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Show Page 4 Wednesday, December 15, 1976 ...ira still out there INTERNATIONAL Madrid Antonio Maria De Oriol y Urquijo, conservative president of Spain's Advisory Council of State, was kidnaped Saturday by gunmen believed to be Basque militants. The 63-year-old member of one of the Basque country's most powerful families was whisked from his downtown office during midmorning. The kidnaping appeared to be deliberated timed to immediately precede a nationwide vote on a government program of political reforms. Informed sources speculated that De Uriol may be used as a hostage to secure the release of 15 0 Basques being held in government jails. The ETA, a separatist group having initials standing for Basque homeland and liberty, is believed to be responsible for the kidnaping. Brussels A Warsaw Pact proposal to ban first use of nuclear weapons and to freeze memberships in NATO and the Warsaw Pact club was flatly rejected Thursday by foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Alliance countries. The refusal to limit members by NATO will allow the entrance of Spain into that organization if the Madrid government is willing and found acceptable by European members. The move is also an indication of a change in European attitudes regarding post-Franco Spain. In the past, Europeans have rejected U.S. suggestions that closer ties be established with Spain on the grounds that no such move could be made until that country became democratic. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned that it would be dangerous to give any clear indication as to when the West might escalate from conventional to nuclear warfare if faced with attack. Bangkok Thai Interior Minister Samak Sundaravej Wedensday told newsmen that Vietnam Viet-nam planned to invade Thailand on three fronts next February. He said Vietnam would cite discord among Vietnamese refugees in Thailand as justification for the invasion. The minister's prediction is in line with the deterioration in relations between the two countries since anti-Communist military officials seized control of the Thai government in October. . "They are looking for a chance to invade us on D-Day, Feb 15," Samak said. "They have planned to send their forces to our country through Burma in the HorW, through Chongme, nearLabs and through Aranyaparathet:neari CambodiaisUi4 u tmtw Beirut Raymond Edde, Christian political leader in war-torn Lebanon, escaped an attempt on his life Saturday. It was the third such attempt this year. Police said the 63-year-old former presidential candidate was wounded slightly in his left leg when unidentified assailants opened fire with machine guns as he arrived at his villa late Saturday. On November 11, Edde's car was riddled with bullets, injuring his hip and seriously wounding his body guard. He was wounded in the knee last spring when rightist Christian Phalange party gunmen attempted to kill him following his loss to Syrian-backed Elias Sarkis in the Lebanese presidential election. NATIONAL Ontario, Calif. After disclosing Friday that a large cache of war materials had been discovered in the desert near Lancaster, authorities Saturday revealed that enough weapons to "fill the back of a pickup truck" were found hidden in an Ontario cellar and that another collection of weapons and ammunition was discovered near Wrightwood. Donald Wiggins, a 41-year-old foundry operator, was arrested Thursday when he told police he owned the land in Lancaster on which the eight tons of munitions were uncovered. A search of his house netted the "pickup truck" cache which included a submachine gun, a sawed-off shotgun and more explosives. Also found in the Wiggins home and at his foundry were Nazi and rightwing literature. Police officials were unsure if the arms found near Wrightwood, 40 miles south of Los Angeles, were related to the previous arms caches. Cherry Point, N.C. A Marine F4 Phantom jet Friday shot down a Navy A4 Skyhawk jet fighter with an unarmed heat-seeking missle. The incident occurred during a joint Marine-Navy exercise in restricted airspace over the Atlantic. Since it was Unarmed, the missle did not explode but : did pierce the Navy jet which crashed into the ocean. The Skyhawk's pilot safely ejected and was picked up by a Marine helicopter. Baton Rouge, La. Approximately 10,000 person were forced to evacuate their homes Friday as a cloud of lethal chlorine gas'crept into rural Pointe Coupe Parish.The gas, which spewed out of control from a refinery, can kill in severe doses and limited exposure can cause respiratory and skin burns. Officials said there were no reports of injuries and added that because the gas was visible, the main thrust was to clear a path for its anticipated course. Boston District Court Judge Elwood McKinney said Friday that cocaine is far less dangerous than cigarettes or alcohol and then declared the Massachusetts law banning its use unconstitutional. Judge McKinny dismissed a case against a defendant charged with possession of the drug. Washington The 12-member House select committee on assasinations voted Thursday to spend $6.5 million investigating the deaths of President John F. Kennedy and Dr; Martin Luther King. The money was budgeted for: the first year of what is expected tooe a two-year study. The committee's chief counsel Richard A. Sprague described the allocation as "bare bones." ' - Washington An over due shipment of uranium is being withheld from India by the U.S. pending the return of used nuclear fuel. An estimated 200 metric tons of spent fuel has been accumulated in India since 1971 because the U.S. failed to purchase it to do lack of storage facilities. The request for the nuclear waste return is part of the Ford administration's toughened policy on nuclear proliferation. ' India's request to retain a small amount of spent fuel for research and experimantation has reportedly been refused by the U.S. 533 Main Street nTITT TTTT1 JLJnllCi 69 9131 Christmas Specials on KODAK 110 INSTAMATICS 1 Tele-ln stamatic 608 Camera Outfit. iist$43p Includes Flip Flash 11020 Film Personal Monogram SALE $38.25 Tele-lnstamatlc 708 Automatic Exposure Focus to 3 Ft. 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Despite these huge outlays, Foundation analysts note that officials now are faced with a new series of problems created by growing and shifting enrollments,- existing exist-ing fire and structural safety defects, rising construction costs, large bonded indebted ness and debt service obligations obliga-tions along with the failure of some disticts to modernize their school plants during the past period of accelerated school construction. A 1975 school survey determined that the total cost to remove all "intolerable" "intoler-able" conditions in the Utah Schools would amount to $130.4 million. Because of new construction and other changes, a September, 1976, preliminary update of this study placed the adjusted critical building needs at $1053 million. The report shows that the adjusted critical needs in the Park City School District amounted amount-ed to $56,000. Utah presently provides state aid to local school districts for school construction construc-tion under two separate programs: the continuing school building program and the critical building aid program. According to the i-r Foundation report, the continuing con-tinuing program is designed to help districts meet their long-range replacement needs while the" critical program is geared to provide special assistance to districts with immediate or emerg-ency emerg-ency needs. The 1975 Utah Legislature directed that a correlated financing study be conducted with special instructions to "prepare a recommendation for equalizing state and local revenue for school district capital outlay and debt service." A special research team consisting of representatives represen-tatives from the Office of Legislative Research, the Legislative Fiscal Analyst, the State Board of Education Educa-tion and the Utah Educaiton Association, was designated to actually make the study. : This research team, which submitted its report "in November recommended that Utah adopt an equalization-type, state-aid formula which would combine the continuing and the critical school building needs along with the debt service requirements require-ments into a single ongoing program. In addition, the. team recommended the creation crea-tion of a revolving fund to allow some of the smaller districts to receive advance payments in order to proceed with a scheduled building project. 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