Tuesday, July 22; 1975 THE MICHiGAN DAILY Tuesday, July 22, 1975 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Soyuz crew: Back in the SPACE CENTER, Houston (P) - The Soyuz cosmonaists, partners in history's *ik~ first international space mission, blazed A o l tw m re d y safely back to earth yesterday, pars- chuting to a pinpoint landing on a flat, to cushion the landing, stirring up a' making radio reports. featureless plain in their homeland. great quantity of dust. Mission Control reported they land They left the Apollo astronauts behind just 6.2 miles from the intended landi in space for two more days of explora- WITHIN 30 seconds a helicopter had point. tion. landed beside the bell-sihaned Soyus and -,.. ed ng ALEXEI LEONOV and Valeri Kubasov rode their spaceship, dangling under a single red and white parachute to a touchdown, or a "thumpdown" as news- men here dubbed it, at 6:51 n.m. EDT. For the first time, the world had a televised look at the landing of a Soviet spacecraft. TV cameras mounted in heli- copters picked up the Soyuz as it des- cended from the skies toward the plain in south central Russia, about 300 miles st of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, where they were launched last Tuesday. About eight feet above the surface, small braking rockets fired downward a team of rescue workers walked across the plain towards 'the capsule. Leonov and Kubasov had been in space five days, 46 hours 31 minutes, had cir- cled the globe 96 times and traveled about two and one-half million miles. Just two minutes after the landing, Leonov and Kubasov stepped from the spaceship in their white spacesuits and both gave bearhugs to the rescue work- ers and waved at cameramen. DOCTORS at the scene reported both were in "very good condition.' They were surrounded by newsmen who could be seen on television taking notes and nauts were taken to a helicopter for transport to a nearby medical facility. THE LANDING contrasted with Amer- ica's ocean landings, such as the Apollo makes. The astronauts, Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Donald Slayton, are to splashdown in the Pacific on Thursday. The astronauts were still asleep at the time of the Soyuz landing, with their spaceship drifting along 135 miles above the Pacific south of Japan. A SHORT time later Houston mission Page Three U.S.S.R. control wakened them with the word of the successful Soyuz landing. "Very, very good, give them my best. Glad everything went good," Command- er Stafford said. Leonov and Kubasov triggered their braking rockets- above Ascension Island in the Atlantic to slip out of orbit and start an arcing, fiery descent that crossed over Africa, the Black Sea and Central Russia. SOVIET television viewers saw their first space landing when Soyuz 19 plum- meted back to earth. ,A chorus of "nobs' and "saas" erupted from a group of about tOO bystanders on Gorky Street in central Moscow as they watched the bell-shaped spacecraft with its two crewmen come down to a bumpy landing on earth. The lunch-hour crowd was watching television sets in the windows of a large radio and television sales store. City officials hit 'U' stance Ofln finances Ciy ANN MARIE LIPINSKI Ciyofficials have expressed disap- .e, Isoltment and inter over the Umver- siysdecision not to increase payments g to the city for sersvices including police adfire protection. The University announced Friday it 7 was denying a reqoest by city officials C at the June Regents meeting for an in- 3 medate payment of $2.5 million for this fiscal year to cover costs of services provided by the city. * THE UNIVERSITY said ii would con- tnepaying $318,1111 for police protec- E tion and $250,010 for fire department services - the identical amount re- -5 ,,,ceived by the city during the last fiscal N n year. ment of a jois committeeof three Re- AP Photo gents and three Councilpersons was not flatly rejected by the University. How- High in the sky ever, the University said in Friday's statement it "proposes that appropriate These young fairgoers whirl high above the Dane County Junior Fair in Madison, Wisconsin. In their skybound swings U-M officials and' city staff members they found a breeze to cool them oft from the 90 degiiee inferno below. See CITY, Page 5 PIRGIM calls for open access to most state, local documents By TIM SCHICK A report issued yesterday by the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan (PIRGIM) calls for new legislation guar- anteeing "quick and easy ac- cess" to most state and local government records. The 61-page report, entitled "State Secrets," describes the abuses of existing laws, and pro- poses a Michigan version of the federal government's Freedom of Information Act, which pro- vides restrictions Ogninst bu- reaucratic secrecy. "SECRETIVE bureaucrats, sn- trained emplayes, vague stand- ards, long delays, and arbitrary denials . . . confront the citizen who seeks access to government records under Michigan's pres- tnt laws," the report contends. Legislation to fulfill the re- port's recommendations is car- rently in the draft stage, hut shauld be ready for introduction to the legislature' by October, according to State Represents- live Perry Bollard (D-Ann Ar- bor). "t's an attempt to create one of the strongest Freedom ot In- formation Acts in the nation," he added. THlE. REPORT recounts ser- erai incidents of unlawfutly whthheld information, including: -An Ann Arbor News report- er whose access to Wsshteasv sheriff's department's documents was "lawlessly delayed . . . for nine days" as .retaliation for un-favorable stories. -An attorney was forced to "sanitized 'ioftsensitive docu- ments which "were obviously required . . . to be disclosed upon request." -A Detroit Free Press report- er who was forced to seek thle intervention of the State Attor- ney General before her legal right to examine inspection re- ports of the Michigan Depart- ment of Agriculture, wan estab- lIshed. -The Taylor Citizens for Bet- ter Government w h.iceh was charged $1 per page copyirg costs for documents after the group was successful in ovain- tog criminal indictments against city officinis on charges of bribery, perjury, and misappro- priation of city funds. Tatylor Mayor Richard Marshall com- mented, "They're disrupting the processes of government." As a result of studying toese and other reports of sbuse of freedom of information laws the report calls for new legiatation which would: -make inter - departmental memo public documents; -imit costs of obtaining iocu- ments to "the actual incremen- tat cost of providing copies, in- cluding reasonable labor costs; -provide for the awarding of damages to citizens when courts rule '"that a public official has acted capriciously in denying or delaying access to records;" ansi -require written explanations from departments when docu- noents are withheld from the public. Gandhi nears approval of emergency measures NEW DELHI (A' - Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's government won a preliminary test of strength yesterday as it sought Parlia- ment's approval of her declaration of a natisnal emergency and suspension ol civil liberties. -Meeting for the first time since independence with its top non-Communist opposition leaders in jail, both hoilses of Parlia- ment voted overwhelmingly to suspend normal procedures and expedite government business during its one-week session. MRS. GANDHI'S Congress party demonstrated its traditional strength, winning the procedural vote in the lower house 3tt to 76 and defeating opposition attempts to block a similar resolution in the upper house 147 to 32. The results were considered a prelude to the main vote ex- pected Tuesday on the Government's resolution seeking Parlia- ment's endorsement of emergency rule. The emergency was ori- ginally declared on June 26 by a presidential order that heralded the start of an unprecedented crackdown on the non-Communist- Ipposition. Although she came to Parliament and listened to much of the discussion, Mrs. Gandhi did not vote because she was barred by the Supreme Court from doing so while appealing a lower court verdict .that she violated election laws in winning her Parliament seat in 1971. OPPOSITION members uised the opening day of Parliament to attack the engergency decree, the first time they have been able to do so in an open forum. However, correspondents were supposed to ignore their speeches under censorship regulations which allowed only govern- ment statements and cabinet members' speeches to be reported.