Health plan council votes on 'U' Hospital cost bike today By JENNIFER MILLER Daily staff writer A federal health planning agency for southeastern Michigan will meyt this mqrning in Detroit to decide whether the University actually needs to increase by $75 mnillion the cost of its.massive project to build a replacement for University hospital and renovate other areas of the University's medical complex. The executive committee of the Comprehensive Health Planning Council of Southeastern Michigan, which represents public input to health planning in the state, will send its recommendation on the project to the Michigan Department of Public Health. The MPDH, which will make the final decision on the proposed cost hike, -last month encouraged the University to seek the increase. THERE ARE indications that the CHPC-SEM Executive Committee may recdmmend that the state reject the cost increase, but there is a divergence of opinions within the Committee, according to CHPC- SEM sources. Last month. CHPC-SEM and Blue Cross-Blue ichigan Daily-Tuesday, August 11,,1981-Page 3 Shield of Michigan questioned the University's action in obtaining prior approval of the increase from the state legislature and Gov. William Milliken, claiming the University had side-stepped the public approval process. IF THE COST increase is approved by the state, Bremer said the projected gross expense per'patient day-which is not the actual cost for the patient-will be $1,408 in 1987." The cost would be $1,255 in 1987 without the new hospital project, Bremer said. In 1979, CHPC-SEM planners projected that if the University stuck to the current $210 million cost ceiling, the patient cost per day would be $1,069 in 1990 dollars. Bremer said the renovations which would be fun- ded by the additional $75 million are needed to bring the Women's and Children's Psychiatric Hospitals up to health and safety codes, and to add intensive care units to the Children's Hospital. In addition, the current hospital outpatient building will be renovated and eventually "turned into administrative offices," Bremer said, "instead of putting in expensive office 0 Daily Photo by KIM HILL. On clear day On the roof of the School of Education building, Cam Moody, a University employee, looks down at the construction site where workers are installing a new heating system, and out over East University. IRANIAN PROTESTORS HELD IN N. Y. ON BOND: Students' hunger strike continues From APand UPI WASHINGTON-Airline schedules between the United States anti Europe were disrupted yesterday in the first major international ramification of the strike of 12,000 U.S. air traffic con- trollers. The government yesterday tem- porarily halted flights between the nor- theastern United States and Europe because Canadian air traffic con- trollers sympathizing with the U.S. strike refused to guide .those planes across the Atlantic. ARRIVING AND departing flights at U.S. airports were delayed by as much as four hours as they avoided airspace over Canada; where controllers refused to handle traffic bound to or from this country. Airtraffic between the United States and Canada was paralyzed. The Federal Aviation Administration said late Monday it began re-routing some flights on a southern route across the Atlantic at the request of airlines. But FAA spokesman Dennis Feldman acknowledged only a "small" number of the estimated flights affected coqld be rerouted, because Latin American flights use that route too "and they don't have all that capacity." THE ACTION affected more than 150 of the 1,000 daily international flights ' into and out of the country. Most of those flights go through air space con- trolled by Canadian air traffic centers in Gander, Newfoundland, and Mon- cton, New Brunswick. Robert Poli, leader of the striking air controllers, appealed anew for negotiations, saying tpe dispute could end in two days if the government would return to the bargaining table-a course that has been puled out by Tran- sportation Secretary Drew Lewis. Lewis says the 12,000 strikers are fired and that replacements will be hired over the coming months. A Federal Aviation Administration Official/said the flights "were tem- porarily being held on the ground" while U.S. officials try to resolve the problem with their Canadian counter- parts. By PAMELA IFRAMER Daily staff writer Sixty Iranians-including two University students and two other per- sons from Michigan-arrested in New Jersey last Wednesday on charges of illegal entry to the United States are now in the 14th day of a hunger strike protesting the rule of Ayatollah Rhuollah Khoneini in Iran. The Iranians were arrested illegally, claimed James Rif, their attorney, Negotiations with immigration officials yesterday for their release from Otisville Federal Detention Center were unsuccessful, Rif said. OFFICIALS OF the Immigration and Naturalization Service could not be reached immediately for comment. Hearings to examine the possibility of lowering the bonds-currently set at $20,000 for each of the Iranians-are planned for today in Otisville, about 90 miles north of New York City. But Rif said he'doesn't have high expectations of the hearings. And, he said, the Iranians will file suit for release "if nothing happens in the next day or so." Before their arrest, the 60 Iranians were among 200 protestors staging a six-day hunger strike against the Khomeini government, and who par- ticipated in a march to the United Nations last Tuesday. POLICE reportedly raided a house where the students were staying in Englewood, N.J. early Wednesday morning, according to another Univer- sity student participating in the protest. The student, who requested anonymity, said the police entered the house ,without a search or arrest warrant, and then arrested the 60 Iranians. They were later charged with illegal entry to the United States, according to their lawyer. But, Rif said, the gover- nment does not know their identity because they refused to give their names and cannot prove illegal entry.. "They are actually interested in establishing the point that you have to cooperate with the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service)," Rif said. At least one of the Iranians im- prisoned at Otisville was unconscious for a while on Sunday and had to be taken to the hospital as a result of the hunger strike, according to Rif. And, he said, several are being "force-fed" in- travenously. THE ARRESTED Iranians are members of the Moslem Student Society and the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, both political groups opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini's rule, and the recent mass executions he is allegedly committing in Iran. According to Rif, the Iranians do not want to release their names to im- migration officials because they fear the informaiton will leak back to Khomeini, thus endangering the lives of their families in Irqn.