Delco I I , 1 produces digital -stere os WARREN, Mich. (AP) - There will be few if any tapes to play on them, but Delco Electronics Corp. will be providing digital audio tape players for some General Motors Corp. vehicles by summer, Delco officials said. Digital audio tape systems, or DATs, offer near-perfect sound re- production because lifke compact disc players, or CDs, the music they play is translated into digital bits of information when it is recorded. "DAT is the next step in play- back capability format. We want to be one of the first to offer it and develop it," John Crawford, Delco Electronics' general marketing direc- tor, said Wednesday night. "The CD is further along. But as software (a music library) is developed and goes into the market- place at a competitive price and val- ue, it's accepted," he said. "We're in that phase with DAT." The Michigan Daily-Friday, January 22, 1988- Page 5 Knight -Ridder: Free Press dies if JOA fails DETROIT (AP) - The Knight- Ridder Inc. board of directors voted yesterday to cease publishing the Detroit Free Press if its joint application for a partial merger with The Detroit News is not approved. "Despite our best publishing efforts, we see no realistic prospects of returning the Free Press to profitability," the board said in a statement released here, where it met in special session. Detroit's two major newspapers sought a joint operating agreement in April 1986. An administrative law judge and the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust division has recommended against the JOA. U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III will receive the case Feb. 13. Knight-Ridder Board chairman Alvah Chapman Jr. has said he will recommend that the board sell or close the 156-year-old newspaper if the requested partial merger with The Detroit News is denied. "I think the board meeting will lay to rest any doubt - and there shouldn't be any - of the consequences of not achieving the JOA," Free Press publisher David Lawrence said before the statement was released by the board. A JOA would allow the Free Press and the News to merge advertising, circulation and business operations but maintain separate news and editorial departments. - The Newspaper Preservation Act allows a JOA if one newspaper in a community is in danger of failing and such an agreement would ensure survival of independent editorial £ voices. The newspapers have until Jan. 29 to file exceptions to the recommendation of Administrative Law Judge Morton Needleman. Meese is not bound by the recommendation and has no deadline for a decision. Allen Neuharth, chairman of News owner Gannett Co. Inc., the nation's largest newspaper group, has said without a JOA he would spend whatever it took to bury the Free Press. I Daily Photo by KAREN HANDELMAN Rush week Music school junior Shawn Wood, Engineering sophomore Ron Springer, first year LSA student Tim Ream, and first year Engineering student Dave Lehmkuhl wait for Rush tickets yesterday with 20 other of the group's fans. PIRGIM opens info. center for consumers Hart denies financial charges Consumer information will be at the fingertips of students and Ann Arbor residents since a new PIRGIM program opened yesterday.. Members of the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan yester- day announced the establishment of their Consumer Information Center. The Center will provide general information on "anything from long distance services to where the cheap- est happy hour might be," said Gary Kalman, PIRGIM's executive direc- tor. The center would not be qualified to answer legal questions, "but we could instruct people on how to go about filing a suit in small; claims court," Kalman said. The center, located in PIRGIM's campus office in the Michigan Union, will be staf fc.d by student VO1l1,tf,'roN M-idav through Friday between 3 and ) p.m Matt Kaplan, a PIRGIM volunteer and LSA ju- nior, said anyone can phone the PIRGIM office lineanytime, and re- quests will be addressed as soon as possible. Kalman estimated that the center should cost a few thousand dollars. By Micah Schmit s ...ca mpa igns in N w H ampshire By the Associated Press Gary Hart said "no, no, it's not true" yesterday to fresh allegations of financial irregularities in his presidential bids, as conservative Republican contenders Jack Kemp and Pete du Pont clashed over Social Security In a campaign fast approaching the boiling point, Democrat Richard Gephardt also accused Paul Simon of being "an ideologue," and Simon KINKO'S HAS 3-RING BINDERS 1"-$1.59 retorted that "too many in our party have bought into the Republican mindset." The intensity reflected the, approaching Iowa caucuses on Feb. 8 and the New Hampshire primary eight days later, two events that likely will force some contenders out of the race while strengthening others for the primaries and caucuses to follow. Hart sought to turn attention from the new allegations as he toured New Hampshire. But he was dogged by reporters asking about former aides' statements that supporters had made unreported in- kind contributions in the 1984 and 1988 campaigns and that businesses had provided services without being paid. He resumed the race just last month after dropping out last spring when questions were raised about his relationship with Miami model Donna Rice. F, Damp breaks barrier for handicapped (Continued from Page 1) only work with one building at a time," Levy said, referring to build- ing ramps at Newberry aswell as Barbour. Vander Beck said she is familiar with. the difficulties of getting around campus in a wheelchair. Hopwood (Contiued from Page ) "Going to the University of Michigan is a dream for her," he adde. Originally, the prison warden wasn't going to allow Glover to at- tend the ceremony, her attorney said. But the Corrections Department ap- "Curb cuts are in a state of disrepair; my front wheels get imbedded in the ditch," she said. Nander Beck said 22 buildings on campus do not have bathrooms ac- cessible to the mobily impaired and many sidewalks lack curb cuts. Vander Beck said two University vans - which are in disrepair with outdated equipment - can transport mobily impaired students, but the fficc needs more vans. "The vans are in for repair every other day. 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