OLYMPICS See editorial page I P 4w 43U IEIUIQ BITTER See Today for details VlX Arbr, as undy, orea rree 3o VOL. XC, No. 102 Ann Arbor Michigan--Sunday, February 3, 1980 Ten Cents Ten Pages plus Supplement FBI probe, nets Congressmen - f ..y- . . frend yPhotos by" MAUREEN O'MALLEY Michigan guard Mark Lozier (32) and forward Mike McGee (40) jump up and down the court with Northwestern forward Jim Stack yesterday afternoon in Crisler Arena. The pair held Stack to just two points for the game, in which the Wolverines trounced the Wildcats 70-57 to even up their Big Ten record to 5-5. McGee was high scorer with 26 points. See story, Page 9. From UPI and AP WASHINGTON - In what is being described asihe biggest public corrup- tion probe since Watergate, FBI under- cover a'gents posing as bribe-paying Arab businessmen have for two years been investigating a U.S. senator, six congressmen and 13 state officials, of- ficials said yesterday. Sources said the FBI used hidden cameras to film most of the meetings at which undercover agents handed high public officials a total of nearly $1 million in cash. IN RETURN, the public officials allegedly promised to help a supposed wealthy Arab businessman in his business dealings and in winning more permanent immigration status for him- self and his friends. Sources said FBI agents, including one of Arabian descent, masqueraded as aides to the Arab while funneling the payoffs. SFederal grand juries are expected to be asked ;soon to bring indictments against a number of the public officials, sources said. AMONG THOSE investigated, sour- ces said, were: Sen., Harrison Williams Jr. (D-N.J.), and Reps. John Murphy (D-N.Y.), Frank Thompson Jr. (D- N.J.), Michael Myers and Raymond Lederer (D-Pa.), and John Jenrette (D- S.C.). Reps. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), and Richard Kelly (R-Fla.), were also im- plicated in the probe, The Washington Post reported in its Sunday editions. Official sources said the FBI had yet to decide whether to arrest those in- volved, or to wait until grand jury sub- poenas are issued. Agents were fanning out, however, to inform them they were under under investigation. NEWSDAY, A Long Island newspaper, reported that the in- vestigation first began as an organized crime 'probe of counterfeit securities and certificates of deposit. The newspaper said a convicted felon then pointed FBI agents toward municipal contract fraud in New York, Philadelphia and New Jersey. Later, allegations arose that mem- bers of Congress were accepting payof- fs for their influence in assisting private businessmen and foreigners wishing to stay in the United States. FBI agents in five cities then posed a Arab businessmen, consultants and ad- visers, meeting with public officials over the next 24 months. ONE SOURCE said the operation - code-named "Abscam" for "Arab scam" - was "the biggest in- vestigation since Watergate" and the Brzezinski discusses military aid with Zia o ers long term help From UPI and AP panying Brezinski includes Deputy ISLAMABAD, Pakistan-National Secretary of State Warren Christopher Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Ambassador Arthur Humnmel. and President Mohammad Zia Ul-Haq Neither side would say why yester- met for nine hours yesterday and ex- day's talks ran 90 minutes over tended their talks on renewed US. schedule or why it was decided to con- military aid to Pakistan for another tinue the meeting late today, following day. a helicopter tour of Afghan border The U.S. neogtiating team reportedly regions. was prepared to offer Pakistan .BREZEZINSKI TOLD reporters "We assurances of long term military are dealing with serious matters which aid-but no increase in the recent U.S. involve regional and international offer of $400 million in military and security and these topics we want to economic aid. Zia called the $400 explore with ourPakistani friends in milionaidpacagepeautstheday full.' millrinwadpackageopo eanDespite the conciliatory words, the after it was proposed. talks were, believed to have been dif- ZIA, HOWEVER, said yesterday he ficult because of longstanding differen- -was pleased by the talks with Brzezin- ces between Washington and ski so far. Islamabad.' "We had a very successful, construc- Pakistan wants several billions of tive and friendly exchange of views," dollars in weaponry anda military Zia said. Zia hosted a formal state din- treaty with the United States. ner for Brezezinski and high-ranking TE AMERICANS argue as 1959 State Department and Pentagon of-". military agreement is binding against ficials accompanying him at the president's guest house in nearby any aggression from Afghanistan, but Rawalpindi last night. the Pakistanis are equally concerned The U.S. negotiating team accom- See U.S., Page 7 weight of evidence against the officials involved was\ "amazing" because it was on videotape and tape recorded. Philip Heymann, assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division, refused to comment on the in- vestigation and said Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti was ordering all department officials to withhold com- ment. The FBI agents allegedly created an Arab sheik named Kambir Abdul Rah- See SENATOR, Page 7 OVERCROWDING SPURS UPRISING: 00 I5 die From UPI and AP SANTA FE, N.M. - Rebellious inmates siezed the New Mexico State Penitentiary and held 13 guards hostage yesterday in the worst merican prison riot since Attica. 'Reports from inside the walls said at least 15 inmates were killed, manyin grisly reprisals at the hands of their llow prisoners. " Corrections officials - negotiated through the night, hoping to put an end to the violence before it mushroomed to even more serious proportions. New Mexico's top prison official' acknowledged yesterday the inmates had legitimate complaints about over- crowding at the facility. Rampaging inmates armed with pipes, homemade knives, shovels, and meat cleavers yesterday took 15 guards ostage at the state penitentiary, set 0 in priso fires and gained "absolute control" of1 the prison At least 14 inmates were reported killed. AUTHORITIES SAID the inmates apparently died in the fires and from brutal reprisals by fellow inmates., Another 15 pirsoners were reported in- jured. Gov. Bruce King, who talked with leaders of the revolt by telephone; earlier, said reports that "10 or more", inmates had been killed came from prisoners among 175 who were released and taken to a recreation area behind the prison: "I think some of those, I'm sure, were murdered," King said. State Police Chief Martin Vigil agreed.I "I'M FAIRLY certain we haven't lost any guards," King said, but he added revolt that one guard being held hostage was "badly in need of medical attention." The prisoners who were released ap- parently "wanted no part of" the takeover, authorities said. There were 1,136 inmates in the prison as of Friday, authorities said. Leaders of the uprising wore ban- danas over their faces and were "ar- med with pipes, wrenches and guns," said a fireman who went inside the compound to retrieve two injured guar- See INMATES, Page 7 I Traveller recounts Iranian leaders to meet about hostages From AP and UPI U.N. diplomats said yesterday a eting in the next few days between anian President-elect Abolhassan Bani-Sadr and the ailing Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini may hold the key to whether 50 American hostages are freed soon. Well-informed diplomatic sources expressed hope a breakthrough may come in three or four weeks froi' U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim's Sainstaking effort to work out a plan to tam the release of the hostages and answer Iran's grievances. BUT THEY cautioned against over- optimism. "Nothing is certain yet," a source said. "The break may come even sooner than expected or it may be delayed as it has in the past." Meanwhile, militants holding the Americans hostage at the U.S. Em- bassy in Tehran said yesterday a special 'American delegation would arrive this week to hear Iran's com- plaints against the shah and the U.S. government. State Department of- ficials in Washington said they knew nothing about such a trip. WALDHEIM'S PROPOSAL included establishment of an international in- vestigating commission to look into alleged crimes of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in exchange for the Americans, who spent their 91st day in captivity yesterday. Waldheim met Thursday with Iranian Ambassador Mansur Farhang, and Iranian authorities have accepted that proposal as a basis for negotiations. In another development, Iran's ruling -Revolutionary Council announced it would set up an international com- mission to investigate alleged crimes of deposed Shah Mohammad Reza See KHOMEINI, Page 7 experiences and insights from 3-month China trip By LISSA OLIVER Each family works on its own plot The changes in attitude and life- of land (equal to about an acre) in style that have been made in China addition to taking care of the land sinty daho aoZnadte owned by the commune. It is from sine te dat ofMaoZeon nd he these commune-owned lands that passing from power of the "Gang of the state buys the crops used to feed Four" were among the facets of the cities. People in the country communist Chinese life discussed by work either in the fields or in fac- a speaker at the Michigan Union tories-usually a 20-minute bike ride Friday night. In a slide lecture sponsored by the LEANER'S GROUP, at the begin- U.S.-China People's FriendshipLENRSGOPathebgn Association, Marie Leaner shared ning of its stay, had trouble working her recollections of three months with the people in the fields. "We living and working with Chinese were thought of as guests, and in peasants. C phina, guests don't work," she said. Sponsored by a member of the The travellers were- also bein'g association, Leaner traveled to tested, according to Leaner, to see China last year in a group of 16 how devoted they were to the Americans-only one of whom brigade.-Once an effort was made to spoke Chinese. participate in the work, they were LEANER'S PRIMARY goal was almost expected to help out, Leaner to find out everything she could said. about Chinese life, and this meant In addition to sharing in the work, wokinCin--teseldandhinmeacthere was also a cultural exchange working in the fields and in fac between the peasants and the group. tories. When she showed pictures of The countryside is divided into American cities to the Chinese, communes"-groups of a bout Leaner was surprised to find that 85,000 people, which are further "the Chinese thought that most divided into "brigades" of 500 t Cee t houEhtEthageo7 peasants each, she explained. See TRAVELLER. Page 7 Daily Photo by MAUREEN O'MALLEY MARIE LEANER DISCUSSES her experiences in China where she worked in the fields with Chinese peasants for three months. As a member of the U.S.-China People's Friendship Association, she tried to learn first hand about the Chinese peasants' way of life. I I, I Commission from regulating funeral homes-were "par- ticularly significant symbols of the congressional betrayal of consumers." Other actions which figured in the ratings, she said, were billion-dollar subsidies to big energy com- panies to develop "a questionably effective, and'arguably dangerous synthetic fuel industry;" subsidies to areospace firms; and exemptions for airlines for noise standards. Taster's choice Can't get along without at least one steaming cup of java in the morning? If so, there's good news. General Foods Corp. followed other coffee roasters Thursday in reducing masked bandit walked into a convenience store, brandished his forefinger and thumb and demanded that the clerk em- pty the cash register. It worked. According to the report, the clerk inquired whether the bandit was serious. When he replied "yes," the clerk promptly handed over an undeter- mined amount of money. E Run for your psyche Does jogging improve one's outlook on life? Possibly, according to some researchers. The Institute of Mental On the inside A student speaks out in favor of registraton for the draft on the edit page ... arts page features a review of the Elliot Feld Ballet ... and for a look at the basketball game again- st Northwesiern, check the sports page. On the outside Stash your dreams of warm, lazy afternoons spent on the Diag playing frisbee between sips on a tall, cold one away for at least another six weeks. Groundhog-about-town Punxsutawney Phil from Punxsutawney, Pa. peeked from PM-opp- , I