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Ay ADRIENNE LYONS special r
The budget, approved Wednesday dicapped
might by the Ann Arbor Transportation during th
Authority's (AATA) Board of Directors
Includes provisions for both a 15-cent THE $1
fare increase for bus runs and con- a rate h
tinuation of Sunday Dial-a-Ride ser- one-way
,ice, which was scheduled to be cut The bu
along with daytime weekday Dial-A- $4.6 mil
Ride runs for the general public. benefits
Evening Dial-A-Ride service will be operation
available to the general public while $1.7 milli
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approves budget
plan for
1979-80
ugs will serve elderly, han-
and low-income passengers
e day.
.4 MILLION budget assumes
ike from. the current 35-cent
fare, to 50 cents.
idget allocates approximately
lion for wages apd fringe
for personnel, $189,000 for
n and administrative costs, and
on for miscellaneous expenses
such as insurance, marketing, and
public relations.
The budget figure is seven per cent
higher than last year's and will cover a
period from Oct. 1, 1979 to Sept. 30, 1980.
AATA has been beset with financial
problems since the'1976-77 fiscal year
when it ran a deficit of $120,000, said
AATA Board Chairman Cecil Ur-
sprung. He added that the deficit in-
creased to over $400,000 during the
following fiscal year.
COMPOUNDING THE financial
woes was the switch from a July-June
fiscal year to the current September-
October period. The move meant this
year's budget covered 15 months,
causing complicated budgetary shuf-
fling.
"We made the decision (for the tran-
sition) early this summer to put us in
sync with the state and federal fiscal
year," Ursprung said.
Service cuts intended to alleviate
some of the financial difficulties have
provoked fears of layoffs among some
AATA employees. One Transportation
Employees Union member who
declined to, be identified said the AATA
administration "seems to be solving its
(personnel) problems by firing" em-
ployees.
But AATA Executive Director
Richard Simonetta said any;normal at-
trition should take care of any needed
personnel reductions. "There is a
decreasing number of employees that
we think attrition will handle,'
Simonetta said.
AATA hopes to receive assistanc$
from the state, but Simonetta said the
authority must first "justify the neea
for operating assistance" to the state.
'Simonetta added he expects no dief
ficulty in securing the aid.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President
Carter commuted the prison sentences
yesterday of four Puerto Rican
nationalists - one involved in an at-
tempt to assassinate President Harry
Truman and three who wounded five
congressmen in a shooting spree at the
Capitol.
Imprisoned since the mid-1950s, the
four will be freed "immediately upon
completing routine administrative
discharge procedures," a White House
announcement said.
SECRETARY OF State Cyrus Vance
won Carter's agreement "that the
release of the four prisoners would be a
significant humanitarian gesture and
would be viewed as such by much of the
international community," the White
House said.
A statement issued by the White
House press office said Attorney
General Benjamin Civiletti had
recommended the commutations on
three grounds:
" "Each of the four has served an
unusually long time in prison, and the
attorney general believes that no
legitimate deterrent or correctional
purpose is served by continuing their
incarceration." In recent years, it said,
only three prisoners ever served more
time in federal custody.
" "HUMANE CONSIDERATIONS
militate against retaining in custody
persons who have served. . . prison
terms of far greater length than the
terms normally served by those convic-
ted of equally, or even greater, heinous
offenses."
" Law enforcement officials believe
commutation "would pose little sub-
stantial risks of the defendants'
engaging in further criminal activity or
becoming the rallying point for
terrorist groups."
The statement said Carter's action
should not "be viewed as evidence. of
leniency toward terrorists. . . in light
of the length of the sentences served."
REP.' ROBERT GARCIA, (D-N.Y.),
said the White House notified him of the
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tenees of four
ed in U.S. shootings
decision several. hours before Carter Pennsylvania Avenue from the Whity
made it public. House. Truman was staying there tem'
Garcia, who headed a congressional porarily while the White House was
effort to persuade Carter to release the being renovated.
four Puerto Rican nationalists on A WHITE HOUSE guard and a Puerr
humanitarian grounds, said: "I'm just to Rican gunman were killed in the. in;
happy that in fact this chapter in Puerto cident, but the attackers did not reacli
Rican history is over. Those of us who Truman. At one point during the exM
worked for this are delighted." change of gunfire, Truman appeared at
Critics of the continued incarceration a window but was warned back by a
of the Puerto Rican nationalists have guard.
said that their long terms violate the Twenty-seven shots were exchanged
spirit of Carter's human rights policy in the gun battle.
and that even convicted murderers Truman commuted Collazo's deatit
rarely serve as long as they have. sentence in 1952 to life in prison.
ALL FOUR HAVE been in prison for THE OTHER three Puerto Ricans
at least 25 years. granted clemency yesterday have been
Clemency is a commutation of the in jail since 1954 when they-opened fire'
sentences being served by the four from a public gallery overlooking the
Puerto Rican nationalists. There was House floor. Five congressmen were
no immediate indication of when they wounded in the shooting. r
would be released from prison. Lolita Lebron, 52, was sentenced to 56;
. One of the four, Oscar Collaz, 64, was years for her part in the attack. She:
sentenced to death for taking part in an began the House assault by unfurling a:
assassination attempt against Truman red and white flag in the gallery and
on Nov. 1, 1950, at Blair House, the shouting in Spanish, "Free Puerto;
presidential guest residence across Rico." The others affected by the:
clemency decision are Irving Flores:
THE MICHIGAN DAILY Rodriguez, 52, and Rafael Concel
le LXXX, No2 Miranda, 49, who are serving 25- to 75.
Friday, September 7, 1979 year terms.,
is edited and managed by students at A fifth nationalist who took part in the,
the University of Michigan. Published House shooting, Andres Figueroa Cor--
daily Tuesday through Sunday morn- dero, was pardoned by Carter in 1977
ings during the University year at 420 because he was suffering from. cancer.:
Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan C
48109. Subscription rates: $12 Setem- Cordero died in Puerto Rico last March
ber through April (2 semesters) ;$13 by ABOUT 100 congressmen were on the
mail outside Ann Arbor. Summer House floor on March 1, 1954, when the
session published Tuesday through group opened fire, spraying 20 to 25
Saturday mornings. Subscription ratessth
$6.50 in Ann Arbor; $7.00 by mail out- shots from four pistols across the
side Ann Arbor. Second class postage crowded chamber.
aid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. POST- Five congressmen who had just an-
ASTE M4C "iGnt A'ILY','420.M }r to ;w r&% a quorum call fell wounded t
Street, Ana Arbor,.M4 109. , the floor.
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