The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, July 24, 1984 - Page 3 MADD recruits volunteers at fair By PAUL JACKSON New among the merchants, artists, and public ser- vice groups at this year's Ann Arbor Street Art Fair will be representatives of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, an organization which assists victims of drunk drivers and seeks stricter enforcement of laws against driving under the influence of alcohol. What concerns the group most, according to mem- ber Janice Mohler, is that while drunk drivers often ' die in accidents, frequently claim the lives of pedestrians and other drivers as well as passengers. At the Art Fair, the group will be distributing infor- mation on drunk driving and recruiting volunteers to work with local MADD programs, including court watching. THE COURT-watching system is designed to reduce the number of times a drunk driver receives only a suspended jail sentence instead of a harsher penalty. Mohler said low court attendance at drunk driving trials contributes to the suspended sentences. "A few years ago families I know who had relatives killed by drunk drivers were being told by their lawyers not to go because it would be too traumatic," Mohler said, adding that the resulting image of public indifference often contributes to lighter sentences. Steve Landis, president of the Washtenaw County MADD chapter, said his group often represents the victim in a drunk driving trial. "Between the ac- cident and the court trial," he said, "the prosecution puts together a report on the drunk driver. But dam- ned little, if anything, goes in about the victim." BY PARTICIPATING in court cases Landis said MADD members can make judges consider the vic- tim. "MADD encourages people to attend the trial every day of that trial. We will go to court with them if they want so that the prosecutor, judge, and everyone understands that the public wants something done." Landis said his group's efforts have raised the conviction rate and reduced the num- ber of suspended sentences. MADD was founded in California in 1980 after the teenage daughter of founder Candy Lightner was killed by a drunk driver. The driver had been convic- ted of five previous drinking and driving offenses and had just been released from jail on bail after another See MADD, Page 5 Labor projected to win Israeli election TEL AVIV, Israel (UPI) - The op- position Labor Party was projected to win more parliamentary seats than the ruling Likud bloc in national elections yesterday, but Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir predicted he would be able to forma coalition government despite his second-place finish. "The Likud has won," Shamir delcared in an address to party workers who were jubilant despite the Likud's second-place finish. "I am certain that within a few days, we shall form the new government." STATE-RUN Israel Television projected Shimon Peres' Labor Party would win 46 seats to.42 for the Likud ed Press bloc. The projection was based on results from half the 4,589 voting stations. But Israel Radio's political analyst, Hanan Crystal, said it appeared the Labor Party and its supporters could account only for 56 seats, leaving it five seats short of the 61 seats needed for a and train. majority in the 61-member Parliament known as the Knesset. "That means the Likud, although it including trails Labor, can form a coalition Weiman, government of more than 60 seats if it luding 72 can win the support of the parties that bus -and cooperated with it in the outgoing er 96 who overnment... and factions that prefer naer96on the Likud as a first option," Crystal tation. si diplm BUT PERES refused to concede he I Medical had suffered his third defeat in seyen he crash, years at the hands of the Likud. Shamir, renewing his call for a ton, said government of national unity, said that otive and "preliminary discussions with a num- comotive ber of parties on either a national unity Ithe cars government or a Likud-led government have been favorable." England Peres, appearing before glum sup- hed their porters at Labor headquarters after the projection was broadcast, said he ck was 45 would try to win enough support to form peed was a new government. w at what "LABOR has emerged as the biggest party in this campaign and it is our duty st," said to try to form the next govenment that are very will contend with the problems of the state," Peres said. ty Board See LABOR, Page 4 Associat Workers inspect damage to two Amtrak engines which collided head-on in New York yesterday. N.Y. Amtrak crash kills m a NEW YORK (AP) - Two Amtrak passenger trains collided head-on and derailed on an elevated track yesterday after the Boston-bound Zip failed to wait for the southbound Shoreliner to pass on a stretch of track under repair, officials said. One person was killed and scores were hurt. Rescuers said they treated 112 people, most for minor in- juries, after the collision in the New York city borough of Queens. An Amtrak official said the Zip had failed to wait for the Shoreliner to pass. "I FIRST thought we were braking, and then in less than a second, the seats were uprooted and people were thrown out of their seats," said Ernest Boyer, 33, who was traveling on the Washington-to-Boston Zip. "A lot of people were screaming. People were lying on the floor, saying, 'Let's try to get out."' Some people were "covered with blood, some with gashes," Boyer said. It was Amtrak's fourth serious accident this month, in- cluding a derailment that killed five people and injured 147 on July 7 in Williston, Vt. Four people died in the other two ac- cidents, which were train-truck collisions. THE TRAINS in yesterday morning's crash collided on an approach to the Hell Gate Bridge, just across the East River from Manhattan at about 110th Street. All Amtrak trains to and from New England use the route. Amtrak spokesman Clifford Black said the southbound track on the line was closed for regular maintenance, and The Shoreliner, coming in from Boston, had received written instructions to use the northbound track. "Whether it was dispatcher failure, an engineer failure or a signal failure we do not know at this point," he said. "The northbound train was to have held for the southbo That did not happen." AMBULANCES rushed the injured to hospitals, five people who were seriously hurt, said Ellen spokeswoman for the Emergency Medical Service. The EMS treated 112 people in all, she said, inc who were taken to seven hospitals - 35 of them by b 40 who were treated at the scene. Those 40 and anotb said they were unhurt were taken to Pennsylvania S Enrique Gilarranz, 53, identified as a Spanish from Madrid, died at 3:35 p.m. at Booth Memoria Center of chest and abdominal injuries suffered in t said hospital spokeswoman Nancy Simington. Amtrak spokesman John McLeod, in Washing each train carried about 160 passengers. The locom four of the Zip's seven cars derailed, as did the lo and four of the Shoreliner's five cars, he said. All remained on the bridge. Amtrak's service between New York and New was suspended until 2:07 p.m., when rescuers finis work, McLeod said. Black said the speed limit on that section of tra mph, though it appeared the trains' combined sl "way below 80 mph." McLeod said he did not knov speed the trains collided. The trains "Couldn't have been moving too fa Deputy Fire Commissioner James Harding. "We fortunate that they weren't going any faster." Amtrak and the National Transportation Safet began separate investigations.