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^California’s 47 electoral votes
lured both President Reagan and
Democratic nominee Walter Mon
dale Monday on the traditional La
bor Day opening of the 1984 presi
dential campaign.
a'Neither they, nor their running
mates, Vice President George Bush
and Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, wasted
time in initiating political attacks at
the start of the nine-week campaign
season. But there was sharp contrast
ill campaign styles.
Btleagan’s entourage rolled
through the communities of conser
vative Orange County to well-orga
nized rallies complete with big
crowds — an estimated 50,000 in
Fountain Valley — red, white and
blue helium balloons, placards, signs
and chants of “Four More Years.”
[ Mondale and Ferraro, after
marching in a poorly attended La
bor Day parade in Manhattan, flew
to an enthusiastic crowd in tiny Mer
rill. Wis., and rode in a 1958 Ford
Fairlane convertible to a campaign
rally there before completing their
cross-country journey in Long
Beach, Calif.
HOnly Bush was off on his own in
Lemont, Ill., where he attacked
Mondale’s “low-road campaign” that
he said would return America to
“the nightmare of Jimmy Carter.”
P “Four years ago today, a Demo
cratic administration attempted to
raise a smoke screen to obscure one
of the sorriest economic records in
I the history of the United States,”
Bush said. “In their desperation,
T EVER! they tried to make Ronald Reagan
into something he wasn’t and isn’t.
They used the worst demagoguery
on the issue of war and peace.”
Reagan told thousands of loyalists
at Cupertino, Calif.:
“Today, we set out to achieve a
victory for the future over the past,
for opportunity over retreat, for
hope over despair, and to move up
to all that is possible and not down to
that which we fear.
“You ain’t seen nothing yet.”
In a swipe at Mondale, he said,
“The future we are building is not
about promises, but about promise.”
Maureen Reagan, the president’s
daughter, filled her role as chief
family cheerleader with an admoni
tion against complacency.
“We may be a few points ahead,”
she said, “but we’re running like
we’re 10 points behind.”
In Merrill, a town of 10,000, an
estimated 10,000 people turned out
in a light rain to cheer Mondale and
Ferraro.
Observers said people had come
in from surrounding towns to see
the Democrats and attend an antique
car rally.
Mondale accused Reagan of an
“uncaring, icy indifference to Amer
ican society.”
“I don’t believe a president should
just serve all the people in his coun
try club,” he said. “I believe a presi
dent should serve all the people in
the country.”
Mondale and Ferraro both contin
ued to attack Reagan for attempting
to impose religious views on the
American people.
“We are the most religious people
on earth ... we don’t need politicians
who tell us how to pray,” Mondale
said. “Those who seek to inject gov
ernment and politics into religion ...
seem to be saying the people can’t be
trusted.”
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Bomb kills three
in railway station
United Press International
MONTREAL — A bomb ex
plosion ripped through the city’s
main train station packed with
Labor Day holiday travelers Mon
day, killing at least three people
and injuring 29 others. Police
said the blast may have been a
warning against a visit next week
by Pope John Paul II.
Police said the 10:23 a.m. EDT
blast originated in a bank of bag
gage lockers that blew 120 feet
across Montreal’s Central Station,
scattering burning luggage and
debris and shattering windows of
a hotel built over the terminal.
The blast came on the eve of
national elections and followed
the discovery last Friday of a note
that apparently was intended as a
threat against Pope John Paul II,
who is scheduled to arrive in
Montreal next Sunday to begin a
11-day visit to Canada..
The rambling, barely coherent
hand-printed letter was found by
a ticket agent in the station and
turned over to police. It said in
part:
“9:30 a.m. September 3, 1984.
End of the unholy Vatican. Kill
popes! Fry bloody papacy! First
18 popes died violently. Pope Leo
issued the tomos. First to die
peacefully in his bed.”
Police said they considered the
letter evidence in the case. Police
spokesman Pierre Vez.ina said
“the letter revealed a lot of targets
and we investigated right away.”
Harry Smith, a Winnipeg-
bound visitor from New Zealand,
who was standing about 90 feet
from the explosion, said “people
were screaming and yelling and
running, and police ordered ev
eryone to get out —and we got
out.”
Another witness, Marcel Brais,
said, “I heard the explosion and it
was terrific. I saw balls of fire and
suddenly I saw a cloud around
the surroundings where the the
bomb exploded.”
Spokesmen for Montreal Po
lice and the Urgence Sante ambu
lance service said three people
were pronounced dead at the
scene and taken to the morgue.
Ambulance service supervisor
Anthony Di Monte said 29 in
jured victims were taken to six
hospitals. Most of the victims suf
fered burns, cuts and shock and
one was unconscious, he said.
Two of the injured were reported
in serious condition.
The station, crowded with La
bor Day travelers, was evacuated
about an hour after the explo
sion, but police sdid an anony
mous caller told police at 11:40
a.m. that a second bomb had been
planted.
“There is no second bomb yet,”
Montreal Police spokesman Real
Cantin said two hours later.
“We’ll continue the search but so
far we haven’t found anything.”
Cantin said the bomb was plan
ted in a locker close to a men’s
room, near an escalator leading
down to the train platform. Some
125 Ottawa-bound travelers were
nearby, lining up to take An esca
lator down to the train platform.
“W’e were just up off the plat
form from the train going to To
ronto and all we heard was this
massive explosion and all we
could see was just black smoke
(that) filled the station and people
were panicking,” said Via Rail
employee Cary Johnston.
The blast, which was felt in sev
eral downtown Montreal skyscap-
ers, blew out shop windows on
the lower level of the elegant
S aeen Elizabeth Hotel built
ove the station.
Serving the Gniversity community
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, September 4, 1984
Silver Taps tonight
Photo by Dean Saito
Bruce Dean Goodrich, 20, Webster, N.Y., sophomore, electri
cal engineering. August 30.
James William (Bill) Robinson, 22, Round Rock, senior, jour
nalism. August 27.
Jay Warren Hanks, 23, Franklin, junior, civil engineering.
August 25.
Paul Wayne Roof, 25, San Antonio, junior, biomedical engi
neering. July 1.
Christy Allyson Cobb, 19, Allen, freshman, psychology. June
12.
Michele Elizabeth Neckar, 21, Lorena, senior, agriculture-
economics. April 8.
Mark Thomas 0‘Brien, 26, San Antonio, veterinary medi
cine. April 8.
Mark B. Kelley, 20, Houston, sophomore, general studies.
April 4
Ice still there, but no space walk
United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
Flight controllers, worried about
possible damage during the return
to Earth, told the crew of the shuttle
Discovery Monday a spacewalk
might be required to chisel off a 10-
pound ice chunk blocking an outside
water nozzle.
The astronauts at first were told
such a venture outside the cabin
could occur today, but three hours
later they were advised there will be
no spacewalk today.
Left open was the possibility of a
spacewalk Wednesday, with the mis
sion being extended a day and land
ing on Thursday.
However, Henry Hartsfield, Mi
chael Coats, Richard Mullane, Ste
ven Hawley, Judy Resnik and
Charles Walker remained scheduled
to land at 6:39 a.m. PDT Wednesday
at Edwards Air Force Base in Cali
fornia’s Mojave Desert.
The astronauts were in no imme
diate danger because of the ice, but
the concern was that the 18-inch ice
chunk, estimated to weigh 10
pounds, might break off during the
return and damage the shuttle’s tail
section.
“I guess I’ve been concerned all
along about the size of that thing
and its implications for entry,” com
mander Henry Hartsfield said after
being informed of the options under
consideration. “Apparently you’ve
been worried about it too.”
Flight director John Cox said the
concern increased late Monday after
an analysis by Rockwell Interna
tional, builder of Discovery, sug-
ested that such a big piece of ice
reaking off at high speed could
cause considerable damage to the
ship.
Cox said the astronauts first prob
ably will be asked to use the ship’s ro
bot arm to try to break off the ice.
Astronaut Sally Ride, Hawley’s wife
and an arm expert, tried the proce
dure in a simulator in Houston and
said visibility is bad for an arm knock
and she hoped something else would
be tried.
Cox said the crew might also be
asked to discharge water at a higher
pressure or blow air through the
line. He said a spAcewalk would be
the last resort.
“We’d probably only resort to that
if we can t get enough off with the
arm or these other techniques,” Cox
said.
Hartsfield suggested that he first
fire the ship’s big control jets to give
Discovery “a few bangs” back and
forth and up and down to try to dis
lodge the ice.
“Give it a few whacks,” he said. “It
can’t hurt anything. Then tomorrow
morning we’ll see what it looks like.”
Before being told there would not
be a spacewalk Tuesday, astronauts
Richard Mullane and Steven Hawley
donned helmets to begin breathing
pure oxygen to eliminate nitrogen
bubbles in their blood — the bends
— during a spacewalk. The ship’s
cabin pressure also was being low
ered to prepare for a possible space-
walk.
Although a spacewalk was not
planned for this mission, two mem-
bers of each shuttle crew are trained
for emergency spacewalks. The
proper equipment is stored aboard
Discovery for such an outside ven
ture.
If a spacewalk is necessary, Cox
said Mullane and Hawley have a
hammer, chisel and pry bar to use to
knock off the ice while standing on
the end of the mechanical arm over
the side of the ship.
Flight director Randy Stone said
earlier in the day that the ice buildup
was not considered a serious prob
lem and an emergency spacewalk
had not even been considered. But
Cox said the later Rockwell study
changed the situation.
Dick Richards in mission control
gave the astronauts their first inkling
about 4:15 p.m. EDT Monday that a
spacewcilk was being considered.
Chicago printer wins
biggest single lottery
United Press International
CHICAGO — A 28-year-old Chi
cago printer showed up Monday to
claim the $40 million Illinois Lotto
jackpot, the biggest single lottery
prize in the world.
Michael E. Wittkowski, wearing
blue jeans and flanked by his smiling
family, grinned broadly as he told a
news conference he would share the
windfall with his family and pay
some bills. He also plans to get mar
ried.
“I’m going to pay off a few bills,”
Wittkowski said. “Beyond that, it’s a
family project. We’re that close.
We’re a family.
“My lifestyle will probably not
change,” he said. “I’ve got a beauti
ful life with a family and a future
fiancee.”
Wittkowski’s family routinely
plays the lottery and he had been
playing the same six numbers for
several months, said Illinois Lotto
Superintendent Michael Jones.
Joining Wittkowski at the podium
was his girlfriend, Francine Pappas,
22, also of Chicago. The two plan to
marry as soon as Pappas sets the
date, Wittkowski said, and one of his
first purchases will be an en
gagement ring.
Pappas said she’s not dreaming of
a multicarat diamond solitaire.
“I’d settle with a little one,” she
said. “I don’t care.”
Wittkowski said he and his family
— his father, Frank, his brother,
Dan, and his sister, Eileen — spent
about $35 combined on the $1 lot
tery tickets last week.
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story page 5.
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