European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 6, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 year of older woman Sandy Gam left and Barb Nielsen of Columbus Ohio display to shirts cof fee mugs and other items promoting 198s As the year of the older woman. The divorced mothers who returned to College after their children grew up Point to women such As actresses Jane Fondu and Linda Evans to support their claim thai older women Are Capa ble of doing whatever they want. Paper says Reagan May Cut transit Aid new York a president Reagan will propose combining Federal Aid to High ways and mass transit in a single Grant .1 move that would reduce mass transit fund ing by 40 percent or More according to a report published sunday. Under the proposal for the fiscal 1987 budget City Ami stale officials could use Money from the single Grant for highways subways or buses according to local needs the new York times reported. The Federal government provided s4.i billion in mass transit Aid in the last fiscal year. Congress has appropriated $3.7 Bil lion in the current fiscal year 1986. In each year about �1,1 billion came from the fed eral Highway Trust fund with the rest coming from general Revenue. Administration officials said Reagan would propose cutting and maybe eliminating the general Revenue contribution which mates up about 70 percent of Ull mass Tran sit Aid the times reported some of the loss could be made up by switching Highway funds to mass transit with the decision left up to local officials the newspaper said. The proposal is subject to approval by Congress which has rebuffed Many of Rea Gan s earlier efforts to reduce spending for transportation. Reagan s budget for the fiscal year 1987, which begins oct. I is to be sent to con Gress Early next month. While House officials said the cuts in mass transit assistance were part of a pack age of s50 billion in savings that must be achieved in 1987 to comply with a new fed eral Law that seeks to balance lie budget by 1991. Planners of King Parade Short of monetary goal Atlanta a two weeks before the first Federal Holiday in memory of stain civil rights Leader Martin Luther King or. Planners have raised less than half the Money they need for a downtown Parade marking the Holiday the budget for the Jan. 20 Parade is $150,000, said Lloyd Davis executive director of the Martin Luther King Federal Holiday commission Bui Parade organizer Jack Downey said Only about $60,000 Tias arrived in pledges Una contributions the Atlanta journal and the Atlanta Constitution reported. We Are going to have to do the Best we can with what we have and Hope we won t Embar Rass ourselves or anyone else Davis said. The shortfall if not remedied will mean fewer out of town participants Downey said. He said the Parade hoped to have March ing bands from Florida am notre Dame Memphis stain University and grumbling stale University but the Money raised so tar will not cover their transportation and lodging costs. Former president Carter will be National honorary chairman of the Parade and Rosa Parks whose refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery ah., bus in 1955 sparked the civil right move Mcnol. Will be grand marshal. Baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth will Bede tily grand marshal. The City will have a darn Good Parade in any event Downey said. The Money raised so far has come from the City of Atlanta which contributed $45,000, and from local businesses which have contributed �3,000 in Cash and pledged si2,000 More poll gives Reagan highest Ever approval rating by the new York times with More women and Blacks than Ever before sup porting him 68 percent of the american people now approve of How president Reagan is handling Hii Job the latest new York times poll shows. Twenty four percent of the respondents disapproved und the rest expressed no opinion. The Overall percentage recorded in a Survey con ducted dec. 14-18, is higher than any times or times lbs news to previously recorded sixty seven percent approved in april 1981, just after an assassination at tempt on Reagan in january july and november 1985. 65 percent approved. However the upward turn since the times lbs news poll in november is not statistically significant. Boih the latest poll and the november Survey carry margins of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage Points the Telephone Survey of 1,358 adults showed 67 per cent of women and 56 percent of Blacks approving of How Reagan is handling his Job. The finding about women was subject to a possible sampling error of plus or minus three percentage Points while the finding on Blacks was subject to plus or minus nine percentage Point. The Rise in Black support was sharpest increasing from 38 percent in november at that time the highest approval level Ever measured among Blacks for Reagan. Black approval which Early in his first term sometimes fell below 10 percent increased steadily in 1985. For women approval increased from 60 percent in the november poll which was taken shortly before Reagan s Summit meeting in Geneva wild soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev concern about Reagan As a Leader who might get the country into War has held Dawn women s support for him in the past and the Summit meeting May have helped him among women. The highest percentage of approval for Reagan among women As measured in a previous times or times lbs news poll was 63 percent in april 1981. The breadth of support for him was indicated by Ilie fact that 46 percent of democrats approved and 44 per cent disapproved among independents 70 percent sin a j 11i proved. Ninety three percent i Only 5 percent disapproved. Proved and 23 percent disapproved. Ninety thre percent of republicans approved and c 35 arrested outside newspaper Plant violence erupts at Chicago Tribune Union rally Chicago a Polios on horseback quelled violence at a rally staged saturday by striking unions outside the Chicago Tribune printing Plant. Ten people suffered minor injuries and 35 were arrested. Those injured sustained cuts and scrapes after being hit by rocks and were taken by private cars to hospitals police said. Twenty six of those arrested were afternoon most on charges of conduct said police spokesman Tom Cunningham. One Man was charged with destroying property. Cunningham said. Mounted police quickly brought saturday morning s crowd outside the Plant under con Trot said City attorney Dan welter some people in the crowd which Martin estimated 04 a couple of thousand Ihrck rocks at delivery trucks As they attempted to drive out of one of the Freedom Center printing Plant s exits he said. Tony Palucci a striking Mailer who was hit above the right Eye by a Brick said the violence began when strikers tried to Block the trucks and police moved in the horses spread the people out and that s when the bricks flew Palucci said. A few people got stepped on by  at least 100 tactical officers from police districts around the City were at the rally Martin said. One police officer was treated for a minor injury after being hit in the head by a Brick Cunningham said. The injured included five Tribune employees said company spokesman Robert Dickey. The injuries were believed to be minor. At its Nii morning Peak the rally had drawn about 10,000 members of other unions representing firefighters steel work ers Uirl inc pilots hotel and restaurant workers and other industries. Dickey said the company which had filed suit thursday in an attempt to prevent the rally had not decided whether to take further court action. The Chicago typographical Union no. 16, Chicago web printing Pressman s Union no. 7 and Chicago mailers Union no. 2 have been on strike since july 18. The Tribune has continued to publish using mostly workers brought in from outside the City