The MichiganDaily -Tuesday, July 24, 194- Page 5 'Russian' hockey player is from U.S. BRAINERD, Minn. (AP) - A 21- year-old woman, whose ruse of being a teen-age Soviet hockey player in need of help convinced people to take her into their home, was urged yesterday by authorities to return to the Boston area for psychiatric care. Police said no charges would be filed against Wendy Devin, who they described as "obsessed with hockey." While being transferred yesterday af- ternoon from the sheriff's office to the Social Services office, the woman refused to answer reporters' questions. "HER FAMILY says she has been independent but if she wants to come back she can come back and that they will certainly encourage her to get help," said Frank Ball, a Crow Wing County sheriff's investigator. Devin, whose father, Robert Devin, is a Braintree, Mass., policeman, passed herself off at a hockey camp near this northern Minnesota city as-14-year-old Valeria Skvortsov of the Soviet Union, Ball said. Devin's mother was able to identify her daughter from a photograph that appeared nationally to accompany a story on the young woman, Ball said. Ball said the young woman apparen- tly had posed as a Soviet exchange student for several years, and had used at least five Russian aliases - all based on hockey stars in the Soviet Union. Although placed in a foster home in the Brainerd area last week, the woman was taken to the sheriff's office yesterday for questioning. Crow Wing County Attorney Stephen Rathke said he wouldn't press charges. "Who did she defraud?" Rathke asked. "I don't know what I'd charge her with . . . being a 21-year-old who gets alot of free meals?" Associaoted Press Motor boat A normally-peaceful street behind the Imperial Palace in Las Vegas became a raging torrent Sunday as flood waters swamped much of southern Nevada. One man was killed and three others are believed missing. Automakers start talks with union DETROIT (AP) - General Motors Corp. and the United The scen Auto Workers union opened contract talks yesterday and the Motor Co. B union's chiefs declared 350,000 GM members will strike if GM's top neg necessary for improvements in job security and wages. "We point UAW President Owen Bieber came out forcefully against clearly, thai GM plans to import hundreds of thousands of small cars from totally differ overseas rather than make them here, calling that "black- THE OLD mail" against American workers. He said the union will two years ag demand that the contract protect members' jobs. its worst slu "GM WORKERS are in fact entitled to and deserve" wage 14. increases after giving up thousands of dollars in potential Warren em wages and benefits under 1982's historic concessions con- He said the tract, Bieber said following the ceremonial handshake across said the U.S the bargaining table that traditionally starts auto contract talks. MADD mothers seek new volunteer court watchers e will be repeated today across town at Ford Bieber smiled and shook hands yesterday with gotiator, Vice President Alfred Warren. ed out first of all, very quickly and I think very t 1984 is not 1982," Bieber said. "The situation is rent than when we were here the last time." GM and Ford contracts were forged more than go while the U.S. atuo industry struggled through mp since the Depression. The pacts expire Sept. mphasized optimism in his remarks to reporters. UAW demands seemed "very reasoned." But he . car market was "very fragile" and that even SEE UAW, Page 7 (Continued from Page 3) accident. Lightner began the group af- ter she discovered that even repeat of- fenders usually received suspended sentences and fines. The group is now pushing for stricter drinking and driving laws, mandatory seatbelt legislation, and promoting its Project Graduation, an effort to urge parents to control their children's drinking at graduation parties. Landis said MADD is organizing meetings with Washtenaw County judges because "we want to understand why judges do what they do and we want judges to under- stand our position." MADD held its first meeting with judges last month and hopes to hold a large public meeting in late September. A NEWER program to fight drunk driving is the county-wide MADD React citizesis band radio program. Coordinator Robert Chapler said it will "set up a complete system of CB con- tacts in Washtenaw County whereby if a driver on the road sees an impaired vehicle they can call in." Chapler, who hopes to implement the program by mid-August, said the system would do more than control drunk driving. "It can be car trouble, someone needing a tow, or a heart at- tack," he said. Of the 17 calls received in the first month of a similar project in New York, 14 were about drunk drivers. The remaining three calls reported heart attacks on the road, "and they were able to save all three, thanks to this," Chapler said. In the two-and-one-half years since it was formed, Landis said, the Washtenaw County chapter has grown from "a couple of people talking about how they would like to do this ... to an organization with a mailing list of over 300." Nationally, the organization has 358 chapters in 44 states and a mailing list of over 300,000. "The community has responded," said Landis, citing newspaper reports listing the names of drunk drivers, anti- drinking programs in Ann Arbor high schools, and the adoption of Project Graduation in several school districts. "To me that's an indication of suc- cess," Landis said. "A lot of these things come from MADD and the sheriff's department, but they're growing on their own. And when they grow on their own and take off, I think we've done our job." ... mmineke ey DISCOUNTOEIMUFFLERS AMERICAN AND FOREIGN CAR SPECIALIST FROM AS\5 LOW AS.. ByNV rinled 8 l ) T d*FITsMANY Specialists S CARS Installed *AT ARTICIPATING DEALERS FOREIGN CARS Featurina.CUSTOM DUALS Fea... 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