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Show THURSDAY, 12. MAY 1977 Fate Of Future Generations Hinges On The World Climate benign climate has smiled on the world for the last 10.000 years and civilization has thrived. But where things go from here is any- A Home Of Roots' A Surprise African ancestor probably would never recognize his old homeland. On the other hand. Gambia might not he all that unrecognizable, despite some 200 years of change. After centuries of colonizing and a decade of independence, modern ways are still new visitors in this sliver of a country on the western shoulder of Africa. Yet there have been changes since the day when Kunta Kinte. the African as his descendants thought of him, was captured and sold into slavery in Virginia, Alex Haley's one's guess. The questions facing wor- ried climatologists are: Is the world as a whole cooling off, and perhaps heading into another onset of huge ice sheets? Or are we instead warming the atmosphere of our planet irreversibly with our industry, automobiles, and land clearing practices? What sort of weather will our children know? The fate of nations and of millions of people may on the answers. Whatever the answers, all agree there is a new factor in the game of climate change, a 'wild card' never there before man himself," reports Samuel W. Matthews in the November National Orographic. do-pe- "FOR THE FIRST time in long history, climatologists agree, human activities may be beginning to earth's affect weather and climate on a par with natural forces. One expert. Dr. Reid A. Bryson of the University of Wisconsin, calls the overall effect of mans activities his smoke, tractor dust, jet exhaust, smog from cities "the human volcano. Man is indeed a factor in the climate equation, he asserts, and may be the decisive factor. Many scientific efforts are under way to assess man's impact on climate. The most detailed study of earths atmosphere ever conducted will begin in as part of the United 1978 Na- tions Global Atmospheric Research Programme. IN A period, monitoring stations, ships, planes, buoys, balloons, rockets, and satellites will attempt to track air and moisture movements and temperature variations over every region of earth's sur- face. Meanwhile, temperatures continue to change, storm tracks and drought belts shift, volcanoes erupt, and inner churnings move conducts and build mountains, which block and switch circulation of the atmosphere and the seas. Since alxiut 1940 the average global temperature has fallen about half a degree even more in Fahrenheit high latitudes of the North- ern hemisphere. England's annual growing season shrank by nine or ten days between 1950 and 1966, and in the northern tier of the United States Midwest years of virtual Glaciers in Alaska slow-(- il ilMit Scandinavia have in some recession: their Switzerland have begun advancing again. Vet. oddly, in the eastern United States, western Soviet Union and much of 1973 Europe the winters of through 1975 were the warmest in decades. And recent studies have hinted that the Southern Hemisphere may tx- warming hy at least as than aliM-nce- 4ii . - much as the Northern has been cooling of. There are some indications that the Northern, too, may be warm- leaves the experts scratching their heads. Con- cludes Mr. Matthews: Man still does not really know what controls and changes his climate, his daily weather. his seasonal comfort, his livelihood, and the crucial boundary conditions of life." year-by-ye- CACHE sum- Mil mer frosts again occasionally damage crops. Wo SEA ICE HAS returned to Iceland's coasts after more Soli Boy Used Toy ind Sonin TRAFALGAR Trail. 753-327- Typos of Toy Train All Samoa's will be having our first Parking Lot Sale on 20 We are offering many odds and seasonal merchandise From the mouth on the .Atlantic, the Connecticut-siz- e toilet 1 with 12-- 2 full another crop, rice. Cotton, the staple of the Old South, might surprise him in eastern Gambia where it has been introduced as a new and promising crop. Back in Banjul. Kunta housewire ground 250-f- t. $1788 LIMIT poownrer wn; 2 ROLLS "i97z switches & outlets gleaming white on wood install in minutes 500 reg. $5.99 "THE AFRICAN" would find his people have become a nation of peanut farmers: 80 percent of the half million population are farmers, and in 1976 they produced some 140,000 tons of this number-on- e crop. He would see waters of the Taiwan, now from the Chinese mainland are showing the people how to plant at unheard of savings. box buy now and save colonial governor at the river's mouth, is now the capital, renamed Banjul. flooded fields, where stran- ends, scratched, dented 2-2- wg the gers Chinese, once from - 21 Coupon Special seat scat of the river being diverted into & .- Listen to KVNU Radio for details. country stretches some miles inland, surrounded on three sides by French-speakin- g Senegal. Kunta Kinte today would find many of his Mandinka tribespeople, the majority of the population, speaking the strange tongue that slave masters taught him, English. It is the official language, adopted from Gambia's century and a half as a British colony. Since independence, Gambia has retained ties with London as a member of the commonwealth of Nations. 300 Bathurst, 5 CACHE VALLEY MALI SQUARE LOGAN, UTAH S4321 THE GAMBIA KIYKK is the backbone of the country, with the borders only about 14 miles distant, following the twists of the riverbank. g Call JUNCTION TRAINS Haley describes in his book and the television serial. When the colonists were gone and Gambia was its own master again on February 18, 1965, the country was a riverine enclave" to geographers and a geoto graphical absurdity statesmen, the National Geographic Society says. However, Remodeling ar Free Estimates eventually becoming the roots of the family tree Victorian-lookin- relifly ing up. 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He is the only president Gambia has ever had. and his political supporters, the People's Irogressiw Party, hold 28 of the 32 seats National Assembly in the Rebroadcast The National Geographic television specials of the season will Ih rebroadcast this spring over the Public Broadcasting Service. The programs are "The Incredible Machine." March 29: "This Britain: Heritage or the Sea, May 17: "Search for the Great Apes." May 31 ; and The Animals Noiiody 1975-7- 6 laived." June 14. The programs are schduled for 8 p.m. Eastern time, but times l and dales of showings iix-a- mav varv. economical zinc body adjustable brass jet Vicircle, VAcircle, or full reg. 75c 65 pops up for better watering easy to install reg. 1.79 11 29 sturdy metal buy an extra reg. abs unit choose white, gold marble easy installation reg. 84.95 1, 69$ 3, your choice 1 capacity 8", painted white trim ready to install 2 reg. 15.95 00-wa- tt ssS-10-1- 9 88 |