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Mylan sees generic drugs as prescription for profits BusinessEconomies 10 nosi cocKian parxies East MmmA Final Edition -S-M10 VOL. 58- -NO. 3 1 Copyright 1W4 by PO PubHiMng Co. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1984 -0v Horn DtMvarv H.SO 25 CENTS 9 Geraldine Ferraro "tools up" the Democratic presidential campaign on a lathe at a machine shop in El Cajon, Calif. Conservatives sweep Canada in landslide if Today WMj .1 Fvj Nt: before commenting.

The Conservatives won 58 of the 75 seats in Quebec, breaching the Liberal fortress. In the 1980 election the Tories got one and the Liberals 74 in the French-speaking province. For the Tories, it is the first majority victory since John Diefen-baker led a similar sweep in 1958. The Liberals have been in control for all but nine months of the past 21 years, including 15 years under Trudeau. Mulroney, 45, cast his ballot at the school he attended in the isolated $apermill town of Baie Comeau, Quebec.

"It's a very beautiful day for voting, a superb day," said the electrician's son who later became president of a large mining company. "I want you to know that I went to this school," he said several times to different people as he went in to vote. "And you are looking at a model student." Turner, who has been in office only since June 30, when Trudeau stepped down, watched the results in the west coast city of Vancouver, where he was a candidate for Parliament in a suburban district. His aides said he would not comment on the results until the vote from that district came in, after midnight in the east. TORONTO (AP) Brian Mul-roney led Canada's Progressive Conservative Party to, a landslide victory yesterday over Liberal Prime Minister John Turner.

Mulroney, who promised to revive the Canadian economy and improve relations with the United States, won election to the 282-seat Parliament easily in northeastern Quebec. With 91 percent of the vote counted, the Tories had won 205 seats and were leading in another seven. The Liberals won 38 and were leading in two. The left-leaning New Democrats won 27 and were leading in two, and one independent gained a seat. The Conservatives had 50 percent of the popular vote to 29 percent for the Liberals and 18 percent for the New Democrats.

At least 12 current Liberal Cabinet ministers lost their seats in Parliament. Turner, who had been in office only since June 30, when Pierre Elliott Trudeau stepped down, managed to win a parliamentary seat himself in a Vancouver district. But when he gives way to Mulroney in about two weeks, Turner's tenure as prime minister will be the shortest in Canada in this century. Turner and Mulroney were still waiting for more complete results' The weatherman says it'll be partly cloudy and cooler all day with a 40 percent chance of showers. The high temperature will be in the low 60s, the low in the low 40s.

Details, Page 24. Israeli accord reported Israel's two main political parties have reached a "preliminary agree-' ment" on a bipartisan government, and Prime Minister Shamir of the Likud bloc and Prime Minister-designate Peres of the Labor Party will meet today to tie up the final details, Shamir's spokesman says. Page 2. Hardware and space Their shakedown flight a vast success, Discovery's astronauts Eack up to come home. But not efore using one flick of the wrist on their giant robot arm to brush a bothersome block of ice off the side of the space shuttle that had blocked two waste water vents just behind the cabin.

In Palmdale, Rockwell International Corp. rolls out the first production model of its B-1B bomber in a bittersweet ceremony as the Air Force announces it is grounding the last flying B-l prototype because of a fatal crash last week. Page 2. software and CMU Carnegie-Mellon University holds a pep rally at which federal, state and local politicians pledge to support its bid for a $103 million contract for a new Software Engineering Institute. The contract, expected to be awarded by the government before Nov.

1, would coordinate and evaluate computer programs for the Defense Department Page 9. Congress and steel When Congress reconvenes today most of its energy will be expended on defense spending and the fate of the MX missile, but Pennsylvania congressmen Are hoping there will be time for" action on a bill to limit ster imports. But getting anything done during the brief time available before the election promises to be a difficult task. Page 3. 1 hurt in Zambelli blast A shipping dock is heavily damaged and employee Matthew Crawford, 25, is injured in a fire and explosion at the Zambelli Internationale Fireworks plant near New Castle.

The worker is treated for second-degree burns of the hand, leg and face. Page 4. President Reagan speaks to national convention of the American Legion in Salt Lake City. Walter Mondale, speaking to workers at a supermarket distribution center in Compton, uses charts to illustrate his charges that Reagan tax cuts benefited mostly the rich. But Ferraro, in Eugene, acknowledged that she and her husband benefited, too.

Story on Page 2. photos Harbaugh, who has been arresting prostitutes for 18 years, calls the situation "an Easter parade" of unchecked prostitution. Harbaugh says that on an average weekend night Downtown, the number of prostitutes on the street is more than 25, which he and other undercover officers say is up from about 10 per night in years past. "The word now, obviously, is that Pittsburgh is an easy town," says Assistant Police Superintendent Stephen Joyce. "If you get caught for prostitution, nothing is likely to happen to you." Women prostitutes in stretch pants that climb up their ankles saunter in the white light on the corner of Liberty and William Penn Place on a recent Friday night.

A few blocks down, a blond wom- (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) East German leader puts off trip to Bonn i Associated Press Liberty Ave. 'night shift9 out of control, police say Easy street: BONN, West Germany (AP) -East German leader Erich Hon-ecker yesterday called off plans for an unprecedented visit to West Germany, and high-ranking Bonn officials said Soviet pressure caused Honecker to postpone the trip. Both Bonn and East Berlin took pains to indicate the visit was an indefinite postponement rather than cancellation. But Bonn officials said they had no idea when Honecker might reschedule the trip, which they said had been set for Sept. 26-29 at East Germany's suggestion.

No East German president has visited West Germany since Germany was divided into two states following World War II. The West German government avoided publicly linking Moscow to East Germany's decision, but officials privately said there was no question that Soviet disapproval was the main reason. Moscow in recent months has conducted a blistering media campaign against West Germany, claiming a militaristic Bonn wants to "liquidate" and "undermine" its Communist East German neighbor. "Of course that Soviet pressure go out and bring in five girls tonight, I'd hear about it in the morning. That's just the way it is." The well-publicized overcrowding at the county jail is the problem.

The city lockup, in the Public Safety Building that once served as a holding tank for prostitutes and others awaiting hearings, is also overcrowded with more serious offenders. With no place to put the prostitutes, police say they no longer have a deterrent to limit the night solicitation up and down Liberty and Penn avenues, Fort Duquesne Boulevard and Mellon Square. They also report an unprecedented influx of prostitutes from the suburbs, the Ohio border towns and from as far away as Philadelphia women and men drawn by reports on the grapevine that Pittsburgh does not prosecute prostitutes. By Andrew Sheehan Post-Gazette Start Writer Women, and men dressed like women, perch on spiked heels. They're wrapped in satin miniskirts, and strut along the sidewalk and stare from corners.

It's a Friday night on upper Liberty Avenue, and detectives are pointing out and identifying each prostitute. More prostitutes have been walking Downtown streets than ever before, according to police, who say they are powerless to control the situation. Plainclothes Officer Bob Har-baugh says arrests for prostitution are being discouraged in Pittsburgh, but will not say exactly how. "They don't want you to bring them in because the system can't handle them," Harbaugh says. "If I is the main reason," one official in Bonn said.

"The other reasons given are just gloss. "The East Germans have worked with us for months to plan the details of the visit," the source said. East Germany, a hard-line member of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact, is a staunch Kremlin ally and has always followed Moscow's direction on foreign policy. The warming of relations between East and West Germany appears to have caused growing uneasiness in the Kremlin. East Germany's announcement was a blow to the coalition government of Christian Democratic Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who wanted the visit now to crown months of flourishing relations between East and West Germany.

Kohl stressed that Honecker is still welcome, and said he is optimistic that detente between the two countries will continue. Moscow's campaign against West Germany has escalated as relations between the two Germanys have improved, leading Bonn officials to believe that old fears of German. (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) Darrell Sapp Post-Gazette Fears of job, service cuts grow as Conrail sale nears By Wendy Zellner Post-Gazette Staff Writer In a state that has swallowed much of the bitter medicine used to restore Conrail to health, the prospect 'of the government's selling the railroad has many politicians, rail employees and shippers on edge. "Our region of the country cannot afford another economic dislocation," says U.S. Rep.

Bob Edgar, D-Delaware County. Edgar Cubs bearing up The 1984 Chicago Cubs, with eight former Phillies' organization players on the roster, own the second-best record in baseball. They haven't won a pennant in 39 years but with the likes of second baseman Ryne Sandberg on the roster, they may win one this year, writes Craig Wolff. And they play all those home games in daylight in Wrigley Field. Page 17.

Around and about Allegheny County Health Department starts its annual flu immunization program for the chronically ill and aged (55 and over) in Downtown, Carnegie, Lawrenceville, Mc-Keesport, Northside, North Hills, Oakland and Sewickley. The Neil Young and Waylon Jennings concert starts at 7:30 in the Civic Arena. "Dial 'M' for Murder" with Grace Kelly and Ray Milland gets 8 and 10 o'clock screenings at the Chatham Center. "Love, Sex and I.R.S." has curtains at 2 and 8:45 in Jenner-stown's Mountain Playhouse. More starting times, Page 29.

By Vince Leonard Insight and others fear that a private owner of the Consolidated Rail Corp. might cut employment and service to smaller shippers and reduce competition and capital investment, all in the quest for greater profits. But others see the sale as a chance to revitalize competition, industries and communities. Hard-pressed Pittsburgh Lake Erie Railroad, one of Conrail's small competitors, hopes to almost quintuple its own system by taking over some Conrail lines as part of any sales agreement, and, says, "the sooner, the better." Meanwhile, some Conrail workers wait uneasily but hopefully. The unionized workers, who received 15 percent ownership of Conrail in return for contract concessions, have put in their own bid for the "Cinderella" of the railroad industry.

At the same time, the unions, through an Train engines sit in Conrail's switching yard at Conway, Beaver County. subsidies was paid in 1981. Fifteen bidders have put proposals before the Department of Transportation, which will recommend a buyer to Congress. Al-' though the department says it is still considering six of the 15, some politicians and (Continued on Page 10, Column 3) umbrella group, are working with other bidders to ensure employee stock ownership and possibly board representation. "Everybody's uptight.

You don't know what to expect. I think the morale would probably be better if they the workers knew who, when, why or if not at all," says Ben Lambert, an official with the Brother hood of Railway Clerks, one of Conrail's la unions. The once-disdained Conrail, formed from the bankrupt Penn Central and five other ailing lines in 1976, last year posted profits of $313 million and is expected to make more than $400 million this year. The last portion of its $3.3 billion in direct federal Magazine 25-32 Marriages .....20 Obituaries 24 Sports 17-20 Television 30,31 Theaters 29 Want ads 20-23 Weather 24 Ann Landers.32 Astrology 23 9-15 Comics .32 Crossword ....21 Divorces .......20 Editorials .6 Lottery- 24 n- if-4 fir'.