Hill Political Rally Lively, Trouble-free

■ The Guardian Angels were there, play■ ing amplified rock loud enough to be ■ heard both in heaven and in heil. ■ And the young Human Rights party I candidates were there, passing out leafI Iets saying, in effect, that there isn't a I dime's worth of difference between local I Democrats and local Republicans. And the Democratie council candidates I were there, passing out their own leaflets, including an open letter to "HaRI Pies" f rom Citizen Azeez Jabbour who I declared that "a vote for HRP is a vote for Republican rule." And a lot of people I thought the letter was very funny inI deed. I And maybe 1800 young people were in I the audience, having paid $2 a head, and I a lot of them were wafting paper airplanes skyward. And five city firemen and an undetermined number of U-M security men were there, scanning the crowd with eagle-eyes, making sure that nobody lit up cigarettes or anything else in Hill Auditorium, which has always had a nosmoking rule, for Billy Graham as well as for Timothy Leary and George Lincoln Rockwell. But there wasn't a Republican in sight. Or if there were, he wasn't publicizing the fact. The Republicans in fact weren't very happy that the University had permitted the Saturday night politica! rally and I rock concert to be held in Hill Auditorium. Peter S. Wright, Republican city chairman, called it "Fleming's Capitulation," and added that he was "disappointed, though not surprised, that President (Robben W.) Fleming had capitulated under pressure." Last Wednesday, Fleming barred the use of Hill Auditorium by a group called Friends of the Rainbow Peoples Party for the political rally on grounds that when the U-M rented Crisler Arena on Dec. 10 for a "Free John Sinclair" rally, "there were massive violations of the law, particularly with respect to the use of marijuana." ■ On Thursday, U-M spokesmen announced that an understanding had been reached to permit the rally under the sponsorship of the U-M Student Government Council, which was to pay for enforcement of the no-smoking rule by five city firemen. The Rainbow People's Party had filed suit in Circuit Court charging the U-M with breaching a contract. The suit asked $20,000 in damages. U-M security officials weren't too keen about discussing the question of whether they had found anyone smoking pot. Rolland J. Gainsley, chief of the U-M Security Service, declined comment, and advised a reporter to get a statement from his boss, Fredrick Davids, U-M Director of Safety, who declined comment and advised the reporter to wait for a statement from President Fleming. [ (next page pjease) I