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By JOYCE FRIEDEN
A group of 50 people, including one Detroit resident,
will be going to Moscow for the 1980 Olympic games
despite President Carter's boycott.
"I feel that the boycott should be made uncon-
stitutional," said Drucilla Croft, a Mercy College st-
udent and the only Michigan resident to be going on
this tour. "The American athletes who were ready to
participate this year may not be able to do so in the
next Olympics. That's eight years of hard work down
the drain."
"WE ARE FOR peace and friendship between
peoples of different cultures, and we do not agree
with Carter's doctrine (on the Soviet Union)," said
Larry Moskowitz, tour coordinator of "Voice of the.
Future," the New York-based group organizing the
Moscow tour.
Croft said she hopes to talk to many Soviet citizens.
while on the tour. "if the tour doesn't accomplish
anything else, it will be at least get the idea across
that some Americans are not afraid of the Soviets and
States," she added.
Airplane flights and hotel accommodations are
being made by Anniversary Tours of New York, and
tour participants are being charged $995 for plane
fare to and from Moscow, hotel lodgings for nine
days, and three meals per day.
"THE PRICES WOULD not be so low if it weren't
for the Soviet youth groups that are welcoming us to
the U.S.S.R.," Moskowitz explained. "Groups like the
Young Pioneers and the Young Communists League
have worked out special arraigements for us."
Croft said she is not afraid to visit the Communist
nation. "From what I understand, the entry restric-
tions there are no stricter than they are here," she
said. "I'm more afraid to be in the United States than
in the Soviet Union."
Moskowitz, whose group arranges and promotes
cultural exchanges between the United States and
Cuba and other countries in addition to arranging the
Olympic tour, added, "We are for competition, but
friendly competition. We would rather see 150-meter
races than arms races."
agreement
elusive
By ELAINE RIDEOUT
As the transit worker's strike
entered its fourth week, officials of the
Transportation Employees Union
(TEU) held a press conference yester-
day morning attacking AATA
management for inaction, distortion,
and an uncaring attitude.
Neither the union nor AATA
management voiced any hope yester-
day that buses will be back on the road
this week to service Art Fair crowds.
AS UNION PRESIDENT Harry
Kevorkian handed out copies of the
most recent proposals of both parties to
members of the press, he said, "We're
doing this because of misstatements
and lies the management has been
willfully making to the media and
members of the public on TEU
positions."
Kevorkian said the management has
mislabelled the union's "final rock-
bottom" wage proposal as a 50 per cent
increase over the union's base wage of
$6.89 per hour. "We want a 14.6 per cent
wage increase the first year-not 50 per
dent," he said. In addition, the union is
asking for a seven per cent increase the
second year with a cost of living
allowance capped at 10 per cent both
years.
AATA Director Richard Simonetta
denied management had ever distorted
the facts about union proposals.
"They're asking for $7.89 per hour plus
a 10 per cent cumulative cost of living,
plus longevity," he said.
:'THEY CAN PLAY any number
game they want to but by the end of two
years, a one-year driver would be
making at least $10.50 an hour, a salary
few places pay even to senior officers,"
the AATA official added.
Besides a wage increase, Kevorkian
said the union is asking for increases in
only three other areas while it is
prepared to accept the status quo and
even concessions in some areas.
" Disability insurance: "It's a stan-
dard element of most other transit
companies in the nation," said Shelly
Ettinger, union vice-president. "It
would only cost the company $15 per
employee per month, which the
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