Soturdov May 8, t976'
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Quake toll rises past 600
VENICE, Italy (A'} - Italian national
police announced figures last night more
than doubling the death toll from north-
eastern Italy's disastrous earthquake -
from fewer than 300 to 628.
There were unconfirmed reports of
more than 1,000 dead and police put the
number of injured at about 2,000. Of-
ficials said more than 110,000 were left
homeless.
RESCUE WORKERS, including U.S.
Army medics, dug through the rubble
of northeast Italian towns and villages,
searching for bodies.
"We keep finding bodies in every ruin,"
said a police official in charge of rescue
operations after the Thursday quake.
"We will not know the total until we get
to the basements."
The quake demolished or severely
damaged more than a score of towns in
the Alpine foothills 40 miles northeast
of Venice. The villages, strung out in a
valley, were hit by aftershocks yester-
day afternoon. The tremors caused no
serious damage.
TENS OF thousands, fearing more
tremors, spent the night in tents, in their
cars and under makeshift shelter in the
open. Late evening rainstorms increased
their misery.
The state radio reported just before
midnight that the death toll could exceed
1, 00 but there was no official confirma-
tion. There were unconfirmed reports
in Udine, the provincial capital in the
center of the worst-hit area, that 1,000
caskets had been ordered.
Aid arrived from throughout Italy and
from abroad. The U.S. military flew in
medicine and water from the Army base
at Vicenza and supplied ten medics. Two
hundred Canadian troops were rushed
to the area from a NATO base in West
Germany.
PRESIDENT Giovanni Leone, some-
times sobbing emotionally, toured the
quake area for an hour by helicopter,
then returned to Rome.
The quake was felt in half of Italy and
at least eight other countries, including
Yugoslavia, Austria, Czechoslovakia,
West Germany, Switzerland, Belgium,
the Netherlands and western Poland.
There were no reports of major damage
outside of Italy.
In Venice, only a few chimneys were
knocked down. Engineers checked key
buildings in- the canal city and reported
no damage to foundations.
In Western Italy, the famous Leaning
Tower of Pisa was shaken but suffered
no damage
Nine state legislators
pledge Udall support
By LANI JORDAN who I
hid fur
Stute Representative Perry
Itullard (D.-Ann Arbor) and "I W
eight other legislators cam- troith
paigned for Presidential Candi- came
dote Rep. Morris Udall (I) Iird.
Ar,.) in Ann Arhor yesterday to get
Membecr', of the group en- .s'cii
dorsed Udall at the candidate's When
-ito headquarters on Detroit St. d 1st
in the morning vnd discussed (fsjj
the issuesith a soa itt gather- 1)dwi
ing of s;pp)rters. tm
p st. I
JLARI') woo;cs tiously op- think
u oistic shoot tUdott's -tmnces (ottv
for victory in the May 18 Michi- remin
gin presidential primary. the en
"I see it as possible for Ud- 'adden
al to win,' le said last night. te.I
is is ttte l:ist chance to stop 'thtys
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G rmty) Carter. If Carter is 5ser.
stoipped it doesn't mean Udall Udlla
is going to win it (the nominia- er's M'
tion), but at least the progres- Peop
sie parts of the party will be and fa
strengthened." showed
Bullard expressed disappoint- campai
ment in other state Democrats '
ri
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That's a lot of
lies, George
For those looking for a chance to pig-
ot, Charlevoix may bekthe place. In
honor of Michigan Week, May 15-May
22, and the Bicentennial, the town plans
to make a 10 ton, 14 feet in diameter
cherry pie. The pie will require 2,000
pounos of flour for the crust and lots
of cherries from the surrounding grow-
ing area. It will bake for 3 hours in the
oven of a local cement company.
Happenings .
begin today with a "Town Meet-
tag' being held in honor of the bicen-
tennial all day long at Huron High .-.
also running all day is an open house
sponsored by the U-M Sailing Club at
Baseline Lake . . . at 2:30 and 8:00,
Mimetroupe will perform at the Men-
delasohn Theater . . . also at 8:00, the
Tumbleweed dance group will perform
at Schorling Auditorium.
Weather -or not
Today's forecast calls for clear skies
throughout southern lower Michigan. It
will be sunny with highs in the upper
50's. There is a chance of frost with tem-
peratures dipping down into the 30's by
tonight.
have endorsed Carter's
the nomination.
AS surprised when (De-
ilyor) Coleman Young
out for Carter," he de-
"I think it's an attempt
on a winning ticket, to
?e before it's too late.
all is said and done you
.et that many rewards
ipig on a winning
Wgan.) The patronage
i hretty much in the
don't know what they
they'll accomplish "
twii of the 1itwmakers
Ie in Ann Arbor after
dorsement - Rep. Jeff
'(D-Wyandotte) and
Rty Hood (D-Detroit).
stationed themselves on
ag tid urged occasional
by to attend today's
ippearance at the Farm-
grket.
le on the IDiag were few
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between, though most ,',Vi) STA E v r 'oFm~'lv 'L.-A'I i'r_ hs
interest in the Uddall Ecampaig' literature to a passerby on the
tn literature which Diag yesterday. The Arizona Congressman stumps the hustings this morning in preparation
tee NINE, Page 4 for tht May 18 Michigan primary.
NATIONAL FIGURE HOLDS STEADY:
State jobless rate plummets
By UPI
Michigan's unemployment rate dipped
to a 17-month low of 10.2 per cent in
April, but remained considerably higher
than the national average, the Michigan
Employment Security Commission
(MESC) reported yesterday.
The 1.2 per cent decline from March
translated into 45,600 fewer persons out
of work.
At this time a year ago, the state's
jobless rate stood at 13.5 per cent.
IN REPORTING the downward trend
the MESC citedhthe upturn in the auto
industry, which has resulted in job gains,
throughout the manufacturing sector.
Nationally the number of employed
Americansrset a record in April, caused
by an increase in persons looking for
work, keeping the unemployment rate
stubbornly at 7.5 per cent, the Labor
Department reported yesterday.
It was the third straight month the
nation has set a new employment rec-
ord - a development that helped prompt
director Julius Shiskin of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics to conclude the economy
has gone from recovery to real growth.
TOTAL JOBS rose by 710,000 in April
to a record 87.4 million, capping an un-
precedented rise of 3.3 million over the
past 13 months. Employment first ex-
ceeded the pre-recession peak of 86.3
million in- February and has gone 1.3
per cent beyond it.
But the impact of employment expan-
sion in April was blunted by an in-
crease in the total number of persons
available for work, now totaling 94.4
million and comprising a record 61.6
per cent of the population.
Unemployment thus held steady at 7.5
per, cent or 7 million persons, virtually
unchanged over the past three months.
IT WAS THE FIRST time since 1973
that unemployment has gone seven
straight months without an increase,
and the rate compared to a recession
peak of 8.9 per cent in May, 1975.
Men accounted for more than half
of April's increased employment -- a
drastic change from previous months
when women took most new jobs. The
proportion of available male workers
rose-reversing a long downward trend
-and male joblessness declined to 5.4
per cent.
Senate subcommittee calls PBC
a 'tool for political e m s'
WASHINGTON (iP)-The Senate's sub.-
committee on i n t e r n a I security has
accused the People's Bicentennial Com-
mission (PBC) of trying to steal the na-
tion's bicentennial celebration, but at
least one senator and staff aides are
disavowing the report.
Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), a member
of the subcommittee, sent a letter to
Jeremy Rifkin, director of the PBC, say-
ing the report and the methods by which
it was produced were "unacceptable to
me."
THE REPORT issued this week calls
the PBC "a propaganda and organizing
tool for a small group of New Left po-
litical extremists." It was based on two
days of hearings in March which fea-
tured only two witnesses.
The witnesses were Frank Watson, a
retired Army officer from Dun Loring,
Va., who was identified as a specialist
in media and propaganda analysis, and
Mary Walton, a Chicago housewife who,
a release accompany the report said,
"has made an intensive study of student
revolutionary movements" and served on
the Illinois Advisory Council on Student
Radicalism.
Sen. James Eastland (D-Miss.), sub-
committee chairman, was not available
See SENATE, Page 4