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University Daily Kansan, August 26, 1983
Train has three accidents in 4 $ _{1/2} $ hours; one killed
ROWLAND, N.C. — An Amtrak train bound from Miami to New York with 413 passengers aboard hit and killed a woman in Savannah, Ga., struck a pickup truck in South Carolina and dared in North Carolina yesterday after ramming a disabled tractor-trailer.
By United Press International
Officials said 20 passengers were injured, none seriously, in the derailment of the 18-car Silver Meteor. The other passengers continued the trip by bus.
The Savannah woman who was struck and killed at 7:40 p.m.
Wednesday was identified as Mamie Anderson, 57. Police said she had been fishing from the railroad trestle. As the train rounded the curve at about 80 mph, she started running along the track, only to be sucked under the wheels.
The South Carolina Highway Patrol said the train next struck a pickup about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday in Ridgeland, S.C. The truck stalled on the tracks and was abandoned by the driver, a patrol dispatcher said.
The derailment occurred about 1:10 a.m. yesterday in Rowland, a small town above two miles from South Carolina-South Carolina border.
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Reagan vows not to yield seat
By United Press International $ ^{1} $
LOS ANGELES — President Reagan will not concede "a single seat" in the Senate, although next year's elections will be difficult for the Republicans, a White House spokesman said yesterday.
Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes was asked to respond to a Los Angeles Times report that White House officials privately acknowledged it was likely that Democrats would recapture the Senate in light of Texas GOP Sen. John Tower's decision not to seek another term.
another term.
The current GOP majority is 54.46
Speakes noted that 19 Republican senators were up for re-election while only 14 Democrats faced the voters next year.
next yea.
"It's tough but do-able," he said.
"We do not concede a single seat in the Senate."
SPEAKES TOLD reporters that his views reflected those of Reagan and his senior staff.
The Times report said the retirement decision of Tower, who, as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee was Reagan's point man on military legislation, had angered some White House officials because Reagan appeared at two fund-raisers on Tower's behalf.
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GIVE HIM BLACK COFFEE.
THAT LL SOBER HIM UP.
Sure, in about five hours, Cold showers
don't work either. Only time can get the
alcohol out of the system, as the liver
metabolizes the alcohol. Slowly.
There's no way to hurry it.
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