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Show Page 6 Wednesday, July 7, 1976 WS STILL OUT THERE v.,.T. mm" -mi , mmr -rm mm t, tl . - .w" INTERNATIONAL Tel Aviv, Israel In a daring blitz Israeli commandos aboard three jets made a 4,800 mile round-trip stab into the heart of Africa early Sunday Sun-day and rescued more than 100 hostages held in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers. One hundred and two hostages, most of whom were Israelis, came back to a joyous and triumphant trium-phant welcome in Tel Aviv, officials reported. They said three hostages, one Israeli commando, seven terrorists and some Ugandan soldiers were killed in an hour-long battle at Entebbe Airport, Air-port, outside the Ugandan capital of Kampala . The Israeli commandos' spectacular raid came a week after the hijackers seized an Air Prance jet over Athens and only 10 hours before the deadline set by the terrorists to kill their hostages. Beirut Christian military chiefs claimed they captured most of the Tal Zaatar Palestinian refugee camp Sunday despite fierce resistance from the camp's defenders and leftist counterattacks coun-terattacks across all warfronts in Beirut. The Palestinian defenders rejected a surrender surren-der ultimatum from the Christian attack force of about 7,000 men and 200 vehicles, although Palestinian military leaders admitted Tal Zaatar's fall appeared imminent. , With the collapse of the latest ceasefire, another convoy of foreigners, including about 30 Americans, fled the war-torn capital of Damascus under the protection of the Palestinian Liberation Army. Mexico City Former Treasury Secreatary Jose Lopez Portillo, the sole candidate on the ballot, was elected president of Mexico Sunday against only token opposition from the three write-in candidates V.C- -V; U, . Backed by the powerful Revolutionary In-'stitutional In-'stitutional pty machine, dominating force in Mexican politics since the 1930's, Lopez Por-tillo's Por-tillo's candidacy was never seriously challenged. NATIONAL Washington Sen. Barry Goldwater, patriarch patriar-ch of Republican conservatives and the GOP's 1964 presidential candidate, formally announced last week he was supporting President Ford over Ronald Reagan as his party's 1976 nominee. Describing the decision as one of the most difficult dif-ficult in his political life the Arizona senator said he hopes his endorsement of Ford will avoid "a hair-splitting debate within the party" over two candidates whose philosophies are almost identical. iden-tical. Winnetk?, 111. Mark Twain's classic "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has been removed from the required reading list of New Trier High School as a result of complaints from black parents that it included the word "niggtr". The school board of the elite Chicago suburb voted 4-2 last week to remove the novel after black parents complained that their children were offended by use of the word, and by relics of the 19th century race relations depicted in the book. School Supt. Roderick Bickert said the book will remain on library shelves and will be available for independent study and elective courses. Washington The Supreme Court ruled Thursday Thur-sday that neither husband nor parent can interfere in-terfere with a woman's decision to have an abortion. abor-tion. The court struck down provisions of a Missouri law which required the consent of at least one parent of a single woman under 18 and the consent con-sent of the husband of a married woman. : M N hi Wf Carl 'Htim' gttt air Sunday aflamoon wfth unwarrtad asilt tinea New York Singer Connie Francis was awarded awar-ded $2.5 million in a Brooklyn federal court Thursday Thur-sday for her 1974 rape in a Howard Johnson Motor Lodge in West Bury, N.Y. that she claimed ruined her planned comeback as a big-name big-name entertainer. A jury of six men also awarded herhusband Joseph Garzilli, $150,000 in damages GarzUli sobbed uncontrolably during the hearing. The singer claimed the Howard Johnson firm was negligent in not providing adequate security to prevent such occurrences and that it failed to provide adequate locks on her door. She had asked the court for $5 million and her husband was seeking $1 million. New York A spectacular array of sailing vessels are warships that arrived to salute the 200th anniversary of American independence was greeted by tens of thousands of private boats in New York harbor on Saturday . A Coast Guard chief, who estimated the num. ber of the small pleasure crafts at 30,000 said ttwmm a a .... me narDor joogea luce a sea of wbitecapa." The Dead Goat Touring Side scored early, held their lead during a Park City mid-game mid-game rally, and then exploded ex-ploded for three late game try to throttle the Muckers 20-4 in the 4th of July rugby match. . A tremendous home crowd looked on in disbelief as the Dead Goat put a try across in the first two minutes of play. Larry Eldrockef touched down in the corner after some heavy work by his forwards under a high-center kick. Terrell Smith converted the try with a kick from a bad angle and into a cross wind. With a 4 lead against them, and Dan Fradenburg on the sidelines with his knee aggravated again, the Muckers began to tighten up their defense and come to the attack on occasion. But it wasn't a day that Park City's good backs would see the ball regularly. Time and again they were forced to tackle the ball to gain possession as the Dead Goat won both scrum and lineout ball on more than a regular basis. The Muckers by Alamo Dave managed several forays into was set up by the alertness of the Dead Goat end in loose play, but always the support seemed to run out before the try line was reached. Each club had penalty goal chances, during this part of the game, but failed to convert and the score held 6 to nil at halftime. The intensity of this match began to tell on both sides during the second forty minutes. The continuity of the game was broken by injury time which occurred at frequent intervals. The Dead Goat's John Landon and Park City's Scott Thompson each left the contest at one juncture. With the Mucker's Bill Hah playing with a shoulder injury,' in-jury,' the Dead Goat pack became even more formidable. for-midable. But Don Sturges gave the crowd and his mates more than a spark of hope when he burst ! through three Dead Goat defenders at the goal line to dot down in the corner and bring Park City to within two points at 6-4. His score scrum half Rick Phalur who whipped a cross-field pass to Kevin McKay from a ruck. McKay drew his man and the "fullback, before sending Sturges off on his long run for the try. The match was only three-quarters three-quarters over and most viewers thought the Muckers had a good chance to take charge of the game. But a penalty on the ensuing kickoff, some bad handling in their own end, and the continued con-tinued tenacity of the Dead Goat worked severely against the home side. Charlie Fricks powered through a scattered Park City defense to put the Dead Goat up by six, and when Smith converted, it made the tolly 12-4. - It was a deflated side of Muckers who came to the half-way line to go under the kickoff. When the kick carried slightly too far, Dead Goat scrum half Ray Mar-cetta Mar-cetta spun the ball to his -backs. Sean McKinney put up a fine kick over the C backline and the ball hopp directly into Pualo Aiono w raced untouched to put t ball down between the pos This made the score 16-4, but out of reach for the hoi side. The final stages of I contest were played in Pa City's end, with Marce giving the Goat their fit points on a fine dash arou the scrum near the Park C line. The crowd, the players a the officials were all treat to the fine spirit and spec intensity of this match whi seems to occur whene these two sides clash. F many of the Dead Goat, w were on the short end ol similar score last year, t victory was sweet, indeed, is the Muckers who will ha to wait for the rematch tl time. The Muckers play next the Steamboat Tournami this weekend and then home against Idaho Falls the following Saturday. Washington After voting its final approval on legislation authorizing $32.5 billion for military weapons, including a go ahead for the Bl bomber and construction of 17 new warships, Congress sent the bill to President Ford on Thursday. Thur-sday. '.-;'.' " i Both the House and Senate worked overtime on ' Thursday to clear their calendars of major legislation before taking off for a two-week recess. Salt Lake City A massive power outage, swept across most of Utah and several parts in ! surrounding states Sunday afternoon. The power failure, which began at 5 :47 p.m. in ( the Salt Lake Valley, was caused by a surge of power from West Coast lines into the Utah Power : & Light system. Power was restored in most of Salt Lake City : and surrounding areas by 8:00 p.m. UP & L officials of-ficials reported. I VV Now FONDUE Open Tues.thru Sun. -10:30 of mam in Park City it's the If Hit hM a. z. w r if ri r-- m-r paw BAG FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY KHGM $1 .00 Covor Fri. & Sat. Emmy Lou Harris & the Hot Band special Guest J erry Riope He will appoar at Torraco Ballroom in SLC July 28th $5.50 In advanco $6.50 at door. Tickets available at C'est Bon for Park City residents. Tickets on sale Sat. at C'est Bon. C'est Bon Entertainment Lounge on the second floor at the C'est Bon Hotel, Park City. |