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Show TEB& Wednesday, February 11, 1976 Page 4 4V. ... inrs STfcLL out INTERNATIONAL Guatemala City, Guatemala It is feared by disaster experts that starvation and epidemics will envelop Guatemala in the aftermath of earthquakes that have killed at least 14,000 people by official estimates. Some death toll figures have ranged as high as 16,000. Powerful aftershocks that hit on Wednesday, Feb. 4, just two days after a killer earthquake that left at least 5,000 dead, spread panic through the battered country. Reports from thelnterior said entire villages were razed by Wednesday's quake and starving survivors were eating rats. One man, perplexed one of the worst human times, screamed, "Porque, Dios mib! Porque 'Dios mio!" !"Why, my God! Why, my God!") Stockholm - Igmar Bergman, one of the world's most original and acclaimed film directors, has been hospitalized with a nervous breakdown two days after his arrest for tax fraud, it was learned Wednesday. 1 Actress Liy Ullman, the director's ex-wife who starred in "Persona" and "Scenes from a Marriage" among other Bergman works, said, "I am afraid how Ingmar will react after he has been singled out this way." Barcelona, Spain In the biggest anti-government anti-government demonstration held in Spain since the 1936-39 Civil War, tens of thousands of people shouted for political amnesty and automony for Catolina on Sunday. Hundreds of riot police fired rubber bullets and smoke bombs to disperse the demonstrators, who ran up side streets and quickly regrouped. Eyewitnesses saw police smash the windows of several cars with rifle butts and drag the drivers from the vehicles to club them. NATIONAL Washington Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, in a speech to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco that was billed as a major foreign policy address, said Tuesday that the "United States must not paralyze itself" in world affairs this election year by "withdrawing into ourselves to heal our wounds." American-Soviet detente policy is justifiably "an important part of our national debate," Kissinger said. He added, "Let us end the defeatist rhetoric that implies that Soviet policy is masterful, purposeful and overwhelming while American, policy is bumbling, uncertain and weak." San Francisco Since the California scales of justice tipped favorably for pot smokers with new liberalized marijuana laws, sales of pocket-sized pocket-sized scales used to insure against possessing more than an ounce of the weed have skyrocketed. The law, which went into effect Jan. 1, states that persons caught with an ounce or less of marijuana will get a citation like a traffic ticket with a fine of not more than $100. New York Daniel P. Moynihan, the colorful, flamboynant, and often controversial Harvard professor who abruptly ended his seven-month career as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations on Monday, said Tuesday he was "leaving the door open" to run for the U.S. Senate. San Francisco Last Thursday during the trial of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst, a darkened courtroom watched a silent movie of an armed "Tania" wheeling a carbine at customers who tried to enter the Hibernia Bank branch while members of the Symbionese Liberation Army staged their holdup. On Monday, the court heard a tape in which the defendent said she robbed the bank of her own free will. The recording, released nine days after the 1974 robbery, was titled "Greetings to the people, this is Tania." In the tape, Miss Hearst said, "My comrades and I expropriated $10,660.72 from the bank. My gui was loaded, and at no time did any of my comrades intentionally point their guns at me ... As for being brainwashed, the idea is ridiculous to the point of being beyond belief." The defendent is expected to take the stand in her defense sometime this week. Seattle - If you are a woman hitchhiker, the bigger your bust is the better your chances are of getting a ride, says a University of Washington researcher. , Dr. Joan.Lockard, professor of neurological surgery and psychology, said experiments she conducted last year showed women doubled the number of rides they obtained by using padding to increase their bustline'by two inches. Cincinnati James Earl Ray claims he did not shoot Dr. Martin Luther King, and contends his guilty plea was illegally coerced, an attorney for Ray argued before a federal appeals court Tuesday in an effort to get his client a new trial. ' and grief stricken by catastrophies in modern The three judges hearing the appeal are expected ex-pected to take several weeks before deciding if Ray will get a new trial. Washington Despite stout objections from environmentalists, Transportation Secretary William Coleman, Jr. cleared the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic transport Wednesday, to fly , to Washington and New York on a 16-month trial basis. ' In explaining his long-awaited decision, Coleman said, "In reviewing the environmental costs of six daily Concorde flights, I have concluded con-cluded ... that the impact on air quality, the effect of low frequency climatic impact of stratosphere emissions are not significant reasons for denying limited operations." Laramie, Wyo Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger admitted on Wednesday that Marxist forces in Angola are on the verge of winning the civil war against pro-Western .factions.'' Speaking at a news conference at the University of Wyoming, Kissinger said, "It may be very late in the day to do anything in Angola." . San Francisco The famed "Tokyo Rose," who made propoganda broadcasts for Japan during World War II and was sentenced to 10 years, in prison and fined $10,000 for treason in 1949, is having her case appealed by Japanese-American Japanese-American group seeking a presidential pardon. "Rose," Iva Toguiri d'Aquino, is now 59 and works in a Japanese import store in Chicago. ; Her defenders hope to show that Mrs. d'Aquino was no traitor, but an American patriot. Washington More Americans are finding jobs according to new unemployment figures which show a dramatic drop in January from 8.3 percent to 7.8 percent, as 80,000 more people went to work last month. The half-point decline in the unemployment rate was the steepest since 1959. Washington Officials from Lockheed Air craft Corp. admitted paying cash; ranging into millistnc nf Hnllate tn political parties in Japan, Italy, the Netherlands and West Germany. . The payments, which were described by Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, as bribes, were explained ex-plained by A.C. Kotchian, Lockheed's chief operating officer, as attempts to "improve the climate" for the sale of Lockheed military and commercial aircraft. San Francisco The. largest snow fall in 89 years hit the Bay Area on Thursday morning leaving as much as seven inches in some spots. Although the storm brought welcome relief to the Sierra ski resorts, it did little for the state's farmers and ranchers who have been plagued by the worst drought in years. Main Street Chairlift thebe noise vibrations and the anvarnmonf loanere rf f ;f 5- 1 1 (Ir9-iv vv o Sm Producer (terra m .1 : ; v M . ... . ) I I L' Charles E. : Motion picture producer (arles E. Sellier, Jr., Senior Vice President of Sun Classic Pictures, who is currently shooting his latest film in Park City, Utah, has just been honored by Utah Governor Calvin L. Rampton. T i. capitol in bait Lake City, gov. Rampton presented Sellier with a Declaration citing him "for his role in rekindling interest in family entertainment en-tertainment motion pictures, for his steadfast faith in developing stories that families can see together, and for his encouragement and development of young talent and young audiences." aud-iences." : Sellier has chosen Utah as the location for his last four films: "Birth of a Legend," "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams," "The Adventures of Frontier V A i A Selller, Jr. Fremont" and the currently shooting "In Search of Noah's Ark." Sun Classic Pictures is the second largest family entertainment motion picture company in the world (Disney is number one). AH of Sun's products are G rated. Currently in release are "The "Outer Space Connection," "Where the North Wind Blows," and the Sellier produced "Life and Times of Grizzly Adams," "adventures "adven-tures of Frontier Fremont," and "The Mysterious Monsters." Mon-sters." - Currently shooting "In Search of Noah's Ark" on location in Kanab, Salt Lake City, Tooele, and Park City, Utah, Sellier" says he chose Utah again because of the cooperation and the support of the state and city officials and the unusual variation of the terrain. Shown below is. the route Street with the Resort. Commission Hoars Subdivision Proposal The Park City Planning Commission, at its Wednesday Wed-nesday night work session, heard preliminary plans for a subdivision in the Holiday Ranch area to consist of 88 lots on 30 acres. ' - Dick Daisy of the J.J. Johnson and Associates engineering firm, said the Park Meadows I subdivision would be developed by Enoch and Dick Smith, Salt Lake City contractors. -Present plans call for houses to be built on 25 of the lots and sold as a package in Guidelines Set For National Congress On Volunteerism ; George Romney, former Governor of Michigan and Cabinet officer, has announced an-nounced that the Guidelines for your Participation in the iNational Congress on i Volunteerism and Citizenship, Citizen-ship, 1976 (NCVC, '76) are now available. The National Congress, a vehicle for the expression and resolution of citizen concerns through i voluntary action, affords all : Americans an opportunity to . speak out and be heard on local and national problems. NCVC, '76 focuses on what citizen volunteers can contribute con-tribute to the soultion of these problems. Mr. Romney is now Chairman Of the National Center for Voluntary Action (NCVA) i,.and serves as Honorryi9 j Chair man i ,at NCVC, '76. The National' Congress is a program of NCVA : and is officially recognized by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration (ARBA). Major funding has been provided by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan, with supporting grants from Germaine Monteil Cosmetiques Corporation Cor-poration of New York City and ARBA. To receive the guidelines or additional information, in-formation, write: NCVC, '76, 1785 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.,, Washington, D.C. 20036. The National . Congress planned for the proposed mam. -tro the $45,000 price range. The remainder of the lots, which average 14,500 sq. ft., would be sold for approximately $10,000 to persons wishing to contract for construction of their houses. The commission noted the lot sizes did not meet the minimum requirements set by the revised zoning ordinance or-dinance scheduled , for adoption next month and asked that additional information in-formation be provided on sewer connections nd landscaping. begins with forums in local communities. Participants in these Local Forums will be asked to discuss issues and concerns within their community com-munity and consider ways in which they, as citizen volunteers, can solve them.; The agenda developed from, these Local Forums will be the basis of the Congressional District Forums, which will be scheduled during this summer in each of the nation's 435 U.S. Congressional Districts and the District of Columbia. Representatives from these District Forums will be elected to attend the National Congress in November in Washington, D.C. to discuss an agenda based on the findings. and ; ; recommendations recom-mendations of the' Local and. District Forums. Through statewide caucuses, seminars and plenary sessions, delegates 'to the National Congress will formulate for-mulate final resolutions and recommendations for action. Where recommendations call for national action, they will It a can! r o t government officials, agencies and national voluntary organizations. State Conventions which follow in 1977 will offer the opportunity to relate the findings of the National Congress process to the specific needs of each state and its communities. ' chair lift linking Main n |