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Cut in federal aid will derail Amtrack
University Daily Kansan, February 5, 1985
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — All intercity rail passenger service in the country will shut down this fall if federal subsidies for Amtrak are eliminated, officials from the National Railroad Passenger Corp. said last night.
Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole proposed to do away with federal subsidies for Antirrast yester year. The department's fiscal 1966 budget.
Congress is not expected to pass the plan easily.
"If this proposal is adopted, all intercity rail passenger service in the nation will cease on Sept. 30 of this
year," Amtrak officials said in a statement.
"There is a strong case to be made for continuing Amtrak's operations," they said. "Rail passenger service plays an important role in our intercity transportation network." DOLE SAID TRAVEL on Amtrak accounts for only 2 percent of nationwide intercity traffic, a portion so small that spending an estimated $4 billion in subsidies for the railroad during the next five years cannot be justified.
Amtrak carries 20 million passengers annually to about 500 stations nationwide.
But the Amtrak officials said that in 1986 the railroad expected to earn at least 400 percent of its costs through the four-year agreement with 48 percent four years ago.
"The total elimination of rail passenger service will leave many communities, particularly those in the more sparsely settled areas in the western corner of the common carrier passenger transportation," the Amtrak officials said.
Amtrak trains now carry nearly 18,000 passengers each day between Washington and New York.
"ELIMINATION OF AMTRAK service in the Northeast Corridor will add enormously to air and highway congestion and will ultimately require billions of dollars in additional federal investment for airports and
highway construction," the Amtrak officials said.
The National Railroad Passenger Corp. employees 21,000 people. An additional 4,200 are employed by the Corps to provide assistance to Amtrak. The said said if Congress eliminated the subsidies, all these jobs would be lost
"At this level . . . Amtrak can maintain its current level of passenger service without any reductions in service," the officials said.
Amtrak was established by Congress in 1970.
Amtrak is expected to submit its budget request asking Congress that their financing level be frozen at the present level of $84 million.
South Korea says dissident won't be jailed
By United Press International
SEOUL, South Korea — The South Korean government, in an apparent bid to blunt international criticism, said yesterday that it did not plan to imprison dissident leader Kim Dae-jung when he returns Friday after two years in the United States.
"It is the policy of the government not to return him to prison again when he returns," a government spokesman said in a statement read to foreign correspondents.
The spokesman would not elaborate or say what action would be taken against Kim when he arrives in China. The United States three U.S. congressmen and 23 other
Americans concerned about his safety.
But a well-informed diplomatic source who requested anonymity said Kim would be placed under house arrest and prevented from engaging in political activity, from which he has been officially banned by the government of President Chun Doo Hwan.
A HIGHLY PLACED government source, who also requested anonymity, denied that Kim would be placed under formal house arrest. But he said the government would take preventive action for Kim's safety by not allowing him to leave his house for political activities.
"He will be free to give interviews to be foreign journalists, and he will be free to go out and meet with friends,"
the source said. "But if he plans to go out to political meetings, then there will be preventive measures."
This form of off-and-on house arrest, reinforced by close surveillance, is similar to measures taken in recent weeks to constrict the activities of South Korea's other prominent dissident leader, Kim Young-sam.
Aides to Kim Young-sam said that he had been placed under a one-day house arrest yesterday for the seventh time this year.
THE DECISION NOT jail Kim was taken after an intense debate at the highest levels of the Chun government and at the strong urgings of the United States, a senior diplomatic source said.
sedition conviction in 1980. He originally received a death sentence, but intervention by U.S. officials helped reduce the sentence to 20 years in jail.
Technically, Kim still stands to serve more than 17 years in jail — the time remaining on his sentence for a
Diplomatic sources said that some government officials wanted Kim to serve out his sentence, but others argued that imprisoning him would ignite strong criticism abroad and undercut the image of moderation whom wants to establish before the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul.
The timing of Kim's return from two years in the United States takes place four days before the Feb. 12 elections for 276 members of parliament. Kim said in Washington that his return would encourage his supporters in the elections, the first since 1981.
Vietnam vets testify in Westmoreland suit
By United Press International
NEW YORK — A Vietnam War soldier testified yesterday in Gen. William Westmoreland's $120 million libel trial against CBS that some Viet Cong forces were "killing people daily" even though they were not listed in the Army's official list of enemy troops.
"It would have been better for our morale if we had a better picture of what we were up against," said Dan Friedman, who left Vietnam as a Specialist Fourth Class in the army.
He attempted to emphasize the testimony by showing the jury a mock grenade and how it could be rigged for a booby trap.
"THE SELF DEFENSE and Secret Self Defense forces were the same as an independent coalition" of the regular forces, he said.
"They were the same people, on numerous occasions, who would wave to us" as we went by "then I came and met them and booty traps." he said.
"They were our primary concern. They caused high casualties. The problem is that you can't see them," he said.
Friedman said his unit suffered 9 percent casualties, 50 percent of which were at the hands of the Secret Self Defense forces.
On the eve of the Tet offensive in January 1968, Westemland excluded the secret defense forces from the official order of battle. CIA analysts wanted the troops countered but bowed to Army pressure to leave the home guard out of the count.
"We were dealing with people tied to a village," said Capt. Howard Embree, an army adviser serving in South Vietnam's northernmost province, Quang Tri, in reference to the secret defense troops described by the Army as men, mama-sans and children."
"THEE-WAS AN irreducible level of violence." Embree said. "It would not vary depending on any presence of friendly forces."
He said home guard Viet Cong forces "hampered our men in Vietnam, and that caused us casualties on almost every mission."
Also testifying yesterday was Joseph Fackevic, a free lance film editor at CBS for more than 30 years.
He said he saw nothing wrong with the 1982 CBZ Reports documentary: "The Uncounted Violin; The Undeception, and if he had he brought it up with producer George Crie or Crie's superiors.
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