Blacks' help asked
in 'Zebra' murders
SAN FRANCISCO {AP)—Mayor
Joseph L. Alioto calle'd on the city's
blacks yesterday to submit willingly to
police questioning and searches to track
down the killers of 12 white persons in a
case dubbed "Zebra."
Killers are "roaming the streets of San
Francisco, simply killing people at
random without any real motive and
without any real sense," Alioto told a
news conference. "You can't really in
vestigate it as you would a regular
murder."
The latest victim was Nelson T.
Shields IV, 23, the son of a DuPont Co.
executive, who was shot in the back and
killed Tuesday night.
Since Nov. 26, a wave of apparently
unprovoked shootings has left 12 dead
and six wounded. All the victims were
white; the gunmen all were black. The
shootings have terrorized residents and
left police baffled, despite the largest
investigation in the city's history.
Alioto said police cars and foot patrols
have blanketed San Francisco and of
ficers will be stopping and questioning
people.
"In the very nature of things, we are
going to be stopping a lot of innocent
people who have nothing to do with it,"
he said.
"There is going to be natural resent
ment. I want the cooperation of every
citizen. Everything will be done within
constitutional limits."
Alioto and Police Chief Donald Scott
passed out composite sketches of a man
believed to be one of the killers, made
after talking to two teen-agers who were
shot and wounded Sunday night.
"We're not going to stop white
people," Scott said. "We are going to
stop black people. We are not going to
stop fat black people. We are going to
stop slender black people."
The suspect in the composite was
described as a black man, 20 to 30 years
of age, and from 5 feet 9 to 6 feet tall.
Washington Garner, black president of
the police commission, joined in the
appeal for cooperation: "Many will take
anger at being stopped and being
Hearst called 'common criminal'
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) U.S. Atty.
Gen. William Saxbe branded Patricia
Hearst a common criminal yesterday,
anti a federal grand jury began con
sidering whether she willingly wielded a
gun in a terrorist bank robbery.
Saxbe said in Washington he was
convinced the 20-year-old newspaper
heiress was "not a reluctant par
ticipant" in the $lO,OOO-robbery Monday
by a heavily armed gang which wounded
two persons in its getaway.
The terrorist Symbionese Liberation
Army dragged Miss Hearst screaming
from her Berkeley apartment 2 1 / 2
months ago. In a "communique" April 3,
she renounced her family and swore she
Kent State lawsuits kept
WASHINGTON (AP.) Spurred by
suits following the deaths of four
students at Kent State University in 1970,
the Supreme Court yesterday opened the
way for citizens to take state officials
into court to answer for their acts.
The high court unanimously rejected
the notion that state officials have an
absolute immunity from law suits. They
have immunity for their official acts,
said Chief Justice Warren E. Burger for
PAMELA LEVANDOSKI (10th-law enforcement and corrections) and Joe
Officers elected Kaplan (9th-pre law) learn of their victory in the Academic Assembly executive
elections last night. Kaplan was reinstated automatically as president when no
one opposed him. Levandoski defeated incumbant Rich Vance (7th-accounting)
for the vice-presidency. The Assembly is the branch of the Undergraduate Student
Government handling academic affairs.
Collegian
the
daily
searched. I am appealing to you that if
you are stopped, show your iden
tification and cooperate."
In almost every case, the white victim
was minding his own business at night on
a city street when he or she was gunned
down by a black assailant with no
warning.
"I didn't do anything," Tina Smith, 32,
said the night of Jan 28 just before she
died on a downtown sidewalk where she
had been waiting for a bus. Three others
died in similar fashion the same night.
All the victims were white; the gun
men all black.
Three months later, Tom Rainwater,
21, and Linda Story, two white Salvation
Army cadets, slipped out of their
training school for a snack near the
city's Japanese Cultural Center. A
gunman stepped from the darkness and
began firing at point-bland range with a
.32-caliber pistol. Rainwater fell dead,
Miss Story was seriously wounded.
Then, Tuesday night, Shields -went
with a friend, Jonathan May, to a quiet
residential street to pick up a rug.
Shields had been playing lacrosse
earlier in the day and was dressed in his
uniform, blue shorts, gray pullover and
tennis shoes. He had been in the San
Francisco area for only a week. '
May went into a l house to get the rug as
Shields stayed outside to make room for
it in their station wagon. Three shots
rang out and Shields slumped to the
street, fatally wounded.
"I ran outside and I heard Nick moan.
But he was dead when I reached him,"
May said. A neighbor who heard the
shots told police she saw a black man
running up the street.
"It looks like another Zebra case,"
said Police Inspector Gus Coreris.
"There's no motive. A guy just comes
over to help move a carpet and winds up
dead."
Police say they are pursuing the killer
or killers with their biggest manhunt
ever. Rewards totaling ;25,000 are
posted.
All the victims were killed with a .32-
or .38-caliber pistol, police say. They
had been converted into a revolutionary
fighter.
"It would appear to me that she was
not a reluctant participant in this rob
bery," Saxbe told his weekly news
conference, adding that SLA members
all are "common criminals." Asked if he
included Miss Hearst, he said, "Miss
Hearst is a part of it."
Miss Hearst's father, newspaper
executive Randolph A. Hearst, called
Saxbe's comments "speculation" and
refused further comment.
Charles Bates, the FBI agent in
charge of the case, also refused com
ment other than to say: "The FBI is
continuing its aggressive investigation
looking to a solution of the Hearst kid
the court, but it is qualified.
The court thus kept alive damage suits
against Ohio officials brought by
relatives of three of the four students
slain' in a confrontation with Ohio
National Guardsmen during a protest
against the Indochina War.
The justices sent the cases back to a
lower federal court for more pro
ceedings to determine the extent of
the immunity of the officials named as
were struck down, apparently at ran
dom, between 8 p.m. and about 10 p.m.
Only in one case—when Saleem Eraket,
53, was gunned down and his store
robbed—has there been an apparent
motive.
"Operation Zebra"—so-named after
the phonetic use for the letter "Z," code
name for the radio channel used in the
operation—was stepped up this week
after an attack on two teen-agers Sun
day.
They were seriously wounded by a
gunman who walked up to them and
opened fire from a distance of less than
five feet. The victims—Terry White, 15,
and Ward Anderson,lB—are recovering
at San Francisco General Hospital.
Most of the other murders were on
dark streets. But Jane Holly, 45, was
struck down under the harsh glare of
lights in a coin -, operated laundry.
Roxanne McMillan, 23, was ap
proached in front of her home as she was
picking up clothes from her car.
"Howya doing? a man asked her.
"Hi," she responded.
The gunman then fired two bullets into
her chest. Mrs. McMillan survived.
Testifies in own
Stans denies payment to
NEW YORK (AP)—Former Corn
merce Secretary Maurice H. Stans
yesterday testified that financier Robert
L. Vesco never received a payoff in
return for a secret $200,000 cash con
tribution to President Nixon's 1972
election campaign.
The former Cabinet member took the
witness stand in his own defense at the
federal criminal conspiracy trial in
which he is a codefendant with onetime
Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell.
When Vesco made the donation, he
was the target of a massive Securities
naping case and the bank robbery."
U.S. Attorney James Browning said
evidence in- the bank robbery is being
presented to a grand jury and that in
dictments are possible by next week.
"It is entirely possible that the
evidence will show that there was no
duress or coercion on the part of these
people, but that is a matter for the grand
jury to determine," he said.
According to a guard at the bank,
Edward Shea, Miss Hearst took an
active part in the robbery
"giving...orders and all that, saying she
would shoot the first guy that moved.
"She wasn't scared. She let it be
known that she meant business," the 66-
year-old guard said yesterday. "She had
defendants.
The defendants include former Gov.
James Rhodes, the adjutant general of
the state National Guard, officers and
enlisted men of th,_ guard and the
university president.
The suits were filed by families of
slain students Sandra Scheuer, Allison
Krause and Jeffrey Glen Miller.
Mrs. Martin Scheuer, Boardman,
Ohio, whose daughter was killed, said of
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defense
and Exchange Commission frauds in
vestigation.
Mitchell and Stans are accused of
seeking to impede this probe in ex
change for the $200,000. They are
charged with conspiracy, obstruction of
justice and perjury.
Stans said that at the March 8, 1972
meeting in which the money was
pledged, it was he and riot Vesco who
raised the matter of the SEC in
vestigation.
He testified:
"He said, 'Well that has been going on
a gun and looked ready to use it."
Bates said 100 to 125 federal agents are
working on the case and again said he
does not know the location of the SLA
hideout. Police say the SLA is a heavily
armed, multiracial group of about 25
men and women.
Bank cameras photographed Miss
Hearst along with three other white
women and a black man during the
robbery of a Hibernia Bank. The
photographs showed Miss Hearst and
two other members of the robbery team
holding weapons.
Federal bank robbery warrants have
been issued for the three women and the
man, and Miss Hearst is sought for
arrest as a material witness.
alive
the court's decision: "It shows our
system of justice is working. I'm very
pleased that finally we're getting
something done."
Former Adj. Gen. Sylvester Del Corso,
head of the National Guard at the time of
the incident, said: "We were all agents
of the state of Ohio. We did not act as
individuals."
The Supreme Court vote was 8 to 0,
with Justice William 0. Douglas taking
no part.
Last month a federal grand jury in
Cleveland indicted eight of the National
Guardsmen on charges of violating the
civil rights of the students who were
killed and wounded. The indictments
were not related to the civil suits on
which the Supreme Court acted.
A federal district court judge had
dismissed the civil suits at a very early
stage, saying he lacked jurisdiction
because the cases were essentially
against the state itself and therefore
barred by the federal constitution.
That action was premature, said,
Burger, holding that the 11th Amend
ment ban on federal suits against states
does not uniformly bar such suits for
damages against individual officials.
Israel, Syria battle for
ATOP MT. HERMON, Occupied Syria
(AP) The Israelis and Syrians are
engaged in a deadly battle for control of
this rocky, snowswept peak that looms a
mile above the Golan Heights war front.
"We mean to hold on to Hermon," said
an Israeli officer. "This mountain is the
eyes and ears of the Middle East."
On clear days the view stretches to and
beyond Damascus, the Syrian capital
about 25 miles to the east-northeast.
Israel conquered all of the Hermon
massif from Syria in the Middle East war
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almost a year. We have been trying to
resolve it. But the problem was that the
SEC was harassing us and we haven't
been able to sit down and settle it. Our
lawyers haven't been able to get to see
the commissioners.'
"I said, `Mr. Vesco, that should be no
problem. Anybody having trouble with a
government agency should be able to go
to the head of that agency,' I said
something to the effect that 'I hope you
work out your SEC matter satisfactorily.'
He said; 'l'm sure we will."
However, Stans said that because of
the SEC matter, he put a hold on me
pending Vesco contribution until he
could "check him out" with Mitchell.
The two former Cabinet colleagues had
resigned their offices by that time to run
the Nixon re-election campaign.
The liaison man for Vesco with Stans
and Mitchell was Harry Sears, a
political friend of Mitchell who had gone
to work as a $60,000-a-year Vesco legal
aide.
New dorms rejected
by physical policy
Editor's note: Following is the fourth of
a five-part series examining the
University's Physical Plant Policy plan.
By PAMELA REASNER
Collegian Staff Writer
With Penn State student population
expected to rise to neary :_,2,000, the
future of student housing is a major
consideration of the Physical Plant
Policy Plan.
The plan states: "The University has
expressed its intent to add no more
housing at University Park, and
questions the feasibility of replacing the
Nittany and Eastview units at the ter
mination of their useful life."
With the current demand for student
housing, it would be impractical in spite
of problems with the buildings to tear
down 'Nittany and Eastview Terrace
without a definite plan for replacement,
Vice President for Business Ralph Zilly
said.
He said the University hopes to
replace existing housing spaces in
Nittany and Eastview but not with the
same type of complex. Replacement of
these . untis when they wear out will
depend on student demand for dormitory
housing, Zilly added.
Nittany dorms are temporary
barrack-type building built to cope with
returning veterans after World War 11.
After 25 years, the mechanical systems
of these buildings are beginning to fail.
Even with the minor piecemeal
repairs these dorms have undergone in
the past several years, Zilly, estimated
last October.
Both Sides were content to hold their
positions during the bitter cold winter
monthsl But the arrival of spring heated
more than the weather.
The Syrians made their first attempt to
win back the 9,232 foot peak from the
Israelis t 4pril6.
Military correspondents reported
yesterday that Israel had finished
building's rough track to the peak of the
mountain where they have established a
fortified position.
Vesco
Regarding his meeting later with
Mitchell, Stans testified:
"I told him I had met Vesco and talked
with Sears and Vesco was prepared to
give a contribution of $250,000. I said that
I had discussed with Sears that Vesco
had a matter pending before the SEC,
that Sears had described himself as a
good friend of yours, John Mitchell's.
"I said,`l want your advice as to the
propriety of taking the $250,000.' I meant
as a matter of moral correctness in
whether I would ever be embarrassed
publicly or privately by taking this
contribution."
Stans testified that he and Mitchell
discussed Sear's report that the SEC
investigation was winding down and that
Vesco's lawyers said he had done
nothing wrong.
Stans went on, "He, Mitchell, said, and
I agreed. There was no reason under
the circumstances that existed at that
time that we should not accept a con
tribution."
they could not last more than five years.
The University has until then to predict
student housing demands and formulate
a definite plan for their possible
replacement.
The University is considering
replacing traditional housing with
suites—complexes of four single rooms.
a kitchenette and bath.
The Eastview Terrace buildings are
having problems with insulation and
with Raint peeling off exterior walls.
Zilly said the University experimented
this year by insulating one building with
special aluminum siding.
The experiment was successful
enough for the Vniversity to consider
such insulating f9r all the buildings. If
done, Zilly estimated it would be another
ten years before F r astview Terrace units
would have to replaced.
Atherton and West Halls were
designated in the Policy Plan for
building renovation. Some rooms in
Atherton recently 'were converted to
apartment units and parts of West may
be remodeled if the living-learning area
ideas are impleniented, Zilly said. The
plans for West are based on vacancies
caused by less student demand for
residence-hall hotising.
Should student housing demands
decrease, the University could convert
some residence halls to academic
buildings in addition to completely
phasing out Nittany and Eastview.
Before any such conversion could
occur, all mortgages on the buildings
must be paid, Zilly said.
control
During the night ; the Israelis fired at a
Syrian helicopter :and Syrian forces in
the area below the, peak to the north. A
ground search at daybreak revealed
nothing, the Israelii military command in
Tel Aviv said.
Weather
Sunny and warm today, high 71. Tonight
becoming partly cloudy and cool, low 40.
Tomorrow partly cloudy : with
seasonable temperatures, high 60.