, and more. The People's Bicentennial Festival will mark a new level of unity of black, brown, red, yellow and white, communist, socialist and progressive activists from throughout the nation. It should not be missed! Tickes are only $5, including round trip sbus fare and festival admission. They are available at Herb David Guitar Studio, David's Books, Suguaro Succulent Shop, and the Dog's Paw Shoe Repair. Mary Nash is a member of the People's Bicentennial Committee staff and Chair- person of the Ann Arbor Young Workers Liberation League. I don't think they've evolved enough to handle that, yet.' To The laily: ed meal rebates last year s AT TH June 16 meeting of be allowed to cancel their Letters. ousing Division's Cmit es since the package which tee on Cast Redtuctons Mr. Feld-thought that they were b hasp announced a new inter- has been substantially alt pretation of the policy regard- However, the dea(Rine for f Ing meal rebates for reasons of celing leasses was June 1. ac o onsene.- This new iterpet thing smells funny in the *wnwould exclude many peo ing Offi m. pie who were formerly eligible. -Irving Freeman These people signed their leases Student member of p) ro m i se with the expectation of the same committee poley. Those people who obtain- June14 Br lould leas- they eying ered. can- some- lions-