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portly cloudy Wednesday 200 metro final High 35, low 22 Slight chance of snow Thursday Details on Page 2A Volume 153, Number 273 ON GUARD FOR 152 YEARS Wednesday, February 1, 1984 '984. Delroil Free Press. Inc. Republicans Win iiif of A 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 lections. Special III Control of Senate i 11 Free Press Photo by JOHN COLLIER The Four Tops plus one strike a pose in front of a poster with the new slogan.

"Do It In Detroit," part of a campaign to polish the city's image. From left are Obie Benson, Duke Fakir, Mayor Young, Levi Stubbs and Lawrence Payton. 'Be a Part of the Heart of Detroit This story was reported by Bob Campbell, Ron Dzwon-kowski, Tim Jones, Carol Pearson and Tom Walsh. It was written by Jeanne May. Republicans swept to control of the Michigan Senate Tuesday with overwelming victories in special elections for the seats of two Democratic senators recalled in anti-tax protests.

It will be the first time in 10 years that Republicans have controlled the Senate. In Macomb County, former state Rep. Kirby Holmes, of Utica, walloped Democratic state Rep. Mary Ellen Parrott, also of Utica, and two minor-party candidates. In Oakland County, state Rep.

Rudy Nichols of Waterf ord trounced Democrat Stanley Kurzman, of Wa-terford, president of the Waterford School Board, and two minor-party candidates. Both won by about 212-l margins. Said a jubilant Holmes: "I feel great, fantastic. We're not only winning an election, the people in this little corner of the state are sending a message. The message is: Watch taxes See GOP, Page 2A 1 1 I til By DAVID KUSHMA Cllv-County Bureau Chief Frank Sinatra wants to make it in New York, New York? Big deal.

Tony Bennett lost his heart in San Francisco? Get him a transplant. Some students at the city's public high schools, Wayne State University and University of Detroit High School will sell "Do It in Detroit" T-shirts for $6 apiece to raise money for student activities. The T-shirts maker, Detroit Sportswear, will donate to the city 10 percent of the cost of every shirt sold, Young said. T-shirt wearers will be eligible for free admission to a Feb. 21 Detroit Spirits game, to the Detroit Zoo on March 31 and free weekday rides at Bob-Lo amusement park.

As part of the campaign, the Red Wings, Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Little Caesars pizza will offer Two or three Chicagoans actually know, what a "toddlin' town" is? So what? We don't care, because we can "Do It in the negatives you take care of that," Young chided reporters at a press conference to kick off the campaign. "We want to elicit a demonstration of pride in our city. We're proud to be Detroiters, and everybody else ought to know why we're proud." The "Do It in Detroit" slogan, extolling the city's entertainment, dining and convention facilities, its cultural, educational and business opportunities and its neighborhoods, will be plastered on buttons bumper stickers, bus cards and balloons, Young said. The first of 35 billboard posters went up Tuesday on the Lodge Freeway near Michigan Avenue. The Motown-flavored theme song, "Be a Part of the Heart of Detroit," will get saturation coverage on radio stations that are donating public service time for the song.

A video version, with the song played to the accompaniment of Detroit scenes, is ready for television. Free Press Photo by CRAIG PORTER Former state Rep. Kirby Holmes breaks out the champagne to celebrate his victory in Macomb County Tuesday night. L-tlroit." More precisely, we can "Be a Part of the Heart of Detroit." YOU'LL BE seeing and hearing a lot of the slogan "Do It In Detroit" and a lot of the song "Be a Part of the Heart over the next year as Detroit takes its latest crack at polishing its image. The campaign began Tuesday, with Motown recording artists the Four Tops singing its theme, and a fifth top who looked suspiciously like Mayor Young joining in.

easy enough for us to get attention to buy-one-get-one-free promotions. The actual campaign kickoff will begin with a Feb. 11 fight at Joe Louis Arena between Detroit super-welterweight champion Thomas See DETROIT, Page 11A 1 i ii i Him i .1 i i iiui iiihiii mm jii ij -v. Sr-vv Young defends policy on resignations "It is impossible to carry out a policy if you have commanders who are not subject to any discipline. It gives the chief more leverage." Mayor Young moted, Anderson, a 29-year veteran, filed suit against the city.

Anderson's suit, filed in Wayne County Circuit Court, accuses the city of breach of contract, violating the city charter and violating the state whistle-blowers act. Anderson's suit was not the only reaction triggered by Young's policy of trying to demote command officers who refused to sign the resignation letter. Between 50 and 75 police com-! manders and inspectors met at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday for about one hour in a room above the New Hellas Restaurant in Greektown, a block See POLICE, Page 11A By BRIAN FLANIGAN and SANDY McCLURE Free Press Staff Writers Insisting that "he who appoints can also disappoint," Mayor Young made his first public defense Tuesday of his policy of demanding that top police officials sign undated letters of resignation. Meanwhile, the first police official to be demoted for defying the policy won at least a temporaryl legal victory.

And more than half, the city's top police officials ap-! proved the first step toward creation of a union. "It is impossible to carry out a policy if you have commanders The demotion of Rufus Anderson, 54, from police commander to lieutenant, occurred in the offices of Executive Deputy Chief James Bannon at almost the same time Young was defending his demotion policy. IMMEDIATELY after being de who are not subject to any discipline," Young said at a press conference. "It gives the chief more leverage." Less than two hours later, however, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Foley rescinded a demotion ordered by Chief William Hart. Free Press Photo bv WILLIAM ARCHIE Rudy Nichols, the winner in Oakland County, waits with his wife, Gail, and their children' Jason, left, and Jodie for election results Tuesday night.

EPA chief tells enforcers to get tough Who were they? Officials try to identify unknown dead elshaus said that when he returned to the agency last year he thought he would find "a bunch of tigers in the tank" ready to go after violators of anti-pollution on the basis of what I have seen here in the last few months, there may be more pussycats in the tank than tigers," he said. RUCKELSHAUS GAVE his tongue-lashing to the staff Jan. 24 after seeing New York Times WASHINGTON William Ruck-elshaus, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has charged his agency's enforcement staff with inaction and "lack of serious commitment" to enforcing laws and regulations. In a speech to agency enforcement officers from around the country gathered in Washington last week, Ruck- the record on court cases and administrative enforcement actions against violators forwarded to agency headquarters from the field staff for the first quarter ended Dec. 31.

Those figures, he said, showed few enforcement cases being sent in from the regional offices, even compared with the same period the previous year, when congressional See EPA, Page 9A was dead on arrival. HE IS A MAN WITHOUT a name, Unknown Man No. 2 11 A few facts; one very big question. $180 billion deficit in U.S. budget By JUDY DIEBOLT Free Press Staff Writer One would like to think someone' misses them a wife, a parent, a sibling, a friend, an employer.

I But the only people who seem to icare about who they are and why they lare dead are a handful of strangers: a couple of Detroit homicide cops and some officials at the Wayne County' Morgue. The morgue has 12 such mysterious cases. One began in the snowy darkness early Tuesday, Dec. 6, when Detroit! police officers sent on a radio run found a man shot through the back, lying in a pool of blood under a viaduct near the! Rouge River bridge, i The pockets of his brown pleated trousers were turned inside out, indicating he may have been robbed. He had no identification.

He was barely alive. 1 The officers called emergency med- i ics to the intersection of Llebold and: Sanders in southwest Detroit. They: rushed the man to Outer Drive Hospital. TUESDAY 544 and 9039 CARD GAME 4 and 8 inside today identified only by the numbers assigned by law enforcement agencies. At the Detroit Police Department he is Un-; known Man No.

211. The tag attached! to his left big toe carries a Wayne County Morgue number saying he is John Doe 8736. His body lies on a slab in Crypt No. 48, Row at the morgue. Law enforcement agencies know this about Unknown Man No.

211: He was white, between 35 and 40 years old, 5 feet 5 and weighed about 115 pounds. He was a man who appeared to have taken care of himself. His beard was neatly trimmed. His clothes came from major department stores. His hands were smooth and soft, not those of a laborer.

An autopsy revealed that he smoked. It also found that he had eaten within two hours of his murder, and that he BUSINESS NEWS 6-10B Free Press Drawing bv MARTHA THIERRY had a blood alcohol level of 1.6 (indicating he had ingested the equivalent of seven shots of hard liquor). He was not a drug addict. SINCE HIS FINGERPRINTS were not on file at the FBI's National Crime Information Center in Washington, law enforcement agents know who he was not: A convicted felon. A veteran of the armed services.

jSee NO ID, Page 11A CLASSIFIED ADS 10-14B gravel industry, a trip billed to the taxpayers despite the campaign-like tenor of his remarks. The outlines of the budget plan have been leaking for weeks. Those who attended budget briefings Tuesday confirmed that the package calls for spending $925.5 billion during the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, including more than $300 billion on the military, with a deficit of just over $180 billion. The sources said the budget includes recommendations for raising about $4 billion by closing tax loopholes and another $3.9 billion by requiring employes to pay Social Security and income taxes on employ- ISee BUDGET, Page 11 AP and Free Press Washington Staff WASHINGTON Congressional leaders got a preview Tuesday of the $925.5 billion fiscal 1985 budget President Reagan officially sends to Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

The legislators said they were not surprised by the election-year package, not even by all the red ink $180 billion worth. "The budget deficit will be larger than we would like it to be. But not as large as some had predicted and many feared," Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker said after he and other Republican congressional leaders emerged from a White House budget briefing with the president. REAGAN LATER traveled to Chicago to addresj a convention of the concrete and DATELINE MICHIGAN 12D DEATH NOTICES 10B ENTERTAINMENT 5B OBITUARIES 10A TELEVISION 4B To plact a classified ad, call 222-5000, Monday-Friday 8-6, -Saturday 9-S andunday 10-4..