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I 8 Bennington Banner, Friday, March 21, 1980 Strauss defends walk-out on Jewish leaders Thruway Authority OKs toll hike ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) -Tolls on the State Thruway are scheduled to increase by IS to 30 percent late this summer, under a proposal approved by Thruway Authority members to pay for major repairs and maintenance the superhighway. The toll increases, which amount to 25 percent for passenger cars, 30 percent for commercial, traffic and 15 percent for buses, were approved Thursday by the three-member board governing the authority. The board must file a report of its action to state Comptroller Edward Regan, who is obliged to review the need for toll hikes in public hearings. The Increases, the first in five years, are designed to raise 5140 million for major rehabilitation work on the 559-mile highway over the next five years.

This work has to be done to keep the Thruway safe, explained Executive Director James Martin. There are 819 bridges in the system and many need major rehabilitation. Currently, the Thruway charges 1.9 cents per passenger car mile. That will go to 2.4 cents per mile. Commercial rates, now ranging up to 6-cents per mile, will rise to about 8 cents.

As examples, the toll for a passenger car traveling between Albany and New York City will rise from J2.30 tqabout 52.90 (excluding tolls south of the Thruway), and boost the -cost of a trip between Albany and Buffalo from 55.30 to about 56.75. In 1979, the Thruway earned about 5146 million, 5123 million from tolls and the remainder from concessions and interests earned on its Investments. NEW YORK (UPI)-Robert Strauss, President Carters campaign chairman, says Carter will win the New York primary despite the controversial U.N. vote by the United States on Israeli settlement Strauss, the former special ambassador for Middle East affairs, Thursday also defended his actions in walking out of a fund-raising party with Jewish leaders Wednesday night following a heated exchange with several guests on the U.N. vote.

We will do well here, but this will be a reasonably tight situation and well do very well in the delegate selection process, he said. At a news conference, Strauss told reporters he had been "heckled by two or three guests and confirmed he used the words emotional hysteria by nuts" to describe some anti-Carter pickets outside the building. He said he had spent about an hour, at the party before he invited questions and the atmosphere had been very con-dial. After the incident, he said, host Eryk Spektor, chairman of United Zionists-Revisionists of America, apologized for the flap and put him in a cab. Another guest said Strauss principal antagonist, Rabbi Avrraham Weiss, a Yeshiva University faculty member, had exchanged angry words with the former Middle East troubleshooter before the party.

Mr. Spektor allowed him to attend the fund-raiser on the condition he behave himself, the guest said, adding that Weiss broke the rules. The incident and resulting publicity, Strauss maintained Thursday, is much ado over nothing. -Weiss charged today Strauss account of the meeting is a gross misrepresentation. It is outrageous for the presidents representative to suggest that people exercising their First' Amendment right of protest are labeled as nuts and hecklers.

At a Westchester County stop, Strauss criticized the State Department for the U.N. vote, saying, I think there are some goddamned Arabists over there and they ought to be fired. Returning to campaign themes, Strauss said Carter now appeared headed for re-nomination and doubted Sen. Edward Kennedy would press his campaign if victory were impossible for him. OPEN DAILY OPEN SUNDAYS 12-5 p.m.

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