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Train strikes stalled trailer; 10 are injured
By United Press International
Amtrak spokesman Cathy Goldstein said in Washington that the engineer, whose identity was not released, was hospitalized in serious condition and apparently was the only one seriously injured.
PLANT CITY, Fla. — Amtrak's Silver Meteor carry 73 passengers from New York to Tampa struck a tractor-trailer stalled on the tracks yesterday, partially derailing the train, which was as many as 10 people — one seriously.
None of the five passenger cars left the tracks.
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The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Department said 10 people were injured, including some treated at the scene.
A spokesman at South Florida Baptist Hospital said that four people — three men and a woman — were treated with an injection that none appeared to be seriously hurt.
Goldstein orignally said the train carried 92 passengers, but later low-tech trains
She had no immediate word on how many crewmembers were on the train. She said that there normally were four or five but that a number of off-duty Amtrak employees were deadheading riding free.
She said the train was traveling about 55 mph but had started to slow down for its approach to Tampa 16 miles to the west when it struck the truck loaded with concrete, which apparently had stalled on the tracks.
Indians attack Peru road crew
LIMA, Peru — a band of naked, red-painted Amazon Indians attacked a road-building crew with poisoned arrows in the dense jungles of eastern Peru Sunday and wounded one of the government officials said yesterday.
By United Press International
About 50 Indians belong to the fierce Piramasco tribe were apparently trying to protect traditional tribal hunting grounds. The road crew is opening up the grounds for oil exploration.
A subsidiary of Shell Oil Co. Campana Petroleum Shell el Peru, has been drilling exploratory wells in the region.
Officials the Indians attacked the 20 road workers two times around
The Indians were naked but covere in red body paint and they fired poisoned arrows, said officials who investigated the incident. One arrow plunged two inches into the back of a worker identified as Segundo Brito.
dawn Sunday near Sepahua, 300 miles east of Lima.
Officials said the Indians withdrew in fear when army helicopters arrived to rescue the road workers and hovered above the attackers.
hovered above Peruvian President Fernando Belaunde Terry was visiting the area on an inspection tour of oil drilling and roadbuilding sites and he had Brito transported for medical treatment to a nearby oil company base in his presidential helicopter.
Brito did not appear seriously injured.
Belaunde later posed for photogra
phers, displaying the poisoned arrow to stress the dangers and difficulties of opening up the Amazon region for development.
The Piramasco Indians, estimated by anthropologists to number no more than 500, are considered to be one of the fiercest tribes living in the Amazon jungle. They have little contact with modern Peru.
Juan Mendoza, an executive of a palm oil company that operates in the region, said the Indians attacked because they believed the road builders had intruded into their traditional hunting grounds, destroying wildlife and vegetation.
"The Indians get exasperated when they find the remains of birds and other animals killed by the workers," Mendoza said.
Senate to repeal pay raise, Baker says
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Republican leader Howard Baker said yesterday the Senate will move soon to repeal a $2,434 pay raise given members of Congress Jan. 1, and a Baker aide predicted easy election-year passage.
Federal employees, including members of Congress, received an automatic 3.5 percent cost-of-living increase Jan. 1. The salaries of members of Congress rose from $69,800 to $72,243 a year.
As soon as the 80th Congress returned Monday to open its second session, legislation was introduced in both the
House and Senate to rescind the pay raise for members of Congress. Other federal employees still would get their raise.
takes.
"I have a commitment out there that I will try to repeal that, and I will," Baker said.
The Senate Republican leader said he would move to repeal the pay raise as the Senate's next order of business. The senate is debating telephone legislation.
Referring to the repeal measure, a Baker spokesman said, "I think it will pass.
"In an election year, if you put on the floor a measure repealing a pay raise, I think it will pass all day long."
Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd said he was going to give the money from his pay raise to a college scholarship fund for West Virginia high school students.
"I didn't vote for it," Byrd said.
"I'm going to turn mine back," BYR said, explaining that it will go into savings bonds for high school valedictorians in his home state.
Members of Congress earlier last year raised their annual salaries from $62,600 to $69,800 and limited their honoria — the amount received from outside speeches — to 30 percent of their salary.
Report says research hasn't aided schools
By United Press International
The study found that the wide ranging research, on topics from teacher preparation and student learning to computer science, was read primarily by other researchers — not by educators or policy-makers.
WASHINGTON — The government has spent $560 million on education research in the past 20 years that, for the most part, did not filter down to America's schools, a federally financed study said yesterday.
"Very little of the research and development being produced . . . is reaching local schools," said Kent Lloyd, an author of the report and a former Education Department undersecretary.
"We found three subcultures that don't talk to each other — researchers, educators and policy makers." Lloyd said in an interview.
He said if the three groups had communicated and had implemented the recommendations contained in the research by the National Institute of Education, "I think we would have better schools today."
LLOYD SAID MANY of the findings and recommendations of the federal researchers were similar to those offered in a series of national reports on education last year that triggered a movement to upgrade schools.
The most publicized report, "A Nation at Risk," was prepared by Education Secretary Terrel Bell's
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The study, a copy of which was obtained by the private National Center for Education Information, analyzed 6,900 research reports, interviewed 72 educators and studied eight of last year's national education reports.
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