i®aturl|p0tf r lEapmng Uf ralb MANCHESTER, CONN., SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1974 - VOL, XCIH, No. 283 Manchester—A City of Village Charm SIXTEEN PAGES _ JWO SECTIONS PRICE: FIH EEN CENTS President Reviewing Amnesty Proposals WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Ford be reduced for mitigating circumstances. contrition” By returning Vietnam war met with his top legal and military ad­ Evaders would remain suBject to indict­ resisters. visers today to consider amnesty ment until the work period was com­ The -Pentagon said it was looking at recommendations — proBaBly including a pleted. several military installations as possible Pentagon proposal for homecoming Viet­ Deserters would get undesiraBle dis­ administrative centers to process retur­ nam draft evaders to perform 18 months charges immediately and a written nota­ ning deserters. non-military service to the nation. tion later of completion of alternate ser­ Indiana Gov. Otis Bowen said state of­ Ford met with Defense Secretary James vice. Neither group would be eligible for ficials were contacted about possibily Schlesinger and Attorney (Jeneral William veterans Benefits. using the the Army’s Camp AtterBury and Saxbe to hear the proposals he had asked Ford planned a round of golf later in the Ft. Benjamin Harrison, both near In­ them to prepare on opening ways for draft day, then a weekend with his family at the dianapolis. evaders and deserters to come out of presidential mountain retreat at Camp Friday, after telling the Ohio State hiding or home from selfimposed exile. David, Md., his first stay there as Presi­ University summer graduating class in The recommendations will not be made dent. Columbus that inflation is "creating a puBlic until Ford has decided what for a He will return to Washington Monday to national state of anxiety,” Ford returned limited amnesty will take. White House sign a pension reform bill in a White to a busy schedule of meetings with aides news secretary J.F. terHorst said, “He House ceremony, then return to Camp at the White House. expects to act in a relatively Brief David for what is left of the weekend. He passed the word he does not favor a period,” But not Before Tuesday and The Pentagon proposal was far short of 10 cent a gallon federal gasoline tax in­ possibly not for.several days after that. the “universal and unconditional crease, which he thinks would be "exorBi­ Besides Schlesinger and Saxbe, the amnesty” urged in a petition presented to tant, unwise and unnecessary.” meeting was attended by White House the White House FriBav By a group led By TerHorst said Ford planned to cam­ Hundred9 Killed ai%d Injured counsel Philip Buchen, counsellors RoBert the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, former paign this fall with four out-of-town Hartmann and John 0. Marsh, terHorst president of the World Council of appearances tentatively set for October: a Hundreds of persons were killed and tracks and slammed into a railroad cranes lifted away the crumpled and Laurence SilBerman, deputy atttorney Churches. salute to retiring Republican Sen. George injured Friday in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, station at 60 miles an hour. At least coaches exposing more bodies general and Martin Hoffman, general Ford, in Chicago speech Aug. 19, Aiken at Barre, Vt., Oct. 7, and fund­ counsel for the Pentagon. rejected extremes of either Blanket when an express train packed with 120 bodies were recovered and casual­ beneath them. (UPI photo) raisers in Philadelphia, Oct. 9, In­ amnesty or revenge and indicated he was migrant workers thundered off the ty figures continued to climb today as UPI oBtained a copy of a “memorandum dianapolis, Oct. 16 and Louisville, Ky,, for the President” prepared in the Pen­ leaning toward a conditional amnesty. Oct. 19. tagon which would cover 15,500 draft Saxbe has publicly called for “an act of evaders who have Been convicted, indicted or fled the country, and some 12,500 Vietnam-era deserters who are “ at Express Train Hits Station large.” U.N. Appeals for Aid The memo was marked “draft” and “working papers,” and it was not known whether it would be the Pentagon’s final For Cypriot Refugees recommendation or whether Schlesinger Killing, Injuring Hundreds By United Press International and SaxBe would suBmit a joint failure to stop the Turkish invasion of recommendation. The U.N. Security Council has appealed Cyprus, was not immediately clear. The Its contents undoubtedly will be made to Greece and Turkey to aid tens of Greek government stopped short of for­ ZAGREB, Yugoslavia (UPI) — An the eight-car train careened off the tracks, along the track and Brought down electric known to Ford as one of a numBer of thousands of refugees left homeless on mally closing the U.S. bases. express train packed with migrant Barreled 400 yards into the station and power caBles. proposals. Cyprus By a month of Bitter and Premier Constantine Caramanlis told workers thundered off the tracks in overturned. The casualty figures climBed steadily The Pentagon memo concluded that “a devastating warfare. Washingtonm his government wanted to Yugoslavia’s second largest city Friday Police said 120 Bodies were recovered. today as cranes lifted away the crumpled suBstantial majority of Americans” The 15-member council unanimously ap­ set up talks on the future American and slammed into the main railroad sta­ They called it Yugoslavia’s worst railroad coaches, exposing more Bodies crushed favored some form of amnesty and that of proved Friday a resolution designating military role in Greece. The United States tion at 60 miles an hour, killing and in­ disaster and predicted the final death toll Beneath them. Cries of the dying and in­ these “a majority favor conditional rather Secretary General Kurt Waldheim coor­ operates Bases in several other countries juring hundreds of passengers. would rise. Police said an additional 150 jured came from the wreckage. than Blanket amnesty.” dinator of Cyprus relief efforts and direc­ under foreign sovereignty agreements. The train’s two engineers were given people were injured. Most of the passengers on the special For any program to “heal the wounds” ting him to deliver a full report on the blood tests to determine if they were Many persons were electrocuted when train were Yugoslav migrant workers of the Vietnam era, it said, “as large a island’s 140,000 refugees. drunk and then arrested hours later after the roaring train snapped concrete pillars returning to Dortmund, West Germany, majority of Americans as possiBle must The resolution touched only Briefly on with their families after summer view it as fair and just.” the question of peace negotiations, But the No Herald vacations. It proposed that both draft evaders and Soviet Union urged the council to adopt a The train demolished concrete pillars deserters make some form of “reaffirma­ Kremlin proposal for 18-country talks on Monday lining the tracks and the diesel engine tion of allegiance to the United States” the future of the island. Predict Low Traffic Toll In Athens, Greece told the United States Barreled on through the station for another and promise 18 months work in places In order to permit employes of The 400 yards Before coming to a halt. such as “hospitals, schools, ecology and and its other allies in NATO Friday it im­ mediately would reclaim sovereignty over Manchester Evening Herald to oBserve By United Press International “We were going too fast,” said a dazed other community or charitaBle tion out of the urBan areas and into the all of its territory, including seven the LaBor Day holiday with their families, Travelers took to the highways Friday passenger, Dragan Kostic of Belgrade, organizations.” there will be no Herald Monday. PuBlica­ lakes and canyons,” threw aircraft patrols American military bases. for summer’s last holiday, and the who escaped unhurt from the last car. Their work would be monitored by the tion will resume with Tuesday’s edition. and radar-equipped cars into the Battle The effect of the action, triggered By. National Safety Council projected the “We were aBout 10 minutes late and I sup­ Selective Service System. The time could against speeders. Greece’s disappointment over NATO’s LaBor Day traffic death toll could Be the Montana state patrolmen planned to use pose trying to make up tirrie.” lowest in 11 years. Both aerial surveillance and roadBlocks to The council estimated Between 450 and help cut the traffic death rate. 550 persons would die in traffic Between 6 In Ohio, an American AutomoBile p.m. local time Friday and midnight Mon­ Association spokesman said fewer day Last year, 559 persons died on the travelers were expected during this country’s highways during the three-day weekend than during recent previous INSIDE LaBor Day weekend. LaBor Day weekends. Meskill to Meet Saxbe The council said the reduced projection However, traffic Back-ups were TODAY resulted from the 55 mile per hour speed expected in the Columbus area Sunday limit. when many Ohioans will attend either the Highway patrols in most states Beefed Ohio State Fair or a pro football exhibition Senior C itizens.............................Page 2 up patrols for the holiday weekend. Resort On State Lottery Legality game. Churches ....................................Page 6 owners and service stations joined police Auto cluBs and service stations across departments in Bracing for the exodus the country reported holiday travelers Sailboating.....................................Page 8 HARTFORD (UPI) - Gov. Thomas J. several federal laws which appeared to The alleged violations include the from the country’s big cities. should have no trouBle finding gasoline. Wings of Evening.........................Page 6 Meskill will meet U.S. Attorney General ipake certain aspects of state lotteries il- moving of lottery tickets across state Wisconsin Gov. Patrick J. Lucey William B.