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Vol. 94, No. 135* (USPS 650-640)
Thursday morning, April 12, 1984
Auto plant welcomes Reagan
By LORI DODGE Staff Reporter
CLAYCOMO, Mo. — Autoworker Leroy Gray was just eating another lunch yesterday in the plant's cafeteria when President Reagan set a tray down next to him and started talking about "regular stuff."
Gray spends his weekdays driving a fork lift at the Ford Kansas City Assembly Plant. He and hundreds of other plant employees go to a factory after lunch to catch a glimpse of the president.
Although many of the union employees sported Mondale hats, the atmosphere around the plant was filled with excitement over Reagan's visit there.
MEMBERS OF THE United Auto Workers union, which has cast its support for Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale, distributed Mondale hats and buttons earlier that morning. But many Claycomo workers said that, despite their support for Mondale, they were thrilled about the opportunity to see and speak or shake hands with the president.
"Everybody's really more excited," said Gary Duganen, a production worker "Hell, when's the last time you got to see the president?"
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"I'm not saying who I'd vote for; I'm just excited to see him," he said.
The United Auto Workers Local 249, which represents the plant's 4,500 workers, has criticized Reagan's visit as part of a political campaign. And the UAW has pointed to next year's rejection of accusations as Reagan's real reason for visiting the plant, which is north of Kansas City, Mo.
BUT THE WHITE HOUSE labeled Reagan's visit non political. That means that the trip's costs were not paid for by Reagan's re-election campaign but by taxpayers.
Jack Critchfield, an assembly line worker,
said that Reagan, probably would pull in
more votes from the plant's workers than
most people would think.
"he's got a way about him," Critchfield said. "He's probably of talking without mind." He said he was "much more open" to conversation.
Charles Hazlett, who works installing springs on trucks, said he thought some of the workers had been rude by wearing Mondale hats.
"I think it's just neat to get to see the
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yesterday. Caldwell is Ford's chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Below, Steve Hanson, a 12-year employee at the factory, awaits the president's arrival. Hanson said he supported Mondale.
CLAYCOMO, Mo. — President Reagan receives applause from workers at the Ford Kansas City Assembly Plant, Missouri Gov. Christopher Bond, at right, and Ford chief Philip Goldwell, second from left, accompanied Reagan on his tour
Reagan lauds recovery
By LORI DODGE
Staff Reporter
CLAYCOMO, Mo. — President Reagan told Ford autoworkers yesterday that "the sun is shining" again on a strong economy and the U.S. automobile industry.
In his address to workers at the Ford Kansas City Assembly Plant north of Kansas City, Mo., Reagan cited the auto industry's upswing as an indication of an improving economy and lauded his administration's economic program for guiding the recovery.
"In this place, in one of our country's basic industries, we can see where America's economy is."
people," he told a group of workers squeezed between hue assembly lines.
Reagan pointed to increased factory orders, housing starts, and retail and auto sales.
"All of us, working together and ignoring the gloormriers and punits who said it couldn't be done, have hung tough. Today, as we see the auto industry and the economy humming with activity, aren't we glad we did?"
House OKs deficit bill 318-97
The bill passed 318-97, with 223 Democrats and
Republicans in support. It also supported
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Bipartisan supporters say $49 billion plan is 'an ounce of faith'
Moore said that in the past he always "had found a way to vote against taxes." But he said, this vote for deficit-reduction is "a time for statesmen, not politicians."
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WASHINGTON — The House yesterday approved a $49 billion tax bill favored by Democrats, Republicans and the president, and supporters predicted that the deficit-cutting measure would give "an ounce of faith to a doubling nation."
Rep. Henson Moore, R-LA., said that he had been in Congress for 10 years and "this is the best time."
By United Press International
THERE WAS MINOR DISSENT on a provision in the bill that puts a cap on the number of tax-exempt industrial development bonds that can be issued by states. Those bonds finance such governmental projects as low-income housing, stadiums, airports, and industrial parks. The cap is equal to the population of the state multilisted by $150.
Opening House debate on the bill, Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski said revenue that would be raised by the three-year bill was modest compared with the highly spiraling deficit, expected to rise by about $700 billion over the same period. But, he said, it shows that "Congress is prepared to move against the deficit."
Both Democrats and Republicans spoke in support of the bill, which also has the backing of President Reagan. The bill is an essential part of the Democrats' deficit-cutting plan.
The bill is the "pay" part of the House-approved "pay-as-you-go" budget that includes a $150 billion deficit-reduction plan. It would be used to finance the 3.5 percent increase in military and some social spending called for in
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By United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Parliament elected Konstantin Cherenkov to the presidency yesterday, giving him the top three posts in the Kremlin hierarchy with unprecedented speed at a time of growing superpower rivalry.
Cherenkov said in his acceptance speech that Soviet foreign policy demanded "constant activity, firmness, consistency in the search for solutions," according to the official news agency. Tass
"It is directed at overcoming international tension, ensuring security, our state interests in the world arena and upholding peace throughout the world." he said.
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Chernenko, 72, now holds the three titles held by his late predecessors, Yuri Andropov and Leonid Brezhnev — President, General Secretary of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Defense Council, which controls the military.
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Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas expected the Student Senate Finance Committee to substantially reduce its budget request, the group said. The group also expected to be cut off completely.
Staff Reporter
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"We expected to cut back down to 'token funding' cent and phone," said Ruth Lach-
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"We're going to wait to see what the Senate does," she said.
Jon Gilchrist, Finance Committee chairman,
said that the committee denied money to GLSOK
because the group was able to generate its own
funds.
Carla Vogel, student body president, said that the recommendation by the committee would have to be approved by the Senate, which would not look at appropriations bills until next week.
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'If I felt the need to veto it, I would.'
The committee denied funds to GLSOK after reviewing the group's current budget, Gilchrist said, which showed that it would carry money over into the fiscal year 1985.
But Vogel said that she would veto an appropriations bill that did not contain funds for
"If I felt the need to veto it, I would," she said. "have faith that the Senate will do what's right."
The committee voted 8-3 to deny funds to the organization. Gilchrist explained the committee's denial by saying that GLSKO could support it with the revenue it generated from its dances.
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The Colorado Coors Classic
B Y S U S A N E A S T M A N
Who are the world's greatest athletes? Competitive bicycle races, according to the venerable dons of Oxford University, that the cyclists burn more calories during their races could possible eat in the same period, have the greatest lung capacity and are overall the most physically fit of any category of athletes. According to some venerable photo photographers, cycling is the greatest challenges in the whole field of action photography. When the Coors Classic *lei* major U.S. bike race rolls through the imposing Rocky Mountains from July 13-22, a preview of the upcoming Olympic Summer Games and a potentially rich photographic event
Cyclists from at least 30 nations are expected to attend. riding bikes that cost as much as $2,000 on tires of silky thin leather skis and a passenger-car radials. Recognized as the national tour of America by the Union Cyclist Internationale of Geneva Switzerland, the Coors Classic is one of the largest men's races, and the very largest women's race. Over eleven thousand will spin out of Denver in the Rockies and through Vail and Aspen before returning to Denver It's a 'stage race' so the ultimate winner will have the lowest accumulative score for the event a day longs the winner will also have 50,000 feet in oxygen-light mile-burial terrain.
"Cycling is the hardest sport I ever shot says free-lance photographer Joseph Daniel. A tall, bushy-bushed and laid-back native of Boulder. Sports Illustrated. Rolling Stone and Ge are some of his clients We meet at the ramshackle two-story Victorian house he is just beginning to restore and Daniel is covered with plaster dust. I ask how a photographer can get great bicycle racing photos and Daniel quips. "Buy one of my prints."
"Throw caution to the wind," he adds in a
Last year's Classic scenes: Gorgeous scenery surrounding the cyclists (top right); wracking exhaustion; after a race (above); and bike wheels shimming like diamonds in the sun (right). The riders racing over the undulating countryside (top left) are from another time, another race . . . but the beauty and intensity are the same.
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serious vein. Use lots of film. Keep in mind that relative to the good shots, film is cheap. Go for the more difficult situations, knowing that your percentage is a lot less, but you do hit it you'll have the quality photo that is worthwhile.
Daniel sees many neophyte photographers as overconcerned with equipment and technique. Bicycle race happens so fast that being relaxed and ready is the only way to succeed. Daniel recommends photography in photography is the KISS rule, say Daniel which means. Keep it Simple. Stupid. Two lenses, a wide-angle and a telephoto, are all you'll really need for 90 percent of action shooting I mainly use a 24 mm and a 300 mm lens. You'll do well Do. Need your establishment plan of shots.
Daniel has a favorite photo angle - cyclists spinning through a corner and heading directly toward the camera He stands on the fence, looking at her with a telephoto lens on a tripod-mounted
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camera. He watches a few laps to find the point where a cyclist navigates the turn will fill a whole frame and sets his shutter at 1500ft of the road. Then he lifts whenever he senses a dramatic moment. The pictures freeze an instant when leg muscles are exerting and well delineated and faces are up studying what lies past the turn
Michael Chirtton, photographer on the Old City Times, for the past three years has also been staff photographer for the Coors Classic Bookish in appearance. Chirtton takes fabulous pictures but is highly self-scritical. He says his greatest danger is in getting too excited by the action and losing his photographic perspective. His favorite tech lens is a flash in full daylight. This shadows out of sweat on his glistening of sweat on muscular area and legs. Chirtton set up in much the same manner recommended by Daniel, but with flash at the read. When a subject comes into the area on which he has prefocussed he