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C r A. H ,Sr.
NNPA News Editor
WASHINGTON, DC'
Democratic Presidential can
didate Jesse L 1 ackson declared
"we need a new realism, not
(merely) new faces in the White
House".
Addressing more than 1,100
mostly white-male audience at-
. tending the American Soceity of
Newspaper Editors meet in
Washignton, D.C., Jackson
declared his "1 ackson Doctrine"
of economic justice at home and
peace abroad is more ideally
suited to the realities of a world .
that has vastly changed since
World War It ended nearly 43
years ago.
OT WHITE, OR MALE
"The next president must
know this world," he asserted,
"and this world is not just white
nor male."
At the end of the World War
II, the Third World was just
beginning its struggle for
equality. The world, he said
changed dramatically since that
time. Third world countries are
struggling grimly against pover-'
ty, disease, despair. Com
muni m holds no appeal to
them. They seek help from
whatever source is forthcoming.
When leaders of America and
Russia sit down at their
chessboard they must remember
that together they represent no
more than one-eighth of the
world's population.
Grea ·La
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Capital News Service
LANSI G - The hip's
whistle blasts a long call.
It's dusk, and you hUll'j down
lh pier with several of your
cruisemate .
Your day w spent wander
ing around the lively port-of
. call, shopping, festing on local
pecialities, and taking in the
sights and sounds of a fascinat
ing new place.
On board, you slide into a
deck chair and watch a full
moon rise as the ship moves out
onto open water.
A night in the Caribbean?
No, an evening on Lake
Michigan.
It may be just a dream, but
the sceario is a not-so-impos
sible dream for America's in
land seas, say Great Lakes
recreation experts.
A large proportion of cruise
ship passenger' is from
Michigan and other Great
Lakes states, the experts y.
and their vacation dollars could
just. as easily be spent OD ater
closer to home.
"They've been cruised out,lso
mil needed in
e, .Ja kson ays·
RESPECT FOR LAW
1 ackson declared that as
president he would reinstitute a
respect for interaational law
and, in an obvious dig at the
much investigated U.S. Atty.
General Edwin Meese, Ill, for
laws at home.
He said he would convene a
meeting representatives of
South African frontline states -
Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe,
Angola, Mozambique - to
bolster protection against the
lawless and murderous raids
across their borders by the il
legal Botha regime forces.
PALESTINIAN RIGHTS
He reiterated that as presi
dent he would call for a peace
parley in the Middle East and
"get people to talking" with each
other. For there can be no peace
in that troubled area, he said,
unless Arab and Jew, and Pales
tinian sit and talk of a peace plan
that will guarantee an Israeli
state within secure borders, and
a recognition of Palestinian right
to a homeland.
America, he asserted, is not
endangered by alien ideologies,
but by mind-altering substances.
If elected pre ident 1 cksoa said
he would strengthen the Coast
Guard and all our border areas
whee the chec points are, invest
in a massive rehabilitation
program which is also directed
at cutting the demand for drugs,
and go after the drug lords in
high places, The multi-billion
es cruise
to speas, and they're looking for
something in their own back
yard," said Stephen Thorp,
transportation and develop
ment specialist for the Great
Lakes Commission. .
The commission is a
Michigan-based eight-st te
compact which deals. with
resource and economic issue of
the Great Lakes states.
Michigan Travel Bureau
spokesman AI Sandner said that
lake-related attractions are a
major element in the state's
tourism industry, d that the
water has an Imost limitless
potential a dra for visitors.
"We promote ter vacations
more than any other single ele
ment in the tate." Sandner said".
In the fir half of the century,
tourists h d numerous oppor
tunities for travel on the lakes.
Million flocked to beaches,
lakeside resorts and port cities
in summer, and popular destina
tions such as Mackinac Island,
with its Grand Hotel, flourished
But economic downturns,
war and changing marine
regulations - uch as the out
IawiDg of wooden-hu1Jed vessels
f
dollar drug trade in this country
.could not exist unless there is
corrupt protection of the drug
lords in high places, and be
added that he would launch a $3
billion war against it.
QUALIFIED
On "his "qualifications" to be
president, Jackson said, one has
to be "old enough, American
enou�h and have leadership
ability," all possessed in his can
didacy.
On being Black, 1 ackson said
President Reagan's remark that
because of his color, little atten
tion is being paid to what he is
actually saying, is merely
Reagan expressing "fright as I
get closer to the White House".
Fonner Rep. Geraldine Ferraro
assailed Jackson's "radical"
views and said if he "were not
Black he would not be in the
race". 1 ackson shrugged her off,
declaring "millions of
Americans have a point of view
different from Ferraro's".
"We campaigned across the
south ... without a single catcall
or boo. It was not until we go
North to New 'York that vi
began to hear this from (Mayo
Edward) Koch, Preside t
Reagan and then rs. Ferrar , I
1 ackson said "Some people are
making hysteria while I ami
making history." .
In response to a query froml
t he floor that he would not meet
with Jewish leaders in New
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. . Detroit to ehicago
8y Chn tiDe Hedstro a half hours, with the average
Capital News Service speed 51 mph.
�SIN<? - . A high-speed The company owns 96 miles
train �harglDg. Its way fr�m oftracks along the line and so far
Detroit to Chicago, making $35 mini n has been invested in
travel comfortable" affordable it, so hat thos trains could run
and quick: �hat is tire plan for the at about 80 miles 'per hour, if
Amtrak railroa�. . there were better signaling,
The Detroit-Chicago pas- stated the technical report from
senger line is 2BO miles long and the Department of Transporta-
serves two-of the nation's largest tion.
metropolitan area , am�ng Two thirds of the present
many other areas alo�� the line. public crossings hav flashers
The reasons why It IS such a ..
d t .. fi and considerations should b
goo rou e are srgm icant given to more secur gate
population bases at each end closures for the highes speed
and there are no neems about options, it proposed.
engineering because the hind it-One of the options is a train
s If poses no i"Construction that travels 90 mph and would
problems. take four hour and 20 minute
"Our main concern is while the high st speed option
demand, wben it is forecasted it would take one hour and 40
better be right, there are no minutes and travel at 250 mph.
guarantees tbat before, during' The towns that would b
and after construction, that potential stops for the train are.
demand for" this type of Ann Arbor, Jackson, Battle
transportation will be .good," Creek, Kalamazoo, Niles-Sout
said Scott Hercik, manager of Bend, and Hammond.
the rail and marine passenger In Michigan about 75 percent
program. of the route passes through farm
The sort-term work that has land or forests except the 37
been done has been upgrading miles from Detroit to Ann
the existing ervices with a main Arbor, which is intensely urban,
focus being on the Detroit- the report stated.
Chicago line, he said. Track and right-of-way costs
Within the last five years, range from $79.5 millin for the
Amtrak and Conrail, the freight 79 mph option to $2.6 billion for
service, have invested $60 mil- the 250 mph option. "
lion to upgrade the tr cks them- Flying takes about three
selves, so that with better safety hours and costs about $120
precautions, the trains could run round trip, and if the high speed
at 80 mph, Hercik added. I train system is developed the ap-
Amtrak currently bas three proximate co t would be $20 for
daily round trips between the 70 mph train and $29 for the
Detroit and Chicago, and the 250 mph train. .
trip one way takes about five and
22-2&, 1
Mic .
Otize 3
-
old ldea,
sank the once-thriving industry
Excursion sevice on th
Great Lakes and the St
Lawrence seaway began m .
a comeback about a decade ago
thanks in large part to an In
diana travel' agency whicb sa
opportunity in the market. Th
industry around Michigan,
however, remained almost ex
clusively devoted to short excur
sions and ferry service.
But Thorp said it is now time .
for an all-out revival of over
night and multi-day passenger
service, and investors who track
w tee-related tourism may soon
take dvantagc of a buge pote -
tial mar et.
Efforts to "lure an overnight
boat into the we tern lakes" have
been strong, Thorp said, �ut
some industry leaders have su -
gested starting from scratch.
"There are' entre pre urs
I ho are dreaming up the right
ize boat to travel on Lake
Michigan," Thorp said.
One such dreamer is David
Brown, editor of Gre t Lakes
Travel and Living magazine.
According to Brown, a
idewbeel p ager ship would
ew dollar potentia
be ideal for Great Lakes cnns
ing. The novelty of such a vessel,
Brown said, would greatly add
to the "feel" of the cruise
"You have to face it," ro
said. Nobody needs to cruis
the Great Lakes anymore."
Airplanes, he explained,
have become the means of
choice for transportation.
"But we're not sellinl
transportation," Bro said.
"We're selling ambiance."
Brown said-the ship would
resemble the Mi sissipp
Queen, a popula - and
profitable -' river boat that
courses the Mississippi River
, Powered by its huge sidewheels;
the vessel would be quieter than
other cruiser and much more
navigable on the Great Lak
he said.
And the "show of the
sidewheeler, with its a ra o�
19th-century Americana, ould
dd a tinge of ro . ce to the
cruise. .
"This ship would be churning
up foam as it came aero th
lake," Brown said.
Brown and Thorp agree tha
to be profitable, Great Lake
cruises would ba� to offer ser
vices different from tho e avail
able on typical Caribbean-style
cruises. '
Innovative itinerary plan- -
ning, they . d, would be one
concern. F r example, a multi
day cruise I could be planned
around e ts and fe tivals in
port cities during high tourist
season. .
Brown aid he envisions
schedules p,fclanned so that pas
sengers wo d be off the ship
during mos of the daytime,
"The focus, unlike many
cruise, would be on hat's out
-ide the shiq," Brown explained.
'The vessel Itself would just be a
floatiag hotel that moves."
Another option Brown said
be finds feasible is multi-day ser
vice with no overnight CCOD1-
modations. Instead, e said,
port-to-port travel could be
paired with on-land hotel tays.
At Ie tone excur ion vessel
owner-opera or alread on the
Great Lakes, whose identity
Brown said he could not reveal,
is "serious about anting to do
something imilar to thi ,"
Brown said.