illy Brandt resigns
German chancellery
BONN (AP) Willy Brandt, whose
East-West reconciliation policy earned
him the Nobel Peace Prize, resigned as
West German chancellor late yesterday
over a - scandal involving East German
espionage.
In a dramatic and unexpected move
that plunged his country into political
uncertainty, Brandt told President
Gustav Heinemann in a letter of
resignation that he accepted respon
sibility for "negligence" in connection
with the espionage role of a close aide,
Guenther Guillaume, 47.
A spokesman said Heinemann'
received Brandt's letter while on a trip
to Hamburg and accepted the
resignation.
Brandt's move came after the op
position charged that chancellory of
ficials ignored security service warnings
in approving the appointment of
Guillaume to Brandt's staff.
Guillaume, who became Brandt's aide
for party political affairs in late 1972,
Tapes action postponed
WASHINGTON (AP) Court action
on 64 presidential tapes yesterday was
postponed, indicating an ac
commodation may be in the works to
avoid a court fight between the White
House and the special Watergate
prosecutor.
The five-day postponement was on a
hearing on - a White House motion to
quash a subpoena for the tapes. U.S.
District Court Judge John J. Sirica
moved the hearing from tomorrow to
May 13.
"The continuan,ce was granted for the
purpose of facilitating discussions
leading to possible compliance with the
subpoena," the judge said.
Meanwhile the Senate Watergate
committee said the transcripts of
presidential tapes released by the White
House "are suspect" and "neither
complete nor accurate."
The committee told the U.S. Court of
Appeals that despite the release of the
transcripts it still needs the tapes of five
conversations subpoenaed last July 23.
Council
By RICH GRANT
Collegian Staff Writer
The State College Borough Council last
night received the final report of a
bicycle study from the Student En
vironmental Counseling Organization.
Sponsored by the borough and the
University, the study encourages bicycle
use through developing bike way routes
and parking facilities.
According to SECO project director
Charles Cohen, the study recommends:
a council resolution "supporting
Black REV. LEON HALL of the black Christian Fellowship makes a
plea to end apathy and promote unity among the members of
the black community. Hall was one of several speakers,
unity singers, dancers and performers who celebrated the Black
Caucus' first Black Unity Day. See story page 5.
Collegian
the
daily
was unmasked April 24 as an East
German spy.
The 60-year-old chancellor's letter to
Heinemann asked him to appointi Vice
Chancellor and Foreign Minister Walter
Scheel as caretaker head of government
until a new chancellor is elected.
Scheel, who heads the small Free
Democratic party which has shared a
ruling coalition with Brandt's Social
Democrats since 1969, was planning to
resign as foreign minister and _vice
chancellor this month to succeed
Heinemann as the largely ceremonial
head of state.
Brandt's popularity had begun to wane
from its high points----- in 1971 when he
won the Nobel Peace Prize for his
Ostpolitik efforts at accommodation
with the Communist Eastern bloc, and in
1972 when he signed a normalization
agreement with list Germany.'
Lately an increasing number of, West
Germans have viewed Ostpolitik with
"The committee should not have to
perform its legislative missions on the
basis of transcripts that are suspect,"
the committee told the court.
White House counsel James D. St.
Clair said he had asked for the extra five
days "to permit the special prosecutor
and myself to see whether we can come
to some accomodation."
In his motion last week to halt the
subpoena St. Clair had indicated that the
fight might be carried to the Supreme
Court.
And he maintained in television in
terviews Sunday that President Nixon
has handed out all the "relevant" tapes
and transcripts he is going to.
The judge's announcement indicated
there is a possibility an agreement can
be worked out to avoid a fight similar to
last year when the White House went to
the U.S. Court of Appeals to , avoid
yielding other subpoenaed tapes!,
St. Clair and Special Prosecutor Leon
receives
bicycle use as a desirable alternative
means of transportation" to instruct
borough agencies to use the data to
encourage future bicycle facilities;
creating a Class II bikeway (a 4-
foot-wide lane within a six-foot
clearance) along S. Allen Street in both
directions between Waupelani Drive and
College Avenue;
creating a Class II bikeway along N.
Allen Street from Park Avenue north to
Cherry Lane, then along Circleville
Road until it intersects the medium
density housing area;
providing parking facilities at the
displeasure. The spy scandal intensified
that feeling.
The West German economy also has
been hit hard by the energy shortage and
inflation, and the chancellor's Social
Democrats have suffered in provincial
elections.
Reliable sources in Brandt's party
said early today that a joint commission
of the coalition parties would prepare a
new government program this week and
discuss a Cabinet realignment.
Sources said the two parties will ask
Bundestag President Annemarie Renger
to schedule parliamentary balloting on a
new chancellor for May 17. That would
be a day after the special electoral
assembly meets in Bonn to choose a
successor to Heinemann, 74, whot.,is
retiring for age reasons.
Finance s 'Minister Helmut Schmidt, 55,
was considered the Social Democrats'
likely choice as a candidate to replace
Brandt.
Jaworski met yesterday with Sirica to
work out the delay. The meeting was at
just about the time when Jaworski was
to have delivered his response to the
White House motion.
The deadline for filing that response
was put off until Friday.
Twenty of the 64 conversations sub
poenaed were made public last week in
the edited transcripts distributed by the
White House.
But where those transcripts cover
mainly presidential conversations that
took place in February, March and April
last year, the Jaworski subpoena asked
for tapes of Nixon's talks with his aides
as early as June 20, 1972, and as late as
June 4, 1973.
It asks for a number of meetings and
telephone conversations the President
had with Special Counsel Charles W.
Colson none of which were included in
the mass of transcripts released by the
White House.
bicycle study
Pugh Street parking garage, at the
corner of Garner Street and College
Avenue,. next to Uncle Eli's, at
municipal or store lots on Beaver
Avenue, and at other municipal lots;
encouraging downtown businesses
to provide bicycle parking facilities;
a council ordinance requiring
bicycle registration, with enforcement
sanctions, and requiring that each
bicycle display a colored pole flag;
the borough suggesting that the
Centre Region Planning Commission
develop proposals for Class I bikeways
along routes 322 and 26.
Cohen suggested that the borough look
into applying for federal and state
assistance for bicycle planning.
Council scheduled a publit meeting for
next Monday to gather comment on the
study results.
'When I try to talk,
Internationals face problems here
Editor's note: Following is the second of
a three-part series examining the in
ternational student program at Penn
State.
Immigration forms, visas and grades
are not the only things that confuse in
ternational students in this country.
"I had never seen snow," said Jose
Bashbush (graduate-petroleum
engineering) from Mexico. "The climate
here is strange. I don't care if it's cold,
but I like to see the sun."
David Holmes, assistant to the
director of the International Student
Affairs Office, said, "This Chinese guy
came to my office, a real nice guy. We
talked about things and finally he
_looks
down at his hands and then looks up and
says, 'Mr. Holmes, why is it when I try to
talk to people they don't want to listen or
they just turn around and walk away?' "
The most obvious difficulty is
mastering the English language.
Afework Maiscio (graduate-micro
biology), an Ethiopian, said, "I did start
English in high school and had been
doing well, so I thought I was familiar
with the language, but the slang is dif
ferent."
Photo by Henry Stefars
Bahram Zand-Biglari (14th-elecirical
engineering) from Iran, said, "When I
-first got here and went to a restaurant, I
had to order by picture."
Bashbush pointed out, "Isemember a
term where I had a first period with a
By RICHARD CROMONIC
Collegian Staff Writer
Candidates night MARIANNE NAN DOMMELEN. Democratic candidate for state representatis e
from the 77th District, and U.S. Rep. Albert Johnson. 11-2:trd, stressed the need for
impros ed benefits for Vietnam Era s eterans at a candidates night sponsored by
the Penn State Veterans Club last night. See story. page 1.
Kissinger, Gromyko to confer
on Mideast, nuclear arms pact
JERUSALEM (AP) Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger and Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko
are scheduling a suprise meeting today
on the island of Cyprus to discuss an end
to the Middle East fighting.
Ambassador-at-large Robert J. Mc-
Closkey, with the Kissinger party, said
the secretary and Dromyko also would
confer on other East-West topics, in-
In other business, Council referred a
human relations ordinance drafted by a
group of State College residents to the
Human Relations Council of Centre
County and to the borough solicitor.
According to Dorene Robotti (13th
political science), one of the draft
originators, the ordinance would
prohibit discrimination within the
borough in employment, housing, public
accomodation and lending practices due
to race, color religion, ancestry, national
origin, place of birth, sex, age in em
ployment, sexual preferences, marital
status, philosophical ideologies and
physical handicaps.
The ordinance would set up a borough
human relations commission, define its
powers and duties and set enforcement
sanctions.
they don't want to listen'
British teacher and a second with a
Texan. I understood the Texan better."
He said he knew he mastered English
when he was able to day-dream without
losing track of what was going on.
The University has a language
proficiency requirement. The test
consists of a written examination and an
interview, and those who fail must take
Speech 115, "English as a Second
Language."
Some students complain the test is
unfair. Seyd M. Khayami (graduate
resource economics), from Iran and
president of the University's Persian
Club, said, "The test is useless busy
work. They give a physics major a story
about American Indians with all these
strange names of their foods and tools.
He has to read it and then they test him
on that. It's ridiculous."
In an effort to help, the speech
department has set up the Conversant
Program, in which Americans meet
informally with internationals to help
with English and possibly answer
questions about American life.
Director Janet Mooney, said the
program has improved since the
Volunteer. Service Center began
referring students.
"Ideally, the international and the
American will nurture a friendship," she
said. "When that happens, it's no longer
volunteer service. A lot of the
relationships continue and no formal
communication is kept with us."
Mooney said most volunteers are still
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eluding chances for a new treaty
limiting offensive nuclear weapons.
U.S. officials dismissed suggestions
that the American and Soviet foreign
ministers might have intentions of
imposing a pact on Israel and Syria.
McCloskey asserted the meeting has the
"full understanding and approval of the
government of Israel."
Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban
said after conferring with Kissinger: .
"We have no reason so far to think
we will suffer." He confirmed that the
Israelis were notified in advance about
the Gromyko meeting, and had received
an outline of what Kissinger intended to
discuss with the foreign minister.
As the Cyprus meeting was an
nounced, Kissinger started a new round
of negotiations with Israeli leaders.
Kissinger is to return tonight, confer
with Israeli officials and fly to
Damascus tomorrow.
Premier Golda Meir's government
yesterday faced mounting opposition to
any separation of forces pact with Syria
that would pull Israeli troops behind the
1967" cease-fire line.
University professors and writers
went on a hunger strike, and demon
strators berated the government,
Kissinger 'and President Nixon in a
protest outside the U.S. Embassy.
Parliament is calling a special session
today for debate on the negotiations.
Kissinger flew to Israel from Amman,
Jordan, where officials accompanying
him said he was optimistic about an
meeting with conversant partners on
their own.
Holmes said one problem is nobody
wants to take the time to develop such
relationships and that Americans often
snub internationals.
"One student said to me, 'Perhaps
people look on us as children.' And I felt
bad. American students give a show of
being concerned but when it gets down to
them, they don't give a damn," he said.
Indifference is the most common
complaint about Americans. Maiscio
said, "Maybe Americans think the
United States is the ultimate place to live
and they get this indifferent feeling."
Bashbush added, "I don't want to
sound nasty, but I think Latins are nicer
to strangers. Many people are very cold
here—like machines."
That coldness sometimes breeds
loneliness. Hong Chu (graduate
chemical engineering) said, "When you
first get here, and you don't know
anybody, you go back at night and you
face yourself and you think of home and
you get very lonely."
Eyari Davis (graduate-English), who
lives in' the International Friendship
House, said Americans foster that
loneliness by thinking international
students are helpless. He said that they
are quite ca able , "but Americans think
of them as Social cripples."
Raymond'O. Murphy, vice president
for Student Affairs, said the University
tries to combat that loneliness. "It is
eventual disengagement agteement
between Israel and Syria.
But Israeli newspapers said the
negotiations had "lost their impetus"
and might stall in a deadlock.
Gromyko was in Damascus where he
said after his arrival Sunday that he was
confident his talks with the Syrians
would "prove fruitful."
U.S. officials dismissed suggestions
That •the American and Soviet foreign
ministers might be coming together to
work out a pact, that would be imposed
on Israel and Syria. The meeting has the
"full understanding and approval of the
government of Israel," McCloskey said
Kissinger and Gromyko met last week
in Geneva while Kissinger was on his
way to the Middle East. At that time
they agreed to remain in close touch in
order to coordinate their efforts toward
an end to fighting in the Middle East.
Kissinger began his latest effort to
arrange a disengagement between
Israeli and Syrian forces five days ago
with talks in Jerusalem. He followed this
with flight to Damascus and the
current talks are the second with Israeli
leaders.
In Amman, Kissinger met with Jor
dan's King Hussein. He made no
statement on arrival at Ben-Gurion
airport in Jerusalem. and immediately
joined Foreign Minister Abba Eban in a
bullet-proof limousine for the motorcade
to the city.
important that we more effectively
interrelate our international and
American students for the mutual
education and enrichment of both."
Anil Lingras (graduate-metallurgy) is
from India and lives in McKee, a special
dorm for both American and in
ternational residents. He has headed a
Cross-Cultural Interest Group, with
some sessions involving adjustment to
different sexual mores.
Lingras noted that women face the
biggest changes. "Men are the same all
over the world. But it is more difficult to
get American and international women
students to live together. The differences
are greater," he said.
"The American woman is more in
dependent. She likes responsibilities and
she likes to be on her own. But a girl will
come over here from another country
and she's not used to that—the fact that
someone will ask her out. Dating is an
accepted custom here, but elsewhere,
marriages are often arranged." He
added that many men are surprised that
American women are so "forward."
Weather
Variable cloudiness, breezy and cool
today, high 50. Tonight fair and cold, low
33. Tomorrow increasing cloudiness and
milder, high 58.
Photos by ha Jolts