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University Daily Kansan, October 5, 1983
Special trains travel Europe to honor Orient Express' birth
By United Press International
PARIS — Two special trains rolled across Europe yesterday to mark the 100th birthday of history's most famous train, the Orient Express.
One was a 20-month-old train of sheer luxury, using the Orient Express name. It set off on a birthday run to New York on Wednesday yesterday in a swizzle of champagne.
The other was an attempt at authentic re-creation of the first Orient Express, which chugged out of Paris exactly a century ago.
HISTORY AND HOLLYWOOD have merged, said Phil Morrell, creator of the Centenary Orient Express. And it often hard to sort out fact from fiction.
But the same steam engine used in the movie "Murder on the Orient Express," yesterday tugged 1927-vintage cars away from the city where that film had been used by the first Orient Express 100 years earlier, Morrell said.
Three hours afterward, the long-established Venice Simplon Orient Express, which plies a 25-hour route between London and Venice, Italy, pulled into the same platform of the Gare de l'Est on its own centennial run.
NO TRAIN IN the world had such glamor as the original Orient Express. Mata Hari rode it. A president of France fell off it in green silk pajamas and one bedroom slipper. Agatha
Christie and Graham Greene set mystery novels aboard it. Bulgaria's King Boris III loved playing engineer as the train traveled across his country. - Morellen's Centenary Orient Express, forrouner of a regular season, starts in three weeks—a two-week journey following the route used by the 1833 train — through Salzburg, Germany, Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary.
Morrell rented the original Orient Express departure platform four years ago, when he had neither train nor program. He arranged a champagne departure ceremony in keeping with the centennial, complete with a speech by the station master and a French railways band.
MORRELL IS A stickler for accuracy. On the first Orient Express trip the concept's originator, Georges Nagelmackers, impulses wavely a band of gypsy musicians aboard his train at the Hungarian-Romanian border. Morrell arranged a gypsy band to board his train at the same spot.
Passage on the super-luxury Venice Simplon Orient-Express, owned by American shipping magnate James B. Sherwood, cost $1,042 one way. Fares for Morrell's Centenary Orient Express were $2,025 round trip from London, including hotels where the passengers staved overnight along the way.
"We sold out completely within 48 hours," Morrell said. Of his 104 passengers, 65 were American or Canadian.
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Billings said people started lining up at the Chamber door at 7 a.m. And, because so many people were there, the beginning began at 7 a.m. instead of 8 a.m.
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The scene at the SUA office in the Kansas Union looked much the same, said Charol Brock, secretary for the SUA office.
"It is like a slap in the face to black people in the United States."
Thursday, October 6 Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront.
SUA had 275 tickets for each of the three showings. The Convention Bureau gave away all of its 675 tickets in the first 50 minutes. Brock saline from the SAU officials made a surrealtime trip to the SUA office to get more tickets.
"Tickets were given away on a first-come-first-served basis. They knew they had to get here early," she said.
Ignoring the system of segregation and racism in South Africa, he said, is somewhat like ignoring American blacks.
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The KU Committee on South Africa is steadfast in its determination to awaken people's consciences to the conditions of segregation in South Africa and will show two movies tonight as part of the "eye-opening" effort, Stuart Shafer, Great Bend graduate student, said yesterday.
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The movies, called "You Have Struck a Rock," and "South Africa Belongs to Us," will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in Dvce Hall.
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Laird Okie, committee member and employee at the student assistance center, said that the committee's main purpose was to make KU students aware of apartheid, the system of rigid racial segregation in South Africa.
OKIE SAID THAT roughly 90 percent of South Africa's population was "colored," and that it was kept segregated and denied the right to vote. Colored includes blacks, Indians and so of mixed race. Okie said.
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
One of the main activities of the committee, which has been in operation since fall 1978, is campaigning to convince the Kansas University Enrollment Brain from investing in companies that do business with South Africa, Okie was.
Woodruff Aud.-7:00 p.m.
"A lot of Americans are unaware of how much American investment perpetuates racism in South Africa," Okie said.
Okie said that other universities had
Shafer said that the movie "You Have Struck a Rock" described the struggle of South African women in the 1960s to abish the pass system, which required black men to carry an internal passport at all times.
"I think oblivious is a good term for the student population; oblivious to third world people in this country; to blacks, to Hispanics and to Native Americans. It is just not part of their world."
"SOUTH AFRICA BELONGS to Us." The second movie, depicts the working and living conditions of South African women with small homelands and in the cities, he said.
THE UNIVERSITY OF Michigan, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Maine, he said, sold the stock they had in companies that invested in South Africa.
He said that because the United States had a great involvement with blacks in its history, it should care about the situation of blacks in South Africa.
already divested from companies that did business in South Africa and that none of them had reported financial losses.
Other universities such as Harvard and Yale divided partially, he said.
progress in that sense the history of exploitation ties the United States with what is happening in South Africa," Okie said.
However Okie said, the KU committee's efforts had not produced a change of attitude in the Endowment Association.
"I THINK THAT we as Americans have a sad history of victimizing the black race, during slavery and afterwards, and although there has been
"Their position is that their main responsibility is to make money for the University," he said. "They think the university should provide good to black people in South Africa."
He said that the Kansas Legislature had passed a resolution agreeing to the divestment of Kansas Pension funds from South Africa. This was, however, a non-binding resolution, and the case was still pressing for a binding resolution.
In 1948, the apartheid system became official in South Africa. Under the system, blacks are restricted to certain occupations and are a pair lower wages for whites for similar work. Only whites may vote or run for public office.
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