Thursday, June 19, 1975
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Blue Magic band may cite
all city officers in lawsuit
By DAVID WHITING
An attorney for Blue Magic, a rock group
allegedly brutalized by two unnamed local police-
men last month, said yesterday that he may sue
every city police officer in an attempt to identify
the two men involved.
"There's more than one way to skin a cat,"
declared Ivan Barris. "I'll name every one of
them (the city officers) as defendants to bring
them into court so the band can identify the
ones involved if we can't identify them before
the hearing."
BARRIS, a prominent Michigan criminal law-
yer and former president of the Detroit Bar Asso-
ciation, also said he would "subpoena all the
police logs" in an attempt to get more informa-
tion on the incident.
The Blue Magic band was stopped May 10 by
at least 10 county sheriff's deputies and city
policemen, who suspected that one member of
the group was carrying a concealed gun.
Six band members later filed a $12 million
law suit, contending they suffered physical and
verbal abuse from two deputies and two city
police officers. However, they could only identify
the county officers by name.
THE Philadelphia-based group, distributed na-
tionally by Atlantic Records, was enroute from
an engagement in Muskegon to another in Erie,
Pa., when they pulled off U.S. 23 and stopped at
Howard Johnson's, an all-night restaurant on
Carpenter Rd., about 3:30 a.m.
The 13 member all-black group, including
seven musicians, five singers and a soundman,
then went in the restaurant and, according to a
waitress, ordered steak and eggs in a "courteous"
manner.
However, the usually casual employes' faces
quickly tightened when Katherine Zimmerman,
the cook's fiance, who often dropped in to chat,
help out a little or have a bite to eat, leaned
across the counter and told assistant manager
Lynn Herman that one of the group apparently
was carrying a gun.
ZIMMERMAN reported that a man, who was
seen sitting with the band while standing across
from her, pulled a brown handled gun, with a
clip out of his waistband above his left pocket,
put it back and then pulled his upper article of
clothing over it.
The gun as described by Zimmerman has never
been found.
Herman then slipped to the back telephone
where she called the sheriff's office at 4:30 a.m.
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Somebody bail, quick!
"Keep rowing," Mayor William Schaefer seems to say to his
faithful crew, the Baltimore City Council. In an attempt to re-
enact Washington's crossing of the Delaware, the group floun-
dered about the harbor in the Patapsco River for 20 minutes.
Arabian prince beheaded
for Faisal's assassination
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia UP) -
A young Saudi price knelt at
the chopping block yesterday
and was publicly beheaded with
one swipe of a gold-handled
sword for the assassination of
his uncle, King Faisal. Thous-
ands chanted "Allah Akbar"-
God is great - and "justice is
done."
Prince Faisal Ibn Musaed, 27,
had been judged guilty by a
Sharia, or religious court, of
assassinating his uncle as the
monarch celebrated the Moslem
feast of the Prophet Moham-
med's birthday last March 25.
THE A M E R I C A N-
EDUCATED prince was led
out of the jail behind the gov-
ernment palace into Dira
Square. An official of the court
faced him and read the guilty
verdict, then invoked "heaven's
mercy" for the convicted man.
Prince Faisal appeared calm,
His hands were tied behind his
back, but he was not blindfold-
ed.
As the prince knelt, a secur-
ity man prodded him in the side
with a stick so that his head
jerked upward. The execution-
er, a black Saudi in a yellow
Galabiya robe, brought the
sword flashing down and de-
capitated him. Blood spattered
on the dusty pavement.
THE ASSASSIN'S H E A D
was hoisted briefly on a wood-
en stake and displayed to the
applauding crowd.
Immediately afterward, the
head and body were placed on
a stretcher and carried away
for burial in an unmarked
grave - the same simple Is-
lamic interment given to the
assassinated monarch.
A brief radio announcement
said the "execution was carried
out . . . for commiting the
crime of killing His Majesty
King Faisal . . . which was a
loss to the Arab nation and to
Islam."
IT SAID the loss of King
Faisalswas mitigated only by
a verse in the Koran, the
Moslem holy book: "And re-
gard not those killed for the
sake of Allah as dead, because
they are alive beside him re-
splendent in his favor."
Theprincehwas the first
member of the Saudi royal
family ever executed in public.
The only member of the royal
family who witnessed the exe-
cution was Prince Salman,
younger brother of King Faisal.
He is the governor of Riyadh.
King Faisal, whose age was
listed as 69 or 70 was shot at
close range before a horrified
group of Saudi officials and a
visiting Kuwaiti delegation. He
died almost immediately,
though he was taken to a hos-
pital in a desperate attempt to
revive him.,
PRIME MINISTER Indira Gandhi, who was convicted for election irregularities last week,
receives a petition from Punjab chief minister Zail Singh that was signed in blood by Pun-
jabi youths declaring their allegiance to her.
Administrator, students object to
cutbacks, in dormitory services
Balance of payments
greatly improved
WASHINGTON () - The na- count measures the movement
tion's balance of payments of money across national boun-
showed the biggest improve- daries. The latest figures m-ant
ment on record during the first more dollars were staying home
three months of this year, the to fuel the U.S. economy.
Commerce Department report- In another report, the Com-
ed yesterday. meroe Department said total
The account was still in de- personal income of Americans
ficit by $475 million but it was jumped by the biggest amount
a marked drop from the $6.57 in eight months during M a y .
billion dficit in the last three The increase amounted to $9.3
months of 1974. billion, or a seven-tenths of one
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By ELAINE FLETCHER
A University dormitory direc-
tor and a group of students have
separately charged the Housing
Office with operating in undue
secrecy and failing to abide by
a Regental decision ordering
that the current standards of
student dorm services be main-
tained in the coming academic
year.
According to Richard Mun-
son, director of Alice Lloyd Hall,
plans to eliminate about $250,000
fromn the dorm service budget
next year will "go against a
Regental mandate" by signifi-
cantly reducing services for
students.
MUNSON said yesterday he
communicated this to John
Feldkamp, director of housing,
in a May 15 memo, but has re-
ceived no response.
The Regents voted at their
February meeting to maintain
the current dorm rates in spite
of administrative pressures to
raise the fees.
However, the group also in-
dicated that any operating cost
increases should be covered by
the dorm system's reserve funds
so as to not cause any cuts in
student services, said Munson.
REGENT Robert Nederlander
(D - Birmingham) yesterday
agreed, saying, "It was not the
Regents' intent to cut back any
services at the time we held
rates."
But at the same time, a com-
mittee on cost reductions has
considered numerous proposals
for cutbacks in student food and
maintenance service that when
finalized will total $210,000, ac-
cording to Jim Anderson, Hous-
ing Office administrative assist-
ant.
Feldkamp maintained that the
cutbacks do not affect basic
services and for that reason
feels "that the Regents are in
full accord with what we're do-
ing."
THE STUDENT members of
the cost reduction committee
and one Bursley RA plan to
bring this as well as other hous-
ing issues before the Regents
at their monthly meeting sched-
uled for tomorrow.
"Our basic contention is that
Feldkamp is pulling a fast one
on the Regents. He's raising the
rates by cutting the amount of
services on which those rates
were based," argued Kim Kel-
lar, one member of the group.
"The students are tokens on
the committee," contended Kel-
lar. "Feldkamp only wants us
up there so he can say we are
they come fall when the stu-
dents complain of service."
THE STUDENT group also
plans to inform the Regents of
numerous housing administra-
tion refusals to publicly reveal
re po r ts on their proposed
budgets.
Munson also requested that
the members of the committee
on cost reductions receive copies
of a confidential report distri-
buted to the Regents that dis-
cussed excessive expenditures
within the Housing Office.
However, Feldkamp claimed
that he knew of "no informa-
tion that was given to the Re-
gents that Dick Munson hasn't
seen," adding that the report
"wasn't a written one."