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Show Wednesday, February 25, 1 976 Page 4 ... fFS Formed As Arm Of School Board LIT THERE pooocooooooooooooo rd i Trftv, ..ifin Mm ? Advisory Board STILL i Jam MM I INTERNATIONAL Hong Kong - Former President Nixon was met by China's new acting premier, Hua Kuofeng, when he landed in Peking Saturday night. The appearance of Hua Kuofeng came off as a labored effort by China's leaders to indicate normality despite their current bitter political controversy. On Sunday night, Nixon relived the peak of his presidency as China's leaders honored him at a banquet in -the Great Hall of the People. As the Chinese army band again played "Home on the Range," everybody again toasted everybody with mai tai while Nixon seemed to be basking in his laurels of yesteryear. Brasilia - Brazil, a principal U.S. supplier of iron ore and coffee, assured Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger last week that it would not join any international cartel allowing nations rich in raw materials to apply a price squeeze on industrial nations. Kissinger, who worked out the final details Friday of a bilateral trade agreement unprecedented un-precedented in the history of U.S.-Latin American relations, urged Brazil to assume a larger role in world affairs. Angola - Following the lead of France, major European countries prepared early last week to swiftly recognize the Soviet-backed Popular Movement-MPLA as the legitimate government of Angola after its battlefield victories. The United States, which supported rival factions in the civil war, is expected to delay any decision on recognizing the MPLA regime. v. NATIONAL Washington President Ford, claiming to have struck the middle ground between the need for first-class intelligence capability and protection of the rights of U.S. citizens, announced a reorganization! the i jbeleaguered U.Sj. in telligence community on Tuesday. Ford's revamping of the country's intelligence agencies included the naming of a new three-member three-member committee of private citizens to oversee the different groups as well as a restructuring of the secret Forty Committee which makes covert recommendations. The President's plan did not include many of the recommendations made by the House Intelligence. Committee (Which proposed that President's report covert operations to a House committee within 48 hours and that covert paramilitary operations be outlawed. Hollywood Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino, two chronic losers in the annual Oscar race were nominated Tuesday for best actor of the year in the 48th Academy Awards sweepstakes. Nicholson was nominated for his nutty portrayal por-trayal of a mental patient in "One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest" and Pacino for his role as a slightly mad bank robber in "Dog Day Afternoon." After-noon." New York The stock market returned to its record-breaking pace of January on Thursday as it recorded the busiest trading in the history of the New York Stock Exchange. The gain was largely due to Wednesday's dividend increase by the blue chip American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Washington - A House of Representatives vote to override President Ford's veto of a $6.2 billion jobs bill was negated by the Senate which upheld the President's decision by a mere three votes. An AFL-CIO spokesman called the outcome "a tragic loss to unemployed workers" while Ford said the Senate's "action this afternoon in sustaining the veto is commendable." Philadelphia - Lawyers, have been authorized by the American Bar Assn. to advertise in the yellow pages of the phone book for the first time in the legal group's history. New York A 1976 luxury car went out of control early Sunday morning and careened along the sidewalk of the elegant Plaza Hotel, killing four persons and injuring three others, police reported. Phillip Cohen, 75, the driver of the car, was admitted to Bellevue Hospital with leg injuries. No charges were placed against Cohen, who lives in a fashionable Greenwich Village building. A Park City School District Advisory Committee has been formed as an arm of the Park City School District Board of Education. The committee functions in a problem solving, evaluating and recommending capacity to the board. Members consist of 5 precinct representatives, a faculty member from each school, a Marsac council member, a PCHS council member, a resort representative, a mining representative, a city representative, a non certified cer-tified member, two students, a board member, both principals, the superintendent superin-tendent and 4 members-at-large. The membership of the committee will rotate with approximately half the membership turning over each year. Training sessions were held Saturday Feb. 7, and Saturday Feb. 21 to educate the committee members in the following areas: 1. Group effectiveness. 2. Purposes, goals and objectives. 3. Conflict resolution. 4. An overview of problem-; solving strategy. ., 5. The role and use of a process facilitator. , 6. An overview of an integration in-tegration strategy. 7. The role and relationship , to the Park City Board of Education. 8. Communication skills to inter-group and to the ; community-at-large. Officers of the are as follows: Co-Chairman - Dave Chaplain, faculty member. Co Chairman Neil Pacey, mining representative. Recorder - Anne Prince, member-at-large. v. i P.R. Contact - Sydney Reed, faculty member. Meetings are scheduled to be held the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 7:15 p.m. The public is welcome to attend. tioflfl Ha w f-W ! - -'V X J4$)yt . r - 1 ' -' 6 committee Of "W VH-C-. O 6 HLMsk; o- J' f raini SWIfmlir(i. Mr.Thch New York City, that "big apple" threatened by the worms of financial distress, is on the road to recovery according to Preston R. Tisch, NYCs Convention and Visitor's Bureau Chairman. Tisch, who was vacationing in Park City last week, cited New York's budget reductions reduc-tions along with more efficient ef-ficient management as the most effective tactics being used to combat the city's fianancial woes. He added that the country's economic resurgence has also made a positive contribution con-tribution to New York's financial picture. As chairman of the Convention Con-vention and Visitors Bureau Tisch directed New York's successful efforts to land the Democratic National Convention Con-vention which will be held in Madison Square Garden from July 12 through the 17. Tourism, which has recently become New York's largest industry, will ob viously receive a major boost from the convention. It is expected that after the smoke clears and the Democrats emerge with a candidate, the political party noted for spending, will have dropped $25 million and will have created 15 thousand jobs. Tisch, who also has been appointed by Mayor Bean to serve as Chairman of the Citizens Committee of the Democratic National Convention, Con-vention, will be responsible for all of the non-political activities at the convention. The committee's duties include in-clude promoting New York prior to July 12 and ac- ' comodating the delegates once they arrive. Although Tisch declined to ' speculate on who the '; Democratic candidate might , be, he said he has been assured by party Chairman ;.' Straus that the nomination f ' won'tbeawardedat3:00a.m. '-.dcratiON LIFESAVERRAILROADS'OF UTAH COOPERATING WITH THE UTAH HIGHWAY SAFETY PROGRAM as happened four years ago in j Miami. ; '.'.....-','- .-"- -..--'-.,' |