rBONGS See editorial page C 1. 4t 7it('1'1Yeair, o f Ediforu1 I treef(Ioflh 1E uiI METAMORPHOSIS See Today for details I TI. XC, No.:119 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, February 23, 1980 Ten Cents Eight Pages High-rise developer filed for By SARA ANSPACH Local developer John Stegeman, who ans to build a 32-story multi-use complex'in the S. University area, filed for bankruptcy last June, the Daily has learned. The University Regents last week granted Stegeman an option to buy some University land for the project, apparently without knowledge of his financial background. BUT SEVERAL Regents said by telephone yesterday that they probably uld have voted in the same manner en if they had known of the bankruptcy proceedings. "That's a very acceptable business practice," said Regent Gerald Dunn (D-Flint). "An individual's personal habits don't bother me very much." Stegeman filed for bankruptcy under Chapter Eleven of the Bankruptcy Act on June 5, 1979. Unlike standard bankruptcy proceedings, the Chapter Eleven provision allows a person to hold off creditors while he or she attempts to raise necessary funds. Stegeman has built many local student apartment complexes including Tower Plaza, Maynard House, Albert Terrace, and Viscount apartments. He also constructed the Campus Inn but lost it several years ago in a mortgage foreclosure. THE AGREEMENT with Stegeman that the Regents approved last week states that Stegeman's company, the yet-to-be-incorporated Quadrium Corporation, will pay the University Regents say it won't affect 'U' land deal $5,000 in cash when the option agreement is signed. If Stegeman purchases the land, he will pay the University $200,000 in cash at the time of the closing. "We aren't extending any credit (to Stegeman)," Regent Thomas Roach (D-Saline) said yesterday. Because the money will be "paid up front," he said, the state of Stegeman's finances is not relevant to the purchase agreement. Several members of City Council and the planning commission say it is "highly unlikely" that the City will approve Stegeman's building proposal. Repeated attempts to contact Stegeman in the past two days regarding the composition of Quadrium Corporation have failed. His lawyer, Fredrick Hoops, refused to name the other people involved with Quadrium; Stegeman has called himself a "spokesman" and "representative" of the company. Hoops said, "That matter, (the m review( THE yesterd familia other ti Quad of bec( said in; Stegc multi-u Washt has the 16,569s Church said h necess ONE Steger currel bankruptc ake-up of Quadrium) has been proceedings. This land, bordered by S. ed with the Regents." Forest, Washtenaw, and Old Forest REGENTS who were contacted Avenues, is not currently owned by Jay, however, said they were not Stegeman, although he has purchased ir with any member of Quadrium an option on it. If the present owners of han Stegeman. the property do not pay $84,000 in back Irium is currently in the process taxes and payments by May 28, the land oming a legal entity, Stegeman will be returned to the city. If that an earlier interview. occurs, Stegeman would have to eman hopes to build the 32-story attempt to purchase the property from use facility on the corner of the city. enaw and S. Forest. Now that he At last week's Regents' meeting, option on the University land-a Stegeman said plans forhis 32-story sq. ft. lot behind the University's building include 16 stories of hotel h Street parking structure--he space, 8 stories of apartments, and8 e has acquired all the property stories of condominiums. He declined eary for his project. to say how much the apartments would PIECE OF property essential to rent for, although others have mE We Frn prrtyn tial to estimated the prices will be at the t1 h erJv is ,L. mans project ,t wevf ul ntly subject to default See DEVELOPER, Page 3 Afghan government installs martial law AP Photo WHILE THE USA's Steve Christoff had this shot rejected by Soviet goalie Vladislav Tretjak during the first period of last night's Olympic battle; the spunky American's were not to be denied. Scoring twice in the final period, the U.S. team handed the Soviets their first Olympic loss since 1968, 4-3. CLOSING IN ON OLYMPIC MEDAL: , U.S.icers stun Soviets, 4-3 From AP and UPI Resistance to the Soviet military presence in Afghanistan spread to much of the Central Asian country yesterday, with at least three persons reported killed in massive street demonstrations in Kabul. The Moscow- backed government proclaimed mar- tial law and ordered a curfew in the capital city. The official Soviet news agency Tass, which reported the imposition of mar- tial law, said the Afghan government was trying to curb a wave of "plun- dering and arson" by Moslem rebels and "foreign agents and mercenaries." Tass also said an American known for his links with the CIA and 16 Pakistanis were arrested in, Afghanistan for anti-government ac- tions. The news agency identified the American as Robert Lee, but provided no other personal information about him. A STATE Department official in Washington who said he was acquain- ted with Lee, described him as a private citizen who had traveled "for some time" in Afghanistan and had no link with the U.S. government. Most merchants in Kabul began a protest strike Thursday, and their shops remained closed yesterday, the Moslem sabbath, according to reports from the Afghan capital reaching New Delhi, India. Thursday's commercial strike, urged in handbills distributed by the anti- Communist Moslem guerrilla movement, was observed by nearly all the stores, shops and restaurants in this city of one million inhabitants. Similar anti-Soviet strikes were reported last week in other Afghan cities, but were not as dramatic as Kabul's. STATE DEPARTMENT spokesman Thomas Reston said the strike "is clearly designed to show the Afghan people's refusal to recognize the legitimacy of the Babrak Karmal regime and the presence of the Soviet forces." Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev said in a Moscow speech yesterday "there was no and is no Russian inter- vention in Afghanistan." He warned the West against talking tough to the Kremlin and said Soviet troops would not be withdrawn from the country until the United States and Afghanistan's neighbors guarantee an end to "all forms of outside interference." The State Department said this week there were about 70,000 Soviet troops inside Afghanistan and another 30,000 across the Soviet border. The Russians sent the troops in last December to help fight a Moslem rebellion against a string .of cnmmunist regimnes. The current government, headed by President Babrak Karmal, was in- stalled in a Soviet-backed coup Dec. 27. THE SOVIETS tried to justify their move into Afghanistan in Decembier by saying they were just responding to outside interference. That charge has been consistently dismissed, not only by the United States but by most other nations. Brezhnev said that Washington is cir- culating lies about the Russians warring against the Afghan people, and a Soviet threat to Pakistan and Iran, with the "pretext to broaden its expan- sion in Asia and it creates this pretext by any means. "The United States would like to subordinate these countries to its hegemony, to pump out, unimpeded, their natural wealth, This is the crux of the matter." , He said the United States "loudly demands the withdrawal of Soviet .troops kuit in fact is doing everything to put off this possibility; it is continuing and building up its interference in the affairs of Afghanistan. From UPI and AP }LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - In one of the most stunning upsets in hockey history, the United States handed the powerful Soviet Union its first Olympic hockey loss since 1968 last night when Mark Johnson and Mike Eruzione scored dramatic goals midway through the final period for a 4-3 victory. The victory over Finland Sunday would put the U.S. in no less than *econd place and more likely in gold medal position as the Americans seek to repeat the 1960 Miracle at Squaw Valley, when they beat the Soviets in the semifinals and downed the Czechoslovaks for the gold medal. IN HANDING the Soviet Union its sixth loss in 46 games since it started competing in the Olympics in 1956, the American amateurs accom- plished what the National Hockey League All-Stars could not in last year's Challenge Cup Series. The loss is the Soviets' first since a 5-4 defeat by Czechoslovakia at Grenoble, France, in 1968. When the clock ran out, the Russians stood glumly on their blue line awaiting the traditional closing, ceremonial handshake with their opponents. BUT THE Americans were much too busy, tackling each other in sheer joy, waving to a delirious crowd and hoisting their sticks into the air. As a capacity Olympic Center crowd of over 8,500 urged them on with a chant of "USA, USA," the young Americans, despite being out- shot 30-10 over the first two periods, stayed in the game and set up their winning rally with an outstanding third period checking performance. With a Soviet off the ice for high- sticking, Johnson scored his second goal- of the game 8:39 into the third period to tie the score 3-3. THE U.S. took a 4-3 lead just 1:21 later, when team captain Eruzione picked up a loose puck, walked in between the faceoff circles and fired a screened 30-footer past Soviet goalie Vladimir Myshkin. U.S. goalie Jim Craig then stopped Aleksandr Maltsev twice and the Americans held the lead as the game entered its final nine minutes. January consumer price increase worst in over six years Pierce, Bullard discuss 'U' tuition hikes By MITCH STUART Students must insist that they will not pay higher tuition to give higher salaries to faculty, two state legislators told a Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) committee yesterday. State Senator Edward Pierce (D-Ann Arbor) and state Representative Perry Bullard (D-Ann Arbor) discussed a two- tep process to keep tuition down with embers of the -MSA's Legislative Relations Committee. PIERCE AND Bullard stressed that students must lobby in Lansing along with the University administration for a higher state allocation, and must make it clear that they do not want to pay higher tuitions to increase faculty salaries. Governor William Milliken has recommended to the state legislature a 9.5 per cent increase in the state allocation for the University. The is likely to win if a choice must be made between a large tuition increase and raised faculty salaries. 'You can't buy a Cadillac for the price of a Chev- rolet. I think we have a Cadillac faculty.' -Prof. Harvey Brazer, CESF chairman prime interest in the quality of faculty." Quality faculty cannot be attracted to the University if salaries are below national standards, Brazer said. "You can't buy a Cadillac for the price of a Chevrolet. I think we have a C'adillac faculty," Brazer said. Brazer did add, however, that there is a connection between tuition and salaries. "The conflict certainly is there . . . in the sense that the lower the tuition increase, the less able the University is to pay higher salaries to faculty," he said. PIERCE SAID, "Usually the legislature will add to the governor's recommendation for education,"' but warned that might not be the case this year. See MSA, Page 3 From AP and UPI WASHINGTON-Economic news continues to be dismal, as consumer prices surged upward by 1.4 per cent in January, the largest one-mont increase in six-and-one-half years. In New York, the prime lending rate charged by some major banks soared to a record 16112 per cent yesterday as the effects of the latest credit-tightening moves by the Federal Reserve Board began to be felt. The January price increase, an annual rate of more than 18 per cent, compared, to 13.3 per cent for all of 1979, was partly due to another steep jump in fuel and housing costs. The price of gasoline rose 7.4 per cent, the most ever, to an average of $1.11 per gallon for all types. "IT IS BEGINNING to appear that the underlying rate of inflation is starting to explode," said Robert Russell, director of the adminsitration's anti-inflation agency. He said "an explosion of wage increases" also is probably inevitable. The increase in prices, the worst for any month since August, 1973, See CONSUMER, Page 3 240 230 220 1461=104.... - ]an. - 233.2 . i4IAME University has recommended an 11 per cent increase in faculty salaries. Neither Pierce nor Bullard expressed much hope that next year's tuition in- crease could be held below 10 per cent. Bullard and Pierce warned that although the University will lobby -for a higher allocation increase, the faculty THE CHAIRMAN of the Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty (CESF), however, disagreed with the contention that student and faculty in- terests are in conflict. Economics Prof. Harvey Brazer said, "I don't like to see it expressed as an issue of faculty ver- sus students. The students have the 20 C Y AMRI IA R 9 I 5 rM 1919 1980 Soe: De 1..1ftabor I t ti: i, A yC , .vp b4.:v : ..,.;:: \4.}yi"v v"} If the leotard fits... When President Carter took a stand against American participation in the summer Olympics because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Gym-Kin Co. of Reading, Pennsylvania found itself with 24,000 pairs of leotards and skating dresses-all bearing the Moscow Olympic symbol. Many of Gym-Kin's 3,000 clients canceled orders because the new leotards seemed destined to sit on the shelves. But when Gym-Kin managers found themselves with $500,000 of worthless merchandise, they decided to stencil the word "boycott" across the Olympic logo. "The reaction we are abused, robbed, and starved by his beloved daughter." Enraged, Kovatch brought a $50,000 suit against her brother,. Bernard Gladsky, accusing him of erecting the stone to slander her and hold her up to public scorn. "It was done mostly in jest," Gladsky testified at the trial. "In retrospect I think they were not the proper words to be used." The stone and inscription stemmed from a dispute between Gladsky and his sister over the care she gave their father while he stayed in her home the years before his death. According to the evidence in the case Gladsky had a "rush job" done on the tombstone and he had had wanted the marker in place before a bull roast at the church "so opening of thel"Night Story" disco for a reported $20,000, but the owner of the establishment says he has been contacted by Canadian Embassy officials in Tokyo vho don't want Trudeau to do the promotion. "I can't tell you exactly what the officials' visit was about, but you should be able to guess," said the disco's owner, Kichinosuke Sasaki. On the inside For a report on the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team's battle with the U.S.S.R. squad, see the sports page. . . A review of the John Mayall and Luther Allison concert appears on the l l J i pownw, I r -- v . - - i 1 1