He Monday MICHIGAN .. . preached benevolence, Cloudy STATE MEWS abearance, »ympathy, . warmer, high in the ience - but not love. STATE upper Hermann Hesse UNIVERSITY - ie 63 Number 171 East Lansing, Michigan Monday, May 3, 1971 t: Police close campsites POlia '■rg of antiwar demonstrators ' il WASHINGTON (AP) - In a surprise, early Sunday morning move police closed and cleared the headquarters camp of "President Nixon decided to suspend the Constitution" and created a threat of violence by sending the demonstrators out into the streets. had left for discussion on how to for Monday. were In early afternoon another dozen or so arrested in the regroup militant antiwar demonstrators. But George Washington protest leaders vowed to rally their A Davis colleague, Sid Peck, said the University area after a crowd had gathered. scattered followers and carry out a Nixon administration has imposed martial By 5 p.m. total arrests were reported by curtailed plan to disrupt governmental law on Washington and acted illegally in police at 242, all on misdemeanor charges, activity with massive traffic tie - ups today. revoking a campsite permit. mostly unlawful entry or disorderly The swift police coup obviously The order revoking the permit for use of conduct. was aimed at preventing or West Potomac Park as a campsite was There still had been no greatly diluting major instances confrontations and wholesale arrests today. served about 6 a.m. EDT while most of the of violence at that time. It was based on a gamble that the thousands of young, predominantly white Several hundred Women's Liberation dispersed demonstrators could not effectively protesters still were asleep. supporters did their own thing in a street regroup and achieve their disruptive goal. Police told leaders the demonstrators march in the George Washington University It appeared that the effectiveness of the would be given a reasonable time to area. At one point they were prevented maneuver could not be clearly assessed disperse without arrests being made. But from hauling down an American flag. before early this morning. But it obviously they said those who refused to leave would In addition to revoking the West created be jailed. Potomac permit, Police Chief confusion among the Jerry V. demonstrators. And their leaders conceded The move sent thousands of sleepy Wilson told the demonstrators they would it sent an undetermined demonstratorsstraggjingin small groups out not be allowed to set percentage of up camps at other them off for home. into city streets manned by thousands of parks or public areas in the city. At least through the first 10 hours blue uniformed policemen. - The dispersed demonstrators found such after the camp closing there was scant Some apparently were heeding leaders' places - DuPont Circle, the hippie haven, violence in the heavily policed city. More appeals to remain in the city for today's for example ■ sealed off and cordoned by than 100 persons had been arrested on action. Hundreds of others headed for rings of policemen standing about 20 feet misdemeanor charges by midafternoon but highways and the hitch - hike route back apart. the arrests were carried out quietly. home. Similarly all the downtown area was Leaders of the People's Coalition for It was not clear how many were in the saturated with officers. Each major Peace and Justice, chief sponsors of the park when the eviction order came. Police intersection had a policeman on each estimated that at the height of an allday corner while others strolled the sidewalks demonstrations, said at an afternoon news Rush police conference there would be 12 to 13 major demonstrations at intersections, rock music concert Saturday there were perhaps 45,000 persons in the area. in midblock and patrol cars rolled in numbers. large circles and bridges to prevent government workers But clearly many of these were merely Ironstrators rush an armored police vehicle Sunday after officials ordered antiwar protesters to leave their from moving from their suburban homes to curious or seeking a good time on a The massive police presence appeared to be keeping the protesters moving as they mpgrounds near the Lincoln Memorial. The small band of demonstrators jumped the vehicle as most were their offices. This was a beautiful spring day and did not spend the pullback from 21 walked in small groups toward havens night with the more dedicated |nng their campsites peacefully. AP Wirephoto sites projected earlier. Rennie Davis, a coalition leader said demonstrators. the campuses of Georgetown and on George Shortly after noon, the police swept Washington University or headed out ot the town on route home. campsite and arrested 61 persons who Moratorium had refused to leave. The arrests were made peacefully with some demonstrators Applications and Jackson state universities and others in a chanting "Power to the People" and with one displaying Viet Cong flag as they were loaded into waiting police vans. Applications for six sophomore and By BARBARA FARY ASMSU has invited President Wharton supported the moratorium and were junior positions on the All - University Augusta, Ga., last spring. and Trustee Patricia They were charged with unlawful entry State News Staff Writer Carrigan, D-Ann Arbor contacting individual professors asking which carries Student Juiliciary and two sophomore ASMSU Chairman Harold Buckner sent a to speak. Their ;eplies have not a potential $500 fine. yet been permission for represenatives of Veterans ■ nesday's campus moratorium letter dated Sunday to President Wharton received and the location of the teach in for Peace to address Twenty five to 30 more - junior positions on Student Faculty- classes Monday - demonstrators were arrested in front of Judiciary are available in Judicial its will be a joint effort by ASMSU also remains uncertain. (See related story, p. 3) through Thursday. Lincoln Memorial near the reflecting pool. ie Student Mobilization Committee A memorial service will beheld at 10:30 A peace vigil will be maintained at Programs Office, 339 Student Services urging that the University be closed The same charge was made against them. , according to ASMSU spokesman on a.m. at the Alumni Chapel with a local Demonstration Hall all day and night Bldg. Applications must be returned F. Jaeger, Wednesday for moratorium activities. Few, if any, of the top leaders of the later than 5 p.m. Greenfield, Wis., minister officiating. The service will last Wednesday, he said. no May 12. ■more. until noon. protest were among those arrested. They "ASMSU is organizing the morning [ ilactivities planned are part of a activities and turning the moratorium over SMC has called for students to boycott student moratorium against the classes to attend a memorial service at im war called by the National to SMC at noon," Jaeger said. "We are working together on a full day's activities noon at Beaumont Tower. There students NO STATE AID |)it Mobe, the Associated Student to honor the memory of the slain students will be asked to wear around their necks > and the National Student cards bearing the names of and to protest the war." Michigan zation. ASMSU U' faces beetles alone passed a resolution Jaeger said Wednesday's moratorium will soldiers killed in the war. r by acclamation last week which They will then inarch silently behind a I for the begin with a teach - in at 9 a.m., continuing University to be shut down until 10:30 a.m., to discuss issues of black coffin provided by the Lansing Area war wry of the students slain at Kent and peace. Peace Council to Demonstration Hail where the coffin will be placed on the from surviving after they hatch out of the tight bark of the trees steps of the building. The namecards will be By MICHAEL FOX are chemicals such as DDT, which environmentalists do not wish dropped in. John J. Masterson, associate State News Staff Writer to see used at all in the state. [nions, U' to discuss professor of mathematics, and Dhirendra Sharma, visiting associate professor of philosophy, are tentatively scheduled to speak. to The Michigan Dept. of Agriculture has no authority or funds help the University meet the potential threat of Dutch elm disease spreading to trees on the main campus, B. Dale Ball, Ball said he sort its rather hoped that in future years the City of Lansing will tight bark diseased trees and see that those are chipped than stockpiled. The beetle broods cannot survive in loose director of the state agency, said Friday. bark trees. The Lansing Area Peace Council will lead infract modifications a group to the Capitol from Demonstration Hall, Jaeger said, to form a "People's Congress" in support of the Peoples' Peace Some 3,000 diseased and infected elm trees have been stockpiled by the City of Lansing at a private concern, Peterson Wood Chips, at 3101 Pine Tree Road, about four miles southwest of campus. "I still have some personal reservations about whether the beetles are going to travel that far to the main He noted that his information was that a half mile was a campus," Ball said. good By BILL HOLSTEIN distance for beetles to travel even in a good wind. MSU State News Staff Writer modifying certain provisions of the existing Treaty. President Wharton wrote Ball on April 22 to ask for his full There will be no official inarch, entomologists contend the beetles could travel two to three miles. agreement. however, support in a campaign either to remove or to chip the trees which Ball added that the prevailing winds are Darrell De Fay, president of Local 999, because ASMSU was unable to obtain a have beetle broods expected to hatch between the middle and the southwesterly, but the service locationis actually south - southwest of MSU, and hatched beetles employes union, Local said Sunday his union will open parade permit, he said. The Peoples' end of May. would not fly directly to the campus. ■ and the skilled trades union, Local negotiations today for the first time since Congress will appear before the legislature "We don't have any good answers, just a lot of concern. We Ball said he was making his staff available to work on the pen negotiations this week with at 8 p.m. the it was organized and chartered as an don't want to give anybody a great deal of hope," Ball said. s»> concerning modifications and situation. The Jiiversity Spray Committee was offshoot of Local 1585 in 1969. Jaeger said the MSU Veterans for Peace He said the materials needed to effectively prevent the beetles reportedly 's in certain provisions of their assuming MSU leadership in handling the problem on Friday. live contracts. University negotiators and officials of Local 1585 at this point are unwilling or J1 unions hope to ratify agreements unable to predict the issues during the lie University before midnight June negotiations. en the contracts expire. LOOK/}T IT THIS Alligators voted off list) Issues that will not be up for | negotiations are not directed at v contract but merely at negotiations and are already settled include hospital medical coverage and a general iky... it we Ge wage increase of 20 cents an hour, Darwin A. Parks. Local 1585 president, said mkrmovroFw wy plan Thursda> Parks said his union will "numerous proposals" to the University make WVoutswap AND i of threatened species "which would in the long run save the mp/s /viice MIAMI (AP) — The American country's biggest tanner of alligator ithdrawal University money." He did not elaborate. and cayman hides, and Jack Metz, the Alligator Council, concerned the Parks and Patrick Fleser, chief steward head of Operation Alligator, a firm that alligators' existence was being of the union, said "inadequacies" exist in cuts hides for shoe manufacturers. threatened, led the flight in the 1960s the contract concerning definitions. They to have the reptile "We had no plans, and have none |r mid placed on the did not say just what these inadequacies now, to invade or infiltrate." Metz endangered species list. Now, the are or what needs redefining. said. "That's an old and strong charge, group has voted to ask the Interior - Reports in the local press may have Dept. to remove the alligator from the really. We were invited to attend a T'l'N (AP) - The U.S. Navy said implied that health and safety regulations i. list. meeting and we were invited to come •mi . °xPeets to complete its would be an issue in the negotiations. Parks The switch, some members back. We had a vote and voted the way Im ? program bV mid-1972, but said the regulations would be "no part of occurred when the council say, we felt." | r"an advisers would remain. negotiations." infiltrated by hide dealers and tanners was Joe Kellett, a member of the original , disclosure came as battlefield Garold D. Kortge, asst. director of who profited from the days when an group from Merritt Island, Fla., said, Lf °PP< d off to one of its lowest Personnel Labor Relations, said the army of poachers operated in the "They're trying to open the market p; with only small scattered regulations were a "closed subject" and "staff we've gone through before." swamps. again. We killed it by protecting the The new members point out they alligator. W sai'ri a,lvlst'rs w'" b*' here lor some Leonard Glander, director of the were invited to come to the council Kellett said the group led by Metz ■know " s^)0'4esir,aa- "How long, we personnel center, will be the University's meeting and deny they are invaders. and Klapisch was invited to a meeting sonu months ago to demonstrate how representative in the negotiations, Kortge The vote came at the council's April |i "ovv llas 13.200 men in said. 22 meeting at Titusville, Fla., and they detected the difference in species. |hnfuf"' C()l»Pared to a peak He said neither side of the negotiations sparked immediate controversy. "That opened the door for them to I snoku APrH, 1969. (Please turn to back page) "Commercial interests have come to the next meeting and vote," 1 re[H)rted the Navy had infiltrated the council," said member he said. •t vp-L ! combat craft and 75 Bill Partington of Maitland. Fla. "They Metz and Klapisch claim they are J under m° tbe ®°uth Vietnamese Guess Who tickets knew it has had recognition as an not really at odds with I"*** 1 QRO ')rogram that beean authoritative group and that it will conservationists. Pvebeon .? Seventeen naval bases Tickets for the May 14 Guess Who carry weight with the Interior However, "We are on opposite sides I sPokesm'Ven the Vietnamese. concert go on sale today at the Union, Department." of the fence with preservationists, J HtS" ,Sajd the vessels were Campbell's Smoke Shop and Marshall In the forefront of the new faction people who don't want to kill any ■Pfopertv | in ln excess of ° a"d tho Music (East Lansing store). Ticket in the council are Jack klapisch, the animal " Metz said. $7 million. prices are $2.50 and $3.50. Monda'ay. 2 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan May 3,, news No AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - quick Mideast minister of state for foreign Faisal agreed on the need for an peace seen repeated it. The key to peace implementation of the UN is "Few countries have gained much by was and have so much broader Middle tistp summary Secretary of State William P. Rogers arrived in heavily affairs told newsmen after early peace settlement. Rogers conferred for two hours Rogers may hear much the with the monarch in Riyadh, the same thing from King Hussein of the Security Council resolution of November, 1967." to gain by peace," Rogers said. 22-hour stop in Amman R?.*ers during his ston" Pains possibilities for"' s" to !"' 10 *tre„ the wires of AP «nd UPI. guarded Amman Sunday after " tfVhi n receiving a strong plea for the Saudi capital. Jordan when they meet today in That resolution called for bef,,,*, flvintT flying on tn T4>hanon on to Lebanon l