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METRO The Dow slips 2.16; inflation fears blamed See Page 12, Section 6-Day Home Delivery 9Q; rl WARM Partly Sunny High 51-56 Low 38-43 Map nd Oetarfs on Psot li ON GUARD FOR 146 YEARS 1978, Detroit f-'ree Press, Inc. Vol. 147 No. 331 Friday, March 31, 1978 II alive! A 27-story plunge-and he 's sti "The guy was flying. He probably thought he was a bird," said a building official.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Medical authorities expressed amazement Thursday that a man survived a 27-story plunge down a ventilation shaft of the Transamerica Building, hitting a cement floor at a speed approaching 98 m.p.h. The man, identified by police as 22-year-old Harold Brown of Tacoma, suffered two severely fractured thighbones, two fractured kneecaps and a fractured heelbone, but apparently no internal injuries in the 324-foot fall late Wednesday night, Mission Emergency Hospital spokeswoman Linda Johns said Thursday. "That's all I'm not kidding you," Ms. security guard who heard and saw the entire drama on a closed circuit television monitor on the ground floor: Brown charged through the building's locked doors about 10:30 p.m. as an employe was leaving and dashed past a security guard, shouting, "I want to see the man at the top.

I was sent by God." He scurried up an escalator to the second floor and ran into a maintenance stairwell as police chased him. The stairwell, not used by building employes, is adjacent to a ventilation Please turn to Page 5A Johns said. "It about blew my mind." She said Brown was in stable condition after surgery to repair the fractures and was expected to live. "The word I get talking to the doctors is that the guy is not very sick considering what happened to him," she said. "Everybody's in sort of a state of shock." Brown was conscious as ambulance crews removed him from the landmark, pyramid-shaped building.

He was chanting, "Help me. Oh God, help me," witnesses reported, and was singing various tunes including "Camp-town Races" and one that went, "Oh, what a trip I'm on." THE FOLLOWING STORY was pieced together by police, building officials and a Plymouth usDended a Until last November I was receiving annuity benefits from the U.S. Civil Service Commission as a result of my mother's death in 1968. The death benefits, which were set up when she worked for the Detroit Tank Arsenal, were sent to my legal guardian's address. I'm eligible for the benefits as long as I'm a full-time student, but my letters to them haven't even gotten a response.

Can you? S.M., Haslett. Answer came from Civil Service this week, in form of $900 check sent to you from Chicago office. Check made arrival less than two weeks after Action Line called CSC's Bureau of Retirement, Insurance and Occupational Health in Washington, D.C. Representative within director's office made search of records and found that your college attendance verification form was missing. Actually it was only misplaced, as closer look into files turned up form that was holding up payments and check okay was given same day.

Processing through Chicago took several days, but you can expect future checks first week of each month from now on. Since September I've ordered three times a free booklet entitled "Blind Dates" from the New Yoflc State Consumer Protection Board, but I haven't gotten it yet. The offer was AXrliX i I KNElO IT mentioned in a story in your newspaper. Why can't I get the booklet? M.H., Lansing. You've got it.

As favor to Action Line New York State Consumer Protection Board sent copy to you pronto. Problem is demand has exceeded supply of booklet, which explains cryptic manufacturer codes on canned and packaged food products. Consumer board was deluged with more than 100,000 requests, and New York residents got preferential treatment. Spokesman said consumer board is trying to get a third printing of booklet and will fulfill other orders as soon as possible. Overwhelming response is good indication that consumers have al UPI Photo Sitting at the defendants' bench at the start of the exorcist trial Thursday are (from left) Ernst Alt and W'lhelm Renz, the two priests; and Anna and Josef Michel, parents of the victim.

That's 18 employes pulled for abuse from a single dorm By PAUL MAGNUSSON and SUSAN WATSON Free Press Staff Writers Four more attendants and four more supervisors have been suspended from the Plymouth Center for Human Development on charges they abused retarded residents in one hall, shared liquor and marijuana with them and then threatened other employes to keep it quiet. The actions bring to 19 the total number of employes suspended in recent weeks from the trouble-plagued Center. All but one of the 19 suspensions have come from Kennedy Hall, which houses some 160 residents. The employes suspended Wednesday were all women and had worked at the Center for at least a year. Acting Center Director Evelyn Provitt suspended the attendants and supervisors as two investigating committees continued to discover new incidents of alleged abuse.

ONE ATTENDANT suspended two weeks ago for alleged abuse was also arraigned this week on charges he stole clothing from patients. Robert Frederick Engle, an attendant at Kennedy Hall, was charged with the theft and possession of shirts and boots taken from two hall residents, according to police and court records. Engle stood mute at his arraignment on the two misdemeanor charges. The clothing was recovered during a search of Engle's home, according to police. Kennedy Hall is one of eight dormitories at the state-run center in Northville Township.

Some 50 attendants are required to provide round-the-clock care there, and the suspended 18 workers are being replaced temporarily by relocating employes from other dormatories and by paying overtime. MS. PROVITT said Thursday that no serious injuries of residents resulted from the alleged abuse by the recently Please turn to Page 10A Car ter visit helps Brazil relations, but rifts remain New York Times Service, UPI and AP RIO DE JANEIRO President Carter concluded his talks with Brazil's leaders Thursday with no visible narrowing of their differences on human rights and nuclear policy, but with an apparent reduction in the tension between the two governments. At a televised news conference in Brazilia before flying here for a brief rest stop, Carter acknowledged that serious differences existed on the two issues but insisted that "the major factors that bind us in harmony with Brazil are much more 2 exorcists on trial ways been curious about series of numbers and letters that manufacturers put on jars, cans and packages to indicate to grocers when to remove products from shelves. Now shoppers themselves can tell when something isn't fresh.

tell Action Line of devils rage a My mother lives at Allan Dee-Fraser Residential Center and enjoys It very much. But just recently the administration told all the residents that their Social Security and SSI checks must be sent to them at the home. I have always been receiving mother's checks and taking care of her business, and she wants me to continue. It doesn't sound like I have a choice anymore. Do D.M., St.

Clair Shores. You still control the purse strings. You worked out satisfactory arrangement with Marjorie Pullen, administrator of Allan Dee home in Fraser, at suggestion of Citizens for Better Care. Action Line referred you to Bob Wainess of CBC, who in turn looked into your question. Ms.

Pullen said arrangement could've been made without outside involvement. She told Action Line that strongly worded letter your mother got in January wasn't intended as a mandate for her to have checks sent to home's address. She said arrangements worked out already with other residents is proof of that. According to Ms. Pullen, reason check switch was suggested was to make it easier for center to determine who qualifies for special rates.

Residents who receive SSI are entitled to reduced room and board. Ms. Pullen said she's had problems in past where relatives have failed to inform home when a resident's SSI benefits are discontinued. From AP and UPI ASCHAFFENBURG, West Germany A Roman Catholic priest accused of negligent homicide in the death of a young woman he helped to exorcise said at his trial Thursday that demons possessing her forced her to rage and curse "with the voice of a man." A fellow exorcist had said previously that among the demons possessing the young woman were those of Adolf Hitler and arch-devil Lucifer. In one occasion, "six demons were exorcised" from Anneliese Michel, the Rev.

Ernst Alt told a packed courtroom at the start of a trial unprecedented in post-war West Germany. ALT, 40, and fellow priest Wilhelm Renz, 67, are charged with negligent homicide in failing to provide medical care for the 23-year-old woman during the exorcism rites, which ended with her death by starvation July 1, 1976. Miss Michel's father, sawmill operator Josef Michel, 61, and wife, Anna, 57, face the same charges. A pretty, dark-haired theology student with a history of epilepsy and emotional Please turn to Page 10A UPI Photo Dear Readers Action Line editors consider every request you send us. We publish the most interesting and helpful answers.

We regret that we cannot answer or acknowledge individual requests. Anneliese Michel, who "never playacted the role of one possessed," according to on9 of the defendants. Mondale promises to fight steel hike Pictures on the Back Page BY KEN FIREMAN Free Press Staff Writer Vice-President Walter Mondale Thursday condemned as unjustified and inflationary this week's price hike by two large steel companies and said the Carter administration will pressure the firms to reduce the increases. Mondale, in Mt. Clemens Thursday on a campaign swing for a local congressman, did not say what action the administration would take against the steelmakers beyond publicly chastising them.

But the vice-president expressed fears that the hike announced Wednesday by U.S. Steel and Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel to cover the cost of the recent coal settlement could spark a new round of inflationary wage and price increases throughout the economy. "If we start on an inflationary scale that could be triggered by these kinds of price decisions, it will be the steel industry that will suffer along with other Americans," Mondale said. "All of us have everything to gain by restraining price and wage judgments," he said at an airport news conference. "When we keep prices on a stable pattern we all gain." Mondale said the price hikes are not justified by the new contract negotiated this month in the coal industry.

Administration officials hope to persuade the two companies to reduce their announced increases, Mondale said, and also hope to dissuade other steel firms from announcing large price hikes. A high Mondale aide said Please turn to Page 2A National Steel raises prices by a smaller amount than U.S. Steel. Page 1IB. I it important.

Carter made the comments after conferring with Brazil's military dictator, Ernesto Gei-sel. The president and his party arrived in Rio Thursday afternoon for an 18-hour visit in his four-nation tour of Latin America and Africa. He is scheduled to fly to Largos, Nigeria, Friday after a morning meeting with a group of Brazilian opposition figures. Carter held his press conference in Brasilia after making an address to the Brazilian congress in which he begged for support in his "struggle for human rights." He also declared the U.S. and Brazil "are bound together with unbreakable chains." Waves of applause greeted Carter's appeals for human rights.

Hillside Str angler suspect arrested Israel violated weapons pact, U.S. lawyers say By JAMES McCARTNEY Free Press Washington Staff WASHINGTON State Department lawyers have concluded that Israel violated legal agreements with the United States in its use of American weapons during the invasion of Lebanon, it has been learned. Well-posted sources said a major debate is now under way within the department over ii.ot what to do about it, and no I just cant imagine conclusions have Deen that aid will be cut reached. THE QUESTION The Michigan Department of Public Health has warned citizens to avoid using the controversial liquid protein diet until federal studies determine whether it contributed to the death of 53 liquid protein dieters nationwide. Do you think liquid protein should be banned? HOW YOU VOTED Yes, 62.8 percent.

COMMENTS: "If they don't ban it more people will "Liquid protein is liquid death" would rather have them heavy than not have them at all" "The people that make it are just out for the money, not for people's health." NO, 37.2 percent. COMMENTS: "Not until their investigation is complete" lost 70 pounds and am much healthier now" "It should be a personal choice" "For some people it's their last hope to lose they should label it with warnings." DEPARTING from his prepared text, Carter said: "We understand the broad definition of these two important words. right to freedom, the right of the peo- Please turn to Page 5A APPholo While the adults are going through ceremonies and talking about Issues, Amy Carter kicks a soccer ball at a school In Brasilia. off: According to two sources, the lawyers decided that Is- raelhasviolatedoartofal952 LOS ANGELES (UPI) Nearly seven months after the nude and strangled body of the first victim was found, police announced Thursday a break in the Hillside Strangler case with the arrest of an escaped convict from Massachusetts in connection with two of the killings. Police Chief Daryl Gates, head of the 92-member Hillside Strangler task force, identified the suspect as George Shamshak, 27 who is believed connected to the slayings of Jill Barcomb, 18, and Kathleen Robinson, 17, the fifth and sixth victims attributed to the strangler.

Shamshak was transferred to the Terminal Island Federal Prison for further questioning and to await possible extradition proceedings to Massachusetts, where he was serving a term in Walpole State Prison. "He has provided us with Please turn to Page 14A VV TO" A- Ji Television 12D Weekend Calendar 9B Women's Pages 1-5C 11 10 13' mutual defense assistance agreement that stipulates weapons obtained by Israel from the United States may be used only for purposes of "legitimate self-defense." The lawyers believe the Lebanese invasion, in which more than 10,000 U.S.-equipped troops crossed the border to clean out sanctuaries from which Palestinians have attacked Israel, went "substantially" beyond those limitations. The State Department lawyers next must decide whether to recommend formally to President Carter that he cut off military aid to Israel. The law seems to demand such action by the president if he is told the agreement has been violated, but State Department Please turn to Page 5A 5ecrcr Sadat-Weiynan meeting fails to break deadlock in Mideast peace talks. Page 54 Ann Landers Business News Classified Comics Death Notices Editorials Entertainment Garden Obituaries Sports Stock Markets 5C -15B 15C 15D 10C 8A 10B 11D 11D 10D 15B TOMORROW'S QUESTION A soon-to-be released book describes an alleged technique where a millionaire had a son produced in a laboratory by cloning from his own cells.

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