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DETROIT FREE PRESSTHURSDAY, FEB. 12. 1981 19A Young orders city's 'Red Squad9 files moved Ieig wanted to transfer the files to another they would have contacted us," he said. Police officials, including Chief William call us: 222-0404 Action Line refused comment. Recently, the FBI and the Department of Justice have threatened to intervene with distribution of the files, saying they want to review the files to' solves problems, gets answers, cuts see if they contained classified federal documents FILES, from Page 3A police department's Organized Crime Section, the unit responsible for compiling the so-called "Red Squad" files.

THE FILES, compiled from the early 1930s through the early 1970s, were kept on anti-war demonstrators, professed Socialists and Communists, politicians, journalists and people who simply parked their car near the site of a demonstration. In 1976, Montante ruled that it was illegal for police agencies to spy on individuals because of their political activity or affiliation. The ruling was the result of a suit brought against the State Police in 1974, charging the agency with illegally creating and maintaining files from 1950 to 1974. The Detroit Board of Police Commissioners, any deletions will be made on the copies. All original files will eventually be destroyed, according to Montante's order.

It was unclear Wednesday which members of the police board's staff would review the files and handle distribution. The board employs teams of civilian and police staffers to investigate citizen complaints. YOUNG'S ORDER apparently suprised lawyers representing the National Lawyers Guild, the United Auto Workers and other plaintiffs in the suit. "I'm surprised," said Richard Soble, the Lawyer's Guild attorney. "If they feel that the police commission can do a more competent job, then we endorse it.

"However, I would have thought that if they Mayor Young and the police department were added as defendants in the suit in 1975. MONTANTE ALSO ORDERED state police to make the 38,400 files they compiled available, which is currently underway after a campaign to notify subjects ended Jan. 15. The state police's Criminal Investigation Unit, headed by Lt. Norman Smith, has been handling preparation of the files.

According to the court order, police can delete information that would lead to the identification of informers and undercover agents, the name of a third person when it appears in conjunction with highly personal information and any information about an ongoing criminal investigation. The Detroit and state police files will be duplicated for distribution to the persons involved, and red tape, stands up for your rights. Write Action Line, Box 881, Detroit, Mich. 48231. Or dial 222-6464 from 8:30 a.m.

to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. The Justice Department sent letters to Soble and UAW attorney Jordan Rossen last month asking if they'd agree to allow federal officials to; review every file in a search for federal ments. Vacant house is down The vacant house next door has been empty Justice Department officials have not decided for over a year. There's a rapist in our area and I live in fear that one of our neighbor whether to file suit to stop distribution of the but Sobel said he "senses they may intervene." Free Press staff writers Brian Flanigan anfi Ken Fireman also contributed to this story.

hood children will be a victim in this house. I've tried unsuccessfully to have it demolished but dealing with the city is a long, slow process. I did find out that a demolition company got the contract Dec I. But the house is still standing. When will Ex-college head gets his reception it come down? R.B., Detroit I It's down now.

Your 18-month wait end Concern I groiving on safety of hotels ed this week when bulldozer ripped house down in 45 minutes. We contacted city engineer's office two weeks ago and learned that empty house, along with six others, should've been down by Christ mas but demolition dates are seldom met. spokesman admitted. Rep for Adamo Wrecking which had con tract, said job was turned over to subcontractor and field superintendent would call us back. We didn't hear from him but By RICK SYLVAIN Free Press Travel Editor The fatal Las Vegas fire was apparently leaving in we did from you that wrecking was under way.

Flying debris broke windows in your house, but Adamo replaced those, veterate Detroit-area gamblers-unfazed Wednesday. But, Detroit-area travel- Boys and their toys when i was younger, I played hockey every week with some buddies. Now I'm getting a bit agents were expecting a new wave of client concerns aboutj hotel safety. rJ way (supportively) about Dr. Wilson and those who just wouldn't dare miss it." Wilson swept into the penthouse about 45 minutes after the first guests arrived and was immediately surrounded by reporters who began peppering him with questions.

"It (the reception) is a complete vindication for me," he said in response to one query. "It indicates there were no grounds to the allegations." YES, WILSON SAID, he had been harmed professionally by the controversy. No, he is not actively seeking another job, but is working part time as a consulting psychologist. Wilson, who is black, repeated his often-stated contention that racism played a large role in his ouster, and blamed the news media for failing to cover the story fairly. "If this had happened to Tom Bonner (president of Wayne State University, who is white), the papers would have had bloody headlines saying this man had been lynched," said Wilson bitterly.

Douglas told reporters the reception, which cost under $1,000, was paid for entirely by New Detroit. WILSON, from Page 1A Deputy Mayor Richard Simmons as their president in December. Herbert, Simmons and the college's first president, Murray Jackson, circulated through the gathering. The event, held in the penthouse of the Veterans Memorial Building, attracted a crowd of about 200, Including City Council members Erma Henderson, Nicholas Hood and Cleveland; Detroit school Superintendent Arthur Jefferson; City Clerk James Bradley, and one pro-Wilson college trustee, Juanita Ford. It did not attract the chairman of the college's trustees, George Bell, the only black trustee to vote to fire Wilson; or Mayor Young, who feuded with Wilson In the past over the location of the school's downtown campus and a proposed parking garage.

ONE MAYORAL staffer, Michael Einheuser, did attend, but took pains to point out that he was not representing his boss. "I'm here strictly as an individual;" he said. "There are two kinds of people here," said New Detroit President Walter E. Douglas, "those who genuinely feel that too old for fast skating but I still love t-lf 4r Uk l-iMllir'Kmt immw mtrn winT nil tit ira I I iiriminK, Travel agents surveyed said; hockey. I remember those table-top sets that kids used to get for Christmas, and I hear there's someplace in Detroit where tournaments are held.

I'd like to try my there were no cancellations from' clients bound for Las Vegas, but-plenty of inquiries about hoteC safety. hand at this. Can you locate the organiz ers? L.S., Livonia Free Press Photo bv HUGH GRANNUM From left to right, ex-WCCC President Reginald Wilson; William Herbert, interim president; Murray Jackson, the college's first president, and Richard Simmons, the new president. Ernest Anastas, a Centerline-i We found Sidney Stutz, president of World Table Hockey Association, which based agent for the Sands Hotels said many customers have been requesting accommodation in the Sands' two-story bungalows: rather than the 18-floor Sands' tower since the MGM Grand fire late last year. Busboy charged in Vegas fire ANASTAS INVITES some-clients on once-a-month charter flights from Detroit to the Sands.1 "One customer packed "a' Soviets' Polish dilemma has about 500 members nationwide.

Stutz is extending personal invitation to you for upcoming WTHA tourney, Feb. 21 and 22 at Holiday Inn in Southfield, where he says 60 to 70 "hard-core players" will vie for $500 in prizes and trophies. "Most, of these guys are under 35 guys who got sets as Christmas presents 20 years ago," Stutz told us. For more info, call him at 871- POLAND, from Page 1A communist state in Eastern Europe with freedoms that could set a said the West Bloomfield man was manager and co-owner of Buster Brown Bootery at Northland Shopping Mall. Berlin said Greenfield flew to Las Vegas with his parents, Edwin and Faye, and his brother Steven, 25, Sunday to attend the national shoe convention.

The Greenfields also co-own a second Buster Brown store at Eastland. Greenfield was born in Detroit and moved to West Bloomfield with his family about a decade ago. He began working in the family business immediately after his 1977 graduation from West Bloomfield High School. Besides Greenfield and Glenn, authorities identified these victims: Zeny Santos Carvalho, 64, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Harry and Lorraine Gaines, no ages available, Los Angeles; Robert Nichols Leach, 54, Honolulu; Dennis Emery McFarland, 32, Boone, Iowa, and Jack Turinsky, 41, Anchorage. model for others.

It wouldn't be very long before the Czechs and the FIRE, from Page 1A been set on the second, third, eighth and ninth floors. One tongue of flame climbed more than 20 stories up the face of the building's east wing. On the ninth floor, the nozzle of a fire hose mounted in a wall cabinet was slashed away and the hose was stuffed with combustible material, Parrish said. Other details about evidence were not disclosed for fear it would hamper chances of prosecution. List said, "The penalty for arson that kills someone is capital punishment." SEVEN PERSONS DIED of smoke inhalation, and the eighth, Bruce Glenn, 47, of Plymouth, fell to his death, said Clark County Coroner Otto Ravenholt.

Some 4,000 persons were rescued or evacuated from the building, including 1 10 plucked from the roof by helicopter. Among those admitted to hospitals was singer Natalie Cole, who had sung at the hotel Monday night and was overcome by smoke her room. Six persons were reported in critical condition, including one fire fighter. At least two survivors of the Hilton fire also survived the MGM fire. They are Laura and Hank Arkin of Merrick, N.Y., who were vacationing at the Hilton and were also vacationing at the MGM Hungarians and others would be demanding the same kinds of freedoms." Says another official: "The Russians have already suffered an Ideological defeat in Poland.

It is a wonder to us that they have given as much as they have." THERE IS NO DOUBT about the basic thrust of American policy in this situation. The new Reagan administration does not want Russian intervention and is doing everything it can to prevent it. American officials believe Russian intervention could lead to terrible new U.S.-Soviet tensions, end detente and destroy the trade relations and political contacts between East and West that have been built up over many years. Big money is involved, particularly in Europe. Trade between the NATO countries and the communist bloc last year totaled more than $67 billion.

In addition, possibilities for arms control, already in limbo, would be killed completely. But while the U.S. is against Russian intervention, it does not want to abandon those who are fighting for freedoms in Poland. ONE OFFICIAL said Wednesday that American policy is to hammer in his luggage on a recent trip," he said. "He told me it was in case he had to break a window.

Can you believe it? All the things there to break a wini dow, and he brings a hammer." June Price, an agent with Ebert Travel in downtown De troit, "A lot of people have told me 'no upper They don't want to be above the first floor. 'j Leonora Ebert, owner of the agency, said "People are still wanting to go there (Vegas), buf asking about sprinkler systems; exits that kind of thing. And it isn't just Vegas. All my groups to other cities are asking the sama kinds of questions about hotels; People are a little bit on the edgy side." Mary Habicht of the Travel Agent in Birmingham said hotelsj weren't the only concerns of hen clients. "I had a lady inquiring about a cruise who saicLher hus band really wanted to be on the the top decks of the ship, so ha could escape easier in case fire." A cruise ship, the PrinsenJ dam, burned and sank in the north Pacific last October.

7500, weekdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Stutz hopes you'll show since he's worried about future of table-top hockey, which plays against "all the electronic games now." College COStS My son will be entering college next fall. A TV show I saw mentioned Scholarship Search Fund in New York, which provides sources of aid. It sounds most appealing.

Where can I Info on guests at hotel LAS VEGAS (AP) A toll-free telephone number has been established for people who want to know whether relatives were guests at the Las Vegas Hilton, scene of a fatal fire Tuesday night. The number is 800-634-6090. write for details? R.P., St. Clair Shores during that fire. "IT WAS LIKE the MGM fire all over again.

We couldn't believe it," Arkin said. "All I can say is, the safety features in this town stink." The hotel was fully booked with four conventions the Inter-Mountain Veterinarian Association, Savings Institution Marketing, National Shoe Fair of America and the Association of Drilling Contractors. Leo Berlin, a friend of Frank Alan Greenfield's, Photographer stubbed to death A 28-year-old photographer was found stabbed to death Wednesday in his northwest side home. Police said Arnold Katz died of multiple wounds to the head, inflicted possibly by an ice pick or screw driver. A girlfriend went to his home in the 21400 block of Pembroke about 1 p.m.

and found his body at the bottom of the basement steps. The house had been ransacked. publicly support the demands of the independent Polish union, Solidarity, and the stated objectives of the Catholic Church in Poland. They are seeking freedoms, such as the right to strike and a certain amount of independence from Communist Party control. In other words, the United States wants to encourage Poles in their own stated objectives of liberalizing the Polish system, but has no objectives of its own.

But the U.S. position also contains certain unstated parts that officials do not like to discuss for attribution. For example, the United States accepts Eastern Europe as a part Judge accused of unethical conduct of the Soviet sphere of influence and is not seeking to challenge Soviet power in that area. Please find out if Scholarship Search is on the level before I reply to their "limited-time offer" with $43. M.E., Linwood Scholarship Search "guarantees to locate up to 25 sources of scholarships, grants and financial aid for which you qualify." But "qualify" doesn't guarantee you'll get the bucks only that you're eligible to apply for particular scholarships, we learned from Mary Ann Maxin, executive director of Scholarship Search in New York City.

After student fills out questionnaire on career plans, grades and ethnic background and sends fee (usually $57), info is matched against 250,000 sources of financial aid valued at $500 million, Maxin said. If student meets requirements of any aid sources, computer kicks out names. New York Better Business Bureau got several complaints against firm in past two years but says all were settled. They dealt with slow service and number of sources students got. For info, send $1 to Scholarship Search, 1775 Broadway, Suite 628K, New York, N.Y.

10019. i As one official puts it privately: "We are not trying to upset the Warsaw Pact." NOR IS THE U.S. threatening to use military force of its own in Poland. One Reagan administration appointee says bluntly: "Everybody knows we're not going to war over Poland." represent the poor. For thes services, the four lawyers havt received a total of $29,000 ia public money, according to thk complaint.

The complaint states that these appointments made up a "significant" percentage of th work which Judge Lawrence as; signed to court-appointed law yers. THE COMPLAINT also con tains allegations that Judge Lawrence accepted free legaj services from another lawyer Walter Schuller, and did not rej Victim of disease leads 'Kiss Your Baby Week' DISEASE, from Page 3A carry a certain gene. But doctors have not been able to develop a test to determine if an adult carries that gene. could not recall the case. A 15-year veteran of the board, Doyle said Archer should have been able to qualify for a carrying permit by virtue of being a restaurant owner.

A permit issued to a restaurant owner would only have allowed him to carry a gun on restaurant business, however. THE TENURE commission also charges in its complaint that Lawrence owns two Madison Heights office buildings In which his former partners, Russell Volz, Richard Mintz and Patrick McDonough, have offices. During his years as a judge, he has received rent from the former partners, as well as payments toward purchase of his share of the partnership, through a 10-year payment plan drawn up when the law firm was dissolved, the complaint states. The three lawyers have appeared before Judge Lawrence while such payments were being made, the complaint charges. In addition, it says Judge Lawrence has provided the three and an associate, Gary A.

Chernay, with a total of 206 appointments to untrue and that, "moreover, the respondent utilized his judicial office to influence and cause the Oakland County Gun Board to issue Archer a concealed weapons permit." A deputy county clerk said the permit Issued to Archer allows him to carry a concealed weapon for "business, bank, home, hunting and target (practice)." CAMPAIGN spending rec-cords on file with the Oakland County Clerk's Office show that Lawrence's re-election committee expended $1,336 for renting the Excalibur Restaurant on May 20, 1978, for a Lawrence fund-raiser. The committee also hired help from the restaurant for the party. Lawrence was re-elected In November 1978. The judge also spent $67 for "entertainment" at the Excalibur on Nov. 11, 1978, according to his Officeholder's Expense Fund report for the period of June 1978 to Jan.

1, 1979, on file in the county clerk's office. Oakland County Sheriff's Capt. Skip Doyle, another member of the Gun Board, said he JUDGE, from Page 3A tersection of Twelve Mile and Northwestern Highway, is on vacation for two weeks and cannot be reached, according to restaurant staff. The restaurant was the site of a 1978 fund-raising party for Judge Lawrence. His campaign committee spent more than $1,000 at the party.

Lawrence was first appointed to the municipal bench in 1959. The Judicial Tenure Commission's complaint, dated Feb. 5, charges that in 1979, Lawrence helped Archer obtain a concealed-weapons permit from the Oakland County Gun Board by providing him with letters of endorsement and recommendation to present to the board. The complaint says representations made by Judge Lawrence In those letters said Archer was employed by the judge as a court probation officer, whose duties required the carrying of a concealed weapon. On July 10 an "unrestricted" concealed weapon permit was Issued to Archer, the complaint states.

It says that the judge knew the representations to be port this on his annual financial report. DIMERCURIO STILL has to be hospitalized two or three times a The complaint further stated, that, by owning some shares iij the Groveland Valley Develop' year for treatment of her disease, which has grown worse as she has grown older. Mrs. Van Tiem said that as a baby, "June knew exactly how to get rid of the mucus. Whenever you looked at her in the playpen, she would be standing on her feet with her head down between her legs, and the mucus would come out.

"When she'd sleep, she'd sleep on her knees with her head down. She seemed to know that was the way to drain her own lungs." Tot left on frigid street An infant about five months old was abandoned on an east side street late Wednesday when the temperature was five degrees. But police said the well-bundled boy apparently had lain only a short time on the sidewalk at Harding and Jefferson before he was spotted at 10:40 p.m. by two men going into Elmos Restaurant. Edward Evans, 27, told police that he and a friend found the baby lying next to a phone booth moments after they parked in the restaurant lot.

Evans took the infant to the 5th (Jefferson) Precinct station where Lt. George Potts said the baby's face and hands were warm. Doctors at Children's Hospital told police the Infant was good condition. ment Corp. and one of its propert ties, the Groveland Country Clul) and Golf Course, the "may" have been guilty of "the improper ownership of an inter? est in a liquor license by a statf official whose duty it is to eni force the law." I The complaint referred to number of companies witjj which Judge Lawrence had fi nancial relationships during his years on the bench.

DESPITE KNOWING there was a 25 percent chance that any children she had with her husband, a retired Detroit policeman, would have cystic fibrosis, Mrs. Van Tiem said she would do it all over again. "You know, if I given up, I wouldn have had those three beautiful girls that I have, and they have given us so much joy," she said. 1.

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