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FAA backs statistics — Pog*32 s Press-Republican Vol.90-No.300 Copyright 19S4. The Prest-Republican The Home'owo Newspaper of U| C/tnfon £^* ex fro^M/nCou'i'ies Pittsburgh, N.Y., 12901, Monday Morning, August 13,1984 Suggested Price: 30$ 32 Pages Olympic Games end in triumph By DOUGLAS DOWIE LOS ANGELES (UPI) - The Summer Games of the 23rd Olympiad, a triumph for American athletes and Yankee ingenuity marred only by a Soviet-led boycott, ended Sunday with a Hollywood extravaganza and a display of international harmony. Nearly 92,000 people jammed into the arena, the site of the 1932 Games, for the ceremony, which followed the finish of the men's marathon, won by Portugal's Carlos Lopes. The ceremonies, which started more than an hour behind schedule, began with the tradi- tional march of the athletes and featured high-tech special effects and pop star Lionel Richie singing a special 20-minute ver- sion of his hit \All Night Long.\ Hours before the ceremonies were scheduled to start, thousands of people shopped for souvenirs and soaked up the Olympic spirit in the area sur- rounding the Memorial Col- iseum. Errol Reichow, 23, a film stu- dent at UCLA, and his girlfriend, Daneen Scoggins, 20 of Santa Barbara, Calif., were hoping to buy a pair of tickets and were willing to pay $600 for the seats. \The Olympic torch lit more than the Olympic flame — it ig- nited the Olympic spirit in everybody/ 1 Reichow said. American athletes led the world with 174 medals — 83 of them gold. West Germany was second with 58 medals, and Romania was next highest in gold with 20. Olympic organizers who fought to bring the Games to Los Angeles and promised to private- ly finance them without tax dollars, mostly from selling broadcast rights, also gained a spot in the winner's circle by br- inging off the massive undertak- ing with hardly a hitch; The Games cost an estimated $500 million. \I think the changes have been What an Olympics it was! very important for the future/' Juan Antonio Samaranch, presi- dent of the International Olympic Committee, said in an interview with The New York Times. Samaranch credited cost- cutting innovations used in Los Angeles with helping revitalize interest among other cities of the world in staging the Games. The American gold medal count surpassed by three the 1980 Soviet performance and organizers estimated attendance reached 5.7 million to break the record set in Moscow, when more than 5.4 millioapeople paid to see the competition. The huge federal, state and local security force made arrests for mostly miqor offenses. The weather was beautiful and Los Angeles' infamous smog never posed a serious problem. The massive traffic jams feared by many never materialized. The worst tie-up of the Games occurred Sunday when a California Highway Patrol helicopter crash landed on a freeway near the Coliseum only hours before the closing ceremonies. No one was serious- ly injured. The Soviet Union, meanwhile, charged Sunday that the Games were a sports flop and U.S. athletes dominated most events only because stronger Soviet and East German athletes were not there to defeat them. Tass, the official Soviet news agency, also accused the United States of commercializing the Games, saying they were motivated more by profit than Olympic ideals. The Soviet Union and 14 of its allies boycotted the Games, ac- cusing the United States of not providing adequate security for their athletes. Three other na- tions withdrew for other reasons. The American athletes grabb- ed the Olympic spotlight early and never gave it up through 15 days of intense competition. American gymnasts and swim- mers dominated the first days of the Games, followed by the U.S. boxers and track and field stars. President Reagan was scheduled to have breakfast to- day with American medalists, who also excelled in basketball, wrestling, shooting, cycling, row- ing, equestrian and diving. The most dramatic — and tragic — moments of the Sum- mer Games came in the final days. Millions of television viewers throughout the world cheered Saturday as Lewis duplicated the late Jesse-Owen's four medal performance at the 1936 Berlin Games, and suffered the night before with Decker as her Olym- - pic dream gurtfid .on the infield of the Memorial Coliseum after a collision with Zola Budd during the 3,000-meter race. Reagan sees tax increase only as last resort' By NORMAN D. SANDLER SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (UPI) — President Reagan, striving to put out a political brushfire dogging his re-election campaign, said Sunday he would use higher taxes as \a last resort\ to reduce the huge federal budget deficit. Hoping to clear the air and get off the defensive, Reagan sought to place clear distance between his position and Democratic rival Walter Mondale in a written statement released as he wound up his two-week vacation at his mountaintop ranch and prepared to head for Los Angeles. 44 This election will offer the American people a sharp con- trast between my opponent, who promises a rise in taxes, and me, who will do everything I can to avoid having to,\ Reagan said. White House officials had spent much of the last week attempting to sort out apparent confusion within the adminstration on the tax issue brought to the forefront of the campaign debate last month by Mondale, who predicted taxes would have to be raised next year regardless of who was president in order to br- ing the $170 billion-plus deficit under control. Reagan thought he had hud the matter to rest a week ago when, while posing for pictures with Vice President George Bush at his 6S$-acre ranch, he said he would neither propose nor allow any plan for a tax increase next year. Reagan bristled at suggestions he had hedged on the matter in previous statements only to have Bush tell reporters a short time later that \any president would keep his optioat open.\ Reagan agreed with Bush's remain but insisted \that does not in any way lessen my strong opposition to increasing taxes. Nevertheless, his latest state- ment made clear that his no-new- taxes pledge is a qualifed one. But Mondale spokesman Dayton Duncan said the Democratic presidential nominee \thinks this (Reagan's latest statement) confirms everything he's been saying: This is roughly the fourth posi- tion now by Reagan and his ad- ministration in about one week.\ \You had Bush saying taxes were under consideration, Reagan saying he would not even allow any plans for tax in- creases, Bush then saying you want to keep your options open. And now it appears Bush won the debate with Reagan, because Reagan now now is saying taxes aren't ruled oat,\ Onirnn snfcd • Duncon said Mondale still wants Reagan to come forward with his plan to cut the deficit, \which obviously will have to in- clude both squeezing the budget and tax increases. The question is, which programs get cut and Whose taxes get increased? Is it Social Security or the defense budget that gets cut?\ President jokes about Soviet Union destruction By IRA R.ALLEN SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (UPI) — President Reagan jok- ingly said he had ordered the destruction of the Soviet Union during a sound check before Saturday's radio speech from his ranch, broadcasting industry sources said Sunday. According to the sources, audio k outlawing the Soviet Union and announcing the dispatch of bombers. \My fellow Americans,\ he tapes of at least two networks began the sound check, \I am Wertt rolling nboiil IIVc to Iv minutes before Reagan began his legislation to outlaw Russia speech, and picked him upsay- forever. We begin bombing in ing he had just signed a law five minutes.\ The real speech began, \I am pleased to tell you that today I signed legislation that will allow student religious groups to begin enjoying a right they've too lonj been denied, tne freedom to meet in public high schools during non- school hours. ^ Reagan's words were broad- cast through a sound system not available to most reporters. Personnel from the networks Network — initially declined, on orders from their superiors* to discuss the matter, although it was learned that White House press secretary Larry Speakes called network executives to ask that they kill the story. voked a rule that such comments before air time are \off-the- record.\ > ~ — — Good Morning Weather Morning clouds giving way to some hazy sunshine today. Warm and humid with a 40 percent chance of afternoon thundershowers. Highs about 80 with a light wind. A 40 percent chance of evening thunder- showers. Lotteries Erma Bom beck Business News Classified Comics Date Calendar 13 10,11 2B-31 27 9 y drawn Sunday in the New York state lottery was 457. The win-4 number was 8723. Deaths, Public Record 6 Editorial 4 Entertainment 25 Family Life 8,9 Horoscope 25 Ann Landers __ 27_ Sports 18*20,26 Weather 12 • Mobile-home residents gain rights — Page 2. • Diggers find desire for worms has ups, downs — Page 10. • Changes in tax law are affecting us all — Page 11. Aii£i vie tins s face gy rough autumn — Page 13 Suicide driver crashes into cable car SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — A motorist apparently intent on suicide crashed his automobile into a cable car loaded with tourists on one of San Fran- cisco's steepest hill* Sunday, kill* ing himself and injuring 30 peo- ple, police said. The impact of the collision sent the cable car careening two blocks down the hill, hitting cars and vans that had been behind it while terrified passengers either Ml or jumped off fo* spfM^ding vehicle. \It (the auto) was traveling at a tremendous speed\ when it hurtled into the slowly climbing cable car, a witness, Mike Har- ris, said. A second witness said, \I look- ed up and it just kept on coming. People were falling off.\ The automobile raced down the Hyde Street hill at speeds of up to 50 mph on the wrong side of the street and smashed head-on into the climbing cable car, in- vestigators said. Officers said they were puzzled that there were no skid marks, indicating th^ driver of tHe auto apparently did not try to stop. \There's speculation it may have been a suicide.\ said a police spokesman who would not give his name. \The auto was on the wrong side of the steet and the crash appeared to be deliberate.\ Witnesses at the top of the hill said the auto appeared to be waiting at the crest and its driver gunned his motor and started downhill as the cable car was moving slowly up the grade, one of the steepest in the city. The cable car. carrying mostly tourists on a sunny weekend outing, rolled out of control about two blocks down the hill before the operator, or gnpman, could bring it to hait. police said. Police fire on anti-British rally; bullet kills man By RIC CLARK BELFAST, Northern Ireland (UPI) — PoUct trying to arrest a New York lawyer at an anti- British rally Sunday charged the crowd and fired plastic bullets, killing one man and injuring at least » others, including many women aad children Police dressed in riot gear rahed toward Martin Galvtn, director of NormkJ - the pro-IRA U.S. Northern Ireland Aid com- mittee — as Galvin stepped onto the rally platform and picked up the microphone to speak to the rally marking the 15th anniver- sary of British imposition of in- ternment without trial. Gtthrm. * New York lawyer banned by the British Home Of- fice from visiting Northern escaped Fern, the legal political wing of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, said Galvin changed into a policeman's unilora for the getaway. They said two Galvin look-alikes were sent out in opposite directions to fool police. The Northern Ireland Office in Belfast issued a statement late Sunday blaming the organizers of the rally for the violence: \The pretence of Martin Galvin in Belfast today was a deliberate attempt to flout the law. \It is clear that there was aa organized attempt to attack the security forces The conclusion cannot be avoided that such at- tacks were foreseen by Provi- sional Sinn Fein, and the blame lor tfce death aad injuries which have resulted must be placed firmly oe those who chose to organize today s events ' Sean Downs. 22. died m the violent clashes and 20 people were taken to hospitals with in- juries, police said. They said three people had been detained in the hospital Hospital sources said many of the injured were women and children, including a 4-year-old girl. A London radio station said the girl had been hit in the throat with a rubber bullet. In a statement released after over five hoars of intense discus- sions with government officials, police said they had been attack- ed by \stone-throwing\ mobs of youths before the rally PoUce said they fired a total of 31 plastic bullets, \a number of them in the air.\ They identified the dead maa as a \rioter.\ Stoae-throwing mo6s gathered around the streets of Belfast following the incident and pobce set uy rreabteto In an effort tar catch Galvin. ''It was absolute pandemonium/* said one witness. \There were many women and children in the crowd and no place to escape. Police fired plastic bullets at point blank range into the crowd. They used batons too.\ British state television. U>e BBC. showed footage on their evening news of a policeman hit- ting a woman on the back with a truncheon Independent Television Sews showed film of families huddled together on the street, with women and children screaming as they cowered in comers to dodge the ricocheting bullets Several witnesses caiied the police operation \exlraor- diaary \ FTN said a nan died after Tnf fcIT m The chest by a bullet. Several people were in- jured in the clashes The crowd retaliated by throw- ing objects at poke and setting a few c*rs on fire, witnesses said. They said some gasoline bombs were also thrown at police The rally marked the 13th an- niversary of the 1971 British im- position of internment without trial of para-military suspects in the British-ruled province. The practice was abandoned in 1975 The suspects were mainly sup- porters of the outlawed Irish Republican Army who are fighting to drive the British from Northern Ireland. The street betow the raily piat- form was iittered with shoes handbags and other personal ar- ticles after the violence ended aad people left their belonging* ma rush for cover an order from British Home Secretary Leon Bnttan to stay out of Northern Ireland, Galvin. 34. was smuggled by IRA sympathizers into the country a few days ago He has been evading security forces ever since Galvin flew into the Irish Republic from New York with 130 members of a Nora id delega- tion who have since been touriftg Ulster During a brief interview after an unannounced address Satur- day Galvm said he would defy the British order and appear at the rally. The British and US govern- ments have charged that some of the money raised by Norawi m the United States has been used to buy arms for the IRA s cam* juign to dnve the Bnush from •Jieprovir.ee
