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An elderly woman weeps as she sits in the rubble of what was her house in Jemona,
Italy. The community is among many suffering earthquake damage in North
eastern Italy.
Recall votes mount,
Rizzo still confident
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Some 1,400
volunteers have collected 50,000 of
145.000 votes needed to recall Mayor
Frank Rizzo from office, but Rizzo says
he's not losing any sleep over the move.
The anti-Rizzo movement has until
.June 15, the deadline mandated by city
law, to gather the remaining signatures.
"We're really optimistic," said Shelley
Yanoff, coordinator of the Citizens
Committee to Recall Rizzo.
A recall attempt against a city
councilman failed three years ago
because of a lack of signatures.
Ironically, Rizzo signed that recall
petition.
The ongoing effort isn't expected to be
any easier against Rizzo, who garnered
60 per cent of the vote to easily win
reelection last November.
Rizzo predicted the move will fail and
in the meantime, he said during a recent
radio show, "I'm not losing any sleep
over it." If the recall succeeds, Rizzo
must resign or face a special election.
"The people who are behind this are
the pople I've been doing battle with all
my career," the burly ex-cop said in
another interview. "It's a matter of
'philosophy. They're against the things I
represent. I'm against busing and
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Cosell blasts politics, hypocrisy of big-time sports
By DAVE MORRIS
Assistant Sports Editor
Big-time sports provide necessary entertainment, but the
obsession of being number one is corrupting the morals of
society, sports commentator Howard Cosell told a Rec Hall
audience Saturday night.
"The role of big-time sports in society is important. We need
the entertainment, the escape the great spectacles provide,"
he said. "But after the decade of the 60's with three
assassinations, a seemingly unending conflict in Southeast
Asia, the still unexplained and horrible shootout at Kent
State it became pretty difficult to view sports as a kind of
Camelot, a looking glass where everything was pure and
simple."
Cosell based the talk, his first at a college in two years, on
'Big-time Sports in Contemporary America," an accredited
•course he taught recently at Yale. After captivating the crowd
with some witty one-liners, he launched into his tirade against
organizes sports, professional and amateur —in his own
words "telling it like it is "
A large part of the speech was given to proving that sports is
politics, law, economics and sociology all rolled into one.
Cosell explained that sports skirted the law in 1967 after
'heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused in
duction into the service. "Ali refuses to take the step and
within 30 minutes a politically-appointed boob of a boxing
commissioner in New York strips him of his crown and his
right to make a living.
"This was in violation of the Constitution," he said, raising
his voice to a booming level.
( The Supreme Court eventually did allow Ali to return to the
ring and he has since regained his crown.)
Cosell also said Yankee Stadium, in the heart of financially
plagued New York City, was rebuilt at a cost of $55 million at a
time when New York needs housing and schools.
"Talk about hypocrisy and politics and all the rest," he said.
"Kids, this is like it really is and you deserve to know it."
He cited major league baseball as the only business exempt
from antitrust laws and other government regulations. When
player Curt Flood challenged baseball's reserve
clause which gives a team control of a player until he is
traded or retires Cosell said "the Supreme Court ruled the
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they're for it. I'm for the death penalty
and they're against it."
Proposed increases of 20 per cent in
the city wage tax and up to 50 per cent in
the real estate tax have incensed the
anti-Rizzo movement.
When Rizzo campaigned for reelec
tion, he noted he had kept an earlier
campaign promise not to raise taxes.
One month after Rizzo's second term
began, the city announced it faced an $BO
million deficit.
Yanoff said the recall drive was
launched because of the city's financial
problems and because the mayor
allegedly has abused the civil rights of
city residents.
"There are a lot of reasons," she said.
"A lot of 'people feel they were lied to
before the election about taxes. And
there are a lot of others who were
disburbed" by Rizzo's alleged role in a
union demonstration at the Philadelphia
Inquirer.
That demonstration gained national
attention last April when some 200
pickets from the Philadelphia Building
and Trades Council virtually closed
down the Inquirer for several hours.
The council said it was protesting
labor articles that appeared in the
Inquirer. But Rizzo critics, and the
Inquirer, say the picketing was linked
with the $6 million libel suit filed by
Rizzo against the Inquirer a week
earlier. The Trades Council has been a
supporter of the mayor.
Supporters of the recall include
Charles Bowser, the independent can
didate soundly beaten last November in
the mayor race; and Joseph Clark,
former city mayor and U.S. Senator.
reserve clause clearly violates the antitrust laws, but they
upheld it anyway. Baseball is making carpetbagging the
national pasttime."
When he focused on amateur sports, Cosell keyed on the
continuing feud between the Amateur Athletic Union ( AAU)
and the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA). The
two regulatory groups have been battling for more than 15
years to gain supremacy over amateur athletics.
Cosell said the basic urge of mankind was to excel, but that
it is not everything in life to be number one, as the often quoted
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing" saying imples.
That statement often is attributed to the late Vince Lombardi,
a legendary pro football coach, but Cosell said otherwise.
"Lombardi never said that," Cosell said. "Vince believed
in, and Joe Paterno believes in, getting the most out of
people that is the ultimate victory. Lombardi was anything
but a tyrant, and if you want the ultimate test, ask his
players."
Cosell departed from his speech once for a verbal sparring
match with a former professional football player from Penn
State, Charlie Janerette. Cosell, talking about his best
moments in sports, told of Bill Toomey's gutsy win in the 1968
Olympic decathlon, and was starting a story about Jackie
Robinson, the first black to play professional baseball.
"1947. Ebbets Field. The man at first was strangely out of
place. He was black, jet black," Cosell was saying when the
heckler yelled, "Don't get down on the brothers, Howard."
Cosell once again cranked up the volume and retorted: "If
you would have listened, you would have heard me say the
greatest athlete of a lifetime was Jackie Robinson. So you sit
there and listen to me because I received the first Jackie
Robinson award given in this country.
"You sit there because for five years I sided with a black
man ( AID who was deprived of his right to earn a living. For
years I received mail addressed 'You nigger-loving Jew
bastard.' You sit there and listen."
Then, after a brief pause, he added, "That's it, he's quiet. I
just tell it like it is."
Cosell's speech, which was followed by a question-and
answer session, was sponsored by Colloquy. The speaker, a
former lawyer who hints at leaving sports in the near future,
was accorded a standing ovation before and after the program,
the
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Second quake rocks Italy
UDINE,ItaIy ( UPI) A second strong earthquake
jolted northeastern Italy yesterday, sending panicky
villagers into the streets in their nightclothes. The
tremor caused more damage but no reported deaths to
add to Thursday's toll, rapidly nearing 1,000.
As a gentle rain fell, rescue workers skipped religious
ceremonies in their haste to bury the dead from the
earlier, massive quake. Many of the victims were
buried in common graves.
Carabinieri ( national police) officials said 797 bodies
had been recovered by yesterday evening and 522 of
them had been identified. About 1,300 persons were still
being treated for injuries.
Rescue officials said the final death count was ex
pected to reach 1,000 after still-unprobed heaps of
rubble were searched.
They held out little hope of finding more survivors.
In Washington, a spokesman for the Agency for
International Development said the United States has
sent $473,000 in aid to the devastated area, including
1,200 tents, food, bulldozers, medicine, fuel and other
emergency supplies.
The spokesman said AlD's emergency relief section
is remaining on 24-hour duty until the situation in the
quake area stabilizes.
"All the main centers hit by the quake have by now
been reached by relief teams but some isolated cottages
are still cut off," Interior Minister Francesco Cossiga
said in Rome after returning from the devastated area.
Brown rules out vice presidency
Two Demos blast Carter
By UPI
Democratic presidential contender
Edmund G. Brown Jr., "about as firm
and as strong as a person can say,"
yesterday ruled out accepting the vice
presidential nomination, and both he and
Hubert Humphrey took shots at front
runner Jimmy Carter.
Humphrey said he doesn't know where
Carter stands on major issues, and
Brown castigated the former Georgia
governor for calling him a candidate of
the "bosses" while he himself sought,
support from labor and political leaders.
Humphrey said in a television in
terview "there is still a scramble on" for
the Democratic nomination. Brown also
appeared on television. Carter was off
the campaign trail at his Plains, Ga.,
home.
In the Republican contest both
President Ford and Ronald Reagan
stayed close to home Sunday. Ford,
obviously still feeling the pressure of
four straight primary victories by
Reagan, decided to spent two days, this
week in his home state of Michigan
campaigning for the May 18 primary
Intelligence committee pushed in Senate
WASHINGTON (UPI) Senate
reformers, bucking powerful forces,
launch their drive today for the creation
of a prestige committee to oversee all
U.S. intelligence activities.
Senate leaders have scheduled the
start of what promises to be a bitter floor
battle between reformers who want to
establish a committee with legislative
and budgetary powers and old guard
conservatives backing a second-rank
panel with little authority.
Other major congressional action
during the week includes:
—Certain passage by the Senate and
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instead of the one day he scheduled
earlier.
Ford met with White House aides
Sunday to discuss his campaign
schedule and called his top-level
political advisors to a White House
strategy session Monday.
Democrats in Connecticut, West
Virginia and Nebraska vote in primaries
Tuesday to select a total of 107 con
vention delegates, and Republicans in
West Virginia and Nebraska vote to
select 53 delegates.
The West Virginia Democratic race is
between favorite son Sen. Robert Byrd
and George Wallace, while the Nebraska
contest is the first outing for Sen. Frank
Church and the first time Humphrey and
Sen. Edward Kennedy appear on a
ballot. Connecticut may be Henry
Jackson's last stand in a race also in
volving Carter and Morris Udall.
Reagan widened his margin over Ford
in weekend delegate selection in six •
states, gaining 38 new delegates to
Ford's 18. The new totals show Reagan
397 and Ford 336, with 298 uncommitted.
It takes 1,130 to nominate at the GOP
House of a compromise $413.3 billion
target federal budget for 1977, $17.5
billion more than President Ford
proposed.
House consideration of a six-year,
$6.8 billion authorization of vocational
education programs.
House consideration of a one-year,
$7 billion authorization for higher
education programs.
—Possible Senate consideration of
changes in the Clean Air Act.
In additin, Congress was prepared
to try for an override snould President
Ford veto legislation reconstituting the
Tell it like it is Noted sports commentator Howard Cosell spoke on big-time sports before a Rec
Hall audience Saturday night.
The health officer of Pulfero, four miles from the
Yugoslav border, complained to a Udine newspaper
that the town had been isolated for three days with no
help arriving for its more than 100 injured. Officials
promised to send aid promptly.
Cossiga said there was enough food, medicine and
shelter available or enroute in truck convoys to meet
survivor needs and no epidemics were looming. An
estimated 110,000 Italians lost their homes in the quake.
But rescue officials appealed for additional thousands
of tents late yesterday, as the day's light rain opened up
in a heavy downpour and soaked the thousands of
hopeless.
Officials said 25,000 persons already had shelter and
tents for another 10,000 were being erected, but more
were needed urgently to house the remaining quake
survivors, particularly in the hard-hit towns of Buia and
Tarcento.
In Gemona, one of the towns most severely damaged,
three women trapped in wreckage for 51 hours were
rescued yesterday.
Rescue workers said they feared ruins in neigh
borhoods of Gemona which have not yet been reached
by search parties might hold hundreds more victims of
the earthquake.
In Rome, Pope Paul VI appealed for assistance for
survivors. The interior ministry estimated 110,000
Italians lost their homes in the shock.
Relief supplies streamed into the disaster area
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convention in Kansas City in August.
In Democratic delegate selection,
there were 39 delegates chosen this
weekend in Louisiana, Wyoming and
Maine. Carter picked up 13 delegates
for a total of 574. But most of the new
delegates were uncommitted. The
Democratic nominee will have to have
1,505 delegates.
Brown picked up his first delegate in
Wyoming, and said although he has no
delegate slates in Maryland where he
is contesting Carter in the May 18
preferential primary delegates
candidates pledged originally to Henry
Jackson and Fred Harris are behind
him.
The California governor, saying his is
"a serious effort to obtain the
Democratic nomination," said he would
campaign for uncommitted delegates all
over the country and focus on New
Jersey, which with California and Ohio,
holds the last primary June 8.
Brown appeared on CBS' Face the
Nation and Humphrey was on ABC's
Issues and Answers.
The California governor, immediately
Federal Elections Committee
The decision to create a new in
isdligence oversight committee stem
med from the lengthy investigation
which exposed abuses by the CIA and
other intelligence gathering agencies.
Led by Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho,
who spearheaded the investigation, the
reformers got the Government
Operations Committee to propose an 11-
member committee with legislative
powers that cut deeply into its own
jurisdiction and into territory now
controlled by the Armed Services,
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aboard convoys of trucks.
Speaking in a solemn voice to about 40,000 peope in St.
Peter's Square for his noon blessing, the Pope said, "It
is our own who are crying and we are crying with them.
"Our heart is like a seismograph in which rever
berates all the vibrations of human passion," the Pope
said.
"This tragic calamity must not make us forget others
in the world, such as Lebanon - and Guatemala, that also
require our compassion and help. But this tragedy . . .
is even closer to us and therefore more sensitive."
The latest tremor, the most severe of 43 aftershocks,
lasted five seconds and completed the demolition of
many damaged structures in Italy and neighboring
Yugoslavia. An audible rumble from underground
preceded the shock in Udine, awakening residents and
causing a near panic in the city jail.
The shock yesterday registered 5.7 on the open-ended
Richter scale at 1:53 a.m. The earthquake that devasted
24 Friuli region towns Thursday night lasted 50 seconds,
with an intensity of 6.9. .
Survivors in the stricken area adjoining the Austrian
and Yugoslav frontiers buried their dead in long
parallel trenches without any religious ceremonies.
"We're having no Mass today," a rescue worker
wearing a yellow surgical mask said in Artegna said.
"Today we work."
on TV
after saying he, like Carter, would not
lie, was asked if he would accept the vice
presidential nomination.
"No," Brown replied. "I'm not going
to say absolutely, in a Sherman-like
statement, but about as firm and as
strong as a person can say, I'm not in
terested in the vice-presidency."
Brown attacked Carter for tarring him
with a "machine-hacked" label while
"at the same time . .. he himself is
seeking endorsements of big labor
leaders, of old-time organizations, the
Maryland secretary of state, the comp
troller of the state of Maryland . .. At
the very same time he says he's not
seeking endorsements, he's on the
telephone to the president of the United
Auto Workers and Birch Bayh trying to
get the endorsements,"
He also said Carter "is not leveling
with the American people on the
magnitude of the challenge to this
country." He characterized Carter's
approach as "all just smiles and easy
and a little executive reorginzation and
it will all be fine again."
Judiciary and Foreign Relations
Committee.
But on 5-4, the reformers were beaten
when they sought approval by the Rules
Committee.
The ruleS panel approved creation of a
select committee not a full-ranking
standing committee with no
legislative powers and no control over
the intelligence budget. In addition,
eight of the 11 members would be from
the committees which handled in
telligence oversight in the past.
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