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Stars, Panthers gear for USFL showdown i Vol.309. No. 16 '1983. Philadelphia Newspapers Saturday. July 16.

1983 25 CENTS SEPTA plans lower fares and more trains calculated deficit. PennDOT then provides a subsidy equal to 70.67 percent of this calculated deficit. PennDOT. however, is arguing that debl service and the renewal-and-replacement fund should not be included as operating costs. Money from the fund is matched with federal and state grants to buy new equipment.

SEPTA board chairman Lewis Could said PennDOT's decision not to include those items as reimbursable costs could, if not reversed, result in the suspension of operations i See SEPTA on 2-A) fore and alter the strike were comparable because ridership was down at both times. In another development yesterday. SEPTA officials asked the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) to provide subsidies for SEPTA'S debt service, which will total $5.7 million in fiscal 1984, and for its renewal-and-replacement fund, which totals $7.8 million. Under the formula for PennDOT's aid to SEPTA, the total cost of operating the system is subtracted from SEPTA'S tare revenues and federal and local subsidies to arrive at a a 31 to 38 percent drop in ridership. On Tuesday, the last day for which counts were available, SEPTA officials logged a 38 percent drop in ridership compared with the same period a year ago.

A total of 51,761 riders was recorded Tuesday, compared with 83,600 on an average day in July 1982. SEPTA officials said ridership was down 31 percent compared with the period in March before the strike. For instance, on March 9, the Tuesday before rail workers walked off their jobs. 74.708 rides were logged. SEPTA officials said the periods be- By Edward Colimore Inquirer Staff Writer SEPTA officials, citing figures showing a drop in commuter rail ridership of up to 38 percent, said yesterday that they planned to schedule more trains on the commuter rail system and to seek lower fares to lure riders back to the system.

SEPTA treasurer George Miller said at a news briefing yesterday that the measures were needed to win back riders lost during the 108-day strike that ended two weeks ago. He said the agency planned to begin adding trains Sept. 1. four surrounding counties, the hearing examiner will make a recommendation." Miller said. "Then, the SEPTA board will consider the recommendation along with input from community groups and make a decision.

"For most categories of riders, fares could be lowered. Some fares may remain the same. We would be trying to provide special incentives for people who use the rail lines during off-peak hours." SEPTA'S plans to attract riders back to the trains were announced as the agency released figures showing "We are working on the restoration of much of the schedules deleted in 1982." Miller said in an interview yesterday. "We won't add them all at once because we have to make sure we have enough equipment and personnel. We may eventually have to hire more people." Miller said SEPTA officials also would announce this month the dales of public hearings on a new fare proposal that would reduce the cost of commuting on several rail lines, possibly by November.

"After five public hearings, one in Philadelphia and one in each of the Betting shop broken up in casino raid Iff' fm Cf I i vp, km "or. i l' ''fat I I I fc Ifff 5 killed by bomb in Paris Armenians claim attack at airport Associated Pres PARIS A concealed bomb, apparently intended to be put aboard a Turkish airliner, exploded in front of the Turkish Airlines counter at Orly Airport here yesterday, killing five people and wounding 60, officials said. An Armenian terrorist group claimed responsibility. Joseph Franceschi, France's secretary of slate for security, said 21 of the wounded were suffering from serious burns. "I am overwhelmed." he said.

"We must arrest the guilty. It was a bloody attack aimed at killing." Police said the composition of the bomb about a pound of explosives attached to a bottle of liquefied gas accounted for the large number of serious burns. Police sources speculated that the bomb might have gone off prematurely and that it had been meant to explode after Turkish Airlines Flight 926 to Istanbul had taken off with 167 scheduled passengers. The bomb exploded at 2 p.m., about an hour before takeoff time. Police said one unidentified dead man could have been the person car- rying the bomb.

Two of those who died at the airport were identif ied as a Frenchman and a Turk. Two others died later at hospitals and their nationalities were not immediately known. The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, in a call to the French news agency Agence France-Presse, claimed responsibility for the attack at Orly's crowded South Terminal. The Armenian Secret Army was of three groups that claimed responsibility for the assassination Thursday of a Turkish diplomat in Belgium. Conflict between the Armenians and the Turks is longstanding.

The Armenian Secret Army and other groups say they are avenging the massacre of l.S million Armenians in Turkey between 1894 and 1915. Turkey does not acknowledge the contention and says several hundred (See BLAST on 12-A) Salvador fir Government troops move out in My Fen Montaigne Inqutrtt' Staff Wnler ATLANTIC CITY Six people, including a district justice trom the Pittsburgh area, have been arrested on charges of operating a multimillion-dollar, nationwide sports-bookmaking operation out ot two suites of rooms at Caesars Boardwalk Regency Hotel-Casino, authorities said yesterday. "This is one of the largest operations we've seen." said I.I. Col. Justin Dinlino, executive officer ol the New-Jersey Slate Police.

Pennsylvania state Sen. Leonard Hodack Allegheny) was in one of the suites at the time of the raid He was not arrested, and police said he did not appear to be involved in the illegal bookmaking operation. A team of 10 state police and I HI agents raided the suites at Caesars ai 6 30 p.m. Thursday and arrested the six men. one of whom was identified as an associate of the LaRocca organized-crime family of Pittsburgh The police confiscated $12,000 in cash and $750,000 in bookmaking slips, one state law enforcement source said Piiilino said the police then impersonated the bookmakers and received more than $1 million in illegal bets over the phone during the next several hours.

Most of the bets were on baseball games and on Sunday's United Slates Football League championship game between the Philadelphia Stars and Ihe Michigan Panthers, Pintino said. Dintino said Caesars had provided the two suites, one on the fifth Hour and Ihe other on the seventh floor, to the alleged bookmakers for free. Some of those arrested also received free food and beverages from the casino, he said. Casinos customarily provide free rooms, food and beverages to high-rolling gamblers, but it was not known whether any of the accused bookmakers had plat ed bets in the casino. A VISIT to Rome coined a new career for Elizabeth Jones, chief designer for the U.S.

Mint. Page 1C. Weather Index SUNNY AND HOT today and tomorrow, high in the 90s. Clear tonight, low in the mid-60s. Full weather report, Page 14-1).

A YOUNG GIRL runs for cover as a yesterday when Lebanese police tried to Lebanese soldier- takes aim at Shiite evict Shiite squatters from a damaged Muslim gunmen in West Beirut. The school. Five people were killed. Story city's worst fighting in months erupted and another picture on Page 12-A. Caesars olficials relused to comment on the case.

Dintino said the state Division of (laming Enforcement wi investigating why Caesars had provided the free services to the alleged bookmakers Police said they did not believe that the casino knew of the bookmaking operation. Police identified the leader of the operation as Augustine "Angle" I'er-rone, 56, of Pittsburgh According to Pintmo, Ferronc is a close associate (See C.AMHI.IM; on 2,) Think it's hot? The record says you're right You have to go all the way back to 189K lo find a July 15 that came close to being as hot to handle as yesterday The 95-degree record set that dale was broken at 2 45 yesterday, when it reached 9ft degrees at Philadelphia International Airport. At 4 10 p.m.. the heat had risen to a new mark for the day ot 97. That's pretty hot, but the humidity was a relatively tinsticky 37 percent.

Yesterday's cloudless skies helped make it hotter, said a National Weather Service spokeswoman. "The skies are so clear that we're gelling a lot of heat I mm Ihe she said, adding that there would billion' ol the same through the weekend. City water consumption has been running about 100 million gallons a day above normal during the hot spell, but there have been no serious pressure problems. Demand for electricity was also high, the Philadelphia Electric Co. reported Channel 48 to go off air by Sept.

1 By Ron Wolf liiirfr Mull Wriler Alter 18 years ol operation in the Philadelphia area. WKBS-TV (Channel 48) will go oil the air by Sept. 1. company spokeswomen announced yesterday. Station manager Vincent Barresi told the station's staff yesterday morning thai all 82 employees would lose their jobs.

The decision to discontinue operations was made by Field Enterprises the Chicago media corporation that owns the station. The company will relinquish its broadcasting license to the Federal Communications Commission, a step that will clear the way for applications (mm other parties seeking the right lo broadcast on Channel 48. Kim Kline, a spokeswoman for the station, said that employees had been "anticipating a sale" and that they were "stunned" by the announcement. The closing of the station is an outgrowth ol a bitter feud between the company's two principal stockholders. Field Enterprises announced in April that all of its holdings, including WKBS, would be liquidated because of irreconcilable differences between Marshall Field 5th and Frederick W.

Field, his hall brother. So far, the company has sold its television stations in Chicago, Detroit, Boston and San Francisco, for a total of $240 million However, the (See SALE on 7-A) seizing initiative in Mini PfHSS the war ing everything nghl They've slopped acting like the New York Mets. They may not be going to win the pennant, bin at least they're satisfying their fans." For months, those fans had little to cheer about During the spring. U.S. olficirls began predicting openly that the government would lose without stepped-up U.S.

military aid. which still has been granted only in part. As recently as May 24, the government suffered a humiliating defeat when guerrillas killed 46 of the 80 troops guarding the Quebrada Seca bridge on the Pan-American Highway. Since then, however, visits to embattled provinces, reports from independent observers and conversations with Salvadoran and American military personnel all indicate that government forces have begun major operations on virtually every bat- (See SALVADOR on 10-A) secure future of Gerry (pronounced Gary) Studds, 46, now seems very much in doubt, After a yearlong investigation, the House ethics committee reported Thursday that Studds and Rep. Daniel B.

Crane 111.) had engaged in sexual activities with teenage pages In Studds' case, the committee said, the sexual liaison was with a 17-year-old male 10 years ago. Overnight, Studds went from being a politician in a safe district (he has won recent elections with up to 70 percent of the vote) to a politician Action Line 2-C Editorials 8-A Auctions 11-A Horoscope 1S-D The Arts 3-C Obituaries S-B Business 7-D People 1-C Classified 6-B Puzzles 1S-I) Comics 13-D Sports M) Crossword 1S-D TVRadio 6-C By Rod Nordland fntutrcr Mull Wrifer SAN SALVADOR. El Salvador Nobody is ready to start writing victory-speeches yet, but in the last month the initiative in El Salvador's 3'j-year-old civil war has shifted from the leftist guerrillas to the US-backed government. For the first time since the guerrillas began a sustained offensive in October, the government has managed to counterattack successfully on nearly all fronts. It has put unprecedented numbers of troops into combat, completely clearing guerrillas from some areas and keeping constant pressure on them in others.

"From October to the end of May, the army seemed to be getting whacked all over," said a Salvadoran who closely follows military activities but has no connection with the armed forces or the United Slates. "Now, suddenly, they seem to be do the New Bedford fleet grow from the 10th to the third largest in the country by pushing protectionist federal fishing legislation. "If it wasn't for Gerry Studds, this would be like Detroit, a welfare town." said Murray, the owner of the convertible. When they measure Studds' homosexuality against the tangible, bread-and-butter benefits of his tenure in Washington, these fishermen are quick to play it down. But others in the coastal district do not see it quite that way.

And the once bright and Congressman's admission stirs mixed feelings at home United Press Internalionrtl San Vicente pacification push and that he had a sexual relationship with a teenage male congressional page, it still doesn't bother them. "I'll vote for him again," said Ben Murray, tugging at his blue cap. "What the I don't know where you were last night. Everyone's known for years that he was gay. He's been going to Provincetown for 30 years." Murray said that Studds, a Democrat whose district runs from the affluent bedroom communities on Boston's South Shore lo the well-known gay gathering spot of Provincetown on Cape Cod, has helped fending off calls for his resignation.

He dealt with the immediate problem of the House ethics committee report by announcing on the floor of the House that he was a homosexual and that he indeed had had the relationship with the page. Now, with the news of that speech reaching home, there are new problems. The largest daily newspaper in his district, the Patriot Ledger based in Quincy, yesterday called for his resignation. While praising his voting record, the newspaper stated in an (See PAGES on 4-A) By Timothy Dwyer Inquirer Staff Writer NEW BEDFORD, Mass. At 10 a.m.

yesterday, four or five fishermen were sitting on Pier 3 between three creaking stern trawlers and a sparkling white 1965 Bonneville convertible that looked as though it had just come off the assembly line. For years, these fishermen said, they have heard whispers that their congressman, Gerry E. Studds, was a homosexual. It never bothered them. And now that Studds has publicly that te is homosexual.