Page 10-Wednesday, May 27, 1981-The Michigan Daily
U.S. car sales
still in slump

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DETROIT (UPI)-Sales of U.S.-built
cars rose 9.3 percent in mid-May above
last year's weak levels but were the
second lowest for the period since 1971.
Domestic automakers reported
Tuesday they sold 191,878 cars in the
May 11-20 period, compared with
155,987in thesimilar period of 1980.
IN A WORD, the industry is still
dragging along at recession levels.
Senator Donald Riegle said yester-
day that Japan's voluntary limit on the
number of automobiles it imports into
the United States falls far short of the
restrictions needed to help America's
auto industry.
The Michigan Democrat said the plan
is a good deal for Japan but "does not
provide any substantial degree of help"
for this country's faltering automakers.
"IT WILL prevent the Japanese
automakers from grabbing off any big
burst of sales activity in the United
States," Riegle said, "but the problem
is, with interest rates back up to record
levels, it is hard to anticipate a- sales
burst any time soon."

One Big Three sales analyst
estimated that mid-May sales
represented a seasonally adjusted an-
nual sales rate of only 5.8 million units,
down slightly from the first 10 days in
May.
The mid-May daily sales rate of
21,320 cars was the second lowest since
a 21,008 rate was recorded in 1971 and
represented a decline of 42 percent
from the same period in 1978.
ONE AUTO executive said the in-
dustry is still locked in the sales let-
down that followed the end of industry-
wide rebate programs in April.
The Japanese government has
agreed to reduce the number of
automobiles imported into the United
States from 1.8 million to 1.68 million.
The three-year agreement would allow
Japanese automakers to increase car
exports into the United States by up to
16 percent of the overall increase in the
domestic automobile market during
each of those years.


FIRE ENGULFS THE Northside complex of the Southern Michigan Prison
at Jackson as violence broke out once again yesterday morning. One inmate
uses a garden hose to protect a dormitory, while an armed guard patrols the
fence lined with prisoners' belongings.
More rioting breaks
out in state prisons

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belongings.
DEPUTY Corrections Director
William Kime said cells designed for
one prisoner would house two or three
until more permanent quarters are
found for about 300 men whose housing
units were destroyed.
"We have lost practically all of our
essential services," said Deputy Warden
Louis Utess. "We're trying to plan
housing, supervision and feeding of
1,000 residents."
Sixteen guards were trapped for a
time on a catwalk in a cellblock seized

by prisoners, but were freed by an ar-
med police squad.
"THEY FLAT out told us they were
going to burn the place down," one
guard said.
About 165 riot-equipped state police
troopers guarded the perimeter of the
massive institution, but did not par-
ticipatein the final sweep.
Utess said the riot began as inmates
finished lunch. It apparently was a
result of a conflict between two groups
of inmates, but Utess said it was not
known what sparked the conflict or how
many participated in the melee.

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PRESS RELEASE
The Spartacus Yourh League will be holding
a class entitled the "RUSSIAN REVOLU-
TION" on Wednesday, May 27, at 7:00 pm
in the Welker Room in the Michigan Union.
The speaker will be Ruth Lopez with special
guest speaker Frank Hicks, member of the
Rouge Militant Caucus and presidential can-
didate for UAW Local 600. This is the fifth
class in the class series the "ABC's of
Marxism." Classes are held every Wednesday
at 7:00 pm in the Michigan Union. For more
information call 994-9313.

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