Sunday, February 6, 1977
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Page Five
Sunday, February 6, 1977 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five
Reagan: Not giving up
Republican leadership
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ron- servative Union and the Pro- s
aId Reagan is 66 years old to- gressive-Conservative party of tl
day - and he plans to spend Canada, lunch with the editorial g
the day on the political "mash- board of The Washington Post, z
ed potato circuit." a meeting with GOP leaders in c
The former California gover-- Congress, three news conferen- ti
nor, tanned and vigorous as ces and a fund-raiser in Peoria
ever, shows no signs of giving for his old alma mater, Eureka 1
eve, sowsno ign of giingCollege,
up his leadership of the conser-githr
votive wing of the. Republican Although his face is lined with Ia;
paty. An g he doen't ount wrinkles, Reagan retains the f
pasety.otndfeden't acon-handsomeness that helped make-
himself out of presidential poli- him a movie star. His face is
tics in 1980}. tanned, there is barely a trace
"I DON'T KNOW where I'll of grey in his hair, and he looks
be in 1980," is Reagan's way of a decade younger than his 66
keeping the door open for 1980 years.
without committing himself to REAGAN'S MESSAGE on the
a campaign. stump also hasn't changed much
Reagan is working to expand in the past decade - an ode to
the conservative power base free enterprise and a collection
which nearly won him the Re-; of horror stories of the govern-
publican nomination for presi- ment bureaucracy.
dent last year. "The bureaucracy has be-
On his 66th birthday, for ex- come a fourth branch of gov-
ample, Reagan scheduled a trip ernment, not subject to removal
to Richmond, Va., to headline aiby your votes x ... Why don't
fund-raising dinner for Wyatt more of us challenge the arro-1
Durrett, a candidate for Vir- gance of officialdom .. Busi-
ginia attorney general who was nessnmen are fast becoming an
Reagan's state chairman last endangered species ... Profit has
year. become a dirty word ... Closing
THAT APPEARANCE is part the loopholes is dexnagoguery. j
of a five-day, cross-country The simple truth is business
speaking tour designed to rein- doesn't pay taxes. Business col-
force Reagan's personal politi- lects taxes for government."
cal ties and his public image Reagan aide Michael Deaver
as the nation's best-known con- agrees that a 1980 race is "cer-
servative. tainly a possibility." But, Dea
The trip also includes speech- ver says, actively supporting
es before the American Con- some other conservative is also
a strong possibility.
"MY ATTENTION now is on
1978," Reagan says. "My atten-J
/1% A .~h'-w - 4& tion is going to be on seeing
ame CFR initials, "Citizens for
:he Republic," with Ronald Rea-
an as chairman and Lyn Nof
iger, Reagan's longtime politi
al adviser, as salaried execu-
ive officer.
The new CFER will use the
976 campaign surplus to help
riendly candidates, and it will
lso be a vehicle to raise more
unds, said Nofziger.
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Train,
wreck blamed
or
16'
I - am .A
(Continued from Page 1) coaches. gers were hurt in a September
western Memorial Saturdhy aft- Two cars lay in the street on 1974 wreck.
ernoon. their sides. One came to rest The National Transportation
Martin's train, a I"Lake-Dan wihh one end on the pavement Safety Board (NTSB) took juris-
Ryan" train bound for the west- and the other leaningLgainst the diction in the investigation,
ern suburb , of Oak Park, superstructure that supports 'the which also included police, state
slammed into the rear of a Ra- racks. A fourth dangled from and regional authorities.
venswood train headed for the the girders, one end restin. on NTSB vice chairman Kay
Northwest Side, at about 5:30 one of the horizontal coaches. Bailey told reporters, "If the
p.m. at Lake Street and Wabash, Working under floodlights in system was working, the motor-
Avenue. The. lead train was the snow and 20-degree air, man would have gotten a steady
stopped pn the tracks. c r e w s w i t h hacksaws and red signal if there was another
Witnesses said there was a torches cut at the twisted metal train in the next block of tracks.
loud crack and a flash of white for two hours to free those "After he had come to a stop,
light as the coaches derailed, t r a p p e d. Ambulance sirens it would have gone flashing ied,
sending passengers on a horri- waF ed in the Loop for 45 min- which would have allowed him
fying train ride into space. As ues. to go up to 15 ,miles per hour,
the cars fell, shrieking riders In 1974 four serious accidents but not over that.
tumbled from windows and fell occurred on the CTA. The worst " Had he exceeded the 15
to the street only to be buried was a similar rear-end collision miles per hour, if the system
under falling wreckage. Others on the South Side that injured was working. the train woold
were trapped inside the mangled 224 persons. Another 41 passea- have automatically come to a
stop. There is an ability to over-
i ride the system - which the
(;an stiik es '\ authorities have said ws
Gandhi strikes out investigator Hubert
Jewell said reports indic ited
iMartin did stop the train after
rereiving the steady red signal.
But Bailey said that "under
the rules of the company you
(0ontinuedfronPaoe1) Several non-Communist op- ,;are supposed to call before you
ant weather, but were largely position parties immediately proceed."
unresponsive, often cheering formed a coalition aimed at Elmer Garner, -head of tye
only when Congress workers ending Gandhi's 11-year-old railroad division of the NTSB,
stationed throughout the crowd rule. said the motorman never noti-
began shouting and clapping in tfled the controller of thie warn-
support of the prime minister. LAST WEEK her senior cabi- ing light before he re s atr~ed the
Gandhi reiterated her charge net member, Agriculture Mims-;train and apparently tri gerEd
that the more than half-dozen ter Jagjivan Ram, resigned and the crashy
opposition parties uniting joined other Congress dissidents A count of nine hosritals
against her\rule were a "hotch- in forming a new anti-Gandhi sho
pot of a combination." party. , They denounced "ten- wed 187 persons were taken
"They have come together to dencies toward despotic rule"
weaken the central govern- in the party and government.
ment and cause instability in Of the defectors, Mrs. Gand- Isis ee d-
the country in the name of de- hi said yesterday, "The main
mocracy," she said. She pub- question to be asked now is
licly reaffirmed her "total faith whether they had resorted to
in democracy," declaring, their new course to promote
"Democracy has been, is, and their narrow partisan ends or Te! ht
will remain in India." the general good of the people." Edwina Drobney
India's national news agency
BUT SHE warned that her renorted vesterday that Nan- Janet Taylor Pickett
government would not tolerate dini Satpathv, one of the Con-
violence of- attempts to disrupt press leaders who resigned with feb. 8-27
the election. She said she had Ram, is being investigated by a recepton: feb. 11, 7-9
already received reports of at- snecial government commis- HOURS
tacks on Congress workers, sion.
and she said one member of the The disnatch said a commis- Tu.-Fr., 10-6
youth wing had been murdered sion in Orissa .state was investi- Weekends, 12-6
a few days ago. gating "v a r i o u s. charges" 764-3234
Gandhi relaxed her emergen- again Mrs. Satpathy, a promi-
cy, rule last month, freeing nent leftist who was forced to
many political prisoners and resign in December as the
scheduling the March national state's chief minister after E n L
elections, India's first in six feuding publicly with local sup- FIRST FLOOR MICHIGAN UNION
years. norters of Sanjay Gandhi. _ -_--~-- --~--
1 iriver
in for treatment and 47 were ad-
mitted, several of whom weref
still in serious condition Satur-
day.
Martin, 34, a nine-year veter-
an of the CTA, was ques*ioned}
'before he underwent abdominall
surgery late Friday, ut he gave
only "vague answers," McDon-
ough said.
Blood tests determined Martin
was not under the influence of
drugs or alcohol, auth,:)ities
said.
There were reports pedestri-
ans were crushed by the falling
cars but authorities could not
confirm them. Renel Conner, 25,
an attendant at a nearby park-'
ing garage, said, "l\saw a cou-
ple of people who were under-
neath the car trying to run, butI
they didn't make it.'
if we can't whittle away at that
D~emocratic majority in Con-
gress and the state legisla-
tures.
To help him in that whittling
process, Reagan has about $1
million left'over from his "Citi-
zens for Reagan" presidential
campaign fund.
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in a new organization with the
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