Basebal supplement inside Ninety- Three Years41.I~lI Jl~ II Flighty Of Variable cloudiness with a high in Editorial Freedom the mid-40s. Vol. XCII, No. 140 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, March 29, 1983 Ten Cents Ten Pages Police to find and impound targeted vehicles By CARL WEISER Scofflaws beware: The annual Ann Arbor parking crackdown has begun. By the end of the three week period which started yesterday morning, Ann Arbor police expect to impound about 1,000 cars, city officials said. THE CRACKDOWN is an attempt to collect almost $2 million in delinquent parking fees owed to the city, said Mike Scott, the city's parking manager. Inevitably, students end up as prime targets. "The bulk of unpaid See CITY, Page 2 Judge calls for secret Daily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS A tow truck impounds another unsuspecting vehicle as the city begins its an nual 'search and tow' campaign against chronic parking violators. Counci can da es s ure of Editor's note: This is the first in a three-Dart Rowe By GEORGEA KOVANIS U.S. District Court Judge Charles Joiner yesterday ordered the gover- nment to release a secret report on former FBI informant Gary Thomas Rowe's involvement in the death of a civil rights worker 18 years ago. Joiner is presiding over a $2 million suit against the FBI brought by the children of Viola Liuzzo, a civil rights worker who was killed on March 25, 1965 near Selma, Ala. LIUZZO, A white housewife from. Detroit, took the family car in March 1965 and drove to Alabama alone to assist in the voters rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. The 39-year-old mother of five was transporting a black man, later iden- tified as LeRoy Moten, who had also been working on the march, back to Selma when her car was shot at by a: passing automobile carrying Rowe and three Ku Klux Klansmen. Liuzzo's children charge that the FBI was negligent in hiring Rowe, who they claim murdered their mother. The Liuzzos are blaming the FBI for hiring Rowe when they knew he was a racist and had violent tendencies. The Liuzzos rested their case yesterday. J. JEFFERY LONG, one of the Liuz- zos' attorneys, accused the government of failing to release all documents on Rowe in yesterday's court session. "The government has not made a full; disclosure to us," Long said, insisting that there are still more documents on Rowe's activities somewhere. "We believe there is a separate informant file on Gary Thomas Rowe." Joiner ordered the defense to provide the court with a copy of the controver- file sial and highly secret Rowe Report. This document contains findings of the 1975 Senate Select Committee on Governmental Operations' hearing which concentrated on the activities of Rowe and the FBI during the civil rights movement. Government attorneys, however, maintain that the Rowe Report is classified information and should not be open to public perusal. Joiner will review the report privately upon its arrival from, Washington. BARRETT KEMP, a former FBI agent and Rowe's contact when he first became an informant for the Bureau, said in a videotaped deposition yester- day that "(Rowe) was extremely reliable in furnishing the informa- tion .. ." The former agent turned lawyer' said Rowe was "very cooperative with me. I felt he was inquisitive. Able to keep a secret." According to Kemp, Rowe was his only racial informant. He said he ad- vised Rowe not to participate in any violent activities. Kemp said he doub- ted that Rowe even owned a pistol. "I never saw his pistol," he said. "I never frisked him, I never asked him and I doubt very much if he had one." Kemp added that he never found Rowe to be aggressive or a racist. "He told me he was not opposed to black people." "(ROWE) WANTED to be involved in some type of police ,activity," Kemp said, adding that Rowe had attempted to become a Birmingham police officer but was refused because he did not have a high school diploma. "He and I had an excellent relation- ship, I felt," Kemp said. See ROWE, Page 2 series examining Ann Arbor's April 4 elections. Analyses of this year's ballot proposals and the three mayoral candidates will appear tomorrow and Friday. By RITA GIRARDI and THOMAS MILLER a Though this year's city council elections are taking a backseat to a hotly contested mayoral race and two controversial ballot proposals, the contests this year are neither boring nor nonessential. voted Democrats into city council, but Democratic incumbent Lowell Peterson says he is not counting on history to win this year's race for him. Peterson, 24, is being challenged by 81-year-old Republican Letty Wickliffe, a University alumna. Both candidates say the major issue this year is human services. Peterson, who describes himself as a "progressive Democrat," has criticized the coun- cil's present Republican majority for "shocking slowness" in implementing services like an emergency food program council approved last April. City council, Peterson said, "iisnot doing nearly. enough to take care of the people who slip between the cracks of America's great economic miracle." He said he favors city budget reapportionment and possible permanent millage increases to funnel more money into human services. Peterson opposes the proposal to repeal the city's; $5 marijuana law, but supports the four other ballot proposals. Wickliffe, a retired Indiana school teacher, says she too is interested in human services, but looks more to the private sector for relief from economic woes. She has served on the United Fund Budget Committee and the Child and Family Services Com- mission. "I believe in getting (the needy) to help them- selves," she said. "There is a lack of dignity in receiving help all the time." Wickliffe said she opposes giving human services a separpte budget within the city's services. She ad- vocates offering tax incentives to businesses which operate aprenticeship and job-training programs for unskilled unemployed people. Wickliffe opposes three of the five ballot questions: the one-half mill increase to upgrade the city's parks, the weatherization proposal, and the pot law repeal. The 2nd Ward is currently represented by Peterson and fellow Democrat Larry Hunter. See CITY, Page 5 Each of Ann Arbor's five wards will have one of its two council seats up for election this year. Although the 2nd Ward candidate is running unopposed, the races in the other four wards promise to be closer than ever. First Ward The student-dominated 1st Ward has traditionally Profs. challenge "Justice Dept., show films By HALLE CZECHOWSKI Two University professors tested the- ir first amendment rights last night by refusing to add a disclaimer to two Canadian films the U.S. government has labelled propaganda. Both films were produced by the National Film Board of Canada and presented views on pollution and nuclear war. "Acid Rain: Requiem and Recovery," showed the effects of acid rain on the environment. "If You Love This Planet," fetured Helen Caldicott, president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, describing the after- math of nuclear war. ON FEBRUARY 24 the Justice Department classified the two films as political propaganda, and required an announcement called a disclaimer, at' the beginning of the films stating the films had not been approved by the U.S. government, said Communications Prof. John Stevens. The rulingalso meant that those showing the film must keep records of everyone who viewed it, said Stevens. He added that neither the Justice Department nor the Canadian gover- nment had been able to provide materials for such a disclaimer. Stevens said the Justice Department regulation requiring films produced by other governments to be approved by the Justice Department before they are shown in the U.S. is old, but he thinks the rule will be repealed. HE NOTED that both films had already been shown on the Congress's private network. Refusing to obey the regulation ap- parently has no legal consequences, Stevens said. le said he had not been contacted by the Justice Department. See FILMS, Page 2 Reagan's policies draw fire from naturalits WASHINGTON (AP) - The coun- try's top conservation groups said yesterday it will take more than a new team at the EPA to reverse President Reagan's "uninformed and uncaring" environmental policies. At a joint news conference, the nine organizations said Reagan's anti-en- vironmental policies at the Environ- mental Protection Agency were just as prevalent in the dozen other gover- nment agencies charged with protec- ting the public. "EPA is but the tip of the iceberg," said Louise Dunlap, president of the Environmental Policy Center. "The Regan administration's campaign to strip the American people of adequate environmental protection as suc- cessfully penetrated nearly every See NATURALISTS, Page 3 Daily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS Ladies and gentlemen School of Education Dean Joan Stark advises students at Sunday's Honors Convocation to consider other viewpoints to solving problems. See story, page 5. TODAY Dream on I F A NETWORK television program offered you the the chance to fulfill your wildest fantasy, you'd probably ask for about three yours alone with the network's top actor or actress. Unfortunately, you r. .i.se e m s-.h hy1721A h M;A + -q+ n ..s R..1+.. 1...hov Commerical control T IHOSE OBNOXIOUSLY loud television commercials may not have long to live - a device has been developed that could eliminate the problems of commer- cials on radio and television seeming louder than the regular programming. Developed by the CBS Technology Center, the automatic loudness controller attempts to ap- proximate the response of the human ear by measuring "perceived loudness" and to adjust a broadcast signal ac- cnrdinglv The Federal nmmunietinns Cnmmissinn said problem is not an overly loud sound track, but human per-. ception. "Quite often, a TV program will end at a fairly low volume," says Leon Matthews, president of the American Association of Advertising Agencies. "Then the commer- cial comes on, and it's been produced at a sound level designed for most people in a room to hear. Sometimes that contract can be startling."tg The Daily almanac /"\N TU nmcT . in 1179 TYTnivrcity r Draidnt Rahhbn * 1935 - Ann Arbor experienced a "mud rain," which University experts said was a result of the severe dust storms that were devastating the west and southwest United States at the time. " 1955 - A University radiation monitoring system showed almost twice the normal amount of radiation in the atmosphere around Ann Arbor due to a nuclear blast in Nevada two weeks earlier. 0 i l i