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Amtrak elates Glenwood, embitters Rifle Monday 's3 pm eastbound run For us that means an extra night" for each train arrival customer. said Bosco Bosco, who plans to mention the Amtrak sen ice in a new lodge brochure. said he was also pleased with Amtrak's national promotional campaign to increase ridership For their part, area hotel owners meet each train with vans to whisk away customers to their rooms Thereafter, visitors can walk downtown to eat, rent a car or take shuttle buses to area ski resorts The Amtrak takeover will bring "nothing but good things" for Glenwood Springs, said Bob Sutherland. Amtrak agent and 33 year veteran with the Zephyr Already, he said, passenger num bersareonthe increase Weekends are the busiest, with a record 612 people getting on for a ride east Sunday, Nov 13. he said It will improve in the spring." he said Amtrak passengers, unlike the Zephyr days, now enjoy easy trans fers in Salt Lake City and Denver, with through connections to Las Vegas and Chicago Amtrak trains also have sleeping quarters, said Sutherland 1 see more people bringing more revenue" to Glenwood Springs, said Sutherland Such talk only embitters Rifle of finals While there is somp damage to the town minor tourist trade, the real pain is borne by people shipping freight and senior citizens who relied on trains for tran-porta Please see Amtrak.

page It WMmh4 photo by Hihfi McCoy Kim lee McKillip removes snow with a water hose DfL'fiamo assisted as pair cleaned cars at Grand Value Motors Storm to leave frigid legacy By Michael Moss Sentinel slat! writer GLENWOOD SPRINGS Amtrak's replacement of the Rio Grande Zephyr this summer has left two neighboring tow ns ith two very different sequels The new train has met their best expectations, say Glenwood Springs businessmen who ply the tourist trade Their counterparts downtrack in Rifle, however, are bitterabout losing their station Amtrak axed the Rifle stop Oct 30 and city officials vow a fight All we want is an answer," said Bill Scoggins, president of the Rifle Area Chamber of Commerce and head of group mounting a campaign to press for the station's return Twenty-five miles east in Glenwood Springs, hostellers are ring ing up sales II is apprehension before Amtrak's takeover was for naught, said Henry Bosco, manager of the Hot Springs Lodge and Pool, across the Colorado River from the Glenwood Springs depot I can't say it's brought in more people than the Zephyr, but the daily service has boosted our weekend business and Amtrak is trying to promote midweek travel." said Bosco The Zephyr alternated its daily trains between runs east and west A visitor arriving from Denver Saturday would have to return Sunday or wait until Tuesday Amtrak rolls daily in both directions The same visitor can now stay through a two- or three-night weekend, returning on Sunday or Madrid said there was no immediate indication of the cause of the accident In Washington, National Trans portjtion Safety Board spokesman Ira Furman said accident investiga tors Tom McCarthy from Washing ton and Luis Carmona of Miami. Fla, who speaks Spanish, would leave for Madrid today to aid in the investigation By Christ! Foster Sentinel staff writer with wire reports The second dangerous" storm in a week was expected to pass out of Western Colorado by this morning, leaving clear skies, much colder temperatures and as much as 15 inches of new snow in its wake. This storm, and the one that preceded it by a week, also left at least 42 dead, inconveni enced air travelers and caused many traffic accidents across the country On the Western Slope, the storm dropped 10 inches of snow on Powderhorn Ski Area Friday night and estimates of Saturday's accumulations ranged as high as 12 inches. Douglas Pass was closed indefinitely Friday night due to winds that whipped 4 and 5-foot drifts across the winding road They can't keep it cleared," said the Colorado State Patrol dispatcher in Grand Junc tion. She also noted that there had been four accident reports during the first hours of her shift Saturday afternoon, although none had involved injuries Flights to and from Denver were cancelled at Walker Field Saturday morning due to driving snows at Stapleton International Airport Five inches of snow had fallen there by midafternoon, but a Frontier Airlines spokeswoman at Walker Field said Denver Please see Snow, page It Index Jetliner crash kills at least 182 in search lights removed the bodies of the victims, including at least three children, and they were taken in ambulanres to the airport for iden-1 1 fi cat io Officials said it appeared most of the people perished from thp flames The weather was clear at the time of the crash at I 04 a (5 04 pm MST Saturday), and officials survivors.

Police reported one survivor died of bums en route to the hospital Airport sources said many of the victims were French nationals who had boarded the plane in Paris where the flight originated Normally, the flight would have orgi-nated in Frankfurt, West Germany, but the aircraft used for that route was being overhauled From Madrid, the flight had been scheduled to continue to Caracus, Venezuela and then Bogota, Colombia. The plane crashed near the village of Mejorada del Campo, only five miles east of Madrid Barajas airport and 12 miles east of the Spanish capital Rescue parties working under MADRID. Spam (AP) A Boeing 747 jetliner of Colombia's Avianca Airlines crashed and exploded in flames early today as it approached the Madrid airport and officials said at least 182 people were killed The airport officials said the jumbo jet was carrying 169 passengers and 20 crew members and it was believed there were only seven Montrose man thinks millions could survive nuclear strike 'The danger of an attack, even the threat of an attack, would be decreased if an enemy nation knew that we had significantly improved our Cresson Kearny PLO factions, Arafat agree to halt fighting TRIPOLI. lebanon i Ali Yasser Arafat and the rebel PLO faction-trying to oust him agreed Saturday to halt their bloody f.ghtirg around Tripoli and leave this norhern Lebanese pwrt city in the coming weeks Syria, whose forces backed the PLO ret Is, claimed its troops had fired on 14 jets fly ing rc-ron naissance missions over ca-icrn Lebanon There was no confirmation of the da.m from Pentagon spokesme in Washington In Trip-oil, Arafat, the cha.rman of the Palestine l.lur ation Organization told he had accepted an agreenc nt med.ated by Syria ard Sau'h 4ra bia that gives rover Let anise Prime r-otrr Ra-Ud Karami a free hand to neg-d a'e the details of a Palfstir.an pullovt Under the p-lan all Pales', -rces will lease the a-ea wrhin two wee ks aer Ka-a i bas nr ic out 'a 't of depaure But the ag-eer "I r.ol.-i'j b'e for Ka'i'ro re, and tKc -e was no at.on when av c-f Fa'c tro. ar o'.

raed JsC cn eai -je would to If ase cr sf rp f-s Ara'ai sj-J he had ic nr Ka-ai in baa-cus Heave see Arafat pur Kearny, 69, developed the manual and most of the items in it while he was a researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a federal. tax-funded installation in Tennessee Originally published in 1979 by the government, the book has since been reprinted by a number of private organizations Kearny, however. said he has never made a penny ofT the book or the things it promotes Kearny believes the United States government should be responsible for developing an effective civil defense system as governments in the Soviet Union. Ch.r.a and even neutral countries l.ke Switzerland have done Since the government has failed in that responsibility ac cording to Kearny, the be -t short term hop for improving Americans' chances of surviving a nuclear attack is for private organizations'' to make doit your sef survival techniques available to most of the public Kearny 20 page book vu-ses Such lwues as how enters, sf the devastation from a nuc lear war ar tua ly wou'd he and pvycholngu al preparations for a nuclear atta- The gut of the book. h-evcr are actual projects that ran be vn dertiken.

most ith 48 hours d-r me a worsening intema'i- r.al cn Please ee Aalbor, page It By Bob Sitbernagel Sentinel start writer MONTROSE Cresson Kearny is a grandfatherly sort of man with a ready smile Vet his ideas disgust many people Following a recent meeting in which Kearny spoke, one person asked with revulsion, Do you think anyone really agrees with Cresson Kearny" What Kearny, a Montrose rest-denL has done is to promote an idea unpalatable to many He believes, as do many scientists who have studied the possibility, that millions of people can and will survive an all out nuclear war And Kearny has written a guide book to help those ho make it The book. Nuclear War Survival Skills." was one of several books listed for further reading the end of The Day After." the ABC tc lev sion show aired Nov 20 about a nuclear strike in Lawrence. Kan Kearny had little good to aay about the program It was inaccurate" in its depiction of nurlear devastation he said Most people that clove to a blast site would have died mUnt! and wouldn't be walking around for a week, dying a slow death More than arythirg. though, he believes the was designed only to Rare people about the feor-r on of nurlear war. not educate them about what they could do to reduce those horrors Supporters of a nuclear arms freeze and others believe Kearny ideas are both wrong and dangerous A few people may survive a nuclear war, they say hut the conditions will be had they II ih they were dead Worse by pruned ing the idea that people can survive a nuclear war, Kearny and cithers increase the Lkel.hood of such a war Kearny believes just the opposite if true The darger of an attack even the threat of an attack, would be decreased if an enemy naVm knew that we had Sif.ficar.t.y improved our by mak.ng survival ak.lls ava.latle to all Ameprans Knarry wrote in an introduction to a 1W3, private ed.Lon cif his book -v' t-'-f A Cresson Kearnv demonstrates (about meter of ptU'do or nuc It ar vs ar Surv non.

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