The Michigan Daily Vol. LXXXVI, No. 70-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, August 18, 1976 Ten Cents Twelve Pages WON'T HAVE TO NAME V-P EARLY Ford wins rules fight Abort ion,foeg policy battles loom By ROB MEACHUM and TIM SCHICK special To The Daily KANSAS CITY , Mo. -- The Republican national convention last night crushed Ronald Reagan's hopes of becoming his par- ty's presidential nominee as it rejected an important amendment to the party rules by a vote of 1180 to 1069. The amendment, which would have required a can- didate for the presidential nomination to disclose his vice presidential choice prior to voting on the nominee, had been deter- mined vital by both the Ford and Reagan camps as an indication of each candidates strength among the delegates. THE VOTING, m a r k e d by loud demonstrations by support- ers of each candidate, was pre- ceded by a heated debate be- tween supporters, and opponents of the amendment. R e a g a n forces argued - that delegates have the right to make their own decisions and urged the convention to adopt the amend- ment known as rule 16(c). The President's backers ac- cused the opposition of chang- ing the rules of the game after it had started, and said the amendment reeked of political opportunism. Tom Curtis, a delegate from Missouri, a s s e r t e d that the amendment was an opportunity to improve and strengthen the selection process for vice-presi- dent of the United States. "You are representativesoftthe peo- ple. The people are waiting for a decision between secrecy and candor." Pointing to the scandals re- sulting from other convention selections of Spiro Agnew and Thomas Eagleton as vice-presi- dential candidates, Curtis ar- gued the time was right to re- form the vice-presidential selec- tion process. Hawaiian Carla Coray, a rem- ber of the party's rules commit- tee, called the proposal "a last minute political maneuver.' Daily Photo by CUI I TECCKER GREG WILSON of Ypsilanti, a staunch supporter of Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, joins in the pandemonium last night which resides continually in the Michigan section at Kemper Arena. As a Reagan delegate Wilson is part of a minority in the Michigan delegation. Ypsi delegate cheers Reagan By TIM SCHICK special To The Daily KANSAS CITY, Mo. - In all the rallies and gatherings of the Michigan delegation one face sticks out. In the middle of the Ford supporters who are housed in the Crown Center Hotel along with the President, Ypsilanti native Greg Wilson turns heads everywhere he goes. President Ford carried Michigan by a two- thirds margin in the state primary, but the state law requires the delegates to be allocated in pro- portion to the votes each candidate receives. As a result, 29 of the 84 Michigan delegates are sup- porters of Ronald Reagan - and Wilson is let- ting the world know he is one of them. WHILE MOST of his fellow Reagan-backers keep a low profile in large gatherings of Ford supporters, Wilson can be seen parading around with a poster of Reagan over his head. Sunday night as Ford spoke to a crowd in the hotel lob- by, it was Wilson's Reagan poster that was low- ered on a rope from an overhanging balcony, into position behind the President. Wilson has become notorious among the Ford supporters for hisactions. When one Ford dele- gate was asked "Where that young Reagan dele- gate can be found," she replied, "You must mean Greg Wilson." See YPSI, Page 6 Connally MICHIGAN Senator Robert Griffin warned that adoption "would drive a wedge in our party and make unity more dif- ficult." As the balloting proceeded, it became clear that recent state- ments by the Reagn camp of delegates joining a Reagan bandwagon had no substance be- hind them. In several states where secret Reagan support was said to be hidden, it failed to materialize. New Jersey, which was said to have a large number of Rea- gan converts, voted against the amendent 62 to 4 with one ab- stention as the members of the delegation w e re individually polled. Another state Reagan had See FORD, Page 6 Warrants issued in Miller murder By BARBARA ZAHS Murder warrants were issued yesterday against a Southern Michigan Prison escapee and a prison nurse in the July 17 shooting death of Ann Arbor physician Cynthia Miller, director of women's medical treatment at the Detroit House of Correction (Dehoco). Oakland County prosecutor L. Brooks Patterson iden- tified the suspects as Gordon Wingard, 27, and Gail Oliver. Both are charged with first degree murder and felony murder. MILLER, 29, was found slumped behind the wheel of her 1973 Fiat on the shoulder of I-696 in Southfield. She had been shot twice in the right temple. -Miller had withdrawn $5,000 in $100 bills from her savings account at the Huron Valley National Bank earlier that morning, but police investigating the scene did not find the money on her person or in the car Wingaro and Oliver were last seen in Tennessee, where autnortes discovered Oliver's car in the parking lot of a Knoxville airport. Patterson denied reports that the alleged murder weapon was found inside the vehicle. 'We don't want to lay our cards on the table before they're caught," he said, admitting only that there was enough "physical evidence" to implicate the pair in the crime. SOUTHFIELD POLICE spokesman John Hood said that Wingard and Oliver had also been in Florida at one 'ime and rented a motor home there. Patterson has now asked the United States Attorney's office to issue federal fugitive warrants for the pair's arrest since they have crossed state lines. Wingard, serving a three-and-a-half to five-year sentence for attempted murder when he escaped from Southern Michigan Prison June 29, worked in the prison hospital as a first aide assistant. Oliver, a licensed practical nurse, was also employed at the facility, but resigned a few weeks before Wingard's escape. Miller became acquainted with the pair through her See WARRANTS, Page 6