The Michigan Daily-Thursday, January 7, 1982-Page 5 a Prison crowding may prompt early releases r 1-. LASNING (UPI) - Corrections Department officials, citing a rise in Michigan's prison population, said yesterday two back-to-back early release orders may be needed starting early this year to keep it under legal limits. Gail Light, a spokeswoman for the department, said an order releasing about 600 inmates - the second to be issued under the emergency crowding law - is anticipated in about two mon- ths. SHE SAID A voter-passed law preventing sentence reductions for good behavior and an unexplained drop in the population of community halfway houses have contributed to the situation. Oakland County Prosectur L. Brooks Patterson said the announcement bears out his warnings about the emergency crowding law that requires the early release orders, and vowed to campaign for its repeal following the 1982 election in which he is running for governor. Under a state law passed in 1980, the governor is directed to sign an order reducing the minimum terms of most inmates by 90 days when the prison system's population exceeds capacity for 30 consecutive days. Those within 90 days of their minimum term are automatically eligible for parole. IF THE PRISON population is not brought under control within 90 days, another order must be issued. The law was invoked for the first time last May, following a lengthy court bat- tle waged by Patterson against it. About 900 inmates were released by that order. Light said the prison capacity as of Dec. 23 was about 53 below the official capacity of 13,211 and has been going up by as many as 50 inmates per week. Bonin guilty of freeway killings LOS ANGELES (AP)- Truck driver William Bonin was found guilty of 10 murders today as the Freeway Killer who sodomized and killed young men and boys in his van and then dumped their bodies near freeways. Bonin, a 34-year-old twice-paroled sex offender, was acquitted of two killings. The Superior Court jury of seven men and five women found insufficient evidence to prove Bonin guilty in the slayings of Thomas Lundgren and Sean King. BUT THE JURY did find "special circumstances" that may warrant a death penalty if the jury so decides during the penalty phase of the trial. Bonin sat calmly as court clerk Sandy Montoya read the verdicts one by one in a roll call of the dead youths. Bonin showed no reaction. Bonin was charged with 12 counts of murder, 11 counts of robbery, one count of sodomy and one count of mayhem. THE 12 WERE among 44 homosexual slayings of young men and boys whose bodies, often mutilated, have been found along Southern Californai freeways since 1972. The jury, which received the case Dec. 28, deliberated daily until Thursday and broke for the New Year's Day holiday. It resumed considering the two months of testimony on Monday. In deliberations, jurors notified the judge that they noticed a mark on a chart showing King's body was found Dec. 22, 1980, and asked if they should consider it. Keene told them the date should not have been there and they should ignore it. Moments later, jurors sent word they had reached a verdict. q N State, University leaders woo robot industry AP Photo MORE THAN 100 DOLPHINS washed ashore on a Japanese beach yester- day, resisting the efforts of volunteers to guide them back to sea, and were left for dead after the rescue operation was abandoned after sunset. 150 dolphi~ns beach hemaselves in JaP an TOKYO (UPI) - About 150 dolphins beached themselves on the Japanese shoreline yesterday despite efforts by volunteers to force them-back to sea. Dozens of fishermen and volun- teers in wet suits tugged and pushed the dolphins back into the water but they repeatedly heaved themselves back ashore in the tourist area on the eastern coast of Japan's main island of Kyushu, about 600 miles south of Tokyo. THE RESCUERS called off their operation after sunset, leaving at least 150 of the seven-foot-long mammals gasping on the beach. It was not immediately known how many died. "We tried to save them but they refused to return to the sea. It's the first time in my life that I have seen such a thing," a marine official said of the lemming-like surge, which left dolphin bodies littering nearly two miles of Aoshima beach at the Children's World Marine Park in Miyasake. TADAO MORITOMO, a marine life expert at the Itouzu park' in Kitakyushu said: "It's not unusual for a group of about 10 to be washed ashore, but it's quite unusual for such a big group to die on shore. It still remains a riddle." He speculated that the dolphins lost control when their sonic sensors were disrupted. The rescue effort was in contrast to mass slaughters of dolphins two yearsago which provoked an inter- national outcry by environmen- talists. (Continued from Page 1) the state's robotics center, the proposed Industrial Technology Institute and the University's newly-established Center for Robotics and Integrated Manufac- turing, he said. One reason the Ann Arbor area is a logical center for robotics is its proximity to the automobile industry. Detroit will continue to be a large con- sumer of industrial robotsystems, ac- cording to Smith, of the University's Industrial Development Division. ANOTHER REASON is the manufac- turing skill of the machine tool makers in Michigan, he said. More than 25 per- cent of the nation's tool and dye makers are in this state, he explained, adding that Michigan is also the world leader of machine designers. As Vigmostad put it, "These people really know how to design things from scratch." Meanwhile, plans for the Industrial Technology Institute are starting to come together more clearly, Engineering .College Dean James Duderstadt said yesterday. Duderstadt added that the relationship between the ITI and the University's already- established CRIM will be "rather in- timate." KEY FACULTY members of the University's CRIM will hold positions at the proposed non-profit ITI, he ex- plained, and students will journey bet- ween the two robotics centers as well. The University's center will em- phasize basic research, Duderstadt said, while the proposed ITI will be geared toward research for industrial applications. Last month the College of Engineering applied for a three-year grant of $7.3 million from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Similar large-scale proposals soon will be sub- mitted to the Army Research Office and the National Science Foundation. 769-1300 Before 6PMM-F BARGAIN V MATIN.0Bor3PM, 5:1 FROM .they didnt make histrytheystoleit! 1:30 BANDITS 9:20 NEIGHBORS 3:15 JOHN BE.USHI DAN AYKROYD 7:10 A COLUMBIA 9:20 PICTURE RolLLOVER 12:45 JANE FONDA 3:00 KRIS 7:30 KRISTOFFERSO r I Support the March of Dimes. i BRM DEFECTS FUNOATIN LSA instructor fails to show up for finals Reagan seeks more cuts, y1'ax increases in 1983 (Continued from Page 1) students who chose to write a paper for the class wanted their paper grade to count as their grade in the course. When they took their proposal to Kaufman, however, they were turned down. "We've talked to Barnes, and he won't promise anything, but he said he would consider it (our proposal)," said one of the students. 'Of course, there are a lot of unhappy people," Barnes said. "We are trying to be very flexible in accommodating student needs." (Continued from Page 1) THE REAGAN budget, due out Feb. 8, js certain to encounter rough going in a Congress that will find some un- popular social program cuts and tax in- creases thrust upon it at a time when members are worrying about the entrent recession, high unemployment and the fall elections. 'The administration intensified its *earch for spending cuts and tax in- creases after internal estimates showed the deficit soaring to $150 billion by 1984 without new savings. Congress cut $35 billion from the fiscal 1982 budget at Reagan's behest. The president, who also won a three- year cut in personal income tax rates from Congress last summer, frequently has stated his opposition to an increase in other taxes to narrow the deficit and ;as pressed for deeper spending cuts instead. BUT TREASURY Secretary Donald Regan indicated yesterday that the president apparently has come around to the need for new taxes to hold down the deficit. The president's advisers had been arguing that spending cuts alone will achieve too few savings and that higher taxes are necessary to prevent future deficits from growing so large that they throttle economic growth by driving up interest rates again. Administration sources, who declined to be identified, said officials were studying ways to keep the deficit under $70 billion in 1983 and under $50 billion for 1984. THE DEFICIT for fiscal 1982 could top $100 billion for the first time, ad- ministration officials concede. Interviewed on NBC-TV's "Today" show, Regan said plans for raising ex- cise taxes, such as those on alcohol, cigarettes and gasoline, are being con- sidered along with a list of proposals that would narrow existing tax breaks. Altogether, the president probably will seek tax increases for 1983 and 1984 that will exceed a previously proposed package worth $22 billion in new revenues, the treasury secretary said. 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