University Daily Kansan, November 9, 1982
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Fan's condition serious after fall
A 71-year-old Overland Park man who suffered a head injury when he fell at Saturday's football game was in serious condition yesterday in the intensive care unit of the Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo., a hospital official said yesterday.
KU police said the man, William F. Paul,
apparently lost his balance and fell down
stairs in Memorial Stadium shortly before
half-time.
Paul was taken by the Douglas County ambulance service to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and transferred by Life Flight helicopter to Research Saturday.
KU Police Director Jim Denney said several witnesses saw Paul when he fell, but the witnesses did not know why Paul fell.
Denney said police still were trying to determine why the man fell.
Begin
HUNDREDS WERE killed in the massacre, but an accurate toll may never be determined. The bodies of 328 victims were recovered, according to officials. But many more were listed as "missing."
the camps to root out guerrillas, based on a Cabinet decision of June 15.
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Begin said that on Sept. 14, the night Lebanese President-elect Beshir Gemayel was assassinated, he and Sharon" both thought it was our obligation at the moment to prevent tragedies, bloodshed." The two ordered the army into West Berlin at dawn Wednesday.
Sharon informed the Cabinet at a meeting Sept. 16 that the Phalange already was inside, Begin said, adding, "the Phalange were already in the camps two or more hours."
"When I said bloodshed, I meant Christians against Moslems — just Christians, not only Phalange," Begin said. "Of course ... there could be acts of revenge by everyone."
AT THE TIME, Begin said, neither Sharon nor Eitan raised the question of opening the camps to the Phalange militia, long-time Israeli allies and bitter foes of the Palestinians.
Begin was asked, "But shouldn't someone have said, 'One minute the Phalange are inside — revenge, murder, bloodshed' and get them out?"
"Mr. Justice," Begin said somberly, "the fact is no one brought this to mind that they would carry out atrocities, although (Deputy Prime Minister David) Levy expressed an apprehension over what might happen. But he didn't demand . . . it be discussed or put to a vote."
BEGIN SAID he was not informed of Phalange activities on Sept. 17, even after Israel generals grew apprehensive about the operation and ordered it stopped.
Not until Sept. 18, after returning from Jewish Not Year's year's experience at Jerusalem's main synagogue and switching on the BBC English-language news, did Begin learn of the slaughter.
Taking advantage of yesterday's balmy weather, Joe Wurtz, Mound City freshman, spent part of his afternoon on the Battenteld Fell fire escape writing a letter to a friend.
Trains
From nave one
unless the government makes a very serious commitment to it."
IN 1971 the federal government did make a commitment to rail service when it created Amtrak and took over the passenger services that many other rail companies had been
Pam Dickenson, spokesman for Amtrak, said that other rail companies had stopped, or had planned to stop, passenger service after the fire. The company said its patronage in its nationfare from rail to air delivery in 1967.
Fairly extensive passenger service had been possible because mail delivery forced railroads to go through towns they would not have gone through if mail was not being delivered.
WHEN THE MAIL contract was cut, the passenger rail system became less profitable, and rail companies searched for a way to get out of passenger service, or to reduce expenses, she
When Amtrak took over most passenger rail service, it did so by acquiring the equipment of a new locomotive.
"We inherited a garbage. We've had to basically rebuild everything we got," she said.
Amtrak trains must get permission to run over other companies' tracks, she said, because it does not own much trackage.
Lumbering freight trains need not match the barreling speed of a passenger train, and, therefore, many companies let their tracks fall out of passenger-speed shape, she said.
AMTRAK UPGRADED some of the tracks to handle higher speeds, and most Amtrak routes now have tracks that can handle speeds of up to about 65 mph.
Foreign countries often run their trains at 85 mph or faster, she said.
Being able to reach a destination faster than by a car or bus has increased train ridership somewhat, she said, but before ridership increases enough to allow expansion, something major, such as another energy crisis, air traffic will have to occur or even troop movements, will have to happen.
Offering passenger service to everyone would be nice, but Amtrak has to meet certain governmental quotas of riders to maintain a line, she said. Kansas lost the Lone Star Line, which ran south into Texas, in 1979 because it did not meet its passenger quota.
THE REMANING train running through
nosis has good ride-up, she said, but not good
ride-down.
Mike Crow, rail planning engineer for the Kansas department of transportation, said the passenger rail system in Kansas would come back, but not soon.
"By 1893 rail travel should be more popular in Kansas. People are getting more and more interested in trains," he said.
Interest alone will not bring the trains back to Kansas, he said. The money must be available as well.
"Passenger rail service cannot survive in the United States unless the government makes a very serious commitment to it."
John Mills Chairman, Missouri-Kansas Rail Passengers Coalition
"Our state doesn't have the funds available to match the Federal 70 percent. Until last year it was illegal in Kansas to take part in such a program," he said. "People have talked about a
Amtrak has a program whereby a state can provide 30 percent of the money needed to run a train through the state, he said. The program, called Karsas, was created by many states, but Karsas is not among them.
ONE MIDWESTERN state that has found both the funds and the ridership to support new trains through 4038 is Missouri. The trains that were added between Kansas City and St. Louis are so successful that the state is considering adding others, said J. Everett Mitchell, director of railroads for the Missouri department of highways and transportation.
new train through Kansas, but we don't really have the funds or the ridership.
"We've had an increase in ridership from 6,000 a month in 1890 to 11,000 a month this year," he said. "There has been a lot of talk about expanding."
Mitchell said that the secret to success for passenger rail service was to attract business travelers, and that, although Missouri had done much to improve the quality of its customers were still vacation travelers.
But Missouri did not bring the trains back to replace air, car or bus travel, he said.
Jefferson City is the midway point between Kansas City and St. Louis, and he said the state was encouraged that business trips by rail to his capital city were becoming more popular.
"WE HAVE BEEN try to create a good solid base we can expand on," he said. "We don't expect to become the major mode of transportation, just to provide a viable alternative."
he said. "This program has a lot of grassroots support. There is no shortage of cards and letters with suggestions for improvements. The test was very successful to survive for three years, and we've done that."
"The state subsidy has increased each year."
WITH THE addition of two trains from Kansas
Louis, Missouri now runs four trains each day.
A train trip from Kansas City to Jefferson City takes about three hours. The same trip made in a car takes about three and one-half hours and is considerably longer in a bus, he said.
"Since we took the route over from the government, the on-time ratio has increased from 30 percent to 95 percent. This train ties up with two major metro areas in our state," he said.
Mills said that Kansas could support a line, or at least an extension of a line, through Kansas City, Lawrence, Topeka and Wichita.
"Every town and town will never have rail service again. We probably don't have a need for that, but we have a need for a lot more service than we have now," he said. "And a K.C., Lawrence, Topeka, Wichita line could support three or four trains a day."
Passenger rail service is in the worst shape it has ever been in, he said, but it is far from dead. Steel wheel on steel rail, sparks飞舞, firing hard, while the train or a train a long time to come to a complete stop.
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