Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom C, be, LIEkp 41Iati! Spots Look for sun between a few clouds today; temperature nears 75 degrees. XCV No.11 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, September 18, 1984 15 Cents Eiaht Pans * .. _ _ . . . . . . ,, am Citys fine f By KERY MURAKAMI The Ann Arbor City Council last night voted 10-1 to lower the penalty for ticket scalping. Under the resolution sponsored by Councilmember James Blow (R- Second Ward), ticket scalping will be punishable by a $25 fine - considerably more lenient than the state punishment of a $100 fine and 90 days in jail. CITY POLICE officers, however, will have the option of arresting the scalper and enacting the state punishment. Blow said he hopes the city will pave the way for a change in the state's ticket scalping law. "I see ticket scalping as government getting involved in things they're not needed for," Blow said. "I think the government should stay off the backs of the people," he added. "I THINK this is a signal being sent by the people of Ann Arbor. Hopefully, we'll be able to change the state law." ets $25 or scalpers Councilmember Dick Deem (R- Second Ward), the only councilmember to oppose the resolution, said the new law could encourage professional scalpers. "I think this could send out the wrong signal to professional scalpers that implies that this city is lenient. I don't know of any other city that is doing this," he said. "I don't think this is the kind of parade that we should lead." Deem said he was not convinced that the new law - scheduled to go into ef- fect Sept. 27 would benefit the city. Last week ticket scalpers appeared indifferent to the new rule. "I'm here every Saturday," said one ticket scalper standing in front of the Michigan Union Saturday, who did not want to be identified. "And I'll be here every Saturday. I mean I clear at least $65 on any given Saturday morning. You think I'm going to quit because of a $25 fine. Other scalpers shared the same opinion. "I pull in a $100 a week," another scalper said; "more for big games. So I don't think the measure will have any effect on big weeks like the Miami Maybe there's a better way to deal with scalping. See page 7. game two weeks ago. But I don't think I'll risk it for something like the Northwestern game," he said. PROFESSIONAL scalpers, however, make up only a small portion of the crowd of scalpers in front of the Michigan Union and near the stadium every week. Most are students trying to get rid of an extra ticket and it are these students, who Blow said he wants to protect. See CITY, Page 3 Associated Press . and inwith the new Progressive Conservative Brian Mulroney leaves the Government House after being sworn in yesterday as Canada's 18th prime minister. As one of his first actions, Mulroney named six women, as many as ever before, to his Cabinet. Doonesbury returns with many answers NEW YORK (AP) - How many teeth does Joanie Caucus' baby have? Will Uncle Duke avoid the slammer after trying to raise money for a documen- tary about a dope-dealing autotycoon? Do. Western-style props still clutter a White House stage set? These and other nagging questions will be answered for millions of readers who haven't had a "Doonesbury" fix in 20 months when the celebrated comic strip returns Sept. 30. BUT EXACTLY what Pulitzer Prize- winning cartoonist Garry Trudeau will put in those first panels is a closely guarded secret at Universal Press Syn- dicate in Fairway, Kan. And Trudeau, who dodges interviews like a seasoned matador sidesteps charging bulls, isn't talking. "Garry works on a 10-day deadline, and anyone who says anything about it in house will lose their head," said Universal spokeswoman Victoria Houston. "THE WRITING will stay pretty similar," chimed in editorial director Lee Salem. "He will weave the lives of his characters into political headlines. There will be the same characters and they'll be a little older. "A lot of it is so much dependent on the news," Salem continued. "So he's waiting until the very last minute. Who could have predicted a woman as vice presidential candidate? She Geraldine Ferraro is certainly eligible for the strip." IN FACT, just about all of the powers and pawns of the political world Tirudeau skered in the"strip's first 12 years are candidates for his pen, ink and parody. But no matter, most politicos love it. "Life without 'Doonesbury' has meant far more than life without a morning laugh,' " said Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.). "His return makes our national sense of humor whole again." Former President Jimmy Carter, in- terviewed recently while happily at work on a construction project in downtown Manhattan, flashed the famous toothy smile to show his delight that Trudeau would return. "I'M VERY happy about it," he said. "I really missed it a lot." When Carter was in office, he was a frequent target in the newspaper strip. "He parodied some of my cherished techniques in responding to abusive news reporters' q iestions," the form'ner president said. "I thought I was getting away with it because the Washington press corps didn't pick up on it, but Garry did." Former Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick of New Jersey was immor- talzed by Trudeau in the pen and ink persona of Lacey Davenport, the in- trepid and unassuming member of Congress whose nose was turned up in permanent noblesse oblige. "WE'RE ALL comics. It's just that we don't recognize it," Mrs. Fenwick said on a recent visit to the United Staes from Rome, where she's working with the United Nations on world hunger. "I don't think Lacey will ever come back because I think he's interested in the political scene in Washington and, I'm no longer a part of it," she said. The 36-year-old Trudeau announced in September 19-2 that he would take a: 20-month sabbatical from the "Doonesbury" strip to give himself a "breather," allow his characters to move from attitudes of the '60s to the '80's and pursue other creative and per- sonal projects. WHILE FANS fiddled with other fun- nies, Trudeau fathered twins with wife Jane Pauley of the "Today" show and sent Zonker, B.D. and gang to Broad- way. The musical, Doonesbury, which opened last November to lukewarm reviews, served as a bridge between where the strip left off and where it will pick up, Salem said. Trudeau wrote the book and lyrics and Elizabeth Swados composed the music for the show, which took place in the Walden commune on graduation day. Michael Doonesbury, the dithering major-domo of the commune, graduates with a degree in business administration and becomes engaged to Joan Jr. See DOONESBURY, Page 3 Trudeau ... ends 20-month sabbatical Cabbage Patch fever Stil burns at Brimrwood By DOV COHEN They waited and waited and waited, hoping their patience would be rewar- D ded. But some stood around for seven hours and still left empty-handed. Last year, Cabbage Patch dolls were so popular they caused riots in toy stores across the country - there just didn't seem to be enough to go around. This year, the soft dolls are still popular. And they're still hard to find. THE CABBAGE Patch kids are unique. Each one comes with a birth certificate for the owner. And if the doll is lost, Coleco, the doll's manufacturer, will send the bereaved "parent" a death certificate. About 50 people stood outside the Kay-Bee Toy and Hobby Store in the Briarwood Mall yesterday for the chance to purchase a $36.99-$38 with tax - cabbage kid. See THE, Page :> A banner year for pot, says 'Max' MENDOCINO, Calif. (AP) - "Mendocino Max" and fellow marijuana growers are preparing for this year's California pot harvest, a crop that's the target of anti-pot commandoes who are heading for the fields with rifles, helicopters, and the will to destroy dope. Some estimates have put the value of California's marijuana crop at $2 billion, which would approximately equal milk and cream, the state's number one legal agricultural products. But those charged with destroying the sinsemilla - a potent, seedless species - say they don't know what the pot crop is worth. "I don't think anyone can say how much marijuana is out there, although it's a significant amount," said Kati Cor- saut, spokeswoman for the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting, a dope-destroying force involving local, state, and federal law enforcement agents, some of whom are volun- teers. THE HARVEST SEASON for northern California's marijuana started in August and should run for a few weeks more. A grower with the pseudonym "Mendocino Max" says the new crop is the greatest he's seen. CAMP participants in the project to eradicate the marijuana gardens, ranging from a few plants to hundreds of acres, have an annual budget of $1.9 million. That would be the take for 950 plants, at the current market rate of about $2,000 each. An ounce of sinsemilla will cost the con- sumer up to $225. So far this year, the dope-busters-packing m-16 rifles See BUMPER, Page 2 Student dies in design class By NEIL CHASE A graduate architecture student died of an apparent heart attack yesterday in a design class despite several studen- ts' efforts to revive her. The woman, a Finnish student whose name was not immediately released; leaned back and appeared to be stret- ching, according to witness Gary Jen- sen, another graduate architecture student. "The student was lying over her stool backwards," said instructor Tividar Balogh. He said he helped lower the woman to the floor and went to call an ambulance while several students began resuscitation efforts. "She wasn't breathing and there was no heart rate," said architecture student Daniel Wilkinson. "She was blue in the face," Wilkinson said. He began mouth-to-mouth resuscitation while another student performed CPR chest compressions. "No one was doing anything," Wilkinson said. "I figured. . . it was my duty to jump in." Many of the 400 students in the design lab were unaware of the-incident, said Jensen, adding that the students near the woman were quite calm and cooperative. Rescue workers attempted to revive the woman and took her to University Hospital where an autopsy will be per- formed this week. "She was sitting next to me and she seemed .fine" before the incident, Jen- sen said. "Nobody knew her. It was her first term here." Daily Photo by DOUG McMAHON Cabbage Patch dolls wait patiently for adoption by customers who had lined up all day for the dolls at the Kay-Bee Toy & Hobby store in Briarwood Mall yesterday. TODAY Pickled polls R onald reagan is supported by conservatives andj Walter Mondale is backed by organized labor-butj who are the pickle packers going to vote for? Pickle Packers International is going to find out with what it bills, tongue-in-cheek, as the first-ever industrywide Pickle Presidential Poll. "We know that the pickle itself leans neither right nor left," said the group's executive vice nresident, William Moore. "but . . . the pickle Complex Oedipus A man in Charlotte, Tenn., who unwittingly married his mother pleaded repeatedly for a divorce after he discovered the relationship, but she vowed "to make up some wild criminal charge" if he left her, the son's attorney said. Danny Bass, 26, ran away and joined the Army when, a few months after they wed on Jan. 21, 1978, "his suspicions were confirmed" that his wife was actually his mother, attorney Doug Jackson said. Jackson said Mrs': Bass refused his entreaties to end their marriage. "She ._:r.. - - ~.a -fe n n n ~ llan tar il n n ta r rr criminal charge against him if he divorced her." Mrs. Bass, a plump and graying woman who married four times before she wed her son, was "obsessed" with preventing another woman from having him, the attorney said. Dan Cook, assistant district attorney general, said the bizarre case "is a violation of our morals and strikes at the heart of our family unit which I think is the basis of our whole system of society." Authorities said Bass is the son of the woman's first husband and that she gave him up for adop- tion when he was 3 to Horace Sullivan, the brother of one of her other ex-husbands. now. Maybe never," he said as his formally dressed cooks and waiters set up the banquet. "We are self-confessed winos," said one of the four, Roy Hodges. "Make no mistake." Ferrari made the men stay away from the table until everything was ready. "No, you can't come over here yet," he said when one made a move toward the table. "It's got to be perfect before you can sit down. It's going to be delicious." On the inside ... i i 1 i I