The Michigan Daily--Tuesday, July 14, 1981-uPage 3 WIFE AND CHILD ARE CONT ACTED Taiwan affair progresses By JOHN ADAM Daily staff writer Contact was made recently between the wife and child of former University graduate student Chen Wen-Chen and members of Carnegie Mellon Univer- sity faculty, according to CMU President Richard Cyert. Cyert said that Chen's wife, Sue Jen, has said she will leave Taiwan in "the middle of August maybe." There had been suspicions that Chen's wife and child were placed under house arrest after her husband's mysterious death on July 3. INVESTIGATION OF Chen's 'death is now being conducted by the Nationalist Chinese government in Taiwan. If the inquiry appears to be merely a "white- wash," said Cycrt, he will ask other university presidents, including University of Michigan President Harold Shapiro, to push for a congressional investigation. A congressional investigation threatens to give Hughes estate still in dispute; judge rej.ects four claim Taiwan's government a lot of bad publicity, said Cyert. "They'd clearly like to have a good reputation here so they can get arms," he said. Now there seems to be "a little more action" in the Eighty-three members of the Free China Student Association, in a letter to the Daily, refuted charges that agents of the Taiwanese government are working through their organization. See their let- ter on the Daily's Opinion Page, Page 8. investigation, said Carnegie-Mellon's president. He said he sent a cablegram to President Reagan and a subcommittee hearing on Chen's case is scheduled for today. HOUSTON (AP)-Billionaire Howard Hughes had no close relatives and left no will when he died five years ago, a probate judge ruled yesterday in rejec- ting four claims to the recluse's estate. The ruling, which came after one woman disclosed alleged details of the billionaire's sex life, set the stage for hearings beginning Aug. 10 on claims by a group of 22 cousins and other distant relatives and by hundreds of people alleging some family link. IN YESTERDAY'S ruling, Probate Judge Pat Gregory threw out claims by two people who said they were Hughes's children and two women who said they had married Hughes. Among them was a woman who identified herself as Alma Cruise Hughes and wept as she insisted Hughes married her in a hospital operating room in Dallas in 1973, three years before he died. "WE HAVE SOME deep suspicion that someone from (the CMU) campus sent information that led to his (Chen's) death," said Cyert and added, "I'm fairly confident that there are spies." Chen was an assistant professor at Carnegie-Mellon in statistics. Students at Carnegie-Mellon have put on a bulletin board a list of alleged government agents working in the Pittsburgh university community, but Cyert said it "will be very difficult to prove" they are, in fact, spies. Shapiro said yesterday that "it's very dangerous to make judgements about individual people" such as the alleged secret agents, and added it is "hard for us here to sort this out now." SHAPIRO SAID all kinds of different charges have been made at the University such as the "mainland Chinese versus the Taiwanese," but "what's obvious is not always what's true" in these type of cases. In another development, a group of students at this See TAIWANESE, Page5 The elderly woman told Gregory that Hughes' autopsy was falsified, because she said it made no mention of her allegation that he only had one foot. SHE ALSO said she and Hughes lived apart at his request because "Hughes was awfully rough in bed with his women." She said she got pregnant by Hughes by artificial insemination and bore him a son in 1974. The four claims were the only ones left by people alleging to be close relatives of the eccentric recluse. TOWARD THE END of yesterday's hearing, a woman and her son, sitting in the spectator's gallery, claimed Hughes died in 1970 but that his remains were frozen and not thawed out until 1976. Gregory ruled them out of order and told them they could file an appeal. A2 woman fi hts for the ERA Utah project poses tough 'Eia; NNW",challenge to NOW member By JENNIFER MILLER - Daily staff writer This energetic Ann Arbor woman is putting aside two job offers and using her savings to go to Utah this month. Kathy Fojtik, a dedicated member of the National Organization for Women, is determined that the Equal Rights Amendment should be ratified next year. Utah is one of the 15 states yet to ratify, and the Mormon Church there is a strong opponent of ERA. But NOW will continue to push for ERA in Utah, because, as Ann Arbor NOW Chairman Marcia Pupkewitz said, "We believe the Mormon leadership is out of touch with their people." FOJTIK, WHO will stay witha Utah family, and other NOW members will be conducting surveys and lobbying in Utah. "The strategy is to try to turn around the Mormon church," Fojtik said, adding that as of a week ago, one- third of the Mormons and two-thirds of the non-Mormons polled in a survey supported ERA. The fight for Utah ratification will be difficult, if not impossible, however. "The strategy is far out," Fojtik said, "The Mormon Church is one of the tightest patriarchies I've ever seen." Fojtik, a past president of Ann Arbo NOW, said she was inspired to join NOW's "Utah Missionary Project" by a speech given by a former Mormon woman last month. IN HER SPEECH, Fojtik said, the woman told of an anti-ERA talk given to Mormon women in her church. She said her own commitment to the ERA sprang from her outrage and in- dignation at the male speaker's misin- formed talk. "Her speech as a Mormon, as a Mormon who was excommunicated, and as a woman in a male world," Fojtik said, "made me forego getting a job and take some of my savings to help educate the people of Utah about the ERA." The ERA, Fojtik said, "has nothing to do with government control over people's lives. It's giving more personal freedom." As a Constitutional amen- dment it will form "the principles on which judges and juries base their decisions," Fojtik said. HUT THE ERA will be largely sym- bolic, she continued, because "I know it would be interpreted conservatively by the courts, which are 94 percent male. And history tells you that every con- stitutional amendment is interpreted conservatively." Fojtik added, "It will See ANN ARBOR, Page 5 KATHY FOJTIK, a former city NOW chairman, makes "El skit put on for the crowd at an ERA rally held here last month.