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...means the increasingly painful slashes will have to come from just part of the pie, and more than half of that portion goes to the military. The ax would thus fall mightily on many unprotected programs citizens have come to expect from Government: the National Park Service, student loans, Amtrak, air-traffic controllers, federal prisons, the FBI, border patrols, medical research, farm supports, transit aid, Coast Guard missions and countless other programs. In addition, the new legislation will hinder recent federal efforts to catch spies, improve security at U.S. embassies, curb the flow of drugs and fly sorties with...
Across the country, meanwhile, a firm called Railfone will install telephones on Amtrak's Metroliner express between Washington and New York City in January. Anticipated charge for all calls: $4.75 for the first three minutes and $1 a minute thereafter. Amtrak expects the busy executives who ride the train to turn the service into a moneymaker quickly...
...Folks, this is Pearl," boomed the familiar voice after Amtrak's Chicago-to-New York train collided last week in the middle of the night with a stalled truck and derailed near Mansfield, Ohio. The unofficial conductor was Pearl Bailey, 67, traveling to Manhattan to chair the opening of the 1985 Christmas Seal ceremonies. Talking through a loudspeaker, the veteran singer soothed jangled nerves among the 425 passengers. After two more days of traveling, Bailey hit a traffic jam outside New York City. Christmas Seal officials who had spotted Dolly Parton, 39, having lunch asked her to stand...
This week St. Louisans will celebrate the opening of the most ambitious of all their proliferating preservation projects. The ornate Union Station and its glorious steel train shed, abandoned by Amtrak seven years ago, have been restored and turned into a complex of restaurants, promenades, 80 shops and a 550-room hotel. Under the far end of the shed, a boat pond and beer garden (Did someone say Budweiser?) are to be ready soon. The project cost $135 million...
...budget proposal calls for the termination of some domestic programs that members of both parties say they will fight to retain, including Amtrak passenger subsidies, the Small Business Administration, the Job Corps, Urban Development Action Grants and the rural housing program. Spending on farm programs would be reduced by $14.9 billion over three years, and the levels of some Medicare payments would be frozen...