ppeals delay ASMSU election results By MARY ANN CHICK All-University Student Judiciary (AUSJ). If AUSJ does not grant The organization had also endorsed several candidates in the been signed by the cochairman of the SUte Newi Staff Writer the appeal the candidates can take their case to Vice President of Undergraduate Advisory college races. Council of the College of Business. I Student Affairs Eldon R. Nonnamaker. days after the last vote was cast in the ASMSU elections None of the candidates were available for comment on the The election commission turned down the vs after the election results were first announced, it still is appeal as it felt that no Turner said this implied that the advisory council endorsed both action by the commission was warranted. in if J- Brian Raymond Will be the next ASMSU president possibility of filing future appeals. candidates and may have influenced the race. Cain withdrew a seventh appeal he filed ■the representatives will be. If the candidates do not make a further appeal, the election against the elections commissioner Monday night at the hearing. Raymond said he has asked Turner to separate the appeals so the i the ASMSU election commission announced Wednesday results will be certified at 5 p.m. Friday and it is possible that the The decisions were delayed for two presidential race can be settled as soon as possible. fsix challenges to the election results were denied, new ASMSU board will meet sometime next week. days after the hearing because the election commission wanted to issue its Lful candidates still have two more chances to delay the The five races that were challenged are the representatives seats writing. ' opinions in "There Could be difficulties if Tim (Cain) tries to take over the certification of the election, bringing the student .in the Colleges of Education, Business, Agriculture and Natural Raymond, the leading vote-getter in the presidential new board," Raymond said. "But I don't think he will." Lent action to a standstill for even longer. Resources, Engineering and Natural Science. race, said he thought Alvan Turner, who challenged the In other action, the election commission announced that a ■the old ASMSU board could meet and carry on business, The sixth challenge was filed by Tim Cain against the student College of Business recount winner and the presidential race, might of the votes in the races of the appeal the race again. colleges of Natural Science and Social ■he members have said they would rather not, ASMSU has organization, "Students Who Give a Damn." Cain had asked that Turner, who ran for the College of Business seat, first filed the Science did not change the results of the ■once this term. judicial action be taken against the organization which had respective races. The total appeal because the State News ran an "article," actually a letter to number of votes changed slightly as the Tndidates have until 5 p.m. Friday to file an appeal with the campaigned heavily against him and his Progressive Action slate. the editor, endorsing a candidate for the two races. The letter had several votes that had been marked in ink. computer did not count VOLUME 169 NUMBER 57 THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1975 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN 48824 Ford finds no evidence of Nixon-Saigon bargain WASHINGTON (AP) - President Ford Anderson said Ford will present "some "I would only suggest that based on my told bipartisan congressional leaders Wed¬ recommendations that would require con¬ actions over the past four years, that the nesday he has reviewed confidential re¬ gressional approval." Anderson said these North Vietnamese should not lightly disre¬ cords of the Nixon Administration and has were not spelled out. gard such expressions of concern ..." found no evidence of any secret agreement Asked if the former president had The press secretary said he understood between Washington and Saigon. envisioned U.S. the exchanges involved "various levels and military intervention, Ford inspected what his press secretary Nessen said, "I just don't have any idea various people" including Nixon and South called "confidential exchanges" in which what the intention was." Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu, and resigned President Richard M. Nixon However, he quoted that they took place before the signing of a Nixon news assured the Saigon government the United conference statement of March 15, 1973, the Paris accord. States would "react vigorously" to any that Hanoi had been warned about U.S. When pressed to say whether Ford was military offensive by Hanoi. concern of violations of the January, 1973, holding out the possibility of U.S. military There apparently was no conllict be¬ Paris agreement that ended direct U.S. intervention, Nessen said, "The whole thing tween Ford's reference to "no is moot," because of the law barring a secret military involvement in Southest Asia. agreements" and Press Secretary Ron Nessen quoted Nixon as saymg; return of American forces to Indochina. Nessen's disclosure of '"confidential ex¬ changes." Nessen had said that "in substance the private exchanges do not MSU's $16 million Center ier the P differ from what was stated public^." Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D - Wash., contended Tuesday there had been "secret S. Viets' will to fight agreements" between the Nixon Adminis¬ tration and Saigon officials. FINAL DRAWINGS RELEASED Jackson said later that Nessen's state¬ ment is "only a partial disclosure." He said Congress should "obtain all relevant pa¬ tested in fierce battle ienter pers." By MICHELE BURGEN nearing reality Ford met with 16 Democratic Republican leaders of Congress to discuss the major foreign policy address he will and deliver at a joint Senate - House session at 9 SAIGON, South Vietnam (AP) — The Saigon military command reported that its troops pushed North Vietnamese forces out of a provincial capital Wednesday in a fierce Van Thieu's palace Tuesday had landed his F5 fighter-bomber at a Viet Cong-held airfield. Thieu, who is widely blamed for the military losses, was not hurt, but at Groundbreaking ceremonies, scheduled for January 1976 p.m. EDT Thursday. least two persons were killed. State News Staff Writer will go ahead as planned as efforts to collect contributions will Rep. John Anderson, R - 111., chairman of battle that was watched closely as an Air force officials said the flier had acted w $16 million Center for the indicator of whether the South Vietnamese Performing Arts is one probably continue well after the facility is completed. the House Republican Conference, emerged alone, but political sources said more I closer to completion with the architects' finalized to report that the President offered army has a will to fight. Students will still be able to receive substantial discounts opposition politicians went into hiding to ings of the finished structure released last week, assurances that "no private agreements North Vietnamese attacked Xuan Loc, 40 avoid a new police crackdown an dissent. A e huge facility, hailed by supporters as MSU's cultural when they purchase tickets for any of the events to be held in were entered into between our government miles east of Saigon, before dawn in their fcr, will provide educational facilities for drama, music, the center, Perrin said. first drive on a major city in the Saigon previously progovernment Buddhist patri¬ • and the government of South Vietnam." arch joined the calls for Thieu's resignation. 7e and classroom instruction. It will replace the 36-year-old "We will keep it (cost of admission) as low as In other words, Anderson said, "there are region, since winning control of three- possible for French President Valery Giscard ntorium, built originally to house a swimming pool. no hidden chapters still to be revealed." fourths of South Vietnam. Saigon's students and for the general public," he said. "I foresee no d'Estaing told his cabinet in Paris the South 'here are many demands for Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott of demoralized troops withdrew without a space that can't be met, change in that." Vietnamese government must be in the ■ciihrly for the Dept. of Theater, which is woefully lacking Pennsylvania said Ford told the members of fight from central, northern and coastal hands of persons willing to resume political icilities," said Robert Perrin, vice president for University The new ceriter, to be built on the intramural lot across from Congress his television - radio address to areas last month and Communist-led forces negotiations with the Viet Cong, a Owen Hall, will contain three primary theaters, the largest them will feature a strong appeal "for a new now appear to be trying to encircle the statement interpreted by French political i sees no limitations to student accessiblity to the being the Great Hall with a 2,500 seat capacity. Designed to be era of bipartisanship" in foreign affairs. jittery capital. observers as a demand for Thieu's An unofficial source claimed as many as [ing's facilities, and students will be able to take advantage s acoustically superior to the existing Auditorium facility, the Anderson said Ford made a strong plea at 300 North Vietnamese had been killed in resignation. many recital and practice rooms, equipment and hall will also include a full proscenium stage suitable for the meeting "to avoid recriminations of any In neighboring Cambodia, Communist-led ooms as they do in any other university building. kind" over developments in Indochina. The the fighting at Xuan Loc. There was no symphony and dance. Khmer Rouge insurgents penetrated ie campaign to raise funds for the center is not yet in full Two smaller theaters, accommodating approximately 600 President has been highly critical of confirmation, and that figure generally was Phnom Penh's northern defense line at S, Perrin said, and he does not know how much money has and 250 persons, will be used for dramatic and musical recital congressional inaction on his requests for felt to be high. I raised. In Saigon, a Viet Cong spokesman said Stung Kambot, seven miles north of the presentations. additional military aid money for South the pilot who bombed President Nguyen city, but field reports said government Vietnam and Cambodia. forces had driven the rebels from the market at the center of Kompong Speu. 30 miles to the west. The reports said rebels drove defenders CT's fear union take from a former combat police fort and an abandoned refugee camp at by government troops. Stung Kambot, then dug in and were under counterattack Soliders also I By BRUCE RAY WALKER (continued on page 10) March to hold a noon meeting of the CTs "My logic for calling for a reduction in the "If we only had a 25-member quorum, process rather than being appointed to the 1 State News Staff Writer where they could propose their amend¬ quorum is because we are dealing with a then some group could come in with about position by the board. Hawkins said that not enough people |ughout the history of unions in this ments. The group included Beatrice Lin, a group of people that have to conform to 15 people and filibuster till everyone got tired and left for home, and then vote to apply for a representative position to |leaders t'lere and has been the the fear by both secretary in the Honors College. rigid schedules, have families, and their time is very precious," Lin said. warrant election. He feels that money rank-and-file "The constitution requires 190 signatures give money to some socialist group or raise an Man lands mem- f t"at some elite group would take for a special meeting or approval of the Lin said that if the 100-member quorum the dues to some high figure," Hawkins they need could be saved by not mailing out ®e reins of power. Executive Board," Lin said. "We decided to continues to stand, then members will show said. voting forms to every member when 1 the _ same fears have manifested m„m„rcu go the petition route because we realized up for meetings that are called off for lack of Another amendment the group is offering perhaps only one person is running. What the dissident CTs said they really 1m the f'ec^ling MSU Employes that we had to meet a 100 member quorum a quorum. The average attendance at allows rank-and-file members to sit on some 1MSUEA) which represents MSU's and we felt that by going out and talking to meetings during the last year has been 35. of the committees set up to run the union, while the present document restricts only fear is that the chief negotiator for the union, Harold Schmidt, is trying to run the in jail after | n 2.000 clerical-technical workers people we would generate more interest in When a quorum is not met the executive executive board, and through it, the union. our proposals and hopefully meet the board continues to run union business until board members to those committee seats. V' at a special meeting of the the next meeting. Lin said this could lead to Hawkins defends the present provision "Harold Schmidt has been calling the quorum." cop lot bash at noon in shots for MSUEA. He is structuring the Erickson Hall kiva, a The 100-member quorum rule was too much power for the board. by saying that the members of the board J0.. lTs that feel the union's new Hawkins, though, said that he could not are privy to information and expertise not association so that its power rests on the adopted with the constitution at February's Ption was "railroaded" through last advocate available to the other members and so could Board where he can control it," Lin said. meeting and was the major contention of lowering the quorum , require¬ wi" introduce a number those opposing passage of the document. ment, but would in fact like to see it raised do a better job on the committees. Hawkins said that it is true that Schmidt of pents they have prepared. These Now it has become a major contention again to 200 to protect the union from small The group is also advocating that the had a lot to do with the shaping of the Most drivers instinctively slow¬ pents attempt to limit the representatives that handle union constitution and has a lot of influence with power of with the group of CTs asking for only a groups that might try to come in and run area down when thev see a police oapj the board, even though he has no vote. f u've hoard members of the union, a group of that conducts the 25-member quorum. things. grievances be selected in an election "Harold comes on a little strong at times, nearby, but even the East Lansing ' police station could not stop an 18 - J®ay business of the union. but he really knows his job and has helped year -old Lansing man early Wednes¬ IrH,?°r<*S' dissident group of us a lot," Hawkins said. "The board relies a day morning. LnH L ^ ll ma" b0ard WU1 rUn the make the imP°rt*nt decisions Late abortions OKd for clinics lot on Harold and we'd be stupid if we didn't take his advice because we pay him a lot of but if he gets out of line I'll be the Manuel Delgado, 4720 Bristol St., hit a parked car and utility pole in L, ° jh ® membership, even though money, first to front of the police station at 12:35 tighten the reins." ' a.m. Wednesday, (®tings members may show "P »t LANSING (UPI) — Abortions during any Tuesday and are concerned primarily with Bureau of Health Facilities, said his Schmidt could not be reached for police parking lot. winding up in the US** of the union, John stage of pregnancy are legal under emer¬ physical plant and personnel requirements. department will begin inspecting and comment. - Both Lin and Hawkins have little hope Officers on duty inside the station, ™aidthat posedchanges to he will fight most of gency clinic licensing regulations put into The rules will be in effect until permanent licensing abortion and outpatient surgery clinics funds for that much progress will be made at the including one officer in training, the consitution. effect by the state Dept. of Public Health. rules can be drawn up and approved. as soon as personnel are walked out and placed Delgado under Jte ,,t 2 Would weaken th* Power Despite recommendations from medical The licensing regulations were written to approved by the state legislature. meeting today because of the time arrest for driving under the influence lie f1 f University°ard and needs t0 negotiate would make it experts thkt potentially dangerous late- pregnancy abortions be performed only in implement a clinic licensing law passed last September. The regulations originally The 14-week limit, however, has been included in the permanent regulations that restrictions. Hawkins has suggested that they set up a joint committee to study the of liquor and housed him in the dt^J jail overnight. IverV rer the union. Sma"' vocal min<>rity to hospitals, the emergency regulations allow prohibited late-term clinic abortions but that stipulation was dropped on the advice must be approved by the attorney general and the Legislative Service Committee constitution and suggest changes, but Lin says she does not want such a study group Delgado was released on $100 bond. A trial date has not been set. physicians in abortion clinics to perform ■St,! Ts ln't'»ted w>sa *fter a abortions after the 14th week of pregnancy. of the attorney general's office. Dr. Herman Ziel, director of the state before they become effective. That could take up to six months. and will continue to ask for special meetings until they get their amendments passed. petition rfrive in Th« new regulations were put into effect y 2 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan v Thur9