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Mauri, the evicted New Yorker who
was portrayed in a Soviet docu
mentary as a victim of capitalism, is a
newspaper union member who
could make $35,000 a year if he
wished, his union and newspaper
said.
Mauri, 57, appeared in the pro
gram, “The Man from Fifth Ave
nue,” after newspaper reports on his
eviction last year from a Manhattan
apartment.
Mauri is on an expense-paid tour
of the Soviet Union, where he has
been featured in newspapers and on
national television.
Mauri, who said he seeks to publi
cize the plight of America’s home
less, is not homeless himself. In an
interview two weeks ago, he said he
moved to a small, $112-per-month
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At a factory in Moscow last week,
he told workers: “My fate is not un
usual, as this happens all over the
richest country in the world, where
there is an army of homeless.”
Mauri said before leaving for
Moscow that he worked part-time at
various jobs, including a mailroom
job at The New York Times.
The Times reported Monday that
Mauri is 10th on its list of 400 mail-
room substitutes and could work
full-time if he chose to. It said he
earned $3,000 in 23 shifts this year.
Mauri “didn’t want to work,” Ed
ward J. Burke, chief shop steward
for New York Local 6 of the Interna
tional Typographical Union, told
the Times.
Mauri, a member of the union,
told the newspaper in an interview
Saturday that chronic hepatitis pre
vented him from working regularly.
Several times, when questioned
about his health and employment,
he turned the discussion to his evic
tion or stopped to consult with a So
viet companion, then said homeles
sness was “the real issue,” the Times
reported.
The Soviet television docu
mentary in which Mauri appeared
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less population with its wealthy resi
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eral study of auto accidents in which
rear-seat passengers wearing seat
belts sustained serious injuries con
cluded Monday that the lap-only
belts may do more harm than good.
The National Transportation
Safety Board urged the government
to require rear-seat shoulder belts —
instead of the lap-only variety now
on most rear seats — as soon as pos
sible.
It said automakers, in the mean
time, should install such belts volun
tarily.
The NTSB study of 26 frontal
crashes concluded that in many cases
the rear-seat occupant was injured
severely from the effects of the lap-
only belt and might have been better
off if one had not been worn.
The study called the overall crash
performance of the lap belts “very
poor.”
The safety board said its study
showed that among 50 accident vic
tims weating lap belts, 32 would
have “fared substantially better”
with shoulder belts.
The NTSB findings were immedi
ately disputed by the National High
way Traffic Safety Administration,
which issues auto safety regulations.
The agency issued a statement
calling the study “a specific search
for cases in which belts failed” and
not statistically valid.
The highway safety agency
added, “In numerous studies involv
ing thousands of cases, lap belts have
been found to reduce the risk of
death or serious injury” and should
continue to be worn.
Patricia Goldman, the NTSB’s
vice chairman, called the predica
ment “an unfortunate choice” that
could be eliminated if the highway
safety agency required shoi
belts in rear seats.
Other safety advocates said:
while the drawbacks of the lap-
belts have been known fori
rear-seat automobile passenged
still better off using them thaca
buckling.
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about one-third involve occute
ejection in which such belts prc
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that its sample of accidents wass
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accidents clearly showed thatthebj
belts restrain the wearer in sudn
way as to cause serious head, spiti
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De la Madrid to meet with Reagan
MEXICO CITY (AP) — President
Miguel de la Madrid visits Washing
ton this week for talks with President
Reagan at a time of strains in U.S.-
Mexican relations, especially over
drug trafficking.
But Mexican and U.S. officials
here insist the talks Wednesday will
be positive.
Unlike past meetings between the
two presidents, most recently Jan. 3
in the border city of Mexicali, U.S.-
Mexican differences on Central
American policy will not be the fo
cus.
Instead, de la Madrid and Reagan
are expected to concentrate on Mex
ico’s troubled economy, drug traf
ficking and immigration.
De la Madrid, in an interview with
The Washington Post, said his main
purpose in visiting Washington will
be “to review the state of our bilate
ral affairs . . . above all to matters of
economic content since the economy
is in these moments the principal
problem facing Mexico.”
two leaders since he was inaugurated
in December 1982.
Relations between the two coun
tries have been especially tense since
May, when Sen. Jesse Helms, R-
N.C., started a series of hearings on
Mexico. The hearings in the Senate
subcommittee on Latin American af
fairs included charges that wide
spread corruption in Mexico pro
motes a flourishing traffic in illegal
drugs.
Mexico responded with an unusu
ally sharp protest, charging inter
vention in internal affairs and de
manding that any allegations be
backed by proof.
Mexican officials have said repeat
edly that they would investigate any
cases of corruption if evidence is
produced.
agreement with the International
Monetary Fund for $1.6 billion in
new lending over the next 18
months, in a first step that could
produce as much as $12 billion in
fresh credits for a two-year period.
This year will end with the thiri
recession in five years in Mexico i
a result, an increasing numberd
unemployed Mexicans have header
across the border illegally in seard
of work.
The president’s office released a
transcript of the interview. De la Ma
drid leaves today for Washington
and the fourth meeting between the
Despite the new attention to the
problems along the 2,062-mile bor
der, Hovanec described U.S.-Mexi
can relations as “solid and strong.”
Mexico’s economic crisis is related
in large part to falling international
prices for its key export, petroleum,
and difficulty in meeting payments
on its $97.6 billion foreign debt.
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Mexican mayor hospitalize,
after ending hunger strike
CHIHUAHUA, Mexico (AP)
— The 66-year-old mayor of
Chihuahua was hospitalized
Monday for observation after
ending a 40-day hunger strike in
protest of alleged election fraud.
Luis Alvarez, a member of the
opposition National Action Party
who began a hunger strike July 1,
gave up his fast Sunday.
Blanca Hernandez, floor su
pervisor at the Clinica del Parque,
said Alvarez was undergoing
medical tests.
Alvarez announced before
thousands of party supporters
Sunday evening that he was end
ing the strike to join the National
Democratic Movement, which is |
aimed at expanding the cam
paign of a local coalition of oppo
sition parties to a national scale.
President Miguel de la Madrid
said in an interview with the]
Washington Post that he v
not accede to demands from the |
PAN to annul the elections.
Alvarez, in a letter published |
Monday in Mexico City newspa
pers, said it is “undeniable thata ]
fundamental objective of our ac
tion — to win the respect of the j
citizen vote — has not been
filled.”
Barges left ‘stranded’
by Southeast drought
BAINBRIDGE, Ga. (AP) —
Drought in the Southeast has
halted shipping on the Chatta
hoochee, Flint and Apalachicola
rivers, and experts say farmers
and industries that have grown to
rely on them now face higher
costs.
“If the water keeps dropping,
it’s going to put a heap of people
out of business,” said trucker
Jackie Wills, picking up a load of
grain that arrived at the Bain-
bridge State Docks before the
Flint River was closed Aug. 1.
Some river workers have been
laid off and some barges are
stranded by low water.
Five river ports in Alabama
and Georgia have become major
shipping points for agricultural
products.
But now the channel south of
Bainbridge has dropped 4‘/2 feet
below its 9-foot optimum depth
for barges, said Larry Lee, exec
utive director of the Tri-Rivers
Waterway Development Associa
tion in nearby Dothan, Ala.
Lee said much of the freight
normally shipped by barge on the
Flint, Chattahoochee and Apala
chicola rivers will have to be
moved by trains and trucks, forc
ing shippers to pay higher trans
portation costs.
The drought has been a major
setback for the Tri-Rivers System,
which has been working to estab
lish barges as an inexpensive al
ternative to trucks and trains.
Shipments increased from
627,000 tons to 1.2 million tons
last year.
The system’s five ports — Co
lumbus and Bainbridge, Ga.,
Phoenix City and Eufala, Ala.,
and Sneads, Fla. — have gener
ated 1,350 jobs and account for
$22 million in personal income
and $2 million in state and local
taxes annually, Lee noted.
Bainbridge has been an impor
tant trade and transportation hub
in southwestern Georgia since the
first settlers arrived in 1790. Bar
ges, 15 of which are stranded
here, have replaced riverboats
that used to churn the Flint.
Now the companies that oper
ate the barges and tug boats on
the river system have been forced
to move operations to other wa
terways, such as the Mississippi
and the Tennessee-Tombigbee.
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come is put into funds that are
spent.
Profit from security sales has been
put back into the unspendable prin
cipal. The Lewis plan would take
that capital gain for the past five
years and put it into the spendable
portion.
The Permanent University Fund,
now about $2.4 billion, is divided
among the University of Texas and
Texas A&M systems. The Perma
nent School Fund, now greater than
$5 billion, is divided among all local
school districts.
Hans Mark, University of Te^
System chancellor, said the 0
would hurt the universities b) tail,
ing the cost of capital needed fi|
construction.
“If we want to maintain thec#i)
struction program now on
books, it will cost us more monejj
he said. “Alternatively, we canc
back the construction p
That’s probably what we’ll have!
do. But to say it has no effect]
wrong.”
Lewis said opponents of his pi 1 ]
are “so paranoid they don’t»
anything to happen.”
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Legislature — as the means for mov
ing Texas “into the 21st century in a
big way.”
Scott Mann, of Austin, also an ap
pointee to the trade council, said the
state is suffering “a brain drain” of
young Texans because of questions
about the state’s commitment to
higher education.
E.L. Watson, of Dallas, a regent
appointee at Midwestern State Uni
versity at Wichita Falls, said, “We’ve
got to balance research and quality
of teaching . . . we’ve got to maintain
the quality of education in Texas.”
Hobby appeared before the nomi
nations committee to supportthefj
pointment of Bob Marbut, ofS"
Antonio, president of Harte-Hai 1 ]
Communications, Inc., to the tea
council, as well as Thomas Dunnl®!
of Dallas, and Charles Jenness,
Houston to the water developn 1 "
board.
Dunning said the board staff' 5
writing every county judge inTc s
to offer to meet on what the s 1 *]
might do to help with local
problems.
The nominees were recol
mended to the Senate for confit 11
tion.