CHRYSLER See editorial page I E Ninety Years of Editorial Freedom t I * S 1 Vol. LXXXX, No. 30 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, October 10 1979 .. ... . an violence ares at MS U, 'U' fan hurt at State U-W By STEVE HOOK Madias, shaken and dazed, said he stumbled up the steps By STEVE HOOK w DREARY See Today for details Twelve Pagef isconsin kes students said. After the Wisconsin-UCLA game, Wisconsin Dean=f Students Paul Ginsberg and police detective Katen O'Donohue issued a joint letter condemning body passing. Sent to dorms, fraternities, and apartment buildings, the let ter stated that body passing would "no longer be tolerated.'y rebu What started out as an enjoyable football Saturday at Spar- tgn Stadium turned into a nightmare for LSA junior Mark Madias, after he was beaten twice by separate mobs of Michigan State University (MSU) fans in the student section. Attacked because he wore a Michigan jacket and carried a Michigan flag, Madias remembers it was "one of the worst days of my life." "THERE WAS this big guy first," Madias recalled. "He' was huge, at least six-foot-five. He grabbed me first and then threw me down. Then I was jumped by about 10 people, swinging at me and ripping my flag. "I tried to fight back as best I could so I could get out of there, but it wasn't working. Finally, some people who had some morals convinced them to let me go," he said. , av ... ... .. ... ....... , ,.- - ,.. 1 , ...Z. toward his friends when he was assaulted a second time. "I was just looking for someone I knew," he explained, "just to feel a little safer. I joined my girlfriend and some other friends and thought I was finally going to be safe. "BUT I WAS grabbed again by five or six guys and pulled into their rows. That's when they ripped my jacket. I just wanted to kill the guy that ripped my jacket - that was the end right there. I began punching these guys when my frien- ds pulled me away from them." Madias said he plans to submit a formal complaint to the MSU Athletic Department. MADIAS, A member of Sigma Chi fraternity, was a par- ticipant in a "Rival Run for Charity" earlier in the day, in- See U-M. Page 12 Increased incidents of "passing up" people at football games prompted the University of Wisconsin Athletic Board to alter the method it uses to curb the practice. The practice of passing women up the stands now amoun- ts to sexual assault, according to Otto Breitenbach, Associate Director of Athletics at Wisconsin. -"OUR FIRST REACTION to body passing was that it was a fad, ,a short-lived phenomenon. In the past few games, it has become a very serious thing," he said in a phone inter- view yesterday. Breitenbach explained that the board discouraged any "overt action at first, hoping that it (body passing) would diminish with time and changing interests. Now, however, it has become much more serious and even dangerous," he See related story, Page 3 > .;,. THE UNIVERSITY of Wisconsin's crowd control commit- tee, which Breitenbacb said meets every week to review security matters involving athletic events, endorsed the let- ter along with the Athletic Board. In addition to condemning the practice, the letter said of- fenders would be removed from the stadium and subjected See U-W, Page 3 Studies: low PBB intake not dangerous From staff gnd wire reports Most Michigan residents apparently have some PBB in their systems, but contamination levels are so low that the general public has escaped serious hjealth problems, according to a major study released yesterday by the University's Public Health School and New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine. New York environmental health ex- pert Dr. Irving Selikoff said at a Lan- sing news conference yesterday, con- tamination levels in the general public were found to be much lower than those among dairy farmers directly exposed to the fire retardant and, therefore, public PBB-associated health problems were largely absent. SELIKOFF SAID, however, infec- tions appeared to be more prevalent among those withliigher PBB concen- trations in their systems. He added that contamination levels were higher in western Michigan where the contamination outbreak occurred and generally diminished as the survey moved to the northern and eastern por- tions of the state. The pattern indicates that much-maligned state government efforts to contain the crisis did have an impact, he said. In compiling the report, Mount Sinai School of Medicine physicians clinically examined more than 1700 volunteer Michigan residents. Also a participant in the $2.25 million study, the Univer- sity's Public Health School examined state hospital records, surveyed residents to discover attitudes related, to PBB, and conducted laboratory ex- periments to determine whether rate of excretion of PBB from the body can be increased by a specific diet. THE PUBLIC health school found See PBB, Page 6 Carter urges arms update DR. IRVING SELIKOFF, head of Mount Sinai Hospital Environmental Sciences Lab in New York, explains part of a report on the effects of PBB on Michigan's population. The report, which shows that small amounts of the toxic fire retardant are present in the blood of most Michigan residents was released in Lansihg yesterday. The University's School of Public Health aided in the research for the study. SMALL PLANE CIR CLES OVER HEAD. UN. building*s evacuated From AP and Reuter WASHINGTON - President Carter and America's principal NATO allies yesterday declared their intention to upgrade tactical nuclear arms in Western Europe despite a Soviet offer for both sides to limit these weapons. The president and leading British and West German ministers all said the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) should proceed with plans to deploy medium-range missiles in West Europe capable of striking the Soviet Union. THEIR STATEMENTS, within a few hours of each other, amounted to a rebuff of the Soviet offer to withdraw Soviet medium-range missiles from Warsaw pact territory if NATO scrap- ped missile modernization plans. British Defense Minister Francis Pym said he favored going ahead with NATO Plans to modernize its lagging, arsenal while in Bonn Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Gensch'er called for NATO to continue modernizing tactical nuclear weapons. President Carter said the Soviet offer to reduce forces in Eastern Europe may be a device to forestall western military modernization. NATO, CARTER said, should 'move to modernize its nuclear arsenal before bargaining with the Soviets over force reductions in Europe. His stance amounted to a rebuff of Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev's of- fer, in an East Berlin speech on Satur- day, to withdraw up to 20,000 Soviet troops and 1,000 tanks from Eastern Europe. "It is not quite as constructive a proposal as at first blush it seems to be," Carter told a nationally televised news conference - his first since July 25. "I THINK it's an effort designed. to disarm the willingness or eagerness of our allies adequately to defend them- selves. "In my judgment, the decision ought to be made to modernize the Western allies' military strength and then negotiate with full commitment and determination mutually to lower ar- maments on both sides, the Warsaw Pact and NATO countries, so that we can retain equivalency of, military strength .. . The, news conference produced a variety of questions on his political for- See CARTER, Page 12 From AP and Reuter NEW YORK - A publicity-seeking author in a light plane circled the United Nations' neighborhood in mid- town Manhattan for more than three hours yesterday, prompting the evacuation of thousands from two U.N. buildings and the offices of his publisher. Alarm swept the area as crowds on the streets below watched the plane wheel about at relatively low altitudes in the gusty autumn sky. Emergency apparatus streamed into the East Side 'area in anticipation of a possible crash. BUT THE pilot, Robert Baudin, 61, a gray-haired, mustachioed author of an autobiography, landed his plane after three and a half hours at LaGuardia Airport a few moments flying time away, its gas tank indicator hovering at empty, and told police: "Now the book will sell!" Later, it was learned that Baudin, who was born in the United States but reared in Australia, pulled a similar stunt about a decade ago in Sydney. BAUDIN WAS arrested and charged with aggravated assault after circling the densely populated residential and business area on Manhattan's East- Side. At a press conference at La Guardia Baudin said: "We Australians have a See LOW-FLYING, Page 2 K rasny' 's leadership lauded by colleagues Major banks raise lending rate to record 14.5% By TIMOTHY YAGLE First in a two-part series March 1, one of the most popular yet controversial figures over the past 13 years in Ann Arbor will walk out of his office nestled in the southwest cor- ner of City Hall for the last time. Police Chief-Walter Krasny has been characterized by his cohorts in the city's administration as a progressive man who kept his police department at- tuned to the city's needs. This attitude toward his job can be seenin the way he effectively ran his department and how his officers acted on the streets. KRASNY'S AWARENESS and sen- sitivity, his cohorts say, were the key assets in running a smooth department for 13 years. He assumed his current position in 1966 and recently announced he would retire in March at the age of 61. The Whitmore Lake, Mich. 'native became police chief at the height of one of this country's most volatile decades when America was torn by anti-war ac- tivisim and intense civil rights marches and demonstrations. Ann Arbor was an important center of political activism, spearheaded by anti-war activists Tom Hayden and Mark Rudd who founded Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the NEW YORK (AP) - The nation's largest banks, feeling the effects of the government's credit tightening, raised their prime lending rates yesterday an unprecedented full percentage point to a record 14 per cent. The size of the increase reflected the Federal Reserve's strong program, an- nounced last Saturday, to fight inflation by pushing up interest rates and the amount of funds that banks must hold in reserve. ACCORDING TO records of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 'the weekly prime rate average has never changed by more than half a per- centage point since the prime rate was White Panthers. With such groups growing on the campus,- Krasny could not afford to send his officers out at the slightest hint of trouble. "IT WAS NO TIME for impulsive reactionse," Krasny said in a recent in- terview. "It was a time of rebellion against authority. There have always been periods like this, but everything in the 60sseemed to be breaking at once. "The civil rights movement became part of other protests and other causes became involved with the civil rights movement. There was a general rebellion against authority in the schools, in, the home, in the gover- nment. The Vietnam protests accen- tuated all of it," Krasny recalled. Many times, Krasny strategy in- volved waiting out the demonstration. Other times, arrests were made quickly to quell anything that might erupt. Krasny said he began to understand how the students protested and, con- sequently, how to delay effectively and peacefully with them. Krasny and Washtenaw County Sheriff Doug Harvey was viewed widely as the exact opposite of Krasny in approach to law enforcement, were See OFFICIALS, Page 5 established in 1934. The prime is the rate banks charge their most credit-worthy corporate borrowers, and banks use the prime as the basis for setting interest rates on almost all commercial-industrial loans. Chase Manhattan Bank, the nation's third-largest, was the first to post to a 141/2 per cent prime yesterday, and was soon joined by the rest of the nation's major banks. Second-ranked Citibank, which traditionally announces its prime rate on -Friday mornings, broke that tradition for the first time since Tuesday, May 7, 1974.. Daily Photo by PAUL ENGSTROM ANN ARBOR Police Chief Walter Krasny was one of the key law enforce- ment figures during the campus unrest of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Several city officials say that due to his reasonable and intelligent approach to controlling the demonstrations, violence was kept to a minimum. 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Although the condition and on the other hand, people might just keep stealing it," frequently is associated with employees close to he said. retirement, Cherniss said it often occurs with young people in their first jobs after college. The psychologist noted that Presidential potty the potential for burnout is greater for those who live for P Y their work. t Would you pay $1,000 for Richard Nixon's toilet seat? Neil Mergler, a Miami advertising executive who's On the Outside