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DCTMOIT FRfF PfiES.VSUNOAY. MAY (978 7 A IllKMIS TALK TOUCH NEW WSU CHIEF ew Nazi store, new furor Bonner an academic in tune with the '70s Continued from Page 3 statewide circulation, was successful. He became, he says, "a people's president," going into the state and talking with any group that would listen. He often visited editors of small weekly and daily newspapers, and had the support of most of them. It seemed just the kind of place to relax after three years of battle, but controversy was soon in coming.

Shortly before Bonner arrived at Union, the school had accepted a $1.5 million gift for a new ice arena. Bonner's first chore was to find money which was not budgeted to operate and maintain the arena. Bonner was soon visited by Ned Harkness, whose father had coached hockey at Union. Harkness had left his coaching job at the Detroit Red Wings and was looking for work. He promised to manage the arena, balance its budget and build a winning hockey team.

Harkness did all three, but he also violated conference recruiting rules. In the furor that followed, Harkness was suspended and Bonner was censured by the Union faculty for being too interested in sports and not concerned enough about academics. The charges hurt. Bonner has a PhD from Northwestern and a long list of academic credentials. "It was a great irony," Bonner said.

"There were few faculty members at Union who had the kind of academic credentials I have. I am not very interested in athletics. I was at Cincinnati when Oscar Robertson was playing and the (basketball) team was winning national championships. I rarely went to a game." BONNER, who will be 55 next Sunday, was born in upstate New York. Except for an unsuccessful race for Congress in Nebraska in 1 962 and eight months as an aide to Sen.

George McGovern, who was a friend at Northwestern, the new Wayne president has spent his adult life in higher education. That pleases much of the Wayne faculty, which never fully accepted retiring President George E. Gullen who came from industry and not college teaching. Bonner and Gullen will meet in Detroit Monday to begin making their own plans for the transition at Wayne. Bonner says he hopes before Aug.

1 to have met many of the groups and individuals whose support he will seek after taking over. escorted Benhan out of the building when he became abusive. Russell said the Nazis paid building owner Guy Scavone two months rent in advance at $75 a month. Russell said he told Scavone the building was to be used "by the National Socialists, but I didn't say we were the Nazis. I did tell him we'd be passing out literature." Scavone could not be reached for comment, but spokesmen for the Brightmoor Business Community Council said Scavone told them he would try to get the Nazis tossed out.

WALLY ROESLER, who runs the Ace Hardware Store a few blocks down the street, is president of the council. "We don't need these people here," he said. "This is a racially mixed neighborhood, and we all get along very well, blacks, whites, what have you. I guess we have a little of everything living here." Roesler said the council members "will do whatever we have to to get them out. We'll close our stores and go down and picket if that's what it takes." Bob Stanchina, the council vice president, said the Nazis opened their headquarters just as Girl Scouts and local citizens finished a "Project Pride 78" neighborhood cleanup drive.

"That's the kind of neighborhood we have, one where people of all types can co-operate," he said. "But these Nazis just kind of moved in yesterday evening before we could organize to do anything about it." Russell, sitting at a battered desk beneath a picture of Adolf Hitler, watched the people picketing his store and said, "It's good to see none of our communist enemies have showed up yet. Those are just misguided Americans out there." By ERIC SHARP Free Press StaH Writer Detroit's tiny Nazi Party triggered a new furor Saturday by opening a storefront headquarters in a racially mixed northwest Detroit neighborhood only two months after an anti-Nazi coalition got the party evicted from its previous quarters. A new coalition of about 200 businessmen, veterans, neighborhood residents and motorcycle club members jeered and picketed the handful of black-shirted Nazis who stood guard outside the swastika-bedecked headquarters at 20807 Fenkell in the Brightmoor neighborhood. "There's half-a-dozen motorcycle clubs in this neighborhood and they'll run these bastards out," said a biker who would not give his name.

"How much you want to bet they (Nazis) ain't here by Wednesday?" Another leather-chid cyclist chimed in, "They might be here, but the building won't be. Just wait until the heat (policemen) leave." A SPOKESMAN for the dozen or so 16th (Northwest) Precinct policemen who kept a watchful eye on the proceedings said officers would probably be stationed at the Nazi headquarters around the clock for the next couple of days "just to keep things quiet." A minor scuffle occurred shortly after the Nazis opened their headquarters Saturday morning when Charles Benhan, 52, of the Roundtable of Christians and Jews, went inside to examine the racist and religious hate literature displayed on some tables. Benhan claimed the Nazis struck him and forcibly ejected him. Nazi leader Bill Russell said his "storm troopers" simply He was able to get a conservative state Legislature to increase funds' for the university and cut tuition. Bonner's decision to leave New Hampshire was prompted in part by the election of conservative Republican Meldrim Thomson as governor.

The governor appoints the university's governing board. Bonner recognized that Thomson's election eventually would mean a majority of the board would be against him. "I can fight the Union Leader and the governor and other critics in the state," Bonner said. "But no president can fight his own board of trustees." BONNER LEFT for Union College, a small, private liberal arts college in Schenectady, N.Y. Ship abandoned MILWAUKEE (AP) -The British cargo ship Photi-nia, which ran aground here during a Lake Michigan storm last weekend, is being abandoned, its owners say, because total repair costs estimated at $1.5 million would be too great.

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