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Show Page 4 Thursday, July 26, 979 Adventure Club Now Forming UT 1H .BT'SSTIII I INTERNATIONAL Port-Of-Spain, Trinidad Two supertankers collided in heavy rain at dusk last Thursday, about 20 miles northeast of Tobago, creating what officials feared would be the worst oil spill in history. Pollution control experts this week continued to monitor a massive oil slick left by the collision of the Aegean Captain and the Atlantic Empress. They said a stain of brown oil stretched 30 miles behind the still-burning Empress and a gray sheen could be seen up to 50 miles from the ship. Twenty-nine persons are presumed killed in the accident and 52 others were injured. Both ships were fully loaded at the time of the collision and each carried the potential thermal energy of a two-megaton hydrogen bomb. Falmouth, England An American adventurer who crossed the Atlantic in a 10-foot, boat reached England Tuesday and was greeted by 10,000 cheering onlookers. On Monday, Gerry Spiess, 39, was fog-bound at the helm of his Yankee Girl, only 60 miles from shore. But when he landed Tuesday, Spiess set the record for the smallest boat ever to complete the 3,000-mile crossing. The journey took 54 days. Tehran, Iran Iran's revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, demanded Monday Mon-day that all music be banned from radio and television because it is as "stupefying" as opium. In response to the music moratorium, a record store owner said, "The public is already com plaining about how terrible the situation is with our national radio and television not having any good musical programs.... It's impinging on our personal freedom. He can't stop me from listening" to music, no matter what my tastes are." Salisbury, Zimbabwe Rhodesia Fifty people, including a Jesuit priest and six nuns, were abducted ab-ducted by armed guerrillas last week. Roman Catholic officials said the hostages were taken from a remote mission in a northeastern north-eastern war zone. They speculated the mission was visited by guerrillas of Robert Mugabe's wing of the Patriotic Front. Sydney, Australia A giant crocodile, estimated to be 300 years old, was accidently killed last Thursday as wildlife rangers attempted attempt-ed to relocate the reptile. Sweetheart, an 18-foot, 1,720-lb. crocodile, was noted for sneaking up behind fisherman and biting the propellers off their outboard motors or taking large hunks out of their boats. Fearing fishermen might kill the giant reptile, rangers decided to move him to a more remote area. Sweetheart was injected with tranquilizing drugs for the 60-mile journey. The crocodile was struck by a floating log while being towed behind a boat and was forced under water. Rangers believed he drowned. Geneva, Switzerland U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim announced Saturday that Vietnam Viet-nam has promised that "for a reasonable period of time it will make every effort to stop illegal depatures" of refugees. Waldheim's announcement came at the end of . a two-day conference of more than 50 nations on the Indochinese boat people. The conference elicited pledges from participating countries to increase settlement opportunities for the refugees. U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale compared the Vietnamese refugees to "The doomed Jews of Nazi Germany." Vatican City The Vatican confirmed Saturday Satur-day Pope John Paul II will visit the United States in early October to meet President Carter and address the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The 59-year-old pope will be the second pontiff in history to travel to the United States. Pope Paul VI made a 14-hour visit in 1965. Jakarta, Indonesia The remote island of Lomblen was inundated by tidal waves, killing 170 people in four fishing villages, officials reported repor-ted Saturday. The tidal waves were believed to be triggered by a volcanic eruption, followed by several un-derseas un-derseas eruptions. A military spokesman said 171 bodies were recovered and as many as 700 persons were missing after the giant waves slammed into the island at 90 miles per hour. Managua, Nicaragua Jubilant Sandinista army troops marched into Managua last Thursday, Thurs-day, declaring a five-member junta would take charge as soon as order is restored. Fleeing national guardsmen,, ordered to lay down their arms, donned civilian clothes and broke into homes in the better neighborhoods to commandeer automobiles and steal money and jewelry at gunpoint. London For the first time ever, gold has topped top-ped $300 an ounce. Eighteen months ago, gold sold for around $170 an ounce but it closed at $301,125 an ounce in Zurich last week and rose to $307 an ounce Tuesday. And the dollar continued to drop on the world market amid uncertainty about President Carter's energy program and cabinet shakeup. NATIONAL Washington A proposed constitutional amendment amend-ment designed to eliminate school busing as a school desegregation tactic was soundly defeated by the House Tuesday. Requiring a two-thirds majority for passage, the amendment received only 209 favorable votes against 216 opposition votes. Rep. Ronald Mottl, author of the amendment, maintained busing had been a failure and "an obstacle, not an aid, to quality education". But in a letter to Rep. Peter Rodino, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, President Carter said the legislation would "unacceptably and arbitrarily ar-bitrarily interfere for all time with the roles and judgements of state and local government, the federal legislative process and our federal court system". Har Harbor. Maine An '-'insane" chromosome inherited from their mothers may cause men to have a higher risk of becoming mentally retarded than women, according to a Harvard medical researcher. Dr. Park Gerald of the Harvard Medical School said characteristic abnormality on the female sex chromosome inherited by some men has been linked to retardation. Not all men inherit this "fragile X chromosome," Park said, but it may be the second most common cause of retardation among males. It is estimated that one in 5,000 men may be born with the "insane" chromosome. Scientists have long known that there were more men than women in mental institutions but they did not know why. It had been speculated that women drive men crazy. Washington The withdrawal of American ground troops from South Korea has been suspended at least until 1981. President Carter said the decision would create "a favorable U.S. strategic posture in East Asia." '( In early 1977 Carter announced he would with-draw with-draw all U.S. Army troops from South Korea but the move was heavily criticized by allied nations in East Asia and on Capitol Hill. Washington Warning that important concessions con-cessions made by the Soviets would be imperiled, im-periled, Defense Secretary Harold Brown Monday Mon-day urged the Senata to resist proposed changes to the SALT II agreement. Brown said Russia had conceded on issues such as missle launchers and warhead ceilings, exclusion of French and British nuclear forces from the pact and the range of airborne cruise missies. Addressing the relative state of current U.S. and Soviet power, the defense secretary said, "I would not trade our current force for theirs . " Washington Tiny plants that require less light than any others known on Earth have been discovered growing at the bottom of ice-covered Antarctic Lakes. The National Science Foundation said the plants pinkish-orange colored algae survive in less than one tenth of one percent of the sunlight hitting the surface. The finding is even more remarkable considering their Antarctic location is in darkness for four months of the year and in a state of twilight for another four months. Niagra Falls, New York A psychic's prediction predic-tion that Niagra Falls would fall Sunday failed to come true. Pat St. John, a self-proclaimed psychic, claimed a retaining wall near the 167-foot cliffs of Niagra Falls would collapse, sinking a boat carrying deaf children. As the 4:56 p.m. predicted predic-ted time of disaster approached, fhs passenger-laden passenger-laden boat cruised toward the cataracts and proceeded unscathed. 6 0 Park City Community Church SUNDAY SERVICE 10:00 a.m. ALL FAITHS WELCOME! 402 PARK AVENUE " You're out!" That's a familiar phrase in a Park City soft ball summer, sum-mer, but lor at least one local resident, being out means leaving town lor a lew hours or days of adventure. adven-ture. - Park City sports enthusiast en-thusiast John Clayton spends his free time hiking, climbing, clim-bing, backpacking, fishing and generally experiencing the great outdoors near Park City and not so near Park City. His last big trip took him above the Arctic Circle and down the uninhabited terrain of the Noatak River in Alaska last summer. Clayton is betting there are other people in Park City who have been struck by the wanderlust, and he's hoping to beat them out of the bushes and form an outting club. i have a selfish motive." Clayton said with a sly grin. "I'm a school teacher so I have my summers off, and sometimes it's hard to meet other people who have the time to explore like I do. I'm about to leave for a week trip into the Wind River range in Jackson, Wyoming and I'm going alone. That has it's merits, but having company would also be great." Clayton said he envisions others around town who take similar trips alone and thought joining forces would not only provide company, but a conservation tool in these inflated days. "There are a lot of nice trips that can be taken close to Park City or within a five-hour five-hour drive," Clayton said. "We could do a six-day climb of Gannett Peak in the Wind Rivers, which is the highest peak in Wyoming at 13,805 feet. And I'm thinking of a cross-country skiing trip into the Uintas to climb King's Peak. This could be a year-round year-round thing since there are plenty of places to go and things to do." . , Clayton said many outting clubs, like the well-known Siena Club, start out with a low people organizing a trip, and end up serving as an educational tool with members mem-bers exchanging information and expertise on a variety of subjects. . . "I'm pretty light weight as far as the kinds of trips 1 have in mind." Clayton said. "And I'm not interested in serving as a tour guide. But I would like to get together with other people like me who like to get out into the country and share their experiences ex-periences in the outdoors. Sure. I can go alone, but it's nice to have the company. Next summer I'm thinking of doing a three-or four-week trip down the Colville River in Alaska above the Arctic Circle. It's a 320-mile trip, and splitting that cost with a few other people makes it very reasonable. "But the rest of this summer sum-mer I'll be concentrating on the Wind Rivers. I'd like to take a water trip down the Snake River, or through Desolation Canyon on the Green. There are a lot of river runners in Park City who ski in the winter and are on the rivers in the summer. The idea is to get some people together who have ideas for trips and hash out the plans. "There's a lifetime of adventuresome ad-venturesome things to do. And since my trip to Alaska, several people have said to me that they wish they could take a trip like that, but they don't know where to go or what kind of gear to take. With a little organization, we could work something like that out. It was a fantastic trip, one I'd take again, and one I know someone else would be enthused by. "I know you're out there. Just give me a call and we'll be on our way." This is not a Sunday picnic outting, but for those who want to take advantage of the Wild West while it still is, call John Clayton at 649 -9124. "Anytime." 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