Saturday, July 10; 1976 THE MICHItGAN DAILY Page Three Pat Nixon remains seriously i LONG BEACH, Calif. ( - Farmer President Rich- ard Nixon says his wife, Pat, will recover from a stroke "because she's a fighter." Meanwhile, her doctors said yesterday that the next two days will be crucial in determining whether for- mer first lady recovers from the partially-paralyzing stroke. "We wouldn't say she's out of the life-threatening phase," said Nixon family physician Dr. John Lungren, adding that she remained in "serious condition." However, he told a packed news briefing at Memor- ial Hospital Medical Center that her condition "seems more optimistic" now and that "the next 48 hours is an important time." Former President Nixon returned to the hosital yesterday morning to visit his 64-year-old wife after spending the night at the family estate in San Cle- mente, 40 miles to the South. When he departed several hours later, Nixon - in one of his first public appearances since his 1974 resignation - told a throng of onlookers that he was confident his wife would have a complete recovery. Nixon said: "Because her spirit is good, she's going to see this thing through and she's going to beat it, she's a fighter. She isn't giving up and for that rea- son, combined with the excellent care she's receiv- ing from the doctors, that will mean that she'll have - CImOlete recovery." Looking somber, the former president shook hands with well-wishers as he left the hospital lobby and stepped into a black limousine for the trip back to San Clemente. Lungren said he expected Nixon to make two visits to the hospital each day. Dr. Jack Mosier, a neurological specialist who ac- companied Lungren at the morning news conference, also said the former, first lady was showing remark- able spirit. "Many patients are very despondent. They feel that life is all over. They give up the fight. She's done none of this." Lungren said, "We would hope that she returns to complete normal function but only time and observa- tion is going to give us that answer." The doctors told the news briefing that she remains partially paralyzed following the stroke Wednesday evening, but said her blood pressure had dropped to within normal levels. Lungren said it was "quite elevated -- 175 over 100 or 110," when she entered the hospital around noon on Thursday. He added she had no history of high blood pressure. Plane crashes in Detroit: pilot killed DETROIT (UPI) - A twin-engined Beech aircraft carrying engine parts crashed into a drug store parking lot on the city's east side late Friday, killing the pilot. Police said the unidentified pilot of the plane apparently was trying to find a place for an emergency landing shortly after taking off from Detroit City Airport bound for Dayton, Ohio. Witnesses said they heard the plane suddenly lose power ust before the crash. "As he was trying to land," a police sp kesian said, "he hit a pole and crashed into the lot. The plane was heavily damaged, and three cars in the lot were also damaged by the fire." The pilot was dead at the scene. There were no other injuries. Ralph Wiliams, assistant manager of the Cuotingham's store near the crash scene, said he heard the plane explode as it hit the parking lot. "I was here in the store," Williams said. "All of a sudden I heard a boom that shook the building. We ran outside, and there was all this smoke and fire. Several cars were burning around the ag plane. The plane was destroyed except (A : r for the tail. Spector calls for aid to Vietnamese women cc. ttct oS E C Buying Harmony Looking for some Harmony in your life? It's now for sale - for only $375,000. The neof the rustic village of Iar- any is asking that much for the en- tire community, inclading a pout office, restaurant, pottery shop, blacksmith's shop and creamery. The town is located on the central California coast 13 miles south of San Simeon, the famous castle built by the late newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. Traffic hazard When an Italian pedestrian gestured angrily at a motorist whose car grazed him during a turn, he got more than he expected. Albino Olcese found him- self confronted by the driver who jump- ed out of the car and fired a pistol at him twice. One shot hit Olcese in the foot. Maybe he will be more careful about who he gestures at in the future. Happenings... e. ... it looks like a quiet weekend. Sat- urday there is a hiking and swimming trip leaving from the N. Entry of the Rackham building at 1:30 ... Sunday at 8 p.m. Dr. Walter Spink, a history of art professor, will show slides on "The Devine Image in the Art of India and of the West" at 921 Church. Weather or not Expect partly cloudy skies and scat- tered thunder showers today. The tem- perature will climb into the upper 80's. Chance of rain is 30 per cent. By JENNIFER MILLER Norma Spector, representing Wom- en for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE), told a small gathering at the Union yesterday that the Ameri- can people must give their support to the women of Vietnam. Spector, back from a two-week stay in North and South Vietnam, stressed the need for America's fi- nancial help to assist the rehabilita- tion and cure of Vietnamese prosti- tutes, seventy per cent of whom are suffering from venereal disease. THE FIVE - WOMEN trip was hosted by The Women's Union of North Vietnam and the Women's Liberation Union of South Vietnam, the groups that requested penicillin. The unions invited the Women's International Democratic Federation, of which WREE is an affiliate, to Vietnam. "The prostitutes, the drug addicts, the thieves, these are the war vic- tims of Vietnam," Spector told the attentive crowd. In an earlier inter- view withConnie Healy of the Com- mission for Women, Spector blamed these problems on the American oc- cupation strategy. She also cited the introduction of pornography as an- other "war crime". In a previous article, Spector stated that since the American forces have pulled out of Vietnam, all the brothels have shut down, the drug addicts are being cured, and an at- tempt is being made to restore dig- nity to the Vietnamese. This is being done through the actions of the Cen- ter for the Restoration of Women's Dignity and the Center for the Res- toration of Youth's Dignity. WHILE CRITICIZING the United States government for not living up to its promise of reparations, Spector stressed that the Vietnamese feel no resentment toward the American pole. "They welcomed us with open arms," she said. Spector reiterated that the Vietna- mese people are working hard to re- build their country, and "they are not dismayed by what they have to face." AGAIN CRITICIZING the United States, Spector blamed it for pre- venting the development of industry, education, and self - government in Vietnam. She added that help is needed there. "They don't have ma- chines to fill the bomb craters," she said, "they do it with a shovel. They build by hand." According to Spector, the Vietna- mese women are being persuaded to return to work on the farms and to learn trades. She claimed that it was the fleeing of women into the cities that introduced them to prostitution "The pimps picked them up," she said. The women are also being encour- aged to adhere to the three responsi- bilities of the two unioins: to achieve democracy in family life, to conserve materials, andI to build sociali.sm and support the socialist government, cial assistance. BUT THE first concern of the wo- men is to give medical care to those who need it and secondly to educate theta. Spector stressed the possibility of Vietnam becoming a beautiful coun- try with enough support and finan- "It looked like he was trying to find a spot to land but just didn't make it." It was not known how many persons were in the plane. None of the occupants was identified. O'Hora to serve at Dem. convention WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Rep. James O'Hara, (D-Mich.) said yesterday he has been chosen to serve as co-parlia- mentarian at the Democratic National Convention next week in New York. O'Hara said he will share the duties with Hugh Cannon, a prominent North Carolina attorney., Doctor calls Amin 'very sick' TEL AVIV, Israel (UPI) - An Israeli psychiatrist who treated Idi Amin for, three years said yesterday the erratic Ugandan president suffers from brain damage caused by tertiary syphilis. "In all respects, Idi Amin is very sick -- and not just mentally'" said Dr Marcel Assael, a lecturer at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. "DURING 1IS visits he would ask stupid, childlike and confused ques- tions," Assael said. "le would describe his conversations with God, angels and other voices he heard in the night." Assael, head of the department of psychiatry at Kaplan Hospital in nearby Rehovoth, said the Ugandan president displays "classic syniptoms of syphilis." "It's no secret that Idi Amin suffered from the advanced stages of syphilis, which caused brain damage as well as other mental and physical illnesses," A'sael said in an iaterview published yesterday in the ncwsjuaper Vedioth Ahronuth, "HE SUFFERS from a lock of judg- mnt and an inability to reach conclu- stons that take reality into coiisidera- tion." In an interview published in the same edition of Yedioth Ahronoth, Amin said he did everything he could to gain the safe release o fthe 104 Israelis, French- See IDI, Page 5 Aminf5