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THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1979
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Wednesday.
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million, up more than one third from
May 1978 revenue of $24.6 million,
he said.
“If we had another 1,000 cars, we
could fill them up today, he said.
Currently, the Amtrak fleet has
1,200 passenger cars.
The May ridership and revenue
figures are scheduled to be delivered
to the White House and Transporta
tion Secretary Brock Adams who has
sought a 43 percent cutback in the
Amtrak system.
Adams has said most of the past
ridership increases were confined to
lines which the government plans to
continue in operation.
But his spokeswoman Fran
Lewine said: “The department has
asked Amtrak for statistics on rider
ship to determine whether the
passenger increases are due to the
energy problem, the United Airlines
strike or the grounding of DC-lOs.”
Adams had called for — and Con
gress so far has approved — a core
Amtrak system including the
Boston-Washington corridor, sev
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WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration Wednes
day approved the sale of a contact lens that can be worn constantly for
up to 30 days at a time, but said it will be available only to cataract
patients.
The lens is made of the same material as regular contact lenses,
“except for a slightly higher water content that enables the lens to
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“Special glasses for cataract patients often cause impaired peripheral
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“Details as to when the lenses will be available and other marketing
data should be obtained from the companies,” the FDA said. “Patients
who have had cataracts removed should contact their eye specialist.”
nental long distance routes and three
or four north-south routes.
In May 1978, Amtrak turned away
only 68,000 ticket seekers. Vranich
said those turned away could have
been from an individual who called
several times in a row — or one indi
vidual seeking four tickets.
Vranich said “ridership is up on
the trains we plan to keep and also on
trains we don’t plan to keep. That is a
fact.”
Adams’ plan is the first wholesale
cutback in passenger train service
since 1971. Congress still could take
some actions which would save indi
vidual trains.
Vranich said other indications of a
record breaking Amtrak year are an
increase of 128 percent in advance
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Vance denies Carter
is appeasing Russia
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WASHINGTON — Secretary of
State Cyrus Vance Wednesday
lashed back at Sen. Henry Jackson’s
charge that President Carter is ap
peasing the Soviet Union in a
number of areas. Vance called
Jackson’s criticism “misguided and
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night the new strategic arms treaty
represents “appeasement in its
purest form” and reminded him the
British government’s attitude to
ward Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
“The failure to face reality today —
like the failure to do so then — that is
the mark of appeasement,” Jackson
said.
But Vance called a State Depart
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and responded with unusual blunt
ness to Jackson, a key figure in the
coming Senate debate on SALT II.
“To describe the policy of this ad
ministration and the policy pursued
by President Nixon, President Ford
and Secretary (of State Henry) Kis
singer as appeasement is in my
judgment misguided and simply
wrong,” said Vance.
But he saved his sharpest criticism
for SALT:
Jackson compared today to the
1930s “when one government pro
nouncement after another was is
sued to assure the British public that
Hitler’s Germany would never
achieve military equality — let alone
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