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Show Page 4 5 Thursday, February 15, 1979 ' INTERNATIONAL Tehran, Iran The 2,500-year-old Iranian monarchy has come to an end. Moslem leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini gained control of Iran Sunday after General Aggas Gharabaghi ordered his troops back to their barracks and declared his support for the new Islamic republic. When the fall of Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar's government was announced Khomeini's followers rampaged through the streets of Tehran, firing their weapons into the air. Many armed groups refused to obey orders to deliver their weapons to local mosques and officials of the new government were attempting attemp-ting to keep the victory from deteriorating into anarchy. In Washington, President Carter said the U.S. stands ready to work with the Iranian government govern-ment and remarked that the effect of the takeover on American oil supplies, "is not a crisis." Salisbury, Rhodesia All 59 persons aboard a Rhodesian airliner were killed Monday when the plane crashed after taking off from the resort town of Kariba. Military and airline sources speculated the jet was shot down by black nationalist guerrillas. "We haven't gathered exact evidence yet, but everything points to this being another strike by terrorist ground fire," an airline official said. Last September 3, guerrillas claimed responsibility respon-sibility for downing another Air Rhodesia plane with a Russian-made ground-to-air missle. Naples, Italy In an attempt to combat the "dark disease" that has claimed the lives of at least 65 infants in southern Italy over the past year, three American medical experts arrived in Naples Monday. In addition to Italian physicians, the three American researchers will work with two British experts, a doctor from France and one from Yugoslavia. The mysterious virus has struck infants living in overcrowded and unsanitary unsan-itary conditions and the Italian government reportedly is contemplating the use of army troops to disinfect slum areas. Jerusalem Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and his Cabinet agreed Sunday Sun-day to resume peace negotiations at Camp David. The Egyptian-Israeli talks are expected to begin February 21. The major controversy at the conference is expected to revolve around a letter of understanding under-standing proposed by President Carter in which Israel and Egypt would clarify their commitment commit-ment to tie the peace treaty to a broader agreement on the Middle East. Prior to the Camp David session, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan is scheduled to appear on American television. Feeling that the U.S. is bringing unwarranted pressure to bear on them, the Israelis want to take their case directly to the American people. Bridgetown, Barbados Believed to be the first grandmother to make a solo trans-Atlantic voyage, 53-year-old Shirley Ravenscroft rested aboard her 26-foot yacht Sunday after spending 37 days sailing from Tenerife in the Canary Islands to Barbados. The grandmother from London is reputed by her family to have an uncanny ability to "sense the weather in her bones" which helped her during the dangerous voyage. The family kept track of her progress through occasional position reports broadcast to passing ships over her short-range radio. Hong Kong Police officials have discovered more than $1 million worth of gold hidden aboard the freighter Huey Fong, which transported tran-sported 3,383 Vietnamese refugees into Hong Kong almost three weeks ago. According to police, the money is further evidence that an illicit human smuggling racket, with Vietnamese government involvement in-volvement suspected, is promoting the exodus of "boat people." Australia and other countries, which have absorbed approximately 200,000 refugees, claim the boat people pay off Vietnamese Viet-namese officials who arrange for their exit on small boats. NATIONAL Washington The National Transportation Safety Board Monday said the probable cause of the January 13, 1977 crash in Anchorage, Alaska of a Japan Air Lines DC8 cargo plane ' was due to pilot drunkenness. The board's verdict marked the first time a commercial airline crash has been blamed on a pilot handling a craft while under the influence of alcohol. Pilot Hugh Marsh, two other pilots, two cattle handlers and 65 beef cattle were killed when the plane stalled after takeoff and crashed 1,000 feet beyond the end of the runway. New York An Associated Press-NBC News poll shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans support a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget. The poll found that 70 percent of those questioned favored a budget-balancing amendment, amend-ment, putting to an end the deficit spending that many feel has contributed heavily to inflation. in-flation. In addition, those polled said that cutting cut-ting waste in the federal bureaucracy would save enough money to balance the half-trillion-dollar budget. President Carter has promised a balanced budget but he opposes a constitutional amend ment, saying it would rob the government of flexibility. Mj It Washington The cancer dangers of cigarette smoking continue to go unheeded by many and U.S. cigarette manufacturers are increasing production, according to Commerce Department Depar-tment figures released Sunday. The cigarette industry produced $3.6 billion worth of their product in 1972. In 1977 that figure climbed to $6.1 billion despite the cancer warnings. Washington A missing fathers search by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare collected more than $1 billion in fiscal 1978 and enabled 19,000 families to get off the welfare rolls, HEW announced Sunday. HEW Secretary Joseph Califano said the program "has proved to be enormously cost-effective." cost-effective." The administration costs last year for the Child Support Enforcement Program were $320 million for tracking down nearly one million fathers and making them pay child support. sup-port. This means $3 was collected for every dollar spent, Califano said. Oakland, California For the first time in two years, commuters last week rode a ferry between bet-ween San Francisco and East Bay. The ferry was pressed into operation after officials said it could be months before an underwater rapid transit tunnel is opened. The tunnel was closed in January after a rush-hour fire aboard a BART train killed one fireman and injured 44 PeoP16- ' - ,.'; v; The 500-passenger ferry carried 25 people on its maiden voyage. Washington The United States announced last Thursday that it is ending economic and military cooperation with Nicaragua due to President Anastasio Somoza's rejection of a mediated solution to that country's political turmoil. The State Department said the U.S. staff in Nicaragua will be cut by more than half and that two development aid loans totaling $10.5 million have been canceled. President Carter said the United States decided to reassess its relations with Nicaragua after General Somoza shunned a three-nation mediation team proposal for solving his country's coun-try's civil upheaval. a . . ft Park City J VcM I II I IUI IILy C-IIUICIl Sunday Service 10:00am All Faiths Welcome 1j 402 Park Ave. Progress Made On Recycling Park City is a couple of teps closer to having a nified newspaper and Aluminum can recycling forogram as a result of a -ecycling meeting held Tuesday night in which design services for a recycling depot and collection collec-tion services for newspapers were volunteered. Steve Decker of Alliance Engineering told Marianne Cone and Karen Epifano, initiators of the recycling program, that he was volunteering volun-teering to design a depot for material to be recylcled. Some type of shelter is needed to serve as a central collection point and to keep newspapers dry. rne city win pay lor me jconstruction of the depot which will be located behind ICity Hall on Swede Alley. Ms. Cone says ac- cessbility and ease of bringing in material to the depot will be the salient design objectives. The cost and size of the depot has yet to be worked out but Ms. Cone expects construction to begin in the spring. Also at the meeting, Boy Scout leader Steve Holcomb said local scouts will collect and keep in order newspapers to be recycled as well as take the papers to a recylcing plant in Salt Lake City. Both newspapers and aluminum cans will be sold to recycling plants in Salt Lake City with the proceeds being used to control litter in Park City. Though the depot will not be built until spring, Ms. Cone encourages en-courages local residents and businesses to begin saving aluminum cans which can be crushed for compact home storage until the depot is constructed. 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