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Zoning is hot issue in today's Third Ward City Council race
(Continued from Pate 1)
tment measured the house at over
6,000 square feet by including the attic
and basement. Thus, according to the
. revised zoning codes, the sorority's
use is legal.
But because the zoning change was
never discussed at a public meeting
such as the city council, as required
by state and local laws, the neighbors
consider the change illegal.
As a member of city council, Mid-
dleton voted for the conversion of the
house on Lincoln to group occupancy
status. As a result, she won the favor
of the University's Greek community.
Mary Beth Seiler, director of the
Panhellenic Association, which
governs the sororities at the Univer-
sity, wrote a letter endorsing Mid-
dleton's campaign.
"She (Richter) has been most
visible in her opposition to fraternities
and sororities, and her position on the
city council would have far-reaching
and negative consequences for
Greeks at U of M," the letter said.
"Additionally, Jeanette Middleton
has been an excellent and fair-minded
member of both city council and the
planning commission."
According to the letter, Middleton
did not ask for an endorsement. With
24 sororities and fraternities in the
Third Ward, the Greek community's
backing of Middleton could have a
large impact on the primary election.
"I welcome (the students') sup-
'Because I have a planning background
and the experience and knoweldge that a
city council member needs to judge the
city, I can help the city through this
critical growth stage.' -Donna Richter
only place where Greeks can ex-
pand."
To reduce the tension between the
planning commission and city
residents, Richter says she would like
to establish "citizen's councils" which
would review planning proposals
before the commission votes on them.
Although they differ on the zoning
issue, Richter and Middleton both op-
pose a proposal on the April ballot
that calls for a $3 million tax-bond
issue for road repair. Both candidates
say money for road improvements
should first come out of the city's
general fund before approaching tax-
payers.
Moreover, the candidates agree
that downtown development should be
encouraged, in particular, by ap-
proving a proposed convention center
at Huron, First, Ashley, and Ann
Streets.
And they both say the growing com-
petition for housing in the downtown
area must be addressed if the city
wants to bring in more business.
"It's more expensive, by about $20 a
square foot, to build housing down-
town than anywhere else in the city,"
Richter said. The city needs to
provide financial incentives to
developers who want to build housing
downtown, she said.
"Visitors will just frequent service
places like restaurants, but people
who love downtown will keep places
like Kline's in business," she added.
port," Middleton said, "and I need
their votes."
Richter says her no-vote was based
only on the issue of land-use, not just
the group that was caught in the mid-
dle. "It was nothing to do with anti-
Greek feelings," she said.
But Richter is still drawing op-
position from sororities and frater-
nities over her plan to prevent future
conversions of single and two-family
homes in the four-street area to group
dwellings.
Betsy French, Panhellenic's
representative to a zoning task force
reviewing Collegiate Sorosis's case,
said the current zoning area "is the
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NEW YORK (AP) - When Tylenol
capsules were tainted with cyanide
three years ago, the manufacturer
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Cyanide was found in two bottles of
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two stores in a New York City suburb,
and one death was blamed on the con-
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WHEN. seven people died after
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The death a week ago of 23-year-old
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Marketing analysts say yes, though
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THE easy-to-swallow capsules ac-
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The majority of the market is in
tablets and caplets, which are coated
tablets. They are harder to tamper
with than capsules because they are
solid, rather than grains of
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Jerry Fuller, who follows the
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Tylenol capsules bleak, but said John-
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The analysts uniformly cited the
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Following the Chicago deaths,
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Johnson & Johnson estimates it
spent hundreds of millions of dollars
designing the triple-sealed package
which it used to bring back Tylenol
capsules in December 1982.
The incident knocked Tylenol from
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the market. Industry analysts said it
fell as low as an eight percent share.
BY the end of 1985, however,
Tylenol was back on top with 35 per-
cent of the $1.8 billion marker, accor-
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After Elsroth's death, traced to
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