Belgian officials find body of l millionaire The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, April 11, 1978-Page 3 Student learns art of sound recording through work-study ANTWERP, Belgium (UPI)-Police yesterday identified a body found on a garbage dump in the woods near An- twerp as that of kidnapped millionaire Baron Charles Bracht. Officials said the 63-year-old baron had been dead for some time. Bracht, who controlled insurance and shipping companies, was kidnapped March 7 and his bloodstained car was found outside his Antwerp office. HIS BODY was found after a floodlight search during the night in a wooded swamp area at Oelegem, eight miles east of Antwerp. Local residents helped police searchers. The search began following an anonymous tip to the baron's family. The body was found under a pile of gar- bage and was taken to the Antwerp morgue for an autopsy. . There has been no indication whether, the kidnapping was done for politics or money, state prosecutor Julian Van Hoeylandt said.. Bracht's son, Theo, 39, broadcast radio and television appeals over the, weekend for news of the baron, who had widespread business interests in ,Belgium and abroad. A ransom demand had never been of- ficially confirmed, but was reported to be over $1.6 million. Bracht was the second rich Belgian baron kidnapped this year. Baron Edouard-Jean Empain, who heads a Belgian-French conglomerate with headquarters in Paris, was kidnapped for ransom in the French capital Jan. 23. He was released March 26 after the French police foiled an attempt by his family to pay $8.6 million and captured- one of the kidnappers. A BELGIAN OFF'ICIAL points-to the spot in a garbage dump outside where Baron Charles Bracht was found early yesterday morning. The businessman was abducted on March 7. Authorities are now trying to de the cause of his death. (Continued from Page 1) Theatre, the Power Center, Rackham Auditorium and Hill Auditorium (which has its own mini-studio). Papineau prefers working at locations such as Hill. "RECORDING : with a studio (already there) provides a better en- vironment for sound, since there is more control over the situation, besides having better equipment available," he said. Producing a recording very similar to a live performance is complicatdd. "The human ear can handle a more dynamic range (of sound) than recor- ding equipment," Papineau explained. "The engineer has to find a level of Antwerp signal where lows are loud enough, and wealthy not so loud to cause distortion. terminealthy He has to do some mixing into chan- nels (sound separation), and tries to AP Photo maintain the best ambiance and echo resonance." IT MAY ALL SOUND confusing, but to Papineau, the complexi.ty is facinating - so facinating that itakes priority over his school work. "School doesn't mean all that much L S to me," he said, "but the University has a lot to offer. m only being a student to support this job. It's one of the many possibilities I had that I stumbled into, got lucky, and really love now." Papineau~, an LSA junior, said he is going for a BGS degree "by default." LIKE MOST JOBS, there are pros and cons to the recording business. While Papineau finds the creative aspects - and dealing with music - rewarding, his biggest grip is being taken for'granted by performers. "They don't give us a second thought," he complained. "We're there. We do it. We should go to at least one rehearsal for a sound check, but sometimes we don't have the time. People also expect perfect sound reproduction. People think sometimes we messed up when they did," he ad- ded. "For a fairly important department' we're not really appreciated. We're treated like janitors - I don't want td alienate anyone," he hastily adds. "I; like janitors." Among Papineau's favorite groups to work with are the Amaiziri' Blues and the jazz bands. "I'd like to do mord (recording of then," he remarked.' "The Philharmonic and the all campus orchestra I don't much care for, and I think the general quality of the Varsity Band and Symphony Orchestra and Band has declined from earlier days. But they're just amateurs -students learning and making mistakes." CA MP CUNSELORS It t ... . 4 .i: r:i'" ..;'.,:. r n:.,v : - " . '. . . . U.S. AND SOVIE TS,TO OPEN TALKS: Killer-satellite ban in the wor WASHINGTON (AP)-Taking two major steps towards world arms con- trol, the Carter administration yester- day disclosed oncoming negotiations with the Soviet Union to ban hunter- killer satellites in space and to limit sales of weapons throughout the world. Announcing the talks, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance told the American Society of Newppaper Editors that "arms control, pursued in a deliberate and measured way, will contribute significantly to reducing the prospect of war." THE ADMINISTRATION'S moves, which parallel a renewed drive for a U.S-Soviet treaty to limit offensive nuclear weapons, follows a blistering attack by Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, who suggested President Carter was giving ground to hard-liners at home. The negotiations to curb a possible arms race in space will be held next month at a still-to-be-selected location, U.S. officials said. At present, only the Russians possess the capability to seek out satellites in orbit and destroy them. The arms sales talks announced by Vance will be held later this spring. They are a follow-up to unpublicized preliminary exchanges last December known in the U.S. bureaucracy as the CAT talks, for conventional arms tran- sfers. The f us was on limiting tran- sfer of weapons to developing coun- tries. CARTER, WHO campaigned for the' Whit House charging the Ford ad- ministration with "Fueling regional arms races," had proposed the negotiations to the Soviet Union shortly after coming into office. So far, the Soviet Union has been- reluctant to make any commitment to limit arms sales. According to U.S. in- telligence, the russians concluded $2.45 billion in military agreements with less-developed countries in 1976 and ac- tually delivered $2.19 billion worth of military equipment. "The United States, meanwhile, delivered almost $4 billion worth of ar- ms to under-developed counries in the last year of the Ford administration. BreHnev last Friday accused Carter of stalling on a new strategic arms limitation agreement for "political reasons" and said the United States was showing "indecision and incon- sistency" to thwart a new treaty on nuclear weapons. Vance, in his speech, said any nuclear weapons agreement would be measured "against the yardstick of our national security." But he stressed the administration's determination to meet the challene "of bringing military competition under sensible control." Vance No-fault workig says official *LANSING (UPI) - Insurance Com-. missioner Thomas Jones says Michigan's no-fault auto insurance system is working well and that its key provisions appear to have solid public support. However, Jones conceded Monday that there is wide-spread dissatisfac- tion with the auto insurance industry in general and called for several changes he said would make Michigan's system simpler and more efficient. the insurance Bureau released fin- dings of a consumer survey conducted in October an attitudes towards no- fault, which replaces Michigan's tort liability system in 1973. Jones said that, if the old fault system had remained in effect, Michigan residents would be paying $70 million more today for :auto insurance. Rate in- creases were less than the national average and are a result of inflation, not no-fault itself, he said. However, 54.8 per cent of the 800 per- sons surveyed said they thought Michigan has a poor auto insurance system and only 17 per cent gave no- fault an unqualified vote of approval. JONES SAID THAT since survey participants approved the basic provisions of no-fault, the no-confidence Jog.' Just for the health of it. Physical Education Public Information American Alliance for Health. Physical Education and Recreation 1201 16th St N W ,Washington, D C 20036 vote was interpreted as showing frustration over cancellations, non- renewals, rating inequities and related difficulties with car insurance. "These are problems that have nothing to do with no-fault itself," he said, "but are the result of basic inadequacies in the whole personal in- surance system." Jones said 62 per cent of people sur- veyed believed that full medical payments should be paid to all accident victims regardless oK fault and 79 per cent said the right to sue for nonper- manent injuries should be limited - both bulwarks of Michigan's no-fault system. JONES CALLED FOR the passage of legislation to: s Require insurance companies to coordinate auto and health insurance so that claims would be filed only once - a provision he said would save $60 million a year. S.. Simplify collisioncoverage options to make them easily understandable, provide minimum standards for deduc- tibles, and guarantee that a driver's in- surance will not be cancelled, non- renewed or increased in price because of a not-at-fault accident. Jones said statistics show claims are being paid more promptly and at higher levels while the number of auto negligence suits had dropped 31 per cent under no-fault. Insurance rates in Michigan have gone up about 14.5 per cent annually since 1974, Jones said. That is somewhat less than the national average and comparable to other in- dustrial states, whether or not they have no-fault, he said. MICHIGAN STUDENT ASSEMBLY ELECTION 1978 The election statement of Rackham Independent candi date Phillip Merdinger was erroneously attributed to an- other in the MSA Election ad- vertisement on page five of the Sunday, April 9, issue of The Michigan Daily. Mr. Mer- dinger's statement follows in full: RACKHAM Independent; PHILLIP MERDINGER, Grad. "My past experience on MSA has given me the chance to become familiar with the issues currently confronting MSA. "I am currently the Rockham representative to VISA. I also serve on Rockham Student Government and am familiar with issues facing graduate students. Other positions I currently hold are: Chairman, Student Insurance Committee; Administrative Director, Student Or- ganizations Board; and Director of Media Relations, MSA. "My record shows that I can work effectively for student interests. 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