The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, May 18, 1982-Page 3 MICHIGAN TO LEAD THE PACK Official outlines hi-tec By CHRIS SALATA Michigan will be on "the leading edge" of the new wave of technological advancement, the director of the state'a Office of Economic Development said Saturday. Addressing a select group of about 150 business people and financial investors at the University's Track and Tennis building, Albert Bogdan keynoted the first annual Michigan Investment Fair Saturday night by outlining the strategy his office devised to keep Michigan competitive and productive in the rapidly expanding field of high technology. The strategy includes: " Making the state more attractive for high technology research and development; " Changing the state's business and investment r climate; * Utilizing existing and building new research facilities; and * Maintaining and improving all levels of state sup- ported education. Bogdan said Michigan has already taken steps to attrack new high technology research and develop- ment. The state has allocated funds for research and development, with special grants being established for small businesses. This plan parallels a similar program set up by the federal government where 3 percent of all research and development funds are set aside for small businesses. Bogdan spoke to a group of financial investors and small businessmen to promote the "Say Yes to Michigan" campaign. The campaign emphasizes the state's commitment to attracting more venture capital and bettering its business climate. He also h strategy told the group of theneed for cooperation between them and the Small Business Division of the Michigan Department of Commerce. ANOTHER POSITIVE step was the creation of Governor William Milliken's High Technology Task Force, which has centralized the state's efforts to develop a statewide high technology industry. One of the task force's main responsibilites is to work in concert with city government's and universities to in- troduce new firms to the local area. According to Bogdan, the proposed research park near North Campus, which is bringing together state gover- nment, city officials, University administrators, and private developers, is a "glowing example" of how the task force can work. The state also has a laison in Washington D.C. to Iacocca: Chrysler's survival is NEW YORK (UPI) - Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee Iacocca asserted yesterday the issue of his car com- pany's survival "is now behind us," and a mere "wiggle in the economy" would make Chrysler profitable again. "In spite of an economic depression far more severe than the most pessimistic forecasters had guessed, Chrysler Corp. is now back in sound financial shape," he said. "THE ISSUE of survival is now behind us. We're running our operations essentially at breakeven, which means it wouldn't take much of a wiggle in the economy to put us very solidly in the black." In a lucnheon speech to the Sales Executives Club of New York, the Detroit auto executive launched a critical attack against federal gover- nment policies for creating the dismal state of the economy and high unem- ployment in Michigan and elsewhere. assured "It's because the people in Washington, where there is no unem- ployment to speak of, are trying to break inflation on the backs of people who build cars and houses," he charged. "The plain fact is that the American businessman and the American con- sumer are being whipsawed not just on monetary policy, but on budget policy, - on tax policy, on trade policy, on energy policy and on regulations," Iacocca said. Iacocca said if the administration gave in to $15 billion in defense cuts, the Democrats conceded to $15 billion in social program cuts, and a surtax were imposed on imported oil and a 15-cent-a- gallon excise tax at the gas pump, the budget deficit could be reduced $60 billion. That, he said, would send interest rates plummeting and provide affor- dable credit for the purchase of cars and houses. Asner blames Reagan, Heston for axing show NEW YORK (AP)- Actor Ed Asner said yesterday he suspects the White House and his own opponents in the Screen Actors Guild may have worked for the cancellation of his television series, "Lou Grant." Asner, national president of SAG, told a meeting of its New York local that "a small group (in the guild) led by (President) Reagan's stooge, Charlton Heston," used lies to win a vote that defeated the merger of the SAG and the Screen Extras Guild. He also accused Heston of "lying" when he told the Los Angeles Herald Examiner that Asner had brought up. the issue of El Salvador at union board meetings. THERE WAS no immediate com- ment from the White House about Asner's statements. Heston also could not immediately be reached for com- ment. Asner was criticized by conservative groups earlier this year for starting a fund drive for medical supplies to be distributed by leftist rebels in El Salvador. He later admitted he made "a slight goof" for not making it clear that he was not acting on behalf of the guild. James Rosenfield, executive vice president of the CBS network, called the charge about White House pressure "preposterous." HE SAID CBS has had to face political pressure in the past for its programs, such as "Playing for Time," but not in the case of "Lou Grant." "When we start to hear from the White House on such matters, it'll be a cold day in hell," Rosenfield said. Asner, however, insisted that "Heston and his all-star hit squad have attacked me." ASNER LATER told -reporters that although he suspected his unionism and political activities were linked to the cancellation of "Lou Grant," "whether it can be proven or not beats me." "I suppose it did sound bitter," he said of his remarks about Reagan and Heston. But he said his feelings were motivated by "constant, unrelieved at- tacks on the board and me" by Heston and his allies in the guild. The attacks, Asner said, date back to the board's decision last year not to issue its annual award, as planned, to Reagan, citing the president's "anti- labor" stance in last summer's illegal strike by air traffic controllers. . adOTy ho oy DEBRAHMLEWIS Radiation When it's five o'clock and the temperature is 85 degrees, Williams Street and everything on it begins to glow under an unrelenting sun. Mem~orial service hl for P rof Brick mant More than 100 people attended a memorial service yesterday for psychology Prof. Philip Brickman, a suicide victim who died last Thursday. "There is a lot of importance to Phil's life, not his death," Linda Perloff, one of Brickman's former students said to the gathering of the late professor's friends, family, students and colleagues. "We should think about his life," she said. Robert Zajonc, a psychology professor and researcher at the In- stitute for Social Research's Center for Group Dynamics, which Brickman headed, summed up the feelings of many of Brickman's colleagues by saying "only a part of Phil died, a lot of him is stillwith us." A small reception for Brickman's close friends and family was held after the Rackham Hall memorial service.