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metro Mostly sunny High 73, low 40 Details on Page 11D 2()c Volume 149, Number 351 ON GUARD FOR 148 YEARS Saturday, April 19, 1980 1980, Detroit Free Press, Inc. George Bush gets the nod from Milliken Details on Page 3A HOI Ya-a-y, Tigers lead! Boo, Tigers lose HEBQ But a warm, blue ay Write Action Line, Box 881, Detroit, Mich. 48231. Or dial 222-6464 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Monday-Friday. Hospital records Between 1974 and 1978 1 was treated in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary Hospital in Livonia. I plan to move to Tennessee soon and I'd like to take my hospital records with me but St. Mary won't release them.

The people there say they'll send the records to my lawyer but I can't afford to hire one. Can you get them to change their mind? M.B., Madison Heights Edited version of your record was sent to you after Action Line contacted supervisor of records department at St. helps fans have fun at the home opener By JUDY ROSE Free Press Sports Writer The feeling was beautiful around Tiger Stadium Friday, 64 degrees, gentle breeze, 50,684 fans and an all-blue sky the kind of opening day you'd script for a movie, despite the Tigers' 9-6 loss to Kansas City. The Tigers took an early 4-0 lead but blew it and lost in 1 1 innings. (Game details are on Page ID.) The demonstrations predicted by D.E.A.D.

(Detroiters En action line: Operation LINC finds home for piano 11 A sound off: Do you approve of mayor's aides getting raises? 3A Mary. Spokeswoman said your original request was denied because hospital staff felt certain portions of records might be harmful to yourself or others if information was disclosed. Under Section 748 of the state Mental Health Code, your doctor edited part of report. You thought Freedom of Information Act entitled you to records but act applies only to data maintained by public officials and Patients' Bill of Rights applies to medical, not psychiatric, records. raged at Dead Sports) and FAST (Fans Against the Strike) weren't materializing.

By 11 a.m. fans were two-deep around the bar at nearby Nemo's. A line queued from the ticket window despite a sign that said "Opening Day, obstructed view only, $5.50." Those who wanted better seats were making deals on the sidewalk, and paying just face value. NEAR NOON, TV crews and reporters mixed with the players around home plate. Six well-partied trespassers in front-row seats were trying get manager Sparky Anderson's attention.

The day was already worth their trip from Butler, because they shook hands with the Royals' Pete LaCock. "Right there; look at that pine tar." When Sparky trotted over 4tv i iz Or il Power and the president Free Press Photo by Cruet Pho'curapher TONY SPINA William Manchester It's the first inning, the Tigers are scoring four runs, and the bleacherites are whooping it up. 00 Ford Workers upidan dmitruk for a quick handshake, words 48,0 Win failed them. "Hey! Hey!" said one, who had bragged he was the drunkest. "Hey! All right!" said a friend who vas giving him competition, "Oh, man! Wow!" said a It's an error as Mayor Young drops the opening pitch from Lt.

Gov. James Brickley. It was in keeping with the way the Tigers have been playing lately. William Manchester is an authority on power. His writing has traced the influence of powerful families the Rockefellers, the Kennedys, the munitions-making Krupps of Germany.

His most recent work is a biography of Gen. Douglas MacAr-thur. Manchester is writ-er-in-residence and history professor at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. He will Layoff Benefits third. i v.

By 1 p.m. reserved-seat ticket holders were crushed six-deep at Nemo's. In the first-coine-first-served bleachers, about 7,000 of the 10,000 ticketholders were trying to cram into the sunny upper deck. Those who had come early to save good bleacher seats about a third of the people there stood on those seats and shouted to friends who couldn't find them now, packed into the aisles and backing up fast into a solid plug in the entry tunnels. Some were pushed into bright-blue fresh paint on the fencing, and tempers flared as upper-deck bleacher beer lines grew to 40 people long.

In the shady lower-deck bleachers, four friends sat un-hassled: Warren Davis of Inkster and Gaston McClain, Oliver Coleman and Lester Richardson all of Detroit's west side. i Among them they have seen 125 opening days over more that 30 years, mostly together. "Sometimes it's so cold, you think they're playing football," said McClain. What is the worst opening day they remember? "Worst?" he said. "I can't recall any worst opening day.

All of them were beautiful." U.S. eases job loss to imports By RALPH ORR Free Press Labor Writer Apparently bowing to pressure from Detroit, the federal government Friday approved payment of special benefits to 48,000 workers at 13 Ford Motor Co. assembly plants where layoffs were linked to import competition. Some 16,200 employes of four Michigan plants the Dearborn, Wayne and Wixom auto plants and the Michigan truck plant in Wayne were among those ruled eligible for the Trade Readjustment Assistance (TRA) benefits. Two days earlier, a U.S.

Labor Department official had said the certifications of the benefits due under the financially strapped TRA program would not be announced for several days. THE DISCLOSURE rankled UAW officials, who contended the statutory deadline for certifications had expired April 11. In a letter to local unions, top union officers threatened court action if the program were not financed. They contended the Carter administration had neglected to seek budget appropriations of more than $1.5 billion for the TRA program, at a time See FORD, Page11A Kennedyr Carter failing auto workers By HUGH McDIARMID Lanslns Bureau Chief WASHINGTON Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy accused President Carter Friday of failing to take strong enough measures to protect the jobs of American auto workers against Japanese imports. In an interview with the Free Press, the Massachusetts Democrat said Carter "effectively gave away our bargaining position" by declaring that he would not put a freeze or quota on autos from Japan. "He gave away a good deal of the stick," said Kennedy, referring to an ongoing carrot-and-stick effort by the Carter administration to persuade Japanese automakers to locate manufacturing facilities in the United States. The senator stopped short, however, of proposing restrictions or quotas on his own at this time as the UAW and some spokesmen for the U.S. auto industry are urging.

But he said flatly that the president made a big mistake by foreclosing that option. KENNEDY'S REMARKS at his home in suburban McLean, came one day after Carter, during a White House news conference, rejected protectionism as "ill-advised." Both candidates are preparing for close contests in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary next Tuesday and Michigan's Democratic delegate selection caucuses next Saturday. A transcript of the Kennedy interview, in which the senator assailed Carter on other Issues and offered his own proposals, will appear in Sunday's Free Press. Carter had said in effect that the U.S. auto industry will have to muddle through until its AP Photo Soviets refusing American refunds on Olympics trips From New York Times and Free Press Staff MOSCOW The head of the Soviet travel monopoly Intourist confirmed Friday that it had refused to refund advance payments by thousands of American tourists who have canceled trips to the Moscow Summer Olympics, and said the dispute was now under arbitration.

The arbiter is the USSR Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Moscow, according to Valentin F. Lebedev, the chairman of Intourist, a government agency. The sole American agent for travel to the 1980 Olympics, Russian Travel Bureau-Olympic Travel Ltd. of New York City, had paid Intourist $7.2 million as a deposit on travel arrangements, but 6,700 people who had booked tickets canceled and want their money back. The 1 5- and 22-day tours cost 1 ,550 to $1,850 per person.

A SPOKESMAN for Russian Travel Bureau, which sold 230 Moscow Olympics travel packages to Michigan residents, said partial refunds will be made out of the $9.1 million being held by the U.S. District Court in New York. The spokesman said, however, that the State Department See REFUNDS, Page 11 A Sen. Kennedy: "The fact of the matter is that the Japanese have just been calling the tune on American exports as well as on imports." own smaller, more fuel-efficient models come on line to compete with Japanese imports. BOTH THE PRESIDENT and Kennedy seem to agree on the solution pressuring the Japanese into making substantial manufacturing investments in the United States and creating jobs for American auto workers.

But they clearly disagree on how tough that pressur has been or should be. It is known, for example, that Kennedy believes the Carter administration missed a chance, as one source put it, to "put the Japanese government's back to the wall" when it reached a major trade agreement with Japan early in 1978. The agreement provided for a series of See KENNEDY, Page 11 A speak on "Power America in Perspective" at at 9 p.m. Saturday in Cobo Hall. The lecture, sponsored by the Center for New Thinking, is open to the public.

By WILLIAM LAITNER Free Press Staff Writer Does a U.S. president really have much power? A He does not. In fact, Harry Truman said the president only has the power to persuade In fact, sometimes the president's decisions are ignored. The most dramatic example I know came during the Cuban missile crisis when the question of America's Jupiter missiles in Turkey arose. Kennedy had ordered them dismantled months earlier and no one had done it.

I've forgotten who it was who said the president can be as big a man as he can be. Do you think Jimmy Carter has been as big a man as he can be? A No, I don't think so. I think Carter has largely beeii an ineffective president. And it is ironical that he is being carried alo7, by a wave of patriotism because of the problems overseas, problems which in part were of his own making. Aren't you afraid of so-called "imperial" presidents like Nixon? A I think we should always be afraid.

But I think we should also be afraid of weak presidents because weakness invites attack. I am quite certain the Russians would not have moved so brutally into Afghanistan if a strong president, had been in the White House. But there we must say the weakness is not altogether Carter's. Much of it he inherited because of the abuse of the imperial presidency. Does the American election process discourage top-quality people from going after the presidency? A I think so.

The founding fathers did not envision the party system. The party system for a long time worked effectively, but now it has become so bland that any single individual of strength of conviction and independence like John Anderson really doesn't have much of a chance The old politics is depicted as corrupt men in smoke-filled rooms making power decisions. We must remember that the old system gave us men like Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, and the new politics hasn't matched that yet. In your autobiography of Gen. Douglas MacAr-thur you compare MacArthur to Julius Caesar, brilliant but arrogant.

Do you think MacArthur would have made a better president than Eisenhower? A No. MacArthur would've made a poor president because in many ways he would have shined, but he could not compromise. He would've been very poor working with Congress and that is essentially the presidency. You've written about powerful men who have inherited their power. Do you think some people are born to rule? A If your name is Rockefeller, it's quite clear at birth you are going to have more of an impact on society than someone whose name is Jones.

And the parents who know this and prepare their children for this do render a public service. Certain men born to power have behaved responsibly. Certain people have not and we've recently seen an example of that in the Hunt family of Texas, where a man who should have been raised to exercise power skillfully for the public good is really a financial pirate. NOT AS BA AS 74-75 inside today Slow growth hints start of recession ANN LANDERS 7B OBITUARIES 7A BUSINESS NEWS 1-3C REAL ESTATE 1-4B CLASSIFIED 4-8C STOCK MARKETS 1-3C COMICS 9-11D TELEVISION 6B DEATH NOTICES 4C EDITORIALS 6A iffj'k, ENTERTAINMENT 7-8D i 'j nLi FEATURE PAGE 7B foMii I MOVIE GUIDE 10-11D FRIDAY 820 i i With evidence that a recession would reduce the demand for money, several major banks Friday lowered their prime lending rate a half-point to 19'2 percent. Detroit banks followed the trend, with National Bank of Detroit, City National Bank and Detroitbank Corp.

(parent company of Detroit Bank Trust) all dropping to 19'2 percent. The prime is the rate charged on short-term loans to top-rated business customers. TREASURY SECRETARY G. William Miller, speaking in Pittsburgh, said the current recession would be moderate "about two or three quarters" because business Inventories are lean and the economy still has strength. Miller said unemployment would rise slightly, to 7.25 percent, and Inflation on the consumer level currently 18 percent on an annual basis should dip below 10 percent by next year.

Inside Coolcy High From UPl and AP America's output of goods and services showed only minimal growth in the first three months of 1980, signaling that the country is in a recession, it was reported Friday. The Commerce Department said the nation's economy grew 1.1 percent in the first three months of the year, as measured by the gross national product (GNP). This is a sharp drop from the two percent growth in the final three months of 1979. The GNP figures showed that a recession may have started in February, said Courtenay Slater, the department's chief economist. MS.

SLATER SAID a 1980 recession would not be nearly so severe as the 1974-75 downturn, when unemployment hit nine percent. She said morgtage interest rates either are at their peck or soon will be, and should start coming down soon. Cooley High School, that huge factory of education in northwest Detroit, sums up both the turmoil and the progress that characterize the Detroit school system. In the conclusion of a week-long series on the city's schools, the Sunday Free Press will take a deep and telling look at Cooley, the people who run it and the people it tries to serve. Look for the story In the Sunday Comment section.

Treasury Secretary Miller, who expects a moderate recession "about two or three quarters.".