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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1979
* n,ernat ionil United Press International
Rhodes \ WASHINGTON — The Trans-
a y °n wlej lortation Department has com-
'fluin tlm ileted proposals to abandon more
le bWkj, tan 10,000 miles of the Amtrak
■''bbe rule assenger train system and will an-
ations thei ounce the recommendations to-
ay,
bn Smith | The department’s recommenda-
paigned u: on to Congress will be detailed in a
ri g polling Sew York news conference by
al, where ^.Transportation Secretary Brock
predict hi
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Adams.
Adams was traveling from Wash
ington to New York on one of the
trains he wants to keep, a high
speed Metroliner.
Either the House or the Senate
could veto the recommendation
within 90 legislative days.
It is uncertain how Congress will
react to the report. Although con
gressmen are in a money-saving
mood, hundreds of congressional
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p.S . reserve huge,
oil official claims
United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — The head of Chevron U.S.A. Inc. said Tues
day that “tremendous” petroleum reserves remain “waiting to be
unearthed” in the United States.
Speaking before a meeting of the National Association of Wheat
Growers, Donald I. Bower, president of the Standard Oil Co. of
California subsidiary, said events in Iran underscore a growing need
for the United States to increase its domestic energy supplies.
“We should be buming coal, building nuclear plants and employ
ing our arsenal of technological advantage to push every reasonable
potential source of energy,” Bower said.
He contended that “overregulation” was hampering this develop
ment.
He said steps that could free the oil industry would include elimi
nation of price controls, realistic environmental regulations, and re
consideration of the locking up of much of the land in “wilderness. ”
Bower praised the efforts of American farmers, industry and
homeowers to save energy. But, he said, “Our nation ought also to
recognize the great capability of our oil industry to increase America s
petroleum supply if we are permitted to use that capability.
inging welcomes
ope to Mexico
United Press International
^ MEXICO CITY, Mexico — A sea
Jf singing children greeted Pope
jghn Paul II today with a turnout so
imultuous that the pontiff had to
je a helicopter to keep his ap-
|intment to visit a school in the
lital.
John Paul was deeply moved by
f enthusiasm of the 70,000 chil-
:n who surrounded the Miguel
igel school and waved white
idkerchiefs to welcome him.
^Standing on a school balcony, he
leatedly brushed his hand across
eyes, as if wiping away tears, as
listened to a song by the 120-
imber Collegio de Mexico choir.
The crowd of children, stretching
city blocks in all directions,
led in on the song, “Amigo,” and
ither based on the tune of the
ide to Joy from Beethoven’s 9th
|mphony. The pope rocked and
Ipped in time to the music.
[ I wish I had time to learn that
ig,” the pope commented.
You children go to school to
i. The pope too is learning. I
e learned some new Spanish
REA? sry well on this trip.”
A teen-age girl, speaking for the
lldren of Mexico, told him that
len he winds up his sixday tour
lay, “millions of white doves will
with you — the hearts of the
lildren of Mexico — which you
ive awakened to a love of Christ
Mary we will never abandon,
id when at home you see the
ives in the plaza of St. Peter’s, re-
imber us.”
The pope was to have beer, driven
U\/IENSlO' to sc hool, but the throng of
yg people closed the streets. Officials
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. house
tried to clear a path for the
motorcade for an hour, but then de
cided they could only reach the
building by air.
A government helicopter made
several practice landings to make
sure it was safe to land on the school
roof before airlifting the pontiff.
The pope had to leave by helicop
ter as well. He headed for the air
port and a flight to Guadalajara,
Mexico’s second most populous city
with more than 2 million inhabi
tants, where he was scheduled to
tour a poor neighborhood.
John Paul journeyed Monday to a
small Indian town in southern
Mexico. The pope clapped a straw
farmer’s hat over his white skullcap,
listened under a brpiling tropical
sun to a string of anguished com
plaints from impoverished Indians,
and responded with his toughest call
for a better life for the poor.
“The pope and the church are
with you,” he told a crowd of 10,000
cheering Indians in the dusty plaza
of Cuilapam, 9 miles south of Oax
aca.
“The pope speaks for those who
cannot speak.”
He was cheered when he called
for “realistic and effective mea
sures” to improve the lot of the
poor, because “it is not Christian to
continue with conditions that are
not just.”
The unexpected speech -the Vati
can canceled release of the original
-was a sudden change for John Paul,
who spent the two previous days de
livering stern warnings to priests
and bishops that he wants no Mar
xism influence on the Catholic
Church.
districts would lose passenger serv
ice.
Included are all three current
routes across West Virginia, the
home state of Senate Democratic
leader Robert Byrd and House
Commerce Committee chairman
Harley Staggers.
According to a number of sources,
the report recommends a system
built around the heavily traveled
Northeast Corridor from Washing
ton to Boston, with a skeleton of
longdistance routes stretching to
Florida and the West Coast.
A number of the remaining trains
would be rerouted in an effort to in
crease ridership.
Although last minute changes
were possible, the sources said that
in addition to the Northeast Cor
ridor, the report would recommend
maintaining one of the three New
York-Florida trains, two New
York-Chicago trains and a
Chicago-New Orleans train.
The New York-Chicago trains
would be rerouted, with the Lake
Shore Limited going through De
troit across southern Canada, with a
spur train continuing to Boston.
The Broadway Limited would run
on its present route from New York
to Pittsburgh, then be rerouted
through Cleveland to Chicago. The
Broadway’s Chicago-Washington
section would be rerouted from
Pittsburgh to Washington via Cum
berland, Md.
In the West, there would be a
Seattle-Los Angeles route and three
routes from Chicago and New Or
leans to the West Coast, including
the current New Orleans-Los
Angeles Sunset Limited and the
Chicago-Seattle Empire Builder.
In the middle of the country,
there would be a route from
Chicago through Kansas City, Den
ver and Ogden, Utah, where it
would split with sections going to
Los Angeles and San Francisco.
In addition, all services partially
supported by states would continue
to run.
These routes would be aban
doned:
— Washington-New York Mon
treal.
—New York-Kansas City.
—Washington-Cincinnati (both
routes).
—Washington-Catlettsburg, Ky.
—Washington-New Oreans.
—Chicago-Florida.
—Chicago- Houston.
—Chicago-Laredo, Texas.
—Chicago-Seattle (via southern
Montana).
—Salt Lake City-Portland.
—Chicago-Los Angeles (via Al
buquerque).
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