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ducive to loitering, truancy, dope
dealing, and deviant behavior.
He added that this responsibility lies
with the owners and managers. He said
hefeels they have been responsible and
have sensed the needs of the com-
munity in presenting such a place.
THERE ARE also clean, light grey
partitiops surrounding each of the video
gamea which Kughndsaid creates a aen-
ae of diviaion and privacy, which'
promotes "greater communication
with the machine."
"It's the person against the
machine," he explained. "As the scores
increase, he is beating the machine."
He added that that "makes you want to
continue to play."
These video games can "help you to
unwind" Kughn said. The games can be
relaxing after 3along, aggravating day,
he said, because frustrations are re-
channeled into another form which is
controllable and your attention is
redirected."
THE SIMULATION Station is very
"cost efficient entertainment," Kughn
said. A rollercoaster couldn't feasibly
be put inside of the building on Liberty,
he explained, but the simulator can
simulate one with basically the same
effects at a much lower price.
Kughn, a marketing and finance
graduate, said he thinks Ann Arbor "of-
fered a tremendous market" especially
because of the University being here.
He said the population is turning over
almost completely every four years,
which brings fresh faces wanting to try
something new.
With video games costing as much as
$2,400 each, the company needed to set
up in a promising area. "It's expen-
sive," Kugho said. This type of center,
however, has been very profitable in
other areas, he said.
THERE IS a Simulation Station in the
Renaissance Center in downtown
Detroit, Kughn said, which -is also
owned by Kinop International, Inc., a
Detroit-based company of which Kughn
is an executive vice-president. They
plan to open another one in Oakland
Mall in Troy.
Kughn said he did expect some com-
petition from nearby pinball alrcades,
but "not of particular concern."
The local arcade managers, don't
seem to be too worried either. Jay
Dorrance, manager of Mickey Rat's on
William St., said, " It's gonna be tough,
but we're probably one of the best pin-
ball places around."
THE MANAGER of The Crossed-
eyed Moose, which is just up the street
from the Station, Jill Franklin, said she
didn't expect too much competition
because "our customers are pretty set
on this store."
Dorrance, like Franklin, thought
many of his regulars would probably
remain so.
Several customers of both places con-
fessed however that they , would be
going to "check out" the new place to
see what it was like.
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Senate kills Democratic
attempt to preserve benefit
WASHINGTON-The Republican-controlled Senate yesterday killed a
Democratic attempt to preserve the minimum monthly Social Security
benefit.
A short time later, the Democratic-controlled House approved a resolution
to preserve the $122 minimum benefit, a resolution that House Republican
Leader Robert Michel of Illinois called "meaningless."
By a vote of 52-46, the Senate tabled, and in effect killed, an amendment by
Sen. Donald Riegle (D-Mich.) to the pending tax bill that would restore the
benefit. The Senate had voted 53-45 to end the minimum benefit on June 23.
Today's congressional action came after President Reagan, accusing
Democrats of playing "on the fears of many Americans" to keep the
minimum Social Security benefit, said he woul go on national television to
set the record straight,
Design change may have
led to Hyatt disaster
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-A change in the original design of the sky walks in
the Hyatt Regency Hotel doubled the stresson the part of the walkways that
later pulled apart during the collapse that killed 111 people, the Kansas City
Star reported yesterday ina copyright story.
The Star's report said the design change doubled the stress on three steel
box-beams supporting the fourth-floor sky walk, one of two that collapsed.
Those were the beams that tore away from their ceiling-anchored moorings
Friday night, the newspaper reported.
Also yesterday, three dozen funerals were held for some of the 111 peple
killed. More than 180 others were injured in the collapse.
At least three lawsuits seeking a total of $105 million were filed by midday
yesterday, naming the Hyatt groups and Crown Center Redevelopment
Corp. as defendants.
Justice dept. tells Chicago
to desegregate schools
WASHINGTON-The Reagan administration asked a federal court
yesterday to reject a Chicago school board plan and compel it to more
quickly desegregate the nation's third-largest school system.
In an 82-page brief filed with U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur in Chicago,
the Justice Department asked that the board be ordered to comply with a
consent decree it signed with the Carter administration on Sept. 24, 1980,
calling for desegregation by September of this year.
The department was critical of aspects of the Chicago board's plan that
would delay any mandatory measures-including busing-until September
1983. It also assailed the board's proposal to allow up to 70 percent white
enrollment in any of the system's 625 schools.
The department said the plan does not supply any rationale, as required by
the consent decree, for the existence of schools that are 70 percent white in a
system whose total enrollment is 18 percent white, 61 percent black and 21
percent Hispanic and other minorities.
Hijacker forces Polish plane
to military base in Germany
BERLIN-A man armed with a grenade and a pistol hijacked a Polish
Airlines plane carrying 50 people on a domestic flight yesterday and forced
the pilot to land at a U.S. military air base in West Berlin.
A U.S. military spokesman said the unidentified lone hijacker gave up
shortly after the Polish LOT airlines plane landed at Tempelhof airfield. The
man was taken into custody for questioning by American officials.
The 49 adults and one child aboard were unharmed and left the plane shor-
tly after the hijacker surrendered. The passengers were expected to return
to Warsaw later, the spokesman said.
It was the second plane of Poland's state-run LOT airline to be hijacked in
seven months.
The U.S. spokesman said that a hand grenade and pistol used by the
hijacker were removed from the plane.
Libyan faces murder charge
OGDEN, Utah-A Libyan arrested while trying to leave the United States
has been charged with killing a countryman who was resisting a return to
Libya.
The FBI said yesterday that it would seek to interview Mohamad Shabata,
who was picked up Friday on a second-degree murder warrant as he stepped
from an airplane in Chicago. Police said he was carrying $3,300 in cash and
had airline reservations for Libya.
The Utah warrant was issued hours after the bullet-riddled body of a man
wearing a ring and clothes belonging to Nabil Mansour was found in the
trunk of Mansour's car. An autopsy could not confirm that the man, who had
been dead about seven days, was ,ctual y the 32-year-old Weber State
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