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'Ml partly cloudy High 45, low 25 Partly sunny Wednesday Details on Page 13D tuosday metro final Volume 150, Number 191 ON GUARD FOR 149 YEARS Tuesday, November 11, 1980 TRADE COMMISSION RULES AGAINST FORD AND UAW jfj) Plea for Auto Import Barriers Loses Rush to small cars, recession cited By PAUL MAGNUSSON Free Press Washington Staff WASHINGTON The U.S. International Trade Commission, rejecting arguments that foreign imports are primarily responsible for the decline in the domestic auto industry, Monday ruled out higher trade barriers on imported trucks and cars. The commission, in voting 3-2 against the Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers, said the record losses and high unemployment among American automakers arise principally from the recession and the shift by consumers to smaller cars. From Sweden, with goodwill Mr.

Ambassador Sweden's ambassador to the U.S. since 1974, Count Wilhelm Wachtmeis-ter, 57, says his country and the face similar economic problems despite Sweden's low unemployment. The ambassador was on a goodwill visit to Detroit's Swedish community Sunday and Monday. 1 a The finding that imports are "3 not the main cause of Detroit's decline left President Carter legally powerless to negotiate with foreign manufacturers for it KM it import reductions, according to both the commission and the White House. But the UAW said Monday it will ask Carter, the Congress and president-elect Ronald Reagan to plead with Japanese car makers to voluntarily restrict -f I By MARTIN F.

KOHN Free Press Staff Writer In this country we tend to think of Sweden as a nation that doesn't have the same kinds of problems we have, especially regarding the economy. Is that an accurate perception? A No, I don't think it is. I would say on the contrary that it is striking the extent to which the industrialized countries these days have similar problems, and it is definitely true as far as Sweden is concerned. What Is the current rate of unemployment In Sweden? A We have a low rate of unemployment about two percent. But in all fairness I must add that we have a very active labor policy in the sense that we keep people employed in protected sectors supported by government.

There- 4 their exports to the United States. A resolution pending in the U.S. Senate, introduced by Michigan's Sen. Donald Riegle, would give the president authority to negotiate a marketing Quotas not the answer to car ivoes, dealers say By JOE SWICKARD Free Press Stall Writer Detroit-area domestic car dealers, already suffering from lagging sales and a rocky local economic outlook, were hit again Monday by the decision of the U.S. International Trade Commission not to impose quotas on foreign autos.

However, the dealers said the answers to the stricken domestic auto market will not be found in quotas, tariffs or bureaucratic regulations. The solutions, if they are to be found, will come from better domestic cars, a recognition by the buying public that American cars can compete favorably with the imports and an awareness that buying American-made cars is in the national interest, the dealers said. "The American public has to realize that automobiles are the agreement with the Japanese over and above any commission ruling. The commission is an inde if pendent agency authorized by Congress to investigate contro cur figure and your figure are not quite compatible How are jobs protected in Sweden? A In this case it is through public versies over international trade and to recommend actions to the president. ixf.

Under current international Free Press Photo bv MARY SCHROEDER treaties agreed to by the United States, quotas and tariffs against foreign goods cannot be imposed without a ruling by the commis Fire fighters battle the gasoline blaze at the tank farm in River Rouge. sion in favor of trade barriers. Such a ruling must rest on a finding that imports are the main cause of injury to domestic man Fire at tank farm; 50 flee ufacturers and are no less important than any other cause. The American International Automobile Dealers Association, a group of import dealers, said it would initiate an antitrust law suit in response to any negotiations on voluntary import Southgate assisted River Rouge in battling the blaze. THE BURNING TANK was cooled by spray from fire hoses as the fire fighters pumped a chemical foam inside to smother the blaze.

Most of the volatile fuel was drained through underground pipes to other tanks while gas at the top continued to burn. The tank is equipped with an aluminum roof supported by Styrofoam floats to allow it to rise and fall with the level of gasoline. See FIRE, Page 10A By BILLY BOWLES and TIM BELKNAP Free Press Staff Writers A fire Monday afternoon at a Standard Oil tank farm in River Rouge forced a four-hour evacuation of about 50 residents along three streets near the petroleum facility. No injuries were reported from the fire that broke out about 3:25 p.m. at the Standard Oil Co.

River Rouge terminal at Marion and Brownlee, north of Detroit Edison's River Rouge plant. THE FIRE STARTED when a girder for a snow roof under construction was toppled by the wind into a holding tank containing about 1.6 million gallons of regular unleaded gasoline, said David W. Abshear, an American Oil Co. spokesman. The girder punctured a floating metal roof.

"When it did, it created sparks on the roof. The sparks ignited the (gasoline) vapors, and the fire began," Abshear said. The 42-foot-tall tank has a capacity of about 3.7 million gallons. The tank, one of 24 of varying capacities in the tank farm, was about 80 yards from any others. Fire fighters from Wyandotte, Ecorse, Lincoln Park, Trenton, Melvindale and heart of American industry," said Dom Torres, owner of Renaissance Ford near downtown Detroit.

"You tie autos into steel, glass all sorts of other industries. The American public is taking food out of their own mouths while allowing the Japanese to live at a level of luxury they never knew before. "Unless we look after our own, nobody else is going to step See DEALERS, Page 13A See TRADE, Page 13A works, paid by the government, and also industries are being helped by government financially in order to keep people on payrolls whom otherwise they would have to fire. We also have an education program to keep people in the industries. So if technology should put people out of jobs, they can be retrained? A Yes, and it could also mean that when the economy is up again, then the companies have the benefit of better-educated personnel, and they don't have to go out and hire them, they have them right there.

How is Sweden handling the problems of inflation and energy? A We are suffering from those problems, which are partly interconnected. Last year our inflation was below 10 percent; right now it's running a little above 10 percent. As far as the energy situation is concerned, we are not in your happy position of having oil of our own even if yours doesn't cover what you need. We have no oil at all. We have no coal.

What we have in terms of energy is nuclear power to a certain extent, and of course water power. But about 70 percent of our energy needs are met through imported oil. This is a great strain on our economy. In this country many people are opposed to nuclear energy because they believe it's unsafe. Has that situation arisen in Sweden? A Very much so, indeed, and we had earlier this year a referendum about the future of the nucleor energy and the The import issue is likely to end up in the lap of free-trader Ronald Reagan.

Page 4C- New strike is averted in Poland Killing suspect has record of prostitute case convictions Carter tries last chance on hostages By JAMES McCARTNEY Free Press Washington Staff WASHINGTON Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher was sent to Algiers Monday in what could be Presi dent Carter's last chance to free result of it was an affirmative one The vote was in favor of continuing and UHI Riolo From UPI and AP WARSAW Poland's biggest independent union called off its strike plans Monday after the nation's Supreme Court said the union did not have to agree formally to Communist Party domination. Jubilant labor leaders declared they now share the responsibility "for the fate of Poland." "JUSTICE HAS begun to reign in this country," labor leader Lech Walesa told Stefan Cardinal Wyszinski after the high court overturned a lower court ruling. "The worst is over. "Starting from today we feel the American hostages in Iran while he is still in the White House. The result of the Christopher mission, a top State Department official said, could be "nothing or everything." completing our present nuclear program, which means 12 reactors altogether in different parts of the country.

But generally speaking there is a very strong feeling against developing it further. Let's talk about the auto industry. Warren Christopher, deputy secretary of state, heads the mission to Algiers. Are there things that our automobile industry can learn from yours? A One case in point is the Volvo company, which introduced a new pro 0 5" duction method whic meant that a group of workers would work together like a real union," Walesa, the head of Poland's largest labor CHRISTOPHER'S mission was buoyed by a report that an official of the Iranian Embassy in Rome said imprisoned Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, a force for releasing the hostages, has been released from prison by the Islamic revolutionary court. But the revolutionary prosecutor in Tehran Indicated in a radio Interview that Ghotbzadeh was still in custody.

He was ar to produce one car. The group would be By BRIAN FLANIGAN and TIM BELKNAP Free Press Staff Writers A Highland Park girls' basketball coach was twice convicted on charges relating to "engaging the services of a prostitute" during the six months before Detroit police say he began murdering prostitutes, Detroit Traffic Court records show. In both instances, the coach, David J. Payton, 23, of Highland Avenue in Highland Park, was arrested by the same undercover Detroit police officer posing as a prostitute. In the more recent case, Payton failed to appear before a Traffic Court judge to pay his fine, and last April 15 a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Four days later, according to homicide investigators, Payton murdered a prostitute. Ordinarily, traffic warrants are not actually served, but placed into police information computers, which are scanned for outstanding warrants only after a person is stopped for a traffic offense or arrested on another matter, according to police sources. MONDAY AFTERNOON, Payton was charged with the murders of three prostitutes. Last Saturday, he was charged with slaying a fourth prostitute and raping still another woman. All the victims worked in areas on or near Woodwax Avenue, according to police officials.

Both of Payton's soliciting convictions stemmed from arrests on Woodward Avenue. See RECORD, Page 13A responsible. It was not a matter of one Inside today ANN LANDERS 2C BUSINESS NEWS 4-8C CLASSIFIED 6-10D COMICS 11-13D DEATH NOTICES 6D EDITORIALS 6-7A ENTERTAINMENT 68 FEATURE PAGE 7B MOVIE GUIDE 12-13D OBITUARIES 2B STOCK MARKETS 5-8C TELEVISION 8A THE WAY WE LIVE 1-3C man just ste at the band (conveyor belt). Thai and I know that that has ai racted a good do i of interest from abroad, including the linked Stater Do you foresee any chan sn rested last week after being ac-( used of sowing dissension and damaging the Iranian war effort coalition, told a news conference in a factory on the outskirts of Warsaw. The high court's decision, which came after three hours of hearings, defused the worst national crisis in Poland since strikes brought the country to a standstill over the summer.

LAST MONTH the Warsaw district court, which was to authorize the new union charter, inserted a clause granting the Communist Party supremacy, a See POLAND, Page 13A Swedish-American relations because c' the of Mr. Reagan? A No I don't, really, because we have a very close relationship, as we have al ways had, between Sweden and the United States except during the Vietnam t-ree Press Photo Dv IAKO VAAAAbAK.1 and criticizing the militants who seized the American hostages more than a year ago. In an interview broadcast by Tehran Radio and monitored in London, prosecutor Ali Qoddusi said, "If one day he is set free See RESPONSE, Page 13A war when we had some serious p'itical Da id J. Payton on his way to arraignment Monday. The on his jacket stands for Xavier University, which he attended.

(Si? differences and I can't see should not be continued after you have changed administrations in this country. 91 MONDAY 4 i i.