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ti i Iction lino finds it can be costly to go job hunting. Page 15A Eat cheap Brown-bag cuisine also can be delicious. Page 1B 5-hItter lots Tigers out the Brewers, 3-0. Page 1D partly cloudy High 74, low 47 Mostly sunny Thursday Details on Page 15D WMPBj Wednesday 20fc metro Volume 150, Number 45 ON GUARD FOR 149 YEARS Wednesday, June 18, 1980 Sptiw owdyism Shuts Tiger Bleachers Jim Campbell is fed up Jim Campbell By JOE LAPOINTE Free Press Sports Writer The Detroit Tigers temporarily closed their 10,500 bleacher seats Tuesday because fans have gotten too rowdy, according to Tiger management. The shutdown was announced by Jim Campbell, Tiger president and general manager, who said, "I'm just goddamn fed up with them.

I'm sick and tired. For visiting baseball teams, Tiger Stadium is the pits. See Page ID. Ifsdangerous.lt "It seems as though they are not watching the game. All they are doing is waiting for something to happen," Webster said, and added, sarcastically, "The games ran long, and I guess children will get restless." THE ROWDY BLEACHER behavior that provoked Campbell's decision occurred during Monday evening's double-header the first at home for the Tigers this year against Milwaukee.

Firecrackers were thrown at Brewers' centerfielder Gorman Thomas and rightfielder Sixto Lezcano, who complained to the umpires. Police arrested six persons and charged them with disorderly conduct. Fourteen others were ticketed. After the game, Brewers manager George Bamberger said he would have pulled his team off the field if his players had said they feared for their safety. "I wouldn't blame him if he did," Campbell said Tuesday after apologizing to the Milwaukee manager.

Although Monday's crowd threw more garbage than usual, the mood of the bleacher fans wasn't as violent as in previous games when fights between fans and security guards got out of control. See TIGERS, Page 15A V4. -s WUh Bleacher bums? Jim Campbell is general manager of the Detroit Tigers. On Tuesday he ordered the bleacher seats closed. By TIM KISKA Free Press Staff Writer What was the precipitating event to the closing of the bleachers? A Well, I think last night was the crowning blow.

It just, I thought, got completely out of hand. It wasn't so much fighting in the bleachers as much as it was everybody seemed to be throwing debris of all kinds onto the playing field from cherry bombs to bottles to old crurooled-up paper cups, what have you. We just cannot tolerate that sort of thing, and we're not gonna tolerate it. How long do you expect to keep them closed? A I don't know. I hope by the time the next home stand comes around we can come up with some different ideas.

We have no definite plans at this point. You've been in the baseball business for a long time, obviously. Have you seen any kind of pattern to what you say is going on there? Has It gone downhill or snmpfhlno? gives the city a bad name." Campbell said he hopes to reopen Tiger Stadium's bleachers June 30 when the team returns to Detroit after a road trip. Many fans arriving for Tuesday night's game did not know the bleachers had been closed. However, they, for the most part, greeted the surprise closing stoically.

Said Mark Webster, 21, of Independence Township: "If they are closing it because of the rowdyism, I can't really blame them. I've been coming to the park since I was six, and I've never seen it as bad as it has been this year." Webster and a companion, Justin Bel-ton, said the character of the bleacher crowd is different this season. Free Press Photo bv HUGH GRANNUM The bleachers were empty during Tuesday night's Tigers' game against Milwaukee. SOME BANKS HOLD OUT hrvsler reak for itoj 'A I PREFER WVTj Hfr i DWSWk wmr i ft i rr i 15 killed in clashes in S. Africa (km) DRV WINTER CUmy) drv VkPf wflfmz? ft.y, sA Fund-raiser Mott: "I've been rebuffed." Candidate Anderson: Peace had to come first.

2h v5V Stewart Mott dumped by Anderson Executive calls bankruptcy near By DONALD WOUTAT Free Press Business Writer A handful of recalcitrant banks continued their poker game against Chrysler and the U.S. government Tuesday, and one backer of the automaker said the company was fast approaching a bankruptcy date. A few small U.S. banks and two major European lenders are refusing to endorse terms of the Chrysler aid package. Until they do, Chrysler cannot borrow its first $500 million in federally guaranteed loans.

The holdouts forced the federal Chrysler Loan Guarantee Board to put off until Thursday its meeting on the matter, which had been scheduled for Wednesday. A board spokesman said mountains of paperwork also delayed the session. A RANKING BANK EXECUTIVE in the Chrysler camp, meanwhile, said that "in a matter of days, jf not hours' the automaker would have no choice but to seek protection from creditors in federal bankruptcy court. The dire warning was directed squarely at the few small banks whose refusal to agree to the same financial concessions as the rest of Chrysler's nearly 400 lenders threatens to sink the entire aid papkage. A Chrysler official said the banker was "overstating it a little bit," and said "a few" more banks signed the necessary papers Tuesday.

Among them was understood to be the York, Bank Trust Co. Chrysler, its major lenders, congressmen and Treasury Department officials have been applying intense pressure to the holdout banks. But the smaller lenders are apparently counting on some-See CHRYSLER, Page 15A From AP, UPI and New York Times JOHANNESBURG, South Africa More than 15 persons1 were killed and at least 50 wounded in clashes with police Tuesday night during riots and looting in Cape Town's mixed-race districts, the South African Press Association reported. Police said the protesters set dozens of buildings on fire. Fire fighters were refused permission to enter the ghettos, called townships, to fight the blazes, which raged out of control throughout the night.

One large paper mill was gutted near the Elsies River, and several shopping centers in other ateas blazed through the night. THE NEWS AGENCY, which initially reported at least eight killed and 50 wounded, said later that an official source put the deaths at more than 15. The agency said all official channels to information about the death toll were closed to the press on police instructions. Brig. J.F.

Roussouw, commissioner of police in the western Cape area, told reporters "criminal elements" had started "loot-See S. AFRICA, Page 15A What is so rare as a nice day in June 1980? By HELEN FOGEL Free Press Staff Writer If the chilly temperatures and abundant rainfall of the first half of the month are matched in the second half, June 1980 could become the coldest, wettest June on record, a spokesman for the National Weather Service said Tuesday. In the first 15 days of the month, the Detroit area has been deluged with 5.97 inches of rain, Fred Miles of the weather service said. "If we match that in the second half of June well, I mean it will be just phenomenal," Miles said. THE RECORD AMOUNT of June rainfall fell on the state in 1892, when the National Weather Service measured 8.31 inches, Miles said.

Early June's record cold temperatures have See JUNE, Page 5A By JUDY DIEBOLT Free Press Staff Writer General Motors heir and philanthropist Stewart R. Mott, one of the prime movers and fund-raisers in the independent presidential campaign of Illinois Congressman John B. Anderson, has been bumped out in a dispute over campaign tactics. According to both Mott and Anderson staffers, the dispute arose over Mott's criticism of the way the independent campaign has been conducted and his charge that Anderson's staff lacked the professionalism and experience necessary for a national effort. "To my utter astonishment I've been rebuffed," Mott said.

"It's the traditional story of chopping off the head of the messenger who brings bad news." MOTT'S DEPARTURE from the campaign could hurt the Anderson effort, which desperately needs money in order to conduct an aggressive three-way race between now and November. Because he is an independent, Anderson is not eligible for $29 million in federal election funds available to the two candidates of major parties. But campaign insiders said Anderson felt peace within his political camp was more important than Mott's millions, largely inherited from Charles Mott of Flint, once the largest single stockholder in GM. See MOTT, Page 5A D. A The bleachers here have always been a problem.

Somebody said it's kind of a launching pad. You're high up over the players, and other ballparks have had their problems. The Yankees have had their problems, Boston, Chicago. But just because it happens in other places doesn't make it right here. We're just damned sick and tired of it, and we're not gonna put up with it.

What about your finances? Doesn't this hurt the Tigers' pocketbook? A Certainly it hurts us financially. There are 10,500 seats out there, concessions. But we feel that's unimportant right now. Unfortunately, some people who can only afford to sit out in the bleachers it's tough on them. They're being deprived of a place they enjoy seeing the ballgame from by the few rowdies who just don't know how to behave or don't want to behave.

I wish they'd stay away from here. We don't want their business. Would it help to increase security, if you're worried? A We've got enough security. You know, when people are throwing things on the field, all the security in the world isn't going to help. The city police have beefed up their security, we've beefed up ours.

We work hand in hand. It's just some people who don't want to behave when they come to the ballpark. The chanting of obscenities. How do you stop it? You see it at our major universities, at your basketball and football games. You see it out here, you hear it out here.

You make an announcement over the PA system, and it gets worse. Well, what do you say, hypothetical-ly, to a fan who can only afford the bleacher seat? He or she has a few beers, but really doesn't bother anybody. That person might be there just to watch the game. What do you say to a person like that? A It's just darned unfortunate. It's the old saw where a few people ruin something nice for a lot of people.

I'm sorry for them. I'm terribly sorry. What I'm getting at is this: Has it gotten rowdier out there over the last few years? Have the fans somehow gone over the edge lately? A I don't know. One fellow, a writer, suggested that the unemployement Hell, I'm no expert on these things. All I know is that it's here.

And I know a lot of things lead to it. For example, (Free Press sports writer) George Puscas did a column the other day where he, in my opinion, tried to make a folk hero out of some bearded guy. How he (the bearded guy) snuck his beer or his liquor in by strapping it to his leg, and his girlfriend put it in her panties to get it into the bleachers. Now what the hell is going on when a guy writes a column like that? Amway: A savior or a villain? rrrrrw AMWAY AMWAYamJ I AMWAY AWVJ Jlmway: profits politics IY AMWAY AMWAY AMWAVA AY AMWAY AWWAY AWWTamJ MWAY AMWAY AWNAY VA inside today ANN LANDERS 2C BUSINESS NEWS 10-14C CLASSIFIED 7-1 2D COMICS 13-15D DEATH NOTICES 7D EDITORIALS 6A ENTERTAINMENT 5-7C FEATURE PAGE 15C HOROSCOPE 13D MOVIE GUIDE 14-15D NAMES FACES 16D OBITUARIES 7D OPINION 7A STOCK MARKETS 11-14C TELEVISION 12A THE WAY WE LIVE 1-3C TUEA772 The downtown development project is just one of the investments of Amway, which is headquartered in Ada, a village about five miles east of Grand Rapids. The company's other holdings include a 500-acre resort in the Caribbean, a cherry orchard in Puerto Rico and the nation's largest radio network.

But the building flurry in downtown Grand Rapids has become the most visible symbol of Amway's increasing wealth and prominence. Not so visible, but every bit as important to many of Amway's liberal critics, is the emergence of Amway as a conservative social movement. It has campaigned against business regulation and government spending with advertisements in major newspapers. DeVos and VanAndel have demonstrated a willingness to use their money and rally their followers in behalf of causes ranging from a balanced federal budget to opposing the Equal Rights Amendment. Their downtown construction projects have been See AMWAY, Page 15A Last of a series By PATRICIA MONTEMURRI and LARRY WERNER Free Press Staff Writers GRAND RAPIDS Amway Corp.

is to Grand Rapids what Upjohn is to Kalamazoo, the Mott Foundation to Flint and the Ford Motor Co. to Detroit's renaissance, says William G. DeHaan, director of the Greater Grand Rapids Convention Bureau. The billion-dollar-a-year firm, which has gained prominence because of its business success and its conservative politics, is credited with helping revive the decaying Grand Rapids riverfront by investing at least $60 million in a massive urban renewal program. That investment, however, has sparked a local controversy as Amway supporters and detractors argue over Amway's role in Grand Rapids and the influence of the company's founders and sole owners, Jay VanAndel and Rich DeVos.

With Amway funds, the. weather-beaten Pantlind Hotel in downtown Grand Rapids will become part of a 700-room hotel complex called the Amway Grand Plaza. In addition, Amway's, owners have donated at least $1 million toward construction of a new conventionperforming arts center and put up another $3.9 million to help pay for a new parking ramp. Amway also has advanced the idea of a downtown sports arena, possibly on Amway-owned property just south of the hotel renovation project. "I PERSONALLY THINK THEY saved the downtown," says DeHaan of Amway, which is the largest private investor in Grand Rapids' estimated $200 million downtown renewal project..