- i Strike costs GM $18 million each day The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 18, 1984 -- Page 3 The Cabbage Patch thrill has yet to wane From AP and UPI DETROIT-Striking auto workers yesterday halted work at 12 General Motors Corp. assembly plants nation- wide at a cost to the automaker of about $18 million per day, with talks recessed until today. Weary negotiators for GM and the United Auto Workers cut off contract talks at 4:30 p.m. EDT yesterday following a 20-hour session and set bargaining to resume at 9:30 a.m. today. THE STRIKES began late Friday and early Saturday, when al but one of the plants were shut down for the weekend. The UAW's national contract with GM expired at midnight Friday, and weekend talks produced no im- mediate agreement. *Local 435 Vice President Leon Man- Inering said that under a pre-strike agreement with GM, three UAW mem- bers - an electrician, a welder, and a pipefitter - where constantly on duty inside the plant to ensure no damage would occur during the shutdown. "A plant that's on strike is like a ghost town," a GM salaried employee in Shreveport, La., said yesterday as he resumed work. "It's very still and quiet." THE FIRST strikers hit the picket lines at 6 a.m. yesterday. They will get $85 a week and strike pay plus medical coverage from the union's $570 million strike fund. "They don't really want a strike, but they want restored what was taken from them," said spokesman J. M. Comiskey of Local 594 in Pontiac, Mich. "If they have to do it this way, it is thel only way they can." The just-expired contract contained $3 billion in concessions made in 1982. ANALYSTS estimate the walkouts by nearly 59,000 hourly workers will cost GM $125 million a week, or about 18 million a day. Dealers also expected an early squeeze on inventories. "Most Cadillac dealers are cleaned out of '84 models and none of us has any inventory of '85 models," said a cadillac dealer owner in Hammond, Ind. "A strike will have a big effect on our business." (Continued from Page . "They're ugly, but my gran- daughter wants one and that's what grandmothers are for," said Billie Sue Campbell, who had been outside the store since the early morning. BUT AS IT turned out, most of the customers went unrewarded despite patient waiting. Kay-Bee managers handed out 60 numbers to those diehar- ds willing to wait, but the toy store en- ded up with only 12 dolls. "They wanted to wait. We've been telling them we didn't know how many were coming," said one of the toy store's cashiers. But as they day went on, some of the customers became disgruntled. By about 3:30 p.m. the mass of mothers, and grandmothers - some who had been there since 9 a.m. - became im- patient. "I HOPE my husband is making din- ner," one woman quipped. A sense of goodwill seemed to spread the line, said some of the people who were waiting to snatch up a Cabbage Patch doll. "She'll hold my number and I'll run to the john," said Lois Satterfield of Ypsilanti. The crowd itself was relatively non- violent. No one snatched numbers or at- tempted to trip others at the front of the line. Karen Piccirillo of South Lyon held the coveted "number one" ticket and she joked that no one had tried to steal her ticket. "Give it another two hours," she said. At about 4 o'clock the 12 dolls were doled out. "Number 13?" someone said. "She's in the fountain drowning herself." But as it turned out, number 13 lucked out. Pam Hrivnak, known to some only as "number nine" gave her ticket to number 13. "I needed a preemie (a special variety of Cabbage Patch Doll)," she said explaining that the store didn't have one. And after seven hours of waiting, number nine settled for an Orko Master of the Universe doll. "It's just as hard to find," she said, "so it's worth the wait." Associated Press CIA takes heat for Windy mass Pope John Paul II speaks to a crowd of 150,000 at a mass yesterday in Namao, Can., just north of Edmonton. The strong winds forced him to cancel plans for a leisurely afternoon in the Alberta Rockies. Nicaraguan rplane sale Miss Amerig NEW YORK (AP)-The new Miss America, Sharlene Wells, said yesterday that the scandal over the publication of nude photographs of Vanessa Williams has "redefined what Miss America stands for." And in her definition, Miss Wells uses words like "God," "family," "tradition," and "career." MEANWHILE, MISS Texas, Tamara Hext, who won the swimsuit competition, said in a diary published yesterday that she was "floored" when Miss Wells was crowned and "disappointed" she finished only as fourth runner-up. At a news conference, Miss Wells was asked whether the scandal over the photographs had made i. her think twi "It mader 'Hey, I don' America,' T stands for." MISS WIL was forced t of her in nud in Penthouse Miss Well crowned Mi mon church chosen Satu tithesis to X " t revamping pageant ce about seeking the title. she understood her mission to cleanse the 63-year-old me work harder," she said. "I thought, pageant and its soiled image. t want people to think that about Miss At one point, Miss Wells was asked to play a word hat's not what the Miss America pageant association game, part of which went like this: Q: "NUDE PHOTOS?" LLIAMS, the first black Miss America, A: "You can be sure I've never been in any of o relinquish her crown after photographs those." le, sexually explicit poses were published Q: "Vanessa Williams?" e magazine. A: "She is ... someone that I admire; she has per- s, 20, who was Miss Utah before being sonality. Now when it comes to her decision, with ss Americaand is the daughter of a Mor- respect to that situation, she herself said it was a official, said she didn't know if she was mistake, so what more can I say?" irday night as a "squeaky clean" an- Of President Reagan, she said, "I think he is a [iss Williams. But her words showed that wonderful man. He is a great leader." r WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Jim which he reportedly Baiu icau,, Sasser, after reviewing secret U.S. will be in a position to deploy advance documents, said yesterday night that aircraft - possibly Soviet MiGs - late the administration appears to have thisyear or early in 1985. "acted in a cavalier and irresponsible THE SOURCES, who insisted pol manner" in the transfer of three rocket- anonymity, said the planes were used i firing airplanes to the CIA-backed an air-ground attack on a militar Nicaraguan rebels. school inside leftist-ruled Nicaragua o . Meanwhile, the State Department Sept. 1. During the attack, a rebe warned that the United States would helicopter was shot down killing tw consider the Nicaraguan government's Americans, who were described late acquisition of advanced combat air- as anti-communist volunteers. craft "a serious development which a* 0 would alter the balance of power 'in Central America. 14,789 to choose (trom - all subjects! Rush $2 for the current, 306-page cata- DEPARTMENT spokesman John log. Custom research & thesis assis- Hughes commented in response to a tance also available. weekend statement by Nicarguan Research, 11322 Idaho Ave., #206 WA, Defense Minister Humberto Ortega in Los Angeles, CA 90025 (213)477-8226. .. DS TL *&k k3aiai9 . ua ed ite n y 3n gel vo er Doonesbury end 'Cnnti i frnm Pace 1) I 20-month break, (uon inuea rom rage 1 voice said: Z ongerHarris, who tried to tan him- Another voice self to burnt umber, goes into real And so Truc estate with his renegade Uncle Duke, void on the who wants-to level Walden for condos. newspaperst Maiwvelous Mark Slackmeyer gets a job were forced to, as a disc jockey with a Long Island. F U hdio talk show. newspapers U SUPERJOCK B.D., who dreamed for Salem said the years of playing football for the Dallas more. Cowboys, is traded to the Seattle "I think th Seahawks for two draft picks and a bus. what he's goi The last newspaper strip showed a back," Salem Western set and props being disman- might not hav tIed from a White House setting. A the publicity a RHAPPENI "Oh, boy, a vacation." said: "No, not you, sir." ideau took off, leaving a cartoon page. the 726 that ran "Doonesbury" use othercomics. piversal has signed up 730 for "Doonesbury," and e syndicate expected even ere's a lot of interest in ng to do when he comes said. "A lot of papers that ve taken it are because of attached." NGS, Garretson Beekman Trudeau drew his first comic strip at Yale University in 1966. The first installments of "Bull Tales," the forebear of "Doonesbury," appeared in 1968. The panels laughed at mixers and campus revolutionaries and the football exploits of Yale star quarterback, irian Dbling -" the model for B.D. When he graduated, the newly for- med Universal Press offered the 22- year-old Trudeau a 12-year contract. He changed the title from "Bull Tales" to "Doonesbury" after his Yale room- mate, Charles Pillsbury, and a prep school term for looney - doone. Over the years, he has sometimes left the nation's movers and shakers bristling with his brash attacks. In the 1980 presidential election, several newspapers wouldn't print panels Trudeau had drawn of a cartoon trip to "mysterious world of Ronald Reagan's brain." With the presidential election just seven weeks away, Trudeau will likely be on the lookout for other "memory vaults" to plunder. AMERICAN AND FOREIGN CAR SPECIALIST LOA.. Installed By Trained Specialists INSTALLED Featuring .A SMALL CARS PARTICIPATING One of the finest names DEALERS City passes $25 scalping fine Highlight If you're feeling a little bit athletic this evening, join the Ultimate Frisbee Club for a game or two between 5 and 7 p.m. at Mitchell field. Films Michigan Theatre Foundation, - The Harder They Come, 7:30 p.m.; Dance Craze, 9:30 p.m., Michigan Theatre. Alt Act - Pandora's Box, 7 p.m., Stella Dallas, 9 p.m., Lorch Hall. Speakers - Ecumenical Campus Center - Len Suransky, "Settlement & School for Peace for Arabs & Jews in Israel," Richard Cleaver, "Peace Prospects in Israel," noon, 603 E. Madison. School of Music, Rackham - Ruby Cohn, "Growing (up) with Godot," 4 p.m., W. Conference Rm., Rackham. Bioengineering - Janet Ku, "An Experimental Investigation of the Fate of Autoclaved Autogenous Bone," 3:45 p.m., 1042 E. Engineering Bldg. Chemistry - Robert Bach, "1, 2-Carbonyl Migrations in Organic Syn- thesis," 4 p.m., Rm. 1300 Chemistry Bldg. Chinese Studies - James Crump, "Dolls, Puppets and Homunculi," noon, Lane Hall Commons. Meetings His House Christian Fellowship - Fellowship & Bible study, 7:30 p.m., 925 E. Ann. Ann Arbor Co Club -7 p.m., 1433 Mason Hall. Adult/Child Psychiatric Hospital - Meeting for volunteers, 4 p.m., Rm. S9410, Main Hospital. University Activities Center - Theater Group, 7:30 p.m. Anderson Rm. Union. Student Alumni Council - Mass meeting, 7 p.m., Alumni Center. Outdoor Recreation Program - Pre-trip meeting for bike tour to Waterloo Recreation Area, 7 p.m., Conference Rm., NCRB. Center for Continuing Education of Women - Job Hunt Club, noon, 350 S. Thayer. Libertarian Party - Dinner meeting, 6:30 p.m., Jojo's Restaurant, State , at I-94. Miscellaneous Student Wood & Craft Shop-Course, Introduction to Wood Working, 7 p.m., 537 SAB. Graduate Library- Tours of Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, 11 a.m., 1 (Continued from Page 1) City Council's approval of the new law ended a University student's ten- month struggle to decriminalize ticket scalping. John Haughton, an LSA senior, began his campaign to change the ticket- scalping law last November after he was picked up by two plain clothes police officers on South University Street for scalping tickets. Haughton had made a deal by phone to sell four tickets, each for $55. However, he didn't know he had agreed to sell the tickets to a police officer. FOR HAUGHTON, the coming mon- ths meant a series of pre-trial hearing before his trial began in April. He was eventually acquitted. According to state law, the deal has to be made in a public place or thorough- fare, Haughton said. "But we made the deal on the phone after they'd seen my ad in the Daily," Haughton said. "The whole affair left a bad taste in my mouth and it left me- kind of disillusioned by the system," Haughton said. In late May, Haughton went to see City Councilman James Blow "It would be easier for both the police and the individual if there wasn't a trial," Blow said. "It may even en- courage some more enforcement among the police, who don't have the time to invest in an arrest." in automotive parts!" 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