The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 19, 1990 - Page 5 Amoco by Ian Hoffman Daily Research Reporter The long and winding road to Ep- cQt Center just got shorter - $12,000 shorter. On Monday, Amoco Oil Co. will present a check for $12,000 to the College of Engineering's Solar Car team in the atrium of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building. University President James Duderstadt will accept the donation on behalf of the 110 students work- ing on the campus-wide project. contributes to 'U' Solar Car team "Michigan has been a prime sup- plier of employees over the years," said Steve Holdaway, the manager of cost engineering at Amoco and a Michigan alum. "We feel we are get- ting an adequate bang for our buck when we donate to Michigan." Holdaway said that to his knowl- edge, the University of Maryland is the only other school that may be receiving aid from Amoco. "We will use $10,000 of the money to buy the batteries we need for the car," said Michael Lynch, a Business School Graduate Student and the administrative team leader. Lynch noted that the company which produces the batteries used for storing captured solar power de- clined to make a donation to the University team because it holds a monopoly in the market. The rest of the money will be used to buy small items and ironi- cally enough, the gas needed to fuel a vehicle that will follow the solar car during the race. "It is impossible for the team to chase after donations for every one or two dollar item we need," said pro- ject manager Susan Fancy, an LSA and engineering senior. Amoco's donation comes at an opportune time. "At this point we really need cash - about $35,000 more," said Lynch. "We are about set on the in-kind donations though," he added. All totaled the so- lar car project has raised more the $560,000 in cash, product and ser- vice donations. In addition to the presentation of the check, a quarter-scale model replica of the finished car will be unveiled. "The media coverage is getting much larger that I expected and-I'm getting a little nervous," said Fancy. Four newspapers and four trade jour- nals are expected at the event. The solar car is being built in an- ticipation of the GM SUNRAYCE USA which includes 32 university teams from across the nation. The teams will compete for a GM spon- sored trip to Australia, where the top three finishers will compete in an in- ternational solar car race with na- tional teams from other countries. Lynch said he expects the main competition will come from the University of Maryland, Cal-Poly Technical Institute and MIT. The race begins July 9 at the Ep- cot Center in Florida, lasting nine and a half days as it winds through nine states. The final stop will be the GM Tech Center in Warren, Michigan. HouseJ LANSING (AP) - Lawmakers mourning the death of former Rep. Dennis Dutko (D-Warren) say they've learned a tragic lesson about a system that would jail someone whose legal troubles stemmed from a problem such as alcoholism. The House recognized Dutko with a moment of silence yesterday. The 46-year-old Dutko's down- ward spiral was prompted by his Bulgaria SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - Former leader Todor Zhivkov was put under house arrest and charged with abuse of power and fomenting ethnic un- rest during his 34-year reign, the government-run news agency BTA reported yesterday. The state agency also said oppo- sition talks with the ruling Com- munists broke down yesterday over access to Bulgaria's broadcasting networks, which the opposition wishes to use to spread its demo- cratic message throughout this mostly rural nation in advance of Presidents Bo and Bush hold summit mourns Dutko's death one-year jail sentence for drunken driving, his friends say. Just nine days after leaving jail Jan. 3, he was arrested on charges of drug posses- sion in Chattanooga, Tenn. He died in his Fort Myers, Fla. condo- minium Jan. 17. No immediate cause of death was determined by an autopsy, but sui- cide is suspected because an empty pill bottle was found by his bed. Test results will be available next week and will help verify if drugs or alcohol were involved. Dutko, his attorneys, and many House members claimed that the admitted alcoholic should be allowed to serve his time in a rehabilitation center. Despite the pleas, two Ing- ham County district judges repeat- edly denied the request. "I don't know what they did for him in jail, but I suspect not much. He needed help, he needed some sup- port systems," said Rep. Burton Le- land (D-Detroit). "When you think about it, we (lawmakers) are supposed to make the system happen," Leland said. "Dennis spent 15 years helping to set up those institutions. It doesn't say a whole lot for the system if the system failed a legislature." arrests Communist ex-leader promised national elections. The prosecutor-general's office issued a warrant for the deposed dic- tator, who was toppled in a Novem- ber uprising, charging Zhivkov with malfeasance in office, inciting ethnic hostility, and misuse of state prop- erty. The 78-year-old Stalinist was not jailed, according to BTA, but was instead put under guard at an undis- closed location. That makes him the second East Bloc leader now under official inves- tigation for abuses disclosed by the WASHINGTON (AP) - Bo Schembechler wasn't looking for pitching help for his Detroit Tigers when he dropped by the Oval Office yesterday for a 10-minute courtesy call, but President Bush offered his services anyway. The president gave Schembechler a White House tie clasp and an auto- graphed picture of Bush throwing out the first ball for a major-league game. "To Bo Schembechler with great pride in your phenomenal record in football!" Bush's inscription read. "Now in your new work, can you upheavals that have convulsed East- ern Europe. Former East German party leader Erich Honecker, now hospitalized, faces a charge of high treason. The charges against Zhivkov indicate he is being personally blamed by his reformist Communist successors for the nation's severe ethnic and economic problems. Zhivkov was the author of so- called "Bulgarization," the persecu- tion and forced assimilation of the nation's 1.5 million ethnic Turks and other native Bulgarian Muslims, known as Pomaks. use an old lefty?" Schembechler didn't accept the offer. "He doesn't have a real high leg kick," he wisecracked, showing the picture to reporters after the visit. A White House spokesperscn said Bush invited Schembechler to Washington because he had missed the basketball team's White House visit last spring after winning the na- tional championship. "It was great," Schembechler said. "We talked a little football, a little baseball." Did they discuss Michigan's loss After his ouster, Zhivkov was ac- cused of corruption when it was r.- vealed he had maintained at least 30 holiday and hunting retreats throughout this poor Balkan nation. Zhivkov's often-violent forced assimilation policy banned Moslem religious practices and required ethnic Turks and Moslems to forsake their own names and take Bulgarian ones. More than 300,000 ethnic Turks emigrated to Turkey to escape the harsh Bulgarization campaign, but about 80,000 later returned, citing lack of jobs and housing in Turkey. in the Jan. 1 Rose Bowl? "Absolutely not," Schembechler said. 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