Quaked, but
not quacked:
Colorado safe
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United Press International
RANGELY, Colo. —A minor ear
thquake shook part of northwestern
Colorado Monday, but there were
no reports of any damage.
The National Earthquake Infor
mation Center in Golden said the
tremor registered 3.4 on the Richter
scale and was centered about 20
miles north of Rangely.
“It shook buildings around here a
little bit, but it didn’t do any dam
age,” said Chief Deputy Bill Murray
of the sheriffs office. “It was a dandy
THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1979
for a little bit, kind of like a sonic
boom going off.
The quake was the first recorded
in Colorado since a tremor that regis
tered 2.9 on the Richter scale last
Jan. 6, near Cripple Creek.
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Mayor has police on trains
subway patrol begins
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United Press International
NEW YORK — Mayor Edward
Koch personally ushered in his $10
million anti-crime subway program
Monday, taking the train home in
complete safety — with an armed
lodyguard, four aides and a dozen
jews men at his side.
The mayor was more fortunate
than 19-year-old Pineror Daid, who
De Uvas robbed of $60 at knifepoint in
ItheTimes Square station and pushed
■ : ^lowii a staircase just an hour after
| the beefed-up station patrols began.
The law enforcement blitz was a
nse to a recent surge in subway
}t, Bryifcrime. So far this year, eight people
have been murdered in the system,
conjipared to nine homicides for all of
^Hyear.
lie city began a program Monday
at an estimated cost of $10 million
under which a uniformed police
man rides on every subway train be
tween 6 p.m. and 2 a.m.
In addition, most of the more than
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400 subway stations now have a cop
patrolling platforms during the eve
ning, with that phase starting at 4
p.m. daily.
“I believe that as of 4 p.m. this
afternoon the subways are safer and
people should use them, the mayor
said.
Deciding to see how things were
working, Koch boarded a train for
the ride from City Hall to his official
residence during the evening. The
10 passengers in his car appeared
startled to see him.
Transit Authority Police Officer
John Tsarnas, who was assigned to
the train under the new program,
rushed into the car after hearing the
noise made by the mayor’s entour-
age.
“He found out it wasn’t a felon. It
was only a mayor,” Koch said.
Jean Handley was asked if she was
afraid of subway crime. “I certainly
am, but it doesn’t deter me from
going about my day-to-day busi
ness.
Asked if she considered it safe for
Koch to travel alone on the subways,
she waved her hand toward the
crowd accompanying the mayor and
replied, “He’s certainly not alone, is
he?”
Koch agreed. Arriving at his home
station, he said his 17-minute trip
“was very uneventful because I was
protected by the press.”
On another train, just having a
police officer aboard made Eleanor
Ferris feel that much safer.
“I guess it will help,” Miss Ferris
said. “At least it makes you feel that
someone would be less inclined to do
something to you on the train.”
But Bill Samela, 22, of Mount
Vernon, N.Y., wasn’t so easily con
vinced.
“If a cop’s actually in my car, hav
ing him on board might help,’’
Samela said. “But if he’s in another
car, I wouldn’t even know about it,
right? So what good would it do?”
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