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VOLUME 78, NUMBER 75
Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. ATHENS, GEORGIA 30601
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President, Chou
seek contacts
PEKING - President Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai,
holding their fourth working session behind a silk curtain
of secrecy, sought a formula Thursday for sidestepping
the crucial issue of Taiwan in a way that would permit
expanded Sino-American diplomatic contacts.
As the two leaders concluded a three-hour meeting at
the Great Hall of the People, followed by a small,
two-hour dinner with their wives, the major sticking point
appeared to be the long-standing deadlock over U.S.
diplomatic recognition of Nationalist China and Peking’s
claim of sovereignty over the Taiwan stronghold.
China refuses to consider full diplomatic relations with
the United States as long as it recognizes the Chiang
Kai-shek regime, relations which Nixon affirmed before he
left Washington. The problem, it was understood, involved
finding a way to set the Taiwan issue aside for the time
being and implement the Nixon-Chou agreement in
principle to maintain continuing contacts, possibly in the
capital of a third country such as Canada.
Communists leave talks
PARIS - The Vietnamese Communists denounced
President Nixon’s alleged intensification of the Indochina
War and walked out of Thursday’s session of the Paris
peace talks without waiting for the allied side to speak.
Observers said the action apparently was tied in with
Nixon’s historic trip to China. They said it was believed
the abrupt walkout was aimed at underlining the
Vietnamese Communists’ warnings that the Vietnam War
can be settled only through direct negotiations with them,
and not with Peking or Moscow.
The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegations read
out their angry attacks against Nixon, proposed that the
next session be held next Thursday and marched out.
Senate forbids some busing
WASHINGTON - Accepting a bipartisan leadership
compromise, the Senate voted Thursday to forbid use of
federal money to bus students solely to achieve racial
balance unless local school officials freely seek to use
busing.
On three quick votes, members accepted the
compromise offered by Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield and Republican Leader Hugh Scott to head off
a bruising floor fight over busing.
The Mansfield-Scott amendment also would forbid
busing children over exceptionally long distances, or to
schools “substantially inferior’’ to those closest to their
homes.
District ruling may change
WASHINGTON - The n**w attorney general designate
Thursday indicated he might withdraw objections to
Georgia’s congressional plan except that he is reluctant to
overrule his predecessor.
Rep Fletcher Thompson, R-Ga., said he got this
impression in a brief conference with Richard Kleindienst,
expected ’to be confirmed soon by the Senate as attorney
general.
Attorney General John Mitchell, resigning to manage
President Nixon’s reelection campaign, recently objected
to a “crooked line” the Georgia General Assembly drew
as the south border of Thompson’s 5th District.
Reorganization bogs down
ATLANTA - Gov. Jimmy Carter’s Senate floor leader
said Thursday there appeared to be “a concentrated effort
to stop reorganization” by allowing related legislation to
bog down in committee.
“It looks as though we are approaching the point of
criticalness and the entire reorganization program is in
danger," Sen. A1 Holloway of Albany said.
Sen. Stanley Smith of Perry, chairman of the
Committee on Economy, Reorganization and Efficiency
in Government, said Carter wants to meet with the
committee but has not been able to set up a meeting.
GEORGE WALLACE ADDRESSES PRESS CONVENTION
He called disarmament a major campaign issue
Miller to head
evolution ticket
By JIMMY JOHNSON
Harold Miller was nominated by
the Evolution Party last night as its
candidate for president of the
student body while another campus
political party, Coalition ’72 met
for a brainstorming session.
The two parties met in Memorial
Hall in preparation for the SGA
elections which will be held Apr. 5.
Both Evolution and Coalition
have been organized this year to
offer opposition to Action-Union
which presently holds the majority
of power in student government.
Nominated for other positions to
fill the Evolution executive ticket
are: vice-president, Scott McLarty
and Royce Hayes, and secretary,
Meg Franklin and Royce Hayes.
According to party chairman
Royce Hayes, nominations will be
open until the next Evolution
meeting, Mar. 2.
Candidates around whom the
party has organized are David
Alonso for president and Linda
Chafin for vice-president. The
secretarial position is still open as
are senatorial slots in both parties.
While Coalition discussed
solutions to problems of the
University it wished to include in its
platform, Evolution heard its
publicity chairman, Carlton L.
Curtis, outline possibilities for
conduction of the spring campaign.
A proposal was heard by
Coalition to coordinate its senatorial
campaign with Evolution in order to
avoid splitting the vote not
attracted by Action-Union.
David John, who introduced the
motion, said that the two parties
were not politically unlike and that
they were harming their chances of
success against the larger
Action-Union party.
The proposal was not accepted
by Coalition leaders who said that
the Evolution group was not well
organized and used tactics of which
they disapproved.
“I haven’t compromised on the
tactics that Action-Union has used
and I will not compromise on the
tactics that Scott (McLarty) and
Harold (Miller) use,” David Alonso
said.
Evolution vice-presidential
nominee Scott McLarty said that his
party was not interested in
combining with Coalition.
Busing bod
—Vandiver
Former governor and 1972
senatorial hopeful S. Ernest
Vandiver said last night that
Georgians want an efficient and
honest government and that he can
fulfill this in the future as he has
done in the past.
Vandiver spoke to the
Demosthenian Society at
Demosthenian Hall about issues
Georgians face and answered
questions after his speech.
When asked his position on
forced busing, Vandiver said that
“forced busing to achieve numerical
balance is senseless and doesn't
seem to be working. Possibly the
nation is now ready for a freedom
of choice plan that could occur in
the next few yean. Another
possible answer to the busing
question might be the passage of a
Constitutional amendment to take
away the jurisdiction the Supreme
Court has in this area.”
Wallace confident
about Fla. primary
By CAROLYN STEWART
Feature editor
Five hundred people came to
hear Alabama Governor George C.
Wallace speak on busing at the
Georgia Press Institute here
yesterday, only to find that Wallace
had the Florida presidential primary
on his mind.
“I may not be the only candidate
in the Florida primary,” said
Wallace, “but I’m the only
candidate in the Florida primary
that expresses the viewpoint of the
great majority of the citizenry of
this country.”
Wallace pointed out that “in
1968 actually both candidates began
to touch on identically the same
issues as we were touching on.
“Even this year in the Florida
primary, candidates on the national
level have now changed their
positions 180 degrees after they
found that the great mass of
shipyard workers, steelworkers, little
businessmen all the way from Key
West to Pensacola are fed up with
bureaucrats and theoreticians
looking down their noses at the
average citizen and writing the
guidelines for his money and for his
child,” Wallace said.
“People can do anything and
they’re doing it in Florida.”
Wallace drew plenty of laughter
as he told anecdotes about and
poked fun at himself, President
Nixon and the press.
Wallace placed the strategic arms
race and the government’s move
toward unilateral disarmament in
the forefront of the election issues.
“The average man knows that the
only way you can negotiate with
the Soviets or the Chinese is
through a position of strength,”
Wallace said. He suggested the
United States quit disarming itself
thinking the Soviets and the Chinese
will follow. ,
“We want to regain and retain
absolute superiority until the time
comes when we can have genuine
bilateral and multilateral
disarmament talks,” Wallace said.
The tax structure in the United
States is “out of kilter,” according
to Wallace. Taxes need not be raised
if some of the loopholes in the
present structure are plugged, he
said.
Law and order is still an issue,
the presidential hopeful said, when
in the moat civilized country in the
world “you can’t even walk on the
streets of your nation’s capital.”
Wallace attacked the poverty
program for wasting money. Money
has a tendency to get lost in the
welfare program, he said.
The way the welfare program is
spending moeny, it’s going to
“break every city, county and state
government and they’re going to
break every middle class taxpayer,”
he said.
Billions of dollars have gone
down the drain in the foreign aid
program also, Wallace said. Much of
the money being spent today in
»y FRAN FULTON
Joyce Taylor and Rosemary Goad
made public yesterday their plans to
quit their jobs as area coordinators,
bringing to five the number of
housing personnel who have
resigned in protest of housing policy
changes.
The two were proceeded by
Robert Krause, assistant director of
Housing, and by Bob Ferrell and
Ruth Reidy, area coordinators of
the Reed and Myers communities.
To Joyce Taylor, Brumby Hall’s
coordinator, the change in housing
policy will be significant. The
administration will put the brakes
on the department’s student
development program, a change
which she said she cannot accept.
“I don’t want the status quo. 1
want to push forward,” she said.
“The administration is asking us to
bock down.”
Ms. Taylor is leaving the field of
college administration and hopes to
open a craft shop with her husband.
Political pressure in a public
institution is inevitable, a “reality,”
ahe said. “I’m not sure that I’m at a
point where I want to deal with
these realities.”
Rosemary Goad, of Church
Community, also plans to leave, but
would make no statement until she
has discussed the resignation with
her staff.
Diana Leggett, associate director
of Housing, and Nicky Nichols, area
coordinator of Creswell Hall, have
also resigned. They are leaving for
foreign aid could have been spent
“on environmental problems ir our
own country, for the national
defense and for the elderly on social
security.”
“The average citizens are tired of
giving billions of dollars to countries
who not only spit upon us in the
United Nations and make fun of us
and call us aggressors,” Wallace said,
“but actually aid our enemies in
South Vietnam.”
Although Wallace believes in
quality education and cited his
record as governor of Alabama to
prove this, he thinks busing is “silly
and foolish.”
reasons other than the change in
policy, they said.
These resignations leave Bill
Hamer of Russell Hall as the only
area coordinator who has not quit.
“My plans are still indefinite,”
Hamer said. “I’m working on my
doctorate in counseling, and I'll
have to be at the University next
year.”
Two of the four coordinators
who resigned because of the change
in housing policy were thinking of
leaving anyway, according to
Housing Director Richard
Armstrong.
Next year’s change will be
“considerable,” he said. “It will not
be a slight alteration, but an
enforcement of regulations as
opposed to emphasis on the
individual.”
But Dr. Armstrong is staying on.
“I am in agreement with the
decision to shift emphasis in the
residence hall program,” he said.
Petitions available
Students who want to run for
student government offices
independent of any campus political
party may pick up petitions for
nomination beginning Monday.
Independent senate candidates
need to collect 100 signatures or 10
per cent of the school or college,
whichever is smaller. Candidates for
executive offices need 300
signatures to be entered on the
ballot.
Petitions are due Mar. 23. SGA
elections will be April 5. Petitions
can be obtained at 229 Memorial
Hall.
Taylor, Goad resign
as area coordinators
Doctors seek enzyme contraceptive
SPERM CELLS ATTACK EGG WITH MEMBRANES SCRAPED AWAY
Ru^hit gametes caught in act by scanning electron microscope
By WALTER MAHONEY
Masters and Johnson it's not.
But a team of University
biochemists may soon culminate
12 yean of research into a
contraceptive that will make new
waves in birth control methods.
Under the directorahip of Dr.
William L. Williams, a research
professor in the Department of
Biochemistry, a team of 18
researchen is using rabbits, mice,
hamsters and monkeys in
experiments to determine, as
Williams simply puts it, “how the
sperm gets into the egg.” Actually
the experiments are far more
complicated.
In detecting how the sperm
reaches the egg, the University
researchers discovered two
previously unknown enzymes that
are part of the sperm. Williams
explained that the function of one
of the enzymes, “acrosin,” is to
act as a digestive agent breaking
down surrounding cell walls.
Pregnancy is the result.
“To stop this process we must
inhibit the enzyme action so the
sperm can’t get into the egg,”
Williams said. The researchers have
already developed a synthetic
enzyme inhibitor that is effective
as a vaginal product when used
with a vaseline type application
“It (the inhibitor) works very
nicely in a rabbit, and anything
that works nicely in a rabbit
usually works nicely or better in
humans,” the middle-aged
biochemist said.
The vital research is currently
being conducted in two immense
laboratories on the seventh floor
of the Graduate Studies Research
Center. The eighth floor is a maze
of cages that houses the monkeys
and rodents. Also on the eighth
floor is a spotless animal surgery
that Williams and his associate Dr.
Sally Newell boast as one of the
better surgeries on campus.
Another fascinating aspect of
the research is work being
conducted by Dr. Ken Gould.
Gould photographs the union of
the sperm and the egg by means
of “envitro fertilization,” the
fertilization of the sperm and the
egg outside of the body. When
enlarged, the photographs look
like something out of a Japanese
science fiction movie.
Williams feels that the
preliminary research is now
complete. He says there is a
possibility that research on
humans could be done at the
Medical College of Georgia in
Augusta.
“!t would cost around one
million dollars to get the work
started,” he said. The project is
currently receiving $0.3 million
from the Ford Foundation.
DR SALLY NEWELL
Holds one-day-old